facebook it's all very controversial it's all very debatable but what's going to change in this meeting between him and macro at this moment in time because also there's just send ardern the new zealand prime minister wants to come in on this conversation as well doesn't she have to mosque attack in her country. well i'm not sure much is going to change i think it is a an open question whether these corporations these multi-billion dollar sometimes almost trillion dollar corporations are more powerful or whether our democratically elected governments are more powerful we should be doing everything in our power to regulate them as much as possible to break them up to tax them higher to try and pass regulation towards data minimization so that we cut off the thing that feeds them what can we do these are our government strong enough to do things does someone like matt braun who you know said he wants to run trance like

a start up does he even want to actually regulate them or does he maybe after he leaves like obama said after he left the presidency said maybe i'll become a venture capitalist maybe that's what i'll do you know neo liberals love this business model liberals love silicon valley so are they are they even the right people to be regulating them or i don't know what i do know is we can build ethical alternatives to these platforms i mean imagine if these platforms were owned and controlled by everyday people if we each one of us had our own place on the internet for example that we owned then controlled we were in control of our data we decided what we could say and what we couldn't say within the confines of the law if you then incited to hate to a trip to buy land then the police would come right that's just the law but instead of having these c.e.o. kings in charge of both what we can say and what we see and all of our private information we could build technology so that we are in control of all of this why aren't we considering this why aren't we even talking about this indeed is an

interesting debate to have in the future for the moment to a rable combine so much for joining us from la and thank you for taking. a co-founder of facebook says it's time that the company was broken up and regulated chris hughes says mark zuckerberg has too much power for one person writing in the new york times he says the cupboard has a social media monopoly after the acquisition of what's been instagram and he says facebook's problems include sloppy privacy practices and the inability to stop the spread of misinformation and fringe political views he's also wrote he went on the us is a nation with a tradition of reigning in monopolies no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be marx power is unprecedented and american hugh says the government must hold mark accountable accuses politicians of marveling at facebook's explosive growth and overlooking their responsibility to ensure that americans are protected and markets are competitive and he gets even more personal

by saying that mark is a good kind person but i'm angry that his focus on growth led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks while facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications nick clegg responded facebook accepts that with success comes accountability but you don't enforce accountability by calling for the breakup of a successful american company which solves is an attorney at the digital rights group the electronic frontier foundation he says breaking up with pleas can rein in some abuses by increasing competition among tech giants. we do need to get back to competition and forcing facebook to spin off instagram and what's happened to separate companies is one way to do that and probably one of the ingredients that has to be in the mix here another would be to simply leave room for other competitors to arise and take on facebook in its various functions that it provides

whether that ends up being snapped chat or linked in or company based in another country that can come in and fulfill some of those functions what they need is a building for people to migrate off of facebook onto other platforms bring their data with them keep their social graph and their connections to two friends and family with them when they move and then you have competition that will reign in some of these abuses well still ahead. the white house mixes up its. get a spelling lesson. story in school. welcome

back private companies are increasingly challenging national agencies in a new space race u.s. billionaire jeff bezos has revealed revealed a lunar landing hopes will be transporting astronauts to the moon within the next five years victoria gay can be reports. in a few weeks time it'll be fifty years since three american astronauts landed on the moon now the united states is in a new space race with russia and china. but where is the past u.s. rockets to earth's nearest neighbor were funded by u.s. taxpayers multi-billion as such as amazon founder jeff bezos are increasingly

paying for private benches into space speaking to an audience of nasa scientists as well as invest as he unveiled a lunar lander called believe me when he says it could be used to transport equipment and people to the moon in the next five years we've been working on the slander for three years it's a very large lander. well soft landing and precise way three point six metric tons onto the lunar surface. two months ago the u.s. vice president called for a dramatic acceleration in american space exploration mike pence said nothing rockets and other technology could be replaced by alternatives from private companies we have the technology to return to the mon and renew american leadership in human space exploration. what we need now. is urgency.

his comments follow china landing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon for the first time ever in space x. founded by another billionaire musk is due to fly nasa astronauts to the moon later this year and nasa is drawing up plans to establish a future human outpost on the south pole of the moon scientists believe there's enough ice there to use its hydrogen for rocket fuel as well as for drinking water entrepreneurs hoping to sell their technology to the u.s. government space exploration as an opportunity to make money as well as history victoria gay to be al-jazeera. stop support our history and i think somebody who's maybe behind you said hot water yeah best guy. i can name ah has been banned for three matches after lashing out in opposition found at the french cup final incidents on the right occurred as the p.s.g. players went their runners up medals after unexpectedly losing to ren in april the

brazilian not having a great run with the authorities last month he was also banned for three champions league matches next season after criticizing a match official. or both of this year's major european football finals will be all english affairs after another dramatic night on the continent londoners chelsea let's be on the brink of elimination from the europa league semifinals that softer the second leg against frankfurt finished one one and went to penalties the germans went ahead in the shootout but missed their last two efforts chelsea winning four three on penalties to reach their first final since they won it in two thousand and thirteen chelsea will play london rivals also on the final in azerbaijan a hat trick from pier america balmy and got them through their second leg against valencia they're gone as one seven three on aggregate so the all english finals will be also versus chelsea in the europa league spurs versus liverpool in the champions league liverpool's german manager was able to point out the irony as this is all happening with a backdrop of britain's politicians trying to cut

a deal to leave the european union through bricks at. least the big clubs want to stay with all day in europe. you didn't understand that. because the rest of the country does. we don't do quality you don't leave that story it's my language. i really thought it's a good. the philadelphia seventy six was a force the toronto raptors to a deciding game seven of the eastern conference playoff series after they tied it all up at three three over in the west was in championship form as the portland trail blazers avoided elimination from the playoffs they beat the denver nuggets to force a deciding game in their series the lead in simply unstoppable form scoring thirty two points as the blazers bounced back portland trying to get on their first conference finals since the year two thousand one hundred one thousand two hundred eight the final score so game seven awaits back. for me. i'm not

going to miss a know i've never been in the game seven i'm going in there saying i know what this team is capable of know what i have in who i am as a player and you know i'm going to do the job that offending champion golden state warriors have suffered a blow kevin durant is out for at least the rest of the series against the houston rockets he strained his right call for after landing on a jump shot on wednesday gold the state will at least take a three to series late but they'll need someone else to step up big time to fill john shoes. i will just find somebody on the bench you can give us thirty five. two blocks and eleven horns and nine assist. has been the best for her in the n.b.a. in the playoffs it's been phenomenal and so. you know it's obviously a huge loss but our team has won a confidence. and trust each other they want to happen she's together. so

we come out and we give it our best shot. the n.h.l. playoffs the boston bruins came from behind to seal a resoundingly winning game one of the eastern conference final against the carolina hearkens the bruins were two one down in third period for two goals in twenty eight seconds gave them the lead as our empty net goal didn't help the hurricanes cause it finished five two to the bruins to go one step closer to their first stanley cup finals since two thousand and thirteen. rafaela dollars into a quarter final against fell a grand slam win a stand for franca of the beating france's tier folks at the madrid opens spanish world number two hasn't been in dominant form on clay so far this season but it was too much for the american on thursday dell winning six three six four hoping to challenge for his sick title in injury. it's now one thousand two hundred career wins for roger federer although he was made to sweat for it against caramel feast the french open before one late in the deciding set federal saving too much

points winning on the tie break he'll play dominant team for a place in this that means. the boston red sox met donald trump at the white house on thursday with that manager alex cora who is the latest to snap the u.s. president on political grounds now the rest seemed to enjoy themselves although trump was careful not to repeat the errors of some of his stuff in the build up were good afternoon my pleasure to welcome. to the white house the two thousand and eighteen world series champion the boston red sox very special group of people. well china may think the red sox a special of the the white house managed to spell the name wrong on the web site socks like the ones you put on the fates rather than s o x trying to demonstrate the correct spelling though the white house website also i call them the world cup series champions white house aides perhaps mixing up socks with soccer. all right

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a few years ago there was place only for one state on the land of israel all you do not believe in a two state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we will show you i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't black and white there's a lot to graze in here join me mad the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories on the big issues here on al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump says the new trade tariffs against china will make his country stronger as beijing threatens counter measures. alone so robin you're watching i was there a long while. headquarters here in the are coming up in the next thirty minutes

a saudi vessel leaves france without collecting it shipment of weapons following protests over the military campaign in the yemen. also two french soldiers were killed while rescuing foreign hostages from a rebel group in the key the first so. africa's ruling a.n.c. loses some support but retains its lead in the general election. welcome to the program the trade war between the world's top two economies is escalating donald trump's the latest threat is to impose tariffs on nearly all chinese imports that's after the u.s. more than double tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of products made in china trade negotiators are in washington for a second day of talks hoping to reach a settlement among his many tweets trump says terrorists will bring in far more wealth to our country than even a phenomenal deal of the traditional kind also much easier and quicker to do our

farmers will do better faster and starving nations can now be helped waivers on some products will be granted or go to a new source while for more on this let's join kimberly health care to use been following a rapidly developing story because the president seems to be really full steam ahead when it comes to these chinese trade tariffs i mean he's been saying a lot more hasn't. yeah this is a series of early morning tweets you just eliminate some of them there are the usually indicates that the president despite saying that he is optimistic about these talks is actually showing very publicly his frustration in the fact that there has not yet been an agreement the president essentially in his early morning flurry of tweets defending the fact that there is the potential for american consumers to feel the impact of the heightened tariffs on chinese goods into the united states he says as you point out that this will potentially create far more

wealth then even a negotiated trade deal but that is certainly something that would be debated by business leaders as well as the president's critics now this is even exacerbated by the fact that china itself is indicated that it may take countermeasures so in all of this there is certainly a lot of concern here in the united states to be clear there is still a feeling that a solution can be worked out as these negotiations continue the u.s. president said he received a letter from president xi that indicated there was a desire to work out a deal and we should also note in all of this that these higher tariffs that have now gone into effect on chinese goods they really only impact the goods that now begin to leave china on friday so that means those shipments that are already en route to american shores would not be impacted so there is hope that there is a chance for a last minute solution but again the stakes are very high for both sides to do various contributors to through the kimberley have suggested. rolling back

the tare of so it isn't something that can be done very quickly again it's negotiation to. yeah there's no question that anything that happens one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that nothing happens quickly everything takes time to implement but as donald trump often does in these situations where there is sort of a high stakes negotiation he has in these tweets thrown gasoline on the fire again if you will by suggesting even causing some alarm among the markets and business leaders of extending twenty five percent tariffs on a further three hundred twenty five billion of goods from china so essentially what this means is this could mean when you look at the exports to the united states from china last year was about five hundred forty billion all of those could be subject to tariffs so the president is certainly putting on the pressure and that is making things tough for negotiators as they try to finalize some sort of

solution for the believer but can believe force how could the d.c. . china says it regrets washington's latest horrify could get its chinese goods the government fails to respond with similar countermeasures but did not give any details beijing. it was just after midday beijing time the china and united states move closer to a full blown trade will not that many people seem to notice in this busy beijing market shoppers we spoke to say the trade war hasn't so far affected what they've by but it has affected the way some now think about the united states and nationalist sentiment is building it in which it isn't it is the america's normal practice to bully others how to money countries always do this buttoned down but what can tell you when we get strong enough america we're not even think about bombing us he's referring to what happened twenty years ago this week when u.s.

missiles struck china's belgrade embassy during nato's bombardment of yugoslavia killing three chinese journalists nato called it an accident china called it an act of war and still does here in china it's a year of political and emotionally charged anniversaries the most important one falls in october when people mark seventy years since the foundation of the people's republic a year in which china's leader has to appear strong especially over trade if you don't agree. with what you were china knows what it's like to be on the losing side in a real trade war in the mid nineteenth century it lost two to britain which was trying to force china to buy opium a humiliating episode of chinese history and one to which president xi jinping often refers to today the trade war with the united states is one more concern in

a critical year at the economic expectational is that khan is gonna be there a week there's fine. risks from her risks are rising and the housing market is not particular straw either so what we're looking at is a fragile economy and a very difficult situation from outside they've been dismantling the old u.s. embassy in beijing its diplomats move to a vast complex on the other side of the city years ago but this week of all weeks chinese workmen began knocking down the old building a fitting metaphor perhaps for the state of sinaloa u.s. relations adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. the former president of interpol is to face trial for corruption in china bank hallways accused of accepting lavish bribes when he was a government minister in china before taking the top job but europe's police agency disappeared last summer while visiting china is wife dismisses what she calls

politically motivated allegations a saudi ship which was due to load weapons and france a cell without its cargo human rights protesters say the shipment contravenes an international arms treaty or investigative site published leaked french military intelligence that showed a weapons sold to the saudis were being used civilians in the war in yemen well the president of france has defended for a job sells to saudi arabia allies the united arab emirates. is something we did on to some commit or to the arms that have been sold or used within the scope of the conflict nevertheless i would like to say here that what was reiterated is the guarantee for the arms not to be used against civilian populations. has the latest from london. francis that is by no means the only european country which is wrestling with its own one on the one hand it's conscience and the other on the other hand its economic well being on this france is the world's third largest arms

exporter and although scandinavian countries and germany have decided they don't want and will not sell weapons to saudi arabia because of the war in yemen france is one of several other countries such as the u.k. and spain who are prepared to continue to sell weapons to saudi arabia the french president of our macron insists he has received guarantees and i use that word guarantees from the saudis that the weapons being sold by france to saudi will not be used against civilian populations but the cargo that was being shipped overseas planned to be shipped from large on friday has not happened and it was being challenged in the french courts by two separate human rights groups as to the legitimacy of the shipment and now we see from two separate vessel tracking websites that the boat itself the body young blue saudi registered cargo ship which was due to pick up the cargo has now turned tail after spending about twenty four

hours at anchor off and has turned tail and is now its destination now the french quarter sorry the spanish port of suntan there so it appears for the moment that that shipment is on ice although i suppose the question in everybody's minds now is whether it's simply not going that route and the french are going to try and find another route for it. for foreign hostages have been freed by french soldiers and bikie to far so two soldiers were killed during the operation in the north western region of the west african state the elysee palace says the hostages included two french citizens an american and a south korean natasha butler has the latest from the french capital. where they lease a pushout say communique paying tribute to the two french soldiers special forces who were killed on thursday friday night during. a raid to release some hostages in bikini fast so the defense ministry also reacting paying tribute to their courage and their service now four hostages were actually free to drink this rage there was

a south korean one american and two french citizens we don't know anything for the time being about the american and south korean citizens but in terms of the two frenchmen we know that they had been on holiday and been in south of the king of fast so last week on may the first they left their hotel accommodation and were heading to a wildlife park with their guides now they didn't return and that was when the alarm was raised now their tour guide was later found shot dead the four wheel drive that been traveling in was found across the border in became a fast so it was it was burnt out now we've heard a bit from some of the the relatives of those two frenchmen apparently they are in good health and they will be returning to france this weekend in terms of who took these two frenchmen hostage who is behind this kidnapping we don't know only the french french government has said in the past that armed groups of course operational in the area they want citizens in the past not to travel to certain

parts of west africa for this very reason but one of the questions which will really be raised over the next few days and weeks is how it is the two french soldiers were killed in such an operation these were special forces soldiers they were highly skilled highly trained they both had experience in the saddle region and for now we don't know the circumstances of their death but i think that will be a question that many will want to want to ask particularly their families. but in south africa the ruling african national congress has to be the winner of wednesday's general election but with nearly all of the. vote since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago the main opposition democratic alliance won almost a quarter of the vote passed more from the capital for toria. more than ninety percent of the votes cast in are being counted and we're getting the results as they're counted up on the screen.