tonight, political chaos threatens in pakistan as the results don t go the military s way and jailed imran khan s candidates surge into the lead. cheering in the teeth of violence and claims of vote rigging, will democracy win out in pakistan? imran khan s injail, so his supporters tonight released an ai generated victory speech. we ll hearfrom imran khan s former advisor, and a columnist and scholar of south asian politics who is a former civil servant in pakistan. the surgeon whistle blower who says he was sacked for calling out his nhs trust for prioritising tooth extractions over cancer patients to hit performance targets. delaying the treatment of any patient with cancer puts them at harm. it s indefensible and it s something you cannot do in any trust, anywhere, anytime. and in the week of keir starmer s £28 billion a year green u turn, and rishi sunak s entanglement in the trans issue, we ll ask if the needle has moved, or even quivered on that stubborn election swing
$55.8 billion. that was the record pay day for elon musk in 2018. but today a judge in the us state of delaware said it should be scrapped. the pay deal was the biggest ever in us corporate history and propelled mr musk to the top of the list of the world s richest people. butjudge kathaleen mccormick said the payout was unfathomable . and could put his title as the world s richest man at risk. figures from bloomberg and forbes suggest his net worth is between $198 billion and $220 billion. the pay was from his electric car company tesla and was linked to performance targets, such as tesla s share price and profitability. and if you look at that measure well, the value of the company did soar, topping $1 trillion in 2021, up from $50 billion when the pay deal was originally negotiated. mr musk sold a large chunk of tesla to buy twitter. meaning how owns around 13% of the electric carmaker. cancelling his pay deal means he also misses out on more than 300 million tesla sh
payment rights on the social media platform. to discuss all this i ll be joined by the political analyst and democratic party strategist mary anne marsh and philip rycroft the former permanent secretary at the uk s department for exiting the eu. the bosses of five major tech firms have been testifying at a senate hearing about what they re doing to protect children from online sexual exploitation. the five have faced some fiery questions, with meta boss mark zuckerberg being asked what the hell were you thinking? over an instagram prompt directing users to possible child abuse material. mark zuckerberg and the boss of tiktok voluntarily agreed to testify, but leaders of snap, x formerly twitter and discord initially refused and were sent subpoenas, forcing them to appear. all have hundreds of millions of young users. senators are particularly worried about a rise in reports of explicit images of children being shared, including those created with artificial intelligen
has to provide drinking and waste water and it does not have any competitors, but as you say, it has amassed debts of £14 billion over the years and this has to be serviced. it costs the costs are rising because of inflation. interest rates are rising. cost of servicing the debt has gone up. and also, it has to pay each year in investment, it is under fire for leaky pipes, sewage flowing into rivers, not meeting its performance targets, and of course hefty fines in the process. it needs to raise new money. it has already had half £1 billion from shareholders and it needs to raise in the region of another billion and it has a debt repayment coming up in the next year. it has to try and persuade its shareholders that this turnaround plan under the new ceo, sarah bentley, who left rather abruptly yesterday, that the plan is working, and for them to stump up and i think what has brought this story to the fourie is news that the government is looking at options. contingency p
self employed? somebody told me this morning who is self employed but self employed never go off sick, they can t afford it. is that you or a myth? looking at the texts, some are saying it is freeloading, it is chancing your arm. there are multiple reasons, mental health, stress, cost of living crisis, covid, long covid, which can be devastating. i ll be too quick to go on the say? get in touch. are we too sick? nick hatfield has the news. workers in the uk are estimated to be taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade. the chartered institute of personnel and development stress, cost of living pressures on my a hospital trust failed to centre 2a,000 letters from senior doctors to patients and gps, blaming a computer error. newcastle hospital says the problem goes back to 2018. the nhs wants regulation patient safety. home secretary suella braverman is expected to say the 1958 un refugee convention might not be fit for the modern age. in a speech in washing