even goals but needs more time mahinda rajapaksa son who seen as a potential future leader of sri lanka says time is up for the governments and so people doesn't want to see is where they get high are there to be a higher tax i'm sure the people doesn't have on a change that they're all that has stopped them losing jobs and that the unemployment rate is going up mahinda rajapaksa is calling for political change but he's barred from becoming president again because of the constitutional two term limits but as he proved when he was in power the constitution can be changed and he clearly still enjoys plenty of support wayne hay al-jazeera colombo. still to come on the program the chief exec. facebook grilled about foreign influences in election campaigns. i was in school.

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business updates. going places together. thank. you. and twitter about. election campaigns social media have been warned that new noise could be on the way. to stop them aiding election fraud how does your castro has more from washington. the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end so says the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee telling the bosses of facebook and twitter that government regulation is coming and i'm skeptical that ultimately you'll be able to

truly address this challenge on your own i believe congress is going to have to act i think both sheryl sandberg of facebook and jack dorsey of twitter began their testimonies with sober assessments of their own operations leading up to the hacking of the us elections two years ago we found ourselves unprepared and ill equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged notably missing with the chief executive of google's parent company alphabet larry page who declined the committee's invitation to testify i'm deeply disappointed that google one of the most influential digital platforms in the world chose not to send its own top corporate leadership to engage this committee the tone toward the tech exacts who did appear was more positive senators praised facebook's efforts last month to remove more than six hundred accounts linked to fake users based in iran and russia facebook said it has hired more than twenty thousand content monitors

who speak fifty languages let me be clear we are more determined than our opponents and we will keep fighting when bad actors try to use our site we will block them when content violates our policies we will take it down and when our opponents use new techniques we will share them so we can strengthen our collective efforts. the tech giants say they'll work with government to develop regulations but it remains to be seen when new rules would be coming the u.s. intelligence community including the f.b.i. and the cia saying what is clear is that the integrity of the u.s. elections in the upcoming midterms in november is under attack and the giants of social media and government are being challenged to move swiftly in response heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington thomas porter his peter lauren thank you so much u.s.

president donald trump has once again weighed in through the calling kappa make n.f.l. debate by attacking mikey for making the quarterback they front men in a new advertising campaign here's a short clip from the just do it added release to on wednesday believe in something . even if it means sacrificing everything. to know if your dreams are crazy. crazy. cappa nick was the first player to kneel during the national anthem to protest racial injustice many americans including the president claim it disrespects the flag and the armed forces several videos have been posted online showing angry customers burning their nike products in disgust at the cap and a deal. the president has tweeted this just like the n.f.l.

whose ratings have gone away down nike is getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts as far as the n.f.l. is concerned i just find it hard to watch and always will until they stand for the flag. unlike trump there are millions of americans who support captain inc and welcome the nike deal it's clearly a divisive issue and that was evident when customers were asked for their opinion outside a nike store in new york city. this morning i'm more i more of my bill to by nike than i am to buy a pair new balance how about that i have always wear new balance because i am white and now i would like to wear nice because i would be proud to wear nike crazy people that have already purchased nike material and that they're burning it how stupid is that i am i am i'm impressed that nike is making such a stand that they're supporting college happening because there's obviously going

to be a backlash if people i'm sure they don't care about the people who have are purging stuff that they already purchased but of course there might be some people out there that warning that part just their material because of their support so it's a bold move for them i don't think it's any good but if you get rid of. the storm all those garbage little is kneeling down it and look what it did you know to train an old benefactor football hero. not good luck to you know i don't know we're going to you're going to accomplish what i'm. speaking off of the victory in the u.s. open tennis quarter finals serena williams said she was happy to see the kaepernick news and that she's proud to be associated with nike. well i mean he's done a lot for you know the african-american community and it's cost him a lot you know it's it's sad but he continues to do the best that he can to support and having huge company back him you know through.

you know could be a controversial version reason for this company but they're not afraid and i feel like that was a really powerful statement here a lot of. a lot of other companies. japan's naomi osaka has made a bit of tennis history for herself at the u.s. open at flushing meadows in new york on wednesday the twenty year old osaka wasted no time in thrashing last year at sorrento the six one six one annihilation took just fifty seven minutes to complete soccer becomes the first japanese woman since kimiko darts a in one thousand nine hundred sixty to reach a grand slam single say we find definitely means a lot for me and i always thought that if i were to win a grand slam the first one i would want to win is the u.s. open. because. you know. like my grandparents can

come and i just think it really. not surprisingly denmark football team would beat in three no bias or backyard wednesday after being forced to field amateurs and indoor football players vast majority of their top players who reach the last sixteen of the world cup are unavailable because of a dispute over commercial rights they've also had to name a standing coach the same group is said to face wales in the european nations league on sunday wales have most of their stars available including gareth bale and their manager ryan giggs the former manchester united captain admits it's a strange situation. is very unusual of course it is and. you talk to top twenty so i mean it is strange especially that they did well in the world court obviously the last few years the form has been brilliant so yeah it's strange and. as a football player from a play football but obviously if you feel you know again

a good deal. the other side of the coin federation think that they are going to go there is just something that you would you would think would have been sought out by now so one of giggs former teammates david beckham who has released the name of these new m.l.s. soccer franchise it's going to be called clue but instead last year now they're football miami into miami for short they can say is the name and club badge or inspired by his love of south american football i always gravitate to you know the old south american crests and the logos and the colors and that's one thing that i felt really need to go into this logo because you know we are a new team we are a city with a lot of history and i think that that's what we wanted to create with with this crest but also the all scientists say the south american flavor that we want to be in there we also need that modern twist as well because it's what miami is all about gold spigots team even the ryder cup is just three weeks away

the europe of completed they line up for the showdown against the u.s. in paris captain thomas bjorn announced these four wild card picks which included some familiar faces. well my first pick is paul casey thank you only want to be a part of the ryder cup team if i felt i could be a great contributor to that which i know i can be my second biggest sergio garcia thank you know i'm going to give everything that i have like tom i will say not only on the golf course but but on a team room make sure that you know some of those rookies and some of the other guys feel as comfortable as possible well next one is probably no surprise to most people and that's the impulsion thanks when you look at the european team on paper now. you know i'm getting goose bumps just just standing here talking about it i absolutely can't wait for the last one is henrik stenson thank there it's going to

be a great venue like i said super excited to be joining you guys there and you're a strong of a team as well so does the american team so it's all set for possibility the great this battle over alastair cook has been speaking ahead of his final game before retiring from international cricket england's leading run scoring and former captain city cried when he's told these teammates and revealed the lowest moment of his career was the exile of kevin pietersen from the side in twenty faulty clearly the cave here. was a tough year there's absolutely no doubt about that. you know whether this is. the fallout that wasn't great for english cricket was in great for me but you know i was involved in that decision without being. actually made the final decision but it's. full of english cricket and effect i had for twelve months or something and

that's all the support from us from now more coming up again later back to london. he just thank you very much indeed and that's it for made for this news hour but i'll be back in a moment with another full roundup of the day's news thanks very much watching news asked by from. taiwan. a sovereign island state or a renegade province of china that must soon return to mainland control. as the battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the

tactics of those to whom reunification is only a matter of time. taiwan spies lies and prostrate thomas on a. a new poll ranks mexico city is the pull for worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened you think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse no money on the uses a new service it's called loyal droid it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers the occupied west bank city of hebron is on the front line of the arab israeli conflict you don't really care after

a while palestinians don't like it i don't like it but you just don't care at all but one man is standing up to israeli pressure to sell his house for an unimaginable figure if you call a new. development of al-jazeera world tells the story of the house that's a symbol of resistance to continuing occupation the hundred million dollar home. british police release images of two russians that they believe are behind the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. live from london also coming up. paraguayan says it will move its embassy in israel back to television from jerusalem sparking

a diplomatic wow. twin explosions in the afghan capital kill twenty and leave dozens of others injured the taliban denies responsibility. and seventeen people are killed an ass trikes on syria's last rebel province as u.s. president donald trump warns government forces to avoid a small to. a low britain has identified the two russian military intelligence offices it says carried out a nerve agent attack on a former spy on its soil prime minister to resign may says there's enough evidence to charge the two men for poisoning. his daughter in the town of souls bri in march she also called a u.n. security council meeting to discuss the incident which she has called a warlike act by russian president vladimir putin firstly before. the british police believe these are the men who attempted to assassinate

a double agent on the streets of the u.k. alexander petrol and of probably aliases and now the prime suspects in the attempted murder of his cripple the police have images of the two men near the strip malls house apparently moments before novacek was smeared on the front. the scribbles were found slumps near their home in salzburg the case has caused a massive diplomatic rift with russia which has consistently said the u.k. could provide no proof that it was responsible the u.k. now believes that is exactly what it has and not only that the prime minister said to a stunned parliament the british security services believe that soon men our military intelligence officers of the russian state i can to day tell the house that based on a body of intelligence the government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police and c.p.s. offices from the russian military intelligence service. also known as the

g.r.u. . the g.r.u. is a highly disciplined organization with a well established chain of command so this was not a road operation it was almost certainly also approved outside the g.r.u. a senior level of the russian state after months of work the police have offered a detailed timeline of the movements of the two prime suspects they say the russians flew from moscow to london gatwick airport on aeroflot flight to five double eight on march the second they then stated the hotel in east london before catching a train to soulsby on the afternoon of march the third and returning to london on the same day they then repeated the trip on sunday march the fourth where the police say c.c.t.v. footage shows them near the scriptures house by the evening they left london and were flying back to moscow on aeroflot two five eight five. at the hotel in east london the police say they found trace elements of novacek so small that they

didn't pose a risk to health but it still counts as evidence we know part of their main street the second the fourth to stay sitting staring. would have to remain stated we know that when we find out who they were found out which hotel i stayed on the second we took control of. i mean not really we found traces of. both the police and international chemical agent body the o.p.c. w have said it was the same batch of navi chop that was used against this cripples which then killed dawn sturgis and seriously injured her boyfriend charlie rowley they had found a fake per fume case with a bottle inside adapted to release the novacek the couple had assumed it was perfume and she sprayed the novacek on a self this case and that of this cripples are now directly being linked in the criminal inquiry. was exactly the point when the british police were briefing journalists in london about

all this the russian foreign ministry was tweeting this derogatory video comparing prime minister may's dancing ability with that of the foreign ministry spokeswoman as a signal he could hardly have said we don't care any more bluntly the last time the u.k. had prime suspects in an attack on a spy it was the alexander litvinenko case which ended with a look of oil named as one of the killers eventually made a member of the russian parliament the u.k. can't get the two prime suspects in the scripture case extradited it's against russian law and anyway it will be hardly worth the effort the scribbles have survived but u.k. russian relations a stuck in the freezer largely al-jazeera london. charles has more from moscow on the russian reaction to this latest news. russia's approach to the whole script since it blew up earlier in the year has been to deny deny deny they say that the u.k. is not being know what to produce any evidence that it was nothing to do with russia

or that russia has constantly asked the british government for access to the investigation access which has been continually denied and even after the british have produced considerably more evidence than they have previously been able to do the message is the same from russia we have heard from the foreign ministry earlier which said once again we urge the u.k. side to switch from public accusations and information information manipulation to practical cooperation through law enforcement agencies the ministry of foreign affairs also says that the two suspects that have been named by the u.k. mean nothing to them they don't know who they are we also heard from europe who is an aide to the kremlin and p. seems confused that he doesn't quite know what the british authorities are trying to do with all this info that's just been released he finds it rather confusing can't understand it so the russian response again did deny i deny.

moving its israeli embassy back from jerusalem to tel aviv reversing a decision made less than four months ago israel has retaliated by closing its embassy in paraguay i am a parable as previous president or us took after those followed in the footsteps of the united states and guatemala by moving the embassy but the majority of countries did not follow suit choosing instead to retain their embassies in tel aviv or latin america correspondent stan human has more. so much for the everlasting friendship between paraguayan in israel professed by benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister and foreign minister back in may one paralyzed former president. decided to move his embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem only accompanying the united states and guatemala in this controversial move at the time many people couldn't find

a logical explanation there has been very very strong speculation that there might have been an economic incentive but that was four months ago now there's a new president in power my view abdullah who by the way has an arab last name or at least his. family is of arab descent he says he's putting things back to where they were he says he wants power to contribute to regional efforts to help bring about a diplomatic and lasting solution to the conflict in the middle east. at least twenty people are being killed and sixty others injured in twenty explosions in afghanistan's capital kabul a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a sports hall in a neighborhood which has a large shia population as rescue workers and journalists rushed to the scene a compact two explosives was detonated the taliban has denied carrying out the attack jennifer glass has the latest from kabul. the first attack on that sports

center a center for wrestling in the dusty bargee neighborhood of kabul back to a western suburb of kabul mainly shia has are is living in that neighborhood and then the second bomb came in after targeting first responders and journalists to have gone to cover that event to journalists from tolo t.v. were killed they were actually reporting live from the scene just moments before the second explosion i mean far harder than i mean somebody were killed in that attack among the twenty people killed and more than sixty injured in that attack it's the second attack in that neighborhood in in the past month an education center was attacked about a few weeks ago young young men and women who are preparing for university exams so it's particularly brutal attack in as are a shia neighborhood of kabul a member of the present donald trump's administration considering taking steps to remove him from office according to an anonymous article written by

a leading official the piece in the new york times also says cabinet members are already working from within to curb some of trump's more stream policies of the president is already condemned the article calling it in his words a gutless and a tour you white house spokeswoman seris on this is called for the end on the sofa to resign particle hang joins us live from washington d.c. a never dull moment over there's a what would we think some quite vociferous reaction from trump on this. there was but let me just put this in perspective this does not happen the new york times the paper of record doesn't normally do anonymous op eds they say that this is a senior administration official that they are given anonymity so that they can keep their job let's think about this this is someone who that if they say senior administration official this is someone very close to the president perhaps one of his senior advisers or even a cabinet member and they're blowing the whistle on his presidency basically and

there this is an incredibly damning article just a couple of things you mentioned he talked about invoking the twenty fifth amendment that is when a majority of the cabinet decides the president as unfit and sends a message to congress and other steps are taken they write that they don't want to provoke a constitutional crisis so they are working from within to curb his worst impulses they write that the root of the problem is the president's immorality and that the bigger concern of what he has done to the presidency they write is rather what he is what excuse me rather what we as a nation of allowed him to do to us we have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility they want to describe the president's leadership style as impetuous adversarial petty and ineffective this is scathing this is an anonymous official within the trump administration and the president was asked about this and you just knew he was going to respond. nobody has ever done in less than a two year period what we've done so when you tell me about some anonymous source

within the administration probably failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons now and the new york times is truly if i were here i believe the new york times probably wouldn't even exist. before and someday when i'm not president which hopefully will be in about six and a half years from the. new york times and c.n.n. and all of these phony media outlets will be at a business folks they'll be out of business because they'll be nothing to write and they'll be nothing of interest so nobody has done what this administration has done so that's the playbook here and we're hearing this from this administration after each one of these scandals and we just had bob woodward come out with excerpts from his book where he talks about some of the senior officials taking steps to basically try.