professor harry ferguson, fascinating to talk to l ferguson, fascinating to talk to you. with how to minimise the harms of life online while reaping the benefits. many of those harms affect children, especially grooming, usually by anonymous abusers. louise, as we've agreed to call her, was targeted when just 11 years old. so, i really, really was after that attention and validation from someone in my life and abusers have recognised these kind of things and recognise venerable people and this abuse stole my teenage years away from me. she is now working with the nspcc to improve child safety online. i really think there needs to be a massive push for online safety for children because it's just not acceptable and there are so many different ways that kids can fall into the traps or these places where there are predators. it shouldn't be up to kids to keep themselves safe on the internet. an important report today by a joint committee on the draft online safety bill which is due, finally, to go through parliament next year, contains recommendations likely to be followed.

i was very struck talking to harry ferguson who was a professor at the department of the work and socials very i thought powerfully explaining the importance of face—to—face meetings and notjust seeing but touching. and little signs like this a child come running to you and that her arms around you or are they shy and resisted and nervous? had a they respond with their parent speaks committed a twitch or look nervously at them? little signs that are impossible during a lock down for you to have any possibility of knowing. i you to have any possibility of knowina. ~ you to have any possibility of knowina. ,, .. , you to have any possibility of knowin. _ ~' .,. , , you to have any possibility of knowina. ,, , , knowing. i think teachers say this and teachers _ knowing. i think teachers say this and teachers have _ knowing. i think teachers say this and teachers have been - knowing. i think teachers say this and teachers have been making l knowing. i think teachers say this - and teachers have been making phone calls or families that they are worried about, they know are on their radar of s

harry ferguson a professor of social work at the university of birmingham, thank you.f england says it hopes to reconnect every home before the storm hits. in the last hour, the business minister, greg hands, said it was completely unacceptable that some homes were still without power. mr speaker, we have removed the compensation limit to allow customers affected to claim up to £140 per day if they are without power. and i'm glad to say, mr speaker, that 99.8% of those affected by the storm have had their power supply restored so far. but, mr speaker, this isn't good enough. it is completely unacceptable that around 1600 were still in this position as of this morning. but the situation is improving each hour. the remaining areas affected are in the north east of england, predominantly the wear valley surrounding eastgate, where i was, mr speaker, on wednesday. i have been assured by the network operators that all efforts are focused on having power restored to those households in the next day. we will get more on that next storm to hit from darren with the latest weath

" and i'm harris faulkner joined now by my cohost kayleigh mcenany, fox business anchor lauren simonetti, radio radio houston fox news contributor leslie marshall and a host of the ben ferguson podcast, ben ferguson, our guy in the middle today. the gaslighting of america just hit maybe a new level, at least axios has reporting, on a year-end recap from the white house that reads it, in spite of unprecedented crises and opposition from congressional republicans, president biden, vice president, harris and congressional democrats got an enormous amount done for the american people in 2021. so the two page memo did mentioned crises but failed to include inflation as one of them at even though it's the highest in decades, they left it and while it touted the covid vaccination program it left out the surge in caseload because of the omicron variant which has led to hours long waits at testing sites across america. it also completely ignored the crisis now unfolding at our southwest border. where apprehensions of illegal migrants, illegal immigrants are breaking records month after month. warwick gas prices which are much higher now than they were a year ago. there is some argume