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welcome to the programme. florida governor ron desantis has officially announced that he will be running for us president in 202a. but his much anticipated campaign launch on twitter was hit with a series of technical issues. to individuals who have done more to loosen. might have surprised many but not those who have worked with elon musk for nearly a quarter century. his freedom as putting money is were, elite institutions and corporate media and it s an incredible honour. ..to have governor ron desantis to make this announcement. and after 25 minutes, the stream was reconnected for an official announcement prompted by moderator and tech entrepreneur david sachs. i think we have a record i audience assembled here and the biggest room - those probably have been assembled online and what would you like to tell them? i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american comeback. the live announcement may have been hit by technical glitches, but th ....
we start tonight with reports on russian state media that an american journalist has been formally charged with spying. evan gershkovich, who works for the newspaper the wall streetjournal, was arrested last week, taken to court and detained. the kremlin said at the time he d been caught red handed . gershkovich has denied he s done anything wrong. speaking a little earlier, the head of the global magnitskyjustice campaign, bill browder told us why he thinks gershkovich has really been charged. i think we should look beyond their legalistic explanations of this. this is he s been taken as a hostage, the russian government. vladimir putin needs some high value western hostages. evan gershkovich is a high value hostage. he works for the wall streetjournal. he s a high profile person. and the reason putin wants to take these hostages is that he has a bunch of people who have been arrested, a bunch of spies and a bunch of money launderers who have been arrested around the worl ....
and around the world. elon musk has defended his decision to sack thousands of staff at twitter without warning. the world s 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. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of the twitter 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 via an email to the personal their personal accounts that it was their last working day at the firm. some have been told they will be paid until february next year, getting some sort of certainty after months of speculation. a mixed range of emotions. certainly ....
our political correspondent jack fenwick reports. he d previously said he disliked the russian president but admired him as a political operator, and that the invasion of ukraine was a consequence of western expansion. the reform uk leader said he had predicted the war ten years ago. i stood up in the european parliament in 2014 and i said, and i quote, there will be a war in ukraine. why did i say that? it was obvious to me that the ever eastward expansion of nato and the european union was giving this man a reason, to his russian people, to say they re coming for us again, and to go to war. home secretary james cleverly accused him of echoing putin s vile justification for the invasion, and there was criticism too from labour. the only aggressor in ukraine is vladimir putin, and it is shocking that nigel farage chooses to align himself with putin. he s become a putin apologist. mr farage said last night that putin was wrong to invade, the eu was wrong to expand ea ....