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tech bosses including meta s mark zuckerberg and linda yaccarino of x have been accused of having blood on their hands by a powerul us senate committee in washington. the hearing was called as concerns rise about children s mental health and safety online. politicians say big tech companies are not doing enough to protect children from sexual exploitation. they have been debating tougher laws, and demanded executives explain what has been done so far. in his opening remarks, senator lindsay graham, the top republican on the committee, took aim at facebook founder and ceo, mark zuckerburg. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your you have a product that is killing people. and i use it, we all use it. there s an upside everything here. of the dark side has not been dealt with. it s now time to deal with the dark side because people have taken youridea dark side because people have taken your idea and t ....
what this law means and why this party wanted to change it. its a law that other countries party wanted to change it. its a law that other countries have party wanted to change it. its a law that other countries have but - that other countries have but nothing like in as harsh a form is the one in thailand, where you can end up going to jail, and some have gone to jailfor decades end up going to jail, and some have gone to jail for decades for making any comment perceived as critical or negative about the monarchy. it has long been criticised by human rights groups. it has been used much more extensively in recent years. the current king is a very different personality to his father, and it seems it is being used to defend him. there were almost unprecedented student protest four years ago when calls to the changes to the monarchy were made public. that hadn t happened before and the laws were used to go after leaders of the protests. the argument was, if you are go ....
it s wednesday, 31st january. our main story. scotland s former first minister, nicola sturgeon is due to give evidence about the decisions she took during the pandemic, when she appears before the covid inquiry today. ms sturgeon, who led the scottish response to the coronavirus outbreak is expected to face questions surrounding lockdowns, and missing whatsapp messages as the inquiry continues sitting in edinburgh. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. 1,044 positive cases were reported yesterday. nicola sturgeon was at the helm throughout scotland s pandemic response. as head of the scottish government, she was the key decision maker and first in the firing line when things went wrong. we will have made mistakes on all aspects of the handling. now about to be questioned on that handling and how decisions the truth, the whole truth. the former first minister s closest political ally amongst those who admitted texts between the pair no longer exist. are t ....
statutory public inquiries are noted in if i wasn t prepared to give assurance and i would have the ability and the sabia judge let statutory public inquiry. however, now, she says, she noted key points from her whatsapps and then deleted them. i was very thorough, notjust in the pandemic but in all my work in government to ensure that things were appropriately recorded, but in line with the advice i had always been given since my first day in government, probably, was not to retain conversations like that on a phone that could be lost or stolen and therefore not secure. but did you delete them? yes. but others have provided whatsapps. the inquiry was shown messages for october 2020 in which ms sturgeon told her chief of staff, i m having a bit of a crisis of decision making in hospitality, not helped by the fact i haven t slept . after discussing the possible restrictions on pubs and restaurants in detail, ms sturgeon concludes, it is all so random but i think we n ....
but there is no substitution. there is no way any organization can replace or substitute the tremendous capacity, the fabric of unrwa, the ability and their knowledge of the population in gaza. the palestinian representative at the un has called for unrwa to be defended, because it is the only organisation capable of helping the people of gaza. israel s government has accused unrwa of being a front for hamas which several countries consider to be a terrorist group. meanwhile, the fighting continues in gaza with several explosions heard in the southern areas around khan younis and rafah. the israeli army has confirmed it s been flooding tunnels in gaza with sea water to try to neutralise the threat posed by hamas and other militant groups. it said checks had been carried out beforehand to ensure that ground water was not contaminated. let s get more on this with our middle east correspondent nick beake. what are the un saying about these allegations by israel about s ....