bodies feel warmth and touch have won the nobel prize for medicine. we will speak live to one of them late in the programme. it has been a pretty torrid day for facebook. two interconnecting stories that together have wiped $7 billion of mark zuckerberg s wealth. we will come to each of them in turn. let s start with a first, the whistle blower. two weeks ago the wall streetjournal published the facebook files, a damning series of reports that were based on a cache of the company s leaked internal documents. they reveal that facebook was aware of problems it was having with its apps, including the negative effects of misinformation and the harm that was being caused, especially to young girls, by instagram. we now have the identity of that whistle blower. francis hogan, who until recently worked as a product manager on the civic integrity team at facebook. ahead of her team tomorrow before a senate committee where she will be giving evidence she has given an explosive intervi
in the past 2a hours. and in tel aviv on saturday evening, thousands gathered demanding a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages held by hamas since the 7 october attacks. our correspondent hugo bachega is injerusalem and gave us this update. this is the deadliest incident involving the israeli military since january and one of the deadliest in this war. so the military gave some details about what happened earlier today. it said these soldiers were members of an engineering unit and their armoured vehicle was hit by a large explosion. and this explosion then triggered the detonation of explosive material, engineering material in the car. so this is under investigation. apparently, this was in breach of the standard practice, and an investigation continues. but daniel hagari, a military spokesman, said that this initial explosion was most likely caused by an explosive device in the area or by an anti tank missile. and we know that earlier today, the armed wing o
the opportunity to showcase their work. we ll be covering different aspects of the festival, asking if co founder robert de niro s strident anti trump rhetoric interfered with tribeca s celebration of cinema. he wants to do everything possible to mess things up. we ll also be seeing how activist or political films were making an impact, and films from around the world, including the story of a young somali girl who became an olympic athlete. and we sit down with one of america s great independent film makers, richard linklater. it s not hard coming up with the films you want to make. it s hard to get them financed sometimes, but people are going to make films somehow, some way. since 2002, lower manhattan has hosted the tribeca festival. among those instrumental in bringing it into being was the legendary actor robert de niro and his producing partner, jane rosenthal. originally, it was more of a civic restoration project designed to bring life back to the devastated tribeca
controversy around the fact that the prime minister left those commemorations early. in fact, the next day, he apologised for doing that. and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and s
meanwhile, world leaders from some 100 countries are in switzerland this weekend by invitation of ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky to discuss how to bring an end to the war in ukraine. at the end of day one, the group released a draft communique reaffirming ukraine s territorial integrity and rejecting any nuclear threat to it. russia and china are notably absent from the international meeting, which is designed to pave the way for a future peace process in which russia takes part. but some countries have reservations saudi arabia s foreign minister said difficult compromises will be needed to reach a peace agreement that ends the war. and the leaders of italy and germany strongly rejected ceasefire terms laid out by russian president vladimir putin on thursday in which he said kyiv would need to withdraw its troops from four regions that russia partially occupies. uk prime minister rishi sunak said it is important to find a peaceful path to end the war. we must set o