that we've been taught them, i feel like that's potentially a really exciting prospect studio be unscripted on al jazeera, investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on al jazeera. ah, hello musk buys twitter for $44000000000.00, but his promise of more free speech has critics worried. ah, me, barker, this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up the u. s. promises more military aid for ukraine during the highest level american visit to key if since the war with russia began to crane rebels say they've pulled out of the far reaching a move that could unlock life saving food aid for thousands in need and coping with

cove it in an inequitable system. unique challenges faced by people with disabilities. ah, twitter has confirmed it's been bought by eli musk for $44000000000.00 earlier. shares being traded in the company were halted because it reports masks, bid to buy the social media giant will be successful. the sale raises questions as to how the billionaire will reform twitter mosque as previously said. he wants to unlock twitter extraordinary potential and make it a platform for free speech around the world. earlier on monday must tweeted that he hopes even his worst critics remain on the platform. because quote, that's what free speech means. who gabriel? a lot elizondo is live in new york, new york stock exchange, sher firstly, of course, i mean 44000000000 dollars. this is despite it must being according to forbes,

the richest man of the planet. no small sum. is it? yeah, it's not even for he, long mosque was reportedly worth 4 times that he would have had a hard time. just simply writing a check for $44000000000.00, and that's why he had to sort of over the last week cobbled together some financing for this. i won't get into all the dirty details if you will, how he did that. but essentially you got about 25000000000 from various banks, led by morgan stanley, and then he's kicking in about another 21000000000 and equity added all up and he was able to put a package together. and that's ultimately what the twitter board decided to agree upon. once they saw that he was able to get this money and by twitter for the price, he was offering it to 44000000000. the price that he offered to pay for the board essentially said yes, but it is a lot of money and it's interesting to see where the company goes. now from here,

stock price increased by about 5.6 percent on monday air, but it's still at about $51.70 a share. that's below what musk is paying per share. $54.20. bottom line though is muska said he is not buying twitter to make money off of it. he says it's not a financial issue. he says it's a free speech issue. and that all goes to the whole point of, of a twitter over the past several years. it's been very strong and content, content moderation, be platforming users that it says promote faith, false information. and you must simply disagrees with that, but a lot of other people look at and say free speech, what he mean by free speech. he said, you have free speech on twitter. you just don't have, he can't have false speech or incendiary tore speech. so this is the real debate

that's going to be playing out or that has been playing out in twitter. but now even musk ultimately will be the ultimate arbitrator of that as he now moving forward, it appears if this deal goes through on the company. okay, what do we know about what mosques ownership of twitter will actually mean for uses? well that's the big debate hen depends on who you ask, quite frankly, and there's really 2 ways this could go. number one is must could push forward with his so called free speech of twitter that could be bringing back. for example, the former president, donald trump. it could be bringing back other politicians and others who have been taken off the platform for, for promoting false information or incentive tory speech that could open up twitter to being a very messy place. again, a messy place, critics would say, opening it up to all sorts of misinformation, something that twitter has been trying to push back against. so that good one

analyst i spoke to said that could mean it's not necessarily a good place for the overall 200000000 twitter or twitter or twitter, twitter users around the world. on the other side though, maybe must, will not pursue that. maybe he will be more pragmatic in some of the, the changes he makes to twitter in that case, maybe he could make some changes that are good for users. a lot of people say there are a lot of changes that need to be made to the platform, maybe musk as a person to unlock twitters potential, so to speak, and make it a better place. so bottom line is we don't know yet depends who you talk to, but bottom line is we do know you are musk as the new owner of twitter will certainly be making a lot of big changes. all right, i guess we'll know sooner or later gabe. thank you very much. what cells offer is a technology journalist and author of social warming a book about social media effects. he says he must, must have an ulterior motive in the purchase. i mean, to some extent, what are, what he is, what ill must describe. it, sir, it's a global communications network,

that if it doesn't exist, you'd really want to invent it because it's so incredibly useful for spreading information out. and i, i think a lot of people are getting hung up on what he said about free speech, and they're not looking at what he almost really thinks about, which tends to be evil, musk and what he wants to do next. and acquiring twitter is a great way for him of not getting thrown off twitter because he has a lot of a lot of fights going on with the securities and exchange commission in the us about things that he's treated which are the as he see say's affect the price of shares shares to the own shares the might own, shows that it doesn't matter. and there's probably to some extent to not to remote . and i think it's a bit simplistic to, to think or to just go along with what he said on this. i think you need to look a bit more, more deeply at it and also just making everything free speech having less content. moderation has been tried already. good work very well. and he needs to actually to

make more money than it ever has before. in order to service the debt that he's taking on because takeover. so simple answers aren't actually the solution here. ah, ukraine has received its highest level visit by us officials since the war began. the secretaries of state and defense met ukraine's president in person in care of to offer continued support against russia's invasion. and to be blinking said russia campaign, a new crane had failed. and a pledge was made to step up u. s. military aid, including more advanced weapons. alexey o'brien has this report, a show of support in a time of war, the u. a secretary of state and defense in the ukrainian capital to meet president fellow, to me as a lensky. this was the 1st high level visit by us officials, since russian forces invaded what you've done in repelling the rush engine,

the metal keys it was for an inch farm, quite widely, to rustle. well, we've got used to see you on video around the world, but it's great. it's good to see you in person. during a 3 hour meeting, the pair promised to stay pop u. s. military aid, including sending more advanced weapons. we will continue to do everything possible or to ensure that you are successful. ukraine's president has accused allies of being too slow to help saying they shared responsibility for the was casualties. but on sunday he said he was grateful for us support and what he called an important moment for his country updated that they're saying that the priority of this meeting is weaponry support from the united states and our partners in europe . it's all about the strength of our army. and the 2nd issue is the sanctions against the russian federation. because of the full scale terror,

the russians were waging in our country. while russia has failed to capture any major city since the invasion started on february 24th, it has caused widespread devastation. cities in the east and south, the facent daily bombardment. what president phil army zalinski, is called the battle for don bests. the u. s. says it wants to see russia weekend so that it can never do anything like this. again, the bottom line is this. we don't know how the rest of this were wonderful. but we do know that a sovereign independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir booms on the sea are in terms of rushes were 8, russia has already failed, and ukraine is already succeeded. speaking in poland after their meeting secretaries outlined what will be included in the latest $700000000.00 package to ukraine and neighboring countries. so they need a long range force. you've heard of. it was a need for claims. we believe that we can work,

they can win if they have the right equipment, the rights award, the visit comes as the you in secret. general antonio terrace is in moscow in keith for meetings with the leaders from both sides. secretary blanket says good terrorist, we carrying a strong and clear message to the russian president that he needs to end this war. now alex here brian al jazeera on as we mentioned, the un secretary general antonio terrace, is in moscow to meet russian president vladimir putin. on tuesday, he terrace were also me the russian foreign minister, sir guy lever off before traveling to ukraine. our diplomatic editor james bay's has this report. the un secretary general meeting with turkeys president owed on an anchor before flying on to moscow. mister terrace is trying to build on previous turkish diplomatic efforts with a new piece initiative involving direct shuttle diplomacy. first in moscow and then

on to keep he thinks that there is an opportunity now and will make the most of that. what we can, a lot of diplomacy is about, about timing, about finding out when is the right time? ah, to add to speak with a person to travel to a place to do certain things and, and he is going in the anticipation that there is a real opportunity that is now building itself. and we'll see what we can make of it. kindle the secretary general last week called for truce over orthodox easter, a call that fell on deaf ears. i call on russians and ukrainians to silence the guns and forge a pass to safety. for so many at the media threes, the secretary general continues to call for a cease fire, but that's very unlikely to happen. the ukrainians side don't want the conflict to become frozen with russian troops stationed inside their country. and after 2 months of war, moscow's made very limited gains. if, as a truce now,

would be very hard for president putin to declare a victory. my lord, i asked russia's deputy ambassador to the un, whether a cease fire. it was a possibility as to what we don't think that this is far as a good option right now, because the only the only advantage it will give it will give verb possibility for agreeing and forces to regroup. and to stage more pro, occasions like woochie, like i say, cruelty so frankly, is not up to me to decide, but i don't see any reasons in this right now. the conflict has caused many lives. parts of ukraine have been completely destroyed, living ruined buildings and mangled metal. but despite all this, the guns still seem unlikely to be silenced. yet. james bays al jazeera at the united nations, ukraine's defense ministry says rush and forces are continuing to attack the east of the country. charles stratford is in love janski's, near one of the front lines and sent this report. ah, are you created military ambulance speed south towards soviets evacuated. civilians

arrived in a van to ukrainian army checkpoint north east of the city. the military won't allows to film inside the vehicle our spit lather delia as nearly as 86 year old brother anton eda. my husband is still in there at home. i very afraid for him says, said darling, breaking down, what does every person in ukraine? what is this water and says melia, and we can say that to imputed stop this dreadful war included in the we're hearing a lot of shelling as you can hear there, possibly that shelling coming from this direction. we've also hearing from that direction about 7 kilometers up that road is the town of newman. now we aren't, we know that russian forces control village very close to it. we also understand that most of the civilians have left and the military are telling us that what the

russians are trying to do. by attacking the man is move closer to the city of savanski, which is down this road. bloody tor decays, lie on the ground, close to the check point, cut from the limbs of soldiers or civilians injured the like before. a military ambulance arrives, an injured ukrainian soldier is helped to waiting all ami medics who refuse to let us vill oh stop filming. now he says here look, this crater is from what the you crated army say was a russian rocket. the landed near another chick point on a different road into slop janski's. it leads to the russian controls city of is you. ukrainian army says it's holding back at least a 2 if not 3 pronged russian army evolves. sloppy. ask along with neighboring kraemer tool's only a 10 minute drive further south of the 2 biggest cities in the dorm bus region.

still under full ukrainian army control. we drive into tailed the streets of virtually empty. the people still here shop at the occasional supermarket still open. many of the shelves are bare, close by we fight merida and said a gay lame shipping is. thank you. thank you. my number. no. of course we're afraid it's going to happen. the russians are pushing that. we hope the army can protect us and defend the city. we have a basement and that's our only plan. the main thing is that we've sent our children away with. a school was damage when a russian bulb landed close by. but sloppy ads because escaped the heavy rush and shelling suffered by some tales in the dawn. it's gretchen in the evening light, a siren wails warning those who remain to get in the side or underground and

almost deserted city. the russian armies sites shall strive for al jazeera, sloppy, ask ross's foreign minister, so gala rav since the ukraine war will end with the treaty, but it will depend on the military situation. the rav also a key is key of, of, not negotiating in good faith. earlier russia's president said, moscow's enemies are trying to cause unrest to undermine its gains in ukraine, which is good. the other task is coming forward to break moshef from within. but they can't do it, because as a sanity is showing its unity and support for season the efforts to maintain the security of russia and the citizens of don't boss. so to come here on al jazeera human rights groups, the king is molly, and 4th is backed by russian mercenaries of being involved to the massacre in my room. ah

hello there. we've got some severe weather warnings out for eastern areas of australia. you can see from the satellite image that dense cloud bringing severe thunderstorms to areas in queens and we could see some flooding here. and a lot of that is stretching down towards the bite. we are going to see the rain intensify in the southeast by the time we get into wednesday. there's rain for sidney through to the weekend that they will be scattering of sunshine as well. now we're going to see things, tone, weather, as well. western areas of australia, thanks to a cold front, sweeping through per, we're going to bring cooler conditions and some welcome rain. it's expected to move its way south of the days to come turning things rather unsettled. now in contrast to this, it is looking more settled for new zealand for both the south and the north island with sunshine pushing through the cloud. the temperature in christ church and in

oakland sitting where we expected for this time of us. a very pleasant conditions. at least until wednesday, we are going to see the rain intensify. however, for borneo in south east asia in heavy falls expected here. and the heavier rank and also be found in eastern areas of the philippines. we could see some flooding here. but for indo china, it is looking like a much clearer picture in places like thailand that should weather update. ah, the latest news as it breaks there, an estimated point $8000.00 legally gold miners. just in the younger mom, the reservation with detailed coverage. the government says it's taking action, but doctors are desperate. thing lives are being put in danger from around the world. president zalinski says the coming days will be crucial for ukraine with the expected renew defensive in the east.

lou. ah, reminder of the top stories here, alger 0, the world's richest man, isla musk has bought social media platform, twitter for $44000000000.00 earlier. shares being traded in the company will halted because of reports. the sale was likely it raises questions as to how the billionaire will reform the social media giant. and the u. s. secretary of state says russia has failed in ukraine and to be blinking and defense, actually lloyd austin, of just wrapped up a visit, a key f, and pledge to step up, step up military aid, including more advanced weapons. a turkish court has sentence rights activists

osmond corolla to life in prison. in a case that caused tension between president russia tire adam and several western countries. corolla was found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government by organizing anti government protest. in 2013, the french born business men had been held for 5 years without trial earning condemnation from the european court of human rights. germany has already de, bonded his immediate release ethiopians to cry, rebels who are fighting a war with the government in the north of the country they, they have made a tactical retreat. the to cry, people's liberation front says it's completely withdrawn all of its forces from a neighboring afar region. they say they hope the withdrawal will allow a to reach the cry way. there are famine like conditions or ethiopian jealous, samuel get a shoe says this was the only way the government would allow much needed food into the region. they could only agree to some kind of seas wire unless an

organization that they deem us at terrorists, organic organization. would suddenly leave afar. but the t p left has been saying the reason that they're in a far as to protect their interest to protect any kind of attack that might come to their weight. and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. duffy cunningham has been trying to play a role to in this conflict. the former president of nigeria has been going back and forth between i d sub la mckelly, the cup out of to dry and event in the kenya. a speaking to the kenyan that president and in the u. s. invoice find to solve this issue, but there doesn't seem to be any kind of fab agreements along this actors. 6 soldiers have been killed and 20 injured and simultaneous attacks targeting 3 army bases in mali. rush and fighters were involved in repelling the assaults. human rights groups accused russian fighters linked to the wagner group of

torturing and killing molly and civilians. nicholas hart reports from neighboring, senegal, captured on mobile phone. the aftermath of a suicide attack of kite of fighters detonated a car bomb in one of molly's biggest military camp in savari, inside the barracks of hundreds of russian fighters. they repelled the assault, but lost a russian helicopter. on kite says this was a retaliation against recent operations by molly's military involving russian fighters in the center of the country. in state td follows the authorities on the ground here in the village of mora, in operation to win hearts and minds in what human rights group believe is the sight of a massacre. they say russian mercenaries and molly and soldiers, tortured and killed almost a 1000 people, mostly civilians in the last month, in the village of mora, and whom bori, to give him the soldiers that you see in the village are only your brothers, children, and grandchildren. oh, they can never be your enemy,

nor the enemy of war. uh, money in authorities are blocking the you and from meeting the survivors and conducting an independent investigation, al jazeera spoke to one of the survivors. mama do not. his real name says he was on his way to market when he heard the helicopters of the 1000000 army hover overhead out came what moment to describes as white skinned soldiers shooting indiscriminately. i lay nonunion at him, never 1000000 soldiers over there accompanied by white soldiers. laura, many of them on count recognized apaches on their uniforms. i'm afraid to approach them. but people say that russians, many people have died because of their violence game. and that the, by melina authorities deny the presence of russian fighters instead, calling them instructors with an in a statement i'll kind of said it is holding hostage. and he captured russian fighters up linked to the wagner group with the deployment of russian fighters last

december. the relationship between mullin, authorities and france has deteriorated than year. 2500 french soldiers are pulling out of mildly by this summer. last week. french forces handed over the camp of go see to 1000000 forces. the marine army says it found a mass grave shortly after that contained bodies in advanced state of decomposition, by the french military, has released drone and audio footage, showing 1000000 soldiers digging dead bodies into the sand. after they had left, a senior french military official told al jazeera that russians are behind a campaign of disinformation, targeting the french army. in molly, away from europe is a new battle front in an information war involving the russians and the west and caught in the middle or the people of mali. nicholas hawk al jazeera, a guardian man accused of carrying out killings for former president ya in 2000 and full has got on trial in germany. it's

a law mal case for crimes committed during janice presidency as charlie angela reports. so baba, hi dora, this day should have come 18 years ago. the alleged killer of his father journalist data hydra finally on trial, not in the gambia where his murder took place. but in germany it's a significant moment, not just for a son, but for a country still healing up to more than 2 decades of often violent rule under president yaya. jamie well, so this is the day we've been waiting for for 18 years. so it's a big day for justice for my family and myself, we start this journey in 2004 for more. so this is the beginning of a long road law because law was just one of the year kingston road. there are others. and the most important one is ya. yar jana, who we hooked one day to see in front of a tribunal by lo, is accused of crimes against humanity and murdering to people the request of java.

he alleged, he worked as a driver for the jungle as a desk. what the underpinned janae's 22 year reign by silencing his critics. and he is the 1st alleged member of the gang to go on trial and the gleason, as the others. we welcome the fact that germany has now taken the 1st step, why it's under, there are other proceedings around the world. there is a procedure in switzerland and one in the u. s. small. in particular, we hope that this will give a boost to justice effort in the gambia, and that those responsible there will also be brought to justice. jeremy's regime was notorious for crushing descent, 3 murder disappearances, torture, rape and castration. his successor, adam at barrow set up a south african style truth and reconciliation commission to prob, allegations of abuses. low is being tried under the principle of universal jurisdiction, allowing foreign country to prosecute crimes against humanity regardless of where they were committed and less, say, within the gambia, there was not only a lack of judicial resources to bring about justice, but

a lack of political will so it tells us one thing, lot in all my french rentals that are in the gambia as far as the younger government is concerned of interest that are here with me. probably some of them at all, but some of them will likely escape and punishment. but those that are outside the gambia, and of course what countries i entrust them using the principle of universal jurisdiction . i'm will have to deal with them and most people will have to feel justified in every day. back in the gambia, the case is being watched closely and many hope jeremy himself will eventually face justice. charlie angela al jazeera activists in the united states. so warning that people with disabilities are facing unique an ongoing challenges during the coven pandemic. as alan fischer reports, they haven't had equal access to services such as testing, and that full short of u. s. a quality laws. so this, imagine after a long wait, you finally get your hands on a covert tasting kit than with. imagine you've been feeling ill and want to know if you're okay. now, imagine you're blind. it has no markings on it. and again,

this is a cardboard box. so i'm, you know, boxes of band aids have braille on them now. oh no, we've had it. for many disabled people, the surgeon testing has left them behind. if you're blind, 1000000 people in the u. s. r. then simply walking out what to do is a challenge that we're testing centers that were drive through a home way. and of course, blind people don't drive, we do have as a matter of national public policy, the idea that people with disabilities are supposed to be integrated and included. so why is there nobody thinking about on the front end before things become a problem? endemic restrictions were hard on almost every one, but even more complicated for those who are disabled. that is the americans with disabilities act, the laws intention that every american has the same rights and opportunities as every one else. it gives people a sense of independence and dignity during the pandemic. we have seen all 50 states,

i operationalize what's called a crisis standards of care. and these are standards that a hospital uses to determine who gets access to treatment in times of the shortage of of medical resources. and so states have used disability as a means of saying, you know what, your life is not worth living. it's not worth said in, in fact one in for adult americans has a disability disability defined as a physical or mental impairment that impacts a major life activity and lawn cove. it could see those numbers rise dramatically. you may be seeing people with long corvette who are experiencing things like fatigue, reduced lung capacity, brain fog, as well as i individuals who have had significant stress and trauma throughout the panoramic. we're now having to adjust to life with

our psychiatric disability. the white house is responded to criticism and made some changes including recommending to drug companies that they make testing easily accessible for everyone. but things aren't going to change overnight. there will be a lag, and that means for people with disabilities, it's going to take longer to get back to normal. i'll and fisher, i'll just here at the white house. ah, you're watching out, is there a reminder of our top stories? twitter has confirmed it's been bought by a la musk for $44000000000.00 a year. shares being traded in the company will halted because of reports masks, bid to buy the social media giant would be successful. the sale raises questions as to how the billionaire will reform the company mosque has previously said he wants to unlocked, which is extraordinary potential and make it a platform for free speech around the world. the you.