that the vessel is registered under their flag and the decision to switch off its transponder at various times. m.v. lifeline will be granted permission to enter a multi sports where procedures for identification a certain income of eligibility and distribution in other member states of the person some board will start immediately together with the granting of the necessary medical attention genuine asylum seekers will be afforded protection as established in the different member states while procedures will start immediately to return those who do not qualify for protection after due process and in accordance with european and international routes european institutions will assist in these returns the m.v. lifeline will be detained pending the necessary investigations according to

national and international rules the situation has been caused by a decision of the captain of the said that so who went against international rules and ignored directions being given by the italian authorities who were coordinating the rescue vessel has been loitering in international waters for the past days and the person in need of urgent medical assistance has been evacuated by the armed forces of more stuff which also create doubt three missions to convey supplies to the person so i'm bored. i would like to thank the president of france and the prime ministers of ireland italy luxembourg and portugal for taking this initiative and taking part in this initiative at all both also like to thank the president of the ripping council and the president of the european commission for their continuous support i would go to the questions.

this was a very particularly case where. this is not a geisha and or a disagreement between two member states as happens at times say it's only on more on who has jurisdiction and who is the competent authority so. this is not an issue between two member states this is clearly an issue where the captain of a vessel disobeyed international rules so it's a very odd duck situation we have absolutely or to date absolutely no competence in the case we are aware and we were aware that despite the fact that the vessel was loitering in international waters it could have called may day at any time and at that that point in time it would have been too late to do anything really and truly

so we advocated this. solution the idea started off last sunday during the meeting was convened by president euchre. i do think that at the end of the day they will be other member states that will offer their. assistance in doing this. and it's our dog because it's a very case so was to the general public it might seem as yet another best of it's a very very. unique case which we are addressing here. well good news for the two hundred migrants who have been stranded at sea for six days off the coast of malta that is the maltese prime minister there saying that they will be granted access to the maltese coast and then they will be sent out to other e.u. member states not sure how many and how that will work at this stage they found out that the lifeline that the boat had been illegally registered and that the captain

had disobeyed international rules it seems that. these sort of decisions are taken on a case by case basis here. still coming out on al-jazeera counting is underway in regional elections seen as a litmus test for indonesian president bill cohen dodos coalition. how the rains been forming again in the korean peninsula and through japan there's the head of it all now has a rather wavy sundering included line a very significant rain just on the border between north and south korea hundred millimeters plus not much less just the size and near the head of it all that's in our current or sixty odd minute me just now we're going to see more of this rain

it's a new moving slowly so just catching the south and south korea running through honshu it seems quite likely to be intense as well that includes tokyo includes the currently or recently flooded areas for the sas too but the sun's out in pyongyang the sun's out and basically said thirty eight sweltering degrees in beijing with very little wind to move things around the yangtze valley looks as a we'll see more significant rain in the next day or so the heaviest rain recently has been further south in china but that looks like a fairly dry picture now hong kong cleated so thirty three humid but not particularly where big showers around in vietnam but they dotted around to be honest the heaviest rain has been a bit further south and in thailand and surprisingly maybe in sumatra west and java and it's entirely possible the next day or so you'll see some big time polls in singapore kuala lumpur but i plumped for them last to be further north.

the story of a british italian man experiencing life close up in a palestinian refugee camp in beirut it's. coming face to face with the daily lives of its residents some of whom have lived there for seventy years but it's been for a few jomo soldier's life it's not fun no more life the short seven days in beirut let. on al-jazeera. they are watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour the united nations envoy to me and mine has

called for the dismantling of what she says is a system of discrimination against training of muslims yang healy told the un human rights council the rangar should have their rights to citizenship and property was stored in muslim basket called for her to be replaced. the rain in northern thailand has hampered the search for a football team missing for four days in the flooded cave but briscoe has remained optimistic the teenagers are alive because of the cave explorers have been found in the past when floodwaters receded. cats are taking in the united arab emirates to the un's international court of justice accusing it of violating human rights the case was prompted by the blockade of cattle by four countries which is now into its second year. prince william the second in line to the british throne has met the palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the occupied west bank is part of the first ever

official visit by a u.k. royal to the region the prince met israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in west jerusalem on chews day the british monarchy has historically avoided involvement in the israeli palestinian issue britain governed the territory prior to the creation of the state of israel. it's my first visit as you pointed to. and i'm very much looking forward to meeting suppose the news today and seeing some of the culture and the diversity of the palestinian life so thank you welcome i'm very proud of the two countries work surfaces together and i've had success stories with education. that really work in the long without it's you. my sentiments the same as yours hoping that there's a loss in peace for the region to enjoy disputes in the south china sea are being discussed in beijing by the us defense secretary james mattis mates president xi

jinping off the previously saying china's rapidly expanding military power is a big and security threat then terrorism his visits coincides with the u.s. aircraft carrier dropping and in the philippines ronald reagan is the third carrier to patrol the south china sea this year adrian brown has more from beijing. well almost eighteen months after he became u.s. defense secretary this was james madison is first official visit to beijing in that role of course he's not here to talk about trade trade of course is the real point of friction between the world's two largest economies right now he did though meet president xi jinping who said afterwards according to state media that the relationship between china and the united states was one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world so those words from the president very measured indeed given the state of friction between washington and beijing right

now for james matters of course his big concerns are what china is doing in the south china sea right now he has accused china of militarizing this vast basin of water citing those aerial photographs which shows say washington that beijing has been deploying surface to air missiles on those islands it's been building in the south china sea china though says the u.s. is over hyping this issue saying all they're doing is simply defending their sovereignty remember china claims sovereignty over almost all of the south china sea and just a few months ago in a vast naval parade china sailed its aircraft carrier and dozens of other warships and that was a symbol if you like of china's sovereignty in the south china sea but the united states has also been upping its profile in the area conducting what it calls freedom of navigation operations which means that u.s.

warships often sail very close to chinese islands and china has called all of that a deliberate provocation the relationship between china and the united states is complicated right now and it's also in deep trouble the u.s. supreme court has upheld on a trance travel ban on people from five muslim majority countries that just this is a very it's a tick said that the u.s. president was acting legally when he by. people from iran yemen somalia libya and syria from entering the united states democrats have expressed concern after the ruling chipper towns as move from washington d.c. . the five four ruling was not on the expected but protesters were still incensed. but the majority of justices how the greed with the trumpet ministration this was not a muslim band this policy was the result of a careful global interagency analysis of vetting procedures for travelers to the u.s. from libya syria somalia yemen and iran

a god and it was the president's right to impose a ban because national security is his responsibility donald trump was clearly delighted 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 but in what was described as a furious dissent from the bench of liberal justice sonia sotomayor referred to counter the only comparison of the travel ban to the decision that mandated the detention of japanese americans during world war two sort of my all said taking all the relevant evidence together a reasonable observer would conclude that the proclamation was driven primarily by the muslim animists rather than by the government's asserted national security justifications politicians and activists are now expressing concern that the supreme court is a own opinion that he and he alone is in control of the country's national security and that he can act without oversight in deciding who comes into this country with

this decision we are concerned that donald trump will move beyond the five muslim majority countries that are in the current version to not only target more countries but we can surely even go after us and lawful permanent residents i say who's going to be in. is the president going to issue an executive order against is he going to give orders against people coming from honduras guatemala what's next and now that the supreme court has ruled the tracks on donald trump is to set immigration policy himself have been weakened considerably. washington there is house is due to vote on a broad republican legislation meant to address immigration immigration crisis to ensure that migrant families are not separated as they crossed the border years federal judge ruled on tuesday that migrant families crossing the us mexico border should no longer be separated the same judge also ordered authorities to reunite

parents and children within thirty days soon up for children under five years old the ruling can be appealed by the white house united nations says it's counted more than eight hundred cases of children being used in. fighting in yemen a new report accuses both thier rebels and the saudi mirage a coalition of recruiting child soldiers some as young as eleven years old it says up to seventy six were used on the front lines u.n. report also blames assad lived coalition for more than half of child this and injuries in yemen. the leader of anti-poverty protests in north america has been jailed for twenty years started in the refrigerator when a fish seller was crushed to death in a rubbish truck his killing was reminiscent of the suicide of the tunas in the street vendor which sparked the arab spring revolution that says if sorry was sentence for what prosecutors called undermining state security and other criminal acts fifty two political activists were also imprisoned for their part in riots two

years ago and then madness and not home we were shocked with the verdict we felt quite sorry for the court decision these were very cruel sentences today's verdict is a test for the american government and their record their respect and commitment to the international law and human rights even if it's respect the constitution itself this is also a taste of the independence of the judiciary and the so-called reforms to the justice system in the kingdom unofficial results and in the days as regional elections appear to favor candidates aligned to president. however opposition backed candidates have done better than expected mixed results mean with auto could face a much tougher challenge in next year's presidential election as reports. aghasi mir offend the is running for reelection after campaign dominated by religious issues opponents of the mir a muslim destined against the permit issued to build a church and accused him of not supporting muslims the city of nearly three million

that is predominantly muslim but also home to more than three hundred thousand christians. or someone has the legal right to build a church people can protest against me. but it won't change anything i told them to just shoot me in the head. only when a judge orders me to do so. soldiers guarded church we just still under construction because of fears it will be attacked governor elections last year in jakarta would mean. ated by large protests and a jailing of christian governor. for blasphemy many in indonesia were worried that a similar scenario could be repeated this time around. in boca hardline groups have helped protest against churches for years. to come. we will worry that what happened in jakarta could happen here because many

people from because he had joined protests in jakarta and our church is still rejected so we were very worried especially because we hear rumors that masses would come here well this made us more alert. but so far the elections have seen little violence and religion has not played a leading role in campaigns nationwide less than one year before presidential elections millions of indonesian are not only electing their local leaders they're also deciding on the country's political future provisional results showed that president jokingly daughter has a good sense of being reelected next year but a year and it donation politics can be long and unpredictable. we don't know is the first indonesian president who did not come from the political elite he has gained popularity mainly because of his infrastructure projects and cheap health care and education but it's not unbeatable. number one it economy is going worse it is very easy to be bitten his is going to be very easy to

be bitten. especially when there is a candidate who can be an alternative. indonesia's economy has not grown as much as we dawdle had promised and unemployment is still high but near a friend a supporter of the president is optimistic that we build a government can continue to work next year and he himself can continue to turn into a city of tolerance and peace which churches don't need to be protected anymore step lassen al-jazeera because. the top stories on al-jazeera the united nations envoy to myanmar is called for the dismantling of what she says the system of discrimination against muslims yang he lead told the un human rights council the rangar should have their rights to citizenship and property was stored in moslem bassett called for her to be replaced

rescuers remain confident they'll find twelve missing footballers and the coach alive four days after the group got stuck in a flooded cave in northern thailand they believed to be several kilometers from the entrance to being stranded since saturday when heavy rain blocked the only exit qatar's taking in the united arab emirates to the un's international court of justice accusing it of violating human rights the case was prompted by the blockade of cattle by four countries which has now entered its second year prince william the second in line to the british throne as mates palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the occupied west bank it is part of the first ever. official visit by a u.k. well to the region the prince makes israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu west jerusalem on tuesday the british monarch has historically avoided involvement in the israeli palestinian issue but in government the territory prior to the creation

of the state of israel. it's my first visit as you pointed to. and i'm very much looking forward to meeting the palestinians today and seeing some of the culture and the diversity of the palestinian life so thank you welcome and i'm very proud of the two countries work surfaces together and. success stories with education. really well in the polls so long without it's you. my sentiments the same as you'll see it in the last piece for the reason. as prime minister says a german rescue ship stranded at sea for six days will be allowed to dock in migrants distributed among states the ship called lifeline is carrying two hundred migrants a spokesman for life and says some of those on board are in poor health those are the headlines and news continues on al-jazeera but first it is inside story.

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. 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 had 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 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. 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 in a sense us tree in london what does this mean for the people who thought their data had been accessed well that basically means that there are there are details have not been dealers 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. and larry image eed in california does this mean that people trust facebook less or more than they did back in may 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 kylie 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 the c.d.c. arrived maybe we should have been faster but the staff and these can create some global 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 research data and basically make it too much they should deny or allow access 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 add more requirements more options to c.v.s. 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 are some you know. 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 nations coming about it think the main purpose in south we. ok larry magid back in california facebook

is promising an internal audit what are the key questions for you that has to address. well i think 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 jeans with a 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 and this ancestry in london i mean people uses and politicians they were frustrated i guess by the reality of the revelations but also by facebook's 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 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're already given of a some amount of data and that's part of the first station and i think this is this is also is in some ways the normal in the sense that the technology is evolving 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 but 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 secret understands their perceptions can be funny 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 condemned 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 again 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 people 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 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

growth you send them and then you need to screen nations you need to encompass commitments that we will these concepts to protect 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 that 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 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 at 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 through 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 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 in 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 scream even if you want to logo for your account eva's noting she's able to go through the same process if you want to logo if 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 the day. innocent wants you to be logged in for as long as possible because facebook is a multi-billion dollar company.