Hello and welcome. Donald trump says that facebook s decision to suspend him from all of its Social Media platforms until 2023 is an insult to the millions of people who voted for him. The company says the former president s profile will only be reinstated if it can be satisfied that his posts no longer pose a threat to public safety. The ban was imposed after his supporters stormed the us capitol injanuary. Our Media Editor Amol rajan has been examining facebook s changing role in the political landscape. We have to have peace, we have to have law and order. It was an extraordinary moment in modern american democracy. In the judgment of many independent observers, disputed by his supporters, an outgoing president incited a mob. As a result, his megaphones were taken away. Twitter banned him. Youtube suspended his account, and facebook did the same. Theyve created an Oversight Board to give independent advice on such editorial judgements. Last month, it upheld his suspension. The perso
Hadnt been widely shared. Daniel sandford, thank you very much. And you can see much more on that over the course of the afternoon on the Bbc News channel. Time for a look at the weather. Heres tomasz shafernaker. Hello, and good afternoon, i am so delighted to bring you a forecast full of optimism, we have been advertising for days that the weather is set to improve and, indeed, it is, it will be increasingly sunny and warm. But not at the moment, there is a bit of a blip in the weather, across central and western areas of the uk. There is a Weather Front here and currently, it is stuck. The reason why it is stuck is because it is riding up against this area of High Pressure and there are a number of Weather Fronts. Pressure and there are a number of weatherfronts. And pressure and there are a number of Weather Fronts. And as they approach the High Pressure, they slow down. Think of the High Pressure as a mountain so as a Weather Front approaches with a Building Area of High Pressure,