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yes, in a response to the sale, an attachment to the tweet said he wants to unlock twitches, extraordinary potential, a, make it a platform for free speech around the world. public opinion has been split towns to whether mosques, takeover is a good idea. i just don't think it would be good if you like control and just because a lot of money doesn't get all of our capitalism. this is america. and i'll be frankly honest, which i wish the best of luck. i think he'll turn it for better. giving people more freedom of speech, maybe bringing my man trump back the twitter. i think that would be nice. i like to hear what he has to say. i don't think that the one person to that full control at the platform. i think the people who have their own voice to be able to see how they feel. well, let's take a look what led to this deal between the richest man in the world and his social networking giant, ill must became twitter larger shareholder in early april. when he increased his stake in the company to 9.2 percent,

10 days later he offered to buy the entire company in any $44000000000.00 at a price of $54.20 per share. at the time he said he changed twitter from a public to a private business. well, with his board of directors adopted them and even known as a poison pill, following the hostile takeover that was aimed at essentially preventing musk from accumulating more of its stalk. the 50 year old 1000000000 updated his proposal last week, outlining how he could finance the cash purchase through loans. well gabriel alexanders following this rather interesting story from new york gabriel from an offer to a done deal. i mean, a lot has changed in 10 days for shareholders and for the board to sell. what did it well, essentially, even mosque came up with the financing. that's what happened. i mean, it was 10 days ago. he made an all cash offer of $44000000000.00

a to buy twitter. most people on wall street did not take that too seriously. and this is why, because even for a long musk who's worth more than 4 times that $44000000000.00, it would have been nearly impossible for him simply to write a check for $44000000000.00. and people on wall street knew that not impossible, but quite difficult what he needed was financing. and in the last week or so, he has been quietly behind the scenes working with morgan stanley, the big bank to gather that financing. and he finally did it. i gathered several banks, lead by morgan stanley that are kicking in about $25000000000.00 of financing in various different forms of loans and other sort of financing won't get into all the details. and then about $21000000000.00 that must himself is kicking in in equity financing. bottom line here is that once musk people went to twitter and came to

them with this, the more details of this offer that's when reportedly the twitter board sat down on sunday late into the night sunday night into monday morning with musk officials and basically agreed to this deal because they knew there was the money there. the big question now is what happens with twitter? what happens with the user experience for twitter? what kind of changes does must wanna make to it. but then also big picture with free speech as you lead to. lot of people worried about this social media platform with more than 200000000 users around the world. will it necessarily be better run by simply one man and his version of free speech? and that's really the questions moving forward now. after really shocking sales you correctly mentioned went from being an offer to being a done deal. one that many people did not think would get done. and just 10 days later, now you want must got what he want it, not only to be a twitter user and

a super user with over 80000000 followers, but now simply own twitter outright. gabriel, thanks to the over the let's get into this a little bit more with a freed. she's chief technology correspondent at the u. s. news website axioms choice now via skype from san francisco. nice to have you. back on the program, miss fried gabriel has given us a great overview of what's going on. certainly behind closed doors when the board room at the end of the day, it's about you, me and millions of people across the world use twitter. is this a good idea? is this a good or bad thing for 20 users? why i think there's 2 things to realize. one is we really don't know. so ellen musk himself is pretty unpredictable and it's hard to know what the combination of elan plus this big company will actually produce. so i'd say to all the people who are either cheering or hanging their heads, that we don't really know. but i do think it's important to say who's excited about

this and who's worried about it. the people who are excited tend to be folks on the right in particular in the u. s. so josh holly and, and marcia blackburn to a very conservative republicans, both cheering the news. i think some of the people that are worried are under represented voices that are worried about seeing the protections that twitter has offered, which themselves haven't been perfect, rolled back. so i think people representing groups that deal with women, people of color l g b, t q issues, voices that tend to be harassed and subject to harassment more. and i'm going to say that goes beyond us borders, to minority voices everywhere. i think there's a great deal of concern that free speech could actually be opening the door to a lot of harassment in terms of then free speech. i mean, how soon do you think we could see these changes in terms of a timeline from what we're hearing now from elam musk of the board of twitter?

so i don't think things will change immediately in part. this deal won't close until later this year. and i also don't think it's gonna come in the form of giant dictates, in general, even though ellen has laid out this big free speech thing, it turns out to be really hard to remove protections, even some of the organizations and social media that have tried to rival twitter and say were in favor of free speech, find that free speech without rules is just chaos. so i think a lot of the rules will stay. i think that will probably see things start to shift more subtly though both as elan has influence. but also i think people who strongly oppose that will start to leave twitter. other people will come in, who are more in favor of it. so i expect a subtle shift as starting when the deal closes as suddenly we might shift happen in the us 1st. but you alluded to the fact that protections are not just about protections created in the us. but there are national sovereign governments around

the world that all have their own legislation around social media. a quite a you might say mine feel to navigate full a new bold uncertainty for ela, musk when he has to deal with the e. u. china, india, australia. the list goes on and he has said that he's gonna follow the law. obviously twitter has to, in the countries that operate. so certainly twitter isn't going to do anything that's against the law as they say, and just understanding and complying with those. as you point out is difficult, i think the real question comes in protections above and beyond what the law requires on. but what it requires, what it takes to have a decent conversation, tends to be protections that go above and beyond what the law might dictate in a fleet. always good to have your insights on these sorts of topics. thanks for joining us from the us. happy to do it. for me, as president donald trump has been held in contempt for failing to turn over

documents to states. attorneys, a judge has ordered from to pay $10000.00 every day that he fails to comply with the subpoena. the new york state has been investigating the trump organization, the more than 2 years now. it's accused of misstating the values of its real estate properties to obtain favorable loans and tax deductions. the the russian voltages have attacked critical infrastructure including rail lines, which ukraine size is to stop it from re supplying its troops on the eastern front lines. the cars and the train station near levine was one of 5 struck by missiles in central and west in ukraine. authority say at least 5 people were killed. the governor of venus, the minister regent says 2 towns were attacked, their killing an unspecified number of people. the wall rushes defense military says it destroyed an oil refinery in clement joke in central ukraine,

along with field f. as though the long range missiles hit, what russia says were weapons and ammunition, deputies in the car, key region. this as russia pushes on with its east and offensive. charles strafford reports now from savanski indolence. a ukrainian military ambulance speeds south towards sylvie and sc. evacuated civilians arrived in a van into ukrainian army checkpoint north east of the city. the military won't allow us to fill inside the vehicle, our spit, lada, delia, as nearly as 86 year old bother. until anita, my husband is still in there with home. i'm very afraid for him sit on breaking down to the person in ukraine. what's this water end? says nadia and we can say that's imputed stop this dreadful war and put it to the

we're hearing a lot of shelling as you can hear that possibly that shilling coming from this direction. we've also hearing from that direction about 7 kilometers up that road is the town of newman. now we, we know that russian forces control a village very close to it. we also understand that most of the civilians have left and the military are telling us that what the russians are trying to do, fly attacking the man is move closer to the city of savanski, which is down this road. bloody toll case lie on the ground close to the checkpoint, cut from the limbs of soldiers or civilians injured them like before. a military ambulance arrives, had injured ukrainian. soldier is helped to waiting all medics who refused to let us vill oh, stop filming. now, he says, this crater is from what the ukrainian army say was

a russian rocket that landed near another check point on a different road into sled vianza. it leads to the russian controlled city of elysium. ukrainian army says it's holding back at least a 2 if not 3 pronged russian army advance love janski's, along with neighboring cremmit also only a 10 minute drive further south of the 2 biggest cities in the double bass region. still under full ukraine, an army control. we drive it detailed the streets of virtually empty. the people still here shop at the occasional supermarket, still open. many of the shelves of bare close by we find brita and set a gay by him 6 years then you like, you know, of course we're afraid it's going to happen. the russians are pushing that. we hope the army can protect us and defend the city. we have a basement and that's our only plan. the main thing is that we've sent our children

away from a school was damaged when a russian bull blended close by, but sloppy ads because escaped the heavy russian shillings suffered by some towns and on it screeching in the evening light, a siren whales warning those who remain to get inside or under ground. an almost deserted city in the russian armies. sites. just wrap it out to 0. let me ask, still had hill al jazeera 18 years in the making a landmark rights trial gets under way in germany for a gumby and man accused of carrying out killings for the former president. but wanting to grow and rebel forces in ethiopia. so there, withdrawing from the neighboring region of a fall, those stories after the break. ah

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ah, look about your watching. i'll just bear with me the whole robert, reminder of all top stories, twitches, board has unanimously decided to sell the company to ela must get a deal worth run $44000000000.00. if it goes through, shareholders will be paid more than $54.00 per share. russian forces have attack critical infrastructure including rail lines which ukraine says is to stop it from re supplying its troops on the eastern front lines. the closet train station de la vega was one of 5 struck by missiles in central and western ukraine. now, yes, fence a secretary lloyd austin says that he believes ukraine can win the war with the

right equipment and support. austin spoke after he and secretary of state antony blink and met ukrainian president rodman zalinski in keith. they liked fellow nato countries, promised a range of heavy and more advanced weapons despite warnings from moscow. now, the un secretary general is in moscow ahead of a plan meeting with russian president vladimir putin on tuesday and 10 you get harish. we'll also meet where the russian foreign minister sag oliver of before traveling to keep. the summit has been arranged in hopes of pushing diplomatic channels between ukraine and russia. our diplomatic editor james bay's reports now from the un. the un secretary general meeting with turkeys president ergo, on an anchor. before flying on to moscow, mr. terrace is trying to build on previous turkish diplomatic efforts with a new piece initiative involving direct shuttle diplomacy. first in moscow, and then on to cave. he thinks that there is an opportunity now and will make the most of that. what we can, a lot of diplomacy is about, about timing,

about finding out when is the right time. ah, to add to speak with a person to travel to a place to do certain things and, and he is going in the anticipation that there is a real opportunity that is now billing itself. and we'll see what we can make of it . even though the secretary general last week called for truce over orthodox easter, a call that fell on deaf ears. i call on russians and ukrainians to silence the guns and forge are best to safety. for so many at the media thrace, the secretary general continues to call for a cease fire, but that's very unlikely to happen. the ukrainians side don't want the conflict to become frozen with russian troops stationed inside their country. and after 2 months of war, moscow's made very limited gains. if, as a truce now, would be very hard for president putin to declare a victory. my lord,

i asked rushes, deputy ambassador to the un, whether a cease fire was a possibility. we don't think that this is far as a good option right now, because the only the only advantage it will give it will give her a possibility for agreeing and forces to regroup and prestige more pro, occasions like which i like. i say cruelty so frankly, it's not up to me to decide, but i don't see any reasons in this right now. the conflict has cost many lives. parts of ukraine had been completely destroyed, leaving ruined buildings and mangled metal. but despite all this, the guns still seem unlikely to be silenced. yet james bays al jazeera at the united nations, a turkish court as sentence businessman and activist osmond cavalier to life in prison for attempting to overthrow the government. the charges relate to financing protests in 2013 and involvement. the 2016 attempted coup. 6 others were sentenced to 18 years each in prison for helping him. amnesty international says the life

sentence imposed unc of allah is a devastating blow to human rights. sinning, consider has more on the verdict from his stumble. oh, swan come all i is now charged for a greater life sentence as he has acquitted from the charges on acquisitions, but has not been acquitted for the charges that says he was in charge of orchestrating or he was enrolled in all kids rating. the nationwide anti government protest in 2013. now for the court process, there is one important thing i because 7 co workers of small koala is now charged for 18 years, but he's being charged for aggravated life sentence. as the court argues that he tried to overthrow the elected government and he aim that the constitutional ordered, but was mancha law, his lawyers, others, other defendants, lawyers,

and international human rights watch. folks have been saying that the evidence court has presented so far, the lack of proper evidence. that evidence only refers to the allegation about the accusations. but not the incident. though there's been a further development in the governments will with to grind rebels in the north. the degrees people's liberation, front, known as the tpl, i've says, it's completely withdrawn all of its forces from the neighboring a far region. they have their withdraw will allow a to to grow, which is experiencing some in like conditions more than 90 percent of the regions population needs food aid. last month, prime minister, ominous declared, the surprise true saying he wanted to improve humanitarian access. ethiopian journalist, some you'll get to choose says this was the only way the government would allow food a into to grind. they could only agree to some kind of war unless an

organization that they deem us at terrorists are going to organization would suddenly lead a war. but that he has been saying the reason that they're in a far as to protect their interest to protect any kind of attack that might come to wait. and there doesn't seem to be any end inside. the african union has been trying to play a role to end this conflict. the former president of nigeria has been going back and forth between the sub block mckelly, the captain of to try and event. and that kenya, speaking to the kenya and the president and from the u. s. invoice, trying to solve this issue. but there doesn't seem to be any kind of ob agreements among this actors. israel says it will once again allow palestinian work, as i mentioned for enter from gaza. on tuesday, the i read or beta noun crossing was shot on saturday after hummer. rockets targeted southern israel. the firings followed,

repeated israeli incursions of the alex and most compound it occupied east jerusalem. employment in israel is a lifeline for people in garza where about half the population is jobless. again, be a man accused of carrying a killings of former present. jo. jammy has gone on trial in germany. it's a landmark case for crimes committed during germany's presidency. charlie angela has the story. so bye bye. hi dora, this day should have come 18 years ago. the alleged killer, his father journalist data, hydra finally on trial. not in the gambia where his murder took place, but in germany it's a significant moment, not just for a son, but for a country still healing up to more than 2 decades of often violent rule under president yaya, jamie worm. so this is the day we've been waiting for for 18 years, so it's a big day for justice for my family and myself, we start this journey in 2004. now this is the beginning of

a long road because low is just one of the accused of. there are others. and the most important one is yard jana regime, who we hope one day to see in front of a tribunal by lo is accused of crimes against humanity and murdering to people the request of job a. he allegedly worked to the driver for the jugglers, a death squad, the underpinned janae's 22 year reign by silencing his critics. and he is the 1st ledge member of the gang to go on trial and gleason as the we welcome the fact that germany has now taken the 1st step. there are other proceedings around the world. there is a procedure in switzerland and one in the us. in particular, we hope that this will give a boost to justice effort in the gambia, and that those responsible there will also be brought to justice. johnny's regime was notorious the crushing descent, 3 murder disappearances, torture rape and castration. his successor, adam barrow, set up a south african style truth and reconciliation commission to prob,

allegations of abuse it. lo is being tried under the principle of universal jurisdiction, allowing foreign country to prosecute crimes against humanity, regardless of where they were committed. unless say within the gambia, there was not only a lack of judicial resources to bring about justice, but a lack of political will. so it was one thing that perpetrators that are in the gambia, far as the government is concerned. for videos that i hear will made probably some of them at all, but some of them will likely escape punishment, but those that are outside the gambia. and of course, what countries are interested in using the principle of universal mixed on we'll have to deal with them. those people will have to face justified in a few days. back in the gambia, the case is being watched closely and many hope jeremy himself will eventually face justice. charlie angela al jazeera chinese health thirty's and tracing a cave at lunch break. they suspect has been spreading in the capital for

a week. concerns about a city wide lockdown in beijing like the one in shanghai has led to panic. buying katrina, you has more from beijing launch used for corona virus testing a foaming across the east of beijing. the capitals, charl young district has ordered all those living and working here to be tested. it follows the discovery of at least $41.00 cases in recent days. are good to go from of another. i do worry. but what can you do? you just have to chose and do what the common tells you. that's why i'm here, sir. so gonzo was, it was a warm, i'm not too concerned. i had prepared one week's worth of food at home. that should be enough. the warning prompted. panic buying on sunday, the shelves of many supermarkets and grocery stores have been emptied. officials are trying to reassure the public, saying supply chains for essential goods are secure, talk, neutral, banker, retail, supermarket stores, community virgina, bow shops, and a direct sales doors have

a steady supply of daily necessities. at least 28 neighborhoods haven't put under locked down and 1200 close contacts sent to quarantine centers. more than 3 and a half 1000000 people must undergo testing 3 times this week. as bating races to contain this latest outbreak. leaders here are anxious not to repeat the mistakes made in shanghai where expert, se infections were identified. 2 lights, most of shanghai is 25000000 residents remain confined to their harms. the commercial center reported more than 17500 new cases on monday. 138 deaths from the virus had been officially confirmed there. in recent weeks, most were elderly and unvaccinated. there was some say, the real death toll is higher. residents say access to food and necessities has improved, though the indefinite locked out 1st imposed at the beginning of the month has sparked widespread anger and desperation. the

a viral social media video criticizing the government heavy headed 0 tolerance approach has been censored online. katrina, you al jazeera aging, have ation authorities in the us are investigating a plane swapping study that went wrong in the arizona desert. cousin luc akins and andy farrington, her plan to no size the aircraft. so then some of these jumped from one to the other before taking the controls and landing well it can made it's too far into the plane. and maybe it sounds but farmington abandoned his attempt. when the other ones went out of control, he safely parachuted to the ground. i mean, we proved that it was possible. i mean, we're pushing boundaries out here and what's great as i jumped from one i got in the other one we landed, i landed safely. andy landed safely in a pair shoes the plane landed under a parachute. all our safety protocol work. yeah, i mean we are there, all the numbers matched up and everything like that. everything should have been

good to go for some reason, it wasn't that way, but at the end of the day, we're both here. we're both good to go. everybody safe and sound and i guess that's the important part. well, it's been one of the most expensive holidays in history, but all good things must come to an end. and 3 businessmen have splashed down after nasa's 1st commercial journey. so the international space station, they each paid $55000000.00 for the trip, which was organized by a company called axiom space. they got more than they bargained for that and a mission was extended to 17 days due to bad weather back on earth. ah, what else is there with me? the whole rom and the reminder of all top stories to his board has unanimously decided to sell a company to mass going to deal worth around $44000000000.00. if it goes through, shareholders will be paid more than $54.00 per share. gabriel alexander has more

from new york. well, essentially even mosque came up with the financing. that's what happened. i mean.