in worship, in the black sea, that ship has now suck, but on land that russian forces are on the brink of capturing the city of mario pole. and that would be the 1st major last for ukraine. it has been 50 days since the russian invasion began. the losses on both sides are getting worse, sending shock waves across the globe tonight, no sign of peace in ukraine. plenty of signs that the world is making the wars making the world uglier. poor and the people in it. hungrier. i'm forgotten berlin . this is the day ah, if i say i'm in pain, is the only one percent when i'm feeling dear friends. above all, these war must and i've been leading and which i own my life and i would always invite, may france come here to people. you can and cannot spend the violence being inflicted

on them. and hops in the sunshine will be killed. the city and the most vulnerable people are on the loads. cannot become collateral damage yet another. these us that for which they bad know responsibility and make it even more beautiful than before . also coming up e long musk wants to buy twitter and rescue free speech in the process. mosque is the richest person on the planet, but a radical twitter tweak will require more than just money. if the board says no, as a fiduciary, there will be eating lawsuits for breakfast. but i think for the twitter board and for the executives there, this becomes a worst nightmare. ah, what to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a pledge of support from one president to another. u. s. president joe biden has approved an additional $800000000.00 us dollars worth of military assistance to

ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery and helicopters exactly what ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says. his forces need to repel a new russian offensive expected any day. now in the east of the country. eastern ukraine is where the kremlin is aiming. its military might. russian forces took heavy losses when they attempted to take the ukrainian capital. keith, forced to pull back vladimir putin soldiers are focusing now on the dawn. best region. russian back separatists have controlled parts of the don't bass since 2014 and may now try to seize the rest of the region. the clear coat brothers have become part of the voice and phase of the ukrainian resistance for much of the world vitality clinico is the mayor of keep his brother vladimir is a former heavyweight boxer now turned soldier in this exclusive interview. vladimir

clinch, co, doesn't pull any punches regarding the threat to ukraine and the russian siege of mario pole. in the next coming days, obviously, will dia major major battles in the east in the south of the country. and we, we really look, look to defense and defense, south east of the country as well as preparing for possible coming back and naming the capital. we are prepared for anything for work, worst cases for chemical weapons to attack for we prepared for everything. the city of the matter of fact, the city still defended them. defenders of the city are stealing. where you bo, this situation is very critical, very critical. for the past 2 weeks, the city has been endlessly bombarded. i don't know how many thousands of civilians

been killed and how many are still in the city. it's very difficult to get exact numbers. do the situation, understandably, but the city is still fighting back. i'm proud of our country women and men for standing together against this says this war in russian aggression, especially in cedar rouble. president stan meyer made huge mistakes in helping russia with what russia became today. he acknowledged, he's mistakes, he confirmed it and made his open statements against aggression of russia war with russia and president put in particular. and i believe. and i hope that this meeting with the president by mar, driven president and the current president lensky, are going to take place in next coming days or weeks here in q.

and you can watch the rest of our exclusive interview with vladimir clips. go on our youtube channel. the address is right there. you see it on your screens. a stunning blow tonight to russia's navy, its main worship, the moskva have sunk in the black sea. it was being towed back to port in stormy weather. just hours earlier, ukraine says that it's missiles hit the ship, possibly igniting a fire on board. as it turned out, this new ukrainian postage stamp was prophetic, shown off just hours before the incident by president followed him as the lensky with the message. the russian bullshit always has only one direction. russia blames a fire for the damage. ukraine now has a slightly different take i want to see when you put up in the black sea region, the most 5 warship was hit by next year and shipment sustained damage. the fire

started, the other ships, tried to provide assistance to storm and the powerful explosion of ammunition turn the ship payback, and it started sinking stuff done with it. the mosque came to prominence at the start of the war being told to go f itself. when he tried to capture ukraine, snake island in the black sea. i was in the last month, the man behind those words was awarded a metal for his bravery. initially fit killed, he and other soldiers were taken captive before being freed and

a prisoner exchange. the moscow with the main shipping rushes black sea fleet, armed with 16 cruise missiles, as well as long range defense system. if you cranes claim is true, that defense system appears to have fail catastrophically. ah, what does a lot most want to do with twitter? a couple of weeks ago he became the companies largest shareholder now. he wants all the shares most because made an offer to buy twitter, setting the value of the social media company at $43000000000.00 in a letter to twitters board. must wrote that he invested in the company because he believes in its potential to be a platform for free speech around the globe. but the billionaire says that he now realizes twitter will only be able to thrive as a private company. would ellen musk as the so owner of

twitter be a good thing for the company? would it mean anything for furthering free speech around the globe? to talk about that. let's pull in mat stolen. he's director of research at the american economic liberties project. he's also author of the book, goliath, the 100 year war between monopoly power and democracy. man, it's good to have you on the program. elan mosque, as the sole owner of twitter. would that be a problem? i think twitter itself right now is a problem in all social media is a problem. so you know, the ownership structure is less important than the way that we've regulated regulated these firms and allowed them to create to basically help undermine the fabric of society. where the, wherever their operative, i want to dig into just a moment, but let me ask you should, in your opinion, should ilan most or any person for that matter, be allowed to own a social media platform. well, right now, mark, soccer, bergman's,

facebook. so i don't, i don't see that much of a difference. and the problem is that you shouldn't have private total control over the public comments. what we need are clear public rules about what is allowed and what is not. and these rules should apply to everybody because clearly these are public institutions. you know, they're there for profit, they at their, there's property involved. but you know, like any common carrier, like any telecom network, these are these dirt the public has an interest in had his platforms actually operate. and the problem here, if i'm reading you correctly, is that these, these platforms, the social media platforms, they're not responsible for the content that's on their platforms. and that's, that's at the heart of the problem isn't. yeah, i mean if they are these, these firms are communication networks, but they finance themselves with advertising so you might be trying to communicate . but the platform itself has an interest in structuring the speech to get you to

keep using, to addict you said that they can keep selling you abs. that's not how most communication platforms work with europe, say your telecom company, they might overcharge you, but they're not. they don't care who you talked to, they don't care what you say, and they're not trying to get you to talk to certain people or, or put, you know, give you propaganda in one way or another. and that's because the business model is not based on a conflict of interest to when you have a communication network, it makes money through advertising, through and monetizing attention and data. it is a fundamentally destructive business model, and that is the problem. and so the business model is flawed. we've heard arguments in favor of changing it. what you're saying on capital hill with zuckerberg, and these arguments have gone nowhere. what you're advocating, matt is treating social media platforms like a utility, right? but, but that's going to take regulation and it,

just as there's doesn't seem to be any will in the us for any regulation at the moment. yeah, i think that that whether congress will pass laws or not, i mean there there's, there's definitely a lot of discussion about it. but i think the fundamental problem here is there is regulation right now, that regulation is section 230 of the communications decency act, which says that twitter or facebook, or any of these platforms, any, any website has no liability for anything that it's users do on top of those platforms, even if the platforms are trying to encourage them to engage in certain types of behavior. and i think if you that's, that's a, that's a form of regulation. it's just a destructive form of regulation. so i think if you got rid of that and you said, you know what, you are kind of liable for what happens on your platform, that these platforms will change their business models very quickly and they will stop imposing, you know, offloading costs under the rest of society that they should be internalizing themselves. and do you think mad too, if this were to happen, we would also see

a change in the nature of content that is on social media. i'm wondering, would it, would we see a more civil behavior on line than what we see right now? i think you, what i mean, you know, the right now you have a whole series of kind of torts and common law prescriptions. things like an intentional emotion of intentional infliction of emotional distress or defamation. huh. does, does all sorts of things that people can do? and while they might be liable for them individually, when that gets amplified by, you know, a 1000000 times by a youtube or facebook or instagram or whoever the underlying platform isn't liable for it. in not only are not liable for it. they can actually sell advertising against that. so on january 6th, we're organizing the riots on facebook. facebook was actually selling ads against

that content, and that is crazy to be profiting from that kind of, of, of incendiary. and in some cases, illegal content. and if you, if you actually make the law apply to these platforms, so that there's a public process for actually addressing the harms that are caused by these, by this bad content, by this illegal content. then i think you're going to see, you know, a much better way of kind of, you know, sustaining society id honestly. and i think if you like most becomes the owner of twitter, he's going to go into completely opposite direction. he is an absolute is when it comes to free speech, he's going to say no regulation, no restrictions whatsoever of the business model is going to be even maximized compared to what it is right now. that's a disaster scenario in your opinion isn't. yeah, i mean, he can't really do that. you know, if it's, if, if people on twitter, as they did,

you know, years ago or recruiting for terrorists or they're moving, you know, child pornography or anything out, you know, he's gonna that there are gonna be prohibitions there. there are going to be spam filters, right? twitter is, you know, these are networks and they inherently structure speech, which means they impose limits. so the idea that you'll unmask is going to come in here and just sort of be a free speech. absolute is, doesn't actually make any sense because these are networks and networks are organized around limits to what people can do as well as you know, that's how you, that's how you set what people can do as you say, is what you can't do. and within that zone of, of sort of, of freedom, people can do whatever they want. but he might change that. he might, you know, expand what people can do in some areas and reduce it in other areas. but the point here is that these are not decisions at any individual, whether it's the current twitter management or facebook management, or any of these, you know, dominant platforms that their management are thinking, or whether it's ilana must, they should be public decisions made by the public governments that have democratic

legitimacy. yeah, i think there are a lot of people around the world who would agree with you, matt. and they would say that it's high time for this to be put into some form of action that stole the director of research at the american economic liberties project. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. hey, thanks for adding. ah, these are the huge wheat fields of yemen on the array, be in the peninsula for the people of yemen. however, this is no bountiful harm. much of humans population depends on for include a lot of that comes from ukraine. one of the world's biggest weed ex borders, but the war in ukraine has already disrupted exports making food shipment headed for yemen. more expensive by the day. the political situation in yemen is also volatile. earlier this month, the warring parties laid down their weapons in the 1st nation wide truce since 2016

. it came after 7 years of war between the saudi led coalition and the rent back. the rebels conflict left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced, but that troops is now hanging by a thread with each side accusing the other of breaking my next guest tonight is a knell she lie. and she's a middle east expert at the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington dc. it's good to have you on the, the program war in ukraine means smaller wheat harvests and that means fewer exports, which means higher prices for food aid needed in places like yemen. has the world realised with the invasion of ukraine, just how intertwined the world's food supply really is? i believe so, and this is not the 1st time something like this has happened. but unfortunately

this does come at a particularly dire time. not only for yemen, but you know, it was, it was a spike in wheat prices that preceded the 2011 arab spring when we saw people, overthrowing governments. and so it really is a question of what sort of political volatility may emerge as a result of the, the high price of wheat. but at particularly in yemen, where the population is so dependent on humanitarian food aid and where prices were already so high as to be out of reach for many individuals contributing to it to mass starvation. this, this really yemen was already in such dire straits. and so the fact that now this is happening it's, it's just really tragic. yeah, it will, i want to pick up on bad human was a disastrous situation before the war in ukraine began, but the attention of the world is now firmly fixed on you crate. is the

international community? is it forgiving about the humanitarian crisis? that is yemen? unfortunately, yemen has been forgotten for a long time. i think part of that has to do with the fact that we're not seeing the same kind of refugee flows out of yemen. so there are millions of internally displaced people with in yemen. but just that the geography is such that people are not very easily able to escape worden to arrive on the shores of europe, for example. i'm or are other places where than the media would, would turn its attention there. and in addition, you know, as, as you pointed out, now that there's been such a focus on what is happening in ukraine, i think you're absolutely right that what little bandwidth there was for yemen, unfortunately may have dried up in. does it also show the, the double standards in foreign policies, particularly for richer countries,

of that there's so much attention and also so much money available to help ukraine. but when we're talking about helping the people in yemen, you know, it's, you're constantly feeling like you're a beggar when you're going out on to the international market. absolutely, i mean on the one hand, it's quite heartening to see the response from your opinions to ukrainian refugees . you know, people welcoming these references into their homes and, but it is really highlighted the discrepancy there. so not only the treatment of many, but how the syrian refugees were received at the height of the so called refugee crisis. and in 2015 in 2016. and in the case of yemen, i do worry that there is a certain amount of of donor fatigue. we just saw the un convenience. it big annual conference to try to raise over $4000000000.00 for humanitarian assistance,

free and then, and they were only able to raise $1300000000.00 and, and those are just pledges. and so, you know, in the past sometimes the country may have pledged and not ultimately delivered. and you know, in the case of yemen it's, it's just particularly, i think, part of the difficulty there is, has to do with the fact that the united states is complicit in what is happening and in as profiting from the war that the saudi led coalition is waging on yemen. and so whereas in the case of ukraine, you have the us or europe getting to feel very righteous about pushing back against russia and supporting the poor ukrainians and, and assisting their, their underdog site. in the case of yemen, the u. s. at least as well as the u. k. are, are fighting on the side of the aggressors. they're selling weapons, they're providing military support. they're providing intelligence support to saudi arabia and the u. e. and other members of this coalition that are bombarding and

blockading yemen and beer, it seems there's not a big world power advocating for the people of yemen. the way we're seeing for the people of ukraine, if they're no, you know, so the dynamics in yemen, saudi arabia initially intervened because they feared that iran was providing assistance to the who the rebels. what's ironic is that in the intervening 7 years, that assistance which had been fairly minimal has increased. the u. s. has imposed measures to prevent weapons smuggling. and for the most part, the weapons that the who are using our weapons, that they seized from the military in part because they were allied with the previous president early in the conflict. and so had access to these weapons. but the point is that there's been this narrative that the united states is pushing back against this iran back proxy. when in reality, the, the scope of what the,

who these are able to do, especially against saudi arabia is, is tiny compared to what saudi arabia and the u. e. are doing to yemen in terms of the scale. there are 400000 civilians who have died as a result of the war, both kinetic violence and structural factors. so starvation, lack of clean water, disease, lack of medical care and you know, come and yet you have the state department, for example. continuing to reiterate that the u. s. has to help saudi arabia defend itself. and saudi arabia experienced a handful of civilian death resulting from from who is the projectiles, which are very unfortunate. but again, just the, the deal is just astonishingly different. and in all the while you have the everyday citizen, you haven't, you know, living from hand to mouth and possibly facing starvation now. and we appreciate

your time in your insights tonight. thank you. thanks for having me. ah. they wanted to incite riots and destroy democracy. that is what german police are saying about 4 members of a 4 white group who were arrested today on suspicion to plodding violent attacks to so civil unrest. prosecutor say that they were planning to blow up power stations and to kidnapped germany's health minister carl lauterbach, professor lauterbach has received lots of criticism because of his support for measures to stop the spread of coven. 19 the plot to bring down democracy was said to have been hatched on telegram prosecutor c. far right extremists wanted to trigger power outages and civil war light conditions. it didn't stop. there isn't for boxes to fly. the plan behind this was to kidnap the federal minister of health . profess allowed back to kill his personal security and accept this as collateral

damage on us to showcase the health minister, priest police, and said he was unfazed, man eigen are. this will not affect my own work. i'll continue as before. he is here lout aback, who has supported tough cove. 19 measures has been a regular targets of protesters. he said the plot showed that such opposition had been co opted by far right elements. if he had a 1001, this is about the forces, the intent to destabilize the state and democracy as well. they're obviously taking advantage of the corporate 19 protest. it is a small minority in society, but highly dangerous. we have to keep an eye on that and the via authority said the suspects were affiliated with cove 19 protest groups and the rights burger movement, which denies the existence of the modern german state thus far been the one to the

unifying and foremost element of the grouping is hatred against our democracy and its government officials, aunt durham requirements for em, foreclosure in more than 20 nationwide rage please confiscated firearms, ammunition cash and gold bars. for the day's almost done the conversation, it continues online. you'll find this on twitter either in the w news. you can follow me on twitter at brent golf t v. i remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. we'll see you then everybody who's with with

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