where talks happen and what happens there matters. a scandal that's rocked the nation to its core and exposed hundreds of court officials. accepting bribes just to show the most dangerous cool movie t one s. sometimes take a spot at the door and a difference to blow up a custom upon the things judicial corruption has in my life i think i come out of my compass in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera examines one man's extraordinary battle for justice in donna. i think. about you. know some of it i like. the boss of facebook admits to mistakes over the cambridge and a lot of the controversy the looks on what laws are in place to protect our privacy

. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out. of all this desperate way for his daughter as dozens of bench arion schoolgirls kidnapped by boko rob are free. heading out thousands of syrian rebel fighters and civilians are leaving after surrendering a town in eastern guta plus. tradition with a modern twist we look at an artistic revival that's drawing thousands of visitors to pakistan. basics boss has promised tougher privacy measures to safeguard the information of

its two billion users after a major data breach it's the first time our soccer berkus spoken else hence it was revealed fifty million facebook users had their data harvested and shared with the political consultancy. and 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 have 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 for a traditional hearing suck oberg 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.e.o. alexander nix any mechanistic that he joins us. with the data that will get the james to talk to you what is the way television way. of gauging

photos to facebook stocks lost sixty billion dollars in value in the last five days and a delayed facebook hashtag 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. so what does facebook know about you and how does it use that information so the social media site builds a picture of a series or by collecting information about your location or web history and things to choose like the photos and articles that you like well facebook uses that information to work out what advertisements you might like as well the ad targeting can be so accurate that some users belief facebook is listening in which the company denies facebook says it never sells its data of a third party apps can access it and that's how cambridge analytic got its hands on

the information of millions of users so if you've ever opened an app been selected log in with facebook the creators of that app will no more than you expected them to do it all as the chairman of the international commission on cyber security law says it's time there were international laws to protect consumers data. internet is a global had a ditch of human and going to is a hook so companies can no longer see that i am an american company and though i own my services will be available across the globe all users will have to come back and to get agreements we emmanuel's diction increasingly this argument is being torn off out of the window where it is countries and i think it's time that the national dream works need to adequately ensure that even the bees didn't report the trees are not physically located in your territory so long as their services impact computers computer systems the computer networks located in the country that

particular countries legislation a legal thing we're going to block that's one of them to next but we work second so i distinctly really it's high time to come up with a common minimum denominators of accepted norms of behavior in cyberspace which these global data other possibly companies need to comply with and noncompliance on the balance should attract we don't use as various government says mr the one hundred ten schoolgirls were abducted by boko haram fighters last month are now free a few do remain missing though they've been brought to a bush or to meet the president and ministers who negotiated their release of girls higher than expected to return to their hometown jarius government says it agreed to a temporary pause in fighting but the armed group to secure their freedom n.h.s. has more from adoption in northeast nigeria. the mood in the town is generally that of a gratitude and happiness that most of the goes back but also you find people who are actually still waiting for news of their daughters right now i'm

standing inside the home of sherry natan who is the only girl now known to be held alive by the boko haram fighters by the way it's suspected that this is a group allied to the islamic state for west africa province she's the only girl who is still in captivity and when we came into town we spoke to a lot of people here and the reason they said what people tell us here is that the fighters who brought them back in said they are not releasing harm because she refused to renounce renounce speed and now we're here to talk with me about the mood inside the house and the expectations is a part of our nation i missed asheri to talk to was what's the feeling like in the house and the stand that the mother was and conscious when the news came in that

her daughter is not among the one hundred and five that were brought back to death what's her condition right now we're not sure nobody knows about how conditions under duress who come from the green sign was there any message from libya when the ghosts are being brought back to that was there any message she sent with them yes yes there must be more that she's doing fine days should pray for her. and what's the condition of the mother right now the mother was just discharged from hospital last year said the me and now she's the data can you tell our audience the international audience what you your wife your family and others have been going on what's going on in your mind for the last thirty two days when this goes what taken from their school inductee we just took it very very very very bad as it meant now we are. pleading to do government to assist and reduce

our the time back there was a lot of expectations here that the girl was among the one hundred five eventually it turned out she was not meanwhile the one hundred five actually like you said in about your meeting the nigerian government officials for debriefing as well and medical checkups. syrian rebels have surrounded a town in eastern guta thousands of fighters and civilians are being allowed to leave harasta and travel to adlib province to other areas and he's trying to remain under control this deal was brokered by russia and it's the first such agreement since the government intensified its attack on the enclave in late february saying to her has more from beirut. the russian guaranteed deal now being implemented buses have started to evacuate fighters their families and civilians civilians who do not want to stay people who are wanted by the government simply because they engage and opposition activities people like media activists civil defense

volunteers so it is believed up to one thousand five hundred fighters from the group i had out of shame will be leaving with some six thousand members family members and their dead been given safe passage to the rebel controlled the province of idlib that's in the northwest of the country this is the first deal of its kind in eastern but it is not the first deal of its kind in syria we've seen this happen in the past where the government lay siege to an area and bomb it into submission so one of the rebel factions surrendering and there are two other rebel factions who controlled territory in eastern and now divided eastern one of them jaish al islam controls the town of dumas that's in the north what we understand is that there are negotiations but there's racial islam is insisting that they do not want to go to because they do not have a good relationship with the rebel group there the government the pro-government alliance still piling more pressure on these rebel groups to surrender what we understand there have been further airstrikes targeting the southern pocket the

towns in the southern pockets which is controlled by five man and there are civilian casualties this really has been a very you know through the bombing campaign since it's been over a month now it is now entering its second month and according to the united nations the situation for the thousands and thousands of civilians who are trapped inside is catastrophic. saudi arabia's crown prince is due to meet the u.s. secretary of defense later on thursday. trip to washington coincides with leaked documents to show a lobbying efforts by the u.a.e. and saudi arabia new york times says the lebanese american business been george tenet or work for more than a year to influence elliott portie a major figure in the republican national committee the times says that nader offered forty business deals on behalf of the u.s. and saudi arabia in order to exert influence on the trump administration centers name has surfaced in a recent weeks as a witness in the u.s. special counsel robert miller's probe into alleged foreign influence on the two thousand and sixteen election already denies wrongdoing and believes the documents

were stolen by hackers or droops areas director of the gulf study center at qatar university he says the documents reveal a concerted effort by. and saudi arabia to influence u.s. foreign policy. you know these kind of dictum and said with what apparently mentioning this to commence. is helping us to put the pieces of the business together if you go back two steps just too early the late year of the obama election when there was a criticism from saudi arabia and minutes about his foreign policy in the last you know in his presidency for eight years this leak to commence does confirm that there was a lot of deep and serious efforts done by the two countries to prepare the united states for the president if we take into consideration the fact that the two countries they did not want clinton to be the president so this makes very easy to

understand that basically they wanted the other candidate was whose was trump to be the president so this tells you that there is a preparation and a very you know will plan the preparation for the president to become the preserve that is the comments that confirm that so far so what we what we can and you know tell about this that there is an early plan to have to direct the foreign policy of the united states to affect the white house in particular to the direction of where they see their own interest the two countries so that even then it will set of their own interests and their interests include iran and caught in particular to members of hamas security forces have been killed in gaza in clashes following a raid by the suspect behind an attack on the palestinian prime minister a mosque official say the suspect and two accomplices have been arrested on monday palestinian president mahmoud abbas accused hamas of carrying out what he calls an

assassination attempt against romney huntelaar prime minister was not hurt at rest convoy was targeted in a roadside bomb during a rare visit last week. still ahead on al jazeera. fighting for their inheritance protesting for equal rights. that's a simple it's turning on the tap mexico city spent hours trying to find clean drinking water. welcome to look at the weather across asia now starting in north eastern areas we've got this area of try this frontal system which gave an awful lot of rain for tokyo the system itself is no beginning to move away so as we look at the forecast we're likely to see brighter conditions moving in across japan not looking too bad

across the korean peninsula either twelve thirteen degrees there for seoul and pyongyang respectively and fairly warm weather likely for beijing as we head into saturday germany a quiet picture across much of this region and we will see a fair amount of clay for shanghai so let's look at more southern portions of china and taiwan and here we're going to see an area of rain developing initially not much in the way of rain here to should be drawn by the highs of seventeen but we get into saturday then we're going to see more in the way of brain developing across this region woman drive of hong kong taipei and also for much of vietnam so annoyed looking at sunshine and highs of twenty four degrees celsius moving down into southeastern parts of asia here we've got some showers still affecting the philippines but johnny weather conditions not too bad the same across much of borneo conditions could be cloudy at times but high as a thirty one a few showers for java moving up through the night well you see some heavy showers particular in the gulf of thailand.

another day another explosion. from one of the thousands of i.e.d. strewn through the landscape of this lawless tribal region in pakistan with only the most basic equipment a fearless bomb disposal unit are determined to counter the horrors of a relentless taliban on stilts. armed with faith but witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera and these are the top stories this hour facebook's chief executive has promised tougher steps to protect the information of its two billion users are. social media sites made mistakes after accusations are misused information from fifteen million facebook users. and syria's government says most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls were abducted by boko haram fighters last month are now free a few though are still missing they've been brought to the president and ministers who negotiated their release. syrian rebels have surrendered a town and thousands of fighters and civilians are being allowed to leave harasta and travel to province to other areas in eastern grew to remain under rebel control . the former president of france nicolas sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation questions for twenty four hours over allegations that his two thousand and seven presidential campaign was partly funded by libyan money he could

face charges of corruption misuse of libyan funds and illegal campaign funding. reports from paris. well back in two thousand and seven when the killer sarkozy swept to power in france it was around that same time that the former libyan leader colonel gadhafi was trying to reenter the world stage gain some legitimacy for years libya had been a rogue state gadaffi a political pariah and in sarkozy's all someone who could help him do that and sarkozy shortly after his victory invited gadhafi to paris it was an extravagant state ceremony a state visit he was allowed to pick his tents near the lease a palace in the heart of paris the two countries went on to signed signed several trade deals now a few years later in two thousand and eleven sarkozy was suddenly one of the people at the forefront of the push to try and intervene in libya and what some people started to say off to the allegations and started to rise of the woods will perhaps

sarkozy did that because he was trying to get rid of the gadhafi regime and any compromising information they might have about him now what sarkozy has told investigators over the last few days is that is not the case he is innocent he says that the gadhafi family created those allegations in order to try and smear his reputation and attack in peak oil as he had been at the forefront of that intervention in twenty eleven so this is the background of the context and these are some of the details that investigators magistrates will be looking at now in order to see if they can build a case to bring the former president to trial. politicians on for or schedule to meet to formally accept their president's resignation twenty four hours before the vice president replaces public skate he stepped down before a vote to impeach him because of corruption allegations are on a sanchez reports from lima. i mean. 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. that they were to government i categorically reject these unproved accusations and i reaffirm my commitment to an honest moral and just plain 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 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 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 were involved in corruption and there should be a restructuring of the state because money has been stolen by suppress it in a hassid 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 he'll have to work with the same politicians who impeached him less than one year ago when he was a transport minister. just. went to mrs president proposed last year that the countries and heritance laws should be revised or men's rights activists they are part of the still the issue is a controversial one. reports from tunis. a march for equality tunisian women demanding parity with men in matters related to life and death for these activists the time has come for the country's inheritance law to change and the country said in our opinion this is quite simply one of the last bastiaan off the patriarchy because we're made to believe that these are issues regarding religion but in fact there are issues at the heart of patriarchy

a matter of courtesy that last year president. announced a review of a law that says a woman should receive only half the share of an inheritance that a man does. even in a country known in the region for being progressive when it comes to women's rights the proposal was controversial bush about how tricky that is a member of parliament who heads up the commission of individual freedoms and equality a group that strapping the revised rules and recommendations while she's optimistic future generations will be granted more opportunities and liberties she also explains how the subject of inheritance is a contentious one and that the upcoming municipal elections in may could further complicate things. this report was supposed to be issued to the president on february twentieth but we tried to avoid the election campaigns and wanted to keep the issue outside the realm of politics and any political tensions last year parliament passed landmark laws criminalizing domestic violence and harassment in

public spaces while tunisia's current legal system is a mixture of both civil and religious laws conservatives are far from happy with the proposals on inheritance law they say any and all matters related to inheritance are already enshrined in islam ic law and therefore should not be allowed to be challenged. according to members of a local women's rights group things are improving but more needs to be done in the bin among them upon me between the legal system and the reality even if by women there is a gap and for us this is our mission today how to make the laws and the reality closer to each other. they say equality in inheritance is another important step in the right direction one that will ultimately ensure society provides liberties and human dignity to men and women alike. to miss tunisia. thursday is world water day united nations is warning that more people could be facing water shortages the

water crisis is keenly felt on the world's largest capitals mexico city town and twenty two million people john heilemann reports. commutes to pull up a district on the outskirts of mexico city the queues for wood to truck start it poor in the morning for some residents nothing's come out of the taps for years this is the only way to get water paolo regularly waits i always feel one it's a soul sucking full time job with the regular how they that are hot i have to leave work and bring one of my sons so he didn't go to school we can't have breakfast or even go to the toilet so as not to miss our time. makes crew cities water problems are due to many factors but a major one is the captain's crumbling system incredibly about a third of the water is lost as it goes through cracked pipes by the time it gets to places like his to pull up or pressure has slowed to a drip for the city's overwhelmed repair teams it's

a never ending job as soon as they've got to one leak another springs up as it were that they must but. we need more people more vehicles to check where the pressure is going down and where there are possible leaks it takes a lot of time and resources about it out of most. why do the pipes break the h. many a more than sixty years old and disturbances like earthquakes but in the main it's this makes crews city is sinking they've even had to add fourteen extra steps to this national monument because the ground around it has been going down so much and the reason for that sinking is that water is being subtle the aquifers below the city to satisfy an ever growing and thirsty population. different areas are subsiding at different speeds and that's causing the pipes beneath them to bend and snap at the pressure points is a break. the leaks increase for experts there's only one solution for the case and

it does say this is really sad we need to stabilize the aco first the the ground stop sinking we need to capture rainwater and direct it towards the aqua firs at the moment that water goes straight to the drains and what it up along with. the other thing we need to do is to treat sewage right now we only treat ten percent of our waste water and even that not thoroughly enough for it to be reinjected in the awkward for. you when you believes those two courses of action would not only stop the city sinking but also go a long way to making up its will to short fall but political will and funds are lacking for now the vicious cycle continues with those like powell are caught up in it but the day the truck has arrived and she finally has bolted to wish a week's worth of the dishes tomorrow the struggle begins ago john homan how does it a city. pakistan's first ever again ali festival in full swing organizers hope the two wake of that will biz tourism and help revive the horace reputation as

a cultural capital. a force. voice for. the famous horse. from a bygone era now used to promote music and influenced by a cultural heritage spending hundreds of. flanked on one side by the. festival provides a perfect opportunity for. the performances and take in the city's famous. what 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. today the. spiritual music inspired by boy right from bombay in the whole world to send music to with the film making sense of pakistan through the eighty's and ninety's that long but then revival of the music industry i hope will unveil that the music of the mohawk is again. alrighty of instruments. influenced by different faiths in religion throughout the ages music has played an important role in the performing arts and the ridge headed to age and culture history of this region by dish taylor was very weird new instruments being introduced all the time right. or call them or the lawyer or civil activity or an architect he also has a passion for music and it's making its own instrument called

a short. this indeed read through the bruce is. an instrument through smokes bitches is a hole in sound and has a meaning for the listener sonic mique is not from the did. is the emotional effect of the sound. rather wants to produce a musical rich connection a very pushing a live in. 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 first they will really hit the right note with brigadier then provide the industry with the food. the whole

package and on. health care here here's a recap of the top stories on al-jazeera 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 accusations the u.k. firm misused information from fifty million facebook users that year is government says most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted by boko haram fighters last month are now free a few do remain missing now have been brought to the capital of boucher to meet the president and ministers who negotiated their release a father whose daughter is still missing told. us that she's being forced to change her religion. to set up. to. do to change how to lead jonah and she refused and that's why i did get.

well and what what are they saying i'd be going to release to save she. do you think she's going to do that i don't want syrian rebels have surrendered a town in eastern guta thousands of fighters and civilians are being allowed to leave harasta and travel to live province to other areas of eastern ghouta remain under rebel control to members of the moscow security forces have been killed in gaza in clashes following a raid for the suspect behind that attack on the palestinian prime minister officials say the suspect and two others have been arrested on monday palestinian president mahmoud abbas accused hamas of carrying out what he calls an assassination attempt against. this former president nicholas sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation place questioned him for twenty four hours over accusations that his two thousand and seven presidential campaign was partly funded

by libyan money. congress is scheduled to meet later on thursday to formally accept president page republican resignation he was facing impeachment vote over corruption allegations tied to the brazilian construction giant bridge those are the headlines the news continues keep her on al-jazeera and so his story is next. millions of facebook profiles allegedly used for political purposes information that could have helped global trump and influence the breck set of eight candidates a swing elections and his privacy really possible in this age of social media this

is inside story.