the bbc has been speaking to twitter s owner, elon musk. the last minute, unexpected interview came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. in the interview the billionaire agreed to change this to publicy funded. he also defended the site s policing of hate speech and the mass sackings of staff and described taking over the social media firm as painful. do you have any regrets about buying twitter? i think it was something that needed to be done. it s been quite difficult. i would say, the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this hasn t been some sort of party, so, it s been really quite a stressful situation in the last several months, not an easy one. so it s been quite painful, but i think at the end of the day, it should have been done and were there are many mistakes made along the way, of course? live now to san francisco and our technology correspondent james clayton. this was a sur
troops will also be instructed in the use of more powerful weapons systems. the measures will be introduced in 2024 and come after a review of the island s defences. now on bbc news, the travel show. hello and welcome to this very special edition of the show, coming to you from the spectacular valley of the kings here in luxor in egypt. if you were watching last week, you d have seen me unearthing the story of how tutankhamun s tomb was discovered here 100 years ago this year. well, it s such a breathtaking location that we thought we d stick around for a while to bring you this our best bits of 2022. well, from the baking sun of here in egypt, let s switch to the snow of switzerland where, back in march, carmen got to experience a horse race like no other where the jockeys don t need saddles. they use skis. this is st moritz in the swiss alps. it s the place, so they say, where the concept of the winter holiday was born. it also occupies a unique place in sporting histor
to growing pressure from beijing. you are watching bbc news. now ourworld iran: catching a killer. for the past year, i have been reporting on the most important story of my life. my name is omid montazaeri, and i m a reporterfor bbc persia. this story is about a massacre that took place in my home country, iran. in 1988, the iranian government, led by ayatollah khomeini, ordered thousands of political prisoners to be killed. my father was amongst those killed. i was just two years old. now, for the first time in over 30 years, one of the perpetrators of the killings is on trial, a government official called hamid nouri. this is hamid nouri. he is the first member of the islamic republic ever to stand trial outside iran for atrocities committed in iran. protestors chant. less than 15 hours til verdict and everyone is so anxious. iraj mesdaghi was a political prisoner at the time of the 1988 prison massacre. an estimated 5000 prisoners were killed. iraj survived. ever since,
in a measure of the challenge facing the talks, the us climate chief john kerry said, i don t think anybody here wants to be associated with the failure to live up to this responsibility. not a lot of people in public life are asked to make life and death choices historically. this is a war for survival. live now to carl nasman in dubai, where everyone is waiting on a new draft agreement. everyone is waiting and you get the feeling as if we are standing in the airport terminal and you look on the screens that list the different leavings and summits and press conferences that are supposed to be taking place, they are pretty much blank, all flights cancelled, everyone waiting for this next edition of potential draft documents to be released, since the mummy so last night which disappointed pretty much everybody involved. since the document was published last night. david, this is not yourfirst cop. you have seen plenty of these go down. what you make of the situation goin
he told journalists he thought the legislation would sail through. what do you think he means by that or is that some kind of political posturing on his part? there is a lot of political posturing on his part? there is a lot of political posturing - posturing on his part? there is a lot of political posturing going i posturing on his part? there is a | lot of political posturing going on on all sides of this debate in many ways. i think keir starmer s point is this is a government with a huge majority. they were elected four years ago today in a landslide victory. so the idea that the conservatives can t get a piece of legislation through the house of commons is one that you wouldn t normally countenance it all at this stage. and i think keir starmer s point, he essentially doesn t want a situation where rishi sunak is seen to have done really well by navigating all these tensions within his own party and coming out and getting through to the next stage of this legislation.