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I have been here only once or twice before and today i decided to come, like most people here, because we have had enough. Everyone left their work, left children at home, and came here to protest, to say no more. No more to this corrupt government. We have a criminal government who lets the hostages be murdered only for the sake of the coalition. We are asking from our government to stop everything and to make a deal. The funerals for some of the six hostages have been held. These pictures are from raanana, just north of tel aviv, where a service was held for Almog Sarusi Who was 27. The hostages Families Forum said that the six captives were murdered in the last few days. But, hamas said Israeli Fire killed the hostages. Lets get some analysis now im joined by Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. What expecting to happen today . We are what expecting to happen today . We are expected what expecting to happen today . We are expected to what expecting to happen today . We are expected to see
We start with Elon Musk and the social Media Platform he controls, x, formerly known as twitter. Its facing the loss of one of its largest markets over a row about Hate Speech and disinformation. Brazils Telecoms Regulator Suspended Access to ex for the countrys 200 plus million people over the weekend after a ruling by a seniorjudge. Today a panel of brazils supreme court will begin hearing on whether to uphold that ruling. Earlier i spoke to the Technologyjournalist Chris Stokel walker and began by asking him how significant the Shut Down was in brazil. Pretty significant because of the scale of the country and therefore the scale of the use. We have third party estimates, between 20 Million and a0 million brazilians are believed to use x every month. Around about one third have it installed on their phones which means that this is a relatively big market and has been not just for x but lots of other Tech Platforms which is why they try to keep them onside. If you are a Tech Executiv
Hello. Welcome to todays verified live. President biden has said that a final deal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages held in gaza is very close to being presented to israel and hamas by mediators. But he told reporters he did not think that the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was doing enough to secure an agreement. In israel itself, theres been a general strike to demand the government do more to free the hostages. Protesters say Mr Neta Nyahu must take responsibility for the deaths of six hostages whose bodies were recovered in gaza on saturday, israel says they were murdered by their captors and Mr Netanyahu said this showed hamas did not want a deal. Mr biden spoke to reporters as he arrived at the White House to meet us negotiators. Lets have a listen. I was following up on whats happening in israel, and then ill be off to pittsburgh. Are you planning to present a final Hostage Deal to both sides this week . Were very close to that. What makes you think that
That ruling has been upheld. Lets get the latest now from our reporter in brasilia, leandro prazeres. In terms of what this means for brazilians, how are people reacting to this lack of access To X . ~. ,. , To X . Well, what we have seen so far since To X . Well, what we have seen so far since the To X . Well, what we have seen so far since the beginning To X . Well, what we have seen so far since the beginning of i so far since the beginning of last weekend is that there is a huge number of brazilians, Former X users, who have been migrating to other Social Networks such as blue sky, threads, and people reactivating accounts on facebook to talk about the issues that they were talking about on x. Yesterday, for example, it was reported that bluesky had gained more thani million new brazilian users in just three days. For those who are still trying to use x as a platform, they can use virtual private networks but the problem is that there is a fine imposed by the Supreme Court in brazi