tech bosses including meta s mark zuckerberg and linda yaccarino of x have been accused of having blood on their hands by a powerul us senate committee in washington. the hearing was called as concerns rise about children s mental health and safety online. politicians say big tech companies are not doing enough to protect children from sexual exploitation. they have been debating tougher laws, and demanded executives explain what has been done so far. in his opening remarks, senator lindsay graham, the top republican on the committee, took aim at facebook founder and ceo, mark zuckerburg. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your you have a product that is killing people. and i use it, we all use it. there s an upside everything here. of the dark side has not been dealt with. it s now time to deal with the dark side because people have taken youridea dark side because people have taken your idea and they ha
what could the americans do? here s our international editor, jeremy bowen. well, one of the president s officials said actions speak louder than words. what are those actions going to be? well, we can only speculate at this point, but what tends to happen is that the us military gives the president a menu of options that he can choose. and the lowest level, if you like, might be to hit back at iranian proxies operating inside syria or iraq. that might not be enough for the americans, and especially not forjoe biden s critics back home. so they might do something a bit more. they might go for iranian targets in those countries or they could go for maybe iranian targets in the gulf. the most extreme option, and i think this is highly unlikely, would be to attack targets inside iran itself, inside the territory of iran. that s something that the americans have not done. so we get to a situation now where the american secretary of state antony blinken, says that the middle east
it s wednesday, 31st january. our main story. scotland s former first minister, nicola sturgeon is due to give evidence about the decisions she took during the pandemic, when she appears before the covid inquiry today. ms sturgeon, who led the scottish response to the coronavirus outbreak is expected to face questions surrounding lockdowns, and missing whatsapp messages as the inquiry continues sitting in edinburgh. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. 1,044 positive cases were reported yesterday. nicola sturgeon was at the helm throughout scotland s pandemic response. as head of the scottish government, she was the key decision maker and first in the firing line when things went wrong. we will have made mistakes on all aspects of the handling. now about to be questioned on that handling and how decisions the truth, the whole truth. the former first minister s closest political ally amongst those who admitted texts between the pair no longer exist. are those t
won t reverse the basic settlement between the uk and the eu. injust a moment we ll be talking live on the programme to the minister for trade and employment and the irish government but first let s get this report. after the protest came a political pivot and after that, a breakthrough in the early hours of this morning, nearly two years in the making. i believe that with the faithful delivery of this package of measures, hard work and dedication, we will be able to look back on this moment as the defining time when northern ireland s place within the union was safeguarded and our place within the united kingdom internal market was restored. over the coming period, we will work alongside others to build a thriving northern ireland, firmly within the union, for this and succeeding generations. unionists have been strongly opposed to trading arrangements which were brought in after brexit. northern ireland follows different rules to great britain, meaning there are checks on g
support the ban, is that the position at that stage? two days later nicola sturgeon and others made that decision. is there is not an example a decision that ought to have been made in cabinet? i am an example a decision that ought to have been made in cabinet?- an example a decision that ought to have been made in cabinet? i am in a difficult position have been made in cabinet? i am in a difficult position to have been made in cabinet? i am in a difficult position to answer difficult position to answer questions in detail about this particular moment because on the 11th of particular moment because on the 11th of march i was called away from parliament 11th of march i was called away from parliament because my weather s health parliament because my weather s health deteriorated and, unfortunately, she died in the morning unfortunately, she died in the morning the 12th of march so i was not in morning the 12th of march so i was not in close morning the 12th o