criticised for promoting an untested cryptocurrency on instagram, by the head of the uk's financial conduct authorityad "asked her 250 million followers to speculate on crypto tokens" by promoting an advert for ethereum max. and he accused influencers of fuelling the "delusions of quick riches". the fca chairman said kardashian�*s instagram post, which he noted had been correctly flagged as an ad, may have been the "financial promotion with the single biggest audience reach in history". ethereum max and kim kardashian haven't commented so far. connor sephton is a journalist and host of the coinmarketcap podcast and hejoins us now. thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for coming on the programme-— thank you for coming on the rouramme. ., ~ i. ., ., programme. thank you for having me. let's start _ programme. thank you for having me. let's start with _ programme. thank you for having me. let's start with what - programme. thank you for having me. let's start with what has - me. let's start with what has been promoted, _ me. let's start with what has been promoted, most- me. let's start with

the chair of the financial conduct authority warns that some dubious schemes promoted online mean vulenerableisk ofjeopardising their financial futures. so, sam and dave, sam, do you want to kick us off with the telegraph, first of all? this has the potential to turn into quite a significant political battle. it to turn into quite a significant political battle.— to turn into quite a significant political battle. it is huge, and as we've seen. _ political battle. it is huge, and as we've seen, this _ political battle. it is huge, and as we've seen, this problem - political battle. it is huge, and as we've seen, this problem has - political battle. it is huge, and as i we've seen, this problem has been around for probably the last 20 years, and the government has struggled to find a way through it. obviously it won't be much easier for borisjohnson, whose backbenchers are already making it very clear that he will face a really tricky ride to get it past them. the chancellor rishi sunak has been out tonight trying to win those over who are concerned. but by putting up national insurance, you ar

criticised for promoting an untested cryptocurrency on instagram, by the head of the uk's financial conduct authorityon crypto tokens" by promoting an advert for ethereum max. and he accused influencers of fuelling the "delusions of quick riches". the fca chairman said ms kardashian�*s instagram post, which he noted had been correctly flagged as an ad, may have been the "financial promotion with the single biggest audience reach in history". ethereum max and ms kardashian haven't commented so far. you have been watching newsday. our top story, the taliban say they are in full control of afghanistan after taking a ready map of the valley, with footage of the flag being raised over the administrative centre being posted. that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. thanks for being with us. well, the warm southerly winds have arrived and a dose of summer heat is on the way. but it's not going to last for very long. yes, a very warm and sunny tuesday on the way, but from wednesday onwards, late on wednesday, we could have thunderstorms in the southwest of the uk brought by this area of low pressure. b

criticised for promoting an untested cryptocurrency on instagram, by the head of the uk's financial conduct authoritykardashian had "asked her 250 million followers to speculate on crypto tokens" by promoting an advert for ethereum max. and he accused influencers of fuelling the "delusions of quick riches". the fca chairman said ms kardashian�*s instagram post, which he noted had been correctly flagged as an ad, may have been the "financial promotion with the single biggest audience reach in history". ethereum max and ms kardashian haven't commented so far. connor sephton is a journalist and host of the coinmarketcap podcast, he told me more. at latest count, there are 11,704 crypto currencies in existence. ethereum max, which kim kardashian was promoting, isn't actually even a big crypto currency at the time. it is now 3160 second in the rankings. so we're not talking a major crypto currency here and the confusion could be that ethereum max could be conflated with ethereum, which is the second largest crypto currency at the time we're talking right now. so ultimately, there's two issues here. firstl

criticised for promoting an untested cryptocurrency on instagram, by the head of the uk's financial conduct authorityr ethereum max. and he accused influencers of fuelling the "delusions of quick riches". the fca chairman said ms kardashian's instagram post, which he noted had been correctly flagged as an ad, may have been the "financial promotion with the single biggest audience reach in history". ethereum max and ms kardashian haven't commented so far. a reminder of our top story. the taliban say that they are consolidating their control of the panjshir valley, the last afghan province where they were still facing business. the taliban called on residents not to flee into the mountains back to flee into the mountains back to stay in their homes, where he said that they would not be harmed. the taliban flag was seen on monday morning flying over the government's office. a member of the anti—taliban nationalist front said that since that time, the front has regained some ground. don't forget you can get in touch with me on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. well, the warm southerly winds have arrived and

the head of the uk's financial conduct authority accused influencers of fuelling the "delusions of quick where the latest gdp figures will be revealed in a few hours time and on the surface, they are set to look very strong, but the real picture is far from rosy. south africa has rebased the way it measures gdp. many governments do this every few years in order to reflect changes in output and consumption. but in doing this now, the economy of south africa is showing growth of ii% on previous estimates and yet the economy has been struggling under the weight of the pandemic, with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, soaring inflation and a tourism industry that is on its knees. joining me now is aleix montana, africa analyst, risk intelligence company, verisk maplecroft. the numbers will look really strong, nice double—digit gdp growth but give us the real picture. this growth but give us the real icture. �* , ,, growth but give us the real icture. �* , i. ., picture. as you mentioned, the numbers are — picture. as you mentioned, the numbers are going _ picture. as you men

they use financial conduct authority authorised companies who only contact customers by telephone orlaces like this. they had a bumper year, a great year, because 23 million of us holidayed at home this year, because of foreign travel restrictions meaning we could notjet off anywhere much warmer. that has brought in about £31 billion for the uk economy, so great news for places like this and other seaside resorts up like this and other seaside resorts up and down the country, and it might not look like the mediterranean this morning, but they have had a great time getting people back here, and many of them that have been speaking to us this morning, businesses have said they have been really surprised by what they have found, that places like blackpool are different from how they may remember them before. so great news for them. today's the day they switch on the illuminations, and expect to get 3 million visitors to come and see the illuminations along the promenade in blackpool, and they will be a much longer this year, right the way through to christmas. that is to try and get mor