With a uk election expected six weeks today, politicians are already heading for social media to get their message across to as many of us as their message across to as many of us as possible. But, from the end of november, the ceo of twitter, jack dorsey, has said all political advertising will be banned. On twitter, he said that political message reach should be earned are not bought. Why, he asked . The answer, he said, it can be used to influence votes and effect the lives of millions. Some regard this move asa of millions. Some regard this move as a swipe at facebook, which recently ruled out a ban on political advertising. In the 2017 election, uk Political Parties spent £32 election, uk Political Parties spent £3. 2 million on facebook ads, and just £56,500 on twitter ads. Its not going to impact twitter massively, as weve seen. The amount of money spent on adverts on twitter is tiny, but this is a symbolic gesture, because we are all now focusing on the influence and power o
And whether its going to affect the way they vote in the general election in december. Also today, orkambi, a drug to treat Cystic Fibrosis, will now be available to patients in england, scotland and Northern Ireland. But what about wales . This is rebekah bow, mum of eight year old sofia. She lives in south wales and, as things stand, wont be able to get the drug. Well be speaking to them both. And Laura Huteson was killed with a knife wound to the neck while having sex with a man shed met in a bar. Campaigners are calling for deaths during consensual rough sex to be treated always as murder. What were really asking for is forjuries to be given the chance to opine on this and for prosecutors not to almost chicken out of prosecuting these as more serious charges. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. We are definitely going to talk later about donald trump because you might have seen that he tweeted this picture last night showing him giving a medal of honou
Dominic raab, telling delegates farm, all Council Approved that the government will strive businesses. Dog lover Danielle Foley in faith for a good brexit deal. But mr raab went on to say that bought her new puppy, a beagle she if that couldnt be achieved the government was very clear called winston, from a licensed on the next course of action. Puppy he said people had had called winston, from a licensed puppy farm called winston, from a licensed puppyfarm in more than enough of eu called winston, from a licensed puppy farm in carmarthenshire after leaders disrespecting seeing him advertised online. She british Prime Ministers. Paid the breeder directly £650. But our chief Political Correspondent within days, winston had fallen vicki young is in manchester. Seriously ill with a highly good evening vicki. And the message contagious disease that is often fatal. Two oclock in the morning, here is a simple one. We heard later the vet rang my mum and said, his as well from watts of other
Good morning. Im frank mallicoat. Rosemary is joining the sunday off. But we have a busy sunday morning back east. Very much so. We have another Beautiful Day of warm temperatures on tap but we have to talk about dorian. A beast of a storm. A category 5. Big. About to roll over the bahamas. We were talking about this when we were putting on our makeup, it is devastating. You know, i fear for the people still in the bahamas. And it will be happening over the next 612 hours. It is really slow too, right. It has slowed down. The storm surge will be extraordinary. It just sits there and causes a lot of damage. Od morning. Whoa. That will wake you up. As you see here, it is a beast of a storm and literally about to roll over the bahamas. This is the eye of the storm. Imagine that, about to roll over you in lowlying land that really nothing is standing in the way of this thing devastating this island. Absolutely nothing. We are talking 1015 inches of rainfall. More importantly were talking a
Hello and welcome to world news today. More than 1,000 people have been arrested in moscow, during unauthorised protests against the banning of many opposition candidates from local elections. There were scuffles as police dispersed groups of protesters, who responded with anti putin chants. The Authorities Say around 30 candidates failed to collect enough valid signatures, but the barred candidates say theyve been blocked for political reasons. From moscow, 0leg boldyrev reports. Police warned people from moscow not to come out for this unsanctioned protest but a few thousand came out anyway and soon they paid for it by being dragged into custody. The arrests were met with defiance. The police are trying to push back the protesters, who came here because the candidates they support were not allowed to participate in elections. We dont know how many people came to protest but plenty of people are angry that the candidates theyve been supporting were denied the chance to participate in