I think the the sat about him in this new, in his age, if he still got everything, if all you get still get your models together, everything to be fine. I am for a shot myself, but i dont think i can run you as youre doing the job well and get this country together. And stealth, you know, just do something with a list crazy. I think it has help allowed. I think very, very sweet to me also coming up a ukrainian town that was taken in abandoned by the russians a report on the People Living there, living with the ghost of the invaders. That wont go away yard, the woman and i thought they would torture me as well as a little boy came as i was told at 8 a m c. But they just made me dig trenches was carry stuff around the door and stack sandback. So glad to be there at 8 and would work until 5 was. Thats how they made me slave away, miss. Ah, but who our viewers watching on p. B as in the United States into all of you around the world. Welcome. We begin the day with politics and old age and the question, when does gray get in the way this week 2 key figures in us politics have generated some headlines in no small way because of their age. Yesterday House Speaker nancy pelosi announced her plans to step down as leader of the democrats in the house. At 82. 00 pelosi said that the hour has come for a new generation to lead. However, she will keep her seat in congress, no plans to retire. And on tuesday, former President Donald Trump made it official announcing that he is again running to be president of the United States and trumpets 76. 00. He would be 78 if the voters were to give him another chance to move into the white house. Trump will be spending the next year or 2 on the campaign trail, no retirement for him either. And what about the man in the white house right now . Joe biden has a birthday coming up a big one. On sunday, the president will turn 18 and if you are on social media, you know what i mean when i say that many think that gray is getting in the way some consider biden to owed for the job. But is he or are they being ages and thinking, rather old fashion . Its moments like this or when biden makes the leaders of cambodia and columbia. And i want to thank the Prime Minister of copper, columbia leadership, national xian chair that raised the question is still bite and fit enough to hold one of the worlds most demanding officers at biden junior, with the unexpected success of the democrats during the mid terms and the defeat of nearly all trump backed candidates, it seems more likely than ever that he might run again. Our intention is to run again, has been our intention. A 2nd bite in term would guarantee a measure of stability for the international community. He sent strong with ukraine and maintains a solid position against russias threat russian incredibly serious mistake for the use of Tactical Nuclear weapon. Hes also convinced that fighting the Climate Crisis is a crucial responsibility for his own country. United states of america will meet our admissions target by 2030 and hes apparently seeking a way to work with china. China in the United States can manager differences prevent competition from becoming anything are really near conflict. And to find ways to Work Together on urgent global issues, a require our mutual cooperation. They are still nearly 2 years to go before the next president ial election. The chances of a possible bite and when are highly dependent on his opponent. He could face a re match with donald trump in order to make america great. A glorious again, i am to night announcing my candidacy for president ha. But trumps run has triggered an internal fight among republicans over his future rome. And that we probably can divide, might help bidens party. God bless you all. Thank you. We guardlick of whom friends for the democrats. You see there was coverage a more there reporting carlindo joins me now from our studio in washington dc. Its good to see you. Carolina, i want to talk about a president by the just a moment, but lets talk about politics in general in the us there, there is a very large number of elderly, older, older baby boomers in american politics. What explanation have you heard, or what explanation can you give for that type of demographic being empower so long . Love rent us, you know, getting into a u. S. Player takes is quite expensive. It can cost up to millions to start a Political Campaign year in the United States. And this is one of the reasons, but also once of this, people get in there and theyre in the congress representing their constituencies. They at tend to to stay there because there is no term limit. So this is why we see this baby boomers are as you just called them in the congress. But this is slowly changing because some candidates and weve seen that in this years, a mid term elections have been able to get into congress and with crowd funding models or grass roots organizations for helping them in their campaign. Like for example, the 1st gen z congressman who has been a is now in office and hes gonna start in Congress Next year in january. But he will, we have been seeing this also with alexandra kaiser, cortez from new york. So there are some young people were starting to change this very slowly, but traditionally, at the ones who run for office does have a lot of money. And to start a Political Campaign in the United States that thats true and Older Americans do have more money. Thats true, that the numbers are very clear about that. Its talking about the president job by he will turn 80 on sunday. Is that an event that will be marked in public . Its going to be a lot of fanfare, or is that something that will be rather quiet and prob, well, i think he would like to keep it quiet and hes not marking that day. Hes not marking his birthday to white house isnt either, but people are marching this day because its now not just a birth bay. Im of a u. S. President. Its the 18th birth bay of a jo bite. And with that, he is going to become the oldest president in u. S. History. So there is a symbol behind behind this birthday as well. And of course the question that that everyone has in mind is, is he going to run again. This is why a people am as you also mentioned on social media, especially are marketing. This is an important thing. Hes not going to have a big a birthday party, but a fan fact. A brent is that his granddaughter granddaughter, is going to have a big party at the white house because its her wedding this saturday and shes going to be married there at the white house in the airflow. And its not bad to have a grandfather who can throw a Wedding Party for you at the, at the white house. And i wonder, you know, its nice if you can, if you got those connections, i wonder if we place maybe too little value on the wisdom that someone can bring to the table when they are 80 years old. In the regardless of politics, joe biden seems to personify that someone with a lot of experience and is, does that make you think of me . What have you been hearing . Is he going to run again in 2 years and do people value that experience and wisdom that he would be bringing with him . I think sand till value, his wisdom and his experience especially now we have a war going on in you rob and a very divided country over here. And we dont know if he is going to run again for at the democratic party. But he said that he is going to make a decision by the beginning of next year, and we are already hearing differently names like for example, blink and the secretary of hearing affairs about it into the secretary of transportation, who might also be considered as candidates ortho democratic party. Yeah, me to lunch is going to happen in the next 2 years. That is for sure, and well go ahead and wished you, but happy birthday in advance carolina to avoid washington currently to thank you. Jim. All co shogi was a saudi dissident who fled to the us. As a Washington Post columnist he harshly criticized the kingdom as well as its crown prince 4 years ago cuz shogi was murdered. U. S intelligent say that the crown prince ordered the cry. Cuz shook his fiance, sued the crown prince in a u. S. Federal court. The princes attorneys argued, a head of government enjoys sovereign immunity and thus cannot be sued. To day the by the administration agreed to show his fiance says that the news felt while the man she loved had died. Yet again, while the man who had him killed, escaped justice, yet again im pulling now william wexler, hes the senior director of the raphi career center. And mid at least programs of the Atlantic Council in washington, dc. Its good to have you back on the show. Um, what, what do you make of the news to day me the state department saying that yes, he does enjoy immunity by being the Prime Minister. Now in, in saudi arabia. It, it looks bad. Is it as bad as it looks . Well, certainly looks bad, but in reality, this was the only decision that could have been made on the binding administration. I spent about 2 years in office, arguing that the, the mohammed ben solomon as crown prince. There was a question of whether he had sovereign immunity and they did not make an opinion on to the judge on that question than he what the crown prince was made. Prime minister and Prime Ministers do enjoy sovereign immunity. Every Prime Minister, enjoyed sovereign immunity. And thats a reciprocal relationship that, that International Law prevents the u. S. President , as the head of government from being sued every time he travels around the world or the secretary of state. And there was really only that was the only decision that was possible to make if, if that decision had not been made or earlier. If the, the letter had not gone out from the state department. What would have been the consequences . Are we talking about the reciprocity that countries enjoy it . Was there a fear that that would no longer be adhered to and respected . Well, in this case, the judge will make a final decision. Thats how our legals work, and the judge requested an opinion of the biden administration, and this was a, an opinion that was made purely on legal grounds. And really, of all the legal questions that get asked, this was probably at the end of the day, one of the easiest ones, because theres not much precedent of saying that a standing Prime Minister on doesnt enjoy a sovereign immunity under International Law. It is going to it, the news is drawing, i think, to a lot of viewers because they do. The crown prince is being the crown prince and hes become Prime Minister. Thats just a recent development. Is that a development . It, it seems that maybe its very convenient for that title now to be connected to his name. Is that the case here . Oh, i suspect that one of the, one of the reasons if not the primary reason why he became Prime Minister, was for the questions of sovereign immunity. The crown prince, of course, has been running saudi arabia for many years. No one, no one disputes that but the by the administration was and quite appropriately making the point that in fact, present bidens counterpart was the king, not the crown prince and the crown. And the u. S. Law doesnt recognize the title of crown prince. And we treated him as was his government title, which was minister of defense. And so in that case, the u. S. Secretary defense lloyd austin was his counterpart. This was a statement that did not go over well by 100 ben solomon who wanted to be treated differently. But the, my dad ministrations very firm on this. And only after he became Prime Minister, did it change its views and it the, the wall, the tradition may be clear, bedroom, the reality is weve got a case now where the United States has to, has to have relations with the leader of saudi arabia. The leader who the intelligence agencies of the us have said was responsible had given the order for jamal ca, shelbys murder. So hes a murderer in the eyes of our agents. So we have to accept that we have to deal with him as a Prime Minister and any attempt at justice or holding him accountable. That that has to be basically forgotten as long as he is in power, correct . Well, theres, theres, theres no doubt that this is very frustrating situation for anyones current. Ready when a new jamal could show me. I, for anyone who was horrified by what, what happened to want to attorney and his brutal and completely merit was a murder. At the ad, apparently at the direction of volunteers solomon as concluded by our intelligence community. But quite frankly, the, the point of justice, the primary point of justice, once the case in turkey, which of course is where the murder took place and where all the evidence was. And unfortunately, earlier this year, a turkey decided to move the case to saudi arabia, thus ending the any, any effort to get justice in that jurisdiction we wexler 20th and i can be atlanta counseling, washington, d. C. This is where we appreciate your time and your insights. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ah, the war in ukraine grinding on now since february and this week, its all a massive uptake in missile attacks watched by russia. But ukraines force is, despite all of this, theyve been making spectacular gains. Surprising many observers, Russian Troops have retreated from several ukrainian territories that russians were occupying for much of the year. To 90 ws much, he has berlin takes us to weigh ukrainian town near the border with russia, a town that was occupied by russian invaders earlier this year. They may no longer be there, but what they did, it remains it used to take less than 2 hours to drive from hot if to have chunks. Now it takes fine. You have to take small, local roads and long d towards all the major roots and bridges are destroyed. Which is fulfillment is from the border with russia. The town was taken on the 1st day of the war. Lucas, tell us the russians set up a torture chamber in this factory. They mostly took young men that there he can, of allah says so just ordered him to go there. After they caught him outside of the curfew yard, the woman and i thought they would torture me as well for the little boy came as i was told at ada, but they just made me dig trenches which carry stuff around the door and stacks and back. So i had to be there at 8 and would work until 5 or so thats how they made me slave away. Missed school with a girl. So the hello manager houghton, everything looks broken and the russians do so from across the board. The people were still here with soon face a tough winter. The electricity is often out and theres no gas for heating. Some humanitarian a does come, but not often. Its so hard to get there. Given these conditions, not everybody is happy, the russians are gone. So usually when they were here we could still live more or less. Normally there was work and we were getting humanitarian aid every 10 days. They would also hand out money. Now we have nothing, excuse me. Theres not much for sale at the market and not many people, many left for russia with the retreating soldiers. Its an area a long considered pro russian. Now the ukrainians are in charge again. Many are anxious and suspicious. Painters as collaborators says, a woman, she wont be on camera. No time. Mistrust is everywhere. Soldiers in charge of the town, worry that local or informing the russian yet, but not least. We hear about those who are working with both sides. They used to tip off the russian hill. Now they come to see us and say this, or that person was a collaborator and put you on something to say he is only here to have his mother prepared for winter on board. Took his wife and young daughter out of town and will soon join them. But hes determined to return and hope the tone can get back to normal. We were on our soil when we didnt attack anybody another. We dont want anything else. On this more selling this is what the days alike in both chance ah. Well, the deadline for twitter workers has come and gone on thursday. Employees had to respond to an email from their new boss, ellen musk. The choice either commit to hard core work or leave hundreds of workers reportedly took the option to leave, which also comes with severance pay. And the company is not providing official numbers. There were lots of rumors, however, on the social media platform that the site could even collapse. Given so many departures. A claim that must later mocked in an email to workers must issued an ultimatum. Click here and commit to being hard hoard. If you dont, you can take it by with 3 months efforts. Pay in hand anger among some members of traders, workforce and beyond. Got so bad that one person projected what you see right here, a series of insults about helen musk on the facade of twitters headquarters in san francisco. I wont repeat them, you can read those for yourself. And the latest turmoil at twitter has left some asking is twitter dying before our very eyes . Heres a tweet from democratic congresswoman alexandria ogazio cortez. She tweets. Im hoping this doesnt happen, but just in case its been wonderful tweeting with yall. She also tweeted her thanks to twitter employees both present and past, but take note of one of the replies that she received at the bottom left of the screen, twitters new owner, ellen musk. He responded to a oh, see with youre welcome. Is twitter on like support or in need of light support tonight to talk about that. Im joined now by jonathan hagler. He is a professor at new york university. Hes also co director of the universitys center for social media and politics professor. Its good to have you on the program. Let me just start by asking, what do you think is twitter . Is it taking its last breath as we speak . Its just not clear. I think that will be determined by a mix of advertisers and users. Right now, users, a lot of users have a reason to leave, but its not obvious where to go. There are some places to go. A lot of users have gone to mastodon, but there is still a Network Effect that users are on twitter, but theres other users are on twitter. And that means theres some incentive to stay. Its not like you just sort of switch tv channels in the side to watch a different tv channel you there because the other users are there, youre not there because you know musk is there because someone is advertising there. So if they can keep it together in a more, in, in some sense and not go with must its initial ideas of, well, lets just have total free speech and we have no moderation. And everything will be wonderful if they can stick with maintaining some level of content, moderation. They could keep going. It is harder to do that as all of your employees walk out the door. And so i think the, the thing to look for is, can they maintain content moderation as they go forward, much less put in, you know, maintain a set of policies that, that are sensible for doing that. Well that is the question again. Can ellen musk it feels like you on musk walked in 3 weeks ago with a sink in his hand, and then maybe just just through it and to see what would break and you got the results of that. Now. I mean, how confident are you that he can perhaps put together what he broke . Well enough to keep the company going, the platform it alive center. The interesting thing is in terms of what he broke, he had ideas to break it. He had claims he was going to break it, but he backed off most of those claims very quickly. And he went in saying, okay, were going to have free speech and we will have a minimal content moderation. Essentially just just what is legal and then right away he was, we will have a content, Moderation Council concern. And so that, that initial story was gone. But then he decided he wanted to do something that people who just bought Companies Like to do, which is actually make money, decided, well, hell sell their verification checkmarks. That was a really bad idea. It looks like hes backtrack, but he changes his mind often. So its, its not, i dont know that its a 100 percent clear what will happen with that. But he essentially realized, okay, he has a problem. Advertisers dont like it when, when you say youre going to do what he wanted to do. So now he needed another revenue stream. He thought about that. So hes in an odd position of maybe he should buy twitter and in the best he can possibly do is leave it the way it was not going to be very happy thought for him. But unless he comes up with other Revenue Streams that, that maintain revenue for him and leave the users happy and not bothered, then he is in the seraphic spot of, wow, i guess twitter was actually doing the best they could. Maybe i should keep it the way it was. Professor, ive got about 30 seconds. What about, what about the la musket just of getting bored and he does have these other Big Companies that he is in charge of a b. He cant tweet all day and still keep tesla and other Companies Running right. What, what about him just, you know, at some point, not being so interested like he is right now. Well i think thats, thats my point that if, if he doesnt have in any way to turn the company into what he thought he could turn into, then his attention will white bear in mind. He tried to get out of out of buying. He did the offer to buy it, then he turned around and said, no, i dont want to do this. Essentially a mix of courts and lawyers pointed out that, you know, way to get out of this. And so here we are. Here we are. Professor Jonathan Natalie from new york university. We appreciate you taking the time to talk with us, especially late on friday the twitter right now. Very interesting to talk regardless of what day of the week it is. Thank you. Ok, thank you. Good meter. Well, the days on the stand, the conversation continues online. You find us on twitter, either dw, she can follow me at bread. Gov tv and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day, have a good weekend. Everybody with with what do you need for a season pro, physics and the right vehicle which can also be electron done driver. Ronnie bexla murder shows whats possible with a test read on d. W. All too good point. All strong opinion. Clear position. International perspective. Russia has pulled, forces out is the key ukrainian city of hassan. 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