Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the Digital Markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide member was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto this software to give people tools to communicate, share, and explore information through decentralized platform that was designed to be open and nondiscriminatory. An internet pioneer and codesigner of the internets early architecture testified in 2006 on behalf of google that the overarches principle of the open internet was no central gatekeeper should exert control over the internet. As he noted this open and competitive environment meant ent
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Welcome to countdown. Back to our top story. Eu leaders have given the European Commission a week to draft a new round of sanctions against russia as the conflict deteriorates. Worried the situation could get worse. I think we are close to the point of no return. The point of no return is fullscale war. Lets get more of this. Ryan chilcote has been reporting on russia for 20 years. Thats a long time. It is. Are getting really busy. We heard the ukrainian president. We also heard from the russian president yesterday in what i think was a very meaningful sayingew he gave affectively there should be talks for state had four Eastern Ukraine. You pointed out earlier a spokesman said this is not the russian president saying Eastern Ukraine should be independent. It will certainly unnerve kiev, and it certainly has a lot of people concerned putins aim is to create a land bridge from russia proper to crimea to another state. It is putting pressure on kiev. Exactly, to have this wedge between r
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And theres just hours to go in transfer deadline day in the premier league. Everton sign defender ben godfrey from norwich city in a £25 million deal. Hello, good afternoon. Number 10 says an investigation has begun into the error which meant that the close contacts of nearly 16,000 people with coronavirus were not traced last week. Public Health England has blamed what it described as a technical issue, and the investigation will look into why the problem wasnt discovered sooner. Although those testing positive were informed, their details were not passed on to the test and trace system to alert those theyd been in contact with. The bbc has been told by Senior Public Health officials a significant proportion of the unreported cases are from the north west of england. Phe says the issue has now been resolved, but labour has called the situation shambolic. The Health Secretary matt hancock is to make a statement to mps this afternoon. Heres our Health Correspondent cichard galpin. Test