as they struggle to get their lives back. at this time. every. after days of silence facebook c.e.o. addresses privacy concerns that have taken tens of billions of dollars of the company's value.

this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up as strikes in syria is in the province kill at least twenty two people most of those were children. french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya . and three months after barely survived an impeachment vote perrin's president as a result. had a facebook says he's committed to stopping the use of the social media platform to interfere in elections around the world including upcoming votes in brazil india and the u.s. midterms c.e.o. mark zuckerberg finally broke his silence five days after u.k. from cambridge analytical was accused of improperly accessing user information to manipulate u.s. voters well as confirm facebook has been issued warrants and says the company is

cooperating with ongoing investigations but he says facebook has found no link between cambridge analytical and russia's. internet research agency says he'd be happy to testify in front of congress if he was deemed the right person to appear he also said he'd welcome additional government regulation of the social media platform again if it was the right call it. a small facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says since this data breach happened in two thousand and thirteen facebook has already gone through a drastic security improvement that would make such a breach now impossible today however he also acknowledged that more still needs to be done by facebook to shore up its security that includes investigating the possibly thousands of other third party apps i had similar access to information prior to the security upgrade as well as more security upgrades to limit access of

apps going forward to people's private data and making it easier for facebook users to rescind permissions now what zuckerberg did not go as far as to say was to issue a full apology rather he places the lion's share of the blame on cameras analytic and the researcher that it purchased this data from saying that those two entities misled facebook now the value of facebook's stocks has taken a plunge in the last five days since the story broke losing sixty billion dollars of value but that is just the beginning of the fallout for facebook as now various entities have launched investigations that includes the federal trade board as well as three attorney generals from u.s. states as well as congress and the british parliament who all want as mark zuckerberg to testify in person something that facebook's founder and c.e.o.

has consistently resisted. syria's government has agreed to a deal with a rebel group in eastern guta to allow the evacuation of the town of harassed really two thousand people have died in the besieged on play since the government intensified strikes a month ago elsewhere in the country a turkish offensive in the northwest continues as airstrikes hit a school in rebel held in a province so hot it has more from beirut. one of the rebel factions in eastern a good hour has decided to surrender out a sham they control the town of house the eastern who took this besieged enclave of eastern wood has 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 them and file at the bottom and they have also been involved in negotiations with the russian military but so far those the negotiations did not make any progress but undoubtedly the decision by the 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 its 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. well now about to strike in it libyan northern syria at least twenty two people most of them children died in that attack the white helmets rescue group says they were fleeing a school after the raid began al-jazeera arabic. is an ad lib and has more. deaths and injuries mainly among children because of air 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 could to rescue them what they could not rescue them and after several areas of throwing all those inside the cave are found dead francis former president nicolas sarkozy has been placed on the formal investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy allegedly accepted millions of dollars from gadhafi while running for office in two thousand and seven well the probe into his election campaign has been underway for the past five years sarkozy denies any wrongdoing. here and in paris. well 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 that non-tariff 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 has 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. peru's congress are scheduled to meet on thursday to formally accept the president's resignation but the republican was

facing an impeachment vote of a corruption allegations tied to the brazilian construction giant on a bridge but in a sanchez reports from lima. i know he's been in office for less than twenty months now preceded. us quite. in 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 he 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 child got the order of 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 for 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 has changed completely here to be here movie and some skeptical more than shock to many peruvians see they are angry at business political class because they say it's corrupt. opinion polls 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're involved in corruption little there should be a restructuring of the state because money has been stolen by suppress it in acid in the past that if he was forced out he'd go to that's now looking less likely but if he takes over the presidency it won't be easy you'll have to work with the same politicians who impeached him less than one year ago when he was a transport minister. well peter hakim is a lot of america analyst he says kaczynski had no other option well broo. 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 in peru many of his supporters were disappearing his initial response

was not as frank and open and transparent as it might have been and it was a slow period but day by day he began to lose support and by the 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 the time for a break here not just zero when we come back a plea deal for the palestinian teenager who became a national icon when she was sent to prison for striking an israeli soldier. plus forty four african countries signed on historic new trade deal we look at what it means for the continent state.

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al-jazeera selects changemaker this at this time. welcome back recap our top stories here this hour the head of facebook has admitted his company made mistakes in its data protection after revelations are you pay for misuse information from fifteen million of its users c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has promised tougher steps to restrict developers access to information. at least twenty two people most of them children have been killed by a strikes in syria's rebel held in the province activists say the civilians for their school to a nearby cave after the first wave of bombs were struck by russian jets the cave

was hit in a second series of strikes. and cruise congress's shuttle to meet on thursday to formally accept the president's resignation but the public was facing an impeachment vote of the corruption allegations tied to the brazilian construction giant out of the. pope francis reportedly called the mother of a murdered brazilian councilwoman frank i was shot dead last week and thousands of brazilians have been protesting since demanding police find her tell is a nonprofit organization for the on the alameda tweeted on wednesday saying franco's mother spoke to the pope councilman was known. activism against police brutality. but he said the u.s. state of texas say they found concrete evidence that suspect mark condit was behind the recent bombing spree in the capital austin the twenty three year old stay at his car into a ditch and then broom self up on wednesday john hendren has more from the bomber's home town of pflugerville 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 a 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 may be a part of this who 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. condit's two roommates and discovered

a telltale bomb assembly room in his suburban austin home when call 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 most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls were abducted a month ago in northeast nigeria have been reunited with their families the girls were released in their hometown of duchy by boko haram fighters but it's reported that six still missing nigeria's government says it agreed a temporary pause in fighting with 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 that sunday or that sunday of that letter and that was a sixteen year old i should bury was among those kidnapped from school by boko haram fighters last month that access was assuming that it was 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 away. 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 this option. to sort this for quite awhile because most what. else nor 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 they will 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 hour for these girls is the capital of buddha at a meeting with president mohammed do bihari richard martin al jazeera. two yemeni government ministers have resigned after calling for their president's return from saudi arabia they accuse riyadh of holding president of the rebel months of hadi under house arrest he fled to the saudi capital along with many of his ministers at the start of the human conflict saudi arabia which backs the president's internationally recognized government has been waging war against who the rebels since twenty fifteen and yemen's central bank a u forces in february

when a letter obtained by al-jazeera shows the central bank requested that the funds be released by the saudi led coalition but it's yet to receive a response the money was needed to pay public employees salaries. well a palestinian teenage girl on trial for slapping on his writing soldier has been sentenced to eight months in prison the case has made a good to me a symbol of palestinian struggle a drawn international attention the two are against in the polls. i had to maybe arrived in kuta had her sentence in a defiant named five. we're not satisfied with anything we especially don 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 more serious charges that could have imprisoned her the years under the deal she's due to be released in the summer she

was fined fourteen hundred dollars her lawyer says the case against her was farcical after we understood the military prosecution wanted to keep hiding the tension 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 me respond the visited his wife and daughter for the first time in prison on cheese day he says his daughter spends her time doing schoolwork she isn't doing where lucy had grown reading studying the first border patrol.

the body how she was doing getting to the people in the point to do all of the fighting for our rights to me is 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 to chill. an international says that last november three hundred thirteen palestinian children were imprisoned victoria gating be algis their. ages president . said in a televised interview that egyptians should not fear speaking freely says he also denied he was responsible for a lack of competition in upcoming elections well the leader made the comments in response to criticism that people in egypt are afraid of imprisonment and are 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 sure as a professor of security studies at the institute for graduate studies he says 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 education army general sami on and you have all those who have been harassed you have human rights watch is talking about fifteen solid than civilians who were court martialed in his reign between october twenty four thousand in september twenty seventeen this is unprecedented number even on the mubarak's time we have

hundreds of cases of forced disappearances extradition killings are well documented and that made the human rights commissioner is they'd been rather speaks frankly about a. year of intimidation and terror in 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 there is a big gap that the european union has set out plans to increase the tax paid by digital companies the finance commissioner here muscovy chief says he wants firms with large digital revenues in europe to pay a tax of three percent of their turnover plans won't come into force unless their butts by the european parliament and the twenty eight e.u. countries most of which he says he's not specifically targeting the group of companies sometimes called google apple facebook and imus

this is neither that's nor and she you it's tax proposal doesn't work any company or any country we still meet that we want to do than twenty and one hundred fifty companies we actually full scoop. they are your piece americans each of us. forty four african countries have signed a free trade deal the biggest since the world trade organization was established well like the e.u. it will allow the unrestricted movement of people goods and capital but among the countries who haven't signed up are south africa and nigeria the continent's biggest economies bomb the reports from the rundown the 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 is. acting together now we are creating an african economy into a free trade area so we realize that we are wrong when we have a larger market. so far full to fall of the african union's have to 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 guilt 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 of 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 we have. to make sure that the chorus probably. is only. what the little ones for the. tough two have been said to. that platform with possible. trades in federal. court

cases while africa's most advanced economies often advantage with their moral development to function capabilities some of them remain opposed to the agreements that trade unions are already raising that flux arguing unfettered access by foreign workers to their labor markets could cause problems as people move to the continent stronger economies is such a jobs mohamed atta was has either got. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com. that's out of the. right time for a quick recap of the headlines here the head of facebook has admitted his company made mistakes in its data protection after revelations u.k. firm cambridge analytic mr used information from fifty million of its users c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg has promised tougher steps to restrict developers access to information at least twenty two people most of them children have been killed by a strikes in syria is it live province sad to say the civilians were hit after they fled their school essential to. france's former president nicolas sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation he's accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy allegedly accepted millions of dollars from gadhafi while running for office in two thousand and seven proves congress has accepted the resignation of president pether a public who stepped down amid corruption allegations he denied any wrongdoing but said he did not want to be an obstacle in the country's development. i think that the best thing for the country is for me to resign the presidency of the republic i don't want to be an obstacle said on nation can find the path to harmony that it

very much needs and that i was denied a palestinian teenage girl on trial for slapping an israeli soldier has been sentenced to eight months in prison after accepting a plea deal seventeen year old to me was accused of assault after hitting the man in the face last year in the occupied west bank to me agreed to plead guilty to four of the twelve charges against her will be fined for two hundred dollars. most of the hundred ten nigerian schoolgirls were abducted by boko haram last month the been reunited with their families the girls were returned to their hometown abducted by would appear to their convoy burke around fighters nigeria's information minister says one hundred four girls were freed but at least five girls were reportedly died in a few still missing police in the u.s. state of texas say the suspect in a series of possible bombings as killed himself authorities say they found a phone recording of marc condit confessing to the crimes five possible bombs that exploded in texas this month killing two and injuring several others

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