with a desire to be targeted, environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d. w. ah ah. this is d w. news line from bad land. the world's richest man takes control of twitter and eagle on musk is already shaking. the company are firing tough executives and promising to limit censorship. so what does this mean for the future of the social media platform also on the program? do you anti fuse its latest warning on climate change,

declaring the world is not doing or promising to do enough about the use of fossil fuels to avert catastrophe? german president frank elfish died. maya has described russia's invasion of ukraine as a turning point in history. in a nationally televised address me all the years ahead says the country must repair for change. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. after months of legal wrangling in on mosque as completed is $44000000000.00 takeover of the social media platform, twitter in characteristically flamboyant style, the tech entrepreneur tweeted a video of himself walking into the company's san francisco headquarters carrying a bathroom sink and tweeted, let that sink, i'm is already 5 top executives including the c, e o and c,

f o. the tesla boss has been critical of platforms, moderation policies in the past and says he wants to promote more free speech. with the deal finally done, he tried to reassure twitter advertises that he doesn't want the platform become what he called a free for all hell scape. and he said, the reason i acquired twitter is because it's important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square when a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner without resorting to violence. let's look at this with her and eleanor. a maria met sony who research is research is trends and digital media at the london school of economics. welcome to d, w. and what do you think a lot must means when he says he wants to turn twitter into a town square? ah, yes, thanks for having me. so it's a very controversial statement in a way, cuz ellen mosque is so self. the clearly a free speech. absolutely. absolute is advocated for the need to

a free twitter from its content moderation practices where he perceived or has that sort of an unwarranted endangers obstacles for the marketplace of ideas. and he promised in many tweets improvements amongst a which is the disclosure of twitters recommender algorithm with the exactly their banding of this quantum moderation practices. and i think we should stop and reflect on the implications of this takeover might have or, and also this ideas. how will they be implemented and were there at the impact for the online media environment. and they stated by multiple researcher in the area. i think there are some traveling clues around is i ideas of having no content migration system or opening up the algorithm and beyond some of the, arguably simpler and also unconventional proposal like advocating for an eddie button i think. and we, we should understand how these changes might actually work in practice and what are

their relevant implication for freedom of expression, media, freedom, imperialism relying for instance, i will no longer be just the but a neg do cause, cause just all my points about the content of moderation, right. we know that after the takeover has completed, he, it weighted the body's freed. i'm the use until commissioner replied, well, in europe the bird will fly by our rules. say, do you think she's likely to encounter difficulties with regulators? i think that's a perfect way to describe it in a way we should frame all this discussion within exactly the the relevant policy development that i had thinning at national and, and european level. and there will be some also college challenges. i mean, for years you appear, molly's policy makers of tried to steer, develop the development initial environment. and there's been a new way of regulatory initiative in this space. the recently published and an approved digital services act and a trim propose of the digital market acts. but also the recently proposed u, p and media freedom act and they've been all working to improve this digital sphere

rights, including with inspire and c requirements and an obligation for this platform to protect free speech. but also make sure the content duration help people to reduce the isn't did information align, protects also people from harmful content and hate speech. and i think this to vision of like an absolute as vision of free speech, where there's no content moderation and a very sort of protectionist vision and from you pm wants to make it will crush and the level find a middle ground somehow. ok, well we'll have to see how it unfolds and thank you so much for joining us and explaining about teresa leonora, maria, much solely from the london school of economics. thank you very much for having of united nations is signing another warning on climate change declaring the window of opportunity to keep global warming below devastating levels is closing fast. the winds emissions gap reports as richer countries are not doing enough or even

promising them to act in order to cut emissions caused by burning fossil fuels. it says wills on track to be almost 3 degrees warmer by the end of the century. mean, catastrophic climate breaker. it will have all ready, a heated the planet bodies won't put one degree celsius since pre industrial times . the consequences are being felt. somalia is in the grips of a devastating drought. turbocharged by human made climate change wholly it could arkansas be emotional families like this one and a camp for internally displaced. people in central, somalia had been forced to flee their homes in search of food and water. somalis have done next and nothing contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions like much of the global south. but their country is ranked as the 2nd most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. now several major un reports of warning that without urgent action,

the world is on the path to even more disastrous warming. and global and national climates commitments are falling pitifully short. the window to limits global temper to rise to 1.5 degrees is closing. fust, greenhouse gas emissions must be cut by 45 percent these decades and the current policies the world is heavy. it's 42.8 degrees of global heating by the end of the century. in other words, we are headed for a global catastrophe. activists and scientists around the world have been ringing the alarm bells for years turning to increasingly disruptive tactics like learning themselves to the roads. as this demonstration in munich in my field, i was just calling them the reason i was counting the point like drought. i was counting floating around, i don't want to do that, them as a, as an equal are just gone dead. you just down actors of like a burning operator. it is not possible. we notice that many. now we need to stop it

before like our entire planet club. experts agree that if the world is to have any chance of averting irreversible climate break down, immediate action to slash fossil fuel use needs to be taken. though with oil and gas giants raking in record profits, emissions still rising and governments slow to act. time is rapidly running out. last climate policy scientist nicholas heard whether we can realistically half emissions to reach key goals agreed in the paris climate agreement. well right now we're really far away from that and it's our 12 reports for 12 years we do this reports and each time you say the same, so you know it's, it's getting late. you have to do things drastically different. and the longer we wait with drastic changes, the more difficult to forget we are saying we are far off. we are not at all in the

direction of having local admissions. we need to fix drastically different. but the longer we wait, it will be wonderful. okay, so it sounds like that was a long way of saying no, but that there is no way you can see these emissions being halved. and essentially, what all do and no, actually i do see a way and that is, well, we are currently not treating. this is substantial crisis as a crisis. now we have seen that governments treat crises, the co corona crises, or know the energy crisis that treated and they do things that seem to be unthinkable before. yeah, for the corona crisis, we spend a lot of money on our for the, for the energy crisis. we save a lot of energy in some areas, things that have not been thought possible. and that's why i think we now need to treat the climate crisis really as a crisis and do things that we think are not possible right now. and they are,

i mean we can drastically change behavior. we can drastically for example, use more public transport and not private cars. we can change our behavior in eating less need for example, we can heat our houses differently, we can use different products, we can all do it, but we really move into need to move into a crisis mode and that's not happening. and, but you've been warning about this crisis, you and others, of course, have been a war warning about this, this crisis for years, if not decades. and we've sort of taken tiny steps as the the roof burns. so what's in the way there are always a difference. different issues are apparently more pressing right now. it's the energy crisis. it's apparent, it's today, it affects us right now we don't know how to pay energy bills and things like that . and the climate crisis is always a little bit in the future, but this is changing now. everybody now has understood that climate change is coming. we have a super hot summer has its in europe. we have fires and floods. ready all over the

. ready world so you can really feel it and i would say that, well, if you haven't understood it now, when will you? so i'm, i think that change hopefully happens now. but you are right. as a scientist, i'm pretty frustrated. i must say like a broken record. we say this not for the 1st time. this report is coming out for the 12 time. and we are saying exactly the same thing. i thank you for joining us and we wish about in your and dennis climate scientists, nicholas turner. thank you to take a look at some or source making news around the world. now the european union has struck a deal to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035 after which carmakers will have to cut all c o 2 emissions. the proposal is part of the efforts to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate change it passed into law. the move will make it impossible to sell new fossil fuel powered vehicles inside

the 22nd country block. at least 31 people have died and 9 others are missing in the southern philippines. after an unusually heavy rains trigger, lance lighted flooding. most of the victims drowned scientists of one that storms becoming more powerful as the world gets warmer because of human induced climate change. mere mass ruling military agenda has warned of negative implications of its southeast asian neighbors trying to pressure it into implementing an assay and broken piece plan regional foreign ministers mat on thursday to discuss the worsening a crisis in me and more recent weeks. countries in some of the deadliest incidents since the military coup in february of last year. the wind nuclear watchdog, the i am sending inspectors to ukraine to examine russian allegations of so called dirty bomb production. russia has accused ukraine are working on an explosive device laced with nuclear materials. cave denies this and says that moscow's tried

to create a pretext for a new escalation. i expect to have its findings within days. allegations have been made. inspections 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 as places where allegedly work to divert nuclear material for the fabrication of radiological device and will be taking place. so this is what we are going to be doing. russian president vladimir putin. he has no regrets about the war and new crates. speaking of the congress in moscow, he insisted the conflict was going to plan. and that moscow has no intention of using nuclear weapons. the accused western leaders of inciting, be conflict, fed a decade ahead, could be more dangerous and unpredictable as since they could be the most dangerous and unpredictable since the end of world war 2. united states as these remarks are

not new and don't indicate a change in his strategic goals, including inside you create the countries of the countries president vladimir as the landscape meanwhile, says his forces are holding out against russian attacks in the east and don bass 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 differ and voc moot. russian forces continue to grind forward . located in the don yet, gretchen, 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. all 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. of them, a voice of notice is called one time use. the main task of these one you soldiers is to come towards us and find out opposition 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. last defence journalist a tim ripley, what he makes of those ukrainian claims at russia's deploying the. so called one

time you soldiers? well, it tells us that this was entered sort of a static phase in that both sides of fighting very close quarter battled in the streets of this town in the dumbass region. and there is not much movement going on in this ward, your, your correspond, talked about them in our territory changing hands, but we're talking about a street and a few houses here. this is not a big war maneuver, a big a big battle per se, with, with thousands of tanks and troops committed. this is a very sort of small scale st. wanting engagement that the whole of the front, the, that the reports were getting from across this paddles on is that the war is sort of static at the moment that the reins of started start to get muddy. it's not very easy to move vehicles and tanks around so, so this is reduce the fighting to this sort of small scale hand to hand skirmishing between small groups of troops. and at this point,

this phase is probably gonna last for a month or so until the the winter starts when the ground freezes and both sides will be able to and maneuver their troops again across the frozen, frozen ground and frozen rivers. and moving our focus. now to that, the house on a region where, where, where that the russian appointed, the head of the province says local authorities have been moved civilians out of the regional capital. so what is this like the venture to to mean for advancing ukrainian forces? again the ukrainians tried to advance about a month ago in kirsten and they took quite a large amount of territory, but since the past 2 weeks or so they've been pretty statically bogged down again, the web is really bad. it's difficult for him to move the times and bring up ammunition. so again, in the front that, that, that pause until the weather changes and it becomes easy to attack again and easy to maneuver. this more is it's been for across a 1000, almost the front line. so it's very easy to get fixated on on,

on what's happening in one town. if we're looking at the whole picture of what is happening in the future. all right, and you've talked about this, this of being a static conflict at the moment, each side sort of trying to grind to be other down gay, a kilo mitchell's right? right. so as winter approaches and things get to trickier, do you expect a major offensive ahead of that a sort of last dash or do you expect about that grinding to continue? and then perhaps that just grind to a standstill as winter closes in. oh no that the winter will see the war get even more intense because it's better for the both sides to, to fight in the ground gets harder that the, it's easier to to maneuver and also it becomes more difficult for the ukrainians to hide. i mean at the moment that, that they're very good at camouflaging their troops in forests and in buildings. but in the winter, you have to move around in snow. the lead tracks. also the troops have to keep warm,

so they have to light fires again. this can be detected, so come the winter or the wall intensify. and we've also seen that the battle of the electricity grid and the russians hope that this lack of power will undermine the the morale of the ukrainians at that point where they start attacking again. so that, that's their strategy to, to 1st of all, undermine the ukranian morale, damage their lines of communications. destroying railways is tough to limit their, their supplies. and again, in over the better to better whether better to rate and they'll be able to attack so, but also the ukrainians, probably planning to the same thing as well. they're biting that time. they're moving up their troops to attack and hopefully, you know, take their offensive fall again. so as i say, this is going to be a more intense period of fighting over the winter when the weather and the conditions are better for everybody. that's very interesting and very clear. thank

you so much for outlining that for about defense journalist a tim ripley, a germany's president 1st described russia's invasion of ukraine as a turning point in history. in a nationally televised speech, frank, alpha stone, my said the world was entering a period of confrontation and called on people to face the future with strength. as it germans would have to make sacrifices and call for the change in mentality. and he said and managing this new reality was the only way people would be able to meet the challenges ahead. but it did come kind of policy makers cannot work miracles. no one hadn't gone was, was didn't, and not even a german president can take away all our worries in these profoundly uncertain times. but us feel it is on the contrary. and i believe that many of these worries are legitimate. we are experiencing the deepest crisis. our united germany has ever known it been about, sorry villains, but i'm firmly convinced that if we become consciously aware of this moment is

turning point in history. if we begin to understand that one era has come to an end and another has begun, done then, and only then will we be able to see more clearly was yet what is now required of us in vision. and i am certain in either knowing that we will not have to face this new era in fear or without a found c or d, w, a political correspondence. manual shall talk me through president time my a speech. it was her quite her sombre speech. a stern warning that her society was changing and also that there was no her coming back to how things were before there were met. yet, there were 3 main points in her fun bothers time. my a speech, of course, what really dominated it was. russia's war of aggression against ukraine. the president of german president hung about those time my year has been very, very moved by his visits in ukraine on october 25th. he really talked

at length about these experience and about what people on the ground in ukraine. we're going through all the time and not her a point that was a really a dominant in that speech was the state of things here in germany. germany is going through a difficult time as well. of course, there's no comparison with whitey crania and are going to that's also something that the president highlighted in his speech. but he did mention the economy crises, he did, mentioned a necessity for germany to become independent from a russian energy. and now, so he mentioned and ac was his 3rd major point. he did mention climate change saying that we simply couldn't afford to wait to tackle it to address it and to take measures for, for her to try and contain it. or the german presidency is largely ceremonial. why have he decided to, to make this, this nationally televised speech on these 4 themes, ukraine, the economy,

russian energy and climate change. while the president speaking our partners i think you know, this was a much a weighted speech. hang about this time i had made himself related, lou scares this year and many were calling for him to speak up to her to address the nation is especially in light of russia's war against ukraine. because you know, the president here in germany, the moral authority and they're in regard, he's expected to take a stand, especially when he comes to moments of historical change. or the way we are witnessing has since our february, he had already given a speech back in may on, on the 8th of may or the day of the variation of europe. and just as he had done baghdad, he, oh, so you know, used very, very strong words when he talked about president's russian president vladimir putin . he did, i call him as

a leader. he named him the leader of an army of invasion. he also said that booting was, i was trying to divide germany to divide a europe society even said her dad's i booting. i was using division as a poison to infiltrate her european society. and for that very reason, people in europe have to unite, i give out the manual, did others in many rushes at the presidential palace in our to brazil, where campaigning for sundays presidential, but off election is coming to an end left. as challenger louise in ass, yoletta silver, one the most versed in the 1st round, but not enough for an outright when against the far right incumbent shire, boston are. it's been a polarized and sometimes violent campaign fall right. incumbent president, jaya bill sanara, holds a last rally in rio de janeiro is brazil heads into

a final election round on sunday. we didn't want to return to the past and to corruption. we want to preserve peace work and progress from left as challenger and former president louis ne seo lula da silva, an election. when would mock an incredible political come back after a stint in prison on robson charges that will later and now he won the most votes in the 1st round and is holding his lead into the runoff. o d election could decide the fate of the amazon rain forest as president boston 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 both scenario has loosened throughout his term. boy, i will vote football sanara as he put forth the right to self defense, which i consider the most sacred thing for my family, my children. but for lawless 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. opinion polls show bulls in our is likely to lose in sundays run off. but his unsubstantiated claims have raised fears. he may refuse to accept a fate that reminder of our top stories are best. our 11 musk has completed his

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