economy, to try to reach its target of no net emissions of greenhouse gases by the year 2050. it comes less than two weeks before it hosts the un climate summit in glasgow. now on bbc news it s time for panorama. tonight on panorama, how social media can be toxic for women. you will be threatened physically, sexually as well as verbally. from reality tv stars to politicians, women are getting more and more online hate. i got words thrown at me, those kind of words which a man definitely wouldn t have had. people just expect you to accept the fact that you re going to get abuse because you put yourself out there and it shouldn t be like that at all. we investigate the social media platforms accused of spreading the hate.
the headlines: the select committee investigating january s attack on the united states capitol has unanimously approved a report which recommends that a former aide to president trump be held in contempt of congress. steve bannon has refused to appear before the panel. mr trump urged former aides to reject the panel s requests. north korea has confirmed it test fired a new submarine launched ballistic missile, for the first time in two years. we ve received these images which we are unable to independently verify. earlier, the south korean military reported that one missile had landed in waters off the coast of japan. the british government has set out a range of measures to transition to a greener economy, to try to reach its target of no net emissions of greenhouse gases by the year 2050. it comes less than two weeks before it hosts the un climate summit in glasgow. a man thought to have had the heaviest kidneys
the british government has set out a range of measures to transition to a greener economy, to try to reach its target of no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. it comes less than two weeks before it hosts the un climate summit in glasgow. it hopes this green industrial revolution will create thousands ofjobs. but environmental groups say the plans lack ambition. more from our science editor david shukman. every aspect of life is going to have to change as we go zero carbon. and now, after a long delay, the government is laying out its plans. and the key to it all is a belief that new green technologies will quickly become cheaper. the market is going green. and people know that we have the technological solutions to these problems and they want to go green. and they know that we ll be able, one day, to bring down the prices of green technology, evs and heat pumps and solar panels, in a way that we so rapidly made microwaves and mobile phones affordable.
done and done very well. i m getting increasingly concerned about some of the more threatening abuse i receive. the united nations asked over 700 women, mainlyjournalists and some political activists, who are prominent on social media, about their experiences of online hate. they then studied some of the accounts, including mine. this is a word cloud that represents the abuse you have experienced. the bigger the word, the more times it s been directed against you within abusive tweets. and you can see that this is a word cloud full of expletives, full of demeaning comments, full of misogynistic comments, full of sexually explicit comments. but the biggest word that we see is the word liar.
or anger inducing content keeps your attention longer and therefore allows them to send more adverts. so they are driving up their bottom line by keeping people s interest in horrible, violent, often misogynistic content. facebook say protecting their community is more important than maximising profits. and after we wrote to facebook they announced new measues to tackle sexualised hate targeting journalists, politicians and celebrities on their sites. the un s drawing up plans to get all the social media companies to do much more to protect women. they are proposing they label accounts posting hate targeted at women, employ more human moderators, and install early warning systems for women who fear online abuse could escalate