biggest covid hot spots from over the summer where hospitalizations are now falling and vaccinations are ticking up. plus, the impact of vaccine mandates, big business, the ceo of united airlines will be here to talk about how the company s latest move is paying off big time. you know we re beginning with this morning facebook, ceo mark zuckerberg finally weighing in overnight insisting that his company is the victim of a, quote, false narrative. at the same time, he is saying he is open to regulation from washington. in fact, after watching that explosive senate testimony from whistle-blower frances haugen, it is clear there s one thing that she and zuckerberg and congressional lawmakers agree on in theory that the ball is in congress s court. is facebook capable of making the right decision here on its own or is regulation needed to create rule transparency on facebook? until incentives change at facebook, we should not expect facebook to change. we need action from c
according to the south korean military, the projectile had disappeared from radar and might have crashed or exploded. the united states hasjoined south korea and japan in condemning the launch, saying it involved ballistic missile technology in breach of un sanctions. there s lots to unpick so let s go live to seoul and jean mackenzie, our correspondent in south korea. jean how did you first hear of this rocket launch? i first heard about it when, like millions of other people was awoken by the air raid siren this morning which is incredibly uncommon here. it is just not something we are used to hearing. we then started to get these loudspeaker messages played out telling people to prepare for an evacuation, but 20 minutes later we received another message telling us all that this had been a mistake, so she can imagine there was a fair amount so she can imagine there was a fairamount of panic so she can imagine there was a fair amount of panic initially and then confusi
some reports say the treasury secretary, janet yellen, has been personally calling chief executives to warn them of the dire consequences a default could have on the us and the global economy. so how did washington end up here again? samira hussain has been investigating. first of all, this debt ceiling crisis is actually a political crisis, itjust happens to hinge on a must pass piece of legislation to save the country from economic catastrophe. so what exactly is happening here? major consequences for the economy. the us could default on its debt in a matter of weeks. debt limit measuresl may be exhausted. weeks to go before the federal government is unable to pay its bills. well, the us government spends more money than it brings in, so it needs to borrow money to pay its bills. it can only borrow a certain amount of money and if it needs to borrow more, congress has to approve that. it used to be a routine thing but not any more. republicans see this as an opportunity t
reporting that it added million subscribers in the first three months of this year. that sounds like good news, doesn t it? last year the company lost subscribers the final six months. but, wall street was expecting it to have added 3 million subscribers. last year netflix reported not one, but two quarters where it lost customers. it was the first time the company has reported a loss in subscribers in ten years. these latest results show a gain in subscribers. that is good. but, it is actually much less then what investors were expecting. netflix have come up with a plan to try and crack down on password sharing. it was meant to roll out in this first quarter, but the company decided to hold back until the second quarter of the year. and to try to make up for lost subscribers last year, netflix created an ad funded streaming service which was cheaper, but subscribers would need to sit through adverts. if the company thought it left its woes in 2022, it seems that this earnin
hello and welcome. let s start with the war in ukraine, because the conflict has left millions stuck inside their homes without many crucial supplies. as a potential solution to the humanitarian crisis, uber has teamed up with the united nations world food programme to help it deliver emergency food and water supplies in war torn cities across ukraine. it s built the organisation a free version of the software it uses to co ordinate its own delivery services, and it s being trialled in the city of dnipro. the bbc s tech editor zoe kleinman reports. in some parts of ukraine, it s getting harder and harder to access food and water, but in a war zone, big delivery trucks can also be big targets, so now, the united nations world food programme is trying out a new way of delivering emergency supplies using a fleet of smaller vehicles. it s building its own delivery network using uber software and even some of its drivers. they can designate vehicles that they on board to the progr