Also tonight, france finally has a prime minister. You will know him he is the former Brexit Negotiator Michel barnier. Parliament. He will need all his skills to Negotiate a raucus french parliament. And not entirely immune from prosecution. Trump pleads not guilty, as his Jan 6 case returns to court in washington. Welcome to the programme. The Waterways here in britain are awash with Records Amount of sewage. Today, the governement announced a new bill that will beef up the powers of the Water regulator. In future the Water Bosses in england and wales will face 2 years in prison if theyre found to have obstructed an investigation into a Sewage Spill and their bonuses will be blocked if they fail to meet environmental and financial standards. But activists say it is not enough. The system is broken, and that current regulations arent being enforced. Heres our environment correspondentjonah fisher. Profits and pollution. For years, our Water Companies have paid out dividends to shareho
meta, which owns facebook, says threads will be part of its instagram platform so it ll be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts to begin with. but the app has already been criticised for the amount of data it may collect. ray wang is a principal analyst constellation research and explained why threads could be a serious threat to twitter. it s a massive threat if you think about twitter, it only has one of 150 million active users. if you see what s going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking 2.96 billion users, so let s look at this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we used to say mass adoption of technology has occurred, chatgpt did it in 30 days, facebook live in 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get the 50 million users in probably less than hours and probably get 150 million users in less than two months. that means it s a direct threat to twitter. at the same time some users aren t happy with recent restrictions like the number of tweets you can lo
of millions of accounts. ray wang is a principal analyst of constellation research, explains why threads could be a serious challenge to twitter. this is a massive threat. if you think about twitter, it only has about 150 million active users. if you see what is going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking the 2.96 billion users. let s put this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we use to say mass adoption of technology has occurred. facebook live dated 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get to 50 million users and probably less than 2a hours. i can pick it to 150 million euros in less than two months. it s a direct threat to delay or stop light at the same time, some of the users are not happy with the recent restrictions like the number of tweets that you can look at. why is elon musk doing this is yet? you don t normally musk doing this is yet? you don t normally have - musk doing this is yet? 7m. don t normally have that musk doing this is yet? 7m, don t nor
on the israel gaza war. international pressure mounts on israel to reduce civilian casualties. the us secretary of defense, lloyd austin, is in israel, where he s expected to meet officials later. we ve been seeing smoke on the gaza skyline again this morning. it comes as the uk, france, and germany step up global calls for a ceasefire. britain s former defence secretary, ben wallace, has warned that israel risks losing its legal and moral authority for its war in gaza. in a newspaper article, he described israel s tactics as crude and indiscriminate . the hamas run health authority in gaza says israeli air strikes have killed at least 110 people in a single day in the jabalia refugee camp. we re also following the latest from the un security council it s due to convene later today, to disucss the humanitarian situation in gaza. to disucss the humanitarian it s expected to look at a new draft resolution calling on israel and hamas to allow greater humanitarian access to th