hello you know welcome back we're here across eastern china things are going to be quite dry over the next few days this is been the trend over the last week or so and you can see here on the satellite image it has been quite clear across much of the area so we're going to be seeing some clear skies anywhere from shanghai all the way down to possibly near hong kong now the clouds will develop here in hong kong as we go from friday as well as into saturday possibly even a few showers there as well up to the north though rouhani your temperatures are finally coming down you were 37 by saturday we do expect you to be down here towards $33.00 degrees there what heavy rain will be a big problem here across parts of central india across some areas across the central states we could be seeing upwards of 500 millimeters of rain over the next 3 days so flooding is going to be on the increase here up towards new delhi though it is going to be rain starting to enter your forecast by the time we get toward

saturday down towards the south though is going to be a little bit drier for tonight we do expect to see attempt to there of about $33.00 degrees in colombo rain in your forecast at 30 degrees there and then over here towards parts of doha it is going to start finally start to come down on the winds the relative humidity though is on its way up as we go towards saturday but for friday expect to see a temperature of 40 and for abu dabi 37 degrees as your expected high there. i cannot my phone with my face you can access your bank account with your voice unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionizing the process of identification the biometrics are far from perfect convenience and seeming infallibility comes at a cost most crucially our privacy in the 4th of a 5 part series on the radio addresses the appropriation of our most personal characteristics all hail the algorithm on

a jersey or. deal with al-jazeera these other top stories this hour rebel fasts high court has thrown out a case claiming the break the strategy of boris johnson's government is not compatible with the $9900.00 northern ireland peace accord which the us house committee voted to adopt a resolution to intensify its impeachment program republican president donald trump the measure allows the panel to define the rules of an impeachment investigation including calling witnesses. and the body of former president robert mugabe is lying in state to save him in harare the same place he took out later nearly 4

decades ago to be buried on sunday but there are ongoing discussions between government and family about just where he will be laid to rest. when israelis had to the polls on tuesday many will do so unsure of who to trust has been an increase in leaks to the media about looming corruption charges against prime minister benjamin netanyahu but he has hit back stephanie decker reports from west to resume . a world champion in fake news israeli prime minister takes to facebook to discredit an israeli journalist and the channel he works for for broadcasting leaks to do with the corruption cases against the prime minister israeli media now reporting that the journalist has hired a bodyguard because of the anonymous threats he's received in the 10 yo i. think the media is a very important gives a lot of importance to the media and he wants to shape the public opinion he wants to influence and he's obsessed and he is panic this terrified you can never see

that because as a good actor he never shows his fear. but this week you always saw some signs of it because there was a recording that was leaked that they were screaming. in a secret recording netanyahu can be heard screaming at his then communications minister telling him to intervene in order to allow a sympathetic channel to broadcast news something it had not been allowed to do before netanyahu had been banned by the attorney general from interfering in the affairs of the media. and this an official campaign video from likud the prime minister's party once again singling out journalists who reported on leaks related to the corruption cases this video tells the audience they will not decide this is the 2nd election in 6 months and the big question is can benjamin netanyahu win again and if he does any form of government but it's really the day after that's

going to determine what happens to israel's longest serving prime minister just a couple of weeks after the vote he faces a hearing on corruption charges and the worst case scenario for benjamin netanyahu is just netanyahu is facing 3 criminal cases of corruption and fraud 2 of them are linked to allegations of giving the prime minister favorable coverage in the media and you know the media is both the strength of his success the secret to his success and the possible way that it's going to get a failure i like to say that for and it's and you know the media is like kryptonite to superman because it can disable him and he's afraid of it and almost every problem that he's had legal problems and bribery scandal had to do with protecting his image in the media. voters go to the polls on the 17th of september but in the end the fate of israel's prime minister lies in the hands of this country's legal system stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem. and facebook has suspended

a messenger boss used by netanyahu as they could party for violating hate speech rules the chat bot told people who visited the liquid facebook page that arab politicians want to quote annihilate us all and then you know who denied any knowledge of the text and said it was the result of a mistake by a staff member the balts been suspended for 24 hours. google has agreed to pay another half a $1000000000.00 in taxes to france the payment ends a 4 year investigation into the us tech giant and comes as the french government pushes ahead with other new taxes on big tech firms despite president donald trump threatening to put retaliatory levies on french wine. in northwest syria airstrikes and fighting or preventing thousands of children from starting school rids of education facilities have been damaged or affected by the ongoing violence sim you explained how some children are coping in a refugee camp in italy province. no schools and no playgrounds and for fatima

and other children like her no break from hardship and deprivation here in atlanta in this refugee camp for syrians displaced by the war there is no start to the school year. but that's not stopping fatima and her sisters from helping each other to get some of the education they haue missed out on. that other but our son as our never left when i 1st started school we had to leave because of the airstrikes and shelling i studied till 4th grade then the regime attacked our village again and we moved and then i couldn't go to school i wish i had and could become a doctor or nurse we need them to treat people here. for many are syrians the war is their main memory of childhood and it is one without schooling. that when i said i was too young i can remember anything i want to become a teacher so boys and girls can learn i want to build hospitals and houses for the poor and the displaced when the war started pause was 4 years old now he is 12 and

is unable to read or write and say is there is little chance to remedy that here should. look like can we learn something even to wash our hands we need to go out it's all modern day asked when we return home with duty we wish we we're not like other children and stayed going we play under the trees we're surrounded by 4 walls over the past 4 months fighting in airstrikes have displaced around half a 1000000 syrians across many come here and there are more than 200 schools in northwest syria for the children being used as shelters. and standards of living have dropped so low that every day survival is increasingly people's top priority the numbers solo al-jazeera. they turned a half 1000 people have been reported missing now off to hurrican dorrian struck the bahamas the government says the official death toll will significantly increase

above the current number of 50 as man all right paul reports. emergency services in the bahamas continue to sift through the debris left in the wake of hurricane dorian. search and rescue crews have arrived from the u.s. and canada to locate the thousands who are listed as missing the number of vets is expected to significantly increase. in grief either bad as a country. begins with the families who have lost loved ones. the islands of abaco and grand bahama were the worst hit the devastation here is widespread based off of our sample i would say yes. you know we've we've probably had at most 110th of this area and we so far we have got a copy from 5 human remains. so based off our sample size we're going to see more. in the community of marsh harbor entire neighborhoods were wiped off the map and

the debris scattered by dorian's destructive winds and storm surge have left behind a challenging environment for search and recovery workers. many are relying on assistance from search dogs to help locate bodies hidden beneath the mountains of rubble the challenges for this operation have been manse we have not seen anything like a debris field like this. there are multiple areas that are impossible there are multiple hazards here like nails corrugated steel glass you know things like that out there in everything the bahamian government says about 5000 people have been evacuated from the worst affected areas most have been sent to shelters in the capital city of nassau what we're seeing is a lot of families that are wondering whether loved ones are and it's going to take time for the authorities to to identify. the missing and

learn more about. what may end up being a really tragic death toll. the world health organization says an estimated 70000 people have been left without shelter making hurricane during the worst natural disaster in the nation's history. a little below zita. cuba's president says his country will soon be acutely short of less emergency measures are taken me. feeling the effects of the united states blocking of oil shipments to cuba there were imposed austerity measures back in 2015 when oil supply from cuba's ally venezuela started declining mexico says it disagrees with the recent us supreme court decision that's all in favor of donald trump's latest effort to restrict immigration the court allowed a ban on nearly all asylum applications at the mexico border to go into effect so

people will now have to seek asylum in the 1st safe country they travel through which effectively block's most applications model trump says he is delaying an increase in tariffs on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese exports by 2 weeks he says the decision to delay was made at the request of the chinese and as a gesture of goodwill china has reciprocated by announcing it would exempt some u.s. products from tariff increases in the lead up to trade talks scheduled for next month the u.s. tariffs would usually rise on october 1st from 25 to 30 percent. the tribals also impacting hong kong's economy that's suffering the fallout from the ongoing anti-government on wrist the city was one of the world's most visited in 2018 but after months of demonstrations key industries like tourism are suffering brown reports on the downturn it only looks like it'll worsen. burned performs in an almost deserted theme park this is disneyland normally one of

hong kong's most popular tourist attractions but there are no queues to the rides and other attractions today. on average 800000 people visit each day many of them from mainland china. but the unrest that began on june the 9th has made it harder for hong kong to sell itself as a fun destination in. the neighborhood of monk cox has seen some of the worst violence the bravo close boutique on princess wood road regularly has to close early but always opens the following morning only the graffiti hinting at what happened a few hours earlier. the shop faces monk police station a frequent target for demonstrators since mid june businesses for them by 80 percent yet the solitary sales assistant says she supports the protests because she says they want what she wants. of course freedom freedom

since i'm not the boss and just an employee i think freedom is more important but my boss would think business is more important. at the nearby noodle 11 restaurant customers are still coming but business is 30 percent down on a month ago and while the owner remains confident from kong's economy will recover he still worried. it's hard to sustain the business how to pay the rent and the staff. in more prosperous districts saile start out number customers in some luxury boutiques visitors from the chinese mainland are still arriving but they're spending less time here and less money some appear indifferent to the unrest once i got here it seems fine it's not as hard as i imagined even before the protests began on june 9th it had not been a good year for hong kong's economy it's been feeding the effects of the trade war between china and the united states as well as the slowdown in china's economy and

all of that argue some economists could be enough to push hong kong into recession . this is a city where divisions in society are deepening and no matter how it all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. finally scientists doctors and political leaders have met in brussels of a global vaccinations it is taking place as countries around the world face outbreaks of preventable diseases due to a lack of adequate vaccination or manley has more. measles mumps rubella and many other real misses can all be prevented by quick japanese. health officials say it saves the lives of up to $3000000.00 people pay a year but they also say the work is being threatened by

a growing anti vaccination campaign now scientists and doctors have met in brussels to fight back he did you know except it is unacceptable in the 21st century our children are dying from diseases that should not exist and we have to put an end to this intolerable situation it's incumbent on each and every one of us since it. is no more thanks to vaccines. polio has been pushed to the brain goes. down. 2 vaccines. one is feared like. measles and meningitis are now easily prevented from tanks to vaccines the world health organization is pointing to what it calls the myths about that scene's they include diseases disappearing before vaccines were introduced medical professionals say that scenes of had a significant impact and to the criticism of most people who get diseases be

vaccinated w.h.o. says most are 85 to 95 percent effective but only recently have we seen a mass vaccination movement and it's probably to do with the social media that's become so important at the moment in the way that people get their their news and we have something which is spreading very rapidly which is out of control this anti vaccination campaign group in washington d.c. says the freedom to decide to vaccinate is a human right when you take away a person's freedom and medical choice. mandating vaccines for education. that is coed coersion back in brussels for local brennan is seeking to continue the advocacy work his sister did push she died of suffocation cancer. changed everything. to imagine this

year from cervical cancer cancer that is almost entirely. she's 26 years old and she dedicated the last months real life to raising awareness of the importance of the nation she didn't because if she had. it's likely not be intimidated she would be with diagnosed circle says his sister receive support but also abuse when she tried to convince women to take the h.p.v. vaccination and he says it's fear based on mistrust and misinformation that this summit seeks to end more about a man the al jazeera. headlines this hour on al-jazeera belfast's high court has thrown out a case claiming the brig's that strategy of boris johnson's government is not compatible with the 9098 northern ireland peace accord a us house committee voted to adopt

a resolution to intensify its impeachment probe of republican president donald trump a measure allows the panel to define the rules of an impeachment investigation including calling witnesses. this could be any gauge gauge that will allow us whether to record it are to go. back to prison. that is what we are doing so because of this crisis. so. there's the geisha the legal difference between these 2. care to argue about the. body of former zimbabwean president robert mugabe is lying in state at a stadium and harare the same place he took over 1000 leader nearly 4 decades ago mcgarvie is to be buried on sunday but there are ongoing discussions between the government and his family about exactly where he will be laid to rest for afghan soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing near an army base in kabul the afghan minister of defense

confirmed the attack and 4 other soldiers were injured the taliban has claimed responsibility lives for 50 people have been killed when a train derailed in democratic republic of congo's southeastern province of tongue in u.k. government ministers as the accident happened around 3 am local time in the town of my about 80 sudan's new prime minister bellerive 100 is making his 1st state visit to south sudan in his new role jibber is hosting talks between the transitional government and several armed groups has made peace making and with groups fighting khartoum one of his main priorities. and google has agreed to pay another half a $1000000000.00 in taxes to france the payment ends a 4 year investigation into the us tech giant and it comes as the french government pushes ahead with other new taxes on large international technology firms

those are your headlines the news continues after part 4 of a 5 part series all hail the algorithm. i can unlock my phone with my face and you can access your bank account with your voice and fingerprints are often the key information on a national id card all of this face voice fingerprints there are biometrics unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionizing the process of identification of the biometrics a far from perfect they convenience and seeming infallibility comes at a cost of most crucially our privacy.

biometrics are individual unique so much so that they've always served as a gold standard for identification with really high levels of accuracy and strong security fingerprints and d.n.a. databases have been the mainstay for police investigators for decades and across many parts of the world people who are literally used thumb prints in place of written signature. has been researching the growing use of biometrics there's also your face now which is being recorded so that's just your facial point that's called facial recognition technology your voice is biometric data there's also something called gait analysis which is how you walk so those are ways that they can identify you and another way is behavioral biometrics that might be your online

behavior so how do you use their mouth where you click on things as you go through the internet but even how regular they are posting on facebook with a lot but you can can get just from people ordinary life and that's why it's so important to have this debate and the fighting if we all are giving our consent about whether or not we want such technology being used and if so under what circumstances and what regulatory checks. the world is on a mission a mission to give everybody a legal identity by 2030 that was a target set by the united nations as part of it sustainable development goals campaign the key segment of the population that the un is focusing on is the more than 1000000000 people who currently have no way to prove their identity. verified include millions of refugees traffic children homeless and other people who never get a chance to establish documents and create a digital footprint that's so essential for modern life. here

exactly can the united nations world food program is using biometric technology iris scans to provide aid to the camps 75. 1000 syrian residents refugees can shop for their groceries with the blink of an eye no need for a bank card all the registration papers the system is quite aptly named ip when a shopper has their iris scanned the world food program system verifies the person's identity against a biometric database held by the un high commission for refugees the u.n.h.c.r. then it checks the account that confirms the purchase and prints and i pay a receipt all of this happens in seconds and according to the world food program this not only makes transactions quicker but more secure here in jordan we use biometrics out indication for human reason 1. 100 percent

accountability on the identity of the person chasing and using the assistance that we provide and 2nd me to facilitate that adoption process of the beneficiaries by not using the card by not using a pin in camps which is an environment where beneficially can to go to the supermarket the more people times during the month for ben going with their own iris it's easier than going with a car but it could. be higher is unable shopping process is both fascinating and. this is

a super high tech system that's been rolled out in what you could call a low writes in short people here are under the protection of the united nations and have more rights than they would. ads in the war zones of the countries they fled from such as syria however they also have little choice when it comes to giving up their biometrics. programs taking somebody's biometric data from them is about the most personal data that you could take these are not people who know thoroughly are in a position to ask for legal representation to have this explained to them 2nd if they don't want it what is the alternative that they can exercise instead are they using behavioral psychology as something called nudge the area to make it where it's just easier to hand over your data and then you get your food and your clothes and your money faster because that would be unethical we're testing out again extremely experimental really invasive technology on people who potentially have

some of the. rights and protections that anyone with a middle class person living in france or germany or the united states the united kingdom or sweden can fence. use their iris to pay for things or to transact probably not it's easy to see the immense potential of the i pay system to track a dispersement smooth out payments and reduce the chances of corruption from the world food program says the benefits go even though they are able to monitor shopping habits and traditional take and there's a possibility in the future that the credit histories of the refugees could help them thank you counts getline. they also think they've got the security bit covered . so that repeatedly leads the management over they've got to juice through it but i'm sure they've been good in that regard it's. so crude that agreement we are able to access has to be sensitive which again does not include me just the case i'd

need for money but because we are confident that the beat up being good is. what public. the reason why we are doing. it i got early better privacy and in fact assessment on the project to get and that if that had a new thread. in the world we were able to tackle them and and address them properly before they come to us. u.n.h.c.r. remain fully committed to their biometrics registration program so much so that they're rapidly expanding it with the aim of be active in 75 countries by 2020 there remains lots of problematic questions that are that are yet to be fully answered such as is the tech foolproof who has access and how can anyone plan for the unforeseen issues to come these are the kinds of questions that have made other aid organizations pause before jumping on board with biometric technology in 2015

oxfam voluntarily imposed a moratorium on its use of biometrics and its work its stated given the number of unknowns around most effective operation and governance models and risks of this incredibly sensitive data falling into the wrong hands we felt it was best not to become an early adopter. one field in which biometrics has long been is security and surveillance and facial recognition is one of the most popular right now in china there's been an exponential increase in the use of facial tracking and artificial intelligence to monitor citizens the united states also currently operates one of the largest facial recognition systems in the world with a database of 117000000 americans with photos typically drawn from driver's licenses and in the u.k. police forces have been trialing lie fishel recognition since 2016 at public spaces such as shopping centers football matches protests music events and crowded city

spots so this green band that's behind me here in central london is the heart of the facial recognition technology trial that's being run by the metropolitan police and what it's doing is it's basically scanning people's faces when they walk past and then comparing that to a database that has want to defend it's all suspects on the met police say facial recognition could enable them to more easily protect people. prevent offenses and bring offenders to justice however privacy groups such as big brother watch say the technology is authoritarian and lawless the group's legal and policy officer or a ferris even goes so far as to say that facial recognition is possibly the most dangerous surveillance mechanism that's ever been invented this facial recognition technology can capture up to 300 faces a seconds which could be around 18000 faces in a minute it's a vast vast number of people whom the police can identify check against police

databases for that police or immigration so what we're seeing is police i don't being able to identify people in seconds but put so much power in the hands of the state and the police which i think is fundamentally wrong it's not democratically accountable because there's no legal basis for this so this is an intense intrusive and or thorough tarion surveillance technology while advocates for facial recognition would debate some of gross assertions one thing is undeniable the technology currently being used by the u.k. police is dangerously inaccurate latest figures show that 96 percent of the met police as so-called matches were misidentifications and this research showing that many facial recognition algorithms will disproportionately misidentify darker skin tones and when. the cause is a new mirrors and they vary ranging from poor quality c.c.t.v. images to the fact that the algorithms are often trained to so to speak using faces at a mostly white and male 5th technology and looks like

a really nice quick fix to the fact that we have not got as much money to pay for human intelligence operations so it sounds great in theory a problem if. it's thought that worked very well on people who are not white men which is quite a lot of the population on the planet being arrested wrongfully means that you get put into predictive policing algorithms so the more often you're having contact with law enforcement the more you are at risk of being stopped again even erroneous lee and also people in your network because they build the network out if number just about you proponents of facial recognition in the u.k. will argue that issues with accuracy can be fixed they aren't wrong technology can always be improved on what's a bigger concern is that currently there are no laws governing the use of facial technology in the country whether it's the state using it or even private companies i think what's really troubling at the moment is the technology is being rolled out

without legislation and empowered regulators this is not technology to have a very good track record of being countable so i can find out who is using it under what circumstances what we've done with the data stored what's the track record of cybersecurity on keeping that data protected all of the things we have no idea has just been rolled out when people feel that they're being observed all the time that has a really chilling effect to things like your right to protest your right to go to a job interview to hang out with some friends to go to church these are things that perhaps the state doesn't have a right to keep an eye on the met police have defended the trial saying they quote and that members of the public or through posters and leaflets but if the trial i was at would be the word i'd use there was literally.