and monday put it well on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to from dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara starr and this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes it was an act of pure evil.

fifty eight dead and five hundred fifty injured after a gunman attacks a las vegas music festival it's the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. defiance on the streets but in the political sphere the moves towards mediation between spain and catalonia over secession and the british government launches a massive operation to repatch read tens of thousands of passengers stranded by the lapse of monarch airlines. i'm joined again with your day's sports news including barcelona is political football the company it's playing behind closed doors had nothing to do with security in everything to do with the catalan referendum. a gunman has killed at least fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred

others at a country music festival in las vegas it's the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history and the country's at two hundred and seventy third this year alone president trump has called it an act of pure evil police say sixty four year old stephen paddick opened fire from the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel that's on the other side of the last vegas strip from the last vegas village arena where the music festival was taking place a distance of several hundred meters well the government shot himself bed as police closed in on him more weapons and ammunition were found to during a search of his home near las vegas with the latest here scheme believe it. americans woke up to learn of the deadly las vegas shooting that occurred while they slept. the final night of a three day country music festival in progress when the first bullets were fired

the concert goers scattered for safety as the gunfire rained down on them from a hotel room thirty two floors above. and. i had my wife had dropped down to just kind of and i told her to get up and start with this is gone we went back to their room and as soon as we reached the room from the concert venue we just heard constant shootings at first we thought it was fireworks but then it was. las vegas police report they're working with state and federal investigators to determine what motivated sixty four year old stephen paddick to open fire on the crowd of thousands clued in children and this is an individual who is described as a lone wolf i don't know how it could have been prevented if we didn't have any prior knowledge to this individual it wasn't evident that he had weapons in his room we have determined that there has been employees going to and fro from his room and not in an affair is was noticed the shooting reportedly went on for more

than ten minutes it stopped when police breached the hotel room door the gunman then turned his weapon on himself at least ten rifles were found in patrick's room u.s. president donald trump offered grieving victims and their families sympathy and support it was an act of pure evil in moments of tragedy and harm america comes together as one. and it always has the flag over the white house is at half staff. the president leading a moment of silence on the lawn of the white house and his press secretary arguing it's too early to discuss the need for new gun laws there's a time and place for a political debate but now is the time to unite as a country but former congresswoman gabby giffords and her husband mark kelly

disagree giffords was shot along with eighteen others in twenty eleven does anybody actually believe that our gun laws are too strong give me a break gun control is a passionate debate that divides americans but what unites many for now is grief as police continue to investigate what motivated the gunman to act and what's being labeled the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington well the gunman's brother has spoken to reporters and said he never had the slightest indication that his brother was capable of anything like the las vegas shooting there's just nothing you know you saw on the public record he did stuff he went to college he had a job. and you know we own some apartments we sold him a park we i mean there's you there's nothing there was no indication. nothing that's what's so. i mean.

i mean i can't even make something up there's just. there's nothing. we can cross live now to rob brown olds who is in the last vegas for us rob less vegas is usually known for being a bit of a party town obviously how is the city itself coping with the shock and also how is it helping the hundreds of people caught up in this and i guess the many more who are looking for loved ones who may still be missing. that's right i mean of course nothing like this has ever happened in this city and you're right this is a city that really synonymous with people having fun enjoying themselves going on holiday and this the mood here is completely different today you can see police officers behind me in their cars or blocking off part of the famous las vegas strip of flags are flying at half staff the electronic

billboards on some of the casinos which are usually advertising the entertainment of the night or you know the slot machines and that sort of thing are now telling giving people a locations where they can go to donate blood and toll free numbers that they can call to locate loved ones just down the street behind me at this hour there are a large number of people who are gathering in the convention center at the monterey mandalay bay he's mandalay bay hotel they're receiving these are loved ones and friends of the of victims both of those who have died and who have been injured and they're helping police going over any clues any any stories that they may have to contribute and also receiving a grief counseling and i think that many people here in this city are feeling

a bit of a chill as well if it can happen here in las vegas if it can happen at something as innocent as a country music festival on a warm sunday night it can happen anywhere and i think people are very sobered and very stunned by that realize ation and rob i guess the people who haven't been to vegas it's hard to explain exactly just how big the hotels are on the strip and that you know their hotels their casinos their shopping malls their theater is it's very huge is there any talk and it may be too soon but is there any talk of stepping up security at the individual hotels right now. i have not heard i think that that may be certainly a topic of discussion. the hotels and casinos are very well guarded by you know private detectives and private security officers that's mainly because there's gambling going on there and they want to prevent any kind of

malfeasance. in the in the er cheating in the gambling arena but the fact that paddock could carry what we now know are more than ten rifles and guns loads of ammunition up to his room in a modern high class expensive hotel without anybody knowing it that's got to ring a lot of alarm bells and the fact also if i saw a moment is that he had a fully automatic machine gun now everybody knows that the laws in this country are very liberal as far as gun ownership but there are some limits and one of them is fully automatic machine guns you cannot own one of those unless you have a special license you can't buy it down at your neighborhood gun shop in any state in the united states so it's a question of where did he get that did he obtain it illegally did someone make a kit to override the semiautomatic status of his machine guns and also for police

officers. you know that you have to wonder how they're feeling because there certainly are other ordinary police officers not the swat squads and the heavy weapons squad special tactics but the ordinary cops on the beat they're heavily outgunned by this type of armament so i think that there are a lot of questions it's a bit early now but i think that you're going to you're going to see a lot of those questions you're going to see city leaders wondering how they can make people feel safe again in visiting las vegas hospital a lot of enemies for the investigators said they are to follow for the moment right . reynolds in less figures thank you and now let's go to the white house speak to our correspondent there kimberly how could we heard from the president spoke a few hours after the event he called it an act of pure evil and also he and his wife melania and other people the white house held

a minute of silence in respect of the victims indeed i think what we can take from all of that is it's not just a somber day at the white house it's a somber day in washington as the reaction has come in not just from the president but also from members of congress who usually are very divided in their political views but very united in their shock in their grief the statements really continuing to pour out exemplified by the president has he not only tried to hit those notes in his address to the nation from the diplomatic room here at the white house but also that very somber moment in the mid afternoon here in washington where we saw the president the first lady malani a trump the vice president second lady karen pence all not saying a word in front of the cameras and the staff that assembled for that moment of silence i think the president in his address really tried to push forward the message that america cannot be broken by violence and it is love that defines the

united states but certainly there's still a lot of struggling going on in terms of how to understand this and as rob reynolds pointed out just the fact that if something like this can happen on a sunday evening a warm sunday evening at a country music concert it could really happen anywhere and there's a lot of course that we still don't know about the gunmen crucially how we managed to get those rifles a how we managed to get them be how you managed to get them into the hotel but i guess the lack of details hasn't really stopped the gun debate from being reignited by the events of sunday night. it certainly hasn't stopped the debate and certainly you know from covering these stories for some time barbara along with me that there is a very passionate argument in favor of keeping gun laws as they are that there are many here particularly in the conservative side of the political spectrum that believe that guns can often save lives as we saw a week ago in a tennessee church where the casualties could have been much worse not were not for

an armed guard who happened to be working as an asher that day and was able to apprehend the suspect so you'll hear those cases often less reported than the ones that obviously have this massive loss of life that is so painful those numbers still growing in terms of casualties what i can tell you is here at the white house the chief of staff general kelly is continuing to update the president because this on vesta geisha is ongoing and not just the local las vegas level but also by the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security and as well i can tell you that the president himself will be on the ground in las vegas on wednesday tuesday he will be visiting with the victims of hurricane damage in puerto rico before turning his attention to the latest tragedy now gun violence in the state of nevada as he speaks with first responders and the victims' families on wednesday can believe how crowded the white house can really thank you. all much more to come here and al-jazeera including the

palestinian prime minister makes a rare trip to gaza with a message of reconciliation for hamas cameroon's government continues its crackdown on independence protestors after soldiers shot dead eight people on sunday and days after being fired by german giants fire in unit we'll tell you want to catalan to lock t. is up to that's all coming up for joe in sports. but first catalonia as president has called for internet. show mediation to resolve the crisis over his region's attempt to break away from spain catalysts appeared the month said the overwhelming yes vote catalonia had won the right to be an independent state but he says he wants a new understanding with spain and not a traumatic break spanish prime minister mariano rajoy is mental position leaders to discuss a joint response as the power to dismiss catalonia as regional government and

suspend its autonomy but once the e.u. to intervene but it continued considers it an internal matter for spain john hendren has more. defiant catalans want to turn a disputed secession vote into an independent nation. is a strong nation and i think. doing great things and i don't respond it's because of the by all means because of the repression and i don't like spain because of all of the catalonia as leader asked the world to accept his region's vote for independence and broker a divorce from spain a woman of. the moment calls for mediation and there has to be internationals used to be effective. and called for a formal independence vote from the regions parliament the response from the european union was swift and to secessionist disappointing under the spanish constitution yesterday's vote to cut the lonia was not to go in madrid prime

minister marianna raho met with his cabinet as his country faced a constitutional crisis catalonia might be on the verge of declaring itself an independent nation but the day after the referendum looks pretty much like the day before there's a healthy economy here and a booming tourism industry and many people say that's just the point with or without spain things here will run pretty much the same. in barcelona catalonia protested. and a violent spanish crackdown. at the poles spanish national police in riot gear descended on polling sites with the tongs and rubber bullets injuring more than eight hundred cattle and. tourists in barcelona crowded the sidewalk for a new spectacle a confrontation between demonstrators and spanish national police who carried out the crackdown. i was defending the school and police kicks me to the ground and

told me late now ople kill you as catalonia returned to something like normality a rift with spain seemed wider than ever john hendren al-jazeera barcelona. people in english speaking areas of cameroon say the government is continuing its crackdown on independence demonstrators after deadly protests on sunday at least seventeen people have died in clashes between protesters and the security forces ballasts reports. as you can hear gunshots serious gunshots. cameron's unification day was anything but unifies the country is split down linguistic lines french and english and english speakers seized the anniversary to demand independence. to do with. forces of law and order to stay. with you have

a heavy hand the government banned gatherings of more than four people shot shops and disrupted social media but that didn't stop the english speaking movement they use facebook life twitter and whatsapp to spread the news i must shut. it i think the level of damage. is far too good to keep the subject of trust. independence activists say five of the dead were prisoners escaping a jail that caught fire cameron's president paul bia responded with a statement on facebook saying i strongly condemn all acts of violence regardless of their sources and their perpetrators let me make this very clear it is not forbidden to voice any concerns in the republic however nothing great can be achieved by using verbal excesses street violence and

a final authority gunshots were heard throughout the night heavily armed military personnel patrolled english speaking areas on monday and shot tear gas at residents on the street. fired tear gas canisters. so i had to scramble for safety just to show you how tense and how. the situation is the roots of this crisis began after the first world war when cameroon was divided between the french and the british and its independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty one english speakers from british areas joined french cameroon instead of neighboring nigeria they complain the french have always stifled their language and culture french speakers disagree and supported a unified cameron on sunday and some english speakers agree with them the separatists wanted a crisis to. try

to. change the constitution. for a vote power has been cast in southern areas of cameroon and when phones die so are the ability to find out more about what is going on shall it ballasts. protests against kenya's electoral system have spread around the country in the capital nairobi police of fire tear gas at demonstrators who are calling for some electoral officials to be sacked protestors accuse them of rigging august's presidential election and are demanding major changes before the vote is rerun later this month catherine sawyer has more now from nairobi. the country wide protests called by the whole position have been luculia right outside the offices of the electoral commission. a few protestants were dispatched using tear gas by police in the state. he left in kenya there's been some peaceful protests this

month what the opposition wants is some electoral reforms ahead of the election and to see be able to want a deal that was stapled in parliament last week and election amendments build almost equal to parliament the head of anything else he said this bill is going to taste now some of the proposals include among other things the strengthening of the my new old system so that if there is a dispute that this is my new old colleague supercede that anything outside the opposition that's saying that it's in bad faith and all this you know back and forth in political grandstanding causing a lot of concern and making the walk of the electoral commission really difficult and we are running out of time. bangladesh in myanmar have agreed in principle to set up a repatriation plan for the more than half a million range of refugees who have fled violence in myanmar's rakhine state the

agreement was made after a representative from myanmar's leader and son suchi travelled to bangladesh for talks with its foreign minister it comes as me and maher has taken foreign diplomats and u.n. representatives on a tour of northern rock and state where the violent crackdown on the roof has been taking place well across the border in bangor. aid groups are warning of a potential humanitarian disaster. just for example the world food program we're going to need seventy five million dollars just for food alone in the next five to six much say we need access we need roads we need shelter we need support from all around the world because you're talking about little humanitarian disaster if we don't get the support we need from health care to proper nutrition it's a floor and sanitation sheltering this could explode into a catastrophic humanitarian disaster with hundreds of thousands of range of

refugees arriving in bangladesh pressure has increased on other nations to accept them so fast and reports now for in the where the spy public support hundreds of range of refugees have been stateless and stuck for many years. anger in indonesia over a million miles file and cracked down on muslim or hinge are. refugees here are being treated as detainees in leisure as not ratified the un convention on refugees local governments considered or as illegal immigrants who are not allowed to leave the city nor work or educate their children a situation very similar to where they've been facing in myanmar now that as i am one of my children are asking me where my country is i can't answer i have become a refugee and i am praying that my children don't grow up as refugees too not a single human being wants to be a refugee it's been very difficult for reinjure to live in indonesia.

mohammad can and his family have been waiting for five years to be resettled in countries like the u.s. or australia but with less than one percent of refugees worldwide accepted u.n.h.c.r. says it has become nearly impossible to resettle the road only a few have left for the u.s. in recent months that they've been so oppressed for so long that they have. if for some very few tools at their expense you know at their hands to be able to to be successful and to to be able to thrive that's why it's so important to give them rights but that's also why they're so on wanted by so many with their lives on hold so i'm ranger have married in nuneaton women and started families they want to stay here but indonesia does not accept them well at their clans and continues in myanmar the u.n.h.c.r.

is urging countries also those who have not signed the un convention for refugees like you need to accept the ranger and allow them to work and educate their children. who are trying to prevent another disaster like in two thousand and fifteen when many ruhi injured drowned at sea indonesia's president signed a decree outlining basic help for refugees but to legally accept refugees indonesia needs to change its laws. for sure indonesia really cares about human rights but for indonesia it will be difficult to offer jobs to refugees and asylum seekers because jobs are limited and we have still a lot of unemployment here that's why we still need to think about the best solution we've got another whether the u.n.h.c.r. believes it's just a matter of time before more ranger refugees will be knocking on indonesia's doors the country needs to decide if they and ranger who are already here are welcome to

stay step fasten al-jazeera made an in lesia. the u.k. government is trying to arrange flights for about one hundred ten thousand stranded passengers after monarch airlines was placed into administration with around two thousand staff it's the biggest u.k. airline that has ever collapsed with barca reports now from gatwick airport outside london. monex to mines is a major blow to britain's aviation industry the collapse is left one hundred ten thousand customers stranded overseas a further three hundred thousand peacher bookings have been cancelled and more than two and a half thousand people are expected to lose their jobs. at gibraltar airport passengers awaited news of replacement flights the british government's asked the civil aviation authority to charter thirty aircraft what's being described as the largest peacetime repatriation of british citizens this is a hugely difficult day for passengers for staff we've been working with other tour

operators other airlines over the last twenty four hours to try and make sure that is the earliest possible opportunity for people here to rebook their holidays the collapse has been blamed on an increase in aviation fuel costs and a slump in the value of the pound following the u.k.'s vote monex also faced tough competition from other low cost carriers especially on mediterranean routes the company says recent attacks targeting tourists in tunisia egypt and turkey have led to a slump in travel and numbers to key destinations contributing to losses of four hundred million dollars last year terrorism probably has been the main the major cause of money because there are two particular markets i read see results and remark was a really major player takeover talks with other airlines including norwegian air collapsed at the last minute leaving monaco unable to renew its air travel organizers license that protects customers from being stranded abroad monaco also

has an engineering wing that could in theory continue to operate despite the collapse of the airline when it comes to its aviation assets though including lucrative landing slots a busy airports like gatwick well they're expected now to be covered up between other airlines formed in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight monnet was the country's fifth largest carrier a pioneer in low cost travel and the largest yet to go out of business is one of several european airlines including air berlin and alitalia to enter administration the fear is other airlines also find their wings clipped in this increasingly turbulent market al-jazeera at london's gatwick airport. stay with us on the news hour still coming up on the program the facebook ads that investigators believe might show links to russian interference in the u.s. election. barely into find out about a project that's helping refugees learn about the history of their host country and

of the line they have to meet and a bad day at the office for the women's world number one tennis player details coming up in a transport. however still no shortage of blustery showers rocking in from the atlantic big area of rolling across the british isles across the low countries through scandinavia not a long line of wet weather through all the way down into that western side of the mediterranean this bumping into an area of high pressure rather more settled weather across the east and piles of it but that pattern right that will make some progress over the next day or so easing across poland well way up into the baltic states and it comes all the way down across to the public austria into southern areas of jamey still some pretty wet weather there across the southern parts of france should be a tad dry there across the british isles but

a chilly northwesterly wind coming in sixteen selves for london sixteen celsius for paris as well so has a cloud of rain today as we go on into where the state will make its way further something of a change for those eastern parts things turning rather when they add rather wet falls nine celsius in moscow thirty degrees in the cloud and rainfall he have and we see that that's a damp weather just fizzling out as it makes its way across the balkans still rather disturbed blustery enough across the northwest of europe seventeen or eighteen celsius from london and paris further north we see some western weather coming through all the possible africa and cloud and rain for the time being. natural capital the capital which makes a creative model when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest prime landscapes protecting wild schemes it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use

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welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera a gun man in less vegas has killed at least fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred others in the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history officers say suspects even patrick killed himself at the security forces that started firing back more weapons and ammunition were found during a search of his home. catalonians leader has called for international mediation over his region's attempt to break away from spain almost nine hundred people were injured when right police tried to stop some they spoke. the results of the. a friend have left those catalans who don't want to see their region leave spain worried about what will happen next crop and how has been meeting some of them.

the referendum result overwhelmingly in favor of catalonia breaking her way those who want spain to remain united becoming fearful. what they have done is divide catalan society divided families and marriages. to explore the fault lines i had to meet cattle an artist. getting ready for war no stranger to controversy with his politically charged photos but he says rising intolerance is forcing him for wants to keep his anti secession opinions to himself if you not with them you with franco that's how radical as they go. it is a scary and it's going to get worse i think the for to that this election course it's a reversible as long as we have the same players ruling the country. believes

repression of the catalan language and culture and the general franco's dictatorship which ended in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. may have fueled the independent spirit yet that doesn't change his mind i'm not here to rebuild my grandfather i got my own life i'm looking to the future i love people from madrid i got better friends in madrid so everything that my father grandfather was telling me it doesn't match my reality that's what it is i'm not going to rebuild times have changed a lot. across town i head to a social club for men like retired farm worker danielle cabin yetto he migrated here from the neighboring gone region in the one nine hundred fifty s. but feel strong loyalty to the rest of the country catalonia is vibrant economy has drawn several million workers from poorer corners of spain and abroad. they will never have independent catalonia is

a province of spain and always will be that's how it should be the people behind this referendum must be half crazy they'll never achieve it. but catalan leaders i determined to try a bit that seems destined to deepen between neighbors and friends call panel al-jazeera barcelona spain. iran has the ploy to dozens of tanks along its border with iraq so palomas kurdish region the move follows iraqi kurds vote in favor of secession a week ago the referendum took place in the finance of the central government in baghdad as well as neighboring turkey and the rather who fear kurdish separatism within their own borders iran's deployment this part of joint military drills with iraqi armed forces well iraq's former leader saddam hussein used chemical weapons against the kurds of a lab to province in one nine hundred eighty eight pro kurdish activists often cite the attack is

a major reason for the region's autonomy but despite that painful history the province turnout in last week's secession referendum was low as charles stratford now reports. almost thirty years ago during the final days of the iran iraq war the people of this town were victims of an atrocity that shocked the world. almost sixteen thousand nine hundred eighty eight iranian soldiers were in the area when iraqi war planes dropped chemical weapons in and around the kurdish town. it's estimated that up to five thousand people were killed in the chemical attacks on how about just now you think that the people that have suffered such an appalling atrocity would be fully behind the referendum on eventual secession from iraq but the province of had one of the lowest turnouts in the vote. there were no flying school signs celebrating the referendum here there was a less than fifty five percent turnout in her lap just sixteen percent of those who

did vote said no to the eventual future independence from iraq. she lost eight members of his family in the chemical attacks three decades ago he says the kurdish regional government has let down. the people have little trust of the government because of corruption and there is fierce competition between parties to maximize their gains life for everyday people here is going backwards in recent years there's been growing opposition in protests in this area over delays of government salaries. the federal government in baghdad stopped paying the seventeen percent from the budget in two thousand and fifteen because it accused the kurdish government of not sharing its all revenue people here say any oil money the government in your bill has made has not been fairly distributed throughout the region. there is a difference between the rest of. the government and the bill has been neglected in

the people of the law services and infrastructure. there is a lot of support for opposition more than ninety two percent of those who voted said yes in the referendum but there are a lot of people in this province even ones who suffered so horrifically under the saddam regime who disagree. northern iraq two women accused of killing the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un have pleaded not guilty at their trial in a malaysian court they're charged with attacking kim jong nam by smearing his face with a band of nerve agent at kuala lumpur airport in february american and south korean officials have said that they believe north korea was behind the killing women say they thought that they were playing a prank for a t.v. show. facebook officials have started handing over about three thousand ads to u.s. congress that it says may be linked to russia the social network says the ads which

were purchased for one hundred thousand dollars were posted in the run up to the two thousand and sixteen presidential election to influence voters to elect donald trump congressional investigators will now look for clues as to whether facebook was used by russia to meddle in the election moscow has denied the accusations well joining us now via skype from the estonian capital tallinn is molly mchugh an expert in information warfare and a specialist on russia u.s. relations madame thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so powerful in this specific case which we'll talk about in a in a in a second or two how easy is it do you think to manipulate ads on facebook and by that i guess manipulating all pinioned on facebook so i think one of the issues is how the ads are targeted and the ability to sort of the ease with which facebook and twitter and other social media platforms have made it for people to sort of

scope the audiences that they want to target content to without really asking why that's happening and i think that you know where these are algorithms that are designed specifically for selling shoes and other consumer goods but when the same things are applied to so ideas and to shape political discourse i think there's sort of growing discomfort with the way that these that these types of promoted content are being used so what do you make of the fact now that facebook has handed over about three thousand ads to u.s. congress effectively have a look at them because i guess transparency is key in all of this and so far there hasn't been that much of it. i think the view of the public certainly has been that facebook and twitter have been sort of behind it not that helpful in dealing with these investigations far after the election their executives were claiming that fake news played no role in the election the promoted content wasn't really a factor and i think everybody realizes that that's not true and i think they're

trying to appear to be helpful now to the investigation but the small amount of content that has been turned over probably indicates more that they are trying to appear to look helpful instead of actually being helpful i think they're very worried that the discussion will turn towards regulatory issues towards how to regularly promoted content and other uses of of sort of promoted and other things on social media and they're trying to avoid that from becoming sort of a broader congressional plot and do you think it should become a focus and do you think action should be taken in all to me what do you think the social platforms should do to to be more transparent. i think the key really is transparency i think for the most part people are not focused on the idea of limiting free speech it's this idea of the promoted ads and targeted content if people are targeting content to specific demographic groups what groups to specific

individuals in some cases then how are they doing that i think knowing where the content is coming from again it's one thing if the shoe company is trying to sell you a shoe it's another thing if there's a political idea being put in front of you and you're not quite sure what the source of that is so i think transparency and sort of the labeling of knowing who is posting ads and for what purpose is very important so i think there are ways to sort of increase sort of accountability and transparency of how content is being purchased and promoted and what it is being targeted toward without limiting free speech and do you think there's a hunger for that kind of transparency from facebook users themselves or twitter for example do you think that people are becoming a little bit savvier about how facebook actually works and where the information is coming from. i think people are now aware that some of the information coming across the platforms is not credible i think it's sometimes hard for people to figure out where things are coming from and what that means i think the more tools

that we can give to consumers of information to help to cern what is real content with scrap content what is promoted what is targeted versus what is actually real news it is very important i think the more we can do to sort of increase the transparency of what has been put in front of you on social media the better i think that another piece of this that really needs to be looked at is the algorithms in general which are used by these social media companies to sculpt the information environment being put in front of you the way they make money is by showing you more of what they think you want to see and that is helping to create what we perceive as divided information spaces in the united states and europe and other countries and there they do bear some responsibility for that and they need to look at how that works molly mchugh expert in information warfare madam thank you you thank. palestinian authority prime minister rami hamdullah has

arrived in the gaza strip as part of reconciliation efforts between the fattah party and how last one dollar is the new head of a unity government which will have administrative control over gaza but hamas will remain the dominant power in the region herefore sec reports on his arrival from the erez crossing into gaza. if the wounds of the world can were any guide then this deal would seem to be off to a good start the question as with previous attempts at palestinian reconciliation cannot last. a formal garden the military band were at the ready and palestinian prime minister arrived about an hour late there was little room for them everyone straining to hear what he had to say. we've come back to gaza this beloved part of our nation to achieve a reconciliation national unity to end all appearances and consequences of the painful split will reconstruct gaza brick by brick with firm steps towards harmony

and unity. is leaving in this car to go through the gates into gaza proper where he welcomes in person by the hundreds of many young people that come to greet him the test of this deal the test of any future unified administration is how it serves that generation has been so lost and found life so difficult and the economic pressures of the last ten years. or now i want them to find jobs for us to integrate us in their government system we want to live with a minimum of dignity and honor not they'll be shared a little bit more heavily here but we are i mean or employed graduates like many palestinians we've the youth of the backbone of the country they should supporters . but to any of that to happen the unity government invited to reassume power last month by hamas needs to stick the smiles were brought it home dollars meeting with hamas leader ismail haniyeh and others but so have been the divisions over how to reintegrate p.a.

employees without displacing hamas ones and exactly where hamas is military wing because some brigades fits into a unified administration and couple of the we will gradually restructure the security apparatus based on partnership the kasam the grades weren't even submitted for talks and won't be discussed with a potential positive according to one analyst the lack of explicit opposition so far from the us or israel so it seems to me that there is. a grand. project for the weekend in which to cool down the palestinian israeli conflict to allow america and israel to focus more on other hated issues like north korea iran palestinians have been here before over the last ten years only to suffer bitter disappointment this time many are hoping it's different sorry force it gaza and still ahead on the news hour three u.s. scientists talk nobel winner is for the research that's given us

a deeper insight into our biological. try to learn cotton. and arsenal manager prepares for a future with barcelona but it's not in the way that you think details coming out with. business update brought to you by. going places together.

business update brought to you by they always going places together. in germany a far right party now has a major presence in parliament after coming third in the country's elections the alternative for germany party gained many votes by attacking the let in a million refugees two years ago for those new arrivals it's

a time of uncertainty but one project in berlin is trying to create understanding as not being found out but if you read you know that he's in his element sharing the ancient history of his homeland. graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon and most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees office in language he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that moves us forward to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life in some part of life it's culture. his visitors are often surprise. to learn so much about the places mainly iraq and syria which they've had to flee into or for unknown she enjoys we have seen ancient iraqi exhibit we learn things we didn't know about before and it's great to learn about your culture but the irony

of it you had to see i know homes like there's a room from aleppo which was super i've seen lots about my own country i was homesick but also really happy to see things i haven't seen for years these days this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture without migration there would be no power no no us there would be no we because everything which is counterproductive based on migration knowledge of techniques if you look to music to find other feed to our nothing in our history would exist without their history these images of destruction from world war two apart of the german historical museum it's not hard to see why exhibits like this would resonate with refugees when they come here the two here takes in centuries of history including religious wars emigration the holocaust and of course

reunification what's important for them to know more about this side of the culture where they are actually they can relate the german history and what happened in in germany which is a history of war and destruction to their history in syria and iraq and we hope that by doing so they also get a kind of wish and hope that in the long run. maybe things will change that the government's asylum policy was the focus of much attention in the run up to the election the people behind this venture hope those refugees already here will feel appreciated and inspired to learn more about their new home the al-jazeera building time for us for now here is joe in doha. barbara thank you barcelona's football club's president shows that maria bats may says the decision to hold sunday's game against palmer's behind closed doors was a political one and had nothing to do with security fans were told fifteen minutes

before kickoff that they wouldn't be allowed into the new camp stadium because of safety concerns following violence over the catalan referendum part boston mayor now admits that the stunt helped alert the world to events in catalonia because the game could be seen in more than one hundred sixty countries the decision has turned out to be unpopular with some former coach said the game should not have been played well board members including vice president have resigned over the decision and again when countries send in this crucial moment of our history of c. barcelona reaffirms its commitment to freedom and to the people of catalonia what we witnessed in our country was unacceptable we demand respect for the people of catalonia and we shall once again stand alongside its legitimate representatives we cataloged have won the right to be heard as one of the leading into t's in the country we are appealing for political solutions to be found in full respect for the people's wishes as well earlier i spoke to gold dot coms spanish football

correspondent ben haywood he told me that barcelona had no choice to stay out of the politics of the catalan referendum. i think they were left with a difficult decision because obviously you know tensions were running high a lot of people didn't want the match to be played at all bus line of were told by the professional football league who are the pick they didn't play the game they would lose out on six points or three points for forfeiting the fixture and a three point punishment as well and so you want and most of the players when they found out wanted to go ahead and play the game that's why blossom decided olds in the lead played behind closed doors it was a political gesture at them also as you mentioned miss conclude more than a club you know bustling have always been in extruded linked to politics you know go back to the franco era the camera was a place one of the very few places in barcelona where fans could could go and speak the language of course the council on language wasn't you know couldn't be spoken

it was illegal during franco here and they want routes where their flags and you know sort of on a bus learners it was been a symbol it's something bit of an unofficial defacto national team for catalonia for many people and i think it's always going to be linked to politics so i think the had to do something and you know all the cats and clubs apart from a spaniard. you know came out to support their citizens and also tomorrow there is going to be a general strike in catalonia and bus line was opposing that along with espanyol and of the tribes as well so i think yeah i think there was going to be politics. all right well many barcelona fans are wondering what will happen to the club of catalonia gains independence according to the catalan sports minister the club will no longer be able to play in the leaker and barcelona could end up plying their trade in the english premier league arsenal manager arsene wenger hopes it won't come to that. i try to learn captain are. possible and i want to join in the premier league makes the title even more difficult going to

be. but i don't think i surprised but you know. it's interesting because each to the room and of course you have. incidents on the sporting side gross national national id political club and it's interesting to see how you respond. in the championship when just a few days after being sacked by german giants by i mean current lotty is back in a coaching role these hellion is in jerusalem coaching children from muslim christian and jewish backdrop backgrounds for a charity that's trying to open a sports center in the old city by unfired and last week after the way for champions league lost to p.s.g. . u.s. open champion sloane stephens is crashed out of the china open it's her second tournament exit in two weeks meanwhile tennis is world number one got been was also

having a bad day at wimbledon champion retired ill in the first round she was training six one to love to barbara's stroke over before calling it a day. former world number one caroline wozniak he continued her impressive play on the hard court the dane beat anastasio public chunk of a for the second time in three weeks in what was a rematch of the pan pacific open final in beijing for jackie taking this match sixty six two different place in the third round. over in japan top seed met in chile which made quick work of greece's stephanus city to the world number five twenty six three six to say the tokyo open. as cricketers have completed a thrilling twenty one run victory of a pakistan their first test it was a bonus day with sixteen wickets falling on day five sri lanka resumed on six hundred four but yes the shot to five wickets to help dismiss the sri lankans for only one hundred thirty eight that meant i saw his victory target was one hundred

thirty six but they fell short rang out. picked up six wickets to help dismiss them for only one hundred fourteen in their first loss at their home away from home in abu dhabi the second test in dubai starts on friday aug third spending i think that you know today tracy had been thirty six expectant with one point the city to chase it down so that that particular discipline was challenging but you know probably still getting it. over in part just from south africa crushed bangladesh by one hundred by three hundred thirty three runs in their first test chasing four hundred twenty four fake tree the tourists didn't even make it to lunch on day five and that is all you sport for now back to barber in london joe thank you now the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to three u.s. scientists for their research on the biological clock by examining fruit flies jeffrey cole michael ross bash and michael young were able to show how genes help

control the body's they leave rhythms the nobel committee says their findings help us understand sleeping patterns and how important they are for human health eleven o'clock here apparently we should be asleep but you know there's coffee that is it for the news hour team but we're going to have more news in just a few moments stay with us. the sky they should be no borders up here. only horizons. as an

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