From The Network: DSR Daily Brief - October 28, 2022: Iranian drones in Ukraine, Musk buys Twitter, and Pyongyang shoots more missiles

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The one hundred and seventy-first episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode Ukraine war: Russia deploys dozens of drones in two days - Zelensky Elon Musk begins Twitter reign by firing CEO, top executives Pyongyang shoots two missiles into East Sea Brazil's Lula keeps lead in roughly stable race against Bolsonaro, two polls show Nigeria: US orders diplomats' families to depart Abuja Done deal: Europe scraps the car engine New Zealand leader Ardern makes rare trip to Antarctica Maine begins removing those naughty license plates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's October 28th, 2022, and this is your DSR Daily Brief.
0:14.2	I'm Grant Haver.
0:15.8	And I'm Chris Cotnor.
0:17.6	Our top stories from international outlets this morning.
0:21.7	Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says Russia has launched more than 30 drone attacks
0:28.9	on Ukraine in just two days, according to the BBC.
0:34.3	He added that in total, Moscow had also carried out some 4,500 missile strikes and over 8,000
0:45.7	air raids.
0:47.7	Western officials believe Iran has supplied a large number of drones to Russia, but Moscow
0:54.0	and Tehran deny it.
0:57.6	Other countries also say that Iranian military experts are on the ground in Russian-occupied
1:03.7	Crimea to provide technical support to drone pilots.
1:09.2	On Wednesday, Iran's foreign minister called the accusations baseless and urged Ukraine
1:16.1	to present any evidence supporting the accusations.
1:22.1	Al Jazeera is reporting that Elon Musk has kicked off his tenure as the new owner of
1:26.7	Twitter by giving the boot to the social media giant's top leadership.
1:31.9	Chief Executive Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Siegel, and Vajaya Gad head
1:38.2	of legal policy and trust were all shown the door according to multiple media reports
1:43.4	citing people familiar with the situation.
1:46.9	Twitter and Musk have yet to officially confirm the firings.
1:50.8	That has been a lightning rod for conservatives complaints about big text censorship of
1:56.3	their viewpoints.
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