Out there for some. Its wednesday, the 8th of may. Our main story. The parents of 11 children, who died after what they say were the failings of social media, have called on rishi sunak and keir starmer to do more to protect young people online. In an open letter, they say theyre disappointed by the lack of ambition shown by the regulator, ofcom, which has today set out its plans to force Tech Companies to make their platforms safer. Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports. I want to know what theyve got to say, and i want them to meet people with lived experience. Its really important to try and understand what ofcom are doing because from the outside they seem to be doing so little, which is ridiculous and frustrating. Brianna and molly, their short lives spurring their parents on to try and make the online world a safer place for all children. We showed them posts and pictures, easy to find on social media of self harm, suicide and eating disorders. Had you, um. Had you seen conten
U. S. Auto sales are expected to past 17 million for the third month as suvs and pickup trucks remain strong in july. And youre fired. Donald trump slumped because of racist comments but now first in the polls. Meanwhile, joe biden is reportedly thinking about dipping his toe into the race. All right. Welcome back. Lets have a quick look at the athens Stock Exchange. It opened for the first time in five weeks today. And it is down quite heavily as expected. It was off by roughly 20 . This is what we were expecting. Based on u. S. Traded etf of good stocks, this big decline is by no means a big surprise. But as you can see, the banking stocks are the hardest hit. National bank of greece off by 30 . And were seeing those declines across the banking sector. The banking sectors got a 20 rating for the index. And theres still a lot of question marks about the health of these bank given that 93 need to be recapitalized. Its not just the market that is suffering this morning, the economy as w
The april jobs report, the worst in several months, 202,000 jobs were created. So the president came out a couple of hours ago to say it wont move faster until we see fairer Corporate Tax reform and until we see the minimum wage hike, something Warren Buffett says will hurt jobs. How will those two things increase job creation . Coming up, weve got the United States secretary of labor for the answer, secretary tom perez is here. Oil outlook up in flames at this hour as thousands of stranded Oil Field Workers make a daring escape from a wildfire raging out of control in alberta, canada. 1500 vehicles trying desperately to flee. Well get that to you straight ahead. The frontrunners in the 2016 president ial race facing new challenges. Both of them as donald trump tries to unify the gop, while Hillary Clinton answers new questions about email server. Political panel whether either of them will succeed . And its superhero versus superhero, cinematic civil war as captain america hits the Si
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