stores so that retailers can target customers with products based on their emotional response to advertising become post different ads to the person and furthermore it can also recognize that you are happy or you're angry about this so you can take some actions from the system to change the ad yeah like getting on your reaction yes exactly so it really calls this in the hansing the customer experience others might call it creepy rapid advances in facial recognition technology together with artificial intelligence are creating some concerns about privacy and the autonomy of the individual but there's a lot of opportunity for having the fish working systems be used in ways that personally i don't think would be appropriate but i think might be dystopian orwellian cyber link says it carefully protects its based data but in an era of ever more sophisticated hacking and unscrupulous corporate business practices facial recognition could be misused facial recognition is

a technology which supercharges surveillance using artificial intelligence on the purely benign if somewhat bizarre side sony makes a robot puppy which upon recognizing its owners face begins to hit them full on in digital adoration but amazon which owns the popular smartphone linked video doorbell system ring has reportedly applied for a patent on a system to identify so-called suspicious characters that's raising obvious issues to do with racial profiling these are cameras that are trained on the public when that kind of technology is the point in communities surveillance is going to have effects on people of color on political protesters on on on immigrants that are really harmful many technology executive say just like cars and trucks have to obey the rules of the road for everyone's safety. technologies like ai and facial

recognition need regulations to prevent abuses but so far most countries including the us rely on the tech industry to regulate itself rob reynolds al-jazeera las vegas. still ahead on the news hour one of the world's most famous comic hits ninety minutes to celebrate what everyone is happy. and a neighbor face the team from the vatican with. that story just ahead and. thanks to. business updates.

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of the world's most famous comic book characters is celebrating his ninetieth birthday generations of young readers around the world have followed tintin's international escapades but some anti-racism campaign is say the books filled with offensive stereotypes and trash about to reports from belgium. with his distinctive hairstyle and fluffy dog tintin is one of the world's most recognizable comic book characters belgian artist l.j. created the intrepid young reporter whose adventures were first published in one nine hundred twenty nine ninety years on he continues to install fans and at the l.j. museum in belgium anniversary preparations are underway. tintin is an invisible link between children across the world the books have been translated into two hundred languages and two hundred million books have been sold his character continues to fascinate people. tintin solves mysteries across the world from china to north

america and even further afield. nineteen years after his creationism doubt the temptation is still very popular but in recent years some of the stories have become controversial with some readers saying they propagate racial stereotypes like this one tintin in congo. when this was created congo was a belgian colony the story reflects a colonial vision of africa congolese people often sketched a savage is stupid or lazy tintin is portrayed as the intellectual and cultural superior this author says that l.j. wasn't racist but simply drew on the colonial materials available at the time he's published a book that puts tintin in congo in what he calls historical context. to judge what was created in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. with today's values is artificial of course our fingers that we. just threw it away

in the dustbin of history. for more than a decade this activist has waged a legal battle in belgium to have the book banned he says it's offensive and could negatively influence the way children view africans i have been i know this book was a tool to motivate belgians to go to congo it gave them a sense of superiority so how can a book that serve to commit crimes be accepted in this way without any discussion of books like tintin in congo or on acceptable and should be banned for children. congo gained independence from belgium in one nine hundred sixty for some campaigners the european nation has yet to face the brutal reality of its colonial past they say that reassessing the impact of tintin in congo would be a small but significant step the tasha buckler al-jazeera lou violent earth belgium and latest sports news are to peter and ahau. thank you very much las vegas police

have issued a warrant for a d.n.a. sample from portuguese football soccer city ana ronaldo a thirty three year old has been accused of rape in a vegas hotel back in two thousand and nine he's a lawyer says this is a very standard request meanwhile join killers jordan have become the first team to qualify for the knockout stages at football's asian cup in the united arab emirates they've followed up the defeat of defending champions australia with a two no winner of assyria to guarantee a place in the last sixteen. some are put them ahead and they doubled the advantage before halftime with a powerful header from topic the top black said we're used to being under pressure the media have not given any attention to the jordanian team since the start of the competition but we proved that we are a tough team and we hope that we can go as far as possible in this competition the tournament hosts stole into the top of their group with sweeping moves for two sublime goals to defeat india the first for the u.a.e.

came against the run of play fun mobarak slotting home in the fourth and first minutes. india were unlucky not equalized ten minutes after halftime when you dance or sing hit the crossbar. was it was a tight contest right until two minutes from the end when ali sealed a victory for the u.a.e. with his forty seventh gold in seventy five internationals. thank god three points a very important to us we want to be top in the group and i hope we may take protections of the fans and give the fans the same lovely tag giving out exactly. i don't think . you deserve to lose two zero and you respect the view you played but some of the chances we should have taken in the first half you know i should koreans one was one of my head we should have converted them because in this kind of big game you get half a chance as you go to take them that's what they did they got half a chance in the forty first minute they took it again to going to have

a chance and they did that they took it on that's where they want thailand with four one by india in their first match they responded by second the head coach and have now reignited their hopes of making the last sixteen by beating bahrain there was only one goal in fired home by song to sing in the fifty first. we learn from our mistakes from the first match and in this game we were more focused and everyone knew their role and the most important thing is we fought to get our okey dokey let him live for sure we still have a chance we will make up for this loss and i hope we will not disappoint our supporters all i can say is we apologize to our fans that bahrain our take on india with all four teams still in the hands of qualified for the knockout stages twenty fifteen semifinalists the u.a.e. with a one point lead there plus the advantage on goal difference dozens of people are being investigated for tennis match fixing in spain among them or twenty eight

professional players including one who competed at the us open in september so far fifteen people have been arrested including leaders of an armenian criminal gang the spanish civil guard says it has proof that lower tier tennis tournaments have been fixed for the past two years eleven houses have been raided while a shotgun credit cards and nearly two hundred thousand dollars in cash have been seized. the year's first grand slam tennis tournament the australian open starts in just a few days and there's some good news for the players on the heat front melbourne has often been criticized for how it handles high january temperatures and extreme conditions that have even seen some players collapsing in exhaustion but now a new extreme heat policy is in place to stop play if conditions become too uncomfortable for the players as extreme heat policy incorporates the new this trail open heat stress scale so you probably see the acronyms h. is this a fair bit and what the heat stress scale is it's a continuum of five numbers one through five where one would be mild conditions and

five would be extreme heat conditions and there'd be different strategies that would be employed at each of those numbers on this continuum and on the talk of each will play against the qualifying round one in this year's australian open after the draw was conducted on thursday roger federer will begin the defense obvious trophy against innes instrument is in the same half of the draw as a bell which means they could meet in the quarter finals the deal will have to get past james duck with in round one first women's champion caroline wozniacki has allison from funky in the first round seven time champion serena williams plays tatiana maria for starters while world number one simona halep will face a rematch with the last woman to beat her at the grand slam in twenty eighteen cauac an epi cutter's two time back already. has maintained his place at the top of the overall standings at this year's race after a solid stage for performance had taken the overall lead of the previous stage in

the peruvian desert and by winning the food stays fourth stage has strengthened his place at the top of the standings leads another former champion francis stephan petter hansell who also happened to finish second in the stage. evidence that could expose numerous russian athletes as drug cheats is being collected by anti doping experts they've been allowed into a mosque on the bridge for you after a lengthy delay the world anti-doping agency demanded in september that russia turned over data from the lab by december thirty first that was in return for lifting a three year suspension of russia's anti doping agency russia's been accused of state sponsored doping which it denies the face of female wrestling in japan has retired a year out from the tokyo olympics saying it's time for the new generation to take charge so do your she was supported by her mother for the announcement at a packed news conference the thirty six year old one recalled thirteen consecutive world championships and three alone big titles but she's taken time away from

competitions and missing out on a fourth straight gold medal at the twenty sixteen games to go with it i thought it i took this long to decide on my retirement because after rio i had the desire to compete in tokyo and because people have rooted for me to make up for the silver in rio i knew i would need my best effort to perform well at the olympics at home and when i saw how motivated the younger wrestlers were i knew the time was right. now to a special congregation of athletes hoping to make their mark on the world stage the vatican has launched an official athletics team previously competitors from the home of the catholic church raced under the telly and flag but they've reached an agreement with italy's a limpid committee to run separately although they are not yet recognised by the international athletics federation among the first members of the team of priests nuns pharmacists and a sixty two year old library professor. doing for. i believe that sports among

nuns is more common than we might think especially among new generations it's also a factor of balance when i started running it was a chance to find peace to find balance to find a space a freedom of silence and of being just in line with myself ok that's all the sport for now lauren back to you in london thanks very much indeed and that's it from a lawyer in china this news out of the back in a minute and a full round up of the day's news thanks very much indeed for watching.

in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of mathematics. the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word. we're going to the limits of modern technology forty percent falls to the speed of sound they gave us the final building block find they discovered it met ableton is a story science and a golden marriage with jim. on al-jazeera. an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than twelve thousand structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about

long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available. russian filmmaker andrine travels across his homeland to discover what life is like on to putin the russian economy is in crisis thanks and i'm stable oil price fluctuation kurds off of the country struggles to make ends meet in soviet times doctors were in charge now economists calculate everything we don't want to think what will happen when the bank takes away our flags. in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera. not backing down the u.s. president visits the mexican border drumming up support for his controversial war.

on or entailing this is al jazeera live from london also coming up an opposition candidate claims a surprise election victory in the democratic republic of congo but the results are disputed. a drone attack on a yemeni military parade threatens to derail peace efforts by the u.n. . and one of the world's most famous comic book characters turns ninety one not everybody is celebrating tintin's birthday. no u.s. president donald trump has visited the border with mexico to drum up support for his proposed border wall talks with security officials at a border patrol facility in macallan texas trump is demanding more than five billion dollars for his planned barrier to the south it follows

a meeting on wednesday with democrat leaders but he called a waste of time because they're still refusing to fund the wall resulting in a partial government shutdown complete how could joins us from macallan texas to trump had plenty to say more about that. yeah he did this really was a massive photo opportunity for a reality t.v. show president one whose experience is sort of massaging manipulating the message and he brought out all of the toys here in mckellen texas in order to make his case to try and convince his skeptics there was everything from an air fifteen that have been seized at the border to a tank as he met with border officials essentially what donald trump is trying to make and the reason he came to the callen texas is this section of the united states the border with mexico is the busiest place for illegal crossing thousands crossing into the united states illegally every week he's essentially trying to make the point that he believes his democratic opponents in congress namely chuck

schumer in the senate and nettie pelosi the democratic leader in the house of representatives are downplaying a threat that they know is affecting the american public nancy and just you know that look you know winning this argument they're losing the argument badly but you know what he said about an argument is not about politics for me it's about doing the right thing. and i could i could do a lot easier things i could just get this like everyone else did he should have been done thirty years ago and twenty years ago and ten years ago and five years ago i could have done like everyone else just sort of say hey forget it a lot of the crime in our country is caused by what's coming through here people do the most aggressive will job and then not give in and not given a full hand. committee is there any sign that his trip is having an impact on u.s. public opinion. well this wall has essentially become

a symbol for and against donald trump now some of what the president has said there with regard to the border patrol agents is true i mean we certainly did observe border patrol agents saluting the president from helicopters for example there certainly are people here that support what the president is doing but at the same time there are also people that are very unhappy in the united states of the characterization of all migrants as being criminals we know that the president plays fast and loose with facts and he also speaks in generalities and this is one of those issues that is so sensitive to so many americans including right here in mccalla texas you have to remember in this border town here it's predominantly latino. many of the people who live here have friends and family on the other side of this border so don't try this got a lot of pushback for what he's calling a crisis and that's why he did in fact tweet today some video of president obama

his predecessor in two thousand and fourteen calling illegal immigration a crisis there's no question that all politicians in the last two decades have failed to address this issue immigration there seems to be unity in the united states with your democrat a republican needs to be reformed the problem has been on how to do it well republicans believe and support president trump that there should be a wall that is not able to be penetrated all along the southern border of the united states and mexico democrats believe you can do it in other ways that is more friendlier humane for example drones aerial surveillance that sort of thing so this has become a real standoff it's an ultimate staring contest if you will between democrats and republicans but many people in this town we saw the protesters at the airport when he came in and also to supporters along the streets it's become a symbol of whether you're for or against donald trump can be how could thank you very much indeed.

a surprise election result in democratic republic of congo means a major opposition leader will likely take over as president and injures of camilla's eighteen year rule but fairly said victory is being overshadowed by allegations of vote rigging and fraud the inferential catholic church has reportedly suggested the runner up watching for you to actually won by a landslide and as her own which us are reports from kinshasa the results have some celebrating and all those protesting in the streets. and nancy meant few expected one that could set the stage for the first democratic transfer of power since independence from belgium in one thousand nine hundred sixty philip chism who had seen his father lead congress opposition for more than thirty five years had a message of unity. oh. i know how many of you find it hard to accept but i say with sincerity i pay homage to president joseph kabila president of the

republic today we must no longer consider each other as adversities but rather as partners and democratic change in our country. thousands of his supporters poured onto the streets to celebrate their hold it will be a new beginning to suffer in this country there's no job in this country i was in south africa i'm going to come back i'm going to there's no job and country. people there's people aboard to study and after that there's nothing the result triggered protesters in goma and congolese catholic chase leaders are also questioning the result local authorities in concrete in the south west of the country say at least two civilians and two police officers were killed during riots several police stations were torched. she said kate is rival martin five is rejecting the provisional results and alleges what he calls an electoral. how to sue you all those who learned of the truth of the ballot boxes especially to congress national

bishops the past couple conference sankoh of the church of congo through your historical observations we ask you to reveal to the congolese people and to the whole world the name of the person who really was our people's choice. good reject categorically the result published by the election commission president. this in the international community to the surprise victory is at odds with other towns. the catholic church of congo did its tally and announced completely different results therefore i think while remaining calm and avoiding confrontation that we must have clarity on these results which are the opposite to what we expected. with a history of coups conflict and contested elections the d r c has been on edge during campaigning with allegations of widespread election irregularities including vote rigging and violence. anyone who denies.

the internet has been cut off for weeks in an apparent attempt to stop speculation about the results writes police had been deployed the boat that was two years old was finally see the exit of president joseph kabila nearly eighteen years in power but they are questions about how much influence he will still have. african affairs commentator joseph described some of the suspicions congress people have about the election result clearly inside. and amongst the congolese peoples of spoken to including and it's very clear the case that mr kabila basically wants to have a front tempted to use is candidate but it was very clearly very difficult for them to have the preferred candidate to win so it is easier for him to be able to have somebody like this that would perhaps protect his interest one in co and also

guarantee an extension of the proxy leaders because of the region basically who's the ugandan president when he's pro president but much more so kabila is in a state in which he couldn't really get in the other way except by these. state has vowed to confront iranian influence in the middle east and expel every last iranian boot from syria my pompei are made the comments during a keynote address at the american university in cairo which outlined the u.s. administration's policy for the region charles stratford has. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was touring the middle east almost described as a mission focused on shoring up support among arab allies against iran. since withdrawing from the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal last year the u.s. has increased pressure on teheran which he accuses of being a destabilizing force in the region many middle east experts say pushing iran into

a corner is a dangerous move but in the egyptian capital cairo america's top diplomat didn't mince his words the nations of the middle east will never enjoy security achieve economic stability or advance the dreams of their people if iran's revolutionary regime persists on its current course america's economic sanctions against the regime are the strongest in history and will keep getting tougher until iran starts behaving like a normal country. middle east follows confusion about donald trump's withdrawal of a around two thousand u.s. troops from northern syria. the president's announcement shocked arab allies as well as u.s. political leaders and military commanders concerned that the battle against eisel in syria and the wider region is not over yet pompei out try to reassure them president trouble has made the decision to bring our troops home from syria we

always do and now is the time but this isn't a change of mission we were made committed to the complete dismantling of isis the isis threat and the ongoing fight against radical islamism in all of its forms. the u.s. withdrawal from syria is also having ramifications for american relations with nato ally turkey u.s. troops have been working with kurdish y.p. chief i choose who control a large area of northern syria close to the turkish border turkey considers the white peachey a terrorist organization president received type order one said the suggestion on choose day by u.s. national security adviser john bolton of protecting the white p.g. as a precondition to the u.s. troop withdrawal plan was a serious mistake there was very little if anything from pompei or about the story israeli palestinian peace process very little on the saudi and amorality led war in yemen that has killed tens of thousands displaced millions with millions more

threatened with famine and disease pressure increased on president trump from both democrat and republican senators to end support for the saudi involvement in yemen after the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi many suspect crown prince muhammad bin solomon ordered a saudi hit squad to fly to istanbul last october that the united states is the main provider of saudi military assistance and support in the war in yemen so the not united states is not an objective observer at the war of yemen it's an accomplice in the water of yemen. pompei was keen to lay much of the blame for what many describe as years of chaos in the middle east on former president barack obama's administration president trump has reasserted america's control as a force for good in this region he said we have rediscovered our voice. there are

millions of people throughout this region who are grateful for the u.s. led coalition success in the battle against eisel but there will also be many made nervous.