with a lot of cloud. still breezy, overnight temperatures are high, seven to 13 celsius. tomorrow, all bands of rain moving eastwards as there is one clears eastern scotland, it will brighten out but the tail end will be heavy bringing heavy rain across north wales and west england. temperatures tomorrow, above average for the time of years, 90 potentially 17 degrees. hello this is bbc new. the headlines: the scottish parliament is recalled amid record numbers of covid infections the issue has to be do we have the right time constraints in place to suppress the circulation of the virus? borisjohnson is under pressure to follow the united states and cut the covid self isolation period in england to 5 days the us and several european countries including france, italy and portugal record their highest daily rises in covid infections since the pandemic began soaring energy bills, rising taxes and stagnant wages will leave millions of families struggling in 2022 according to a l
for routine treatment in england is now almost 6 million. the scottish government delivers its budget with the fiannce secretary insisting it will provide people with stability and support as the country seeks to recover from coronavirus. and after 17 years it s back we look ahead to the return of the iconic sex and the city to uk screens tonight. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister is facing yet more scrutiny today over claims of other christmas parties and now fresh questions over whether he misled an investigation into how refurbishments to his downing street flat were paid for. the conservative party has been fined nearly £18,000 for failing to keep accurate records of a donation. meanwhile the investigation by the cabinet secretary the country s most senior civil servant into a party in downing street last december is being widened to look at two other gatherings. labour has called for the prime minister to resign if he is found to have mi
is indistinguishable from my real one. i mean, if i didn t instagram it, did it even really happen? i know that advertising is a part of this, and recently i noticed the return of some old anxieties, alongside a high number of diet related ads. it made me ask, just how much do social media companies really know about me, and what impact is this having on children growing up today? i ve come to holyrood secondary, scotland s biggest high school, to ask these 14 and is year olds are they on their social media accounts as much as me? i could spend, like, five hours on tiktok and maybe on weekends, like, 10, 11 hours. a good few hours a day on instagram. because you just get so, like, distracted by it that everything else is like.doesn t exist for a moment. i showed them my instagram feed. did anything jump out at you? yeah. i think about 60% of what was there was either an ad or, like, a promotion for something. is it really sort of obvious to you? yeah. is itjust normal to yo
now in bbc news, emily brown investigates the effect social media companies are having on children s lives. disclosure he was looking after the kids? disclosure who s looking after the kids? one in three internet users is a child. pizza! children s attention is worth billions. it s an industry fuelled by personal data. ad tech and big tech sometimes know more about a young person than their parents do. where young users don t always understand what they re sharing. they ve got messages stored here from when i was. must have been 13, 14. should more be done to control this massive market? are they kind of influencing children s life s choices? absolutely. tonight, who s watching the kids? i love social media. i ve had a digital life since i was about 13. facebook, instagram, youtube, tiktok. now, these days, i almost feel like my digital life is indistinguishable from my real one. i mean, if i didn t instagrammed it, did it even really happen? i know that advertising is a
in disclosure: who s watching the kids? one in three internet users is a child. pizza! children s attention is worth billions. it s an industry fuelled by personal data. ad tech and big tech sometimes know more about a young person than their parents do. where young users don t always understand what they re sharing. they ve got messages stored here from when i was. must have been 13, 1a. should more be done to control this massive market? are they kind of influencing children s life s choices? absolutely. tonight, who s watching the kids? i love social media. i ve had a digital life since i was about 13. facebook, instagram, youtube, tiktok. now, these days, i almost feel like my digital life is indistinguishable from my real one. i mean, if i didn t instagrammed it, did it even really happen? i know that advertising is a part of this, and recently, i noticed the return of some old anxieties, alongside a high number of diet related ads. it made me askjust how much do social