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is al jazeera i am from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news words actions of bush at the u.n. there's another difference of opinion over the suspected chemical attack in syria the one russia says never actually happened while there's a threat of military action from the united states question is when will president donald trump pull the trigger or will people if they don't leave. the gulf diplomatic crisis another issue requiring donald trump's attention he'll be talking about. as the emir of qatar visit to visit washington d.c. looking for a way to end the blockade imposed by for arab countries and goes to washington facebook's will be in front of a senate committee in a few hours which wants answers as to why the personal data about the eighty seven

million facebook just ended up in the hands of a political consultant and i'm only a hardy most of us have no problem with posting our own pictures online but what about when it comes to posting pictures of kids do you think they have a right to choose their own digital footprint connector that's the hash tag. am. you with the news grid live on air in streaming online or youtube facebook live in an al-jazeera dot com and we are waiting for a decision from donald trump that is likely to put the u.s. and russia on a collision course over syria signal possible military action against the syrian government over the suspected chemical weapons attack on duma trumps when backed up by france turkey and the u.k. have also vowed a strong response to saturday's attack that killed at least forty people. russia the main backer of the syrian president bashar al assad is warning of quote grave repercussions to such american threats moscow so far is denied the use of chemical

weapons describing those claims as fabrications but the u.n. security council wants an urgent and impartial investigation by an international chemical weapons watchdog but it's syria and its russian ally interesting they have welcomed it and in a few hours member states will be voting on washington's proposal to establish a new inquiry we're looking at in a moment first with coverage from neighboring lebanon. tomahawk missiles launched by the us military hit the syrian air base on the morning of april seventh two thousand and seventeen it was the first time the united states directly targeted syrian government forces since the start of the conflict the raid was in response to this. president donald trump said the air base was used to launch a chemical weapons attack over one hundred people among them women and children were killed in the northern town of on the base was damaged but apart from that the

strike didn't we can the government or its allies and it didn't prevent further chemical attacks the latest on saturday night reportedly killed dozens of people in the town of a suburb of damascus moscow says opposition rebels stage the attack to justify a military action against the syrian government the us disagrees trump has promised to retaliate. by. president trump will have to carry out a strike but he has limited options he cannot cross russia. they would have to coordinate any strike with the russians like they did in the. air if not there could be escalation. some two thousand u.s. troops are in northeast syria and the location of their bases in the kurdish region . russia has warned the u.s. of what it called the grave consequences if it targets syrian government forces

many believe trump cannot back down he has made public statements and threats so some sort of military action is expected but the action is likely to be limited in scale and scope because if it is a wide operation or if it's threatened syrian president bashar assad's hold on power it would risk open confrontation with his backers russia and iran. syrian government forces and their allies are now on alert they have reportedly moved out of their bases and evacuated military positions but washington is reportedly studying the possibility of a multinational military response we are clear that those responsible should be held to account with as i say working urgently with our allies to assess what has happened but we are also working with our allies on any action that is necessary. the u.s. reportedly gave russia advance warning before last year's strike that allowed the

syrian military to move its assets this time around trump is warning russia and iran that they too can be held accountable the stakes are high but few expect the response to be a game changer. beirut now in the past hour or so the white house has announced president trump is canceling his coming visit to her room and colombia colombia i'm sorry we've got our white house correspondent jim. to tell us more on this one what's the story. yeah the white house press secretary making the surprise announcement that the president would not be attending the summit of the americas sending his vice president mike pence instead to that visit to peru as well as colombia the statement from the press secretary saying that the reason is the president wants to oversee the american response to syria and monitor developments around the world and we know that for the last twenty four hours to forty eight hours the president has certainly been consulting with his top military advisers at the white house he has been holding meetings that have been taking place with the

principals of the national security council listening to his advisors very closely and of course promising that those responsible would pay a big price for that chemical weapons attack in duma in fact the president saying calling bashar assad an animal saying that while he doesn't typically telegraph what's going to happen that there would be some sort of decision made on a response some type of military response in the next twenty four to forty eight hours in that window right now and it does seem that we are approaching some sort of action given this abrupt change in the president's calendar and travel schedule right thank you for that that's our white house correspondent kimberly how good we'll go now to new york and here is mike hammer at the united nations might talk us through what's happening there this u.s. proposal for an independent inquiry what's it all about. welcome all this is a building of acronyms put briefly the f.m. of the o.p.c. w.

is able to establish whether or not a chemical attack took place but cannot express accountability the us in its resolution is proposing the formation of unit me which is a body that will be able to express responsibility and apportion blame i'll translate that for you the fact finding mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is already investigating the allegations of that chemical attack in syria however that particular body as i said can only yes attain whether or not a chemical attack took place the u.s. is suggesting that a united nations independent mechanism of inquiry be set up for a minimum period of one year this body would investigate chemical attacks together with the fact finding mission and then by itself would be able to apportion accountability be those responsible for the attacks be a government or indeed non-state actors so this is the thrust of the u.n.

resolution that will be discussed in the course of the day kemal but then i think might there is a russian drafts floating around as well what happens when you have two competing documents like. well we've worked in the issues before the number of occasions before the u.s. has introduced a resolution which is vetoed by russia and then you have russia drawing up its own resolution which in turn is vetoed by the united states now the previous resolution that russia proposed a few months ago had as one of its clauses the fact that an investigative mission would be established but that would report back to the security council who would announce the findings of their investigative mission that means that the security council would have to agree on apportioning blame you'd get back to the situation of a divided security council where one side or the other may veto any security council decision so that basically is

a nonstarter whether or not the resolution that russia intends to introduce in the course of the day is similar to that we do not know there's no confirmation yet that russia will be introducing such a resolution what we do know though is that the u.s. resolution will go before the security council what the u.s. is trying to do is replace a body another acronym called germ the joint investigative mechanism which has investigated previous chemical attacks in syria which apportioned accountability both to the syrian government and to some non-state actors but the mandate expires back in november and russia voted twice not to extend that particular mandate so the joint investigative mechanism went away as it stands at the moment there is no international body that can actually apportion accountability for chemical attacks and that is what the u.s. is trying to push through the u.s. is trying to get some form of mechanism run by the u.n.

together with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons that not only investigates but also says who or what did it right that debate and vote coming up after nine hundred g.m.t. today mike hanna will be reporting on that for. in the u.n. we talked about this a little bit of monday's grid but the inside story team went even deeper the question of how chemical attacks in syria can be stopped the u.n. says they've been thirty three of them in syria's war twenty seven carried out by the government down jordan is in the chair for that discussion if you just look for inside story as ever in the show you section at al-jazeera dot com and you can get in touch with us as well of course with the hashtag a j newsgroup we've got twitter facebook and whatsapp and telegram and all up and running looking for your comments and questions we're going to be talking about the gulf diplomatic crisis coming up and if any of the stories you've seen that are coming up on the grid the hash tag is a cheney's crude now the war in syria also expected to be on the agenda of amazing between as we say the leader of another regional player the emir of qatar and

donald trump that is starting in less than an hour in washington d.c. a crucial visit for shake i mean bin hamad attorney is trying to find a diplomatic solution to the ongoing gulf crisis remember saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind in egypt imposed their blockade on qatar ten months ago to have strong ties with washington it must be said as it hosts the largest u.s. military base in the middle east now we've got magid ansari with the same studio he's a professor of political science at county university in a regular guest on the newsgroup are we going to get your thoughts in a moment but i'm going to start with a correspondent who is at the white house has been talk us through what's happening with the amir and donald trump today. come out as you've been saying you're a crucial meeting for the both leaders for the emir of qatar say that i mean but how many family who's going to talk a basically about the block a vote has been imposed on qatar by saudi arabia the united arab emirates behave

rain and egypt ten months ago and it's going to be an opportunity for the emir of qatar to press ahead for the need of an immediate and to this crisis qatar is the view that it is open to dialogue with all the parties but however at the same time they would like to make it sure that these they're not going to discuss anything which they consider to be infringing on their national security but whether the come out when you see the string of statements coming from the white house from the different institutions united states of america there's a dramatic shift recognize in qatar as a major ally in the region first of all stage of the past month yesterday saying that potter is an important political force of stability in the middle east and also economic progress this comes against the backdrop of a decision by the state department to approve the sale of over three hundred million dollars of advanced rockets. before that there was

a statement from the secretary of defense james mattis. qatar is a cotton partner with the united states of america in the fight against terrorism and i still caught a host. in a sense comes most important military base in the middle east is against a backdrop of this. momentum which is building from both sides in a series of america and other the needs to be. a push to move forward they're both leaders are going to have it but also come out syria qatar has been denouncing the attack targeting civilians and duma saying that this is a test. to the critic beauty of international severe institutions particularly the united nations and other has been saying over the past few months of the only way out to the crisis in syria is for bashar al assad to go and that executive authority to take over to pave the way for a transitional period and you can situation and

a new election that's the only way out to this crisis in syria would be really important to say today what will trump say about the latest developments on syria on syria in particular can't run forty five minutes until that meeting we'll talk to hashem again a little bit later as i said magid on sorry with us here it's been a while since i've spoken to you probably four or five months i think since you've been in here but it feels like things have changed it feels like the attitude towards carter coming from the united states has changed is that right yes i mean you can easily aid that through the gate as we've been seeing from the call between his highness the emir that with president trump and also from the various sources we have the new york times article this morning talking about a source in the american government saying that they have a new viewpoint towards her and there is more trust in other as an ally and the position of but that now is much more in favor. of the position of their mistaken

is much more in favor of the bloody business in in the crisis but is that to say it's changed towards the other side as well because obviously things are still very strong with saudi arabia mohammed bin salman's visiting the united states has that if the relationship with qatar is strengthened has it weakened on the other side well there are two indicators of how the relationship has changed on the other side one is if you need they need out of the call between trump and the saudi king you'll see that it misses their thanks and the appreciation that was there when they need out of the call to the emir in the call to the emir the special thanks and appreciation for their meals of all in mediating the crisis and in working towards unity in the gulf. that was missing from their good outing with the king's call while on the other hand the source that was quoted in the new york times today also talked about their u.s. administration now considering the u.a.e. to be the main obstacle to ending this crisis and i think that has two important

things there are two important things to say about that first of all is that even after the visit of a high profile visit of the saudi crown prince to that is safe the position of the analysis doesn't seem any closer to the decision of saudi arabia not only on that and look at the issue but on various issues in the region and we've clearly seen some. some disagreement between the crown prince and trump over the presence of american forces in syria also it seems that the investigations into the role in the. discussion of what the president from team had with the russians before the before coming into office their presence of the that the united arab emirates in these. discussions have certainly hampered at least the the effect of the united arab emirates in the so having said all of that do you feel we are any closer to a resolution here as a sort of a good five four months since you and i've talked about i think we're

a lot more pessimistic background because it was just complete stay on that do you feel it's actually moved on i'm afraid the best mistake as there was for months ago and not only because i want to be here for months later but but also i mean it's very important to understand that the main issue here is that the you have the locating countries refusing to come to the table refusing to start any discussion the same source that was quoted in the new york times said very clearly that if and and invitation was extended to these countries they will not attend a summit in d.c. guarding the crisis or even as a g.c.c. summit so i mean we're not expecting any end to the crisis soon however the arab summit which it which will take place this month. in saudi arabia and will host a delegation from above it is said that their dedication will be high profile based on a mistake level so we are expecting some change in the dynamic but still the crisis in seem to be to in its way to end it ok margins are always good to talk to you

then you are joining us don't forget the gulf crisis latest updates page down to zero dot com got a few here constantly updated because this story whilst as we've been saying perhaps not quite in the headlines as it used to be it has not stop and go to the top there and we now see these three hundred ninety day of the blockade. on gaza recent reports programs daily updates they're all posted if you just search for gulf crisis at al-jazeera dot com now the facebook founder and c.e.o. mark zuckerberg will testify before congress in a few hours about how his social network shares and protects the personal information of its more than two billion uses of course facebook's been under fire since it was revealed the data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared with a british political consultancy firm cambridge analysts ago the firm which worked for donald trump's presidential campaign of course now facebook didn't initially tell any of its users that information had been accessed by cambridge and also by

the apps that have been accessed with the uses facebook logons but starting yesterday monday the company said it would be notifying uses whose information was compromised but it's all resulted in a growing movement calling for people to unfriend facebook delete their accounts among the supporters the american singer and actress share the apple co-founder steve wozniak also companies like space x. and tesla but the immediate focus is on capitol hill with like a bird will appear in front of two congressional committees over the next two days and following events for us in washington d.c. is alan fischer on a sort tweet earlier saying that the u.s. networks as clearing time in their schedules to broadcasters this is big stuff. exactly right it's the first time that mark zuckerberg has ever appeared on capitol hill which is kind of hard to believe but in the past any time there's been a problem but data particularly when they were talking about russian interference in the election he delegated that to deputies and live tenants this time the c.e.o.

thirty three year old mark zuckerberg will be there in front of a joint committee hearing in the senate and then he will also face a house committee to morrow how important is this for forty four senators have indicated that they want to ask questions they'll get their own four minutes each that is almost half the chamber will it lead to any changes that is debatable but what we're likely to hear from mark zuckerberg as we've seen in the initial statement what was the least is that he will see saudi you'll see we're working hard to get it right and well the be the question of legislation well he'll see that facebook will make changes themselves hoping that the senate and the house won't get involved in this but even if there was minor changes in regulation that's for something that facebook would be terribly upset about because of course if they introduce new regulation new bars for new companies to meet that it's going to be harder to challenge facebook will also be watching the share price as well just in

the last six weeks at the facebook share price has gone domed by fourteen percent and a new poll out on choose the suggests that more than half of americans don't trust facebook with third data anymore all right allan fisher's on facebook today for us more from him as that senate hearing begins now we're going to talk more about this with a in robertson who's a visiting professor in cybersecurity at the department of computer sciences at the university of warwick joining us from there today and we thank you very much for your time what do you make of what happens today is this all sort of part of the rehabilitation of facebook's image or could something actually come out of this today well if it. i know i think things will come out of it this is the classic case of east coast meets west coast the sort of the the establishment meeting the entrepreneurs as it were. and i think from congress's side is it's more likely that they have

a vested interest deep interest in the election process and democracy itself which is obviously a very good thing perhaps at the expense of whether the actual data or and a travesty of the data has actually been exploited so i would say looking at it from the point of view of what messages can be put across the people without their knowledge and without them knowing where those messages came from or how genuine they are so i think there's two sides to it but clearly mark zuckerberg is interested in making sure the thing the cli speaking at least whatever legislation comes out of it doesn't actually produce enormous overheads and difficulties to actually carry on running the company successfully as it has been for the last twenty years or so. the technical problems i mean coming from a computer science department myself and having worked in industry in this area technical problems are all substantial allowing people to protect their data and

share it with other people and yet not share it with third parties is something which is actually a deep difficult technical problem and not one which one mark would actually want to invoke on lightly it is a you just made the point there about you know running a company and that's the thing facebook is a company for all the good it wants to do and connecting people's it's a company and any changes in how it has to operate this is potentially sort of watershed moment for the company isn't it how it how it moves forward. yes not only for facebook but perhaps for the industry this is the first wake up call is it worth it whereas the. the the internet in some sense always looked like a free fair democratic kind of organization a bit laissez faire if you like a bit wild west asia in some sense and now it's dominated by failed four major players where i centrally back where we were in the one nine hundred seventy s.

when there was a major anti trust investigation into companies like i.b.m. and later in the ninety's into microsoft so i think those kind of issues may be reawakened and again mark zuckerberg will be very keen to make sure that he can avoid any kind of antitrust discussion. you know i'd like you to stay there for me if you don't mind because there are some other internet privacy issues which we want to get your views on a between lawyer and i we just going to set this up for of us here this was a new report by the nonprofit mazuma foundation which revealed the biggest dangers posed by the internet today is a quick run through its warning privacy and competition of being undermined by the consolidation all of the big companies the facebook the googles the amazons and that fake news has reached epidemic proportions because of an online advertising economy that actually rewards things like abuse and fraud and misinformation so it's a calling for people's privacy to be more protected given around thirty billion connected

devices are going to go online in the next he is the report says they must not be used to harvest more data can you briefly before we go back to and take us through what some of what was it i was saying there but what else it's actually doing right so well most people probably think of my bill is just the name behind the firefox web browser you may use it but the muzzle of foundation is its parent company which focuses on internet openness and has come all said it's a not for profit organization now the recent data harvesting scandal ms illust created its own plugin for firefox browser to keep facebook away from your daily searches a play a plugin is a little bit of a software you can add on to your browser to do certain things it's like an app if you will in this case it's designed to keep facebook from gaining information about what you search for who you're talking about and what you're interested in they call it facebook contained in mosul is goal is to give you the opportunity to search the web without intermingling your accounts which makes it harder for

facebook to track your activity on other websites so on the larson is editor of the inter internet health report by missoula foundation and this is what she had to say about this. i think a lot of times we end up in this reactionary mode where we're trying to decide what should happen to facebook where should regulators do in this country or the other but we don't really define you know as users of the internet don't really define what we would like the internet to be and who we would like to be in charge what combination of of lever should be pulled it's really important that we ask tough questions of the internet but that we also work together and think of answers before catastrophes are big problems happen it's important to rein in the consolidation of power and wealth of just a few very powerful companies that we're not actually seeing the best outcomes for users of the internet around the world by allowing so much power. to be

concentrated in such few hands fly on of course mentioned there facebook as we approach mark zuckerberg appearance we're seeing more conversation about that rob as one of the top tweets here he's just a regular guy that was posting on twitter he's the hashtag delete facebook he said he's been facebook free for nearly a month now and it feels good this is one of the most popular tweets about this so far and gotten a lot of responses like this one this woman say me too after eight years and twelve thousand friends it was easy to walk away from being just a product of all the conversation there continues but you can take it over thank you they were going to go back to when robinson issues you mentioned at the university of warrick i mean the the upshot of everything we just talked about there is that a company like missoula it is taking it seriously people are starting to take this very serious as well do you think we will see a sort of social change because i mean people love facebook right they love posted their pictures they love seeing what other people are up to it seems to be this

clash between wanting to get all this information but also wanting to be safe. yeah i think about to can certainly take the lead here i mean the the open software movement and the freedom of information acts and so on who have made things much more open for us much more transparent and yet we've chosen because of the convenience of it to actually opt to go inside a century closed communities like facebook even though they're quite large ones and we benefit from them mary what various ways but i would like to see mudsill or as they say take a proactive view here and actually build things into some of their applications or at least publish tended which allow us to actually be much more transparent about the origin perhaps the age and where data actually come from so when you when you use firefox or other browser you need have no idea or present as to whether the

first things which appear on the screen and actually come from the place they say they come from what ordering of a date or time that they actually appeared in and all of these things could in fact be built in i mean the technical capability exists and i think martella actually have the influence there to actually start changing the industry for the better in robertson from the university of warwick we thank you for staying with us much appreciated. there is so much analysis and reporting on facebook and privacy at algeciras com what searching for yourself but this is one of the more recent ones that's in addition of counting the cost with hasn't sica which took a slightly different tack and look at how much is being spent on your data it's frightening quite frankly facebook and the big data business you find counting the cost in the shows section at al-jazeera dot com. this is the news great if you're watching us on facebook live we've got a little extra storage for you coming up about why an instagram post about palestine from a disney actor disappeared from the team at i.j.a.

plus and then later we will take you to belfast the twentieth anniversary of the good friday agreement has been marked with a huge four decades of violence to move an island to an end. we're still hanging on to the spring showers the disturbed weather across parts of the middle east at the moment a little area cloud here spinning out of turkey southern areas the turkey into syria that will continue to make its way further east which as we go through the next weather there you can see into southern parts of turkey just around the border with syria twenty celsius the beirut little cooler and it has been recently a lot of sunshine for many but a little bit of cloud day notice into southern parts of iraq out across the other side of the gulf wendy whether that's in the process of pulling away from afghanistan brought to skies now coming back in couple of eighteen maybe twenty

celsius by the time we come to thursday here slushy dry but we have got that cloud that wetter weather coming out of syria pushing across iraq pushing into that western side of iran some heavy downpours certainly a possibility could see a little bit of localized flooding once again by right meanwhile warms up temperatures get back up to around twenty three degrees now that was the weather that cloudy weather that does extend its way down into the arabian peninsula maybe wanted to showers just around the southern end of the red sea from time to time trying to move a little further east was that he one celsius here in doha put a thirty five for riyadh so the heat never really too far away meanwhile she was never too far away from southern part of africa with some pretty damn pools for the eastern cape. for nearly half a century a controversial political figure in the cold in the middle east and one who was never far from crisis at home or abroad.

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interesting one of number four roughly a. selfie with mohamed bin so on and then mohammad of morocco causing a little bit of a stir on social media that is what's trending down to zero dollars. twenty years since the signing of the good friday agreement which ended more than three decades of violent conflict in northern ireland the area which is of course part of the united kingdom missing growth sectors like tourism and film production but serious political divisions have been sharpened since the u.k.'s decision to leave the european union union philips reports from belfast. it's the new northern island where tourists come from across the world to take selfies in an avenue of beech trees because it features in the hit t.v. series game of thrones. once upon a time in the city of dallas north an island scenery talent affordability and yes even its divisive history make for a blooming film industry but none of this could have happened without peace says

this busy location manager i've had discussions about for jobs in the last week in northern ireland all significant jobs. we are so so busy there are huge companies coming here and that he would never have dreamed twenty years ago companies the otherwise would never ever have dreamed to come into what was considered to be a war zone so it's night and the change in the last twenty years is night and. the troubles the pitches grady these days but in northern ireland of places in the past ever be a foreign country central belfast is transformed nobody comes into the city fearing that they'll get caught up in a bomb attack and yet you don't have to go very far from here to see how divided this aside he still is. the first residential streets we come to a protestant enclave surrounded by catholic streets yes people still define

neighborhoods in those terms still live behind what they call peace walls are still so fiercely tribal my guide from a party connected to protestant paramilitaries and we could go back to the bad old days it would be naive to think that that could never happen so there is a certain resilience there's a real i think substantial bit of work has been done here in northern ireland real progress esmie it but there still is a fragility to it belfast has regenerated doc lands the titanic museum and yet northern ireland has not had a government for over a year because of feuding between the pro british d u p and the irish nationalists shin fein this politician from a moderate nationalist party worries where all this will lead us the situation where the knowledge the base of those parties are of the of the arm's length and if you like with diagnosed draw. it means that the political support that we need

to build the prosperity justice and development and then there's brics it some fair with the potential to inflame those issues of identity which the good friday agreement has helped contain twenty years is a long time and yet not long enough to take progress for granted to be phillip's al-jazeera belfast and a little earlier spoke to gerry adams the formation fein leader massive figure in northern are. on a b. ask him if he regrets not signing the agreement earlier. when you look back all those years new see how peace came to northern ireland often one thousand nine hundred eight do you have a feel my god i wish we'd done that in one nine hundred seventy eight in one nine hundred eighty eight and save the lives lost i've said many times it said i i first started to conceive and to write about john two data was allers in terms of how you would get peace as a matter of deep regret it took so long you know but darts you know drug company

how we count on to the past the past is past there obviously are issues which need to be dealt with but we are where we are the future is greater than it was twenty years ago and i think what's good well and political well we will continue to make progress. and as more from bombay down to zero dot com his reporter's notebook on northern islands these offer some nice insight from our reporters as they travel the globe and you know the extra stuff which doesn't always make it into a t.v. report you will find reporter's notebooks in the more section of al jazeera dot com this one where is northern ireland twenty he has placed now there is no doubt as to how donald trump is feeling this morning about the f.b.i. raid on on the offices of his personal attorney michael cohen to short shot tweets in the u.s. president first one simply said attorney client privilege is dead and then a total witch hunt with for explanation points he's talking about the seizing of

personal e-mails and other records all related to a payment he made to a pornographic film actress who says she had an affair with the president dynasty broke as a report. before a meeting with military advisors over syria and angry president donald trump blasted a new federal investigation into personal attorney michael cohen it's a disgraceful situation it's a total witch hunt i've been saying it for a long time i've wanted to keep it down we've given. i believe over a million pages worth of documents to the special counsel the investigation into cohen stems from special prosecutor robert miller's probe into russia's meddling in the twenty six thousand presidential election moeller apparently found information about cohen that he turned over to federal prosecutors cohen has been under scrutiny for admitting that he paid adult film star stormy daniels one hundred thirty thousand dollars less than two weeks before the election daniels claims the

payment was hush money over an affair with the president trump denies the affair and any knowledge of the payment but a former federal prosecutor says the documents confiscated in monday's raid could show a connection between the president and the porn star it is very unusual for a lawyer to have his office served a search warrant by the f.b.i. and that means there it happens when there's something called the crime fraud exception so there is obviously a belief by somebody who has looked at the evidence that mr cohen and his client mr trump may have been involved in some kind of criminal activity cohen's attorney says his client is cooperating with investigators but said the decision by the u.s. attorney's office in new york to conduct their investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients the new investigation could put president trump on

a collision course again with special prosecutor robert mueller who he threatened to fire last summer and who he now says the stepped over a line die in us to broke al jazeera washington and in addition to this u.s. special counsel robert muller is investigating a payment made to president donald trump's foundation and twenty fifteen by a ukrainian billionaire this is coming from the new york times the paper says victim pincher paid one hundred fifty thousand dollars to the foundation in return for trump making a twenty minute video appearance at a conference and kim of mahler is leading the investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election. well thank you very much there you know you have a wonderful person and again victor i've known for a long time and he is a tremendous guy tremendous guy so it's a great honor to be with everybody. now israel's defense minister says

a sniper filmed shooting shooting a palestinian at the gaza separation fence deserves a medal country's security forces have defended the shooting after the video emerged on social media soldiers were heard celebrating after the victim falls to the ground and smith has a report from westerners this israeli soldier has in his sights a palestinian apparently unarmed standing a few meters beyond the separation fence the divides israel from gaza just by being there this man is according to israel's military regulations a legitimate target for a sniper the army imposes a minimum one hundred metre buffer zone into garza's territory it's a regulation with no backing in international law the video seems to have been shared on social media by one of the soldiers. yet. we don't know who the victim is or what he was doing in the time before he was shot israel's military says it happened in december the delight the snipers colleagues

taken hitting their target doesn't change the fact that the israeli military won't consider the snipers actions unlawful but it's according to one human rights group here. we have been to keep hearing that anybody who is coming close to there for defense will be shoot anybody respect case if they think in those demonstrations he's part of the hamas and they want to destroy israel everybody is a terrorist then what's rationed so totally to me so if the public debate here that is being conducted by the being led by the political level. showing the palestinian the snow deserving the same rights as any other person. it's not surprising that they think they're in a statement israel's military says the video depicts

a short part of the response to a violent riot which included iraq hurling and attempts to sabotage the security fence and lasted about two hours during the riot means were taken in order to disperse it including verbal warnings and calls to halt using riot dispersal means and firing warning shots into the air after none of these were successful a single bullet was fired towards one of the palestinians who is suspected of organizing and leading this incident well he was a few meters from the fence he was hit in the leg and injured i don't talk shop but mine a sniper high fives from his buddies has of course devastating real life consequences in the last two weeks in gaza more than fourteen hundred people have been injured by line fire from israeli snipers many crippled for life thirty one people have died. but it's me i'll just era west jerusalem and we are running the latest updates page on the situation in gaza or as we often do for moving stories like this started on the thirty the monster land i protest you have got updates reports

interview with the shower they all of this which has happened since then just a handy place to go to keep on top of this story gaza protests all the latest updates. and we talked about facebook in cambridge on this girl a controversy which has caused people to become let's say hyper aware of online privacy on this social networks but now a nonprofit group is raising the importance of child privacy and safety and lee has more for us on that one yes so we've all seen it parents documenting special moments of their child's life online things like showing their children getting potty trained having a bath even pictures during family holidays some people call this over sharing or the term sharon teen and while it may all seem innocent there is a risk factor involved internet security company. they say by the age of two ninety percent of children in the u.s. already have a presence on social media by the age of two and eighty one percent of children under the age of two in the e.u. have some kind of digital footprint mainly pictures of themselves posted online

probably by their parents now the child rescue coalition says pictures you post of your kids could be used by pedophiles the u.s. based nonprofit organization works with law enforcement to track arrest and prosecute child predators it's launched a campaign called kids for privacy which is aimed at exposing the danger of posting about your kids on line with the aim of getting parents to think twice before pressing that post button the group also says parents should be careful with using hashtags like bath time or girl party that could make it easier for predators to find pictures of their children now as part of the wider campaign parents and their kids are taking matters into their own hands there are now thousands of pictures and videos of kids holding a privacy please sign over their faces in protest against their parents over sharing private plea. keeping private will keep me. william welts from the child rescue

coalition says children should have control over their own digital footprint. our organization is very aware of how pedophiles use the internet things like the downloading of photographs online to engaging with and grooming children on social media platforms so we believe that by sharing these types of images parents are potentially and unnecessarily exposing their children to some form of exploitation we believe that children should have the same privacy rights as their parents can control their own digital footprint online earlier we walked around the newsroom and asked parents here at al-jazeera whether or not they post pictures of their children and the very private person i thought was the choice online and i'd like to point to the same cause. i think you should decide when he grows up what and how much he wants personnel have just found less public forums to do it like for

example what's up with this disagreed way of just keeping the pictures less public when mcmullen story about the dangers of posing the kids' pictures online that shocked me so i started looking through my friends list and the people that i didn't know that well are men passing i started to delete in this day and age it's absolutely nothing to go to a fully be pato digital footprint i t's instagram and i do post pictures of my child but they are all very distant and they have no hashtags. we've received other video responses i've been posting them on my page or twitter page this one from meg a parent here in doha if you want to respond as well you can i have a call out my twitter handle is leah harding a.j. thank you yeah i like a lot of our parents are trees not post anything of my my daughter in law and the most childish thing you will get just look at my twitter right now can we bring up my i pad is this which is they are not trying on each other's glasses today because

as you will notice is wearing glasses. send us a message hashtag i join us where do we like you goss was. another quick break kill me for now a quick break on the grid coming up or up for a facebook my view was a bonus story for you about midwifery students using virtual reality to an ounce of understanding pregnancy is once again from a plus and then far as here to talk sports the japanese baseball star show high otani was quickly becoming a huge hit amongst american fans first a quick look at some international weapons.

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you. suppose you talk speak the all-american game with the japanese superstar shohei otani remember that name because he's the hottest ticket in baseball right now show hero tiny is taking the major leagues by storm and americans are absolutely loving it the japanese sensation is already being compared to the baseball legend babe ruth that's because the twenty three year old can hit just as well as he can pitch he signed with the l.a. angels last year from the japanese legal time he made his major league debut last

week and so far has more than lived up to the hype tag showtime and tiny stand have been trending on twitter veteran american news anchor dan rather tweeted i've never seen a phenomenon like what otani is doing with his arm and bat for the angels shades of babe ruth she were early of course but you can't help but go there and it's not just americans that are following this story he's also big news back home popular japanese comic book writers suno morrow tweet otani my editor won't believe such a great story it should be more realistic two weeks ago people were a little more skeptical of well known u.s. sports radio show was pretty cutthroat about oh tommy's performance during spring training that video has now resurfaced on social media take a look at this. the question is is he going to embarrass him but is he going to be as bad as everyone says i am trying trying to as a guy who people with obama been the greatest player in baseball they have the best

player in baseball on that team he might not be babe ruth less i think you know he doesn't even seem like he's a little bit about right but it's not that's exactly right i bet they're eating their words right now and joining me now is national writer for baseball america kyle glaser he's based in north carolina the time is being compared to babe ruth how good is he he's fantastic you know show on it was a superstar in japan and the japanese major leagues really are the second highest of the in the world only two major league baseball he came over here in spring training is a time when people tend to overreact and say oh so and so doesn't look good but really it's all practice time once the lights are turned off and show how tired he has been in everything people hoped he could be and more i think there is definitely a sense even in japan that this might be the real deal and he's showing it so far in the u.s. how badly do you think his baseball need a global superstar right now you know it's tough i mean major league baseball the

one hand is more popular than it's ever been in terms of you were shit all around the globe i think there is always a lot of interest in major league baseball show how tani only helps a lot of know that major league baseball necessarily needed him but they're certainly glad to have him he definitely gives it and international presence and international interest beyond what they've already had at least rosen's ichiro suzuki came in two thousand and one there have been other japanese players to come over that time a decade that sui you doris masahiro tanaka but show here tony is probably the biggest in terms of entertainment and excitement probably since each romania had a peak at about two thousand one now this is obviously a big story in the sporting world but is it also a big news story and the u.s. . it is you know i think there's a lot of people who are just curious you know babe ruth is such an iconic figure not just in baseball history but american history and i think a lot of people any time you hear someone say this could be the next babe ruth well

no one alive today for the most part of least has seen anything like that babe ruth was doing what he was doing ninety one hundred years ago so i think even those who aren't really interested in baseball they've heard about show here otani you know he's everywhere radio shows television newspapers especially with what he's done it's only a week and a half into the season but he's already accomplished things that no one has done since babe ruth when he went out and won his first game of pitching as a starter and then his next game hit a home run as a pitcher not had done that since babe ruth so now it's nonsense hyperbole showing a tiny little literally doing things no one's done since babe ruth and any time the name babe ruth pops up all america kind of perks up whether they're baseball fans or not. ok at how wary thing for a player to pitch in head at this level we have not seen it for one hundred years you know there is in the national league one of the two leagues here pitchers do

hit but for the most part pitchers are not very good hitters pitching is so difficult just to do all that so as is hitting so a lot of times players really specialize in one over the other to see someone perform at the level he's died both ways i mean again we haven't seen it since babe ruth or some other players of over one hundred years ago and today you know baseball players are bigger stronger faster than they were a hundred years ago for so for show hey otani to be doing what he's doing in the modern era right baseball only is our president thank you so much for your time sir we have to leave it there for now but great to get your thoughts. a heartbreaking tribute to the fifteen victims of a bus crash in the canadian province of saskatchewan has gone viral hashtag put your stakes out has been the number one trend in canada over the past twenty four hours canadians have been posting pictures on social media of sticks they've left out in on are of the humble broncos the junior league team were heading to a game when their boss collided with

a tractor trailer fourteen people were also injured several of them will likely never play hockey again but you can tweet me your thoughts directly at f underscore a small be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to camille thank you for such a sad story that one isn't it that will do it for this newsgroup if you want to get in touch with us this is how you do it the hash tag is i don't use twitter facebook and what's that the live stream is on facebook dot com slash al-jazeera every day we go on a watch and comment it's called in to long have a discussion with the people who are watching the show around the world about what's happening but what's on telegram as well thanks for joining us we will see you right back here in studio fourteen about zero fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow.

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