the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations because it was so many nationalities. it is just that we all come from different places but it's one that gives us that gives us the ability to identify the people in a way live the other side of the world but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al-jazeera. and lines from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha for the back to bowl welcome to the news grid the daughter of a former russian spy so makes her first statement since being poisoned the attempted murder of the ex double agent and his daughter on british soil in a spot an international diplomatic crisis we'll have the latest developments with

live reports from london and moscow. also on the grid from celebrated needed to displace politician silva's bid for a second chance to rule brazil has suffered a major setback after a supreme court ruling that could see him soon sent to prison for corruption but he's not the only politician to be implicated in the scandal so who stands to benefit from his conviction and the scandal that keeps on growing literally facebook says a number of users whose personal data may have been improperly shared is significantly higher than suspected up to eighty seven million people strive to see could have been compromised will tell you what facebook has on you and how they use it save it for trending in the philippines i'm fina hired for the latest online reaction to why people are living on one of the world's top destination islands a pretty tough thing is shut down the six month.

there with a news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us it is a real story that reads like a spy novel the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in britain on march fourth the incident sparked an international diplomatic crisis after the british government accused moscow of being involved in the poisoning of. script all russian diplomats were expelled from a number of countries including twenty three from the u k. the u.s. send several european union countries moscow responded in kind expelling twenty three british diplomats sixty u.s. diplomats and several from other countries now the daughter of a script is said to be conscious and talking british police have released a statement on her behalf it says i woke up over a week ago now and i'm glad to say my strength is growing daily i'm grateful for

the interest in me and for the many messages of goodwill that i have received i have many people to thank for my recovery and would especially like to mention the people of souls very that came to my aid when my father and i were incapacitated while russia's ambassador to the u.k. has slammed britain's handling of the investigation here's what he had to say don't take something for granted give us the evidence in my message to the to the other countries. ask the prime minister to present the evidence and then present this evidence publicly. why didn't you put it in secret i'll tell you i don't understand. maybe maybe the prime minister will understand you know so that's why you do my message is make it transparent it's a very serious issue and we have to know the truth while we

have two correspondents covering this story rory chalons is standing by in moscow but for us to lawrence leigh in london are quite a few developments in the last few hours. and this statement from you yes creep ah imagine british police are very interested in what she has to say. well if yes i mean the thing in fairness she'd been getting better for some days i mean the news came out a good four or five days ago that she was actually not going to die in which it was actually getting better there but the timing is the curious thing because this statement the metropolitan police terror units who are in charge of this they said nothing for several days at all and suddenly they put out this statement about half an hour after a phone call was played on russian t.v. supposedly between yulia and her cousin victoria in which the two men complain that the british won't give victoria a visa to come and see you in all spittle and you're apparently says on getting

much better and says my dad is not raising his surrogates getting better too and there was like blimey we didn't know that and then suddenly the british police come out and say oh you're getting better by the way and it's taught you know who to believe in who you don't know as is getting very very blurry and messy and that was also mentioned as well by the way this issued to the british visa by alexander of young code the russian ambassador to the u.k. at exactly the same time as a phone call going by the russian c.v. he was given a news conference saying is terrible of the british won't give victoria a visa and it's rather than go to yulia victoria now actually working hand in glove with the where with the russian government in this effort to bring down the british as well it just shows you how how really really smart the russian diplomatic effort is quite interesting and the russian ambassador to britain has been speaking also today norrin says said russia wants constant air access to you yes cripple are they likely to get it you know what the opposition is

a russian citizen you know and and yet if you could describe her and her dad as quote one of ours i mean despite the fact the obviously it was a double agent in the spying for the british they they they reserve the right to go and see them because the russians and i have to say the british authorities of have been very very very to. tight lipped and of still the whole thing off the been no word whatsoever about surrogates cripples condition despite this allegation apparently from a daughter that he's getting better as well but it has been the other thing the jack of interesting about this news conference that you mentioned was basically a precursor to the big united nations meeting tonight at which they were russia will basically say as you heard in a sound bite britain has to say what is proof is against us otherwise this is stop making these noises now the security council they can probably rely on the chinese for support but mostly what the act of yoko said of the news conference was it's only nato countries are support the bridge position most of the rest of the world doesn't and it's not the case at all that is the whole international community against russia in fact he says it's the other way around ok thank you for that

laurence leamer life or as in london let's get the view now from moscow rory challenges our correspondent in russia where a as i said quite a few developments in the last few hours how are they being viewed in russia. well i think what we're getting at the moment is a kind of consolidation or a focus of the russian perspective at least the russian message a few weeks ago it was much more scattershot in its approach putting out various different theories of what actually happened insoles free who might have been behind it but now we seem to have a kind of unified version of events at least coming out of the russian foreign ministry and the russian. foreign intelligence agency which is basically saying this was an us it's it was kind of

a false flag operation that was being concocted rather crudely by u.s. intelligence in coort with british intelligence basically just to make russia look bad so that's the kind of message that we've got the moment coming out of some parts of the russian government's the kremlin is still basically playing a more defensive line saying you know that's just sort this out properly it was nothing to do with us and we can work together with the british if only they will let us and of course the british at the moment are trying to keep the russians as far away from this investigation as possible thank you for that very challenge lifeforce in moscow. now he's a former shoeshine boy and see a worker who voles to become one of brazil's most popular presidents but a supreme court decision to send lucy not diluted a silver to prison mox a monumental fall from grace for the former president and possibly the end of his political career phyllis been trying to stay out of jail while he appeals

a conviction for taking bribes time in prison could be disastrous for his intended return as brazil's president has signaled his desire to run in october as presidential election and going by the polls is the race he is leading now is both loved and loathed in brazil he was president for eight years he drew on a booming economy to help lift tens of millions of brazilians out of poverty while at the same time along with potentially hundreds of other politicians and government officials he allegedly took bribes and benefits in a wide ranging corruption scandal that has been dubbed operation car wash now despite his conviction for corruption and money laundering in twenty seventeen in six separate pending corruption trials huge numbers of brazilian still hold great affection for lula if the polls are to be believed he has enough support to get back into office but a jail term may now have to end that dream let's bring in lucy a new numa now on latin america editor who joins us live from brazil's capital

brasilia new c.s.o. what next for you how soon until he goes to jail. hello foley well certainly a shocking. shocking verdict for former president lula exactly when he will be put behind bars is still the big question at this hour he has lost an appeal he lost his first appeal late last month and his lawyers that are right now are appealing that appeal on some technicalities but that will probably keep him out of jail no more than ten ten days to two weeks according to experts that we've just consulted so it's a foregone conclusion that he will be sent to a prison in diva that judge says joe wardle who was the judge who proceeded over his corruption trial will be signing that arrest warrant as soon as it is constitutionally viable but if he has his candidacy or would be candidacy as president is is clearly now something that will not happen but. despite the

scandals. was and is a front runner foretold was a presidential election according to the major's opinion polls does his sentencing make the election race any clear. well exactly he is extraordinarily still brazil's most popular politician there's no arguing that whether he's in jail or not and so the question had always been would he be able to transfer that popularity to anyone else he was trying to really promote with a man who was going to be his vice presidential candidate a former mayor of south who came in third or fourth place in his last attempt to be reelected so clearly he is a man who needs a lot of help there was also some talk about using the or by getting the former governor of by yes state to be the candidate for the left wing p.t. but now he's being investigated for corruption so that leaves an old right wing

former military officer as the new leading candidate for brazil's presidential election he is a man who says he had miers former chilean dictator pinochet and he is being backed by many brazilians was still means for the days of brazil's military rule so there you have it we've gone from one extreme to the other in terms of the leading candidate there's still six months to go though so anything can happen foley andy thank you so much for that lucien newman our latin america editor joining us today live from brazil yeah well this is one of the most talked about news stories on line right now is trending worldwide social media producer is here to tell us more sound you know i was once called the most popular politician on us and he still has the support of thousands of people in brazil not many of us supporters they call him the leader of the people are showing lots of sympathy on social media why mcgrath here and they believe there's not enough evidence of his involvement in bribery or corruption and hailed him for his socialism no raise of calls it

a dog can say for democracy in brazil solid honest solidarity rather with the fast working cost and socialist leader of brazil is now hound aides and jail to prevent him standing again for the presidency like many in. several countries corruption is parts of the bigger system in brazil and this person wants to remind people of that in fact queen stop of these little was sucked into a corrupt system and says it's part and parcel of political life in brazil while his supporters shout foul play those against him called the court decision a big step to ending an era of impunity and corruption after brazilian lawyer elder bragger elder brother says it was a great day and danielle just has says later in jail sends a clear message brazil has had enough of corruption but also in.

and that's because their former president jacob zuma is due to appear in court on corruption charges now his first appearance in the dark thousands of his supporters are expected to march to the court on friday but south africans like brazilians have been divided on the downfall of these former leaders and many people in africa have also been tweeting about this in fact pizza mix says this is what african countries should be doing and also another person and this person who doesn't quite agree says brazil will now be like south africa the presidents the are very put by courts with the people never to sign the fate of presidents and i'll show you this tweet because this one is from venezuela's president nicolas maduro now because mr has actually been tweeting in support of the same and so heard this injustice and he's going to far as accusing the right wing of intimidation because they knew he'd

win presidential votes democratically that's what the venezuelan president says but you can comment live on facebook throughout the show and lets us know your thoughts we want to hear from you thank you sarah and you know operation car wash expose corruption across the political spectrum in brazil since twenty fourteen the country has been gripped by this scandal that started with the state or oil company but soon evolved into one of the biggest and most complex corruption investigations not just in brazil but in the whole of south america grew to involve people at the very top of business and even presidents and if you want to find out more about what it's all about check out this fascinating film by a team of people in power who explain how and why this extraordinary investigation became so far reaching just click on shows and then click on people in power on our website at al-jazeera dot com or let's pick this up now with marcos giorgio who's a professor at the center of global economic governance at the school of international and public affairs at columbia university joins us from rio de

janeiro in brazil thank you very much for being with us on the news great as you've said they are. trades of other politicians under investigation in brazil right now even the current president michel to man has been implicated in this corruption scandal and yet they remain free is a brazilian justice system be selective about who it targets. well thank you folly no i don't think it's to be selective because michelle timet as president has a special status views of the justice he can only be tried in court for crimes that he has committed during his term as president once he's gone into thirty first of december twenty eighth in this year he's going to be a regular citizen and he's going to lose one of the parag or divs that justice gives him and therefore he he may be put to trial as hundreds of others politicians have been brazeau there are dozens of political parties who have over having their leaders and investigated tried and convicted under

a car wash operation so this is by no means a selective justice i think it's a major step forward in terms of the institution strengthening in brazil but as you know. you know supporters will say that this is an attempt by the right in brazil to stop him and the workers party from coming back to power after impeaching down the rules that the former president you know who stands to benefit from doing as conviction from doing at being out of the way is it not the right in brazil. first of all this allegation by the supporters of former president lula are completely out of place the former speaker of the house and lot of the queen who decided to formally open any pietschmann hearings to lead to the downfall of lula successor seven is also in jail. dozens of other politicians from other parties some of them who have been in coalition with lou that are are in jail as well so once again this allegation makes no sense at all in terms of the politicians deadmeat gamescom i

think there are widespread possibilities first the right wing candidates though so now do i think will end up in areas that inheriting a part of that electorate because the same poor people that have benefited from the cash transfers during lula's years are also the ones that are suffering from a great deepening of violence in brazilian cities and this right wing candidate has some of that political discourse that appeals to them so i think he's going to it's going to gave him some so there's a sort of ideological non ideological transmission channel that who drive some of the left wing voters of lula to the right wing voters bo'sun out on the other hand i think the left wing camp as a whole in brazil is has much to lose from not running because they don't have anyone who can inherit some of some of those votes and and no one that has the same popular appeal that look to us right as it once again let us also remember that if

it's true on the one hand and lula lead some opinion polls all oppose. lula is also the politician that is most rejected in those so look them in those opinion polls when people are asked who would you would never vote for for president lula is also number one that's quite interesting let's talk about the wider issue of corruption and the scandal as we say it has gone far beyond brazil from places like time not to presume what do you think it says about attitudes now towards corruption in latin america. well when i speak to some of my latin american colleagues and they look at the situation in brazil i say oh you know it's very bad that brazil exported this political economy model of corruption in which big construction companies are given inflated contracts by governments and therefore nation as illegally political campaigns and bribe both government officials and private

companies of other countries as well but then my colleagues go all but at least you have large shop cooperation to have the car wash operation and the picture may look bad when when you take it at present but this is a long process of these two to show no building and strengthening that in the midterm is going to bring about big big possibilities big big big bonuses for for brazil this is this is how i see it i think there is there is there is a more there's a more risky approach to corruption in brazil now because of technology because of the example that's be set so once again in the long run this is going to be both to the benefit of brazil and to those that the american countries who have also suffered from this kind of systemic corruption that we've seen in recent years marcus choicer thank you so much for joining us today from rio de janeiro thank you for your insights and we've been getting quite a few comments on this story the political situation in press and a former president known as sentencing one here from south on facebook says it's

a disgusting coup happening in brazil the only way they could have stopped his election was with this far she says brazil is a joke another comment from another viewer on the brazil political scene right now and this is on the brazilian flag it says order and progress that is far from what is happening right now in brazil thank you very much for your comment we look forward to hearing more of them on this story and others are covering on the great today connect with us using the hash tag a.j. news great and all the other ways to get in touch on your screen right now. now to the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election a new york times investigation has focused on a lebanese american businessman who has been cooperating with robert mueller as investigation it says joyce naida has connections to the united arab emirates and russia and that he may provide information that links those two strands of inquiry neda is well known as an advisor to the united arab emirates but the extent of his

links to russia have not previously been disclosed nader allegedly used his ties to organized secret meetings between u.s. officials and russian oligarchs and he's alleged to have travel frequently to russia on behalf of the iraqi government has been in john hendren in washington d.c. nader now also reported the link to russia quoting to the new york times to what extent and what does it say the investigation is focusing on now. well foley this shows that george nader is a valuable witness for robert mueller he's got an immunity deal so on the one hand he has little fear of prosecution however on the other hand he really is required to give a lot of information because those immunity deals come with conditions one of those conditions is that you answer all questions truthfully so we knew before that he had ties to the u.a.e. that he was an advisor to the crown prince of the effective leader of the u.a.e. but what we're learning now is through this new york times article that he had

deeper times to russia than had been previously disclosed he helped negotiate an arms deal with iran and russia back in two thousand and twelve that deal eventually fell apart but he had also he has times to russian oligarchs one of them is a guy named carol dimitri of a russian state investment fund manager he arranged a meeting between dimitri of and a liaison from the trumpet ministration erik prince just before the election also miller's apparently looking into a meeting between a hedge fund manager a guy named richard gerson who is a friend of jared cushion or steve bannon was there nader was there as well nader seems to be this sort of this this this around which the wheel of much of this investigation goes so we're learning a lot about ties to russia that we had not known before so he was thought

originally to be a source for this ten general line of questioning into whether money was being funneled from the united arab emirates into the trump campaign or somehow helping out trump now we're learning that he has ties to russia that go to the very center of miller's investigation john hendren in washington thank you very much for that stay on top of the miller investigation with got a spotlight page up on al jazeera dot com with all the latest developments the major players and a closer look also into the web of connections between the u.a.e. of russia and the trump administration it's all there on our website at al-jazeera dot com. now let's take a look at the other stories making headlines around the world now his. in london you sent. hi there yes we begin with some news from gaza one palestinian has been killed by israeli soldiers near the border another has died of their injuries suffered in friday's bloodshed according to the ministry

of health that brings the number of palestinians killed by israeli forces in the border unrest to twenty one and stephanie decker reports from west jerusalem the violence has put the israeli army's rules of engagement under scrutiny. these are unprecedented scenes along gaza's border with israel it's the biggest protests since a tiny strip was sealed off after hamas took power over ten years ago israeli army has been widely criticized for using excessive force charge it rejects the old those were strict i mean nobody should cross. the fence but i think there was restraint there high offices were on the ground all the time so it wasn't just the women of the if of a private you know the un and the e.u. have condemned israel's excessive use of force eighteen people were killed over eight hundred injured by life fire according to palestinian officials israel says

it only targeted those trying to breach the border fence and it claims members of groups it deems terrorist organizations infiltrated the protests but human rights organizations say the evidence shows otherwise what we've seen is a great number of people standing at a distance from the fence inside the gaza strip and forced live ammunition was used against them in such circumstances the use of lethal force is the last course of action only in circumstances when there's a risk for a life he's really human rights group that set him says live ammunition is being used as a crowd control measure i invite everyone you know just watch the footage and that's yourself is this reasonable that the israeli army. which you know backed by the policy of the prime minister down there to use such force in such fashion and with such results the army claims it did use restraint last friday and says it will respond more forcefully to anyone trying to breach the separation

fence again we're told the rules of engagement are not likely to change as you know there's a strong support for the military and also for the government to disport. or are. they can play a role but it's not strong. enough israel is used to engaging in conflict with armed factions in gaza and its missile defense system the iron dome intercepting rocket fire but not a single rocket has been fired out of the strip since this protest began israel is now dealing with the consequences of a decades old policy of blockading gaza where two million people are squeezed into a tiny strip of land palestinians say they're desperate for freedom military force may not be able to sidon to them stephanie decker or jazeera west jerusalem indian security forces have fired tear gas at demonstrate has an indian administered kashmir. violence started after police tried to stop students

from marching in the capital they were protesting against india's rule of the region after thirteen rebel fighters and several civilians were killed by government troops on sunday at least three indian soldiers were also killed in the fighting the united nations says up to one hundred thousand people have returned to the syrian city of raka it's been six months since i still fight as we're driven out of the city by the us led coalition local leaders say seventy percent of rockers buildings that damaged or destroyed and the city is riddled with unexploded bombs i saw made rock of the defacto capital of itself declared caliphate when it captured the city in two thousand and fourteen six men have been killed and three others injured after the roof of a coal mine in western georgia collapsed the country's economic development minister says the accident was caused by a pressure bombed them in delhi mine is operated by a georgian company ten workers have died at the mine in different accidents since two thousand and eleven. ministers from egypt sudan in ethiopia resuming talks in

addis ababa as down project on the nile river the grand renee zones down was originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two years suspension of the talks five billion dollars dam will be the largest in africa and ethiopia wants to produce electricity for seventy percent of its population but egypt is worried because it depends on the nile for water. much more from london in about thirty minutes time now back to folly marion thank you very much for that if you're watching us on facebook live coming up next the story from our colleagues at a.j. price about the school forced to apologize over its use of black face and still ahead on the news great thousands of teachers in the u.s. state of oklahoma put down their books and take to the streets to demand better wages but while those holding the purse strings pay up we'll be live in tulsa.

however the weather still looking a little disturbed across the middle east for the time being an area cloud making its way out of iraq into iran that will continue to drive its way eastwards still some wall to the head of it tashkent twenty degrees celsius on matty twenty one little bit of cloud they notice in that class stretches way down to ward skew way test can goes from twenty down to around eleven so you know what it's a saturday so cool what's the weather coming in behind a lot of rain just coming out of the eastern side over iraq into western parts of iraq behind that warm sunshine bay we're getting up to twenty six degrees celsius some lovely weather just rather eastern side of the med then still in the warm side across the peninsula thirty two celsius here in doha follow that line of cloud right down towards the southern end of the red sea wanted to show you

a possibility possibly with some thunderous well as we go on into west saturday he does in tampa weather making its way across bahrain across carter thirty one celsius here in doha but for many they stay she will be fine and dry and fun to drive to across southern parts of africa into mozambique heavy rain here were scenes of very heavy rain too in two towns in there that's making us well little further north woods over the next few days. combining also until acknowledge. to challenge soviet era methodology. through making creating and performing. turning a generation of children. into the trailblazers of tomorrow. after school. part of the rebel education series this time on al-jazeera.

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. facebook says millions more users may have had their personal data shared with voter profiling company cambridge analytic this all started with just two hundred seventy thousand people who use a personality quiz the app like many other third party apps collected data on the people who installed it along with data on all of their friends it was initially thought that fifty million people were impacted since most facebook users have a few hundred friends on average but facebook now says eighty seven million people may have had their data shared with cambridge analytics although it's denied this saying the figure is closer to thirty million cambridge analytical also says it didn't use any of that information for work linked to the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and the campaign let's bring in jim. is the executive. director of open rights group u.k. based organization that works protects the rights to privacy online his live from

london on skype thank you so much for being with us on the news good jim so we're interested in finding out how this affects us we've heard a lot about facebook and how it's been affected in recent weeks so explain to our viewers what facebook has exactly and what kind of data they have in how they use it. so the thing that you probably most aware of when you use facebook is that you press like on pages perhaps you might have liked the al-jazeera page or like the overnight screw page and facebook and advertisers and profilers including cambridge analytical use that information. to decide what you're interested in if you press the al-jazeera lighter pages and then they people can top if target you rather ties in on the basis of being interested in the source of news and current affairs or al-jazeera cover likewise if you like the over rights for a crutch or interest in the digital rights privacy amerikana thing ironically

enough so that's kind of the basic of our works but cambridge analytic are gonna step further and use it used applications within facebook right which ask you if you can take the information out of facebook and then use it on their own systems that's less usual people are less likely to give out information up but of course facebook in this in a few years ago was making it very easy for people to do so if they claim they were researches for a systems and so effectively swiped this information on legally dubious means. basically. is that you let me just ask you this because if you've made quite a few interesting points say i want to know how much of our personal data do they need to actually compromise us. whoa you know not so much i think i mean obviously that's that's a very bearable kind of thing it depends what you happen to like our unusual that

is how distinctive all telling one information is but you only have to ask yourself does this information. something about my political beliefs those that do do my facebook likes imply something about my age or my taste in alcohol and my taste in music and of course cambridge analytical conic on a step further and they try to say well certain sorts of thing imply where the you are and i've been going person or a withdrawn person or a skeptical person or kinds of things in order to work out best to manipulate train and that's the disturbing thing is i think you know then. let me just ask you something out seattle it's quite disturbing out of this r.v. . i have a comment here from one of our viewers on facebook live ironically who says that

brett made a lot of money with facebook now time for him to pay back and fixate a comment from viewers on facebook. facebook has jim today a billion users worldwide if i wanted to drop out of it what happens to my information visit disappear. well i mean it's hard to really know but they are now if you're european system at least they're meant to actually delete it they're meant to do that. i think we can reason machine that probably will i think the bigger problem really isn't you know you and me might get away with the we're a nation the problem is that the facebook power isn't just over you as an individual for somebody to try to manipulate you it's about manipulating whole populations and you know whether to sell adverts and to sell television sets or or whatever happens to be or whether it's to change the course of democracy through

making people believe things that they really shouldn't because they're basically false all misleading right you know that facebook has created that power over everybody and we need to be you know that's the problem you know privacy violation is the first step is i think that creates the power in this institution. the next thing is it's our power is use and face but really you know there are money making machine. trained to look for the ethics behind what is being sold that trained people spend money on their platform so you know that's attracting all kinds aren't you wearing characters what you're telling us jim thank you so much for speaking to us on the news great jim joining us there from london and you know a lot of people have been clicking through their facebook settings lately to see what information the company keeps these are just a few other categories of data that facebook stores and shares with app developers based on the privacy settings you select but also every post photos video you've

shared and chat conversation you can request your personal archive takes about an hour or so and if you've looked at your get in touch with us here on the news great would love to know what you think. ageing is great on social media and you know a very good reminder of how all this facebook cambridge analytic a controversy started how it expanded on our website al-jazeera dot com it's a very good breakdown of what has been a fast developing story check it out on al-jazeera dot com. moving on in the philippines president has ordered the tourist island of boracay to be close for six months or a dream go to texas is it speeches have become a cesspool his own words to me lyndon has more from the philippines capital manila well it just may be a small island but boruc revenues make up twenty percent of the total tourism industry of the country at least fifteen thousand workers are affected by this

edition there is still no clarity whether they will receive financial assistance in the six months that the island will be closed there is also no assurance that there will still be a job or a business to return to for six months from now though several environmentalists though praise the character's actions they say with the one right now is to make sure that the issue of sustainability is at the forefront of the discussion when it comes to environmental concerns of course tourism to it puts into question just how other islands are fairing other islands that are dependent on tourism for the people's livelihood island allowances for example all across the country now still the president and his government is the widely criticized not just for the closure of the island but for the position to open a multimillion dollar casino on the island according to several experts they say that would actually not mean sustainability first

a multimillion dollar gambling casino has no place in a small island like boruc i so are many question though the in the intention of the president whether they his government is acting drastically and they would like to know what is really the long term plan of the government will not just when it comes to rehabilitation of these islands but also when it comes to the economic situation especially of a tourism industry that supports millions of filipinos. save barca is a trending hashtag in the philippines then sara has been following this story for us what are you seeing online so. fully the philippines is home to more than seven and a whole thousand islands and is the most popular one of them for tourists people are even calling it paradise you see it's fifty years like this that make headlines in the philippines and i've got the nation talking about the surge that pours into the city this isn't as badly built and maintained buildings have sprung up without proper permits i think to that waste well i think that's far from why did it but

that's why the government insists it needs to shut down the island to tourists to get the big job done it will take longer than six months to have believe they can sustain and see that this is a good start because the major works that have to be done have to be done and hampered without the. presence of too many people on the island remember we're not closing di land but it will be we was not allowed to resist for in the local authorities to come during the time of the rehabilitation now we spoke to karen jim and she's a lawyer and a columnist for the philippine star newspaper and she's one of many she tweeted her support for the tight safe decision when this announcement was made a few hours ago. i think the temporary closure of broccoli i and it's necessary for the government to solve the problem the. one. to start addressing proper

waste management and to start demolishing illegal structures that have been built over the years it's a hard wood to buy but i think. it's going to be worth the sacrifice especially for the and even. now the thing is the locals say they've got the government is actually taking action finally but there's one thing that i'm not happy about and they say that they're not happy with a complete shutdown but they also say they weren't consulted and that's why celebrity fit jason might buy new are posted on social media video he's has made especially for the save the campaign. for clothes for six months. and you're just the money is just going out right and we will pay for as long as we can but everybody reaches this point where you don't. you just don't have the funds to to upkeep. i have no idea what we are finding them if there is

something i think coming down to work on things but the way they're going about it is maybe not the right way we fought like years and years and nobody was listening to us no one. came we finally got their attention but that tension too much to one why it's unfair that it's been we've been generalized as a business owners and that we are all. out for you know bringing the problem to us include that in the in the discussion. because you can help. now other than those concerns that people in the philippines of also question the timing of all of this the summer approaches which is usually their peak time but they're also really concerned and this is all regarding the chinese casino deal sign and that was what jimmy had mentioned earlier but testament to that is the hash tag and if you could just see is just in the corner there not no to burra casinos and this was

a tweet that was actually shared by others on facebook it says doesn't need a casino is already known as paradise casinos will destroy it we protested with nicolo didn't try to build a park in palawan island and this needs action. and lawrence has gone is one of also many that have been posting that sweet sneezers and oceanarium and a marine conservation center rather than a casino no matter how eco friendly is a much better option that our car isn't the only island facing fast development and environmental changes and if you happen to be living on one when you get in touch with us maybe you visited a similar island let us know your foods the hash tag a.j. news grid thank you for that to the u.s. now and teachers across the state of oklahoma continue to be on strike over poor dilapidated schools and underfunded health care and pension packages it's the fourth day of the walkout intended to pressure politicians to increase funding and raise their salaries more than one hundred teachers are now walking from tulsa to

the state capital oklahoma city as you can see there there as one hundred seventy seven kilometer trade track i should say and al-jazeera she have returned is joining us now live is in kellyville oklahoma not far from tulsa walking alongside those striking teachers there she have tell us about the mood and you know are they hopeful that their demands will be met. it's become a labor phenomenon here in the united states beginning and west virginia with a successful teacher strike that where they got extra educational funding spreading here to oklahoma then to kentucky also rumblings in arizona or conservative republican states where there's a sudden i want to poor thing of. militancy against the flushing of public funding where on a month right now don't reach sixty six and oklahoma with several teachers were dozens and dozens of teachers actually take the seven days to march to oklahoma city the state capitol where they'll join the thousands who gather each day to

pressure the legislators to change the funding for teachers and education and i'm joined by the cody she's a third grade teacher from. her than just teacher funding yes. so much more than that. our profession deserves the respect that we need and we're not getting it gives a sense there of your experience of the educational system as you teach within it and actually i teach at the elementary school that i went to an elementary school that i went to was a demonstration academy we had teachers we had teachers that. we were the district example and now we are just a normal neighborhood school and that's just within the last fifteen years that it's just gone for this because i mean i was oklahoma gives and it was corporate tax breaks to oil and gas a slashing education funding yes absolutely and you know we started with

a one percent when we were down in the dumps tearing the recession and it came permanent so now we have to have a supermajority to raise funding on anything and it's been difficult to get that support so the question is there in some of the bones of this change of the model of funding away from the trickle down near liberal thing that we've had just so many years you know corporate corporate tax breaks suffering public funding this doesn't all feel like socialism but actually these are all this kind of outpouring of labor activities happening in oklahoma west virginia i resent it kentucky what's going on and i think americans are tired of the little people being shortchanged and you know our kids our future and they are tired of paying they need we have to educate our students to be those corporations and we're can't do that anymore and yet they're this state as these other states i mentioned labor to trump labor to republicans and by mobile that is an olds with the model that you are demanding yes it's a complete opposite of white people even right oklahoma seeing the difference and

seeing the change and wanting the change i think i do thank you very much so this is about more than just funding for teachers it's about the system of funding for public services the state house also had more money for education funding the teachers say it's little face folks just about a quarter of what's needed to give oklahoma. education that they need to strike will go on better thank you for that she had her tansey life force in oklahoma she had underscore a tangy on twitter if you want to continue following his journey with the striking teachers thank you for that story that's trending in india where a celebrity has been convicted in an animal poaching case that goes back twenty years south yeah and finally any story coming out of india is usually very all over social media and fights in indian court has found a body would act he's a big deal in india solomon hong guilty of killing a black box that's an endangered indian and so while shooting a film in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight it has its hero has been sentenced

to five years in jail and four other bollywood actors were acquitted they can imagine the conversation of course response a huge debate online as well as offline now we spoke to one lady who had to mix it makes emotions about the story and really not sure if i should be happy that this finally be. this the live video and the way we live or the daschle sad event it took twenty years for us to one of the story however if you have the country's media is developing right now we're pretty sure we really don't have one like in the deal and then the high as he's affectionately known to mankind will be out of jail in time so i don't know as a country with our laws and they give my life and my life conservation we have a long long way to go. now the top trending twitter hashtags worldwide not just only in india our block blackbox coaching case that's one of the hashtags and sound

man the heart of the sea the name of the act and how many of its sweets make fun of the fact the case has gone on for so many years and one user said rather sarcastically the lifespan of a black bug is ten to fifteen years and our court system took twenty years to decide how it died this is our india and we are proud many people do not believe khan will go to jail because of of course his celebrity status this is part one one of the russian who says i really doubt he'll be locked up for the killing of an animal this is india if you're rich and famous the law works for you now some did take cons side and some it says some man. has suffered enough although the door is equal for all i don't think he deserves to go to jail i hope the opera court will dismiss this verdict and another person said punishing a good human being is not acceptable animal protein is on the increase jungles are

caught in the name of urban development isn't not leading to wildlife killing who will be punished for that so as you can see many different opinions on this matter i think in the moment it is still trending and it has been for hours if you're in india would like to hear from you it was going good and such you think the court will reach the right verdict if it goes on to the court and now you can get in touch with us through any of the social media platforms we use the hash tag is a news grid thank you very much sorry if you're watching us on facebook coming up next our colleagues at egypt us with the story of somali women risking their lives to play the sport they love and there's more to sport a head on these great with tatiana all eyes are on tiger woods as golds first major of the year gets underway but can he believe when another green jacket stay with us right.

thank you very much gulf the first major tournament of the year the mostest has just got underway defending champion. about an hour ago as did tiger woods who's playing the event for the first time since two thousand and fifteen. national. as the masters. in the spotlight he's long been the dominant figure. with green jacket and. he's going to win. some point i think that's pretty clear to everyone with. the ways in continue to get better. so it's great for

the game to happen. it's a long way from his arrest for reckless driving last year of a very public divorce from his wife in two thousand and nine woods is also being plagued by injuries but after a series of back surgeries runs expectations are high i mean i grew up watching tiger woods you know when his first mass was in one thousand nine hundred seventy and so on that strong run for a couple years so needless to say me and my buddies are all you know ready for thursday to get here and get that tournaments started. in the late ninety's talking to one scrum could go bringing a new generation of friends with him his impact is undeniably. it's been years since tiger woods last won a major victory but at the masters would not only be an epic moment in the history of sports it will be a major boost for goals by the way his comeback is already more than most expected this year's masters is already being touted as the tournament of a lifetime proof if it would needed the tiger effect is still

a potent force everyone's been invested in the story no matter where you picked it up along the way you know some people love him for the drama some people love him for his skill so people just want to see what that outcome is going to be. when tiger woods first won the masters he was twenty one the first african-american to the title runs hope he's not finished making history and he got out. with tiger's chasing the all time record of eighteen majors set by jack nicklaus and he might have competition from one of the seventy eight year olds grandchildren soon fifteen year old gary nicklaus jr with caddying for his grandfather in wednesday's pottery contest at all gusta but he got to give the final hole a go himself obviously running in the nicklaus family. i'll be back with more sport in the eight hundred g.m.t. news hour the finale of. thank you so much tatiana that's it for today's show from

me fully back to one whole news great thank you so much for watching we'll see you again tomorrow friday at fifteen hundred out c.m.t. . the scene for us where there online what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist who's close to the story joining the global conversation at this time on

al-jazeera. the new poll ranks mexico city is the pull for worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers here in the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened i think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse now marianna uses a new service it's called loyal drive it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers white supremacy is on the rise in the u.s. and its adversaries to beating that drum set. faultlines investigates the anti fascists using force against intolerance. this is

untrue from on al-jazeera. non-violence the attempt to appeal to the more conscience of them now the jury's still out. of the nation as one. poisoning victim and daughter of a russian spy says she is recovering and has strength is growing day. i'm marianne namaz in london.