moving much closer together we're seeing more cooperation in areas like defense and just two weeks ago president xi jinping held yet another meeting with the russian president vladimir putin they met several times this year already president trump is really taking aim at the chinese media he believes that the chinese state through its media is seeking to undermine the u.s. political system now certainly the external services of chinese state television the english channel has a large broadcast center in washington you can now get the english language u.s. edition of the china daily in most major cities in the united states but president front was taking aim at the fact that china is taking out adverts in regional newspapers in the united states including places like des moines and certainly in the past we've seen the chinese government by full page adverts in newspapers like the new york times propaganda is

a very important weapon to the chinese state so this relationship is now starting to unreadable on many fronts increased tension in the south china sea increased tension over taiwan a widening trade dispute and just this week a u.s. warship was denied permission to dock in hong kong we are moving into troubled waters. kuwait's prime minister has had out of israel for continuing to violate international resolutions jabot album have else of us as israel ignores orders to stop building illegal settlements on palestinian land he also called on israel to stop using excessive force song protesters in gaza to another one off what a journey out of israel persists in its intransigence rejecting and ignoring resolutions of international legitimacy it continues its expansionist policies through the establishment of illegal settlements on occupied palestinian territories this constitutes a gross and blatant rejection of resolutions of international legitimacy now for

only the third time since its inception in one thousand forty five a us president has chaired a session of the un security council president trump posted a discussion on the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction as did his predecessor barack obama in two thousand and nine mike hanna looks at a body that is often criticized for its inability to act. this is the most exclusive political club in the world the high stakes table in the united nations to get a permanent seat in the game requires a unique buy in nuclear capability the issue under discussion with president trump in the chair the five permanent members were not only allies at the end of the second world war but were also nuclear powers no permanent members have been added since each of these five wields a veto so any resolution one opposes is simply not passed even if there's an

absolute majority in the fifteen seed council what the sometimes means the body is unable to carry out its prime function the maintenance of international peace and security yes or no the veto was used regularly during the cold war period resulting in heightened instead up decreasing tensions the only uni. in the council between the blocks of east and west the u.s. able to rely on the absolute support top its p. five allies france and the united kingdom. in recent times have been a flurry of vetoes in the council particularly over issues like syria where the permanent five members have opposing agenda but there's one sharp difference now a u.s. administration under president trump that can no longer rely on the unquestioning support of old friends i think that trumps isolationism is making even

staunch u.s. allies like france and the u.k. start to think about the need to work with china more the need to prepare. to work without the u.s. on a lot of issues you see a gradual real drift apart amongst the western powers here a possibly unforeseen consequence of the trompe and decision to go it alone the rise of china as a prominent potentially dominant force within the united nations and beyond mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. mexico's incoming government says it's going to investigate the disappearance of forty three students in the southern city of a koala the promise comes as protesters gather to mark the fourth anniversary the abduction and suspected massacre of the students was one of the worst crises during president andy companion the athens ten year it's thought the students were turned over to members of an organized crime group john heilemann has the latest from mexico city. this is the fourth anniversary since the tragedy in mexico in which

twenty three students were kidnapped by police in collusion with a local guy had a huge impact on a country this is a country that's had more than thirty thousand people been disappeared over the last few years and this really these forty three shooters became a potent symbol of not just that phenomenon but also the impunity and the lack of really concern from government forces the government was very slow to react to what happened with the students the investigation that was riddled with errors according to you to the n.g.o.s in the country and according to relatives looking for their lost loved ones now four years later it seems that things might move again with this case the president elect andres manuel lopez obrador says that he's committed to the truth coming out about what happened to the students he's going to make sure

that the case gets an investigating committee that's going to look at it again an independent experts who were investigating what has happened before they say they were brought by the government are going to be allowed into the country going to take up their investigation so parents are hopeful that finally after all these years they might get to the bottom of this still ahead on the bulletin efforts to relieve the pressure and argentina the i.m.f. loans more money to help the nation's struggling economy and it's already want to south africa's biggest kenna's now the rise of drug. resistance to make you know if this has health professionals cooperate. through tranquil arabian can you. deny it seems and if any should go into. how i welcome to look at the international focus will see temperatures recovering the southeast and parts of here see this area cloud

just drifting across the black sea pretty bowl those temperatures down struggling to get into the low teens for and present go on for the next couple of days should touch the high teens on thursday generally fun and dry by this date down around the caspian a few showers there into northern parts of iran you'll notice that these four types of dry up quite nicely as we go on into friday warm sunshine there for iraq into kuwait forty forty one celsius by the states you can see and crap temps picking up now to about twenty three degrees lovely sunshine for the eastern side of the med by routes out around thirty celsius going up to around thirty celsius too and so a lot of fine and try here why thirty is there for doha and also for abu dhabi may be a tough woman as we go on through friday they ripen it's less days five and drive with pleasant sunshine not too warm now and not too humid try and find two across southern africa a little bit of cloud just scraping its way through the southern cape sixteen

celsius in cape town we could do with the right twenty eight degrees therefore to hondas but again it's days try and find the shell as they remain further north anywhere from the ethiopian hollows right into the gulf of guinea. there with sponsored by cattle and nice. when they're on line for humanity has been taken down there's going to vegas which will be about numbers on a spreadsheet or if you join us on sam i guarantee no one else has a back story like yours this is a dialogue and i'm just tired of seeing the negative stuff. types about native americans everyone has a voice resurfacing that's your comments your questions i'll do my best to bring them into the so join the global conversation on how to zero.

it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are all top stories president picked for the u.s. supreme court is expected to defend himself when he testifies in front of the senate judiciary committee on thursday but kevin also accuser christine ford will also answer questions about an incident she says drastically altered her life the u.s. president has accused china of meddling in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections donald trump made the claims as he chaired his first u.n. security council meeting he gave no evidence for the accusations which were denied by beijing trumbull also attacked iran calling it the world's leading sponsor of terror. and mexico's and common governments is going to investigate the disappearance of forty three students in the southern city of the promise comes as protesters gather to mark the fourth anniversary the abduction and suspected massacre of the students was one of the world's crises during former president

enrique pena nieto is ten yet. people in vietnam have been paying their respects to the former president during the second day of national mourning. died suddenly on friday from a rare virus a state funeral will be held on thursday quad was widely criticized for his crackdown on political dissent was president has been named acting president becoming vietnam's first female head of state when haye has more from hanoi. this is now the final journey all the president to be. after a brief service held here at the national funeral hall in hanoi attended by family members of course but also the leader of the government and the communist party he is now being taken just over one hundred kilometers south of the capital hanoi to mean been a province that is where he was born where he was brought up and after another brief service there that is where he will be laid to rest we still don't know when

a new president will be elected but at the moment vietnam has its first female head of state with vice president not appointed as the acting president the job of appointing were electing a new president falls to the national assembly then next session will begin on october the twenty second there is no confirmation but it's expected that during that month long session a new president of vietnam will be elected. validations leader has accused neighboring myanmar of delaying the return of the hinge of refugees saying his country can no longer shoulder the burden bangladesh is hosting more than a million behind you behave she's he fed a violent crackdown by me promise to shake a scene and has appealed for more international aid. have made several deals to repatriate their head but few have returned all the fears for their safety. i have all the one hundred sixty. what is our land boundary

one hundred forty thousand. one hundred sixty. housing medical and everything. i can dig any are the bard in. i've gone to get my gun. a new report says china is building a new coal fired power plants that generate as much tricity as all the coal plants in the u.s. combined and environmental groups analyze satellite images of the one hundred coal power plants the chinese government said it had suspended in january last year their findings show there's been construction within the sites across the country those stations could increase china's over all coal powered by twenty five percent

. russians defense minister says the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning of a former russian spy in solsbury has been revealed to be a russian colonel his comments appear to confirm claims by the investigative group belling cat they say that these photos prove that one of the suspects who went by the name of is actually on a totally chapiter belen cat says he worked for the russian military intelligence agency and was awarded russia's highest medal in twenty fourteen russia denies any involvement in the attack well during his speech at the united nations prime minister treason may accused russia of trying to fabricate evidence in the case and violating international law we have seen what happens when the not true patriotism which is a cornerstone of a healthy society is warped into aggressive nationalism exploiting fear and uncertainty to promote identity politics at home and belligerent confrontation

abroad while breaking rules and undermining institutions and we see this when states like russia flagrantly breach international norms from the seizing of sovereign territory to the reckless use of chemical weapons on the streets of britain by agents of the russian g.r.u. . we have to show there is a better way to meet the concerns of our people that way lies in global cooperation between strong and accountable states based on open economies and inclusive societies now a member of the russian protest group pussy riot has been released from a german hospital after recovering from a suspected poisoning doctors at the charity hospital in berlin say appear to visit off health has improved significantly there's a lot of says he's convinced he was targeted by the russian secret service the group released a statement saying he's now under the protection of the german police there's a lot of and other members of pussy riot served fifteen day jail sentences for disrupting the world cup final in moscow in july to protest russian police

brutality the international monetary fund has increased a loan to argentina to fifty seven billion dollars the seven billion dollar boost is aimed at destroying investor confidence in the country argentina has been struggling to repay its debts on the state's interest rates the peso has lost around fifty percent of its value against the dollar so far this year or do you know the economy. both are incompetent but the most. of the new blood is a. very. very new ball appropriate on the budget. a strong monetary bodies focus on reducing the. bloating exchange rate only the widow intervention. now to south africa the country has the second highest rate of tuberculosis infections in africa and while there's been

a seven percent decrease in the number of infections cases of a drug resistant strain are on the rise farm of the live reports from cape town. lost it in bennett visits to book ulos his patients in a township in the west and gave. it to him bill is been treating this patient with three months and says she's seen an improvement but she's worried about contracting the highly infectious disease herself our government or our company must give us or something like. a medication that can protect our so forget it is from the vision that they should have to deal with it i have a good to see if they think. you can stop them because they're we i think both know it is for us. or stop caring for tb patients which you can track to the disease two years ago she says she's still not fully recovered and contra turned to work tb experts in south africa say health

care workers are three times more likely to contract. and this is worse in overcrowded and under-resourced public hospitals where infection control is inconsistent tuberculosis has been the leading cause of death in south africa for the past decade according to the department of health sixty people die from tb every day even though countries like south africa have introduced new technology and medication to fight the disease experts say at this rate it would still take another cinci to fully eradicate tuberculosis health organization t.b.a. hiv care says each year up to one hundred and sixty thousand people in south africa diagnosed with tb but don't return for treatment which potentially increases the chances of developing drug resistant tb the issue is that a lot of people aren't able to to the realities they face every day to actually complete the medication they're not getting the necessary support accessing

treatment and labor intensive requires out of pocket expenditure which a lot of people are not privy to to support themselves let alone more than four hundred fifty tb. patients can be treated with the cost of treating just one drug resistant tb patient the world health organization is to make that a quarter of the world's population has tb it says far more needs to be done and the thirteen billion dollar global budget to fight the disease is simply not enough for me to. africa. again i mean this is the problem and or how with the headlines on al-jazeera a present for the u.s. supreme court is expected to defend himself when he testifies in front of a senate committee on thursday but it can also accuse a ford will also answer questions about an incident she says drastically altered her life trump says of her evidence is compelling he could with

a draw kavanagh's nomination. the u.s. president has accused china of meddling in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections donald trump made the claim see chaired his first u.n. security council meeting he gave no evidence for the accusations what she would deny by beijing mexico's incoming government says it's going to investigate the disappearance of forty three students in the southern city of a gwala the promise comes as protesters gather to mark the fourth anniversary of the abduction and suspected massacre of the students was one of the worst crises during president and rick if any of those ten year. people in vietnam have been paying their respects to the former president on the second day of national mourning. died suddenly on friday from a rare virus the state funeral will be held on thursday was widely criticized for his crackdown on political dissent vice president then has been named acting president becoming vietnam's first female head of state. bondo they should lead to has accused neighboring myanmar of delaying the return of the hinge of refugees

saying his country can no longer shoulder the burden buying their shoes hosting more than a million one hundred refugees who fled a violent crackdown by myanmar's army promise to shake a c.n.n. has appealed for more international aid and bangladesh have made several deals to repatriate the hunger but few have returned over fears for their safety. britain's defense minister says the true identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning of the former russian spy unsolved spree has been revealed to be a russian colonel has comments appear to confirm claims by the investigative group belling cat they say that these photos prove that one of the suspects who went by the name of is actually on a totally belling pad says he worked for the russian military intelligence agency and was awarded russia's highest medal in two thousand and fourteen russia denies any involvement in the attack but those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream

is up next. zero. swim every. war ok and you know in the string today all about self defeating messaging apps i'm quick to messaging service is well done outside the house of encryption i really could be looking out for your live comments in our you tube chat and on twitter as always at a day stream do you use apps like snap chat or perhaps signal or a telegram to share with us how you use them and why they're so important to you and i'll do my best to bring in as many of those conversations into today's conversation so many of us won't previously and security in our communication and

well several ways to achieve that he is one of those ways text messaging is often the fastest most efficient way for employees to exchange important information unfortunately traditional text messaging is unsecured at any given time there are multiple copies of every message floating around vulnerable to prying eyes the mobile phone companies keep record the sender has won the receiver has won you get the idea this kind of a kill the seal and security cost companies millions each year in lawsuits regulatory fines and public embarrassment luckily tiger text has the solution tiger text is a fully encrypted easy to use solution for safe and secure messages sent confidential company data sensitive personal information documents and more worry free with tiger text into ending corruption tiger text accelerates your company's communications by allowing critical information to travel faster and more securely

than ever tiger text can also help you complied with. regulations with one of the strictest security. your text messages last forever text messages were. accidentally sent an erroneous message. can be recalled with. i'm sure your. confirmations tell you when your message and best of all it's a snap. so what could possibly go wrong with that well that. text was adopted by one police department. question. criminalising information would not want to court. the long beach police department announced

a suspension of tiger text after an al-jazeera investigation revealed allegations from former offices that they had been instructed by their superiors to use the app that would automatically delete potentially discoverable evidence i was told that tiger text was to be used to have conversations with other officers that wouldn't be discoverable we wanted to keep our communications private certain issues especially. or murder cases the police department the noise those allegations the american civil liberties union believes that by deleting the text messages the long beach police department may have breached the california record for tension and evidence disclosure legislations potentially putting thousands of cases at risk . in response to the investigation the long beach police department issued a statement saying that the use of the app would be suspended effective immediately pending further review of whether the use is consistent with the city's record

retention policy and as part of the review of internal communication practices the city will be reviewing best practices and current case law. simon bozeman joins us now on sat he's an investigative reporter for al-jazeera we're also joined in san francisco by eva galperin the director of cyber security at the electronic frontier foundation and in los angeles by mohammed taps are national security staff attorney at the american civil liberties union that's the a.c.l.u. of southern california welcome to the stream everyone now simon as we saw in your piece there are your basic ation has had immediate fallout and has led to more investigations which we will get into today questioning who should use these self deleting messaging apps before we get into it though i want to go to eva for a breakdown some of the terminology we're going to get into today clarification on self two leading tax apps and into and encryption break it down for us eva all

right so frequently when people talk about secure messaging apps they sort of lump everything together they say the this messaging app is great because it's encrypted . and sometimes they mix it up with this whole notion of self deleting messages now and encrypted message as we saw in the in the animation earlier is a message that cannot be read by the company whose app you're using or the i s p it can only be read by the sender or the receiver of the message. now self deleting messages are different and they're not necessarily encrypted though apparently with tiger text they were both leaving and encrypted messages and is self deleting message just disappears from your phone this doesn't necessarily mean that it has disappeared from the servers being run by the company whose. app you're

using or the i a speed it doesn't even necessarily mean that it's being deleted. from the phone of the person that you were. sending your message to and it certainly doesn't mean that it can't be screen shot or saved in some other way but it does protect against certain types of record retention policies which is what the police are but it would concerned about ok i'll be asking questions later audience universe description thank you very appreciate that so back to this police department simon how did you find how do you stumble upon the story that they were using at that moment that at some point the messages on it were totally disappear we were looking at a completely different story we were looking at a high number of officer involved shootings in america by police forces on young black men and looking at that and they were the report back in two thousand and fifteen could mapping gun violence that had long beach very close to the top of

that list of police bombers had per capita the largest number of officer involved shootings and the beach is interesting because it's not a particularly violent place it's not particularly our area of high poverty so we started talking to officers there and in other police forces around the world around us and very quickly when we speak into serving officers and former serving officers in long beach they pointed out there was this being used between the departments that are involved an officer involved shooting to provide primarily the homicide department and the internal affairs department and they pointed out this is that was being used where the any information between those two departments would just vanish and that could be pivotal to any family who wants to find out whether their loved one was killed by the police illegally or correctly and so we started to look into that and that's where the story kind of grew from and some of the quotes in the report that you update from. extremely incriminating we deliberately use it so that other people can track that we're using and feel

comfortable about saying that two officers we spoke to former and serving said that when they were given the op their superiors told them to use this for him. from ation that they wouldn't want to be discoverable wow so that was why for oss that wish that was a stunning piece of information and from there we are robbing the rest of the use and how many people were involved and how how widespread it become within one week police department summons i want to share a comment we got from a resident of long beach who is not surprised at what your investigation revealed this is don mont going to she's the co-founder of black lives matter the long beach chapter and this is what she told the story we're not surprised along with his department is highlighting and deleting but in long beach p.d. has a notorious history of abuse brutality military station profiling a black and brown communities predictive policing and murder of one thousand one hundred fifty two people killed by police in the us in two thousand and fifteen

long beach police where the fifth most murderous billions of residents tax dollars have been spent covering up their systemic abuse of those cases need to be reopened investigation of their tiger takes used to discard evidence is merely an affirmation for why we want our tax dollars better spent in long. so mohammad while don may not have been surprised some of our community members are it this is one person who tweeted in wait why are police departments using self deleting apps isn't that a violation of the freedom of information act and as habits servants are they required to preserve any and all communications from it. that's exactly right i think. our principal problem at the a.c.l.u. with what the city of long beach was doing was that the use of these applications violates basic records preservation rules that ensure that the public has access to

important records and information about how the governments function and these rules exist across the united states and are designed to provide a basic accountability mechanism for what the government is doing now in this case of the government uses these record these applications to immediately destroy these very same records of prevents the public from having abscess to what could potentially be incredibly important information and in this case information that touches on the lives of so many people and has and concerns the really foundational issue that's been the subject of a lot of debate and controversy in united states and that is the issue of rampant police killings and so we at the so we are incredibly concerned about the use of this technology both by the city of long beach but also by. governments across the country. couple of bits of evidence here that anyone is doubting that this actually took place in your report you have an update email and it says title tech secure

messaging app and it says please feel free to resume communicating via the tiger text i have so let's go into the secret channel no one can follow and then another one which is basically it's really simple it's a purchase order purchase order it's for a certain price it's for up to twenty five thousand. and then it just tells here tied to tax subscription license period from twenty sixteen to twenty seven thousand a step anything wrong with the police department having this kind of app. yes i mean i think if you if you if we split the thing into if they had into a concrete. message in apps and then they retained all records for the time under california law and then handed them over during court cases as requested at the discovery phase and. you could argue that using a system like this would be absolute find a but they chose a system which deletes the messages for ever it can now no longer go back and get

those messages and produce them in core produce them in any kind of document or face to say we have them nothing wrong with the you know the long beach police department said to us when we first told them we comply with all legislation on this we don't break any laws two days later they suspended all use and now they're doing a review of whether they're complying with all the laws they told us they were complying with it's the two days later after your reporting that is the red flag that they knew that they were doing the right thing it had target texas at least since two thousand and fourteen up until two thousand and eighteen that's hundreds and hundreds of cases that. this art was being used to communicate evidence around this one hundred fifty all offices within long beach police department had it out of the two hundred ninety phones issued to starve in long beach over half of them have the app to communicate with each other you would never know what they were talking about to each other. the the the city's attorney the person legally responsible to ensure that the police are applying with complying with all legislation didn't

even know they had it he didn't know yet they had it in to we told them that they had it the district attorney for the county of los angeles has just launched an inquiry through the in the same body that is doing the inquiry into long beach police departments the same inquiry group to investigate with the police killings illegal to do dishes and oversight committee these and there are serious allegations against long beach police department whether they comply with their own legislation whether they withheld them from evidence from any court cases and mohamed will tell you now better than some i think it's going to be a very brave law that opens up hundreds and hundreds of prosecutions in long beach again because we don't know what these police officers were talking about your statement at the risk of echoing you here we have a tweet here and it really shows just the gravity of this this is james reporter at the los angeles times he says less than twelve hours after the al-jazeera report detailing its use of a self deleting messaging app that could cause record retention discovery issues the city of long beach has suspended the use of tiger attacks long beach police had

been using it since two thousand and fourteen so really just echoing what you said there but eve i want to bring you in here on this because secure communication seemingly is a good thing what's your take on this. well privacy and security are two different things and both private and secure communications are good but every citizens have different freedoms and obligations than the police took part in it the police department is made up of police these people are public servants they have obligations to maintain records of the of the things that they are doing in their investigations in ways that ordinary citizens do not and it looks like they were using tiger text specifically for the purpose of circumventing those obligations which is really disturbing. so if we're looking at who should be using these apps and who should not be using these apps mohammed. well i mean i think what's interesting here is that is that what we need to do is be able to sort of

think a little bit strategically and a little bit sort of. in a nuanced fashion about the technologies that are available to members of the public to the corporate sector the private sector as well as to governments and so what's important is to recognize as it was saying that there are different obligations and different requirements that we all share in these different spaces and so as members of the public there is a lone individual i have an interest in making sure that my communications with my spouse with my family members with my friends are private and that individuals whether. hackers government agents or or other sort of intruders don't have access to that information but i don't have that same obligation for the local police department to come who patrols my streets or for you know the housing authorities that i apply to get public housing from or from the tax man for whom i provide all kinds of sense of information i want to make sure that their communications are

recorded and are kept in a secure fashion so they do not leak they are not compromised in any fashion so i think we really have to be able to understand how technology operates in this sort of multifaceted existence that we all live in the talk of what's particularly interesting that is what's particularly interesting is that governments and law enforcement including the f.b.i. and police departments all over the u.s. have insisted that they should be able to backdoor these apps because they're being used by criminals and so they're perfectly fine with using with using these apps to circumvent their own obligations but they're not into the idea that they might be used by the people that they're trying to keep an eye on that they're trying to catch one of the things with. the amusing scenario now is we talk about the arms race and technology of criminals and the law enforcement staying one step ahead. each other so if the criminals using something the room for some has to catch up

what we may be entering in this instance is to a new era in which the government trying to stay ahead of people like myself activists like mohammed saying what are you doing and they're trying to stay ahead of our ability to keep an eye on their communications now which i think is going to be an interesting challenge for the twenty first century trying to see what you really don't want. is a dynamic in which the people in power the people who have guns the people who have the power to imprison you have privacy and security and ordinary people who might be activists or journalists are trying to hold them to account don't that is in fact the opposite of civil liberties and how many systems is this make us in a very mushy area where the criminals and the police are using the same technology and the public is using the same technology and they're all trying to keep secrets from each other. yes and no i mean i guess i'd say that.

secrecy by itself is not that right so that secrecy deletion. sort of purposely these are not terror bad concepts these are all really good depending on the context of how they come up so i'll give you one example so the government. engages in a whole host of different surveillance and investigatory operations to keep tabs on members of the public even when members of the public aren't suspected of committing a crime so for instance if you drive in an intersection there might be a camera that tracks. cars drive past that intersection that camera collects all manner of different sort of data about you and about members of the public would we want that data for instance kept in secure fashion that might leak in a way that would result in our movements and our and sort of public private information disclosed to members of the public certainly not and indeed what i would suggest is that that information about search about members of the public

collected through surveillance technologies must itself be deleted if the government does not suspect you of a crime so in that context i'm for the deletion of government records however i'm against the deletion of cover records when it by lates laws that are designed to interrogate how government itself functions right so you can imagine between those two poles a sort of nuanced debate about when these records should be kept and when they should be deleted on the one hand records about how government works and on the other hand records about you and everything that we do that happens to be scooped up by the government and i think the punishment. because if the police department release my social security number or some piece of my personal information i can take action against that and for breach of my personal data when nobody's pump potentially breaking legislations on reckless retention did he. nothing is going to happen to them nothing legally will happen to them for. the taking so one might

lose their job you know of another but nothing will happen to long beach police department so i like the point about being able to take action if your information is leaked when it shouldn't be here's someone who's a glasses perhaps they say there can always be a reason for breaching your privacy be it a hacker looking for data to sell or a government body because your name resembles a terrorist at the end i don't think anyone has the privilege of privacy which is sad so in keeping that in mind i want to take a look at this because this is what throws tweeted us and he's not the only one who's talking about this idea of a back door he says when taken messages are the reason for riots and lynching especially in india referencing whatsapp chain that are not fact checked and are now been spread back to our access should be given there no other way to stop this agenda but ordinary people should not be harassed or their messages should not be

exposed so take us through the idea of a backdoor who should have access to that door the company or the government. well i think that one of the biggest problems with the with the demand for a back door is that when you have end to end encrypted messaging back to were suddenly makes your end to end encrypted messaging no longer and to encrypt it it's no longer a secure is it was before and there is no way to guarantee that only the sender and the receiver able to are able to get the message we have had a number of very high profile weeks of of government data and of. data from apps showing that if you if you build a backdoor it's not only going to be used by governments or law enforcement or whatever you think of as as the good guys it will inevitably be used by criminals by governments that you don't approve of that will be used by you know. jealous

boyfriend stocking their their exes there will be all kinds of very serious abuse and that is why any kind of backdoor is simply unacceptable because it destroys the entire premise of and to end in christian mohammedans wonderings it should be a front door then the front door is the law to see you cannot use this if you're a public official well certainly what you cannot do is you cannot to vons and mandates. back doors and into otherwise secure communications we know that government so the intelligence agencies of the united states and in the u.k. have tried to weaken encryption protocols and this is a really dangerous sort of a push because not only for the reasons that it was talking about but also because the. the ends here on pursuit of an agenda to tackle

a problem that on its face is incredibly where some of the concerns are. about terrorism for instance that concern. rates of terrorism are incredibly miniscule aren't incidents of terrorism are incredibly where in sort of in the western world and yet the threat from weakening encryption how's that natural consequence of. sort of impacting literally all walks of life. that we engage in whether it's communications with each other whether it's communications with lenders banks whether it's sort of data that's controlled by members of by the government or all and all forms of digital life in christian is literally the sort of back bone of how that's how the digital age works and so threatening that in pursuit of a frankly oh well sort of chance of an attack i think is a dangerous premise and something that we should not accept right that someone in

the in the final seconds of our private lessons learned from your reporting and an instant reaction that you got lessons learned everyone should for their local police force and find out that using so you don't even text messaging from a is not what a flaming does go and ask them often and you know you know i'm result of the what we've done they stop using it the deed local community now incredibly aware of it and people like mohammed he's keeping on top of them to make sure that they don't sniff it back into how they operate thank you so much to to simon to miami may have what you want to leave us. interesting conversation i will leave us with this week and always says i use whatsapp intend encrypts in there i live in the states i've converted more than a few american friends to use it i love using it to communicate with friends overseas as well i believe that we are entitled to our privacy and governments cannot be allowed to take that away this will not be the last time we have this conversation but for now wrapping it up in the can i will see online a twitter. stream until the next time that someone.

and hundred forty twelve on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. under president finding asylum in the us has become harder than ever i am put in place

a zero tolerance policy if you are from are going i shot then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you thousands of families escaping violence at home now face separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its doors no shelter on ounces iraq. al jazeera. you have for your. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human crime in the twenty first century they are nuclear war climate change and technological

disruption facing realities whatever is there to fear is not in me it is in the people of uganda hear their story on talk to al-jazeera al-jazeera this is the opportunity to understand in a very different way where there. is and we don't leave. and they know it's a big fat con. donald trump the grizzly defends his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh as one of his alleged victims prepares to testify against him. and welcome to al-jazeera live from our headquarters in doha with me elizabeth problem also ahead of chairing a u.n.

security council meeting trump accuses china of meddling in the upcoming midterm elections in the u.s. . a nation mourns vietnam says goodbye to its president who died suddenly last week and mexico's president elect to investigate the case of the forty three missing students on the fourth anniversary of their disappearance. in a wide range of news conference on wednesday u.s. president donald trump returned repeatedly to a single fim calling the accusations against a supreme court nominee a con job his remarks came on the eve of an affair appearance before the senate judiciary committee by brett kavanaugh and his first accuser christine blazin for. reports. whose words will be believed that of u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh or christine blazin for the woman who calls

him her abuser in prepared testimony ford says cavanagh attacked her at a party when the two were in high school i was pushed onto the bed and brad got on top of me she writes he began running his hands over my body and grinding his hips into me i believe he was going to rape me before it says she escaped and since that day has been haunted by the attack i am here today not because i want to be she plans to say in thursday's public hearing i am terrified i am here because i believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while brett kavanaugh and i were in high school before it was the first woman to publicly accuse cavanagh of sexual abuse debra ramirez a college classmate says cavanaugh exposed himself to her while they were students at yale julie sweat make claims kavanaugh and his friends organized alcohol and drug build parties in the early one nine hundred eighty s.

just so they could gang rape girls including her and two more investigations from unnamed accusers are being investigated by the senate judiciary committee kavanagh has categorically denied the claims in his prepared testimony he writes there has been a frenzy to come up with something anything no matter how far fetched or odious that will block a vote on my nomination these are last minute smears pure and simple president donald trump has defended his supreme court pick chalking up the late allegations to dirty tricks of the democratic party why didn't it brings us right at the beginning during the hearing you would have heard all the time in the world of the f.b.i. you would have been fine no the f.b.i. as you know did investigate this time as they have five or six other times and they did a very thorough investigation but cavanagh's joining the high court once considered a sure thing has become less. certain in the last two weeks and some of that uncertainty is coming from the president himself trump says he will give blazin

ford's testimony a fair hearing and that it could change his support for kavanagh oh it's possible i'll hear that and i'll say me i'm changing my mind that is possible. in light of growing anger among us women over the cavanagh case the twelve republican senators all men won't be directly questioning was a ford they brought in a woman prosecutor to do that democrats say the hearing shouldn't even be happening until the f.b.i. can investigate it's all republican colleagues rush to proceed without an investigation it would be a travesty for the honor of the supreme court. and the honor of our country where at any rate greg kavanagh says he's not withdrawing his nomination and that the latest allegations are straight out of the twilight zone but with five weeks to go before congressional elections republicans may have to

decide which they want more their preferred man on the supreme court or keeping control of congress heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. michelle cross fenty is an international lawyer and she says the latest allegations against kavanagh raise questions about his character. i think this is actually quite serious and i say that because of the timing what was released today by her attorney michael the neti was a sworn statement on the podium and although if you read the statement it doesn't actually claim that cavanagh was one of the people that assaulted her what it does is it actually brings a lot of light onto his character and i think that that's going to be particularly problematic given the fact that just a couple of days ago kavanaugh did that interview with fox news where he painted

a picture of being a choir boy of being a virgin for many many years i think were the words that he used and now we have this sworn statement that paints a very very very different picture and so i think most people are going to be wondering well exactly who is he and that's probably not what he wants people to be thinking about at this point in time. now earlier on wednesday president had his first two u.n. security council meeting he attacked iran and surprised many by accusing beijing of meddling in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. . president trump presiding over a meeting of the u.n. security council the eight thousand three hundred and sixty second meeting of the security council is called to order his administration chose the subject of

the discussion nuclear chemical and biological weapons but trump veered well away from that with this stunning claim regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight teen election coming up in november. against my administration they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade china strongly denied that and on the actual subject of the meeting it sided with three of the other security council permanent members against the us in support of the twenty fifty nuclear deal that president trump pulled out of earlier this year china russia france and the u.k. pledged to keep the deal with iran alive for many years the skin and nature of

iran's nuclear program raise serious international concerns the j.c. a was an important step forward in addressing these it remains the best means of preventing iran developing a nuclear weapon and we are committed to preserving the j.c. as long as iran continues to abide by its obligations in full trumpet again attacked the deal which is in shrine to the u.n. security council resolution as horrible and one sided while the meeting was still underway i managed to get reaction to that from iran's foreign minister mohammed job and zarif although he couldn't be seen by our camera it is such an interesting situation for somebody to go to the security council and boast about why elating security council is outside the council meeting there were fast moving developments on north korea the u.s. secretary of state nick pompei o met with the north korean foreign minister riyal ho after trump said he'd meet kim jong un again at his second summit in the very

near future james pays out zero at the united nations. adrian brown has reaction from beijing. president trump's accusation brought a firm rebuttal from china's foreign minister wang at the u.n. security council he said that china does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries that's the standard response we get from chinese leaders at times like this one consequences. the deteriorating relationship between beijing and washington is that beijing and moscow are moving much closer together we're seeing more cooperation in areas like defense and just two weeks ago president xi jinping held yet another meeting with the russian president vladimir putin they met several times this year already president trump is really taking aim at the chinese media he believes that the chinese state through its media is seeking to undermine the u.s. political system now certainly the external services of chinese state television

the english channel has a large broadcast center in washington but the english language us edition of the china daily in most major cities in the united states but president front was taking aim at the fact that china is taking out adverts in regional newspapers in the united states including places like des moines and certainly in the past we've seen the chinese government by full page adverts in newspapers like the new york times propaganda is a very important weapon to the chinese state so this relationship is now starting to unreadable on many fronts increased tension in the south china sea increased tension over taiwan a widening trade dispute and just this week a u.s. warship was denied permission to dock in hong kong dock in hong kong we are moving into troubled waters. iran's president says his country doesn't want to go to war with the u.s.

or anywhere in the middle east hassan rouhani called the trumpet ministrations withdrawal from the twenty fifth a nuclear deal a mistake and says sooner or later they will support it again will hardly it has paid out as well into results issues with washington about our reports from the u.n. headquarters. tough times for president has any his people want him to stand firm against the barrage of verbal attacks from the u.s. but his ultimate goal is to prevent a military confrontation with the world's most powerful country more. time our intent is to ensure that the usa abides by laws stops a bullying stops pressuring maintains commitments keeps promises that they sign on to it hears two un resolutions we say do not sanction illegally unfairly and unjustly we say the sanctions of the u.s. are inhumane and they must stop bullying the world. but the u.s. isn't the only country accusing iran of trying to destabilize the middle east saudi

arabia has long blamed iran for funding proxies to spread. in a predominantly sunni arab world accusations dismissed by the horizon yemen's president. told the united nations general assembly that iran must stop meddling in his country's. we're not a whole the how to. fight over we are still in the grips of a war that was imposed on our people by our militias it was supported by iran and hezbollah they are supported financially through the media and militarily these militias are extremists they employ gangs who are.