tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera June 27, 2018 2:00am-3:01am +03
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perhaps most worrying me was the effect that serious criminal allegations which are made by passengers were simply not being reported directly to the police who got its scene were failing to pass those on the c.f.l. which is the licensing body decided to take the license away appealed and today they've been given the license back but it's very very conditional it's not the full five year license they're only getting it for fifteen months until the operator operating the licensing body is going to get a very close eye on how operates now the judge though it's the truth but done enough it'll be up to the regulator on the public to decide whether that's the case when in their life that from westminster magistrate's court. it was on jazeera live from london still to come on the program navy divers are called in to help search for twelve boys and their football coach missing for three days now inside a flooded cave in thailand the protest says say the court in spain is
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a delta gives evidence in the first case of the stolen a scandal. there's lots of dry hot weather across the middle east at the moment that's to be expected but we're also seeing a few outbreaks of heavy downpours at times on all markets mostly in the far northwest impost that we're watching this storm system here it's making its way across parts of greece but eventually it's going to make its way towards turkey and it will be mostly in the northwestern parts where we see the west of the weather here we're also we're seeing through showers out towards the east over the down and up into canada stan plenty of showers here as they have been in recent days and there's likely to be plenty more still to come there for the towards the south and force in doha is just hearts and draw at the moment forty two degrees maximum. but
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then the winds begin to pick up a little bit more on thursday thursday it does look like quite a blustery day and forty one degrees will be our maximum towards the southern parts of the printed to that's where we're likely dizzy more in the way of clouds though i have a policy over man and across into yemen there's life to be a bit more gray weather here and that will just take the edge of the temperatures and little bit than two of the southern parts of africa and here for most of us it's a fine and settled not a great deal of cloud showing up on the satellite picture it'll just amazed impossible to get we've got a few showers as we do in the eastern parts of mozambique and perhaps one or two intensity. the time had come for the p.l.o. to seek a new and peaceful solution. pursuing the path of diplomacy but what was to turn their agreed the draw from lebanon into one of the most civilian massacres of modern times women children queue we couldn't believe. on
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a true story strong. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. it could command of our top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. supreme court has now really voted to uphold president doubletons toppled by people from five news going to georgia countries some says it's a tremendous victory for the american people and for the constitution the u.n. says around forty five thousand people have fled syria's southern province and dare as government forces battle to retake the rebel stronghold. the united nations says
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it's confined more than eight hundred cases of children being used to flights in yemen all gucci where bulls and saudi and amorality backed forces have recruiting child soldiers. well in the past few minutes president donald trump has addressed the u.s. supreme court decision saying it's important to control the country's borders. she's a great victory for our constitution we have to be tough and we have to be safe and we have to be secure at a minimum we have to make sure that we vet people coming into the country we know who's coming in we know where they're coming from. you just have to know who's coming here. a high level delegation from eritrea is seen in the talks to end decades of conflict and hostility diplomatic relations between the countries were severed after border war in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight but earlier this month prime minister votes on
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a un backed peace deal that gives disputed territories to ever trade mohammed a double reports about. a warm welcome for members of the first trend in addition to visit the disc in almost two decades they hear to discuss peace overtures but if you have the top raised hopes of a breakthrough in one of most but interest if european prime minister ahmet say the earlier this month he was ready to or not all the times of a peace deal and of the country's one thousand nine hundred eight to two thousand conflict he suggested it would be willing to give up its claim to disputed land raising hopes of a settlement toughest over the border with revealing notes. every trillion and ethiopian people are brothers and sisters relationship goes way beyond the border dispute peace between our two countries will be helpful to the people of the horn of africa and the entire continent at a tram president four would keep in
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a surprise move last week welcomed what he called the o.p.'s positive messages and decided to send his first official delegation to addis ababa former province of ethiopia eritrea voted for independence in one thousand nine hundred three its oppression from ethiopia declared it as it broke away with the portal. five years later the two countries went to war over the ports over the small village of the border and who it belongs to. how the two countries dealt with the aftermath of the war hoshide the most intimate impact on the citizens thousands of it turned nationals were deported from ethiopia. that a threat to sent home ethiopians leaving them looking within its territory dividing families and bringing businesses built over a long period your last a prominent a term by both chose to stay in addis ababa and keep his job at a pro-government custom when his entire family was deported in two thousand to the
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trail nothing prepared him for the two decades he spent away from his pardons and siblings. procedure mother my father died and i couldn't even attend his funeral it was painful not to see my mother for so long i'm so tankful that the two countries are finally talking about peace his brother better kit also a journalist ended up walking for the state because they know the trail he fled to thier p.r. few years ago to escape forced conscription into the army the less violent it was strange to see two brothers on either side of the buddhist peeling propaganda and trading insults over the airwaves. many thea present at a trance all surprised at the speed with which things are now moving apart and easing of hostilities has raised hopes of a mobilisation of relations might boost regional trade and lower tensions muhammad at all just a disciple both european. migrant rescue ship that's been stranded in the
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mediterranean for five days has been allowed to tilt and moan to german charity vessel lifeline has two hundred thirty refugees and migrants on board old italy and malta have first to refuse to let the boat access their ports italian prime minister has now agreed to take in some of the passengers and portugal says it's ready to do the same. or something german state of the verite as one of the country's most conservative regions and it's grown in prominence in recent weeks as the c.s.u. bavarian ally of anglo markel c.d.u. party this is for even stricter immigration policy it's putting the chancellor's governing coalition at risk here's john mccain. on an early summer's day at hurting looks like a picture postcard the town has been a place of pilgrimage for more than five hundred years it's the c.s. hughes heartland a formidable conservative election winning party machine for five decades but the
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recent influx of refugees has changed things the rise of the anti immigrant anti has seen the c.s.u. move further to the right fearful of losing votes in this october's state election you know the goodies that are thrown sawdust over all it would be good if there were european solutions however no european solution was achieved in three years and i believe it's important to send a clear signal that we too can reach european measures which are everyday practice in other countries that is code for more of this police controls along the border with austria officially removed more than twenty years ago but temporarily reestablished once the flow of migrants and refugees into germany began growing if the c.s.u. has its way then scenes like these will become commonplace not just in bavaria but also across many of germany's other borders something angle americal and the e.u. institutions strongly oppose because of their commitment to the schengen border
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free area of the c.s.u. proposals don't stop at just policing borders. asylum seekers will be prevented from working and receiving benefits or violent applicants would be jailed alongside criminals then deported such moves go way beyond what chancellor merkel has proposed the price for not toppling her coalition in at urging many people agree with them they like your typical merkel invited them all now she can't handle it three the other european countries don't want to play along either they have had enough we are a christian country and we want to stay like that in two hundred fifty years you will barely find a germ. this is. his right to be humane but at some point we have to protect ourselves it doesn't work anymore it's not about racism or xenophobia some point we have reached the point where we have to say may first our country then the others
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at a state wide level there are some voicing opposition to the c.s. use plans to buy the ship that shot one million one and one adds the bad varian economy and millions of jobs in our companies depend on a united europe with open borders new border controls turnstiles finances and walls simply question our prosperity they question our strength this is a responsible and it also questions the the very an identity privately some in the c.s.u. like to think that theirs is the most influential party in germany and with their deadline to angle americal drawing ever closer perhaps right now they're the most influential party in europe don it came down to zero in bavaria. navy divers in thailand have reacted a flooded system as part of the growing search for a missing boy's football team twelve players say it's eleven to sixteen and the twenty five year old colt i believe to have been trapped by rising water from a heavy rainstorm so they hide there is that the most of the ten kilometer work.
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for a third day hundreds of rescue workers continue their search but still no sign of the twelve players from the cademy football team and the twenty five year old coach . it's not the first time that an outing at the tom long cave in northern chiang rai problems they're not just teammates but good friends to. come to has been under this tent since saturday her sixteen year old son is missing he's one of the oldest the youngest is eleven maybe i mean at least it's not just my son i feel bad that he is not alone so now i need to be strong so i can see his face again when he walks out of the cave she adopted i don't stand on when he arrived from myanmar at the age of two he's now fourteen and missing chin is hopeful the boys will survive and says they work well together you have very strong i want to see if you're a strong yes this is the mouth of the cave complex that runs some eight kilometers
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deep into these hills right along the border with myanmar the bikes from these twelve boys and their coach are still here just as they were left on saturday a small makeshift village has been created for the rescue workers there divers cave climbers soldiers and forestry service workers the man in the morning at them before letting his own biggest challenge in the rescue operation we are trying to pump out the water so the diving team cannot we need to string more electricity in the case to run the pumps we are pumping three kilometers in need more power and more help keeps coming in the race is on to find the boys with the rescuers aware time is not on their side it's got harder al-jazeera chiang rai. a spanish woman who says she was still in as a baby is taking adults as she says is responsible to court cases the first of the so-called stolen baby scandal that affected thousands in spain during the franco dictatorship pizza shop reports. that they
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call themselves the stolen babysitter société each of them horribly scarred by the loss of the newborn and each of them could tell an all too familiar story. you know do it my baby was with me for the first day i fed her she was fine then they took her away to wash but they didn't bring her back three days later they told me she was dead they gathered outside the municipal court house in madrid but they were denied a confrontation with the gynecologist standing trial accused in court of a duction and illegal adoption of an infant off a century ago you know what the most famous eighty five year old eduardo valle m. is accused of abduction and the illegal adoption of an infant off a century ago he's the first person to appear in court charged with involvement in a secret practice that saw hundreds of thousands of baby stolen sold under the
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dictatorship of general franco. in spain there was a mafia talk network of baby boy right up to the early ninety's when democracy was already well established and it dates back to the fifty's of the franco dictatorship. it took newborns from their mothers who had just given birth and sold them for the equivalent of three hundred euros in the fifty's which is six thousand years in the ninety nine seizures of england many of the babies were from single mothers and they were placed with families that supported the franco regime but not in as matter the gal who put the case to court says for sixty years spain was the baby supermarket for europe and south america. she's now forty nine and has been searching for her real mother all her life. the trial is only due to last two days in magical says it's unlikely to provide her with the answers she's been looking for but more importantly she says it offers the potential for similar actions the
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thousands of cases to be reopened peter shop al jazeera environmental activists say demand for wood in europe is causing a massive african raid forests to shrink at an alarming rate campaigners say the largest timber company in the democratic republic of congo is illegally cuttings and millions of trees reports. in the heart of africa the congo basin is home to the world's second largest rain forest but a new investigation accuses timber companies of endangering its existence second in size to the amazon the congolese rain forest to some two million square kilometers it covers six countries including the democratic republic of congo where it's shrinking the fastest the nonprofit global witness says the d.r. she's biggest timber company north to timber is illegally harvesting trees at nearly ninety percent of its sites with impunity north through timber which is portuguese owned denies congolese subsidy sort of force is breaching its contracts
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it says the accusations have no basis it acknowledges some management plans may not be in place but that it's talking with the ministry of environment about them global witness is also accusing importers such as portugal and friends of failing to take action there are some plans on the books being negotiated between france and norway which if approved or triple the area large from one hundred thousand square kilometers to three hundred thousand square kilometers researchers are trying to learn about the forest unique ecosystem before it's too late. these forests are under pressure from humans so we scientists want to categorize the fauna and the birds the only thought of this forest before it is destroyed. scientists say the congo rain forest is a source of food and water for tens of millions of people it's also home to six hundred types of trees and ten thousand animal species including endangered ones they say these trees produce oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide but their ability to reduce greenhouse gases and regulate the climate is decreasing. but example here
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for example the rainy season normally starts in mid august but now sometimes it begins in july and sometimes in september and when it comes sometimes the water does not rise steadily and then they suddenly recede there's a disorder in the cycle so despite existing national international laws designed to protect rain forests global witness says companies like timber on dangerous seventy five million hectares of rainforest in the d.r. see global witness demanding all those involved from governments to importers and buyers to stop being complicit in the destruction of d r c's tropical rain forests and the impact it's having on the planet's climate. on al-jazeera. and lines of our top stories. yes supreme court has upheld. people from the majority countries the court said five. was.
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early in his presidency opposition activists have criticized that decision tom says it's a tremendous victory for the american people and for the constitution this is a great victory for our constitution we have to be tough and we have to be safe and we have to be secure at a minimum we have to make sure that we vet people coming into the country we know who's coming in we know where they're coming from. we just have to go coming here united nations says it's confirmed over eight hundred cases of children being used in the fighting in yemen some as young as eleven years old and you report it to says both hutu rebels and saudi an emirate forces are recruiting child soldiers and says as many as seventy six child soldiers were used on the front lines majority guarded checkpoints and government buildings and brought equipment to military
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positions a government offensive to retake one of syria's last opposition strongholds as forced forty five thousand people to flee triggering warnings of another humanitarian crisis government forces backed by russian warplanes have launched airstrikes and ground battles to recapture a day or a from rebel fighters most of the displaced syrians are heading to jordan but the jordanian government says its borders will remain closed sudan's foreign minister says south sudan's president salva kiir and rebel leader react much are have reached an agreement on some points to end the civil war the leaders have been attending peace talks in the city's capital khartoum says sudan has been grappling with civil war since twenty thirteen less than two years after it gained independence from sudan. taxi hailing app has won an appeal to continue operating in london its license was revoked last september over the company's failures to report serious criminal offenses and conduct thorough background checks on drivers
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that you license will be for just fifteen months because your headlines are up to date state without jazzier inside story is coming up next we'll see you later. facebook on the defensive again it now says no european uses data was shared in the privacy scandal which is the reverse of what it said before so why the flip and will it change anyone's mind this is inside story.
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and i welcome to the program i'm peter w. now facebook says no european uses information may have been shared with the u.k. for at the center of the privacy scandal after all but at the hearing the social media networks executives that they still have to conduct an internal audit to confirm that facebook had previously said data from up to two point seven million e.u. users had been improperly shared with cambridge analytic that's the reportedly hired to influence britain's breaks that referendum and the u.s. election campaign that saw donald trump getting into the white house the facebook founder mark zuckerberg has apologized and pledged to apply new european data protection rules globally but has that happened yet well that's the key question for our guests in just a moment before we get to the discussion here's a reminder of how the facebook scandal unfolded on march the seventeenth millions of facebook users woke up to the news that their personal information had been
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acquired by the data company cambridge analytics the revelations coming from the co-founder of the u.k. based company a man called christopher wiley the data. it was reportedly sold to cambridge analytical and used for political purposes linked to the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election campaign and also the brics it campaign the company said the data was destroyed in twenty fifteen but there were reports not all of it was actually deleted facebook then confirmed that up to eighty seven million users details may have been improperly shared it also goes back to twenty fourteen when two hundred seventy thousand users took an online personality survey via a third party quiz this gave access not only to their facebook information but to that of their friends facebook says it was a violation of company policy ok let's get going let's bring in our guest joining us here on inside story from palo alto california on skype is laurie majid c.e.o.
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of connect safely dot org that's an internet safety and privacy and security organization in london is sense esprit senior lecturer in the department of informatics at king's college london and joining us from brussels on skype even a member of the european parliament and the chair of the parliament science and technology options assessment a warm welcome to you all let's just talk to you first innocence us tree in london what does this mean for the people who thought their data had been accessed well it basically means that there are there are details have not been doing deals to some company so it's good news for these people but it's not so good news still for the u.s. citizens and others whose data has been leaked to gamers. and in california does this mean that people trust facebook less or more than they did back in may
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when the scandal broke. i doubt if it has much impact on people trust their facebook and it was said it's good that europe may not have been impacted in the way the us was but it's still a big issue in the us and i must say that the victim of there not just those who the information with taken but everybody who believes in democracy who vote may not have been counted in the way or maybe that counted but. in the election outcomes may have been influenced by the result of this and other campaigns even caught in brussels the scope of the g.d.p. all it does that go far enough because that basically means that people that you click on except with they have to tell you they have to confess and say no your information will or will not go to other people. let me say that least e.p.r.i. maybe we should have been faster but the staff and the skin create some global
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standards on how we treat state so that means people citizens have now the option to control the state that they can take them away they can ask for transparency with what is happening we through data and basically make it too much they should deny or allow us the data so i think giving them back control is the first thing that happens but because the vision is happening we. have to be asked to us more requirements more options to cease to be able to understand who the stuff. we're saying is if you think that we made of course the consequence is even worse think that's even a grandsire to understand that there is a media. knowledge. they don't understand more or less those and they don't know exactly what the data has and how they can use them or work to prove that we have
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nations coming about it think the main purposes. ok larry magid back in california facebook is promising an internal audit what are the key questions for you that it has to address. well i think that the main question is are there systems in place today that could prevent this type of thing from happening again have they tightened up sufficiently the access that their third party developers have to the data and also have they increased their own surveillance techniques and by surveillance i don't mean spying on people but the ability to enforce the veil the apps that they know that the things can't happen again so they have to have very robust systems with their software in their service to prevent these types of things from happening in the future in a sense and street in london i mean people uses and politicians they were frustrated i guess by the reality of the revelations but also by facebook's
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reaction to all the people's reaction to the revelation shortly. yeah so i guess the part of the predicament is that we have all started to use facebook and such and it's embedded in such a deep place in our daily lives that the feel as if we are betrayed by these kind of revelations that somebody that you trusted with sort of the basic bits of your life has now given away that data to someone else now so it should be read clear that facebook has been tightening up and has cleaned up for itself in quite significant ways but it still feels as though they could be doing a little bit more it also feels like they have already given of a some amount of data and that's part of the first station and i think this is this is also this in some ways the normal in the sense that the technology is evolving
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very fast as they were saying and in many of the tech companies are putting up new functionalities before completely allies ing what the consequences of these are and so it's a consequence of the of the evolving landscape that we have here even is that part of the problem in your last answer you were talking about more legislation still to come but unless the legislation chimes perfectly with where the technology is going people like yourself the european i mean you're always going to be playing catch up . well that's true but you listen because of the you know nation cannot follow the rules you know vision takes place by thinking as the books so we have to move fast by speaking faster because then we can see the innovation what i can say is that you know there's not a company we have to make sure the future understand their perceptions can be funny
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should be eighty five thing you see so this is not about to use the hook and the c.c.c. if you see a lot of people in this county condon this could change or lose this could affect your options and you choices and lets you educate people to understand less the team and make so that by the fourth day newspeak is not being manipulated you know that bag it is the size and that's a subform the legion of you please begin the sensory information that sexualization that i think was going to be left behind because we haven't understood exactly identified the main problem which was a manipulation of the perceptions to create an uncertainty and to vote. for the understanding of the war. some because of the different phones and i think that's why i mentioned who we should understand the technology and try and set up the
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right principles there in order to see who called to the citizens and allow them to use the application but not all of their use their state does to make sense and then you need to screen nations you need to congress come differences that we will be successes affect them from larry magid in california it would appear to me that these two point seven million europeans are safe they are home and dry when it comes to the data what they will how they will react to say advertising how they were yet to echo chamber conversations but that's just two point seven million europeans there are surely other europeans. who were in the united states say when this was all going on so how do you come up with global legislation such as the legislation that eva is involved with to make everyone that uses facebook as safe as these two point seven million europeans. well first of all i want to make
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a general comment about legislation i certainly agree with the con common even made about principles but it's very difficult for regulators to micromanage companies what we need are principles that can last for potentially decades about privacy and security that are independent of the specific technology because technology will change very quickly but general principles can can last for a long time as per global regulations well the good news is that the g.d.p. are even though it only affects europe actually it having an impact of global a because some of these companies that least are trying to apply g.d.p. are on an international level because it's actually easier for them to have one set of rules for the entire population and to have to break it down country by country and the famous true for example with the children's online privacy protection act in the united states it doesn't affect directly any other country but most of the internet service providers have complied complied with it globally so i think that
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we're all benefiting through g.d.p. are but having said that i know there will continue to be discussions in washington about way the u.s. can tighten our privacy laws that's inevitable i think mark zuckerberg realizes that his goal i think is to try to make it so it it doesn't hurt his business but they all know it's coming and i think europe set the pace for the entire world in a sense it may sound like a slightly idiotic question but is there anything that one can do to make oneself safe for him when the scandal broke one point eight million australians deleted their accounts but off the back of that we discovered that sixty six percent of facebook users don't know how to set their previously settings and if you look at the facebook screen even if you want to log off your account eva's noting she's able to go through the same process if you want to logo for your account you have to go to that small triangle top right hand side and if your on your i pad or your i phone it's difficult to see maybe sleeve yourself loek in even more on the end of
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the day. innocent wants you to be logged in for as long as possible because facebook is a multi-billion dollar company and he wants to monetize you a use as a resource. sure i mean so just to the last point about well as being the product that is certainly the case today and with legislation such as g.d.p. or and other things that that proposition is sort of drying up a little traces of it presumably in the near future we're going to start seeing new business models for new internet companies or even for old internet companies to remind themselves as i said we are not the product but rather the service that offering is the product as it should be. going back again to what you're saying yes it is extremely difficult today for even well informed user so one of the things that i've been trying to do since g.d.p. is every new web say that i was it i make sure to see what their policies and what
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kind of cookies are they starting on me and so forth this is information that i could have figured out before but was not so easy to figure out before and now a new sort of a pop up comes up for me that says are you ok that i'm collecting such and such cookies and i go through and figure out what the cookies are and it is a tedious process it's actually affecting my work because i'm no longer able to browse in the same way same seamless way that i used to before so even with things like consent that doesn't necessarily go far enough in preserving the same kind of browsing experience that we used before and again so this is this is because of the advertising based business model that we have and it's also because with social platforms it becomes even more difficult to think about what does privacy mean so if i gave access to the world to see effort
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a graph of me and my friends would my friends who happened to be in the picture be ok with that how do they prevent that from happening if they're not ok with that this are difficult thorny questions. and somehow that career than have to figure out ways around this and we are they are going forward but are not quick enough ok even carly in brussels i mean still surely is the case facebook doesn't seem to want to admit or concede what it actually is it is not some some organization of the vanguard of freedom is it a news organization is it a broadcaster is it i've used the phrase before on the show an echo chamber for people's your friends opinions and you know other broadcasters other publishers are monitored people do monitor them because they've got to because there are legal issues to do with that and yet facebook wants to still be above all that perhaps.
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when on the legislation for such a lot firms and their responsibilities to businesses especially is now in the opinion unions so i'm going to work on these five and i will try to make sure those that are a few cities in the state and the average stand how. the source of business is to be able to u.c.s.b. cation but to be subpoenaed and that's when things you can see i was in court because you mentioned these did not speak the old definition was what facebook and other. something new i'm i would like to work i can see different services actually and we have the only nation to what's the also so maybe as i said we have to make sure that we. must friends in the nation. for every month of the for some of the this is for the first spending that we have to make so this is here and that you have many options to be able to say yes i want you can. i can use
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any movies but there were uses but the rest of my day. than you because i use it for food or science or hands or send them to you know you can access without my knowledge and like and so i also gave them the night access so fuck you because you're in for somebody and if you do so call me maybe you excuse it and then even the one screaming and even the lights so basically we have to suffer specific usually we send them. a sense of peace and privacy and not speak and then to give more options to the cities and. towns are ready for loose once we are sure and certain that we want to do so for me. to do and things or do something then that lets you. so you can be are if you want to warn
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you of and those that become but actually do want to hear they have to comply we have the right people gone there and we have the right information we have the right to privacy as we have to find this new balance between the rights that we have so it's an ongoing process meaning we have to learn from what happened and make sure that people who we not be manipulative especially incensed like political decisions and understood understood and i just want to boil that plant down for a second to put that in california larry clearly the essence of what we're discussing here when it comes to these two point seven million people in europe is pushback but how do you strike the balance i mean is frankly ridiculous because for example the chicago tribune website a perfectly reputable newspaper website you can't see it in europe then you put up a v.p.n. and you can see it in europe i mean how does that work. well first of all and i've
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been to facebook safety advisory board for a number of years right so far and these conversations come up all the time and i just want to make it clear that often it's nuanced for example i agree that there should be a lot of privacy controls but the more private they control the ad the more complicated they become so that there is a tradeoff between simplicity and control and i'm not suggesting that facebook couldn't do a better job i know they could but but these are things that facebook and their advisers have been struggling with for years i also want to point out that consumer education is critical you can have the safest platform in the world but if people aren't using it in a safe way then their information is going to be a getting into the wrong hands because ultimately social media is about sharing and the question isn't whether we share information i wouldn't have any use for facebook if i weren't using it to reach out to my friends and share information the question of how do we keep control over our information yet still have the ability
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to share it and with that freedom to share means we have the freedom to go too far if we're not careful so it's a it's a balance their government has a role obviously industry has a role but the rest of it have a role and that's where i think consumer education is so important. in london using social media and trusting it without question of those days now gone. i think you'll find that there are people who have very very different conceptions of what privacy means and what play with the means to them there are still a number of people who don't care that much about privacy and oftentimes the argument that here are being made is i don't have anything to hide so why do i need to care about privacy there are others who are privacy extremists and whom i. go to great lengths to keep themselves private from from from these big huge companies like so given the spec some of the friend kinds of users that there are there's not
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going to be a single right balance and which is why you need users to have more control over exactly what how their data being stored and what are the services that are being offered in the done for or in exchange for a certain lack of privacy in the past that the web site can be can be tailored to your needs can be tailored to the way you want it to look and the functionality that you want it to be there is a fairly intense a loss of privacy the website needs know a bit more about you logon details and so forth so but maybe others don't actually want that they could have a much more genetic looking website without actually having to log in and so this is a kind of balance where users need to exercise control but on the other hand if you give too much control as the previous speaker was saying it could end up being decision fatigue if each website as i'm doing now with each website i need to go in and look and see what cookies are there work with cookies to any to allow what i'm
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comfortable with doing that actually is a huge mental and cognitive load which takes away from the rich experience that we get from browsing the internet and from getting all the information that we're getting and the way our lives have been touched on so it's a very very delicate line and i don't envy the job that the legislators have whether in europe or outside whether it's. thing where we need to think beyond these a knee jerk reactions to oh cam generalistic a happened to harvey prevent that from happening sure covers a lot of guys are going to happen and yet again something else is going to happen so you need to come up with broader principles broader part of things which which lost the test of time and work for all these different people and their different conceptions of privacy and that if a needs even in the context of the decision for t. that in a sentence talking about the arts of london is is what we're seeing a birthing pain for facebook and if facebook is reinventing itself can it reinvent
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itself with mark zuckerberg at the top or and basically understand what you have the principles and so forth these principles once you have. clear on what we are asking and let me say also that these days we're looking also for copyrights this means that you know. one of the not forms you queue to create their users of the home or the open rights i know more than x. and us foreign trade so do that and whatever finds so you really are slowly slowly building up a very concretely station based on please. read the whole thing ok eva i'm going to interrupt you there which i apologize last word to larry in california clearly larry this is the starting point for where social media is going what's the end point that we're going to get well ideally the end point is that people are going
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to feel comfortable like they get control their own social media they have complete transparency of where their data is and who have access to it and they can enjoy sharing with the education in the knowledge that they need to limit what they share if they want privacy but at the same time they can take advantage of all the great features that social media offers ok. thank you all very much for your time today here on inside story thanks to our guests larry i'm a g.d. in california innocent sastry who joined us from london and your colleague who joined us out of brussels and thank you to you too for watching the program over the past half hour you can see the show again any time on the web site al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion to check out facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story or tweet me i'll tweet you back i'm at peter davi one for me peter dhabi and everyone on the team here in doha thanks for watching we'll see you soon
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supreme court as it up coldstone the trumps controversial travel ban. a massive exodus from dera in syria the u.n. says forty five times and people have fled a government offensive. navy divers are called in to help search for twelve foy's and their football coach missing for three days now inside a flooded cave in thailand. and on fun with the latest from the world cup we're live in el messes argentina could be heading home from russia if they don't reach nigeria we'll go live to san petersburg with that man just getting on the way. very warm welcome to this hour of news first to the u.s. with its supreme court has upheld president donald trump's travel ban on people from five muslim majority countries they now really voted five to four to accept
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the child was acting illegally when he signed the executive order early in his presidency he said the ruling was called vindication following hysterical commentary from the media she's a great victory for our constitution. we have to be tough and we have to be safe and we have to be secure at a minimum we have to bring sure that we vet people coming into the country we've always coming in we know where they're coming from. we just have to go who's coming here. with this decision we are concerned that donald trump will move beyond the five most of majority countries that are in the current version to not only target more country but retention we even go after u.s. citizens and lawful permanent residents. we call on all americans to join with
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us and standing up to this egregious policy will she have returned she is following events in the capitol washington d.c. hi there she have so what were the arguments then in the supreme court decision. well a majority of justices agreed with the administration's argument that this wasn't traveled. which cause so much chaos soon after donald trump was inaugurated wasn't troubled by them but to this third incarnation was the result of a global into agency investigation into the vetting practices in these countries of potential travelers to the united states and the conclusion was the vetting practices weren't good enough to ensure u.s. national security the second argument was this isn't a muslim ban there are plenty of muslim countries that aren't on this list and thirdly any tweets from donald trump calling for a total ban on muslims are all made before he became commander in chief and president and sworn oath of office to protect the national security of the u.s.
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as president that's his responsibility and not the responsibility of the judiciary a majority of just agreed with that however some of the justices did agree with the opposition's argument that one congress already has laws on the book books ensuring the vetting of people from these countries to ensure national security you called have a ban on the entire nationality of people and secondly the other argument was any reasonable person looking at donald trump's tweets could come to no other conclusion than the travel ban was based on animus towards muslims a minority of justices did agree with some of those arguments but they were in the minority and she had what are the implications now. well the travel ban has been in place since december the supreme court did allow it to be to go ahead in december to affect some one hundred fifty million people waivers are allowed theoretically the administration says it's give us some examples people who've worked here before who have very close ties to the u.s.
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but the statistics that we have already show that in the first month of the third incarnation of the travel ban some half thousand people applied for a waiver on these grounds and one hundred waivers were given so it's very difficult to get these waivers at the discretion of immigration authorities in your home country but secondly there's that other fifth this is donald trump and he's diplomatic to this is don't trump empowered he says he can now say look the supreme court agrees with me i'm in charge of national security i have to decide is my responsibly decide whether there should be a war who should come and when they should come and if no one else has responsibility and the supreme court agrees with me she have a chance of a life in washington d.c. she has. a government offensive to retake one of syria's last opposition strongholds says forced forty five thousand people to flee triggering warnings of another humanitarian crisis government backed forces backed by russian warplanes have launched airstrikes and grime battles to recapture darragh from rebel fighters
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it's one of the last rebel held areas along with it lead in the north well this is the situation and they're about right now pro-government forces have already seized a chunk of territory cutting off a rebel pocket in the north the province is a strategic prize because it borders the israeli occupied golan heights and jordan but most of the civilians are feeling too but jordan says it can't take in any more refugees and says its borders will remain closed. as more. as the battle for intensifies pro syrian government forces say they've taken control of the two towns a blue sort of how do you and me. in the eastern that are country sorry videos like this one purport to show troops many of whom are believed to be iranian backed militia members interests or how do you on tuesday the town has come under heavy bombardment and its capture is the first major government advance in this offensive
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that would allow the syrian army to advance more southwards though of the. city of that i take it i think that connecting so either with that and occupying the valleys of the which were full of. groups from forget that the group that will allow. me to advance first that i first thought of towards the city of that. by cutting off a key rebel supply line in a province more pro-government troops will be able to move in retaking the entire province of that i would give the government control over its border with jordan all the way. the israeli occupied golan heights. and in the extremely complicated terrain of syria's war analysts believe deals have already been made i believe that . the americans that we have a good deal with the russians now they are going to stay out of this of this of
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this area and the syrian regime will take control of that will be good for everybody for the russians for jordan because jordan also although the jordanians actually are pretty concerned about any new influx of refugees inside jordan but they want very much actually to open the border crossing with syria because economically this is a very important lifeline for the jordanian economy according to the united nations forty five thousand people have so far fled the violence and headed toward the border with jordan concerns are growing about the humanitarian situation no matter the regime's recent advances rebel say they will continue to fight even as many wonder if this fight may be coming to an end. i'm joined now by james denselow the head of conflict and humanitarian policy at save the children james of a welcome to the program how would you describe the current humanitarian situation
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we've essentially got this huge number of people trapped yes and i think it's important to say that we've been here before in the conflicts in syria is like a so hollywood horror movie with a very predictable formulas and this kind of ever more violent sequels and what those formulas it like are strikes and the movement of syrian forces into areas rebel control often followed by siege is often followed by a sustained prolonged denial of aid access and that's where the humanitarian catastrophe really comes in and i think it's really important at this stage of this particular offensive to really emphasize that it is the beginning of that we've seen some forty thousand plus displaced those numbers could escalate could spike a lot further and as your report alluded to this was an. area of the syria which did have a sort of diplomatic guarantee made by the russians and the americans and i think it's within their power to find a far more peaceful outcome to the situation there than one that is yet another sequel to homs aleppo and has to go to so in terms of the floor people what are we
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expecting to happen i mean the jordanian border is effectively cause and i'm guessing that in amongst that group of people you know they're not just coming from those will be also be people who escaped today or from those other situations that you just outlined exactly and i think it's worth putting in context the fact that one in two syrians has been forced from their homes over the last seven years it's the world's largest more than displacement five million refugees some seven million internally displaced and yes well the borders are closed and countries in the region regional area have got every right to say they've taken a huge number of people in often a move to the border doesn't necessarily mean that those syrians want to move across it simply looking for a place of greater safety in syria that's a rare thing indeed in terms of the conflict itself and how important is there and what happens next i mean we talk about the winning of the war the ending of the conflict and some say it's over and done with but of course for these people continually displaced it isn't yeah i think in syria
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there's no winners i think in terms of the conflict there may be a mutation in a sort of a coming to a different point a different chapter if you will moving from the original more civil conflict to a regional conflict to an international conflict and of course as the maps you put up showed this is pushing into an incredibly sensitive area with the israeli occupied golan heights and the fact that israel has taken a far more assertive position in syria in terms of strikes on targets that so i would think we should certainly move away from the narrative that the syrian conflict is winding down when we see the novel's of displacement that simply moves it into a different place and ultimately we haven't predicted where it would have gone from from seven years ago we should predict we'll go to next those forty five thousand people i've already been somewhere figure sixty thousand people want so they are for the what's available for them whilst they're on the move and beyond. not enough and i think while there is a degree of cross border support there are degree of course networks that exist and have existed within this area for the last year or so relative peace and while your report pointed to the crossing of rebel supply lines cutting of military lines will also result in cutting of often the just sticks for humanitarians of other people
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simply looking to live normal lives and we're also seeing the idea of normal life in this part of syria completely destroyed hearing reports from partners about schools hit luckily they were suspended there wasn't people in them but already the death toll figures are beginning to come out when you see the level of munitions that using so it's a desperate time but it's important to really stress this is the beginning of a particular battle that can be affected by political actors in this region. thanks very much for joining us thank you you're watching the news hour live from london and there is much more to come on our program in the u.s. block a bus carrying migrants they say that despite a new executive order children are still being separated from their families. ever train officials arrived here for the first time in almost two decades bringing with them the hope of peace. we'll have the latest from the world cup where denmark advanced. on its work very impressive find out why in sports.
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