yes and country are we thinking everything to make you make changes? you revealed this week on d. w a . ah ah, this is d w. news employee revolt at twitter, twitters new boss in long musk laid off nearly half the workforce. he says it's to make the platform profitable. it says workers reply both twitters workers, reply, see you in court. also coming up,

european governments begin clamping down again on migration as ports are closed and borders tightened, dw follows the many people trying to enter the you through the so called falcon bridge. ah, i'm pablo felice. welcome to the program. twitter is lang or 4 and half its workforce as ellen musk ends his 1st week as the company's new owner. employees have launched a class action lawsuit over the firings mosque says he's looking to cut costs following his $44000000000.00 take over. of the social media platform, twitter, the san francisco headquarters shut down on friday as the lawn musk 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, with children on her shoes. before yaki, sorry, a major stops. some assistance in writers. rigid r 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. or i will to discuss this topic further. joining us now from london is elanora, missouri. she's a researcher in data networks and society at the london school of economics. welcome to the w, and i'd like to start by asking you how will these mass layoffs affect the day to day running of the platform and its ability to moderate this information? these are extremely challenging time for to attain is still rather and clear to some extent which teams and department, if not, be mostly affect it. but as we've seen tweets by this child, the social media company said that some of the people response over communication content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were among the people laid off. and this is extremely worrisome, as it can potentially jeopardize the company ability to come from his information

and to be the democratic town or the mosque wants it to be. and here we go, back again to ellen, must contrast reviews and counter moderation to social media require moderation. it's an interesting part of their intermediary services that they provide to people, curating, and moderating it is part of the essence. and if to the wants to become a democratic town, all will contemplative action policies and ground rules to do though to become so i need it. and this rules are not vital just for the functioning of the platforms itself. but also for freedom of expression for expression is not simply an individual, right, but he works collectively when people are free to express their views, debate, but also not having users to dominate and abuse others. and a huge amount of efforts has been put bestsellers aside organization research and policy maker and social media themself to ensure the space is like twitter, do not end up like nation extreme platforms like gab, which is a known for aids because peers, if theory, spread of and is information and my dream is to nationalist user base, so we're kind of going backwards and he's extremely worrisome, especially in and very political and certain time. all right,

well let's talk about m twitters revenue because currently a comes from advertising, but several big companies have put their advertisements on hold. how damaging and is this for twitter? this is extremely damaging. i'm in twitter, other to, to advertising accounts for 90 percent of twitters revenues and the company might not survive. it continues down this path and we've seen that the service is experiencing a massive drop in revenues because some of the big advertising brand sort of halted advertising. i'm on the concerns about the company's quantum of duration policies and is potential rise of misinformation and decline of user base, but also security protection. and this is not actually surprising to some extent, because otherwise i don't want to be associated with a toxic environment where social media platform is information is information hate speech and a legal content can freely circulated, can have an impact on their brand. so if they prioritize safety or brand safety concerns over their presence of twitter, of course are going to hold and a take

a strategy of weight and seal what's gonna happen. and given that competition for advertising, revenues is extremely ferris. at the moment, among social media companies, there are other option where other ties could turn to. so i think it can have damaging impact on our own on twitter sustainability and it's tactfully. yep. not a wise decision from a business perspective, either alone or m, as only from the long, long school of economics. thank you. thank you. let's get you up to speed now on some of today's top stories. environmental activists have rushed onto the tarmac at amsterdam. she poll airport to block private jets from departing hundreds, had originally gathered around the airport for a demonstration against pollution. it's the latest in a series of attention grabbing protests by climate activists across europe on baffling. thank you. rebellion iran has acknowledged to the 1st time that the country has supplied russia with drones around. foreign minister admitted that

a limited number had been sent before the war in ukraine, but said they were no longer being supplied. moscow denies using iranian drones in ukraine. at least 13 people have died in a night to a buyer in the russian city of coast, roma, northeast of moscow. around 250 people were evacuated. as the flames closed, the ceiling to collapse. a suspect is in custody is believed to have said all fireworks inside the value. now it is new far right. government has formerly closed its ports to rescue ships run by humanitarian groups. as 3 vessels with more than a 1000 migrants on board to remain stuck in limbo off the coast of sicily. cruise report worsening conditions on board, including the spread of illness. at least interior minister said ships would be inspected at sea before any further steps are taken. while the balkan route taken by refugees into the e. u has not been in the spotlight for some time, but it's still busy. i'm getting busier. you officials recorded more than

a 100000 people without the documentation entering the block from the western vulcans. in the 1st 9 months of 2022. sir serbian, these are rules make it relatively easy to go from there into the european union. he w e dro safari, went to the oprah. no, that's camp near bel great 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. and if plan to stay north 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 bill are 2 of the few long term residents in the camp. they both spend years on their old and we're tired of trying to cross dangers borders. they are both a flight 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 peaceful bill. all has also settled here. he flat the war in syria 4 years ago and can go back. he's hoping to stay and work here. the sunni falling again syria. i was a carpenter, and my father was to you. he taught me the trait. when i left my country, i plan to go to germany, but then i decided to stay here. they gave me these machines a workspace and everything on. i wanted to make some sculptures and stay here to work, or shutter what am eastern time and space for cricket. yet everyone is focusing on a different game. that's what they call the very serious business of trying to crowd the borders into 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, e or countries. there though bay smugglers thousands of dollars to get the crowd the frontier. nikolai komatsu, which is the belgrade lawyer and refugee activists. what kind of problem that you have the guardian police budrum and meeting our pupil, which was put in with a sick day. hey, your sleep, your search, your strip to well, and we're going to see a future. what is your plan? our plans to go to the country to a peaceful country. land is the day they are. they want to live serbia, not because of violence, but because they see a better chance of finding work in the eel survey. i cannot stop them moving through, says camacho, which so be i cannot do anything so nobody can do anything by themselves. the

that's the point. the point is that western ball can region audit, balkan region or european union or europe in region should design our response, which is human rights and record your law family. that was the people who would continue coming. they are flat from war poverty and persecution. the world over bel goods by station. it's another step. the balkan root is open. and for many, there bethought this winter will. earlier i asked tatiana research and advocacy and campaign specialists from save the children and serbia. what the situation is like for children and young people who are trying to reach the european union am along this balkan route. yes. so tell her and has been working in the balkans in 2015 and we heard many children about difficulties painting the journey. so here we need

to reset focusing when you're going experience and what the findings of the research are. very, very worrying. our research tells me that most people, children arriving in europe, the bulk of what are experiencing violence at those points on your journey. and then i suppose you all types of physical, larger, actual life explanation. how much protection exists for these children and young people considering how vulnerable they are, for example, and this violence that you were just talking about and this abuse on, on pretty much every level there. yeah. the bang. they are getting good through different countries along their journey and the distance of the board in the countries are very,

very different. you know that, that, that will create when talking perpetrators violence most, nothing about what we're doing please research ed coordinators and also my growers, children report. and if there's any orders and smugglers are, are seeing they are the ones who are most making my once again what can actually be done then to help these vulnerable people and as well, from what you've been telling us. i mean, it's pretty shocking and, but to hear that it's actually often the people who are there to protect them who are sometimes actually committing and this violence against the warmer, new reasons why children don't report are very rarely ready for

my life and to prevent them from getting the support that they need, they be adult in their lives as the one who have the power to help them to protect them. and those are smugglers and police officers are most up to one why users. so the most important things for children would be asking to protection and they need to have they need to have access to profession as a border. instead of being forced back from all the children were talked was given, these reports that they either the syrians or weakness, violence at the borders during the practice on the record, we need to see need to be stuck and need to have active protection.

and at the border, tatyana research from safe to children and serve you. thank you. thank you. this is date of the news from berlin up next world stories the week and reports on stay up to date on our website detail view dot com will be back again at the top. the next step i can do is just a thought say we'll credit you for.