for berlin today it is going to be a day of $23.00 degrees but out here towards the west we're still dealing with he woods are saying about $35.00 degrees as the forecast high as we go towards thursday that front continues to make its way towards the east but here across much of the east temperatures are rebounding a little bit now for zurich but for paris we do expect to see that temperature go up to about $33.00 degrees there and that's not going to be the end of it as we go from friday to saturday we do expect to see temperatures even rise more to $35.00 degrees the average for this time of year 23 degrees as the normal here across another part of africa things are looking quite nice across much of the area not much in terms of rain but for temperatures we're going to be seeing benghazi at 29 and cairo a temperature of 41. the weather sponsored by cattle and weighs. the producers of mexico's most watched soap opera continue to tackle real women's issues and the audience is now reacting. emboldened by the show a woman freezes hell from the horrors of sexual abuse. in

a deeply emotional demonstration of the back and forth between reality and fiction that he's real stories played out on sat. episodes of soap box mexico on al-jazeera . both about what you don't deserve it means the whole drama reminded of our top stories forces allied to libya's recognize government say they've retaken the city of god real from forces loyal to wall old khalifa haftar have to fight to say that's still in control of government which serves as one of the main bases also tension between the u.s. and iran is showing no signs of easing protests. also gets on the verge of breaking

the 2050 nuclear deal it follows increasing pressure from washington which has had to run senior leaders with financial sanctions. and hong kong's pro-democracy campaigners are back on the streets this time targeting the justice minister's office protesters want the government to withdraw a bill that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland china. amnesty international is accusing the government of eritrea of intimidating and harassing critics living in exile but they include eritrean activists living in the u.k. sweden and kenya welcomed where possible from the kenyan capital nairobi. together bieber was a high minot says she's never enjoyed the freedom she fought for she was 17 when she joined eritrea's rebellion and fought for independence from ethiopia she seen here in one of the rebels' mountain hideout in the 1980 s. independence came in 1901 but she says freedom did not if they want to kill you

they can kill you automatically. she owned a factory but she didn't join the governing party or contribute to its funding she says she's been harassed ever since including here in kenya's capital nairobi where she lives in exile she says eritrea is ambassador to kenya of terrorism and had her arrested by local police is involved. is in the night he took his saw was like 56 they. had caught of the. things he tried to deport does. rights activists say that the kind of harassment that a bieber says she's experienced here in nairobi is just the tip of the iceberg and that eritrean critics of eritrea's government you are living in exile all around the world everything only harassed intimidated and even beaten by government

supporters so as reporters rights group amnesty international says it's documented cases of harassment and intimidation of eritrean human rights activists over the last 8 years has published a report and its research is say those in kenya the u.k. sweden and some other european countries a most risk yet their government he's gained of exporting their repression from from its territory to another country and it doesn't look good. on your moderate record and it doesn't look good to the recovery of a country where the oppression is happening the report document seemingly coordinated threatening tweets from staff at eritrea's embassies its ambassador in kenya didn't agree to give us an interview. bieber says the harassment has made her more critical most of her activist colleagues here in nairobi were too scared to

speak to us. she's campaigned for 4 of her friends from her days as a rebel arrested in eritrea she doesn't know if they're still imprisoned or dead the same fate she says awaits her if she ever goes home malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya. the united states 10 democrats of hopefuls hoping to replace donald trump and extras election have taken part in the presidential primaries for many voters it's the 1st introduction to some of the 20 candidates hoping to win the party's nomination and has more from miami in florida. it's one of the most crowded and diverse group of candidates in the democratic party's history so packed with the 1st televised debates will run for tonight's lesser known politicians like hawaii's tulsi gabbard the 1st hindu member of the u.s.

congress to raise their profile here going forward these debates will have tougher standards to qualify so for some there's little to lose and everything to gain the american people deserve a president who put your interests ahead of the rich and powerful that's not what we have right now massachusetts senator elizabeth warren doesn't have that problem she's doing well in the polls is known to the public and visited a migrant detention center in florida before the debates with a clear message to voters. that we don't know what. form. when by saying when you turn in iraq people for polenta call aarons what you want to the president of the united states it's joint. health care economic disparity and immigration were among the dominant theme as there was some infighting among the candidates over how to implement policies they all broadly agree on but former san antonio there who leon castro showed the

kind of emotion that may help his campaign very proud that in april i became the 1st candidate to put forward a comprehensive immigration plan and we saw those images thank you watching that image of. his daughter but. it's heartbreaking. it should also piss us all off. outside the debate trump supporters made their voices heard the president too to during the debate was just one would boring the democratic candidates and those looking for someone to take on the president in 2020 it was an exciting start to what will be a long and hard fought process the biggest challenge for many of these candidates is creating a buzz with limited time in a crowded field most performed as expected but over the next few weeks there will be a whole without increasing polling numbers campaign cash will dry up ending their presidential hopes for those that came into these debates with good polling numbers they have a clear advantage now they need to build momentum and that will be the battle ahead

and go a crowd is there a miami florida. talking to them aggression policies oregon being condemned photos went viral of a father and daughter who drowned trying to cross the mexico border now a warning about those disturbing images in john holmes report from tijuana the mexican city on the border with california. a final embrace that's a trick to international attention to the dangers that central americans face on their way to the united states this is also teenagers and he's 23 month old daughter valentina they died last weekend in the rio grande the river that separates mexico in the united states journalists who dearly duke found their bodies. in extent in working it was something that moved me deeply because it showed that up until her last breath she was joined to him not only by the shots but also in that embrace in which they passed together and today martinez was from

el salvador and he was crossing with his bike tucked inside his t. shirt when they were swept away by strong currents his wife was waiting on the mets can side of the shoreline and survive. something bad like this happen before you see the river and it appears very calm i think that's why the father thought he could cross but the rio grande has a lot of deep powerful currents downstream earlier this month mexico agreed to tighten its southern border with guatemala of the president donald trump threatened to impose tariffs on mexican goods critics say the new measures have led to migrants taking even more dangerous and isolated routes but there's also something else that's happening in the last year or so we've seen a record in the number of people traveling with children to the united states to ask for asylum a many of them of doing that because they've been told that if they ask for asylum as a family there's more chance that they'll be released well into the you know ited states

at least while that process plays out but things have now changed and people that are all skiing for asylum in the united states and now being put back into mexico while that process takes place. traveling with children made no longer be an advantage and as word spreads that may mean the migration dynamic alters a go but the most desperate to escape impending poverty will boil and soon their home loans will still keep coming john holdren. he pointed the u.s. president says opposing democrats want to open borders so they must accept responsibility for the deaths they want to have open borders and open borders crime and open borders mean people drowning in the rivers and it's a very dangerous i hate it and i know it could stop immediately if the democrats gave the law are there to change the laws and then that father will probably was

this wonderful guy with his daughter things like that wouldn't happen because that journey across that river that journey across that river is a very dangerous journey that's a very very dangerous journey there are senators approved a bill to provide for and have $1000000000.00 in emergency funds to deal with increasing numbers of asylum seekers the approval followed the senate rejecting a separate but similar bill agreed by the house of representatives congress members are being pressured to compromise and merge the bills. so the u.s. is willing turkey it'll face sanctions if it goes ahead with the purchase of a russian missile defense system the nato allies have met in brussels to talk about the standoff the 1st delivery of the russian made s. $400.00 system is due in turkey next month the u.s. is also warning turkey that it alone longer be able to buy the f. $35.00 fighter jets and nato is considering beefing up european air and a missile defenses of russia breaches a cold war era nuclear missile treaty shown hope has more from brussels. nato has

issued an ultimatum to russia either come back into full compliance with the i.n.f. treaty by the 2nd of august in other words destroy the s.s.c. 8 intermediate range missile system that russia has been developing according to nato and the united states in noncompliance with that treaty or face responsibility for the total collapse of the i.n.f. treaty and the consequences where with no sign of compliance by russia nato defense ministers have here decided on a range of consequences of countermeasures jens stoltenberg the secretary general wouldn't be drawn on the details of what those might be but he did say they would be measured and strictly defensive he did address concerns of a dramatic escalation in tensions between russia and nato as a result he said this that nato had no intention to deploy new land based nuclear

missiles it would not mirror russia's actions and nato did not want a new arms race here's what he had to say at the new russian missiles they violate the on their for treaty which has been a cornerstone for aunts control for decades and that's the reason why it is so extremely serious that russia is the ploy. sides in clear violation of this street they're putting the whole duty in jeopardy and as a reason why we called t. new to call or russia to come back into compliance and there is still a possibility to save the treaty because the deadline which has been set is the 2nd of august. as well as that around between nato members the u.s. and turkey so already strained relations between the 2 has escalated over turkey's insistence on taking delivery of a russian missile defense system the s 400 against objections from the united states that that would undermine nato military air defense systems across europe

and in. particular undermine the f. 35 program that advanced stealth jet fighter program due to be rolled out to nato member air forces in the years to come turkey a significant component part of that program of the message delivered by acting defense secretary mark s. purchased the 3rd day into his job here to his turkish counterpart in a bilateral earlier give up the s 400 or face being ejected from the f. 35 program and face economic sanctions the response from turkey delivered in the person of the president mr erdogan on his way to japan to meet donald trump at the g. 20 there is no backing down now he said no plan b. he believes this will all be sorted out in a face to face meeting with mr trump north korea south korea is trying to act as mediator in talks with the united states the north korean foreign ministry says the u.s. must come up with mutually acceptable proposals before the end of the year to resume

nuclear negotiations talks between kim jong il donald trump broke down earlier in the year without any agreement child rights campaigners are urging governments and tech companies around the world to prioritise young people's online safety reports of cyber sexual offenses are rising in countries like the united kingdom from where neve barker reports one of the biggest risks to children used to be the stranger on the street now it's the predator online. it's time secam painters meeting in london for government and tech giants to close the met on cyber groomers last year there were more than $8000.00 reported offenses against children in the u.k. the figures doubled in 4 years tech platform should have a legal g.t. of cat protect children that means that platform should have to identify all of the very simply foreseeable risks that children could be exposed to that's things like grooming things like child abuse imagery and then should have to take reasonable

measures to address them so this is really putting into law putting into legislation what platforms have singularly failed to date for the last decade or so this is to talk a short music video platform that's popular with teens last week the app announced it had crossed the warm 1000000000 user mark it has an age limit of 13 but anyone can fake a birth date and open an account to talk todas it's down to parents to ensure their children are the appropriate age to use the app the site offers support on cyber bullying grooming and abuse there are also safety settings for controlling who can and can't see material. but there's growing pressure on children to be discovered to get as many likes in favorable comments as possible it means that many young people deliberately keep their profiles open so that others can see them but it also means they could be seen by potential predators to. jim

gamble used to lead the u.k.'s child exploitation and online protection center or as a leading policeman he's seen firsthand what drives the green most of. this is sexually motivated driven behavior and if you look at you know some of the offenders in the u.k. i think of one in particular who had been looking at images then videos then had gone online to speak to family in the philippines who rolled their child out to be abused to order and then eventually that person because this is sexually driven point you know what i want to go to the next step so when you go to somewhere you think is corruption high poverty high and the answer to those 1st questions is yes the chance of me getting away with it is high money tech companies are investing heavily in educating uses to stay safe online. this week google they expanded its digital safety curriculum for children helping youngsters teachers and parents to identify harmful content campaigners say the

responsibility should be on tech companies to screen users and police platforms popular with children and for governments to make sure they do the al-jazeera london let's give you a side note of the g. 20 that's ongoing at the moment in the brazilian president. short one stuffed member for the meeting because an air force officer in his advance party has been arrested when he was detained on choose day when 39 kilos of cocaine was found in his luggage during a stopover in seville spain the officer was travelling on a military plane. georgiades there i'm still running a reminder of our top stories forces allied to libya's u.n. recognized government say they've retaken the city of gharyan from forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar but have to suffice to say they still control gharyan which serves as one of their main bases. u.s.

president donald trump is talking to us ahead of a summit of the world's largest economies the g 20 leaders have begun to arrive for the meeting in the japanese city of a soccer flying into the summit trump said to china it was ripe for new tariffs and suggested vietnam could be next saying it was the single worst abuser of everybody is also lashed out at india for imposing tariffs on u.s. goods tension between the u.s. and iran is showing no sign of easing with tehran saying it's on the verge of breaking the 2050 nuclear deal it follows increasing pressure from washington which has hit iran's senior leaders with financial sanctions hong kong's pro-democracy campaigners have turned their attention to police and justice officials they gathered outside the main offices of the justice department and were held back by lines of police protesters are trying to keep up pressure on the government to withdraw a bill that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland china the 2020 u.s. presidential candidates have been sparring on

a packed debate stage in miami for the 1st time 10 democratic party candidates spoke on a range of topics including immigration health care and the escalating tensions with iran donald trump's immigration policies are again being condemned out of voters went viral of a father and daughter who were drowned trying to cross the border of mexico the bodies of martinez and his 23 month old daughter valarie as well salvador were found in the rio grande river the u.s. president says opposing democrats want open borders so they must accept responsibility for the deaths. the u.s. is warning turkey it will face sanctions of it goes ahead with the purchase of a russian missile defense system the nato allies have met in brussels to talk about the standoff the 1st delivery of the russian made s. $400.00 system is jew in turkey next month the u.s. is also warning turkey it will no longer be allowed to buy f. $35.00 fighter jets and of course use all of those stories on our web site at

al-jazeera dot com back with more news in half an hour but next on al-jazeera it's the story you stay with us. to al-jazeera. we ask problems of besides the instability is corruption we listen since i hadn't been so who are pushing the united states and president trump into conflict we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter does iran. facebook revolutionized how we connect with each other but as it plans to launch a global currency but also change the way that we spend i really could be allowed to say we'll take a look at libor up facebook's plan to rewire the global economy so your thoughts your twitter and you tube.

15 years ago mark zuckerberg study facebook from a college dormitory in the u.s. state of massachusetts it's now the well to record to social media network and it's part until just digital cuts next year libra is being touted as a crypto currency that can be bought by anyone worldwide and then used to make instant payments through mobile phones much like sending a text message facebook and its partners say libra will quote empower billions of people including those who do not have bank accounts have a look. introducing libra a new global currency design for the digital world. backed by the belief that money should be fast for ok i think it's simple for solace family business and i know it's a cure for pets and sending money home to mexico city. it's powered by block. making it safe in excess of. the matter who you are. or where you're from. facebook

is partnering with a number of private corporations including the cost of phone. to form the nation which will oversee the currency the role will be piped to real comment see such as the u.s. dollar value remains stable but while the association says it hopes to create better cheaper and open financial services critics have some reservations even facebook's co-founder chris hughes has called both brilliant and frightening that it is paper op ed he urged quote exhaustive scrutiny of the forthcoming currency by government regulators joining us to discuss. he is head of policy communications i believe association which will govern the incumbency tumbi brad not is a policy advisor and engineer who manages block chain projects in india she is in india u.s. fellow at new america she joins us from frankfurt germany. and charles off

a phone with technology editor at the guardian newspaper he's also cyber wars hacks this is the business well as he joins us from just outside a saffron walden in u.k. hello everybody it's good to have you so much to talk about and just the strength and to do it unless you're somebody we're going to start with our community because of course there are a lot of questions and some excitement some enthusiasm so i want to dip right into that this is more you know what he says this is a significant game changer imagine with a single click facebook will be able to add nearly 1000000000 people to have a bank account the question will be this a curator from happier than government legality or illegality is regulations which we will talk about a little bit later in the show but we can't dive into deep without understanding how it works so this person is excited how would this work. thank you i'm happy to be on the show today the you know 1st and foremost this is not facebook's project i think that's the 1st order of business and what has been announced clearly

dominated the headlines over the last over the last week is the formation of a new association an open source technology and a governance structure that really makes this as close to a global good in a public good as possible underpinning that is a public block chain and on top of that would ride a reserve back to digital asset or a crypto currency the libra that would facilitate to payments and money what the internet has facilitated for communications and information sharing so it's an exciting opportunity to do things with finance and payments that the world has yet not been able to do for more than 1700000000 people tell us that's quite some idea to bring a new virtual currency to the well when you 1st heard about it the reaction was what. well reaction is. really interesting it also sounds quite scary because who worry that currencies traditionally do it has been affected by the. government's going to go. i mean there's a there's

a really big question which i want them to know which is what happens if leader association goes well it's kind of going to kind of go out of business if it goes out of business when i have the money. to screw it we describe it that way would be the leader of the people that would become lessons to take off from. the 6 questions it's amazing. and say gary charles is asking i think important questions which clearly the formation of this project has anticipated and devers to answer as well at one level the libor is different from other cryptocurrency is in the sense that it is asset backed and it is reserve backed so and that is not fractional so for every libra that someone like my mom watches the sometimes she would not. think of it this way so for every libor that is issued there is

a value behind it that is ensuring that that libor is always backed one the one with a real asset so and if your mum's watching the show imagine a world today we spend $715000000000.00 as the projected remittance flows around the world in the united states you have a diaspora community of around $50000000.00 people who are sending that money back to their home countries but at a rate between 7 and 10 percent on average and much higher in certain remittance corridors with the advent of libra you could envision that money not only arriving near instantaneously the way a message would but arriving with 100 percent right so there's no death by a 1000 cuts along the way it's an incredible opportunity to put money back in the hands of people so you mentioned remittance remittance and i'm i'm glad because we thought it would be a comment from some. so this person works at sure rim it and they deal with remittances using crypto currency time back home faster and cheaper than popular remittance prop providers so they shared with us their thoughts on what this might

mean this is allowed to samuel b. he's the director of that company and here's what he told the stream. africans and others in the developing world face very reasonable restrictions signifier crossed or this is some part. overregulation no money transfers specifically to him from these markets and that is why we are forced to create this story because the car to see out of africa 1st place. is also now intending to make a difference by creating a single drizzle currency that uses within the network can choose to accept or spain use of the currency they can pull this off i still it's funny but a lot of people have been limited by the fascist at this point from participating in the global economy and me so far could be very. so you could hear the excitement at the end of his comment there breaking this down seems to be what his view is

this might allow the unbanked as they're called people who do not have access to these financial institutions to be banked is that the idea that's the crux of it if you think about the comparison again back to to left and data and information sharing only those who are so fortunate to have either one the national birth lottery or the zip code lottery were the ones that had access to the fix lying to left and he said system banking has reached a point of diminishing returns as well there's 1700000000 people in the back in the world without a bank there's an equal number who are under bent and in part because traditional brick and mortar finance has failed to reach these people so i think you know he's no longer alone in the fight for financial inclusion how to look for dantes twitter feeds and i found the the association the labor association so i'm going to have to show you here i know you've looked at them all of these values are companies all coming together when you see them what does that make you feel it are you reassured that these companies

a teaming up all is there anything in there that you'll think you know gives me pause yes thought i mean. yeah definitely i mean i've looked in quite some detail already as libra cloying the papers and also comparing it to a train system i really coming in with some bad stuff don't bring me and if you're just getting the parties d. i would say overall facebook on is a classic case of everything that sounds right but looks wrong and a lot of the devil is in the details in this case and i think users as a whole are compared to other blocking systems not compared to banks they're probably worse off than we brokaw and that they are in other blocking and there's 4 major reasons for those and a lot of that is coming from detailed discussions so i'm going to. firstly believe aucoin is neither a block chain or a crypto currency even though it claims to be and in technical terms it's

a set of signed ledger states that are really a back way and immutable chain of blogs the way we've traditionally come to understand and lock change so what happens in this case is users are not an old block chain usually block the scene of the democrates sort of rate so the people who participated in the men's they also make up the network they own parts of the roads in this network but indicate facebook why all the nodes are corporations like you rightly showed in the picture and people are essentially paying into the system to buy tokens from these corporations so that's the 1st concern. when i look at the design of facebook secondly users currently don't have the governance. well you broke all in that is right now under these 27 partners but

even in the future based on the technical documents that you have very unlikely that you will have a thing the governor. because the way the technical details are probably going to be at maximum with a few 100 people who get to live days i'm going to something that just told you that from my with this report out that you think things and also who has a little hard to understand sometimes you got well let me let me just add to that i think some points that are important to clarify 1st when you think about the this being a technology and a project in which no one company is going it alone this is a very very counter-intuitive in the end in light and designed when it comes to traditional silicone valley work or large corporation work a lot of the r. and d. is effectively being put in the hands of these 28 initial founding organizations in there you have groups like master card visa or lift pay pal e.-bay you have medicare the pago you have vodafone we have social impact partners like mercy corps

. women's world banking for example these are nonprofit organizations that have been put in a structure with the same governance the same authorities and the same vote as as all of the other organizations including the largest companies in that mix and that's just the beginning by the time the currency launches will have about 100 organizations and then this this whole ecosystem will continue to develop i'm going to go to your i'm going to show you did more good morning my original question which was there was an explosion goes by that i haven't pool the money if you do so so they thank you for bringing that up again so if the libra libra as an organization as an association is new we're in the midst of setting up a charter that would be governed as i had mentioned before among very democratic process with the organizations that are a part of it and because it's a reserved backed critz cryptocurrency or digital currency one to one you could envision black swan scenario in which any.