interview with bbc, elon musk, the owner of twitter, admitted he only went through with the purchase of the company because a judge was about force him to do so, that his takeover of twitter was painful and quite a rollercoaster, but that he would sell the company if the right person came along. musk purchased twitter for a whopping $41; billion, just over £35 billion pounds. just over £35 billion. he inherited a workforce of over 8,000 employee which he has defended cutting down to around 1,500, saying the company would have gone bankrupt otherwise. it s been just over a year since mr musk began his takeover of twitter. he purchased his first shares on 5 april, 2022, buying 9%. days later, musk submitted an offer to buy the whole company, above the current stock price. that was accepted on the 25th of april. in may, musk tweeted that the deal to buy twitter was temporarily on hold, he said because of the volume of fake accounts. twitter denied that and invited musk to a me
versus donald j. trump. we re getting live updates from inside of the courtroom. we re going to do our best to watch them together and bring out and interrupt our conversations and bring you any and all significant moments as they re happening. over the last few hours the prosecutor has been going through the claims made by trump s lawyers in their closing argument this morning. steinglass, the prosecutor, pushed back against trump s lawyers claim from this morning that porn star stormy daniels was extorting donald trump. prosecutors saying this, quote, extortion is not a defense to falsifying business records. and if you have any questions about that, you can ask the judge. after putting on the stand, just two witnesses, one of whose credibility completely crumbled during cross-examination, donald trump s defense team today closed by arguing essentially that there was never any criminal conspiracy to conceal the hush money payments. trump s attorney todd blanche also went af
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so people just collecting wood on the street, making fire and use snow to melt it to water. so it s awful situation. and i cannot imagine in my mind it is possible in 21 century, but it is true. you re melting snow to make water. i know you have spoken to my colleagues the other day and said you haven t been able to reach your parents. do you know that your family is okay? situation did not change the district where they live has fled and i m not sure that they can see them anymore. but i hope and pray that they are alive. you don t know that your parents are alive? no, for eight days. eight days now you don t know if your parents are alive. deputy mayor, how long given the situation this district does not exist anymore. there is no any building.