the economy jordan where it's only 18 months into his past 6 year term and he's already facing resistance. the government says the protests were organized by george we as political opponents and did not reflect public anger against his government the reason this fighting back been in government is because they fear this that we are as a person who is going to all of these corrupt practices of the us so they are not fighting to ensure. a fight against corruption happens they are fighting to protect the edge of money that mr we are removed from his democratic elections. i heard of the nationwide demonstrations internet and social media have been restricted government says it's to prevent a breakdown of law and order wrecked by 2 civil wars and a deadly ebola outbreak liberia is in the midst of an economic crisis it's been

fought access baited by the withdrawal of the united nations peacekeeping mission the palm tundras of millions of dollars into the local economy and i we could currency all pushing the limits of patience here. the organizers of friday's protest say the government has been put on notice and if conditions don't improve it's only a matter of time before they hit the streets again i mean to greece al-jazeera monrovia. lots more still ahead on al-jazeera and how one of the u.k.'s breaks at stronghold appears to have had to rethink at the ballot box. and u.n. aid agencies say at least 40000000 people have left venezuela because of its western economic and political crises.

the western sponsors by the time. hello there we still have some clouds stretching its way across the middle east at the moment on the satellite picture you can see it here making its way up from parts of saudi arabia to the way north into turkey it's around ticky where we're seeing some of the wettest of the weather the shellfish showers from the system and that's the way it's going to stay as we head through saturday and into sunday there's also the risk of seeing want to see showers in the northern parts of a ran but away from there it's fine drawing and just pretty hot kabul getting to 32 and forcing to 8 city will be up at 42 here in doha the temperatures will be rising as we head through the next few days so a 42 snow hot enough for you will get to 44 as we head through sunday a dry heat then drawing but certainly hot for the south as more clouds here and so around the coast of oman and into yemen there's likely to be one or 2 showers and some of those a lot used to be rather heavy particularly for the southwestern parts of yemen but the southern parts of africa there's a good deal of draw you weather with us at the moment just want to spots where

we're seeing some showers i think the cape town it could be a bit of a gray stuff but that should clear it should be a brighter afternoon there will be some showers in the east though the eastern parts of south africa and through parts of mozambique madagascar too likely to see some showers in the east here but away from the east coast there's some dry a brighter weather and it should be will. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. 0. problems and besides the instability is corruption we listen. or push the united states improves into we meet with global news makers about the stories that matter to syria. was.

kind of again i missed. a reminder of the news this hour the u.s. and mexico have reached a deal on migration prompting washington to suspend a trade tariffs that the jews to come into effect on monday under the deal migrants in the u.s. who've applied for asylum will be sent back to mexico as they await a decision on their request. ethiopia's prime minister has called for a speedy democratic transition and soon john as he tries to mediate a political crisis in khartoum. with the ruling military and protest leaders days after a military crackdown left more than $100.00 protesters debt. and the u.s. has raised the stakes in a standoff with turkey over plans to purchase russian air defenses washington is

giving ankara until the end of july to backtrack on the deal otherwise that will remove taki from its f. 35 fighter jet program. and russia's president says that u.s. protectionism is a recipe for conflict that impression was speaking at the same petersburg international economic forum. also condemned u.s. measures against chinese tech giant qual way sebastian has more now from st petersburg. florida mia put into words must have been music to the ears of his guests of chinese president xi jinping is on a 3 day state visit to russia at a time when china is involved in a trade war with the united states and the relationship between the 2 worlds largest economies is at a low. it is clear who is to blame. it is how the united states i regret to say that x. today it extends the jurisdiction across the whole world by the way i already spoke

about it 12 years ago this model not only contradicts the normal logic of communication between the nations in the reality of the complex with multi polar world most importantly it does not meet the challenges of the future. both put in and she has described their relationship as unprecedented trade between russia and china has reached a historic high of more than $100000000000.00 and the 2 leaders have decided to start using the national currencies to be less dependent on the u.s. dollar look at the sizes of the economies china and russia are far apart but their troubled relationships with the united states and their common positions on international crisis like. and you want a strong bond so while china has been dominating this most prestigious international forum the united states government has been boycotting it the reason was the rest of american investor michael calgary 4 months ago has worked in russia

for more than 2 decades and is facing fraud charges he says are fabricated l.v. who is under house arrest had requested to attend the 4 but even an endorsement from the kremlin did not help at the russian american business meeting his chair remains empty. longstanding. person investor with a very good reputation. when that happened to him everybody thought. him a good happen to anybody and that has an impact on investment decisions of course foreign and russian business people called for legal reforms during the forum but reform was not on the menu put in was hosting cheat the russian leader took the opportunity to take the chinese president on a river cruise in his hometown st petersburg while she remarked that the city had nurtured many outstanding people put in later apologized for keeping the chinese leader awake way past his bedtime because they had so much to talk about step

process and al-jazeera so in petersburg. the u.n. says at least 4000000 people have left venezuela because of its worsening economic and political situation and scribes the figure as a. arming and urgent help is still needed to host them in other countries our last in america. reports from santiago and. then over the numbers are staggering and unprecedented every day thousands of more than is wayland's join the exodus the vast majority by 1st crossing over into neighboring colombia which has already received more than 1300000 economic refugees and. is one of the newcomers at this un refugee camp. my children went 3 days about in anything it's very difficult as a mother my mom isn't here she's over there suffering from hunger that's why i was eager to leave and work to send her something. the u.n.

predicts that before the end of the year the venezuelan exodus will surpass $6000000.00 the vast majority of whom are coming here to latin america. from colombia millions of impoverished venezuelans are moving further south especially to ecuador who rule and chile these countries social services are already strained to the limit this week bruce president announced he was following neighboring chiles lead by requiring the news whalen's to enter the country with humanitarian visa. starting in june the 15th and even as wales for the possible and the corresponding visa into the country. it will be a requirement to enter with a humanitarian visa which will be processed over there in the peruvian consulate. this may slow down but not stop the stampede fueled by bin as well as increasingly dire economic and political crisis which is why latin american governments are

raising the alarm and asking the rest of the international community to share the burden of the biggest refugee crisis ever seen in the americas to see in human are just sida sent out. now britain's prime minister tourism a has formally stepped down as the leader of the ruling conservative party may decided to resign after failing to deliver breck said she will continue to serve as caretaker prime minister while her party picks her successor and one of those tipped to succeed her as former foreign secretary barra's johnson and his campaign got a boost on friday judges in britain's high court of thrown out an attempt to prosecute him for allegedly lying jaring the 2016 bricks at referendum campaign last month johnson was told to appear in court for saying that britain would be about $400000000.00 a week better off outside the e.u. his lawyers argue that the case against him was politically motivated and all this comes as the u.k. is newly formed bret's a party failed to when its 1st parliamentary seat in

a byelection piece of bread in eastern england the result was a surprise because 60 percent of voters there were in favor of leaving the e.u. in the 2016 breakfast referendum john howell reports from. for a short while on weekday afternoon the teeth down springs time and old english tradition into perfect step the breaks of property came a close 2nd in thursday's peterborough byelection thanks in part to the strength of feeling in this room. it's all in doing the graduate nation from the moon to the core of something moving this list you into the back of my. crowded out the majority of people of the united kingdom where i was and i don't know about scotland because i see it on the fringes voted to leave in my opinion we should have left many who voted to leave the european union in 2016 including in this

corner of the english countryside or deserted the ruling conservative party over prime minister to resume a's failure to deliver. it's a void that leave campaign a nigel farage and his fledgling bricks of party have a. missions to fill peterborough may have taught them that they need actual policies beyond just the word bricks it without the british party it's much more likely that it will be kicked down the road or maybe never delivered and yet we will definitely tell it's delivered fundamentally it is not a promise you can keep well we we can affect british politics massively and i did so the labor party narrowly held on to the peterborough seat a victory for hope said its new m.p. this is a result for every community in peterborough so now its victory is significant because it has shown that the politics of hope can win. but in the culturally

diverse town center where labor's vote is strong there was a read about the direction of british politics one is away now he says 5 relief as you say but 9 and a half 1000 people still voted for break sit in this in this constituency and that's a concern. and from what we've seen and heard of the brits it party they do seem very divisive as you've experienced this is a very diverse city like most cities in the u.k. now and that's the last thing that any city needs is that division as the ruling conservative party sets about electing its new leader this by election will prove that the threat from the heartbreaks of right is very real and that we'll all vote ensure they choose our heartbreaks of prime minister in peterborough some things do stay the same and the briggs's party ensures that hope is still alive here too among those clinging on to the traditions of the past join a whole al-jazeera peterboro now athens has an all great its 1st official mosque

the greek capital hasn't had a recognized place of worship for muslims for at least a century it's expected to open in september as johnson applets reports. the education minister's arrival to open the athens mosque is a moment a quarter of a century in the making and we are trying to about soln in many years' time in about 25 years we had many time going mistery even try to love me and we saw much meetings for much trying very hard and you tried to convince kind men can mend and 10 god we are now a. mission is complete muslim immigrants have gradually acquired official community organizations green cards and even citizenship but their religion has been kept quiet by opening this mosque weeks before a general election the city's a government is actively courting the muslim vote yet the plan and. athens now has a dignified place of worship for muslims whether they are citizens or migrants

refugees or visitors the right to pray to the god you believe in like the right of a child to go to school does not depend on the circumstances under which someone arrived here everyone has these rights they are non-negotiable human rights only the dignity of the afghans mosque is a far cry from what muslims have been used to makeshift places of worship in basements like this one which filled the overcrowding cities and is careful to maintain that low profile here there are no loudspeakers to call the faithful to prayer and no minarets to form landmarks the building barely resembles a religious structure and the compound itself is part of a navy facility surrounded by a high wall and barbed wire and with a round the clock police good citizen understands that although greeks agree to a mosque in principle there are also sensitivities greeks remember that the ottoman empire ruled greece for 4 centuries until the early 18 hundreds the saudi government offered to build

a huge cultural center and mosque in 2001 and libya's moammar gadhafi made a similar offer a few years later but both sank under a popular disapproval. and pressure from the church and local government then in 2006 parliament decided that the athens mosque would be built at public expense and 13 years later it is ready the mosque isn't big enough to absorb all of these underground worshippers and such unofficial places of prayer may will continue but it's a 1st step towards religious acceptance in this overwhelmingly orthodox christian society john psaropoulos al-jazeera aphorisms. now space will soon be open for tourism most pacifically the international space station nasa announced the plans which could see tourist spending up to a month there starting as early as next year christensen to me has more. want to travel in space soon it will be possible to buy time on the international

space station nasa announced plans on friday to host 2 commercial missions a year starting as soon as 2020 for those who can afford it. private companies will arrange the trips allowing space tourists to spend up to 30 days aboard the space station so if you look at the pricing and you add it up back to the napkin it would be roughly about $35000.00 a night per astronaut but it won't come with any points. and 1st you have to get there boeing is one company planning to provide transportation at a cost estimated to be around $58000000.00 per private astronaut starliner is the new space ship but now that boeing is building to take astronauts to and from earth right to the space station initially in perhaps the private destinations or other destinations in the future that could appeal not only to space tourists but also companies looking to manufacture products in microgravity like tech shot which

makes 3 d. printers that manufacture human tissue. nasa came here to the nasdaq to make the announcement the space agency work with a dozen companies to chart the course to a robust low earth orbit economy but to make the plan work they'll need even more companies willing to invest in space we also want to reach out to the non-typical space companies that we think there's entrepreneurs out there we think there are startups there when they see the benefits of what could be done in space they recognize it's now not impossible for them to do research in space they can take their creativity and put forward now so hopes more private investment will mean the dawn of a new day in space travel freeing up more money to fund the agency's goal of returning to the moon by 2024 kristen salumi al jazeera new york.

hello why mr hall with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. and mexico have reached a deal on migration that means washington will suspend trade tariffs that would usually come into effect on monday under the deal migrants in the us who've applied for asylum will be sent back to mexico as they await a decision on their request mexico's foreign minister has been leading negotiations for his side in washington d.c. . those who cross the united states' southern border to request asylum will be returned to mexico where they can wait there is illusion of their obligations and it sparked mexico for humanitarian reasons and in compliance with international obligations we authorized the entrance of those people who waved their asylum applications ethiopia's prime minister has called for a speedy democratic transition in sudan as he tries to mediate a political crisis in khartoum. met with the ruling military gentle and protest

leaders days after a military crackdown that left more than $100.00 protesters dead the u.s. has raised the stakes in its standoff with turkey over plans to purchase russian air defenses washington is giving ankara until the end of july to backtrack on the deal otherwise it will remove checky from its f. $35.00 fighter jet program amnesty international as saudi arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy motive careerists was arrested 5 years ago at the age of 13 for taking part in protests against the government he's been detained ever since courageous faces possible execution for a series of offenses some of which date back to when he was just 10 years old he's currently awaiting his next trial session. britain's prime minister driesum a has formally stepped down as the leader of the ruling conservative party may decided to resign after failing to get backing for her plan she will continue to take a prime minister while her party picks has successor well those are the headlines

join me for more news here to talk to al-jazeera to stay with us. what is the state of freedom of speech around the world the u.n. has an expert who examines that and he doesn't have much good news special rapporteur david kay also looks at the internet and social media is democracy under

threat from all the disinfo mation and manipulation and how do you police the internet without censorship and restraint to the freedom of expression twitter facebook you tube platforms enabling free expression of information and ideas or are we looking at something more on the us forces that are making serious public policy discussions more difficult and thereby undermining democracies should we consider social media as tools for keeping governments in check or is it the other way round the internet's been publicly available for around 25 years but what started as a free unregulated exchange of information has now morphed into a machine like utility run by companies guarding their trade secrets and processing information in ways hidden from the public all this comes with serious questions about control of information today on talk to al-jazeera

a conversation with david kay the man tasked by the united nations with the an enviable job of investigating the state of freedom of expression around the world. david kay the un special rapporteur on the freedom of expression thank you for talking to al-jazeera let's start with that job title because it might not mean all that much to people who are watching what is a special rapporteur because i know you're not in charge of u.n. policy you don't decide what the u.n. does so special wrapper tours are independent experts who are appointed by the human rights council which is the. central human rights body of the united nations system and we are essentially appointed in order to monitor in to report on issues around particular areas of human rights around the world my area happens to be freedom of expression i do country visits i converse with governments all of the time and i do thematic reports on all sorts of issues so you investigate what's

wrong and tell everyone about it completely and in terms of freedom of expression what are the rights of a global citizen and where do they come from so everybody enjoys rights to freedom of expression this is a global norm it's rooted in the universal declaration of human rights but also a set of binding treaties treaties international agreements that states are bound to observe and it provides everyone with the right to seek receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds regardless of frontiers and through any media everyone even in north korea everyone absolutely now that doesn't mean that governments are not interfering with those rights regularly and governments do have a kind of acceptable range of restrictions for certain necessary things such as national security or the privacy rights of others they can impose restrictions but the fundamental right is available or should be available to everybody on the

planet you say they have exceptions that clearly is the problem is sometimes drawing the line on things like blasphemy or hate speech what amounts to blasphemy or hate speech for example yeah exactly so hate speech is something that is in particular required by human rights law to prohibit but it's not hate speech in some generic way it's basically advocacy of hatred that constitutes incitement to violence discrimination or hostility let me get your view of where we are on human rights and freedom of expression around the world last year i spoke to the high commissioner of human rights and she actually said that if you have that universal declaration of human rights as an. you thing and you try to put it to the u.n. general assembly all the country members of the u.n. she's not sure it would even pass i think that's a wise observation actually the the norms that are in human rights law they were established basically in 1948 and they are very serious reactions

to what we saw in world war 2 there are very serious allowances for all sorts of freedoms and the problem that we see around the world today is that governments are increasingly interfering with all sorts of human rights but in terms of my mandate they're interfering increasingly with everyone's right to freedom of expression this is that unfortunately a global phenomenon well let's just give you all snapshot you've been doing the job since 24 yes or things going backwards in the period i think in many respects they are going backwards and it's deeply unfortunate and we see it in a variety of of substantive areas we see attacks on journalists we see limitations on criticism of government criticism of religious institutions like you mentioned blasphemy we have seen increasingly efforts by political leaders by governments to restrict the kind of robust debate that we expect in democratic societies we see an increasing amount of concentration of the media particularly controlled by the

state it's been deeply problematic over the last several years it's true if we look at your background and where you started you spent quite a bit of time as a lawyer for the u.s. state department and you are an american it's worth reminding everyone that over the last 70 years right from the universal declaration of human rights the u.s. has played a pretty central role in promoting human rights and promoting the freedom of expression and the freedom of speech is the current us administration and the president trump living up to that legacy. i think there are a lot of concerning things coming out of the trumpet ministration a rabbit out of the white house and i want to emphasize that you know the u.s. government is not this one single entity there are a lot of people and there are a lot of entities at the state level state and local levels around the country that are really deeply committed to preserving freedom of expression but when you have

a president who attacks the media on a regular basis where he calls the media the enemy of the people which i think he does for strategic purposes to sow doubt in the people's opinion about media and in the truthfulness of traditional reporting i think that's deeply problematic but of course in the u.s. freedom of speech freedom of expression is protected in the u.s. constitution it isn't in all countries around the world so what example does it say those comments from president trump to other leaders i think that's right i mean i think that it's a rhetorical stance that at the end of the day. u.s. courts are likely going to stand with freedom of expression i think that's true and i think that's absolutely something that we need to clarify but the rhetoric i think gives some comfort to authoritarians there is no freedom of expression in north korea exactly tell me what your view is of that country of but you haven't

been able to go on a visit no i haven't gone on a visit i mean north korea is a closed society remember when i said that article 19 of the universal declaration of human rights protects everyone's right to secrecy even impart information and ideas you can't get any of that in north korea people cannot receive information they can't even seek it right in part because it's close to the internet for example so what we think of as seeking information is maybe going online and browsing that's unavailable to north koreans their ability to criticize the government which should be fundamental to any democratic society is completely unavailable in north korea it's unavailable in other places too but north korea is is really the single worst example in the world of repression and really took talent tarion as and when it comes to all sorts of issues. that's the worst country in the world may give you what might be the worst case in recent history of seoul being targeted for their words and it's the saudi journalist. who was killed

in the saudi consulate in istanbul brutally murdered are you happy with the way the world has responded to them that's not at all not at all i mean if you look at the reaction since we've seen on the one hand turkey has provided some information but mainly through intelligence services and to journalists and kind of dribs and drabs so although i understand turkey's position but more concerning is one saudi arabia has not done anything to to acknowledge not just the killer's responsibility but the responsibility of the government at the most senior levels for this killing so that's one deeply problematic issue but the other one the broader one that i think is in some respects more concerning because we expect democratic societies to stand up is not virtual silence but in action in the face

of this there has been no effort for example in the u.n. system by states to seek to censure saudi arabia except in one instance led by iceland actually in the human rights council except for that in an informal way there's been very little censure of saudi arabia for its role in killing jamal khashoggi and i think that is a frankly a travesty do you believe the u.n. secretary general because some experts do believe he had the power himself to set up an investigation you know i understand that there are some legal questions around his capacity to do that i think what we needed to see essentially is some request of him to do that once a state requested that i think it would have changed the nature of. of the issue and there was really no request for that and if there had been that request then i think that it would have been in the secretary general's power or in other institutions power whether it's the general assembly where the human rights council

to set something up now one of my colleagues actually did conduct a visit an official visit to turkey in order to investigate the killing of jamal khashoggi but there was no backing behind her of that this is the special report for. extrajudicial killing exact right in the skull of mots exact she didn't really have any power to cheat she had no could have power tools exactly all she could have essentially was the discretion of ford and her by the government of turkey inviting her in to conduct her own investigation but with the absence of the u.n. system of as a whole the absence of states actually providing the kind of momentum and pressure on turkey and on saudi arabia to cooperate i don't think we were going to see anything more and it was valiant effort of hers to do it and a very important effort but it wasn't connected to what states really need to do to hold people accountable for the killings of journalists she hasn't yet reported are

you hearing that she has found any new information or will the main effect of her inquiry be to show off other people who haven't done one i think that her report will be really important for people to see in terms of both the lack of activity by states but also i think that it will be important in showing the kinds of things that states should be doing moving forward when we have these kinds of just very very serious attacks on journalists and activists and others and this journalist of course was a legal resident of the u.s. so u.s. done enough i don't think they've done anything so i mean the question of the united states actually engaging in this has been you know virtually nothing i mean what we have seen is you know these allegations of of a close relationship. jared questioner the president's son in law and the leader of the crown prince of saudi arabia and that that is providing a kind of protection for for the saudi leader that is deeply problematic it is

showing in many ways a reluctance not to mention a refusal to engage in this incredibly important question i know as a legal expert you would want to see all the evidence and you're looking at this from a fall but from what you can see and given the chain of command in saudi arabia seems to be pretty short would you believe that the crown prince is legally culpable here i mean i think that's that's absolutely a question for some kind of criminal investigation but as far as we can tell from everything that has been disclosed so far all of the threads lead back to to the crown prince and and whether it is a direct ordering of the killing or it's a responsibility because of not indicating that that wasn't what he wanted to happen when he knew it was a forseeable impact of this attempt to to get him in turkey. he's responsible i think that that seems pretty clear whether it amounts to criminal

culpability i think is a question that i would really like to see handled by by the structures of the u.n. system it's already clear from our conversation that the issues of freedom of expression are a very difficult thorny subject they get even more difficult when we go online the murder this is a subject of a new book of yours we have it here speech please the global struggle to govern the internet let me talk to you about that let me start at the beginning of the internet it seemed like a utopian idea for freedom of expression didn't it took place a democratic place where everyone could say and the thing where everyone became their own publisher yeah absolutely and people i think look back on that that internet of you know not that long ago 152025 years ago as a place where you would go to blow. logs for example and you would look at one essay or argument and it would have hyperlinks and then you would go to another and another and suddenly you had discovered a whole world of information and ideas without even knowing it and that was

a world that we could think of as a kind of flat internet right in internet in which it was very difficult for governments to impose restrictions but that internet is gone we have an internet now that is highly centralized by major platforms whether it's china and its we chat or it's the global power platforms of you tube and google facebook and twitter and those give companies the ability to restrict expression but it also gives governments these very serious ability to identify where exactly to go when they want to restrict speech it's easier to go to say facebook and say take down this page rather than to identify some blogger who might be very difficult to find online it has made the internet in the last 15 years has made censorship easier rather than really allowed us to reach what we had expected at some level which might have been a naive expectation of a nerve on

a free speech online so explain to me how the user experience has changed i go back on the old to the old days of a daily newspaper in the page not knowing what to expect on the next page you know now of course the social media companies know the stories you like and keep feeding you the same story so if you take something very nice even if it's extremist even if it's hate speech they'll keep sending it to you yeah yeah exactly so i mean the internet has become particularly because of social media and because of you know the desire of the companies in order to make money and that means in order to sell our attention to advertisers they need an internet that engages us and what that means is that we are continually fed news stream. we are fed information that algorithmically the platforms think this is what this person will want to see it's very different than your experience with the newspaper it's also very different

from the old blogosphere where you might follow your curiosities right now the internet comes to you rather than you actually going to the internet and exploring your your horizons essentially let's use a real world example myanma in the summer of 2017. you had the repression against the community basically there was a cleansing going on in the un high commissioner for human rights described it as that and there were people tend to use facebook a lot perhaps because they distrust the state media in the past was a was propaganda totally what they were finding on facebook in that period so so facebook you're right facebook is the internet in me and maher and what people were finding and this is this is really a demonstration of the platform power because they weren't just the internet they were also they were the media they were the way people were getting information

social media was the way people got any kind of information and what many people were finding and what was becoming more and more prevalent on the platform in 20142015 was incitement to violence against the rohingya community and facebook really did not do anything in the face of that incitement to violence even though that was inconsistent with its own rules for participating in the service and that i think well the u.n. has actually in a commission of inquiry determined that that ability to use the platform to incite violence was one of the initiators and motivators for people to go out and and exercise terrible crimes against rangers in the period of 2. 10162017 so all these companies failing perhaps you could explain to us how they try and place the internet the i mean the companies it's really interesting in the sense that the companies are extremely powerful in various environments around the world

but at the same time they've also become governors of space they have big they have bureaucratized the space to such an extent that they have rules they have many legislatures they have all sorts of mechanisms to determine when there is a violation of a particular rule and yet we still see massive kinds of harms that take place on on their platforms and it's a real question whether the companies are consistently enforcing the rules and the major problem here is that we don't know what we don't know because they are not transparent about their implementation of the rules in your book you talk about this information potentially democracy is also under threat here you mention 2 examples the 2016 u.s. election and the brics it referendum in the u.k. how worrying could this be for the future of democracy i think it's extremely

worrying although the dissent from asian problem in particular is very difficult to solve and i want to start by saying that one of the fundamental problems in the dissent from ation space is the willingness of political leaders and that is government leaders who should know better who are amplifying the voices of dissent formers of conspiracy theorists and others so this is a problem that is both. amplified by social media but also amplified by outside outside leaders leaders who i mean are outside of the social media context but the companies could very well identify rules for how they deal with this information and then do and then undertake rules undertake enforcement. that is not essentially censorship they can slow down the amplified amplification of that kind of information they can do all sorts of things that used technology to deal with this information they are trying i admit that they're trying but when we look at

the world of descent from asia it's very hard for them to be in a position to know this information is false this information is true and we might not want them to be in that position either to the companies need more government regulation or does that lead to yet more censorship i think this is a time where we should be thinking about government regulation and i think it could come in a variety of forms i one should be government regulation to ensure transparency of the companies so that we the users can really have insight into what the what the companies are doing in order to keep their platforms safe for the exercise of human rights another is an idea that has really taken on some momentum in the united states and that's using competition policy tools of antitrust to possibly even break up the companies but if we go down that route we absolutely have to have a conversation about what that kind of breakup of the company is would mean for

users around the world because remember facebook as an example has about 2 and a half 1000000000 users 85 percent of them are outside the united states so any kind of tool or regulation that might be adopted here has to take into account the global users and what the impact of of any kind of regulatory measure would have on them. looking forward is technology going to make the problem better or worse we had a recent example of the us speaker nancy pelosi and someone manipulated her answers in a press conference and made it sound like she was slurring there is now i believe early versions of technology that can create video and make people's lips move to say things they didn't say this is one of the threats to the future and unfortunately. we see government leaders amplifying those very disinform ation tools so the example of nancy pelosi is doctored video the one that made her look to be slurring

on the one hand that's something that actually nancy pelosi could deal with and she did she did deal with it it wasn't necessarily something that facebook had to take down for purposes of protecting her as a public leader and frankly we might not want the company to be in the position of taking down content that mocks political leaders that's part of robust debate is being critical and even using satire and mockery from for time to time but the problem that you're really getting to on this deep fakes question making political leaders look like they're saying something that they're not really saying is a very significant threat to the future and what we really need is a commitment from governments to avoid using those tools and we need a commitment from the companies to find technology solutions if not to take them down but to at least identify when those kinds of videos might be out there so that they can be appropriately labeled and identified as potentially fate this is

a problem i mean this is a problem but for many many reasons it's a problem because it's hard to define truth from fiction and particularly online but it's one that we can't shy away from and it needs all stakeholders that means the companies governments and users to act in a responsible way to define how to solve the problem but it does mean that unscrupulous leaders in various countries around the world can use this whole issue and dismiss things with awful to fake news this is this is a fundamental problem and this is what is perhaps unusual maybe going back to your initial question that this particular moment is especially problematic and difficult because we don't seem to have i mean apart from countries here and there . we don't seem to have a coalition of countries who in good faith want to solve these problems who want to do away with the amplification of fake information like the deep fakes and who want

to address issues like fake news or dissent from ation in ways that respect human rights that respect everybody's access to information and the right to access information while also dealing with the harm that there does not see seem to be a global governmental good faith effort to solve these problems. david kay thank you for talking to welch's 0 thinking. stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives on the sun just a long standoff with international borders is finally over separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism protesters complain about the underreported of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations with

the listening post on al-jazeera. newsstand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. this is a dialogue reading about it for less than staying at an international media and on t.v. it's why should we stop this conversation with skepticism because there's a lot of it on my everyone has a voice we are being taken advantage of just because we are small community without a network to seek help join the global conversation announces iraq all they want to do is try to get this intelligibly that we have here in st. we have

a news gathering team here that is 2nd term and they're all over the world and they do a fantastic job when information is coming in very quickly all at once you've got to be able to react to all of the changes and al-jazeera we adapt to them. my job is is to break it all down and we held the view on the stand and make sense of it. washington scrapped plans to impose punitive tariffs on mexico after its neighbor agrees to stem the flow of migrants into the u.s. . dollar i missed this is al jazeera live from also coming up ethiopia's prime

minister calls for courage as he meets protest leaders and the military and then efforts to revive talks. the u.s. gives turkey and ultimatum them back out of a deal with russia by the end of july or face the consequences. and thousands of liberians turn out to protest against rising prices on their football attempts president. now the u.s. is suspending plans to impose tariffs on mexican goods after the 2 countries reached a deal on migration migrants from central america who are currently in the u.s. awaiting asylum will now be sent back to mexico until the cases are resolved rob adults reports. the u.s. threat to impose punitive tariffs on mexico led to

a week of intense negotiations ending in a last minute accord president donald trump announced in a tweet the united states of america has reached its signed agreement with mexico the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico and to our southern border this is being done to greatly reduce or eliminate illegal immigration coming from mexico and into the united states mexican foreign minister marcello ever ard said the 2 sides reached a compromise almost but he said it was i think it's a fair balance because the us had more drastic proposals of the stock and we have reached a middle point that we agreed to support mexico's proposal to support the central american countries. mexico had already agreed to send troops to its border with what amala to control the flow of migrants seeking asylum in the u.s.

it's now also agreed the u.s. could send asylum seekers who've entered the united states back to mexico to await legal rulings on their status but the us had to give up on its earlier demand that all guatemalan asylum seekers be deported to mexico and that honduran and salvadoran asylum seekers sent to guatemala the agreement also calls for the u.s. and mexico to work together to improve economic conditions and security in impoverished crime ridden central american countries the root causes of migration the deal is a political victory for trump who has made stopping migration the central pillar of his political brand and who had faced opposition from within his party to the proposed tariffs rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. earlier we spoke to eric found for us he's the vice president of the council of the americas and he says

a shift in political dynamics allowed a diplomatic breakthrough between mexico and the us what seems to be the immediate condition for why this occurred was the presentation that the us southwest border the city of el paso of approximately 1000 migrants and it seemed as if that just. the president on this course but i think that what changed the dynamic was 2 things number one the government of mexico presented itself as very willing to negotiate it did not cut fight back it did not push back and take a nationalistic stance and said ok we understand this we're going to try to work together to resolve that that was the 1st step the 2nd step was that the president of the united states only heard negative responses to his initiative the response was uniform from the business community was rejected this many in congress including republicans said this is not the way to proceed so he really in some ways in the units who have a solution to this because many people who would normally be supportive of some of

the white house initiatives clearly were not on the side so i think the politics of ship someone's well. ethiopia's prime minister has called for a speedy democratic transition in syria that says he tries to mediate in the political crisis between the military and the opposition but as demanding a civilian government the group representing the protesters says the talks will continue but only under certain conditions natasha game has more than just look at . the list knowing even the small act of defiance could be yes a small group of people gathered in khartoum on friday after prayers they continued their call for the transitional military council to transfer power to the people. i live in the city of. they were shouting into instead of prayer and reflection at this mosque worshipers thought the a man was

a mouthpiece for the military contacts and kicked him out. more than 100 people have been killed since june 3rd when the military began cracking down on protests i can pick up on this right now and someone can be sitting right next to the brother so if i have to be united even more and we are determined now more than ever more than before to end this and to start a new chapter is. a paramilitary group called the rapid support forces is accused of murder and rape to silence protesters want accountability. and also. we want annual military. mission to hand over. its civil superior in state.

forces. now the transitional military council is choking off access to the internet to hide these crimes atmosphere free about must see you know sadness when i sing this is not the way to govern any country. ethiopian prime minister ahmet arrived in the capital and brought the group representing protesters the alliance for freedom and change back to negotiations with the transitional military council the prime minister has endorsed saddam hama dear on behalf of ethiopia to represent him as a special envoy as well as a special envoy from the african union as well and they will be staying within the course of the next 2 days to further have in-depth discussions with both parties and ensure that whatever has been started today and most of the decisions that have been confirmed today will find fruition over the next few days. a general strike is planned for sunday the streets of khartoum once filled with hopeful chanting are

now eerily quiet. however slowly the videos documenting the attacks are spreading well beyond sudan natasha going to 0. now the u.s. is threatening to stop training turkish f. $35.00 pilots if goes ahead with plans to buy russian air defenses the 2 nato allies have sparred for months over turkey's order for russia's s. $400.00 system washington has given ankara until the end of july to pull out of the deal well that pearson is a former u.s. ambassador to turkey and he says turkey appears to be siding with russia in hope of finding a solution to the syrian war. well i think the main reason is mr herder one desperately wants to see baber as from the russian with respect to the future security of syria or turkey including the right

to have a presence in all in or be in northeastern syria where the syrian kurds have been fighting the. regime and have been fighting the heights of so i think he thinks that by doing enough waivers for the russians he will get somewhere every bomb in the peace agreement and the turkish security and i think it's a false hope in the russians have shown in their recent operations in italy or providence after waited for the turks to do something about all related europe's they are they are new defense they are it clear the progress of those forces ignoring turkish requests and ignoring turkey's desires the turks would be very happy with the rice and with broker an arrangement with damascus there were to have turkey or greater freedom of action in the northeastern syria and along the border including it south of the border ready where the turks have invested a lot of money in the infrastructure and so on in the hopes that $1.00 day those

down will be at parents who are as a government just as they did in northern iraq but by the way the last war the u.s. says it was lodged a formal diplomatic protest with russia over nam this between 2 if there was ships in the east china sea both countries are accusing each other of unsafe actions after the vessels came within 15 me says of a collision they had to take evasive action which military officials say but sailors lives in danger. amnesty international is edging saudi arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy motive careerists was arrested 5 years ago at the age of 13 for taking part in protests against the government he's been detained ever since careerists faces possible execution for a series of offenses some of which date back to when he was just 10 years old he's currently awaiting his next court appearance. is the director of the gulf affairs

institute and he says much to judge isn't the 1st teenager that saudi arabia has attempted to put to death. this saudi government has executed children before including in the past few months in a row and it has done that over the years i have recorded many cases of that moving the cases of these 7 mostly young. men who were executed. sear 2013 and many of them were were not can anyone and they were when they would be paid they were minors. here is one of the youngest to the. sentence or. sought to be executed we had another child executed in just. how can be his last and he was executed when he was 14 years old so this is nothing new to the saudi court system which does mark. uphold minimum

national standard when it comes to. the seizures will need good protection that the international community has a lot smaller still ahead on al-jazeera and after more than 100 years athens finally gets an official mosque and there is a very remarkable day i'll tell you about plans that well as allow people to go whenever a tourist has been before. and i bet we still have some clouds stretching its way across the middle east at the moment on the satellite picture you can see it here making its way up from parts of saudi arabia all the way north into turkey it's a very techie where we're seeing some of the wettest of the weather the shopper shallots from the system.