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borders tightened. d w follows the many people trying to enter the you through the so called vulcan route. ah, i'm pablo, folio yes, welcome to the program. employees, twitter file, a class action lawsuit against the company's new owner, ilan mosque, that's after offices were closed ahead of mass lay offs. reportedly targeting half of twitter staff 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 ellen 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. only way people who would find out would be not any phone call or any now from their employer or their boss. but just by seeing there for their work, laptop, automatically re boots into slow 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, and ha, ha ha. before yaki, sorry, and i wrote major stop spending some assistance in right when our operations at all. but while musk

focuses on saving money, critics fear that such drastic cuts to twitter staff will leave the platform used by hundreds of millions, struggling to deal with hate speech and misinformation. earlier i spoke to eleanor m a z o lea, a researcher in data networks and society at the london school of economics. and she told me to layoffs, have an concerning implications for twitter turbidity to counter dis information. these are extremely challenging time for twitter, any still rather unclear to some extent which teams and department if need 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, humor rides, 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 is information and to be the democratic town or the mask wants it to be. and here we go back again to ellen, must control of use and counter moderation. social media require moderation,

it's an intrinsic part of their intermediary services that they provide to people, curating, and moderating. it is part of the essence and if to, to wants to become a democratic town, all will come to motivation 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 from an 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 neat and extreme platforms like gab, which is a known for aids conspiracy theories, 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 am is

this for twitter? this is extremely damaging. i'm in twitter. other 2 advertising accounts for 90 percent of twitches revenues and the company might not survive is continuous down this path. and we've seen that the service is experiencing a massive drop and revenues because some of the big advertising brands sort of whole to the other ties inc. i'm on the concerns about the company motivation policies and the potential rises misinformation and decline of user base. but also security protection, and this is not actually surprising to some extent because advertise, 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're prioritize safety, brand safety concerns over their presence of tricia, of course they're going to hold and take a strategy of wait and see what's going to happen. and given the competition for advertising, revenues is extremely ferris. at the moment, among social media companies,

there are other option where advertising could turn to. so i think it can have damaging impact on, on twitter sustainability and it's really not a wise decision from a business perspective, either alone or amazon from balloon london school of economics. thank you. thank you. that's get you up to speed. now on some more of today's top stories, environmental activists have rushed onto the tarmac at amsterdam steeple 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, hungering piece. here. iran has acknowledged for the 1st time that the country has supplied russia with drones, runs, foreign minister says that a limited number had been sent, but before the war in ukraine started, he also says there are they were no longer being supplied. moscow denies using

iranian drones in ukraine. at least 13 people have died in a nightclub fire in the russian city of castro. mont, northeast of moscow. around 250 people were evacuated as to flames, cause the ceiling to collapse. a suspect is in custody is believe to a set of fireworks inside the venue. italy's 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 remain stuck in limbo off the coast of sicily. cruise report worsening conditions on board, including the spread of illness. italy's interior minister at set ships would be inspected at sea before any further steps are taken. of the balkan route 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 vulcans.

in the 1st 9 months of 2020 to serbian visa rules make it relatively easy to go from there into the you need of is either or safari went to the oprah? no, that's camp near bell. great new are i both of the o'brien about cam. they have come from around the world. here they get the medical check, awful shower, something to eat, and somewhere to sleep. hardly. and the plan to stay not 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 and they're old and we're tired of trying to cross dangers 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. little bit peaceful 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 a shuttle with time, a space for cricket, yet everyone is focusing on a different game. that's what they called the a very serious business of trying to crowd the board. there's 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. he'll conscious thou bay smugglers thousands of dollars to get

the crowd. the frontier. nikolai colacho vicious, a bow grade lawyer and refugee activists. what kind of problem did you have with will guardian police bargain? men beating our pupil with wine bar, police? police? yes. with a stick. it stakes. dave's name, your sleep said you were search. you're a strip to where they see a future. what is your plan? our plans to go to the country do peaceful gun. she lands in 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 thought them moving through says colacho, which so be a cannot do anything. so nobody can do anything by themselves need that's the point . the point is that western balkan region, or balkan region or european union of utopian region, should design

a 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 route, it's open and for many, their best thought this winter. while earlier we asked gerald klaus, a european migration analyst and director of the european stupidity initiative thinktank. if the bolcom root is really the refugees, best entry into europe right now. well, it's very important to understand 2 things. that expression, balkan wrote, was a fantastic public relations success of victor urban and they'll form austrian chancellor alike 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 have also shown in your, in your report. they don't come visa, free to the west and bolcom. they 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. we've 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 to india, where authorities have closed schools in the capital. jew too 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, oh, really good. that was good milan, a toxic makes of dust, traffic fumes, and industry emissions means people in india's capital are effectively breeding in 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 at the level because of pollution,

my eyes hurt oslyn and i have difficulty breathing. good morning, middle cause especially in the morning, won't put us on. it's hard to drive my taxi because of the pollution it blows. i hope the air improve is over so that we can feel better. uh huh. my vehicle is open . one. it affects us more than people in cars, but i don't want to go down. i want to buy this isn't new. india often tops internationalists of the world's most polluted countries. in 2019 air pollution killed more indians than any other risk factor, including tobacco use drugs and obesity. but the sudden death 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. all right, now, to something that will likely make some of you at their shudder,

and i'm going to include myself here. a reporter on a live broadcast was interrupted by a cheeky feathered friend, chilly chillies, yawns. nicholas chrome was on air when a pirate decided his shoulder would make a perfect perch. after its moment in the spotlight, the bird flew off with a souvenir, one of the reporters, earbuds. i'm going to say kudos to the reporter for carrying on like a proud look if i used to say the indo gordon. this is tito he news live from britain up next is reporter with an in depth look at the fif up world. i guarantee versus nico is in germany to learn german lodge, benita, why not learn with him online, on your mobile and free just c w e learning course eco speak.