skewers are under intense pressure to get the twelve boys and their coach out quickly there has been a pause in the monsoon season rain but it's expected to start falling again in the next few days keeping water levels in the cave system down is critical for the rescue one option is to train them on the basics of scuba diving. something one diving expert at the cave thinks will work if they use a full face mask coming in and it won't take long it is basically just a cave fix a saw as you do it them sitting on the sand you put the mosque on they get a feel for it they get an understanding. use a through water column so they understand that they have a communication they can talk to the diver who guides somalia and if there is any problem they can calm him down the governor of chiang mai province says that the trapped thirteen might not all come out at the same time they were evaluate each one and bring them out only when they're ready the u.s. is one of at least six countries assisting the rescue will getting them out is the

goal providing food and supplies is critical the assistance portion in the recent finding able to provide supplies to the shoulder and you know it's a very very relevant to the operations that are being conducted and how we're able to support our thai partners in anticipation of that moment everyone at the cave entrance is waiting for rehearsals are being held and when it's not a thai soldier playing a role it's a member of the teenagers move part football club it's got harder al-jazeera chiang rai still to come on al-jazeera. the. protests outside and inside supreme court as its top judge turns up for work in defiance of an you know forcing her and others to retire i'm a lazy is phone the prime minister please not guilty to corruption charges connected to the disappearance of state money.

hello welcome to another look at the international focus is looking fine and dry across much of a stride a little more cloud into the southeast and going to see a little bit of wet weather just sliding out of south australia. enter victoria temperatures struggling to get around fifteen degrees in melbourne then on thursday seventy celsius therefore advised we have a choice seventeen in perth but notice for the far south of the way it could be a little on the damp side for thursday prices cars coming back in the friday and the friday does that last a fine it's like this much of australia cooler down towards adelaide thirteen degrees celsius or pulling in those winds from the say fourteen celsius the cotton rain just pushing across at eastern side of victoria by this they said brightening up behind the recent out of the rain coming into tasmania heading towards new zealand but news even looking largely fog in troy at least for much of thursday we're going to see some decent spells of sunshine ten celsius staring crossed state

twelve degrees there for all of the cloud and right have make its way into south as we go on through friday telling particularly wet as the day goes on to be head on towards the weekend states in particular wet weather making its way across japan a recently looks pretty onset was to go through thursday with more right in the forecast for much of friday. seen but rarely heard india's two million street children live the desperate existence when he meets the child reporters from the slumdog press who are giving a voice to india's invisible children on al-jazeera. and for you.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera british police have confirmed that two critically ill people in hospital in southern england have been exposed to the nerve agent nabil chalk the same substance that poisoned a russian double agent cripple and his daughter yulia in march there's been heavy bombardment by pro-government forces in southern syria after talks broke down between rebels and russian negotiators hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the russian syrian offensive around and iran's revolutionary guard say they're ready to carry out president has time rouhani

threatened to disrupt oil exports from the gulf and he said the measures could be taken if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil on global markets. poland's prime minister has defended a controversial new law forcing supreme court judges into retirement at the age of sixty five he says his country has the right to decide its own legal system it's the latest in a number of changes in the judiciary implemented by the ruling law and justice party says it took power in twenty fifteen but as david chaytor reports the latest move has infuriated the e.u. . a drumbeat of defiance was sounding as thousands of protesters converged on the supreme court it was a boisterous reception for the former chief justice. girl's daughter who returned to her desk on the first day of her first fertile. have almost lost in the crowd she declared she was determined to defend the legal order of the country not to

play politics but to bear witness to the truth. but far removed from the sounds of the protest the ministry of justice was turning a deaf ear to her claims favor they can enter the building of a can be there of a can they can be there as guests but they cannot work as judges because they are retired. that uncompromising line was repeated by poland's prime minister when he addressed members of the european parliament in strasbourg because of the cry each ear state has the right to shape their legal system according to their own traditions but with the european commission bringing legal proceedings which could land poland in the dock of the european court of justice the e.c. j many experts are predicting a compromise so i am expecting the polish government to show the respect to their opinion as well and to at least to freeze the law not to appoint new judges to

allow them. to decide on this issue at the moment the highest court in the land appears to be in a state of the legal limbo with neither side showing any signs of backing down. the joining the chorus of protest outside the supremes court on wednesday evening the former president lech when sir who is leader of the solidarity de b. union brought an end to calmness rule in poland. just trust me and then joy is real if we surrender the coots so we go further we must prove all our efforts into defending them. peerage the crowd to unite behind a new and younger leadership to fight for the future of democracy in poland david chaytor al-jazeera was. lazy as former prime minister najib razak has been charged with a number of corruption offenses are in connection to billions of dollars missing

from a state investment fund he set out while in office but the sixty four year old remains defiant telling reporters the upcoming trial will be his chance to prove his innocence flown slowly reports from kuala lumpur. was not a ride at the political poor high court to want to charges of corruption at pivotal to trust which carry a maximum twenty year pretty said it was. i side his supporters mostly from the political party who once lived chanted three nights in. the month and he's the former prime minister and party leader who's done a lot for malaysians now that he's facing such trying times i've come here to lend my support to him and his family malaysia's former prime minister pleaded not guilty and off to be released on bail set the case against him is a political vendetta so it doesn't. really look i expected this this is what the

new government wants if this is a price i have to pay for my twenty four years of service to the nation and its people i'm willing to pay that price but i hope and pray that the court process will be fair and in accordance with the rule of law i believe in my innocence this is the best chance i have to clear my name. the court set bail at two hundred fifty thousand dollars and audit not just to surrender his passport he's accused of using his position as finance minister and prime minister to enrich himself with public funds and transferring ten million dollars into his bank account in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifty prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a former subsidiary of the state investment fund one and. this case is part of a larger investigation involving one for which not jim and his associates are alleged to have a four and a half billion dollars let me state the obvious but he used the word want to be when everybody uses the word want him to be. it's a it's

a shorthand. statement to describe what happened over four five years so there were discrete separate transactions. all fight over for five year period which is really the public domain the fraud scandal is also being investigated in several countries including the us the initial investigation into this case started several years ago but stalled when ninety eight was prime minister. allegations of a cover up have been made since the new government came into power in may it has made recovering money stolen from one and a top priority not jobs trial will likely start next year he's the first person linked to the scandal to be prosecuted and is likely to be the last florence. at least fifteen people have died after two days of monsoon rain in the pakistani city of lahore is the heaviest rain the city's seen as officials say most deaths were caused by let you all homes caving in the rains are expected to continue this

month. several people have been injured after israel moved in to destroy a bedouin village in the occupied west bank and then a check stooges zone has been established around the village and desperate protest has put themselves in the path of the bulldozer as heavy for supports. on the dusty rocky ground below the bedouin village of qana a heavy machinery prepares the way from friday this will be a military exclusion zone a clear signal of the villages impending demolition near the threatened homes israeli security forces moved in another bulldozer had been stopped in its tracks by protesters stand off and then they started dragging people away. that was ready for a force if that was now the pressure was as they tried to remove the activists the ministers obviously although certainly this is what the activists are trying to do to try to stop what is activity this seemingly imminent demolition air and are

being moved out of the way by israeli security forces was the that the treatment was marginally better for members of the media judged to have got to close. the apparent aim to allow for easier access to the area for large vehicles potentially required for the demolition of the villages one solid structure it school. has lived here since his birth he says the pressure on the community has mounted drastically in recent days when one of. we haven't been sleeping not just last night we haven't slept for two weeks since the decision came out every day they show up on the top of the hill over there they come here they scare the children in the school bell are going to. the village lies in the way of a long planned expansion of the illegal israeli settlements in circling jerusalem in the occupied west bank in may the israeli supreme court ruled that khan our school and homes had been built illegally in military controlled area c.

and therefore could be demolished with its residents transferred to a. justinian town on jerusalem's eastern fringe of burials just for the international community is. hurry coming few one day that can be held accountable or if not it means you're pushing this region towards a deeper hole a deeper hole of violence and counterviolence and extremism back in can our last more the israeli operation ground on and the scuffles continued to break out the palestinian red crescent society treated dozens of people injuries in the background the bulldozers moved with a sense of inevitability laying the groundwork for what now seems the imminent destruction of this community are a force that al-jazeera. in the occupied west bank. the u.n. envoy to yemen has expressed optimism after meeting the top leader of the rebels in a bid to end the country's devastating civil war at a news conference before leaving salah apple martin griffiths said all signs expect

a strong desire for peace the u.n. hopes to prevent a full scale coalition assault on the port city of her data a vital lifeline for the country a saudi led coalition allied with president to bed rubber man so hard these internationally recognized government has been at war with the who's this since twenty fifteen the two sides in the u.k.'s divided government will meet on friday to try to resolve their differences over bracks it's at the heart of their disagreements is how to avoid a new hard border between northern ireland and the republic lawyers have told al-jazeera that the british government could face a massive legal action from people on either side of the border claiming that breck said to violates their human rights law and sleep reports from the irish border. on the irish border it is currently impossible to tell where one country ends and another begins as the tarmac changes color this is the. drive around

here and you can see why people worry about a return to the past the british government's plans are sure it's ok off to brick sets mean nothing to declan was when there was a hard border you couldn't drive these roads it's all order most of these border roads were actually creator are closed off let's make some better spikes that the people couldn't get from. their owners a neighbor station there in their daughter say sure their farm such was life in cross mclean weapon for the peace process british soldiers dead not war and like helicopter do you think that their business community north i'm sorry is doing an off the face against back to these teenagers from colleges either side of the border know nothing of those days i mean seoul south want to keep it that way are there leverage the benefits of free movement already of free communication they have taken full advantage of that to their credit and they are. right by us

they are international in their perspective america want to be constrained by always angry middle aged largely. an hour away you can see northern ireland from calling for the border splits that they. told me who runs the water sports here really wants to know if the happy atmosphere will be punctured by customs posts and travel restrictions absolutely no answers and we're left in the dark looks at things. there is govern themselves seem to be in the dark about how they're going to manage things and that in the south as worrying i can understand why they don't go and have another referendum to make sense but. that's ignorant. what all these people have in common is not only a concern about the future working arrangements but the potential blight to their

lives from a bricks it may shut the border once again the british government has tied itself up in knots trying to figure out how to extricate itself from the european union without creating a new border with the european union by contrast is much more interested in how communities are the side of the border i'll go to continue exercising the same freedoms of movement that they already have and that's apparent contradiction is now the subject of close examination by human rights lawyers it's a legal morass it's it risks being a legal swarm generation lots of different legal actions it's very very uncertain as to how it plays out no one knows whether people have a claim or they may have lots of claims no claims but the real the the i mean what is obvious is that it's going to result in deep legal and certainty as of now the u.k. side has been unable to come up with a solution to the irish border issue that convinces anyone with human rights lore against them on top of everything else they are in very deep water gloriously

al-jazeera of the irish border to the us now where new york's liberty island has been evacuated after protesters hung a banner at the base of the statue of liberty one of the protestors and scale the base of the statue these are live pictures show her under the photo of lady liberty there on the right as emergency services are trying to reach from the left of the picture the protesters are demanding the abolition of the immigration and customs enforcement agency of the wise known as ice but it looks like she's going to stay there for quite a while. this is a reminder of the top stories now on al-jazeera british police have just confirmed that two people critically ill in hospital in southern england have been exposed to the nerve agent novacek the same substance that poisoned russian double agent. and

his daughter yulia in march a major incident was declared in the town of and spring where the man and the woman were found unconscious on saturday it's around thirteen kilometers from salisbury where the script of poisoning took place. on monday the second of july due to concerns over the symptoms but if the man and the woman would display samples from both patients we said open down the burra three for analysis. following the details analysis of those samples we can confirm the amount of woman up we've exposed to the nerve agent over truck which has been identified as the same agent the contaminated both of us and surrogates. as been heavy bombardment by pro-government forces in southern syria after talks broke down between rebels and russian negotiators under the thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the government offensive. iran is searching to stop all oil exports from leaving

the gulf iranian president hassan rouhani said the measures could be taken if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil on global markets and the senior iranian revolutionary guard commander says they're ready to implement the policy if needed . nazeem as the americans have claims they want to completely stop iran's oil exports they don't understand the meaning of this statement because it has no meaning for a rainy and oil law to be exported while the region's oil is exported assuming that iran could become the only oil producer on able to export its oil is a wrong assumption that the united states will never be able to quote iran's oil revenues or that new video has been released showing a time youth football team in good health despite being trapped in a cave for eleven days rescue teams are now giving them crash courses in diving and swimming. assess conditions for getting them out safely. it's all the

headlines from may but next hour it's pay pal and power don't go away the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven although price twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. to help now we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. recent elections most notably that to trump was u.s. president of highlighted the dangers to democracy posed by those using social media and the internet to spread malicious propaganda and fake news so how and why a cop from such as facebook google and twitter so wide open to abuse in a two part special report we sent called babe sounds to investigate.

san francisco and silicon valley tech companies driving the digital revolution see themselves as positive agents of political and social change facebook's mission is all about giving people a voice and bring people closer together those are democratic values and we're proud of google's mission store going to sports information and make it universally accessible and use the more you learn about technology the more you learn what's possible. at twitter mark and. if we want to be a democracy it's up to us to make sure that we have our giving better. russia's

manipulation of these platforms during the two thousand and sixteen us presidential election has raised fundamental questions about their systemic vulnerabilities do you solemnly swear to tell the truth last november the companies were summoned to appear before the us senate intelligence committee that's right it's not new russians have been conducting information warfare for decades but what is new is the advent of social media tools with the power to magnify propaganda and fake news on a scale that was unimaginable back in the days of the berlin wall you've created these platforms and now they are being misused and you have to be the ones to do something about it or we will what you're doing by allowing this fake stuff to come across this misleading this damaging information is threatening the security and really is softening of our nation i wish you c.e.o.'s would be here they need to

ass answer for this after repeated pressure from congress facebook disclosed last september that four hundred seventy fake accounts link to a shadowy company with ties to the kremlin the internet research agency had spent some hundred thousand dollars to purchase more than three thousand ads most on divisive hot button issues this company. to protect his cause and included post many would characterize as anti immigration oriented most of the russian sponsored facebook page heart of texas attracted nearly two hundred fifty four thousand followers part of texas group created a public event on facebook to occur at the islamic center in houston texas to stop the islamization of texas russian operatives also created a page for united muslims of america a real group whose name they commandeered to promote a counter protest at the islamic center. but neither side could have known

is that russia. were encouraging both sides to battle in the streets and create divisions between real americans causing this disruptive event in houston cost russia about two hundred dollars. the russians created more than one hundred facebook pages to exacerbate social divisions in the u.s. there were pages for african-american groups and police advocates southern nationalists and liberal activists. bt supporters and christian fundamentalists army of jesus and other russian pages ran anti hillary clinton ads during the election each of these fake accounts spend literally months developing networks of real people to follow and like their content these networks are later utilites to push and to write this information. the day before the hearing facebook revealed that russian content used as many as one hundred twenty six million americans twitter found more than thirty six thousand russian accounts it generated one point

four million election related tweets seen almost three hundred million times and google disclosed that russian trolls likely posted eleven hundred videos on eighteen new to. this is a yes or no question do you believe that any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active measures on your platform sen our investigation to. to news so i would have to say no certainly not with certainty right now and we're still working. on a comprehensive investigation but these are ongoing issues and we continue the best again we are relying on twitter facebook and google to five didn't reveal this information and it's been dropping out so i think we have a long way to go before we know the full story seed of idea nothingness director of the center for media and citizenship at the university of virginia the author of the google ization of everything his new book and the social media will be released this year russia interference is alarming but the biggest effect that social media

have on the prospect of democracy has to do with undermining our ability as citizens to think and act. effectively and collectively why do you think the world is in the midst of an internet assault on democracy since two thousand and eleven what we have seen is the rise of thora tarion leaders often elected in places like poland like hungary like india like the philippines and google and facebook and twitter have all been used by these forces and then in my own country donald trump laid almost all of his hopes on a facebook based campaign i lay two thousand and seventeen facebook reached almost two point two billion people that's stunning and if you were to design a communicate of system a propaganda system for nationalist forces for anti muslim forces

for authoritarian forces you could not build a better platform than facebook. we set out to investigate why facebook twitter and google are such powerful tools for malicious actors who want to spread disinformation and undermine people's faith and democracy the first stop was in silicon valley to meet with the co-founders a blitz metrics then as you and logan. they teach social media marketing their own advertising campaigns on facebook for the n.b.a. champ golden state warriors and more than one hundred other clients. facebook is the world's most powerful and sophisticated targeting platform it is a database instead of a social network facebook sorts its users characteristics into hundreds of categories making it easy for advertisers to target people with great precision and you don't have to be a statistics expert you can just click on a few buttons and the system will do the work for you in two thousand and sixteen the trump campaign spent most of its hundred million dollar digital advertising

budget on facebook you when young demonstrated how facebook could have been used to reach blue collar workers in michigan a state that usually goes democratic but the trump won by less than eleven thousand votes i can be based off income you know if i know average blue collar worker makes fifty two hundred k. so i could say people that are conservative are very conservative they can be a.f.l.-cio members they could be against immigration and there's all these other issues that we can block it and here we can even put in labor union or the united auto workers right if you have the kind of content that's directly relevant to that particular group such as the u.s. auto industry isn't as strong as it used to be so this is dated facebook has brought together from many different sources not just their political that's right we have this information of your membership we have your zip data we have if you've made that donation and we know the kinds of products that you're buying in the supermarket everything that you're doing that doesn't involve cash usually makes

its way to facebook but the most powerful capability facebook provides comes from combining its data with out of advertisers themselves so think about the trump campaign they have all of the information of the people that are making donations they upload that to facebook and facebook and say i'm going to find friends of people that have donated and then i can combine that with the other day that we're showing and say how many of those people are also in michigan and are all. over thirty five and are also working in detroit and are let you know laid off at the ford plant and you can also tell us the messages that work most effectively with that group yes then you can spend just pennies to be able to see how they're working and they showed how a small amount of money spent promoting a client's video resulted in millions of views and i can see here we spent five hundred six dollars and for that we got a reach of ninety four thousand and ninety four thousand times showed up on someone's feed but it has over twenty nine million views and the reason is these shares this is been shared four hundred twenty thousand times so really what you want to do when you buy is generated shares at exactly the russians are really good

at pushing incendiary content that people will just have to engage and have to share the russians device of content one hundred twenty six million americans on facebook according to the company but you point out the ads were seen over and over again by the same people who appear in a news feeds hundreds of millions of times and do you think that these hundreds of millions of impressions. maybe maybe not was it in michigan or florida or places that close i don't really know but what i do know is that they're saying how effective facebook is and how we can micro-targeting how it's great for advertisers that are selling furniture in cars at the same time you don't think hundred million impressions on facebook can't create an impact on an election like you can't have that both ways right of course facebook can influence elections like we used to joke about how you throw an election using various tools at facebook which facebook could do. and tony martinez worked at facebook from two thousand and eleven to two

thousand and thirteen and played a central role in developing facebook's micro targeting system. responsibility there was product manager for ads targeting which meant basically turning all your user data into money for facebook. what role do you think facebook played in donald trump's election oh huge i mean political pundits get things wrong all the time right but a well trained machine learning algorithm trained on good data doesn't often come up with the wrong answer right and i spent years building tools to basically defeat human reason or human error you know dominate human tastes it's very weird but don't you think that can be a real problem when used as political candidates in their messages rather than consumer products right now i think politics are somewhat different right at the end of the day our democracy in our political system depends on it and that's frankly more important than selling a pair of shoes like no question right martinez is much more concerned about the way facebook encourages people to live inside their own echo chamber which also called the filter bubble to me the bigger issue that i really don't see

a solution for is the sort of filter bubble slash fake news problem right where you know citizens used to have a right to an opinion and now they have a right to their own reality you know facebook flatters their vision of the world and they're never forced to challenge their assumptions you know they can go off in some rabbit hole of untruth they spokes mission is to give people what they want in their news feed and executive providing orientation drove that message home to martina's on his first day of work he had this very sweeping vision of you know the new york times of you in fact the accident from a question is like what is facebook you know sometime in turn said oh it's a social i was like no wrong right it is your personalized newspaper and they basically feed you anything that you engage with by engage means likes comments share etc like their news feed algorithm is optimized for that facebook recently announced changes to its news feed that will prioritize posts from friends and news from sites that users rate is trustworthy but the changes could reinforce filter bubbles and do little to stem the spread of bogus news why is it so easy to disseminate fake news on facebook. i think it all comes down to you know what

psychologists call cognitive dissonance right views of the world.