You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Thursday the 1st of February.

The bosses of Meta, Tik-Tock and other Tech Giants face tough questioning of the US Senate.

I'm so tired of this. It's been 28 years, what, since the internet, we haven't passed any of these bills.

And the reason they haven't passed is because of the power of your companies.

Mr Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, you have blood on your hands.

So how did they respond?

The UN says almost 8 million people have now been forced from their homes by fighting in Sudan.

And a US judge rules that Elon Musk's record 56 billion dollar pay package from Tesla was invalid. Also in the podcast, a major boost for the

Danish economy as the firm behind the weight-loss drug Weigavi posts a

51% increase in profits and came to my patio we went and doing was indeed

shocked to see a monkey going for my nuts and I'm normally very protective of

them they've got contraptions and feeders there. The search for a Japanese makak on the loose in the Scottish Highlands.

Democratic and Republican politicians in America don't agree on much, particularly in an election year,

but they are united in their disgust at the behavior of social media companies,

and at a Senate hearing on Wednesday on child safety they didn't

hold back firing questions at five tech bosses.

Mr Zuckerberg you and the companies before us I know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands.

You have a product that's killing people.

When we had cigarettes, killing people, we had cigarettes killing people we did some about it maybe not enough you're going to talk about guns we have the ATF

There's not a damn thing anybody can do about it. You can't be sued

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