this new culture. so you are not a visitor, not the guests. you want to become a citizen. in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information. ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. european governments begin clamping down again on migration as ports are closed and borders tightened. d w follows the many people trying to enter the e u through the so called balcony group, and twitters new bosky line must begins slashing jobs. he says it's to make the

platform more profitable. twitter workers replied. see you in court. ah and i'm michael ok. thanks for joining us. italy's new right. when government has formerly close its ports to rescue ships run by humanitarian groups. that's as 3 ships with more than a 1000, migrants on board, remain stuck in limbo off the coast of sicily. cruise report worsening conditions on board, including the spread of sickness. italy's interior minister said ships would be inspected at sea before any further steps are taken. the balcony root taken by refugees into the e. u has not been in the spotlight for some time, but it still busy and getting busier. you officials recorded more than

a 100000 people without documentation entering the block from the western balcony. in the 1st 9 months of 2020 to serbian visa rules make it relatively easy to go from there into the u. t. w's ego. so ferry went to the open about comp, new belgrade. new arrival said the oberon without scamp. they have come from around the world. here they get the medical check, awful shower, something to eat, and somewhere to sleep. hardly any plan to stay. not again, we can take 200 people in our emergency shelters, on average. they stay here for around 2 weeks. new people come but people leave to and we have enough capacity to accommodate them. other than villa are 2 of the few long term residents in the camp. they both spend years of they're old and we're tired of trying to cross dangerous borders. they have both applied for asylum and here give me it is bag love saw off that i decide that i want to rest here because

here i am, i am little bit busy. bill has also sat, they'll tear, he flat the war in syria 4 years ago. and can go back, he's hoping to stay and work here. sony for living again, syria. i was a carpenter, and my father was to you. he taught me the trait. when i left my country, i planned to go to germany, but then i decided to stay here. they gave me these machines, workspace, and everything. i wanted to make some sculptures and stay here to work. i shut it off with the last time a space for cricket, yet everyone is focusing on a different game. that's what they called a very serious business of trying to cross the board. there's in till the e u. this is where it starts. this part near belgrade main bus station is where people prepare to travel to towns near the borders with croatia, hungary and romania eel,

conscious. there though bay smugglers thousands of dollars to get the crown the frontier. nikolai camacho, vicious, a bow grade lawyer and refugee activists. what kind of problem did you have with will guardian police bargain? men and beating our pupil with wine bar, police police? yes. with a stick. it states dave's name, your sleep. so your search, your strip to where they see a future, what is your plan? our plans to go to the country do peaceful again. she landed the stair say they want to live serbia, not because of violence, but because they see a better chance of finding work in the eel. serbia cannot stop them moving through cisco markovich so be a cannot do anything so nobody can do anything by themselves need. that's the point . the point is that western bulk and region, or balkan region,

or european union european region, should design our response, which is human rights and record your law friendly. that was the people who will continue coming. they are flat from war poverty and persecution. the world over belgrade, it's my station, it's another step. the balkan root is open and for many, their bass told this winter i asked guild canals a european migration analyst and director of the european stability initiative. thinktank. if the balcony root is really the refugees, best entry into europe right now. well, it's very important to understand 2 things. that expression balkan route was a fantastic public relations success of victor urban and l form. austrian chancellor, a sebastian courts in 2016 because what we are really dealing with here is a region to western balcony,

which is surrounded by the european union. it is true that a few people, tunisians, indians barone, the citizens, can come to serbia visa, free, and soviet said that it will change this and align. it's visa rules with the you. but all the syrians iraqis, afghanis most of whom you've also shown in your, in your report. they don't come, these are free to the west and bolcom stay 1st have to enter the european union, greece of bulgaria. and then from those countries, they leave the european union to re enter it some way in the north. and the basic fact is that this year, the number of people who crossed from turkey and that means from the whole middle east into the european union irregularly, is extremely low. so the high numbers crossing the western vulcans are largely people who've been in the e u for years in greece, who have been treated very badly, who don't see a future there. and we're trying to get from one part of the you to another part of

the you. there is no strong increase of irregular migration of afghans assyrians into the european union this year, last year. this root is essentially a 2nd chance for refugees who have already fled into europe to make a better life for themselves in europe. and the plight of ukrainian refugees is obviously captured, the world's attention, perhaps, to the detriment of other refugee crises. ukraine. aside, where would you say is the most challenging refugee crisis the world currently faces? well, you, you highlight a really important point. the reason countries like germany, austria, or indeed many in the european union feeling under pressure this year is because they have accepted the highest number of refugees in any year since the 1940s. but 10 of 11 of those refugees have been ukrainians who arrived. you who arrived

regularly, they can cross the borders without smugglers, they can simply come across that the most important other route this year. and here we are talking about much, much lower numbers than the ukrainians. but still significant has been from central a northern africa to italy. this year, already around $80000.00 people have crossed the mediterranean. it said deadly ruled the deadliest in the world. it is a rule to a european union has relied on corporation with libya where people are mistreated. this is a shameful cooperation, but it is also a rule to a lot of people drown. and now of course, the new italian government is going to try to repeat the policies of a previous italian government that has tried to stop this by closing the ports to the rescue ships. this is not a policy that will work, and in fact, the most important human italian crisis at europe's borders to day where most

people die is there in the central mediterranean. and we're going to have to leave it there that gerard canal say european migration analysts. and director of the european stability initiative, thinktank many, many thanks for your insights. i thank you to russia's invasion of ukraine. now, foreign ministers from the g 7 group have pledged to keep supporting ukraine through the coming winter. at talks in germany, german foreign minister and alina bear, bog also criticized runs, crackdown on protests and called for action on the climate crisis. but russia is invasion of ukraine, remained the top of the agenda. it's, helen didn't talk. you were canceling every day of this brutal war of aggression and you know, that russia is waging against the ukraine. if i, every single day is one day she, many sock, every single day means a brutal attack on innocent people in ukraine in there. and it means suffering it dead on destruction would on such 2 other top stories at this hour. thousands have

gathered in south korea to commemorate the victims of a crowd surge during halloween celebrations in the capital. so the crush happened in a popular night life area and left a 156 people debt long foresman officials have admitted that safety measures were insufficient to handle the crowd. protesters and riot police clashed in the northern iranian city of rush. amateur footage shows crowds charging the police, forcing them to retreat and regroup. nationwide anti government demonstrations erupted in iran after the death of a young woman in police custody. 7 weeks ago. almost 30000 people have flocked to a stadium in bahrain to attend mass led by pope francis. it is the 1st ever paypal visit to the muslim majority country. it comes as part of the pope's whirlwind tour of gulf states focused on promoting dialogue between muslims and catholic zone. his

mother, twitter is sac sacking around half its workforce as ilan musk ended his 1st week. as the company's new owner. employees have launched a class action lawsuit over the firings. musk says he's looking to cut costs following his $44000000000.00 takeover of their social media platform. twitter the san francisco headquarters shut down on friday as ellen musky mass firings got underway. soon former staff were posting messages on the platform about how abruptly they were sacked, saying they'd been locked out of their work accounts with little information. some are already suing over the lack of advance. notice where to go with find out would be not any phone call or any now from their employer or their boss. but just

by seeing their corp, their work laptop, automatically re boots and just to go blank. that's the way people would find out. but musk has defended the cuts, saying twitter is losing millions of dollars a day. oh, if you're in town and ha, ha ha. before, yeah, sorry, a major. okay. awesome. so this is, this doesn't seem right when our operations at all but well, must focuses on saving money. critics fear that such drastic cuts to twitters staff will leave the platform used by hundreds of millions, struggling to deal with hate speech and misinformation. earlier dw spoke to gordon kalak, he's an associate professor of strategic management at mcmaster university in

canada. he explained the strategy behind the cuts of twitters workforce. it's quite possible that would be a lot of mosque is trying to do is kind of play to his strengths. so he hasn't never really bought a company like this before. he started new companies, tesla space x. the rolling whole list of companies were, has been able to bring in his own culture. and you kind of see this now with twitter words bring in friends in top executive positions. and he's laying off people and bring in even employees like software developer, some tesla. so we could be seeing a cultural change to a twitter, and that could be what he's planning. and to india, where authorities have closed schools in the capital, due to hazardous levels of smog, people are being asked to work from home or carpool to reduce air pollution, which is being made worse by thousands of crop fires in the countries north. a thick haze hangs over new delhi, obscuring buildings,

and leaving people gasping for air. i feel like if i stay here for 11 though, owed me, husband was dignity. that was good milan, a toxic makes of dust, traffic fumes, and industry emissions means people in india's capital are effectively breeding and smoke as the air quality index hits more than 10 times the global safety threshold . children are sent home from school. others have no choice but to stay in the smoke. if they want to earn a living or losing their home, it was because of pollution. my eyes, her thompson, and i have difficulty breathing. good morning mother caused especially in the morning, won't put us on. it's hard to drive my taxi because of the pollution. it will as i hope the air improve is old so that we can feel better. i mean my vehicle is open one. it affects us more than people in cars, but i don't want to go the other one, but this isn't new. india often tops internationalists of the world's most polluted

countries. and 2019 air pollution killed more indians than any other risk factor. including tobacco use drugs and obesity. but the sudden dip and air quality this week is being fueled by farmers in the northern state of punjab, burning crop residue, despite government efforts to discourage the yearly practice, the farmers use it as a fast and cheap method to clear the fields in order to prepare them to plant winter crops. and switch life is up. next. look in your head to the football world cup and kettle. a michael o coop. thanks for watching. she music can't be destroyed. you can try, but it's impossible. ah, she performed for her life in auschwitz.