Lets start in the eu, where Three Tech Giants the social media platform x, Tiktok Owner Bytedance and the travel website booking. Com, are waiting to find out whether they could face an Antitrust Crackdown under the eus new digital antitrust rulebook. The Eu Commission has until the end of today to decide whether those three companies would qualify as so called gatekeepers under the new Digital Markets act. The aim of the act is to help competition in the Technology Sector and to try to break down the stronghold of Big Tech Companies. Well, someone who knows a lot about this, because she co negotiated the eu ai act in her previous role in the German Federal chancellery, is kirsten rulf who now is partner and associate director at boston consulting group. A warm welcome to bbc news. Good to see you again. Good to see you again. Greg manning good to see you again. Greg manning 50 good to see you again. Greg manning. So lets good to see you again. Greg manning. So letsjust good to see you
And theres been plenty of detail from Stormy Daniels this afternoon . There certainly has. The woman who donald trump paid 130,000 to to keep quiet has been speaking out in great detail in court. He of course vehemently denies having had any kind of sexual encounter with her just before she appeared his lawyers in court, trying to limit how much salacious detail could actually be heard on the court, that she was giving evidence, theyjumped up frequently to object to what she to say. She described in a lot of detail visiting donald trump in his hotel suite at a Golf Tournament in 2006 and ending up on the bed having sex with him, and so much detail on the fact that even the judge had to tell herjust the fact that even the judge had to tell her just to the fact that even the judge had to tell herjust to answer the questions. As donald trump heads to court, waving at the cameras, it looks much the same each day, but they are not the same. Today, he had to watch a woman who claimed she had
Won the rutherglen and Hamilton West by election, in whats being seen as a key test of the partys ability to regain seats in scotland. Its candidate Michael Shanks secured just under 18,000 votes, more than double the total for katy loudon of the snp, who came second. The poll was triggered by the removal of the former snp mp Margaret Ferrier after she broke covid lockdown rules. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon was at the count. Michael shanks, Scottish Labour Party, 17,000. Cheering. This was a stunning victory, widely forecast but not with a swing as big as this. It forecast but not with a swing as big as this. ,. ,. ,. , as this. It is time for change. That chan. E as this. It is time for change. That Change Cannot as this. It is time for change. That Change Cannot come as this. It is time for change. That Change Cannot come fast as this. It is time for change. That Change Cannot come fast enough. | as this. It is time for change. That Change Cannot come fast enough. But one
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Scene with a number of security guards, he said the men were still there, he gave a number of pubs they we re there, he gave a number of pubs they were going in and out of. He said he and his colleagues tried to throw chairs at these men to stop them doing what they were doing and then hes decided to evacuate the area, the its doormat which is what he did. He was deeply shocked when he said this. We also have a woman who describes seeing the van hitting pedestrians near a bus stop, she said she saw six people injured. Another Eyewitness Saw three guys, three men. We have that report of something at vauxhall. We have a witness saying that they saw walking wounded team ta ken witness saying that they saw walking wounded team taken to Liverpool Street covered in blood and bandages. To sum that up, some sort ofan bandages. To sum that up, some sort of an attack on this part of south london, this time of night on a night like this. Some sort of attack using a van. As we said, three to four