or why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin demonstrated storm the homes of sher lancoste, president and prime minister, whose home was set on fire. protesters are angry over a growing economic crisis. they blame the president and his family for shortages and high prices. cost ukraine appeals for more weapons, as bombing continues in,

the east ukrainian civilians. and the dani ask region are once again caught in the middle as russia presses it's offensive, but the us is purging more military 8 or q. and it on mosque drops, has been to by twitter. the richest person in the world says the platform allows to many bought and fake accounts. are twitter says it's coming to take legal action. ah, i'm hello mohammad. welcome to the program. we start entry long, come we're the speaker of parliament says, present. got to buy at raja park, so we'll step down on wednesday. that's after protestors stormed the presidential palace in colombo and set the prime minister's home on fire. public anger is has been growing over so long cuz economic crisis. people are facing shortages of fuel,

food and medicine. the country doesn't have enough money to pay for impulse. critics accused roger boxer and his family of corruption, the prime minister says he'll also quit if unity government can be formed. let us get more from marlin or a sing. he's a senior assistant editor at the himself, asian in colombo, the capital, osh lanka there. so could you were getting some reports now that the president to go to by roger pox, the plans to set down on july 13th. do you have any more details on that and also his whereabouts? i. yeah, i'm actually at the main site a yes. so a. 3 that the president has decided to resign on the 13th. and once that news came out that they are still remaining,

some are deciding to disperse. yes. and we are all wandering a because so far we haven't had any communication. so he's bad about except for the fact that he has to communicate that to the speaker that people to sign on. and the prime minister has also tweeted that he'll resign to facilitate an establishment of an old party. government. might that steady the situation at the moment? yeah, because i think i was earlier at the prime minister's residence with these private residents, which was on fire and on one of the reasons. so this was a bit off a back by the police. so at that site over there days also, i think i was just,

i just came from there and feeling off the escalation, i because of these announcements because of the nation. a, i mean he has not a nation. so that's the situation. can you just talk us in how the demonstrations evolved throughout the day and what's been the police response to the protesters? yeah, so i mean if you, if you start at the beginning, so at the, in the morning you had the but this is from all of us are coming into the site is now being um, all over the country. and at the beginning of this, deborah, what about of police brutality, in the sense that there was a news against the super dentist that he against

a was deployed. but then later on i think it would have seen the scenes the secretariat was okay. bye bye. and also the president. so after that the police response might been down for a bit. but then it escalated a situation at the prime minister's residence when the police added fighting a guest as well as attacking and also attacking journalist guys that are. ringback we deal with this being. 5 attacked by the police, and this is one of the lead with them. okay. marlin ari, a singer in colombo, thank you very much for your time. thank you. in ukraine authorities are describing russian shelling in the eastern region of don. yet as relentless moscow's troops are pushing their offensive off to capturing the

neighboring region of the hunts, ukraine is also wanting more russian troops, a gathering for a future assault ukrainian civilians, a court. in the crossfire overshoot these people are waiting to collect a pension, which even as the sound of bombardments creeps ever closer, oh, of re day, we are being evacuated and we have nothing to go on no pension and no place to go. we sit around and wait, team was maybe somebody will give us something jeremy, yesterday we received humanitarian aides a car rights and gave us bread as well. russian forces are stepping up that offensive and the done? yes. korean, after capturing key cities, neighboring low hundreds. meanwhile, ukrainian troops are digging in, hoping to turn the tide and push back rushes advance,

but they're counting on receiving more weapons from western nations. with elizabeth, it depends on the number of weapons we will be provided with current on what we have is only enough to stop the russians for some time artificial mind, but we can't throw them back yet. mortimer peoples will bring up another which auth alicia ritual for the vulgar you, greens, president bullard me. zalinski visited the front line to boost morale among the san jose. to day, i worked all day on the road and in upper and in the region, i was in the front lines of a defense in the juniper petrov st region. i listened to the reports of the commanders and thanked the boys and girls who hold the regionals for my oldest. he also hang the efforts of the troops involved in regaining control of sneak

island in the black sea. a much needed when for the ukrainian side. that's good that let's get the latest now from keith and speak to d dot these nick spice that. hi nick. so these russian attacks are intensifying in the don bass. but although west and high precision weapons, helping ukraine, so down rushes invasion. you're right. the attacks appear to be intensifying despite the russian high command, declaring an operational pause during which so get their fighting units back together. they're continuing the shelling to such an extent that the governor of the lou hand screech in which is now occupied by russians entirely. more or less says that the people that are living through a true hell with villages being attacked. civilians being killed in markets of such an extent that ukrainian has a government is calling all of the people to leave the area by all possible means before the counter offensive from ukraine begins out. the weapons at the west has

provided appear to be making a difference. zalinski has said so himself, we're talking in particular about these american high mars mo bile rocket systems which can fire rockets, 70 kilometers, and with the ukrainians are doing is targeting what weapons depos, particularly the stacks of artillery shells that the russians are using. sometimes firing 46000 in a day in the month of june, making the russians move them back a 100 kilometers in the front line and making it much more difficult for them to continue their onslaught. and nick zaleski did get, did go to see the situation in denise pro on friday. how important are these visits to the frontline? i think there massively important and you know, president zalinski communication strategy since the beginning of the war has been one whereby he appears to be the leader every day. whether it's, you know, with his handheld videos that he puts out on telegram or he's talking to directly

into the camera as if it was a skype conversation with your family or visiting people on the front line. showing that he's not a coward. remember the beginning he was offered a chance to leave the country and he said, i'm not leaving what i need is weapons. so this is all part of keeping up morale and you know, he's got 93 percent approval rating. so something appears to be working. we only hear about these visits after they've taken place, of course, for operational security, because the russians set at the beginning of the beginning of the world, the ukrainians considered the beginning, the war that he was target number one for russia. and we are seeing reforms that ukraine's ambassador gemini has been fired. and this also includes several other top foreign envoys as well. what more do you have on that? we don't really have an official explanation. there's a presidential decree. 5 ambassadors are basically sacked. one of them is entry melnick, who was the very outspoken ambassador to germany who badger the german chancellor,

olaf sholtes about the slowness of weapons deliveries at one point, and calling him a liver or sausage. and he really got into hot water with the germans. however, in an interview, when he talked about stepan, ban dera, who was a nationalist leader during the 2 2nd world war here. his comments about him in an interview cause if he is really government to say that he was minimizing the holocaust. and it caused the government here in ukraine to say that they dissociated themselves from his comments. they were purely personal. so not the kind of sir. you can hold on to and the other ambassadors, perhaps other motivations. as i said at the beginning, there's no explanation being provided. but you know, i think that might be part of the explanation. each of these next by saying keith nick, thank you. now test a c o in on must, has dropped his bed to by twitter. he's accused the social media network of withholding information about fake accounts. twitter plans to sue mask,

to make him complete the $44000000000.00 deal. ah, does the world's richest person have buyer's remorse. ellen must attempt to pull out of buying. twitter adds yet another twist to a saga that is gripped wall street and silicon valley and it's wanted. busy the craziest business stories ever, and i think it started off as a circus show and attending as a circus sher ah. the story started in april when musk announced his intention to buy twitter a move 1st opposed by the company. they eventually reached an agreement with musk, seeking billions from other investors to fund his bid. but within weeks he said the deal was an ice citing concern about the number of bots and fake accounts on the platform. twitter states that less than 5 percent of its accounts, the spam musk says he thinks it's closer to 20 percent. the company isn't giving up

without a fight. twitters chairman brit taylor tweeted that the board plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. he wrote, we are confident we will prevail. musk once claimed to have big plans to grow twitter, the republican leaning billionaire wanted to let former us president donald trump tweet again and argued for looser freedom of speech rules. unless content restrictions for the entrepreneur behind electric, cars and spacecraft, it could be a costly crash landing. the company could seek a break up fee of $1000000000.00. well, we heard in that report in unmasked, says twitter is limiting freedom of speech and that the platform isn't fighting fake accounts. well enough. earlier i spoke to the media researcher mathias kitchenman and asked him whether mosque struck a nerve with his accusations. well the thing is twitter has been, has been among the best moderated platforms online for the last years. but his

understanding of freedom of speech is not new. and you know, the approach it pretty much based. busy approaches a question in engineering, how to get people to maurice quick, right. but managing speech, managing and network of 200 and more 1000000 users, it's highly complex. and you capture, oh, but you know, free speech by saying you want more speech because a lot of that is harmful speech and twitter has been doing a job or him by, for example, for me from, if you want to have more speech, that is nothing, not something that we would describe for and the question of bank accounts and bull . it's something which she just use it to, to get away as to cap out on the 1st day of the deal. the, the numbers that which are, are pretty reliable. and then some tennis news, russian born kaz, elena ruby,

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