But first on Bbc News its click. This week were putting on our next gen specs, hey, welcome to click. Let me hit you straightaway with a buzzword. You might ve heard it being thrown around recently. Are you ready . Always ready. The metaverse. What you think of the idea . Mark zuckerberg is version that it wont be long before we are working, playing and living in this whole virtual universe. It reminds me of Second Life from about 15 years ago, remember that . I do, i do. This was an early realisation of the Sci Fi Idea that has been around for as long as i can remember. But things have moved along. We look a lot better online. It balances out the Aging Bit at the last 18 months i felt a bit like living in a virtual world, so i have got mixed feelings about this because this is actually the last thing that people want right now . Could it potentially help with some of the isolation and other challenges . Zuckerberg thinks we are ready. Hes talking about facebook evolving from a social
Hey, welcome to click. Let me hit you straightaway with a buzzword that you might have heard being thrown around recently. Lara, are you ready for a buzzword . Always ready. Ok the metaverse. What do you think of the idea . Ah, mark Zuckerbergs Vision that it wont be long before were all working, playing and living in this whole virtual universe. It reminds me of Second Life from about 15 years ago, remember that . Yeah, i do, i do. This was an early realisation of the Sci Fi Idea thats been around for as long as i can remember. But the Tech Wasnt up to it then. It wasnt, but of course things have moved along. We look a lot better online and we used to, i have to say. I guess it balances out the ageing bit. But the last 18 months have felt a bit like living in a virtual world, so i got mixed feelings about this because is this actually the last thing people want right now . Or could it potentially help with some of the isolation and other challenges . Well, zuckerberg certainly seems t
Not because there was no evidence. And so he resigned without explanation in lieu of being fired. We also know that the replacement that Donald Trump put in the job, somebody shifted over from the u. S. Attorney position in savannah, also found there was no evidence. The picture thats emerging from some of these interviews, including those of jeffrey rosen, former acting u. S. Attorney, is that Donald Trump was pushing across the body politic, looking for soft places where he could work his will. And it is fortunate for american democracy that where he tried and where it was most sensitive, he encountered resistance, from rosen, from people like Brad Raffensperger in georgia. The challenge of course is what happens next time and are republican officials facing similar pressure willing to do the same thing again that was done with Donald Trump. We dont know the answer to that, and the Senate Judiciary Committee led by dick durbin, the chairman, is trying to get some answers. Jon avlon,
Including those of jeffrey rosen, former acting u. S. Attorney, is that Donald Trump was pushing across the body politic, looking for soft places where he could work his will. And it is fortunate for american democracy that where he tried and where it was most sensitive, he encountered resistance, from rosen, from people like Brad Raffensperger in georgia. The challenge of course is what happens next time and are republican officials facing similar pressure willing to do the same thing again that was done with Donald Trump. We dont know the answer to that, and the Senate Judiciary Committee led by dick durbin, the chairman, is trying to get some answers. John avlon, we know trump was pressuring other georgia officials like the secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to push his bogus Election Fraud claims. But luckily the system worked and state officials did their jobs. What happens if there is a next time and those officials arent there or, you know, if these new Voter Laws go into eff
hello and welcome. the united states has ordered the families of its diplomats in the ukrainian capital, kyiv, to leave the country family members have been ordered to leave. moscow is planning for significant military action in ukraine. the state department tweeted it continues to advise us citizens to not travel to russia due to ongoing tension with ukraine. to russia adding that it has limited ability to assist us citizens in russia. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has promised a significant response if moscow does invades its neighbour. in california fresh surprise of american weapons destined for ukraine, hardly enough to defeat an invading russian army but the message to moscow is clear, if you do this it will come at a price. now the foreign office says it is seeing signs of a russian plan to install a puppet government after innovation. politicians in touch with russian intelligence officers involved intelligence officers involved in planning the attack