and you went more. wrote back and he said happy to clarify came originally did do work for us but we never paid them they were happy to do it for free and i was like there's definitely something interesting here so because this looks like a donation to me and donations need to be declared. trump and for all in front of the gold and lift and he's the person who took that photo and the photo of the more he's in one as well the bad boys of bricks it and breaks it he said it was like a petri dish for the charm campaign. you know it was like a test case carls revolution has led to the biggest data protection investigation ever held on both sides of the we started the conversation with mr zucker general that it can start to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and works to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst

characteristics in people such as neuroticism paranoia and racial biases. chris wiley a former director of cambridge analytic turned whistleblower gave evidence to the u.s. senate and a british parliamentary committee that began taking an interest in the brakes at referendum a fake news clicking on the ad and then performing an actual that's what the definition of a conversion they were going to say that i had to these institutions know sheeted you would send the outcome of the referendum might have been good i think it is completely reasonable to say that it could have been different in the referendum. you know had there not being in my view. there needs to be a deeper investigation of the of fake accounts and a group of facebook groups being used to propagate information and serve it if m.p. damian collins is the chairman of the british parliamentary committee without evidence from facebook we feel that we should hear from opposite because he buys an

image he's the person who decides what happens in facebook there are still big concerns are faced with not done enough to investigate the role of fake accounts they've not been transparent on the issue of data breaches in user data and make up in the hands of people who shouldn't have it fake accounts russian trolls data mining complicated stuff and none of it do much to quell my fears that there was something unpleasant lurking in the bricks if undergrowth but i barely scratched the surface next up was another whistleblower this time someone who'd worked for the official vote believe campaign i was working with the from the top advisors in the country you know constantly seeing boris johnson michael gove you know some of the most influential politicians in britain. recent graduate sharma's joined folk leave in early twenty sixteen and was asked to engage with ethnic minorities but we've understood that they couldn't just win on white votes they understood that they couldn't win on like people that hate immigrants much and he was tasked with

working with one of the official campaigns reach a group called to believe it was led by a young fashion student i met darren grimes in the first week that i joined was one of the one of the few outreach groups that was very focused on the liberal progressive message but some he says he later realised the official vote leave campaign and another purpose in mind for their young volunteers to circumvent the legally binding electoral commission spending limits of only understood that they had a spending cap so they needed to find a way effectively to breach that spending cap sonny was told that vocally had found a way of getting the believe outreach group listen with campaign money but there were strings attached effectively vote leave advised us to create ourselves into a separate campaign group so that they could give us almost seven hundred thousand pounds to spend but they gave it on a condition they gave on

a condition saying the only way that they can give it to us is if we give it to a i q which was a digital company working at. a i q well i got i.q. as it's sometimes known is a canadian based data business it works on us presidential primaries in twenty fifteen with s.c.l. elections cambridge i love it because parent company literally a week before referendum date we were spending hundreds of thousand pounds a day on a q yeah a day the money was sent directly from vote leave to a queue it never touched be back accounts. because we don't even have a bank ready by then son is this quiet at these events later turned him into a whistle blower he passed his evidence to the electoral commission and in july twenty eighth they find vocally sixty one thousand pounds for among other things

breaching the spending rules the founder of believe down crimes was fined twenty thousand pounds he is now appealing that decision. but there's other stories involving strange sums of campaign fund in haven't yet been as adequately explained . belfast northern ireland one of the poorest parts of the u.k. which has benefited the most from e.u. investment for many here there's long been concern that breaks its effects on cross border relations with the irish republic could mean a return to the dark days of the troubles so when a small local political party received a four hundred thirty five thousand pound donation for the bricks it campaign the largest in the party's history eyebrows would raise why he was an ordinary political party being so involved you know in the referendum in great britain in england and scotland back in twenty sixteen investigative journalist peter keegan

was shocked when he saw a proto leave adversus meant in a local english newspaper the ad was sponsored by else there's a democratic unionist party do you pete. for them is a huge sum of money and they're spending it on a on a piece of material that's not going to circulate norton in ordinary in the dorm at all the single at furthest mn cost the day you paid two hundred eighty two thousand pounds almost five times as much as they had spent on their participation in the u.k.'s general election the previous year but no one knew from where the money had come to pay for it norton aren't these unusual laws there are secrecy of political donations when ordinary and you didn't reveal the names of political donors and the reason for this was kind of a hangover from the troubles the violence in ordinarily. the loophole was used by the piece shadowy benefactor to hide their identity finally after intense media

pressure that the u.p.a. revealed the money had come from a body called the constitutional research council for c r c but exactly who or what lies behind the c.r.c. remains to be seen do you know where the constitutional search came to get its money from you'd have to ask the constitutionally so you're saying you don't know where the other i believe that they have raised their money legitimately and we were delighted to receive the donation from that you say you believe that it really meant you have to know that legally we did you know very intense and certain so you didn't tell us what useful research council want to publish where they do their fund raising not as a matter for them not for the d.p. the constitutional research council is jargony term it's called non-corporate association it means they don't have to follow company accounts they don't have time to address that and because of the donor secrecy laws in order and we don't they don't have to tell us who they are they don't have to tell us where they got the money from but the democratic unionist party is supposed to be completely sure

that has checked where this money came from of the money is that just us we also asked the day you paid what do diligence it had on the true source of the money the spokes person told us the electoral commission has raised no issues in relation. d.-u. be campaign including did our nation which came from a permissible donor who in turn are themselves regulated by the electoral commission interesting lay the do you piece spent another slice of the mysterious donation on the services of agric i.q. same data company to which vote leave money when illegally circumventing the u.k.'s strict referendum spend in laws. the d.p. did not declare that they were working with anybody to say that they were working poorly on their own yet they spent money with the exact same companies or for at least part money which despite these curious circumstances the u.k.'s electoral commission said that it does not have sufficient grounds to open an investigation

the d p had broken the law it had committed a criminal offense the. mole is a director of the good law project a body now challenging the commission's decision not to investigate the law is very very clear to protect out a mock received from foreign interference those who accept donations have a clear positive obligation to look at and to understand who is giving them money so it's the faintly story of liver again. since the breaks that referendum questions about the mysterious donors and the so-called dark money have continued to surface. journalist peter jukes focused his attention on the biggest political donor in you case history insurance mogul banks. allegedly he transferred more than eight million pounds in loans and donations to leave you and other campaigns the been face questions about how you can afford this because

there's no visible means of support he's not a wealthy man has a big house but has a five hundred thousand pound mortgage on a summer than eighty nine million pounds at least two. leaving the e.u. whenever questioned banks has been evasive about the true source of his wealth his reticence troubles m.p. damian collins chairman of the british parliamentary select committee investigating disinform ation fake news briefing these questions around our backs and money persisted we keep being told different stories we keeping told well he sold this business and the money came from that sale but it turns out there was no real profit made on that sale or it came from these mines or it came from somewhere else and it never makes sense but what really concerns investigators are the multiple meetings with the banks is known to have held with russian officials in london in the months running up to the referendum and why would he be meeting in the monitor

breaks and so many meetings and it turned out if you're talking about levy u.s. officials and russian you know embassy staff eleven or twelve meet. and i'm up to press one earth why are the russians dangling lucrative offers to british businessman bankrolling bracks and do you have to ask the question did for money make into the rights campaign in june twenty eighth he believes our own banks and his business partner will appear before a parliamentary committee but he left before the m.p.'s were able to fully question have he's misled parliament and the public not only a bad his own financial activities but also the frequency of his contacts with the russian embassy here in london in november twenty eighth the electoral commission referred our own banks to the national crime agency on suspicion that various criminal offenses may have been committed banks declined to answer questions but he

has consistently denied receiving money from russia and dismisses other claims as ludicrous the case is on go in the form of government minister ben bradshaw believes a full inquiry into the referendum is long overdue he wants an investigation similar to the miller probe into alleged collusion between russia and the trump presidential campaign. it's very embarrassing for our government for entourage and services to look flat footed like this and to leave it to an american political and congressional process to reveal the truth about what happened in britain over in brussels they fact capital of the union perhaps it is want to leave many think the truth is already out there i went to meet sajid kerim a leading u.k. conservative member of the european parliament he lays responsibility for the brics it matches squarely at the feet of russian president vladimir putin

a weakening of the european union is in his interests it is his aim it is his goal and i'm afraid we are on the verge of. delivering that for him today i don't think brits and certainly many of the europeans have actually understood to what extent their lives are about to change. unless our governments including my government in the united kingdom take the step of investigating and protecting our democracy today. it wasn't the only warning about russian meddling i heard in brussels. russia is responsible for eighty percent on the information activities is illegal eighty percent after european commission conference electoral interference former nato secretary general anders rasmussen is giving

a stark warning europe faces over the past two years already interference has been detected in at least ten divisions and referendums on both sides of the atlantic and find rest most and says was surely one of russia's targets but i have no doubt and i think we have evidence that they interfere so i think the lesson. is that we should focus on preventing this from happening in the future. back in britain the endless political rally over bricks it was rolling on but always about how to implement it rather than the legitimacy of the referendum going on stage things were supposed to come to this month the final parliamentary vote on the terms of the u.k.'s exodus. to stay the uncertainty and instability continued. i began this film with questions about the brics

a referendum that urgently needed answers what i've heard has only increased those concerns. as britain's departure from the e.u. draws ever closer i'm left with one chilling thought were we here in britain jute into making one of the worst political decisions in our history if you win a campaign or a referendum or an election by. on breaking the law then it isn't democratic it's a lie it's a scam to cheat. there is no target adored by millions pakistan's most famous cricketer arrived as prime minister on a blaze of national celebration. now one hundred days into his leadership people in power asks whether delivering on promises will be as easy in practice as it was in theory right now the nation is not feeling confident right all people are disappointed with the bombing in moran's one hundred days on al-jazeera.

the latest news as a franks yellowcard the belly of it will continue to hold on in july but into next week with details coverage classical criticism of capitalist economics to a fifty six billion dollar i am manslaughter argentina from around the world these are the victims of one of the world's most forgotten conflicts and without agent help they could become a lost generation. the u.s. senate passes two resolutions rebuking president support for saudi arabia. i'm

richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a symbolic handshake to mark a major breakthrough at the talks of cheney and many government and with the rebels in sweden. a suspect in a christmas market shooting in france is shot dead by police in the city of strasbourg. the best arrangement for everybody to replace the u.k. and see us to agree a deal and get this deal into the line the british prime minister turns to the you for help to sell her unpopular divorce deal back home. the u.s. senate has delivered a stinging message to donald trump for backing saudi arabia in the wake of killing senators passed a resolution to end all military support for saudi and iraqi forces fighting in the war in yemen and separate legislation they blame the saudi crown prince for murder

al jazeera jordan has more. the results are fifty six days and forty one news the resolution is agreed to amend a rebuke of u.s. president donald trump's policy to stand by saudi arabia no matter what the u.s. senate has passed a resolution symbolically ending all u.s. military support for saudi and forces fighting in the yemeni civil war a war in yemen is on authorize there has never been a vote in congress who allow our men and women to participate in the war and therefore that war is unconstitutional i have also been deeply concerned that the president continues to ignore human rights by a way. the suppression of dissent and the deaths of thousands of civilians in yemen in order to maintain good relations with the saudis. legislators have been worried for some time about the civilian suffering in yemen but the saudi government's

murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in october set off a wave of anger bipartisan anger not seen on capitol hill in some time legislators have demanded and received closed door briefings from the cia director and the secretaries of state and defense i can't mention some of the things that they have told us yesterday and today but i do think that this horrific killing of this journalist is not something that we can just simply look the other way and say hey what are you going to do. you know this is war and these things happen these things shouldn't happen and. we have to be very pointed about it around prince mohammed bin song and they've also passed a second resolution that says quote the senate believes crown prince mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi it calls on saudi arabia both to quote ensure accountability for his murder and to release political

prisoners and for good measure it also condemns a rons giving of advanced lethal weapons to who the rebels senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says this resolution strikes the right balance between accountability and maintaining a law and says unlike other pending measures their resolution is neither sufficiently prudent nor sufficiently precise for the job at hand yeah if they said it was saudi arabia responsible we want to see a more stable yemen for the sake of the yemeni people. we also want to preserve. your partnership even though this session of congress is almost over the legislators interest in saudi arabia's behavior is not legislators from both parties and in both the senate and the house that come january they will be convening hearings and they will be conducting investigations into how the u.s.

and saudi arabia's foreign policy goals intersect they also want to make certain that washington is underselling itself either morally or legally in jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. some are. in the as a yemen analyst and george university visiting fellow she says american politicians have finally woken up to the suffering of humanity's what we see is that the u.s. is feeling that this is a war that america does not want to be involved in at least that's the message that the senate is sending out today they're saying that the weapons that are being used are american and some of the attacks that have happened in yemen can amount to war crimes which implicates the u.s. even further in this conflict and so by refusing to refuel airplanes there and to decrease the assistance and now entirely withdraw it from the saudi led arab coalition they are saying that this war needs to end definitely and most

interestingly the atlantic just broke out news that the pentagon charged the saudi led arab coalition undercharged them for refueling oil so saudi arabia still has some some money to pay to the u.s. for refueling these jets and so it seems that the u.s. is more involved in yemen's conflict than they would like and the senate as stepping down they're putting their foot down and they're saying enough is enough. there's been a major breakthrough on the final day of talks in sweden between yemen's government and the who the rebels both sides have agreed to a cease fire in the port city of her data which is the main route for food and medical aid m.t.m. in our diplomatic editor james face supports from new york a handshake marking an interim deal for yemen the hoofy chief negotiator and the yemeni foreign minister and some had doubted would even agree to meet at least talks were both beaming the first good news after years of war in a country that has the worst humanitarian situation on earth. you have reached an

agreement on the day the port and city which will see will really poignant of forces from the port and the says the and the establishment of a going order it a governorate wide ceasefires. the un will play a leading role in the ports and this will facilitate the many turning excess on the floor routes to the civilian population and it will improve the living conditions for millions of yemenis the talks in the swedish castle had lasted seven days some of the language in the deal they produce seems vague and there are many details still to be resolved trust between the two sides is clearly lacking both made it clear they don't abide by the deal if their opponents did too at a low that we can look at to agreement signed serious effort has been taken firstly

the release of prisoners and those that have been forcibly abducted and the other agreement is they had a disagreement but these are virtual agreements we are assuming that the other party will withdraw and will release the prisons indicate that you know what we are ready to implement the peace agreement and give the u.n. a logistical role in running sunnah airport and what data port but we need more guarantees because the other side keeps sabotaging everything we didn't get anything major in sweden but there were some good developments there is no military solution in yemen and still we can reach an agreement if the other side agrees to a political solution the un special envoy martin griffiths who led the negotiations will now brief the un security council on friday here in new york diplomats are pleased the agreement is seen at the high end of their expectations i think it's a breakthrough. and a good first step because now the commitment we've seen is start from shows that

there is a genuine commitment i think both sides realize that this war is is bringing nothing and going nowhere except for a huge you're going to turn suffering so i think this is beneath usually important agreement there's still a long and potentially difficult road ahead diplomats from the u.n. security council. we'll be meeting discussing the possibility of a resolution next week to endorse the measures that were taken in stockholm the difficult is the last thing political deal for yemen and that is something they still have to come up with james. the united nations after today man who by more than seven hundred police officers in france have found and killed a man suspected of a christmas market attack and strasbourg. thursday night after opening fire on police smith has the details. the strasbourg christmas market gunman's time on the run ended in his hometown just three kilometers from where he committed his last

the most violent crime of a life spent as a criminal sure he should count was spotted by police patrol when they tried to arrest him he shot at them they shot back killing him because my thoughts are with the victims the injured with those close to them and my thoughts are with strasburg and of france wounded by this attack my thoughts are also with the security forces who are totally engaged ladies and gentleman i am proud more. police appeared to be closing in on chick out when swat teams raided locations in southeastern strasbourg earlier on thursday the twenty nine year old it served jail sentences in germany in france for a string of thefts and violent crimes one of chicago's last victims was waiting outside a restaurant for his family seemingly chosen at random in the wrong place at the wrong time she lucky getting the husband of a friend of mine was in his restaurant his wife and he's someone to the toilet but

he's dead. she can't spread panic in central strasburg on tuesday evening as he ran through the streets shooting some people with a handgun and slashing others with a knife. france remains on its highest level of security alert one thousand eight hundred members of the security forces have been deployed to patrol christmas markets across the country to try and prevent or discourage further attacks for three days sharif account managed to hold out in an area he grew up in the southeastern suburbs of strasbourg his name was on a list of people who might have been a security risk to the french states but there are twenty six thousand other names on that list and impossible for the police to keep tabs on all of those people all of the time but it's meant al-jazeera stressful still ahead on al-jazeera some new president is facing an uphill battle as he tries to turn the country around. the qatar twenty twenty two world cup expand from thirty two to forty eight teams

will hear from the president of football's governing body. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello for iran on the levant the weather's turd quantz gone cold by night. by day except where you see the cloud which is back in the caucasus and move a turkey where recently it has brought some snow the remaining rain from the north east of iraq has gone apart from occasional flurries of snow or friday in turkey on the high ground you'll notice it disappears and crickets like you warns us that seven degrees in fact attention by routes up to and swung by this time and with more or less cloud free except around the caspian coast heading south similar sort of story most declared for you a bit of an all the breeze keeping the temperature in the middle twenty's the u.a.e. and for.