cabinet ministers tell the bbc the government should have brought in tougher restrictions in the autumn to tackle the second wave of the virus. i would not let him tell me. and as this year s oscar nominations are announced we ll be speaking to the director of the white tiger, which has been nomimated for best adapted screenplay. france and italy have joined germany in becoming the latest countries to suspend use of the astrazeneca vaccine as a precautionary measure, over concerns of possible side effects. french president emmanuel macron said the country would stop administering the vaccine pending an assessment by the european union s medicine regulator on tuesday. the republic of ireland made a similar decision over the weekend following reports of blood clotting in recipients in norway. but the world health organization says there is no indication of a link between the vaccine and blood clots. the announcements by follow similar moves by denmark, norway, bulgaria, iceland
And the health secretary, jeremy hunt, are chairing a meeting of the Emergency Response committee, cobra, this morning, to discuss the handling of the cyber attack, which hit parts of the Nhs In England and scotland on friday. Dozens of hospitals in england and scotland have been forced to cancel some operations and appointments today, and some gp surgeries are still experiencing problems as staff begin a new working week. Lincolnshire hospital said all tests, and routine surgeries have been cancelled. Meanwhile microsoft said governments around the world should treat the attacks as a wake up call blaming them for storing data on Software Vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers. Its thought over 200,000 computers have been affected worldwide with russia hardest hit. In the past half hour the National Crime agency has tweeted this saying if youre a victim of ransomware do not pay theres no guarantee that access to your files will be restored. Here, security minister ben
following his conviction, a misconduct hearing was held on tuesday, the 25th of april and chaired by assistant chief constable will white. at this hearing he was dismissed without notice and he ll now be placed on a national barred list which will prevent him from working in law enforcement again. the victim in this case has shown remarkable bravery in disclosing the horrific offences committed against him, and the support of the police investigation and court process has been invaluable to us. we hope that their courage and determination will encourage other victims of sexual abuse to come forward and speak to the police no matter how long ago those offences occurred. we want them to know that they will be believed and respected and we will always do our very best to bring suspects to justice. 0ur south west england correspondentjenny kumah was in the courtroom in bristol.
shares on april five 2022, buying 9%. days later, musk submitted an offer to buy the whole company, above the current stock price. that was accepted on the 25th of april. in may, musk tweeted that the deal to buy twitter was temporarily on hold , he said because of the volume of fake denied that, and invited musk to a meeting, which hejoined remotely. they were unable to agree over the bots issue. twitter then sued, in an attempt to force the deal through the courts, with a date set for october before that trial went ahead, musk agreed to buy the company. ijust spoke to kara swisher about this interview. before we start with the first question, want to play this specific part of the interview where he asked if he had any specific regrets about buying twitter. the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this has not been some sort of party. so, it has been really quite
interview with bbc, elon musk, the owner of twitter, admitted he only went through with the purchase of the company because a judge was about force him to do so, that his takeover of twitter was painful and quite a rollercoaster, but that he would sell the company if the right person came along. musk purchased twitter for a whopping $41; billion, just over £35 billion pounds. just over £35 billion. he inherited a workforce of over 8,000 employee which he has defended cutting down to around 1,500, saying the company would have gone bankrupt otherwise. it s been just over a year since mr musk began his takeover of twitter. he purchased his first shares on 5 april, 2022, buying 9%. days later, musk submitted an offer to buy the whole company, above the current stock price. that was accepted on the 25th of april. in may, musk tweeted that the deal to buy twitter was temporarily on hold, he said because of the volume of fake accounts. twitter denied that