live from london, this is bbc news. israel launches airstrikes on gaza and lebanon, calling it retaliation for several dozen hamas rockets fired at israel. northern ireland on high alert police warn republicans could provoke violence as the country marks 25 years of the good friday agreement. as emmanuel macron and ursula von der leyen wrap up their trip to china, have they got what they wanted from xi jinping? hello and welcome. let s get more on passengers travelling through dover being warned they ll face delays, as millions of travellers are expected to make the crossing between france and the uk this weekend. contingency plans have been put in place to avoid a repeat of last week, which saw drivers waiting more than 1a hours. earlier i spoke to our correspondent simonjones, who started by telling us how things are looking in dover. it s already very busy this morning at the port of dover. we re told traffic turning up at the moment will face a wait of around 90 minutes
for the coach industry to change their itineraries, but i m very pleased with the results of that so far. today, we re processing really well. we ve opened up a new facility for coaches, an additional one, and that s been fully operational during the day and the coaches have been travelling through there well. it s a busy day for cars though as well, with about 4,800 scheduled to go through the port. we re probably about half way through our busy period now for the cars, which is, and the coaches, which is from about 10:00 this morning through to through to about two in the afternoon is where we ll get the busiest. so is there much delay, then, for either coach or car passengers? right now, it s taking probably between 60 and 90 minutes to get through border controls once you re here in the port. we do have our freight traffic backed up a bit. but as soon as the tourist traffic starts to die down, in about an hour, an hour and a half, we ll start to be bringing more freight t
hello, welcome to the programme. elon musk has defended his decision to sack thousands of staff at twitter without warning. the world s richest man bought the social media platform last week. he tweeted that he was forced to make cuts because twitter was losing nearly $4 million a day. mr musk also attempted to allay concerns about the spread of hate speech, saying twitter s commitment to content moderation remained unchanged. but president biden has said the tycoon had bought an outfit that spewed lies across the world. many big firms have paused their advertising on twitter while uncertainty about its content controls remains. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of twitter employees laid off today. instead, he was a surprise guest at this investor conference in new york. meanwhile, many twitter staff woke up locked out of their work laptops. they were later told via an email to their personal accounts that it was their
he tweeted that he was forced to make cuts because twitter was losing nearly $4 million a day. mr musk also attempted to allay concerns about the spread of hate speech, saying twitter s commitment to content moderation remained unchanged. but president biden has said the tycoon has bought an outfit that spews lies across the world . many big firms have paused their advertising on twitter while uncertainty about its content controls remains. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of twitter employees laid off today. instead, he was a surprise guest at this investor conference in new york. meanwhile, many twitter staff woke up locked out of their work laptops. they were later told via an email to their personal accounts that it was their last working day at the firm. some have been told they will be paid until february next year, getting some sort of certainty after months of speculation. a mixed range of emotions. certainly