the management of the platform. the letter follows the billionaire s sacking of half the staff, including the entire human rights team. those are our top stories this hour. 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? look, 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 reason
To be prepared for a lot of women who could come forward when he entered the president ial race. The uk government says it will appeal against a court ruling that Asylum Seekers in Northern Ireland should not be sent to rwanda. The high court in belfast found parts of the policy breached human rights laws. An inquiry into why some women in the uk have traumatic experiences in childbirth has called for a huge overhaul of maternity and postnatal care. The Birth Trauma Inquiry said poor Maternity Care was all too frequently tolerated as normal and women treated as an inconvenience. One of europes most notorious people smugglers has been arrested following a bbc investigation. Barzan majeed, also known as scorpion, was arrested in Iraqi Kurdistan on sunday morning. The next five years will be some of the most dangerous and, at the same time, the most transformational our country has ever known. That was the claim made this morning by the british Prime Minister, rishi sunak. In a speech to
Respond to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, is injerusalem. She told me more about the reaction, starting with that of israels foreign minister, israel katz. He has written on x that there is no more war just he has written on x that there is no more warjust than this and israel will continue to fight until hamas s destruction. We have also had in a characteristically quite shocking comment from the National Security minister, he has put on his x account. A mass heart biden. So there is a lot of upset here about these comments. From the us president , the us, of course, israels closest ally, and that will put pressure on this Israeli Coalition government as to what it does next, particularly with regard to rafah. And we know that there are also reports that from within the Israeli Defence establishment, a lot of concern there about what this means for such a critical relationship. And all of this as were Hearing Reports of
The Us State Department said this week that Russian Troops had used chloropicrin, an oily liquid developed during the First World War which irritates the lungs, eyes and skin. The kremlin described the accusation as Completely Baseless and unsubsta ntiated. 2a people are now known to have died in southern brazil, where some of the worst storms on record have caused severe flooding. More than 20 others are missing. 1a,000 people have lost their homes or been displaced by the extreme weather. Researchers have recreated a sd model of the face of a Female Neanderthal who lived 75,000 years ago. The reconstruction was made from a shattered skull discovered in a cave in iraq. Experts think the women may have been in her 40s, a considerable age for the time. So far, there have been 1900 arrests at the College Protests across the united states. At least 60 colleges have taken part, though not all of those arrested were affiliated. The new york mayor eric adams said this morning more than 40 of