today s vast social media empires are managed by a handful of big names meta, snap, tiktok, discord and x. their bosses faced angry lawmakers in washington for a tense grilling about why children continue to be exposed to harm on their platforms. as a mother, this is personal and i share the sense of urgency. words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow i feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm. it may have been heartfelt, but the senators weren t buying it. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. mark zuckerberg from meta, which owns facebook and instagram, came under the heaviest fire. these results may contain images of child sexual abuse, and then you gave users two choices get resources, or see results anyway. mr zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking? all right, senator, the basic science behind that is that when people are s
it s saturday 8th july. our main story: tributes are being paid to the eight year old girl who died when a car crashed into her school in wimbledon on thursday. she s been named as selena lau. her family says she was adored and loved by everyone . another eight year old girl and a woman in her 40s are still in a critical condition. a woman who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released on bail. louisa pilbeam reports. an intelligent and cheeky girl, adored and loved by everyone. selena lau s family have paid tribute to the eight year old. she was killed when a land rover crashed through a fence at the study preparatory school in wimbledon, where an end of school school tea party had been taking place. 12 people taken to hospital, among them another eight year old girl who remains in a life threatening condition. a woman in her 40s is in a critical condition. large numbers of people have been coming to the school to lay flowers and ref
hello and welcome to the bbc s newsroom here in new broadcasting house in london. this week on unspun, the ferocious riots right across france seems to have died down after the shooting of a 17 year old boy at a police check. in cities and towns, the housing estates and the grim outer suburbs kept far away from the attractive centres have seen people of mostly arab, north african or african backgrounds out on the streets. being a young north african black or arab male in the estates boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i ve lived in france and i ve covered plenty of riots there. they re rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i ve seen for myself the way the french police deal with them with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti riot weapons which are banned in most european countries, and they use them. on
they confirmed that lenka hlavkova the head of the university s institute of musicology was one of those shot dead. outside the university, people have been leaving flowers and candles. saturday has been declared a day of national mourning across the czech republic. in a friday morning news conference, police showed bodycam video from their officers. it shows them entering the building to find the gunman. there had been some criticism of their response, but the police said the time between receiving the first emergency call and officers stepping into the building was four minutes. police said the gunman took his own life following the attack. he s been named by local media as 24 year old student david kozak. let s get more from that news conference where prague s chief police officer gave his reaction to thursday s shooting. translation: i was there on site. i was severely impacted by and shattered to see it. and i ve been with the police force for a0 years. around 220, 2
the deal largely brought an end to the 30 year conflict in northern ireland, known as the troubles. but political turmoil persists, even if less violent in nature than the past. here s president biden s schedule: on wednesdeay, biden will deliver a speech at ulster university, before travelling to the republic of ireland. there, he ll celebrate his own family s roots, attending events in louth and mayo. there will also be official discussions in dublin, where biden will meet with irish president michael d. higgins. he ll then head back to america on friday. the bbc s lucy hockings has more from belfast. so president biden has arrived and there was a small crowd that came down to the centre of belfast to greet him. they braved the wind and the rain. the weather has truly been atrocious. to welcome him to belfast. and i spoke to one northern ireland politics student and he said the reason he had come was because a visit by one of the most powerful people in the world, a us pres