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were shock area this is al-jazeera life also coming up syrian rebels surrender a town in eastern due to as government forces tighten their control. french authorities placed former president nicholas sarkozy under formal investigation in connection with ties to the lately been there more markets. the man behind a series of bombings in the u.s. kills himself and police are no closer to finding out his motive. facebook's boss has promised to safeguard the information of its two billion users after a major 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 at and then passed on to a political consultancy that firm cambridge analytic is accused of improperly.
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accessing the information to manipulate us voters during the two thousand and sixteen election cycle works says it's a breach of trust he says he's committed to stopping the use of the social media platform to interfere in elections including upcoming votes in brazil india and the u.s. midterms and the facebook chief executive says he's happy to testify in front of u.s. congress if it was deemed the if he was deemed rather the right person to appear. on 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
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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 resend 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 distill hearing suburb 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 be uproar 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
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interview with the company's event c e o alexander nix any mechanism that he joins us. with the data that will get the jews to talk to. 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. the young al-jazeera. syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern gouda 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 held live province to other areas mr grew to remain under rebel control in
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a holder joins us now with more from beirut so the deal has been announced and cena has it actually been put into action been implemented yet. well not yet like you mentioned it was officially announced yesterday by pro-government media and. that deal involving an evacuation of fighters agreeing to lay down their arms up to one thousand five hundred fighters expected to be bussed to live that's a province in the northwest of syria under the control of the opposition they will be accompanied by six thousand family members and any civilian who would want to accompany them can leave of course this will include media to the civil defense volunteers people who are too afraid to stay behind because according to the government they are terrorists now according to the deal the evacuation was to have started at five g.m.t. which is approximately three hours ago so still no movement in that crossing now
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this has happened in the past these delays because of logistical reasons we're talking about seven thousand five hundred people leaving the town of harassed and like you mentioned this is the first deal in eastern huta of course not the first deal in syria because we've seen this happen in the past where the government lay siege to an area and bombs it really into submission when rebels the side you know they have no other choice but to surrender and be bussed out to other rebel controlled areas so this is one rebel faction surrendering there are still two rebel factions in eastern what we understand is that one of them is now involved in negotiations with the russian military. those talks collapsed on monday but now they're back on the negotiating table but the main sticking point is. to go to they want to go to another rebel controlled area possibly did out in the south but we do know that jordan has reservations because the borders jordan so for those that are still inside these rebel held areas and what's the situation like for them. well
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the united nations is calling it catastrophic there according to the u.n. estimates they're saying hundreds of thousands of people remain in these rebel pockets because eastern. now been divided into three pockets which is surrounded by pro-government forces the united nations saying that they are in dire need of aid dire need of medical supplies and they are trapped really in fierce fighting who has been besieged for years and a did enter during the past month since the bombing campaign began but it only reached the duma it didn't reach for example the towns in the southern pockets so the situation really desperate for those trapped inside. for us in beirut thank you say no hoda crisis former president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from libya's leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy denies any wrongdoing. joins us now from paris. this formal investigation of what exactly does that mean what's this next step in
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the process. i have to say that here in france this is really being seen quite a huge political scandal of former french president being put under formal investigation now there were three judges who decided that nicolas sarkozy should face the three charges basically one one of corruption the second of the misuse of libyan funds and the third illegal presidential campaign funding now foreign funding for a presidential campaign is banned here in france and then there's good nicolas sarkozy was questioned by police at the police station outside of paris and for twenty four hours he was released late on wednesday evening and allowed to go home but he will have certain restrictions placed upon him specifically in terms of travel and what it means for him now is that he has six months to try and appeal
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those charges but in the meantime magistrates will now gather evidence trying to gather all the information that they feel can perhaps bring nicholas sarkozy to trial at a future date so why is it that a former libyan leader moammar gadhafi why would he have wanted to find a french presidential candidate in the first place. well back in two thousand and seven when president sarkozy swept to power here in france it was around that time that the former libyan leader colonel gadhafi was trying to reenter the world stage libya had been seen as a rogue state gadhafi as a political pariah in in soccer as he saw someone who could perhaps help him do that and after sarkozy's election in fact he invited gadhafi to paris for a lavish state visit it was really something quite controversial here at the time in france the two countries then signed various trade deals but what's interesting
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is just a few years later in twenty eleven france was one of the countries under sarkozy who really pushed for intervention in libya to try and get rid of the gadhafi regime and at that time some people started to say hey the allegations started to surface in france that perhaps sarkozy was doing that in order to get rid of gadhafi who may have compromising information on sarkozy now what sarkozy told investigators over the past twenty four hours that those claims have no no standing whatsoever they are completely wrong he is completely innocent and he has always maintained that the gadhafi family created these rumors because they were so angry over the twenty eleven intervention so these these are some of the things that marchers straights really be looking at trying to see if they can gather any evidence to directly link sarkozy to this illegal libyan money aren't about live for us in paris natasha thank you. first congress is scheduled to meet later on
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thursday to formally accept president petro public agencies resignation he was facing an impeachment vote over corruption allegations tied to the brazilian construction giant or a bridge sanchez reports in lima. i know he's been in office for less than twenty months now preceded. us quote. 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. the order of government i
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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 mandate only on friday vickery can be sworn in with a new cabinet and i hope everything's changed completely here to be here movie and some skeptical more than shock to many peruvian see they are angry at britain's 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.
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all congressmen should resign because they were involved in corruption a little there should be a restructuring of the state because money has been stolen by spring. 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. appears to be escalating trade tensions with china media reports the us president is set to announce about fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs against beijing on thursday trump is considering targeting more than one hundred types of chinese over alleged intellectual property violations the white house has repeatedly accused beijing of unfair trade practices china's ministry of commerce resolutely opposes american
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protectionism and will take all measures to protect its interests. still ahead on al-jazeera emotional homecoming for dozens of nigerian school girls were kidnapped by poking around. in iraq makes a triumphant return to hosting football tournaments. through tranquil raveena can you. send in on us and if the gondola. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now as we take a look at the weather across europe we've got some active frontal systems across southern areas in particular and there's quite a contrast in temperatures to very warm air pushing up from the south meeting cold air further north on this southerly flow we've also got quite a bit of dust coming up so some red sunsets i fancy so warmer there for athens warmer for and probably not as bucharest at minus one degree as in this area across
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from me and towards the balkans that we're seeing some really heavy snow fall and some heavy rain is a real storm risk here that could be tornadic activity in that area be quieter with temps there of thirteen degrees the forecast through into friday that area of snow only moves slowly towards the north and again remain you're seeing vast amounts of snow being deposited quite across central areas across western parts of europe is relatively mild but we've got some heavy rain pushing in from the west here in the course of the day now into north africa is still quite breezy and sharia along the coast as the system moves eastwards so for algiers and to misrata see temperatures struggling just fifteen and thirteen degrees respectively but once you get further towards asia pick up that flow from a long way south that's why kyra spaces to see highs of thirty eight. the weather sponsored by cat time release. the scene for us there on line what is
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american sign in yemen that peace is always possible in no. what happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation at this time on how to zero. the washing up cereal as we count the top stories 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 made mistakes after revelations
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from cambridge analytics misused information from fifteen million facebook users. syrian rebels have surrendered a town in the eastern border near the capital damascus russia brokered the deal to allow them to travel rusted to rubble help the province to other areas and he's trying to remain under rebel control. former president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from libya's leader moammar gadhafi sarkozy to nine sandy wrongdoing. police say they have found evidence a twenty three year old was behind a bombing spree and the u.s. state of texas the suspect mark anthony called it service car into a ditch then blew himself up on wednesday john hendren asked more 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
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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 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
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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 and for the soul 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
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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 the case foreign secretary has compared russia hosting the world cup later the share to not take sharman a post in the olympics and one nine hundred thirty six or ten of us responding to questions from politicians who have been calling for britain to take tougher action against russia london has accused the recent questioning of a former russian spy and his daughter yes i think the comparison with the one hundred thirty six is is certainly right and i think it's a good prospect rightly to think of. the putin glorying in this this this sporting event. russia has again denying that it was involved in the poisoning. challenge. but
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a rather interesting event has been going on in moscow this afternoon a room full of ambassadors or ambassadorial representatives invited to the foreign ministry to basically hear the russian perspective on this case now as outlined by bradley miller 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 or i'm able to protect against terrorist acts on their own territory or they've directed this attack themselves against a russian citizen 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 of russia has nothing to do with this it's
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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 conflict 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. and yemen and two government ministers have resigned after calling for the president's return from saudi arabia the ministers accuse the saudis of holding up. under house arrest there's been no immediate response from riyadh they fled to the saudi capital with government ministers when the saudi led coalition went to war against fifty rebels three years ago a messenger
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a bank has seized all activity because it doesn't have enough cash a large shipment of in many reales equal to six hundred eighteen million u.s. dollars was seized by forces from the united arab emirates and february a letter obtained by al jazeera shows the central bank requested that the phones be released by the saudi led coalition that it hasn't received a response the money was needed to pay public employees salaries. most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls abducted in northeastern nigeria are back in safe hands girls were released in their hometown of by boko haram fighters a month after they were taken exported six are still missing nigerian government says that agree to a temporary pause in fighting with the armed 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 i actually waiting for
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news celebrated their daughter's return that sunday or that sunday of that letter and that was 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 even though we could hear lots of gunshots in the air we were totally confused some buckle her people into a school guy said 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 of. the subjects 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
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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 for 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 and a meeting with president mohammed dooper hari richard martin al jazeera. some are boys tobacco farmers have kicked off their annual selling season with high hopes some complain that the former president robert mugabe's policies have left a negative impact on the industry. has more from harare. zimbabwe produced and sold nearly two hundred million kilograms of tobacco will nearly six hundred
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million dollars farmers hope they can earn more this year tobacco is the country's second biggest export most farmers here are beneficiaries of the government's land reform program where land was seized from white commercial farmers and given to blacks nearly twenty years ago and the big. beans. more than ninety percent of zimbabwe's tobacco is exported most ins up in china south africa and belgium it's a battle industry and markets the board says more than one hundred thousand have registered to sell their produce this season last year the number was just over eighty thousand pharmacy their priority is improving the quality of the tobacco they produce the country's new leader. took over it was forced to resign in november he's promising consistent and more investor friendly policies to revive the economy and the agricultural sector impression is that many farms are have been
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derelict for a long period of time. to physical infrastructure such as buildings but it extends to things like dams which in this last rainy season we've heard of several dams that of actually collapsed because there hasn't been proper management for those as rich as land reform policy was sometimes chaotic and violent it's alleged some zimbabweans grabbed several farms but there are no official records of who has what and how many government ministers say they will be a comprehensive land audit when money is available. that. also. to establish exactly. which individual is linked to which piece of land. and of course aspects of land utilization. a very close. white farmers who lost farms nearly twenty years ago have been told
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they will be compensated but the bobbies government is broke there is a shortage of foreign currency before land reform zimbabwe was called the land of milk and honey political analysts say reviving the agricultural sector needs the right policies and political will and rampant corruption has to be urgently addressed. al-jazeera. a bus crash in northeast thailand has killed at least eighteen passengers and injured thirty others the driver of a charter tour bus reportedly lost control going down hill and plunged off the side of the road and figures show thailand has the world's second highest rate of protests after libya. there francis was reportedly telephone the mother of a murdered brazilian politician while franco was shot dead last week and her murderous protests with thousands demanding police find her killers are you know is known for her activism against police brutality. the opposition in kosovo has shoes
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tear gas on parliament to disrupt a vote on a border deal with montenegro politicians from the self-determination movement wanted to block a two thousand and fifteen deal that was a precondition for crossfire is being able to travel to the without pieces they say it will mean kosovo losing eight thousand hectares of land now despite the disruption parliament ratified the agreement with the necessary two thirds majority . iraq is hosted his first international football game and thirty years sport's governing body lifted the ban that had to put in place over security concerns played qatar in the southern city of basra in front of a packed crowd they lost three to two iraq is said to play syria next week as our correspondent emraan com reports from baghdad fans in the capital will feeling shut out of the action. taking place in iraq where the band's only been lifted in three cities. where that game is
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taking place. and that's left a lot of very disappointed. praise god it's a big joy that the band for these three major cities karbala and erbil has been lifted we look forward to the ban being lifted in baghdad but as we know it's there are security reasons but when iraq plays it lifts your spirits like it can be done . as you know in iraq just came out of the war the cities are the safest that baghdad is the capital we all know security here is an issue that we hope to 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 a very international football it's an. international football maybe able to return to iraq in the very. big heroes people like most people like.
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al-jazeera and these are the top stories facebook's chief executive has promised to protect fan from a shadow of its two billion users mark zuckerberg admits the social media site made mistakes after revelations u.k. firm cambridge analogical misused information from fifty million facebook users syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern capital damascus brokered the deal to allow them to travel from. province to other areas in eastern congo to remain under rebel control it's the first deal since the government intensified its campaign in late february. sen has the details from beirut in neighboring lebanon. it was officially announced yesterday by pro-government media and. that deal involving in evacuation.
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agreeing to lay down their arms up to one thousand five hundred fighters expected to be bussed to live that's a province in the northwest of syria under the control of the opposition they will be accompanied by six thousand family members and any civilian who would want to accompany them can leave an air strike has killed at least twenty two people most of them children in syria said live province activists say the civilians were hit when they fled a school to a nearby cave after the first wave of bombs dropped by russian jets francis former president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of receiving it legal campaign donations from libya's late leader moammar gadhafi legibly accepted millions of dollars while running for office in two thousand and seven sarkozy denies any wrongdoing is media says donald trump's about to announce fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on products made in china at the white house has
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repeatedly accused china of unfair trade practices and stealing intellectual property ministry of commerce he said resolutely opposed this american protectionism and will act to protect its interests those are the headlines the news continues keep it here on al-jazeera the strain is next. a very important source of information for many people around the world. have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people. and bring that story to the forefront. and you in the stream today will the killing of a. change in brazil will discuss the impact of rio de janeiro.
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