A Monthly Subscription model after new boss, illinois must, lays off nearly half the work force will hear from a former employee pursuing the company. And iran admits the sending drones to russia, but says they were sold before the war, and ukraine began. Ah, a warm welcome to of yours round the world a michael ok. With the us mid term elections just a few days away. Candidates are getting some big names, support. 3 president s passing president or hitting the campaign trail in pennsylvania. A crucial swing state which could determine which Party Controls congress, president dod, old j, trump. Donald trump, doing what he does best talking to his face. Hundreds of them waited for hours in the key battleground state of pennsylvania to hear their former president speak. Thank you very much. In alo pennsylvania, one of my Favorite Places trump is campaigning for the republican candidate for governor and for the us senate in what is considered by many to be one of the most competitive races in the country. He touched on the usual topics, border security, u. S. Jobs the economy under biden follow c schumer and the radical democrat congress. Your commonwealth is being totally destroyed. Our country has been destroyed biden and the far left lunatics are waging war on pennsylvania energy, crushing pennsylvania jobs, gutting, pennsylvania communities, and strangling pennsylvania families with soaring prices. Like youve never seen before. Trumps evening rally as part of a late blitz that will also take him to florida and ohio. At arrival, rally 4 hours away in philadelphia, President Joe Biden appeared with his old boss, barack obama to endorse the democratic nominees for governor and senate biden called the upcoming midterms the election of a lifetime. Yeah, guns going to shape our country for decades. The gum and the power to shape that outcome is in your hands. 2 years ago, 2 years ago use that power to make donald trump not only a former president , what you made him, a defeated president barack obama told the crowd that abortion rights, social, security and democracy itself for at risk. If republican sees congressional majorities next week fundamental right on the bow, truck and fax o g m reason. And they said these in m a ballot. The my with my ballot. Pennsylvania is one of a handful of metal ground states. The ballots will decide who controls congress, state legislatures, governors offices, and the future direction of the nation. Twitter has announced it will charge 8. 00 a month for its coveted blue track, verified accounts, the companys new owner, ellen musk made the change amid mass lay offs at the platform. Just ahead of us mid term elections. Experts are warning of a potential spike and disinformation across social media. Before next weeks vote. Theyre concerned the new system could lead to the rise of users posing as some one else and unverified groups looking to spread false information. Men cornet is a Software Engineer who was sacked by twitter and is now taking legal action manor cornet. Thank you for joining us. Not only are you a Software Engineer, youre also an artist. And as i understand it, you think that has something to do with your firing . Yes, thats right. At this point, its all a speculation and thanks for having, by the way. And the reasons for the firing have been very unclear, have not been stated, but i think my doing a bit of a trouble maker was probably part of it. Well, explain it a little bit, you say troublemaker, it was at related to your art. Yes, because the art is a really cartoons and many of them were trying to be critical of the company sometimes. So even though i dont think any of them was really criticizing mosque himself and, but by nature, cartoons a little bit extreme anyway, so i dont think he was seeing that and with a good, i think some might call them cheeky. Why then specifically, or you, are you suing twitter on what grounds . So the grounds are from like, well, i understand obviously another lawyer but us federal labor laws. And i think also california laws. I would i myself and a bit of a to easy going for my own good and a bit of conflict over so i wouldnt have done it by myself, but i have some great colleagues who asked me if i would support and join in. So i obviously was happy to when you refer to labor laws, i take it that you, you believe that twitter didnt really sort of give you enough time before firing that sort of thing. Thats right. Yes. Again, i, i dont know though, i dont want to talk about something i dont know about, but i, i think the main, the crux of the issue is that the, the amount of time for the warning was not was not given. You know, how sort of the, you know, the lay of the land at twitter, or how do you think the company will function after the layoffs . More specifically, what areas of twitter do you believe will be affected the most . And how might that affect the way that users interface with twitter . So i think the constant moderation might take a hit. You might start teens and glitches more than the 4 bugs here and there. Ive also heard some rumors, but these are rumors that some of the laid off employees were starting to be called back because i guess people inside the company were starting to realize that they may have been a bit too far gone a bit too far with the layout, so its hard to tell exactly what will happen. I fully trust colleagues, i still there that theyll be doing a good job and doing their best. But i do think there will be a bit more fidel phone from now on that is a menu cornet, a Software Engineer fired by twitter, now taking legal action. Thank you so much for joining us and particularly for your perspective. Thank you. Lets take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world at the shower german chancellor, all of charlotte says his controversial trip to beijing was quote, worth it. Due to an important agreement made with chinese president she jenna pang. I was at the 2 leaders agreed to oppose the use of Nuclear Weapons in russia as war against ukraine. And again, italy has allowed a rescue ship carrying migrants and refugees to dock in sicily to bodies were brought to land and only people deem vulnerable were reportedly allowed to disembark. More than 1000 people or stock on other rescue ships off. Itll east coast the new far right government has shut its ports to humanitarian vessels. At least 9 people have suffered gunshot wounds outside a bar in the us city of philadelphia. Police a multiple gunman fired into the crowd from the car, parked outside the building. 2 people are in critical condition. Ukrainian, president , a lot of his zalinski says iran was lying when it said it sold drones to russia only before the invasion of ukraine. Moscow says its been using only russian may drones in the conflict with accusations rife that iran is supplying russia with drones in its war with ukraine. Irans foreign minister offered his most detailed remarks to date at a defense meeting into iran or your wheelchair. By thea, regarding the outcry started by some western countries, were saying the Islamic Republic of iran has provided russia with missiles and drones to help with the war and ukraine. The missile part is completely false, back to the drone part is true. Well, we gave a limited number of drones to russia months before the ukraine war, that last more hope that left angle crank directly on it. Not true, says ukraines president , who claims that his troops are shooting down 10 iranian made drones daily. And that the supplies are ongoing. Vladimir zalinski issued this warning to tehran. He actually what i mean if iran continues line above the obvious, it means that the world will make even more efforts to investigate the terrorist cooperation between the russian and iranian regimes. And what rushes pain iran for such cooperation. Nicky, these terrorists are their accomplices, can not remain unpunished in the modern world. So she should never go. There has been a surge of drone attacks in ukraine and recent weeks targeting energy and severely and infrastructure. Western countries have imposed sanctions on a ran over a legit sales of the weapons to russia. Moscow claims that the drones it uses in combat are russian made and not ever rainy in origin. A rance foreign minister says that if there is truth, that thats not the case to ran, will not remain indifferent. Lets bring in russia. Analysts, konstantin aga, whos joining us from vilnius in lithuania. Constantine in your sess meant how big a difference or these drones making in the kremlin war on ukraine. Meghan, do make a difference. Are these rooms are cheap, some estimates go as low as 10000. 00 for the piece. Theyre relatively small. The wingspan is 2 and a half meters. Imagine you can basically assemble it in your living room so big and they seem to be effective, especially against um, static targets and rushes definitely been using them to deplete ukrainian high tech weaponry. On the one hand, on the other hand, definitely to attack the civilian infrastructure and this is i think, what is very important because now with the crown and aims being always vague. But now being a, basically what can be achieved are it seems that moscow is betting on such destruction of ukrainian civilian infrastructure, especially Energy Infrastructure that ukraine super piece. And i think that are in this respect, iranian rooms are quite an effective, are quite an effective weapon. According to the washington post, the u. S. Has been privately encouraging ukraine to signal an openness to negotiate with russia as the paper put it. Do you see any chance they putin is interested in negotiations . Well, put in his always interested in negotiations on his own conditions. And if washington indeed tries to encourage her the government of law demons zalinski to or to, to, to open some kind of channel to moscow. Then i actually also believe it too, because it seems that the u. S. Administration, which is really committed to supporting your grain is starting to understand that are basically the destruction of our ukranian, civilian infrastructure and possible humanitarian consequences of, of this russian action. A good way, very heavily on washington support for you grain. And especially that is especially important in view of the of can the mid term elections. We are quite a few isolationist republicans, may stop in such circumstances. Put in will seed is ukraines weakness, and well try to take advantage of that. Russia analyst konstantin, got many thanks. Thank you. Football now and byron have moved back to the top of the bonus league table after 32 victory over her to berlin. The bavarian attack continues to impress, but their defense is struggling to find similar consistency. Hes only 19 years old, but Jamal Marcial le is proving to be the face of binds attack this season. And he wasted no time adding to his tele against hatta in the 12th minutes, toys and palla, seeing the Germany International net, his 8th goal of the season. It was to nil in the 37th minute, eric maxime to promoting sliding home. And just one minute later he doubled his tele a large slice of luck, but they all cant. And it was the struck his 5th goal in just full matches. This is d. W. News lived from berlin up next world stories the week and reports a mike look as for me and the rest of the berlin news team, thanks so much for water. People and trucks injured one trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. Families, planes on the taxi. The reason for these crypt honestly like demonstrated