british police say extreme right wing terrorist ideology was behind the firebombing of a migrant processing centre in the south east of england. the un urges elon musk to ensure twitter respects human rights as concerns grow about the platform spreading more hate speech since his takeover. and singer and rapper aaron carter is found dead at his home in california. the crucial us midterm elections, of days away and president biden and former president obama have taken to the stage together at a campaign rally in pennsylvania. mr biden urged the cheering crowd in his home state to back the democrats john fetterman for the senate. he said the elections would shape the country for decades to come. this isn t a referendum this year, it s a choice a choice between two vastly different visions of america. vastly different. maybe it s in our blood, butjohn and i believe that all it s all about fighting for working and middle class people. the way i ve said from the beginning of
since his takeover. and singer and rapper aaron carter is found dead at his home in california. hello and welcome to bbc news. the crucial us midterm elections, which will decide who controls congress, are just a couple of days away and president biden and former president obama have taken to the stage together at a campaign rally in pennsylvania. mr biden urged the cheering crowd in his home state to back the democrats john fetterman for the senate. he said the elections would shape the country for decades to come. this isn t a referendum this year, it s a choice a choice between two vastly different visions of america. vastly different. maybe it s in our blood, butjohn and i believe that all it s all about fighting for working and middle class people. the way i ve said from the beginning of my my objective when i ran for president was to build an economy from the bottom up and the bottom up and the middle out. it s a fundamental shift compared with the oz and the meg
an encouraging start. meanwhile, twitter co founder, jack dorsey, has apologised for growing the company too quickly and tweeted that he felt responsible for the predicament staff are now facing. i asked the washington post s tech reporter joseph menn for his take on the past 2a hours. it s just been chaos upon chaos. in the last 2a hours, twitter has laid off about half of its workforce. they have deliberately kept workers in the dark about which ones. the people who have been laid off are still on company slacks so that e mails don t bounce and it is because officially they are not laid off they are employees for labour law reasons for another 60 days or so but people don t know who is gone and who is staying. they do know from tweets and from screenshots that the human rights team is gone, a lot of the privacy team is gone, a great amount of the security team is gone but they are all desperately trying to figure out what is going on. there has been very little direct communicati
they have deliberately kept workers in the dark about which ones. the people who have been laid off are still on company slacks so that e mails don t bounce and it is because officially they are not laid off they are employees for labour law reasons for another 60 days or so but people don t know who is gone and who is staying. they do know from tweets and from screenshots that the human rights team is gone, a lot of the privacy team is gone, a great amount of the security team is gone but they are all desperately trying to figure out what is going on. there has been very little direct communication from management. talk more about the human rights team as you say the entire team has been sacked and the un high commissioner for human rights expressing concern about that. what do you think this move from elon musk means about the future of the platform? a lot of musk s attention has been about us users who are, like, the core for the advertising base, but three quarters of users o