This is bbc news. We ll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. Hi, i m ros atkins with this week s edition of the media show. We re going to talk about the messaging app telegram after its founder was arrested close to paris. We ll also bejoined by the editor of the satirical website in the us, the onion, which is relaunching its print edition. And we ll hear about a blockbuster game which has been made in china. Let s start by talking about the messaging app telegram, because its founder and its ceo, pavel durov, has been arrested close to paris and we re going to explore the implications notjust for him and for telegram, but for many of the biggest tech platforms in the world. To do that, let s begin with mike isaac, tech correspondent for the new york times, who s in san francisco. We didn t quite know a lot from the very beginning. We understood that durov was detained, and it was pretty clandestine in the beginning. Then later,
Documents. And this isnt a gotcha show, but i want to ask you about youre currently 81 years old. Who told you that. All jokes aside this is real concern for american voters. How do you address that concern as you come up to the 2024 election . Well, a couple things. Number one hes about as old as i am and he cant remember his wifes name. That was President Biden last night on late night with seth myers. Today the president could face a sizable protest vote in michigans primary. Well go through that straight ahead. Meanwhile, the president is optimistic that a ceasefire in gaza could happen in a matter of days. Well bring you the very latest on the negotiations between israel and hamas. And that comes as congressional leaders are set to meet with biden today at the white house in hopes of hammering out a deal to avoid a government shutdown. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, february 27th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin
including alaska. victor blackwell, and carrie champion are standing by in san diego as our coverage continues into the night. bye guys. hey, you guys have had a great couple of hours. but there is a lot more to come. we ve got some good shows. including here from the san diego bay. yes, we do, and i think it s funny. because we were talking about some of these songs when you hear them they take you back. and i know not necessarily the counter because i feel like the fourth of july is a huge american concert. the all-american rejects, i love them. but here here for the fireworks. i love an old-fashioned fireworks. no shade with the drone show that some cities do. but i like the boom. and we re going to get that big baby boom here, one of the biggest fireworks shows in the country, and then we ve got chills across the country including, and i m excited about this, is this year for the first time in the fourth of america we re going to alaska. that s going to be amazing
platform. you have blood on your hands. you have a product that is killing people. your platforms really suck at policing themselves. does your user agreement still suck? i m not sure how to answer that, senator. if they re in a situation, we re talking someone that may be inappropriate so they can record it to us, block that user. if that were working, we wouldn t be here today, mr. citron. would you like to apologize to the victims that have been harmed by your products? show them the pictures. neil: high tech ceos under fire. jeff zuckerburg makes an unprecedented apology to the parents that were in the audience that lost children online. first, this. now we know, not when and where we respond to last week s deadly attack on u.s. soldiers, but who we re responding to. it s a group the white house identifies as the islamic resistance in iraq. it s an umbrella organization known to have ties to iran which might explain iran now threatening us if its attacked
weekend, i am chris hayes. let s get to the weekend s top stories. 83 point $3 million, that is a lot of money. that s how much donald trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeating defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump did, and witnessing his ongoing contempt towards but the proceedings in front of them, and e. jean carroll with their own eyes. carols attorneys had asked the jurors to reach a verdict that would stop them from further defaming the woman that he has been defaming and harassing for the last five years. today, after deliberating for less than three hours, the jury came through. they awarded carroll $73 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputational damages, and a whopping $65 million in punitive damages, which is there essentially to stop him from what he has been doing. such a shocking and divisive verdict against the ex president. even fox news cover th