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carey this is al jazeera life until coming up. syrian rebels surrender a town in eastern good as government forces tighten their control. french police place former president nicolas sarkozy under formal investigation in connection with ties to the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi. and tradition with a modern twist we look at an artistic or a viral that's drawing thousands of visitors to pakistan. 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 app and then passed. a political consultancy that firm cambridge

analytic is accused of improperly accessing information to manipulate u.s. voters in the two thousand and sixteen election cycle burke says it's a breach of trust and says he's committed to stopping the use of the social media platform to interfere in elections including upcoming vote in brazil india and also the u.s. midterms and the facebook chief executive says he'd be happy to testify in front of u.s. congress if it was deemed he was the right person to appear katia lopez holding 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 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 do 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 underlined 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 interview with the company's event c o alexander nix any recommended that he runs. with the data again with james 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 gooda near the capital damascus now this deal was negotiated with russia and is the first since the government intensified its assault on the enclave and late. rebels and civilians will be transported to

a rebel held province to other areas and he's trying to remain under rebel control and who joins us now from beirut with more on this census deal and now. other signs that it's starting to be implemented. well there has been a delay the troops were supposed to have started to leave at five pm it's now four hours later but what we understand from both sides that this deal will go ahead buses have begun to arrive on the edge of the town. fighters up to one thousand five hundred fighters along with six thousand members of their families are expected to leave like you mentioned a russian a brokered evacuation deal some will call it a surrender the united nations criticizes such deals saying this is forced displacement this is the first of its kind in eastern but it's not the first deal of its kind in syria we've seen this happened in the past where syrian government

forces lay siege to an area and they bombed it into submission and the rebels have no other choice but to accept to go to other rebel controlled areas now there are three rebel factions in eastern this is agreeing to surrender there are still two other rebel factions what we understand is that one of them. which controls this is in the northern pocket they are negotiating with the russian military and the main sticking point really is that they don't want to go to because they do not have good relations with the rebel group which is dominant and they want to go to the southern province of the and that's quite difficult because what we understand is that jordan which of course borders has reservations so one town surrendering we're expecting fighters as well as their families and civilians who do not want to live under government rule. who are too scared to stay behind will be leaving very soon as you know what is the latest on the situation for people that are still inside these rebel held areas. well according to the united nations it's catastrophic the

u.n. estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of people in these besieged rebel pockets has been divided as a result of this government bombing campaign in just three different pockets and there's little aid there's little medical supplies aid did enter over the past month but it reached the town of anywhere for example in the towns in the southern pocket so the situation is very desperate for people who are trapped inside and many of them are afraid they're afraid that if they end up in government controlled territory they may be arrested. all right. thank you francis former president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation is accused of receiving illegal campaign donations from libya's late leader more market off sarkozy denies any wrongdoing our natasha butler joins us live now from paris so natasha this formal investigation what does that mean what is this process going to look like as far as we know. well three french

judges placed nicolas sarkozy the former french president under formal investigation now they chose to do that charging him with corruption the misuse of libyan money and illegal presidential campaign funding it is illegal in france to use foreign money for a presidential campaign now nicolas sarkozy was questioned by police just outside of paris in a police station in for twenty four hours as police tried to find out exactly whether or not sarkozy had any direct links to this libyan money that was used allegedly in his two thousand and seven presidential campaign now what so cozy can do now is he has six months in order to try and challenge and appeal these charges but in the meantime magistrates will continue with the investigation they'll continue to try and gather evidence and documents to see whether or not there is

a case to put nicholas sarkozy on trial in the future i guess or take us back why were more market afy want to fire and a french presidential candidate. well back in two thousand and seven when nicolas sarkozy swept to power here in france he only served one term back then the former libyan leader colonel gadhafi was trying to reenter the world stage because libya had been a rogue state he was seen as a political pariah and in a way he saw in sarkozy somebody who could help him and all through sarkozy won his presidential election he welcomed gadhafi to paris with an extravagant state visit gadhafi was able to pitch his tents near the lease a palace right in the center of paris the two went on to sign a raft of trade deals but just a few years later in two thousand and eleven nicolas sarkozy was one of those

leaders who really led the charge in order to try and push for intervention in libya now want some people said at the time was that was sarkozy doing that because he wanted to try and get rid of the gadhafi regime in any compromising information but what nicolas sarkozy has been telling investigators over the last few days is that the gadhafi family has in fact created all these alleged allegations they created all these accusations in the past because they were so angry that he decided to push for intervention in two thousand and eleven so these are all the questions this is the context really the magistrates have to work with in order to see whether or not there is a solid case against him in the end to bring him to trial about one for us in paris natasha thank you. congress is scheduled to meet later on thursday to formally accept president page republicans resignation he was facing an impeachment vote over corruption allegations charge of the brazilian construction giant bridge

around a sanchez reports from lima. i mean he'd been in office for less than twenty months now president bill. has quote. 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 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 now 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 congressman leave. 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

a half. said 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. supporter to be about to announce fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on products made in china the white house or accuse china of unfair trade practices and stealing intellectual property is kind of ministry of commerce says it resolutely opposes america protectionism and will act to protect its interests. still ahead on al-jazeera. emotional homecoming for dozens of nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped by boko wrong. and iraq makes a triumphant return to hosting football turn. hello

again as you look at the weather across southeastern parts of asia you see a massive cloud across border you know and across other areas of indonesia but it's further towards the north we've had some decent rainfall being reported there in the philippines but as we look at the forecast well then weather conditions generally suggests that the philippines not faring too badly poor likely how much of looking pretty good with showers tending to die away across a borneo now moving up through them in a plane we've got fine conditions to singapore in kuala lumpur but northward into the gulf of thailand region lot of heavy showers on friday by time we get through to saturday probably turning a little bit drier and brighter so let's head down into a stray d.n.a. and tropical cyclone marcus is still in evidence on the softer imagery but we can

ignore the last well and truly into open water but still across the top and we've got this trough of low pressure which should be giving some quite large rainfall totals so as we look at the night when the sixty millimeters in twenty four hours on the coast of queens in the forecast suggests more heavy rain across some of these northern areas daryn might see some heavy rain later on townsville will see some showers pretty cool as well for sydney at twenty two degrees out a looks pretty warm at thirty degrees in the western australia should be largely fine in perth times it could be cloudy. it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the world's record for just the side and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about five minutes to buy it moves you to america's guns of mexico's

cartel on al jazeera congressman are you interested in stopping crime. you're watching 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. admits the social media site made mistakes after revelations u.k. firm cambridge analytics misused information from fifty million facebook users syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern guta near the capital damascus russia brokered the deal to allow them to travel from prostitute province to other areas in eastern good to remain

under rebel control. at this former president nicholas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of receiving your legal campaign donations from libya's late leader more margaret coffey sarkozy denies any wrongdoing. by jury as government says most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted by boko last month are now free a few though are still missing they were brought to the to meet the president and ministers who negotiated their release girls were then taken back to their home town. and here is government says it agreed to a temporary pause and fighting with the armed group to secure their freedom. joins us now from in northeast nigeria what is the mood like there now that so many of these young girls are back home. exactly generally rachel the mood here is that of happiness but also sadness of the same time i

remember when this goes were taken just over a month ago one hundred ten of them were taken and only one hundred five are back with their families although they haven't formally reunited with their families because they're meeting nigerian top officials probably including the president of nigeria but there is no rest or peace of mind for the other five families who have not seen their daughters now when we arrived that she this morning we spoke to some people here who said they were told by those who brought the girls that four of the girls died on the day they were taken because of exhaustion and other related problems along the way but that is yet to be confirmed by the nigerian authorities the nigerian authorities also couldn't account for the four that were missing what we know of course is one surviving girl who is still

not yet released by her captors and we are right inside the home of that a girl. nathan who is missing now for more than thirty two days and right here to talk to me about the family's position is father mr nathan can you tell is what's the mood like in your house right now because of. a very very sad news. house because of the you know when when the insurgents brought the one hundred five girls what did they say about your daughter instead of on may do it do it do to change how to join and she's refused and that's why a good tip. and what what what are they saying i think going to release are they saved she converted to muslim the world of these. do you think

she's going to do that i don't think she will do that what was the condition of the mother what's her reaction when she heard this story the mother was seriously unconscious and she was rushed to hospital yesterday and. last but now she's a bit better. so right now what what's your reaction because what these people are fighting against is western education and you i understand you also have another son in school in a boarding school what what's your what's your what's your feeling about their continued stay in boarding school now even deciding to go on we do it is my child in body school why because they are not there and due to the condition that they are in now but would you allow them to continue their education no i don't think. the country changes may be the only continue their education but with this

condition i don't think they will continue their education but people will say eventually boko haram won because their fight is against western education is against civilization and you're talking about taking your son and daughter out of school. because if they are fighting i guess only occasionally for broad messy stuff but it seems that they are fighting against religion because mary was the only concern get among them that's why she was there they brought the muslims in stress now looking at the situation in the schools what will parents like you would want to see before you take your daughters and sons back to school. many like the way this village did turn before we're creating with them hundreds of a hundred it doesn't have any problem with them like cause we like each other and said this thing has brought us maybe something i don't can't i can't tell anything you know what about

a school education eventually your daughter will return to you and then you have another son in school what would you do would you keep them in school and what would you like to see the authorities do in order for your kids to stay in school until i see death or e.t.s. performances before i decide whether they will be in school or not you know now what why what are you what are you. now this is a distraught father he just stepped into the house a few hours ago after. traveling long distances to come and look after his wife now what they're saying here is there will continue their vigil wait for news of the arrival of their daughter and as you have said you've heard they're thinking about taking their kids out of school and that's exactly what book is after now on the other side the one hundred five schoolgirls who were taken who were returned yesterday by boko haram have been taken to my degree from where they were flown to

to meet top government officials including the nigerian president the government said they are of course rehabilitating them giving them counseling and looking after their health the minister of information in particular was quick to add that there was no prisoner swap and that there was no ransom paid by the nigerian government to obtain the release of these goes and that's the that's that's what's happening in abuja right now but here in that she celebration is some homes and continuous sadness in many other homes especially those who haven't seen their daughters and especially the neighbors of those who have not seen other girls so let's hope there will be more reunions very soon just an impossible choice for for those families. live in dobson thank you very much police say they have found evidence a twenty three year old was behind

a bombing spree in the iowa state of texas that suspect mark anthony condon stared a scar until it gets on friday 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 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 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 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 pakistan's first ever been ali festival is in full swing organizers hope the two wake of that will those tourism and help revive the horace reputation as a cultural capital and reports the country's art scene as thriving. a perfect revenue to open the voyage for the binney all effect there with the famous no horse for that one shout emperor didn't rule from

a bygone era now used to promote. it influenced by a culture headed cage spanning 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 poyet right from bombay in the heart was the center for music attached with the film making sense of pakistan the first through in gradually with

the eighties and nineties that lot but then revival of the music industry i hope will fail that the music culture of the heart is again. all right you have 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 the healer wall vary with new instruments being introduced all the time rather call them in the law a civil activist photographer in our case he also has a passion for music and it's making its own instrument called a short. descending from the. an instrument through smokes. and his sound which has a meaning for the listener sonic meaning. it's not from the did

dictionary it's the emotional effect of the sound. rather wanted to produce a musical 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 work meaningful to one's intellectual process as well which is meaningful and you know if you are emotionally areas. it is do we long for their will really hit the right note with brigadier then provide the industry with the food. the whole package and on. iraq is hosted its first international football game in thirty years the sport's governing body fifa lifted the ban that it put in place over security concerns played qatar in the southern city of basra in front of

a packed crowd they did lose three to two and iraq is set to play syria next week but as our correspondent everyone called reports from baghdad fans in the capital are feeling shut out from the action. taking place in iraq where the band's only been lifted in three cities. where that game is taking place. and that's left a lot of very disappointed. praise god it's a big joy that the ban for these three major cities. has been lifted we look forward to the ban being lifted in baghdad but as we acknowledge there are security reasons but when iraq plays it lifts your spirits like it can be taught. as you know an iraq just came out of the war the cities are the safest baghdad is the capital we all know that 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 and 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. you have to have lunch right now on al-jazeera facebook's chief executive has promised tougher steps to protect the information of its two billion users. made mistakes after revelations from cambridge and a lot of information from fifty million facebook users. syrian rebels have surrendered control of a town in eastern guta after russia brokered a transfer deal there greenman allowing travel from the roster to rebel held at provinces the first since the government and ten to five its bombardment on eastern

cuba last month to other areas of the suburb near damascus remain under rebel control. cheeriest government says most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted by boko haram fighters last month are now free one hundred five girls were brought to a boucher to meet the president and ministers who negotiated their release jarius government says to agree to a temporary pause in fighting with the armed groups. police have placed francis former president nicolas sarkozy under formal investigation after questioning over the past two days and a five year long inquiry into a legal election campaign donations sarkozy denies receiving millions of dollars just before he was elected in two thousand and seven from the former libyan leader more market off easy. u.s. media says donald trump is about to announce fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on products made in china the white houses are paid only accuse china of unfair trade practices and stealing intellectual property and his ministry of commerce

says that they recently resolutely opposed american protectionism keep it or more to come on al-jazeera people in power is next. to. the. usa is constitutionally controlling the fair with firearms is given the highest levels of private gun ownership in the world and the truly staggering rate related homicides but it isn't just the us that's felt the effects.