of twitter, elon musk has revealed plans to help him recoup some of the more than a0 billion dollars he paid for the social media network. he says he will start charging users who want a blue tick beside their name to indicate their account is verified. those in the united states would be charged $8 a month charges elsewhere will vary. but the plans haven t gone down well, as our north america correspondent peter bowes explains. it is a huge debate and that debate is taking place right now on twitter. what exactly this means and what the implications are for those people who want to continue to have a blue tick next to their name and it is probably worth describing in a little more detail for those many people not on twitter what exactly that looks like. essentially it is a tick, a white tick on a blue background which is confusing for some, that shows you are verified, that you are who you say you are. whether you are a journalist, there s a tick next to my name, there is
out. he stood in there. herschel walker will stand in from too. this needs to be turned into an ad. warnock raised 90 billion dollars and herschel walker $30 million. every liberal is all in to make sure warnock wins in georgia. we need to be all in for herschel walker. let s raise money to take what you said and tell georgia about warnock. sean: i didn t know that a domestic dispute someone can make an allegation the spouse tried to run you over with a car and that person didn t get arrested. if you cover-up an investigation into child abuse and obstructed justice and you ran the camp, how come the people in georgia
and so this baby formula situation may not be intentional. maybe it s just incompetence on their partional, just , but t shows you that they just don t care. it s not t a priority for them. i mean, look, they knew you laid it out perfectly. they the fda told this company, this abbott firm that makes i formula that they had to shut down, which is good if therent was a potential contamination. we k want that . yes. but they knew that they produce 40% of our nation s formula, which by the way, again, not a very healthy arrangement there, but they knew that andha so they better have a plan. they re going to shut down the plant to either get it up and going quickly or source formula from some other place. butto they didn t do that . it just shows that they re just they just don t care about you. they just don t caree about families. they don t care about moms. they told you this past weekab what they do care about. they said the number one things. and by the way, this is both parties, the n
link to the formula made there. one question is what is going on at the factory? why is it not online? we are ramping up production elsewhere. we are trying to get this factory back online. the fda has not explained what s taking so long. someone needs to be kicking butt to get this back online. meanwhile, if you are president biden, you must be thinking to yourself what else could go wrong? you already have inflation, supply chain problem, and now of all things, a shortage of baby formula. let s talk about all the things that are going wrong right now. gas prices hit a record high today. aaa says that a gallon of gas is now for 25. it is breaking records for five straight days. look at this! oil company profits are not suffering at all. the first quarter of this year revealed exxonmobil earned 90 billion dollars. it s up to 59 billion from a year ago. bp required its highest profit of 51 billion. coco phillips earned 5.8
$40 billion dollars in aid for ukraine. and going back to the past the company trying to prove that sailboats are a greener way to transport cargo. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. security forces in sri lanka have been ordered to shoot anyone seen looting or damaging public property in the latest attempt to stop anti government protests. since last month, the country has been rocked by demonstrations over soaring prices, power cuts and a lack of medicines. at least eight people have died in the violence and 200 have been injured, as our correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports from colombo. a capital under curfew. troops told to shoot at sight at anyone who damages public