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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 but advertisers including general motors have withdrawn their business, which is likely to lead to a drop in revenues.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 ....
to sack thousands of staff at twitter, but admits revenues will drop. and we meet the british teenagers, getting a chance to explore antarctica, thanks to their work in the community. good afternoon. police say the firebombing of a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday was motivated by an extreme right wing terrorist ideology. 66 year old andrew leak from buckinghamshire threw up to three incendiary devices at the site. he is believed to have later taken his own life. the government has been facing widespread criticism for its handling of overcrowding at an immigration centre nearby. meanwhile, overnight there was a disturbance at an immigration centre in west london. it s understood that a group of detainees armed themselves with weapons during a power cut. the home office says no one was injured during the incident at harmondsworth detention centre and the people involved have been returned to their rooms. our correspondent, emily unia, told us more. this hap ....
and next door is the airfield and, because of that, manston has been welcoming new arrivals for years. in the 20s the students arrive for pilot training, in the 50s it was used as a base to carry out drills. now as an airfield it is hosting new arrivals again. thousands are coming across the channel by small boat. many are taking to this facility. you have an asylum system completely gridlocked. and as more people arrived, the government has condemned an invasion. the system is broken. illegal migration is out of control. and so the small village in kent finds itself as part of a story that raises fundamental questions about how that uk responds to those who arrive on our shores. hello, welcome. now, this is the plan this week. we will talk about migration in a moment. i will also look at whyjoe biden thinks republicans relationship with the truth risks the path to chaos. and these are workers in china fleeing their factory, we will explore the reasons why they ve done ....
details in the programme. it s saturday the fifth of november. our main story: passengers are being warned to expect significant disruption on the railways today, despite strike action being called off. tens of thousands of rail workers had been due to walk out in the long running dispute over pay and working conditions. strikes planned for monday and wednesday have also been cancelled, as negotiations between the rmt union and train operators are stepped up. our business correspondent, marc ashdown reports. today s strike action may have been called off but widespread disruption will continue. network rail welcomed the decision but says services which had been cancelled can t be reinstated at such late notice. a reduced strike timetable means just 20% of services will run across england, scotland and wales. those which do will start much later and finished by the early evening. thousands of members of the rmt union of 1a real companies and network rail are involved in ....
nations reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. good afternoon. police say the firebombing of a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday was motivated by an extreme right wing terrorist ideology. 66 year old andrew leak from buckinghamshire threw up to three devices at the site. he is believed to have later taken his own life. the government has been facing widespread criticism for its handling of overcrowding at an immigration centre nearby. joining me now is our correspondentjon donnison. we correspondentjon donnison. are hearing more det what we are hearing more details about what happened in dover. what we are hearing more details about what happened in dover. what have the olice what happened in dover. what have the police said? what happened in dover. what have the police said? this what happened in dover. what have the police said? this was what happened in dover. what have the police said? this was an - what happened in dover. what have the police s ....