started looking for an investors are looking for is an assurance that that kind of progress will continue regardless of who gets the top job good to speak with you humana blanco thank you all the i.m.f. tough medicine has failed to help argentina and many other countries pakistan agreed a deal with the i.m.f. to get a $6000000000.00 loan its 13th since the 1980 s. but it's terms of very similar to those of argentina the currency will be devalued electricity and gas subsidies will be scrapped and it's likely to prove unpopular across the country to come out higher as more. after months of negotiations with the international monetary fund and the agreement on a $6000000000.00 loan package bugger's gone government needs to current draw economic crises and their deal with the i.m.f. may not be desirable but if necessary pakistan needs to undertake a very painful but it's an adjustment to perform and that the country will need to

undertake and most notably it includes a more flexible currency 2nd reforms in electricity and gas sector. reforms in the public sector enterprises which are. throwing up huge losses. in his election campaign imran khan accused previous governments of boring excessively from the i.m.f. . now he's agreed to a loan with the organization saying the pull won't be affected by debt something many people here aren't buying. i'm a painter and if you talk about the dollar rupee parity it goes without saying that a falling rupee will mean rising costs for paint which will have a knock on effect on people like me. there is widespread anger including from the opposition. the government the sold us into the slavery of the i.m.f. and we cannot accept this we announce rebellion both against this and the

government sitting in parliament we cannot witness the destruction of a country. many economists and political opponents are calling the deal a sellout and it really poured a heavy burden on an already for doing a corner me and lead to hyperinflation their government their delayed going to the i.m.f. because of the help regard from their saudi than the u.a.e. i did also say that their record amount of bordering by previous government means that 45 percent of the annual budget had to be used for dead repayment and it had to acknowledge. where they're falling rupee essential gordon fuel getting in. and that's something many here say it's not what they were expecting from a government that promised change and really for the paul. now on top of the severe shortages of food medicine and power venezuelans are now

finding it increasingly hard to find petrol u.s. economic sanctions and mismanagement of the oil industry have pushed the energy sector to a crisis point on latin america editor lucien newman reports. the queues to fill of cars with fuel in northwestern venezuela are 23 to 4 kilometers long. near the city of motorists hope and pray they'll be lucky to make it to the pump before it runs dry. yesterday i was in line for 6 hours and couldn't fill up. isn't normal ask. with this government apparently it is we are a major oil producing country and look. on top of shortages of water. the further you go from the harder it is to find petrol but in the past 2 weeks the hunt for fuel has become much worse. look we started

a great check called in focus. these are the messages from today to let each other . there's several causes for the crisis see industry experts. venezuela's refinery capacity is down to 20 percent of its normal level instead of $1300000.00 barrels a day we're only 260000 which means we have to import gasoline. putting it from the united states but as of april 28th the u.s. government stopped all sales not just of fuel but of the additives needed to make the petrol that than is whale is still able to refine at home and then there's the chronic problem of price distortions all the patrol in this tanker truck or 13000 liters costs less than $1.00 which means it's practically free but only if you can find it the shortages and these long lines are creating

a black market for some people charging as much as $10.00 for 20 leaders now anywhere else that may be considered peanuts but here it is the only thing cheaper than petrol is the air that you breathe. that is considered a fortune and much more than the minimum wage. the shortages have not yet impacted the capital caracas but experts say it may not be long before they do and irony that escapes no one in venezuela the country with the world's largest oil reserves c m n i just see that and israel. i want to founder of facebook calls for the social media network to be broken up you really do need to sit up and take notice social media giant has been at the center of a storm over the access to data of its users most notably by cambridge analytic of the british political consultancy harvested data on millions of facebook users without their consent while working with donald trump's 2016 presidential campaign

in a financial filing facebook has said it expects to be fined up to $5000000000.00 by u.s. regulators for that and many other transgressions that's a slap on the wrist for the social media giant the racked up $56000000000.00 in revenue in 2018 so i'm concerned our investors by the find the company's share price has risen 40 percent this year alone pushing the value of facebook to $527000000000.00 joining me now from london is steve bartman c.e.o. of the global social media agency social chain thanks very much for being with us so there is no other company in the world that can claim 2000000000 people on its platforms and there's no way any company could police what what people post on it so surely that is the case isn't it to break up facebook. i think i would i would have to disagree i think the reason why you break up companies usually is because

they are a fundamental and required product for civilization and they have a monopoly of about space and i think 1st and foremost you really need to define what monopoly where claiming that facebook have a social network social networking is a very broad topic and really you can consider social networking anything from i message to text messaging to twitter you tube eccentrics cetera when you look at facebook's business model they make 99 percent of their revenue from advertising and they certainly even on the internet alone don't have a monopoly of advertising i think google owns 32 percent of the online advertising market so even google are more of a monopoly say than facebook are. but tech giants know have gained an enormous concentration of power and data are they are they turning into harmful monopolies do you think i don't think so i think i wouldn't claim that they're a monopoly i think that there are so many different sort of competing forces for

various parts of their business model from the social networking side to the advertising business to the communications side of their business and really you know they make their money from advertising but they are a communications platform and if we're talking about communications and over xander the word then there's a lot of competition there across the internet or you are on some of the most popular pages on facebook so how does that affect your business if major changes are made to it. we own big sort of social communities over all of the the biggest social platforms for instagram to youtube to twitch to facebook to the podcast store and are sort of portfolio of media is split across all of these platforms we do about 2000000000 video of these pump month across all of the major platforms so breaking up the facebook specifically where it really impacts our business because those platforms will go into other hands but i think if you're trying to solve the problem of sort of misinformation or privacy i genuinely

genuinely believe and i have no honestly have no vested interest in really saying this and if you look at the content and the stuff that i post online i've given my very honest opinion on the faults within facebook but i genuinely believe that breaking up the platform that is facebook in the teams will probably not serve to fix the issue at hand but how easy is it though to access data on individual behavior. it's it's it's getting harder it's certainly harder for advertising bodies and even social platforms to access the data the road dates are on individuals i think a lot of it's moving to encryption now we've seen what's happening to an encrypted message and platform and that's the general trend i think mark zuckerberg in his recent f.a.a. announcement out that facebook was going to come even more of a private platform focus on private communities and groups and also when we think about behavioral trends generally from a social networking perspective we've all gone a little bit more private and we share personal information less than any time in

recent history i think generally a lot of this is being caused because society of started to catch more i don't i don't entirely believe that as consumers we really understand the implications of. data being misused but i think the press generally have done a pretty significant job of convincing people that are stolen data is doing very very bad things even though i don't think we all know exactly you know when we talk about these hacks like crimson hexagon and what the actual implications were we just hear that your stolen data has gotten x. person at elected and i think that sinful mature enough for all of us to suddenly care about something that we don't really know a lot about when you're in a position to be able to help companies target audiences and make products and ideas trend just talk us through a bit of that process yes so our sort of core business is advertising as well so

where a global social 1st market agency and that's kind of kind of our founding business and the biggest brands in the world will come to us to help us understand how to engage and communicate young people and people across the internet and to stay ahead of the changes that happen every single there across all of these platforms and then our 2nd business is our media company and we own and operate some of the largest social communities across a variety of meat is on you tube facebook instagram podcasting and everything in between and really that where we operate as a sort of traditional social publishing house i guess all right so the bollard thanks very much for being with us. thank you thank our matic facial recognition technology uses our unique facial dimensions to let us access bank accounts go cashless in holiday resorts and use automated border controls but they are far as it's known can also track us and invade our privacy for brennan reports on the u.k.'s 1st legal challenge against the technology. security or surveillance

cameras have become a silent ubiquitous feature of cities across the world residents seem almost oblivious to the routine monitoring of their daily lives. at bridges was irritated the 1st time he realized the police automatic facial recognition vehicle that scanned his features in a shopping center but the 2nd time it happened was at a peaceful and arms trade protest and on that occasion the van was parked opposite the crowded i felt it was better to intimidate people and dissuade them from using their right to peaceful protest so ed has taken south wales police to court in the 1st u.k. challenge to the use of a f r i mean essentially what you have is a situation where technology is running miles at it where the lorries and the law needs to catch up they are far biometrics is increasingly used for things like keyless buildings and cashless leisure resorts but civil liberties groups are most concerned by its use in public spaces to scam more abiding citizens as they walk

past the camera it takes a really sensitive biometric data from them without their knowledge or their consent is ready akin to them walking down the high street and the police forcibly taking their fingerprint or their d.n.a. automatic facial recognition has dramatically improved thanks to rapid advances in a computer technology known as d. planet the accuracy is still variable at the 2017 champions league final the system produced 92 percent of false positives and even if accuracy can be improved the still the other questions of governance and of purpose and the wider question of exactly when protection of the public tips over into intrusion and oppression. china's mass surveillance of its citizens including the use of facial recognition is well known in 2017 australia authorized police and some private companies to use and access a controversial new fast system but this month the u.s.

city of san francisco banned since your thirty's from deploying the technology academic dr anna hence has examined digital citizenship and surveillance our data trails makers transparency says the balance of power is shifting we have become very transparent on the other hand the process by which we are assessed also through our data and not very transparent and in that sense and we can see there is a reversal in empowerment and power shifts from the citizen to the states al-jazeera approached the company and e.c. and other providers but none responded to interview requests in a statement london's metropolitan police said it's a pilot scheme it now and it and the results are being assessed judgement in bridges legal challenge is expected to be handed down in the autumn. and that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by tweeting me at has i'm sick at and you use the hash tag a j c t c when you do autopsy and e-mail counting the cost that al-jazeera dot net is our address and there's more for you

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but with enormous and ensuring gratitude to catch the opportunity to serve the country i know. the british prime minister tearfully names her departure date after failing to deliver bret's it. lawyers for indonesians presidential challenger teleports last month's election was rigged. calls for a general strike in sudan the opposition's latest move to push the military to handover. but 1st the united states is stepping up pressure on iran on several different fronts secretary of state mike pompei has moved to bypass congress to sell $8000000000.00 worth of arms to its allies in the region he says it's to deter

iranian aggression and even while downplaying the prospect of conflict president trump has announced that he's sending an additional $1500.00 u.s. troops to the gulf and this comes as the pentagon has for the 1st time publicly blamed iran for those attacks says recent attacks on saudi and the ships and infrastructure sure they will be. to washington for the very latest this report from our white house correspondent kimberly. it's not the 120000 troops as some had initially speculated the u.s. would send to the persian gulf but on friday trump confirmed he was sending 1500 we want to have protection of the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops the pentagon says the deployment consists of a patriot missile battalion to defend against missile threats additional intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft and fighter aircraft for

deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but it adds to another rush deployment earlier this month of the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group bombers and fighter jets we would continue. to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rhetoric the announcement also follows the u.s. acting defense secretary just this week downplaying the threat to u.s. forces steps were very prudent. and would put off the potential for tax on american democratic members of congress and some republicans have questioned the intelligence being used by the trump white house to make the case that iran is a threat this week the u.s. secretary of state the acting defense secretary and chair of the joint chiefs briefed lawmakers to make the president's case iran has been

a as you know they state stero all over the world very much different country now than when i 1st got here when i 1st got here they were at 14 different locations fighting right now they know i don't think iran wants the fight and i certainly don't think they want to fight with us but they cannot have nuclear weapons maintains he wants to strike a new deal with iran to limit its nuclear program after withdrawing last year from the 2015 u.s. backed deal known as the jay c.p.o. way since then the united states has been increasing the pressure on iran including tough financial sanctions to try and force a new deal. donald trump says he's willing to sit down to resolve his differences with iran's leaders but in light of his latest military move such discussions seem unlikely can really help at al-jazeera the white house. i let's go live to another our correspondents in washington alan fischer and alan let's start with the arms

sales that might pump air announcing that they're going to bypass congress and and speed up this $8000000000.00 worth of weapons sales to the gulf how alarming is that for members of congress the fact that they're going to be sidetracked in this . well congress only has 30 days notice of 4 unarmed seals to any country and that gives them the possibility that some senators can put a hold on that sale and the certainly done that in the past what might pompey or has done by essentially bypassing congress to say this sale can go through right no there is a national emergency and therefore we believe to support our allies in the middle east we have to do this because of the regional instability as he describes it being created by iran know there are republicans who are deeply concerned about the sales of any weapons to saudi arabia at the moment lindsey graham who has been a big supporter of donald trump all sort of public and senator he is concerned that

there's any normal dealing with sodium arabia while mohammed bin salmon the chrome prince is in senior positions in the government because of the role he played in the mater of jamal khashoggi as far as senator graham is concerned there are other republicans who want to see u.s. support for the war in yemen to be scaled all the way back if not pull completely and then there are democratic senators who also have similar concerns and they are saying that they are going to investigate the legality of this step by might prompt but it seems on pretty solid legal ground and whether or not they can challenge it and that seems unlikely all donald trump has to do know is provide written justification to congress for the sale of these weapons around a $1000000000.00 might prompt says this is a one off that is something that those in the senate will almost. only make sure that he sticks to it and the term administration more generally seems to be

invoking the state of national emergency on a pretty regular basis how convinced are members of congress that that is indeed the case there is a national emergency currently being experienced. well there was an intelligence briefing earlier this week for people on capitol hill there were those who left the meeting saying absolutely we see what the president is seeing and we think he's taking absolutely the right measures to protect the u.s. and u.s. interests and there are others who left that meeting saying they're concerned that this is following a similar pattern to the build up to the war with iraq donald trump has made it clear he doesn't want to see a war in the run he is against putting u.s. troops there it would be bad for his reelection because his base wants to see the u.s. pullout of what has been seen as unfortunate foreign adventures donald trump of course says he criticized the iraq war from the very beginning not quite but he's also

concerned about the troop levels in afghanistan too but there are those in his administration that are talking about the possibility of cranking up numbers but this is what it boils down to in the end marty advisers advise the president makes the final decision and at the moment here in washington doesn't seem to be any appetite in the white house for pushing ahead with a war with iran thank you very much alan fischer our correspondent in washington well the latest troops being deployed this 1500 that were just announced 24 hours or so to the middle middle east they already joined a significant military presence in the region the al dade air base here in qatar is the headquarters of american forces in the region it's the largest u.s. military base in the middle east but it's not the only one the u.s. navy's 5th fleet has its headquarters in bahrain there's been an american military presence in kuwait ever since the 1991 gulf war and u.s.

forces make regular use of facilities in amman and in the u.a.e. for more than 15 years there's been no formal u.s. military presence in saudi arabia u.s. operations at the college air base just south of riyadh ended in 2000. 3 part time between the 2 countries militaries a strong and the kingdom has been a major buyer of u.s. weapons and america's support for the saudi u.a.e. campaign in yemen has become a significant political issue as you just heard him make mention of well we can now speak to joe ruben who is president of the washington strategy group and former assistant secretary of state he's joining us live from washington thanks for talking to us. that point the allen our correspondent made a little bit earlier that many people are pointing out that there is a certain resonance a certain echo if you like of this particular time with 2003 in the run up to the war in iraq is that something that you would agree with. what 19 echoes busy

definitely and i served at the state department during the 20022003 period in the bush administration as a career officer and i recall how clearly the administration at that time was moving in maneuvering our troops towards the region prior to any congressional authorization for the war and so what we're seeing now while not at all at that same scale we're seeing moves in discreet methods in areas the arms sale now to saudi arabia or the movement of about 1500 troops to the region you name it little movements that push us closer to an engagement with iran and that's very concerning but given the fact that donald trump himself has made it his signature in many ways to withdraw u.s. personnel from conflicts around the region and there is an election coming up not

too in the not too distant future in the united states i mean how do you square that with what appears to be a military build up. you're pointing out the distance between the rhetoric and the actions and president trump it's true he has said he does not want to get into military engagements and we should all credit him for that we should have a policy that looks open eyes. and doesn't prejudge them but the problem right now is that his policy towards iran underlines how his position is more towards the military than the diplomatic solution and that's the concern that we may end up in a situation towards iran where a mistake occurs where some kind of incident see occurs we've already seen with the vessels from saudi arabian u.a.e. incidents occur and that could trip us into a conflict that we don't apparently one so we need to establish a real diplomatic channel and avoid any unnecessary conflict and president needs to

understand that the more that he presses while it may put pressure on iran it also increases the likelihood for potential mistakes indeed the as has already been pointed out the commander in chief is rather reluctant and doesn't want to get involved in another conflict but those around him of course the national security adviser perhaps will say the secretary of state not to mention some others they are well known for being very enthusiastic about taking a more robust approach towards intervening inside iran who weigh in on this particular. yeah we are watching john bolton for example as national security advisor is devising the president but he has a long track record of writing about bombing iran for example he wrote an op ed prior to joining the administration that said as much so there's concern and we should just look at north korea as an example where the president engaged.