as mentioned the north korean other accusations suggested the talks were grettir ball and the relations were in danger. it was quick to to remind everyone to look for that one particular line in that transcript or the the foreign ministry message stating that from north korea we still cherish our good faith in president trance so they're hanging on to that particular message suggesting that all is still ok with regards to the next round of talks between north korea and the united states to do the same sort of indication though. felt that the talks were still on track despite this criticism. yes we did i mean there's suggesting even at the moment they're suggesting mid july for the next meeting one suggestion the suggestion has been july twelfth he said north korea reaffirmed its commitment and they're discussing already discussing details of the next step so clearly it's posturing from from north korean side but if you got the message from pompei o l

things are on track again he downplayed those accusations and there was also a show of solidarity between japan south korea and the united states at the press conference this morning all reiterating their trilateral the strength of their trilateral partnership and their commitment to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula for the moment so we'll leave it there and continue to monitor events thank you so o'clock bonsall. now haiti has suspended a proposal to raise fuel prices after three people died in violent protests people saying they called for steep increases of up to fifty percent cut in ripples. the outrage was immediate fires set roads blocked protesters say they can't afford haiti's new fuel prices with chaos out on the street at the capital port of ponce several people decided to spend the night at work many businesses close their doors this is are you in the background when looked at my wife is going to deliver a baby she needs a syrian every hospital we go to we can't find

a doctor because of the protests i don't know what to do the government announced an increase of up to fifty percent for diesel gasoline and kerrison in a country were about eighty percent of workers earn less than two dollars a day the news wasn't received well you know movies didn't know we're speaking up against the president he hasn't delivered on the promises he made during his campaign from food to job creation we haven't seen anything since he came into power. and that's why now president jovan eloise took office last year promising to improve the economy the government says that this move is part of that process. in february haiti's government agreed to reduce fuel subsidies in exchange for aid from the international monetary fund. the protesters say they are tired of empty promises they fear more prices will go up while their wages stay the same. of

opus order yun al-jazeera. still ahead here on out is there are dozens dead and missing in japan after torrential rain triggers flooding and landslides plus. the thrills and spills of the running up the bulls we find out what the brits were . hello there we've got a good deal of cloud is drifting its way across the caspian sea at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture it's here actually edging its way eastwards and that it does say is bringing us a few showers will see a few of those around georgia there on sunday and pop a few in the northern parts of iran as well but elsewhere across the middle east is just pretty hot at the moment as you'd expect at this time of year so for baghdad will be up around forty six degrees over the next few days so not as hot as it has

been but certainly very warm here in doha things are going to change and they're going to get hotter and that's because the air is going to get a little bit dry up so forty four degrees will be our maximum on sunday then the winds really begin to pick up on monday so a blustery day and a hot one as well with draw iraq temperatures will make it to around forty five or forty six degrees a pretty sticky one here that this was the west a lot of cloud over parts ever try and it looks like we're going to see some pretty heavy showers here down towards the southern parts of africa plenty of dry weather to be found but not quite for all of us have these winds coming in off the sea and as they do said they're going to pick up a lot of moisture so a fair amount of cloud and a few showers around many of the coasts particularly around parts of mozambique and madagascar we see plenty of showers here and generally speaking the further west you go the brighter the weather becomes antananarivo should be dry. we have your zip data we know the products of them buying everything that you're

doing that's really where the power of the all powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and the threat do you believe that any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian apted measures on your platform in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game after changed there are no precedents people in power investigates this information and democracy just leave. out the back you're watching and as they're obstacle robert a reminder of all top stories in thailand have begun to free a truck football team from

a flooded cave ahead of the mission's twelve boys and their coach are very ready for the operation they've been trapped underground for more than two weeks now the u.s. secretary of state has reaffirmed that north korea is committed to complete denuclearize ation like pompei also said that pyongyang has agreed to talks in july to discuss repatriating the remains of u.s. soldiers who died during the korean war. and haiti has suspended a proposal to nearly double fuel prices after violent protests at least three demonstrators died in the capital port au prince on friday people say they can't afford the price increases. japan's prime minister shinzo says rescuers are working around the clock to help victims of floods and landslides at least sixty one people have died and dozens of others are missing after days of downpours more than one and a half million people have been ordered to leave their homes with the worst flooding recorded in the city of kyoto in japan's southern tip alexey o'brien

reports. across half the nation a sea of muddy water flooding has ripped japan and two with central and southern regions largely submerged. the death toll has steadily climbed an elderly man was swept into a swollen river and hiroshima homes have collapsed and landslides have buried at least ten people. east to west from kyoto south dozens of people a missing whenever a night out of an i offer my deepest condolences to the victims and my sympathies to all people who have been affected. in central and southern regions one point six million people have been handed evacuation orders another three million have been advised to leave the heavy rain is forecast until monday. heavy rain will continue in the area from western to eastern japan and it will be historic during fall which could be the heaviest rain ever recorded nearly fifty

thousand police firefighters and civil defense personnel have been deployed kyoto's riverside promenade a major tourist spot was shot when the cow more river burst its banks roads and bridges a shot to the hundreds of kilometers warnings have been issued for landslide prone areas this rainfall is hitting basically everywhere at once so there's no it's difficult for the emergency services to prioritize where they should go first because there are so many things happening all at once and obviously if a road is washed out or bridges destroyed even if you have a nice fire engine or ambulance you can't get to some of the places that you need to go to and responders have experience rural areas of japan struggle with flooding at this time every year but this year they were special circumstances typhoon preparation into the sea of japan on tuesday high winds taunting japan southern islands before it moved north dropping unprecedented rainfall the typhoon has

passed and moved that means to those navigating its wrath alexy o'brian al-jazeera . that's the dance foreign minister says south sudan's warring leaders have agreed a power sharing deal reinstating rebel leader reichman shahr as vice president regional leaders have been mediating the talks in uganda to end the civil war a similar deal was signed in twenty fifteen but it all fell apart a year later the war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions since twenty thirteen syrian troops have been celebrating the recapture of the main border crossing with jordan that rebels have held for three years that a sea border crossing is in daraa province it's under a cease fire after a deal was reached between government and rebels on friday the troops raise syrian flags as they took up positions along the border the cease fire deal means rebels have to give up their arms and leave the area of the agreement ends

a two week offensive by the government backed by russia. now spain's week long running of the bulls festival has kicked off in pumps every year people are injured as five hundred kilogram bowls chase them in fact through the couple streets so why would anyone want to sign up for this let's find out from her about this very close to the sea then. called panel calling to set the scene for us before the bulls start charging through those streets. with a hail it's about half an hour now before those polls are set to charge through the streets here in pamplona this is the wooden enclosure the only thing that separates the crowds from the poles and it's on this side of the enclosure if you take a look that hundreds thousands of people have already gathered those are the ones who will be running with the bulls and eight hundred fifty meter dash running

trying to run in front of off on the poles the state charge. you can hear the crowds already starting to get on the shot. and as well the other key thing to note is you may see it's been raining quite steadily now for some time that will make these cobbled streets very sticky very slippery and that increases the chances of falls in the possibility that the bulls could go or some of the runners now that raises the question is this really where the danger will too long so that we followed a group of american friends who were running with the bulls and this is what we found out. just minutes to go before with the bulls. going five zero in there and you're seeing a movie with. your.

friends come from. fornia to pamplona facing down danger together. i don't this time is made objects and drama from colorado he's sharing some safety advice for you knock it out when you get caught that's very helpful. for you and your guy thereat american author honest hemingway's favorite bar he made the bull running world famous in his nine hundred twenty s. novel fiesta gotta keep your head on the sea you don't know what's going to happen next running. running. running i don't know the fastest one out there but i have to be doused with someone else you know that's my baby right we're going down i didn't bring you and so i. made you want to

i next morning this is that emotion and i cough tom bores eight hundred fifty meat is insane health officials are trying to build a new arena and next thing you know you we're right behind you the bulls are right there it was it's a epic it's like you're running and you're looking for the fools and someone just standing there and you just told me well we know your site oh my goodness get out of the way here i don't know how they were. i know you can't be free to leave camp. but everywhere. that is stronger really instincts are right went out the window i could go tomorrow there's more days of this. the photos tell of a trip they'll never forget and this video postcard from pamplona.

which you will hear. how the limits are taken down to ten days those wanting it. trying to get in. we see we do seem to have lost but obviously i think the weather down thing certainly not his spirits will be following a pump later as the day progresses let's go now to the world cup of course being so unpredictable it's been great hasn't it the hopes of russia that i have been knocked out of the competition.

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be. the over forty thousand people killed under his rule it took twenty five years to bring him to a court of law but why for so long was such a brutal dictator considered an ally of the west who heard that reporting to the congress that to the press there were engaged in the cleverest of al-jazeera unravels the history of chad's natori his former president is saying had great dictator on trial on al-jazeera. recent elections most notably that of donald trump is 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 platform such as facebook google and twitter so wide open to abuse in a two part special report we sent paul 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 to store going to growth information and make it universally accessible and useful the more you learn about technology the more you

learn what's possible. at twitter arc 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 you solemnly swear to tell the truth last november the companies were summoned to appear before the u.s. senate intelligence committee that's right it's not new russians have been conducting information warfare for decades but what is now 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 softening of our nation i wish your c.e.o.'s would be here they need to ask 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 count promoted to protect his causes 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. 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 on to write this information. the day before the hearing facebook group build that russian content reach 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 the yes or no question. believe any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active measures on your platform said our investigation continues so i would have to say no certainly not with certainty no and we're still working to walk well we have done a comprehensive investigation but these are ongoing issues and we continue to investigate we are relying on twitter facebook and google to find and 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 civa of idea nothin is 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 russian 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 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 late 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 of blitz metrics denis you and logan young 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 trunk 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 that trump won by less than eleven thousand votes. i can do based off income you know if i know average blue collar worker makes fifty to one 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 david 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 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 them so 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 can 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 also 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 then 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 to reach 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 the shares this is been shared four hundred twenty two thousand times so really what you want to do when you buy it is generated shares at exactly it 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 points out the ads were seen over and over again by the same people who appear in 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 target how it's great for advertisers that are selling furniture and cars at the same time you don't think the hundred million impressions on facebook can't create an impact on an election you can't

have that both ways 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 a 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 selection 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 and i spent years building tools to basically defeat the 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 to 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 and 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 then are 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 martin is on his first day of work he had this very sweeping vision of you know the new york times of you and that the accident from a question is like what is facebook you know in some time in turn said oh it's often 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 new.