the nspcc helpline, we have had parents calling us.ldren across the country. children are saying to us on childline they are worried about their own safety and older children are coming to us saying that they have tickets for various music events, what should i do? what should i look out for? what can i say to my parents? parents are in a very difficult situation because they want to make sure their children can go and enjoy themselves but they also worry for their safety. at the nspcc and childline, we are providing advice to parents and children who have worries about terrorism, and are seeking to provide support to them and reassurance. and, i suppose, some of these young people at that concert may be traumatised for months or even may be traumatised for months or eve n yea rs may be traumatised for months or even years ahead, especially those who witnessed the explosion and saw the casualties? indeed, it's important that local services on the ground make sure that they have provisions available for some probably long—term support f

the nspcc thinks there should be an independent regulator to hold social media companies to account, that that regulator should have teeth, in other words the ability to force companies to take certain actions. but is it really possible for the companies to pick out extremist and abusive material amid the millions of posts being put up on social media sites every day? there is certainly more that companies can do, and they have acknowledged that. they could improve takedown times, partnering with each other to flag content across platforms. but we should also be careful. the way that systems work, the way platfroms work, is that they have a limited liability for the content on there, much like the post office can't steam open every envelope to see if a criminal is sending a message to another criminal. so, at the moment, social media companies are still largely reliant on their users reporting what they consider to be illegal material. and for the mps who wrote today's report, that is not acceptable. they are now expecting the tech giants to do much more. richard galpin, bbc news. th

the nspcc thinks there should be an independent regulator to hold social media companies to account,th, in other words the ability to force companies to take certain actions. but is it really possible for the companies to pick out extremist and abusive material amid the millions of posts being put up on social media sites every day? there is certainly more that companies can do, and they themselves have acknowledged that. they could improve takedown times, partnering with each other to flag content across platforms. but we should also be careful. the way that systems work, the way that platforms work, is that they have a limited liability for the content on there, much like the post office can't steam open every envelope to see if a criminal is sending a message to another criminal. so, at the moment, social media companies are still largely reliant on their users reporting what they consider to be illegal material. and, for the mps who wrote today's report, that is not acceptable. they are now expecting the tech giants to do much more. donald trump says he is not ruling out face—to—

have been a victim of child abuse or has any information on the subject to contact the force or the nspcc the 9th of june. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is due to speak at a campaign event in peterborough shortly. he's already been campaigning in bedford this morning and confirmed his pledge that labour would keep the pensions triple lock and winter fuel payments. he said the conservative plans have created a huge amount of anxiety for older people. we can talk now to our political correspondent at that jeremy corbyn event, leila nathoo. jeremy corbyn going on the offensive after the launch of the tory ma nifesto. after the launch of the tory manifesto. yes. you might be able to see behind me crowds of labour supporters outside, waiting for his arrival in peterborough were a business park attached to peterborough united football ground. jeremy corbyn has been visiting a community centre for the elderly in bedford. he has sensed the conservative party are vulnerable on theissue conservative party are vulnerable on the issue of pensioners given the announcement in their manifesto of end

been the victim of child abuse, or has any information on the subject to contact the force or the nspccsyria, have attacked a convoy carrying militia fighters supporting president assad.the us—led coalition says the convoy was heading towards a base used by western special forces, near the border with iraq. russia has condemned the attack as ‘unacceptable'. the incident comes as president trump prepares to visit saudi arabia, his first overseas trip since becoming president. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. us warplanes launching air strikes against so—called islamic state targets in syria. but now they are also attacking ground forces loyal to the syrian government. 0stensibly the air strike was designed to protect british and american special forces like these. they are based in the south—east of syria, where they are training opposition groups fighting is. these pictures were taken last year. the pro—syrian convoy that included iranian—backed militias was heading toward a military base near a strategically important border crossing with iraq and jordan. unlike many

claire lilley — from the nspcc — says companies such as twitter and facebook must do more to protectcompanies ‘s biggest companies are taking steps but we do not think that they are going far enough. they are making huge profits every year and need to invest much more in this. they need to proactively search out this material and conduct that is harmful. and we just think that they need to take greater responsibility. they have a duty of care to their users and particularly to children. there are millions of children in the uk using these platforms and they have a duty of care and responsibility to keep them safe. it is very easy for children to sign up. they do not make it difficult for children younger than 13 to sign up and they do not seek to reinforce that. how many accounts of children younger than that they seeking to remove? we just do not know. it is true, there are much greater things. we have a tool where we provide parents with information about the sites, apps and games that their children are using. what parents consistently tell us and children consistently tell us and

me via webcam from central london is claire lilley — she is the head of child online safety at the nspccrjoining us. what do you think about the way the big companies are handling this? we have said for a long time that we think they are playing by their own rules and now we do not think they are going far enough or further enough in order to promote and protect children who are on their sites. there are millions of children on these sites, not just there are millions of children on these sites, notjust the big names, these sites, notjust the big names, the smaller companies that are equally as guilty. not enough is being done to build in the production of children run the outset that the design stage and not enough is doing done on a day—to—day basis to keep children safe on these platforms. we know that because we see contact to childline, thousands of co nta cts see contact to childline, thousands of contacts every year from children who are being harmed on these platforms, whether they are seeing inappropriate content which is not designed for their age or whether they are being cont