bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. it is not another world. so given that given how closely related the united states is to europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notice when europe began to fall apart, especially when the signs were not subtle at all and they weren t. this summer, germans begin clearcutting ancient forests to heat their homes. in poland, families queued up for hours to buy coal just did one hundred and fifty years ago in the uk, the government projected that more than ten thousand britons will freeze to death, will die this winter for lack of heating fuel. freeze to death in england. that is not supposed to happen in a first world country. so europe is moving backward at high speed and it s not clear where it will end. so the question is why is this happening? and the answer for once is a very simple one to warm ukraine. that s why it s happening. a huge percentage of europe s energy came from russia. those imports h
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
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
rate rose by more than 4% from 2021 over 2020. but that report is missing some critically important data. for some reason police departments in the biggest blue cities are not submitting their numbers to the f.b.i. the bureau has to resort to estimating how much crime is happening in crime-ridden cities like chicago, philadelphia, los angeles, and new york. question, is the crime crisis much worse than even we think? here are some actual stats from those cities. overall crime is up 37% in chicago. 26% in philadelphia. nearly 12% in los angeles, 32% in new york city. let s take a live look at this. it is so bad in new york that the nypd commissioner is holding a news conference right now to address the crime stats as we speak. we wanted to show you a live look at that and may be able to do that coming up. for now house minority leader kevin mccarthy was just with me yesterday. why is crime at a level it hasn t been in 20 years? because democrats defunded the police. they ele
daily beast reporting the georgia republican senator and antichoice candidate herschel walker paid for his then girlfriend s abortion in 2009. the daily beast has now reported that that woman is also the mother of one of her four children. we re going to have more reporting on that later in the show. republicans however continue to shop and recent polling says that he is in a tight race with the democratic incumbent, senator raphael warnock. there is one october surprise that could change the course of the midterm elections, and it s coming from over 70,000 miles away. in saudi arabia, opec plus, the alliance of oil producing nations led by saudi arabia and russia, announced a 2 million barrels per day cut in oil production yesterday. opec plus decision could lead to a potential spike in gas prices, just 33 days before the midterms. today, president joe biden had a one word reaction to opec plus s decision, disappointment. what is your reaction to the opec plus decision?