opened a landmark meeting on child sex abuse in the catholic church by demanding concrete action against predator priests one hundred ninety cardinals bishops priests monks and nuns are attending the four day event decades of scandals of rock the church that many catholic officials still in the deny or downplay the problem pope francis called on the clergy to hear the cry of the little ones plead for justice demands. they sing the plague of sexual abuse by the churches milligan's minus i thought to consult you because all together we should hear the holy spirit and listen to the cry of the young who will justice the way to pass through an ecclesiastical sponsibility which forces us to discuss this together is a burden on our meeting how to face this evil which afflicts the church and the whole of humanity the holy people of god are watching us and wait not just for simple an expected conviction of concrete and effective measures or one of the

cardinals attending the conference was reduced to tears while making a keynote speech the wounds of the recession carried the memory of suffering. but they also carry the memory of our weakness. if we want to be agents of healing let us not reject and then see that this part of a little different thing the refuses to see and touch the wants of others which are prized who is in the wood the people those who died by abuse or the scandal lead to be strong in praise of this moment. you have al jazeera live from london more still ahead before at least seventy people are dead after a devastating fire in the ancient parts of the capital of bangladesh and we'll tell

you about the rise of biohacking in sweden now more and more swedes are upgrading themselves with microchip implants. in the in the world to. the one. at over things are gradually changing for some of us across europe we've got to be glorious for most of us over the past few days there's been plenty of sunshine in the temperatures have been well above average for the west impost that that's going to continue now for the east hey we've got more cloud already and that system will be pulling itself together as we head through the next couple of days it's working its way southwards too so it's going to be the southeastern parts where we see the worst of the weather the temperatures will be dropping at this from makes its way across us and we'll also see a fair amount of wet and windy weather so do expect things to turn cooler and for some of us snowy as we head through the next few days athens then we'll have

a top temperature on saturday just of ten degrees and it will be wet and windy too for the other side of the mediterranean well for similar back is fine enjoying fairly warm atop temperature of twenty three but elsewhere so ready a little bit cooler but actually only getting to fifty but as this system over the eastern parts of europe makes its way south winds will also be driving more showers towards that north coast of africa say for some of us here will see the temperatures drop further as we head into saturday we'll also see quite a few rather lively showers i mean further towards the south most of the showers here are around born but further west there is plenty of dry weather to be found in just the old shower if your lucky. everything you do is being analyzed it's being weighed and it's being measured i'm going to go to school this month. and it's not just i phones that's almost like

it's i mean most not friends of these days we are in a state of the end of a slippery slope started something that was. good rather to the risks of democracy to the risks of digital dissidents on al-jazeera. just a quick look at top stories now the u.s. and china are reportedly close to a bring a broad outline of a deal which could end a seven month trade war. venezuela's president has his country's vols order with brazil just days before opposition leaders plan to bring in foreign aid that he has refused to accept and

a suspect koppelman syria has killed at least twenty people including oil workers and. there is or the area is held by the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces. all in all the stories we're following closely a fire has ripped through several buildings in bangladesh's capital dhaka killing at least seventy people the blast dotted in an apartment building that was also used to store chemicals plastics and other highly combustible materials government has repeatedly promised to crack down on the illegal warehouses as brian explains. firefighters and dhaka struggle to bring the inferno under control battling a wall of flames amid the chaos of crowded alleyway. the blaze broke out late on. evening in the area of the bangladeshi capital and in the crammed old city it quickly spread to surrounding buildings by plastics and chemical warehouses.

witnesses told local media the gas cylinders in the buildings exploded one after another. and vehicles gridlocked in nearby streets were soon caught up in the flames. if i saw with my own eyes that a sudden massive bang with fire and shock waves totally destroyed the right side wall i was on a rickshaw when the explosion took place i don't think my rickshaw driver is a log anymore. this mangled wreckage is all that's left now as emergency workers calm the rubble for bodies they don't expect to find any more survivors. in the hospital nearby distraught families crowd around lists of the living and the date it's a saying that's been repeated far too often in bangladesh where large building fires a common because of holy and false regulations. hundreds have been killed in recent years this latest only adding to that tally. on al-jazeera.

is at a hospital in the capital webb victims of the fire have been taken. we are in the dock a medical college hospital in the morgue it's a very tragic scene out here we saw many people actually carried their loved ones in their coffin i spoke to the part is here police officer in charge who is supposed to identify and process this he said so far they were able to identify thirty seven bodies many other bodies might need even d.n.a. testing but a lot of relatives are waiting here they want to know and see if their loved one is among the dead bodies that is in the morgue very really tragic scene. as far as the government goes the industry minister made a statement saying the cause of the explosion was not the chemical warehouse but rather the gas cylinder the bang of the human rights commission and made a statement charming this is the third largest disaster in bangladesh which is

quite dramatic actually after a run up and other chemical explosion near this one and today's one would be the third largest now as far. in the medical lot of the forty one patients there in the burn unit where when i love to get in there we don't know their real condition we heard that several of them are critically injured and their relatives are also waiting to find out their condition india says it will cut off water supplies to pakistan from rivers that come under a treaty between the two nations india has full rights to three rivers flowing into pakistan which will be diverted to the young mena reza the move is in retaliation to last week's attack in indian administered kashmir in which at least forty one indian troops were killed jaish e mohammed an armed group based in pakistan says it was behind the attack the indian government accuses pakistani authorities of supporting the claim as jamil

has moved from you danny. water has always been a contentious issue between india and pakistan that's why the world bank brokered this treaty in one nine hundred sixty s. it covers water lockin of six rivers and three western rivers that flow through india into pakistan that water lockman is for box on and won't be touched this concerns three eastern rivers now the water a lot meant goes to india but the access that it didn't use always in the pocket on freely india says that's not going to happen anymore going to take that excess water and divert it to its own people and its own projects in india to mr bashir and the indian state of punjab and parts of pakistan will really feel that because they are prone to drought and really did you rely on that excess water it also puts the one nine hundred sixty treaty into a bit of a contentious place now under the treaty has complained many times on indian projects in fact and the end of january and india pakistan team came to india and

objected to the height of a dam being built now those objections are likely to fall on deaf ears as part of the hard line that india is taking against pakistan in light of last week's attacks in india and mr fish which india blames on a group based in pakistan if anything this shows that they are continuing their hard campaign against pakistan and at the very least they're not going to pakistan any favors. billie's and pro catalan independence protesters have clashed outside a metro station in the spanish city of basra lonna violence fledge airing a day of protest against the trial of twelve croque atlanta separatist leaders are accused of rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds relating to the failed twenty seven thousand independence bed charges they all deny earlier protests in the city of jerome blocked a motorway with burning tires. the european commission president says he's not optimistic that person would leave the e.u. with a deal admitting he is suffering from rex it fatigue comments follow

a meeting with the british prime minister to resign may on wednesday into says he finds it hard to see any compromise deal commanding majority in the u.k. parliament the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. on march twenty ninth if no deal eluded him but come through these this we have terry you can only consider the consequences building. the. most powerful. for unity in the region. the worst can be avoided but look very least. well some news from albania thousands of people have been rallying against the prime minister at the rama the protesters accuse the government of corruption and having links to organized crime they surrounded the parliament and demanded early elections opposition lawmakers attending the demonstrations said they would give up their seats in the parliament avni ahmed thai has more from tirana. for those

of albany an opposition supporters gathered in front of the parliament building in the month the government rallies opposition parties the man the resignation of prime minister who they accuse of being linked to corruption and criminal groups which they claim helped him win elections in two thousand and seventeen prime minister ahmad denies allegations and says there is no need for early elections to take place i'll be in parliament has counsel to explain the recession planned for today fears for violence to those against the peace and social unrest which could have been provoked by opposition supporters more than a thousand police officers were deployed in front of the parliament building however no incidents were reported among protestors were also representatives of all opposition parties who decided to give up their parliamentary mandates in order to put pressure in prime minister. to resign democrats opposition leader. wants

a transitional cabinet to be put in place before early elections are held. an american actor has been arrested and charged with lying to police after claiming he was beaten during a racist and homophobic attack just the small it sparked social media outrage when he told police he was attacked by two men who put a noose around his neck and doused him in bleach police say the attack was a hoax which he staged because he was dissatisfied with his salary small it is widely known for his role in the popular us t.v. show empire but i'm offended by would happen and i'm also angry. the city of chicago and the chicago police department warts and all but this publicity stunt was a scottish cargo didn't and certainly didn't deserve. to make things worse

the accusations within this phony attack received national attention for weeks celebrities news commentators and even presidential candidates weighed in on something that was choreographed by an actor a sixteen year old swedish environmentalist who inspired a global movement of walkouts by school students as met the e.u. commission president to talk about climate change grettir phone bug has protested against in action on global warming and hit out at politicians who've criticize students for skipping class many people are trying to make the school strikes a question of whether we are promoting truancy whether we should go back to school or not. they make up all sorts of conspiracies and call us puppet who cannot think for ourselves. they are desperately trying to teach to remove the focus from the climate crisis and change the subject. they don't want to talk about it because

they know they cannot win this fight. tech giant google says it's made an error of the failing to inform uses of a head microphone inside its home security device consumers only found out about the nest guards built in microphone when google announced it was updating the product with a voice command assistant the company says it was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed as a feature of the device google also said the microphones must be activated to work on all the rise of biotechnology means that for normal people even the most cutting edge smartphones are becoming out of date having a microchip inserted under the skin is increasingly the way to go nowhere more so than in sweden thousands of swedes now use the technology attending employment policies to have chips inserted to replace gym cards national i.d.'s and even train tickets full resupport now from land. the most cutting edge thing about hannah's blood isn't the phone in his hand it's the microchip actually in his

hand the tiny implant is the latest advance in a biohacking technology that is steadily becoming a part of normal life in sweden we have created a new implant which is not a chip it's a full device where you can different lights different on different functions suetonius a very technical at society and i think this is the main explanation really why a lot of swedes are adopting chip implants swedes haven't been shy about upgrading themselves with the new version thousands already have a microchip implants that they use in their daily lives waving their hand to gain entrance to the gym confirm their id or make payments a short moment of pain not putting them off becoming part sweet part machine but this event is an implant party simply where ordinary people can show up and get

a microchip embedded under their skin the biohacking movement in sweden is hosting them all over europe but it's at home where they get the most willing recipients i think it's really cool you don't have to carry two so really it's just a body maybe ten years everything will be new. in sweden more than anywhere else the future is already here the national train company s.c.a. has around two thousand six hundred people signed up to use microchips instead of train tickets. and no need to mind the generation gap eighteen year old phyllis and father magnus still bear the scars of their new implants. student how much her having is also freshly chipped i'm now just needs to program it to open doors although importantly for a future crew it does already connect to some people. i

don't know if it's safe. but people have been putting these chips into animals for twenty years so i'm not worried about that the long term goal is for the new chips to help provide medical care in remote communities that are already getting under the skin of the swedes there may soon become just another normal part of modern life of the human body paul reese al-jazeera sweden. well there's more on everything right here al jazeera dot com including the latest on that fire in bangladesh. squeak recap of the top stories now the u.s. and china are reportedly close to agreeing a broad outline of a deal which could end a seven month trade war high level talks are continuing in washington to end the standoff which has seen what which has seen washington and beijing impose to attack

terrorists on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods to go she has are drawing up six memorandum of understanding on issues including cyber theft agriculture and currency venezuela's president has closed his country's vast border with brazil just days before opposition leaders plan to bring in foreign aid that he has refused to accept a close my dear i made the announcement while surrounded by military doesn't caracas on thursday manure also blocked at n c travel with the nearby dutch caribbean island of could a cow where aid is being stockpiled. my job jim has more from both a stay in brazil. what we know at this point is that the brazilian government plans to set up an aid distribution point on the border not exactly clear exactly where that will be although many assume it will be the city of parker imo which is about two hundred kilometers north of us which is just right on the border with venezuela and then venezuelan trucks directed by opposition leader one would come into brazil

get that aid and take it back into venezuela this all of course now becomes much more complicated of course venezuelan president nicolas maduro saying that the border with brazil will be closed tonight around eight pm local that's midnight g.m.t. that really up in all the plans that were being put in place by brazil's government and all the headlines two deadly bombings have taken place in syria in separate locations a suspect in kabul missed killed at least twenty people including oil. there is or the area is held by the u.s. banks here in democratic forces also another suspected car bomb exploded in the city of a frame which is under the control of the turkish militia at least four people are thought to have died in the blast in the city center that erupted eight more of our top stories this hour coming up the filipino journalist who's been named time magazine's person of the year and huff fight for press freedom that story coming up

in the stream. my name is me i bet you know when international journalist and your industry. like it. and you're in the street today is there a war on truth journalist maria ressa joins us to discuss her fight for press freedom and we want to hear from you leave your comments or your questions for maria in our live you tube channel and you too could be in the stream.

a free and independent press is the cornerstone of democracy and a philippine journalist maria ressa wants it to remain a mission in what she calls the war on truth is the subject of the new al-jazeera witness film out this month have a look. digital media. is the founder of blind side. fakes it is whatever power doesn't like the president of the philippines ricotta turkey because he wants to kill as many people involved with drugs as possible lists his critics as public and the. grappler on my new site known to be critical of the government at its license revoked a few weeks ago. and is disabling it's sad when people don't know what is real and what is feet we don't. know what you see with this

megaphone more power this is the time to fight this is the time to tell here here's the light and you have to make sure that our government doesn't cross it because when. we're no longer. joining us live from manila a woman who needs almost no introduction journalist at a time magazine's person of the year maria teresa annie sydney australia ya know she's also a journalist and the filmmaker behind the documentary about maria airing this month on al-jazeera welcome to yarrow welcome maria yeah we're going to talk about the film later in the program but first maria what is it like covering a story and being the story at the same time extremely uncomfortable and you know i wish it would end tomorrow but at the same time i'm watching and looking at everything with our or because. i just don't believe the

events that are happening. you say that it's uncomfortable actually being part of the story and covering the story at the same time but there was a moment in december when you arrived at manila airport and journalists were waiting to see you and i had questions and you having just got off the plane did an impromptu press media conference i don't see much discomfort have a look for us. on the ground you know. how do i feel about being arrested. well number one i am going to hold my government accountable for publicly calling a criminal i am not a criminal i have been a journalist my life i will continue to hold the government the second this obviously. it makes you feel better but i think that's the point right the point is

for the government to actually make you feel its power and that it can do what it wants to do including bending the law to the point that it's broken. that's a position that you don't really have to think about when you're supposed to be reporting running a media organization how did you get those cogent forts together you know i had just gotten off a long haul flight good morning but i knew an arrest warrant been issued for ludicrous charges and i was i was surprised by what was at the airport but at the same time i thank you this is what i've had to do for most of twenty eighteen is anger management and what has taught us is to be able to be concise in expressing exactly what every what is happening in the moment and and what it means for the future. well rio you called the charges they're ludicrous

and i think there are several in our community that would agree and others as well who are on line this tweet is from the u.s. embassy in the philippines who doesn't normally weigh in on these types of things they write we hope the charge against journalists and rappler c.e.o. maria ressa will be resolved quickly in accordance with relevant philippine law and international standards of due process also weighing in former secretary of state of the us madeleine albright who says your arrest by the philippine government is outrageous and must be condemned by all democratic nations i'm proud to call her a friend and to stand with her in defending the principles of a free press so for our audience that isn't aware in your view what led up to this arrest i mean let me be concise again in two months i've had to bail six times and. at least nine cases that are ongoing right now in thirteen months the government has tried to shut down rappler has filed at

least five tax evasion has filed the cyber libel. as arrested me and detaining me in violation of my rights even because these arrest warrant i have a right to bail. all of these events by like defended myself and i've tried very hard at the very beginning of it to be far more circumspect i said among comfortable being part of it they now show a very clear pattern it's a trend it is meant a little it's political arrest meant it's intimidation and it's meant to prevent us from doing our work. ria i'm just looking here at rappler right now and the latest news stories and as a whole range of stories that we're doing from the philippines this is an online news platform what is it that rapping you sing for people who don't follow rappler that continues to irritate the to turn a administration. i think we focus on the small moon.

i call it death by a thousand cuts our democracy is impunity. weaponization that's another favorite word i have because i've been so shocked watching it happen in front of my eyes first the weaponization of social media and then the weaponization of the law meaning both social media has been turned and used against its critics these are exponential attacks on social media that we did a series on as early as made twenty sixteen and then the way and this is from personal experience the way the law has turned and used as a weapon against perceived critics so maria february twentieth just this week was the one year mark of when rappler journalists and yourself included were banned from the presidential palace i pulled out this tweet from. rappler she says it's been a year since i was first banned from covering detectives events let me tell you what

that year has been like and of course we can win tweet this on our accounts you can read her account of what it was like to be banned but for you what has that been like covering an administration where you don't have the access. we continue doing the best that we can do and i actually can trying to press secretary about this in a radio interview we were both interviewed at the same time just this sunday and i asked him you know when are you going to let us back in and why have you done this this is a violation of our constitutional rights the constitution guarantees this and he said well. i still answer the questions that that your record your tweets to me that's not the way it's supposed to be again death by a thousand cuts right slowly i think the other part that's concerning to me is levels of impunity. not just in something like press coverage but also in a farm or in the bridge this brutal drug war that has been ongoing since july of

two thousand and sixteen and that perhaps was really the drug war as well as the weaponization of social media these are the two stories we have not let up on and we continue to try to government to out i think in the end it comes down to a war on truth because if you can make people believe why are the facts then you can control them what's happening in the philippines in terms of journalism and the ad how facts are viewed is something that ripples around the world and a phrase i don't like using let present a test say use it instead here he is talking about rappler have a look. if eight. you know that. i am not so bright. are you going to start in a so big. so that his view of what rapper stewing in riyadh can you give

us a sense of the atmosphere and the climate we were in which john is so walking in the philippines. fear absolutely and that was actually my appeal to the journalist who after i posted bail i said you know this is. this is meant to send a chilling effect and this was the message of the n b i agent to one of our reporters who was video was doing a live stream that actually when they were trying to arrest me he told our reporter be quiet be silent or you're next and that's precisely the situation i think it's being me getting pregnant not so much about just making just intimidating me it's about sending a message to every other reporter working in the philippines told the line or you could be next and i think that's the fear we need to lift because you don't want self-censorship you don't want people to be afraid to ask questions because then

we've really gone down the path that's hard to come back from so here's someone who would agree with you she's a journalist in the u.k. a joint effort has and here's what she says this could mean for journalism as a whole thing to not proceed in the philippines on the president's task he's been dead for some time now and he's seen that and how he treats his opponents especially said it's a dilemma who still in the present. completely fabricated challenges but i think to test say is now using the international community somewhat turning away from the philippine drug war or at least losing interest to go off the press and for him that means going off and maria ressa and that does a reading ugly and dangerous preston for genesis not just in the philippines but well of the world's summary i should mention it's a dangerous precedent for all journalists and you're nodding your head at that when he thinking. look when president detective threatens journalists this isn't

unique frustrate president trump does that exact same thing except the institutions in the united states are just stronger than in the philippines will have impact and when the most powerful man in the country threatens reporters calls them fake news all of this ripples out and you know there's a very thin line between attacking and inciting to hate and what we've seen on social media is these words have taken a life of their own and it goes towards inciting to hate and that's a boundary that's very difficult to come back from president to tick to has threatened journalists he's threatened new short in his eighty's rappler wasn't the first one i mean the largest newspaper in the philippines the philippine daily inquirer was its first target he threatened to take away the franchise of the largest television network e.b.'s c.b.s.

with a rattler the difference with rappler is a we have no other businesses this is a company that was created by journalists and the single largest group of shareholders in rappler are the journalists so most of the decisions nearly all the decisions certainly through all of twenty they were led by journalists for me it's not worth doing our jobs if we're not fulfilling the mission especially at a time when our country needs it the most you just mentioned a.b.s. c.v. and and they didn't intern quite recently with the presidential palace spokesman and he was talking about the ability to at the chinese for you to actually speak quite frankly this was his take on what you've been saying it's not the same have a look so there's nothing absolutely there is no connection. in the so-called freedom of the press in fact i would even say that she is a walking testament that the freedom of express and as well as some expression

are very alive in this country wow why am i saying that until now she's still using of that freedom to assault the government and this administration is sitting at home you're free right now maria what's the problem i think that the bill speak and while secretary panetta. is entitled things opinion obviously freedom of speech is about being able to speak freedom of the press is about being able to report without any consequences and what has happened is the full power of the state. in january last year the government tried to revoke our license to operate they tried to shut. the institution stayed up strong enough to be able to push back but the government kept trying to look for cases they kept trying they issued i mean i posted bail six times in two months that's not normal the prevented our reporter

from covering not just the presidential palace but every private engagement any engagement anywhere in the philippines where president piers i've been arrested and i've been getting again you know actions speak louder than words let me bring into the conversation ya your documentary maria ressa war on truth is currently showing and out of there right now i mean looking at your instagram account and there's a picture here you're in france you and maria together checking a phone which is what maria doesn't all halt why did you make this film why was it so important in our. and i think the source of why mary is under pressure from the government needs to be addressed here and this is why i made the film and that's because she started to talk about this information and she put out a three part series on propaganda in the philippines and and correct me if i'm

wrong maria but that's when she saw a massive campaign against herself and from basically this disinter mission apparatus and it wasn't just that there was a massive trolling disinformation campaign against maria put out a series on and. at russia's it was that they used that as a way to then use all that data as a way to then match and. suppose try this information campaign and and say that it is it is actually an ecosystem this is something that you can map the architecture of and that you can also stop eventually i think that's what really intrigued me about that yes you the journalist and precious lots of journalists under pressure but she used that as a tool then address the root causes of that pressure and that is tracking and

stopping this information campaigns you mentioned data so and bring up this we hear from daisy this is mark zuckerberg was deeply apprehensive about and did now going deeper into the real impact of technology on filipinos and philippine democracy it was only recently that facebook hired an expert to look into does information networks in the platform so i know in twenty sixteen you actually went up to soccer burkey went to facebook about data with data talk to us about that. and this was in august of two thousand and sixteen it was in singapore at that point in time and i i was alarmed that attacks began the weaponization of social a facebook began in july of two thousand and sixteen by the end of august we had enough the leader we knew that and i came with an example twenty six week accounts and how they could influence up to three million others i rock this data to three facebook officers in singapore and i told them you know you really should do

something about this because we've u.s. elections coming up and if we don't trump could win and at that point in august twenty sixth we laugh but after president trump won in a member. they asked for the date again i met mark zuckerberg in during the f.t. conference in april of two thousand and seventeen and twenty sixteen he was in denial about what she was doing but by twenty seven he was starting to realize that i think i told him that you know in the philippines facebook is the internet nearly ninety seven percent of filipinos on the internet are on facebook and his response was. he found a little bit and said what are the other three percent doing. you know. a maria when we have attained the stream team with was looking at how did we talk to you and how to bring gharyan and talk about the film wherever your name is mentioned there are an army of trolls as many people who are respectful of your

journalism and what you'll doing there that's a toe me as well this is something that you picked up. in your film have a listen to this cape and you know it got a little sense of what happens around maria and wrap up. you know i've been called every animal you can think of i my sexual life has been dissected and at the beginning i see step like a traditional journalists who try to fight it and you realize no you can't it's not a bad. guy i see maria smiling almost all of the time even under when she's a lot of pressure but what is it like to watch. her when she surrounded by a lot of people who want to do harm i mean i suppose the troll. it's hard to say how much of the online hate can actually.

dissipate be translated into the real world and the people who are around very very much people like the rattlers people who are willing to. follow her into the trenches and. go with her wherever she wants to go she has a very supportive core team and i think that's also displayed in the film. and i suppose just to pick up on the trolling point that we made in the film that has all thirty translated with our actual film on witness. witness has put up a huge hit video of the film and that was just a few days ago and it's for saved thirty hundred comments already ninety percent of those negative and witnesses saying something like this in

a long time is. pretty much on president it and a lot of it has been negative feedback from iran a lot of the may fade that baby she heard about maria in the cases and saying that she's actually a u.s. citizen and not to the paino and that she's a tax evader and not about the film itself or campaign against this information so i think it just goes to show that this just showing distance start from the area and i think. and a question i always have to maria is how do you wake up every day with. you know receiving constant and countless hate messages and him that caught be good for you. it's not healthy and how do you deal with that that's that's always been a concern i suppose is is how to do with the fallout of comes to trolling maria you realize that it's manufactured great that you know this is not normal if you look

at all those messages they're right on message and this is something that we've lived here for my gosh i'm ochs three years since july twenty sixth when we were naive enough and rapper when we saw this happening i thought maybe they were just real people who were misinformed then who we just wanted to have a conversation so we started something called hash tag no place for hate and that was when we got bombarded and even more bombarded after we finished the three part propaganda series so now you realize that you were being manipulated and i think that the whole world it when we look at what's happening with power and that the geo political power ships and how information is being used to gain power i think is happening in a lot more countries than than we know that we are aware about and this should be stopped so that's where i hold the social media platforms accountable that's been

the biggest change these cheap armies on social media. so i wanted to share with our viewers what some of those look like about getting into details about them because of course they're pretty hateful but on facebook here several comments just criticizing rappler and criticizing your work marcel says it's right to go to jail it's my bias boycott the biased media another person on twitter says this is stupid journalism the truth behind race is a restaurateur involvement in tax evasion rectifier facts and stop fake news but all of this some of our audience would say it's part of an intimidation scheme and that is a comment we got from an academic in manila actually who says this is a wider. plot if you will to silence journalists and silence those who are working for the truth this is richard and here's what he told the story what we're facing. increasing the notion of. meeting the uniform predictable obligation.

and ensuring what we're seeing is by we're by an imperial presidency and his henchmen. and instrument allies in the law in order to silence your position and maria ressa right now is very much the beneficiary of the trend in the philippines. you hear his stick there richard. we've been talking to but she's part of a team and she loves the team very much want to show you the raptor team right here so you know it's not just about one person it's about a whole team of journalists and also thank you so much for joining us today you can see his film maria ressa that war on truth playing on al-jazeera and also you can see it on al-jazeera dot com. thank you so much for joining us today we really appreciate your time take care.

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despite all of ahmad's police and americans who believe that science holds all the and says the world be a better place if religion disappeared tomorrow yes mehdi has nine guys head to head with richard dawkins on al-jazeera. oh i maryam namazie in london just a quick look at the top stories for you now venezuela's president has closed his country's vost border with brazil just days before opposition leaders plan to bring in foreign aid that he has refused to accept nicolas maduro made the announcement while surrounded by military leaders in caracas on thursday with their also blocked and see travel with the nearby dutch caribbean island of curacao where aid is being

stockpiled he's also considering whether to shut down the border with colombia the u.s. has been delivering hundreds of tons of aid that but the duras main challenger has other plans opposition who is visiting the border town of quickly ta has called for tens of thousands of people to caravans to help carry us aid into his country. they have been saying for a while now that they are determined to get aid into venezuela it was not clear until just a couple of days ago what exactly that plan might look like what we know at this point is that the brazilian government plans to set up an aid distribution point on the border not exactly clear exactly where that will be although many assume it will be the city of parker imo which is about two hundred kilometers north of us which is just right on the border with venezuela and then venezuelan trucks directed by opposition leader one would come into brazil get that aid and take it

back into venezuela this all of course now becomes much more complicated of course venezuelan president nicolas maduro saying that the border with brazil will be closed tonight around eight pm local that's midnight g.m.t. that really up in all the plans that were being put in place by brazil's government we're still waiting for some kind of official reaction to president maduro's latest comments that he will close this border i can tell you though we had spent time in the past several days on the border and many of the people we spoke with there says that said told us that on the venezuelan side there's been many times these are migrants we were speaking with this is there many times that the border had been closed by the venezuelans they would not look at migrants leaving as we come into brazil and many people thought that at some point this was going to happen in the days to come because they did not believe that nicolas maduro was going to make it easy for brazil's government to start getting aid into venezuela and all the

headlines this hour the u.s. and china reportedly close to agreeing a broad outline of a deal which could and a seven month trade war high level talks are continuing in washington to end the standoff which has seen washington and beijing impose tit for tat tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods and go she is drawing up six memorandum of understanding on issues including cyber theft agriculture and currency. two deadly bombings have taken place in syria in separate locations a suspected car bomb has killed at least twenty people including oil workers in the village and if there is or the area is held by the u.s. bank syrian democratic forces also another suspected car bomb exploded in the city of a frame which is under the control of a turkish backed militia at least four people thought to have died after the blast in the city center there. the pope has held a landmark meeting on child sex abuse and the catholic church by demanding concrete action against predator priests one hundred ninety cardinals bishops priests monks

and nuns are attending the event that cate's of scandals of rock the church but many catholic officials still in the deny or downplay the problem the pope called on the clergy to hear the cry of the little ones who plead for justice at least seventy people have died in bangladesh capital dhaka after a five ripped through several buildings around fifty people have been injured and firefighters took almost twelve hours to bring the blaze under control fire broke out in a residential complex which also housed a chemical and plastics warehouse india says it will cause of water supply supply to start from rivers that come under a treaty between the two nations moves in retaliation to last week's attack in indian administered kashmir in which at least forty one indian troops were killed the assault was claimed by jaish e mohammed an armed group based in pakistan the indian government accuses pakistani authorities of supporting the group you're up to date with all of our top

stories coming up next it's digital dissidents more news after that loss you a bit later life now. you know who was the war the person in the n.s.a. who did what he absolutely should have done. being a patriot doesn't mean you know obedience to authority. putting aside your obligations to your people to your country for the benefit of your government because the office reaches. her she needs of eagles very concretely. streaming after a documentation of the us with our own records shows that it was involved in one

way or another in the deaths of more than one hundred twenty thousand people in iraq and afghanistan between two thousand and four and two thousand and ten. and the u.s. government's response is maybe hypothetically as a result of this release of this material some afghan family or u.s. soldier. could face risks. we will likely. face is the cost in human lives on tomorrow's battlefield or in in some in some some place where we will put our military forces. any result as a last year of the earth but a single person as a result. if you let go of your rights for a moment you've lost a lot of time and that's why this matters is because it happened and we didn't know we were told. for some people there superheroes are others simply traitors

whistleblowers like daniel ellsberg thomas drake william binney and edward snowden . hackers an eye. activists like the wiki leaks founder julian assange and the former british secret service agent an emotional they warn us about the complete surveillance of our society they oppose intelligence agencies governments and corporations and for this they are threatened hounded and imprisoned. why are they so committed what drives them. the intelligence services enough the only ones monitoring communications and processing massive data. also private corporations like google amazon

facebook and apple collect millions of pieces of information about us to analyze and monetize. that's a click is a self for a smartphone sacked that i am a person national data center washed off this iran's once there and it's just there are no in v.h.f. and a slick not a sit down or stuffed tiger suit us all school oh it had to be an innocent we don't really know what exactly happens with their own digital trails our data is transferred invisibly to huge data centers. sublimating into a complex new identity creating our digital self.

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some of them given the new developments in a machine intelligence will make us far far smarter as a result and this means everyone on the planet genetics revolution has a huge and positive impact on the way we treat disease progression disease and so and so on it's all basically because these smartphones are really super computers. and so on and it gunson being a friend as well you just telephone not just me or does this is a gotten him going to them and been nice to him and i'm from no one's a smartphone into who was in touch i have it so i can get out and then it would g.p.s. nice man in love will b.s. and just ask how my dance into was in touch in my mittens. with the advent of the smartphone we have become even more visible.

so early under those blue zones. then it's not just i phones that i lost my phone i mean most small phones are these days smart phones capture our communication behavior along when where and with whom we talk. apps collect data about our user behavior even our health data in addition many people use digital data storage like clouds carelessly handing over their information all of our communities. are being intercepted elected in a license or automatic and that means that all of our years or russians or associations who we talk to who me who we hate. as the old internet saying goes if it's for free and you are the product because

the use of all those convenient digital online services are only seemingly for free because we pay with our data. we have neither inside nor overview about our digital self and absolutely no possibility to actively control it. then it's understand online as a c.m. the command then. spits up a stand for vendetta a display misplaced dismissed so then you've got to spit sublist and now it's an industry seeking v.h.f. they can be at one cannot decide which of the he'll be at is that.