the management of the platform. the letter follows the billionaire s sacking of half the staff, including the entire human rights team. those are our top stories this hour. now on bbc news, the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello. today, we re asking whether it matters that the world s richest man now owns twitter. elon musk is the latest american billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? and we ll also hear from journalists with the bbc s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reason
it is top of the hour. just in to cnn, michael cohen, the former personal attorney to president trump is meeting at the manhattan da s office. this is a very strong indication that the sweeping investigation into the trump organization is continuing. and perhaps the focus has returned to this hush money payments to stormy daniels. we re following the story. what did michael say when he went in? we have video, you played it of michael walking into the manhattan district attorney s office. cohen said he could not comment on what the topics they would be discussing would be. but he might have more to say when he is leaving. but this is the first time cohen has been in since this investigation has been led by the manhattan district attorney. he previously been in to meet with investigators 13 times over the previous years. the trump organization and the financial statements, now sources tell me that the investigators have refocused back to the hush money payments. of course
american billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? we will also hear from journalists with the bbc s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. out of interest, as we are talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? for many of us twitter is a lifeline. not only is it a way to share findings but there are a couple of reasons, first of all, collaboration. i never would have met some of the people i have worked with had it not been for twitter. second, it is a world of sources at our fingertips so we are able to contact those that we would not be able to actually reach. and third, it s a way for us to actually speak to people on the ground and it is one of those crucial platforms for that which, as we have seen with this investigation, we w
wrongs. president biden wipes out federal marijuana possession convictions. what that means for the effort to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. we have a series of serial murders occurring. people are scared to come out. police in california on the hunt for a killer. the one characteristic they are asking the community to zero in on as the search for the suspect continues. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, october 8th. good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we start this morning in eastern europe. at least three people have been reported dead in a huge explosion that crippled europe s largest bridge and pair lased a key supply route for russia s war in ukrainian. that blast crippled the only bridge linking russia to the annexed territory of crimea. the kerch bridge is a huge symbol for the kremlin and the attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. let s get to fred pleitgen. russia blamed the explosion on ukraini
donetsk region of ukraine who sentenced two british volunteer fighters to death is reportedly shot and badly injured in what appears to have been an assassination attempt. now on bbc news. the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello. today we re asking whether it matters that the world s richest man now owns twitter. elon musk is the latest american billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? and we ll also hear from journalists with the bbc s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reasons. first of a