you're watching al-jazeera time to recap the headlines now that button's president michel aoun is expected to issue a statement on the prime minister's resignation side and how do you know he resigned on tuesday after days of nationwide protests the russian defense ministry says more than 30000 kurdish troops have pulled back from the turkish syrian border ahead of a choose dave named deadline set by turkey and russia it paves the way for turkey

to create a so-called safe zone in the area and a meeting about syria's constitution is beginning in geneva on wednesday things to repair the fractures that many believe led to the civil war. british m.p.'s have voted for a general election on the some of the 12th in the hope of ending the impossible brags that prime minister barak johnson leads a minority government and is hoping to secure a majority in parliament. reports from london. for the 4th time of asking parliament finally approve calls for a general election to the right $438.00 the nuestra led 20 so the eyes have it is having. an overwhelming majority of m.p.'s packing a vote on december the 12th it will be the 1st december election in a century the country isn't jewett election until 2022 but 3 and

a half years after the brakes referendum parliament is stuck in the country no nearer to leaving the e.u. we are left with no choice but to go to the country to break free from this and. i'm to allow us to submit as we must in all humility to the judgment of the electorate. to last to make our case and the bottle to allow a new and revitalized parliament with a new mandate to deliver on the will of the people and get bricks it done boris johnson leads a minority conservative party government although he's been able to get support from the e.u. for his latest withdrawal agreement he doesn't have the same support for that agreement in the british parliament he's hoping that by holding a general election by putting it back to the people he'll be able to reconfigure the balance of power and politics in his favor. by securing changes to the law johnson was able to get approval for an election through

a simple majority of m.p.'s rather than a 2 thirds majority as previously required labor had blocked a possible election until a new deal breaks it was off the table with the e.u. now offering a break sit extension until the 31st of january that condition has be met we're going to go out there with a very strong message of how we transform our society to end inequality and injustice and deal with the devastating poverty the so many people face we always said we wanted an election we do want selection but we wanted no deal to be taken off the table we've now had confirmation from all 28 e.u. member states that no deal is off the table so we're going to go out there with the biggest campaign this party has ever mounted a similar message to from crowe e.u. policies the liberal democrats and scottish national party hoping to capture the remains vote. and the election will be risky for johnson he promised

a do or die breaks it on october 31st and hasn't delivered. some probe voters may decide to punish johnson in the polls by voting for the newly formed breaks it party and its leader nigel for raj the party did very well in recent european parliament elections but it's a risk johnson and rival politicians are now prepared to take in the hope of either delivering or defeating bricks it needs back al-jazeera westminster a public inquiry into london's grunfeld tower fire is set to be released later on wednesday but league details of its findings indicate the city's fire brigade was gravely unprepared to respond 71 people were killed in the tragedy 2 years ago the report suggests there could have been fewer fatalities if an evacuation was called earlier investigation says institutional failings like a lack of training led to serious mistakes. health workers in the democratic

republic of congo are struggling to contain a maze olds outbreaks more than 4000 people have died this year many of them children the big problem is access to health centers and the security situation across the country catherine sawyer reports. in remote villages in banda region of the democratic republic of congo and. thousands of children are brought against measles. largest outbreak having killed more than 4000 people many of them children this death toll is higher than that. in the east of the country that has killed 2000 since the outbreak began in 20. 1 of the most affected provinces many children have died more are critical sick louise my d.d.'s children have been for nearly 2 months. my 4 children have measles and 2 of them are too weak to hook i try to treat them using alternative medicine and i hope that somehow. this

children can at least access treatment many others in more remote areas where there are no health centers and security is a problem but. the conditions in some hospitals are there are no medicine no money or any kind of medical aid coming and we have many cases of measles worse than what you're seeing here. you don't have to go very far to see children in very poor health this is the main hospital in banda children with missiles are treated for free but many are brought in when it's too late. we create what's in it of many children of the them but the problem is we don't appropriate equipment or money for logistics like troubled areas where there are no. medical aid agency doctors without borders nearly 2000 children have died since january. more than 200 cases are reported every week we have to make choices and very difficult

choices because we have to choose where to go and when we decide to go to 1. 1 place we know that abandoning the other and potentially been. so appealing to. bigger response and response means medical care to patients who are sick means urgent vaccinations and in truth surveillance system. for now health workers have to do what they can with limited resources to make sure as many children as possible are vaccinated catherine soy al-jazeera. thousands of protesters of being back on the streets of chile's capital this by the government reshuffle aimed at ending the unrest demonstrators threw rocks at police vehicles the protests began several weeks ago over a hike in metro fares but they've since turned into

a wider run rest over inequality in the country among the many demands is one for better pensions the city newman met with a man who was robbed of his life savings. 75 year old publicly vadis worked all his life in construction and earned enough to support his family of 7 he also paid his pension fund contributions but when it came time to retire he was in for a shock. when i told me a beautiful tale that i would receive 2 thirds of my lost celery each month instead they stole my savings. mr only that is for she's less than $180.00 a month not enough to survive on he says. he's now forced to live with his daughter and he's suffering from a painful hernia so he's unable to join others on the streets demanding chile's private pension plan be scrapped i actually is highly unpopular pension

system or a.f.p. is a leftover from the country's military dictatorship and it strikes a sensitive chord among protesters of all ages. when i go to the pensions here and dignified my grandmother couldn't come today because she's too old so i am here for her. on the 12th consecutive day of nationwide protests the list of grievances against chile is free market economic system is growing and protesters are finding creative ways to express them. this is the mr there's no opportunities we live with these credit cards all of us choking in our debts enough we are drowning in debt that our god just like the larger. number of people here this is actually i'm not authorized march the government says that these people will not be allowed to reach the presidential palace because they have no one would want to negotiate the terms because unlike previous marches that have taken place over many years in this country what we're seeing here now is no margin numbers of people coming here not

under any particular organization not called by every ticket or person but actually and honestly all of it i understand social networks by security forces used tear gas and water cannon to prevent protesters from advancing towards the palace but demonstrators nevertheless seemed upbeat as they vowed to return every day for as long as it takes to obtain the social reforms they are demanding. to see in human al-jazeera santiago more officials in the u.s. will give evidence on what they know about president dogs from surface to pressure to crane's president into investigating a political rival they'll testify before an impeachment inquiry into trump on tuesday a senior white house aide told the inquiry he twice raise concerns about a call between trump and ukraine's leader hard joe castro faults. alexander venom in is a u.s. army colonel hornet iraq veteran and the 1st impeachment witness with firsthand

knowledge of the july phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president volodymyr zelinsky then man was among the white house staff listening when trump said to the ukrainian leader i would like you to do west a favor publicly investigate trumps political rival joe biden and a company called charisma that employed by tin son i was concerned by the call binman said in his written testimony i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a us citizen i was worried about the implications for the us government support of ukraine i realized that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained this would all undermine u.s. national security the newly elected selenski was hoping to schedule

a visit to the white house and ukraine was waiting for u.s. military aid needed to fend off russia but trump temporarily withheld the aid as his advisors continued to push ukraine to investigate the democrats and biden. this is about the united states constitution this is about the rule of law this is about national security this is about abuse of power this is about the fact that the president betrayed his oath of office and the american people trump has denied wrongdoing and attack the credibility of witnesses who have cooperated with the inquiry that earned a rare rebuke from a fellow republican i think that we need to show that we are better than that as a nation their patriotism their love of country we're talking about decorated veterans who have served this nation who have put their lives on the line and it is shameful to question their patriotism their love of this nation. house democrats plan to vote on thursday to formally authorize this impeachment inquiry even though

it has been underway for several weeks so why do the vote now democrats say it's to deflate the republican argument that this inquiry lacks legitimacy because it was never voted upon and are to potentially open these closed door impeachment proceedings to the public castro al-jazeera washington residents in northern california have been warned that strong winds fueling wildfires could lead to even more evacuations the kincaide fire in wine county has already forced 200000 people to abandon their homes down south near san francisco firefighters have been battling a blaze for almost a week electricity has been cut to almost a 1000000 people to reduce the risk of further fires from power lines. bowing c. has admitted that mistakes were made with the company's 737 max jets crashes involving 2 planes kill 346 people in the last year

dennis muhlenberg appeared before a u.s. congressional committee and admitted there were errors in the jet's software he also said the company failed to give pilots enough information on a system meant to prevent the stall. i'm sami's a down and with a look at the headlines here in al-jazeera lebanon's president michel aoun is expected to issue a statement on the prime minister's resignation saddle how do you do resigned on tuesday after days of nationwide protests stephanie decker has more from beirut. we're in marches where you can probably see volunteers cleaning up cleaning up the course yesterday and what they're doing here specifically sam is they're actually recycling the trash which is something they've been doing throughout the last 2

weeks here and now they've also a few remember yesterday we saw the scenes of of the supporters of and also has come to this area in the square smash up the tent where they have now made almost like you know they've they've collected the broken structures and put them here underneath some kind of symbolic lot of the processes will tell you this is a sign of resistance because as you can see here the tents are back up and people are back out they came out last night to celebrate not massive crowds but certainly in their thousands the russian defense ministry says more than 30000 kurdish troops have pulled back from the turkish syrian border ahead of a choose dave ning deadline set by turkey and russia it paves the way for turkey to create a so-called safe zone in the area border checks have been set up along the edge of the zone to keep the kurdish y.p. g. forces out i encourage considers them terrorists. and a meeting about syria's constitution is beginning in geneva later on wednesday

times to repair the fractures that many believe led to the civil war british voted for a general election on december the 12th hoping to end the deadlock over brags that prime minister boris johnson leads a minority government and wants to secure a majority in parliament the findings of a public inquiry into london's grunfeld tower fire are to be released later on wednesday 71 people were killed in the tragedy 2 years ago the report suggests there could have been fewer fatalities from evacuation. headlines it's inside story now. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call her. al-jazeera international bring in the news and current for that matter. al-jazeera. the

global cost of online crime is expected to reach $6.00 trillion dollars by 2021 cyber attacks are now one of the biggest concerns for governments and companies around the world an international conference in qatar is now looking at ways to fight side of crime but are we doing enough to defend ourselves and do we even understand the risks this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm daryn jordan around somewhere cyber attack happens every 14 seconds in the past year alone there's been an 11 percent increase in security breaches by hackers these growing figures show just how big a threat cyber crime has become with security experts fighting the hakas the cyber

crime economy is growing so quickly it's now making profits of $1.00 trillion dollars each year a recent microsoft survey suggests executives now consider cyber attacks to be the top threat to their businesses experts are gathered here in qatar the capital doha to boost cyber defense and formulate digital policy. well here are some of the world's most high profile cyber attacks in 2013 yahoo shocked the world when it confirmed that a cyber attack had affected all 3000000000 of its user accounts in 2014 the us entertainment group sony pictures was attacked hackers demanded the cancellation of the release of the interview a comedy that depicted an assassination plot against north korea's leader kim jong il and in 2018 the u.s. along with australia canada the u.k. and new zealand all accuse china of conducting a 12 year global campaign of cyber espionage russia is accused of hacking the accounts of democratic officials in the u.s. in an attempt to sway people to vote for donald trump in the 2016 presidential

election and just this week in georgia thousands of websites were attacked including those of the president the courts and the media t.v. stations were hacked and temporarily unable to broadcast. well let's bring in our guests mark isaac is a lecturer in computer network security at the university of central lancashire he joins us from preston in the united kingdom and mark einstein is chief analyst for digital services at japan that's a research and advisory firm focused on i.t. he joins us from tokyo welcome to both our guests marc einstein let me start with you if i may because you've worked with companies around the world in setting up their cyber defenses but given the scale of the threat today in the sophistication of cyber attacks are we losing the battle against the hackers and if so why. i think you can make the case that we are you know now we have this phenomenon called

the internet of things which is several years old now and you know this is the number one reason that companies are really hesitant to be more and more connected i think what is so interesting about this is that the majority of the hacks that we see are actually not very sophisticated they're caused by things or having the all passwords or passwords like 12345 and you know these basic mistakes are holding back billions or even trillion dollars in corporate product of any. macs eyes in preston i mean the head of britain's national cybersecurity center recently warned that the u.k. will be hit by a life threatening category one cyber emergency in the very near future i mean that sounds absolutely terrifying i mean so what does that mean and how prepared is britain to defend itself against something so horrifying to be honest. absolutely it is terrifying in the u.s. and we have seen and i mean that the want to cry the n.h.s. attacks that have been 2017 showed us how devastating

a cyber attack could be on a public sector service like the national health service and sense then there have been a lot of. counter-measure that has been taken less and has been learned and we are trying now to put countermeasures around defenses in place but as mark said no one will be 100 percent protected because of the. them the huge amount of devices we have these days the different technologies we are using these days have you have a great security but you have a week then your security will be used defenseless so. we are also you know while work on the technology and the defense we're also working on to use our awareness to you know trying to raise. the people's awareness to their best for their security to their data brava say trying to work on both sides ok g.

and a human let me let me bring in back marc there in tokyo i mean mark just explain to our viewers why cyber security is so important i mean governments and companies now seem to be spending huge amounts of money on security to protect themselves how they've been mostly successful and what does it take do you think to win the war against cyber attacks against the cyber criminals so i think that you know basically we live in an era era of increased conic nobody i think one of the most interesting examples that i saw very recently was in the u.k. one of the new airports there actually has their air traffic control center offsite so there's no tower in this airport it's remote if somebody hacked into this you could easily kill thousands of people shut down an economy we're not seeing these kind of catastrophic events have. and yet but there certainly is a potential there is an increasing the tension i think you know part of the solution to this is going to be advanced ai technology there's just so much data

traffic now there are so many connected devices and there just aren't enough people that can sit in front of a computer screen and monitor what's going on this is going to have to be automated and this is going to require artificial intelligence going forward in my opinion all right well as you've touched on the issue of ai let me put that to maximize a very impressive i mean max what about the rise then of official intelligence will this require a new dialogue a new awareness of the challenges within the ai space. so they agree with mark we need a i technologies to step ben and employ these technologies into cyber defense to protect the assets and because we don't have enough. human by our let's say i mean we need a lot of laws and laws off of superhumans to actually said down and look at massive amounts of data and try to work out if there is an attack happening or if there's

attack about to happen and cetera. and the route you know recent reports is showing that companies and corporations are struggling to identify the risks let alone actually defending against cyber attacks because if there's a lot of information to digest and analyze and you know bridou sort of results so i think they are it will be massive held into this arena and let me bring also the other term we use sometimes interchangeably here which is a machine learning so we can actually use machine learning as i said let's imagine a sober human who can sit and look at massive amounts of data learn the data learn the button see how they interact with each other and the bridge dect that this asset is could be under attack or this attack is actually happening right now and the produce defenses or countermeasures against them so i totally agree ai and machine learning will be a massive hope in the near future marc i mean you're nodding there are we are we

talking about artificial intelligence only here are we talking about mental intelligence with human input as well i think we're talking about ball but what i'm specifically talking about which was just echoed by the other panelist is that you know we need kind of superhuman abilities but we also need automated abilities were not white there yet with the technology i think going forward we're going to start with kind of the machine learning which is. we are now then get into more ai and then get into more elegant is kind of how i would see the market developing yeah max let me come back to you because you touch briefly on the issue of understanding the risks is there a sense that one of the reasons that governments and companies and ordinary people like you and i become victims of cyber crime is that we don't actually understand the risks to ourselves our money our data and our privacy the risk issue is very important isn't it. it is indeed and part of the reason we don't understand the

risk is that we do not allow enough time for the technology to be tested and for the risks to be assessed and this is again reflected bardsley because we don't have enough power like a human power to actually sit down and do all the analysis and also for us boss as well because technologies and companies usually rush into. the releasing their products you know for marketing and competition burgess's so we end up sometimes with a lot of products that hasn't been 100 percent percent test that or the rest hasn't been really identified that we end up actually having to take the hit if it happens and we end up with a lot of in us about data breaches or a security hacks etc on the broad docs that is actually used by people. mark on sign there in tokyo let me come to you with

a question about about risk as well because in 2017 microsoft a survey that found something like 62 percent of companies saw cyber attacks as a top 5 risk to their business is now in 2019 that figure jumped to 79 percent above other risks like economic uncertainty brand reputational damage and so on does this indicate that companies are starting to at least understand the risks i don't think that that true i mean if i were to you know think about that serbia i actually think it could be closer to 100 percent i think something that is maybe help that a little bit is that when the g.d.p. are the privacy regulations were introduced in the e.u. i think it became very very clear to everyone in the corporate sector that if you don't secure your data you could pay billions and billions of dollars in fines from the e.u. and the e.u. is not afraid to go after people like google or apple or whoever i think that was the. a little bit of

a wake up call that may have contributed to that bigger let me let me just stay with you mark and ask you a question about the next big challenge for the cyber industry and people are now talking about deep faith for example and this ability to clone someone's voice and their image i mean that's going to be a nightmare for security specialists like you isn't it i think that that is going to be the next big thing unfortunately i think it's going to be chaotic you know i think we're very close to being able to clone other people's voices and then you know make rhonda one bomb calls but if you even take that a step further you could happen chap by that you program with someone's voice to make coal so you don't even need someone behind the phone to do cybercrime in the next few years i think this is going to be a disaster and i think we're not ready for this at all and i think that we're going to need some new technologies to be able to address this is well yeah i mean max what's your what's your take then on the next big challenge for the security industry is it problems like deep fake and how you fight how you combat that well

it's it's a what i mentioned earlier about the use of ai and the shia learning into come back and a cyber attacks unfortunately these technologies are available also for the attackers so you can imagine if the attacker start employing ai technologies into their cyber attacks so the cyber attacks will be more sophisticated they will be able to learn more about your defenses and try to evade detection cetera so that it will be a very you know a big challenge for companies because while they're trying to use. a i n semi-colon into 2 to defend the attackers or the hackers are using machine learning and there to show intelligence to attack so that will be a big challenge that will be a big. comeback coming our way and we need to. we need to put the effort like marc said about you know the laws and the regulations that came into

effect the g. to go out for example that's focused minds into the importance of securing the data and making sure that your products are secure otherwise you will be paying a lot of fines and i think that's a step in the right direction but there is a long way to go you know to put more effort into these technologies marc let me come back to you for a 2nd because let's just wind the clock back for a minute if you look at the evolution of cyber crime i mean 20 years ago it was some spotty teenager in a dark basement trying to hack somebody's e-mail now it's huge bank fraud and big state is using it as a weapon of war a weapon a fake news what's changed well i would suit you know you certainly see it on a larger scale you see certain countries that are able to you know disrupt nuclear facilities and you know others are used you do see kind of state sponsored backing i think some states have kind of figured out that this is basically cost effective

way to wage war and it can also be very profitable for some states but i would also take a step back at that if you look at one of the biggest cyber attacks ever was the mirror i bought an i bought net attack in 2016 this was still done by 216 year old gamers so we do have this rise in state sponsored cyber warfare but you know it still can be easy enough that some quiver kids with some you know computer science fields and still do it so i actually think that we see both and max if you if you look at the scale of this week's cyber attack in georgia for example 2000 websites attacked t.v. stations knocked out the allegation at this point is that russia was behind the attack it's purely an allegation but what's this telling us about the point that ma kind stein's making about state sponsored attacks is this a new kind of asymmetric warfare but inside this. do you think. it is because some

states are realizing that in order to hit back it's other states using cyber or cyber warfare is the way to go so we have now you know recently this emerging phenomena about state backed cyber were for you know when you know not only russia i mean in some states like north korea for example there have been a lot of reports saying that the they brought a lot of money into their economy like billions of dollars has been brought into north korean economy just based on ransomware attacks and the bay ments that has been made for the so it is and it is unfortunate and when you look at it from an individual going to view the technology again like i said the problem is they acknowledge is is like 2 sides so we have the bitcoin phenomena and the last few years and the rise of the bitcoin price nearly 10 $10000.00 so bitcoin has been

very very attractive is untraceable currency so it is tempting for a lot of individuals or kids or even organizations to mount attacks and profit from them whether you have a and ideological reason to do it or political or even just for profit or easy money mark i want to ask you a quick question if i can about the value of data because cyber attacks of course can lead to loss of money data reputation privacy amongst other things but are we now seeing more cyber attacks because of the growth of huge amounts of data on these on this plethora of digital platforms like social media why is data so valuable well i think you know a lot of people say that data is the new oil arm i've heard of examples that even you know forms in indonesia make our way all our i. up to a c.e.o. there recently and he told me that you know hackers were actually going after his

connected farm because they're trying to get data that's not on the market and then they're trying to trade financially and invest from that so you know getting this data that not public and being able to utilize that or you know like like the other speaker said about cryptocurrency that i think another perfect example you know data is kind of the new oil it is valuable and hackers are extremely creative people in terms of either ransoming this data back or using it to make financial gain through financial markets all right let's just move the argument on if we can and look ahead at the future of cyber security in terms of what you guys will be doing in the next few months and years ahead let me start with you max if i may are we likely to see do you think more companies and corporations forming cyber security alliances as a way to share assets and strengthen defenses i mean we're already seeing examples like the cyber threats alliance the global cyber alliance but do these alliances work is there strength in numbers do you think i think so i think this is an

important step in the right direction because we need collaboration's among the different corporations and on states as well. governments organize you know on organizations need to step in and try to promote and you know incur.