and more skinny and save i read writing this thing out why don't we assess what he has done and why don't recess what he or the opposition proposes to do or despite now you see it has issues in this country of. racism ongoing discrimination bill that he issues that need to be dealing with as opposed to hard he didn't have the black base of course you know he should not have done it but it was not deemed to be as he says he deem it today have and use change the model has evolved and i'm not in that city any issue and i think he has. still to come on al-jazeera. and i'm just waits for britain's prime minister and the supreme court's will give its judgment next week over his decision to suspend parliament. and it's kurdistan tries to revive the traditions and this image.

still no letup in the heat across the middle east if anything temperatures 2 or 3 degrees about the seasonal averages lost a clear skies i saw you last a push over towards the black sea see this line of cloud just pushing up towards the caucuses that's going to sink its way further south which over the next day or so so and korea $26.00 celsius here on friday for quite sharply to 19 degrees as we go on into saturday the rain really setting in this system makes its way through little bit of snow there over the high ground still going up to 43 celsius in baghdad the 39 in kuwait city and that sunshine extends down across the arabian peninsula here in doha we're getting up to around $38.00 celsius as well as $100.00 in fahrenheit a fair bit of cloud across southern parts of the peninsula southern areas of oman

into yemen where you say that cloud you might just catch a spot or 2 of light rain or drizzle salada at around 29 degrees some rain some really right pushing its way into the western side of south africa at present it's easing its way through getting into the thirty's in cape town recently struggling to reach 19 degrees on friday afternoon still as we go on into saturday the clouds thickening up and we could see some wet weather by the end of the weekend. there is a huge group of people at work behind our screens and the power they have is massive that urge to keep swiping through a twitter feed that's designed the way we all click i agree to the terms and conditions that's just most of us never even give it a 2nd thought and actually that's designed as well ali rick spores how designers are manipulating our behavior and the final episode all hail the algorithm on the

jersey of. you watching al-jazeera could write op ed lines for unite around a foreign minister is warning of an all out war if the u.s. response to attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities but taking military action against his country demonstrates the rebels claimed responsibility for the strikes but washington and riyadh say to iran is to blame. the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a key role in reportedly withholding a whistleblower's complaint against president on trumped us media are reporting

that it's related to a phone call between trump and a foreign leader. and canada's prime minister has apologized again after another photograph and video emerged of him wearing blackface makeup justin trudeau has very to continue with his reelection campaign. that russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution demands and a truce in northwest syria it called for an end to hostilities in the last rebel held province where russia is the assad government's main ally this is it's 13 security kinds. vito in relation to the syrian conflict that's up from ask james baines has this reports. about the defense here are you going to use your feet or say you will see it was clear by the time the russian ambassador arrived at the security council that he was likely to yet again use his veto on a resolution about syria 3 members of the security council kuwait germany and belgium have been working on a resolution calling for

a cease fire need lived for over a month their draft allowed for what they called counterterrorism operations but only if they didn't breach international law is there a chance for last minute negotiations to avoid a russian veto at this stage we do everything possible to reach our goal and that is to protect civilians and have international humanitarian law being observed. i'm afraid we will witness another very sad day for syria as your know the situation in syria is worse than ever in the real tragedy in the council chamber as predicted russia backed by china were the only ones to vote against the resolution this the 13th russian veto on the issue of syria it is deeply regrettable that the council was not able to agree to a cease fire resolution that would have saved lives in italy. especially as the assad regime and its allies prepare to launch another offensive on the people of it

one that russia then put forward its own rival resolution it failed to pass with only russia and china voting in favor throughout the syrian war which is now lost it 8 and a half years 2 of the main things that have kept aside in office are russian air power and russia's unwavering support for its ally in the un security council province is the last target of the assad regime the bard meant is likely to continue and for the people of more than 3000000 of them there is nowhere to flee to james 0 at the united nations. the u.s. expelled 2 cuban diplomats for what it calls influence operations efficiency reports said at the cuban mission to the united nations in new york the state department hasn't given any details about the accusations or released the diplomats names travel for other officials at the mission has been restricted comes just days

before the u.n. general assembly gets underway. the leader of israel's opposition blue and white party benny gantz says he should be the nation's next prime minister he appears of rejects its current prime minister binyamin netanyahu has offered to form a power sharing unity coalition that means voters may head to the polls for a 3rd time this year are a force that has the details from west jerusalem. a symbolic handshake between rival would be prime ministers benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz choreographed by israel's president reuben rivlin at a memorial for shimon peres a man who held both positions really doesn't have direct political power but he does have influence and in the current deadlock a lot of freedom of action in who to give the 1st chance for forming a government and i hear loud and clear the voices calling for broad and stable. national unity government and i cannot gradually to you mr prime minister and

joining that call this morning netanyahu recalled the deal done between peres and his political rival yet section near to share the premiership on a rotating basis in the mid 1980 s. a clear hint that he was seeking something similar after conceding earlier on thursday that he didn't have a way to form a right wing government and appealing directly to gantz binny we must set up a broad unity government as soon as today the nation expects us to both of us to demonstrate responsibility and that we pursue cooperation this is why i call on you binny let's meet today at any time to start this move which is the need of the hour but benny gantz is in no hurry rejecting netanyahu the proposition that his likud join a government as part of a bloc including 3 other right wing and religious parties and making it clear that he expects to be prime minister. we will listen to all but not surrender to any dictates the negotiations will be led by me responsibly and with reason in order to

achieve the best results for all israelis within the shadow of this political situation we will keep to our principles there will be no short cuts senior figures in his blue and white alliance with more direct selling netanyahu is presence is what is preventing the unity government and it's time for him to step aside is just the start of a bumpy bruising and unpredictable path towards coalition the opposition is already accusing benjamin netanyahu of obstructing it some see that and you know those public approach to gantz as a way of setting him up to take the blame if coalition talks fail altogether and looming behind it all the 2 things as you know is corruption cases is 1st pre indictment hearing is due in october the 2nd and if all else fails a possible 3rd election in less than a year are a force that al jazeera westerners. the british prime minister should find out next week whether his decision to suspend parliament ahead of the top or 31st breaks that deadline was legal the supreme court has wrapped up its hearing on the case as

john holmes reports from london. boris johnson on maneuvers visiting soldiers promising more money for the military ahead of an election whenever it comes promising also progress on breaks it i don't want to exaggerate the progress that we are making but we are making progress and what we need to do so people understand we need to find a way whereby the u.k. can come out of the e.u. and really be able to do things differently not remain under the control of the e.u. in terms of laws and trade policies. johnson's plans may yet and ravel after a 3 day emergency hearing supreme court justices will soon rule on the more fulness of the government's prohibition of parliament on thursday they heard evidence delivered by council from one former conservative prime minister john major against

the current conservative prime minister john says the in a skeptical inference to be drawn is that the progression is from that not exercising its right to disagree with the government that legislate as it sees fit it's an inference the government says that is not for the courts to judge we should actually start by recognizing that the pro geisha was a proceeding in parliament which falls within the ambit of article 9 of the bill of rights and they don't have to give. the government will hope of course that the supremes court upholds the english high court's decision that the prorogue a sion of parliament was a purely political not legal matter but the court could just as easily side with scottish judges who ruled that under the circumstances they could get involved because they said of the real me. behind the suspension of parliament the silencing of m.p.'s over breaks it was a decision that in effect meant boris johnson had lied to the queen. away from the

courts there are sometimes questionable efforts to reach a new brakes a deal the e.u. had demanded full written proposals from the u.k. by the end of the month an artificial deadline said the u.k. handing over instead a set of notes with a final offer still to come it's our papers for now until we have looked at them and not correct to rise beyond 1st the british government has few obvious cards left to play on breaks it and the pressure may grow next week when the supreme court delivers its verdict on a whole al-jazeera london chain as is former president seen l. of a deal ben ali has died the 83 year old was in saudi arabia where he had been living in exile since he was overthrown after the 2011 revolution. the number of u.s. soldiers in somalia has increased under president on trend one of their jones involves

training a local group to become an elite force to take on al shabaab suffices al-jazeera mohammad has ocurred a 1st hand look at the so-called lightning force in training. these are the new front lines in the fight against al shabaab in somalia. and these are the men taking that fight to the armed groups strongholds the united states has at least $500.00 soldiers in this country but it's trained and paid for some of the troops to form the deneb unit or lightning falls. apart from our operations against al shabaab fighters to retake territories and of a control we also target their assassins bomb builders and those who kidnapped foreigners in our country we also try to raise the spies in those who provide them with arms and other supplies of. somali government officials say this elite force is comprised of soldiers from almost all of somalia's colognes deneb units have

killed some of those about sin the leaders and in areas that were taken from the al qaeda linked group they're winning the support of local people how they would out sentai how the money and things are much better than before in terms of security we're not living in fear anymore the soldiers are goats and we are forever thankful to the government the den a brigade was launched as a 150 pulse and unit roughly 5 years ago but since grown to become one of somalia's most used military forces while u.s. forces in somalia cut out al strikes and drone attacks against al-shabaab fighters it's these forces who've been carrying out the bulk of the ground assault against the group official say the plan is to develop done up into a full so free fall those soldiers capable of removing al shabaab fighters from towns and villages across the country. the regular somali national army is involved in the fighting today. we have achieved many victories we spent

a lot of time preparing for the current offensive against al shabaab but it was worth the wait we have liberated many towns and villages in the past months. the somali national army needs more recruits to bowl states rungs these training camp in the small town of greer al in central somalia is just one of a few across the country by next year to 2000 up for communion peacekeepers expected to begin putting out of somalia and it will fall to these soldiers to take over the top of keeping security and fighting al shabab. to al is central somalia. thousands of protesters are gathering across a strangely as part of a worldwide climate strike these demonstrators in sydney want the government to take drastic action on greenhouse gas emissions they're hoping to get its engine of world leaders gathering in new york for a u.n. climate summit. mexican something commemorates in multiple earthquakes 3 decades of

parts that killed women 10000 people. in 2017 came 32 years after the country's most deadly quake so far the government has only managed to rebuild less than half of the houses destroyed 2 years ago hundreds of people have been forced to leave their homes in parts of texas after the region was hit by special rains and flash floods hospital was among the buildings evacuated a nearly a 1000 people cut off by floodwaters for rescued by boat in the city of houston authorities have warned for the rainfall could bring what's described as catastrophic flooding as tropical storm imelda lashes the area. i kurdistan is trying to boost its image and profile traditions the government is organizing the 1st ever nomads games thousands of people are attending the event

this week on the banks of the is it kool-ade charlotte palace reports. this game started on the plains of central asia more than 500 years ago called cook bordeaux teams on horseback compete to drop a did go into a. it's a classic sport among normal it's one of the most fiercely contested kurdistan's 1st national nomad games the event was created to revive traditional sports and customs but it's also a global branding exercise. the main goal is to promote friendship between regions and nations you know since the 1st nomad games it is our brand and is known around the world if it is nomad games it means kurdistan. extends beyond competition into culture this man is reciting the epic of mama's a famous poem about a strong man uniting all of kurdistan. eagle hunters show off their birds

the centuries golden eagles help nomad survive on the step is even yet making competitions in honor of the traditional homes in the region. you know my games are essential for his people the current generation doesn't know our history and traditions they're lazy my game show them traditions games customs history culture and how our ancestors lived. this is the 1st national games the kurdistan created the 1st global event and 2014 it is pitched as the no matter lympics but is held every 2 years in the last of a and 2000 athletes from 70 nations competed it was such a success they created this national version with all districts represented. people may have no medic routes but they aren't leaving anything behind shallot ballasts al-jazeera.

this is out as syria and these are the top stories iran's foreign minister says they'll be all out war if the u.s. response to attacks on saudi arabian soil facilities saudi arabian oil facilities by taking military action against his country yemen c.c. rebels claimed responsibility for the strikes but washington and riyadh say 10 ron is to blame the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a key role in reportedly withholding whistleblowers complaint against president on a trump the us media is reporting that this relates to a phone call was in trump and a foreign leader the heads of the u.s. house intelligence committee says intelligence officials were blogs from passing on the complaint to congress the whole point of the whistleblower statute is not only to encourage those to report problems of use is violations of the laws but also have a legal mechanism to do so and not to disclose classified information because there's

no other remedy. that whole purpose is being frustrated here because the director of national intelligence has made the unprecedented decision not to share the complaint with us canada's prime minister justin trudeau has apologized for a 2nd time after another photograph and video emerged of him wearing blackface makeup he plans to continue his reelection campaign. russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution demanding a truce in northwest syria it called for an end to hostilities in the last rebel held province russia is the main ally of the asset governments. former presidents. 3 year olds have been living in exile in saudi arabia since he was overthrown after the 2011 revolution well those are the headlines here on

a day stay with us the news continues after all the algorithm.

al-jazeera will meet with with ribs in the middle east both the successful lawyers of. over the last 40 years i would choose to great deal of partnership with the countries meeting on the scene but never forgot where they came from. we tried to deal with a different place than the stereotypical image of muslim women out robes a blow to the business woman in the council on al-jazeera. there is a huge group of people at work behind our screens they called behavior architects persuasive designers or user experience specialists and the power they have is massive that urge to keep swiping through a twitter feed that's designed the way we all click i agree to the terms and conditions that's designed swiping left or right on tinder that's designed to. we

live in an online world of someone else's making and most of us never even give it a 2nd full and actually that's designed as well. san francisco it's the mecca for tech designers silicon valley this place pioneered the art of constructing optimizing and enhancing a lot of the technology we use every day it's turbo charge the speed at which we use the internet and made navigating the way more ensuring but it's also given us a full sense of security. but. i've lost count of the number of times i've

clicked i agree to get into a website we all have to do it as we speed around the internet we face hundreds of these annoying pop ups and consent forms all demanding a response from us and yes i call them annoying because that is exactly what they are they may look like that they're there to provide us with control but the reality is far from it when users click on i agree to the terms and conditions or they see a privacy policy may click on it they may think that they're actually being given control of their personal data what to collect it how would she used and it's advantageous to companies for them to do that because if something bad happened to the tech company goodman they actually agreed to this nobody ever reads the terms of service no one should ever be expected to if we actually tried to read every terms and conditions agreement that we came across it's probably the only thing we would do it would have to be our day job because they're so long we come into so many and may have the veneer of giving control to data subjects but ultimately it's

window dressing what a hot saga is what you'd call a school of design he's been studying the psychology ethics and legal implications of new technologies one area he specializes in is start of protection and privacy now before we get into this there's a key time you need to know informed consent this is a principle that comes up a lot in discussions of our rights online but it's easier to explain in the context of medical so. a doctor explains potential risks and worst case scenarios to the patient once you fully informed you have the option to consent to sergio not in the online world the informed consent is what everyone says ideal but he said even possible consent only works under a very narrow set of conditions and that's when the decision is infrequent like with surgery so we don't have surgery all the time it's when the risks are visceral

there are things that we can easily conjure up in our minds and then finally the harm is possibly great so if things go wrong with surgery you could get sick or you could die so we've got an incredible incentive to take that decision seriously but of course none of those things are present in the data ecosystem we make decisions quite frequently 10100 times a day. gee harms are not visceral at all they are incredibly opaque and finally the harm is not even that great because the private modern privacy harms aren't huge their death by a 1000 cuts the spin from silicon valley's that their own asaad when it comes to how we control our daughter long privacy policies are very confusing and if you make it long and spell out all the details then you're probably going to reduce the percent of people who read it however take a closer look at the design of the buttons and the pups that when they click and it's clear that the tech companies have the upper hand in the dot a better design is power and every single design decision makes

a certain reality more or less likely and what tech companies and psychologists and other people have known for years is that defaults are notoriously sticky and so if you design the interface so that all the defaults are set to maximize exposure then you're going to get a lot more data in the aggregate than you would if you said all the defaults to privacy protective because people don't go in and change them so until we fundamentally change the incentives we're still going to see companies manipulating the design of these buttons and these technologies to ensure that you still keep disclosing data and that they still keep getting what's the lifeblood of their business most of us assume that when we go on a website and click that i agree but the site simply collects information that we voluntarily choose to share in reality there are many ways to dot a collection and the mechanics of it are invisible hidden by design the study it

isn't just the website you are on that's money inclination there is so-called 3rd party advertises market is an analytics agency's tracking using tiny bits of so when cookies beacons pixel tags they scoop up incredibly detailed information everything from the computer you're using to how long you hold for a fairly honestly it's a bit mind boggling. and all you really did was click about. informed consent is a fundamentally broken regulatory mechanism for algorithmic accountability it allows companies to continue to throw risk back on civilians or and say you know here's a here's a pop up ad here's a pop up banner that tells you about cookies that no one reads and nobody really even cares about yet we push forward this regime as though it matters to people as though. if if someone clicks i agree then they're magically ok with all the data processing that's going to come afterwards which is a little bit of a joke and if

a little bit of a legal fiction yet it's a major component of every almost every data protection framework around the world once you've crossed the i agree hurdle now in the clutches of the web site and this is where design takes on a whole new level of importance the job is to keep either. one of the most successful innovation in my balance website design is something called infinite scroll you know we all use it every single day secretly scroll in the see through your feet without even needing to click. i'm on my way now to meet the creator of this function his name is as a rascal now he no longer works inside be tickled ration in early 2018 he co-founded the center for humane technologies. all of our apps all of silken valley companies are competing for our attention and

because it's such a cutthroat game trying to get our attention where you know tens of billions of dollars they have to increasingly point more powerful computers at our heads to try to frack us for that attention and we've all had that experience of going to you tube and you think i'm going to go watch one video and then like somehow like you shake your head an hour has passed i'm like what why how is it that technology has hypnotized us this tech unitized nation is key to what's called the attention economy alex tension is a finite currency in the online world and it's only as long as websites and apps have no attention that they have no business and our data retention economy is just this it says if we are not paying for a product well the come to have to make something money somehow. how do they do it they do it by. selling our attention to advertisers or to

other groups that want to do something they're trying to make these systems as effective as possible at influencing your decisions they collect as much information is about you as they can like who your friends are how you spend your time often they'll munged with like. how will you spend your money if you take all of this data to build a model of you imagine like a little simulator of you that lives in the facebook server and then they can put things in front of it you like are you more likely to click this this or this or if we want to get you to hate immigration what kind of message would you are going to resonate with this message or this message and you can see how this like this or the begins just this race for it for your attention ends up becoming. an entire economy is worth of pressure with the very smartest minds in engineering and the biggest supercomputers trying to make a model of you to be able to influence the kinds of decisions you're going to make . a few years ago you tube set

a company wide objective to reach 1000000000 hours of viewing a day netflix creator reed hastings has also said multiple times that the company's biggest competitor isn't another website it's slate so what happens when you give algorithms the goal of maximizing our attention and time online they find our weaknesses and exploit them in 2017 sean parker a founding member of facebook and its 1st president literally confessed to this at an event how do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible and that means that we need to sort of give you a little dope i mean here every once in a while because someone like her commented on a photo or a post or whatever and that's going to get you to contribute more content to a social validation feedback loop that it's like i mean it's exactly the kind of thing that a doctor like myself would come up with because you're exploiting a vulnerability and in human psychology now it's not as though silicon valley

pioneered the tricks and tactics of addiction a persuasive design many tech designers openly admit using insights from behavioral scientists of the early 20th century right the concept of randomly scheduled rewards study developed by american cycle of just b.f. skinner in the 1950 s. . he created what's become known as the skin of books a simple contraption he used to study pigeons and even raccoons at the start of the process a pigeon is given a food every time it picks the would pick or turns a full circle when the word turn appears as the experiment proceeds the rewards become less frequent they take place at random but by that time the behavior has been established the pigeon keeps pecking or turning not knowing when it might get the reward but in anticipation that or award could become. a boxes with pivotal in demonstrating.