impossible to imagine. >> translator: we want to emphasize it once more. we know who started the murderous war, and therefore, we will never forget the victims of germany's war initiative. rescuers are trying to refloat more than 170 pilot whales. the animals beached themselves in the country's far north. 25 have already died. with more expected to parrish. it's one of the largest beachings in the past 20 years. ♪ time for a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. an official investigation has been launched to argentina's president over the bombing of a jewish center two decades ago in which 85 people died. the case was brought by the prosecutor alberto nisman who

died mysteriously in january. for the third time in three months the taliban has claimed responsible for the attack on a shia mosque in pakistan. at least 20 people were killed by suicide bombers. a small group of men wearing suicide vests entered the building shooting at worshippers and throwing grenades. as many as ten people have been killed in a boko haram assault in chad. boko haram has an increased attacks against countries which have contributed to the fight against them. chad has deployed 2,500 troops against boko haram. that's the largest national force fighting the armed group. the multinational force is expected to be formally launched in the coming weeks. sierra leone's government says it has locked down a

neighborhood of the capitol after a death from ebola. less than a month ago the president was hopeful the worst was over. with just over 24 hours to go before a ceasefire is due to take effect there has been a surge in fighting in eastern ukraine. pro-russian separatists have mounted a last-minute offensive to capture key territories. ukraine's military says 11 of its soldiers were killed in 24 hours. now a reminder we are waiting for president obama to address a major summit on cyber security. he is due to speak any moment now. the war on hacking is a lot more complicated of course than it might first appear. as our correspondent reports,

many of the so-called white hat hackers are worried about any new legislation. >> reporter: at the johns hopkins computer science department paul is showing his professor the progress he has made. he has been hacking into desighses used in hospitals around the world, but then making them safe from other hackers. >> these devices are everywhere and contacted to networks and patients right now, and nobody has really done that much work on looking at the security of these devices and trying to prevent especially the legacy devices from being attacked. >> reporter: from cars to our home's power supplies and beyond, more and more of our lives are networked all too often with minimal safeguards. but under proposed anti-hacking legislation announced last month by the obama administration it is researchers like martin who

would be arrested. martin's protess or thinks he would be safe from prosecution, but he is not sure. and he knows that other white hat hackers could be liable for prosecution for attempting to find weaknesses before those with bad intentions. >> they are proposing to make things that are credit card criminal even more criminal. they are proposing to share information from private companies and share it with the national security agency about all of us and there are privacy problems with that. it's kind of scary. now as somebody who is a technologist what i can tell you is the problem we have is a lot of very bad software in everything that we use. >> reporter: and you're trying to make it better. >> we're all trying to make it better. >> reporter: there are corporations who's security standards are lax in the first place? >> yeah you have to get every company in america to start

putting out secure software that's a huge uphill battle. >> reporter: cyber security experts like professor green have raised the alarm, arguing they will allow prosecutors to go after the wrong people even consumers who share their pass words, but dangerous hackers will go free. now we'll take you live now to stanford university where the president is addressing that cyber security summit. >> -- before coming back to the farm mike [ inaudible ]. [ applause ] >> it is greet to be here at leland stanford junior

university. i'm pleased to be joined by my team who bleed cardinal red. [ cheers ] >> we have national security advisor, susan rice secretary of commerce penny pritziger, and -- [ laughter ] >> let's face it. i -- i like stanford grads. i noticed steve chew is around here who helped lead our energy department for a while. [ applause ] >> and he is now hanging out. i'm also pleased to be joined by other members of our cabinet. jeh johnson is here and small business administrator maria contreras sweet. and i want to acknowledge my tireless homeland security advisor who helped and continues to shape our cyber security efforts, lisa monaco.

[ applause ] >> thank you, lisa. so -- and i had always heard about this campus and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains. [ laughter ] >> and the current holder of the action. [ cheers and applause ] >> this is the place that made nerd cool. [ laughter ] >> i was thinking about wearing some black-rimmed glasses. some tape in the middle but i guess that's not what you do anybody. the ambassador told me if i came to stanford you would talk nerdy to me. [ laughter ] >> but i'm not just here to enjoy myself. as we gather here today, america has seen incredible progress that we can all be proud of. we just had the best year of job growth since the 1990s.

[ applause ] >> over the past 59 months -- over the past 59 months our businesses have created nearly 12 million new jobs which is the largest streak of private sector job growth on record and a hopeful sign for middle class families wages are beginning to rise again. and we're doing more to prepare our young people for a competitive world. more americans are finishing college than ever before. here at stanford and across the country, we have the best universities the best scientists the best researchers in the world. we have the most dynamic economy in the world, and no place represents that better than this region. so make no mistake, more than any other nation on earth, the united states is positioned to lead in the 21st century. and so much of our economic competitiveness is tied to what brings me here today, and that

is america's leadership in the digital economy. it's our ability almost unique across the planet. our ability to innovate and to learn, and to discover and create and build and do business online, and stretch the boundaries of what is possible. that is what drives us. and so when we had to decide where to have this summit the decision was easy because so much of our information age began right here at stanford. it was here where two students bill and dave met, and in a garage not far from here started a company that eventually built one of the first personal computers, weighing in at 40 pounds. [ laughter ] >> it was from here in 1968 where a researcher astonished an audience with two computers

connected online and hypertechs here could click on with something called a mouse. a year later a computer here received the first message from another computer 350 miles away. the beginning of what would eventually become the internet and by the way it's no secret that many of these innovations built on government-funded research is one of the reasons that if we want to maintain our economic leadership in the world, america has to keep investing in basic research in science and technology. it's absolutely critical. [ cheers and applause ] so here at stanford pioneers developed the protocols and architecture of the internet dsl, the first webpage in america. innovations for cloud computing.

student projects here became yahoo and google. those were pretty good student projects. [ laughter ] >> your graduates have gone on to help create and build thousands of companies that have shaped our digital society from cisco to sunday micro systems, youtube to instagram, stubhub. according to one study if all of the companies traced back to stanford graduates formed their own nation you would be one of the largest economies in the world, and have a pretty good football team as well. [ cheers and applause ] >> so . . . and today with your cutting-edge research programs and your new cyber initiatives, you are helping us navigate some of the most complicated cyber challenges that we face as a nation. and that's why we're here. i want to thank all of you who

joined us here today. members of congress. representatives from the private sector privacy and consumer groups and especially the students here. and just as we're all connected like never before we have to work together like never before. both to seize opportunities, but also meet the challenges of this information age, and it's one of the great paradoxes of our time that the very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us, and inflict great harm. the same information technologies that help make our military the most advanced in the world are targeted by hackers from china and russia who go after our defense contractors and systems that are built for our troops the same social media we use in government to advocate for democracy and human rights around the world can also be used by terrorists to spread

hateful ideologies. so these cyber threats are a challenge to our national security. much of our critical infrastructure, our financial systems, our power grid health systems, run on networks connected to the internet which is hugely empowering but also dangerous. and creates new points of vulnerability that we didn't have before. foreign governments and criminals are probing these systems every single day. we only have to think of real life examples. air traffic control system going down and disrupting flights or blackouts that plunge cities into darkness to imagine what a set of systematic cyber attacks might do. so this is also a matter of public safety. as a nation we do more business online than ever before. trillions of dollars a year.

and high-tech industries across the valley support millions of american jobs. all of this gives us an enormous competitive advantage in the global economy. and for that very reason american companies are being targeted. their trade secrets stolen. intellectual property ripped off. the northwest korean cyber attack on sony pictures destroyed data and exposed personal information of sony employees. and these are hurting american companies and costing american jobs. so it is also a threat to america's economic security. as consumers we do more online than ever before. we manage our bank accounts. we shop we pay our bills, we handle our medical records. and as a country, one of our greatest resources are the young people who are here today.

digitally fearless and unencumbered by convention and uninterested in old debates, and remaking the world every day, but it also means that this problem of how we secure this digital world is only going to increase. i want more americans succeeding in our digital world, and i want young people like you to unleash the next waves of innovation and launch the next startups and give americans the tools to create new jobs and businesses. and expand connectivity in places that we currently can't imagine. to help open up new worlds and new experiences and empower individuals in ways that would seem unimaginable ten, 15, 20 years ago. and that's why we're working to

connect 99% of american's students to high-speed internet because when it comes to educating our children we can't afford any digital demise. that's why we're helping more communities get cheaper internet so that students and small businesses across america, not just in pockets of america have the same opportunities to learn and compete as you do here in the valley. it's why i have come out so strongly and publicly for net neutrality for an open and free internet. [ cheers and applause ] >> because we have to preserve one of the greatest engines for creativity and innovation in human history. so our connectivity brings extrordanaire benefits to our daily lives, but it also brings risk. and when companies get hacked american's personal information

gets stolen identity theft can turn your life upside down in recent breaches more than 100 million americans had their personal data compromised, including in some cases credit card information. we want our children to go online and explore the world, but we also want them to be safe and not have their privacy violated. there is a direct threat to the american families and the will being of our children which means we have to put in place mechanisms to protect tlem -- them. shortly before i took office before i had gray hair -- [ laughter ] >> -- i said these cyber threats were one of the greatest challenges we face as a nation. and given the complexity of these threats, i believe we have

to be guided by some basic principles. let me share those with you today. first this has to be a shared mission. so much of our computer networks and critical infrastructure are in the private sector which means government cannot do this alone. the private sector can't do it alone either. because it's government that often has the latest information on new threats. there's only one way to defend america from these cyber threats, and that is through government and industry working together sharing appropriate information, as true partners. second we have to focus on our unique strengths. government has many capabilities, but it's not appropriate or even possible for a government to secure the computer networks of private businesses. many of the companies who are here today are cutting edge. but the private sector doesn't

always have the capabilities needed during a cyber attack. the situational awareness, or the ability to warn other companies in real time. or coordinate across companies and sectors. so we have to be smart and efficient and focus on what each sector does best and then do it together. third we are going to have to constantly evolve. the first computer viruses hit personal computers in the early 1980s, and essentially we have been in a cyber arms race ever since. we design new defenses and hackers design ways to penetrate. whether it's phishing or bot nets spyware, malware, and now ransomware. we have got to be as fast and flexible and nimble in constantly evolving our defenses. and fourth and most

importantly, in all of our work we have to make sure we're protecting the privacy and civil liberty of the american people. and we grapple with these issues in government. we have pursued important rereforms to make sure we are respecting people's privacy as well as ensuring our national security. and the private sector wrestles with this as well. when consumers share their personal information with companies, they deserve to know that it is going to be protected. when government and industry share information about cyber threats, we have got to do so in a way that safeguards your personal information. when people go online we shouldn't have to forfeit the basic privacy we are entitled to as americans. in recent years we have worked to put these principles into practice. and we have boosted our defenses in government we're sharing

more information with the private sector to help those companies defend themselves we're working with industry to use what we call a cyber security framework to prevent, respond to and recover from attacks when they happen. and by the way i recently went to the national cyber communications integration center, where representatives from government and the private sector monitor cyber threats 24/7. so defending against cyber threats is one more reason that we are calling on congress not to engage in politics -- this is not a republican or democratic issue, but work to make sure that our security is -- is safeguarded, and that we fully fund the department of homeland security, because it has great responsibilities in this area. so we're making progress. and i have recently announced new actions to keep up this

momentum. we have called for a single national standard so americans know within 30 days if your information has been stolen. this month we'll be proposing legislation that we call a consumer privacy bill of rights the right to decide what personal data companies collect from you, and the right to know how companies are using that information. we have proposed the student digital privacy act. today's amazing educational technologies should be used to teach our students and not to collect data for marketing to students. and we have taken steps to strengthen our cyber security to encourage information company the government and private sector. today i'm once again calling on congress to come together and get this done. and this week we announced the

creation of our new cyber threat intelligence integration center. just like with terrorist threats, we're going to have a single entity that is analyzing, and sharing information across government so we can act on those threats even faster. and today we're taking an additional step which is why there is a desk here you were wondering, i'm sure -- [ laughter ] >> -- i'm signing a new executive order to encourage sharing of information between the government and private sector. -- cyber security threat

information that they need to protect their companies. i want to acknowledge, by the way that the companies represented here are stepping up as well. the cyber threat alliance which includes companies like semantic are going to work with us to share more information under this new executive order. you have companies from apple to intel, from banc of america who are going to use the cyber security framework to strengthen their own defenses. visa and mastercard and american express and others are going to make their transactions more secure. nation star is joining companies that are giving their companies another weapon to battle identity theft, and that's free access to their credit scores and more companies are moving to new stronger technologies to authenticate user identities

because it's a too easy for hackers to figure out user names and pass words like password. or one, two, three, four, five, seven. [ laughter ] >> those are some of my previous pass words. i have changed them since then. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> so -- so this summit is an example of what we need more of. all of us working together to do what none of us can achieve alone. and it is difficult, some of the challenges i have described today have defied solutions for years. and -- and -- and i want to say very clearly that as somebody who is a former constitutional law teacher, and somebody who

deeply values his privacy, and his family's privacy, although i chose the wrong job for that but -- [ laughter ] >> -- but will be a private citizen again, and cares deeply about this i -- i have to tell you that grappling with how government protects the american people from adverse events while at the same time making sure the government itself is not abusing its capabilities is hard. you know? the cyber world is sort of the wild wild west. and to some degree we're asked to be the sheriff when something like sony happens people want to know what can governmen do about this? if information is being shared by terrorists in the cyber world, and an attack happens,

people want to know are there ways of stopping that from happening? by necessity that means government has its own significant capabilities in the cyber world, but then people rightly ask, well what safeguards do we have against government intruding on our own privacy? and it's hard. and it constantly evolves, because the technology so often outstrips whatever rules and structures and standards have been put in place, which means the government has to be constantly self-critical, and we have to be able to have an open debate about it. but we're all here today, because we know that we're going to have to break through some of these barriers that are holding us back if we are going to continue to thrive in this remarkable new world.

we all know what we need to world. build stronger defenses disrupt more attacks, make cyberspace safer. improve cooperation across the board, not just here in america, but internationally, which also by the way makes things complicated, because a lot of countries don't necessarily share our commitment to openness, and we have to try to navigate that. this should not be an idealogical issue. everybody is online and everybody is vulnerable. the business leaders here want their privacy and their children protected, just like the consumer and privacy advocates want america to lead technology and be safe from attacks.

so i'm hopeful through this forum and the work we do subsequently that we're able to generate ideas and best practices. and the work of this summit can help guide our planning and execution for years to come. after all, we are just getting started. think about it. tim burners-lee from his lab switzerland invented the worldwide web only 26 years ago. the great epics, the bronze age, iron age, they span centuries. we're only 26 years into this internet age. we have only scratched the surface. and as i guess they say at google, the future is awesome. [ laughter ]

>> we haven't even begun to imagine the discoveries and innovations that will be unleashed in the decades to come. but we know how we'll get there. reflecting on his work in the 1960s on arp net at the precursor of the internet the late paul barron said this the process of technological development is like building a cathedral. new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations. each saying i built the cathedral. and then comes along an historian who asks well who built the cathedral. and he said if you are not careful you can con yourself into believing you did the most important part. but each contribution has to follow-on to pre