[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is d w. news life amber led billionaire eli mosque completes his takeover of social media sites. twitter. the tech tycoon is already shaking things up the aspired top executives and as promising to limit censorship. so what does it mean

for the future of the platform? also coming up the starkest warning yet on climate change, the un says the world must immediately curb greenhouse gas emissions for face catastrophe, and the new space race why several nations are competing to put humans back on the moon. scientists believe that it can be a gateway to mars and beyond. ah, i'm sorry, kelly, welcome to the program. there had been months of legal wrangling, but now the world's richest man, ellen mosque has finally completed his $44000000000.00 takeover of the social media platform. twitter in his characteristically flamboyance style, musk walked into twitter, san francisco office carrying a bathroom sink. he tweeted the video with the words let that think in. he's

already been on a firing, screaming time, letting go top executives, including the c e o in the cfo. the tesla boss has been critical of the platform, his moderation policies and says that he wants to promote more free speech. with his deal, complete musk tried to reassure twitter. advertisers are saying that he didn't want the platform to become a quote free for all health scape. he said 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 cancelling a business for more. what does this mean for twitter? i said, well, 1st of all, it means that it's going into private hands and that you must 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 us 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 job 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 and 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 progress. 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 if there's like really important questions now going forward. thank you so much for following this. for us. the u. s. nuclear watchdog b 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. keith denies this 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. the allegations have been made. these pictures are on 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 worked to divert nuclear material. footman fabrication over a logical device would be taking place. so this is what we are going to be doing. meantime, russian president vladimir putin says that he has no regrets about the war against ukraine. speaking at a conference in moscow, he insisted the conflict was going to plan and that moscow has no intention of using nuclear weapons in ukraine. he accused western leaders of intervals, citing the conflict and said that the decade ahead could be the most dangerous and

unpredictable since the end of world war 2. the united states says that putin's remarks are not new and do not indicate a change in his strategic goals, including in ukraine, ukraine's president volota mears. the landscape meanwhile says that his forces are holding out against russian attacks in the eastern don boss. region 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 div co and bach mood, russian forces continue to grind forward. located in the don yet, gretchen buck most 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 this, if political 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 said these prisoners are being used as bait. a tactic presidency . lensky has described as crazy. but the noise of notice is called one time use. the main task of these one you 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. correspond mathias bellinger standing by in cave

mathias. what is the ukrainian reaction to vladimir putin putting blame on the west for his invasion of ukraine and infesting it on going to plan it's something that we've heard before and that's why most ukrainians are just frogging it off as another round by the old man. i am hootin has said this time and time again. and if before the war people were watching his speech is trying to figure out what he's going to do, we all know now what he is doing is we also know what he is successful at and what he is not successful at. we know that he, his amused ferrying much worse than many, had expected on the battlefield and that he has much less options now than people thought he would have before the war. so he has in a way, lost its men, his manner sink statue. he is, of course, causing a lot of harm to this country,

but what he's saying now isn't any more as interesting as it was before interesting in the way that it had consequences that people were expecting consequences for this. it's just her more of the same now mathias, as we've also just heard russians, wagner group is said to be using prisoners in the fighting around back mode. what more do we know about the treatment of, of soldiers, the treatment of so called mercenaries in this conflict? on the russian side, what is happening now in back would follows pretty much the playbook that russia has had since april, when it had to leave the key of region and a concentrated all its forces on the east and consists the concentrated all its fire power on the east at them that what they have been doing is they throw everything to the front line. they shall as much as they can and they attack as often as they can with no regard for their own losses. basically, russia has lost a lot of soldiers in these tactics,

but his territory gains haven't been very high. fighting is very intense and bar mode. it's very tough for the ukrainian army. but within these 3 months that russia has concentrated its power, there, it hasn't been able to make a lot of games. this, the, the wagner group that is operating there is a private militia, it's a private militia, with very close ties to vladimir putin. and it's that, and it's founder, has criticized the military leadership of russia quite a lot, suggesting that he can do better. that's what he is trying. now. he needs a lot of men for these very wasteful tactics, this very brutal tactics. and he's been recruiting them in very different ways. we've seen videos where he was in prisons where he was trying to recruit people from prison dealer people with no tr, meaning basically with the criminal history. yes. but with no training and they're sent to the front. weaver or we are, we are seeing that

a lot of them die very quickly after the being sent to the front. although we don't have the complete picture, we don't have the figures. but so it's very wasteful away and it's not been successful so far. back. what is the only place where russia is, is still pursuing this, these tactics most likely, because they don't have the fire power and the manpower to do this on a longer, a range of the front as there had been doing in spring the, there is exhaustion. and there is a lot less ammunition now than there used to be mathias bowling her. thank you. here are some other stories making news around the world. north korea has fired to short range ballistic missiles into the sea. it's 1st weapons launches in 2 weeks. south korea's military detected the launch from the tongue han on the eastern coast

of the peninsula. the u. s. military warren to the north that the use of nuclear weapons would mean the end of the regime. myanmar is ruling military hunter has warrant of negative implications in its southeast asian neighbors trying to pressure it into implementing an assay on broken piece plan. regional foreign minister as met thursday to discuss the worsening crisis in myanmar. in recent weeks, the country has seen some of the deadliest incidents since the military coup in february 2021. rocks parliament has approved a new government to oath. after over a year of political deadlock, it will be led by 52 year old prime minister mohammed shia su danny. he has promised to fight what he calls the epidemic of corruption and unemployment in iraq . how do you, what did the death toll in iran's protest movement has increased after iranian

security forces opened fire on antique government protesters. 3 demonstrators have been reported dead at this protest in the western town of ma hubbard on thursday. protesters returning from the funeral of a man killed during the unrest surrounded government buildings and hurled stones rights groups say that hundreds of people have been killed in recent weeks amid, in increasingly brutal crack down. let's bring entire ecstatic a conflict to researcher at the university of marburg and germany who specializes in the topic of iran. welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us. on how popular are the demands of the protest movement among the wider population that is slightly difficult to assess because we don't have very reliable numbers away comes to paulding in iran or also crowd sizes. but we do know that a lot of the issues that are being targeted that are being addressed here have been increasingly popular over the recent years. and they address very different

segments of society. so when it comes to rejecting the job loss on this topic that's been getting very popular as particularly recent years, but also speaking about social issues which has been increasing attention. um it's wonderful for us, i think. overall, the range of topics being covered by protesters are actually quite popular based on what we know. the protests have been dudley, the government, as we saw there and those images are cracking down. is it fair to say that there is no hope for reform? i would never go as pessimistic as that, but so there have been plenty of opportunities for reforms for the government, which it didn't take up. but this was 2009 or 2017 or 2019. so i would be very skeptical on whether there is political will to begin with, but also the capacity to act reforms because to be fairly, or to be honest that from the perspective of the government,

which of those grievances are being addressed should be addressed 1st. if you don't enact reforms over a decades, it's very difficult to address all of them at once in a moment of crisis. so in that sense, it would be very skeptical about the opportunity offer force. given that, how big a threat to the regime, to the protesters at post right now, which is say, because the movement does indeed here to be gaining steam and the momentum doesn't seem to be dying down any time soon. it's probably the biggest challenge to the summit republic since its inception. we've been all seen almost one and a half months of mobilization on a very high level. and it doesn't seem to be going down. so that since it's not only one of the most radical protests that we've seen calling for the abolishment of these lament republic. but also one of the longest lasting protest movements that we've seen are 6 weeks of mobilization is a formidable achievement. and it does, it seems like it is going on. so there's

a dedication of protesters to keep this moving for a significant, a longer period of time. in that sense. i think it's a very big challenge to the government itself. what sort of trajectory do anticipate that the movement might follow? i mean, how do you see this most recent wave of protests ending? i see multiple trajectories that are possible and in particular we discussed reforms. i would never rule it out entirely, even though i think it's very unlikely. and there's also the option that called sisters are basically and forced defections from the state side, which could all then see the system itself um crumbling. and we could also see protesters outlasting the government, basically exhausting security forces that would lead to alma a revolution in itself. however, and this should not be underestimated. the regime still has of significant capacity for violence of repression. so it is also possible that um,

there will be an escalation even of the will very high level of violence if you see the wrong right now and, and repression against the protest movements. however, looking at the trajectory of the last 5 years, what it is is the 2015 movement, 2019 movement of protest movements last year. and now this year, i don't see how vans alone can end this cycle of contention. i would imagine that even if our patient becomes the main course of action, movies like this will return maybe next year, maybe 2 years from now. i'm. so this is an ongoing situation that i don't think is going to see a very quick resolution anytime soon. tax had a conflict researcher at the university of mar, thank you so much for joining us on to share your insight on the situation right now in iran, if you the united nations as sounding another warning on climate change, saying that the window of opportunity to keep like global warming at

a minimum is closing fast. the ones new emissions gap report says that richard 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 from the goal of limiting warming to $1.00 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. un secretary general antonio good head ash says an unprecedented economic transformation is needed to limit the impact of climate change. climate change remains the central priority inevitably with blue and climate change must be a central priority for all governments or companies or cities. the civil society everywhere. if we are not able to reverse the present threat, that these living to a catastrophe in the world will be doomed. and so these must be for all of us,

an absolute priority. and one group that has long warned about the consequences of this inaction is fridays for future. let's go now to d, w as tanya kramer. she joins us from a climate strike protest in tel aviv, tanya, what are the protesters? they're telling you. while i'm standing here at this try future protest in tell of ethan, you see around me, a lot of young people are gathering hits an annual when for young activists are coming together, you know, from animal rights activists to. 6 environmental activists to god and they told me before, you know enough is enough that needs to be done more to fight the climate crisis. and for more that i'm joined to actually buy miriam french. she's one of the co organizers hero campaign organizes all the events here. tell me what's your reaction to this new and report, or are you surprised at all? that's the word is so far from reaching the target. thank you. so it was

devastating to read, but it was really not surprising again and again, year after year we're reading these reports and each time, you know, our heart breaks more and that's why i'm here today. and that's why we're going to be 15000 people today in this smart, telling the politicians that they need to act. now, this report is just another, another awakening call to something that we already know, that the climate crisis is hurting people now. and we have to do actions as soon as we can and are ready next week is going to be back climate conference in egypt. and i really hope that we will see the politicians taking real action when the people on the ground are fighting for justice and for climate justice a. so again, they are disappointing eyes and we are 4 days before elections. we've had 5 elections in 3 years. our political situation is very,

it's not stable in that sense, and we want to see that the issue of climate being more central. and last week we had a survey talking about what the different parties are doing around climate. and we see they're not doing enough to we have here many politicians coming to kind of i talked to everybody here and i convinced them to vote for them, but we're not gullible. and we know that politicians, it's only the one good acts are the ones who we will vote for. thank you very much, mary and frank, and this is going back to berlin. thank you so much, tonya kramer, they're reporting from television 1st. ah, we're gonna turn now to have a look at some other stories making news around the world. the european central bank has raised interest rates again, and we'll and ultra cheap loans to commercial banks sickness,

the central bank for the 19 countries that use the euro raised its deposit rate to 1.5 percent the highest. and within 10 years, the bank is trying to curb surging inflation. the european union has struck a deal to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035. negotiators agreed that by then carmakers must cut all c o 2 emissions if passed into law. it would become impossible to sell new fossil fuel powered vehicles. in the 27 country block, the e wants to speed up the switch to electric cars and combat climate change. the face where he says back several countries including the us, china, russia, india, and israel are trying to reach the moon. it's not just a quest for national glory. scientists see the moon as a gateway, a place to build bases that could then launch missions to mars, and beyond. bmw the moon has one

indispensable resource for man space flight. water. h 2 o can be used to make breathable air for astronauts and fuel for rockets. the largest water deposits are in the deep i see craters at the lunar poles at the moon, south pole alone research, a suspect there is as much water as in germany's largest lake up on the at any time or over the next few years. an outpost is set to be built in the lunar all bit, the so called lunar gateway. nasa will build it with canada, europe, and japan. it wants to involve the private sector more than before. the new space station will serve as a research platform and later as a base for mand flights to the moon or um, work in school,

it should make it possible to see the far side of the moon and the south pole, and to have constant radio contact with earth nights on the moon last for 14 earth days, and the temperatures dropped to 160 degrees celsius below 0. that's a major hurdle for long term human missions. but there are craters at the south pole with rims that are almost always in sunlight. nasa wants to build a lunar station and such a crater. the so called optimist base camp are initially astronauts will land in transport craft, which will also serve as their accommodation during their short stays. but as they explore the surrounding terrain in vehicles. with each mission the lunar base should become more comfortable for spacecraft,

bingley equipment and robots will build the infrastructure up to for astronauts will work here for up to 2 months to time. ah, the post will also serve as a springboard for a new mission, human voyages to mars and we're starting to find out more about a media arrive that slammed into the surface of mars and december of last year. nasa has now revealed images showing the effect that the giant piece of space rock had on the red planet. the collision created a crater nearly 150 meters wide, said to be the largest to recently recorded on mars. it is 10 times larger than craters made by other media writes. the image is also revealed, large chunks of ice. scientists are calling it a huge discovery. ice has never been found so close to the equator on mars before. quick reminder of our top story here on dw news,

elan mosque has completed his $44000000000.00 take over of twitter, the tech billionaire follow through on the purchase after twitter took him to court for trying to back out of the deal. must says that he wants to limit that he wants to limit censorship on the platform. the united nations of sounding the alarm on climate change in a new report, the un says that rich countries are falling fairly to cut greenhouse gas emissions quickly enough. and warrens that urgent action is needed to avoid catastrophe to the point is next on dw news to stay with us if you can for that. i'm sarah kelly. and berlin, thanks for watching. ah, ah, ah,

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