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hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m samantha simmonds. the commander of iran s powerful revolutionary guards has warned protesters that saturday would be their last day of taking to streets. iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22 year old kurdish woman mahsa amini in police custody last month. today s serious warning follows the fatal shooting of a protester in the iranian city of zahedan. activitsts say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city. with me is parham ghobadi from bbc persian. what do you make of this warning from the revolutionary guard today? it is a really strongly worded comment but it is not unprecedented. from the beginning, the iranian revolutionary guard and their media outlets started comparing protesters to isis fighters, which was unprecedented compared to the previous protests. this time, they said this is the last day, however just now we received fo ....
of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reasons. first of all, collaboration. i never would have met some of the people i ve worked with had it not been for twitter. second, it s a world of sources at our fingertips, so that we re able to contact those that we really wouldn t be able to actually reach. and third, it s a way for us to actually speak to people on the ground and it s one of those crucial platforms for that, which, as we ve seen with this investigation, we wouldn t have had access to many of those people had it not been for some platforms like twitter. 0k, and we will come back to more of that, i m sure, later. but let s go for the big story this week. elon musk announced himself as chief twit last week ....
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the management of the platform. the letter follows the billionaire s sacking of half the staff, including the entire human rights team. those are our top stories this hour. now on bbc news, the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello. today, we re asking whether it matters that the world s richest man now owns twitter. elon musk is the latest american billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? and we ll also hear from journalists with the bbc s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of ....