Facebook sets aside $3bn for privacy investigation

Facebook has said it will set aside $3bn to cover the potential costs of an investigation by US authorities into its privacy practices, but the social media giant also said total sales for the first three months of the year jumped 26% to $15.08bn, narrowly beating market expectations.
Boeing does not know how the crisis over safety of its 737 Max jets will affect profits. Aviation analyst Sally Gethin discusses the plane maker's latest financial figures. We find out how significant Boeing is to the local economy in Seattle, Washington, where the firm is based, from professor Leon Grunberg of the University of Puget Sound in Washington, and professor Amy Edmondson of Harvard University assesses whether the pressure of orders for 737 Max planes led to an oversight in their production. Also in the programme, the UK government is thought to have approved the inclusion of equipment by Chinese telecoms firm Huawei in the rollout of the country's 5G mobile phone network. Plus on the sixth anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, we have a report from there asking whether stringent safety measures implemented in factories since the disaster may now be watered down.

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