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of the messages that i have been sent. prince harry and meghan�*s team say they have been invited to the kings coronation, but wont confirm whether the royal couple will attend. as we close in on the oscars, with a record number of nominees of asian heritage, ive been speaking to one of them about this special recognition. i was just i wasjust hoping i was just hoping that the movie gets finished and that people watch it and so the fact that we have come all the way this far has been...

a major crackdown on migrants crossing the channel in small boats. the uk government is planning to ban them for life — from returning to the uk. we have a special report from the seychelles — the country with the biggest heroin problem in the world. after a century, perfectly preserved at the bottom of the antarctic ocean — lloyds of london locate the insurance policy for shackleton�*s ship the endurance. and — its already won four baftas and been nominated for nine oscars. ...

has set out its economic forecast for the year. the country has set a modest target for economic growth this year of around 5%, as it kicked off the annual session of its national peoples congress which is poised to implement the biggest government shake—up in a decade. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed growth in china. official figures show the worlds second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of 5.5% and its slowest for decade...

around 12,000 people have been left homeless after a huge fire ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in south—east bangladesh. officials say the fire gutted around 2000 shelters in coxs bazar district. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living for years in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. anbarasan ethirajan reports. the bamboo shelters of rohingya refugees in coxs bazar district are no match for ...

0ne engineer still working at twitter agreed to speak anonymously about whats been unfolding on the inside. its like a building where all the pieces are on fire. when you look at it from the outside, the facade looks fine, but i can see that nothing is working. like others i spoke to, he said its been difficult to maintain features intended to protect twitter users from trolling and harassment. people like ellie wilson. while at university in glasgow, she was raped. she started sharing her exper...

Around 7,500 employees. now, at least half of them have been fired or chosen to leave, including lisa jennings young. she worked on features designed to protect users like me from online hate. thanks so much for having us. it was not at all perfect, but we were trying and we were making things better. one of these protective measures was a nudge function, to scan tweets and ask users if they wanted to reconsider posting something potentially abusive. twitter�*s own research, seen by the bbc, a...

Twitter�*s own research, seen by the bbc, appears to show the nudge and other safety tools being effective. so overall, 60% of users deleted or edited their reply when given a chance via the nudge. is it still happening? is there anyone working on it? no. theres no one there to work on that at this time. the nudge does still exist. but when lisa and i tried it out, it appeared to be working less consistently. no nudge. 0ne engineer still working at twitter agreed to speak anonymously about wha...