all change at the top as the plane making giant looks to draw a line under a deepening safety crisis. the boss, chief executive dave calhoun, has said he will step down by the end of the year. the head of boeing s commercial airlines division will retire immediately and its chairman will not stand for re election. this all part of the continuing fallout after an unused door blew out of a boeing 737 max in january shortly after take off. no passengers were injured in the incident. michelle fleury has more. there is a major shakeup at boeing. dave calhoun says he will lead by the end of this year. he did on thejob in 2020 after 2737 makes jets crashed killing 346 people. now boeing is grappling with its biggest crisis since then after a door flew out of a 737 max jogged out to take off. dave calhoun says he isn t living immediately because he says he was busy bowing to his latest turbulence. federal investigators found problems with boeing s 737 production process. boeing stock
terrifying moment for passengers. the incident plunged bowing into a crisis, raising questions about its attitude to safety. now the boss dave calhoun says he s stepping down. he was appointed at a desperate time for the company. bad design and failures had been blamed for two tragic accidents involving the 737 max. in ethiopia and indonesia 346 people died. mr calhoun promised change but critics say that hasn t happened. critics say that hasn t happened- critics say that hasn t hauened. . ., , , happened. he had opportunities to make changes happened. he had opportunities to make changes as happened. he had opportunities to make changes as a happened. he had opportunities to make changes as a member. happened. he had opportunitiesl to make changes as a member of the board. certainly in a ceo position is been one failure after the other. i can t say there s been any successes under mr calhoun. humanitarian worker died under mr calhoun. humanitarian worker died when
maintained a presence. we are here again to give people water and also to give leaflets concerning the high temperature period here in greece. the heatwave is baking countries like italy in temperatures of at least a0 degrees, and experts are warning the heat is deadly. in croatia, this man lost his home to wildfires breaking out across the west coast of the country. all this in the context of 60,000 lives lost in europe s heatwave last year and another heatwave on its way next week that could bring the continent s hottest ever temperatures. so, as these animals are doing at berlin zoo, the official advice for people is to stay hydrated and keep out of the sun at the hottest part of the day as the heat continues to rise. louisa pilbeam, bbc news. 0ur correspondent, guy hedgecoe, is in madrid. spain, where i am, is one of several countries of southern europe that has seen unusually high temperatures over recent days. although that heatwave is starting to taper off here in sp
us, you are in time for the top business stories. we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing in the last few hours, meta, the owner of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, has launched its widely anticipated new conversation app, threads. it allows users to create posts of up to 500 characters and is being seen as a clear rival to twitter. threads is available to download in more than 100 countries around the world, including here in the uk, but not as yet in the european union because of concerns over privacy regulations. meta boss mark zuckerberg says 5 million users have already signed up to threads in the first four hours. and many tech industry watchers say it poses a very real threat to twitter. i think threads will pose a huge threat to twitter because it is coming from the matter and instagram family of apps. instagram has 2 million users compared to around 250 million of twitter so about ten times bigger already. of twitter so about ten times biggeralready. if of
who is the chief executive and co founder at evapo, who gave us his assessment on the ban. disposables are already banned for kids, yet black market criminals are selling to kids without any consequences. so now to propose to ban these products for adults would really be an admission by the government that it can t enforce its existing laws and it will not tackle the black market problem. we have millions of vapers in the country who would be at risk of falling back to smoking and these bans would hand the regulated vaping market to criminals on a silver platter. the roblem criminals on a silver platter. the problem is criminals on a silver platter. the problem is even criminals on a silver platter. the problem is even though they are banned, two thirds of 11 17 year olds are using disposable vapes. we don t know the long term health impacts and they are targeted at younger people with the way the products are designed and the flavours. ., ., ., , , flavours. yeah, saman