To continue to be supported by the Record Company. Just to push backjust slightly, are you sort of letting people off by saying it is the Record Company . Im not letting. Its not letting off, its saying what it really is. This is one of the reasons why even with a tribe called quest, we had a lyric that said Industry Rule Number a008. Record Company People are shady. Record Company People are shady. You know, the fact that we were making something that was more conscious, we didnt get the support like a lot of other artists. Thank you so much forjoining us and happy birthday. Thank you so much, kirsty. Lets take a look at some of the front pages. The guardian, asylum barge evacuated as deadly bacteria is found and the best is yet to come, the lioness is ready to take on colombia. Good luck for tomorrow for that. The daily mail, the trans row over womens wards and the pressure to change nhs guidelines that they can share single sex spaces and again, england. On the daily telegraph, migr
forecast that second quarter revenue would be above market expectations. this confirms the view that digital advertisers are betting on well established platforms such as facebook and instagram in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. earlier i spoke to the founder of the tech advisory firm constellation research and it told me that meta has managed told me that meta has managed to keep eyeballs on its platforms and advertisers know that. , , ., ., that. they showed the digital at winter is that. they showed the digital at winter is falling that. they showed the digital at winter is falling and - that. they showed the digital at winter is falling and that l at winter is falling and that is important piece. what you mentioned earlier was important, advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the
this confirms the view that digital advertisers are betting on well established platforms, such as facebook and instagram, in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. earlier i spoke with ray wang, the founder of the tech advisory firm constellation research and he told me that meta has managed to keep eyeballs on its platforms and advertisers know that. yeah, they showed the digital ad winter is thawing and that is a really important piece. what you mentioned earlier was important, advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the users and the eyeballs, they are not going to be there and what meta showed was that they were able to keep their monthly active users still at 2.99 billion, almost 3 billion, intact, and were able to drive sales up 3% and give a queue to guidance that was much higher between
his health s deteriorated. he s now suffering from a type of dementia. and stars gather for a fashionable farewell. a memorial s held in london for dame vivienne westwood who died in december aged 81. two leaders on opposing sides of the war in ukraine have spoken to the bbc in the run up to the one year anniversary of russia s invasion. ukraine s president zelensky tells us he won t concede territory to russia in any future peace deal to end the war. he insists doing so would leave ukraine weaker as a state, and give vladimir putin cause to want to keep coming back . meanwhile, one of the russian leader s staunchest allies, alexander lukashenko of belarus, has told the bbc he d be willing to allow russia to launch a fresh ground assault from his country. we ll hear from steve rosenberg in the belarusian capital minsk in a moment. but first, here s our world affairs editor, john simpson, in kyiv. a year on, president zelensky may be stressed and deeply tired, but there s a
now her people are here for her. i m in westminster where people have less than one full day left to pay their respects to the queen. i ll be speaking to the tens of thousands of people who already have. in other news, millions of people in south western japan have been forced to leave their homes as a region braces itself for the biggest typhoon in decades. ukraine says more than 59 bodies have now been recovered from a mass burial site in the recently liberated city. welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around welcome, if you are watching in the uk oraround the welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around the world. king charles iii will host a reception for hundreds of world leaders at buckingham palace later today ahead of queen elizabeth s funeral on monday. tens of thousands are still queueing to file past the late queen s coffin on the final full day of lying in state. officials are deciding whether to temporarily suspend queueing and they have asked members o