rethinking everything like you may to change your revealed this week on d w. ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. a class action challenged by twitter workers after the new boss, dylan, mosque, least of nearly half the work he says is to make a platform profitable. but with our workers reply, we'll see in court. also coming up you appear,

governments are clumping down on migration. a sports are closed on board as tightened. did you lose them? many people trying to enter the do the circle back on route. ah, i am eddie micah junior, that you are welcome to the program. employees are twitter file, the class action lawsuit against the company's new owner, you unmasked. that's after offices were closed. i had of mass layoffs reportedly targets in half of twitter stuff. after his $44000000000.00 take over the social media platform. mark says he wants to cut down costs. twitter the san francisco headquarters shut down on friday. as the lawn masks 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 to go with find out would be not any phone call or an email from their employer or their boss. but just by seeing there for 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. or if you're in town and ha, ha ha. before, yeah, okay. sorry. and i wrote major knoxville, some businesses as doesn't seem right. right. okay. and are 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. joining me now is jonathan naylor, he professor of politics at new york university and co director of the center for social media and politics. he works on the impact of social media on political participation. hello sir. so u. s. midterm elections are just a few days away. murphy asked that these layoffs will affect twitters ability to combat misinformation. is that really cause for concern? i think there is a company. misinformation is difficult in the best of circumstances. and if you get rid of a lot of the people in your organization who are working on doing that, it's hard to draw any inference other than, than that you're likely to get worse at it. you're certainly not going to get

better at it. what do we knew about it? what do we know about the facial it? ok, sorry you got it. what we have to worry about is that you know, one of the things that is come up is where's verification process? and if you relax restrictions on this, we have to worry the people can post as election officials and provide false information on basic things such as when and where to vote. we have to worry about foreign actors pretending to be local news outlets in the u. s. and spreading false information by candidates, there are a lot of things that can happen and when you reduce the amount of effort you put into stopping those things. again, things are not likely to get better and some bad things can happen. well, so that decisions are not left into the hands of just 1000000000. there. what rule do authorities? all policy makers have in making the owners of social media platforms accountable for the type of information spread in on the platforms?

so right now they've been protected by what's always known in the u. s. as section 230. and there are policy proposals that get floated to, to reduce that protection, to put some responsibility on the platforms to police, what, what is going on there, and not to simply say you are not responsible, you did not write the content so, so those regulations can change that, that is a carve out that so that the social media platforms have. there's nothing to see that car about needs to remain there. what's your advice to do it i use as one to make sure the information is from a reliable source, a be vigilant. and you know, mosque has talked about transparency and one of the things he could do is make it much clearer to users. what does a verification, blue check mark mean on twitter?

he could add affordances to the platform to make it easier for users to find fact checking organizations. so the standard advice we give to users is, well, you should look to fact checking organizations. if you see something that seems like it might not be true, but you should think very carefully when you see something on twitter, think about it before you share it with all of your followers. this actually makes sense. is it true? can, can you, can you verify this? yeah, well noted to not on the glass from and why you sent out for social media and politics . thanks a lot for your insights. much good beer. let's look at other stories making headlines around the world. iran has acknowledged for the 1st time that the country has applied russia with drones. you're on foreign minister admitted that a limited number had been sent to russia, but said it happened before the war in ukraine. moscow denies using iranian rooms

in ukraine. in the german city of cologne, ukrainians on the radians live in the next hour or 4 more international support, the peace and yahoo countries, which is this on the so you don't much demanded respect for human rights. ukraine on, you know, i think if it is new fire rights government has formerly closed that supports to rescue ships run by humanitarian groups. that us 3 vessels where more than a 1000 migrants on board actually remain stuck in limbo of cruise report western conditions and board, including the spread of illness. if it isn't t, a minister said ships will be inspected at sea before any further steps are taken. the back on routes taken by refugees into the e. u has not been in the spotlight for some time, but it's still busy and it's getting busy. you officials are recorded more than 100000 people with outs documentation entering the block from the western back ends

. in the 1st 9 months of 2022 savion visa rules make it relatively easy to go from there into the u. d w's. it was a very, went to the old ground. nobody camp near belgrade. new arrival, said o'brien, all that 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 nor have we can take around 200 people in our emergency shelters. on average, they stay here for around 2 weeks when people come and people go, so we have enough accommodation capacity. 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 both applied for asylum and he'll give me it is bag lab 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. so the full in syria, i was a carpenter, a my father was to and i learned the work from him. when i left my country, i plan to go to germinate, but then i decided to stay here for both, and they gave me these machines and working space and everything. i wanted to make some sculptures unstable to work or shutter homestead, 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 eel conscious. thou bay smugglers thousands of dollars to get

the crowd, the frontier. nikolai camacho, vicious about grade lawyer and refugee activists. what kind of problem did you have with will guardian police? barbara men beating our pupil with one water bodies please? yes. with the stick it steaks. dave's name, your sleep sir. 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 went to 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 survey. i cannot stop them moving through cisco march of each. so b, i 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 europe in region should design a response, which is human rights and record your law friendly. that was the people who would continue coming. they have 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 bathtub this winter, l e r. we asked gerald canals e p, a migration analyst, and direct of the european stability initiative. thinktank. if the park on route is really the refugees, best entry into the in you 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, 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 serbia 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. 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 somewhere 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 have 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. now in india, authorities have closed schools on the capital due to hazardous levels of smog. people are being asked to work from home or carpool to reduce air pollution, which has been made worse by thousands of crow 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 up with you. 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 smock if they want to earn a living allusion,

they are home. it was because of pollution. my eyes hurt oslyn and i have difficulty breathing. good morning, little cause especially in the morning. well for us on it's hard to drive my taxi because of the pollution it follows 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 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 i'll do something that will maybe show you up

a little depending on your lawful birds on surprises. a journalist on a live broadcast was interrupted by a cheeky fed at friend should he visions nicholas chrome was reporting on his bicycle robberies and santiago when a power decided to demonstrate the problem by making up with one of his ear by this isn't the good news is he still managed to carry on like a pro? well, it'll images and that's what i media opened that i thought of look used by yes to say the this is the, the of the news live for barely enough. next shift living in the digital age. that's more news at the top of the hour, so stay tuned. people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away on the border families, planes on attacking the reason for the credit on.