in the push to win crucial votes. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. nurses are likely to take their first ever national strike action according to their union. the royal college of nursing is still counting ballot papers returned by its 300,000 members but says those counted so far suggest support for strike action, possibly before christmas. the rcn wants a 5% pay increase above the rate of inflation. nurses working in accident & emergency and critical care would be exempted from striking to maintain services. the government said nurses should carefully consider the impact on patients. and as our health editor hugh pym reports, other health workers could also soon be staging industrial action. possible strike action is already looming in parts of the nhs in scotland. members of two unions, including ambulance staff at the gmb, have voted for walk outs. though they have called for talks with members. gmb members have voted to reject that pay offer, so we are currently
welcome to the programme, packed with dairy delights. but we first must talk about twitter. will he won t he? the question of whether elon musk would buy the social media network twitter. it has been a six month roller coaster since mr musk first made his offer in the middle of april. having struck a deal soon after, in earlyjuly the worlds having struck a deal soon after, in earlyjuly the world s richest man revealed he d changed his mind and intended to pull out of the deal. that sparked a legal battle over whether mr musk should be compelled to uphold his promise. now he says he will go ahead after all. a few hours ago he tweeted: it s understood this app would mirror china s wechat app, which combines social media, instant messaging and payment facilities. mr musk went on to say the twitter acquisition would probably accelerate the x app by three to five years. here s samira hussain in new york. it was only six months ago when elon musk agreed to buy twitter for $41; bi
Do what is called picking a server. that is really parent, important because you have to trust that server, because they will hold your private information, your password, your user name, but it doesn t matter that much, because although you pick one server, you can still share anything with the world. it is like picking a gmail account, rather than picking a specific web site. it sounds complicated for me! how is it moderated? people now have concerns, or more concerns about twitter with elon musk in charge. is mastodon better in terms of the way it is moderated and policed?- better in terms of the way it is moderated and policed? yes, in the last week, moderated and policed? yes, in the last week. we moderated and policed? yes, in the last week, we have moderated and policed? yes, in the last week, we have seen moderated and policed? yes, in the last week, we have seen twitter - last week, we have seen twitter making change, including large