Weve lost one of the most influential and courageous and good human beings. He belongs to the ages. Mandela served 27 years in prison after being convicted of treason with the white minority government. Three years later, he won the nobel peace prize. He became the first elected black president. Once again, mandela has died at 95. Well have more later in the show. Meantime, our top tech story, twitter has added the first woman to their board effective immediately. She was ceo of pearson until last year. Twitter faced controversy for not having a woman board member. She tweeted, there could not be a more exciting time to join. John is in l. A. What is the latest . This was a priority to have a woman join the board. There are a number of things that made her the right candidate. She is smart and a forward thinking person. Speaking with someone who worked with her, she pushed the envelope in the industry. The International Experience and media experience is helpful for where twitter is no
The Worlds Largest carrier, will cut phone subsidies by 2 billion after the government told it to lower marketing expenses. Lack of subsidies may make it harder to sell highend phones in china. It can also give a surging boost to competitors. The latest trends in tech are winding up in the dictionary. Words like netflixinspired binge watching, live tweeting, sub tweet, buzzfeed have been added to the oxford online dictionary but theyre not in the official dictionary as of yet. To our lead story, Alibaba Group has been on an acquisition free in the runup to the i. P. O. But now there are concerns about one of its deals. A film Company Alibaba took a controlling stake in Chinese Media group, now known as alibaba pictures, has uncovered possible accounting flaws. The unit may not have made enough writedowns for some assets in the first half of the year, according to a filing. Alibaba has tape stakes in more than a Dozen Companies this year. They range from video sites to the singapore pos
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It was two years ago when the egyptians rose up in unity demanding an end to Hosni Mubaraks reign as president. Today, mubarak is history, and egypt is a nation divided. M islamists hold power in the former president morsi, but some say his new constitution is just as unfair as the system and to replace. On friday, egyptians once again took to the streets. It was a day of protest, not a celebration. Once again, tens of thousands of people gathered in Cairos Tahrir square where two years ago they demonstrated against hosni mubarak. Now they are demonstrating against the new president. The people want the downfall of the regime. The slogan of the arab spring is being chanted once again. This time they are telling morsi to go. Our revolution continues. We will not allow one faction to monopolize power. We reject a Muslim Brotherhood state. We want a constitution that represents and protect the reprights of all egyptians. Protesters took to the streets in many other cities as well. In alex
Welcome to the journal from dw in berlin. Heres whats coming up in the next halfhour clashes in cairo. Egypt marks the second anniversary of the revolution which ended the era of hosni mubarak. We will have a live report. And germany says it plans to buy its first killer drones. Reaction in berlin. And the swiss architect awarded for his sense and sensibility with german castles. It was two years ago when the egyptians rose up in unity demanding an end to Hosni Mubaraks reign as president. Today, mubarak is history, and egypt is a nation divided. M islamists hold power in the former president morsi, but some say his new constitution is just as unfair as the system and to replace. On friday, egyptians once again took to the streets. It was a day of protest, not a celebration. Once again, tens of thousands of people gathered in Cairos Tahrir square where two years ago they demonstrated against hosni mubarak. Now they are demonstrating against the new president. The people want the downfa