when you get right down you know if only the good. book. won't be. so easy. as the u.s. has withdrawn from the trans-pacific partnership deal others have staged committed to it first small countries countries with small populations such as yours is this actually a better deal without divided states signatories of the world's newest trade bloc tools al-jazeera. mark zuckerberg speaks out after days of silence in the cambridge analytical controversy saying facebook made a mistake. i'm

richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming out. air strikes in syria as a blip province killed at least twenty two people most of them children. french authorities place former president nicholas sarkozy under formal investigation in connection with ties to the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi. and tradition but the modern twist we look at an artist to provide evil the strong thousands of visitors to pakistan. facebook's boss has promised to safeguard the information of its two billion users after a major a data breach it's the first time mark zuckerberg has publicly addressed accusations that fifty million users had their data harvested by a third party app and passed on to a political call to its consultancy that is that firm in cambridge analytic is

accused of improperly accessing the information to manipulate us voters during the two thousand and sixteen election cycle burke says it's a breach of trust he's committed to stopping the use of these social media platform to interfere in elections including coming votes in brazil india and the u.s. midterms and the facebook chief executive says he's happy to testify from the u.s. congress if he was deemed the right person to appear the tale of a civilian reports. mark zuckerberg doesn't like giving interviews but the pressure on the camera shy founder and c.e.o. of facebook was so great he had to do something he told the american media he was sorry about the security breach the compromise of private data of fifty million facebook users in a statement he had knowledge there were failures in facebook's protection of data i started facebook he writes and at the end of the day i am responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our

community while this specific issue in bobby cambridge analytic i should no longer have been with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward. those steps include a review of all apps that had similar brought access to user data further data restrictions and making it easier for users to rescind permissions suckers carefully choreographed response of the cambridge analytical scandal is not what u.s. lawmakers are asking for they were rather have him testify in person before congress minnesota senator amy klobuchar has formally asked her to distil hearing sucka burke says he's happy to testify before congress if it's the right thing to do he also says he's sure someone's trying to disrupt this year's midterm elections underlying the opera or the allegation that data harvested from facebook servers was used by cambridge analytical to support the trunk campaign in two thousand and

sixteen interference in the electoral process confirmed in this undercover interview with the company's event c o alexander nix any mechanism that he signs. the date of the weekend which gives the talk to. the a television that they. have a cheerful. facebook stocks lost sixty billion dollars in value in the last five days and a delayed facebook hash tag has been trending but even if the bad publicity blows over other troubles for the social networking giant are just beginning the federal trade commission has opened an investigation into facebook so to have at least three u.s. states. al-jazeera. syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern gooden near the capital damascus the deal was negotiated with russian is the first since the government intensified its assault on the enclave in late february rebels and civilians will be transported to rubble health in the province to other areas in eastern congo to remain under rebel control as they know

to 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 huta 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 file at the bottom 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 the to sham to lay down its arms will pile more pressure on these two other rebel factions now the

pro-government alliances the military campaign has entered its second month really relentless mumbai argument 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 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. and our strike has killed at least twenty two people most of them children and serious adler province

the white helmets rescue group says the children died while fleeing a school when the rain began al-jazeera. is there with more. 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 in a loop so 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 arrows of throwing all those inside the cave are found dead francis former president

nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of receiving a legal campaign donations from will be a slightly more market and to lead sarkozy accepted millions of dollars from gadhafi while running for office in two thousand and seven investigation into his election campaign has taken five years sarkozy denies any wrongdoing and has more from. 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. first congress is scheduled to meet later on thursday to formally accept pedro present the president page republicans his resignation is facing an impeachment or corruption allegations tied to brazilian construction. ariana sanchez reports in lima. i know he's been in office for less than twenty months now president bill. white.

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 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 to 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 him 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 here movie and some skeptical more than shock to many peruvians see they are angry at britain's political class because they say it's corrupt. opinion poll see 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 congressman lee. all congressmen should resign because they're involved in corruption and there should be a restructuring of the state because money has been stolen by suppress it in the passage in the past that if he was forced out he'd go to that's now looking less likely that 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 but the innocent just i'm just. latin america analyst peter camp says kaczynski had no other option. well bru. after the revelations about pedro 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. by the time he pardoned the president acts 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. donald trump appears to be escalating trade tensions with china as media reports say the us president is set to announce some fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs against beijing on thursday trump is considering targeting more than one hundred types of chinese food over alleged intellectual property violations the white house has repeatedly accused beijing of unfair trade practices china's ministry of commerce says it resolutely opposes american protectionism and will take all measures to protect its interests. the european union i set out plans to raise the tax paid by

digital companies the finance commissioner pair wants firms with large revenues and europe to pay a tax of three percent on their turnover he says he is not specifically targeting google apple facebook and amazon sun times collectively known as the proposal still has to be backed by the european parliament and the twenty eight e.u. countries still ahead on al-jazeera a u.s. man behind a bombing spree kills himself the police are no closer to finding out his motive. a palestinian teenager whose court case to international condemnation receives her verdict. had i was just as cold as it was in northern europe there is still cloud coming

down from the north which you'd expect to be particularly cold but this is actually on a warm front now is producing some snow is cold enough not in northern germany i think in poland in the next day or so but the real actions down here this is the remains surprisingly of the last siberian classic i move away from stuff we've been going to cross the british isles and down through spike which is now enjoying the sunshine but is that because of the contrast in temperatures going to react to system the borers been going down through croatia over one hundred twenty kilometers per hour in snow still falling it will fall i think for the next thirty six hours or thereabouts possibly longer than that so the balkan nations right out through the remaining towards southern ukraine anything up to sixty centimeters maybe a meter emplacement is huge amount of snow for this time of the year and it's adding to the danger of later flooding is already flooding on the ground in croatia serbia and albania well that's not going to help in the least is it still fighting further west and if i think warming up but it's no big threat at least coming into spain to

cover the existing snow on the ground now if you've been in algeria the last two days should be set up by now and ten degrees doesn't help you total thirty back and probably she better weather on friday is warmer and sunny.

prachi al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now facebook's chief executive has promised tougher steps to protect the information of its two billion users mark zuckerberg admits the social media site being the stakes after revelations u.k. firm cambridge and want to miss to use information from fifty million facebook users syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern canada near the capital damascus russia brokered the deal to allow them to travel from harasta to rebel held the province to other areas in eastern grew to remain under rebel control. france says former president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from libya's late leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy denies any wrongdoing.

police say they have found evidence a twenty three year old was behind a bombing spree in the u.s. state of texas they suspect marc anthony condon stared as car into a ditch and blew himself up on wednesday john hendren asked one from condit's hometown of pflugerville. 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 and his 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 when 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 to many government ministers have resigned after calling her president who months or hotties for time in saudi arabia accuse riyadh of holding hadi under house arrest and many of us ministers fled to the saudi capital at the start of the yemen conflict and two thousand and fifteen saudi arabia which backs the president's internationally recognized government has been waging war against who think rebels. central bank has ceased all activity

because it doesn't have enough cash a large shipment of in many reality quil to six hundred eighty million u.s. dollars was seized by the forces from united arab emirates and february a letter attained by al-jazeera shows the central bank requested that the funds be released by the side of the coalition but it hasn't received a response that money was needed to pay public employees salaries. most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls abducted in northeast nigeria are back in safe hands the girls were released in their hometown of job she by a boko haram fighters a month after they were taken at supported six are still missing gerri as government says at a creed to a temporary pause and fighting with the armed groups 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 i actually 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 not access to those who see you monday night and we go out we can hear lots of gunshots in the area we were totally confused some buckle her 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 negotiation. with these faction and. the subjects for quite a while most won't. tell us 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 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 do bihari richard martin al-jazeera egypt's president. has said events hello us interviews that egyptians should not fear speaking freely says he also tonight is responsible for a lack of competition in the coming elections later made a comment 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'm not saying this for the sake of saying it i mean it's 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 and 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 talked to me about something i have nothing to do with the u.k.'s foreign secretary has compared russia hosting the world cup later this year to nazi germany hosting the olympics in one nine hundred thirty six or shot in responding to questions from politician to then calling for britain to take tougher action against russia london has accused moscow of a recent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. yes i think the comparison with the nine hundred thirty six is is certainly right and i think it's

a messy prospect rightly think of. putting glorying in. this sporting event palestinian teenage girl has been sentenced to eight months in jail for slapping an israeli soldier the case is made i had to meet ahead to me that is a symbol of the palestinian struggle and a strong international attention and the reports. i had to maybe arrived in quote to hand her sentence in a defiant lives 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 imprisoned her for 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 after

we understood that the military prosecution wanted to keep hiding detention for several years because this case is a case of detail that they're trying to detail are 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 to me his 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 school work she isn't doing where you see her reading studying her firstborn son she's just told me that there is nobody higher. see we're doing getting to the people that want to do all the fighting for our rights to maybe's case was heard behind closed doors in

a military coup it's strong international criticism one point seven million people across the world have signed a petition calling for her release and she's not in the pressure group defense the children international says the last november three hundred thirteen palestinian children were imprisoned. but francis has a portal a telephone the mother of a murdered brazilian politician franco was shot dead last week and her murderer set off protests with thousands demanding police find her killers thank oversoul for her activism against police brutality. pakistan's first ever in all festival is in full swing or nicer so the two week event will be as tourism and help revive a horse reputation as a cultural capital a small hider reports the country's art scene is thriving.

voice for it's been nearly a fresh they were the famous no horse. from a bygone. now used to promote music and influenced by a cultural heritage cage spending hundreds of. flanked on one side by the by try. on the odd. ball the festival provides the perfect opportunity for which. to enjoy the performances and take in the city's famous sights i think. what i mean when i think there should be more music and art related festivals across pakistan we think for such events to take place and even the foreigners are looking for these kinds of opportunities to visit they help the tray a very positive image of pakistan on the whole has produced musical greats including sagan and rafi today the audience is treated to the sound of spiritual music inspired by boyd's right from bombay in the whole world the center for music

attached with the film making sense of pakistan through him gradually with the eighty's and ninety's that lot but then revival of the music industry i hope will unveil that the music culture of the mohawk is again. alrighty of instruments to be pakistan's musical fost influenced by different faiths in religion throughout the ages music has played an important role in the performing arts and the rich heritage and culture history of this region why did a healer wall vary with new instruments being introduced all the time rather call them in the law a civil activist photographer an architect he also had a passion for music and it's making its own instrument called a short. descending. to. an instrument through smokes. and his sound which has

a meaning for the listener sonic meaning. if not from the did dictionary is an effect of the sound. rather i want to produce the music goes rich connection a very pushy living. the music if it is produced through this instrument is a musical sound which is meaningful to one's emotions which is meaning to what meaning for one's intellectual process is as well which is meaningful and you know if you are emotionally yes. it is do we long for if there were really good they're right with brigadier then provide the industry with the food. the whole package and on.

the headlines on al-jazeera right now facebook's chicken executive has promised tougher steps to protect the information of its two billion users mark zuckerberg admits the social media site made mistakes after revelations u.k. firm cambridge analytical misuse information from fifty million facebook users syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern good and near the capital damascus brokered the deal to allow them to travel from prostitute rebel help with the province to other areas in eastern to remain under heavy rebel control it is the first deal since the government intensified its campaign in late february an airstrike has killed at least twenty two people most of them children and serious province activists say the civilians were hit when they fled a school to a nearby cave after the first wave of bombs was dropped by russian jets. as this former president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from libya's leader moammar gadhafi allegedly except in

millions of dollars of running for office in two thousand and seven sarkozy denies any wrongdoing congress is scheduled to meet later on thursday to formally accept president page republican ski's resignation he was facing an impeachment vote over corruption allegations tied to the brazilian obstruction giant bridge the vice president's expected to be sworn in on friday. appears to be escalating trade tensions with china and us media reports say the u.s. president is set to announce fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs against beijing tropical skint considering targeting more than one hundred types of chinese goods over alleged intellectual property violations the white house has repeatedly accused beijing of unfair trade practices. too many government ministers have resigned after calling for president obviously months were hardy's return from saudi arabia that accuse riyadh of holding hadi under house arrest he and many of

his ministers fled to the saudi capital of the start of the yemen conflict that was back in two thousand and fifteen those are the headlines to keep it here on al jazeera and sad stories next visit our website when you get a moment it's al-jazeera dot com keep it or. there were seven candidates vying for egypt's presidency. there are just two and with president abdul fattah el-sisi poised for his second term in power international rights groups are calling this election a farce we'll bring you the latest coverage and analysis of the egypt election on al-jazeera. millions of facebook profiles. political purposes that could have helped influence the breadth. elections and this privacy will be possible in this age of social media this is a story.