teck to gate families hunker down during the violence would reach them as me because they stayed close to her daughter and those i'm up on aren't here to offend anyone we're here asking for asylum for a better life. as children ignorant of attention played some adults try to distract themselves too they'll be here for weeks or perhaps month waiting and hoping to avoid violence. castro al-jazeera t want to mexico. top story in europe the e.u. foreign ministers meeting in brussels to discuss brics it as negotiations enter the most critical phase the meeting does lay the groundwork for a summit on the bench of the twenty fifth in brussels when e.u. leaders are due to formally sign off on the u.k.'s withdrawal agreement the u.k. prime minister to resign may has support from a cabinet for plans to leave the e.u. although she has lost several ministers over the past week or so the whole joins us live now from outside the house of commons there in london jonah how thin is the

ice below terrorism a's political feat here. well she herself has described peter this week as being absolutely critical it will be critical to chances of getting that withdrawal agreement through parliament it will be critical as well quite possibly for her own future she's off to brussels herself you mentioned their foreign ministers e.u. foreign ministers gathering this week to hammer out the details of the. declaration on a future relationship this is a document that sits alongside the withdrawal agreement it's legally non-binding of course but very important in terms of showing the direction of travel that britain's relationship with the e.u. will take off to the transition period as i say she'll be going herself to take up the negotiations directly was drunk would you include the commission president they want to see she particularly in that agreement enshrined the sort of pillars of brecht's it for the u.k. no more being subject to european laws no more paying money into the european

budget no more freedom of movement and crucially no more customs union as is in shrine and in the withdrawal agreement during the transition period that's what's causing so much trouble for her here people here in her cabinet on the right have a party one language now inserted that makes that customs union arrangement strictly temporary that gives the u.k. a unilateral way out of it when it wants to so that it can make its own trade deals across the world after bragg's it and it will be the nature of that language by the end of this week that will largely determine her chances as i say of getting the deal through parliament and of holding on to to her premiership taking this country out of the european union and there are tabloid newspaper claims this morning your time local time journalist saying that there are enough letters asking for a motion of no confidence against her that's gone to this very powerful nineteen twenty two backbench committee but nobody is in acting it so you know the political

grenades are there they're lined up but nobody's pulling the pin on any of them quite yet. well i think the important point to bear in mind peter is that there's only one man in this country or anywhere who knows the true nature of that situation and that's a great grim brady he's the chairman of the conservative party parliamentary and peace committee that sits in one of the rooms in that building behind me there he has to receive a minimum of forty eight letters from conservative party m.p.'s demanding a vote of no confidence into reason may at which point he's obliged to trigger this contest well he's the only one who knows how many have come in yet whatever the tabloids may say over the weekend he said that the magic number hadn't been reached it may well do today it may well do tomorrow in which case they could be a contest a challenge rather pretty quickly interesting times journal in london thanks very much john a talk later still to come here on al-jazeera the double threat for aid workers

trying to contain the worst ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo's history. and as the search for victims in the california wildfires ramps up we'll report on the challenges of housing all of the evacuees. through tranquil. and if in cantelupe. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast we're here across europe it is still going to stay cold for most locations and that is because we do have a northeasterly wind that is flowing out of russia into parts of eastern europe and because of that any of that moisture that is coming up from the south well the rain is going to turn to snow in the higher elevations we already have seen that as this one system is making its way over here towards the ukraine so for bucharest a cool day for you two degrees is going to be a high we did see some snow passing through there also down here towards the cell

while this one system in the mediterranean as it makes its way towards the north you can see that the moisture is flowing up here but once it hits the alps we are looking at snow falling across that region so vienna we do expect to see snow in your forecast temperature there of three over here toward zurich it is going to be a cold day as well with a temperature there of three degrees well here across another part of europe those same weather systems are also bring clouds and showers along the coastal areas but plenty of clouds across much of central geria as well where looking at algiers windy cool day for you at ninety degrees over here towards tunis not looking too bad with partly cloudy conditions but much of those clouds pushed over here towards libya over the next few days and for tripoli we are looking at a cloudy day for you at twenty three degrees and because the cloud if you with a temperature of twenty five. the weather sponsored by cattle peace. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this

time allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of scene change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is that journalistic integrity and then in this case it was betrayed totally up from his own al-jazeera . welcome back you're with al-jazeera live from doha mining's peter dhabi these are your headlines so far donald trump says he hasn't listened to a recording of the murder of the saudi journalist. because it is too graphic he spoke in a televised interview before the cia briefed the trumpet ministration on its most

recent findings to see rebels in yemen say they're stopping grown in missile attacks against saudi arabia the u.a.e. and their allies the group insists it's ready for a broader ceasefire if the saudi led coalition quote wants peace. hundreds of people in the mexican border city of tijuana have been protesting against the arrival of asylum seekers the fragile from central america and they're trying to cross over into the u.s. . the shrine compartment has delayed another no confidence vote against the president's choice of prime minister mahinda rajapaksa it's already passed to no confidence motion is but mr rajapaksa is refusing to go the president's made through palace at a center held an unsuccessful meeting of political leaders on sunday to break the deadlock and smith joins us live now from colombo so bernat why did they decide not to go with another potential vote.

well there was always a rumor that there were there were the have a hoax or not the speaker story i already said what we thought one much should be enough to was a bonus he didn't really want to have three anyway so the session today was adjourned really only after a couple of minutes they put it back to next week and they going to have a vote and this is how we're going to try and take some of the prime minister ministerial powers away from in the rajapaksa we're going to have a vote on funding for the prime minister's office if they cut the funding for the prime minister's office scuse me and makes it harder for him to operate because he's still acting as prime minister on the official because that signed by the president his prime ministers or whatever parliament says he's still carrying out that job he says but. bernard thanks very much talks aimed at averting a snap election in israel have ended without an agreement the prime minister

benjamin netanyahu says he hopes his coalition partners will show responsibility and not to bring down the government it currently has a one seat majority in the parliament stephanie decker is in west jerusalem with the latest. very confident benjamin netanyahu addressing the israeli public saying that he would be assuming the post of the defense minister but also saying that that decision that he took when it came to a cease fire with hamas was the right one it was a difficult one but he said that the israeli public didn't know all the details of why these decisions are taken basically responding to the criticism that he's been getting from ministers in his government of course for the resignation of abu during even also criticism from the education minister now actually bennett saying that he's gone soft calling this a left wing government so this was really a message to the israeli public to say keep your confidence in me i am still what

is known as a many israeli seen him as mr security and i've done this for the security of the state of israel it is of course very much also political back and forth we are expecting to hear a press conference now just recently announced tomorrow morning that is from naftali bennett to see whether he'll be pulling out of this government if he does then it will collapse in early elections will be called that hasn't happened at the moment so that we're going to have to watch monday morning how things unfold people will tell you that netanyahu was keen on early elections also because he's facing corruption allegations but not under these circumstances not when it comes to gaza so i think we're going to have to wait and see how this plays out in the next couple of days but many people will tell you even though this was perhaps an unpopular decision the cease fire with your firing four hundred sixty rockets at israel people will tell you when it comes to the polls he remains a popular prime minister and if there are new elections he more than likely will

retain that post the democratic republic of congo's health ministry has resumed its to contain the outbreak of ebola in the northeast of the country all operations including banks in nations have been briefly suspended all to health workers were. attacked in the city of beni the country is facing its worst ever break of the bone at least one hundred sixty six people have died since early august dr sebastian spencer is a medical director with doctors without borders he joins us live from brussels sebastian spencer people on the ground there medical workers what's the latest on the security situation i mean what's it like day today. what's very important to seize that we checked the situation on saturday but are activities were not suspended we've been able to carry out all our activities and it's very important as the brick is making progress that all the actors stay committed we have no other option did you pull your staff out of that

immediate area and are they still someplace else well look we were not in the area where the attack happens. so the the m.s.f. people are in a different area than the un stuff so we were able to continue without having to evacuate any of our personnel whether international or national what impact did it have on the stuff we chose to stay in the immediate vicinity well everybody wants to bring this outbreak to an end and as i say there is no option we will stay and deliver we need to be united we are working within a frame defined by the ministry of health for security we rely on our staff we

have three hundred national staff we're working alongside and i would say that the staff in the community we serve is our better part is our best protection what sort of security operation do you have at the moment. well look from a security point of view it's all about assessing all about relying on the information we're receiving from the community so we do not have armed escorts for our operations we rely on information we receive we rely on being trustworthy and that's what the. health care system needs to do is to be trustworthy for the community to protect us do you need more security would it be a good idea if you had say armed security either brought in by your own people or brought in by the government definitely not at this

stage we firmly believe that. militarized the operation would actually bring the outbreak underground transmission would still happen so definitely not sebastian spencer thank you. three leaders of hong kong's twenty fourteen pro-democracy protests are pleaded not guilty at the trial there are nine people who face court on public nuisance charges supporters carried yellow umbrellas a symbol of the rallies that paralyzed the territory central business district for more than two months protesters have called for china to allow fully democratic elections in the city three people have been killed in an attack on a prayer hall of a sikh sect in the northern indian state of punjab at least ten others were injured when two men on a motorbike threw a grenade into a group of worshippers belonging to the nothern cutty sent fighting between the minority community and some members of the way to seek faith has been going on

since the early one nine hundred ninety s. eighty's rather no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on sunday. in northern california the search for human remains has been stepped up in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires there seventy seven people are confirmed dead and about one thousand missing as kristen salumi discovered the city of chico is struggling to accommodates an influx of evacuees. evacuees from the wildfires take solace in some music and the company of newfound friends but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems well i threw up for three days and. my parents for three days i was sick three day. about thirty people fell sick in this shelter alone they were moved into isolation to prevent the disease from spreading a challenge in such close quarters most of the people staying here are elderly and

many have preexisting conditions only exacerbated by the trauma going to be a lot of post-traumatic stress disorder i suspect and it may not be full blown p.t.s.d. but it may be. just folks with nightmares maybe a lot of sadness irritability people trouble sleeping that's really call me after this type of disaster smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world and concerns of short and long term respiratory ailments an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees in addition to shelter they're providing food and clothing not to mention medical assistance from local doctors and nurses but with more than twelve thousand structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care the

median income in the devastated area of butte county is less than half of that of the state the federal emergency management agency has begun taking applications for housing assistance but local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available paradise where our neighbors so we've all kind of been together housing wise though we're not prepared to take on twenty five thousand to thirty thousand more people so far community support remains strong they are not we. we need to we're have somewhere and the real reason is getting better and but volunteers and evacuees say ultimately they'll have to rely on government for long term help not a wing and a prayer kristen salumi al-jazeera chico california. florida's outgoing governor rick scott has been declared the winner of a hotly contested race for a seat in the u.s. senate a recount was ordered for the recent vote between scott and the democratic incumbent bill nelson election officials say the republican won just over fifty

percent of the ballot with ten thousand more votes than his opponent police in haiti say at least six people have been killed during protests in the capital port au prince they're angry over the disappearance of billions of dollars linked to a public toilet assistance program sponsored by venezuela the haitian senate investigation revealed at least fourteen former government officials were involved in the misuse of three point eight billion dollars just as the demanding to know where the money went. human rights watch says egypt has arrested at least forty lawyers and human rights activists the organization says it's a mass detention campaign targeting people who offer support to families of political detainees most of those arrested were taken during police raids on their homes. this is al jazeera these are your headlines so far today the u.s.

president donald trump says he hasn't listened to a recording of the murder of the saudi journalist jamal because it is too graphic he was speaking in a televised interview recorded before the cia briefed his administration on its findings the intelligence agency has reportedly found that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmon ordered the bird who the rebels in yemen a stopping drone and missile attacks against saudi arabia the u.a.e. and their allies the group says it's ready for a broader ceasefire if the saudi led coalition wants peace strikes have continued against hoofy rebel positions in who data. hundreds of people in the mexican border city of tijuana have been protesting against the arrival of asylum seekers they've travelled from central america and they're trying to cross over the border into the united states. this one can parliament has delayed another no confidence vote against the president's choice of prime minister it's already passed to no

confidence motions but mahinda rajapakse is refusing to go the turmoil began when sarah sena replaced his prime minister with mr rudd. e.u. foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss brics it negotiations enter their most critical phase the meeting does lay the groundwork for a summit on the bottom of the twenty fifth in brussels when e.u. leaders are due to formally sign off on the u.k.'s withdrawal agreement the u.k. prime minister to resume a house support from a cabinet plans to leave the e.u. although she has lost several government ministers in the past ten days talks aimed at the voting a snap election israel have ended without agreement the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he hopes his coalition partners will not bring down the government it was thrown into crisis when the defense minister lieberman resigned on whedon's day over a cease fire agreement with armed groups in gaza. the democratic republic of congo's health ministry has resumed efforts to contain an outbreak of ebola in the

northeast all operations including vaccinations have been briefly suspended after health workers were attacked in the city of beni the country is facing his worst ever outbreak of ebola up next it's up front i'll have more news for you here. in thirty minutes see them. on counting the cost the brings it endgame there's a complicated draft deal on the table we'll break it down and tell you what it means for people living in the u.k. and the e.u. plus why saudi arabia wants to slam the brakes on oil production. counting the cost on al-jazeera. today on up front is it time to log off from an increasingly scandal plagued facebook last iconic tech pioneer jaron lanier and is the crown prince of saudi arabia really going to execute the country's most famous cleric.

i made the house and we've all heard about the saudi crown prince is alleged involvement in the murder of a saudi journalist but what about the clerics and activists he's rounded up at home i'll speak to the son of imprisoned saudi shaikh someone out of but first with facebook in the news again for failing to grapple with russian meddling illegal data sharing and hate speech is it time to just log off the author of the recent book ten arguments for deleting your social media account right now certainly think so this week's headlines from new york all for virtual reality pioneer and iconic computer scientist jaron lanier. jaron lanier thanks for joining me from the new york times just published a bombshell report revealing that facebook knew about russian meddling in the u.s. elections failed to penalize then presidential candidate donald trump for posting

racist content compromise its users data privacy and tried to smear its critics as anti semites to quote from the times headline facebook strategy was to delay deny and deflect you know facebook i'm sure you've probably interacted with mark zuckerberg does any of that surprise you what's your reaction to this report. well . i'm not entirely surprised by the report of the some of the details are surprising and shocking i think from the facebook point of view and from zucker brooks point of view he is ollie's in what he perceives as a life or death struggle either facebook controls the world or it dies he doesn't perceive any kind in. tween outcome and so therefore there's a kind of an ethic of anything at all is allowed because it's either survival or total domination or total death and so if you perceive this all or nothing world which i think is a false perception then you lose all sense of proportion obviously and given the

crises plaguing face but when you go back to the twenty sixteen us election and beyond all mark zuckerberg the chair and c.e.o. and sheryl sandberg the c.e.o. are they still the right people to be running facebook right now or is it time for them to step aside well one of the peculiarities of facebook is that it's the only public corporation that's large and is effectively controlled by one person and it in a sense that's an oxymoron a public corporation should have a powerful board it should have power powerful shareholders and the fact that there isn't governance is the first issue that it's a one man shop is really really not ok it's not ok for the world it's not even in the spirit of capitalism i think it's really anti market it's anti-democratic so you should study the side and make it more democratic and capitalist i think it would be good for the world if he stepped aside but the point is that there's no mechanism for him to do so. yeah last year mark zuckerberg said facebook's mission

is to give people the power to build a community and bring the world closer together given these recent revelations given your own research in this field do you buy that. well you know from my perspective having participated in the creation of the internet in the first place it's the internet that brought people together and yet whenever facebook shows up somewhere it seems to incite intercommunal bloodshed because the very way it functions is by grabbing people's emotions and the easiest ones to grab are the negative ones the fight or flight emotions and so it tends to reach passions and then put those reste passions into the cycle until they become ever worse and then you start to have there are being here crisis crises in south india crises in rural africa so we see bizarre third. powers coming coming into play that are displacing democracy in countries as different as sweden and

brazil what else do they have in common other than facebook that you know that that's all they have some of course in britain which is owned by facebook and it's interesting you raise the issue of the rohingya and the ethnic cleansing the new york times did draw attention to that in their piece and say facebook ignored people who warned them about ethnic cleansing and their role in it the twenty sixteen election of course is really brought this argument to the fore about facebook's role in politics as it were there's been a lot of debate and controversy over facebook say these allegations are untrue they're inaccurate about their role in elections or whether they knew about russian meddling etc do you believe there is evidence to suggest that facebook had a measurable impact on the outcome of the u.s. presidential election on the outcome of the brics referendum that actually change votes i i would say there's enough strong evidence and enough consensus of enough people with enough different well intentioned and well informed perspectives that we should finally to say what the american intelligence establishment has said and what many others have said is that yes yes facebook did change the

outcome of the american election and facebook's property wazza did change the outcome of the brazilian election. played a role in bragg's it probably played a role in many other events in the world in recent years while and it's interesting you say that the problem is much broader than facebook it's social media itself you say that there are ten of humans for deleting your social media accounts right now that's the title of your book so we don't have time to get into all ten what do you know top two arguments for why people watching to get off of social media. well i would say first of all there could be some good form of social media the problem with social media right now is that it's designed to manipulate you and so if you enjoy free will if you enjoy being an honest person in the world you should not be using present day social media the business model of face work in other companies like twitter is any time you connect with another person that's financed

by some third party you don't know about he's trying to manipulate you in some sneaky way so it's this giant manipulation machine by design every penny they earn was earned because somebody thought they could manipulate somebody else another one is the tenth argument which is the spiritual one which is there's effectively a new religion that's being promoted by facebook and some of the other tech companies which is that people are just information machines were modules and were all being connected together into a giant computer through these companies and this giant computer will be this super intelligent ai that will be better than humanity and will inherit the world and so it's essentially a new kind of religion and if you practice an existing religion or if you're an atheist whatever you are you're gradually being sucked into this other tech religion and it's a crappy religion i mean it's a silly religion and you might not be aware of it because it happens gradually and so i'd ask you to examine very carefully with your buying into this this bizarre

new way of thinking and if you want to learn more about that you can find it in the book just to check jar and do you practice what you preach do you participate in any social media yourself oh god no i would. everybody have an accountant one of those things i do fine without any account on facebook or twitter or any of the rest of them you actually don't disappear if you delete your accounts some people might say that if everybody in the arab world for example had listened to your advice in two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven and deleted their social media accounts we would have had some of the revolutions in the middle east we may not have the arab spring because in many ways those revolutions in egypt in tunisia they've been dubbed the facebook revolution the twitter revolution that's what they've been called yet so he hears what happens every time somebody uses platforms like facebook and twitter to effect. positive social change where they're saying well we can make our country better we can we can achieve this or that the algorithms in the background take whatever those people have done and they broadcast whatever information those people have given the text the images

everything and they're looking for engagement from the broad population and what they do is they discover where the most engaged point is and the most engaging end is inevitably with those people who are inflamed by it and then those people who are angry and and irritated scared whatever the zoom in on them and then they'll incited incite it introduced them to each other and then the whole tool will be find itself for the most engaging it which inevitably is with the people who are the most angry the most in secure the most jealous the most afraid and then it becomes a tool for those people and certainly what you have is to make a recruitment tool for isis so you start with something that helps the arab spring you end up with something that's optimized for isis you say that these are not just social media companies they are behavior modification empires and that when he uses behavior is turned into an empire for rent a lot of people say you're basically a questioning free will you're saying that we actually lost our ability to make

free choices we've been so do you is there actual evidence for that because a lot of people say well actually no it's fashionable to say we're addicted we're not really addicted to social media research is that unicef research is oxford university said you know we're actually not addicted to social media in the way that you say we are in your book. well the last person who can recognize an addiction is the addict right and so from a technical point of view social media addiction is similar to gambling addiction and if you've ever talked to somebody with a gambling addiction you'll see the same things are i'm not addicted i just know how to be lucky i have a system. and it's a very similar process facebook's own published research that went through academic peer review shows that they can alter people's emotions so that the people understanding and being able to be consciously aware their face what did it to them there was a famous study in which they made masses of people sad without those people's consent and nobody understood that it was happening to them to say that you can be aware of that is

a fool's game you cannot be we know that you cannot be and just to be clear of the five big tech companies google facebook amazon apple microsoft you say it's google and facebook that are doing the most damage to our behavior and our lifestyles not amazon which has been in the news this week for lots of criticism over the way it's got money out of government apple microsoft you say it's google and facebook is that right. well look there are plenty of reasons to criticize microsoft and facebook and for full disclosure i have a relationship with microsoft now and for even full disclosure i've sold a company to google i actually really like big tech companies are not part of anti-corporate or anti tech companies however what distinguishes google and facebook is that they rely almost solely on the manipulation machine for their money they don't have any diversification they're absolutely addicted to it like petrol states are addicted to oil and so it does in my view corrupt them now the things i'm talking about these when appeal ations are all the tech

companies engage in them to some degree but not totally so there might be additional reasons to criticize the other tech companies there probably are but it's where is this particular issue of running a mass mental manipulation machine for profit that's really google and facebook and then. you know you make me feel good or you make the argument very strongly in your book you're making the argument very eloquently today but do you worry that your connection to microsoft which you said full disclosure of being a research remarks didn't undermines your argument you're part of one of the quote unquote rivals you're one of the companies you're saying isn't as bad as google and facebook doesn't undermine you in some way well i love silicon valley i'm a creature of it and i want us to be better and i feel that being a loyal opposition being able to say what we're doing is wrong we need to change is my d.d. . it's a it's a and i used to be right.