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welcome to the news an apology but is it enough facebook's mark zuckerberg. in the wake of the cambridge. controversy. but we know how quickly a movement can form thanks to the likes of facebook. facing down a pretty big. the hash tag delete facebook is growing online with users angry and unsure if they can even trust the company and why we have your reaction to this story and we're hiding connector that's for the hash tag. also on the grid the ties that bind former french president nicolas sarkozy is being officially question over an allegation he took money from libya's gadhafi for his election campaign in twenty two thousand seven we'll explain more about the hot and cold relationship the two countries. and another political scandal in south america this time it's the president has offered his resignation after a series of corruption allegations congress will be debating that later on thursday

we're going to look at what the knock on effect might be just three weeks out from a regional summit in. there with a new street live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com it's taken a while isn't it but the boss of facebook has finally come out and apologized for the days of controversy currently engulfing his social network mark zuckerberg knowledge facebook made mistakes in how it handled the data of what was in the end fifty million of its uses the company are under fire after revelations the london based consultancy cambridge and was able to access uses days and in some cases use that information to try to influence elections. promise to take toughest steps to protect users accounts here is some of what he said it was of course posted on his official facebook page we have a responsibility to protect your data and if we can't then we don't deserve to

serve you he goes on to say i've been working to understand exactly what happened how to make sure it hasn't happen again and acknowledged we also made mistakes there's more to do and we need to step up and do it the post goes on to outline events over the past few years it's like a big bank concludes by saying i started facebook. and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what happens on a platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community we will learn from this experience to secure a platform for the american community safe for everyone going forward so let's get straight into it and talk to trying to fill the who is a digital rights advocate author of white hat you ex the owner of found but you x. consultant she's joining us via skype from aspect in denmark thank you for your time first of all what do you make of what mike huckabee is actually said here it's the kind of apology that he has to make i get but was there anything concrete there do you think. i think it's it's sounds a bit hollow to me that goes out in apologizes for mistakes that facebook made to

be honest i think he apologizes because they got caught facebook's business model runs on data it runs on harvesting their uses they use this data and selling that to marketeers and to companies that want to pay for it so that is the whole business model of facebook so i really i really think that mock second big now goes out in the public jess's because they got caught not because he actually thinks that the business model of facebook is fundamentally wrong but it is it is fundamentally wrong to harvest data in the to the extent that the back and facebook has done from day one of facebook so let's talk more about what could happen in the future because even if you're saying his words sound hollow he is talking about trying to make sure this doesn't happen again how else can we make sure this doesn't happen again is there regulation is there some way that. if it's governments or or or international watchdogs or something to keep the companies in

line. so in europe we have general data protection regulation just around the corner that takes effect best the end of may that's a really good fest up towards regulating corporations like facebook who has reached almost a monopoly as states on stuff like social on one connectivity and that the amount of data that they hold is unprecedented as well and to be honest the the ordinary people who who use facebook on a day basis have no idea just how much data these corporations actually hold and also the way that they use machine learning and in its official intelligence to combine this thousands of data points that we that we leave on the internet everyday i think it really does need a regulation in order to get these corporations to to fall in line and sue to act in a more ethical way and you feel is a willingness to do that because i mean governments want to encourage businesses as

well and they know that online that social media that facebook and the like are the future of well they're not the future they're actually happening right now but i mean i'm just getting this idea of you give companies a lot of right to to do things but in trying to regulate them and bring them back again that can be problematic in itself yet camp a definite for the problematic and the problem is that companies like facebook and google were created back in the day where these types of where we didn't have this type of attention towards a data harvesting because it wasn't a thing it wasn't something that we were where aware was an actual business model so right now we're in in this. time. time where we really need to understand that these companies are from a different time and moving forward we need to have the types of regulations that don't allow companies to even run business on this type on this type of ground but it's really difficult when we have something like facebook and google have this

monopoly state. because there is so many people use these as the seven says it's too easy just to say well you can just have it your facebook account you can just stop using google it's much harder than that because there is no real alternative yet that actually offers the same service really good point so we're going to talk about that more a selves in a moment before not trying to fail but thank you so much to appreciate it so what all this is doing we touched on it there is leading a lot of people to question how they're using facebook and whether they should continue to use it at all layer is going to talk about that in a moment but first before you rush off to delete your account you should know how the whole sort of chain works facebook builds up a picture of you by collecting information about your location your web history the photos and the articles which you like on facebook and then uses that to work out what advertisement so you might like to see which is why and i'm sure you've seen this after you've been browsing for a holiday or clothes or gadgets your feet and your instagram feed as well suddenly full of ads with the best office for them all that targeting is so accurate some

believe facebook is technically listening in which the company does deny facebook says it never sells its data but this is the key here third party apps can access it so when you open an app or a website and you get that little button which says log on with facebook and you click it you are giving that app and its creators access to your facebook information so there is some personal responsibility there as well but this is how cambridge analytical got its hands on all of it data so here's lee and promised there's a lot for people to take in there but there also seems to be this backlash as well of just get rid of it just delete delete and be done with right there's definitely been that kind of knee jerk reaction to. the scandal has led to the hash tag actually that it's called delete facebook and the conversation around that just keeps getting stronger and stronger one of the first people though who spoke out against the social network using the hash tag is the co-founder of what's up brian acto he sold whatsapp to facebook back in two thousand and fourteen and actor tweeted this saying it is time than using the hash tag to delete facebook now the

movement is picking up steam and people are wondering how exactly did we end up in this situation brian here on twitter sharing this picture which highlights the fact that nothing is free on the internet the caption says if you're not paying for it you are not the customer you are the product being sold now there are things you can do to reduce the amount of information facebook has about you for one you can find out which apps are linked to your facebook page by clicking on your account settings you then have the option to disconnect to those that use your logon information if you're like me and you're concerned that deleting your accounts means you lose pictures and photos from years back you don't have to worry you can download that content as well you can also find out how to do that under your facebook settings but facebook says deleting your account will remove some data but not all of it they say quote copies of some material may remain in our database but are disassociated from personal identifiers many people simply argue that deleting

facebook entirely like we've talked about earlier with call is not the answer to stop being profiled your data online is not only limited to facebook one man posted saying that if you delete facebook then you should be deleting all the other platforms such as twitter google amazon even which also gather data on users and in the online world how likely really is that we want to hear from you has this latest ordeal tempted you to delete your facebook account or are you in it for the long haul you don't think it really matters we want to hear from you you can write me directly. can get us on whatsapp or telegram and you can also use. hash tag on twitter hash tag a.j. news good excellent top tips from the outing there thank you if you still can't bring up on all the ins and outs of the story you would do well to have a look at wednesday's edition of inside story laura collett that discussion with a panel including a so-called ethical hacker and the founder of a data ethics company so we've got that and then there is also this week's edition

of the listening post which is actually from what's going to black failing we try and play that again not not working there we go this is actually from before the cambridge. scandal but it looks at how tech giants are policing their platforms and whether amounts to a new kind of censorship both of these inside story and listening post are in the show's section at al-jazeera dot com and if you want to get in touch with us as lee is here other contact details with the hash tag a.j. news grid and that is on twitter facebook it's totally your facebook because if you delete facebook he can't watch the live stream at facebook dot com slash out a series of don't go and leave facebook just go and as leader of the show new review your settings look what you are giving all this information to facebook dot com slash out as the rather what's at numbers plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine let's move on nicolas sarkozy of course president of france between two thousand and seven and two thousand and twelve but it is how he came to power and his relationship with the former libyan leader muammar gadhafi that is

now being questioned psycho's he's been placed under formal investigation they questioned him the police did 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 it's worth looking we're going to discuss this in a moment how deep this relationship between france and libya really runs if you go back a bit here things really picked up when the u.n. lifted sanctions against libya in two thousand and three gadhafi then set out to forge closer ties with countries and it was fronts which became the first western power to strike a deal with post sanctions liberty this was two thousand and seven gadhafi is govern. bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons. the thing made paris his first foreign visit to a western capital in some thirty years that was just five months after psycho's he was elected president but it was he who eventually became one of the chief advocates of the nato led campaign against gadhafi you'll remember this is the one

that led to his overthrow and his eventual death in two thousand and eleven so it's a little bit hot and cold perhaps we're going to talk to george joffe for about this lecture at the university of cambridge a research fellow at the global policy institute and looks like you got away friend behind you're there as well. so tell us about the relationship between the two countries is it really dependent on just who is in charge at any time or is this the sort of conflict back and forth between the two of you well it's rather complicated in the sense that france is always want to develop its own independent policy tools the military in the middle east you may remember way back when iraq in the one nine hundred ninety s. it was the then prison rance who decided to build relations with the same access to iraqi oil and the same partners hundred resumes now with president sarkozy there was a particular desire to carve out a new kind of relationship dominated by france and not by the european union and he

put a lot of effort into there we saw libya freshly relief from sanctions and its merits the best way of doing and that was the reason why he approached them and of course the finance freeze campaigns which we inordinately expensive came very near the ribbons and all them had to be given to him and they gave him fifty million dollars euros rather than the twenty one million euros he was allowed to really use. of course to be very clear. being questioned at the moment he is not guilty is not charged with anything but. i don't know i just he would have known obviously at the time that. mama gadhafi was not the most how can i say it's a free of characters or at least that any money potentially coming from libya would be questionable so why go through with it do you think if it indeed happened well because basically he was not that used he was determined to win the presidential

elections and he created his own movement to that effect and he sort of is the best way of doing this gaining influence don't forget that france was the first country from italy to michael duffy to europe immediately of the so-called elections and also put in some currency do a good deliberate attempt to dissipate in the resolution of the area nurses crisis in libya when five nurses in the palestinian doctor have been condemned to death for incorrect hundred children four hundred of them in the main hospital in benghazi somebody didn't do refuse but then suckers he turned on him so quickly didn't he as far as what go ahead. you know sort of me good but then colonel good now if you serve this purpose he was no longer that winning streak and that men lived through a war president so of course he he had served now and he could now sit when you heard his new purchases demonstrates not causey and is the leader of the cream

world supporting the the the the arab spring just going through cools rancid fountains it will to news here and there by demonstrate that it was again a leader not was the reason he was encouraged to do so of course directions particularly bernardino he who wanted to see france becoming a leader of the third human rights and that too so it was really very easy for grants to do silent it's not easy to move against gadhafi when the revolution in libya grew grounds it's a very interesting relationship i'm glad we could talk to you about it sir george joffe for joining us today vice skype thank you. found this one in the officer archives today this was a news report from charlie angela back in twenty twelve just days before that french election it was when the paris investigative website media power first published the claims about gadhafi funding that election campaign not just the video but as you can see plenty of in-depth reporting there from the online tame

it's kind of interesting to go back and see how it was all reported at the time if you search for psychos get their feet and go back to about a cliff and twenty twelve you'll find that. if you were traveling around france today you'd have had to more of a difficult time than usual and this is why. i am public sector workers walked off the job in a nationwide protest caused big disruptions to train services flights and even some schools closed their doors thirty percent of flights in and out of paris had to be canceled as well workers are angry about low wages and a plan that will cut one hundred twenty thousand public sector jobs. you know one is only something i mean such today we have a constructive message a positive message one of development in the railway sector in that context that's why we chose a demonstration and not a strike where no trains would run at all is to convey a positive message on the other hand if we are not heard the movement will likely

harden in the sense that there would be calls for strikes and in that case very few trains would run she just. see if the strike is legitimate it's constitutional but if the aim is to disrupt communications and cause havoc on public services term xman and i think that's not how unions should be expected to exit the right way forward is negotiating on its own going but there are many issues to discuss and the right way for the public service for rail workers is negotiation let's get a live update from now and the task to tell us more about i guess events there and also what's led to it all today. well there all public there all work as i should say from across the public sector as in the streets of paris and the union leaders say it's pretty much the same picture across the country with more than one hundred demonstrations plans now are we seeing hospital workers teaching is

a transport workers rail will cause those are the protesters you'll see behind me and they will have their own concerns over things like pay and conditions but they have come together with unite to them today is this common sense of anger and frustration with the french government because the french government is trying to push through reforms across the public service because it says that the public service needs to save more money it needs to be more efficient it needs to basically what can be streamlined now what sort of that will cause say is that simply unfair because the job that they do a very difficult they say they don't get much pay and they don't get much recognition and they all fowling to keep this sort of social pressure up on the government in fact the railway workers say that they will strike over the next three months we're looking at about thirty six days of industrial action so that could mean real transport chaos across the country natasha but the in paris thank you for that update his lead with more this house are playing out online or you saw the people behind the you're seeing similar rallying like that online as well it's

a top trending hash tag and france right now strike twenty two march of course mostly and french we're seeing hundreds of videos and pictures being posted online across multiple platforms and as you would expect most of the conversation around this hash tag is anti-government and against the french president emanuel many more have been using social media to get people out into the streets to encourage them to protest the caption to this picture says in ten years the number of poor people in france has gone up by one million let's mobilize now fred here he shared this picture along with a tag line that just said anger showing just how angry money and. these protests are for their conditions but many more like lilith here are saying that demonstrations like these just cause chaos if you're in france we would like to hear from you get your perspective on what's going on you can let us know what you think using our hash tag a.j. news. just over here at the live all having

a look at what's happening there wasn't a youth summit in brussels or where that's going but actually here in this little box here the young men talking here you see on a t. shirt march for our lives that is coming up on the twenty fourth this is a big movement across the united states after the parklane shooting with students as they say supported by a lot of people from across political and entertainment media spectrums the march for our lives against a wall in favor should say of gun control they're going to see a lot of lead up to that the next few days ok let's go to london now here's lauren taylor with more international news for us i learned thanks carol at least fourteen people have been killed in a car bomb blast near a hotel in somalia's capital ten others were wounded in the explosion which happened near a busy road in mogadishu the road which houses high profile hotels and military checkpoints has been targeted in the past by the somalian armed group. most of the casualties were processed by and trade is. syrian opposition fighters have

surrendered one of the last rebel enclaves near the capital damascus in an evacuation deal with the government thousands of fighters and civilians are now leaving the town of harasta in eastern guta but to other areas remain under rebel control send a halt to port from beirut in neighboring lebanon. defeat and displacement that is what these buses have come to symbolize up to one thousand five hundred fighters from the rebel faction and at least six thousand of their family members are leaving their homes in harassed or they have agreed to lay down their arms and go to the opposition controlled province of idlib in syria's north west the russian gas has been relentlessly bombarded for more than a month the suffering of the people is immense some civilians also left media activists even civil defense volunteers syrians who are considered to be terrorists by the government had no other choice the deal also involves a prisoner exchange and is reported to include guarantees by the syrian government

and the russian military that no harm will come to the civilians who chose to stay harassed is just one town in eastern with which is now divided into three pockets because of the government offensive the other two rebel factions which controls duma and phyla which controls the southern pockets have been engaged in separate negotiations with the russian military so far there has been no progress. so pro-government forces continue to target what is left of the rebel held area they are seizing more territory in the southern pocket and airstrikes continue to kill the united nations says people are trapped by fierce fighting and are in dire need of aid the choice they have been given is to starve die or leave. because when we are fighting to stay in our land and prevent displacement the international community is silent and powerless or perhaps it's conspiring against us all they do

is lie to us the un security council was not able to save. a child killed and displays a whole commentary of the. years of siege and bombardment have been a strategy the pro-government alliance used previously to force the surrender of rebels the united nations and human rights groups condemned the strategy as forced displacement this is the first deal of its kind in eastern huta and pressure is only increasing on the other rebel groups to also agree to the only offer on the table that of. beirut the suspect behind a bomb attack targeting the palestinian premier last week has been killed in a firefight with hamas forces interior ministry in gaza says the suspect refused to surrender when hamas security forces surrounded his hideout to the have a security members were killed in the incident and another suspect later died of his wounds in hospital on monday palestinian president mahmoud abbas accused of carrying out what he calls an assassination attempt against rami handler

schoolchildren in nigeria's northeastern borno state are being kept home due to fears of more book of mass kidnappings the government closed all boarding schools in rural areas indefinitely last week it follows a series of attacks by the armed group and the kidnapping of one hundred ten girls from depth in neighboring state last month hundred five of them were freed on wednesday and been taken to a budget for medical checks because her arm is strongly opposed to secular education or father whose daughter is still missing told me just as she's being forced to become a muslim. force hard to change how to leave john and she refused. and what what are they saying i think going to release or.

do you think she's going to do that i don't get. back to. daryn thank you for that this is the news good if you're watching us on facebook live because you haven't deleted it you're about to meet the winner of the global best teacher award and find out what makes her so unique and then later on donald trump takes on china they can explain what that's all about in just a moment. welcome back we'll start by looking at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia you see some clouds moving up across the area but jerry weather conditions not looking too bad be a little bit of snow up across the in do push through up into the himalayas but otherwise for our marty there in kazakhstan temperatures of thirteen degrees tashkent the spec is down twenty from a cloud around the caspian sea region

a bit should stay dry and back you find on the southern side there to run it twenty four one in baghdad thirty two so looking at the eastern side of the mediterranean here we've got jerry fine conditions through friday on saturday more in the way of cloud but jerry the winds still coming in from a southerly direction so beirut up to twenty five degrees celsius as you move down into the arabian peninsula where the conditions here also looking fine and certainly very warm indeed thirty nine degrees in mecca on friday as we head into saturday i think we're going to hit the magic forty degree mark we want oversight of the potential a bit of a wind blowing on friday will be replaced by margin less warm conditions on saturday twenty nine as a high in doha abu dabi so up to thirty one degrees so across into southern portions of africa then and here we've got some some pretty heavy showers show across parts of the maybe a through botswana and genesis africa and those are expected to continue.

education is struggling to keep pace often failing to prepare children for today's world. but some schools are changing the rules our kids have hope that they manage and how the baby boomers with but still mission results. last five. if it but are in. rebel education early learning mexico at this time on al-jazeera a scandal that's rocked the nation to its core and exposed hundreds of schools official of accepting bribes just to show the most dangerous commodity one s. sometimes take a spot at the door and a difference to blow up a customer finds that these judicial corruption has and i feel i have by i come out of my compass in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera and examine one man's extraordinary battle for justice in donna.

from al-jazeera dot com and what's trending as well that news out of somalia in the last few hours of a car bomb in the capital mogadishu then plenty of other. advise

a lobby trying to instill some going to talking about that the latest coming out of the visit i should have been summoned to the united states have a look at what's trending on the front page of al jazeera dot com. police in south korea have to tame the former president south korea lee myung bak after an arrest warrant was issued for him he is facing charges of corruption almost a year off his to his successor the former president park geun hye way was removed from office also over corruption allegations kathy novak tonsils to get it for us from seoul. he's yet another former south korean president accused of abusing power lee myung bak denies that but did apologize as he arrived to face prosecutors last week with a we're going to stand before you with a tragic i offer my deepest apology to the people who are causing worry amid times when the economy is in hardship and the security situation on the korean peninsula

is serious the charges against him include among other things bribery embezzle mint and tax evasion please accused of improperly receiving about ten million dollars from people and institutions including the country's spy agency as well as send sung south korea's largest conglomerate corruption allegations were first made during the two thousand and seven election campaign despite that the popular former mayor of solve one and became president the following year he faced challenges almost immediately with protests over american beef imports and later the killing of south koreans which was blamed on north korea after least served his five year term as president fellow conservative puck in haye was elected she was impeached and jailed last year a verdict in her corruption trial is expected next month. all of the seven former presidents who led south korea since one thousand nine hundred eighty have faced some form of corruption scandal either directly or because of allegations against

their family members five including li and park have had to personally face prosecutors mass protests that led to parks impeachment seem to demonstrate support for powerful politicians to be held to account and a recent public opinion poll taken before least ends trial found almost eighty percent of south koreans want to stern punishment. a shared understanding is being creative among the public and politicians mechanisms should be built to check the person is absolute power reasonably and. i think it will improve one by one lee myung bak says he hopes to be the last south korean president to face this kind of prosecution kathy novak al jazeera so. so you have politicians and corruption something we seem to cover a lot of pretty much every day which is why we keeping an eye on what is happening in peru with a case looming against the president there congress is due to meet later on

thursday to formally accept president had republicans in ski's resignation he was facing impeachment vote over corruption allegations tied to a brazilian company guaranteed presidential immunity from prosecution but only until congress accepts his resignation off we go to lehman now here is money on the sun chairs to bring us up to date on this one so it's just a it's just a formality almost today that congress will accept his resignation. that's right come on this is a formality the congress will accept his resignation that's what the already said but the reactions to all of this the political crisis in food has been very negative with many saying that it's been a very shameful it down full of precedent which is key for the country from someone who promised a lot and did very little on the other hand a lot of people are saying that's the way congress acted with its raining

ministers and political allies by recording the. ordeals and videos of it. of. congressmen trying to exchange contracts for vultures it has been very shameful as well for the country and just to have an idea it was good to see left to waste seventeen percent of the vote the congress congressman here behind me have only eleven percent just an idea of how her audience perceives the political class here there will be a march today laid around with many saying that they all have to go and what about the incoming president's remarks in this car i believe his name is when does he take over and what do you know about him. well i think you have a you say a fifty five year old engineer he is the first vice president he has been very quiet throughout this week apparently have negotiated with the force party with the

leader of the party to say not to resign and it becomes the president again if he had been the transport minister just about one year ago he was impeached by this thing congress and so it will be very difficult for him to govern with this same congress however he's up support for right from canada where he's the embassador. from prison better to canada before i played around today and he is to take over tomorrow he hasn't officially said he would take the presidency but he's already said in his twitter account that he's ready to serve the country. thank you. good reporter's notebook here from latin american writers just widening out one of the biggest scandals in the region that is brazil's money laundering investigation known as operation watch looking at other countries including career

in fact there is a whole section coal. growing on a little bit further from britain oh i can't find it actually anyway a vast web of political and corporate corruption in peru there is a reporter's notebook there easy to find you just click the more menu at al-jazeera dot com. now the u.s. defense secretary has told the saudi arabian crown prince that it should seek a peaceful resolution to the war in yemen riyadh is leading a coalition of course that's been fighting against the who the rebels and twenty fifteen. minutes on a three week official trip to america and this it coincides with leaked documents said to show lobbying efforts by the u.a.e. and saudi arabia to influence the trumpet ministrations and just time as the story . the saudi crown prince started his u.s. visit with talks at the white house president donald trump showing recent saudi weapons purchases from american manufacturers both showered each other with praise for their country's close ties we really have a great friendship

a great relationship i would really have to say the relationship was to put it mildly very very strained during the obama administration and the relationship now is probably as good as it's really ever been the jewish religion actually the relation to saudi arabia message make it's all the relation we have all the first america and the middle east right now more than eighty five and big interest politically economically and security but mohammed bin some months trip which includes several cities and meetings with u.s. cabinet members coincides with leaked documents said to show lobbying efforts by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. aimed at influencing the trumpet ministration the new york times says a lebanese american businessman george notter who was a political advisor to the effect of ruler of the u.a.e. worked for more than a year to influence elliott brody a powerful member of the republican national committee neither is said to have offered broadly business deals on behalf of saudi arabia and the u.a.e.

in order to exert influence over white house policy policies which advocated confrontational approaches towards iran and gutter brodie denies the claims and his spokesman accuses hackers working for cutter for leaking the documents their accusations guterres government has described as baseless a fear look at the blockade and the crisis in the gulf a crisis started last year there is a context for this and it seems that those preparations produce this kind of a crisis because it was a trend that is a consistent a plan. supported by the two governments two governments financially supported by in washington and the alliances and little. all of this. not as they became prominent recently as a witness in the investigation into foreign influence on the trumpet ministration by special prosecutor robert mueller to media reports to complicate been some months tour of the united states the trip has been described as

a public relations blitz for the crown prince but could expose him to increasingly awkward questions about how saudi arabia and the u.a.e. use money and business deals to influence white house policy. but ron grimm with us now d.c. bureau chief at the into sept and who was the author of an article in fact i've got it just here ron i'm going to quickly show two of you is saudi crown prince boasted that jared krishna was quote in his pockets what do you tell us what in his pocket means. well he had evidence to make that claim in the in the evidence that he said he had was that when jared traveled to riyadh in october a week before the saudi crackdown cushion or delivered to him a handful of names of saudis who were skeptical of m.v.s. his recent pout recent powerplays now whether or not kosher actually did that we

don't know we weren't in that meeting but that is what m.p.'s has been saying that's kind of his exhibit a for why questioner is in his pocket we independently confirmed that there were intelligence reports that included some names of saudis that cushion or did have access to so his boast is at least plausible however. as we know has had his security clearance downgraded i mean if she is as valuable anymore or now that this type of thing is out there any more to say as a side as you lose some of that apparent value. you would want someone else in your pocket at this point if you were him and in fact when m.b.a.'s came to the white house jericho sure wasn't even there which which is a reflection of his is vastly diminished role in the white house he still is

an unpaid employee of the white house he still has his father's ear or his father in law's ear so he's certainly not useless but he is in no way the kind of swinging photo secretary of state that he that he was before and you know mike pompei o is now on his way to becoming secretary of state if he can get through senate confirmation and he is somebody who is extremely close to particular in particular but also been salmond so it's not as if losing questioner will necessarily hurt them as long as they have pompei o to replace him with just a quick word on mohamed bin solomon's trip the remainder of his trip because we obviously focus so much on the on the the political side of things and we've seen amazing president trump there metol about job creation but he's off to i believe boston as well and in silicon valley as well again part of the. brand saudi arabia i guess now changing the image. not exactly it's

a different trip from years past in the sense that you know saudi arabia has always been a source of cash for for united states businesses and for the united states government but this time. he has his hand out and he's looking for direct investment into the kingdom and so he's approaching i mean he's looking for investments that he can make in hollywood and elsewhere but he's also looking forward he sees meeting with goldman sachs and other banks and looking for american investment into saudi arabia which is a huge flipping of the script that we're so used to in terms of the relationship between saudi arabia the united states for the intercepts good talking to you thank you and about an hour president obama trump is scheduled to announce some fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs against china the white house says the u.s. will target china's unfair trade practices the alleged theft and violations of u.s.

intellectual property and more than one hundred times of chinese exports and china's comus ministry has warned it will retaliate by taking measures to defend what it calls its legitimate rights and interests there are concerns of course though that all of this could lead to a trade war further escalating tension between the world's two biggest economies. where you resolutely opposed this type of the lateral and protectionist action by the u.s. china will not sit idly by while it legitimate rights and interests are hurt we must take all necessary measures to firmly defend our rights and interests we hope the u.s. can see clearly that the nature of china and u.s. trade relations is to mutual benefit and a win win situation more reaction now from beijing with scott hyla. china reiterated on thursday that they will defend their interest at all costs when it comes to trade issues with the united states now in the past they have said that it's unrealistic of a requirement by the united states that the trade between the two nations is

exactly equal they say that is unrealistic moving forward and if there are any trade friction trade war they will defend their products and their companies here in the country now it will be interesting to see how things move forward they say they were retaliate we don't really know to what degree that will be they've said in the past or it's been reported in the past that it won't be that extreme but again we don't really know how they're going to react to that until they make the announcement probably at the earliest on friday. so this is all very important stuff obviously most want to highlight this with us in for a graphic from al jazeera dot com face to face u.s. and china. goes into a lot of stuff about military budgets in the light but the headlines you need to know is that china and the u.s. make up thirty six percent of the global economy the u.s. is the first is the biggest i should say china is the second biggest economy huge purchasing power and then all those imports and exports which go between the two that is why any hint of problems between them on the trade front and the tariff

front is important to talk us through this one. and she's joining us from washington d.c. of course our white house correspondent kimberly want to talk through what's expected today and i mean just potential effects a potential knock on effects. right so what we're expecting is within the hour that the president is going to make this announcement it will be through a presidential memorandum there will be a photo opportunity will have the opportunity to sign and sort of make this declaration if you will what this looks like is that this is going to be a tear of placed on up to one hundred different types of consumer goods that are imported into the united states from china so it could be apparel it could be consumer goods but mainly we think this is going to target the high tech sector but we don't know exactly until this announcement is official but well this is donald trump making good on a campaign promise and we've heard this from him repeatedly that there's

a trade deficit he believes to the tune of some six hundred seventy five billion dollars when it comes to the united states and china there have been other administrations who have been concerned about this in fact it goes all the way back to bill clinton's administration where there have been concerns about the theft of intellectual property of american businesses by china but repeatedly china the united states has said has given warnings they've promised to reform this white house says they are now going to take action and that's that action that we're expecting very shortly can believe this u.s. china relationship baffles me to be perfectly honest because it is always talk about trade if you say coming good on campaign promises but then there's all this talk about oh we're going to cooperate or the north korea and then don't trump went there and apparently he's never been welcomed before and you know it's just so much back and forth like this. right and really after covering the trumpet ministration for more than a year now what we're starting to see is a hallmark of this president presidency is kind of half measures so it's

a little bit confusing why is donald trump taking this action when just months ago he was praising president xi and talking about the importance of the relationship particularly when it comes to north korea using that economic might as leverage for have to restrain the nuclear program in north korea there are many people here asking the very same question and concerned about those ramifications because a scot heiler pointed out we expect there will be retaliation atika her and some of donald trump's will start supporters like american farmers who ship enormous amounts of soybeans in to china their number one buyer of that product it's a risky political calculation particularly when you think about the fact we have congressional elections coming up in november when donald trump is very concerned about losing that republican majority in both the house and the u.s. senate so this is certainly very very risky and many people have scratching their head about why the president is choosing to do this now good talking to complete can be heard so white house correspondent in washington d.c.

. ok let's talk about bridget briggs that thing which according to those who want to leave the european union was all about the u.k. taking back its sovereignty taking back its borders not being subject to the laws of the european union leah that is what it's about and then this happens right so now they're starting with their passport they're going back to the patriotic blue rather than the maroon of the european union funny story though guess who's going to make these passports it's the e.u. the current burgundy passport is made by deliberately it's a british company in northern england they lost the bid to create the new passport to a franco dutch company and folks are not happy about that to say the least andrew tweeted saying so the existing burgundy passports are made in britain the new blue passports are going to mate made in holland hear that sound the world is laughing he said except delarue c.e.o. martin sutherland he's not laughing the maker of the current passport he told

b.b.c. radio i'm going to have to go and face those workers look them in the whites of their eyes and try and explain to them why the british government thinks it's a sensible decision to buy french passports not british passports deliveries shares fell five percent in early trading so far britain's interior ministry though they said it was running a fair and open competition for the next passport a spokesman with them said quote we do not require passports to be manufactured in the u.k. a proportion of blank passport books are currently manufactured overseas and there are no security or operational reasons why this would not continue. now you can expect to start seeing the blue book in twenty one thousand if you live in the u.k. but we want to know what you think of this which you can tweet me directly at leo harding agency or you can use or hash tag right there hash tag mama i said it on twitter this morning at the right to sally just said it right now you couldn't make

it up could you few more viewer comments coming in as well planned if you got lots to say on the facebook story just to i think this one kind of sums up the majority that i've seen from david solaris watching on the facebook live stream facebook is a personal information selling machine that is what it is designed to do this should come as no surprise to anyone and someone agreeing as well with our guest a little bit earlier he said this story basically a big a story basically because they got caught also just a quick comment on the. what is the use of groping in the going to spin this story this is about moammar gadhafi and nicolas sarkozy what's the use of groping in the dark now when the topic is no more president and the president is leading a retired life in france sorry just that one just came through there ok so if you're watching us on facebook live you've heard about baby boomers generation x. and many else we're going to introduce you to that jen. and what they're fighting for men and he is here with sports saying about one of the best days in recent history for new zealand test cricket yes i will ask him about that first

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we can but not quite yet ok give me a give me a couple minutes for the first time in the country sister a kurdistan have qualified for asian football's top international competition kurdistan beats in myanmar five one series secure that place in next year's asian cup in the united arab emirates before that solomon five asian same's will be representing their continent at this year's world cup aiming to improve on a pretty disastrous collective showing at the event four years ago in brazil and asia's four teams with south korea japan iran and australia they didn't manage a win between them and all went south in the group stages or the same four teams will be in russia along with saudi arabia and iran of the continent's high strength seen at thirty three in the meantime the final price is being decided for the twenty nine hundred eighteen cup for the first time it will include twenty four countries up from sixteen four years ago well earlier on i spoke to the football writer and host of the asian game podcast paul williams about how the constant

scenes we're looking ahead of russia and what sort of achievement kurdistan have just pulled off. it's the first time if a qualified in their existence for the asian cup and that really was what the expanding that the tournament was all about it was during clued these new teams into the tournament that perhaps might not have had a great chance of qualifying in a sixteen team tournament going to twenty four now the have that johnson and co just on and we're seeing a lot of teams from from central asia that took minutes down of qualified for the first twenty minutes since two thousand and four touches down have a great chance to qualify they've got a match coming up against the philippines in manila next week as well so you know we're saying these teams that you know previously have had little chance to qualify on the chance to test themselves against the best teams in asia that they are getting that chance and it's fantastic to see focused on you know they'll be there in january next year at the asian cup and you know they're really get a chance to test where they sit now in the in the grand landscape of asian football

i think there's been a mixed reaction to the expansion of the tournament from sixteen to twenty four teams cond of like there was when the official woke up expanded to forty same's there's no doubt it probably will be if you missed matches in the tournament that's you know that's on the that's only natural when there is an expansion and there is i extract same's and a varying quality but i think in the long run it will save asian focal to have these teams play more often against the best teams in eyes or i think that's going to hold asian football in good stead going forward over the next ten twenty years that two thousand and fourteen will cut really was a disaster for asian football night tame you know managed to get a win and that that dented the. respect that asian football had around the globe and you know there were questions asked about you know the four and a half sports allocated to asia for the world cups it really is important that the

five teams and it is the first time ever that i will have five teams at a faith will come up and it is really important that i do well at this storm. to restore a little bit of pride asian folk will around the world and now that the teams that are coming into the tournament you know they are in good form iran is being us incisively in. a number of years now and in saudi arabia back at the will count for the best on since two thousand and six and they've been drawn in a good group in group by that for i guess most of the groups the asian teams are in it's difficult but it's doable if they get off to a good stuff and they've got rusher in the opening match on not much they want. and come ons benefit i felt obliged to include a ban sion of the starts of the new zealand vs engelen test series in england in record breaking form in oakland all out for fifty eight one stage there are twenty seven phenomena heading for their lowest ever total that was the forty five they scored in one thousand nine hundred seven as it was their recover its record by six the lowest score of all time plenty of reaction to that effort on social media this

from the u.k. sports writer jonathan lou engle and now that humiliating points in a passing collapse when the broadcasters don't see even go to a break after work it possibly because they've run out of adverts for player graeme swann's saying are saying some remarkable ridiculous things in cricket but nothing to quite match the start of this test and eden park and this from dale joe root leads the england cricket same off the field after the first day's play in the cricket says there were five ducks in that effort from england ok let's get back to come on and they are under school sports if you want to tweet me i'll be back in the one thousand nine hundred jameson usia thank you andy thank you for including that much appreciated just quickly at thirty thousand feet in the air right now we're going to track a flight from new delhi to tel aviv because it's a historic first flight between those countries which is allowed to go over saudi arabia's airspace just a quick look air india flight one three nine it's interesting because saudi arabia has no diplomatic ties with israel so it ends

a decades long ban on the use of that saudi air space flying into israel see see if they're hitting quite far south and will then go over the arabian peninsula on its way to tell of a you just want to keep an eye on these sorts of things interesting to see how relations develop get in touch with us hashtag a joiner's good twitter facebook and what's that so you're right back here tomorrow . the scene for us where on line one says american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible but not what happens not because the situation is complicated but because

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