will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, the media show. a handful of tech entrepreneurs in silicon valley have become the editor in chief of the internet. mark zuckerberg of facebook, jack dorsey of twitter, we talk about them and their companies all the time but we very rarely hear from them. well today, we will. because steve huffman is the ceo of reddit. a multibillion dollar company which is the seventh most visited website in america. so what is reddick? is this what the internet should look like, a free space for free speech. a news platform where anything malicious orjust plain boring. what we learn from the companies battle against conspiracy theories and white supremacist content. and how did a social media site come to take on and humbled wall street.- on and humbled wall street. steve, welcome to on and humbled wall street. steve, welcome to the on and humbled wall street. steve, welcome to the show. on and humbled wall street. steve, welco
democrats as they gain more seats than any other party in england the greens are also doing well. have you heard from durham police? but labour s gains are marred by the news that sir keir starmer will now be investigated by durham police amid allegations he broke lockdown rules last year. meanwhile all eyes on northern ireland will the nationalist party sinn fein make history by winning the most votes at stormont? we ll have the full details on results from scotland and wales too. also on the programme. more than 120 years since it was founded, the convenience store mccoll s has gone into administration putting 16,000 jobs at risk. prince harry and meghan say they will attend the platinum jubilee celebrations but the queen says they won t be appearing on the buckingham palace balcony for trooping the colour. coming up on the bbc news channel, rangers make plans for seville. it s the first european final in m years for a team that s come a long way since. good evening
million people were on waiting lists at the end of february. the number of people in the uk infected with coronavirus is falling but remains very high. about one in 15 people are still testing positive. 15 people are still testing ositive. ., 15 people are still testing positive- 15 people are still testing ositive. ., ., ~ ., , positive. i m on the north wales coast speaking positive. i m on the north wales coast speaking to positive. i m on the north wales coast speaking to voters - positive. i m on the north wales coast speaking to voters and - coast speaking to voters and candidates ahead of the local elections on the 5th of may. taking to the skies elections on the 5th of may. taking to the skies without elections on the 5th of may. taking to the skies without leaving - elections on the 5th of may. taking to the skies without leaving the - to the skies without leaving the ground, wejoin the mountain rescue teams using drones to help search for people lost an
fears grow for a female iranian athlete who competed in a climbing competition without wearing a hijab her family say they ve good afternoon and welcome to bbc news, live from westminster. the prime minister will be meeting more backbenchers as she continues to try to shore up her leadership, a series of difficult headlines this morning following yesterday, following that interview as well, with our political editor chris mason in which she apologised for issues since she became prime ministerjust 41 days ago, earlier on today, it was business as usual, almost, with a cab neating, she and cabinet meeting, she and the new chancellor speaking at that meeting and the chancellor was setting out his plan, his thoughts on spending cuts which he said were on the way, he said that departments should agree those spending cuts by the end oaf week so a tight timetable there, and, they were meeting of course after he tore up most of that mini budget, the liz truss economic policy, t