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 firm s workforce without warning. mr musk said the social media platform was losing large sums of money every day. he s insisted twitter s commitment to content moderation remains unchanged, despite the loss of key staff and anxiety among advertisers. in an interview, elon musk revealed that twitter was losing around $4 million a day, meaning costs had 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 but advertisers including general motors have withdrawn their business, which is likely to lead to a drop in revenues.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. elon musk did not speak to any of the twitter employees laid off today. he was a surprise guest
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many people died here. you can see how confined the space is. huge post covid crowds had come out here to celebrate and of course people are asking why the authorities were not better prepared. president yoon has promised a thorough investigation. but south koreans have heard such promises before. they were also made after the sinking of a ferry in 2014 which killed more than 300 people, most of them teenage children from the same school. families of the victims say they never got the full truth about what went wrong. this man s daughter was one of the survivors. my greatest worry, and i feel like i m going to cry over this, is that nothing has been properly revealed over the past eight years since we lost our children. and our anxiety now is that the truth will once again be concealed after this disaster. it s bringing back our trauma.
are seeing, and again as i have said, it might be currently mild, we don t know what is going to happen, but at least it would have been better if there was a time where we can say, listen, we might impose restrictions on your country going forward, or for your own people travelling to south africa, butjust to come up overnight and slam us, i think that is a bit premature. remember what i m saying for now, we are seeing mild cases, and it is really mild cases. we have so far been able to treat everyone at home from the gp fraternity, not speaking about the unvaccinated ones that might end up in icu, but we will only know weeks from now on. angelique coetzee from the south african medical association. england s chief medical officer, chris whitty, has said his greatest worry is whether people will accept new measures to tackle covid variants. professor whitty told a panel discussion hosted by the uk
for. clive, thank you for sharing your thoughts with for. clive, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us for. clive, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us this - for. clive, thank you for sharing - your thoughts with us this morning. that s clive wratten, ceo of the business travel associatio. england s chief medical officer, chris whitty, has said his greatest worry is whether people will accept new measures to tackle covid variants. professor whitty told a panel discussion hosted by the local government association that he questioned whether people would comply if restrictions had to be imposed. he then went on to say that he did think the public would be brought on side. let s speak now with stephen reicher who is professor of social psychology at the university of st andrews, and a member of sage s subcommittee advising the uk government on behavioural science. surely by even suggesting that people might be reluctant to follow any 19th covid measures, surely that