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facebook whistle blower, frances haugen, tells mps that the platform puts growth over safety. the real thing we re seeing here is facebook accepting little, tiny additions of harm, like when they way off how much harm is worth how much growth for us? but facebook has told the bbc it has rules against harmful content, and has halved the amount of hate speech on its site. the prevalence of hate speech on facebook is less than a fifth of a percent. that s less than .05%. and that s a result of the progress we ve made in developing technology to find and remove that kind of content. a key spending pledge to help some of the world s poorest countries cut their carbon footprint has not been met, days before world leaders meet in glasgow for the cop26 climate summit. when s your birthday? may 5th, why? oh, i m just making a list of people s birthdays. 0h, mine s december. yeah, whatever. and tributes pour in for james michael tyler who starred as gunther in friends and h ....
it will be mild. all the details later. it s thursday the 25th of january. our main story. the families of the victims of the nottingham attacks will find out today what sentence the killer will receive. valdo calocane stabbed university students grace o malley kumar and barnaby webber, both 19, before attacking 65 year old school caretaker ian coates. his guilty plea to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility was accepted by the court earlier this week. our reporter navtej johal has spoken exclusively to ian s family ahead of today s sentencing. stubborn. yeah. taught me to fish, but said i was absolutely rubbish. same. fishing, football, family. the things that ian coates loved most. he wasn t the one to constantly say i love you. but we felt that love in the family household. on the 13th ofjune last year, ian, a 65 year old caretaker, was taken from his family in a morning of horror in nottingham that left three people dead. they can t forget the mom ....
of centring once and the early morning mist has cleared. temperatures, 69 degrees at best. as we look ahead to sunday, temperatures may drop back even further. lots of dry weather after any early mist and fog it stays mostly dry, but surely into next week. this is bbc news. the headlines. more than 100 people die in iran in two explosions near the grave of a top revolutionary guards commander. junior doctors in england begin the longest strike in the health service s history in a six day walkout over pay. and this history making teenager is on target for further glory. 16 year old luke littler could tonight become the youngest player to win the world darts championship. for more on that and for the rest of the day at s sport here s paul scott. the sport of darts has never seen anything like it 16 year old luke littler, on his debut, is preparing for the world championship final. he ll take on another luke humphries who became world number one after his victory ....
in two explosions in south eastern iran, near the grave of a top revolutionary guards commander. state television says the blasts occurred in quick succession in the city of kerman, during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the killing of qasem soleimani. he was iran s most powerful military commander and was killed in 2020 by a us air strike in iraq. local officials say two bags containing explosives were detonated by remote control at the entrance to the burial site. bbc persian s parham gobadi gave me further details of the blast. as you mentioned, this is one of the deadliest attacks in iran in the past a0 years. it has been unprecedented, the number of the death toll is rising every every few minutes, so far. they say that some of those who were injured are in critical conditions and we know at least one medic was among the casualties who was killed, two others, at least, are in critical conditions. they say that after the first explosion took place, the second, ....
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. uk prime minister rishi sunak could be set to delay a decision on downgrading the h52 high speed rail link after a backlash from his own party. and it looks rishi sunak looks to have pushed back a decision on downgrading hs2 after a furious tory backlash. the pm was expected to announce that the manchester leg of the project, phase 2, was being axed or postponed because of the spiralling costs. the only trouble is he is due in manchester next week for the tory party conference. mr sunak is said to be stunned by the overruns and is said to prefer regional transport projects instead. so how has a project priced in 2009 at {32.7 billion soared to more than £100 billion? let s talk to a man who may have the answer. joining me now is trevor parkin, who is a retired mining engineer and has worked on the h52 route for seven years. this looks like every building quote i have ever had. it comes in way over budget ....