we need to do more to get on top of this virus, protect our national health service and stop more stringent measures having to be introduced further down the line. ethiopia steps up its aerial bombardment in the tigray region hitting targets in the west and north. congratulations. congratulations. and gone for $110 million a las vegas hotel auctions off its collection of picasso artworks. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the facebook whistleblower, frances haugen, will give evidence to british mps on monday on government plans for social media regulation. this will be the american data scientist s first public evidence she has given in europe regarding her experiences at the company. when frances haugen spoke to the us congress earlier this month, she claimed facebook consistently chose to maximize its growth rather than implement safeguards on its platforms. she also said. the mental health impact of social media on children is somethin
we ll be uncovering the cultural treasures hidden beneath the hills of indonesia. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news, it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore, and 11 pm in london where the facebook whistle blower, frances haugen, will give evidence to british mps in the coming hours. frances haugen will give her view on the uk government s plans to regualate social media. it will be the first public evidence she s given in europe regarding her experiences at the company. when frances how gun spoke to the us congress earlier this month, she claimed facebook consistently chose to maximise its growth rather than implement safeguards on its platforms. and she also said. facebook hit back, saying that it cares deeply about issues like safety, well being and mental health. frances though said the company s apps harm children s mental health. since arriving in the uk she s met the campaigner, ian russell. his 14 year old daughter, molly, took her own li
beneath the hills of indonesia. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news, it s newsday. the facebook whistle blower, frances haugen, will give evidence to british mps in the coming hours. she s in london to give her view on the uk government s plans to regulate social media. it will be the first public evidence she s given in europe regarding her experiences at the company when frances how gun spoke to the us congress earlier this month, she claimed facebook consistently chose to maximise its growth rather than implement safeguards on its platforms. and she also said during my time at facebook, i came to realise a devastating truth: almost no one outside of facebook knows what happens inside facebook . facebook hit back, saying that it cares deeply about issues like safety, well being and mental health. frances though said the company s apps harm children s mental health. since arriving in the uk she s met the campaigner, ian russell. his 14 year old daughter, m
heavily forested guyana has always been a carbon sink. now, with the oil and gas flowing, some call it a carbon bomb. fragile ecosystems are vulnerable to possible oil spills and rising sea levels. guyana is making choices which will have global impact. will they be wise ones? it s republic day in georgetown, guyana s capital. party time for the country s 800,000 people. the ministry of natural resources is on the road. i want to hear you make some noise. the stage is set here for transformational change, a resource driven economic boom that will spread unprecedented wealth through the generations. in past decades, guyana s dominant commodity was gold, found deep in the forested interior. to get to the gold mines, you need to take a pretty rough and ready track. it gives you some idea how remote these mines are. i mean, the truth is that there are gold deposits all around here, but finding them is one thing. you ve then got to clear away the forest. you ve got to dig a track
stoked old tensions. neighbouring socialist venezuela claims a vast chunk of guyanese territory. the stakes are suddenly very high. we shall never surrender an inch of our territory. heavily forested guyana has always been a carbon sink. now, with the oil and gas flowing, some call it a carbon bomb. fragile ecosystems are vulnerable to possible oil spills and rising sea levels. guyana is making choices which will have global impact. will they be wise ones? it s republic day in georgetown, guyana s capital. party time for the country s 800,000 people. the ministry of natural resources is on the road. i want to hear you make some noise. the stage is set here for transformational change, a resource driven economic boom that will spread unprecedented wealth through the generations. in past decades, guyana s dominant commodity was gold, found deep in the forested interior. to get to the gold mines, you need to take a pretty rough and ready track. it gives you some idea how remote