business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martin denis coming up in the next sixty minutes pakistan seems to be heading for a coalition government as imran khan leads the polls but falls short of a majority. israel says four hundred more settler homes will be built in the occupied west bank after an illegal settler was killed in a knife attack. sixty five years on the final journey home north korea gives up the

remains of u.s. soldiers killed during the korea war. and china's fake a vaccine scandal we'll look at how social media may have spared the government into action. but first the cricketer turned politician imran khan has now got a commanding lead after his party won the most number of seats in the pakistan general election the official result we haven't got yet but it does seem clear that iran will need help to form a coalition government his main opponents though allege that he benefited from massive vote drinking we'll go live to the capital islamabad in just a little while but first a summer binge of aid reports from lahore. pakistan. he celebrated their

victory even before results were announced initial vote tallies gave him a decisive leaves. i'm getting a borehole khan has promised a lot for the people the huge number of votes the people gave him is because he can do what i must fail to do he should deliver his promises and i should do a lot for the masses he should deliver now otherwise his situation will be worse than that of our sharif and the dari. his supporters voted for change and after twenty two years in politics it finally worked for their leader. i'm thankful to god for the twenty two year struggle today god has given me the opportunity that i have dreamt of a dream for pakistan accountability will start with me then my ministers and then we will work our way down. but the vote count has been controversial pakistan muslim league which won a majority in twenty thirteen says their mandate was stolen from them there's also

been criticism from those be religious correlation and others but the election commission denies there was any foul play and how many years ago i hear the complaints that we received procedural in nature and there is no complaint of misconduct in the elections so we are satisfied that the execution of the elections this free and fair. pledges of change and people in pakistan even those who did not vote for him want him to deliver by improving living conditions healing the economy and fighting corruption. whichever government comes it should do good for us we want water gas and electricity. other problems as well they should solve our problems in punjab province plans to form a coalition government but he has promised to fight tooth and nail to save their provincial influence the challenge for the cricketer turned politician is to create an inclusive government and then keep it running for five years. well that was

a solid reporting from you can see him on your screen now we'll be talking to him live in just a moment first let's go to correspondent who's in the capital islamabad what are the numbers like at the moment we're very slowly getting an official picture as to how well. what is the magic number and how close to it. we're still for. election commission of pakistan august on terry can solve. one hundred fourteen days from the. international. minority i need to get a big. number get proportionately more.

he will need to. depend on the people. that are many independents. and there. isn't a comfortable position but the question of. all the open. days and this is a legitimate election because there wall. street. agitation perhaps the meeting of the religious. and political. parties will be meeting and dad will be very important because. there could be trouble ahead but so far jim rohn in a very strong position and it's no longer a question of if but when he will be sworn in as prime minister and come all remind us of what the main objections all being articulated by the main opposition parties

as to how this phase has taken place. foerster for the progress on muslim league now was a ritual trip or. action what they're saying is that this election has been rigged has been micro-managed by the military. on the other hand denying there are all kinds of accusations about irregularities at the polling station that. they're. afraid of the election commission. speed up the process of the ward counting down to patently friend apart because of any communication whatever go all the parties and particularly the religious parties. after all. they have been defeated. and some of them are on or drilling through it kept defeat

of course all kind of act your nation against the government some insinuation that micro-managing thing so far rating fall. from the election commission and the mood from the opposition parties are they going to go for more political instability something that this country can order for or are they going to take their word they already the muslim league now watch. mr. happy to go and get in the open. the people. then that created the award and the religious parties might find them isolated we shall have to wait and see all right thank you for that come on let's go live to us on the binge of ages in the capital of punjab province lahore and they do say they are some of that to have a wins in punjab wins the the leadership of the country how is done in this

traditional stronghold oh the sharif supposes. martin as you said this is the heartland of politics in pakistan and whoever controls been job can comfortably control the friendly capital in the punjab the box on this in league was that has won a majority of seats according to these partial results it's taken one hundred twenty seven but it's close neutral behind by the pakistan tehreek e insaf with one hundred nineteen seats and then there are others with four in five and eight seats who are both sides both parties trying to get them on their side to form a government we just heard the leader of the box on was in the name of the son of shahbaz sharif on the show us that their mandate should be respected because they have got the numerical victory did got the mandate from the people that they should be able to form the government but it is going to be a numbers game in a lot of that depends on the independents and

a lot of that will depend on the other political parties who are seen close to the box that he can solve rather than the party son was indeed it is going to be a complete change of board the barbus on with leave the mob which has been ruling on job for at least the last eight years it is going to be but by the looks of it and what i'm melissa been saying and people who watch from the holding that press conference that it is a defeatist attitude they've they've conceded defeat and it is going to be very difficult for them to hold onto power and come by it punjab is taken from them and it seems very much. as if what pakistan has experience in this election is a generational push it's a very much as though the young people using social media and whatever has driven this election result. absolutely i was speaking to somebody yesterday and they said this is a four g. election referring to the mobile phones that they carry in their hands they say

that people are not stupid because people cannot be kept in the dark anymore the people have the technology on their side and they've been. king their choices based on what they've been seeing what has been promised and people they've tried before so obviously there's a generational change and you see that in the results as well all the major players about thirty odd of them have been kicked out of the. election process these are people who are considered to be influential who are considered to be the main players of various political parties who have now not been elected but then again i mean these are crying foul they're saying that these people have lost because not just of the votes that the others got but the way the election was rigged was that a lot of votes were wasted that we just heard from the pakistan people's party. saying that her one of her constituencies there was about twelve thousand votes which were canceled and the lead for the other candidate was in a few hundreds so these are allegations that are going to come forward to be going

to see more of them in the next coming i was. plan to take this to court they want to take the specific allegations to the election commission of pakistan but a lot of it will depend on the future. sitting together in the friendly cop osama bin jade live in the hall thank you. now to syria where government forces have retaken the southern city of connector that's close to the israeli occupied golan heights government troops have now deployed along the border friends and this is the first time in four years defilers weeks of intense fighting in the area as the army try to clear it of eisel and other opposition fighters the remaining eisel fighters have agreed to leave for rebel held areas of northern syria after a deal was brokered by russia and the kurdish backed syrian democratic council the s.t.c. is holding talks in damascus with the government of president assad along with members of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces e s c f now this is apparently

the first time the s.c.f. have had talks with the syrian government the s.t.'s controls much of north eastern syria having driven eisel into retreat with u.s. support they say they want a new thomas area within the country but they are not seeking independence we can talk now to sin and cause the early our correspondent who's joining us live from istanbul in turkey because of course turkish authorities will be watching these negotiations very closely indeed see them. yes martin as you know for turkey an independent kurdish state by its border with syria or an autonomous kurdish enclave is actually a threat to its national security and territorial integrity so turkey is watching these lines very closely but according to these sources that i spoke in.

since the turkish american corporation began over members in last june june fourth this is the sixth time that the syrian regime and p y d office shows have come together but of course this is interesting because they met in damascus this time so. the two of inman which turkey and united states have been cooperating since then they have been a joint patrol link and they have been trying to provide security for the town and what is interesting is that yes sir day in around six pm both the american and the turkish side have exchanged a names list and names list for a local council of thirty kurdish or preventatives for members that would administer it the town. of from now one so this is an interesting timing of course but. on the other side another in another development this very interesting

because turkish officers haven't announced that yet in bed that at the doubt the region that the town of men bitch turkey as stablished and observation and logistics post a base right by the american base in men bitch so right now especially the following the developments in offering corporation with russia over often and then you corporation with us over member p.y.t. is aware that these corporations are more than a political and the ghost. leverage these are on the ground that's why people y. d. is looking for some other options for itself considering that a couple of days ago a russian delegation met with the syrian regime to discuss about an independent kurdish entity in northern syria these are interesting developments but for ocker is watching very closely for now they haven't stated they haven't announced

anything in official there are no official statements but there are two perspectives this meeting between the pew idea and the syrian regime might work on behalf of onka considering that for the last couple of months there are political tensions between america and turkey or were a prison's a passer or were a banking crisis over the blockade. on iran so this might work or for turkey turkey would wellcome and it tension between the p y d and the united states but also one thing is that even though turkey in the syrian regime doesn't have any diplomatic contact the contacts between the intelligence agencies are ongoing and we have been hearing from the sources that the syrian regime is not happy with this russian over of russian offer of an independent or autonomous

kurdish enclave in northern syria so probably until the such a meeting by the end of july in about syria will be watching these partners these actors very closely to them because they're live in istanbul. one israeli settler is dead two others are injured after being stabbed in the occupied west bank the attack happened in adom that's just southwest of ramallah a palestinian suspect was killed after entering the settlement and carrying out the attack in response the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman says four hundred more settler homes will be built in the area and an internal israeli military report is expected to find no grounds for further investigation into the recent killings of one hundred fifty three palestinian protesters by army snipers israeli media is reporting the army will not refer any of the soldiers to the military police over their conduct the report apparently says that the military is blaming

operational mishaps for the death of anyone who was not an intended target and a thousand people were injured by israeli live fire during the weeks of protests we'll go live to our correspondent andrew symonds who is in west jerusalem and andrew combined these incidents will do nothing to defuse the tensions that are rising rising both in gaza and in the occupied west bank. no you don't really have to be an expert or a human rights activist or anything else to work that out martine the temperature is hot right now there is a lot of tension the sort of thing you're talking about well it can't really help the situation firstly dealing with this first stopping attack in months in the occupied west bank that was in fact a seventeen year old palestinian youth who went into this camp called adam

internationally illegal settlement as with all of the israeli settlements on the occupied west bank he confronted three people three israeli is one of them was stabbed heavily in the torso in the chest and he died later the second was severely injured the third managed to pull a gun and shoot the palestinian attacker seventeen year old young man now the response to that has been in security terms a large number of troops have been deployed extra troops deployed in the occupied west bank and a number of troops have gone to this attackers home village of of cobra. and cobra cobra is in fact a small village a long distance away from the attack scene and we understand that the

usual procedure has taken place we've seen a number of permits withdrawn from the family and also plans to demolish the family home permits for work for that these are all measures taken and on top of all of that we've had a tweet from other door lieberman the defense minister you mentioned earlier he has chosen to announce. a. he planned to build four hundred more homes in this illegal settlement and he did say this he said the way to respond to terror is to announce something like this in organizing or what he says will be the construction of a settlement in this area now blatantly they're saying that this is the right thing to do it's in line with policy but it is has to be said it's an unusual response right away in a situation like this as far as the public mood goes palestinians that's really are

reacting in an angry way to this has been a number of security issues in the occupied west bank and of course the gaza question looming much bigger the situation with that report you referred to in the how it's newspaper which suggests that all the soldiers involved in the gaza protests of going to be exonerated of any blame in the deaths of more than one hundred fifty demonstrators since march there are has to be said and number of associated issues to this in that there is supposed to be another report being compiled as well it's by no means the end of the matter but the wrong prolonged time being taken in these investigations and this is only one suggestion that there is an all clear on all those soldiers under thurman's live in mestre islam thank you. we've got

a lot more to come on the news hour including why the authorities in greece are in the spotlight following deadly wildfires and a vote for change zimbabweans pin their hopes on next week's election to fear their economy away from disaster. and an axe world cup winning cage is back in his native country to help before the team is. revealed in spain. the remains of fifty five american soldiers who were killed during the korean war are now being flown home on this the sixty fifth anniversary of the armistice which ended the fighting there repatriation of the war dead is being seen as the first of stunt show goodwill gesture following the singapore summit between donald trump and kim jong charizard full of reports. for fifty five american

families the weight of decades of not knowing what happened to this soldier sons missing in action has ended their remains are finally on their way home. a u.s. military jet was allowed to land in north korea to collect them on the sixty fifth anniversary of the armistice which ended the korean war five thousand three hundred u.s. service men continue to be regarded by the pentagon as missing in north korea the issue was discussed during the summit between donald trump and kim jong un in june both sides have to show the world that they are genuine in fulfilling the agreement and progress has been made the u.s. president tweeted his thanks to north korea's leader for the first substantial development since this summit the white house says the goodwill gesture is encouraging and could signal what it called momentum for positive change critics warn the north koreans might stall on returning the remains of more war did until

the u.s. pays money on the main issue of denuclearization progress is slow they have to do something that is dorval first and if you look back through the history of the united states you know normalizing relations with our former adversaries it usually began with. a return discovery in return of the war remains of the american soldiers it's the first time in thirteen years that north korea has repaired treated the bodies of american soldiers handovers stopped because of the u.s. dispute over the north's nuclear bomb program. the u.s. says the remains of another two hundred soldiers are ready to be returned their families hope to be able to honor them on american soil soon shares are good for al-jazeera the greek government says some of the wildfires which are killed at least eighty people were started deliberately beatriz of their athens are in ruins

and some searching for missing relatives are blaming the government's slow response while others swam to safety a large number of victims were found close to cliffs after failing to reach the scene when they jumped. any minute also i mean that we have serious implications and significant findings of criminal activity concerning arson we are troubled by many factors and they have been physical findings that are now the subject of an investigation. the chronic shortage of cash in zimbabwe is a major concern for voters so is the ruined economy monday's general election will be the first without robert mccarthy in the early forty years the legacy of the deposed president rule though has overshadowed campaigning as malcolm webb reports from the capital harare. mcmaster dropped out of school when his parents died he's

sixteen refute jobs in zimbabwe so he ends about eight dollars a day selling tomatoes and of those that are the reason why i came here is to look for money so i get in a living and working for someone i get little money and i send most of my going my . informal traders only appeared here on the streets of the capital harare is the economy clapped into the rule of former president robert mugabe agricultural exports plummeted after his government seized white owned farms nearly twenty years ago mines and factories closed as investors pulled out foreign banks stopped lending the government blamed the economic sanctions it's now there's a chronic shortage of cash in circulation these people are queuing to withdraw money they're allowed twenty dollars each. flower made from imported wheat it's

hard to get for this bakery because of the lack of foreign currency to buy it. the aging avenues combi replaced so they're continuously repaired. yeah we just bring that no good for takes in there maybe things will improve in bigger in the us we are getting a little things from south africa we're going to remain so the new we it's also new so my me yes i've got all materials. and there's the presidential election campaigns draw to a close head of monday's poll voters want to hear more solutions the politicians have to offer. a vision leader. as it is a real economy. all examined by afghans is by the same kinds of promises that they support and that was exactly the kind of message they want. but the foreign investment and international finance to resume rather live about the election. here in. opposition of unready

complained of serious irregularities in the campaign has been largely peaceful compared to the past we should you continue with the same spirit get a credible election we're using those debate everybody but once you're interested in the national players who are interested that do then it provides a bit of a comfort for capital to come to zimbabwe. even if capital starts to flow back into the banks and big business in three years before street traders like mission x. feel the difference. but people here hope the election will provide a chance for things to turn around malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe. in just a few moments rob will have the weather also coming up here on the al-jazeera news our floods from a collapsed in laos are slowly receding but many complain they should have been moved to safety sooner. pressure to ban whale hunting in iceland why activists say the killing has to stop. and find out what has made the chicago cubs so happy

tatiana i'll have that story and more coming up in store. the nice pink sky by the time. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. how they use the heavy rains this time the it should be at the north most extent and they are there in bangladesh northern india nepal and to some degree pakistan some of the figures are really quite outstanding if that's true in cox's bizarre two thirds of the july average six hundred thirty seven millimeters it tails off when you get to northern pakistan thirty millimeters so soon if there are so i feel however this is the effect cox's bizarre and down the peninsula right to the end of bangladesh six hundred millimeters of course a lot of it is affecting the refugee council is affecting cox's bizarre itself as

well yes it's always gets flooding it's on the able this is really core exceptional now the next couple of days expect to see the same in the fall cross and you've got it so bangladesh up through northern india the rain falls but that is skip east with some couple of hundred thousand couple thousand kilometers to japan and places had a heat wave recently and now is waiting to see a typhoon this is it sitting in the open ocean event is a category two storm scale that goes from one to five is potential rainfall isn't huge have a look at its course it goes through the middle of honshu just about and then q shoe two hundred millimeters dry and that was recently quite such a rated. the weather i can't talk i always. for the first time since robert mugabe was hoarse from polyp by the army the people of zimbabwe will in let's say next president but

a struggling economy and frustration amongst many other voters means the result on the thirtieth of july is still hard to predict follow this in bombay elections and out there. on the atlantic coast of west africa communities are at risk. as rising sea levels and a manmade disaster of threatening people's lives on land and at sea. al-jazeera world exposed the impact of climate change and a catastrophic human error. on senegal sinking villages.

take a look at the top stories here on the al-jazeera news our impact on imran khan and his p.t.i. party is inching closer to victory in the general election but he will need allies to form a government and his opponents are saying the vote was rigged to favor him and they are threatening agitation the official results are expected shortly. an internal israeli military report is expected to find no grounds for further investigation into the recent killings of one hundred fifty three palestinian protesters by army snipers along the girls a fence an israeli newspaper says the military is blaming quote operational mishaps for the death of anyone who wasn't an intended target north korea has handed over

the remains of fifty five american soldiers who were killed during the korean war fulfilling one of the promises made by kim jong un to donald trump at the summit in june the u.s. military plane was allowed into north korea on friday morning to bring them to a base in south korea. the number of dead from the collapse in laos has now risen to twenty seven more than one hundred people remain missing and villages have started to question why they were moved to safety sooner. triggered by the. neighboring cambodia water levels are receding. all right let's talk to florence lou our correspondent who's in training province that's in cambodia and florence this is perhaps the worst affected part of cambodia isn't it the as we just said the water levels are started to recede in laos what's the situation there where you are you're right by the river. that's right marty now

this is the world the floodwaters here are also starting to recede this is as you mentioned is this a kong river flows through the northern provinces of cambodia now over the area near the border to laos the water level there has dropped by about sixty centimeters now over here in still trying province the water level is still above the danger level at about twelve point four metres but forty's think the water level may have peaked because it's remained roughly the same for the last twenty four hours now this water flows downstream for the south into crotty province and the water level there is about twenty metres still about two metres below the danger level there is however a flood warning in place in crotty province but no one has been evacuated authorities have advised farmers who have crops in low lying areas to start harvesting their crops in case there are floods but it looks like that may not happen because the water levels are slowly starting to recede now as far as we know

there are still about five thousand people in still trying province who have been moved to safe higher ground and they are being looked after by the authorities and volunteers who are distributing food medicine clean water and mosquito nets to them . and it seems very much as the people of the province in laos is starting to ask questions as to what went wrong and why so many of them were. so many of them were lost and so many of them are still in dire straits so they're starting to ask questions what about cambodians are they getting angry as well. well we're not seeing any of them we're not seeing much of that on social media or twitter i think the whole country is consumed with the upcoming elections that's going to happen on sunday so there's not much buzz the social media or even. people you speak to hear about what's happening in. province with the floods but you're right to say that questions are being asked as to whether or not the

warnings should have been given now on the south korean company s.k. engineering and construction one or four partners in this joint venture project constructing and operating the but. have said that they notice that subsidence in the happened around thursday thursday night when the dam actually finally collapsed on monday so there were a couple of days could the warnings have been given earlier could people have been evacuated those are the questions that will need to be asked and answered all right thank you for that flowers louis they're trying in cambodia. us and the e.u. appear to have pulled from the brink of a trade war after a preliminary agreement between president trump and. the european union commission but not all european leaders are on board with the deal yet gabriel elizondo has more from washington. fresh off

a trade deal with the european commission u.s. president donald trump took to a steel plant warehouse in the state of illinois speaking to an invitation only crowd the president said he was celebrating a great victory rally nationalistic undertones and we will not let anybody bully our wonderful american farmers. our fortunes as a nation rise and fall together and that is why we are going to stick together and win for our farmers and off factory workers are still workers here we are all across this nation. but if trump ever wanted to see the divisions his trade policies are causing he didn't have to look too far. billions of dollars in tariffs on goods from china have helped the local steel industry in illinois that's why trump chose to speak here. but his trade policies have hurt the local soybean farmers who ship more of their product to china than any other state china

implemented retaliatory tariffs on us soil. that's why earlier in the day trump visited farmers in the state of iowa he boasted that a supposed trade breakthrough brokered wednesday in washington with european commission cheap john klobuchar would have avoided a trade war with europe and also help american farmers proclaim deal is light on details and promised just more talks in the future. could be and there are already signs that not everyone in europe is on board by example or on them that would be good for example in terms of access to the american public markets which are today primarily clewiston we need clear gestures from the united states we need signals of the escalations on the steel and minium where illegal taxes have been applied by the united states and in my opinion and intervention in the subject matters before taking any further steps i think earlier this year trump famously

said that trade wars were good and easy to win but not everybody agrees and now the president is finding out that perhaps they're more difficult than he originally imagined gabriels andro how does it washington. china's latest vaccine scandalous third a rather lively debate on social media in spite of the strict censorship that's there the country's second largest maker of rabies vaccines was found to have violated regulations whilst producing a quarter of a million doses for kids now the government's wrong quickly into action even before the story was reported on state controlled media so is social media now influencing the government's decision making his or china correspondent adrian brown china's social media users were unusually energized this week it's one of the few ways people here can let off steam the hash tag chung chung the vaccine case was viewed more than four hundred and seventy million times chunk chunk is the name of the

company that sold fake vaccines that were administered to more than two hundred and fifty thousand children. food is involved in a project that tracks censorship on china's social media he's based across the border in semi autonomous hong kong where laws governing freedom of speech are more relaxed in the vaccine scandal fu says the government is monitoring rather than listening in one way the government. morning the public opinion at the same kind of different. party media as well as the propaganda machine you tried to we add the rakli to different comments in the in the public eye also on social media the vaccine scandal was being discussed on social media days before state controlled media were allowed to report on it that only began to happen of

the china's premier league of chung issued a statement just before midnight last sunday. just five days earlier the premier had spoken out after another health issue had stirred debate on social media. it was prompted by a new film based on the true story about a cancer survivor who illegally imports drugs from india to help other sufferers who can't afford them. it's not clear if the premier saw the film but he called on the government to do more to help cancer patients. the two cases have struck a chord with the public. i believe what we say online play a big role in what the government does what people say on the internet is powerful . we're worried what we say will be censored him and some of the posts that have already been deleted and we don't know why you. are the posts deleted by chinese census are captured by food and his team they try to work out the various

ways users try to disguise their descent it's an endless cyberspace game of cat and mouse adrian brown al jazeera beijing. five we can speak now to zen on capture on the who's in shanghai he's the chief executive of the consulting firm kapur on asia which specializes in technology and media trends in china thank you for talking to us here at al-jazeera what sort of trend do you noticing with regard to how the chinese authorities are interacting with social media. so now i think that social media here in china has become a key channels were it individuals and companies to communicate with others in the country and the government realizes that and i think the government's relationship with social media is changing over time to realize that in situations like this vaccine's get or there's a lot of information that's out there or are sometimes misinformation that's out there and we're trying to control the narrative to a certain extent on social media to ensure that a panic doesn't sue and that the proper information is out there and they're able

to handle the situation in the correct way and they succeeding i mean does this government said to ship actually succeed in managing to block out the kinds of debate that the author of his don't want to see well it all depends on what your definition of succeed is certainly when we look at some of these things that it is really a game of virtual catamounts where the individuals in china will come up with new names who are the scandals or the people that are involved in scandals to stay one step ahead of the government here and so i think it's always a challenge for the government to actually succeed in totally stamping out any of the social media push because users just find a way around and do you sense that there is likely to be much more of a listening element within the chinese authorities because i was quite taken by a quote from that report from major brown in which it was said that the government is monitoring social media rather than listening do you think that that is about to

change. hopefully it does i think you know social media around the world has done a lot to help societies with a lot of their challenges and then when you have one point three billion people who are watching out for what's happening to the country especially something so important as health or what we see in our scandals in the past around baby products anything that really touches the chinese right you're in china they're going to talk about and it's a great source of information i think the government again is maturing in the way that it interacts with social media certainly it was domestic social media and so i think we'll see that continue to mature over time is an uncapped problem thank you very much indeed for joining us. saying on the fema facial metering facebook has made history but for all the wrong reasons the social media giant lost nineteen percent of its value on thursday trading in new york and that wiped out about one hundred twenty billion dollars in market value that is i'm reliably informed the

biggest single day loss for any publicly traded stock christine salumi reports of a new york. for facebook which has experienced exponential growth since its initial public offering in two thousand and twelve it was an uncharacteristic plunge in market value after an uncharacteristically bad quarterly report on thursday share prices tumbled sure profits were up thirty one percent over last year but for the first time since two thousand and fifteen they fell short of expectations to some extent this correction was expected i think the smart money had expected this. and then your price for perfection there's no margin of error a series of scandals seem to be catching up to the social media company founder mark zuckerberg was called to account by congress over russia's use of the platform to try to influence the two thousand and sixteen election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was

a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry and the harvesting of user data through the political consulting firm cambridge analytical the company says increases in security spending are likely to continue eating into profits and tougher user protection laws in europe have already cost the company some three million users but there are some structural issues right now and they need to really work that out it's going to take some time but at the end at the end of the bay at the very end of the day facebook is a good company facebook remains one of the most valuable publicly traded companies heading into the two thousand and eighteen midterm elections when its new security protocols will be put to the test mark zuckerberg is attempting to reassure investors saying that this time he's confident the social media company will get it right christine salumi al jazeera new york so to come on the al-jazeera news find out why these green bay packers play is

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the pictures of a whale being cut off a nice and inferior animal activists who are demanding a ban on commercial hunting and d.n.a. testing has revealed the meat from the latest killing can't be exported to restaurants in japan and it came reykjavik explains why. iceland has much to boast of when it comes to natural resources its dramatic scenery and geothermal

springs draw tourists in their millions and there's the marine environment to tens of thousands of people go whale watching every year there's even a whale museum where you can immerse yourself in an ocean of life size whale replicas the one thing iceland tries not to publicize too much is the fact that swales is still killed commercially here which in rage is a big sector of society doing these they are going to steps backward into the viking times and the whaling nowadays especially well not just in iceland but the whaling in iceland show that people is not doesn't follow but they really think to show the world and they are so it's something of a p.r. disaster when photographs like this appear what is suggested to be a highly endangered and protected blue whale killed and brought back to shore for processing d.n.a. sampling has since shown the whale was in fact a rare hybrid between a fin well which icelandic whale is do have a quota and the ban on blue whale kristen lawson he runs the company that killed

the whale says his whale is acted in good faith their wages working for others may be doing it for decades. to be. here and when be approached. in which. they went after that is what i think for one hour it is no question in my mind. nothing else than a finn way when it was taken but turned out to be a hybrid these are images of a fin well being legally processed at the whaling station most of the products are exported to japan the killing of the hybrid well which is banned from export has led to more coolies for the industry to be finally heated in iceland this hunting is very inaccurate they cannot know the difference between a hybrid bluefin wage and often which they cannot make a distinction that's what they say between the two so you know for that sake they

should absolutely stop it. so this is workable is to willing ships come in from the ocean with a catch and take it up the field to the processing plant to hunt for about one hundred days a year between june and september and this year they have a quota of one hundred sixty one fin whales it's an activity that has drilling support among so icelanders ten years ago about seventy percent of the population were in favor of whaling today that figure is more like fifty fifty and as tourists seek out whales a line even the wild still there's a pressing issue what to do with several tons of hybrid whale caught up in a freezer with nowhere to go nick clarke al-jazeera reykjavik iceland right it's time for the sports use now with tatiana thank you very much martin manchester united legend dream former manager alex ferguson is making a good recovery oft undergoing surgery for a brain hemorrhage in may on thursday he posted

a video on social media arnie says he's looking forward to watching the club he won thirty eight trophies with him twenty six is zero. there's a quick message first of all to thank the medical stuff michael field sold for drugs. and now is under his physicians but we meet with those people who gave me such great i will be sitting here today so thank you for me and my family thank you very much as made me feel so humble. as all the messages from all over the world was you mean the best. the good wishes do as an event of it is strongly with me so thank you for the support you have given me and was way i'll be back later in the season to watch the team and i mean all the best to josie in the players thank you very much. brazil's two thousand and two wild cup winning coach that we fully pay

scolari is back in the dugout at a team he's carved in the past brazilian club palmares of contracted scolari until twenty twenty scullery was with the club when they were relegated in two thousand and twelve but he has a good overall pedigree having won the world cup with his country and also having taken portugal to the final of the european championships and the world cup semifinals in the past. football's pre-season is in full swing ahead of the new campaign several big european clubs are in the united states for the international champions cop and the city of los angeles top ad of the weekend's game between boss alone and top known several iconic buildings throughout l.a. were lit up embossed the colors the spanish club place because of the rose bowl in fact that i thought i was already impressed beating italy's said he asked side roma for one on thursday in their opening game meanwhile bof a loner would be without several key plays including li na messi who are being rested following the world

cup and russia. french open final is dominic team has reached his tenth quarterfinal of the tennis season the top seed eve passed australian john millman six two six two of the german open in the twenty four year old austrian will face today's nicholas lardy for a place in the semifinals. of the world series champions houston astros have added cat jim martin maldonado to their roster is a swap deal that seems patrick has found of all head to the los angeles angels now one team that is looking to challenge the astros for the world series this year all the new york yankees and on thursday they face the kansas city royals and start job she was on the receiving end of a vicious pitch early on and left the field to go to hospital for a gun is have the best record in major league baseball so far this season and showed just why against the walls team that are struggling with the second worst

record in the entire league zali gray pitched five shots how innings. constable's seven two winners. and the world series champions from two seasons ago the chicago cubs maintained their position of the top of the standings in the national league their record of their sixtieth the win of the season but they did it the hard way anthony ever so hitting a wall called home run as the cubs overturned of five run deficit to beat the arizona diamondbacks seven six in just looked at those celebrations. the canadian open at tate off on thursday and thanks to a super round of nine on the par. is the first round leader the forty year old has only ever won one p.g.a. tour title was back in two thousand and ten but the american was in superior form in the first round in ontario as he shot a sixty three his round included five straight bodies on the front line as well as finishing with four birdies on the last six hole that was also

a treat for those watching world number one dustin johnson but despite this chip from the bunker for an eagle on the sixty he's five shots behind us. boxing now and form a w b i while the heavyweight champion joyce of pocket has vowed to do damage and punch with bad intentions when he faces britain's deleon wide in london on saturday both heavyweight fighters have i only lost once in their entire careers will face off in a showdown viewed as a wild title fight. very to arena using in the joys of parker will be hungry to avoid back to back to fate softer losing his w.b.i. wild title to great britain's anthony joshua in cardiff in march. from it's like oh i say you know. you're not phil there's no hopefully if you don't get it done it's. punch bad intentions.

i'm going to break him down i don't want to catch a flush are going to take a lot of hunches so my my purse we took it over. and i think sometimes smacked to the side down. maybe a painful five to be some schools you know bad blood you know and some technical stuff running a bit of what's in place going to go down he's going to jump off at some point you know i don't know the first run fairground in him is going to change remain in a chase i'm serious that at some point. qana mcgregor has avoided a prison in the united states after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in new york the mixed martial arts fighter was arrested in april as heinous entourage stormed found a ground cop aka the barclays center in brooklyn and smashed up a bus filled with fighters at the time of the brawl mcgregor was angry at the sport's governing body for strictly him and his lightweight title instead of jail time he'll undergo anger management treatment and has to do five days community

service. i just want to say i'm trying both to the d.a. and the judge for allow me to move forward i want to say to my friends my family my friends how you're going to support right. now the new n.f.l. season only kicks off in september but the tames are already back in camp or preparing and before things get too serious the green bay packers on a decades long franchise tradition it was the opening day of that training camp and children lined up with that bicycles in the hope that one of that hair eyes would borrow that bike to make their way to the training filled base that has been practiced since nine hundred forty six and the idea is to have the children will quote dog alongside their fair favorite player. tatyana thank you very much indeed that's all for this out as their news hour but don't go away because the hail will be in the season just

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