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ukraine armageddon. and thailand is grieving after a massacre in a day care left 26 people dead, including two children. live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. pro-russian officials are reporting significant damage following a massive explosion on a bridge linking russia with crimea. hours ago a fuel tanker exploded 0 on a strategic bridge causing a fire thats still burning a low pro-russian leader said two have collapsed. emergency crews are scrambling ...

workforce of 8,000 might be reduced by as much as half. many twitter staff have been finding out via email that they no longer have a job. heres our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of employees laid off today. instead he was a surprise guest at this investor conference in new york. meanwhile, many twitter staff woke up locked out of their work laptops. they were later told by an email to the personal accounts that it was the last working ...

and building model plane kits for a new generation of fans — we report on the revival of a classic hobby. air raid sirens have sounded across all of ukraine, with civilians being asked to stay in shelters amid reports of russian jets taking off from an airbase in belarus. russia has also stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on kherson, a port city in southern ukraine. kherson is often called the gateway to crimea, and because of its strategic importance, it was one of the first pl...

wrongs. >> president biden wipes out federal marijuana possession convictions. what that means for the effort to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. we have a series of serial murders occurring. >> people are scared to come out. >> police in california on the hunt for a killer. the one characteristic they are asking the community to zero in on as the search for the suspect continues. "newsroom" starts right now. ♪ good morning. it is saturday, october 8th. >> good morning. you ar...

hello, welcome to the programme. elon musk has defended his decision to sack thousands of staff at twitter without warning. the worlds richest man bought the social media platform last week. he tweeted that he was forced to make cuts because twitter was losing nearly $4 million a day. mr musk also attempted to allay concerns about the spread of hate speech, saying twitter�*s commitment to content moderation remained unchanged. but president biden has said the tycoon had bought an out...

he tweeted that he was forced to make cuts because twitter was losing nearly $4 million a day. mr musk also attempted to allay concerns about the spread of hate speech, saying twitter�*s commitment to content moderation remained unchanged. but president biden has said the tycoon has bought an outfit that "spews lies across the world". many big firms have paused their advertising on twitter while uncertainty about its content controls remains. heres our technology editor zoe kleinman....

the minister of humanitarian affairs told journalists that more than 1.3 million people had been displaced in the worst now on bbc news, its hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. in the increasingly overt struggle between western liberal democracy and authoritarianism, hong kongs position is unique. it is chinese sovereign territory granted special autonomous status under a handover deal done with britain. many hong kongers hoped that deal would guarantee theirfreedoms, but...

traffic accident in central china. just one person was killed — but many were injured. air raid sirens have sounded across all of ukraine, with civilians being asked to stay in shelters amid reports of russian jets taking off from an airbase in belarus. russia has also stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on kherson, a port city in southern ukraine. kherson is often called �*the gateway to crimea — and, because of its strategic importance, it was one of the first places taken ...

air raid sirens have sounded across all of ukraine, with civilians being asked to stay in shelters amid reports of russian jets taking off from an airbase in belarus. russia has also stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on kherson, a port city in southern ukraine. kherson is often called �*the gateway to crimea — and, because of its strategic importance, it was one of the first places taken by russian forces at the start of the war. it was liberated last month , in a significant...

its described as the �*blizzard of the century. thousands are still without power and there is still widespread travel disruption. now its time for review 2022 , and its been a year where health news, has again dominated the headlines. our correspondent, dominic hughes, looks back now on some of the biggest challenges faced this year by the uks health services. was 2022 the year we finally learned to live with covid? at the start of the year, driven by the highly infectious omicron v...