celebrations taking place in turkey as president addresses his supporters declaring victory. hello i am in london with al jazeera also coming up leaders hold an emergency meeting in brussels as hundreds more migrants are left in limbo on rescue. awardees off if a information on saturday's apparent assassination attempt on zimbabwe's president and city of but away. and hindus and muslims come together in kashmir pushing on an art show they hope will help to end decades of conflict.

he's president has just declared victory in an election that will transform the way the country is run. to want to pay is to be on course to tighten his grip on power after the referendum he narrowly won last year which gives the presidency sweeping new powers nearly all the ballots have been counted and one has received around fifty two percent of the vote. sichem didn't you know that in that the elections were peaceful and of being held in a mature way this is a win win situation for everyone i would like to thank all the candidates for all their work and i would like to congratulate them no one should criticize or cast died in the election system just because they can't digest their defeat there's been a record voter turnout and this is a very important message to the world the message is very clear there has been a voter turnout of almost ninety percent and we've given

a lesson in democracy to other countries well let's go live now to a monastery shall who's in tuckey's capital ankara and jamal what are you hearing that. well obviously there are scenes of celebration here mario massage and soft president right up to a bar to one of the ark parties supporters gather outside the party's headquarters in the capital ankara they've been listening to that message of president george up to tell you there are a lot and there's a diverse range of people we are in terms of. gender obviously and in terms of the different types of walks of life so that it would have been gathering as they've all been very welcoming go of the message that i do on was giving and that was a very conciliatory one one of maybe trying to bring in the different political inclinations that different talks have had during these elections he promised. he

would be a president for all sorts he said that's nobody in turkey should be discriminated against regardless of their background be at their political beliefs their gender or their ethnic background considering obviously turkey is made up of super prince this it is particularly the prize issue minority here who claim that they have been marginalized in recent years he said that he would not stand for that something that's good not only resonates amongst the crowds here but i'm sure will have a positive impact on those who didn't vote for are doing particularly considering that talk is quite a six hundred neck it's actually been very polarized in the sense that you have those who are very much in favor of one party one politician one political movements and those who are opposed to it but what other one has managed to establish in these elections is not just becoming the first executive president in

turkish history but also he's told that he remains to be the single most popular political figure in turkey and whilst many of poking about the polis asian and so he. the difference between are two one reaching fifty two percent of the boats in his next closest competitor the heart of injury reaching thirty percent that's twenty two percent and that is something that according to his supporters is something that many western politicians would only dream of having a massive corruption between them and their opponents all very tightly contested election coming into the vote but when you look at the results it is still a very big gap between our two one and his opponent. and yet you while we did see in the days and weeks leading up to the vote in support for the opposition many people concerned about developments they've seen in turkey in recent years the country is still under a state of emergency with tens of thousands being detained and in jail civil

servants that have been removed from their posts and there are concerns about the implications of this result. to one's position going forward. it is i mean one of the major criticisms that have been leveled against president of the place that one has been the crackdown turkey has reduced since that did i think will come with time the powers are to arm and his supporters are concerned they say that this is not a political park down this is our traditional one going off to those who try to topple democracy cruising the military the pharmacy militias and i think the concern the governments and the coaches have taken it's a step too far in many different occasions by blurring the lines between going off to those who are hard there's evidence against them and going to maybe are just critical or opposed to our to our political maybe the message that our the round chose to give today right after declaring victory one of consider to you is an

indication that he is now touring not behind them and maybe embarking on a new one to see if softer approach. only time will tell but in terms of democracy program to talk about democracy and rule isms and the end of the day there were six candidates that consisted of the presidential election all the major parties contested the parliamentary elections despite being behind bars someone had intimidation there h.t.t.p. seems to have cost the ten percent threshold trying to parliament and according to all independent observers that it's observers of the opposition political parties the way in which the vote should have taken place has largely been free and fair so there is no damage in terms of the determinacy that are a lot of role playing he now has because of this vote obviously that doesn't mean that turkey is a perfect democracy or that has that ultimate freedom he would say in a supportive role which country does but obviously for those who hold in high

esteem the principles of freedom freedom of the press of freedom to choose to practice but it's a key there will say thirty one still has a way to go to ensure that actually all turks feel free to express themselves to mobilize such as they wish obviously maybe through the parliament that now has a very significant diversity in its representation and that's good also help ensure that that road i'm for gets his message that he has claimed that you will be reminded because ultimately one of the losses because one it's not that the party of britain is today was that it no longer has that super majority parliament and i don't doubt that that majority and therefore it is a warning sign from the people that not everyone is behind them and i thank you for now demolish allen and speak to violet smith. is outside the headquarters of the republican people's policy and ankara. president has claimed

victory based on unofficial results but the opposition not yet ready to concede to phoenix. well you're going. position supporters and the willing reactor except it's fairly subdued although being sometimes. the screen because yes the boat we have. who is the winner of these presidential elections is not yet official and so the not ready to accept a two year old recently there is a feeling i think amongst the crowd that it was going nowhere you heard scuse me they only have a hope the hope of the opposition groups was only that they would bob school's president or one into a second round runoff and that would be between the c.h.p. presidential candidate and showing on a good one thousand enjoy a hasn't managed to do that despite a campaign really. charismatic leader the first on the republican people's policy

on how to lead and sort of take on the fights who's taken the arguments were two of them put it on himself for medical committable political for former the head of a whole bigger than formidable political machine still out the edge all those are the complaints oh yes we don't know the results jess are not happy to take them but also that we went into this election on a level playing field last month one on the lake a party were given sixty seven hours of television coverage according to the state's regulatory body the over the what television watchdog republican people's party got seven zero experience coverage of the most. they will say this was always quite similar about how been solemn and small reports of electoral regularities in some parts of the southeast particularly voting process but overall it is generally good accepted by observers of which they've been one hundred forty

nine thousand of them this was. and so perhaps the expectation then is that the opposition will accept the. result because it looks as though present day one is going to stay above that crucial fifty percent threshold burn and what might the opposition do what might lie how might they organize in themselves after that. well i think of i haven't accepted the results yet i mean there's been no indication that they're going to disregard it when it comes through we'll have to see one obs in the coming minutes i don't always the opposition is taking some comfort from the battle but it looks like the name don't quite get a parliamentary majority may just be shorter than three hundred seats they need this would be to some sort of coalition probably with this very right wing party right on the far right up to it is politics and this may force a.k.p. to do some sort of deal with them and also there is

a recognition fairly opposition in the kurdish part of the pro kurdish age to be breached but over this temple sent threshold to get representation in parliament the a.k.p. didn't really want to see them do that but it does mean that turkey has a very representative party i could see the pro kurdish party not going to parliament would have not the that would have disenfranchised essentially a considerable percentage of turkish voters who cast their vote so in that level in that regard at least the parliament is in turkey is more representative of the presidential campaign for the presidency the republican people's party will have to look back at this campaign and see how they could maybe do better in five years' time but they have not yet given up mine thank you very much fan and smith and i am crazy m.r.o. is still with me in the studio and so i do one might potentially have one but to his act party appears to have suffered a bit of a play they have they did not as much as many as m.p.'s they want to teach you and

in fact you now do one victory acting in the final analysis it will be revealed that the fact that you got more than fifty two percent was only possible because of its color schmidt and. h.p. you know there were this was not necessarily possible in the usual only a.k.p. single part to dominance so for no one he also has the maintain that coalition with the nationalist turkish nationals park the mh beat as well as reach out to other parties in the parliament when he needs to press critical legislation and laws and we're just hearing from from the latest word from the opposition party headquarters that from ban it they are not ready to concede defeat they have a sense of caution over these results so there is clearly some disquiet there this is really a reenergized opposition that we saw in this election better organized with a charismatic figure at the helm and hiram and shay. how much of a disappointment well and i do on victory be for them i think it is disappointing for a lot of the waters old opposition parties on social media and initiatives on the

rallies you have seen for the first time in a decade this much kind of momentum behind a political figure other than are gone so in that case i don't think everything is lost i think there's some sort of an assumption sinking that this is now turkey wrapped and closed and finished but i think in just courier has just taken off he had less than two months to prepare for a historic election and all the carts have been stuck against him i mean he did not have the equal amount of air time or media reporting but he go in as millions of people so i think he's impact on the c.h.b. would also be large because he's what so ever to go to the past that what's on the c.h.b. which is the kemalist establishment party that has really not succeeded more than twenty five percent in previous elections so i think what happens next within the party would injure the leadership of the party would be an extraordinary leap forward for the party e.u. parties also fascinating to observe if they passed the ten percent threshold as it looks to be that's the new brand new turkish nationalist party the more modern art book than the m h three which is currently in coalition with our don so they will

also have contentions within the parliament too and again h.t.t.p. the main pro kurdish part to entering into the parliament is very welcome for social tensions and political. nations and there's something really good so i think at this stage there's still a lot of areas that we do number of m.p.'s there's still a lot to establish on our dogs behalf in regards to what this new system will work out what it looks like and a lot of the responsible to from no one will lie on him to this moment even on the economy he was able to use this ongoing temporary phase as an excuse as to why the economy is this way why the turkish that was in power but then. i mean how does he manage to do that because the economy has suffered a decline in recent years particularly in the time that since i don't came to power and what two thousand and two is seen as a quite remarkable change in fortunes for the turkish economy that is the number one issue for many voters but then when you think about the the opposition that has been galvanized against i don't want the same time the country being in

a state of emergency the post crackdown the sort of increasingly authoritarian tendencies how then does one manage to do so well i think first of all we have takes up the fact that since arthur to accuse the most influential and powerful political figured that emerged in turkish history he has substantial appeal to his waters so we have takes up that fact come what may and the fact that he's able to get more watts than his party shows c has a cross party if the reach to particularly people that might not necessarily be reflected on the opposition figures which we tend to see in english media so we have to accept that at the same time there were a lot of things in his favor say to emergency give them unprecedented power and control over everything from the rallies all the way to media coverage and also he is phenomenally effective in polarizing politics creating enemies and friends and a lot of the external pressure on turkey often works on his benefit is what does get really behind him and for a lot of his what not everything is ok they're not happy with the way of human

rights concerns in the country they're not happy with the direction of economy yet at the same time and they look at the political landscape they do not see anybody else that they can what for and in turkish political hay. story political parties are always what to do in blocs so religious conservative nationalist turks do not have any other candidate at this stage besides our do one in india was able to move closer to the center and that was very effective thirty percent is still a huge success if you stand back from it but at the same time there needs to be more political war says there needs to be a center grant approach in turkey that is able to get what from a q.b. waters and thus far every political failed to see awards from a.k.p. directly thank you very much samara will get some more analysis from you later on thanks for now with al-jazeera much more still ahead displaced families from makeshift camps in the desert while russian as strikes rained down on the syrian province we'll have more on that and everything else later.

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a revolution on al-jazeera. with al-jazeera our top story this hour russia has declared victory in turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections according to unofficial results he's leading with around fifty three percent vote but the main opposition party has disputed the results saying many votes have yet to be counted the c.h.p. has accused turkey state run media of manipulating public perception of the. when all the stories are following saudi arabia's ad defense forces say they've intercepted a ballistic missile over the capital riyadh yemen's hoofy rebels as saying they

launched rockets targeting the defense ministry. who things have stepped up myside attacks metallic ation fast trying to by the sound a combination. u.s. president donald trump has sharpened his cool to deport people who enter the country illegally saying they should be sent back to where they came from and without a court case that. he made the comments off to protest as tried to block a bus carrying migrant children near the u.s. border with mexico police were called to disperse the protest as an enable the bus to go forward chums policy to separate children from their parents response an outcry of around the country is on the has more from brownsville on the us mexico border. the department of homeland security has confirmed some new information they say that five hundred and twenty two unaccompanied minors as they're called have been reunited with their family members or guardians now who are exactly these five hundred twenty two children we don't know but presumably who they are is their

teenagers who cross the border by themselves trying to reach a family member that was already in the united states and then that they were detained so at least five hundred twenty two according to the u.s. government have been reunited with some sort of parent or guardian in the u.s. or have been perhaps deported back to mostly central america if they don't have any guardians in the u.s. also the u.s. government confirming there are still two thousand fifty three children that were separated from their parents at the border those children are still in shelters throughout the united states including this shelter behind me here in brownsville texas which was a former wal-mart store several hundred boys are in this shelter in terms of when everyone is going to be reunited no indication on the when that might happen just yet. italy is again criticize malta not taking in a rescue ship with more than two hundred thirty refugees and migrants on board the

m.v. lifeline is currently in limbo in the mediterranean after both italy and multum refused to permission to dog the german vessel picked up the migrants between libya and the italian island of lampedusa on thursday italy's new government has been rescue ships from docking at its ports and called on malta to take the bo's'n but malta says it's not responsible meanwhile spain's coast guard has rescued nearly eight hundred refugees and migrants over the weekend and the spanish and joe proactive open arms and. say they've also received seven or eight calls alerting them to boats in distress off libya they estimate that could be up to a thousand people on board but the italian coast guard has told the ngos they're not needed as the operation is being handled by libya. and migration crisis was top of the gender to meeting of sixteen leaders from the european union ahead of a major summit on thursday italy presented a document calling on the european union countries to accept their share of economic migrants entering the block or get less e.u.

money italian prime minister has tweeted that he's decidedly satisfied after these talks. well the german chancellor angela merkel has said that there was a loss of goodwill summit just there is dominic cain has more from brussels she came out of the meeting saying that although a solution hadn't been agreed there had been a degree of agreement about the issues that the this summit is where this mini summit rather has been confronting and she also said and this is an important element of the sort of concession in tone if nothing else but it's migrants could not pick and choose the countries of the e.u. that they sought to claim asylum another point is if you throw that into the equation it is a change of tone to a certain extent from angela merkel remember three years ago her whole position was the germany could do it germany could open the borders and and allow in many hundreds of thousands of people so that is a change in tone and then looking at what the other leaders have said as they emerge from this this for the half hour meeting that took place here the italian

prime minister saying decidedly happy about the way talks have gone here the president of france a million copies saying that it was obvious that a european wide solution was what needed to be to be agreed wherever possible but also no sense of final agreement no communique as it were emerging from this meeting no sense that the the ground being laid for some progressive solution which would which might take place at the full summit of twenty eight states that will be held here in brussels on thursday and friday of this week well now to developments in zimbabwe where president amisom and god bless as next month's election will go ahead as planned despite the apparent attempt on his life on saturday. forty nine people were injured in the blast at a campaign rally in the city of pull away which happened near him and i got one himself as he was leaving the stage several senior officials were hurt including

the vice president al jazeera is haram metastasize more from harare. the stadium where. the blast occurred in delaware has been cordoned off it is now a crime scene the police are appealing to the public to say anyone who perhaps saw anything or took pictures on the phone can they please come forward and a substantial reward has been offered several people were injured in the blast so for the number of people we have been injured or forty nine in there currently receiving treatment it might at the. israel is united glowing who speak truth however we expect the number might rise because we believe some or two reports to hospitals this is mobile probably police is therefore appealing for more information. to aid the ongoing inquiries the presidential spokesperson george and even if there is

another attack or instead of emergency is declared that we're not to take the elections at the end of july on tuesday all political parties are meant to meet and they'll sign a peace pledge based it committing to free fair and peaceful elections. is now is what actually happened they know that a good aid was used normally in this country you can't just walk into a store and buy a good eight people normally with that kind of stuff in the military and that's a huge concern for some people what you likely see at the president's rallies from now on will be increased security and those allowed to get close to him like the media for example will likely be thoroughly screened. marchioness strikes have targeted the opposition province of daraa and southwest syria it's the first time moscow has provided as support for the syrian government's offensive which was launched last week to recapture an area inside one of the international deescalation zones. reports.

government helicopters continue to drop barrel bombs on the last stronghold in southwest syria. the free syrian army or f.s.a. is deploying more fighters to repel the attacks but most. shorter's of weapons and ammunition thousands of civilians have fled their homes suckling in makeshift camps in desert areas further her anger is mounting on the border with georgia where thousands of internally displaced people are stranded. we are stitching tends to help the growing number of refugees were arrived daily and whether it can help us you are most welcome. we spent days seeking shelter and your true. no one came to our help when we came here and as you can see the

terrain is rough and inhospitable we call upon the international community to help us. syrian army's offensive started last wednesday president bashar al assad is vowing to crush the opposition unless rebels surround the military campaign could turn into a full blown confrontation the u.s. which along with russia brokered a truce in southern syria last year has warned of retaliation if the syrian army doesn't pull out. now artists from both the hindu and muslim communities in indian controlled kashmir a first on a joint art show for the first time in decades they hope it will encourage efforts to end fighting in the disputed region as barca explains in a disused silk bank tree of the city of three naga creations of a different kind who are on display sixty artists from kashmir as punch work of

communities of promoting togetherness through art. it's the first time in sixty six years works by kashmir as muslims and hindus are on show under one roof each reflecting a different side of this divided society it was a great experience for all of us like you know people from different age groups getting to know about what it was like. and what. it was a good experience because we got to. the former independent state of kashmir has been disputed by india and pakistan since indian independence from britain in one thousand nine hundred forty seven each controls a part of the region both claim the territory in its entirety. the coalition government collapsed a few days ago following months of demonstrations in solidarity with decades of rebellion against indian rule this. reflecting on their own immediately

and a lot of works here also a deflection off to six peat and witness that it is the political crisis the social crisis or the psychological crisis when a lot of conflicting ideas that are good i think. of using a certain point of consensus the exhibition is aimed at restoring harmony between kashmiris discordant groups offering a time to reflect on the region's troubled past and hopes for a stable future. a quick look at the top story this hour now turkey's president has just declared victory in an election that will transform the way the country is run by ship type i don't want to pay has to be on course to tighten his grip on power after the referendum the narrative won last year which gives the presidency sweeping new

powers nearly all of the ballots have now been counted and one has received around fifty two percent of the vote sichem. the elections were peaceful and of being held in a mature way this is a win win situation for everyone i would like to thank all the candidates for all their work and i would like to congratulate them no one should criticize or cast died to me election system just because they can't digest their defeat there's been a record voter turnout and this is a very important message to the world the message is very clear there has been a voter turnout of almost ninety percent and we've given a lesson in democracy to other countries. meanwhile the main opposition party has disputed the results saying many votes have yet to be counted the c.h.p. has accused techie state run media of manipulating public perception of the vote moving to other top stories saudi arabia is a defense forces says they intercepted a ballistic missile over the capital riyadh yemen's hoofy rebels say they launch

rockets targeting the defense ministry stepped up myside attacks retaliation for as strikes by the saudi led coalition. it's in is again criticized multiple taking in a rescue ship with more than two hundred thousand refugees and migrants on board and the lifeline is currently in limbo in the mediterranean off to both italy and malta refused it the mission to dock john then vessel picked up the migrants between libya and the italian island of lampedusa day. well you are up to date with all of our top stories i will be back with the news hour in just twenty five minutes time with of course ongoing coverage and analysis of the main story of the day the presidential and parliamentary election in turkey.

hello i'm sam is a band this is counting the cost an al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week why a stronger dollar is becoming a headache for developing market economies. also this week digital addicks we look at how the tech industry uses psychology to design products we can't put down. plus a major setback for libya's oil industry is finding of the all crossing future production risks. the prospect of a trade war slowing down the world's economy means investors have been reassessing where to put their money in recent weeks developing market currencies like the turkish lira and argentina spasso have fallen to their weakest levels in months against the us dollar for the first time the fed is the only major central bank

raising interest rates and that's lending support to the dollar at a central bank conference in portugal this week the us federal reserve chairman said the case remains strong for more u.s. rate hikes and that means trouble ahead for those countries borrowing in dollars after the end of the global financial crisis rockhold low interest rates in the u.s. meant many developing nations borrowed in dollars now as the dollar rises it's costing those developing countries a lot more to repay their debts for economists it's raising alarm bells. joining us from london is timothy ash timothy is a senior emerging markets sovereign strategist with london based blue bay asset management good to have you with us so whether it's because of a trade war or because of the interest rate hikes in the u.s. is the dollar now set to strengthen fervor was a big question and certainly has been hurting emerging markets against the backdrop

of a fed tightening and tighter global liquidity i think the consensus is beginning to emerge that basically the trade wars the dollar probably will end up being a winner from that i mean that's been the view over the last couple of weeks i think helped also by this sumption of weakness in euro zone and of the euro has been a bit of downward pressure not helped by politics in in italy and then obviously ongoing in the moments for all the immigration concerns or immigration battles in europe as well but it does look like the dollar is on an appreciating trend does that mean then that debt stress for developing economies which borrowed in dollars that's more of that is now inevitable. well it means more pressuring we you know we enter the year in a goldilocks scenario for emerging markets or appeared that way with d.m. central banks tightening but moderately but the assumption was that global growth

would stay pretty robust and as long as global growth stayed fine then on the revenue side emerging market countries will be more than able to cope with higher d.m. and u.s. rates i think what's changed in terms of perceptions has been the dollar rally that's one thing that obviously increases debt service costs in hard currency dollars for many emerging markets and i think the other one has been concerned about trade wars and what it means for global growth and i think there is a sense that the global growth is just coming off the pace and the bias probably now is towards downside so you put all those together you put fed tightening dollar strength trade wars prospects for global growth we can embed i'm actually also fairly difficult bottom up stories in many big emerging market countries you've got elections looming this weekend in turkey but you've also got elections in in brazil mexico argentina also looming as well south africa next year possibly ukraine

pakistan i mean many many countries the election india. and of those countries i mean there are some significant reform challenges brazil pension reform he's got an overheating story that needs addressing mexico obviously concerns around after you know and south africa you know we have a new administration the cyril ramaphosa but still lots of inherited problems from jake it's there were to be resolved so you know a very challenging environment i think at the moment for emerging markets and on that point i mean particularly some of the last points you mentioned the sort of domestic economic problems coupled with the global growth rate no longer generating the sort of revenue for developing economies that would help them to manage a higher dollar repaint. debt cost does that mean you know we think about the there was several countries that borrowed heavily when interest rates were low how global a problem could we see is this potentially going to become

a domino effect unlike the mid ninety's all our own ninety seven ninety eight crises in asia you know we don't have that many countries other less countries now with fixed exchange rates and less countries are trying to defend them that's positive the scary new environment thank you so much to miss the ash. my pleasure still to come on counting the cars electronic waste recycling tile and it's a booming industry but if it isn't handled correctly it could be an environmental disaster in the making. but first more than one and a half million russians have signed an online petition against the government's pension reforms the proposal aims to raise the pension age from fifty five to sixty three for women and from sixty to sixty five for men the bill was submitted to parliament last thursday or in chalons reports from moscow while pension reform is something the right improved in various governments been putting off for years and

years and years in fact in two thousand and five putin said this pension ages would never be raised while he was president currently russia's retirement ages are below sixty for men and just fifty five women those are a legacy of the soviet years we come up with in one nine hundred thirty two when life expectancy in the country was just thirty five for men and forty for women it's still pretty low by european standards but it has doubled since those times so now there's unsustainable pressure on the state pension funds and the government obviously feels or think that now the time has rights for some reform presidential elections in march are safely out of the way but they still chose the first day. of the world cup to sneak this this plan out they know that it's a very unpopular thing to do in fact in a recent poll ninety two percent of russians said they were against it the plan is

for retirement ages to be raised to sixty five for men and sixty three for when for women that will be done over the next decade and a half the problem is why is the saying that vladimir putin is not actually involved in this pension reform is a government thing they will be watching very very closely for public reaction and if there is any sign that this is going to bring big crowds out onto the streets then perhaps they might roll some of this back. fighting has erupted in libya's oil crescent it's damaged the country's main oil exporting terminals located in the northeast of the country oil exports are a vital source of revenue for the country the fighting has suspended those exports though the political situation in libya is fragmented but up until this month oil was being produced libyan oil is sold internationally through the national oil company which is under the control of the un backed government in tripoli libya also has a rival government in top iraq where the fighting is between two armed groups it's

taking place in northeastern libya ras lanuf and the cigarette terminals libya has africa's largest proven crude oil reserves the ninth largest globally for opec member libya the worry is that a protracted battle will damage the old fields themselves and the impact even future production and national oil corporation is looking at options to divert some all exports to alternative terminals as output is impacted the world health organization has listed addiction to electronic and video games as a mental health disorder the controversial decision has left the gaming industry at odds with scientists paul chana jan reports. in this virtual universe made up of zeros and ones dense purple storm clouds the planet ninety eight percent of the world's population is disappeared and zombies rise to attack remaining humans. it's

a very fast pace to keep still. so much fun that the mass online phenomenon called fortnight is consuming hundreds of millions of players around the world while the goal of the game is to battle for the survival of humanity some people's fragile psyche may not survive these all consuming digital games. we have been reviewing evidence for. gaming behavior last several years. the world health organization's decision to label addiction to digital and video games as a mental health disorder puts it at odds with gaming industry organizations its reference guide of recognized and diagnosable diseases describes the addiction as a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior that becomes so extensive it takes precedence over other life interests the question whose is going through or over the gaming and ignores other distinction activities like sleep like eating

like. education or and and that harms the person and quite of the harm wasn't continues. terence have been concerned about the endless hours their children have spent in front of their console's since the advent of atari and pong now they have science as their weapon to limit the time their children spend gaming the w.h.o. says only a small number of people who play digital and video games would develop a mental health disorder but early warning signs can help prevent it and while the makers of fortnight are expected to earn more than four billion dollars this year addiction to gaming screeding nice gaming addiction treatment programmes which may even be more lucrative for insurance companies and health care providers now that gaming addiction is considered a mental health disorder. why this smartphone social media

and computer games keep os hoax well designed to the tech industry uses human psychology and calls it behavior design all persuasive tech companies don't conceal this apple readily admits its products are addictive it's even designing an app to help you use your phone unless the average person checks their phone one hundred fifty times a day psychologists though are beginning to describe the deliberate engine. airing of addiction as an unethical practice and some within the tech industry want higher standards too but in the meantime for a tech company in the attention economy the more time a user spends online equals more money from ad revenue that revenue hit a record eighty eight billion dollars in two thousand and seventeen well joining me now from london is dr jamie woodcock jamie is a research or at the oxford internet institute good to have you with us so first of

all how is human psychology used in digital design. well i think what we've seen is many attempts to introduce ways as you as you mentioned to capture people's attention and i think it's no surprise really that these kind of psychological aspects of being included but i think one of the ones we have to point to as being particularly problematic is the use of gambling or gambling like aspects in in video games for example to get users not only hooked but also it can cost a lot of money to give us some examples of how popular apps and social media platforms use psychology than other than the gambling games you've referred to i mean i think many of these are around feedback loops are introduced into into these platforms these build on well known affects about you know. communal loops and so on that you you know you get a rush with a particular kind of interaction and i think many many software platforms but many

games as well try to mobilize this to keep users on the platform and ultimately this becomes not so that you share information or you communicate or you get time to play but to keep people hooked on a platform to make money from it you're in the university are all students people being taught how to use human psychology and some of these techniques that you're talking about. so i'm i'm a sociologist by training so i think one of the things that we try to teach students is a critical approach to these kinds of forms of media that perhaps we can look beyond these kind of psychological aspects but i'm that is the only time when i was a very lame you personally but i mean generally in institutions educational institutions and universe is that where it starts that people are taught these techniques i mean i think so and i think you know one of the aspects here that we really need to talk about is game if occasion and this is where you know psychological understandings of these feedback loops are being introduced into more

and more aspects of our lives so it's no longer just on social media or just when you're playing video games we know these are used at work or they're used to keep you exercising and i think we need to ask questions about you know is it right that these things they used to to convince us to do things is it ethical so i think this is a this is the big question right now isn't it how i think illicit and i think you know in a way many of these kinds of platforms and kinds of games can be incredibly persuasive but in a sense for a company making these products of course they're going to do this you know has been a long history of trying to make buying products from a company persuasive i think what we have to do is have conversations about you know how manipulative these things can be and particularly when it involves money and i think part of this as an academic is teaching people to think critically about the way they use these kind of platform or other than teaching people how to

think critically i mean now that the w.h.o. is talk about mental health issues should there be regulation so i mean i think you know there were already is regulation of various kinds in a particular or does there need to be veneering aims and perhaps in a domino way a different level in that in many ways. yeah i think in many ways this is kind of it's a new story but it's also an old story so when we have you know new forms of media that are being used by children that perhaps their parents don't understand or didn't use themselves we often get these kind of moral panics you know today it's fortnight you know in previous years it was you know staying up watching t.v. all night or you know watching online videos or reading books with you know trashy content or whatever it is and i think one of the biggest biggest things we could do to move this debate forward is you know rethink the relationship that technology plays between between families so if parents are worried about for time perhaps

they should play it with their children to get an experience of it because it's not that the media itself is inherently problematic it's that there are problematic uses of it so this should be a sort of family level regulation you don't see a role for the industry itself i don't know psychologists getting involved in sort of the programming design stage and that sort of thing i mean i think there's one aspect that does need regulation and that's the use of gambling in video games so the use of loot boxes or other techniques that. involving gambling being targeted at people who are under age who might not understand the risks of gambling but that's something where you know we have the regulation for this it's just a matter of the regulation being applied properly or we're talking about some of these terms like lew boxes and feedback loops and what sort of negative side effects are they producing in human behavior let's explain them to demystify some

of these terms and little bit. so i think you know with with feedback loops this is something that's not necessarily a problem this is something where somebody's gain some kind of enjoyment and they're able to go through that process so it's you know it's going on twitter and finding that you will your tweet has been light and retreated a whole number of times or it's you know winning in a in a video game so these things are not that's not necessarily problematic but i think when these things are tied into gambling aspects so look boxes essentially reward in a video game where the contents of it is randomized and some people don't know what they're going to get when they open it up and often this can become problematic because people can then buy additional attempts to win what they want and that is a way of mobilizing that feeling of winning something of some positive feedback and tying it into small purchases or keeping people on the game which is what i don't do it what is it doing to people or is it simply that it's keeping people glued to

their phones or is it doing something deeper to human psychology so i think you know there are arguments that you know the use of these new kinds of media are changing the way we think or attention span or so on but you know the way technology has always had this kind of effect it changes how we think and it changes what we do and what i worry about is you know that we think that the entire media form is a problem you know it's true there are cases where people are becoming addicted to these games and so on but the vast majority of the use is not like that so i think we have to be careful in kind of you know over kind of. generalizing the right use of these forms of media and i find a lot about you know the shift towards artificial intelligence is something that you know we're all talking about and i'm wondering whether technology will be even more able to manipulate human psychology in the future because of artificial

intelligence for a profit of course. so i think this is a really interesting question you know present you know artificial intelligence has been used in a whole number of new domains you know looking over legal documents in medical uses and so on psychology remains quite a difficult thing to program because people are contradictory and have conflicting emotions and all these manner of things i think really the question we need to be asking is if it's likely that i could be used to manipulate people why are we not having a larger conversation about what i could be used for that could benefit people because i think it's quite a dystopian future way i is used to trick us and convince us to spend more money and so on when we could be using technology for for much better things all right interesting thanks so much for your thoughts on that. apple's been fined six and a half million dollars for misinforming

a strain in customers about their faulty i phones the tech giant refuses to fix phones and i pads that have been serviced by third parties but it failed to tell a stranger and customers about the policy apple admitted misleading hundreds of them after thomas is in sydney with more. this was an issue that affected five thousand people in australia in twenty fifteen or twenty sixty they have. downloaded the lights of software only to find that immediately generated an error fifty three message which stopped their device from what when those people took their products into an apple shop like this one they were told that they got the error of fifty three messages because it revealed that they had taken a device at some point so an unauthorized repair of an apple said that as a result of that they had no obligation to repair it or replacing the australians can see regular said no just because somebody. is

a parrot does not invalidate the right it's been seen over text messages like that apple as a result has to apply all the broken phones and nine million australian dollars and that's about six million us dollars well this was an issue that affected people all over the world so australia is unlikely to be the last place by such a fine. and finally recycling firms in thailand are importing more electronic waste than they're allowed to and processing it in illegal factories scott heide live reports from bangkok. police officers gathered at a factory just outside bangkok they sent up a drone to take a peek. before scaling the wall and going yes this is the latest in a series of raids on electronic waste factory for the past month the authorities have been cracking down on illegal operations and investigating imported ways. some companies are bringing in more than they're authorized to import and using illegal

factories like this one. it's the largest raid of its kind yet police estimate that there are six thousand tons of illegal waste in the sprawling compound all these seven company can you but now we found out that. not the. factory but to another in the gun factory importers have now had their license is suspended for a year intelligence gained on previous raids led police here to this plastic facility it's not even registered to do this kind of work now this is a stack of old router fronts now there are thousands of stacks like this on this facility and it's clear that this particular one came from overseas on the back of them there's a sticker with an american customer service number on it customs officials say that the import of plastic material for recycling including waste totals two hundred thousand tons for just the first five months of this year that's double the amount

for all of last year i believe it is wrong the ban from china in that country so. tend to fly. into and thailand. those countries. environmental group greenpeace also thinks the chinese ban has led to an increase they're concerned with the contamination electronic waste causes heavy metal in water and soil and airborne toxins but the more immediate concern there's no specific law that deals directly with the waste management. dumping up front that. we don't have. we don't have. and we don't have. to do that he says there's a nuff domestic to keep the current businesses open so there's no economic reason

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