and joining me in central london are some listeners to bbc radio one's newsbeat.invited us in ahead of their facebook weekend. we have a look to the audience and the money for facebook and any of the questions that we are going to be asking tonight. everyone with us here has got something to say, so an issue to raise. what are we going to find out tonight? for me, if you're going to watch my browsing habits, and mark why you're watching me, that's a good thing but how must he really know about us and who else knows the information? 0k, thank you. what about you ? i take online privacy extremely seriously. i would love to know how much control i'd truly have over my data on facebook. thank you very much. and the answers to these and many of the questions and many of the questions are the experts from facebook itself. why don't you introduce yourselves? thank you, my name isjesse and i worked at facebook with teams that build our products. so the features, all of that, the buttons in our apps. for example, things like facebook watch that we rolled out recently. i am

in this special programme, facebook bosses take questions from bbc newsbeat listeners.. walk down any street in the uk today and people will have their heads down looking at their phones. chances are a fair few of them will be on the world's biggest social media platform, facebook. carnaby street is a busy place in central london and is no different. but here today are some of the top bosses responsible for the content that people are scrolling through. it has been a tough year in the news for facebook, but this is a rare opportunity to put a face to the platform and ask the questions that you want answered. hello, my name is steffan powell. and joining me in central london are some listeners to bbc radio one and ixtra's newsbeat. facebook has invited us in to this public space ahead of their it's your facebook weekend. we have selected the audience and nobody from facebook has seen any of the questions that we are going to be asking tonight. everyone with us here has got something to say, or some issues to raise, so let's go to them briefly. duncan, what do you want to

we‘ve been speaking to sinead garvan from bbc newsbeat. china is different from the western world. sexual content or expletives and they also want to do background checks on the entire team flying to the country. started the programme with his live video feed and want to show you once again. this is the point of land in north carolina which is going to see the versus winds from hurricane florence did eventually reaches land. believe it or not, what you‘re seeing here is just land. believe it or not, what you‘re seeing here isjust the beginning. the storm is going to get worse and we will have full coverage on the bbc news channel. it's it‘s a very active spell of weather at the moment across the pacific and the atlantic in terms of typhoons, tropical storms and hurricanes and we may well see you next hurricane influencing our weather here in the uk. for the here and now, there‘s a weather front on friday and that will bring some outbreaks of rain. ridiculous across parts of northern ireland, northern england into wales as well. either side of this cloud and rain will be some drier

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well, last night, in a special debate for bbc newsbeat, facebook bosses came together in a rare appearancehe event. it is rare to get facebook bosses face—to—face with anyone, let alone people who use the site and there were four. various executives with different responsibilities in the uk and europe and they met with listeners from radio1 europe and they met with listeners from radio 1 and wanted to put questions to them. there were a range of topics. listeners asked about mental health concerns. there have been surveys linked with a rising depression with young people tied with social media. they asked pertinent questions that have hit the headlines about data misuse and one thing was how can we trust facebook? given the power of the news feed and what information we see on a daily basis, how can we trust to make sure the platform is not being used to influence politics. i think we were expecting a clip but i am not sure we have it. give us a sense of how difficult it was from a technical point of view to get these facebook managers together at the same time to talk to you? i have the e

well, last night, in a special debate for bbc newsbeat, facebook bosses came together in a rare appearancell us what happened. so steffan, what was this event last night? it's pretty rare to get face—to—face time with people running this platform, it's the beginning of an average programme from them, they have an event on this weekend called it's your facebook to try and speak to users and try and allay fears after a tricky year for them, we put some new speed, radio one and one xtra listeners in a room with four of top executives from the company and tried to figure out what going on and let them have a chance to ask their questions. a range of issues we re their questions. a range of issues were talked about from mental health to big things like what they do with data and how can we trust facebook given that the power they have on the platform that so many people use and can influence our politics?“ you look on facebook now we've built an archive, running in the us today but we are working at this moment to bring it to the uk and you can go to the ads archive and you can see all the ads

all this week we ve been on the road with bbc radio 1's newsbeat, as they tour the highways and bywayschat with some truckers. here's newsbeat‘s political reporterjim connolly. simon, welcome to a very wet, drizzly and slightly miserable holyhead. it took us quite a long time to get here from mansfield. this is one of the busiest ports in the country, obviously affected potentially by brexit. 400,000 of these trucks passed through her every single year. it makes this place very busy. this is the cafe and this is rosy, who runs the place. as we get out of the miserable weather, tell me, what do the truckers tell you when they come in here when they talk about brexit? are they worried about possible delays? some of them are quite worried about possible delays, yes. they will get back in the port, trucks can't get through or customs issues, so they are generally. also joining us is jonathan issues, so they are generally. also joining us isjonathan from the uk chamber of shipping. some truckers are chamber of shipping. some truckers a re pretty chamber of shipping. some truckers are pretty

this from bbc advertising — suggesting that richer millenials "are extremely passionate about the environment" and "follow this through into purchase behaviour." will chalk is from radio1 newsbeat while they may sound outlandish and crazy, there is justification. they are high—end brands and products, people pay hundreds for them. if they do not sell, they sell them off cheap afterwards and it devalues the brand. they cannot risk storing it for ages because people may steal it and the market is flooded with burberry products, suddenly all of their handbags worth thousands of pounds are suddenly worthless and they lose a lot of money. they are ina bit they lose a lot of money. they are in a bit of they lose a lot of money. they are ina bit ofa they lose a lot of money. they are in a bit of a corner. now they have made a calculation that it is better not to burn them. there is obviously a way of running a business and not burning your products? there are two thoughts as to how we move the industry forward from this. some say they need to produce less but they need big ranges and lines because that's what people want. and we, as consumers, need to think about how we look at clothe

we are six months away and bbc correspondents have been travelling round the country to assess the public‘s view on progress so far. well the newsbeatbecause i know you are ina how is it going because i know you are in a 1975 camper van. absolutely, we have had a few incidents. the vehicle has been good engine wise but this thing caused some issues this morning. basically we had a problem with this because every time we went in a straight line this happened... horn beeps. which caused a few funny looks. why have we chosen in 1975 camper van you may ask. the reason is it was the last vote for brexit the european involvement from britain and this seemed a good way into it. 1975 van, see how we get on. we are moving very slowly at 55 miles an hour. that was our top speed this morning, it took half an hour to get speed this morning, it took half an hourto get up speed this morning, it took half an hour to get up to that rapid speed and it was definitely downhill at that point. this is the vehicle... that is always a risk when you are trying to show off your technology. he wasjust trying to show off your technology. he was just about to

we are six months away and bbc correspondents have been travelling round the country to assess the public‘s view on progress so far. today the newsbeatjim conolloyjoins us now — so how is oscar doing? 0h, oh, my word. this is all going very well. were going to get more from jim ina well. were going to get more from jim in a moment but we are going to hear from jim in a moment but we are going to hearfrom him when he heard from a football tea m hearfrom him when he heard from a football team earlier. there are a lot of frustration from people that voted to leave. they don't think it seems to be sorted out. are you frustrated? on board more than anything. if i'm honest it isjust going more than anything. if i'm honest it is just going round more than anything. if i'm honest it isjust going round in circles. coming up with new deals and getting backtracks. there is no easy split from this kind of decision. it is going to be hard regardless so why don't you just nip it in the bud and deal with the aftermath as it goes. you have been talking about it like talking about splitting up with a girlfriend. yes. just get it over and done with. n