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
tomorrow some sunshine. a cloudy start president biden is under growing political pressure to take action against iran. what are his options? we ll talk to a former obama administration foreign affairs specialist and one from the trump administration too. we re waiting on news about the possible restoration of power sharing in northern ireland. we are expecting to hear from the dup s sirjeffrey donaldson making a statement imminently, we will bring you the details. one of the promises of brexit was cheaper food. lots of countries trade around the world on wt trade basis and we can prosper on that. the day after tomorrow post brexit checks will come in on food being imported from the eu that will push the price of some produce up. ben will explain all. at the end of the month when the post office scandal imprinted itself on the national conscience we bring together four people who ve suffered injustice and fought to overturn it. we ll talk live to a mum whose two daughters sar
asymptomatic transmission was in fact correct? fact correct? no. perhaps it is not as fully expressed fact correct? no. perhaps it is not as fully expressed there - fact correct? no. perhaps it is not as fully expressed there as - fact correct? no. perhaps it is not as fully expressed there as i - fact correct? no. perhaps it is not as fully expressed there as i have | as fully expressed there as i have had the opportunity to do to today. if we go back to the statement you showed me a moment ago, it was actually me who first queried everything, saying, i don t think it is right to say that asymptomatic transmission cannot happen. so it wasn t that we didn t know asymptomatic transmission couldn t happen, but we didn t know, at the outset, what we came to know, but it was potentially a significant driver. the response that came back to me from health protection scotland, as it was then, still was saying they thought it was overwhelmingly likely people with symptoms who woul
in washington last hour, crucial developers in northern ireland tonight. the leader of the dup, jeffrey donaldson, has been meeting with executive members of his party to discuss a possible deal to restore power sharing at stormont next week. the dup collapsed the executive nearly two years ago in protest at the post brexit trading arrangements. the party has been in talks with the uk government this past year seeking changes to the so called windsor framework. and it would seem there has been enough progress to put something to the wider party. there are around 130 members of the executive. the party officers are not present at this meeting tonight, and only they would have the power to sign off on any prospective deal. let s speak to our ireland correspondent, chris page. just talk to me about that bit. this is the wider group of the executive, chris, but i guess if they go in behind jeffrey donaldson, he is in business? , , ., behind jeffrey donaldson, he is in business? ,
materially, that didn t happen. nobody came to me and said, you know, if that said agreed to restart work on independence, that would mean something much more than that it does. there was not a process of consideration of that then saw somebody come to me with a proposal to restart work on independence. i m sorry, i am genuinely sorry if it sounds like i m dancing on the head of a pin, i sounds like i m dancing on the head ofa pin, i don t sounds like i m dancing on the head of a pin, i don t mean to. but the key point here is that we did not restart work on independence at that point, oranywhere restart work on independence at that point, or anywhere near that point. if it were to be decided on the basis if it were to be decided on the basis of if it were to be decided on the basis of the evidence before this inquiry basis of the evidence before this inquiry that there was a politicisation of the pandemic, and that you politicisation of the pandemic, and that you had u