ah, are i ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin billionaire, illinois must come cleans his takeover of social media sites. twitter, the tech tycoon is already shaking things up. he has fired top executives and is promising to limit censorship. so what does this mean for the future of the

platform? also coming up a warning on climate change, the u. n says that rich countries are failing to cut greenhouse gases quickly enough and that urgent action is needed to avoid disaster. as it has been a divisive and sometimes violent campaign. but now final rallies are taking place in brazil. ahead of the latest round up the presidential election. excuse me, the last round there that will have consequences for the entire world. ah, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. there has been months of legal wrangling, but now the world's richest man, ellen mosque is finally completing his $44000000000.00 takeover of the social media giant twitter. in his characteristically flamboyant style, musk walked into twitter san francisco office carrying

a bathroom sink. he tweeted the video with the words, let that sink and he's already been on a firing spree, letting go of top executives, including the ceo in the cfo. the tesla boss has been critical of the platforms, modernization, prop moderation policies, and says that he wants to promote more free speech. all with his deal complete mosque tried to reassure twitter advertisers saying that he doesn't want the platform to become a quote free for all hell scape. he said the following. the reason i acquired twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner without resorting to violence. second, stephen parents, li, frontier, having a business for more. what does this mean for twitter? i say, well 1st of all,

it means that it's going into private hands and that eli mosque now can make the changes that he wants to make. he said a lot of things, he says, a lot of things, some of the few concrete things he said he has said, for example, that he wants to make tweets longer, that he wants to try and fight bots better. that he wants to rely less on advertising in of itself. very interesting. since 90 percent of twitter revenues come via advertising. the content moderation is the thing that we all want to know about. he's very clear that he's a free speech. absolute as, as, as he said, that he wants to see twitter content being less police when it comes to speech. the question is, how can he balance that with this idea of a public town square? let's remember that, you know, twitter made changes about policing speech to appeal more to people to, to make it more attractive space, but also on top of that to, to appeal to regulators and to advertisers. so is this question of how is he going to have this public town square that's attractive? but it also allows the kind of speech that we've seen otherwise being dominated by,

by some very loud, angry, and often wrong users. so this, this really is the question to say that this takeover has been drama would be a bit of an understatement. even. i mean, it must, didn't even seem to want it at some point. so just walk us through how we got here . yeah, it's definitely he has a bit of a flare of a showman and it's hard to really see when he's serious and when he's not. and from the beginning it's almost seem like this was a bit of a joke. take over. you know, he's always been a chief complaint about twitter lately, especially with it's with a speech policies. and, you know, at the beginning he even inserted a kind of a, we joke for 20 in the actual share price, $5420.00. he was taken up on that offer and then it turns out that he vastly was over paying for it. but he was sort of stuck with the deal. he had buyer's remorse want to get out. there was a flurry of lawsuits and ultimately he has to go through the deal. and here he is. he has this property. that is not a small social media network, but it's also not the world's biggest right. and i think sometimes twitter seems to have an outside presence, especially to us as journalists into

a certain class of people education or, or something that's not necessarily appealing to great swabs of people. we tend to talk about it more. it's not necessarily as widespread as facebook, even for example, it does have an upside, it can be monetize. we want to see what he does with it. he's also saturday with a tremendous amount of debt. and so if he wants to get the same kind of profit, he's going to have to increase revenue. so there are a lot of questions here. but again, this idea of a town hall, you know, it begs the question about social media networks in the role they play. you know, they're almost like utilities. we expect to use them in that way. we expect to have access to them, but they're owned by individuals who have their own prerogative. so the question is, how is he going to use it? is it going to become a cesspool for misleading statements, or is it going to be something this accessible to everyone? how are you going to pull that off and take it from being a joke, acquisition to something that's actually very serious and important, maybe even useful, even barely really important questions now going forward. thank you so much for following this. for us. the us nuclear watchdog. the i

e, a is sending inspectors to ukraine to verify russian allegations of a so called dirty bomb production. russia accuses ukraine of working on an explosive device laced with nuclear materials and says that moscow is trying to create a pretext for a new escalation. the i e a expects to have its findings within days. allegations have been made, inspections out of the way. and this is basically what we need to do. we have to undertake these work. at these 2 facilities that were mentioned over the weekend, displaces, were allegedly work to divert nuclear material. footman fabrication over a logical device will be taking place. so this is what we are going to be doing. now, ukraine's president followed amir as a lens. k says that his forces are holding out against russian attacks in the eastern don boss region. he says, air strikes have destroyed nearly a 3rd of ukraine's energy infrastructure and condemns the kremlin tactics as quote

crazy smoke rising over buck mote. across much of the country, successful ukrainian counter attacks have put russia on the defensive. but in the eastern cities of us diff car and fuck moot, russian forces continue to grind forward, located in the don, yet sk region. bachman has been under heavy bombardment for months. now ukrainian officials say it is the sight of some of the heaviest fighting in the country. as russia continues to advance. was it who control over territory keeps changing hands to day. it's as to morrow. there's the day after to morrow. as again, the fighting is intense to day, our guys took a prisoner a prisoner from russia. russia's offensive here is being supported by the wagner mercenary group, a paramilitary force, with links to the kremlin. ukrainian and west and officials accused the group of recruiting prisoners from russian jails to fight in ukraine. now ukrainian soldiers

on the front lines say these prisoners are being used as bait. a tactic presidency . lensky has described as crazy. but the majority of mass is called one time use. the main task of these one new soldiers is to come towards us and find out our position. if they are lucky, they will stay alive if not, they die. despite the intense fighting ukrainian troops are said to be holding on, but months of constant bombardment are taking their toll and the russian offensive shows no sign of slowing down and correspond mathias ballinger. it has the view now from keith mathias as we've just heard in that report there. russia's wagner group of mercenaries is said to be using prisoners in the fighting. what do we know about the treatment of soldiers in this conflict? well, but what is the one place where russia is continuing?

the tactics they had used mostly in spring are just putting everything up to the front, shelling as much as they can and trying to attack as often as they can, no matter the losses. of course, we don't have any exact figures. we don't have insight into what is happening on that side of the front line. but from what we can see by russian military bloggers by ukrainian intelligence, the losses must be very high. the wagner group is a private militia that is used, are fighting with rushes army. here in this conflict, they are considered to be more restless, and the more cruel than other parts of the russian army. although of course, many other divisions of the army are also very cruel. we've seen all these war crimes, but the wagner is a, have a, have, have a reputation as, as being

a very much straightforward and, and very cruel and m. and then their boss, the founder of this group, has criticized the russian military. so for him, it seems to be a personal, a ambition to take bottom would he hasn't been successful in that, but it's now at the moment, the place where fighting is mo, intense along the whole front line. and we know that he has recruited people from prisons, there were videos where he recruited people from prisons. these are people who are pre, basically not trained. and the impression that everybody has every observer has, is that they're basically used as cannon fodder they used. they're sent to attack without the skills and without proper preparation, and many of them die at the front. meantime mathias, we have heard russia's president put in saying that ukraine is not an independent save, that it is under control of its western partners. we've heard this rhetoric of course

used before to explain the russian invasion. what's the reaction been funding ukrainian side. as you've said, we've heard this before and we've had this often before. so most ukrainians were just shrugging it off as another round from the old man. this is really something that he's been repeating all the time, but the interesting thing is that before the war, people were listening to it because they were trying to figure out what he was planning to do. but now he is, has done what he has done. he is not performing, as many had expected, he is not as powerful as man he had expected. so his speeches also are much less interesting to people. mathias ballinger and keith. thank you. the united nations is sounding another warning on climate change, saying that the window of opportunity to keep global warming at a minimum is closing fast. the u. s. new emissions gap report says that return

nations are not doing enough or even promising to do enough to cut carbon emissions . it says the world is on track to be almost 3 degrees warmer by the end of the century. far off, the goal of limiting warming to $1.00 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. he, when secretary general antonio good ted ash says an unprecedented economic transformation is needed to limit the impact of climate change. the window to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees is closing. fust, greenhouse gas emissions must be cut by 45 percent these records. but as to those emissions gap report confirms they remain at dangers and the record ice and still rising commitments to let 0 or was 0 without the plans, policies and actions the back it up. oh, rolls cannot afford anymore green washing,

fake movers or late movers. and we'll go ahead now to brazil where candidates are wrapping up their campaigns for the presidential run off election on sunday left. as challenger luis ignacio little the silver one. the most votes in the 1st round, but not enough to beat the far right incumbent job scenario. outright it's been a polarized and sometimes violent campaign fall, right. incumbent president, jaya bilson, our holds a last reli in rio de janeiro is brazil heads into a final election round on sunday. oh, we don't want to return to the past and to corruption. we want to preserve peace work and progress fullness as challenger and full. the president luis, he may seal lula to silver an election. when would mock an incredible political

come back? after a stint in prison on corruption charges that will later and old, he won the most votes in the 1st round and is holding his lead into the runoff. oh, the election could decide the fate of the amazon rain forest as president ballston our has rolled back protection and promoted deforestation. lola's election promises include sweeping environmental reforms. other key election issues have highlighted the polarization in brazil's politics, from the country's economy and struggling health system to gun control that bull sanara has loosened throughout his term. i will vote for ball scenario as he put forth the right to self defense, which i consider the most sacred thing for my family, my children. but for lulu support is an end to the far right. president's term

can't come soon enough. but what i need, i will vote for lula to preserve democracy and to restore our rights. boston, our and his allies have repeatedly alleged without evidence that brazil's electronic voting machines can be used for election fraud. the opinion polls show bolton our is likely to lose in sunday's runoff, but his unsubstantiated claims have raised fee, as he may refuse to accept a fate up. next it is business news with daniel winter. do stay with us. you can for that. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thank you so much for watching. take care. i, in many countries, education is still a privilege. hummadi is one of the main causes. some young children walk in mind troughs. instead of going to class others can attend classes only after they finish .