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Former head of security blows the whistle on Twitter

Peiter Zatko claims nearly half of Twitter鈥檚 employees have access to critical company software, making the platform more susceptible to hacks.

Roger Hearing is joined by independent business journalist for The Tribune newspaper Sushma Ramachandran in New Delhi, and Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at the firm Circle, Dante Disparte in Washington.

Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.

Apple begins production of its latest fleet of smartphones. Reports suggest that the iPhone 14 will be majority-manufactured in India. We hear from Bloomberg reporter Saritha Rai in Bangalore.

Six months on since the start of the war in Ukraine, football has returned to the country, despite the war. Andrew Todos is a British Ukrainian sports journalist, who was at the opening fixture.

(Picture: In this photo illustration a Twitter logo seen displayed on an android smartphone. Picture Credit: Getty Images).

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