Bereaved Parents Win Crucial Social Media Victory
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the success of a campaign by parents of children who may have died due to online harms to get more information from tech companies.
Coroners will be able to demand data from firms when holding an inquest into the circumstances of a child's death. Campaigners have been pushing for new powers to get information from companies after the difficulties the coroner faced dealing with social media firms in the case of Molly Russell.
Also Paddy and Laura are joined by Julian Smith, Conservative MP and former Northern Ireland secretary. They discuss the return of the Northern Irish assembly, why he was sacked by Boris Johnson and whether the chancellor could announce tax cuts in the budget. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Arsenii Sok. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So Laura, years ago the newscast was only five days in the belief that the news stopped at the weekend. |
| 0:10.8 | I know, imagine. |
| 0:12.2 | In fact, what's happened is we are at a really busy |
| 0:16.6 | news weekend. We are at huge news weekend at home in lots of ways we'll talk about |
| 0:20.8 | after a very big newsweek in the UK for all sorts of reasons, but also because |
| 0:26.6 | last night we learned that the US had launched strikes on 85 targets in Syria and Iraq. |
| 0:32.4 | That's after, I know newscasters will remember there was a drone |
| 0:34.8 | attack that killed three members of the US services in Jordan last weekend. The |
| 0:40.0 | White House pointed the finger at Iranian-backed militia. |
| 0:43.2 | Let's have a listen to Hugo Bachega, our colleague who's on the ground in Baghdad. |
| 0:47.3 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:50.8 | The American strikes came in the middle of the night and there was no surprise. |
| 0:55.0 | For days US officials had telegraphed their plans as President Biden faced pressure at home |
| 1:01.0 | to give a strong response to the deadly attacking Jordan. |
| 1:05.3 | In 30 minutes, 85 targets in seven locations in Syria and Iraq were hit. |
| 1:11.4 | Places America says have been used by Iran's revolutionary guards and |
| 1:16.3 | the militias its supports. Here in Iraq the authority said more than a dozen |
| 1:21.8 | people were killed including civilians. |
| 1:24.6 | There were also reports of casualties in Syria. |
| 1:27.3 | Iran, Iraq and Syria have all condemned the attacks. |
| 1:30.6 | It's too early to say how effective the American strikes have been, but officials say this is just the beginning of the US response. |
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