what does that mean?ville well, we re gathering new information about this mass killing our own scout. upo we ll have a live update for us . but first, every day, more thani two billion people use a sociale media app called tiktok.r many of them are young people hd under the age of twenty four . if you had kids, you probably know already how tiktok works. u tiktok lets users upload shortpd videos. usually they re under 30 seconds. what s interesting is that the content of these videos varies a lot dependinges upon what country you re in. if you re in china or tiktokchir is headquartered, you tendou li to get more educational content. but if you live in this country, you get an awful lot of filth and propagandaagenda tailored for kids. anna i m not guessing about this. we ran an experiment to prove. it last summer. chinese watch the tick tock. the chinese residents childrena in china get to see is very different from the one your kids are looking at here. now in china, whe
hello, welcome to the programme. a0 migrants who crossed the english channel were brought ashore by the dover lifeboat this morning. so far, just short of 3000 people have crossed in the first two months of this year. that s twice as many as the equivalent period last year. the prime minister says stopping these boats is one of his top five priorities. tomorrow, we ll see how he proposes to do it. his new policy, that s been heavily trailed, suggests that going forward migrants who cross this way will be removed and banned from future re entry and automatically their application for british citizenship will be rejected. we will talk about what is proposed in a second, but let s first hear from someone farzad. he arrived by small boat in 2019, fleeing persecution in iran. he was granted asylum a year ago. he s been speaking to bbc radio 4. now, farzad, if you were in france, where presumably you were safe, and you heard that it was the law in the uk that if you arrived on a bo
feel cool tomorrow, temperatures below average for the time of year, but the sunshine should mitigate it a bit, sunshine in april has a little strength. then milder air pushing in from the south, so the weather will improve, lots of sunshine on saturday, just a few showers for eastern areas, turning a bit cloudierfor showers for eastern areas, turning a bit cloudier for northern ireland later in the day, but look at the temperatures. highs up to 15 cell c and it should get even warmer to that into next week, with dry and sunny weather on the this is carly s allotment, she uses it to grow food for people struggling to make ends meet. with new figures out today showing the escalating diabetes crisis, and recent analysis of life expectancy over seven decades showing the uk doing worse than all g7 countries except the usa, we ll ask are we sleep walking into a growing health crisis and what can be done about it? also tonight. elon musk announces this evening that blue tick user
after banking shares saw sharp falls on monday. the sell off continued in asia with japan s largest banks also seeing heavy losses. shares of mufg, miz uho and smfg were all down around 8% in trading. the nikkei exchange was down over 2% overall. here in europe, we ve seen credit suisse drop another 5% in early trading. on monday, major us banks lost around %90 billion in stock market value, bringing their loss since svb s collapse to nearly $190 billion. many are now speculating the federal reserve will pause its plans to keep raising interest rates, designed to tame inflation. we re nowjoined by greg swenson, who s an international investment banker, founding partner at brigg macadam. talk to me about the perception of rate rises being not only part of the cause of this but also now the federal reserve having a rethink about what it does for the cost of borrowing given what we have seen in the banking sector. great borrowing given what we have seen in the banking sector. t
ukrainian officials have said a deadly explosion at a cafe in st petersburg shows that domestic terrorism is breaking out in russia. there s no indication of who was behind the blast on sunday that killed vladlen tatarsky, a well known blogger who backed the russian invasion of ukraine. these are pictures before the explosion. tatarsky was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe in st petersburg when the bomb went off. sergei goryashko from bbc russian gave us this update on the story. so, for now we know that the explosion was around 6pm local time in st petersburg at a cafe where dozens of people gathered to meet vladlen tatarsky and to listen to his account on the ongoing russia ukraine war. the blast went offjust after vladlen tatarsky received a gift from one the visitors. he was given a statue, a small statue of himself covered with gold paint. he put it on the table and right after that, minutes after, the blast went off. there are reports that the statue had be