Evening briefing Wednesday 26th August

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwCWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up. So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters. PwC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PwC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc.co.uk. This is Times Radio's evening briefing on Wednesday the 26th of August. Meta has agreed to pay more than$16 billion, or£12 billion, to settle claims in the US that its platforms have harmed children.

0:46The Facebook and Instagram owner hasn't admitted any wrongdoing, but as part of the settlement, it'll have to bring in measures to protect teenage users, like daily limits and night-time blocks. Tech expert Will Guyatt gave Times Radio his reaction. $16.68 billion is a huge amount of money, But I'm sitting here thinking they've got off quite lightly by settling because it was 1.4 trillion that they could have been liable for if they got to the end of this and they were found guilty. Twelve British people are among hundreds of tourists missing after flash floods in Nepal. At least 95 people have died, with initial reports suggesting an earthquake could have triggered a mudslide.

1:26Tara Chhatri from Save the Children is in Kathmandu. She's told Times Radio the villages affected will be devastated. The people living there are of different ethnicities. We have a pretty underprivileged population, marginalised population living there. Life is hard, so you can pretty much imagine the impact. Police investigating the deaths of two people, including a child in a house far near Middlesbrough on Teesside, have made two arrests. Officers were called to the Grangetown area in the early hours of this morning. A 48-year-old woman is in a critical condition. Two men aged 23 and 31 are being questioned on suspicion of murder.

2:08The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are understood to have landed in the UK with their children as they prepare to make Britain their home again. Harry and Meghan are expected to live privately outside London, with Archie and Lilibet due to start school next week. They won't return to official royal duties, and questions remain over what security arrangements will be in place. The Times royal correspondent Sarah Hewson says she understands the family, landed at Birmingham Airport at lunchtime. It hasn't been confirmed yet by their spokesperson, but that is our understanding. And they are beginning their extended stay back in Britain.

2:45Why today? Well, it is just a week since they broke the news that they were planning that return to Britain and their children, Archie and Lilibet, are due to be starting a British prep school in the next week or so. An investigation has found two fires which destroyed 19 homes in Stourbridge in the West Midlands a couple of weeks ago, were started by accident. Flames broke out in fields where farming machinery was being used. UEFA is understood to have called off its threat to boycott world football competitions organised by FIFA. European football's governing body has had assurances. Plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup have been dropped for good.

3:23And Tim Curry has died at the age of 80, with US media reporting he's had health problems for more than a decade. The actor found fame in 1975 as Dr. Frankenfurter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which went on to become a cult classic. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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