being that he is asking political parties or in the parliament to help find a successor to him it's important to note that nobody came to power a year ago he's only been in office for a year and a week as prime minister and at that time sami he was considered a consensus candidate or consensus prime minister because there was a lot of wrangling in the parliament as to who should become the next prime minister. at least 70 people have been killed in pakistan after a gas stove exploded on a train sparking a huge fire it's the country's worst rail disaster in over a decade the accident happened near the town of rafah in the south of punjab province with reports from raul pindi where the train was headed. water he says someone give me water because this man is among the dozens of people wounded when a passenger train caught fire in pakistan witnesses say in addition to those who

were burned alive many people died as the tried to jump from the high speed burning train most of them were pogroms heading to a religious gathering they routinely carry all essential items including gas cylinders and bedding for their religious meeting which lasts for days initial reports suggest that someone tried to make breakfast on an open gas flame one investigator told al-jazeera that the speed of the train fanned the flames small mattresses and belongings of the pilgrims acted as fuel in the fire quickly spread to other witnesses say it was caused by a short circuit the prime minister has ordered an investigation and the minister in charge admits there was a failure here. this is a security lapse and these people were successful in carrying the stores in cylinder in the coaches we don't have scanners in small station but we have scanners at all the 7 railway divisional headquarters which are great that this happened. it's been a difficult task to identify people because many bookings are made for groups nearly half of the people killed were burned beyond recognition and their bodies

have been sent for d.n.a. tests 70000000 people use a real service every year in pakistan but there are no fire extinguishers in passenger compartment and safety checks are almost nonexistent this is not the 1st incident of its kind back stunt really is history has been checkered with many such accidents before people here say that despite this being one of them with affordable mort's off transport there's been an. of investment mismanagement and corruption which is plagued this department thanks when the prime minister and israeli minister were in opposition the call for resignations and strict action after green accident this is the 7th accident and let him run hand government some passengers now ask when will you carry out those punishments he used to recommend for those in power some of the job without those are *. the streets in parts of india that ministered kashmir are deserted is the state officially transitions into 2 union territories businesses and offices are shot their heavy

military presence in srinagar the region is also claimed by pakistan it's now under direct control of the central government but there's been stiff resistance to the move in the most dominated kashmir valley i am. trying to prove that this situation will not remain how long will you keep a community under lockdown the world is watching right now. that residents are more supportive of the government's decision the region split between but this and shia muslims become a union territory separate from your calls jammer and kashmir and the new lieutenant governor has been sworn in for. no not today in the render mode he declared is not the agent in territories so we have a very happy in the coming days will be happier and better things will happen because we've been divided from kashmir we feel free. well still ahead on

al-jazeera waiting for closure find out why gays government has not released the bodies of protesters killed 2 weeks ago. only arm or demand. parliament taskmaster steps down around on the house transformed into a trained. eye. hello there if not quite a few shots across areas of the middle east at the last few days and there are a fair few more to come look at all this cloud although it's clearing mostly across areas of iran is further to the north it's way turkey and across this whole region through georgia that's where we'll see the rain and the snows those hot innovations through friday and saturday was the system plays away from turkey feeling pretty

cool and i encourage just an 11 celsius meanwhile out of beirut with a high of 24 damages have been coming down across the arabian peninsula they'll continue to stay at these lower levels so feeling quite a lot better humidity has also begun to ease but not really of course across this coastal area of amman plenty of rain showers here still some fairly rough seas on friday but this storm system is losing a lot of its power fact not really even a tropical cycle as we head through saturday but it will continue producer along these coastal areas as new steadily away towards the horn of africa meanwhile you might just like to say on the edge of the screen we have a nother tropical cyclone suddenly work its way across the arabian sea so it is keep an eye on that and we got some rain showers into southern africa and not just south africa but also across into an india a bowl swapna and also down into most central areas so friday and saturday want to touche as a little bit cooler as well and john is 23. was

another day another explosion. from one of the thousands of i.e.d. strewn through the landscape of this lawless tribal region in pakistan with only the most basic equipment a fearless bomb disposal unit are determined to counter the horrors of a relentless taliban onslaught. armed with faith a witness documentary. on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching out the syria time to recap our headlines now a big win for us house democrats after

a key motion on the trumpet and inquiry is approved testimony in the coming weeks are now expected to be made public on line behind both tools. trump's former top adviser for russian and european affairs is on capitol hill testifying in the impeachment inquiry marson resigned from his post today before the close to testimony. iraqi president has addressed the nation in a televised speech he said the prime minister is ready to resign if a replacement is agreed thousands of protesters are back on the streets of baghdad . plans to reopen schools and universities in lebanon have been cancelled as anti government protesters continue their sit ins in parts of the capital protesters have been blocking roads in and around beirut they're calling for political leaders to go prime minister saddle how do you equate on tuesday but he's been asked by the president to stay on as temporary caretaker until

a new government is formed so to hold it has more from beirut. what happened yesterday was that daily life really was returning to normal schools universities were supposed to open today protesters left the streets after the prime minister sato heidi announced his resignation but the protest movement was hoping that his resignation will be followed by a decision to create a new government a new government made up of technocrats people who are not affiliated with any political party in order to carry out much needed reforms and instead the ruling coalition remains stubborn they continue to cling on to power so that is one of the reasons why they returned to the streets but as you can see behind the security presence across the country there there. are simply opening roads not allowing the protesters to continue to paralyze this country or to cripple the movement they don't want the public life to be disrupted even the lebanese army in

a statement was very very clear we are going to continue to allow you to peacefully protest that is your right but you have to protest in. confined yourselves let's say in the public square so the army security forces out in force opening roads but protesters remain just as determined to topple what they say is a ruling class which has been in power for decades ruling class which has been corrupt and mismanaging the country a human rights watch report says cia backed afghan forces have committed abuses against civilians which amount to war crimes the group is accused is accusing the troops of committing grave abuses without accountability the report goes on to say soldiers unlawfully killed civilians during night raids forcibly disappeared detainees and the taxes health care facilities for treating fighters don't certain as a spokesman for human rights watch he says the abuses of go along for quite some time

. these militias which are mostly in south and southeastern afghanistan are essentially autonomous they are outside the normal chain of command they work with the cia they are supported by the cia they're outfitted by the cia they have very sophisticated equipment night vision goggles and they and they conduct these night raids all the time they even have twitter handles where they post the results of their raids where they show even dead bodies pictures of dead bodies of people they've shot in these neighborhoods so this is well known that this is going on people have been complaining about it for a long time and it's not just a problematic thing from a human rights perspective from a counterinsurgency perspective it's hard to see how any of these abuses are getting they're getting the counterinsurgency anywhere the taliban is stronger than it's been in years and continues to gain strength. 5 months of protests have pushed hong kong's economy into recession the city is now recorded negative growth in 2

consecutive quarters the 1st time hong kong has slid into recession since 2008 lobel financial crisis china trade was also. on the. firefighters in the u.s. state of california trying to save hundreds of homes threatened by wildfires on the outskirts of los angeles the city of san bernardino is the latest to be hit homes are being engulfed the strong winds continue to with flames jay gray has more from simi valley california. we are inside the command center of the staging area right now and these fire teams are on high alert the national weather service issuing its 1st ever extreme the red flag warning warning about winds that are expected to pick up here in fact forecasters saying that the conditions this week the fire conditions are the most severe they've seen in recent history right now more than

26000000 people under red flag warning from california to arizona and those expected to last through at least thursday the winds are expected to continue to swirl into the weekend here that's adding stress to these teams that have already been working most 24 hour shifts and for several days on these fires from here in the los angeles area all the way to the north outside of san francisco in wine country where the ken kade fire they are the biggest continues to grow more than 100 structures have been damaged hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes all those numbers they fear will go up with these new conditions fire teams rushing in from its least 10 states to support the efforts here to fight the flames it's a fight that's going to continue for quite some time they'll get through the weekend here but still trying to shore up on the front lines and control these flames the best they can. funerals for 11 people killed in protests in guinea earlier this

month of being delayed because the government has not yet released the bodies to the families tens of thousands have been demonstrating against a possible change to the constitution that could allow the president to seek a 3rd term in power victoria gate of the reports. frustrated relatives wait outside a hospital in guinea's capital conakry desperate for news on when the bodies of their loved ones will be released. we came today to collect the bodies but the ministry of health says they're not ready to be released the families be mourning for 14 days we want them to give us the bodies for burial the 11 protesters were killed earlier this month during one of a number of demonstrations against president alpha condé. thousands of people have been marching through the city week after week angry about a possible constitutional change that they say will push me into a dictatorship. they accuse president condé of wanting to hold on to power for

a 3rd term for them 10 years of condé government is the now 81 year old condé 1st came to power in 2010 it with gagne's 1st democratic election after more than 50 years of mostly military rule since its independence from france in 1958 for many days all worried about the future of guinea under condé scenario move i don't have the words to express myself this deception what are we seeing on the ground it could kill politics in guinea a funeral the sacred in our tradition our younger brothers were killed how can the family come here 14 days later with no chance to have the funeral. the ministry of health says the delay in releasing the bodies is because it's pathologists have finished performing autopsies which it says will help on cover the real causes and circumstances of their loved ones death these relatives have no faith in that process and they into. if the government is making in difficult situation even once

victoria gayton be al-jazeera. hundreds of students are on strike in barcelona calling for catalan independence students camped out in university plaza for a 2nd day blocking traffic a large group of students marched through the streets. gathered just outside the regional government headquarters they say they've been forced to strike since the spanish government refused to sit and talk with catalan leaders. britain's vocal and powerful speaker of the house of commons will step down on thursday john bercow 10 years as parliament's taskmaster most notably trying to keep bragg's it proceedings under control laurence de luxe a burkas legacy is britain prepares for another election aimed at breaking the brags that their lock.

was. every circus needs a ringmaster throughout the entire city of bricks it's john bercow has been there to crack. his extraordinary internation the way in which he says the word good. to shut up when they're all shouting at each other the way in which much of the u.k. has become transfixed by a parliament that usually ignores all of it combined to make bercow something of an international celebrity. given the role of speaker is to set the terms of debate of the actors referee inside the chamber trying to keep on top of politicians during practice it would have proved virtually impossible for anybody. we've seen both the opposition but also the government trying to use parliamentary procedure to their advantage which has meant that in certain situations the speaker in a situation has has been put in a tricky position and has had to make quite controversial decisions. he may have

been a conservative m.p. but bercow gathered many enemies on the progress adventures of parliament they accused him of being biased against them because he ruled that the government couldn't keep trying to pass legislation after losing votes on it my ruling is therefore that the motion will not be debated today as it would be repetitive and disorderly but in reality he was only a paying is just the dregs it has become so disorderly itself that any decisions he took a bound to be divisive he was the person who facilitated this referendum process from the outset by allowing some of the euro skeptics to table an amendment which was unusual to allow it to be voted on so i think he's represented both camps his role is not to stand up to the government his role is to stand up for backbenchers and i hope you'll continue to do that. it was never afraid of making enemies of speaking his mind most famously only

a president trumps should be barred from speaking to parliament from during his state visit this year after the imposition of the migrant ban by president trump i am even more strongly. expressed by president from. westminster hall. but his successor will be announced in a few days they'll be forgiven for hoping they might live through slightly less interesting times barnsley al-jazeera london. time let's take you through some of the headlines here now this year and now a big win for us house democrats after a key motion on the trump impeachment inquiry is approved testimonies in the coming weeks are now expected to be made in public rather than behind closed doors republicans say the president did nothing wrong it's unfortunate in this congress

when they go back they'll run on a reelection of having more subpoenas than last and not trusting the american people to actually have the choice the vote today was bipartisan not to before we have a speaker of the house who said that impeachment would drive the country apart you have to be bipartisan was one clear voice on where this congress believes the should go. there's nothing the president did to be impeached it's simply based upon election. meanwhile drums former top adviser for russian and european affairs is on capitol hill testifying in the impeachment inquiry marson resigned from his post today before the closed door testimony he was one of the officials who listened to the call between trump and the ukrainian president at the center of the inquiry. iraqi president saddam has addressed the nation in a televised speech he promised to approve early elections in response to the week's

long protests and he said the prime minister is ready to resign if a replacement is agreed a gas stove has exploded on a train in pakistan sparking a huge fire that killed at least 7 people the train was on its way from karachi to roll. just outside islamabad. the streets in parts of indian administered kashmir are deserted as the state officially transitioned into 2 union territories businesses and offices are shut and there's a heavy military presence in srinagar this comes 3 months after the government revoked the state's national status but the valley under lockdown the region which is also claimed by pakistan is now under direct control of the central government plans to reopen schools and universities in lebanon have been cancelled as anti-government protesters continue their citizens in parts of the capital protesters have been blocking roads in and around beirut calling for political

leaders to go those are your headlines it's inside story now stay with us here on out is iraq. twitter says no to political advertising the social media platform imprison a ban the head of next year's us presidential election but how will this be enforced and what does encourage all stifle political debate this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm the star of the attack now social media has transformed the way we debate politics and no one knows that more than the president of the united states donald trump who often uses twitter to announce new policies attack opponents and even retreat what many consider to be misleading information and over the years facebook twitter and you tube have been criticized for allowing political hate speech and misinformation to flourish on their platforms now with just a year to go before the u.s. presidential election twist is banning all political advertising around the wild for next month while some democratic candidates welcome to the move president trump's campaign manager called it a very dumb decision intended to silence conservatives on twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey says this isn't about free expression this is about paying for reach and paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today's democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle its wrath

stepping back in order to address. well let's take a closer look at spending around social media ads in the united states now political parties are expected to spend $6000000000.00 ahead of next year's presidential election but only about 20 percent of that will cover digital media most of the rest will go to television now twist estimates that it and $3000000.00 from political ads during last year's midterm elections now it's not a huge amount democratic presidential candidate come along harris has spent more than a $1000000.00 on twitter ads since last june to put that into perspective president trump has spent less than $7000.00 his campaign is more focused on facebook spending more than 21000000 dollars there and facebook says political advertising will account for about 0.5 percent of its revenue next year. well let's introduce today's panel joining us from the eastern dutch city of and

stay for that bray he's a professor in philosophy at the university of 20 and an analyst on the threw us a fee of technology in philadelphia that's joe watkins a republican political strategist and also on skype from essex in the u.k. cia cohen who's an analyst on internet and social media welcome to you all right so to begin with i think it's important to define what we see political advertising is being so jack dorsey here is referring specifically to promoted tweets or tweets that companies with and pay for when people engage with them but it isn't just tweets that promote candidates that he's wanting to ban it's also issue advertising as well yeah i am going to start with you because that sounds very tricky where do you draw the line at. i think you you draw the line. the very the very the very ok we need to go back to basics you need to look at the mission statement of each of these i'm going to xavier so when you look at lucius 7 and say of twitter. commuter who are the power to create and share ideas and information

instantly without barriers to dizzee you. political ads possibly create barriers to free speech and also that a lot of them 10 years a lot of media. speech that isn't live in or twitter is saying is if you are allowed us this information to dissimulate to. pay the other guys a means. of justice our own mission statement so this is where we draw the line where we know the. p.v.p. goes again it's we t.v. well let me throw this tearful at and cause i mean i want to dig into this idea that essence right so it's not just ads around candidates and it's ads around issues and so any kind of promoted at around a topic could potentially be banned here and what's your take on that. well i mean

twitter and other social media they promote all kinds of speech including political speech and political advertising is a form of. speech. and these companies also allow other forms of advertising so why not political advertising it's a form of speech that in my view should be protected especially on these large social media platforms that are used by millions even billions of users i have so i i feel like a way of having each other off air in tens of what is free speech so what we're also talking about is is paid speech so what point is paid speech speech free speech let me ask you that question day. well. i've been a candidate myself for political office i've worked for a u.s. senator and i worked in his campaign for the u.s.

senate he won and i worked in the i worked in a presidential campaign i worked on a couple and the president 1st when i worked on the president the can they won and won the presidency and served in the white house and i worked in his white house staff i know the power of words and i know that the importance of freedom of information i think that twitter is probably trying to trying to stop the flow of dissin from ation that many felt had an impact in the 2016 presidential campaign so i think this is a move to try to stop the flow of dissent from ation from from outside parties but i'm not sure that will have the consequence the desired effect that is at the end of the day president trump uses twitter not for pollute paid political ads and you can see from how much how little he spends he's probably not ever going to spend very much on political ads with twitter but he uses twitter is a way to get information to millions of people in a matter of moments and he's been very very successful with it and that won't stop

he'll continue to use it he'll continue to dominate that platform and to to move markets and also to move people using the twitter platform. however twitter will take a small hit in terms of its. unwillingness step to pay for these it to allow for these paid ads because it'll elim pack their their balance sheet but not much but a little bit and at the end of the day it won't really disrupt much john going to come back to the numbers in just a minute but i want to pick up on one of the things that you said that because this profess to paved tweets brightstar as you said president trump can continue tweezing on his and on his own account if he is on promoted tweets and he has i believe something at the moment 66400000 followers and tourism is his primary vehicle for communication in the lead up to the last election so despite the fact that this move does potentially for. incumbent's rights or jack dorsey has already said this the trump campaign has said that it's dumb and then we've had mostly

positive reactions from the democratic side so i'm curious break that down for us to how how will this affect campaigns leading up to the 2020 election well campaigns to spend money on these political ads he's paid political ads to influence people and oftentimes that the as if they pay for are meant to meant to cast their opponents in an unfavorable light so these are very very important very important tool for campaigns they want to define their opponents before the opponents have a chance to define themselves and they want to defy the poets in a negative way and so that's how people in campaigns use paid political advertising in this case. the drum kit pay would probably think this is obviously trying to slow them down slow down the people who would on their behalf pay for these ads and twitter and so that's why the trump campaign would like it but on the other hand it's not going to slow the president down from being able to get his message out on

twitter to millions of americans across the united states and also people around the world well so one of the arguments against doing this ban is related to this because we've heard also from civil society groups that it could it could damage people who aren't necessarily in the media spotlight so lessen the voices of of smaller candidates perhaps or affect the voices of other advocacy groups rights or on a month 2nd bag from facebook who doesn't agree with this has said that ads are an important possible voice. who does this hurt the most philip. well it's hurts most of all it hurts political discourse and it hurts democracy because for a well functioning democracy you need political speech and that includes paid political speech and it's very unfortunate to have this bad because it also affects that

didn't reason that jackson dorsey wants this is he says there's so much false and misleading information out there political advertising and he says it challenges civic discourse and democratic infrastructures so that may well be true but by banning all political advertising as a result including the ones that are not false and misleading you're throwing out the child with the bathwater and you're still allowing the unpaid false and misleading speech so you're still having that problem now what mark zuckerberg is proposing to just keep airing these political ads with no interference whether they're misleading or false or not is also completely the wrong approach because then you reward misinformation campaigns and have a negative consequences that jet jack dorsey warms about so we need to find a middle ground between banning all ads and just allowing all political ads yeah i

want to ask his respond to what for the press to saying that if this thing the baby out with the bathwater or as this at the top santa fe speeds. i think there is a fundamental difference between free speech and paid speech these 2 things on all the same free speech means that speech is free for everyone so everyone can can can express themselves in a way which is equal and whoever wants to listen to the speech can listen to the speech whatever doesn't or listen to the speech does not have to listen speech we paid speech paid advertising means that 1st people who are who are able to afford to pay for it for more advertising their voice will be had louder but also it means that we are forcing speech of put people who may not necessarily want to hear that speech so it is ok if if you're a follower of an individual well it is the united states president or body else and

you willing to hear what they have to say or if you really that want to hear that kind of stuff but it is forced upon you because that individual had paid for advertising so so i think that the simplicity of the phrase free speech need to be looked at in a little bit more detail here. well you know speaking of paid speech i want to look at some of these figures so i know there are some discrepancies about reporting and who's and wash and where and what's classified as political ads but let's take some numbers here from the u.s. federal election commission and it says since 2008 and that's really the birth of social media in terms of political campaigning campaigns have spent something like $46000000.00 on facebook certainly a $1000000.00 on google and they've spent less than $2000000.00 on twitter so when really don't talking about huge amounts of cash if

a twitter so is this and i'm going to ask this question to joe is this rather a savvy strategic business decision on the part of twitter to set itself apart from facebook. maybe maybe a savvy maybe meant to be a savvy business district decision on the part of what it set themselves apart from facebook but the at the end of the day like i said earlier it may not have the desired. end and that is because again when you consider what political advertising is if you're a candidate and this is this is why it favors incumbents and it disfavors people who are new to the process if i'm a brand new candidate running for the united states senate in the united states and i want to. tell people about myself so they know who i am so they can vote for me i have to buy paid political advertising to do that i've got to buy an ad that says i'm joe watkins this is where i'm from this is what i've done and this is why you need to vote for me and not be able to do that just it favors the incumbent favors

the person is already there and they don't have to do anything more because they're already there they already have a record and people already know who they are but for me as a new person and people don't know who i am it puts me at a distinct disadvantage and so it doesn't have the the consequence the and the intended and that twitter might be aiming for if there is a means to kind of do away or discouraged this information or misinformation it probably won't get that done and it certainly won't allow for a leveling of the playing field with regard to the candidate's wife effect the false and just about misinformation when the twist that it also potentially was about trying to set itself apart within the social media fit and i say that the timing of all of this announcement it came to literally as mark talk about was announcing some pretty good ending faces a facebook and i that doesn't seem to be much of a coincidence or i do want to play you something here because monks also back has been on the fi

a fellow outing political investments with misinformation to continue existing on facebook right but last week he did give a speech at georgetown that's have a listen to what he said we're at another crossroads. we can either continue to stand for free expression understanding its messiness but believing that the long journey towards greater progress requires confronting ideas that challenge us or we can decide that the cost is simply too great i don't think it's right for a private company to censor politicians or the news in a democracy and we are not an outlier here and the other major internet platforms in the vast majority of media also run these same ads so fellas i'm going to ask you to respond to that presumably you do agree with the back that well i think really with the sentiment but with the decision to allow for that free speech come also comes from sponsibility and i think that both twitter and facebook are

advocating that responsibility. twitter by simply banning all. political advertising clued into ones that have not based on misinformation and. facebook by allowing advertising that is false and misleading real responsibility it is better for social media companies would be to actually function as a genuine arbiter in that respect they have to do fact checking and a low those political advertisements that are accurate and disallow those that are part of a disk information campaign let and they can do so they can do so with through nonpartizan fact checking organizations i guess i do want to talk on about enforcement of all of this right because even with this ban i imagine you could pay influences who have lots of followers on twitter to to tweezing gauge of people online and without necessarily using these promoted tweets and we also know that

there's these large network of bots rice on on twitter do we could we then perhaps see a resurgent of those let me throw that to you yeah i think i think that the problem for mr 2nd but 1st is that he facebook is sticking in approach where each don has a sense of. certain accounts and he does certain certain voices then it cannot then turn around and say well we will be essential and do do fact checking but we will exclude from this process politicians only because there are typical political ideas and other political values that are not this is certainly being promoted by people who call themselves politicians and i think this is where the real problem is so you have to choose either or either we are going to getting gauging censorship in fact checking and then decide who we going to ban are we

going to not ban or we will nothing to do with it we will just allow people to say whatever they want to say everyone is equal and then let the people judge who they believe and lead them make up their own mind because people aren't stupid and i think that twitter is taking the approach of trusting the people to make the right decision so people quite often are able to recognise but at the reserve bought involved where it did become a subject of a companion people are quite smart and they don't really need facebook to tell them what in the day they need to listen to what is no need to listen to one then let me ask you a little more about the protection as people's information right ok now let me ask you to respond to that until i think you know having at your taking and i just want to say that this is not what empirical studies show studies show that people are often not able to recognize fake news and even. affan

assign more credibility to fake news that is well crafted than to real news so i think there is a real problem that people cannot often back nice is fake information and this goes to the heart of the matter it's not about. political speech or an experience it's about how to deal with massive amounts of false and misleading political speech and . social media platforms and by answer to that is the only solution is that social media companies don't do bans of all speech they don't allow all speech they have to be arbiters through fact checking that's that's the only solution while picking up on that just isn't a facebook suspended 3 accounts linked to russian interference that we're involved in and trying to influence by it as an african countries so i mean that is definitely an ongoing trend that we say sorry i had picked these to jump in the. i think there is something slightly patronize ing about about this approach that big

brother knows best and people as clever as we think they are and although i accept that there are some studies i sometimes doubt the conclusions and the way the studies are being conducted and who's been paying for those studies and for that research into thinking in democracy at least we have to give people the credit they deserve we cannot possibly place an organisation such as facebook or any other corporate body to make decisions for the people i trust the people and i think that we all have a lot of faith in the people people on is stupid as some people think they are. i think i think i think the public tends to come to the right decision and then for someone to run it's a world only came to this conclusion because they did they've been there not been clever enough of they've been unduly influenced by bullets or by robots or by some some political company which which has been going wrong i think is something

strongly but when i think about this approach and i don't. i don't really i don't think it's better not to say i think it's normal i mean we ask the same of the labeling of products that they don't contain false information about the number of calories or chemical ingredients and you can have the same request of political advertising i think it's a normal thing well so let me try this idea and he says that there has been the suggestion because we already see that promoted tweets some of them targeted at specific people right traces use its algorithms and what's out where these you should see these tweets and some auguring that companies should focus on restricting the use of personal they say in the targeting of these ads or on the banning or ads entirely and joe do you think there's any value in that. well maybe some value in it i think that you know the issue becomes is to what degree should these companies police. the ads that. they get paid

to put on their on their platforms and that's a question that i think will be answered in time a lot of the advertising now is very sophisticated extraordinarily sophisticated so while it may have the outward appearance of being very simple and straightforward. many of these ads are highly sophisticated to reach a particular audience and to move an audience in one direction or another so. this is all very hard stuff you know what law and what point to you stifle freedom of speech in favor of of state of stopping the spread of false information. i don't know that you can actually do that and i think that zuckerberg is probably errs on the on the right side of this by saying you know what we're going to we're going to allow these ads on our platform and let the chips fall where they may at least people can be heard the good people along with maybe the people who don't

have good intentions can be heard and will leave it to the consumer to kind of figure it out maybe there's a need for some more police on their part but it's awfully hard to police i mean how do you police if i'm a candidate running if you've got $100.00 candidates running for office how do you do you police what's being said about them if somebody makes an accusation that i did something how does how does any company any social platform police that because very very difficult very very nit picky and very very hard to arrive at what the truth is absolutely i'm going to throw a last very quick question to philip because we are running out of time do you think that this ban potentially encourages political debate or does it stuff it. it could. well i don't think it has a big implications for for the normal use of twitter of course which also includes political discourse or at least it doesn't ban political discourse on twitter which

is a good thing of course it banned some form of it which i think i don't agree with instead of having the band you want to have all the messiness that the policing brings and i agree that it's a messy thing to do but the alternative is to either ban speech or allow any speech house whatever false and misleading the complaint is those are the answers while what it has done it has certainly encouraged and interesting political debate amongst us today thank you all for joining us thanks to all our guests philip ray joe watkins and co and for being with us today on inside story and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and a feather discussion do go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation actually on twitter our handle is at a.j. and 5 story for me in

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hard charging shocks. al-jazeera world examines why egyptians dominate the sport egypt squash champions on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam he's a than this is the news hour live from doha coming off the next 60 minutes voting along party lines the u.s. house lays out a path for impeachment hearings against the president. iraq's prime minister

promises to resign but only if a replacement can be found it seems thousands returned to the streets of baghdad. i'm maryanne demasi in london with the top stories from year including ukraine's president host nato secretary general in cannes promising to speed up preparations for his country to join the western security alliance. and in support it washington united. preacher. as the national bring the world series back to the u.s. capital for the 1st time in. the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution so i think the rules for the trump impeachment inquiry the 1st formal vote on the issue in

a divided house. the resolution is adopted without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. members voted almost entirely along party lines for weeks testimony has been conducted behind closed doors or these new measures will now make witness appearances public investigation is focused on allegations the president pressured ukraine to investigate these political rival joe biden house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff says democrats take no joy in the impeachment process but will not shy away from it we recognize the seriousness of this undertaking. we recognize that. we have been compelled by the circumstances to move forward. when a president. abuses his or her office when

a president sacrifices the national interest when a president refuses to defend the constitution. and does so for the purpose of advancing a personal or political agenda the founders provided the remedy. here's what the top republican leader in the u.s. house kevin mccarthy had to say it's unfortunate in this congress when they go back they'll run on a reelection of having more subpoenas than laws and not trusting the american people to actually have the choice. the vote today was bipartisan not to before we have a speaker of the house who said that impeachment would drive the country apart it have to be bipartisan it was one clear voice and where this congress believes the should go. there's nothing the president did to be impeached it's simply based upon election. president tweeted his reaction immediately after the vote saying simply

the greatest witch hunt in american history. for the moment we'll speak to our white house correspondent kimberly how it could. be joe castro capitol hill in washington d.c. so high that the vote came in as expected and went down very much along partisan lines. that's right in fact it was only 2 democrats who voted not with their party but rather with the unanimous republican caucus in not wanting to pass its measure of course the overall vote did overwhelmingly favor the measure which now pushes this impeachment inquiry of donald trump into the next phase it was interesting when you heard from mccarthy the republican leader in the house he said that it was a bipartisan effort not to continue the impeachment inquiry well what he's ignoring is that 230 democrats did vote to him continue this impeachment inquiry vs those

2 who defected but all of this is to say that the next phase what we're going to see here are these until now closed door hearings with witnesses who were essential to this accusation that trump abuse the power of his office for his personal political gain now delivering those testimonies straight into the living rooms of the american public these hearings will eventually become public it may not happen immediately but they are now in the works and we know from recent polling that about an even split among the american public are either in favor or oppose to impeach him and removing him from office so the bigger strategy here among the democrats is to now bring more of those compelling testimonies out from behind closed doors and directly for the people to hear and to decide on for themselves and those testimonies in the meantime continue in these intelligence

panel briefed. things that are are held away from the public just this morning and no other white house insider jim morrison tim morrison rather was here at capitol hill testifying and talking about the president's inner thinking in in that decision to withhold u.s. security aide to ukraine while he withheld that security and of course that's when he and his other aides were pushing ukrainians to launch investigations into trump's political rivals in the united states and morrison corroborated earlier testimony from the u.s. ambassador to ukraine that that morrison saying that he had a sinking feeling when he heard from one in ukraine to launch these investigations so building upon those building blocks of evidence that democrats have been collecting and now with this latest vote on the house floor hoping to present those

fully to the american public all right let's thank the joe castro there and capitol hill watching what's been going on inside congress today let's cross over of course to the other side figurative lucas well as the white house correspondent kimberly health she's live for us in washington d.c. . the white house of course watching this very carefully we've seen the republicans pretty much stand by the president in today's vote right. yeah the president has got a solid base of support how do you talked about that but what we're seeing is a white house kind of moving into the next phase of their strategy knowing that the vote in the house would be largely a partisan vote that this is a foregone conclusion so what we've already seen not just from the republicans on capitol hill but here from the white house to a statement released by the press secretary stephanie grisham is this effort to

discredit the process to say it's already been tainted because so much of that testimony up to this point has been behind closed doors and therefore no matter what you hear moving forward in the public realm the process is tainted we got a statement from the press secretary saying that it's illegitimate the president has done nothing wrong and democrats know it the democrats want to render a verdict without giving the administration a chance to mount a defense that's unfair unconstitutional fundamentally american what they're suggesting is that up to this point those hearings that were done behind closed doors the president did not have the opportunity to have his counsel present and as a result this is an unfair process now the democrats have said moving forward that this will be open the president will be able to launch a defense but this discrediting has already begun all right. kimberly how important is it to look at this photo get an idea of how things might

go when it comes to the ultimate lee important vote is it too far away to try and read anything into what happened today. it's not too soon to sort of look at the optics of this there's no question democrats would have hoped that more republicans or any republicans for that matter would have gone along with them saying that we are upholding our constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and therefore have some of those republican votes that didn't happen and that's the challenge for democrats moving forward the concern is that 'd they're not going to get when it comes time for that ultimate vote what are we talking about the this was just a vote to formalize the proceedings and we still have to have the vote to impeach the president that is still to come the goal would be of the democrats to get more republicans on board if they don't that's going to be a problem i talked about

a couple of hours ago being in washington during the clinton impeachment proceedings and i remember a vote where 31 republicans sided with the democrats or rather it was a democratic president bill clinton and the party of opposition $31.00 of them sided and that's what the democrats were hoping for today they didn't get that they've got to try and get that moving forward in order to have the legitimacy that this is not a partisan exercise in the eyes of the american public because the bottom line is we've got an election a year from now and the republican argument is look at you're wasting money you're wasting time we're going to have the voters decide in a year from now so that's what democrats are combating trying to get over that narrative say that we have a moral responsibility to uphold our constitutional duties in order to preserve the presidency of the integrity of the presidency for those presidents to come. thanks so much kimberly how could that. at least 70 people have been killed in pakistan

after a gas stove exploded on the train sparking a huge fire it's the country's worst rail disaster in over a decade the accident happened near the town of rajar harm in the south of punjab province assam binge of a report from raul pindi where the train was headed. water he says someone give me water because this man is among the dozens of people wounded when a passenger train caught fire in pakistan witnesses say in addition to those who were burned alive many people died in the trying to jump from the high speed burning train most of them were programs heading to a religious gathering that routinely carry all essential items including gas cylinders and beddings for their religious meeting which last days initial reports suggest that someone tried to make breakfast on an open gas flame one investigator told al-jazeera that the speed of the train fanned the flames small mattresses and belongings of the pilgrims acted as fuel and the fire quickly spread to other

witnesses say it was caused by a short circuit the prime minister has ordered an investigation and the minister in charge admits there was a failure. here this is a security lapse and these people were successful in carrying the cylinder and the coaches we don't have scanners a small station but we have scanners at all the 7 railway divisional headquarters which are great that this happened. it's been a difficult task to identify people because many bookings were made for groups nearly half of the people killed were burned beyond recognition and their bodies have been sent for d.n.a. tests 70000000 people use a real service every year in pakistan but there are no fire extinguishers in passenger compartment and safety checks are almost nonexistent this is not the 1st incident of its kind box on race history has been checkered with many such accidents before people here say that despite this being one of them with affordable mort's off transport there has been a lack of investment mismanagement corruption which is probably.