were heightened as trump played to existing anxieties. we were going to ted division has been in politics for 40 years for him it would be a mistake to think that fake news has no impact on american i like toro behavior here's what's happening in our politics people are consuming information entirely different ways that we used to you know when i started doing presidential campaigns when jimmy carter you know his in office i mean we turn on the news at 630 at night and we'd watch 3 networks at once and that was the way america essentially consume news now there is a constant flood of information both on television in the cable environment and particularly online you know that that online consumption of information is having a real effect on things because what's happening is the legitimate media is being supplanted by you know this fake news where people get information which sounds like it's real and true but has no basis in fact and in fact much of it is just

made up and delivered you know by people who are attempting to you know affect the outcome in the election by introducing false narrative and information into the flow of information so you know so yeah i think it does have a real impact. like of regard for the truth became more apparent than in any other us presidential campaign. according to politico fact an independent fact checking websites only 4 percent of donald trump statements during the campaign were true false information was constantly circulating in fact it became self-propagating you have to look at our media landscape and how americans get their news nowadays conservatives get their news only from fox news or alternative sites like breitbart so that's the only news they see and they view the manged what they call the liberal media the mainstream media. with distrust and

they don't believe the kind of c.n.n. new york times washington post so they are only getting their news or large most of their news from very slanted sources and so. what trump will say trump picks up his information from the same news sources these voters hear something conspiracy theory and breitbart news or something on fox trump here is a too says it in the viruses eye for eye for a die for the on the news and i heard that from president trump so he must be telling the truth if they're in a silo and it's really hard to break out silos so it's a self reinforcing cycle of mr. became more difficult to discern fact from fiction and the traditional press was brushed aside sort of a way that these campaigns of you know traditionally been covered and. and that model of campaign coverage was not sort of created with donald trump in my hands trumps disregard for making true statements is something that

a lot of reporters have had trouble dealing with as we're not used to it we're not used to politicians or press people just sort of straight out lying the mainstream media is disrupted and because the mainstream media is disrupted truth is disrupted and if truth is disrupted you can just spread your advantage that. i didn't know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. 8383 will serve boulevard and address among the most prestigious offices in los angeles behind these windows at number 1000 are a few companies that would seem to have no connection. the 1st is break news regarded as a platform for the so-called right. the 2nd is glittering steel it's a small audio visual production company and these companies are linked to

a billionaire who's rarely in the public eye. his name robert mercer. he is co c.e.o. of a hedge fund firm renaissance technologies whose ranks has been climbing since 1903 . carroll cadwallader has been investigating this computer engineer turned billionaire robot. he is an absolutely brilliant scientist did really pioneering work. in the sixty's and in the field of natural language processing which is the base of. basically and he was right at the start of it and working out how to do my machine translation between languages so that google translates which we use all the time that is

a descendent of the work that he did you know he is without doubt one of the brilliant computer engineers of his generation and he was just an ordinary middle class guy doing a professional job and he got an offer from renascence technologies this hedge fund . for them and he did. it was in the early ninety's that robert mercer left i.b.m. to work for run a song technologies. there he applied his methods of calculation on the stock exchange in order to predict its fluctuations. but when i saw technologies he pioneered. algorithmic trading which now is you know below written sources so is something which still remains a bit secret about hard to make profit in markets but the origin of it is in

applying a computer techniques to the data without worrying about fear of where the economy is going or what are the actual meaning of instruments or trading if you're buying wheat. or if you're buying a car company. you don't really care that it's a car company or that it's wheat you just look at the performance of these futures or these stocks and the key thing was to view this just as a set of numbers by applying his mathematical tools robert mercer revolutionized renaissance technologies investment methods making it the world's most profitable fund into this. mess it became very rich renaissance because the performance of the fund which he had his own money and. was extraordinary i mean if it goes up 30 percent 35 percent every year then pretty quickly you become very rich.

robert mercer is known to be very private he almost never speaks publicly. even google has a difficult time producing photos of the few that exist are always the same. there is also a poor quality video a public speech in 2014 during a ceremony in his honor. found out after ike this i'm sure i'll accept this award but i would have to make it all right on some topic or other for an hour now which by the way is more than i typically talk and in a month. robert mercer might have quietly enjoyed his new fortune but he decided to invest in politics. he's been recognized as one of the most generous republican donors since 2010.

merce's donations appear to be motivated by his own special interests. the political system in america is so broken right now because of the special interest money which floods campaigns i mean what happens is when the special interests have an agenda or if you're annoyed company for example and you'd like to continue you know drilling for fossil fuel you know or your polluter and you want to make sure you can continue to pollute you go in and you support politicians who believe in your agenda politicians who will say for example that you know climate change is not happening because of bad made activities you know they will they will promote that publicly because that protects the special interests who fund their campaigns. robert mercer set up his own foundation. the mercer family foundation.

headed by his daughter rebecca. but what exactly are these special interests he's protecting. it's hard to say since robert mercer never expresses his opinions publicly anyway you'll never know what's going on in private this is brian said just look that's what he's funding for all of the money that way and i think that kind of bill for the paycheck. to understand the ideas that robert mercer wants to promote we can. look at where he's been spending we can do so with tax documents declarations of the foundation's fiscal allocations for the years 2012 to 2015 mercer financed a number of institutes and lobbies among them the heritage foundation which fights taxes and economic regulation $1500000.00 the media research center which fights leftist media bias $12000000.00 the government accountability

institute which tracks government corruption and publishes books against hillary clinton 3.7 $1000000.00 the heartland institute which defends climate change skeptics $2800000.00. in new york he even paid for an ad denouncing the construction of a mosque near ground 0 in just 2 years robert mercer became one of the 10 most influential billionaires in politics according to the washington post's. in 2011 breitbart news the right wing online newspaper was in financial difficulty . mercer saw an opportunity and he invested $10000000.00 in the web site. the executive chairman of breitbart was a prominent figure closely linked to trump's campaign stephen bannon. a

former goldman sachs trader he became a hollywood producer in the late 1990 s. he wanted to make films and t.v. series to promote his ultra conservative political views. mercer and bad and are very closely associated and by mercer associating himself with somebody like steve better that maybe that may be a clue it is interpret merce's personal views. in a few my. it's a ban and made breitbart an outlet dedicated to reactionary i.d.'s. you see that with the breitbart publications over the course of many years it was someone like bannan who just proclaims this publicly that they're going to take on these situations and they're going to try to deconstruct the government of the united states to pursue the agenda that they have which is to you know fundamentally change this nation and turn it into you know a place where people experience

a level of division that i don't think we've seen since you know going back to the civil war. robert mercer had built a political media network. to promote his ideas he was only missing one thing i can did it. in 2015 he began by supporting texas senator ted cruz a figurehead of the american far right. but after donald trump surprise victory in the republican primaries he placed his bet on trump. robert mercer created a pro trump political action committee called make america number one endowed with $15000000.00 his role in trump's campaign quickly expanded. in july 26th seen a dinner was held in a hotel in new york. it brings together among others rebecca robert mercer his

daughter and donald trump the dinner resulted in key campaign changes. trump's campaign manager was replaced. the chair of making america number one rebecca mercer whose family also fund the super pac. was able to influence the trump campaign to hire stephen bannon as campaign c.e.o. . steve benen became donald trump's campaign director. kellyanne conway who headed the merced. political action committee for ted cruz became number 2. david bossie a mercer family stalwart became number 3. robert mercer has assembled team was in place. bannon basi and conaway would from this point forward steer the republican candidate strategy. when the merc versus decide to support a candidate they expect the candidates to be responsive to their needs both in

terms of how the candidate runs their campaign it also also after if the kid is successful and there are and they are elected as an office holder it's reasonable to presume that the mercers expect that the office holder will be responsive to the mercer's needs needs as well and their policy preferences. robert mercer his plan was proving to be successful. but a mistake was made that made steve bannon's role controversial. here's what was discovered by looking at donald trump's official campaign books each of these lines corresponds to an expense during his 5 month tenure there was no trace of payments for steve benen. but when we look at the payments made by robert mercer as political action committee one name appears several times. glittering steel a video production company. in total the company received

$302500.00 from the committee in 5 months the company is run by steve bannon. that would mean that his work for trump's official campaign might have been paid via glittering steel which would be illegal campaign financing. the campaign legal center decided to file a complaint. and . steve bannon faced a fine and an investigation by the justice department. we believe or we think it's possible that the super pac make america number one was

subsidizing stephen bannon's work for the trump campaign by making payments abandoned through glittering steel at all see this consulting firms last movie production company located in california at the same address as and its own consulting firm. glittering steel and breitbart are not the only companies tied to the trump campaign $8383.00 will serve boulevard in los angeles also hosts cambridge analytics a company that came under the spotlight for its influence in politics around the globe. cambridge analytic claim to have revolutionary data modeling techniques that can change political campaigning. it was a subsidiary of an english for and its role in donald trump's campaign is regarded as manipulation of public opinion.

i think stories generate fountains of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives and you hold to separate the spin from the facts not. the misinformation from the journalism how carefully must you choose your words but to. tough stuff has to be said for some critics have to be made listening post on. the latest news as it breaks while the lunar lander has been tossed off missions expect to receive images from below but with detailed coverage. from black flag the stronger reason for catherine i want to put up the 3rd of forestry durrett. from around the world his body will lie in state for a few days then he will be 8 at the national geo cities in the capital.

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a new weather system could turn into a tropical storm a warning has been issued for most of the northwestern bahamas including great abaco island and grand bahama which were devastated by the category 5 hurricane or than 1300 people a still unaccounted for one in 5 homeless and thousands are being and shelters. wackiest ons prime minister is warning that the indian government's crackdown in indian in the midst administered kashmir could result in more extremism emraan khan was holding a rally and was off for a bar the capital of pakistan administered kashmir it's been more than a month since india revoke the autonomous status of indian administered kashmir causing fury in pakistan almost $4000.00 people have been arrested in the ensuing violent protests when do the nuclear armed country is fight if the fight a conventional war there's every possibility that it's going to end up and do nuclear war the unpredictable business man is causing

a storm in his native egypt by posting videos on social media detailing alleged corruption by president abdul fatah sisi and on the generals mohammed ali who worked as a military contract to 15 years says they wasted millions of dollars on villas hotels in a seaside palace he's posting from spain where he lives in self-imposed exile the videos of attracted more than a 1000000 views. european powers are again pressing iran to cooperate with the un's nuclear watchdog the e.u. france germany and the u.k. of issued a joint statement stressing that they continue to support the 2015 need clear deal after iran reduced its commitments hundreds of women in south africa have been protesting through the night and into the day demanding that more be done to stop sexual violence it's estimated that a woman is raped on average every 36 seconds in south africa president sarah a poster has admitted his nation is facing a crisis and has pledged new measures including making the sex offenders registry

public and making public transport safer on fair game but now continues but the 2100 g.m.t. news hour is coming up after that program in about 25 minutes time do join me then i'll see you a bit later. the election of the 45th president of the united states raised ethical and potentially legal questions. the possibility to undermine basic democratic principles has significantly increased. there will be no lies we will honor the american people with it truth and nothing else. the headquarters of a firm little known to the general public called s.c.l. group strategic communication laboratories is located in the heart of london.

in these offices of data scientists compiled and analyzed terabytes of personal information. their objective was to determine what motivates human behavior in order to influence a. they specialize in psyops. which is. a military term psychological operations it's a whole discipline it's an academic subject it can be used in different ways. the firm is very clear about its services on its. clients include nato the british ministry of defense the n.s.a. and the u.s.

state department. as c.l. has helped identify key leaders in afghanistan facilitating u.s. intervention. it's also organized communications for vaccination campaign in ghana. but the company's practices remain questionable. it's a way of not cheap people that's the working towards better outcomes for them but it also can be used to manipulate people without being aware and it can and has been used by authoritarian regimes. the company organized protests in nigeria in 2007 to win fluence the elections. s e l also intervene during an election on the island of st vincent in the caribbean. it is

not just on his own parliament they have to choose will it move it clear program of a collision or stance pretty good luck candidate that we can have once problem. clear important to for a player that has. ensured. c.l. sets up ultra targeted influenced strategies. the advent of the web and the vast amount of data circulating created an entirely new dimension of business. in order to extend their market as c.l. group created a new subsidiary in the us cambridge analytical tech 7 wanted to suggest that a structure just doesn't tick and it is it was it says any can bridge the need to check the coupon fit on the wall and i'm so just. to create cambridge analytic. partnered with the american billionaire robert mercer

a mathematician specialized in data. steve bannon served as vice president of the firm. from the outset the objective was clear nothing less than a revolution in the election campaign process despite multiple interview requests cambridge analytical has refused to speak with us. but it's possible to understand the work they did by simply watching their advertisements political campaigns have changed they're no longer about running the most t.v. spots sending out the most direct mail or spending the most money they're about to spend the smartest money in today's political world what campaigns are getting more expensive in elections are won by small but crucial numbers of votes putting the right message in front of the right person at the right moment is more important than ever this is where cambridge analytical in our revolutionary data modeling

techniques can help. it sounds like a more logical approach to campaign strategizing however the reality is more complex and above all much murkier than cambridge and in that it was willing to admit it. since coming to the. united states the firm embarked on an unprecedented operation to compile data on the american population without its knowledge here's how it works. imagine that inside this car is mr x. like anyone he leaves thousands of pieces of personal information on the internet his address age income hobbies purchases religion and whether or not he owns a gun. cambridge and america legally bought this data from credit companies banks social security and web giants like facebook google and twitter.

in total the firm claim to possess about 425000 pieces of data for over $230000000.00 adults living in the united states. this is how they plan to use its traditional political campaigns use geography and demographics like age and gender to break down voters into target groups this can work up to a point but it misses the important personal details that really drive voter behavior we combine geographic and demographic information with up to $5000.00 data points of national political consumer and lifestyle behavior for every voter in the united states then we add a unique extra layer of data about personality decision making and motivation. this creates an unparalleled rich and detailed view of voters in the issues they care about so you know exactly who to target with exactly what type of message we call

this behavioral micro targeting our team of data scientists psychologists and campaign experts can show you which individual voters you need to win over in order to secure victory. the idea is to give people psychological tests and then compare the results with the in from. nation they already have on them to know what motivates them and thus influence their vote it's a technique that existed before cambridge analytical one if its inventor is teaches psychometrics at stanford university california his name is michelle kosinski metrics is basically a science of psychological measurement so basically have not is that instead of using question to ask you about your thoughts feelings experiences and past behavior such as are you well organized person you can basically look at your digital footprints and see whether you in fact i well organized person in real life

. tests to determine a person's psychological traits are cold ocean tests they measure personality based on 5 criteria. openness conscientiousness extroversion agreeableness and neuroticism. it's done with seemingly innocuous questionnaires that can be completed online like these. in 2008 michelle kosinski created the most famous of these tasks on facebook called my personality a questionnaire to learn more about yourself. became really popular we had over 6000000 people to take the question there and a large fraction of these people or some donated their facebook profile information

to us and from this information you can use. algorithms to transform this information into very detailed and very i curate intimate profiles so as a result michelle kosinski hospital largest psychometric database in the world. a database he can cross-reference with the facebook profiles of the 6000000 people who responded it's. this kind of shadow so basic you can 10 your facebook likes into an actor it's a prediction of your political views religious views your personality intelligence happiness sexual intake or even whether your parents were divorced or not people often ask me how accurate those algorithms are at predicting our intimate traits and i think that a great example comes from our recent study where we have compared the curacy of algorithms with a curiosity of other people so what we did we took friends and family members of

our participants and we asked these friends and family members to feel in personality question as in the name of our participants now we would provide algorithm with a set of facebook likes and have it do the same thing so based on your facebook likes trying to predict your personality the results of this experiment are staggering by studying 10 of your likes on facebook the algorithm knows you better than your colleagues with 100 likes it knows you better than your family. and with 230 likes it knows you better than your spouse. now given how much footprints how many footprints we're living every day while using internet and splaying of our phones. it basically means that computers can clearly know us better in many ways than even our close family member this.

prediction of human behavior through the combination of personal data and psychological tests is shockingly accurate. david kero is a media professor at parsons university in new york. he battled for months to retrieve the data that cambridge analytical had on him. he was amazed by what he discovered. this is the excel spreadsheet that they provided it is broken into 3 tabs core data election returns and models the model on the one hand personal data that the firm has gathered from the web and then my registered now this is all the voter data here and this is what would normally be public in voter records but it it's all accurate it has the day i registered to vote and it has figured out my birthday my address the zip code

down to you know all of my address it's connected to census information and it's connected to all the different kinds of elections so u.s. congressional state senate state house state legislative then you have some consumer information here like the designated mark information and f i p s it is another kind of consumer voter code and when you're on the other hand the psychometric interpretation of his personality together that's how you can really 0 in and target the model is my profile so you can see the different topics were ranked in order of importance my registered. partisanship my partisanship you clearly see who their client was it didn't measure me as a democrat or republican just a very unlikely republican and you can also see sort of the model itself is in the interest of sort of finding. conservative voters especially conservative voters who

might be registered as a democrat but are actually going to vote republican so being able to go down to the zip code level and then reus sociate that took all other you election districts allows it a geo target so precisely and that's how you're going to move the needle in u.s. elections i think if americans knew this was happening and happening internationally they would be outraged funded by robert mercer and headed by steve ban in naturally cambridge on unloaded car would offer writ services to candida donald trump by late june 26th deemed the partnership with a done deal on july the 29th at the 1st payments was sent to the company you can finds its in the campaign account with for payments between july and october 26th seen cambridge an emoticon would receive nearly $6000000.00

up the same time the political action committee for donald trump it funded by robert mercer paid cambridge analytic taught $5000000.00 between november 25th dean and november 26th seen ultimately need the firm with perceive $11000000.00 to work with the trump tom paine a digital targeting strategy it was made possible and set to run for donald trump all that was needed it was a way to put it to use in the american elections certainly beat some camp which include cambridge analytic us saw something in the american electorate that the clinton campaign and the media out certainly did not see it's been reported the thanks to cambridge analytic cuz knowledge of the electorates trumps advisor is devise the highly targeted strategy based on the particularities of the u.s.

voting system. in the united states the president is not elected directly by the people but by the electoral college appointed in each of the 50 states. not all states have the same number of electors making some states more important to win than others. the trump camp suspected that they would not win the national vote so with strategists decided to concentrate on the state. knowing that they would lose the national popular vote. how do you win well you win by capturing the electoral college how do you do that you try and figure out a way of where you can go to appeal to relatively small numbers of people he was going to places that a lot of people thought why is he doing that he shouldn't be doing that he should be going someplace someplace else we didn't there was a strategy of looking at places that had been thought of as consistently democratic

states states like michigan wisconsin and pennsylvania all 3 of which mr trump carried on in november. this was the strategy reportedly recommended by cambridge analytical not to try to convince millions of voters across the entire nation to vote for trump but rather to target only the 10s of thousands that the firm knew through its analyses were hesitating. if you are somebody who's as clever as robert. and you're just you're looking i mean what he does algorithmic trading it's all about finding the tiniest edge is that tiny tiny tiny edge that you have of your competitors that you can leverage and make a massive difference and that's why you make the money and i think this idea of using data and the potential manipulation through

a platform facebook is that can just be enough to give you that edge that then you can exploit through things like faith and all these other techniques and tactics. here are the techniques that motion by the data scientists i cambridge i know to be . using the information they had on the electorates they defined 32 types of personalities throughout the country. it's believed that individualized messages were sent targeting those considered to be the most concerned about issues. was discussed by trump during his campaign. the firm identified many such voters in 3 states wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania 3 states bay believed could swing in favor of trump. in a press release cambridge analytical openly explained its strategy.

there remains one question that the firm does not address just how did they reach these targeted voters. they did it using a little known facebook feature dark posts. they do sit in on top is when bashed his book such a massage. and book readers should determine that because my search for certain movies you said because one of them a certain about but it's all a 1st for those i cannot expect out of it if the decline in depth of battling this underage yourself is a book i make them as for dos and when they get if not can you that make critical

mistakes are not so i thought as for this christmas as the above but i had the manuscript it. is so dark posts are very personalized messages visible only to the person for whom they are intended how does that work exactly let's go back to mr x. analysis of his online data i can determine whether or not he's in favor of carrying firearms a message can then be created targeting him did you know that hillary clinton wants to take your gun away. he'll receive this message in his facebook news feed at a specific time porting to his happen and digital fingerprints. no one but him will see the targeted ads and it will disappear a few hours later. as no record of them you've got no way of investigating that you have no idea who saw what and this is democracy taking place in darkness it's

not democracy if you're going to have a political debate have you out in the open you know who is all doing what and here is being told what and the idea of just sort of like sneakily targeting people with who know what's on their phones and on their computer and with anything i mean i think they could have been saying anything we'll never know because that's gone when it's on facebook said it's is interesting thanks but they're not giving up. this digital strategy for the trump campaign was focused on the last few weeks. on november the 8th 2016 against all odds trump took wisconsin 523000 votes michigan 511000 pennsylvania 543000. in total 77000 votes in these 3 key states kerry trying to victory when he was

3000000 votes behind over the entire country. the digital targeting strategy had proved effective we can see that approximately 70000 voters made the decision for everyone else because they were the ones in the districts that ended up deciding all to really think this highlights as well our electoral college system is a vulnerability that if software and data allows the most important voters to be easily. found it and are diminishing the vote of everyone else effectively politics and democracy it was the next industry to for we knew that technology an interrupted news papers in jail listen and music and it was like ashley harry is we've been talking all this time but have great you know technology is it sing the nuts disruptive technology and i was that were

a they says technology a disrupting politics and and it's not just politics it's democracy and donald trump is the great disrupt after trumps election when that to former employees at cambridge analytical klain that the fran collective the data of tens of millions of facebook users i don't believe you a collection was done in violation of privacy policies christopher wiley was the 1st whistle blower he's the former director of research a cambridge analytic car britney kaiser be former business development director was the seconds on march the 20th $28.00 teen c.e.o. of cambridge analytic or alexander knicks was suspended after secret recordings were broadcast off next boasting if using fake news campaigns and honey traps to affect election campaigns globally on made the 2nd 28 teen a c.l.

group announced that it was filing for insolvency i'm closing all of its operations including it's absurd jury cambridge analytic or cambridge analytic a stated that it has been vilified for activities that are legal and widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arena as however the acceptance of this digital strategy continues to be challenged as the manipulation of public opinion becomes clearer. donald trump's campaign strategy expose democracy to new threats however it also drew more attention to data technologies role in politics around the globe.

unless there were a significant change in privacy policies personal online data can continue to be used to destruct politics all over the world. this does not look very promising it's an active frontal system coming from the bike heading for victoria and tasmania and showing some pretty good definition of the back edge of the clouds a cold front going through so you might be surprised to find that temperatures actually come out to $24.00 in adelaide breeze out of the interior flooring 17 in

melbourne and 19 in sydney not as bad as it goes though of course be windy on the way through in fact perth doesn't quite catch up at 2021 degrees and it's cooling down a little bit here's a cloud increases for you on sunday are still in the low twenty's the clouds increasing a little bit is to about 18 in melbourne so where has a west always tough go i expect skis phil did but the system is on its way across the tasman sea the last one still that vast amounts of cloud streaming off the high ground of both north and the south island of d.c. another picture on saturday with a northerly breeze is not car was 16 degrees in oakland but overcast was some rain sunshine philosophical there's in the next front tries to get in but they said the system basically no activity come up just by this time so you don't find looking whether or not especially when 12 in washington but oakland represents a good part of the north and 15 degrees and brighter.

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a new storm bears down on the bahamas as it struggles to pick up the pieces after hurricane dorian. when in demand action to stop sexual violence in south africa where it's estimated that a woman is raped every 36 seconds. the egyptian businessmen causing a social media storm with videos accusing president sisi of wasting millions on villages and palaces. i don't view just him in doha with your sports england's cricket to say control of the final ashes to prosper in battle from behind to beat australia in double overtime and book a place in boston root cup final. hello welcome to the program on top story less than 2 weeks after hurricane dorian and

now the storm is now heading towards the bahamas with the potential of more heavy rain and strong winds although currently not named the national hurricane center warns that storm number 9 has a 90 percent chance of growing into a tropical storm in the next 48 hours it threatens to hamper the ongoing search for the 1300 people who are still missing and disrupt the clear up in the islands a warning has been issued for most of the northwestern bahamas including great abaco island and grand bahama which were devastated by the category 5 hurricane one in 5 and now homeless and thousands are sleeping in shelters. yeah i lost my son and his family besides his wife and treat your grandkids. is one of those things heart broken but still life goes on. thank god for.

my. dad. he said that a keep moving. pick up the pieces of life bit by bit one day out of. the day and my aren't came this money and she got me so in nevada so use able to make it up here and i thank god i thank god that my brother is alive he's well i gave the whole him a game you know i lose so much of my family members and that i'm really thankful for my brother. have bats my way they know me that you know so i had to i had to come and make sure they he said ok. alan fischer joins me live now from nassau the capital of the bahamas and alan we were just hearing some clips from survivors showing remarkable resilience in the face of this terrible destruction to their lives and livelihoods tell us more about how people that are a coping. the building you see behind me is

normally a sports center but that is what has become temporary home for about 1200 people most of the people that are here and it's the gymnasium and also the tents that have been erected nearby and conditions inside out upon really pretty good but we've been told by the government and others that we can't film inside and it seems fair enough these people have been through a great deal particularly over the last week or so you know there's good news there's 1300 people missing but there is good news on that figure hasn't changed over the last 24 hours but new telecommunication equipment is getting in and also to grand bahama and that means that they think they will get better information from there so they'll be able to measure up next to these abuses that got here and the number of missing people might actually go down but as you see this tropical storm or potential tropical storm that is on the edge of the bahamas is causing people real concern now the path of the moment would take it away from the island

so they'll be some heavy rain and some wind but nowhere near as bad as they got 2 weeks ago the concern of course is that many people in those islands are living in temporary shelter and the what the would be that some of those temporary shelters would succumb to the bad weather but i've been with the prime minister just in the last only had a news conference here and now so he said the model is that he is seeing is that the the weather will will move away from the islands and he thinks that many people are already in places where they will be safe so obviously that's what they're hoping for over the next 3648 hours i mean this is a thing allan people are just recovering from a cat a category 5 hurricane you have access just opening up to some of these. areas you have. with food and water and shelter being deployed but how badly could this be disrupted if and when they hit by another hurricane.

well the rebuilding work has already started it could well be put on hold because of what is potentially at this stage a tropical storm but here's the incredible thing. might have actually done the bahamas a favor because it mixed up the water off the island that led to temperatures in the water dropping its high water temperature the actually fuels some of these hurricanes makes them supercharged so by the water temperature dropping below what you would normally expect this year that means that the tropical storm might not be as strong interestingly enough we've also been speaking to the u.n. secretary general in the last 30 minutes he's been here visiting the people at the sports center and he says the world really needs to pay attention to what is happening here he says these storms are becoming super charged because of changing the climate as we know and weeks or so with time there's going to be the united nations general assembly and he says look what i want world leaders to do is come

there with plans not come there with speeches but come there with plans there has got to be a change in what the world is doing it says we're going to see many many more catastrophes like this and he made the point there's going to be places like the bahamas places that can least afford it that are going to suffer most he says this is a warning to the world and really they need to start paying attention. now to our other top story hundreds of women in south africa been protesting through the night and into the day the morning that more be done to stop sexual violence it's estimated that a woman is raped on average every 36 seconds in south africa president cyril rama post has admitted his nation is facing a crisis and has pledged new measures including making the sex offenders registry public and making public transport safe well crime figures from the last financial year show more than $50000.00 cases of sexual assault in south africa including

rape a 4.6 percent increase in 12 months its female murder rate is 12 is 122100000 more than 4 and a half times worse than the global average well that makes south africa the 4th most dangerous nation in the world for women behind honduras jamaica and. for me to miller was at the protest in johannesburg where demonstrators were urging businesses as well as the government to do more to combat gender based violence. organizers of the protest have handed over a memorandum to the janice book stock exchange they are demanding that corporate south africa that businesses listed on the stock exchange contribute at least 2 percent of their profits to a fund dealing with gender based violence they say it's time for businesses in this country along with the government to do its part do their part to fight gender based violence they say not enough has been done and this protest we hundreds of

people have come to demonstrate is taking place in the economic hub of south africa in sandton which is the richest square mile in africa they say this is where the decisions are made and it's government's going to take notice it should be now and it's because they're targeting businesses in this country we've spoken to survivors of the sexual assault of rape or say that they've been raped a number of times and that there's been very little assistance and support only one in 8 south african women report instances of a sexual assault that they say the problem is with in a system that does not support them women here and men as well are pleading for help to deal with what they are calling a national crisis. well as an activist and women's rights program manager with action aid joins us now via skype from johannesburg and so we're getting a sense there of the scale of this crisis in the country we are looking at

a 3rd day of protests do the new proposed measures on the offenders registry and efforts to make public transport safer go far enough. thank you so much. they are 8 and the facts research has told us that having an opens a register of social finisterre doesn't actually take us very far but the safety of transport of course is a huge issue and so that will be something that will be a positive measure but of course what we are asking for it we are demanding is. like you just read out the statistics the reality of it is that the pervasiveness of gin the base violence is such. of such epic proportions at the moment that we require a concerted directed efforts that is far greater than those 2 missions alone could

possibly provide what about harsher penalties for perpetrators could that have as a deterrent. it could serve as a terror and but once again hotshot penalties maybe not a house of penalties let me rather say one of the things that africa at the moment is that less than 6 percent of perpetrators actually end up facing any criminal charges so harsh a penalty is could probably mean conviction rate for all perpetrators of gender based violence and sentences that are you know. quite quite. comparison to the 2 to the crime itself at the moment the race is so low that it really isn't a deterrent and also even in that light for us that would be something that could be you know one of the positive things that come out of this how would you describe

the way in which police handle such cases in the event that they are actually reported. it's been it's been a challenge with our policing system and it is one of the areas that has been recognized as as quite weak by many government organizations and sometimes by the police. it becomes another side of secondary legitimization for for for victims of gender based violence. i think that that area as well can be strengthened in fact not just the policing but the criminal justice system in south seems to support the perpetrator more than it does the victim just because of the kind of journey a bridge has to travel or to actually access and find justice if at all the 2 well thank you for shedding some light on this for us len model activist and women's women's rights program manager with action aid thank you thank you so much

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