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the news live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and al-jazeera dot com thanks for joining us the war of words is heating up between the u.s. president donald trump and the author of a new and controversial book about trump's white house so fire and fury hit bookshelves. bookstores about an hour ago it was released early after trump threatened to sue the publisher and former white house advisor steve benen well he calls the book phony and full of flies during an interview on american television on friday morning the author that's michael wolff defended his book and he took direct aim at the president listen not only is he helping me sell books but he's helping me prove the point of the book i mean this is extraordinary that a president of the united states would try to stop the publication of

a book my credibility is being pressed question by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point all right let's a break this down bring in joining us from washington d.c. so wolf was speaking just a short while ago on american television saying that he absolutely had access to the white house and trump trump saying the ads xerox us what's going on here patty just talk us through the past hour or two. you know this is once again one of those instances where president donald trump makes an accusation that can easily be proven to be false and then that is what is happening in this case just to give you an idea michael wolff says he was there for weeks several days weeks at the white house you don't walk into the white house unless they let you into the white house you have to be cleared so someone like him in the other thing i think worth noting is if you're a member of the media and you have a hard pass as it's called so you always have access to the white house to give you this badge it's gray that way if i tried to walk in the west wing with this badge

they would know to stop me now this author didn't have this great badge he had a blue one which basically gave him access to the entire west wing reporters saw him there all the time so this idea that he had no access is false the other thing he's talking about though is these comments from basically says one hundred percent of people roamed the president think he is unable to perform the job it's a pretty harsh words for how they describe their boss i will tell you the one description that that everyone gave everyone has some common they all say he is like a child's and what they mean by that is he has and the need for immediate gratification it's all about him i know people would point out that in the beginning it was like every twenty five or thirty minutes you would get the same story stories repeated

now it's the same three stories in every ten minutes and what's the suggestion there because that goes beyond saying ok the president's not an intellectual with what's what's what are you arguing there is a for example he was at mar-a lago and didn't recognize lifelong friends. i will quote steve benen. he's lost just looking at trump's twitter feed patty and he tweeted about thirty two minutes ago now calling the book a phony new book just tell us what kind of impact this is all having in washington well obviously people in washington are focused on the fact that he is saying that the president is mentally unstable the bigger question is what is this going to do to his support in the country the president has faced more controversies than any other president in the history of the country but it doesn't seem to stick to him with his supporters and that's in large part because he's been able to label everything as fake news he's trying that tactic once again with this book the more

telling thing i think is going to be how this plays with his psyche the one thing we know about this president one of his biggest insecurities and how he's reacted is clear he doesn't like being called stupid this is a book says pretty much every single person around him believes that he is dumb and unfit for the office so if that starts to get into his head he could start alienating his staff but it's not clear that there'd be anyone left to fill the void now it's important to point out that this author has been controversial in the past some have questioned his credibility but no one who's been quoted here has come out and said that they didn't say that they're saying well i was taken out of context and one reason we could be seen that is the author says he's got a lot of things on tape ok particle hain thank you so as we're saying that book was released early in one of our viewers on facebook telling us well i just ordered mine now trumps domestic dealings are just one part of the book it also gets into his foreign policy agenda more specifically the book claims that trump is taking

credit for the rise of crown prince mohammed bin sandman in saudi arabia officer he replaces cousin hamad bin nayef so here is an excerpt where the president is bragging about the crown prince trump would tell friends that he and jared and generic as saudi crude we've put our man on top. a last october steve bannon spoke about trump's historic trip to saudi arabia and the change in succession at the time the former white house chief strategist praised changes being made by him who had been some man linking them to trump's riyadh visit and he also talked about the trips impact on the blockade on qatar i don't think it's just by happenstance that two weeks after that summit that you saw the blockade by the united arab emirates and and bahrain. egypt and the kingdom of saudi arabia and qatar and i said from day one i think that even with the situation in the

northwest pacific with korea i think the single most important thing that's happening right now in the world is a situation cover so that was the ban in speaking earlier on let's fix it i mean hooty in beirut he's a senior fellow there are some photos institute for public policy at the american university of beirut that is where he's joining us from thanks for speaking to us so so if this is to believe then according to the book trump is taking credit for the rise of crown prince of saudi arabia from advance on money is that a surprise at all. it's not really a surprise that most of the material in the book related to the middle east of the world is stuff that has been talked about before i've just spent three months in the united states and this is pretty much common knowledge what the united states under trump is doing in the arab world and what this book does is just reinforce it and gives it a bit more depth and a little bit more drama with some of some of the quotations the key point here is that the united states is dealing in the middle east basically through the lens of

the netanyahu government in israel with the support of sheldon adelson the billionaire donor to the trump campaign to the tune of twenty five or thirty five million dollars it's been reported and basically playing with the arab world like a toy and doing let me just stop you there for a second because just for clarification i mean clearly for any for viewers that may not know what you could be referring to so what you're talking about is actually an excerpt in the book that talks about jerusalem and the book alleges that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and who is a mega donor to the tram campaign as we know they are the ones that were behind the decision off the u.s. to move its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv and hence declared jerusalem as the capital of israel. that's right the american unilateral recognition of israel of drew slim as the capital of israel is a policy that sheldon adelson has long demanded and finally got and this has is

this is symptomatic of a broader trend which is for instance the negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis are being done by jarrett cushion or the son in law of trump and he's essentially following the israeli wishes and giving it take a leave it offer to the palestinians and getting the saudi leadership now under him and some men to basically support this and to put pressure on the jordanians and the palestinians to go along with it so all over the region you see the results of the trump policies which are based on the combination of massive ignorance of the details on the nuances in the region with a. measure of arrogance and this day in for the arab world that they can do anything that the u.s. and israel can do anything they want in the region and you're seeing the policies of the saudi arabians in the region and cut that in yemen and lebanon jordan palestine and syria all over the region increasingly dangerous and wreckless

creating tremendous problems and instability in the region combined with the there was one very interesting quote in the in the in the book by bannon was saying something like well we're going to just do this in palestine and israel and the palestinians the west bank can go to jordan if they want they can vote in jordan and jazzer can go to egypt and let the jordanians and the egyptians the quote is let them deal with it or sink trying let the jordanians and the injured there be any sort of follow alan's drum from the from these allegations or could there be any consequences if it is indeed proven that there is foreign interference i.e. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is interfering in u.s. matters of states. well that's been going on for a long time i mean netanyahu was invited twice to speak to the american congress about the iran deal to go against the american government the american president

obama back then so israeli government interference directly in the u.s. congress is a long standing process but when you get the american government manipulating arab countries to pursue policies that the israeli government of netanyahu would like pursued then it becomes a little bit more problematic more dangerous is that longstanding. allies of the u.s. like jordan for instance is a very delicate position jordan's a vulnerable poor country the saudis are been pressuring at the americans may be pressuring it egypt is in a similarly tough situation so the message coming out of the white house is we don't care about the big can go to hell they can they can do as they say they sink trying to take care of the west bank or orgasm and this creates greater tensions greater turmoil across the region which will play out and very very ugly ways of will have long term impacts all across the region this is a region already burdened with the wars sectarian fighting refugees terrorism

fragmenting states and to have this kind of policy coming out of the us under this kind of leadership is very troubling now none of this is new this is what's really even more frightening this has been clear i run into this in the three months i was in the us talking to people in washington new york boston everybody is aware of this it's just more out in the open now clarified maybe more confirmed and in many ways there will be a pushback from some people in the u.s. but not very much against against israel israel remains partly immune to the rules of international relations among sovereign countries. but i mean we thank you for speaking to us from beirut and stray arns on facebook a saying this to our. that the u.s. pushes democracy on middle east countries in the president of that country is trying to ban something that someone wrote about him freedom isn't viable anymore

in america let's find out if others feel that way and bring in our social media producer and a ship out and you've got some people calling this a civil war within trump's a base and what's going on well much of the internet latched on to the name that trump called steve bannon making sloppy steve trend on twitter at one point and many people appear to be taking sides here in the trump versus bannan feud and while the former white house chief strategist says that he still thinks that the president of the united states is a great man most of or quite a few people on his site bright bartz appear to be splits brenne here has a popular post talking about a huge divide in trump's base that these comments this book have created and if you mine the comments on breitbart a bit you'll see quite a few people using words like betrayal to talk about the site's creator so divisions are clearly apparent there and more broadly speaking the most prominent or effective voice that i've seen in the past day or so pushing back on the book is arguably the former white house communications director anthony scaramucci you'll

remember he was in the job for about ten days before being sacked for some very colorful comments he made to a journalist about steve bannon well he might be making a play to get back in the white house he's been making the rounds on cable networks including the president's favorite morning show fox and friends saying that bannon needs to apologize and walk back comments that he may have made about the president's son. everyone's talking about this book that michael wolff wrote and talked about steve bannon saying all kinds of salacious bad things about the president's family when he was working at the white house what is this true listen i don't know if it's true but what i what i what i would suggest to people because what goes on in the industry now is people just say whatever they say let's go verify it ok at the end of the day some of it may be true some of may not be true but i have to say this if he did say it he should get out there and walk it back donald trump is not treasonous he's an american patriot he loves his dad he loves his country so walk it back not just to focus on that

a bit more those people across the political spectrum who are talking about truth and verification of things that are found in this book you have journalists like sarah kenda zor saying that we should take all of its revelations with a grain of salt she's been very critical of the book's author michael wolff and others including the staff the new york times have been fact checking excerpts of fire and fury and they've already found numerous factual errors now that something that the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders pounced on on thursday to say that the book contains quote mistake after mistake after mistake but others like mike allen and jim vande to say that there are definitely parts of the book that are wrong sloppy or betray off the record confidence but they say he's right and his depiction of trump as a emotionally erratic president and also about the low opinions that many of his staffers have of him and on the subject of verification wolf says he has dozens of hours of audio recordings to back up his interview so we're all waiting to see if

those are ever released if you've got a copy of the book and you start to read it let us know what you think you can send me your thoughts directly on at andersonville or to. get well janine is telling us on twitter that the fact trump is reacting so strongly against the book only serves to increase general interest and promote sales trumps reaction leads one to believe there is much truth in it otherwise why instruct his lawyers to have it banned and take a look at our. website al-jazeera dot com because you'll find this article the tragedy and blessing that is trump it's a catchy title of this opinion piece on al jazeera dot com novelist larry beinhart best known for wag the dog in fact takes on all the highs and lows of the donald trump presidency it's an interesting reads on al jazeera dot com we're getting a lot of comments and questions on this particular story so keep them coming if you'd like to get in touch with us you can do so on any one of our social media platforms we're on twitter list or we're on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. newsgroup you can also send us a what's up on the plus one seven four five zero triple one one four nine and use

the hash tag a.j. news grid now don't tread on us that's the message from pakistan to the united states the warning is in response to the u.s. suspending military assistance to islamabad pakistan's foreign minister told the wall street journal that the white house is not acting like an ally the u.s. has cut millions of dollars worth of aid to the country it blames the government for failing to take action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in neighboring afghanistan the foreign minister went on to say that the u.s. was trying to turn pakistan into what he called a whipping boy intil the pakistani government takes decisive action against groups including the afghan taliban and how conny network we consider them to be destabilizing the region and also targeting u.s. personnel we need pakistan to deny safe haven to or lawfully detain those

terrorists and militants who threaten u.s. interests the united states stands ready to work with pakistan in combating all terrorist without distinction and we hope to be able to renew and deepen our bilateral security relationship when pakistan demonstrates its willingness to aggressively confront the afghan taliban the haqqani network and other terrorist village or to groups that operate from within its country. well u.s. aid to pakistan has been declining since the killing of osama bin laden but the recent slew of measures under the trumpet ministration are one of the most sweeping and consequential yet in recent years so washington is suspending at least nine hundred million dollars in security aid unless pakistan take specific actions against the taliban and the haqqani network that's an afghan armed group this is in addition to two hundred fifty five million dollars a state department's military funding that's already been blocked thousands of u.s. and coalition forces deployed in afghanistan depend on land and air routes through

pakistan for supplies of weapons and goods increasing isolation from washington has made pakistan grow closer to china which is investing billions of dollars in the country but speak to security analysts symbolic on joining us via skype from islam but thanks for speaking to us on the news grid so donald trump alleging that pakistan provides a safe haven to what he calls terrorists and is deceitful while receiving billions of dollars in aid do you agree that the u.s. should cut aid to pakistan. yes well it's an organization and also no surprises with the u.s. aid we were expecting i mean there was a lot of expectation in fact in buckets on an islam god that you know with the bridging up of pressure especially but since the trump was he came out and very clearly mentioned pakistan as a factor in bringing peace to a planet that he cared he said that they will not tolerate the same or behavior

from back and there was expectation and so they're not surprised as that age caught but it still got a little bit too soon i think there was some expectation that after the the back to back visits that we had in the van and december in october november and december from the u.s. that he hired acting civil and military leadership that they would have been some kind of breaking new ground between pakistan and the u.s. so i think i think this is the kind of pakistan does have a real problem with some of these groups like the haqqani network and like like the taliban so does this put pressure on pakistan. i mean it's obvious the pressure on pakistan and i think it's government says it's not a huge pressure as you might have followed the comments of bugs on finance advice that which came in yesterday that cutting the cutting off of two hundred fifty five million and this is essentially nine what has been suspended today is about nine

hundred million u.s. dollars in military aid some of it is for the econet which is foreign military financing which covers spare parts and other military training and capacity building building support than the rest of it c.s.s. which is the coalition support one which will do for twenty seventeen so that was ordered you to pakistan and that basically impacts the military and i think the impact will start showing maybe by in a little time not immediately the pakistan itself is not that badly affected by the cause but what pakistan is staring is a certain you know the extra amount of sanctions and other things that this could be and that escalating ladder of pressure on pakistan and when the pakistani ideas listen calls for a concrete action to retaliate what kind of actions would they be talking about here at. that's a very very interesting point because as you might know that our concern is going into an election year twenty eighteen is an election year in pakistan and so on the

government the government is under a lot of pressure in acting strong and giving a very strong response to the u.s. so the space part of government is going to make any conciliate greenwald's at this point in abusing or kind of you know reducing the pressure that it's been put on the u.s. is also very limited anything that the government ought to do to appease our mitigate the pressure from the u.s. has to be something done you know in the background not something that he openly said so so it's putting the government more in pressure because of the election year the opposition is going to come out very strong and look at every gesture that the government makes any comment that comes out from the government which sounds a little conciliate we latch onto it and say look they're bending down to pressure they're not strong enough they said in pakistan big nitty are off but you ok simple can thank you for joining us from islamabad. well as well as withholding financial

assistance to pakistan trump is also threatening to cut u.s. funding to development and building projects for the palestinians according to him for refusing to engage in middle east talks so inside story takes a look at trump's threats to both pakistan and the palestinians and what it will mean for u.s. policy in the region just gets head to our home page you can click on shows and then select inside story. zimbabwe's new president has ruled out forming a coalition government with the opposition so emerson non-god made the announcement made the statement after visiting the opposition leader morgan tsvangirai who is battling colon cancer at his home in the highlands and came to power in november after forcing out the longtime leader robert mugabe the first change of presidents in more than four decades had led to renewed hope among many in the country of a return to democratic norms let's talk about this and speak to alex i'm

a gay so who is joining us on skype from canterbury in the u.k. he served as an advisor to morgan tsvangirai when he was prime minister thanks for speaking to us so how significant is that that he's the president and i got one has actually gone to visit the opposition leader. what does this tell you and i know you're speaking to us from the u.k. but domestically how is this going to be seen well i think it's significant in the sense that. you know this is the ruling party the president of the country who's going to see the opposition leader who is unwell. and he. has. two political game but also understanding that people will give him a lot of credit for going to see a scenario zimbabwean. who is sitting and well and according to

the statements he made or he was just answering the question of a reporter rather he kind of brushed aside the issue of forming a coalition government is this the right move. well i don't think that the issue of the coalition government was ever an issue at this particular point in time mr winter seems to trying to right because he is unwell and i believe that if there had been any desire to create a coalition government this would happen soon after the events of november twenty seventh in what i see here is an effort to try and count of eight afghans in new political culture where they die look where there is in game and between the ruling party and the opposition the president obviously wants to give a picture that he's accommodating of these opponents and that he wants to create a different culture from the one that mr mugabe would certainly been saying the right thing so far and some people say he's also doing the right thing is he the

man to turn things around for the country well you know a lot of people would like to give him some hope people would like to give him a chance and the people are skeptical they look at the history that he has been with mr mugabe for so long but he is trying very hard to create a different picture a different perception about himself the way he's been going about his business in recent weeks suggest that he's very keen to please not only the local electorate but also international partners who are kinley following progress in zimbabwe because remember the biggest problem in zimbabwe at the moment is the economy and the economy has actually west since november and it's important that he cultivate a culture which allows investors to come in which allows support to come into the country and this gesture is part of those efforts ok we thank you for speaking to us from the u.k. thank you alex what they saw. so if you're watching us on facebook live you will see in a moment so little more about the tell you rather about some of pakistan's first

female commandos and still to come on the newsgroup the u.s. president donald trump's top law enforcement official plans to and an obama era policy that shielded illegal marijuana use from federal prosecution details coming up. we've had some rather lively stolz across the eastern side of the mediterranean sea our circulation here the pair of life fresh has been bringing some very heavy rain events a very windy conditions as well that will clear through will dry up as we go on through the next couple days i am pleased to say by region around sixteen degrees celsius just about getting up into double figures there and to run a little more cloud just around the southern end of the caspian for most of us it shouldn't be too bad over the next day out see much to see want to see wintry

flowers into northern iraq as we go through sunday behind that the sunshine returns in the sunshine stretches across the raven peninsula chiles of one or two showers just around the southern end of the red sea but for most it's going to be fine settled and sunny temperatures here and getting up to twenty five or twenty six degrees over the next couple of days now for southern africa slahi five in trouble we come across into madagascar and here we do have tropical cycling eva still bringing some very wet since a very windy weather in across the region widespread disruption here i think some parts of the eastern side of madagascar we'll see damaging winds and of course the flooding rains we're looking at two hundred three millimeters of rain for some and that will cause widespread problems for the country. june nineteenth sixty seventh six days that redrew the map of the middle east this

record a victory of the me in that war for the good this country of the of the history of islam fifty years later al-jazeera expose the events leading to the war and its consequences which is still felt today we tried everything we went to the united nations we tried to make a shirt has contacts through different countries and it was clear that all of this was to know of the rule in june at this time and monday put it on. us 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 for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the who are.

the most threat articles right now on our website. scuse me for a story israel's new death penalty bill targets palestinians had to al jazeera dot com. for more on that story as well as the other top stories.

and the second story. was about saudi arabia and yemen and the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen in fact saying it's intercepted a missile fired by who are the rebels towards the kingdom the war is having a devastating impact in yemen with widespread food shortages and a major cholera outbreak seventy doctor reports. forced to live out in the open these yemeni families of escape the fighting new to border with saudi arabia now they have to bear the elements on the streets of data their daily routine now for everyone to see this war has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. came from how we ran for our lives now we sleep on the floor no mattresses or blankets and it is really cold we have no income our children are suffering if any of us fall sick we cannot afford treatment our condition is really

terrible needless to say we are living in fear. this war now almost into its third year is all about regional politics and control the consequence of that has created what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis the situation in yemen today right now to the population of the country looks like the apocalypse we need to scale up our response the cholera outbreak is probably the worst the world has ever seen with a million suspected cases of the end of twenty seventeen this terrible news demick of diptheria a bacterial disease which should be completely preventable by immunization as already affected it's up to five hundred people with dozens and dozens of deaths in the last few weeks that is going to spread like wildfire and aid agencies are not able to access the majority of those who need them xanana we had to escape the war our life has turned upside down and we can't afford a decent meal we're now begging to eat and feed our children were living in the

streets on charity. some basic supplies are getting through a blanket to keep warm it is winter now and temperatures drop at night in a fire offers that will comfort these people face an uncertain future with no idea when they can go back home what will be left of it once they do stephanie decker al-jazeera well tech firms have admitted to a serious flaw in chips that could expose sensitive information from billions of computers servers and smart for phones around the world so experts are now scrambling to fix the issue before they become vulnerable to hackers all platforms are at risk including apple and microsoft as rob reynolds reports. the world's biggest technology companies are scrambling to fix critical cyber security flaws that could compromise every computer smartphone and server sold in the past twenty

years packer's if they are able to install some malicious software on a computer and then go the extra step to take advantage of this problem they can access some really sensitive information including passwords encryption keys that let them access even more sensitive data security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in computer chips used in nearly all devices the flaws dubbed specter and meltdown by security experts would allow intruders to steal any data on the systems companies involved including apple microsoft and google the flawed chips are made by intel a r m and a m d google's project zero security team said it found the flaws some time last year the company announced details of how it is working to protect users of google cloud and android devices it says a new version of the chrome browser debuting later this month will include fixes

microsoft has also developed an emergency patch that will automatically be applied to all devices running on windows ten apple has not publicly disclosed any fixes for its operating systems those patches will address the melt down bug but they could significantly slow down device performance in some cases by as much as thirty percent if i have news for a vote if you've got no device it'll become more vulnerable to hackers if you've got a new device it may slow down if it's a government chip and saw that the other flaw called specter is harder to fix and will ultimately require a redesign of the chips themselves rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles well speaking of technology. there is one new year's resolution that has the potential to impact us all the facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has revealed his wishes andrew for a twenty eight what are they and why should we care about this well mark zuckerberg in the years past his focus on learning mandarin or reading twenty five books in

a year but this year twenty eighteen he says he wants to fix facebook the company's c.e.o. says that facebook has a lot of work to do whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hates or defending against interference by nation states he also says he will dedicate twenty eight thousand sustaining ways to reinstate facebook's original motto which is to give people the power now comments follow a damning report that came out the other day which found that facebook is deleting content and blocking users at the orders of the israeli and u.s. governments. facebook now collaborating with the most powerful governments on the planet and the israelis and the americans in particular to determine who is allowed to speak and who isn't and what messages are allowed to be conveyed and what you ones aren't in to you can go on to twitter or you can go on facebook pretty much every single day and see calls for extreme amounts of violence to be directed against iranians to be directed against people in gaza or the west bank to be

directed against people in the muslim world and obviously facebook and twitter are never going to remove that kind of incitement of violence because that's consistent with the policy of western governments now for many palestinians this is just confirmation that they are in fact being targeted on social media and twenty sixteen the israeli government even signed a deal with facebook to tackle what it calls incitement online and since then over four hundred palestinians have been put behind bars under that offense that's according to the palestine prisoners center for studies at the time facebook justified this measure saying that online extremism can only be tackled with the strong partnership between policymakers civil society academia and companies and this is true in israel and around the world after that many websites and users found themselves blocked such as members of the news agency of the could see news network facebook later said that that was actually a mistake but these cases are so frequent that the boycott movement was started

around the hash tag facebook center's censors rather palestine that's still being used today now it's interesting israelis have also said that the platform has been biased against them and twenty sixteen the ngo israel last censor created the big facebook experiment to prove just that.

now facebook has responded to all the serious requests for comment on this story but a representative told the guardian newspaper that the company will continue to work with appropriate government authorities to ensure we meets our legal obligations and to explore options for complying with the law in a way that maximizes free expression on our platform and keeps people safe if you're watching us on their platform on facebook live go ahead and leave us a comment with your thoughts or question for dreams next guest yeah thank you well now we'll speak to. who's joining us from momo in sweden he's the founder and lead designer of the ethical technology firm in get to have you with us on al-jazeera again what is this all about mark zuckerberg wanting to fix facebook i mean is this a new year's resolution as he you know he has resolutions every year or is there something more are going on here. well i think it was good mondo that said his

resolution this year is to do his job right but we have to really ask ourselves what does it mean to fix facebook facebook is one of the most successful companies and the world today in terms of the profits that it provides for its shareholders so in terms of the capitalistic success criteria that we have facebook is hugely successful and mark zuckerberg is not going to do anything to jeopardize that so he's not going to trying to mentally change how facebook works because at least within our success criteria it works really well it makes a lot of profit right so i want to be coming out and saying yes now then why now well because there is a huge amount of criticism as your coverage just showed you know there are governments asking for stricter controls so basically what they're asking is for facebook to become a better sense or a better filter which which are already is because of course everything you see on facebook is algorithmically determined but when you look at mark's statements i

mean it's disingenuous to say the least if not outright hypocritical because mark is a king and he's basically saying we're going to fix the monarchy right and in his in his statement he also says oh and there's this thing called democracy that i've heard about and i really want to look into that as well and of course we just know that you know it's clear that this is just public relations no monarchy no king has ever abolished their own monarchy right he talks about centralized technologies facebook is the leading example of a centralized silo a surveillance based business and they make money by you roading people's privacy so giving power back to the people then the opposite of what they do to make money let me just get your thoughts on this reports and mentioning this a moment ago about saw a facebook deleting content and blocking users at the orders of the is really as well as the the u.s. government and we talk about users here we're talking. about palestinian activists

as well as human rights organizations and now mark zuckerberg is saying that's. one of the issues that he wants to fix includes foreign interference on the platform yet then you have this reports that's come out so how does this all balance out or does it not well facebook is an american company what do you expect if we don't like the fact that the united states of america gets to determine through its proxy facebook what we can say and what we cannot say on the internet then we have to start supporting and funding and building d. centralized alternatives to facebook facebook is not going to be centralized itself the only way mark could actually fix this problem is to shut facebook down and created the centralized alternative that's are going to so it's up to the rest of us yes so what is really it's going to be a different world where we create the centralized technologies it's a sort of stuff that we're working on that might not for profit at indy building technologies that individuals you when i own and control so we don't all go to

facebook a place and the people who run that place decide what we can say and what we can't say we each run our own facebook in a sense and then i can say whatever i want nobody has to listen to me of course but i can say whatever i want and i can talk to whomever i want to i make the rules that's a decentralized apology the centralized technologies but the east won't come out of silicon valley no venture capitalists is going to invest in these because they can't get their billion dollar unicorns out of them we have to support these from the commons from taxes we have to build them maybe with cooperative so it's about the business model really the business models have to change our success criteria have to change to take into consideration aspects like human rights and democracy rights and we thank you for speaking to us on the news grid. thanks so much for having me now the trumpet ministration is eliminating obama era laws that essentially took a hands off approach on enforcing federal laws in states where recreational

marijuana use has been legalized as the toss of a name reports state leaders have vowed to fight any moves against what's become a multi-billion dollar industry. we have the trump administration ignited outrage in the six states and the district of columbia where americans have the right to use marijuana for recreational purposes the whole concept of the interdiction of marijuana at any point in time and the prosecution persecution of those who take marijuana is absurd and this is the where alcohol is condoned to advertise part of the n.f.l. on thursday the department of justice allowed prosecutors to enforce federal law which bans the sale and use of marijuana it was a departure from the approach taken during the obama years which largely left the states alone the president believes in enforcing federal law that would be as top

priority the pivot in policy has renewed the debate over the rights of states and the federal government's authority we will not be bullied by an administration that seems obsessed with dismantling things that are actually working with these three. to announcement came days after a law allowing the recreational use of marijuana went into effect in california it's the sixth largest economy in the world and it speck to become the economic engine for the multibillion dollar cannabis industry in the united states some business owners say obtaining marijuana has shifted from the drug dealer on the street to a regulated pharmacy and there is no going back and you don't invest one hundred fifty million dollars into legal cannabis and operate in three states when you react to the news of the day so we were taken a long time on this and we think that long term on this is hasn't really changed some predict that the department of justice won't have the resources to

specifically target marijuana americans are already grappling with an opioid epidemic which the trumpet ministration has designated a public health emergency or in the middle of an open. crisis right now that is killing more young americans than any other cause of death so it's kind of difficult for me to see how a u.s. attorney would decide to use their discretion to go after can of us instead of opioids the number of states where americans can legally use marijuana for recreation is growing people in massachusetts and maine are waiting for laws to go into effect natasha al-jazeera at least four hundred thousand people in thailand are considered stateless with no registered citizenship the actual number could be more than three million many are members of ethnic minorities living in border areas and as wayne hale reports from my tang that's a problem the thai government wants to resolve by twenty twenty four in the hills

of northern thailand there are millions of people whose lives have been hanging in the balance for years people in this village in chiang mai province belong to the aka ethnic group whose ancestors migrated around the region centuries ago facing persecution along the way those living here now have been in thailand for generations but many still don't have type paperwork the village chief says he was the last person here to be granted citizenship sixteen years ago. in the past i only had a car that identified me as a highlander but now i have a tiny nationality car i'm very happy when i have money i can buy everything i want i can buy a house a car i'm glad those things remain a dream for so many others like monk who was born in thailand to parents from me and my eight years ago he won a paper plane throwing competition and was granted a temporary possible to represent thailand at

a competition in japan the government at the time promised he would be granted permanent status upon his return. he's now twenty and is still stateless he works part time in a drone shop and teaches stateless children how to fly them. i feel very sad because people promised they would give me time nationality they were senior people and had promised me when i was just a little boy but they broke their promise. last year the military government valid to grant time nationality to another eighty thousand people but that would still leave hundreds of thousands if not more waiting there are many challenges facing stateless people in thailand they have to ask for permission before leaving their village they have difficulty accessing proper education or employment and can often become victims of corrupt government officials trying to take advantage of their vulnerability. in fact in the last few years many people have had their id cards revoked after it was found they had paid bribes for them at this small government

office alone four thousand corrupt cases were uncovered the government sent in more staff to resolve the problems but those in charge say the workload is huge. this is a very delicate job and it can slide into corruption therefore we have to be careful that's why we can only process two nationality cases per day and i'm a good for people waiting it's not just a case of having an id card it's a matter of dignity pride and a sense of belonging after generations of uncertainty when hey al jazeera made ten district thailand's still ahead on the news grid joe will be here with the sports news and a special moment in football as africa's best player is announced at a ceremony in ghana the first here's a look at the international weather. african

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controversial president of modern times. the turkish president. speaking only say with the french president in my new car

let's listen in and start producing opinions. of course as the. president has said it and other important step i wish i agree is the moderates to do bit. which shows the. relations between turkey and france are. the target is to reach a certain. trade value. and the target that you set for ourselves is not one that we cannot. reach turkey and france and in hand can achieve its easy. of course relevant ministry and. units. and trade chambers need to take steps to move forward. another important agreement is the agreement signed between

the turkish airlines and us company. again very important. much. given that these signatures have been applied to the paper. what's left to say is made bring goodness. and all speciousness. to cold countries both exit. exit banks of both countries have made a similar step here today betrayal of course significant contribution to our economy relationships we have so that's the turkish president was a player and he is at the any say in paris and he is with the french president. my call we expect that they have discussed a whole range of issues which natasha butler will tell us about she is joining us

she's following the meeting from the palace in paris to tell us what what we've heard so far what's the most important thing. well this was really a meeting between these two leaders to try and discuss some mainly some of the pressing regional issues in the middle east the president said that the two men had talked about syria they talked about iraq they talked about their joint efforts to combat iceland of course they also talked about. reaffirming his commitment to a two state solution for israelis and palestinians and that was something that president said he appreciated very much but what was really important about this meeting for the turkish president was that it was not for him really to try and mend relations with the european union meeting with the french presence really a first step in this because those relations have been. really deteriorated over

the past two years because of you criticism of turkey's poor human rights record and the situation in turkey off to that failed coup back in twenty sixteen with ankara arresting tens of thousands of people something again criticized by the european union turkey wants to be a cat is a candidate for european union membership but the talks the accession talks have really been on hold for the last two years so this was really a step for president one to try and mend those relations what about relations specifically between turkey and france that's awesome. one of the what's interesting is the so you know many analysts in france will tell you that france seems to be one of the main allies of turkey in the european union at the moment because the turkey has such a poor relations at the moment with the rest of the blog turkey has also become

quite distance from the united states the situation the middle east is very fragile and that is why president one was here in france reaching out to possible allies and partners of president marcos certainly been very pragmatic in his approach he raised the issue of human rights methought however and there were just coming up to the top of the hour apologies thank you very much that's more on that meeting coming up in a couple of minutes with our teams from london thanks for watching. in two thousand and eight al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into

its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme helping change the face of india. at this time on al-jazeera. we headed to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have presence here all the time apart from being calm and it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens here matters. on counting the cost we'll look at the economic reasons behind the rest in the middle east second largest economy plus new year new rules for european finance but that's not all

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