Interesting. These to contrasting views on the irish backstop. The Daily Telegraph says there is the hope of a deal. There is the hope of a dealli there is the hope of a deal. I am glad to hear this because i have been coming on the Programme Every month a year saying we are definitely not going to fall without a deal. And john called yorker is now saying he is open to a deal. And so currency now saying he is open to a deal. And so currency markets have moved substantially over the course of the last 24 hour is. Admittedly from a low level of 1 20 to about 1 25. Dont forget that we were 150 before this so those numbers are relative. But he says he is not wedded to the backstop, as such. Johnson may yet get a deal that he can put in front of the house of commons. It is interesting. The Prime Minister meets eu leaders at the Un General Assembly next week. With this newfound optimism amongst downing street. I wonder if that is a view thatis street. I wonder if that is a view that is share
$55.8 billion. that was the record pay day for elon musk in 2018. but today a judge in the us state of delaware said it should be scrapped. the pay deal was the biggest ever in us corporate history and propelled mr musk to the top of the list of the world s richest people. butjudge kathaleen mccormick said the payout was unfathomable . and could put his title as the world s richest man at risk. figures from bloomberg and forbes suggest his net worth is between $198 billion and $220 billion. the pay was from his electric car company tesla and was linked to performance targets, such as tesla s share price and profitability. and if you look at that measure well, the value of the company did soar, topping $1 trillion in 2021, up from $50 billion when the pay deal was originally negotiated. mr musk sold a large chunk of tesla to buy twitter. meaning how owns around 13% of the electric carmaker. cancelling his pay deal means he also misses out on more than 300 million tesla sh
payment rights on the social media platform. to discuss all this i ll be joined by the political analyst and democratic party strategist mary anne marsh and philip rycroft the former permanent secretary at the uk s department for exiting the eu. the bosses of five major tech firms have been testifying at a senate hearing about what they re doing to protect children from online sexual exploitation. the five have faced some fiery questions, with meta boss mark zuckerberg being asked what the hell were you thinking? over an instagram prompt directing users to possible child abuse material. mark zuckerberg and the boss of tiktok voluntarily agreed to testify, but leaders of snap, x formerly twitter and discord initially refused and were sent subpoenas, forcing them to appear. all have hundreds of millions of young users. senators are particularly worried about a rise in reports of explicit images of children being shared, including those created with artificial intelligen
But with ever growing pressure on the health service, theres more and more demand for their services. Weve been speaking to some of the nhss longest serving nurses. And after forty years of serving and operating in at least five conflicts with the british army, the Lynx Helicopter has made its final flight. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The governments ordered a fast track investigation into what went wrong at the failed construction firm, carillion. The company which also runs services in schools, hospitals and prisons went into liquidation yesterday after running up huge debts. Concerns are growing for Small Businesses connected to the firm amid fears some could collapse. 0ne industry body estimates that 30,000 companies are owed money. The business secretary greg clark has been Meeting Union leaders tonight. The gmb trade union has warned that the clock is ticking for thousands of workers worried about possible redundancies. Heres our Business Editor simonjack. Just how many
Im sarah montague. My guest today is one of the big beasts of british politics. Known as the father of the house because he is the longest serving member of the commons, hes also held more cabinet posts than any other living british politician. Yet, ken clark says we are now in the maddest situation of his lifetime and talks of a political system that is broken. It is one of the reasons he could not quite bring himself to retire at the last election, staying on to fight against brexit and for the conservative party. Is it a fight he can win . Ken clark, welcome to hardtalk. Glad to be here. You have served under four Prime Ministers, heath, thatcher, major and cameron and yet you say we are now in the maddest situation. What do you mean by that . It is so chaotic and unpredictable. We got here by accident, nobody planned it. Nobody thought that leave would win the referendum campaign. Neither side did. Nigel farage was as amazed as David Cameron to find he had won. Nobody had planned f