Stalemate where Civil Servants, not elected politicians, have been running departments and will be asking whether it is possible to restore the power sharing assembly. And gary oldman is up for best actor in this years baftas for his portrayal as Winston Churchill in darkest hour. Our good morning. It isjanuary our good morning. It is january the 9th. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Theresa may has held herfirst meeting with her new cabinet this morning as she prepares to finalise her ministerial reshuffle. This morning, more ministers are understood to have said theyre leaving government including International Trade minister mark garnier. Government sources say his departure isnt related to recent allegations of inappropriate behaviour. Meanwhile, the journalist toby young has resigned from his role with the new Higher Education regulator the office for students. Hed faced a growing campaign against his appointment by the government because of his history of derogatory comments about w
Interfere in elections life the russians were able to in the u. S. President ial election in two thousand and sixteen and i outlined some of the roadmap for that earlier in the game plan is a combination of building more tools to identify fake accounts that are trying to interfere and take them down like we did in the french president ial election where we identified and took down more than thirty thousand accounts. A playbook of closer operation and cooperation with federal election commissions like we executed in the german elections in twenty seventeen and increase transparency which we think is is going to be very important. You know if you have the ads that every political actor or advertiser is trying to run to every audience the public. Then theres just more accountability and if someone is trying to do that as a fake account it becomes more apparent if someone as a as a legitimate political political actor is just sending different messages to different groups that will be tran