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the borders tightened. t w follows the many people trying to enter the youth from the so called vulcan route . ah, i'm pablo foliage. welcome to the program, employees a twitter file, a class action lawsuit against the company's new owner, ilan mosque. that's after offices were closed ahead of mass layoffs reportedly targeting half of twitter stuff. 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 when people who would 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 and horses before yaki, sorry, a major stops in san 0 goose. oh, richard our operations at all. but while musk 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 i spoke to elena, elena, and les, or nora mazily, a researcher in data and networks and society at the london school of economics. and she told me the layoffs of a concerning implications for twitters ability to counter this information. these are extremely challenging time for to attain is still rather unclear to some extent which teams and department if need be mostly affected. 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 they can potentially jeopardize the company ability to come from is information and to be the democratic town hall, the mask wants it to be. and here we go. back again to ellen, must control of use and quantum 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 are needed. and this rules are not vital just for the functioning of the platforms itself. but also for freedom of expression, female expression is not simply an individual right, but it 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 conspiracy theories, spread of and is information and my dream is to nationalist user base. so we're kind of going backwards. any extremely worrisome, especially in and very political, an uncertain time or a. 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. i voted 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 and revenues because some of the big advertising brand sort of halted advertising. i'm on the concerns about the company's quantum aggression policies and is potential rise of misinformation and decline of user a 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, but for where misinformation is, information hate speech, an illegal 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 to flee. yep. not a wise decision from a business perspective, either alone or m as only from the long, long and school of economics. thank you. thank you. let's get you up to speed now on. so more of today's toys. in madrid's prado museum, climate activists have glued their hands to the frames of 2 paintings by francisco . go, yeah, they also scrolled plus $1.00 degrees celsius on the, in reference to the maximum global warming target. if the buyer's agreement neither painting was damaged, ukraine's new ambassador to germany. alexei, my cave is in berlin and says he's ready to advocate for his country. he's taking over from outspoken former diplomat andry melnick, known for his blunt remarks on social media and his willingness to use strong

language to call for more support for you frame. iran has acknowledged the 1st time that the country has supplied russia with drones, rance foreign minister says that a limited number had been sent, but before the war in ukraine started, he also says they were no longer being supplied moscow denies using iranian drones in ukraine. it leads new far. i governments as formerly closed its ports to rescue shits run by monetary in groups that says 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 said ships would be inspected at sea before any further steps are taken. on the balkan route, taken by refugees into the european union, has not been in the spotlight for some time, but it's 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 did of use intro safari, went to the oprah. no, that's camp near belgrade in serbia. new or i both of the o'brien about camp. they have come from around the world. here they get the medical check, awful shower, something to eat, and somewhere to sleep, hardly, and plan to stay north again, we can take around 200 people in our emergency shelters. on average, they stay here for around 2 weeks. people come and people go, so we have enough accommodation capacity. other than below are 2 of the few long term residents in the camp. they both spend years of their old number, 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 bissell bill has also settled here. he flagged the war in syria 4 years ago and can't go back. he's hoping to stay and work here. sunni full in syria, i was a carpenter, and my father was to and i learned the work from him. when i left my country, i plan to go to germinate. okay, but then i decided to stay here. i will say they gave me these machines and working space and everything. i wanted to make some sculptures. i'm staying here to work or shut her mr. diamond space for cricket. yet everyone is focusing on a different game. that's what they call the very serious business of trying to cross 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 conscious. thou bay smugglers thousands of dollars to get across the frontier . nikolai camacho, vicious, a belgrade lawyer and refugee activist. what kind of problem did you have? the bulgarian police. barden men, a meeting our pupil with one wireless police. yes. with a stick. estates. dave's name leg. so your sleep said you were search your strip to where they see a future. what is your plan? our plans to go to that country to peaceful ganci. 19 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 can or thought them moving through says colacho which sylvia cannot do anything. so nobody can do anything by themselves need that's the point. the point is that western balkan region audit, balkan region,

or european union or europe in region should design a response, which is human rights and record to law families. that was the people who would 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, there bethought this winter. earlier we asked gerald can i was a european migration analyst and director of the european stability initiative thing tank if the balkan root is really the refugees, best entry into the u 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 they'll 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 visa, free to the western 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 west and 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. that was gerald klaus, a european migration analyst and director of the europeans turbidity initiative, thinktank. all right, to indian at where authorities of close schools in the capital jew too hazardous levels of smug people are being aft, 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 stick keys hangs over new delhi, obscuring buildings, and leaving people gasping for air. i feel like if i stay here for 11 bow owed with dignity. that was good me alone. 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, it was because of pollution. my eyes, her thompson, and i have difficulty breathing. good morning mother caused especially in the morning. well, but it's on it's hard to drive my taxi because of the pollution it will as i hope the air improve is over 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. in 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. this is dw news lie from berlin up next is d w sports life. with a closer look at the controversy surrounding the 2022 world copa inn guitar and my colleague, eddie micah, will be here from the top of the next her. don't forget, you can get all your headlines. 247 on our website, d w dot com and you can follow us on our social media accounts on pablo. funniest. i'll be back again tomorrow until then take care. ah with ah, will you become a criminal? mm.