Damaging relations with china. But first our breaking news a mans been found guilty of strangling a british backpacker whose body was found buried in a suitcase in new zealand. Grace millane disappeared the night before her 22nd birthday last december after going home with a man shed met on the dating app, tinder. The parents of Grace Millane gave their reaction after the verdict was delivered. The verdict of murder today will be welcomed by members of the millane family and friends of grace. It will not reduce the pain, the suffering that we have had to endure over the past year. Cant see it. Grace was taken away from us in the most brutalfashion a year ago taken away from us in the most brutal fashion a year ago and our lives and family have been ripped apart. This will be with us for the rest of our lives. Grace was a beautiful, talented, loving daughter. Grace was our sunshine and she will be missed for ever. David millane talking outside Auckland High Courta millane talking outside Auckland High Court a short time ago. We start with the social media companies, and the controversy over their role in political debate. Critics have accused them of allowing the spread misinformation, and even distorting democracy itself. In response, from today twitter officially stops taking all political advertising, as the uk prepares for a general election next month, and the us gears up for its president ial poll in 2020. When he announced the decision to drop political ads twitter boss jack dorsey said that, political message reach should be earned, not bought and called for more regulation of political advertising. But there has been criticism that the ban is unnecessarily severe, simplistic and hard to enforce. Earlier this week google, which also owns youtube, announced its own crackdown. It will stop political advertisers from targeting voters based on data about their supposed political affiliations and also tighten a ban on false claims. They will still be able to target users by age and location. But facebook, which also owns instagram and whatsapp, and is arguably the most influential of them all, is refusing to restrict political advertising. Boss Mark Zuckerberg says the firm must stand for free expression. And it has announced it wont fact check advertising from political campaigns. Our media editor amol rajan spoke to facebooks head of Northern Europe earlier this week, and asked him why . In this country, we have made the decision that advertising is part of the political process and as part of the political process and as part of the election process. To ban political advertising, actually has an inherent bias and at, that it helps entrench the positions of the incumbents at the cost of those that are incumbents at the cost of those that a re less incumbents at the cost of those that are less represented. Isnt it ultimately absolutely absurd that whether or not people see millions of true orfalse whether or not people see millions of true or false claims online, it is something that you as a private company decide on rather than regulators and lawmakers. For many yea rs regulators and lawmakers. For many years now, we think there is a clear role for reform and regulation in the political advertising space. Dexter thillien is a Senior Analyst from fitch solutions. Welcome, thanks very much for being with us stopping lets talk about facebook in a moment, its focus on what impact this ban is going to have on twitter. You wont see any political advertising on your twitter feed any more. Twitter is less scale than facebook and google, so less scale than facebook and google, so it is going to have less of an impact. The day twitter announced it was the day facebook reported their own results, so had they had the perfect pr victory there, saying were for democracy and against misinformation, they think were going to see more and more companies trying to do different things. Also about money . The revenue that twitter got from these political ads wasnt that significant, whereas for facebook it has got a far greater impact on their revenue . It is still a small part of facebook revenue but obviously the value, donald trump is spending a lot of money, democrats are spending a lot of money trying to target people within facebook because facebook is the main media service, main platform where users are going to see the news. There are those who argue that trying to ban political ads but politicians can still tweet, donald trump has a massive following so hes not going to be restricted, but those with a smaller following are going to say that their reach is far less and therefore is going to do them more harm, is that a worthy argument. Its an argument against it stop you think it shows what facebook and google are doing, what twitter is doing, there is no real single solution of how we deal with political advertising online. With got regulation when it comes to broadcasting, print, othertypes of media, not so much online, and i think that a big question has been raised by all those Different Companies trying to come up with an answer. Really good to get your analysis, thank you. A us lawyer has been found guilty of Money Laundering and fraud for his role in the onecoin cryptocurrency scam. Mark scott was accused of helping the co founder of the Digital Currency, dr Ruja Ignatova, to use offshore banks and shell corporations to hide millions of dollars of investor money. The disappearance of dr ignatova has been the subject of the bbc podcast the missing crypto queen. Samira hussain reports from new york. Investors worldwide were led to believe that onecoin was a legitimate Digital Currency being run out of bulgaria stopping prosecutors and new york said it was actually a ponzi scheme that attracted aliens of dollars from investors around the world but has no real Financial Investors around the world but has no realfinancial value. Investors around the world but has no real financial value. Its founder, doctor Ruja Ignatova has not been seen or heard from since 2017. Jurors in a new York Federal Court only took a few hours to decide that mark scott was guilty of helping ignatova to final 400 million away from investors and into her private account and that of her associates. In his defence, misters gots lawyers argue that the client had no idea that 0necoin was worthless. The bulgaria based organisation behind 0necoin continues to operate and denies all wrongdoing. In a Statement Given to the bbc podcast, the missing cryptoqueen, it said 0necoin verifiably fulfils all criteria of the definition of a cryptocurrency and added our partners, our customers and our lawyers are fighting successfully proceedings against 0necoin President Trump is expected to sign into law two bills supporting protesters in hong kong, after the us house of representatives passed them earlier this week. China has accused the us of indulging violent criminals, amid concerns in the Business World the row could derail attempts to end the trade war between the two sides. Mariko 0i and our Asia Business team are following the story. Thats right, he has about ten days to sign or veto those bills, and we have been on the edge waiting for his move, though it is widely expected that he will sign them into law, which will most likely trigger baitings retaliation copy the heart of this democracy bell is the special trading status that hong kong enjoys, and that is why we know that many Multinational Companies are based there and not china, so a caught up with tara joseph from the American Chamber of commerce earlier. In terms of the special trade status, it means that hong kongis trade status, it means that hong kong is not liable to the type of tariff wars that we are seeing between the us and china, and we have rule of law here, its a very open, operating environment where there is excellent cooperation between the us and hong kong. There is excellent cooperation between the us and hong kongm there is excellent cooperation between the us and hong kong. It is obviously very important to those businesses operating in hong kong and this new bill will require an annual review on whether hong kong remains sufficiently independent of beijing to enjoy its status, and if the president finds them into law, this could really impact the ongoing trade talks between the us and china. Mariko oi, for now, thank you. Now lets brief you on some other business stories the value of weworks debt has slumped to a new record low after the Office Sharing firm announced plans to cut 2,400 jobs. According to data reported by bloomberg, the firms bonds have been trading for less than 70 cents in the dollar. Weworks plans for a huge Stock Exchange listing collapsed in september amid growing questions over its finances and governance. It was valued at some 47 billion at the beginning of this year. Lingerie brand victorias secret has cancelled its annual fashion show amid dwindling Television Ratings and rising criticism of the event. The show launched in 1995 and was once a major pop culture event, drawing millions of viewers each year. Last year it had its lowest ratings ever and drew criticism that it was sexist, outdated and lacked diversity. The brands Parent Company l brands said it was important to evolve its marketing strategy. Tesla has unveiled its new vehicle at an event in los angeles. The cybertruck pickup, which uses titanium in its construction and features bulletproof glass, will start at 40,000. But a demonstration of its ruggedness misfired after it window smashed when hit by its product director. 0h oh dear, not a good moment. Up next, newsbriefing, well take you through ther stories making headlines in the global news media today. Helen mccourt was killed more than 30 years ago. Her murderer, ian simms, who was jailed for life, has refused to reveal where her body is. Now helens mother says shes horrified after learning that the parole board has recommended him for release. Judith moritz reports. Though Helen Mccourt was killed 31 years ago, her body has never been found. With no grave to visit, her mother marie takes comfort instead from a memorial shes created at home. The only person who knows where helens remains are is the man who murdered her. Ian simms was jailed in 1989, and helens mother has fought for him to stay in prison until he reveals the location. But today came a decision that hes eligible for release. I was devastated when i heard that theirjudgement was that he was going to be released. His victims bodys never been found. Thats my daughter. Thats all ive ever wanted, was to give helen. She never done anybody any harm. Marie mccourt has spent years campaigning to deny parole to killers who dont reveal the location of their victims remains, but shed just run out of time. Helens law was about to be introduced when parliament was dissolved for the election. Hes been refused parole six times over the last 30 years, but now the parole board says he meets the test for release because of the progress hes made and considerable change in his behaviour. Ian sims was photographed in march when on day release from prison. He could be free by christmas. Breakfast is coming up at six oclock with charles stayt and Naga Munchetty theyll have all the days news, business and sport. This is the briefing from bbc news. The latest headlines a 27 year old man has been found guilty of the murder of the british backpacker Grace Millane. She was last seen in auckland, on the eve of her 22nd birrthday. The first global study of childhood activity has warned that four in five children are not getting enough physical exercise. And israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has insisted he will continue to lead the country in spite of his indictment on corruption charges. Now its time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. We begin with the ft which says Jeremy Corbyn has doubled down on labours plans to raise taxes and unleash a huge public spending drive, sparking fears across corporate britain of a return to 1970s state intervention. The labour manifesto is picked up by some of the european papers as well. The frankfuerter allgemeine says that since the days of tony blair and Gordon Browns moderate policies labour has not been able to win an election anymore. Now, the paper says, the slogan is forwards to the past, with the most radical socialist programme since the early 1980s. Israels haaretz reports for the first time in israels history, a sitting Prime Minister is accused of bribery. The attorney general has announced Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu would be charged with bribery, fraud and breach in three corruption in technology news, tech giant google says it would start limiting the abilities of political advertisers to target their messaging in the coming months. Googles Vice President of Product Management and advertising scott spencer, said that the company would begin to ban political advertisers from targeting consumers based on their political affiliation or public voter records. And finally against all odds a church in mexico has revealed a huge statue of babyjesus that bears an uncanny resemblance to the british singer phil collins. The sculpture stands at 6. 7m tall and weighs 900kg which makes it a potential new world record for a babyjesus statue. Thats on the guardian website with me again is iain anderson, whos executive chairman of cicero group. What is your take on the manifesto