in days after these two women ended being a shy and dead in a year but then began the yes i did the act most didn't that did to me play my sins showpiece for that even there'd been these three men very endearing they did not object there did not paris is they're very very peacefully silent yeah louden is three men to go and watch it before that board. the care of a state president of the hindu nationalist party claims that these events are politically motivated the be dippy has been saying the local government orchestra can plan what happened they declared a mission to start a bit of a lot temple to achieve the community's going to photo any devious means advantage debated this. on tuesday millions of women from across the state formed a six hundred twenty kilometer human chain and called it the woman's wall it's an issue that's become increasingly contentious in the run up to india's general elections. zero. weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera

why life is about to get hotter for palestinian political prisoners held by israel . and argentina's current polo ponies we ask of scientists are riding roughshod over the ethical considerations. from the clear blue sky. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of. aliza creep into the land of the cloud and the rain into china this was the last light rain that runs through shanghai having dropped a few spots inland but the breeze is turning the northeast to resist turning again should we do it this time of it doing so is taking most with a bit of warmth and therefore cloud and spots of rain should be no more than spots of remember we want to guarantee it so up to twelve degrees in shanghai was

potential rain six and who had tried to do this will probably stop in the morning mist and fall being too persistent and it certainly isn't as cold as it could be in fact it's a little bit different for january weather which is the case for the south as well we don't expect for example to see cloud here spinning up into a tropical cyclone in january for the gulf of thailand in fact i can't find any record of it having happened before but it's happening now and heading in the next two days through southern thailand and the far south of me and mas well probably won't be a wind problem but it will be a rain problem it takes a lot of energy out of the sky but it doesn't mean that we can't get equally big showers you know it's the rainy season for indonesia has been a problem in java recently in the next two days i think the problem of heavy rain is likely to be further east in java and possibly bonnie. there with the sponsored by you can use. a lot again of some of the control.

but it's tremendous potential so i think he was determined to go and could use them to pull into. people's eighty eight years smashes the frankish on the king of jerusalem seizes the tree and this is a great military victory the crusade an arab perspective so three unification of this time on the. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour donald trump is asked congressional leaders to return to the white house on friday after both sides

failed to reach a deal to end the partial government shutdown the president is refusing to budge until he gets funding for his wall along the mexican border. brazil's new government has announced a major policy overhaul including measures expected to lessen protection of the amazon rain forest the far right president. also promised to introduce an anti crime bill. at least that's the one people are dead after days of intense fighting between two groups in northern syria and al-qaeda linked fighters and rebel forces are blaming each other the starting the violence and and the problem. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is under growing pressure to expand illegal settlements as he relaunches his election bid last week israel announced plans to extend an existing settlement south of bethlehem from there stephanie deca reports. we are deep in the occupied west bank just south of bethlehem trying to find the location israel has earmarked for the latest announcement of its

illegal settlement expansion an area rights groups are calling to it's striking how many settlements are already cut across this land land that is meant to be part of a future palestinian state and he could make resident money for are going to help us find the hills a small group of settlers are already here. for example take bethlehem there you have settlement block in from the north and road sixty from the west and the settlement of efrat from the south and tacoma is there behind us what's going to happen to us what's left where should we palestinians breathe when you're looking for west bank today it's not. continue it is going to continue to between the villages and cities all e. real to faggy is an expert in the jug affair the land where the settlements are and what their presence means zero zero zero and so we have

a big live view of settlements this is the more than any bloke and you have to give i was able broken my earlier that we would look at me in the big kind of go to. the jordan valley but it's more dangerous than this one it's really that all the biggest city in north of this to go should you want will be divided for two pieces one of them is surrounded with certainly in the north and second settlement and so there is no good at all for the city one word the rights group peace now is fighting this latest expansion in the courts arguing this land should be allocated for palestinians not to build more illegal settlements i'm afraid that the coming months before elections will be used by the settlers to set facts on the ground that the government will not want to fight against and the government will issue new plans fangled a new. act because they feel that it's a window of opportunities not knowing what will be after the elections and with the

trumpet ministration in their back they can do whatever they want back in the west bank on a road that skims a small palestinian village we come across to israeli settlers. we ask them where the new allocated area is. and they say it's in the settlement of a from what they believe that this is their land given to them by god unless there is significant pressure on israel by the united states and the international community to reverse this decision peace now tells us that it's only a matter of a couple of years until see bulldozers arrive here and start building thousands more illegal settlement homes stephanie decker al-jazeera south of butler him in the occupied west bank and now israel's public security minister has promised to make conditions worse for palestinian prisoners gilad dan says jails will remove cooking rights begin rationing water and reduce prisoners' autonomy they'll also lose the right to be housed with members of their factions

a group representing palestinian prisoners says some of the policies are already being person place more than five thousand palestinians are being held in israeli jails as political prisoners many say they've been subject to torture and violence while in custody more than two hundred children are among various being held rights groups say more than a thousand eight hundred of them are in need of medical care with about seven hundred suffering from serious or chronic illnesses palestinian prisoners often protest against poor conditions there have been several hunger strikes in recent years mr off about to see is secretary general of the palestinian national initiative he says it would be another escalation of human rights violations by israel. now these punitive. presence is very clearly related to the fire that is there are limits those are using suppression and operation of palestinians as an instrument of competition.

elections some ministers are in france into a moment activities of those. people through imprisoning them especially children. not wanting to make conditions much worse for post persons and others are. violence against palestinian people so in my opinion this is one of the way. a prominent egyptian rights activist as appealing to the president to pardon his wife has been sentenced to two years in jail for mattress and now fathi was arrested for posting a video online denouncing the the treatment of women in egypt and accusing guards at a bank of sexually harassing her she was charged with spreading false news her husband mohamed lufti is asking president other faster l.c.c. to view his wife as a victim fighting between a buddhist armed group and me and our security forces has forced hundreds of people

out of their homes and western iraq and state the u.n. says about two thousand five hundred people have been displaced over the past month following violence between security forces and a group known as the arak an army a military crackdown on range of muslims and rock and has driven more than seven hundred thirty thousand people into neighboring bangladesh since august two thousand and seventeen rescue workers in indonesia are searching for twenty people feared buried beneath landslides in west java at least fifteen bodies have been recovered so far mariana hunt has more. the wall of mud and debris came without warning just before some see it on new year's eve. it was about one hundred people live in the village of tsunamis me it slammed into the heinz burying at least thirty buildings many up to the of roofs. around to the back of my house and saw the bomb turned upside down and then be carried away our source so

much soil coming my way very very fast at least thirty five people are thought to have been swallowed up by the landslide survivors and rescue workers for the most part using basic tools to hand and to clear the thick mud to find survivors and the deeds but this is dangerous work ongoing heavy rainfall on the unstable soil has triggered at least full more landslides hampering the refits soon it is me village is on the hill one of more than thirty areas within the sukhumi district that disaster relief officials head assist to be at medium to high risk if you. decree or policy to make sure. you use the way relief invest is really weiss and. but that's little comfort for those whose

family and friends did well still missing. that day my brother was visiting me down at the beach in the afternoon he said he wanted to return to his house i asked him to stay overnight but he said no i'm afraid of the tsunami and then i heard what happened there i came straight away to look for him. indonesia was hit by more than two and a half thousand disasters in two thousand and eighteen including earthquakes. tsunamis and landslides. this disaster on the last day of the year took the death toll for two thousand. and eighteen across indonesia to more than three thousand the highest number in more than a decade median hond al-jazeera. and rescue workers in the philippines are struggling to reach areas cut off by floods and landslides which have now killed at least eighty five people still most money hit shortly after christmas devastating central provinces the victims were mostly killed when their homes collapsed

a stage of calamity has been declared in three provinces to give them access to emergency funds china's president xi jinping is not ruling out using military force against supporters of independence in taiwan and his first major speech addressing the self old island she said taiwan's reunification with china is inevitable taiwan's leader rejected that and said beijing must face reality here's anderson with the latest. a new year's speech with a familiar message. chinese president xi jinping has urged the people of taiwan to accept that it must and will be reunited with china in a speech on the fortieth anniversary of a key policy statement he reiterated beijing's call for peaceful unification. well . we are firmly against any plots to create two china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've achieved

a major victory in the fight against taiwan independence or separatist activities nobody and no party can change the historical and legal fact tabone is part of china and both sides of the strike belong to china thank president she has increased pressure on taiwan since the election of citing when as president in twenty sixteen she leads the pro independence democratic progressive party and on tuesday insisted the island's twenty three million people want to maintain self rule made without. democratic values and ideals and way of life cherished by taiwan's people we call on china to bravely step out onto the path of democracy only then can they truly understand the persistence and ideals of the taiwanese people. while taiwan is self-governed it has never formally declared independence from the mainland however it has acted as an independent nation since one nine hundred fifty when china's nationalist government leaders fled to the island after being defeated by communists forces the legitimacy of the ruling government today

in china in just on several things possible economic governance and people which have done but secondly cheating national. have to do with the chinese identity is also a good thing and banging on about the need for you to take action the credibility of the party who just on their ability to deliver on that goal while in recent years china has become more assertive over its claims over taiwan and it has also managed to convince more of taipei's view international allies to cut diplomatic ties with the island. for now neither side appears to be willing to back down in this longstanding dispute and are chapelle al-jazeera. is known to have the best polo in the wild and one of the ways. why is the quality of its horses but it's not all down to nature animal training has become common practice in the sport and as to raise about explains it's sparked

a heated ethical discussion. full of horses at the most important tournaments in the world they may all look the same except that a few of these horses are clones. they were created here at this center fifty kilometers outside one of site has had a man keiser explains that to clone a horse they take tissue from the neck of the animal they want to copy then what's generated out of that tissue is inserted into an empty cell no you. don't there's no sperm here it's considered a sexual reproduction even though the initial cell we want to clone had a mother and a father. then they wait for a few days to see if the procedure is successful so they can later implant the embryo a nightmare. this fall as you can see here is a clone of course that if playing argentina is polo championship it was created in a laboratory and implanted in there from there it is expected to be as good as the

original version of id and mortal has been leading the cloning process in argentina he says that cloning has helped them accelerate the record auction process of what is considered an exceptional horse. but he said oh are we cannot clone experiences what nature does we copy it in a lab and it has inefficiencies it's always an imitation of nature and even though we research if you just start from the beginning we cannot delete the genetic markers in the d.n.a. so it's not crazy to think that the clones are born with more experience than in the original animal. that are. considered argentina's best polo player has cloned his mare quite a bit more than a dozen times the mare and her clones are the stars of every turn. in a moment in the country they don't know all of the discussion over the ethics of horse cloning has forced the polo association to regulate what can be allowed in

the industry if they get a lemon but look there is a big debate in hundred twenty five laboratories want to mutate change and adapt and that's why our association with the government decided that cloning is one thing and manipulating genetically is something else. the demand for horses is what has made this industry warm and even though ethical questions about animal cloning remain it has allowed some of argentina's best horses to transcend in time . i will when a site is a nasa spacecraft has sent back its first close up picture of ultimate to lay the most distant celestial object ever explored a new high resolution images shows it's shaped like a snowman consisting of two spheres of fuse together now says new horizons spacecraft swept past the small icy object on new year's day six point five billion kilometers from earth.

i'm a star hall and these are the top stories donald trump has asked congressional leaders to return to the white house on friday after both sides failed to reach a deal to end the partial government shutdown the president is refusing to budge until he gets funding for his wall along the mexico border the democrats say trump couldn't give them a credible reason to continue the shutdown. the only reason that they are shutting down the government is very simple. they want to try and leverage that shutdown into their proposals on home on border security we have we want strong border security we believe or do better but to use the shutdown as hostage. which they had no war game against is wrong at least thirty one people are dead after days of intense fighting between two

armed groups in northern syria al-qaeda linked fighters and turkey backed rebel forces blaming each other for starting the violence in egypt and aleppo provinces meanwhile president trump has described syria's war as sand and death while defending his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the country still hasn't provided a timetable for the military exit he announced last month against the advice of his defense chiefs but he did say he wants to protect kurdish people in syria. brazil's new government has announced a major policy overhaul including measures expected to lessen protection of the amazon rain forest the far right president i have also now are also made to the agriculture ministry responsible for lands claimed by indigenous groups and what's been seen as a victory for business both scenarios also promised to introduce an anti crime bill there have been protests across the indian state of carola against the entry of two women in the into the sub remodeler temple police fired tear gas and water cannon

against a group of demonstrators in the state capital the women with a fast to enter the temple since the supreme court overturned a centuries old ban of on women of menstruating age those are the headlines inside story is next. taxing the internet tech giants like google and facebook generate huge revenues now they're being made to pay big taxes but also called digital taxation work and what will it mean for online business this is inside story.

hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura carlisle technology giants faced paying big tax bills in your billions of dollars is the latest country to announce plans to impose levies on large internet companies and follows the french government so-called gaffe attacks named after google apple facebook and. this digital tax targets many revenues collected from advertising and market related fees france and germany want to european union wide law introduced to ensure companies making huge profits online pay their fair share of taxes but so far the european commission has failed to get unanimous support. let's take you through some figures top digital firms estimated to pay an average tax rate of nine point five percent in the european union whilst more traditional companies pay twenty

three point two percent amazon's corporate tax bill in the u.k. for example is believed to be eleven times smaller than that of british bookstores now france hopes to raise around five hundred seventy million dollars a year with its new digital tax facebook alone that in four days thank you so plenty to discuss the and joining us here in doha to do so is nino cata c.e.o. of spock digital and a digital marketing lecturer at georgetown university in london have glenn goodman financial trader and former business journalist and joining us via skype from cork in ireland balkan kota and cyborg rights activists very well welcome all of you to the program glenn when you hear those figures this new french tax but it really is a drop in the ocean isn't it for these tech giants how big

a deal is the gaffa tax. on its own it's not a big deal obviously if other countries start following suit and several other european countries have already started making steps in that direction then it could become a significant headache for some of the big tech companies i think what worries me the most i'm sure we'll get into it in more detail is just the piecemeal nature of this it's just a dog's dinner it's a big old mess we've got france doing its own little thing which may or may not work britain has at least laid out some more detailed plans but they have got some significant problems involving those as well spain austria everybody doing their own thing it's very very complicated very difficult what we really need to see is a big effort by either the you or preferably the whole world including the u.s. to come together and decide how they want to tax these companies that's it will certainly get into in the e.u. or even global wide tax a little later first of all in

a set it's complicated and i know for myself it's complicated i'm trying to read about it today how will this digital tax work by these individual companies just in layman terms give us an idea of how these taxes are raised. well the main thing that they're trying to do is to tax and revenue that relates to users themselves in those particular countries so for example you know france is annoyed that certain tech companies like to put most of their business in places like oil and in luxembourg places where they're taxed at a very low rate and so then what those companies can do is sell the ads from those cheap countries to french consumers and french businesses inside france and yet france sees no kind of slice of that ad revenue because it's all booked in ireland in fact there was a big case recently where france took google to court and said you are us

a billion euros in taxes for all this ad revenue and google said no we don't because it was all done in oil and ok it may have involved french people to some degree but the actual ad selling went on in oil and the court agreed with them so the french government is apparently appealing that one so from that kind of perspective you can see how governments could get very frustrated they've been trying for absolutely ages to try and work out a solution either you minister just can't come to a solution so the french have said well we've had enough of this we're going to do our own tax ok i want to get the reaction from errol of the tech companies disappointment first nino and talk about advertisers that's your speciality does this tax simply pass the cost on to them the me how is this going to affect all the businesses that like to advertise on these platforms or details right now but from what i can tell it looks like they're going to charge a three percent tax to companies that are going to be using these platforms for

advertising so there's one hundred million businesses that use google and facebook to do ads to promote their products and services and so it looks like in their settings that's for example if they're going to target users in france then there might be an additional three percent added to the. per click currently it's set up in a way where it's an auction based system so the cost per each click for each advertiser depends on how many other advertisers are also advertising and what the competition is based on on an auction base so it won't actually be the tech companies themselves that this bill doesn't look like it from what i can tell so they won't be worried about it but they might like an ideal stacks are starting advertising you might just see bigger companies advertising rather than smaller companies will be more expensive for everybody but by three percent so i don't know if that means people cut back on their ad budgets but if they're getting a return on their investment anyway then if i don't think it will have an impact are we haven't heard much from these big tech companies they haven't responded.

much to tool what do you think their reaction is going to be if anything and it doesn't really sound like there's going to be much impact on them. i don't know i mean and and to be perfectly honest i'm not too concerned about what their reaction as i think we give too much importance to what they think to begin with they are corporations and it is the role of governments to regulate corporations democratically elected governments what's interesting to me is two things one that we're using this acronym gaffa google amazon apple and facebook and we're lumping apple in with these other companies but apple's business model is fundamentally different they sell products they don't sell people that's one thing and the other thing is how we're approaching this tax so it's an ad it's a tax on advertising but not all types of advertising what we're talking about

specifically is ad tech which is surveillance based advertising the way google and facebook make money is they track everyone and they profile them and then they manipulate their behavior and they rent out the information that's intimate insight they have about them to other companies so this is a quite a talk sic a business model and we're seeing the talks to get facts through cambridge outlets akai except trendy effects that the ramifications that it has on our democracy so i think we should start viewing taxes like this in the same vein that we would view taxes on tobacco and if we start doing that then three percent is nothing in france they tax tobacco at eighty percent now that's the kind of thing i want to start talking about if these companies are not good for our human rights if they're not good for the health of our democracies then we should be taxing them like we tax tobacco about our little it's very easy to say this is what we should do but how difficult is it to actually do that in practice when you have had courts as an

island have gone to the nuts about these low tax havens and very well paid lawyers to exploit loopholes that allow them to get away with paying that because it's been nominally difficult because our are institutions. corrupt the european commission is corrupt and i'm not talking about illegal corruption i'm talking about legal corruption i'm talking about lobbying so these corporations spend millions and millions and they have head could they have offices and in brussels and based you know the and all they do is they talk to these policy makers and try to influence them the same policymakers that are taking these decisions in a few years' time might be working at facebook and google i was recently speaking at the nordic privacy a reader and this is a conference of data protection officers people should be protecting us from these companies and facebook had a keynote there i had a keynote facebook had a keynote and the facebook keynote speaker his last job was as

a data protection officer working for the french data protection office he was a lawyer working for the data protection office so we have revolving doors and as long as we can tackle this influence of corporate finance and public policy making then we have a very difficult road ahead so we need to start talking about this and tackling potential corruption that is stopping us glenn it can't what is incisional corruption that our is talking about is that the reason that we it's been so hard for the european commission to implement this wide three percent tax. well it's certainly one of the reasons i mean as our quite rightly pointed out you have this revolving door i mean just here where i am in the u.k. we have nick clegg the former deputy prime minister who's headed over to work for facebook. and he was reported in the past to have not always been entirely complimentary about them and and about well about the tech industry in

general so it's very interesting that that kind of thing happens an interesting in a very bad way and as i wrote quite rightly said but it is not the only reason why it's been so difficult i think the main reason why it's been so difficult is because you're trying to turks a slippery snake that keeps slipping out of your hands all the time as you quite rightly said not only are they able to move tax jurisdiction sort of a pretty much whenever they want but also we have the problem that when they do move tax jurisdiction you have to try and work out how you can tax these particular types of of ads and ad spending that is going on and at the moment what of course many countries are starting to do in europe including the u.k. is to look at revenues rather than the profits traditionally of course corporation tax and so when you look at profits because it's just fairer to tax profits than revenues that might be done at a loss but also it's kind of more straightforward now we're looking at taxing

revenues and different types of revenues on a grid and reading the ukase incredibly complicated consultation document about the new digital proposed digital tax for these big tech companies and they're saying right first of all we're not going to tax small companies it's only going to be the very beginning on pennies so they look at a kind of minimum revenue but then they start going into definitions about where we only want to tax for example social media platforms but not actual just normal e-commerce online you know buying things on amazon we don't want to tax that revenue so how do we. define what is a social media platform and what is just the pure kind of marketplace because obviously there are often big crossovers now between the two types and so they're kind of trying to get their head around all this really this is just going to be a bonanza for tax lawyers that are going to make a lot of money arguing these things in court for the next few years until the world can get its act together and really what we need to see is europe and america

getting together let's face it donald trump isn't exactly a big fan of tech companies always being rude about them they need to get together with donald trump and say right we need to do this together because if you're goes ahead and does this on its own which i guess eventually they will in order to stop countries from going it alone then america quite rightly is going to get pretty annoyed and said you were just targeting our big companies there are no big deal being companies involved here you're just trying to get the big american companies and we know how donald trump will react to that because we now really really react to everything as they were let's look at the potential for upset donald trump worth not donald trump and certainly u.s. companies are they going to see it as something that is targeted at them and then is it going to in some people isn't going to exacerbate further this e.u. u.s. trade war do you think that the sunni no i don't see how that how that can happen in terms of specifics because what they're so right now anyone can advertise to

a company or to the population of france anyone anywhere in the world can do it so what this proposal seems to be saying i've read some of their previous proposals and from back as far back as twenty thirteen but what they seem to be saying is if you're going to target our population for ads then you have to pay an additional tax and i can see other countries wanting to do this as well trying to have it be done as an e.u. wide thing i mean lobbying works it works i mean i'm from washington d.c. i know it works and so i think that will be hard because there's a lot of millions of dollars being spent abroad. polls to argue the you know the point of view of google and facebook and they don't do it just with themselves they also set up you know tech associations they have right in campaigns they set up institutes at universities that for that purpose or produce scholarly papers they hire former members of the parliament and so it's not going to be easy to tackle it in that regard and i think that they're very weak in terms of lobbying within each

individual country they have and build up that capability they built that d.c. and then after the big find that happened i remember how many years ago when you and google down they built up that capability in brussels as well so i think doing it in a country by country basis is going to get them off guard ok do you think then they're going to have to put resources into not being in each individual capital they might have to ok i think i know the answers this question already from you at least. the french president that these companies are guessing simply too big to govern that the alsa of control is that something that you're concerned. definitely yes i mean we're talking about power relationships here and the core question is you know who's more powerful these on the elected corporations or are democratically elected however flawed they may be are democratically elected governments i'd like to see you know the governments have the the power in that relationship i mean ideally i'd

like to see us as individuals have the power in that relationship but we don't have the infrastructure to effect that sort of change yet at least but i again i think one of the things that we have to do and unless we do it we don't make a lot of progress on this issue is we have to make these companies socially unacceptable again look at tobacco there was a time when doctors were used for tobacco ads for cigarette ads there was a time people thought that it was good for your health that's kind of where we're at right now with these surveillance capitalists with google facebook cetera so if we're to make any headway on this we need to really understand that these companies are not good for our health ok but everything you're an attack because that's pretty tall order isn't it to say to people don't use google it's watching you day is face but don't connect with your people fail family or friends in the strain you have because it's watching you in the moment the benefits seem to outweigh the

risks it's going to it's quite a hard. one to solve that. yeah i absolutely agree with you there and i don't agree with our along that one because it's difficult to pin down the benefits and the costs for this kind of think we're at such an early stage of understanding the impact that it has on ourselves as individuals and indeed our communities perhaps the impact in the long term would be positive perhaps it will be negative we simply don't know whereas the tobacco analogy i mean that was more clear cut and even then it took out silly decades for the lobbyists to be overruled and for governments to accept that it really was dangerous but you know you actually had doctors and medical studies that gave very very clear evidence yes tobacco is causing cancer whereas here we're talking about vague effects of vague impacts on things like our privacy and our identities this stuff is very difficult to kind of prove one way or another whether

it's good or bad i mean i do sympathize to some degree with our viewpoint there are certainly negative aspects to it but you know i enjoy using those services myself and to most people and quite frankly if i was told you know you've got to give them up because they're bad for your health the first thing i'd say is you know they're bad for my health and they know that we the power of unelected corporations i mean that's nothing new with the arrival of these tech companies it's been around since multinationals have been around but how much harder is it now to regulate police taxes basically govern these particular internet based companies yeah it is going to be difficult because if you look at when the u.s. congress interviewed mark zuckerberg of facebook and he also interviewed the c.e.o. of google the questions they asked showed how are knowledgeable they are and how far along technology is car versus you know the traditional tax structure and the

regulation so they're they're in over their head so when a country like france good. it's out in front and does something like this they can set a precedent that other people can emulate and learn from their experiences their mistakes etc etc and let's not forget as well france will be raising money that it desperately needs i mean it may not have a huge impact the tech ends but it will certainly have a big impact for the french government and its budget. indeed and i think there's nothing wrong with that but i do want to address a previous point because when we talk about whether or not people should be using the current social media platforms that exist what i'm what i'm saying is not stop using facebook stop using google but what i'm saying is there's a different way of building technology so there's a false dichotomy here where we're not limited to communicating where there is

a person in the middle that can hear everything that we're saying that's how facebook works that's how google works because that's their business model we can build technology where people can talk directly to one another these are peer to peer systems we know how to do this we are building technologies alternatives this way they're not being funded all of the funding and technology is going to building these surveillance based platforms so there's a false dichotomy where you say oh well should people not use social media then now we should be building ethical social media platforms that are decentralized that are peer to peer we know how to do this but they're not going to grow on trees right now there's an alternative called mastodon for example which is essential ice twitter but it was built by one twenty something year old person in france with no funding whatsoever and got millions of people using it but if we're serious about fixing this problem we need to invest from the commons in technologies that are ethical and for the common good that's not something is it that governments and particularly interested in then not seeking to tax these companies said that it

will force them to change their business model as such that's going to come from people like yourself and different sorts of no bias as it was. well we definitely need the political will we need to build the political will that's one thing i'm not holding my breath but some of us are actually building a technical infrastructure to at least make it possible to have these communication systems as an alternative and i think that's important as well but as i said yes you know if we don't do this then what's at stake really we're not talking about privacy as some abstract concept we're really talking about the future of personhood because facebook for example right now has about sixty people working on a project to literally reach your mind that's what the announced that they're developing coffer it's a while back so we're really talking about whether or not we can protect the rights the human rights we already have today and protect personhood and democracy that's what's at stake so we really do need to start talking and acting on this in in

a far different way than we have been so far in the backlash that we're saying against the digital well why is it it's hard to tell it's hard to measure the way we have got fronts warning that if it doesn't start imposing these sorts of taxes that the government will pay for it at the ballot box by law to dismantle businesses that look at these very unfair rates that they when they compare them do you think that's true glenn. it's difficult because i think ordinary people you know like the yellow vests pretenders in france for example i don't think this is high up among their concerns but as you say traditional businesses and the people who run them a lot of them are quite annoyed about this kind of thing about how slippery the big tech companies are in and creating an unfair playing field for people i would like to pick out on something our old saying there though i think he's right that decentralized platforms where you haven't got this almighty company in the middle

of a social media platform are the future they are being funded to some extent i mean i'm heavily involved in the block chain encrypted currency world and of course there was a huge explosion of money that went into that over the past few years obviously it's going to be quiet now the sector is in a bit of a kind of cyclical slump a lot of money billions and billions did go in to the kind of projects there are always talking about and there is still hope that some of those will get off the ground in the next few years and and while i'm on i'd like to just pick up and screaming nino's that as well earlier on he said that he's not worried about a trade war when it comes to the specifics that he wasn't sure that there was anything to worry about there i really do think there is and i'm not the only one philip hammond the finance minister of the u.k. said that he thinks that the u.s. would take any kind of e.u. wide digital tax as a hostile move also germany has been very very quiet on the issue and many people

feel that this is because they are scared because the americans by so many german cars that if donald trump does see it as a hostile move to punish american companies then he could just say oh we're going to have a twenty percent tax on german cars you know he do it you know we would likely the kind of thing he do so obviously there are kind of major real fears and of course the countries that benefit from low tax regimes like ireland and luxembourg also total. against these tax ideas as well so there are a huge range of forces built up against the taxes and if it's going to be done you've got to draw america and other major companies from countries from the o.e.c.d. into the equation i just don't think it should be just an e.u. thing or we could end up with a nasty trade war will certainly see if that happens been a really fascinating discussion many thanks to all our guests for joining us here today nino goodman and our all balkan and thank you two very much for watching you

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seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness what it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brits anees happiness is what we ensure it's if that is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. hello i'm a star with top stories on al-jazeera donald trump has asked congressional leaders to return to the white house on friday after both sides failed to reach a deal to end the partial government shutdown she had her tansey has the latest

from washington d.c. . the garbage cans were overflowing outside the white house on the twelfth day of the partial government shutdown inside the president had convened his full cabinet to extol the virtues of his wall and blame the democrats for a budget impasse that donald trump and said he would take full responsibility for just a few weeks earlier i won't be the one to shut it down i'm not going to blame you for it he then spoke to the press and though to be said he was now insisting on five point six billion dollars for the wall not even the two point five billion for a barrier that the white house had offered democrats as a compromise once the shutdown began. it. could be a long time and it could be quickly could be a long time it's it's too important a subject to walk away from later in the afternoon the democratic leadership made its way to the white house for the first direct talks with the president in weeks however this was organized as a border security briefing by department of homeland security officials not as

a negotiation clearly the president was continuing to frame the shutdown as a failure of democrats to understand what he says is an emergency at the southern border even as illegal border crossings are at historic lows and after the meeting the democrats said their plans have not changed they are now feeling the heat it is not helping the president it is not helping the republicans to be the owners of the shutdown well as the president to open up government we are giving him a republican path to do that why would he not deal with incoming house speaker nancy pelosi intends to pass several bills in the house to reopen the government on thursday with one point three billion dollars for border security but no funding for trump's wall but the shutdown is likely to continue nonetheless the republican senate leadership says it will not bring these measures to a vote in the upper chamber until the president says he's willing to sign them into loom the president didn't receive five billion dollars for the war when republicans

controlled both houses of congress now that power is split that goal seems all but impossible more talks are being planned for friday she ever turns the al-jazeera washington. at least thirty one people are dead after days of intense fighting between two armed groups in northern syria al-qaeda linked fighters and turkey backed rebel forces are blaming each other for starting the violence and it live and leper provinces meanwhile president trump has described syria's war as sand and death while defending his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the country still hasn't provided a timetable for the military acts that he announced last month against the advice of his defense chiefs brazil's new government has announced a major policy overhaul including measures expected to lessen protection of the amazon rain forest the far right president diables also made the agriculture ministry responsible for lands claimed by indigenous groups and what's been seen as

a victory for business also now is also a promise to introduce an anti crime bill there have been protests across the indian state of carola against the entry of two women into the sabri mala temple police fired tear gas and water cannon against a group of demonstrators in the state capital the women were the first to enter the temple since the supremes court overturned a centuries old ban on women of menstruating age israel's public security minister has promised to make conditions west for palestinian prisoners gilad says jails will remove cooking rights begin rationing water and reduce prisoners' autonomy they'll also lose the right to be housed with members of their factions says the new policies are to deter future acts of violence and nasa spacecraft has sent back its first close up picture of ultimate to lay the most distant celestial object ever explored a new high resolution images shows it's shaped like

a snowman consisting of two spheres fused together not as new horizons spacecraft swept past the small icy object on new year's day six point five billion kilometers from. those are the headlines i'll be back here with more news after the crusades an arab perspective. in the history of conflicts between east and west something. the mightiest battle between cristiana this land. a holy war in the name of religion. for the first time. the story of the crusades. from an arab perspective.

love. love. love. the beginning of the eleventh century. a dramatic muslim revival is building under the come on the soft and deep. down in the west a solid. may know mckenna's for latin one and again in the legend if you must an act and the nation. what i meant when i formed up one of. the soccer will. be headed for.

faith which brought the great muslim victory in the battle of the this is the great military victory that will open the way to recapture interest limits. and sell off a dean's famous struggle for the holy city of jerusalem with richard the. and. i was in the office how confident is hard on me no one man says she left them to sort of feed me that know how to fit us so water and know you and you know how fearful she made the need to bloom and see if you would see as. in the third episode of the series. the story of the unification of the muslim front. against the crusades.

the year eleven sixty four. the eastern mediterranean. almost seven decades have passed. since the first crusaders arrived in the region. their initial success. had been crowned with the fall of the holy city of jerusalem . again and again become a severe will for the ham many that among the swellest left. ammonia for a full human levy how to calm a lot of it all aleck you know can i come a little mostly mean a lot of other folks are to him what that are to him female. but

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a momentous move bringing an end to two and a half centuries of the fatima. he declared egypt's loyalty to the sunni are best at colorful but they're. making it an integrity part of a single state. a state now large and strong enough to carry out new diem's grand plan to expose the crusaders . a shell must. gather the stern economy. has a rock and go off. newt again who would like. with no to d. now in control of egypt the dream of reconquering jerusalem seemed very close.

but the mission of liberating the holy city was soon to pass to his kurdish deputy in egypt. he has a fatah belief that can i say you don't want to give lamone. and topple a leg you are up. as has seen it over russia would have been. better. as. she emotional hellebore to mush who are really humming the mantra for ten hours on how we are of only need one . or the will sell his mind was abuse of a lawyer. or whether they wish without. the c.s.e. what the hell of it what the hell for them without them.