aspiring story about survival sanks to music. fetch the cello playoff. well, i was the only one. i'm super lucky. music under the swastika starts november 19th on d. w a. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. twitter is facing the class action challenge from for my employees. after new boss mosque lays off nearly half the work force, he says it's to make the platform profitable. we'll see you in court as a response from twitter for my stuff. also coming up you appear in governments are

once again clamping down on my gratian. as he closed the up hold on tightened borders you follow the many people trying to enter the eve to the so called back on . ah, i am eddie micah junior and you are welcome to the program for my employees are twitter finally class action lawsuit against the company's new owner mosque. that's after officers were closed. i had of mass layoffs reportedly targeted half of twitter stuff. after his $44000000000.00 take over, the social media platform mosque says he wants to cut down costs. 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 rebuilds 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 houses before yaki, sorry, and a root major stops, in some cases. it doesn't seem right. we're changed 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. alley. i spoke to jonathan ne glass from the sent off of social media and politics at new york university. you told me these layoffs will likely affect with us the ability to combat this information. just days ahead of the u. s. midterm elections combating 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 we have to worry about is that, you know, one of the things that is come up is 20 verification process. and if you relax restrictions on this, we have to worry the people can pose 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 or policy makers have in making the owners of social media platforms accountable for the type of information spread in on their 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, 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 car about that so that the social media platforms have there's nothing to say that car about needs to remain there. and what's your advice to do it i use as who want to make sure the i information is from a reliable source be vigilant. and, you know, mosque is talked about transparency and one of the things he could do is make it much clearer to users. what does a verification, blue checkmark mean on twitter? you 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, 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 law from and why you sent for social media and politics. thanks a lot for your insights. much good beer. let's look up our stories making headlines around the world. and kenya, thousands of flights have been grounded out of pilots. an airline staff went on strike the can. yeah, we school the fight quarter. walk out the pushing for better working conditions. the airline said 10000 passengers were stranded police in spain. see, they have seized the largest amount of mar you want on the record. i thought you see the come skate that, that to, to tons of my, you want to butts for more than 1000000 plants. the boss was made doing rates in the center and north of the country. police also arrested 20 people suspected of producing and distributing the drag. my brits travel museum

climates active blue, the hands to the frames of paintings by francisco. go yeah. the last one in 5 degrees, so shows in the war and reference the maximum global warming target at the paris agreement meet up in the middle is new far right. government has formerly closed that sports to rescue ships round by humanitarian groups. that us 3 vessels where more than a 1000 miles on board, you mean stuck in limbo of the coast of sicily whose report western conditions are bought, including the spread of illness into these interior minister. ships will be inspected at sea before any further steps are taken. the balkan route 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 busier. you officials recorded more than 100000 people without documentation entering the block from the western bargains.

in the 1st 9 months of 2020 to serbian visa rules make it's relatively easy to go from there into the you did abuse. it was a very, went to the over, i'm not camp. near belgrade said yeah, new arrival said the oberon without scamp, they have come from around the world. here they get the medical check off or shower something to eat, and somewhere to sleep. hardly. and if plan to stay north again, 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 on the road and we're tired of trying to cross dangers borders. they are both a flight for asylum. and here give me it is bag lab saw after i decide that i

want to rest here. because here i am, i am little bit peaceful bill 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. 34 in syria, i was a carpenter, a my father was to and i learned the work from him. when i left my country, i planned to go to germinate. okay, but then i decided to stay here. family. they gave me these machines and working space and everything. i wanted to make some sculptures unstable to work or shutter homestead, 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 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 crecia, hungary, and romania. e or countries there though bay smugglers thousands of dollars to get

the crowd, the frontier. nikolai camacho, vicious of belgrade lawyer and refugee activist. what kind of problems did you have with the guardian police bargain? men beating our pupil with one bodies, please? yes, with a stick, it takes dave's name. your sloop said you were search your strip to where they see a future. what is your plan? our plans to go to the country do peaceful again. she ran 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. serbia cannot stop them moving through says colacho, which sylvia cannot do anything. so nobody can do anything by themselves. and that's the point. the point is that western balkan region, or balkan region,

or european union or 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 ball can root it's open and for many, their best thought this winter. ella, we asked her out class a european migration analyst and direct our vpn stability initiative. thinktank, if the bargain route is really the refugees, best entry into the e 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 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 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'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, or last year now. and india authorities up close to schools in the capitol, due to hazardous levels of small people are being asked to work from home, all carpool to reduce appellation, which has been 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 though, owed with energy that was good milan, a toxic mix of dust, traffic fumes, and industry emissions means people in india's capital are effectively breathing 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 hurt oslyn and i have difficulty breathing. good morning, little cause 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. 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. 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. and i'll to something that will maybe share you up a little. a journalist on a live broadcast was interrupted by a cheeky, fed at fred little, chilly visions. any glass crumbs was reporting on the spite of robberies and santiago when he pirates decided to demonstrate the problem of intimate i'm making off with one of his ear bots. the good news is he still managed to carry like a pro rata like that. i'm not sure he, hey, abby, gone it, i'll go national the leak, the gonna. this is the doesn't use that live for ballin states you from one use of the top of the op. ah ah, i'm you can that i want not tagged. and in the end is a meeting you are not allowed to see you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with this.