ah, ah ah ah ah, this is d, w is live from by land, the world's richest man takes control of twitter and it is already shaking the company of firing top executives for promising to limit censorship. so what does this mean for the future of social of the social media platform also on the program

and issues its latest warning on the climate change declaring that the world is not doing or promising to do enough about the use of fossil fuel to hurt catastrophe i'm german president, frank valdosta, my says rushes, evasion of cranes turning point in history nationally televised address me who have tough years ahead and says the country must prepare for change. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. the bird has been freed a tweet. bear from a long musk after taking control of twitter. it's been a bumpy road with months of legal wrangling, but mister musk has been quick to make changes. he says he bought the social media company to facilitate free speech and communication. but critics question whether one man should have so much power over public debate. let that sink in.

this is how eli mosque walked into twitters headquarters in san francisco. with the grandiose gesture, the world's richest man signal to employees and users, it may be the end of twitter as day. know it. in a tweet addressed to advertisers on a platform must claimed the acquisition was not aimed at making him more money. musk told advertisers that his goal was to counter political polarization in traditional media. he set the polarization, had now spread to social media, and that he wanted to preserve twitter as a space for dialog. 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. and ambitious goal and in mosques own words, one with

a very real possibility of failure. the serial inter printers bold moves, don't come as a surprise to analyst, but his exact vision for the platform is still somewhat unclear. you have to grab that, he's a visionary, and that he's done some amazingly innovative things. but having said that, it's a little worrying in the sense that when you turn down to build it back up again, you have to have some sort of our north star vision to take people long to say this is the reason why i'm doing that. and we haven't quite seen the other than some hand weaving at free speech. but some twitter users fear that what musk wants for the platform may not be reflective of what they want. i believe that the deal on musk buying twitter in on him twitter will begin to twitter. but we're already seen changes the algorithm on getting a lot of right wing stuff all the sudden on my feet that i wasn't getting before ever since. so ever since musgrove ounce,

there's musk has only vaguely implied what his vision for free speech, but look like for now twitter users are left to wonder where the new red lines will be drawn. well, let's get more on that from stephen fiercely. from our business team a welcome stevens so months in the making weeks of making what is this now main knob is actually happened. i feel a bit deflated, actually. okay, so basically it means that this public company now goes in the private hands. it goes into ely, mosques, hands, and that gives him basically a free hand to do with it. what he wants. the question is, what is he going to do with it? we know that he's talked about things like longer tweets. these talked about fighting bots. you know, bringing those numbers down and that he wants to pair back on advertising as a revenue source, which begs another question, since advertising has been 90 percent of twitter revenues to this point. i think the big question we all know is about content moderation. you know, he, i think his vision of twitter as a kind of public square. i think the question is,

how is it going to balance that with a place that also protects from misleading speech and makes it still attractive to user so there can be a profitable model. so can he create the kind of publics where he has in mind also keeping it profitable? let's also note that he's taken on a lot of debt just to make this deal. so that puts even more stress on the need to bring in revenues. you know, i think we have to remember that twitter didn't put in these policies, restricting what people can say and misleading facts. they didn't put them in just because they were forced to but because they were more attractive to users. but also because there was regulation because advertisers pushed them into that area and those are the same forces that are going to loom over mosque and, and his future decisions as well. how is he going to respond to those? and this was so much drama surrounding this takeover at times, it seemed like you didn't really want to go through with this purchase like drunk tweeting, mpeg at all. kind of take it seriously. i think is still unclear if you really wanted to do it. or if you were sort of surprised by it, i mean, as we know, it seemed like more of a joke. if you pursue it, he's been

a long time critic of the company. then he made this offer, it turned out it was way over priced. he got caught in the sale and then he, the, with these lawsuits and went back and forth. and now he has it. i think some, in some ways we tend over analyze how important, where is maybe you and i, as journalists, you know, we see a lot of other journalists there. we tend to see certain people, and we think that it's more important than it actually is. it's just over a 10th of the user base that facebook has, right? so it's not that big. at the same time, i think the speaks to people because social media has become something like a public utility for many people to place where they can go and they can put their opinions and they believe they have a right to it. and so we've also seen how dangerous it can be if it's weaponized, in a sense with misleading information. and so there is a lot of concern about the fate of these platforms, how they're going to be used. and in particular, if one person has control, and especially someone as erratic as you must. and that's why there's so much attention on this, even though this isn't really a massive company at the end of the day. thank your vector, steven grizzly from

d w. business have united nations have founded another warning on climate change declaring the window of opportunity to keep global warming below devastating levels is closing fast. the ones emissions gap report criticizes richer come countries for not doing enough or even promising to do enough to cut emissions caused by boating . fossil fuels, it says the world is on track to be almost 3 degrees warmer by the end of the century, which would mean catastrophic climate breakdown. and people have already heated the planet by at least 1 point, one degree celsius in pre industrial times. and the consequences of being felt, somalia is in the grips of a devastating drought turbocharged by human made climate change wholly and correct them be emotional. families like this one in 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 that country is ranked as the 2nd most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change . now several major you and reports a warning that without urgent action, the world is on the path to even more disastrous warming and global a national clements commitments are falling pitifully shorts. the window to limits global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees is closing fust. greenhouse gas emissions must be cut by 45 percent is thickets and the current policies the world is heavy for $2.00 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 telling dentistry that was counting the quite like drought. i was counting floating rom, i don't want to did as a, as an equal. it is a discount debt. you discount actors of like london burning operators. it is not possible. we noticed that many. now we need to stop it before i like our entire planet collab. 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. but 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 scientists and nicholas hernon, whether we can realistically half emissions to reach key goals agreed in the parish 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 thing, no it's it's getting late. you have to do things drastically different. and the longer we wait with drastic changes, the more difficult it forget we are saying we are far off. we are not at all in the direction of having global emissions. we need to do things drastically different. but the longer we wait and we'll be more difficult. ok. so it sounds like that was a long way of saying know that that there is no way you can see these emissions being hogged. and essentially we're all dude. no, actually i do see away and that is, well, we are currently not treating this existential 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 the for the corona cries, as 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 our behavior. we can drastically, for example, use more public transport and not private cars. we can change our behavior and 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 always a difference. different issues are apparently more pressing right now as 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 euro, we have fires and floods. ready all over the 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 devotee climate scientists. nicholas horner. thank take a quick look at some more stories making news around the world. now. european union

has reached a deal about the sale of new petra and diesel carson 2035 after which carmakers will have to cut all c o 2 emissions. the block is trying to speed up the move to electric cars and the measure still has to become low. at least 31 people have died and 9 others are missing. in flooding in the philippines, most of the victims drowned. scientists are linking recent, unusually heavy rains to climate change. security forces in iran have once again opened fire on anti government protesters. at least 8 people have been killed in last week as authorities try to stamp out dissent. we're most jenda has warned of negative implications, and if it's that southeast asian neighbors pressure it into implementing a previously agreed piece plan. regional foreign ministers have been meeting to discuss the worsening crisis in the u. s. nuclear watched of the i

a is sending inspectors to ukraine to examine russian allegations of so called a dirty bomb production. russia accuses ukraine of working on an explosive device laced with nuclear materials. he denies this and says moscow trying to create a pretext for a new escalation. the i e expects to produce 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 a logical device will be taking place. so this is what we are going to be doing. the russian president vladimir putin says he has no regrets about the war. speaking at a conference in moscow, he insisted the conflict is going to plan and moscow has no intention of using nuclear weapons in ukraine. the accused western leaders of inciting the conflict

and sad decade ahead could be the most dangerous and unpredictable since the end of world war 2. the united states says that he remarks on nothing new and don't indicate a change in russia strategic goals, including with a new crate will ukraine's president have flooded me as the landscape meanwhile says his forces are holding out against russian attacks in the eastern don back 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 dawn, yet screeching back 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. what is it but 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 the missouri of manners, his cold, 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. as defense during this tim ripley, what he makes of those ukrainian claims about the so called one you soldiers. well, it tells us that this was entered sort of a static phase in that both sides of fighting very close quarter battles 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 a 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 street fighting engagement. and that the whole of the front, the, that the reports we're getting from across that this battles own is that the war is sort of static at the moment, but the rains have 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 the russian appointed the head of the province and says local authorities have moved civilians out of the regional capital. so what is this light venture to to mean for advancing ukrainian forces? again the ukrainians tried to advance about a month ago and curse on 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 them to move their 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 in for to cross a 1000 coma to the front line. so it's very easy to get fixated on on, on what's happening in the one town. 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, a kilo mitchell spread it. 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 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 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 snows. the lead tracks also the troops out 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 visible, undermine the ukrainian morale, damage their lines of communications, destroying railways and stuff, to limit their, their supplies. and again, in a go the better to better whether better to rate and they'll be able to attack. so, but also the ukrainians are probably planning to the same thing as well. they're biding that time. they're moving up their troops to attack and, and hopefully, you know, take their offensive fall again. so in, 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 what defense journalist a, tim ripley now do some more of the day stop stories. north korea has 5 to short range ballistic methods into the sea. it's 1st weapons and launches in 2 weeks. south korea, so military detective, the launch on the east coast of the peninsula. the u. s. is warned, the north that using nuclear weapons would mean the end of the regime. us all football pablo, marty moselle, among 5 people injured in a knife attack, returned milan shopping center. one person was killed, spanish defender who was on loan to retaliate. club monson was not seriously the 1st coins bearing the portrait of controls. a 3rd have gone on show in britain, the 50 pence coin will go in circulation before the end of the year. the king's not depicted to wearing a crown, unlike his late mother. queen elizabeth,

the 2nd of germany's president has described russia's invasion of ukraine as a turning point in history and nationally televised to speech. frank walter stone mice at the world is entering a period of confrontation and called on people to face the future with strength. they said germans would have to make sacrifices and called for a change in mind set to be said, acknowledging this new reality was the only way people would be able to meet the challenges ahead. what do you think can, can policy makers cannot what miracles, no one does it and, 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, 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, i've been doing this, 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 area has come to an

end and another has begun, done then, and only then will we be able to see more clearly was yes, what is now required of us in this year. and i am certain either annoyance, that we will not have to face this new era in fear, or without county or political correspondent emanuel shall talk me through the president's speech. it was her quite her sombre speech. a stern or 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 front of arthur's time. i a speech, of course, what really dominated it was. russia's war of aggression against ukraine or the president of german president hong routers. tamaya 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 to add the time another her 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 always whitey, craniums are going through that so. so something that the president highlighted in his speech, but he did, i mentioned the economy crises, he did mentioned a necessity for germany to become independent from a russian energy. and also he mentioned and ac was his 3rd major point. he did mention climate change saying that a we simply couldn't afford to wait to tackle it to address it and to take measures for her to try and contain it. or the german presidency is largely ceremonial. why has he decided to to make vis, vis nationally televised speech on these 4 themes, ukraine, the economy,

russian energy and climate change. while the president speaking arm hikers, i think you know, this was a much awaited speech. how about this time i had made himself related lou scares this year and many were calling for him to speak up to our 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 answer in that regard, he is expected to take his stand, especially when it comes to moments of historical change or the way we are witnessing hosting. so february he had already given a speech back in may on, on the 8th of may or the day of liberation, of due our band just as he had done baghdad. he, oh, so you know, use very, very strong words. when he talked about president russian president vladimir putin, he did call him as a leader. he named him the leader of an army of invasion. he also said that booting

was, was trying to divide germany to divide europe. society even said her daughter booting her 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 money. well, did others are money rather? shes at the presidential palace. and finally, nasa has revealed images showing the effect of a meteorite that slammed into the surface of mars. last december, we embarked, created a crater nearly a 150 meters wide. that's 10 times the size of anything previously recorded. the image is also revealed. large chunks of ice assigned to say, this is a significant discovery. ice has never been found so close to mars's equator before this is dw coming up next in news,

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