my name is james clayton, and i am the new bbc and click san francisco technology reporter.n to san francisco a few times before, but this was san francisco only different. mandatory masks everywhere, the airport almost completely empty. the streets quieter, much more so than london. i've come during a monster week for tech though. many of the stories based on theme that are likely to dominate tech journalism in the years to come. on monday, 0racle agreed a deal with tiktok to oversee its us operations, after mr trump said it would ban the company if it couldn't find a us suitor. i'll be doing more on how tech is being dragged into a geopolitical battle between china and the us. it was also a week that twitter launched its election hub, to promote accurate information and resources for voters. how companies like google and twitter and facebook regulate their platforms in the run—up to the elections are likely to have a massive impact on that november poll, and it is something that click will be doing more on. it also happened to be a week when mr trump visited california, sp

thank you so much for that update, james clayton there in zephyr cisco. world news. stay with us news and bbc world news. stay with us with more than common headlines on the way next. see you soon. good evening. it is shaping up to be a fine, settled weekend for the vast majority. a little bit breezy across parts of england and wales, but there will be some dry weather, some spells of sunshine, just the chance of a shower at times across the south of the uk. and more especially the channel islands, where you're closest to this swirl of cloud, an area of low pressure that has been slow—moving close to spain and portugal. it is drifting a little further northwards, so there is the chance that these weather fronts may fringe just a few showers in at times through the weekend. and on the northern flank of that low pressure system, a brisk easterly wind continuing across a good part of england and wales. so, some of those showers drifting up through the channel islands through the night. one or two could be thundery. there will be some low cloud plaguing north

our technology reporter james clayton has more.eal headache for them. what happens when trump starts talking about postal fraud? what happens if trump says going forward, he‘d won the election when the declared result was a biden win? and so there are lots of difficult decisions going forward, and i think what‘s interesting is this oversight committee which has been talked about for some months now, is actually going to be up and running before that election and, in theory, that will help facebook because they can say, "look, if this is a really difficult decision, we will hand that over to the committee." that said, this committee will potentially take up to 90 days to make decisions. it acts more as a supreme court but passes down a law that it acts more as a supreme court passing down case law that facebook than enacts, so if facebook suddenly get caught up in very, very acute problems with all sorts of claim, and counterclaim close to the election, i‘m not sure this oversight committee is going to help that much. next, adopting

here's silicon valley correspondent james clayton. this is quite a big shift really. really. this is quite a big shift really. this is a real moment where mark zuckerberg is really decided this would be really poisonous election. and it is very likely that there be all sorts of accusations againstjoe biden the donald trump and they do not want to be at the very centre of that. and it is all about the lag, and this could go up and they can take it down. and one site can put up a misleading ad for six hours and i2, and it can take days and time to take these ads down and when it comes to the election, it's too late. now, an update on the coronavirus in the uk. lots of speculation about whether quarantine measures would change. lots of speculation about whether quarantine measures would change. well for england — nothing new. for wales though, from friday morning, if you're coming from portugal, gibraltar, french polynesia and several greek islands you will have to self—isolate for 14 days. and scotland has introduced quarantine for people arriving from greece. and of co

our technology reporter james clayton has more.rried because there are they are worried because there a re lots of they are worried because there are lots of disinformation on the plat form and it's a real headache for them, what happens when trump starts talking about postal fraud, what happens when trump starts talking about postalfraud, what happens if trump says going forward, he'd w011 trump says going forward, he'd won the election when the declared result was a joe biden win? there are lots of difficult decisions going forward and what's interesting is this oversight committee which has been talked about for some months now is actually going to be up and running before that election and in theory, that will help facebook because they can say, if this isa because they can say, if this is a really difficult decision, we can hand that over to the committee. that said, this committee. that said, this committee will potentially take up committee will potentially take up to 90 days to make decisions. it is more as a supreme court

james clayton there.with the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, he says, i cannot save every business and job but he unveiled the job support scheme which will run from november the first and the six months. the idea is to help top up months. the idea is to help top up wages of people if they are brought back part—time. that's it from me for now, thanks for watching. hello again. if you went outside on thursday, i'm sure you noticed a certain autumnal chill in the air. but was it really cold enough for snow? well, actually, this wasn't snow, it was a massive hail storm that went through the bradford area and the otley area, quite close to leeds in west yorkshire. and you can see the roads and the pavements turned white as those accumulations of hail built up. it must‘ve been quite some storm. now, the satellite picture shows low pressure over the uk with storm clouds rotating around it, and over the next few hours, we are going to see plenty more of those big showers. areas to watch out for, well, we

the bbc‘s james clayton has more from san francisco(tx next) the bbc‘s james clayton has more from sanesn't create a surveillance state but, of course, it's pretty obvious that if you have cressida dicks flying around and that becomes the norm, —— drones. marine biologists working alongside fishermen and volunteers have now rescued 9a of the pilot whales which have been stranded off the west coast of tasmania. they are hoping to escort twelve more out to sea. the team says it's hard to know exactly how many whales have died in the mass beaching, but its estimated to be around 350. the singer—songwriter michael kiwanuka has won this year's mercury prize for his self—titled third album. he beat the likes of dua lipa and stormzy to scoop the honour — which comes with a 25—thousand pound prize — but the usual glitzy award ceremony was cancelled because of covid—19. our arts editor will gompertz has more. # don't hesitate. ..# it was a case of third time lucky for the 33—year—old london—born musician, winning the prestigious award for his third album, which had earned him his third nominati

james farmer, a bright articulate man. he did not live in the district. why didn't he go up against adam clayton powell? he wanted that newly created seat in brooklyn. there are three things that helped me i think to eventually intervene. number one, he was not a resident of brooklyn. number two, he didn't realize how fluent in spanish i was. we had a pretty large spanish area. i would speak in english and then i would speak in spanish. and the first time james farmer heard me speak spanish i see his mouth opening right now. he just couldn't get over that. and thirdly james got to the point where this machismo thing was so strong with men at the time. he had these musculyr black men giving out his literature and this kind of thing going on. and i began to feel badly and i always had a feeling. so i went down and 3.7 women to one man in the district. and went back to the headquarters and sent out a call to the women leaders in the district, black, white, italian, jewish, i said we have to go to war, that was it. >> how much did you win? >> 3-1, mobilized. >> and then you go to washington. and tell the st

in concord the clayton road on ramp to southbound to 42 still blocked by an overturned crash no impacts to traffic on the freeway but the traffic is slow approaching that intersection james. >>all right, thank you very much robin. new this morning. one person is dead after a crash on interstate 6.80 in san jose that happened last night in the northbound lanes of 6.80 right near jackson avenue. a motorcyclist crashed with an suv police say the motorcycle was found under the suv that crash briefly shut down some lanes overnight. >>happening today, bart is changing its train schedules. they're going to be running more trains because the commuters are starting to come back. so trains that run every 15 minutes are going to be added to most of the lines on weekdays weekends. there will be more trains that run every 30 minutes and they're making those scheduled changes to reflect the rise in ridership levels trains will still stop at 09:00pm each night. >>well as wildfires burn across the state a lot of smoke in the air is coming from out of state oregon. we talked about that in the last 10 or at least 10 wildfires have scorched more than a million acres in that state and one o