that is the bbc‘s technology reports are dave lee. 0ne bbc‘s technology reports are dave lee.erful business groups has abandoned the shareholder first business groups has abandoned the shareholderfirst idea business groups has abandoned the shareholder first idea that has driven capitalism for decades. the pursuit of shareholder interests is no longer the central purpose of organisations according to the group. hong kong's richest family is buying uk pub giant and brewer green king for 3.3 billion us dollars. it adds to the vast stable of businesses that are part of the sprawling global empire cold by 91—year—old multibillionaire li ka shing. ina 91—year—old multibillionaire li ka shing. in a twitter post, the us president complained to —— avail is a strong us dollar, which he claimed was hurting other parts of the world. this week we are focusing on the ageing workforce and today let's ta ke the ageing workforce and today let's take a look at the us state of minnesota where companies are trying to persuade workers to stay on past the age of 65. in rural areas, businesses have

our technology reporter dave lee has this report. dave: steve reinhardt has more than 20 silicon valley.ce in getting work here used to be at dawdle, en things started to change when he turned 50. he was applying for jobs for which he should've have been an extremely strong contender. iould say 85% of the time those jobs went to people who were 10 to 15 years younger than me. you start blaming yourself, and you start to question your own abilities. dave: he probably shouldn't blame himself. across silicon valley, the average age of employees is strikingly low. according to independent research, the average worker at facebook is 29. at amazon, it is 30. but there is a movement helping those who want to stay relevant and fulfilled in silicon valley firm this is a meeting called the modern elders, a community of older mostly tech workers who come here toleetwork and arn how to adapt their skills. >> there is a lot of fear. people feel like they have put a lot of time and energy into a company, extremely dedicated, and all of a sudden you

the bbc‘s tech reporter dave lee explains what happened.appearing for around 15 minutes onjack dorsey's account, racist messages and some very, very offensive remarks. it took that long for twitter to regain control of that account and start deleting those posts. in the last 30 minutes or so, they've said that it doesn't appear that the site itself has been compromised and they are still speculating as to how access could have been obtained to jack's account. now, one of the interesting aspects of this is that of course jack dorsey is a high—profile member of a service that has extremely high—profile people on it, such as president trump. and if the chief executive of twitter is unable to protect his own account, then that's raising many questions about the vulnerability of other accounts on twitter that could be at risk. but for now, twitter seem fairly confident they've got this current issue under control. is it embarrassing for him personally? because he has talked in the past about the security steps that customers need to take with th

dave lee, bbc news in san francisco.ed around the world, a young woman in el salvador has been cleared of murder afterfacing charges under one of the world's strictest anti—abortion laws. evelyn hernandez has already served nearly three years in prison. prosecutors wanted her jailed for a0 years. she was acquitted at a retrial. her baby was found dead in a toilet. she has always maintained she was raped and had no idea she was pregnant. activists hope the result will set a precedent for other women in jail. jon ironmonger reports. a young victim of rape from a poor, ruralfamily. evelyn hernandez has become a figure of hope for women in the macho, deeply catholic country of el salvador, where abortion is illegal under any circumstances. jailed in 2017, accused of killing her stillborn child, she was cleared on monday to the delight of her supporters. translation: thank you for being here, and thank god justice was done. i also thank all of the international countries and i thank my mother for accompanying me through every

dave lee, bbc news in san francisco.unities restricted by what they can eat based on their religion or diet? one foodbank in east london, which provides halal and vegetarian food, says it has seen an increase in people from the asian community asking for help. it also says the fear ofjudgment often prevents many from accessing its services. the bbc asian network‘s nalini sivathasan reports. forget baked beans and pasta. humdum is not your typical food bank. here, you‘re more likely to find vegetable rice and lamb curry. volunteers provide home cooked asian food, with halal and vegetarian options. everyone is welcome, but it caters in particular for barking‘s muslim, hindu and sikh communities. as well as taking donations, it needs to buy a lot of the food it needs, and for nighat bhola, one of the founders, it means shopping trips need careful planning. the process does take a bit longer because we have to check the ingredients — is this suitable for our vegetarian or halal clients as well as anyone else? back at base it

dave lee reports from san francisco.n 2015 anthony levandowski downloaded 111,000 files before leaving google‘s self—driving foundation which led to its own company. it related to the critical technology inside self—driving cars which predict and comprehends what is it outside the vehicle. he went on to find he —— fund his own company. that company was later acquired by uber but last year, the original company took cuba to court saying it knowingly and illegally took its secrets —— uber. they handed 200 million dollars of stock. this is against anthony levandowski personally. responding to the charges, his lawyers did not dispute that the files were downloaded and insisted that no trade secrets ever made their way into uber or any other company. in court on tuesday, anthony levandowski pleaded not guilty to all charges and it is now out on bail. the next hearing will ta ke out on bail. the next hearing will take place early next month. japan‘s decision to drop south korea from its list of favoured trading partners comes

our reporter dave lee examines whether experience is being undervalued and whether it is about to becometopped ringing. it's very hard to get return phone calls and e—mails. steve reinhardt has more than 20 yea rs of steve reinhardt has more than 20 years of experience in silicon valley and elsewhere, getting work here used to be a doddle, but then things started to change once he turned 50. he was applying forjobs in which he should have been an extremely strong contender. i would say 85% of the time, those jobs went to people who were 10—15 years younger than me. you start blaming yourself and you start to question yourself and you start to question your own abilities. he probably shouldn't blame himself. across the silicon valley, the average age of employees is strikingly low. according to independent research, the average worker at facebook is 29. by the numbers on, it's 30. but there is a movement to help those who want to stay relevant and fulfilled at sillicon valley firms. this is a meeting of a group called the modern elders, a community of older, mostly tech workers, who come

dave: dave lee, bbc news, in silicon valley. sophie: the way we describe television has changed in recent years. what was once the boob tube can now be prestige tv.s wasting ho the couch is considered binge watching. guilty pleasure is often applauded instead ofocked. how did we get here? emily nussbaum writes about tv for "the new yorker" and won the litzer prize in 2016. her new book is called "i like to watch." she joined me a little earlier from new york. you write about how you used to consider tv junk, a waste of time. is that still the case in any way what would you say? emily: r honestly, i sti into people who do talk about it that way, but the role of tv has changed so much. not only has it radically expanded, but it has moved so much to the center of the culture as an artform. it used to be the kind of thing that people would consider garbage and something that was bad for you, and i feel position is very different now. sophie: you havtalked about and observed, obviously, the iolationship between telev and society over

dave lee, bbc news. birthday of two giant pandas which were gifted to taiwan by the chinese mainland in 2008. the pandas yuan yuan and tuan tuan enjoyed two specially made ice cakes decorated with seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as several ice balloons on bamboo sticks. you would probably remember them. look at those cakes. what do you wa nt vegeta bles look at those cakes. what do you want vegetables on your cake for? iced balloons and bamboo sticks. the healthy option. the cake was also designed with special symbols to wish the female yuan yuan good luck in conceiving more offspring. hgppy happy birthday! happy birthday, bamboo. again. it is nine minutes past six and the papers are full of politics again this morning. do you remember a time when the politics we re remember a time when the politics were not all over the front pages? let's have a look at the morning papers. the times says the chancellor has confronted the prime minister over the decision to sack one of his advisers without his kn

dave lee, bbc news, in san francisco.g, isn't it? you would think the person least likely to be hacked would be the boss. it took a while to get on top of it too, which is surprising. we have a birthday celebration now. taipei zoo has celebrated the 15th birthday of two giant pandas which were gifted to taiwan by the chinese mainland in 2008. you might remember them. the pandas, yuan yuan and tuan tuan, enjoyed two specially made ice cakes decorated with seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as several ice balloons on bamboo sticks. they don't look terribly delighted with their gifts, do they? oh! what a day. the cake was also designed with special symbols to wish the female yuan yuan good luck in conceiving more offspring. i'm glad that is not a thing though. that kind of, you know... trying to... anyway, iwill shut that kind of, you know... trying to... anyway, i will shut up. that kind of, you know... trying to... anyway, iwill shut up. is it something close to your heart? funny. enough pandas! doctor brexit. —— back

our north america technology reporter, dave lee, has more.account it is this man, the co—founder and chief executive of twitterjack dorsey. dorsey. and yet for round 15 minutes on friday, a flurry of tweets appeared on his profile. followed by more than four million people. the tweets contained highly offensive racist and anti—semitic slurs. twitter insisted there was no evidence its own systems there was no evidence its own syste ms ha d there was no evidence its own systems had been compromised, in fa ct, systems had been compromised, in fact, it said there had been a security oversight, at the mobile provider responsible for a phone number associated with mr dorsey's account. this allowed an unauthorised person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number twitter said, without naming the mobile network involved, adding that issue is now resolved. the group behind the attack calls itself the chuckling squad,it attack calls itself the chuckling squad, it has claimed a number of high profile account hacks on twitter this

our technology reporter dave lee reports. doddle but things started to change when he turned 50. he was applying forjobs for which he should have been an extremely strong contender. i would say 85% of the time as jobs went to people who were 10—15 years younger and you start blaming yourself and you start to question yourself and you start to question your own abilities. he probably shouldn't blame himself. across silicon valley, the average age of employees are strikingly low. according to independent research, the average worker at facebook is 29. amazon, 30. but there is a movement helping those who want to stay relevant and fulfilled at silicon valley firms. this is a meeting of a group called the modern elders, a group who come to network and adapt skills. as founder of the group literally wrote the book of wisdom in the work. . at 58, much older than many of his co—workers. 0nly older than many of his co—workers. only 8% of companies have a diversity and inclusion programme have expanded that to include age, just as rel

dave lee reports from san francisco.evandowski downloaded more than 14,000 files before leaving google's self driving division, which later became his own company called waymo. it related to the technology which detects and comprehends what is around the vehicle. he went on to develop his own company, auto, which relates to self driving trucks, which was acquired by uber, but waymo took over to court saying, it took the secrets knowingly. it ended up took the secrets knowingly. it ended up out of court with waymo taking $200 million worth of stock. this charge relates to migratory personally, his lawyers did not dispute the files were downloaded but insisted no trade secrets ever made their way into uber or any other company. in court on tuesday, levandowski pleaded not guilty to all charges and is now out on bail. the next hearing will take place early next month. they've all stay right across that story for us in any more developments, we will bring them to you. —— mike dave will stay. japan's decision to drop south ko

i asked our silicon valley reporter dave lee whether all iphones, were affected. vulnerable, certainly. the question is whether their devices were targeted. now what we don't know about this attack, despite the huge amounts of information police research has shared, was the nature of these websites in who they may have been created by in order to carry out this attack. there is a suggestion that the sophistication of this attack would point to a significant force, perhaps a nation state. and indeed the number of vulnerabilities this use, ie the number of weaknesses used to carry out the attack, having that knowledge would have been worth several million dollars at least. so there is a suggestion that whoever is behind this attack was a very sophisticated actor indeed. in terms of people's personal iphones, if they are worried, the best way to make sure that you are not vulnerable to this attack going forward from where we are today is the same advice that we always give with security threats like this — make sure your phone is as up—to—date as it should be, and fo

our technology reporter dave lee reports.turn phone calls and e—mail. hard to get return phone calls and e-mail. steve has more than 20 years of experience in silicon valley and elsewhere. getting were curious to be a doddle, but things started to change once he turned 50. he was applying forjobs for which he should have been extremely strong contender. for which he should have been extremely strong contenderlj for which he should have been extremely strong contender. i would say 85% of the time those jobs went to people who were about 15 years younger than me and you start blaming yourself, and you start to question your own abilities. he probably sent ablate himself come cry silicon valley the average age of the place is strikingly low and equated to independent research, the average work —— work at facebook is 29 at amazon 30. as a movement to help those who want to stay relevant and fulfilled at silicon valley firms. this is a meeting of a group called the modern elders, a community of older mostly tech workers who come h

. >>> joining me now, carol lee, correspondent, at the g7 in france and dave leventhal, senior political reporter. carol, first to you. do you know if anything came out of that working session on the global economy that president trump was asking for? >> well, we noah cording to the president that there was a large discussion about trade and other issues. in terms of his meetings, his bilateral meetings ro boris johnson and prime minister abe of japan, he signaled that they're close on a trade deal with japan, bilateral trade deal with japan and said that they're making progress towards a trade agreement with the uk as it looks to exit the european union by the end of october. overall, generally the president has taken a far more softer tone than we saw when he was heading into this summit. he was very lamb bass particular. he's been critical of the summits. he's gone in and been a disrupter on the stage. so far he's been very kind. he said perhaps his best meeting yet ever with president macron france. his 90-minute lunch they had yesterday. you can see a lot of, at least in the beginni

>> you're leaving off an important number dave. >> lee, i will give you a chance.are sectors of the economy that would be seriously hurt by this across the board tariff. the second thing -- >> sectors. >> do across the board. please let me finish, if you do across the board tariff what you're basically saying look we can tweet our way into productivity. the rest of countries will respond. they will respond in kind this static analysis we do a tariff, all of sudden the whole world will come to their knees and surrender to us is not how the real world works. if you want evidence of that, look what we've done for the last two years. we went to china and we tweeted some tariffs and expected they were going to come to their knees. they have responded as has rest of world. that dynamic process happens in trade negotiations. i appreciate that, maybe around lincoln's time this would have worked the world is way more complex. neil: i covered it during lincoln's time, it didn't work. lee, quick answer to that. >> we already picked up $30 billion in additional tariff revenue.