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and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour on live from my headquarters in doha the problem coming out the next sixty minutes. after days of silence facebook c.e.o. addresses privacy concerns that have taken tens of but he is of dollars off the company's a value. airstrikes in syria as a live problems kill at least twenty two people most of them children. french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya and three months off to bed he surviving an impeachment vote president has resigned . the head of facebook says he would welcome regulation of the social media platform if it was the right kind mark zuckerberg is promising tough the steps to restrict developers access to information after admitting facebook mishandle dot of

belonging to fifteen million of its uses. finally broke his silence five days. after the u.k. media expose the actions of cambridge and a lot of her the fervent use of improperly accessing use information to manipulate us voices in a post on facebook is like a big admits that his company made mistakes that its data protection is promising an investigation into apps on the platform after a quote is allowed to cambridge analytical access to information on millions of profiles despite only three hundred thousand users responding to the quiz the quiz gave cambridge analytical access to respondents friends as well and because of this facebook maintains that there was no data breach as permission was given by the original uses zuckerberg says terms of service have since changed but we're joined now for more on this by correspondent heidi show castro she's live for us in washington d.c.

and has given his first interview since the story broke heidi maintaining that facebook was also deceit. that's right elizabeth and it was notable that he did not issue a full apology in this interview on american media nor in this post that he put on facebook just a few hours earlier what he. casts this is that this is mainly a mistakes of the past scenario for facebook where in two thousand and thirteen when the researcher was able to acquire this private data from fifty million users and then selling it to cameras analytic that that afterwards in two thousand and fourteen was when facebook upgraded its security making those practices now impossible however as dick did acknowledge that more steps are still required and primarily that is to investigate the thousands of other third party apps that had similar access to the same level of data as camera analytic.

facebook will do a full investigation to see if there is any similar breaches from those apps he said the facebook will also increase tighten security further going forward and make it easier for users to rescind permissions to their third party hearty apps but again he does not issue a full apology he places the majority of the blame here on the researcher and on cameras analytics a who he says misled facebook and violated the company's policies let but in the meantime heidi in that some four or five days since this story has been in the headlines facebook has suffered tremendous fallout from this. that's right a sixty billion dollar devaluation and it's in the worth of its stocks and that means six billion of them are zero net worth has just vanished so there was a slight uptick by the end of the day in u.s.

stocks for facebook however that's just the beginning there are now investigations that are unfolding the federal trade commission says it wants to look into facebook as well as at least three state attorney generals in the u.s. congress itself as well as the british parliament have both said they want. to testify in person which is a move that he has continually resisted so that's what congress is saying heidi but we've heard from in this interview he's saying that he will. appear before congress if it's the right thing to do. that's right he was very vague about that he defended his decision to have not appeared thus far saying that there were experts within the company that facebook does send representatives you know to these commissions who have more detailed knowledge about the specific topics being discussed he did say that if it's determined at some point that he is the right

person representing facebook to speak that he will do so but it was no promise under any certain terms it is also notable that. the role that cameras and played in helping donald trump when the two thousand and sixteen election now that is something that an undercover footage of the former c.e.o. or the suspend its political has recently bragged about we're hearing from the former director of digital operations where they can trump campaign he says that claim is ridiculous and false though not ridiculous enough to not warrant the attention of the special counsel who is investigating the trump campaign robert mohler and his team is now reportedly asking those questions about what exactly was a relationship between campaign and cameras in

a little thank you very much for that with all the very latest from washington d.c. thank you. we're going to move on to other news now and syria's government has agreed to a deal with the rebel quit that eastern ghouta to allow the evacuation of the town of. nearly two thousand people have died in the same place since the government intensified attacks there a month ago elsewhere in the country a turkish offensive in the northwest continues as air strikes hit a school the rebel held province say in a hall that has more from beirut one of the rebel factions in eastern router has decided to surrender a sham they control the town of house the eastern who took this besieged enclave of eastern widows now divided into three pockets three pockets that are surrounded by pro-government forces now one of those pockets how to ask the pro syria government media reporting that up to one thousand five hundred fighters and six thousand members of their families will be leaving early thursday they will be bussed to the

north western province of idlib which is under the control of the opposition this will be the first deal of its kind in eastern huta because there are two other rebel factions socialist them and they have also been involved in negotiations with the russian military but so far those negotiations did not make any progress but undoubtedly the decision by how to sham to lay down its arms will pile more pressure on these two other rebel factions now the pro-government alliances military campaign has entered its second month really relentless bombardment that put a lot of pressure not just on the rebels but the thousands and thousands of people who are trapped inside according to the united nations hundreds of thousands remain in these rebel controlled besieged pockets of territory and that their situation is catastrophic many of them want to leave but they are requesting safe passage what they mean by safe passage is that these humanitarian corridors should be monitored

by international observers they're too scared to cross into government controlled territory in fear of arrest and even some will tell you we could be executed. so one rebel faction surrendering the pro-government alliance making this clear in its actions and it's in its words really since the start of this campaign that they will not stop until the rebel factions lay down their arms and any agreement short of that will not end the military onslaught. a lot of that is striking syria and at least twenty two pieces of most of them children have died in the attack the white helmets says they were fleeing the school after the raid. and has. been deaths and injuries mainly among children because of our strikes launched by what the opposition says were russian jets they targeted residential areas in the village of kaffir about the. countryside they hit civilian homes the first airstrike targeted

a house near an elementary school children at the school were terrified they fled the school in a chaotic way so residents tried to shelter them inside an underground cave in the neighborhood however the jets turned back on targeted the location with several missiles hitting the cave that was sheltering more than twenty children and women the cave fully collapsed on top of the children civil defense units did all that they called to rescue them what they could not rescue them and after several areas of throwing all those inside the cave were found dead. to france now where former president nicolas sarkozy has been placed on a form of investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from late libyan leader moammar gadhafi allegedly accepted millions of dollars from gadhafi while running for office in two thousand and seven the investigation into his election campaign has been underway for the past five years denies any wrongdoing but has more from paris. this is the first time that

a former french president has been placed under formal investigation for illegal foreign campaign funding foreign funds planned during presidential campaigns here in france well nicolas sarkozy was questioned by french police for just over twenty four hours police station just behind me it's just outside of paris and then he was released earlier on thursday afternoon around five thirty local time and placed on a conditional release we don't know whether that means bail whether there will be restrictions on his travel but what we do know is three judges then decided to place him under formal investigation for corruption for the misuse of libyan funds and for illegal campaign foreign funding now that of course is the worst case scenario for nicolas sarkozy who has always said that he is innocent and he was of course hoping for his release what he can do now though is he has six months to try and appeal those charges during that time the magistrates will try and put together

a case they will do more investigating see if they can possibly bring nicolas sarkozy to trial at some date in the future. police in the u.s. state of texas said they found concrete evidence that suspect mark anthony condit was behind a recent bombing spree in the capital austin the twenty three year old stay at his con to put himself up on wednesday john hendren has more from the bomb his hometown and texas. after a three week manhunt the austin package bombers latest victim was himself his motive still a mystery the suspect is deceased in a final confrontation with officers who had tracked him down to a suburban hotel police say twenty three year old mark anthony condit detonated an explosive leaving him dead his parents at a loss to explain it is series of questions unanswered we don't know where this suspect has spent his last twenty four hours we also have not fully been able to

rule out whether or not there were any other accomplices he may be a part of this is still pose a danger police did reveal one surprising discovery on the bomber cell phone was a twenty five minute recorded confession detailing each of six explosives he made leaving police confident none are still waiting to detonate we can account for each and every one of them police say he paired batteries ordered online from asia with everyday products he bought at a home depot store he turned them into deadly explosives that blew up on doorsteps on a sidewalk and most recently in a fed ex shipping center the blasts left two dead several injured and a city shaken. condit's family said in a statement we are devastated and broken at the news that our family member could be involved in such an awful way our prayers are for those families who have lost loved ones in for the sole of our mark the picture of the bomber that emerges from friends neighbors and police is of a bookish young man schooled at home from

a religious family politically conservative and opinionated but so far nobody can answer the most vexing question why did he do it police tracked him down using receipts cell phone records surveillance video of a disguised man dropping off a package and witness reports in the past twenty four to thirty six hours we started getting information on one person of interest that we continue to work on and continue to develop police question condit's two roommates and discovered a telltale bomb assembly room in his suburban austin home and one called a bomb making factory but there's definitely components consistent what we've seen in all these other devices the search found explosive components now what they're looking for is a motive john hendren al-jazeera austin texas. well palestinian. slapping an israeli soldier has been sentenced to eight months and present the case made on

at the main a symbol of palestinian struggle and international attention but polls. i had to maybe arrived in kuwait to handle a sentence in a defiant named by this you know yes we are not satisfied with anything we especially don't accept the existence of the occupation on our lands it's illegal the seventeen year old agreed to a plea deal with israeli prosecutors to avoid most serious charges that could have been prison to the years under the deal she's due to be released in the summer she was fined fourteen hundred dollars says the case against him it was after we understood that the military prosecution wanted to keep hiding the. mention for several years because this case is a case of detail that they're trying to detail our other palestinian youth from resisting occupation as i did that. to me was arrested in december after a video of her slapping and hitting israeli soldiers went viral the confrontation

in the occupied west bank took place after what israel says was a stone throwing assault on its troops the judge agreed to a similar plea deal for two mimi's mother who was charged with incitement. to be respond the visited his wife and daughter for the first time in prison on tuesday he says his daughter spends her time doing schoolwork she's a doing her reading studying the first born of the strong again this is about the high and she was doing to the people that want to do our part think for all of us to maybe's case was heard behind closed doors in a military court it's drawn international criticism and one point seven million people across the world have signed a petition calling for her release and she's not alone the pressure group defense for children international says that last november three hundred thirteen palestinian children were imprisoned victoria gay to be out there. we have plenty

more ahead on the news hour including over one hundred one cheery and schoolgirls were kidnapped by boko haram last month are related but their families as students take the lead in protesting gun violence in the united states the long history of u.s. led to political struggles and iraq ends a three decade long baton hosting international matches but fans of the capital feel shut out of the action joe will have the details and support. for his kong was a shock to mange on first. to formally accept the president's resignation peder publicly chance kate was facing an impeachment vote as a corruption allegations tied to the brazilian construction giant braised for more on this a cost bonded by the ana sanchez is joining us live from the bus so was this expected money on

a given the ongoing pressure on kaczynski. well he could use key is out he could be is facing justice very soon because the immunity he has he had a precedent last for a last four for a period of time however for crimes committed only during his presidency and the allegations of crimes that. he allegedly committed committed happened more than a decade ago so many believe. that he could have. survived this second impeachment. that was planned for tomorrow. is the fact that these videos with the allies apparently negotiating both to keep or to safety to see from from

being ousted prompted his resignation. i mean. he's been in office for less than twenty months now president bill. white. and the face of this difficult situation that has developed and has unjustly made me appear guilty of acts i have not participated in i think the best thing for the country is that i resign. he left the presidential palace flanked by administrative personnel politicians were going to impeach him on thursday they say kaczynski lied about receiving consulting fees from brazilian construction giant although bridge when he was a finance minister more than a decade ago in a message to the nation he said he was innocent. that they were government i categorically reject these unproved accusations and i reaffirm my commitment to an honest moral and just poor rule for all. but then secret recordings were released

by his opponents led by the daughter of former strongman and we have to fire him already of political allies allegedly negotiating votes to protect from being ousted according to the constitution the first vice president. should take over the presidency for three more years to finish the mandate only on friday vickery can be sworn in with a new cabinet and i hope everything's changed completely here have been here movie and some are skeptical more than shock to many peruvian say they are angry at business political class because they say it's corrupt opinion poll say seventy nine percent of peruvians thought he had to go only fourteen percent approve of the congress performance. yes he lied everyone lies i hope all the congressmen leave. all congressmen should resign because they were involved in corruption and there

should be a restructuring of the state because money has been stolen by suppress it in. city in the past that if he was forced out he'd go to that's now looking list likely but if he takes over the preceding it won't be easy you have to work with the same politicians who impeached him less than one year ago when he was a transport minister. so what are we expecting to happen next then. when he was impeached and ousted. minister less than one year ago he was named ambassador. to canada he is still in canada and he's expected to arrive in. thursday. thursday he hasn't officially accepted of course to take over after kaczynski but he's already written in his twitter account that he is ready to serve the country

and i thank you very much for that that's money on the sanchez with the latest from lima thank you. well for more on his resignation we spoke to latin america analyst peter came and he says the president had the option to resign. how after the revelations about petro pablo kaczynski being involved with the company that was involved with the autograph company it was clear that he had become virtually a lame duck and many of his supporters were disappearing his initial response was not as frank and open transparent as it might have been and it was a slow period but day by day he began to lose support and by that time he pardoned president x.

president fujimori and allowed him to return to his house. leaving him out of jail his criticism of him was growing louder and louder approval was going lower and lower and there was really nowhere to turn and he had very little support in congress his own cabinet was questionable support i think he finally took the advice that this was not going to work. pope francis has reportedly called the mother of a murdered brazilian councilwoman my early funk over shot dead last week and thousands of brazilians have been protesting since demanding police find this a nonprofit organization for the tweeted on wednesday saying franco's mother spoke to the paul funk office known for her activism against fatality. now already this year in the us there have been nearly twenty school shootings where someone was hurt or killed the worst in parkland florida in february left seventeen

people dead but many more the saved barely any attention gabriel is all there went to frank for ten kentucky where one such shooting took place to find out why. another school shooting in america and more frantic scenes of kids running for their lives this one happened in a small town in kentucky in january two teenage students killed fourteen wounded by a classmate who opened fire seventeen year old leighton solomon had just arrived to school as the shots rang out it wasn't until later that day after i. watch the news that it really is so then like no one did this accidentally someone really brought a gun to school and saw his classmates like someone really did this and i meant to do and i meant to hurt people despite it being the first fatal school shooting in america this year it garnered very little media attention most people outside

kentucky never even heard about it. that wasn't the case a couple weeks later when another school shooting mr parker in florida garnered worldwide attention fueled by shocking images posted by students seventeen people were killed there not all school shootings and even mass shootings more broadly received the same attention we know that there are certain factors. from the research that show that some of these cases are perceived to be more newsworthy than others and have a little bit more staying power over other events that are quite similar. because he was right. apart from the number of people killed another key factor that kept the florida shooting in the news is that the students formed a movement immediately afterwards to bring about better school safety and gun control that movement has gone national and in turn come back here to kentucky where a feeling of being forgotten has been transformed into empowerment in demonstrations

like this it's something keeton connor is one of the leaders of the movement in kentucky and says they've been inspired by the activism of the florida students there is no way that we can ensure that this never happens again you know there are always the evil in this world. but we can make sure that it's going to be as hard as possible and i think that's what we're trying to do there now trying to remind the country that old school shootings no matter how many people are killed should get the attention and urgency of the crisis that has become gabriel's on doe al-jazeera frankfort kentucky. well as gabriel noted the pot plant killings have sparked a wave of activism across the united states much of it led by teenagers as rob reynolds reports their actions are just the latest contribution to america's long

history all youth led political struggles. the gun protests spearheaded by survivors of the stone douglas high school mass shooting are the latest in a long tradition of youth led protest movements student have been at the bank art of social movements in america for a long time people become risk of birth they get older but you know you live with they're here in the lion's mouth the list of student led protests is long including the one nine hundred sixty lunch counter sit ins against u.s. racial segregation that galvanized the civil rights movement the anti vietnam war demonstrations beginning in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the may one thousand nine hundred sixty eight anticapitalist and anti-imperialist protests that paralyzed france and spread across europe china's chinaman square student pro-democracy protests in one nine hundred eighty nine the youth revolt the top and

middle east governments during the arab spring of two thousand and eleven and the black lives matter movement in the united states from twenty fourteen onward i think part of it has to do with youthful exuberance and and fear of the determination in the face very daunting a riff a refusal to settle for the compromises that a lot of adults hey out in the world around them some youth protest movements were crushed for a time but their impact lingered often changing political systems and national cultures with the memory of idealism standing up to power echoing across generations after decades of repeated mass shootings followed by baron de. and inaction over guns the parklane survivors protest has already led to stricter gun laws in florida and with students across the country joining in created a sense of urgency about gun control school safety and the political stranglehold

of the gun lobby but these students have moved the needle because they've been in a position to say we're going to bring the go through of our fast meet with every debate a movement led by youth who refuse to be silent robin liss al jazeera los angeles. still ahead on the news hour forty four african countries signed a historic new trade agreement will cut what it means for the continent. and days before age of presidential election the fact that all things he says egypt's sins shouldn't be afraid to speak out afraid any and the west indies get a little help from the weather to book their place at the cricket world cup challenge we'll have the details and support. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east.

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come out of it is some snow on the hindu kush been some rain fall cost wise as numbers left it will time to get to stay and you took you back clear skies for the most part even in southern india and sri lanka was a chance of showers the full cost has it virtually dry so we're just now watching the temperatures slowly rise. the weather sponsored by cats on a race. for the benefit of people. who witnessed documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much employed in contribution to

a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's very challenging they believe but to give because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to do we work in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories the head of facebook has admitted that his company made mistakes in its dr protection after revelations that a u.k. firm misused information from fifty million of its uses c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg has promised office steps to restrict developers access to information. at least twenty two people most of them children have been killed by airstrikes and serious rebel held at the province activists say the civilians fled their school to a nearby k. the first wave of bombs was dropped by russian jets the cave was hit and a second series of strikes. say to formally accept the president's resignation pedro public was facing an impeachment vote of a corruption allegations tied to the brazilian construction giant. let's get more on our top story now facebook and the fallout from the latest massive data breach at the social network we're joined by mark douglas the president of the steel house that's a digital display advertising platform for e-commerce marcus's marketers and he's joining us from los angeles california very good to have you with us on al-jazeera

so what did you make of mark zuckerberg comments in this first television interview maintaining that facebook was deceived just as users have been i mean is cambridge analytical solely to blame for this. i think facebook was definitely did see this goes a little under the category of no good deed goes unpunished you know facebook is providing access data in order to basically. make the use of their platform more convenient by the cambridge basically misuse the data. but they clearly taking responsibility also you say a little bit deceived but there are former employees of facebook who say that they really should not be surprised given how lax they say facebook was about protecting users data and they of course found out about this what i think in two thousand and

fifteen and kept it to themselves. yeah so the background on this is the way this is arrived let's say you use an app like spotify and one of things that spotify does is it essentially allows you if you give it permission to know what your friends are listening to and so this is a feature and facebook bill allows users to enable sharing of their information and access their friends in order to make apps like spotify have features like bed or photos on your phone when someone calls you and so the features and the use of the data is very well intentioned but i think in this case the intention was definitely it was definitely misused and i'm happy to see that facebook and mark zuckerberg are responding men admitting that and putting in controls to make sure it doesn't happen again he has said that the company is now going to review thousands of at so

how big a sort of brain child bigger problem could this be do you think well it's not it's not in the area of a bridge so just do the math if you have five hundred thousand facebook users and they each have eight hundred friends on average that's fifteen million people so it's you start with a relatively small group when you think of the scale of facebook and then because they have you know one hundred or two hundred three hundred case some case a lot more friends it can expand sort of fact a lot of users so i think it is something that facebook is capable of doing they have thousands of engineers working for the company and they appear to be committed to looking at all uses of the no matter how well intentioned the use was and you know it's a really positive move and i think overall consumers still want the convenience while still being protected and that has also said that facebook should be more

regulated what did you make of that and can we expect that. you know regulation is difficult because the tech industry changes so rapidly it's hard for regulators to keep up with it my opinion on that is that facebook. what would socking about here this topic is something that facebook or ready you know had discovered on their own and had already put the pieces in place to tighten security around so i think you know that statement largely comes from the fact that he's you know confident that facebook is already trying to protect the data probably you might see more of the slows or rules about any possible misuse but i think they're now hiding to it so hopefully there won't be a need for any to slow douglas it's a very good good to get your thoughts on this that's joining us live from los angeles thank you you thank. to nigeria now where

most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted a month ago in the north east have been for united with their families the girls were released to their hometown of duchy by boko haram fighters but it's reported that six are still missing nigerian government says it agreed to a temporary pause and fighting what the group to secure their release richard martin reports. of the more than a month in captivity the schoolgirls were brought to my degree to meet government ministers who helps negotiate their release many of them are suffering from the effects of their experience earlier parents who spent weeks anxious the waiting for news celebrated their daughter's return sunday or that somehow that their son that was sixteen year old i should bury was among those kidnapped from school by boko haram fighters last month not access those assuming that even though we could hear lots of gunshots in the air we were totally confused some buckle her around people

into a school gate and we started to run they asked us to stop running or they would shoot us we got into some trucks and they took us and why. boko haram fighters dropped the girls in the center of the early on wednesday morning the nigerian government says it chose to negotiate with the group rather than use military force we have been in negotiations. with these factions. inside this for quite a while cost most what. else no money peter. this isn't the first time schoolgirls have been abducted in nigeria there was international outrage in twenty fourteen when more than two hundred seventy girls were kidnapped from chibok many of them still missing i should derry's father is just grateful his daughter is safe and he's there when i have with you at first when i heard the news i was waiting for confirmation then i found out the children were coming home after ten minutes the town was crowded with people celebrating and praying people were really

happy. much needed time with their families will have to wait the next stop for these girls is the capital of buddha had a meeting with president mohammed duper hari richard martin al-jazeera. forty four african countries have signed a free trade deal the biggest since the world trade organization was established unlike the e.u. that will allow the unrestricted movement of people goods and capital but among the countries who have not signed up to south africa and nigeria the continent's biggest economy the home of the reports from the rwandan capital kigali. one by one they signed up to an agreement decades in the making it's estimated the african continent toll free trade area could see business between african nations increased by more than fifty percent within four years the idea is to bring together countries with a combined population of one point two billion people and gross domestic product or

g.d.p. of more than two trillion dollars into one market africa in suits stronger acting together now we are creating an african economy into a free trade area so we are realizing that we asked when you have a larger market so far four to four of the african union's fifty five member states have signed the protocol but these one multiple absentee nigeria africa's biggest economy prison muhammadu buhari did not attend the signing ceremony to allow time for more consultations nigeria's led by unions have cautioned him against signing what they called an extremely dangerous initiative african union officials admit everyone is such a fight that individual countries would be better off under the deal look at the european union from the treaty of rome. almost to. the teeth of these well

if we projects of integration at any level as well as work in progress the argument commits countries to moving targets on ninety percent of goods and lifting all body has to trade with in the continent eventually the free movement of people and even a single currency could become part of the free trade area but before the tuppence banks are looking to fill the void what's. make sure that the chorus problem. we are working on will launch for the. traffic to have a settlement. when africa's. with the capabilities some of them remain opposed to the arguments that trade unions are already raising red flags arguing

for foreign workers to their. problems as people move to the continent's. jobs. got. to yemeni government ministers have resigned after calling for their president's return from saudi arabia they accuse riyadh of holding president of the on the house of west he fled to the capital along with many of his ministers at the start of the yemen conflict will solve the arabia which backs the president's internationally recognized government has been waging war against the rebels and two thousand and fifteen and yemen central bank has seized all activities due to a shortage of cash that comes after a large shipment of yemeni reales equal to six hundred eighty million dollars were seized by u.s. forces in february and that obtained by al-jazeera shows that the central bank requested soon after the farmers be released by the saudi led coalition but it's

yet to receive a response the money was needed to pay public employees salaries. egypt's president and the fact that he has said in a televised interview that egyptians should not fear speaking freely he also denied his responsible for lack of competition and upcoming elections and made the comments in response to criticism that people in egypt are afraid of them president and a struggling economically. and who can i have noticed on t.v. that there are phrases like oh stop talking or no you can't say that this is not good and i am not saying this for the sake of saying it i mean it and people are comprehensively free to talk and act only one thing is not allowed for example to violently hurt the country some people ask about the democratic process in practice when they say that sisi may win the elections but still we wish to see some other competitors yes they are right why not more candidates but you talk to me about something i have nothing to do with. well earlier we spoke to his

a professor of security studies at the institute for graduate studies and he says since the statement is not truthful the practice is on the ground completely different from what he says. most of the serious contenders for the presidential elections were either marginalized or live in prison including the former chief of staff of the egyptian army general sami on and you have all those who have been harassed you have human rights watch is talking about fifteen solid and civilians who were court martialed in his reign between october twenty fourth seen in september twenty seventh this is unprecedented number even on the mubarak's time we have hundreds of cases of forced disappearances to do so killings are well documented and made human rights commissioner they'd been rather speaks frankly about. of intimidation and terror ruling the country which is also unprecedented for a human rights commissioner to say that never been said before under any of the regimes

so when this is said that nobody no one should fear and these are the realities documented realities on the ground and there is a big gap. the european union has set out plans to increase the tax paid by the digital companies the finance commission appear moskovitz he says he wants firms with large digital revenues in europe to pay a tax of three percent of their turn over the plants won't come into force unless they're backed by the european parliament of the twenty eight you countries this is either that's your. us tax proposal. starting with target any company or any country we still meet that between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty companies will actually fall into the scoop of our proposed they are you piece americans each

of us. the u.k. is foreign secretary has compared russia hosting the world cup later this year to nazi germany hosting the olympics for nine hundred thirty six bars johnson was responding to questions from politicians who've been calling for brushing to take tougher action against russia london's accuse moscow of the recent poisoning of former russian spy and his daughter yes i think the comparison with one hundred thirty six is is only right and i think it's a messy prospect rightly think of. putting glorying in this this is a sporting event where the russian government has been preparing its position that it played no part in the poisoning of sergei scruple as voice challenge reports from moscow. what a rather interesting event has been going on in moscow this afternoon a roomful of ambassadors or ambassadorial representatives invited to the foreign

ministry to basically hear the russian perspective on this case now as outlined by vladimir who's the head of the russian foreign ministries departments of arms nonproliferation and control essentially russia is being accused hysterically of something none of the versions that have been heard from the u.k. he says would stand criticism there are two options as he put it either u.k. or thirty's around able to protect against terrorist acts on their own territory or they've directed this attack themselves against the russian cities and they said there's no third option we see he said that the u.k. authorities are becoming more and more nervous and it's easy to see why the clock is ticking and they've driven themselves into a corner this is a blatant the framed illegal adventure russia has nothing to do with this it's interesting to compare this sorts of events with similar things that happened in

the aftermath of the mh seventeen disaster when a passenger jet was shot out of the sky over eastern ukraine ams of course what happens just after the can shake whom gas attack is in syria now in both of those situations there were similar briefings given in this kind of panel format. where people were invited to hear russia's version of what had happened and that it was nothing to do with russia.

thanks very much iraq has made its return to hosting international football the team played a historic much on home soil on wednesday for the first time since fifa lifted a three decade long ban on the country holding international tournament iraq played cat on the southern city of basra in front of a packed crowd the much finished three two to cata it's one of a series of friendlies with iraq set to play syria next week but as our correspondent in one can reports from baghdad fans in the capsule feeling shut out from the action. has lifted its ban on international games taking place in iraq but the band's only been lifted in three cities are built where that game is taking place. the bow doesn't extend to baghdad and that's left

a lot of very disappointed. praise god it's a big joy that the band for these three major cities pastoral karbala and erbil has been lifted we look forward to the ban being lifted in baghdad but as we know there are security reasons but when iraq plays it lifts our spirits like it's going to die i mean i don't think i can have as you know an iraq just came out of war these cities are the safest well that baghdad is the capital we all know security here is an issue that we hope for the future the security gets better and the pain gets lifted now despite that disappointment whoever wins this tournament football wins in iraq and that's possibly the most crucial things fans are very excited by international football it's a competitive international football maybe able to return to iraq in the very near future and not be able to see the big heroes people like most people like neymar. will prove had a boost ahead of the world cup captain paolo guerrero has returned to training at

brazilian club from anger as the end of his doping ban approaches credo was initially banned for one year after testing positive for cocaine which he denies the suspension was subsequently reduced to six months and now ends in may meaning he will be eligible to play in russia. one of cricket's most famous teams the west indies have booked their place in the twenty nineteen cricket world cup but they were made to sweat by scotland and helped by the rains in harare the windies were two for two the third over. they recovered a little but were eventually all out for one hundred and ninety eight scotland battled one hundred twenty five for five in reply with more than fourteen overs left to play but then rain ended the match and with it scotland's world cup dreams . i definitely believe you know. coming into this tournament been here for the first time and. we know what was at stake and i was just really pleased to see how the gays responded you know i think is one of better things we really came together

as a school as a squad and everybody put in there has to go in and try to do what's best for us and it's working and what's best for us and it's a good thing that the west indies won so that these two team mates can put this incident behind the modern samuel's had a powerful strike which accidently struck evan lois in the back of his leg the friendly fire floored him for a bit but he got back up and both of them grabbed a half century which. one country that can now dream of playing at the world cup in the future is nepal just last week they end their official one day international status that means that they can play with some of the sport's big guns like england india and australia but a subpoena shuster reports from katmandu the new status hasn't stopped allegations of corruption and political interference. hundreds of fans wait outside atlanta airport to get a glimpse of their favorite stars and palace national cricket team arrived home on monday evening from zimbabwe after winning one day international status and i'm looking forward to playing the giants of the one day games such as india england

and australia. this comes with a lot of responsibility we have to improve our game and if infrastructure is built on the next six months to a year we can plan and move ahead it's time the government gives priority to cricket. the path to one day international status has been a rocky one for the nepalis the players are talented but the sports administrators are plagued by allegations of mismanagement political interference and corruption involving embezzled funds all that cause the world governing body international cricket council to suspend cricket association of the past two years ago. association suspension from the i.c.c. has. excluded the team from competitions but it has meant a reduction of more than ninety percent in fundie of we. don't i mean snow mustard on i mean our it got hamburger because there were no more drowning in the door

buster gone i mean so we had a problem with beers flexion and. problem for people who are involved in the system so the direct impact and most important impact that we had in the domestic structure. far from developing new facilities existing cricket grounds have not been minting still control this is around the sports administration as hard dampened the spirit of aspiring players cricket has become in you know mostly popular in their part earlier this year one of the national players was selected for the indian premier league the richest cricket league in the world and a few people across the country have started to see the sport as a viable career option now with o.d.i. status assured for the next four years the paul hopes to cement its place as a competitive international team fans here hope that the sports administrators in

the park as well as the newly appointed sports minister will make changes and start investing in the development of the sport to beat us russia al-jazeera. belgian cyclist thomas to ghent has grabbed the overall lead at the tour of catalonia after stage three to against staged a solo breakaway with twenty kilometers left to go on wednesday and himself a twenty three second overall lead over defending champion at the hands of albert. meanwhile cycling's governing body the u.c.i. says it will use x. ray machines and dismantle bikes to try to tackle the issue of mechanical doping that's the use of a mini engine inside the frame of a bike to help power it in two thousand and sixteen a belgian cyclist was found to have a motor in his bike cycling bosses have been concerned about the issue for some time they've used thermal imaging cameras in the last two editions of the tour de france. since hanging up his running shoes hundred metre world record holder you saying bolt has made no secret of his next sporting ambition and that's to play

football full manchester united well earlier the eight time elim pick champion have a chance to impress united manager is a marine you're jamaican looking serious he took to the pitch alongside a host of football legends including diego maradona event marks eighty four days until the start of the world cup. and that is all useful for now more later thank you very much john that does it for me and as the product of this new salvador stay with us down to a lot of us here in just a couple of minutes. perceptions

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