it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfasc
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. twitter s new owner elon musk has defended his decision to sack about half the workforce without warning. mr musk tweeted that he d had no choice when the social media platform was losing more large sums of money. and he s insisted twitter s commitment to content moderation remains unchanged, despite the loss of key staff. in an interview, elon musk revealed that twitter was losing around four million dollars a day and costs needed to be cut. he promised twitter wouldn t degenerate into what he called a free for all hellscape when content moderation is loosened but advertisers including general motors have withdrawn their business which may lead to a drop in revenues. and now twitter faces lawsuits from the hundreds of employees over the way they were fired. out technology editor zoe kleinman reports. he was a surprise guest at this investor conference in new york. . meanwhile, many twitter staff were locke
as ukraine s forces gear up for battle. and we meet the british teenagers, getting a chance to explore antarctica, thanks to their work in the community. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. thousands of people have been taking part in candlelit vigils in south korea, to remember the 156 people killed in a crush on halloween. the victims, mostly young people, were among around 100,000 people who had flocked to the popular itaewon nightlife district in the capital seoul. 0ur correspondent nick marsh is there and sent this report. it has been organised by one of the groups who are anti government and are affiliated to the opposition party. it is more of a protest than a vigil. the people i have been speaking here want the resignation of the south korean president. they say that he and his government are responsible for the tragic loss of life on saturday night. clearly, we know that there have been police failings were not enough officers were dep
what s on the idiot box? it s only an idiot box if an idiot is watching. this period in time will be looked at as the platinum age. our obligation is to entertain. if we ve left something to think about, so much the better. kunta kinte. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. congress has no right to interfere in the media. well, excuse me! we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in t
rescue workers in the ukrainian city of dnipro search for survivors of a russian missile attack on an apartment building. at least 21 people were killed. is there light at the end on the tunnel on train strikes in the uk? the transport secretary is optimistic a deal can be reached with the unions. i think both the companies signed the rail unions are keen to reach an agreement but we have got to see if they can hammer out the detail but, thatis they can hammer out the detail but, that is for them to do. some breaking news this hour dozens of people have died in a plane crash in nepal. let s run through what we know so far. the plane was flying from the capital kathmandu to the town of pokhara a popular tourist town. the crash happened as it was coming in to land. it was a yeti airlines plane with 72 people on board. this is the footage we have of the aftermath. thought to be around two kilometres from the airport. rescue workers searching for survivors. around 200 nepales