billets in north africa algeria borders libya a major route for people and smuggling to europe abdul latif says such fears are unfounded he says that algeria is turbulent post means many people like him a wary of chaos what they hope for he says is a peaceful transition to a fairer and more harmonious future. al-jazeera paris nine police officers have died in an attack on a security outpost in myanmar they were killed on saturday night in a village in the western states of rakhine police have blamed the attack on the outer can on me a buddhist group accused of aiding me on lost soldiers in that crackdown on raw hinge up we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then we'll tell you why efforts to contain the abode of virus in the democratic republic of democratic republic of congo are once again under threat.

heller march is infamous for its strong winds certainly in northern europe and they have been strong but so far they've been mars with the wind directions change to a northwest in which means things are getting cold rule is clouds which bring some rain with it increasingly bring snow look at the north not for example overnight and the picture for sunday is one of still fairly windy weather temperatures drops down below the teens the most part watches your excess teen for sunday gets much colder we're right in spain and portugal twenty three madrid but the north coast will be windy and still warm in the bottom right hand corner but to me here i said watches iraq there's the snow that really shows itself on monday xerox max is now five the snow likely no ground in germany as well and the temperatures now low single figures stuck and gone below freezing ankara's all right bill crystal a little bit cooler at seventy and madrid were you down to ninety but it's in the

sunshine all the same so this looks like a bit of a comeback in tight winter weather but it's windy it's getting colder for a time it won't last however that's all taking place in mainland europe in north africa now the winds are taking or showing themselves to be quite strong as very dust in the middle of algeria but that directional so brings walls further north and some tribes. rewind continues i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with updates on the best about just the arrests documentaries the struggle continues but from day till now these districts revisiting. anatomy of an american city i have close friends who were lost to the streets i can literally see the future of baltimore to the ass of my students and it does not look rewind on al-jazeera.

hello again this is out zero let's remind you of the main news this hour parts of venezuela still experiencing a major power outage rival rallies been held both for against president because we do know in the capital opposition leader plan quite opens call for a nationwide march on caucus student leaders in algeria say the government's move toward the early closure of universities won't deter them young protesters have been leading some of the biggest demonstrations seen that in decades universities will close on sunday two weeks ahead of chatrooms. and in myanmar buddhist

government fighting for more ptolemy are being blamed for killing nine policemen that outpost was attacked in the western states of a kind where tension is high following the crackdown on the russian ship muslims. the head of the un's refugee agency has been experiencing firsthand what life is like the syrians who fled the fighting for the program they visited refugees in lebanon and says the u.n. won't pressure them into returning. they're worried they're they're fearful of security they are thinking about their destroyed houses of their lack of jobs in all these are very important human factors that need to be addressed but i think that if we continue to work on the syrian side maybe more people will make this decision in more confidence it is very important you know very well our position that any return be not only safe and dignified but also voluntary that people have to make that decision by themselves and should not be pressured or pushed and i

think that continues to be our position but of course for those who return they will be they will be supported by us and we're certainly not as has been said in the past but these not being said anymore we're not blocking any return we would be it would not be our job to do that aid work. seen says that the security is the main issue preventing syrians returning. they're thinking about going home. most of them want to go back to their home around seventy percent of the syrians in the region and countries around syria hosting the refugees around five point six million of them are hosted in the neighboring countries of syria want to go back eighty eight percent of those and lebanon want to go back but they cannot go back at the moment when we ask them about their you know ability to move in the next six months or a year this percentage drops significantly and for valid reasons things are not yet

clear when it comes to ensuring security back home thirty percent of the housing stock is the steroid the economy is in very dire situation in syria the syrian pound has lost eight hundred percent of its value so there's a lot of question marks that are being asked by the syrians in the region at the moment in the countries hosting them but they clearly the security question that needs to be you know sort and they they need to make do get assurances that when they go back home they're not going to get into the gate or maybe get checked or maybe taken into the prison for the third time in a month from a bowl a treatment center has been attacked in the eastern democratic republic of congo the center in bhutan but was targeted hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization the latest outbreak of the

virus has killed five hundred seventy eight people since last august barbara reports. soldiers drag a suspected attacker through the forest close to the temporary burleson and democratic republic of congo is one of several men said to have fired shots into the buildings where medical teams battling to contain the spread of it after finding myself a barrier to well i was washing glasses when i heard bullets i wondered what's going on one of our colleagues who was busy burning the garbage began shouting but the attackers were already entering the treatment center from the main entrance. it's less than a week since the potential center reopened after it was attacked in february is said north kivu province source of the republic's latest to beller outbreak saturday's attack came just hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization.

who. doesn't serve on groups are reported to be operating in the eastern congo some allow health workers to deliver vaccines and track people infected with the para but others are hostile to outsiders. some aid agencies have criticised the military's response to threats they say intimidation and violence is making it more difficult for medical staff to contain the virus and the number of cases is increasing barbara and passed out to sara. jane as us health minister has resigned after the sudden deaths of eleven babies within twenty four hours of the same public hospital the health ministry says that early indications just a blood infection was the cause. lawyers in sudan said that nine women protesters

have been sentenced to twenty lashes but a month in jail for rioting on saturday president omar al bashir released thirty eight women who were detained of anti-government demonstrations students who continued to protest in the capital khartoum despite a state of emergency officials say thirty one people died in protest related violence so far human rights watch though that's the death toll of fifty one. tibetans activists and human rights supporters a marking the sixtieth anniversary of the tibetan uprising against chinese rule rallies are being held outside tibet in countries including taiwan and india china has put restrictions on tourists and journalists who want to visit the himalayan country critics say that it's another sign that china is repressing the rights of tibetans matheson reports. on march tenth one thousand nine hundred fifty nine chinese soldiers poured into tibet china says it was liberating the himalayan

country it had ruled since one nine hundred fifty one but it was also suppressing protests against chinese authority which had grown and were becoming more violent tens of thousands of tibetans were reported to have been killed monasteries were destroyed tibet's spiritual leader the dalai lama was forced into exile in india where he remains every march tenth since then demonstrations have been held around the world in support of tibetan independence eternal case in fomenting be any worse really at timothy's rep to send the anger and we stand up that it happens in six decades of political suppression ah they have been denying villages cultural and language right china has placed restrictions on foreigners including journalists visiting tibet. when you go back to those you know six years ago the

cia was actually involved in training people radio operatives who were dropped back into tibet to kind of stir up trouble so from the chinese perspective they don't look on for they don't see that foreigners are necessarily bringing gifts they get they regard it as something that is only means trouble and probably more headaches for beijing. china says it's held sovereignty over tibet for centuries it describes the dalai lama as a separatist supporters of the dalai lama say he doesn't want independence just more autonomy for tibet what we're seeing now is this a different kind of repression. making footprints can't communicate we've come for calm protest this sort of suffocating atmosphere on sunday the streets of tibet may stay quiet what amounts for tibetan independence are heard around the world rob matheson al jazeera environmentalist's in northeastern kenya campaigning against

a major construction project which has begun and what they say is stolen land but the government has accused activists of standing in the way of progress even labeling opponents as terrorists blamed us rafi reports. kenya's leaders say it's east africa's most ambitious infrastructure project. the level port and lam southern sudan ethiopia transport corridor or lap set is worth an estimated twenty four point five billion dollars. it includes the construction of a deep water port highways oil pipelines railways airports and even three luxury resorts. port will be the main hub connecting kenya ethiopia and south sudan to the indian ocean and to the world. and. to me. this. is.

not country. work started in two thousand and thirteen when it's finished it's hoped the port will become a major source of revenue. but not everyone is happy with the project activists say it will damage the environment and the government is not properly compensating people for their land leaving indigenous communities to pay the price for kenya's progress that. if the government wants to solve them. only twenty seconds. for years lamas people relied on fishing and tourism to earn a living the port means a major shift and instead of speaking to them community leaders say the government is steamrolling them but kenyan leaders say the lab said project is being done by the book and accuse activists of working against the national interest and in some cases even labeling them as terrorists a recent human rights watch report said people campaigning against the project faced intimidation beatings arbitrary arrests and detentions. one longtime activist

turned politician said in kenya government suppression is nothing new in the government is the terrorists it's not the people it's the government. that has been left behind because of development there's no development the new roads no public health facilities there is zero government involvement in the ground and now at this project is not going to. improve the lives of people it's going to affect them there's going to be pollution it's going to affect fishing it's going to affect stories even it's going to affect every facet of their life. projects like level port are central to president kenyatta as development agenda he's promised all kenyans that things will get better in twenty nineteen but in lemon the pace of progress may mean some kenyans get left behind. nairobi. thank you sir mz government has officially complained to cricket's governing body for what it says was an inflammatory gesture by the indian cricket team they wore on the style

caps during the match against australia in a show of support for the military tension is high between you delhi and islam about after an attack on indian troops in the disputed kashmir region i.c.c. rules prohibit clothing relating to political causes during international matches. the bodies of two european climbers have been found in north and pakistan's kill get baltistan region the two weeks after they've gone missing they were attempting a route on the world's ninth highest mountain that has never been successfully completed the tension between pakistan and india over the disputed kashmir region made the search for the men difficult pakistan's aspace have been partially closed the so-called vigilantes continue to operate in india despise an order by the supreme court for police to crack down on them a recent report says that forty four people have been lynched after being accused of smuggling all slaughtering cows activists say the hindu nationalist led

government has downplayed the attacks on syria's first tamil reports from the pradesh. this is one of several viral video showing violence by so-called how vigilant in the media. self-appointed guardians of cows which are sacred to hindus claim they're being illegally slaughtered they're not afraid to use violence to stop them. for every victim there's also a family left behind. such as the son an oscar a she was killed in two thousand and fifteen along with two other young men from this village less than fifty kilometers from new delhi. well how can anyone who's lost this son live in peace we are devastated his father has been suffering from mental tension all of us are stressed no but it's meant was given to the puppet trait is no attention was paid to us. a human rights watch report states that eight lynching cases they studied involve victims who are considered lower caste hindus

the vast majority of those killed however were muslims the victims come from world and poor areas like this not only far from me cities lynching such as these were known to take place in the past but they were rare now thirty six cases have been reported since twenty fifty some activists saying the real number is much higher. in september twenty thousand india supreme court ordered central state governments to take what it called preventative in punitive measures to stop such attacks after most states failed to comply with its previous directive. this social rights worker spent a year and a half documenting cases of so-called calvin trillin theism while there have been convictions including that of eleven men in march last year she says the problem persists the numbers on the ground are likely to be even higher and what we are what we need to look at is not just people who have died. but the spate of

attacks on people. various cow vigilantes operate across the country looking for those they believe are slaughtering cows. but on every count protection group advocates violence. children the head of this cow shelter says he understands why some groups are violent there's a look at the reason behind people committing roylance vocal production because they are to be saved guarding an important thing the government is negligent do not provoke us. for the victims families added to their losses the sense of abandonment by their government left to feel is just another statistic on a growing list as jamil al jazeera doesn't know who the british.

it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in the headlines on al-jazeera parts of venezuela still experiencing a major power outage rival rallies been held both for and against president nicolas maduro in the capital opposition leader one as called for a nationwide march on caracas president but the responded by calling a us puppet. we have defeated their coup they tried illegitimately patel oppression into a president and now today it is obvious to the world he's not a president not anything he's a clown and a puppet delinquent. students in algeria say the government's move toward the early closure of universities won't deter them universities will close on sunday for spring break two weeks ahead of schedule youth protest disappeared leading some of the biggest demonstrations see decades in buddhist government to being blamed for killing nine policemen outpost was attacked in the west and rakhine state religious

and ethnic tension is high there following the crackdown on the hinge of muslims a buddhist armed group called the other kind army is accused of aiding the. army in persecuting the. a treatment center for a bowl of virus victims in eastern democratic republic of congo has been attacked for the third time in a month the center in bhutan bo was targeted hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization the latest outbreak has killed almost six hundred congolese people since august. judicious health minister has resigned after the sudden deaths of eleven babies within twenty four hours at the same public hospital the health ministry says the early indications suggest a blood infection was the cause of death to back neck to vist and human rights supporters are marking the sixtieth anniversary of a tibet not rising against chinese rule rallies are being held outside tibet in countries including taiwan and india china has put restrictions on tourists and

journalists who want to visit the himalayan country and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story next the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises we doe as. my grand joining with the military to impose that deadly political agenda we have devoted our nation has happened to their opinion that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. this is not religion this is the politics me and mine an unholy alliance coming soon on al-jazeera. how do you stop misinformation online you tube and facebook take new steps to host the spread of fake content but also show media companies doing enough this is inside story.

i don't welcome to the program i mean there's a problem fake news the term often in the headlines it's a common cry from donald trump to discredit news stories critical of him but the description also highlights one of the biggest challenges on the and to net how to stop the spread of misinformation on line social media companies on the increasing pressure to stop publishing misinformation and lies and do you choose introducing and such as hoax and fake to flag suspicious videos and forty indian soldiers were killed in an attack in india administered kashmir last month seven video is said to show the attack went viral it turned out to be fake you tube is rolling out the new alerts just before and did elections due next month and hopes for a worldwide system soon. now buzz fade as a u.s.

internet media news and entertainment company report upon of the ship explains why misinformation on you tube is such a major problem and dia we are a big country as one point three billion and. so far only about five hundred million indians are online for the last few years they've been getting access to cheap so forms they've been getting access to internet class cheap internet plans on the cell phones and as a result this is their religion. and that they're not able to differentiate between you know what what's real and what's not. and that's one of the main reasons why we have such a big misinformation problem in india. now britain's upper house of parliament is calling for a digital authority to oversee government bodies in charge of safeguarding the internet the house of lords report says tech companies have failed to regulate themselves facebook is one of the companies under political pressure on thursday it removed more than one hundred thirty profiles and pages which it said so part of

a u.k. based misinformation network the social media firm accuse the network of setting up fake accounts to spread hate speech and divisive debate on religion immigration and race at least one of the fake pages had one hundred seventy five thousand followers now don't trump often talks about fake news during his election campaign and twenty sixteen russians were blamed for targeting u.s. voters and using facebook to widen political and social divisions the following year british university researchers found a counseling to russia spread misinformation on four attacks in the u.k. and last year in india at least twenty seven men were beaten to death when rumors on the messaging site whatsapp wrongly accuse them of being child kidnappers whatsapp users can no longer afford messages to more than five people or groups.

well let's bring in our panel now joining us from new delhi is pocket she's a writer at quartz and dia who covers politics and technology and skewed a netherlands via skype we have technology ethicist no one goes and in london michelle sauce three senior lecturer at king's college london who researches the dissemination and consumption of digital content a very warm welcome to all of you. start with you in the indian capital where you tube is rolling out this new feature how much of a difference do you think it will make to the proliferation of misinformation on you tube and india and then beyond. i think it's definitely a good step that you tube has taken they're rolling out these information panels that contain debunks two bits of misinformation that are circulating on you tube as well as elsewhere and these are populated by the fact checkers that you tube has approved as you know trustworthy sources of fact checks and i think i think it's

a good step definitely but i think some of the. some of the things that it won't reach are are when you videos are embedded for instance in whatsapp chats or circulated on other platforms people will be able to see these information paddles and a lot of misinformation that circulates in india is shared on private chat apps especially whatsapp and so if these information panels are only appearing on search pages that depends basically means that the only people who are going to be seeing them are people who are actively searching on the you tube plot platform and are people who are receiving these videos from other other sources as well we will and i think that broadening out i think it's definitely a good step sorry no please continue so i think broadening out it's definitely a good step. it's definitely a good step that this company is taking and lots of different social media companies have rolled out individual steps towards countering misinformation but

a lot of work still definitely needs to be done in the next couple of months as india approaches its general and we'll of course we talk about what's happened what the other companies are doing and a lot of details but if we do stick with your truth and this feature for a little bit longer mr good a good first step is it in the house could they be doing more and do you think that they should why don't they take the videos down. well i think that's an excellent question because seventy three it's a big step a seventy five you have to ask. if you label a video as hoax is that there can lead people to the assumption that anything not label must be true. at the same time there seems to be a concern that the framing of some videos in one direction sort of implies a counter framing in the opposite direction. so you can imagine that when you will out of that like this you have to keep clear that there is going to be so many more videos so much content again as was previously discussed shared other format that

the craving really has to be thought out much more intricate so i think this is certainly going to keep track of this information about you tube but they do it alone and can they do it at scale the south a cad they do it and can they do it in scale and what do you think of the step of yes i think it is always going to be the issue because you two has literally become the largest platform with. huge numbers of videos out there huge numbers of videos being uploaded every single day and or a small army of human paktika is going to cope with that i think this is a careful balance that needs to be drawn between being completely right which they need to do so that they don't mislabel something which is not fake as fake. and then also managing to catch all the fake radios that are there and the human fact

checker is one way of making sure that they are absolutely sure when something is labeled as fake that it is fake or at least as a very high degree of confidence that you know it's been checked by professionals who are doing fact checking but scale and making sure that it works for all the videos is going to be a huge huge challenge and i really don't see a way to do it without a really good directions and mr how do these companies willing to put in the resources needed to do something like this and also it is a lot easier isn't it to fact check on you tube on facebook on google but not on whatsapp as you mentioned which is private messages and which has been a platform that's been used for i mean. criminal purposes in india. definitely definitely that's a big issue and it's something that. the company has the company has tried to

address the misinformation issue in various ways including but through public education programs ad campaigns basically telling people to share joy not rumors but one thing they've really stood firm on is a big don't want to break and to end in christian because they believe that the privacy that affords it affords their users is something that they're not willing to compromise and so when they come to regulating content on their platform they completely take the actual issue of what that content is out of the question and they only are cracking down on bulk messaging so if i share if i share something with you if it's misinformation they're not going to ban my account or do anything like that but if i'm coordinating multiple like hundreds of different phone numbers to send out messages at an automated automated scale basically that's

the kind of that's the kind of messaging regardless of what the content of it is that they're trying to crack down on and so that's it's one way to sort of target maybe the worst of certain aspects of politically motivated misinformation if you're talking about propaganda that's being spread out by political actors but is it a way to exactly eradicate news that's being circulated on whatsapp that's it's certainly not i think the company has definitely made their stance clear on that and when whatsapp took the step of limiting the ford feature the number of people you could forward messages to following that spate of you know mob killings and india and what's happened was to spread misinformation about child kidnappings did it turn out to be true did introducing this whatsapp feature limiting the forwarding that has an impact. it's difficult to say experts will tell you different

things i mean some experts that i've spoken to say that. it really didn't feel like it made that much of a dent in it especially because most of the misinformation and much of the misinformation problem in india is by people who have a political and often a financial motivation to do it and so if political parties are paying people to circulate misinformation they might just have to invest in a few more hands to do that. but it is something that it is something that if you're talking about people who aren't necessarily actively motivated to spread misinformation but just might otherwise have sent it to everybody in their contacts and now they can only do it to five if you could see it as maybe decreasing the velocity of spreading that kind of misinformation messaging that you look at policies and we've just heard from you know britain's parliament that they're calling for a digital authority and the house of lords report saying that tech companies have

failed to regulate themselves as a digital authority. the onset to better regulation. right and i think there is ways to think about it on the one hand and these companies and certainly become too big too quickly i think certainly faster than they themselves expected and this has given them sort of an outsized role in the public sphere. so you could certainly imagine why we need more steps towards international and national local regulations the mayor at scale at events just the other night asked me about whether they should take it be more active role in play successful media on the other hand though you have to ask why people are engaging in these practices in the first place and you can imagine thinking about things like hoaxes fake news but we're just discussing a whatsapp sort of a canary in the coal mine that maybe this is really play to get larger political issues that are different than additional or technological issues and that really

what we need to think about isn't about the role social media in the public sphere but what it means that social media has in many ways were placed the public square . well i mean that's a much bigger question then isn't it mr sasser now you're no longer looking at where the technology itself is alone to blame or it's it's humans ourselves and our own biases and what we're attracted to. yes i mean so we are all known to be prone to several kinds of bias so there is something called a confirmation bias which is basically you do you ignore things that you don't believe in so if you're let's say a conservative and you see a liberal viewpoint or if you're a liberal and you see a conservative viewpoint and you probably will discount some of the even if they're if they're facts you kind of discount the facts that are being expressed in such cases so i think the real problem as the previous speaker was saying is really

news and information as well as fake news and fake information can spread much faster than it used to be able to spread before and they're being enabled by these digital platforms and so how do we put the brakes on it so that you don't have an internet consequences of it and you know should we demand that the news algorithms don't amplify our worst and stings and again is regulation at least part of the onset to doing that the european commission has been critical of google facebook twitter who signed up to a voluntary code of practice last september and the commission is saying that you know they aren't living up to their responsibilities as a sas three. yes so i think this is this is a very very carefully it should be very carefully thought about because on the one hand there definitely needs to be some sort of figure lation or at least there seems to be some sort of technical policy interventions that need to come in

because the current state of affairs is not really where we want to be on the other hand if you think about the effect that these accusations will have so let's take for instance the words that the limiting the number of forwards so what if there was actually a tsunami going on and i needed to reach a thousand people in ten minutes time and the only way to do that would be to forward it to. all my contacts and they forwarded all their contacts and so forth so by limiting by creating these technical interventions or recreating this policy interventions you are you are also placing brock's on legit demand information which might need to spread if you're broken down on social media you're blocking down on user generated content remember the whole premise the whole exec went to work is the genetic the content was that anybody anywhere could upload anything. back in not just ten years was the first time when before news journalists could

upload or they can use item others were able to make it visible or say going to be affected. democracy as we know it not the modern democracy digital i'm obviously not going to be possible with you if you place too huge a regulatory regime on top of social media this factor i could see wanting to come in earlier. well i just wanted to add that i think i think that another big issue here especially in the indian context is. is the role of the media and the role that the media has to play in all of this and i think if you see a lot of the misinformation that was shared most widely especially recently after the terrorist attack in infrastructure and after the border conflict between india and pakistan a lot of misinformation and out of context videos were shared on news channels in

in both india and pakistan and i think that i think that that's another another type of content that will be difficult for for social media companies to sort of determine whether or not they should take down you know a ten minute clip of a news a new segment that's done if for instance shares if it for instance uses an out of context bit of footage so i think it's it's going to be difficult calls that the social media companies and any regulation that tries to tries to police what type of content should be removed or not will have to sort of set difficult barriers there and that brings us back to something that mr was saying earlier that you know the flow of information misinformation rather it's not just a due to technical factors but human to. how open those who consume false near is fake news whatever you want to call it to being told that

it's not realistic. you know i think that's a very important question because you can imagine. for many people it's possible that they're not even really reading what they're sharing this is why there is such a focus on social media but the headline that is attached and you can see the number as journalists often on social media pushing back this is happened to me actually having to explain you know just just read the article the headlines are not representative see you can certainly imagine that there is something about the nature of social media and the nature. of human biases that sort of creates this sort of unholy alliance where people are sharing without as cliches a sharing without caring really because you know you get more attention more likes and basically every person on facebook sort of operates like a mini facebook sort of advertising themselves trying to package content for as

many eyes as possible so you really have to think about numerous factors simultaneously at work here and the idea that if it's just people not understanding what they're sharing but i think that really misses the point and how do you get a gift and how do you get around something like that you know a round people not understanding what they sharing all as you call it sharing without caring. rattus sighed again this is kind of what i was trying to say earlier that there are larger issues at play and they're trying to sort of retroactively push back against every single misuse in social media possibly basis sort of the social political cultural factors that are really motivating these kind of practices in the first place so i think what really needed to think about is why are people spending so much time on facebook on twitter why are people sharing as

much as they are are are a few biggies really deciding to bogost a who's business on twitter or to really managed to talk this much to each other and really think about you know how quickly culture has transformed and whether we've really caught up to what we're doing it right and until we again figure out and those actually what are much bigger questions while we do spend so much time on social media in this disaster and bring this back to you how do we regulated in a way that is you know over strikes misinformation that is often tending out to be dangerous and having an impact on election around the world while keeping the internet the sort of free and democratic and open to all ideas. i think what's what's happened is as years have gone by the amount of

information that's being thrown out is increasing exponentially so the amount of time that each of us can spend to words any individual piece of information decreases until are just browsing and so if you're just skipping them swiping through hundreds or maybe tens of hundreds of articles every day clearly we're not getting the whole picture and somehow but the only way that you can get at the human aspect of this is. to is to change the way information is being consumed and this is again something that completely goes against the way the u.i. the the. the way in which these platforms have been designed their been designed for us to fall into the top of consuming more and more information because that's how they get that money from by showing us ads that that correspond to the articles that we are seeing and so so maybe the technical level the only way to change this is to change the design of the social media batons that encourages slower reading

more careful thinking and more critical laws that tell you that whatever sasha three months you know what will tech companies do that especially if it's not the way they have made money so far. yes well i guess some part of their business model might need to change at some point they will need to do that and you're on to you're already seeing that they're doing some of this so the fact checking the fact checking by now that it's coming on you tube is a is a good example is a good very initial baby steps are the example of you are encouraging critical thinking abilities so if you're if you're seeing a video in your suitcase think carefully about it sort of like the surgeons it was forming that says you know cigarettes are dangerous and ok we agree not to have very long left in the program and i would like to ask mr and mr gets two very quick questions both with the indian elections coming up imminently you know the world's

biggest democracy and the european parliament elections coming up in may what needs to happen in both places for misinformation to not have a really negative impact on these crucial votes in the south or i'll start with you you have about a minute. yeah i think it's it's a very difficult question and it's important i think ensuring transparency in political in funding of political ads is something that both google and facebook have been pretty proactive in announcing their initiatives for and so that's i think very important thing for ensuring the integrity of election related content on the platform i think i would like to see an expansion of. at least a conversation about expanding the understanding of what kind of content should get taken down from the platform because if for instance hate speech graphic violence and other types of speech are regulated wind maybe why not misinformation if it can be used in such

a violent potentially violent way thank you very much mr good's you have about thirty seconds. misinformation but for the by political entities is actually itself also information so it also kind of gives us some insight into a certain groups think about the public that they're responding to when they give the misinformation so that facebook or you tube or whatever just we're moving in this information actually kind of will mean the fact that these groups which are allied to the first place which itself is its ration that we need. to go thank you very much for that and i want to thank all of i guess for this very important and fascinating discussion it's great to get your expertise on this that's in new delhi nolan gets an m. sc a day and miss out south three and london and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion to go to our facebook page that facebook dot com forward slash a.j. and side story you can also join the conversation on twitter ahead of us at a.j.

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i mean this is difficult to say whether someone is going for someone who's very rich it does matter we need truth i think it's how you approach an individual and that's what it is a certain way of doing it you can just buy a story and fly out. never to give up the fight for freedom venezuela's opposition leader calls for a nationwide march as the country continues to experience a major power blackout. hello

i'm adrian finnegan this is out zero life and also coming up. from home but closely watching the growing crisis we hear from algerians living abroad about their hopes and dreams for their homeland. remembering the tibetan uprising against chinese rule sixty years on we take a look at what's changed. in efforts to contain the a bowl of virus in the democratic republic of congo suffer another set. of venezuela remain without electricity as the battle for political power intensifies mass rallies have been held both for and against president nicolas maduro he's blaming the power and telecoms blackouts of what he called an international cyber attack on the dura says that a coup attempt led by rival. has been defeated the opposition leader is vowing to

legal nationwide march on caracas isabeau is that. it was a protest of territory in the capital of thousands responded to opposition leader call to take over. and area that's been off limits for the opposition because it has been traditionally controlled. by supporters of the i am free though to me was among those trying to convince the police to join in the protest that was we want them to join us because we're the people not the government we're the majority right now that needs change and it's not represented by nicolas maduro. this rally is the opposition's latest move to oppose model government after a failed attempt to get aid into the country with the help of the united states it was gathered in three different parts of that i guess and then made it to this haven't you and now they're trying to make it till the end of this road where

they're supposed to meet opposition leader i want to write about their savings as you can see here that if i have any nationality gods i doubt that. i see a few minutes later people started to push to get the ball of aryan national guard off the street they left the area to avoid a major confrontation i. arrived hours later begging venezuelans not to lose hope i. have said it before the regime wants to wear us out brothers and sisters and yes the road has been very long the road is worn out but we will never tire in the search for freedom or. the protest happened after a major power outage left much of venezuela in complete darkness the first blackout was caused by a failure at the good hydroelectric plant in the state of. electricity supply began

to return on saturday but then power and communications collapsed once again. the government also organized and i'm tight imperialist protests close to the presidential palace he. blamed the opposition and the united states for the power cuts. so clearly. they were conducting highly scientific energy attacks with advanced technology it's what our experts call electromagnetic attacks against the transmission lines to generate interruptions in the process of lashing reconnection. been sway lands are already struggling with an unprecedented economic crisis and the past few days has allowed the opposition to gain ground in areas they were not able to reach before. it is haven't had access to algeria where students say the government's order to

close universities won't deter them from demanding the resignation of president of the lizzie's who's a flicker no official reasons being given for campuses being shot on sunday two weeks before the spring break was due to stars youth are playing a leading role in the biggest protests in the early thirty years the urging eighty two year old beautifully to abandon his decision to run for a fifth term rogerian is living abroad are watching events back home closely more than four million people have algerian origin live in france activists in paris who are supporting that compatriots have been speaking to our correspondent but i should be outlawed. singer abdellatif lau fee was born in algeria but he's lived in france for fifty years he's music draws on the sounds of the sahara region where he grew up. disappoint decades in france abdellatif passionate about how geria he's closely following and supporting the protests there that call

for abdelaziz bouteflika to give up his bid for a fifth presidential term so it's amazing because gere is have seen what happened in the arab world the yellow best seen france what's happening in venice well i'm personally i've been emotional transported i want to go here we were all asking why don't we go in the streets and now finally we are in the streets all together. france is home to the biggest algerian origin population abroad estimated at more than four million people thousands of algerians in france have demonstrated in cities like paris in mass a in a show of solidarity with a compadre it's many of the protesters are you know the legend is now of songs on the algerians living in france have very strong links with their country many left long ago disappointed and wanted to reinvent themselves others came to work and study one day we hope to go home to a new democratic algeria that gives people a future paris now geas have

a close but difficult relationship one way down by history algeria was colonized by the french for more than one hundred thirty years it gained independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty two after an eighteen year war today france is one of algeria's main trading partners the french government has taken a very cautious approach to the situation in algeria the french foreign minister says that paris is of course watching events very closely but the future of algeria king says is not hands of its people. argyria is a sovereign country and it's up to the algerian people and them alone to choose their leaders and their future is on every some say the french government is quietly concerned over further instability in north africa algeria borders libya a major route for people and arms smuggling to europe dillard's he says such fears are unfounded he says that algeria is turbulent past means many people like him

a wary of chaos what they hope for he says is a peaceful transition to a fairer and more harmonious future with al-jazeera paris buddhist government are being blamed for killing nine policemen in myanmar outpost was attacked in the west and rakhine state a group called the army is accused of aiding myanmar's army in persecuting muslims . to bethen activists and human rights supporters a marking the sixtieth anniversary of a tibetan uprising against chinese rule rallies are being held outside tibet in countries including taiwan and india china's could restrictions on tourists and journalists who want to visit the himalayan country critics say there is another side to beijing is repressing the rights of tibetans and as iraq matheson reports on march tenth one thousand nine hundred fifty nine chinese soldiers poured into tibet china says it was liberating the himalayan country it had ruled since one

nine hundred fifty one but it was also suppressing protests against chinese authority which had grown and were becoming more violent tens of thousands of tibetans were reported to have been killed monasteries were destroyed tibet's spiritual leader the dalai lama was forced into exile in india where he remains every march tenth since then demonstrations have been held around the world in support of tibetan independence eternal case in fomenting be any worse create a pivot these represent the anger and we stand up that it happens again six decades of political suppression. they have been denying villages cultural and language right china has placed restrictions on foreigners including journalists visiting tibet. when you go back to those you know six years ago the cia was actually involved in training people radio operatives who were dropped back

into tibet to kind of stir up trouble so from the chinese perspective they don't look on for they don't see that foreigners are necessarily bringing gifts they get they regard it as something that is only means trouble and probably more headaches for beijing. china says it's held sovereignty over tibet for centuries it describes the dalai lama as a separatist supporters of the dalai lama say he doesn't want independence just more autonomy for tibet and what we're seeing now is this a different kind of repression. making footprints can't communicate we've come for calm protest this sort of suffocating atmosphere on sunday the streets of tibet may stay quiet for demands for tibetan independence are heard around the world rob matheson al jazeera. mike sullivan is a professor specializing in modern chinese history at georgetown university here in

care so he joins us now live in the studio max good to have you with us not long back from tibet what is life like for ordinary tibetans well the first impression that anyone would having cute including myself arriving in tibet or near the other tibet and majority regions within the people's relic of china is that there's a lot of new stuff around the streets the infrastructure is beautiful people are living in apartment buildings in many of the new urban centers of tibet and the neighboring provinces of china high gansu or sichuan life is getting better in many ways and the people's republic of china has made enormous investments in the economy and in the infrastructure however course there is a but involved here if you are a tibetan citizen of the people's republic of china you don't feel like an equal citizen with your hand chinese colleagues or friends so a lot of the things that really matter it's about to tibetans like education the

size of their families family planning their careers the job opportunities for their children just who they interact with when they go to a government office and want to get something done. they definitely feel very pessimistic very it's an unpleasant experience and they feel like they don't have a lot of control or or decision making power over their lives so they feel like second class citizens in the room indeed ok we heard in that report the beijing considers the dalai lama to be a separatist. is that their home or separate is what what is it that he wants what is the best and people want independence or just more autonomy and to be treated as equals i think the primary goal of most tibetans would be to receive more respect from the chinese state tactically. receive the privileges which are guaranteed to them by the chinese constitution you know in one nine hundred fifty in one hundred fifty one you know tibet and tibet and read.