which special forces are operating in the region the you have a training mission in mali there are also u.s. special forces although the pentagon no longer gives any numbers of how many there are in that region and we believe the number has been draw down significantly in recent months so lots of different efforts of the international community but nothing that seems to be particularly well coordinated giving given the scale now of this problem across so many countries. but as imagined earlier one issue is the escalation of violence in bikini fassel because her care is the latest from the capital we're going to. there's been really an increase in intensification of attacks not just in brooklyn and faso in neighboring mali in the share and also in bin then of course a lot of countries including france the former colonial power are calling for 4

more more armies more boots on the ground and just in december the g 5. convene a meeting and there was pledge of a half a $1000000000.00 in aid for the security sector so far only $63000000.00 from the european union has been disbursed now according to the united nations here there is 1.2 children that are in urgent need of assistance there's been 200000 people displaced so yes this is an emergency situation that's being played out out of sight deep in the health and really that the whole u.n. security council and the government here in britain of us are really trying to alert the international community to try to help them with this situation. still to come on al jazeera. allegations of war crimes in libya we speak to the sea international which says it has the evidence to prove it i'm here in sri lanka to find out what's behind the recent wave of attacks against muslim minorities.

how i regret some sherry right once again coming into parts of the middle east iran could see some showers longer spots of right there but a cloud showing up here this is where we will see some thunder downpours from time to time they are reason the way the a switchy come back into iraq baghdad 41 degrees celsius so the heat remains on pleasantly warm around the levant stabbed 28 celsius the beirut december temperature there for jerusalem over the next complet days may well with those showers that we have into iran there could be cropping up anywhere around central and southern parts of the country as we go on through saturday pushing over towards afghanistan to minister because dan can see some showers over the next as

a temp just typically into the mid twenty's going up into the mid thirty's across the raven put it so that means we're calling down that she's a fair bit of cloud just around the gray that eastern side of saudi arabia. let me say the cloud you could catch a spot or 2 of rain nothing much to speak of it is going to be there nevertheless and you can say that goes through friday and on into saturday not too much right in the forecast for south africa over the next couple of days much of southern africa seem pretty much plenty of sunshine a little bit of cloud down towards the fos out dublin with a high of 23. russia has jeopardized the united states security interest we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. into the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft. russian goals will be

achieved not peace and. russia all knowledge is the. you're watching all of us here a quick reminder of the top stories this hour. at least 6 civilians have been killed in say to you the coalition air strikes in iraq and yemen's capital sana'a the coalition insists the military positions were targeted but residential neighborhoods have also been bombed. saddam's military rulers have suspended talks with process leaders for 3 days the opposition to demand civilian rule colter

decision regrettable. and egypt's military says it's killed 47 armed men in multiple raids across north and central sinai hundreds of explosive devices and other weapons were seized and more than 150 people were arrested. and the rights group amnesty international says it has evidence war crimes may have been committed in libya. the warlords have to or has waged a 6 week long offensive to capture the capital tripoli from the un recognized governments of the state has gathered witness statements and compiled satellite images which it says reveal unlawful rocket attacks on a neighborhood of tripoli the group is calling for an international investigation well earlier we spoke to mark dillon i'm a crybaby who is deputy director of middle east and north africa at the city international she says several attacks have been launched on civilian areas and

migrant attention censors. we believe best then szell area residential neighborhood where no obvious military target was identified where being targeted with unguided and precise. rockets we've also looked at 2 attacks that have struck my ground tension center. including an airstrike at a warehouse the city located in ringback the immediate vicinity of an immigration detention center as well as a direct attack against migrants and detention and refugee sorry being detained in a immigration detention center in tripoli our research has revealed that you know both d.n.a. as well as the t.n.a. . include $107.00 millimeter rockets as

well as gradual interest in their arsenal the fragments of those rockets have been found at the site as you know the indiscriminate rocket attacks that we have identified in the abu salim area the other side in an area though it is it's also it is controlled by forces affiliated with a government of national accord according to eyewitness testimony that we have collected no fighters were being present in the area at the time. meanwhile if i have to is and it's a way where he met with prime minister just epic conti contacts press concerns about the situation in libya and has appealed for a ceasefire and its lee has a stake in libya's oil industry and has been pushing for a political solution to the conflict there are reports there will be in paris to meet president emanuel. next week. now the u.n.

says at least 10 palestinian refugees were killed when rockets hit their camp in syria's aleppo province 4 children including a 6 year olds are among those killed 30 others are believed to be wounded shankar's government says the country is nigh peaceful enough that it can lift nationwide's evening curfews that have been in effect since monday they were imposed after gangs attacked mosques and muslim businesses the government says hardline buddhist groups are under investigation over the attacks and smith reports from the combo in northern sri lanka a chat with almost any village monk will give you an idea of the challenge sri lanka faces in repairing relations between its muslim minority and buddhist majority population i began we'd like to talk with muslim and muslim community leaders to have a discussion and live in a mickle way to be able to live harmoniously muslims need to realize this is not arabia this is sri lanka in sri lanka has a culture in

a civilization and it identity 31 man from this village or in police custody after violence in northwestern sri lanka on monday. open under their oath says the men were protecting the village and didn't attack muslim properties 9 mosques were vandalized and hundreds of businesses in more than 30 towns and villages were ransacked by what witnesses described as sin healy's young men a sailor wickramasinghe is not vines or to one of the buddhist nationalist political groups that are now the focus of government criticism after this week's violence if i go to saudi arabia if i say i am a buddhist person i need the right. if you balk like that what will happen to you. saw me how do i understand the reality i had this is the mad already the movies people are saying that is the norm now the real muslim people they understand the video of a police raid on

a mosque where large knives were seized spread quickly on social media it's thought this helped fuel anger so the government shut down access to apps including whatsapp and facebook but we're missing a says the government hasn't done enough to calm the tension if someone said this there is a way. in this must see them you know on these muslim houses then of course emotionally raw trying to protect our children right so we we xpect from the government to take a necessary action. this control this current situation at st sebastian church in the gumbo they're continuing to repair the damage caused after one of the 8 easter sunday suicide bombers blew himself up here he killed more than 100 of the 253 people killed in a series of coordinated explosions across the country most of the victims of the

bombings and christians but they're not the ones that have been involved in this week's attacks on muslims rather one minister is blaming buddhist extremists trying to tarnish the reputation of the government. al-jazeera on the gambo in western sri lanka. the venezuelan government says holds and talks with what it calls the democratic parts of the opposition both parties were invited separately to meet in norway for discussions to possibly solve the political impasse in caracas and of the blockade tried to prevent supposition they just want quiet off from entering the national parliament on wednesday quite who has been leading a campaign to overthrow president nicolas maduro the government's. now hundreds of facebook and instagram accounts pages have been deleted for seeking to influence foreign politics facebook says it trace the origins of the accounts too and is really a company that's been banned from using the platform users from countries in west africa latin america and so feature appeared to be target the targets of the

campaign says the israeli company spence near the a $1000000.00 on and for its. well condition karen is a researcher at the digital friends and research lab at the atlantic council and joins us now on skype from new delhi kennie's you've been looking into this what does your initial analysis of these accounts tellers. yeah so my colleagues and i have been looking into these accounts the top line assessment we've been able to make so far is that the pages misrepresented themselves using fake identities and different identities by acting as local news organizations hauling websites and support me just for local politicians. there was also an instance of a troll page. that was aiming to push campaign against the

who who booker who is a former vice president of nigeria and. a presidential candidate for the general elections in nigeria 21000. now in terms of the senses here and with india specifically does it suggest a widespread school ordinated attempt to influence the elections and have a large an operation is this. if you look at the scale of. the amount of ad spend by these 8 is a is definitely one of the largest operation bieber seen so far and also sheds light on the different countries that the operation was targeting. and which which countries are they targeting i mean what's the a move this of this attempt to influence elections. yeah so we've we've looked so some of the reasons that we found so far is. is northern operate

we found latin america we found some instances of indonesia specifically in south asia. and. as of now a. campaign was aimed at garnering more engagement and was basically for my tory purposes we'll be putting out a detail analysis of the report. so that will kind of shed more light on how the operation was and what the operation notice is that sorts cut you off just this is suggests an increased vigilance from facebook the fact that this number of pages has been cool so they being more reactive. yes i mean facebook has been being facebook is being more reactive on. their you know accounts and he does that or while waiting there to meet the standards. we've seen more take

downs than ever. and they've stayed down particularly highlighted. you know. who. are going to as ations are attempting or even are trying to attempt to interfere with elections around the world ok and that vacillate again sites that thank you so much you're going to carry on joining us there from new delhi thank you thank you. now you see this truly aware the woman bunts is one of the country's most loved native animals but while of life authorities say they're under threats from a face oh and painful disease while my population of one national park has to quine's by 94 percent in just 6 years bruce reports now from a strictly a southern state off tasmania see how his back legs or only snakes warmbloods are under attack from a contagious parasite called suck up to my left untreated the results are

horrendous the mind works with a community action group to try and tackle the disease we've seen them disappear in the hundreds just in this area admittedly this is the worst area probably but it's not oscillated into this area tasmania's durant's appear national park and the surrounding forests a ground 0 for the worst recorded outbreak the one that population in this national park declined by 94 percent in just 6 years all because of mines. in an attempt to save the population volunteers placed flaps outside borrowers then put a sheep lice treatment on them every week. strain scientists are working on more effective medicines at the moment if we want to treat a woman at a minor while on that we have to use treatments so we have to deliver every week and it's really challenging to do that consistently so what we're trying to look at as a longer lasting single treatment that can protect individuals for up to peps 3 months

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list when 20 is no doubt in my mind the strain government has no national major monitoring program but says the disease is being adequately controlled however few states have. populations and that's heartening the concern of wildlife carers draw ambrose al-jazeera. on for more you can catch that one a one east film the whisper by true ambrose that will air at 2230 g.m.t. this thursday right here on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. at least 6 civilians have been killed in saudi coalition air strikes in and around yemen's capital sana'a the coalition says city military positions were targeted but residential neighborhoods have also been bombs saddam's military rulers have suspended talks of process

leaders for 3 days the opposition alliance which has been demanding civilian rule has called the decision regrettable because the 8 years are still trying to decide who should head the council that will oversee a transition periods before you elections are held egypt's military says it's killed 47 armed men in multiple raids across north and central sinai hundreds of explosive devices and other weapons were seized and more than 150 people were arrested 5 soldiers were also killed in the offensive. the u.n. security council is holding talks on the recent spate of violence in the south whole region of west africa for kenya faso is representing 5 countries in the region and asking the council members for help to combat armed groups operating there the meeting in new york fall's wednesday's attack in the air which killed 28 soldiers after they were ambushed. the rights group amnesty international says it has evidence war crimes may have been committed in libya and the city has got

a witness statements and compiled satellite images which it says reveal unlawful rocket attacks on a neighborhood of tripoli the group is calling for an international investigation meanwhile warlord for the for have there is in italy where he met prime minister giuseppe conti the u.n. says at least 10 palestinian refugees were killed when rockets hit their camp in syria's aleppo province 4 children including a 6 year olds are among those killed 30 others are believed to be wounded. hundreds of facebook and instagram accounts and pages have been deleted for seeking to influence foreign politics facebook says it trace the origins of the occurrence to an israeli company has been banned from use in the platform users from countries in west africa latin america and say things appeared to be the targets of the campaign facebook says the israeli company spent nearly a $1000000.00 on the adverts well those are the headlines to stay with us on

al-jazeera the news continues after inside story. a christchurch call to action world leaders in tech firms place to work together to eliminate violent content online but the u.s. says the plan for in street speech ain't going to endorse it so will this campaign work this is insight story. and welcome to the program fully back to the worst attack in new zealand's history

has found a global plage to fight a violent content online 51 people were killed in march when a gunman opened fire to mosques in the city of christchurch the shooting was streamed live on facebook which was criticized for failing to stop the spread of the video 2 months saw new zealand is leading what's being described as the christ church call to combat hate speech and violent content on the internet social media firms in 1000 governments have signed on but the u.s. is refusing to endorse it saying the campaign threatens free speech or bringing our guests in just a moment but 1st the tosh about now has this report from paris. at the least say powerless the french president a new zealand's prime minister who stood a summit aimed at encouraging governments and tech giants to crackdown on violence and hate speech online representatives of internet companies including facebook twitter and google and world leaders signed a pledge called the christ church call the pledge to better regulate online content

was named after the city where a gunman killed 51 muslim worshippers in march and live streamed the massacre on facebook if you decide our objective was simple that what happened in christ church should never happen again it was not merely an acceptable terrorist attack but of promotion what the internet into mushing aiming to destroy any form of cohesion in . order and said facebook had already responded to the pledge by announcing it would limit lifestream access for some users she also said tech company officials promise to do more to remove violent posts impose new standards and review the way in which he uses a directive to content online never before have countries and companies come together in the wake of her africa tech to commit to an action plan that will deliver collaboratively work in new technology built to make our communities

ultimately safer 18 governments signed the pledge but not the united states white house officials said it would curb free speech the decision by washington not to sign up to the pledge will no doubt be disappointing for our den and macro nevertheless they will hope that this summit needs to better international regulation of online content but the pledge is non-binding it leaves in force mint and the setting of rules up to the good will of motivation of tech bosses and political leaders this internet expert says is not only companies and governments that must act more responsibly but also individuals. don't don't who we've all witnessed always harassment violence racism so it's up to people to show discontent out by reporting it as the companies they've got algorithms that they can target related to content influence should favor positive content but the christchurch cool highlights growing frustration amongst governments and citizens with

relatively unfettered online powers of tech companies are doing is campaigning for what she calls a humane internet and not one that fosters real and devastating violence it's. just sarah paris as we mentioned governments around the world and tech firms have committed to ensuring that effective counter-terrorism laws are in place and that measures are taken to remove what they describe as extremist content online to do this facebook amazon google twitter and microsoft say they will implement 9 steps this includes updating their rules to stop the distribution of violent content and introducing new restrictions for live streaming but the christchurch call says any action taken should not violate fundamental human rights including freedom of expression. well let's bring in our guests now for today's show joining us on skype from stood god in germany oh in

any hand as researcher on online extremism in oslo beyond iowa specialists on violent extremism and a survivor of a shooting attack in no way in 2011 and from cork in ireland also on skype. on a digital rights activist and author of the ethical design manifesto gentlemen welcome to you all thank you so much for being on inside story oh and if i can start with you what do you make of this place by government leaders and tech companies is this a good 1st step to tackling online extremism i think it's a hugely inspirational document aspirational i think it's correct that. where leaders are asking tech companies to step up to their social responsibilities i think it's going to be incredibly difficult to implement this and we do have something of a precedent here in germany where net laws commit to effect in january of this year

. against hate speech and companies such as facebook can be fined up to 50000000 euros if they don't remove posts and already we're seeing similar discussions here as we're bound to see around speak free speech with this move beyond iowa and also your thoughts governments and tech companies coming together is this a good thing will these guidelines in your view eventually lead to a better regulating the internet. i think it's definitely a good move and a good show of intent that tech companies and governments are coming together i think they have come together many years ago and have been working on this and kind of less of work ways google started i guess final extremism and it doesn't 11 as their effort to counter rounds extremism themselves as one of the tech giants who brought together survivors former extremists governments and take up unease so this

is an effort has been going on for quite some time including whether global internet forum to counter terrorism which brings together a lot of the tech companies as well i think one of the weaknesses hair is the same weakness we've had in the field of countering violent extremism has always done. violent extremism itself is not very clearly defined and so there is a good show intent that we want to counter our stream isn't itself but we need to know what it is that we want to counter in order for dot not to be abused in order to limit freedom of expression or human rights it is very interesting that you make that point. in court before we get to this issue all free speech and free expression that the united states has raised i just want to get your thoughts on what was played in paris i mean as bjorn said they have been previous attempts to regulate online content in the past do you think that the nobody coordinated effort can really work every country after all has its own approach national tradition

can't can a global effort is this realistic. i personally don't think that we're talking about the right things here i mean i read the christ church call there is a lot in there that's not just about the technology but about addressing the social issues that lead to violent forms of extremism into extremism and those are very well i think when it comes to technology what i'm seeing is that they don't necessarily understand the technology now we're calling for a more humane answer that by definition that's not a corporate internet and yet we have we are risking here entrenching this system that we currently have which is shown as above call surveillance capitalism these tech giants that we keep talking about we are at risk of entrenching the system that they've created as the only answer next we use them interchangeably we conflate google and facebook with the internet and more dangerously with the potential of what the internet could be if it wasn't try to their very shortsighted

corporate agendas i don't think we're talking about the right things we're not talking about the kind of alternatives we could have where these issues would necessarily not be issues to begin with the trade ideas we need with these big companies so should it shouldn't stocked with google and facebook because they're the big ones after all what we should definitely be regulating them but regulation doesn't necessarily mean inviting them to the table it doesn't necessarily mean code regulation which is what we're seeing with macron and in france for example and facebook because that could very easily mean for example the government of france or other governments getting access the data and the algorithms and the platforms of these companies which they could then use for other purposes for example censorship for example for surveillance because these companies are surveillance companies to begin with and you know in my view the only thing more dangerous than these corporations having all of this information is a government with an army and a police force attached having all of this information in my view it is us as

individuals that should have ownership and control of our own. and data world should belong to all of us in the comments but we're not talking about these my ellen do you agree with alan c. they have that you know if you want to regulate online content you should necessarily invites these big giants like facebook and google to the table and that individual should have big a say in how it's regulated i think we have to deal with what's in front of us and right now facebook twitter in particular. they have is correct to have unbelievable coward to influence public opinion even elections and so on so i absolutely agree to that is a direction maybe we have to evolve towards but right now i think we have to deal with what's in front of us and i do have concerns with facebook and twitter at being at the table here i think that we're at an all time low and levels of trust with these 2 companies particularly as alluded to facebook's handling of data and

information and so i think it's going to be a very very hard sell especially in the united states i think we're quite polarized across the west in most countries but in the united states in particular i think it's going to be a very hard sell where we do have a right to free speech in trying to wear it conversations around these are often highly. toxic for want of a better word and i think also you know another an issue here is where this idea is seen to be coming from i can already see that there is mention of the 2nd their 2nd amendment rights in the united states and with guns we have just said to her who's presenting this motion who famously banned assault rifles in new zealand less than one to after day christ church tax and a lot of again we're going to see a lot of this get tangled up in 1st and 2nd amendment. squabbling but let me be

your very own do you think the u.s. concerns are laid. i meant the us said i said it won't join this call because of concerns over free speech protection this is said and you have a concern yes i think this legitimate concern i think the us has chosen to replace is to ignore him rights in the battle against its terrorism a violation of the past so i don't know whether or. how genuine the concern is from their side but it is a legitimate concern to be concerned of are. essentially pledges or legislation dot . de facto limiting what you can say under the very vague definition of what violent extremism as we have seen several times and other parts of the world among others in turkey. the term violent extremism is termed terrorist is being used against political opposition and that's deeply problematic and one of the reasons why human rights is something that needs to be pursued preserve the need to be part of the conversations also within the tech giants and as these conversations and i

know for a fact that facebook twitter and google are having very serious conversation about the implications of their policies when it comes to removing violent content because it's also very difficult to tell from a moderator perspective as well has from an artificial intelligence moderators perspective or moderators perspective whether something is a terrorist attack or whether something is terrorist propaganda or whether it's documentation of abuse from abuse of government for instance and so it's very important that those companies are present in those conversations and also present in the conversations about human rights and they're all taking part and conferences the forums on that they're all present at the u.n. g.a. they're all present that's also a freedom forum that's taking place in the couple weeks and so i'm very happy to invite those companies to take part in the conversations that we're having in the civil society sphere and the policy is fair to to really kind of open up the

dialogue about what we mean by violent streams and what do they mean by the deletion of hollis's how do we pursue. serve the values that we want to preserve against violent extremism without going down the route of using the means by on the streams or using it against the rest of the world by denying people human rights are all your thoughts on this particular point the point that there is a difficulty to define what midget amid free speech is what makes him an expression of radical ideas as and when it actually tapes over into something more sinister like terrorism and you also think that the us concerns are legitimate is it a genuine concern that the americans have made about this well i think we can all agree that the trumpet ministration never does anything for the right reasons you know this is an administration that's called the free press the enemy of the people so please don't don't like to us about free speech you're the last people to be doing that right now but yes the concerns about free speech are legitimate but they start way before you know what we have lost on the corporate internet today is the

public sphere so we look at these platforms like facebook and google and we think that they are parks they're not they're shopping malls so we already have lost a great amount of freedom of speech on these platforms because the only freedom of speech you have on a commercial product form just like in a mall is what the proprietor of that platform allows you to have so i guess the questions we need to ask ourselves is do we want them to be better censors do we want them to be better filters of our reality or is it time to start you know regulating them of course breaking them up making them pay taxes like big tobacco why aren't we talking about these things reducing their harms as much as possible of course but also we need to invest in ethical alternatives alternatives that are owned and controlled by civil society by individuals alternatives that lead to a healthy commons a healthier environment and going to hit me when not quite over there yet yet there was as we start cosmonauts and many c.s.a.

have been at this stage is that the government i mean the european union has tried to do this different. those laws to to fight against extremism online that require platforms for instance to take down any terrorism related content within an hour of a notice being issue and all the company risks a fine can this european model be applied elsewhere on the global stage well i think what we need to do is we need to separate these tech giants and regulate them separately and be very clear that our regulation is for these centralized data harvesting companies so that we don't by accident also destroy the potential of a decentralized internet because the we can build technology differently we can build it's so that we have privacy and we can have freedom of speech so imagine for example that every one of us had our own place on the answer that's that we owned and controlled that people could find us using a domain name for example you know let's let's make domain names noncommercial

let's make it sort of everyone can get a domain name for free let's subsidize webspace sort of people can have their own spaces let's build platforms where that are ants and encrypt it so we can privately talk to one another let's start incentivizing beast things and make sure that the regulations we have to curb the harms of the centralized tech giants today don't in any way hinder the potential of a free and open and decentralized internet in the future because that's the real danger that i see here right oh and your thoughts on what owen. has just said. just to return to this idea of a viable model i do believe this this german model that we have here would most likely be a blueprint for whatever. will take effect from all of this if there are if there is anything in 4 star brought into law from this but just on that i think again to go back to decide free speech it is the heart of all of this and just as an example

here in germany already we've. we've had several cases where people have run afoul of this new law one of them being an titanic such erico magazine which. put out tweets mocking they head of the if t. here in germany you are writing as she tweets in her voice and they actually got that and it was taken down under these laws so we're going to have a lot of issues like this and. we are i think that medicare commitment to working on. artificial intelligence which again i i don't see that we're there yes we don't have any form of artificial moderation that's seems to work a 2nd issue i think here with free speech is what what are our basic definitions you know i think that what is extremism what is terrorism and so i talk about a lot trust and one of the key things when we have these 2 massive players twitter

and facebook but look at table and i can seders old there is they're very polarizing figures there's a lot of toxicity on their platforms and their users are quite polarized also i think this one of the issues we're going to have here is what is extremism and up until recently noted party company a lot of the figures of extremists on these platforms were supply by the. s.p.l. see southern poverty law center and the anti-defamation league. which and how being accused of being political themselves and so that's going to be an issue how do we define i nees and how do we separate those definitions from let me ask beyond about what he thinks specifically about that beyond some would say that most social the mainstream social network has become more aggressive about removing for instance pro eisel content pro i so content from the average uses feet but that far right

extremism and white nationalism continue to thrive on some of these platforms how do you explain this i mean as they've been too much full focus you think on on radical so-called radical islam and not enough on on far right extremists. so i think there's been a lot more focus on this one is extremism and also in the terms of their their constant that's been the easier if you like for for western common western governments to define islamist extremism as something that is by while a far right extremism kind of fringes on what is happening in the in the mainstream political sphere right now and so the distinctions between the far right extremism and western europe the u.s. etc and what's happening in the mainstream political fare is getting blurred and so it becomes very difficult to remove far rights contant without necessarily also

removing compton's study might be from people who exist within the political sphere and so then it becomes that this starts bordering on on censorship of the political discourse which is tricky i think what's needed to be done as essentially to to try to define more clearly what values we want our societies to embrace and to clearly define those in a way where we don't accepts ideologies dot's don't accept the universality of human rights and so my definition of violation is always been those who do not accept the universality of human rights and one way of dealing with saying that those people who speak out against the freedom of on the basis of their origins order religion zestra those are infringing on that and they are.

and so. we needs those definitions and we needs to understand where we want to stand but also these big tech platforms need to clearly define where day stand and and kind of define what is next. after but within the realm of that this course what falls within the political discourse and what falls outside of it. and another kind of way of approaching that as to not necessarily define it as something that should be censored directly but something that should be. prioritized differently in the sorting algorithms that are behind the feeds that you see online as something that we can essentially decide on the platforms to not necessarily promote in the same way as we are right now by right now we are having these online platforms we're having twitter we're having huge you were having facebook etc that are promoting the constant style is driving the most reactions and so the most

outrageous constant is to content that gets the most most attention right and that happens to be largely things that fringes on violence or streams content as well so it becomes a really kind of difficult conversation to have about what are the priorities of the companies what art of currencies of society and how do we best can mitigate the threats of violence and without also infringing on freedom of expression in the freedoms have a political discourse ads diversity ok i'll give you the last word because we're running out of time you've told us about some of the ways that we could regulate online hate speech but what do you say to those who say that we're finding a losing battle here and what do you think the top priority should be for governments i know you don't believe that tech companies should be on the table but what should governments do as a top priority right now well we are losing that we are fighting a losing battle and the reason we're fighting a losing battle is because we have

a total failure of imagination we're being reactive and only reactive our policymakers don't understand the technology and don't understand what's possible with technology these big tech giants are at the table but who's not at the table we're not i'm not are not for profit that's trying to create. decentralised ethical technologies is not at the table why aren't we at the table why aren't we taking part in these conversations so just send if you're listening i'm more than happy to help why are you asking us to help so what can we do we can stop and we can start to think differently we have a climate emergency right now we have a habitat loss emergency and what we also have is a person who had emergency and a loss of our commons and our experion march at sea so i think what we need to do is stop being reactionary stop with business as usual and try to imagine a future in which we're not limited to an internet that's owned and controlled by a handful of western corporations thank you so much for your thoughts thank you

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saddam's military suspends talks with protest leaders are transition to civilian rule. egypt the military says it has killed dozens of armed men in a series of operations in the troubled sinai region. and the disease threatening a strictly as one but population. kids have you will. the say do you recall the shin has launched several airstrikes in and around the yemeni capital sana'a the coalition insists hooty military positions were targeted but residential neighborhoods have also been forms at least 6 civilians all from one family and including women and children have been killed. as more. for the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen the series of strikes was a successful operation targeting the military installations in the capital sanaa

but these pictures depict another reality residents say the attacks targeted barely civilian areas and that an entire family was buried under the rubble. it is very clear that what happened this morning here in sun i was a response to that through the whole drone attacks on the. oil facilities in riyadh it is very clear but unfortunately it was. blind a completely blind. response because there is only in killing women and children in there is a danger area the escalation comes a few days after the her theists attacked an oil pipeline near the saudi capital riyadh using 7 drones. it's the most daring military operation by the hood theories

since the start of the war 4 years ago and a sign of their growing military capabilities the saudi u.a.e. coalition remains adamant its as its military campaign in yemen will continue until the military installations are destroyed for as these are the fighters of the moment they opened fire on what they say was assad road they remain defiant despite a prolonged. rather it's a lag she will repair the drone and will hopefully flight once again over saudi arabia israel and the us. on the ground hope generated by a healthy withdrawal from the border city of her data is fading this fighting on the ask us of the city raising concerns of a deepening humanitarian crisis how did abort the main entry point for food imports and aid is a lifeline for millions of yemenis frightened by starvation. in the solve

there's more fighting in the city of by government troops backed by the saudis are struggling to push back at the offensive. u.n. envoy martin griffiths has warned the united nations security council the recent ask elation might damage if gyal peace deal. would well after nasser is a yemeni journalist and the editor in chief of sun a review that's an online magazine she's accusing the coalition of deliberately targeting civilians. so there were many airstrikes and that had somehow and most of them had highly civilian populated area one of them is my own my own neighborhood so i know the 3 d. and i know that you know the the neighbors and and even my own family my own mother

were surrounded by civilian you know they they live in civilian area there is no military target and these places that were had today there is no excuse excuse from that that would be like coalition it was a deliberate and systematic bombardment attacking civilians they want they did this and really the retaliation of the. attack in the oil. earlier this week and this is not the 1st time that the saudi led coalition do this clacked of collective punishment for all yemenis when the hosea attack any of that city and 2007 he ended. early november there were like rockets. fired by what these 2 words riad i believe michael and really the retaliation the saudi unit coalition at that time

imposed a total speed on all interviews so this is not the 1st time that the saudis want to take revenge with what they are doing against ought to be and yemen and this is unacceptable. president opposition has called for more protesters to join the service and that army headquarters and what they have dubbed the civilian authority march this comes after the military council suspended talks with your physician for 3 days or more than say the opposition alliance is shouting demanding civilian rule cold. that decision regrets about well let's get more from sheba morgan who joins us now live from the cartoon in here but what should we make of this call by the process leaders for people to join the 6 in the military headquarters does this mean that the talks are likely to stall even before they resume

while the opposition coalition has always been saying that the protesters in front of the army headquarters who have been there for the past 6 weeks should not leave until authority or the government is handed over to civilian rule by the transitional military council so basically what they're trying to do is to ensure that that goal is meant that a that aim of having a civilian transitional government is met before their only pressure called which are the protesters in front of the army headquarters leave their camp in front of the army headquarters and go back home now protesters are saying that the opposition coalition are the ones that represent them and not the military council they've already followed the opposition coalition orders to move some of the barricades that have been blocking some of the main roads there saying that they're doing it not to because the military council has ordered that but they say that they've already started doing it before the order came so protesters are saying that because the opposition coalition represents them they are going to follow that order of course they're saying that talks may continue but that if more violence erupts after what happened yesterday on wednesday evening then they may call the

opposition coalition to talks but at the moment they're saying that those that pressure that they started to put on the military before it's even asked the president are going to be here on the 11th of april they want to keep that pressure they want to make sure that they stay there that they make sure that the military council understands that the only way for people to stop protesting to end their sit in is if there is handed over to an independent civilian transitional government morgan live for us there in khartoum thank you. well how they what a lie here's a sudanese political cartoonist and activist he says the talks will likely receive him in the next he days but the military is not ready to give up power. i'm very happy with decisions that there is and the the change in freedom of movement has made of removing all the all the barricades because then you know we showed that this is we have we want to move forward with with with the transitional government

and this is now in the hands of the military there is a lot of issues but 1st of all you know the issues are always going to be claiming that there is a 3rd party that does that that they need to keep sudan secure from right and well what have you seen from the 8th of ramadan 2 days ago and from day of the event yesterday that there is no 3rd party we know exactly who should who call the shots you know exactly who killed those for that years and the military that hadn't done anything about it but that will become of course the excuse every time that there is are united in one thing that they want a transition to civilian government. but again we have to all understand that this is the 1st time this happens in 30 years so there is a lack of free media even now there is there's a lot of power play and there's a lot of there's a lot of. rumors that that's being that's being

pushed by by the different different parties so i think it's. up to the protesters now to figure out what its fate news was is not what do they really want and how to keep focused on uniting in the cause that they've been in this isn't for for the last month which is just a tional to civilian government. egypt's military says it's killed 47 arms men and multiple raids across north and central sinai hundreds of explosive devices and other weapons were seized and more than 150 people were arrested 5 soldiers were also killed in the offensive will egypt's has been fighting armed groups in the region for several years or more are sure is the director all of these securities program at the doha institute see things information coming from the egyptian military needs to be verified 1st. it's the largest group that has been fighting

there since to solve them 14 in the sinai province which is an affiliate of islamic state organization isis but it's more complex than that because there are multiple armed groups that are trafficking networks that are drug lords so it's more complex than that and the history of basically state or nonstate violence in sinai goes back all the way to southern for so it's not it's not something new there was a promise that is going to end in 2 weeks when general sisi took over in september 23rd dean we are in may 2900 did not and by some estimates it escalated i think the same news in full from reuters said that they had 385 confiscated from these tunnels if that is true and this we have to be very very careful because you know the numbers the media spokesperson give are very controversial you know if you counted them the counted the number of deaths is

47 to day yesterday another 50 and so on and so forth it would exceed the maximum estimate of the number of good in those in this in this area the number of insurgents with exceeded by 4 so we have to be very careful there but if there was a 385 i confiscated then we're talking about a significant blow to. sign up for the us if it was the target organization. the u.n. security council is holding talks on the recent spate of violence in the sun whole region of west africa but in a facile as representing 5 countries in the region and asking the council members for help to combat armed groups operating there missing in new york forms where this is attacked in the share which 28 soldiers were ambushed and killed who for example enormous removes the threats from these groups remain strong and exerts an enormous pressure on our states and all across the threat is gaining territory it is no longer contained to the north of mali or the deserts of brick.