hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. the bye bye blues. the tick is removed, sending social media into meltdown. but what does it mean for the future of twitter. and our trust in it. for many of you the blue bird has flown the nest? well the blue tick anyway. if you are a twitter user, you might have had one of those ticks on your account, to authenticate who you are. but now they come at a cost, and yesterday by virtual tweezer, many of the ticks were being removed. the pope, beyonce, jk rowling, christiano ronaldo among many high profile users who ve been hit. the cost for annual subscription at least through android is £11 a month. but some are getting it free, lebronjames, william shatner the author stephen king. not that stephen king knew about it my twitter account says i ve subscribed to twitter blue. he said. there is, though, a serious side to all this. no longer will you have that certainty that the person you follow is who they
presidential runoff. we ll look at who the candidates are and what issues are on voters minds. we re tracking developments in ukraine where the area around the capital, kyiv, was rattled by a series of explosions a short time ago. military officials say air defenses worked on enemy targets and that so far there have been no fires or casualties reported. officials are also urging people to stay in shelters. the blasts happened a day after president volodymyr zelenskyy went to odesa, mykolaiv, and visited residential areas hammered by russian artillery and missiles. he says ukraine will not yield any territory in the region. translator: we will not give away the south to anyone. we will return everything that s ours, and the sea will be ukrainian and safe. meanwhile, thick smoke rose over the separatist-held city of donetsk saturday after images appearing to show incoming artillery. the mayor says civilians were hurt and several city blocks were damaged. cnn s salma abde
making the big one way. tell me they are not changing it. well, they shouldn t, they should learn from the disaster that was new coke. it was probably the single greatest food disaster in the history of the united states. now mcdonald s wants to change the all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun, that has been the big formula. now they want to tweak the way that the beef tastes. it s very bizarre. a palliative tested this in canada. it is successful in canada. i would just say canada and united states are just a little just say canada and united states arejust a little bit just say canada and united states are just a little bit different in that regard because i m pretty sure it is going to be a mass uprising if mcdonald s tries to change this. there are other brokers available. surely not frying the onions. a white and caramelised onions? i mean, that is sacrilegious. i don t understand why one would do that. no, no. that would be an instant
and there. it faces the television on the angle that isn t direct so he can still talk to everybody but not so wide that the picture looks distorted. perhaps there is hope for you after all. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m anna coren coming to you live from hong kong. ahead this hour, ukraine s president visits the front line of the war vowing to reclaim territory and stop russian gains. we re live in kyiv with details. the country has endless fields ready to plow. leftover mines, high fuel prices, and a russian blockade risk turning a bountiful harvest into a global food disaster. in a few hours polls will open in colombia for a
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