japan and wearily. lastly once again i would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to donald and the madame melania for honoring us with your visit to japan as the 1st state guest of the new era of. thank you. then. president trunk of the united states floor as yours. prime minister the 1st lady and i are profoundly honored to return to this very beautiful nation as your parents' 1st state guest following in throne meant of his majesty the emperor on behalf of the united states we want to thank the imperial family for this gracious invitation and warm welcome it was really wonderful maloney and i are thrilled to be back in the land of the rising sun. is a true privilege to take part in the splendor of this historic moment and to

witness and ancient japanese tradition as you begin the new imperial era. we look forward to seeing the new emperor continue his father's extraordinary legacy. yesterday maloney and i would delighted to join you prime minister in attending a sumo tournament i've always wanted to see a sumo tournament so true and they are bigger and stronger than i even thought at the very impressive and new national arena where i presented the 1st ever u.s. presidents cup to the sumo grand champion that was something this morning we participated in a magnificent welcome ceremony with their majesties the emperor and empress at the grand imperial palace japan's time honored customs and exquisite culture phyllis with a deep sense of admiration i want to thank all of the people of japan for welcoming

us to this week and sharing your beloved heritage it is truly an incredible heritage. this visit has also been a chance for prime minister in may to strengthen our close friendship and the friendship between our 2 nations the alliance between the united states and japan is a cornerstone of stability and prosperity in the region and all around the world the prime minister and i continue our close consultation in pursuit of peace and security on the korean peninsula the essence of our approach is peace through strength and this is a strong alliance indeed the u.s. japan alliance is steadfast and ironclad we want peace and we want stability we continue to hope that chairman kim seizes the opportunity to transform

his country through d. nuclear ization it is a country with tremendous economic and other potential the united states also remains committed to the issue of abductions which i know is a top priority for prime minister. earlier today i met for the 2nd time with a group of japanese families who have suffered the unthinkable heartbreak of having their loved ones abducted by north korea the united states will continue to support japan's efforts to bring these abductees home our nations are also cooperating on a number of other vital security issues the united states supports japan's efforts to improve its defense capabilities and in recent months we have greatly expedited the sale of large amounts of defense equipment to japan made in the united states to make the best equipment in the world in 2800 japan was one of the world's top

purchases of american defense equipment and it has just announced its intent to purchase 105 brand new f. 35 stealth aircraft stealth because the fact is you can't see them. this purchase would give japan the largest f. $35.00 fleet of any u.s. ally american japan's close security ties are grounded in shared values our armed forces train and serve together all around the world tomorrow i will visit american troops stationed alongside the japanese self-defense forces right here in japan on behalf of all americans i want to thank the japanese people for graciously hosting our service members and military families the united states and japan are also working to improve our economic relationship based on the principles of fairness and reciprocity we are currently negotiating

a bilateral trade agreement that would benefit both of our economies our goal is to reduce our trade deficit with japan remove trade barriers and barriers of all kinds so that u.s. exports will really have a fair and very profound footing just over one week ago u.s. beef gained full access to japanese markets for the 1st time since 2003 we hope to have even more to announce on the trade very very soon and finally today i am pleased to confirm that prime minister. and i have agreed to dramatically expand our nation's cooperation in human space exploration japan will join our mission to send u.s. astronauts to space will be going to the moon will be going to mars very soon it's very exciting and from a military standpoint there is nothing more important right now than space this is

an exciting starting point for greater collaboration on many other things mr prime minister our visit this week is a moving reminder of the strength of the u.s. japan alliance and the. deep friendship between our people it is a profound ardor to be in japan at this important moment in your nation's history for this new imperial era your nation has chosen in the name. meaning beautiful harmony america shares this wonderful aspiration for the future and i look forward to continuing our tremendous partnership as we work together to bring this noble vision to life thank you very much thank you. neuer was a thank you very much now the floor is open for accepting questions. japanese media 1st followed by the press underage i mean the president.

japanese person please raise your hand and recognized by me. regarding the american press. ms sound from us so we'll. decide the questions and 1st study questions from the japanese media east. from here nearly newspaper i have a question to prime minister abby on the abduction. japan korea summit meeting there do you think that the problem would be resolved in one time meeting with chairman kim or do you have to go through pull our own number of meetings in order to seek solution by what timeframe would you like to realize at the summit dog or is it going to happen by the end of this year in that sense in that case could could there be trouble tight discussion involving us as well. regarding the

relationship with north korea 1st of all i have to know the fact that present trump that cracked open the shell of this draft still with the chairman kim jong un shared the bright future beyond the new could the nuclear these asian and urging north korea attack that it's a new approach i'd like to pay tribute to his a new approach most important thing is this solution of abduction issue and it means that i'm a result that i have to directly see german came face to face without attaching any conditions i meet him and then frankly and i must have discussion in complete candor. at the summit to talk today to my resolution as such present tramp expressed that he will give all out support he will spare no effort in rendering assistance to my efforts it was

a very strong support. present tramp and family members of that did with him had a meeting and present trump would look into the eyes of the family members and directly and he was listening to the remarks very seriously we have to resolve this abduction issue this is the photos. that i have which was shared by present trump once again looking toward the resolution of the abduction issue i'd like to pay tribute and gratitude to the lavish understanding and their support now including the points that you asked out on the topic of a summit dog between japan and as of now there is no specific goal in sight. but based upon the bank of north korea purely on a bigger asian we want to solve the comprehensive issues pending issues like

abduction nuclear missiles we must come to terms with the unfortunate past and then we must normalize at the diplomatic relations that this line is unchanged abduction issue is the most important issue for a bit a bit administration family members over there these have advanced in their age. as the president of the l d b i have a certain term and your question sort of implied and also one time a meeting could resolve the issue you asked. the respective of my term in office i have to do everything like an all out efforts of myself for the response resolution on this issue as the prime minister i have responsibility as such going forward i will discharge this responsibility and in order to do that as the prime minister day in and day out i will do my best to

end all our efforts i will endeavor. the united states 1st question will go to be and som of the wall street journal. thanks mr president prime minister mr president hope you'll indulge me with 2 questions since we're far from home the 1st one is so if kim jong un is not violating his promise to you by firing small weapons as you said in your tweet yesterday what would you consider a violation exactly 1st of all let me say that i think that kim jung un or chairman kim as some people say is looking to create a nation that has. great strength economically i think is very much i talked to him a lot about it and he's very much into the fact that. he believes like i do that

north korea has tremendous economic potential like perhaps few other developing nations anywhere in the world and i think that he is looking to develop that way he knows that with nuclear that's never going to happen only bad can happen he understands that he is a very smart man he gets it well so i think that he is. he is going to try at some point i'm in no rush at all the sanctions remain we have our hostages back we as you know are getting the remains continuing to get the remains a lot of good things are happening and very importantly there's been no nuclear testing for 2 years i looked at the chart the other day during the past administration there were many numbers that were very high like 10 and 12 and 18 having to do with missile launches and nuclear testing and for the last 2 years on the bottom it had 0 and 0 so i am very happy with the way it's going

and intelligent people agree with you not bothered at all by the small missiles you know i'm not personally ok thank you one more question mr president i last week you declared that you won't work with democrats in congress until they stop investigating you so how are you going to explain to your voters when it comes at the expense of some of the promises that you made to them well there's never been a president more transparent the report came out no obstruction no collusion no nothing it's beautiful report the democrats cannot understand what happened they really thought they had some people on their side because as you know the people doing the investigation were 18 extremely angry democrats many of whom worked for hillary clinton and supported hillary clinton and bob muller i guess you could say he was a friend of mine but he did something that was really the right thing to do they were very disappointed they can't get over the fact that. i never spoke to russia never dealt with russia having to do with the subject we're talking about and i

will see. this that without question. we have done a job like few presidents of the only thing you can say about me that some people may not like is that i've created one of the greatest economies anywhere in the world in fact when i 1st met with yesterday with prime minister rabin the 1st thing he did was congratulate me on the incredible economy that we have in the united states so i think that we will work with them we have a u.s.m.c. a we have a deal with canada and mexico that everybody wants i think it's all done and i think they probably want to be doing that as you know ambassador light has or is here right now that's a deal that's gotten universal praise unions love it farmers love it manufacturers love it you won't have companies leaving and going to mexico and going to canada and going like they were for many many years it's a great deal i would imagine that nancy pelosi will approve that i would think it

would be very hard not to but we'll see but certainly as things get approved i would love to sign them it's only good for our country i'm only interested in what's good ready for a country very important thank you very much thank you mr president prime minister i hope you'll also indulge me with your question since i'm far from home did you get any reassurances today from president trump that he will not impose tariffs on cars or auto parts 6 months from now. i want to hear this answer to. go out of my will last year in september between president trump and i agreed on joint statement regarding including the auto and order parts currently based upon the joint statement of september minister what degree and best light highways are are discussing and talking about this matter so we agreed to accelerate the talk as such and that was the agreement i reached with the brits at camp my 2nd question but i left my

translator so that's about 4. i think probably that's enough i think your compatriots will not be happy where you have a question thank you very much so that after the. talk with us once again a question from japanese media please. it's u.s. president and japanese prime minister shinzo of addressing media after their bilateral talks and a working lunch has described the alliance between the u.s. and japan as unshakeable the closest in the whole world saying their policies are completely on the same page for his part said their strong alliances steadfast an ironclad both men say they'll continue to work closely to ensure peace and security on the korean peninsula and in the region is offering to meet kim jong un without conditions there's also been talk of trade and cooperation on space exploration our way and live in tokyo where he's also been listening in when no surprises there.

no they didn't appear to be in certainly no commitment as we spoke about earlier on a trade deal we were told not to expect any significant announcements on the trade deal and thank donald trump himself said a few hours ago before the bilateral meeting with japan's prime minister shinzo there that he wouldn't expect any significant deal to be announced until august that is of course after japan has an upper house election the feeling was that shinzo out there would not want to make any significant concessions to the united states in this trade deal because it may risk losing votes in that election certainly we heard a lot in that opening statement from the japanese prime minister almost it seems trying to sell donald trump on what jet japan has done since he became president of the united states in the form of investment saying that they have invested

something to the tune of 24 $1000000000.00 japanese companies into the united states since he became president and in fact since the last summit between the 2 leaders saying that japanese companies have invested a further $1000000000.00 now this of course is something that donald trump has complained about he used the word. to increase tariffs on japanese car exports to the united states if they can't work out a trade deal in the next 6 months one of the things he wants japanese companies to do in particular the auto industry is to invest more in the united states in the form of building manufacturing plants there and therefore being able to be in the position of hiring more american workers so what we heard there from shinzo up there was clearly him saying to donald trump we've already done a lot we will continue to do more in the future but you need to take notice of what japanese companies have already done and when also a lot of discussion about abducted japanese who were taken into north korea in the

1970 s. and eighty's what more on that. yes these japanese citizens as you say were taken by north korean operatives a few decades ago the seventy's and eighty's presumably to be trained despised by the north koreans the north koreans have returned some to japan but it's presumed that there are many more still unaccounted for it's an issue that's very close to japanese people to the prime minister himself and it was talked about a lot they over the past hour or so the president donald trump and the 1st lady maloney a trump to be meeting with family members of some of those abducted this is the 2nd time that they have done it and shinzo abi the japanese prime minister has made no secret of the fact that he wants to meet with the north korean leader kim jong il and in the past he has said that there is a precondition to that that he would need to guarantee before going into

a meeting with the north korean leader that they would be substantial progress made on the issue of abductees that in the past in the in the last month or so he has certainly softened that stance though saying now and he repeated that in that media conference that he is willing to meet the north korean leader without preconditions now and he said that donald trump says. supports that prospect that way and hey he's following that visit for us today was day 3 of a 4 day visit he'll be across that tomorrow thank you and from tokyo well that's it for me. for this but us and the news will continue here on al-jazeera counting the cost in the meantime you can find out much more about our top stories and the european elections as well as president trump's visit to japan on our web site that's al jazeera dot com. they'll be plenty more news in about 30 minutes do you stay with us thanks for watching.

hasn't seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week where did it all go wrong for argentina's champion of the free market we find out if he'll stay in power as a populist makes a comeback a potential multi-billion dollar fine and calls a breakup facebook we talked to the founder of europe's biggest social media marketing company. bailout number 13 pakistan gets another big loan from the international monetary fund to avoid an economic crisis. well it wasn't meant to be like this. election to the origin time presidency in 2015 was supposed to usher in an end to the economic and political crises

international investors welcomed moves to float the peso and eliminate export capital controls a last year the international monetary fund increased the size of its bailout to $56300000000.00 as with all i.m.f. loans argentina had to agree to cut pension benefits and public utility subsidies not surprisingly makris popularity has fallen as so many people depended on those programs which had helped the country recover from a 2002 economic crisis of that austerity has crippled the poorest in society the economy is in recession america pledged to bring inflation down to single digits but inflation stands at 54.7 percent and what's behind the spike in inflation of the currency has fallen 18 percent this year alone. now you would think a fall in currency would be useful for exporters but the cost of imported goods has

risen and that's been passed on to consumers in a surprise move cristina kirchner announced plans to run as vice president with one of her former ministers taking on the role of presidential hopeful and that's much to the relief of overseas investors of many of the current crisis shows no signs of letting up putting the jobs of thousands of arjen tines at risk there is about met with families struggling. i was fired from a bottling company 2 months ago he says he has been working there for 12 years he's now trying to find other jobs that will help his family get by. i was fired in february and they said it's because of the amount of time i've been working there and the costs i represented for the company. is not the only one we met with a group of workers that went through

a similar situation and are fighting to get their jobs back. the company has a plan to increase the use of machines for more production but for that they have to reduce the people that work in the plant finding work these days is extremely difficult. this people say that what is happening to them is part of the crisis argentina is struggling with in the past year. last year argentina received the largest emergency loan in the history of the international monetary fund but in spite of it the government of marketing has not been able to control the situation they play saw last around 80 percent of its value in the past year and now there are fears that the government is going to be able to pay the interest of the following debt recession a rise in poverty and unemployment have had an impact on mackie's popularity in the past year the biggest challenge most bargain cons are facing this days is

a double digit inflation rate that keeps on pushing the prices of basic food items up and that's why the government has a special program that includes 60 products which prices of everything frozen for about 6 months but for many these are temporary measures that the government hopes will help be reelected. people. say that what people need are jobs and stability something that the government has not been able to provide all right. us now from one of cyrus to talk more about this is he may not blanco the head of latin america research at various maple croft a risk analysis and for costing the company thanks very much for being with us so. did all the right things by international investors and the i.m.f. but the economy is in recession the promised flood of overseas investors hasn't materialized why is that. well there is a structural lack of confidence in argentina not just inside argentina but outside

argentina and so you know when you talk about my quit doing the right things there's a lot of debate about whether he did that the pace at which he did that and also whether he went far enough soon enough and i think the you know the key area of criticism is late 2017 when the government changed its inflation. goals and didn't really explain why when it went early to the markets to fora ahead of schedule and it didn't explain why and then of course we saw in april why when the pests so went on you know rapid depreciation and then that happened again later in september so you know it's it's really a very difficult situation right now for my korea specially heading into a crucial election in october yeah the way things stand right now it doesn't look good for america as far as his reelection prospects in october does it i think it's

you know argentina volatility economic and political volatility which feed into each other it makes the current political landscape extremely uncertain i think you know anyone who says they expected christina kitchener to announce her candidacy as d.p. rather than presidential candidacy would probably be lying it took the political you know arena by surprise last weekend we can expect anything i think between now and the 22nd of june when candidacies are announced for mockery really it's an uphill struggle as as you say christina kirshner's decision to run as as vice president called many people by surprise. because they were of course expecting her to run for president what do you make of that well i mean i think there's many readings to it. the way you in which it was announced. really begs the question whether she's actually running for vice president i can't think of

precedent to anywhere else in the world where the vice president really says a video or potential vice president releases a video saying they have asked someone to run for president so even though the package says she's running for v.p. the manner in which it was conveyed really says she's running for office and there's of course you know speculation about whether going for the vice presidential position would alert the fernand this eventually relinquish power to her if elected is this just an electoral move is this a move to shield herself further from potential convictions from corruption you know there's speculation that a precedent can't pardon themselves but a precedent can pardon a vice president who is convicted so of course there's you know we don't really know what her real motivation is there is clearly a political strategy to try to open the cures nor'east that movement which is quite

dogmatic and quite close to the broader peronist movement and albert the for now on this would be the vehicle through which they attempt to do this but what do we know about her running mate alberto fernandez this moment what are we to make of him. well i mean he's a very longstanding member of the political circles in argentina he's taken you know different public sector offices since the 1980 s. he's a crucial or was a crucial player in the nestor karishma administration he's you know he's got links to not just within the peronist movement but to other political parties so the radicals who are the 2nd largest and oldest party in argentina he's also have had links to them and served in the alphen seen precedent see when argentina returned to democracy so clearly he doesn't have the you know the accent q-tip

experience that you'd expect from someone running for the top job but he does have a lot of negotiating experience with him peronist some and when we look at argentina that sometimes is more valuable skill that management experience so what needs to happen then in your view to get argentina's economy going again. well i think the number one issue is to reassure investors as to what will happen from 2020 on works at the moment with the bailout from the i.m.f. there there is assurance that the country can made its debt commitments until the end of of 2019 and into 2020 but there's a lot of question marks around what the next administration would do with that bellowed agreement with the i.m.f. and i think a clear position from all presidential candidates regarding that is a one key 1st step you know the big market concern is argentina heading for another

debt default clearing that concern is the number one and the 2nd one is a plot for that again assuras markets that the country will be fiscally responsible they're the main concern is whether an election off the front on this for now on the stick would result in an expansionary monetary policy again feeding into inflation again a return of subsidies to energy which would again expand the fiscal deficit so made some some slow but positive progress in that regard and what markets are looking for and 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 him in a blanket 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 it's 13 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 come out higher as more. after months of negotiations with the international monetary fund an agreement on a $6000000000.00 loan package pakistan government. 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 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.

and election campaign imran khan accused previous governments of boring excessively from the i.m.f. now he'd agreed a loan with the organization singapore 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 my dear i might even 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 put is 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 faltering economy and lead to hyperinflation their

government there did lead going through the i.m.f. because of the help it got from their saudi then the u.a.e. why did all record amount of bordering by a previous government mean that 45 percent of the annual budget had to be used for dead repayment and it had to acknowledge. their falling rupee essential gore didn't feel like getting it. and that's something many here say it's not what they were expecting from a government that promised change and relief for the fall. 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 lucy newman reports. the queues to philip 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 us 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. there's several causes for the crisis see industry experts. refinery capacity is down to 20 percent of its normal level instead of 1300000

barrels a day where. 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 his 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 long lines are creating a black market with 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. shortages have not yet impacted the

capital caracas but experts say it may not be long before they do in irony that escapes no one in venezuela the country with the world's largest oil reserves. than israela. 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 over that space and i think 1st and foremost you really need to define what monopoly we're claiming that facebook have social network social networking is a very broad topic and really you could consider social networking anything from

a message to text messaging to twitter to you tube except except for 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 only 32 percent of the other online advertising market so even google are more of a monopoly per se than in facebook are. but as though 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 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 biggest social platforms from from instagram to you tube to twitch to facebook to the podcast store and our sort of portfolio of media is split across all of these platforms we do about 2000000000 video these pump month across all of the major platforms so breaking up the facebook specifically where it really impact 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 holiday it's certainly harder for i just sizing bodies and even social platforms to access the data the raw data on individuals i think a lot of it's moving to encryption now we've seen what that means to an encrypted message and platform and that's the general trend i think mark zuckerberg in his recent f.a.a. announcement outside 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 shall. soon from mation less than any time in recent history i think generally a lot of it has been caused because society of stuff the cab more 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. posts and i acted i think not said inflammatory enough for all of us to suddenly care about something that we don't really know a lot about your in a position though to be able to help companies tall get audiences and make products and ideas trend just talk us through a bit of that process. yes there are sort of core business is in advertising as well so where global social marketing agency that kind of a founding business and the biggest brands in the world will come to us to help us understand how to engage and communicate to young people and people across the internet and to stay ahead of the changes that happen every single day across all

of these platforms and then i 2nd the business is a media company and we own and operate some of the largest social communities across a variety of meters 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 steve paula 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. ed 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 crowd i felt it was better to intimidate people and destroyed 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 this is a situation where technology is running miles at it where the lorries and the law needs to catch up here for 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 says radio 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 the planet the accuracy is still variable of the 2017 champions league final the system produced 92 percent of false positives and even if accuracy can be improved there's still the other questions of governance and of purpose and a 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 situ with or at least 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 state al-jazeera approach 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 on line i was always at al-jazeera dot com slash c t c that will take you straight to a page which has individual sports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on . so that is it for this edition of counting the cost and has a secret from the whole team here thanks for joining us the news on al-jazeera is

next. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs and the matter to al-jazeera. populism on the rise right parties to make major gains across europe. breaks apart he gets the most u.k. sees the ruling conservatives are badly beaten after failing to take britain out of the european union. and fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming out. and i

do believe that iran would like to talk and if they'd like to talk we'd like to talk rachel will she what happens u.s. president donald trump changes his rhetoric on iran as he discusses trade and security in japan plus how a shortage of emergency services in afghanistan is putting the lives of millions of people at risk. thank you for joining us provisional results in the european parliamentary election show pro europe centrist parties have suffered heavy losses the liberals and the greens have made gains but is see populous far right that saw a surge in support delivering some of the biggest election surprises in france one of the most well known faces of the anti migration untie e.u. current marine le pen came out just ahead of president emmanuel mccall's party across represented the e.u.

center in the election it's a nice deputy prime minister. secured the nod. this win for the far right his lead party became the biggest in the country and in the u.k. nigel farage is a newly formed rex ortiz swept to victory as voters express frustration over the deadlock on how to leave the e.u. well we'll have reaction from lawrence lee in london in just a moment but 1st to david chaytor who is live for us in brussels david so we have the winners and losers what are the overall conclusions for us from these results. ali 1st of all i'd say that there wasn't quite the major earthquake expected in the european elections as far as the right wing surge was concerned some traumas and definitely the political ground has shifted but i think the 2 countries you've got to look at as you said before was marine le pen's gaining a bruising blow against present emanuel might draw new national rally party managed

to land a small percentage point ahead of president macro who course is the european union steve integration is now that is a case of course which will have more impact within france itself than it will across the european union it's very interesting the way that these results well actually play out in the individual countries of the european union so let's also switch across to italy and a dose of any who of course is the league lead to the right wing leader and he's really established his position there that he said that this win of his and the the right wing surge heralds a new era for the european union and that will be a lot of negotiation going on with the the right wing throughout europe and also of course in the rain in the pen and they'll form or hope to form a new political tendencies schooling you know

a new block because the main bloc the jew what pally that has. been in charge of matches ascension europe for the last 20 years the center right and the center left they're the ones who have lost ground so they've lost their majority so that means essentially in future europe will be looking at much more negotiation that went all be decided in paris and berlin anymore a lot more to play and i was then asking fact what impact will this have on the e.u. and the wave function. well i think the 1st thing holies to talk about what is the next step here and how how is it changed the way it will be decided that is who is going to replace his own clothes as president of the european commission now the main candidate and the traditional way of pointing the counters is course to take the lead count is of the most popular party and that of course is in germany with the most seats and the mantel month that is where verba

now it is expected that he would automatically fall into this position of of the new president of the european commission the 1st of a new generation of politicians will see as a result of these elections but we might see that the right wing and the the green parties also of course they had a surge in these elections might decide that they will take on this kind they'll say that maybe he shouldn't be just appointed in the carnation in the way that was done in 2014 for. and so i think we'll 1st see the main power game over that appointment that's one to watch and that will show how much new power there is still from the the extreme right and indeed the greens and the liberals within the european union david tait in brussels thank you very much for that let's cross now in london for a slice the break said party led by nigel farage the clear winner was a u.k. vote another referendum on banks it. well you know i mean everything in this

country is a referendum on breaks at the moment it is the only thing and it is completely overtaken or all politics and by and large everybody saw last night's vote in this country as a sort of proxy referendum in that sense and nigel farage is brand new bracks about it didn't even exist a couple of months ago but exactly a 3rd of the votes and won by in those terms by miles. if you then add up in total the votes of all the parties which are expressly for abandoning bracks and staying in the european union one way of looking at that that's not the liberal democrats another new particle changing. the greens and the 2 nationalists part is the welsh nationalists and the scottish nationalists that add up to just over 40 percent of the votes but if you tweak it slightly in the syphilis have been doing this it looks like a basically a draw actually the overtly parties we want breaks it now got about

35 percent and the no thanks we don't break at all parties also got about 35 percent of the vote so it doesn't get anybody anywhere but. the biggest story obviously was there was a catastrophic night for both the conservatives and labor the worst result for the conservative party in 200 years. well it just means that they have to make their minds up i mean what's clearly what's happened over the course of the last 3 years is there any suggestion that you might have a sort of brics it which leaves the u.k. in some sort of relationship with the european union at least a trading relationship seems seems to vanished over their eyes and and it everything has become so much more polarized now that the vision is between absolutely leaving and the seats or no we're not leaving that's all. of the conservatives and labor have both got to got to make that decision i mean if the labor party which ended up with 15 percent decided that it was going to support remaining in the european union

a lot of those votes went to the smaller parts and probably go back to labor in an election and then you would have a clear majority for not leaving that's all but it's some very tough decisions they've got to make of the next few months because obviously the european union's extension for the u.k. runs out at the end of october and times moving very quickly. for us in london and in other world news u.s. president has said he's not seeking regime change in iran he's also reiterated his willingness to hold talks with iran's leaders and says he wants to do a deal with iran over its nuclear weapons donald trump made those comments during a day visit to japan. and i'm not looking to hurt iran at all i'm looking to have iran say no nuclear weapons we have enough problems in this world right now with nuclear weapons no nuclear weapons for and i think will make a deal i think iran again i think iran has tremendous economic potential and i look

forward to letting them get back to the stage where they can show that i think iran i know so many people from iran these are great people it has a chance to be a great country with the same leadership we're not looking for regime change i just want to make that clear that spring in wayne hay until care for is so wane a change in tone that from the u.s. president on iran tell us more about what he said. yes was certainly a wide ranging media conference that he and the japanese prime minister shinzo of big gave that finishing just a few moments ago in the state guesthouse in tokyo behind me iran was discussed north korea as well and donald trump actually comparing iran to north korea he's spoken many times in the past about the economic potential that he thinks north korea has any mention that about iran just a short time ago as well about its economic potential as you mentioned he says they're not looking for regime change what they are looking for is iran without

nuclear weapons he believes that they are ready to talk ready and if they are ready to talk then the united states is willing to do so interesting that these comments came in japan japan has traditionally had a pretty strong relationship with iran the iranian foreign minister was in tokyo less than 2 weeks ago there is some speculation that shinzo of it the prime minister will be going to iran sometime in the middle of june during the summit with donald trump here donald trump is reportedly said to have supported the prospect of that trip and in the past shinzo up a has actually offered to mediate in this dispute but in the media conference. between donald trump and there was no specific mention all that off from shinzo a bit but the japanese prime minister did say that the japanese and the u.s. will work closely together on iran and we have to avoid military confrontation and north korea and the issue of japanese citizens who were kidnapped by north korean

agents decades ago was also discuss wayne what came out of that and one of the japanese helping donald trump can do. them yes this is an issue that's very close to japanese people to the prime minister as well japanese citizens who were taken by north korea in the seventy's and eighty's some have been returned to japan but there are still many more who are unaccounted for in the past we've seen the prime minister of japan offering to meet with kim jong un the leader of north korea with a precondition that there would need to be a guarantee of some substantial progress made on the issue of a abductees from japan now he's dropped that precondition saying he's willing to talk without preconditions we saw donald trump and the 1st lady meeting with family members of abductees that is the 2nd time that they have done that and donald trump has said that he will do everything he can to support this cause this aim by the

japanese prime minister to bring this issue to an end a deal so expressed support for the idea of shinzo of a meeting with kim jong un thank you for that wayne hale live for us saying in tokyo. still ahead on al-jazeera having a new leader is in bad ways main opposition party plans to unite the party before the next election plus why dealing with corruption scandals in argentina has not been playing say. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast so we do have a mix of weather here across much of europe 1st will start off to the north where we do have some clouds and some rain although some windy conditions are pushing across this area and that's what monday is going to look like with those winds coming across the u.k. going across parts of denmark.