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could be called later, after a legal deadline for the resumption of power sharing passed at midnight. prince harry announces the title and publication date for his memoir, promising a raw and unflinchingly honest account of his life. and proof that bumblebees really do get a buzz out of playing with balls. elon musk has completed his $44 billion deal to buy twitter, after months of legal battles. the company s chief executive is reported to be among a number of seniorfigures who ve been fired, sources told us media they were escorted from the firm s headquarters. he has just tweeted, the bird is freed . earlier this year, mr musk, the world s richest person, attempted to back out of the purchase. we ll talk later to our tech correspondent james clayton. the united nations says there s no credible way of limiting the rise in global warming to one of the key thresholds agreed at the paris climate talks in 2015. a new report says governments around the world have been ....
This is bbc news, i m victoria valentine with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the bird is freed elon musk s reaction after completing a $41; billion takeover of twitter. his first move is to fire the senior mangement. america s special envoy on climate change tells the bbc the world could still limit global warming to internationally agreed targets, but only if countries increase their efforts immediately. if we get more countries directly engaged in changing their plans to more rapidly kill the emissions, to more rapidly transition, it is plausible. fresh elections to the northern ireland assembly ....
Been quite good. he has been inserting himself into the geopolitics of public debates, the ukraine debate. trans gender issues. he is wildly erratic and it s really hard to report on him a lot of the time, because he is so unpredictable. some of the stuff, it s pretty obvious from the way he uses twitter, he loves using it, that s why he bought it, but he likes being able to basically play to a crowd and get a lot of decent response. you see him posting some of the weirdest memes i ve seen online. itjust makes him really unpredictable. i didn t predict he would take over twitter until today when it finally went through, because they were so many twists and turns and it was never obvious he would get there in the end. thanks so much, josh. we will ....
Takeover going to shake up the platform? it takeover going to shake up the latform? . ., ., platform? if confirmed, that would be platform? if confirmed, that would be huge, platform? if confirmed, that would be huge, he - platform? if confirmed, that would be huge, he has - platform? if confirmed, that| would be huge, he has swept away the entire top team of twitter, and the chief executive parag agrawal, it s a real statement that said, i am the boss of twitter and i don t like the direction twitter has been directed in. parag agrawal, the chief executive, and previous to that, jack dorsey, the former ceo, are the two people elon musk really believes mismanaged twitter. what we are now going to see, almost certainly, is more free speech and potentially an invitation to donald trump to invite him back onto the platform. this has massive ramifications for free speech, moderation, alsojust us moderation, also just us politics moderation, alsojust us politics more generally. it certa ....
Look more on the business side of this, the financing, what all of it might mean, and who is going to benefit, who is better off as a result of elon musk in charge of twitter. the deadline for restoring a devolved government in northern ireland has passed without the establishment of a power sharing executive. the democratic unionist party continues to block the move because of its opposition to post brexit trading arrangements. a december election now looks likely. one person has died in a mass stabbing in the northern italian city of milan. several others were injured, including a football player for arsenal and monza, pablo mari. he s recovering in hospital. police have arrested a man who they say has psychiatric problems. officials have ruled out terrorism. the south korean military says that north korea has fired a ballistic missile off its east coast. in recent weeks, pyongyang has launched several sets of missiles in response to joint military exercises ....