lot of 100 mana and perhaps other hope for their generators are going to be addressing the large crowd and what about the prime minister himself how much pressure is this putting on on his government. where the government has said they did welcome such fact that the march or the pace that created the gods goes to the leadership of their j u i but imran khan has said that he really not buckle under the opposition's pressure he'd take it with the opposition of bringing the country to the brink of financial ruin aides of course blaming the opposition and also saying that there are red lines that security forces have barricaded most of islamabad they were large allow the protesters to enter into that red zone the military of course has taken over why did installations for security purposes in the red zone and police and paramilitary forces are employed in large numbers to deal with

a crisis where the government in no mood to resign or step down however the door for negotiation there is open they have formed a committee of their own and it's going to be important to see what kind of wait for there are certain parties are willing and are able to throw behind this particular march because most of their leadership is already in jail facing massive corruption charges that have been levied against them all right come on high doesn't you for that update from islamabad well funerals have started to take place for some of the 70 people who died in a train explosion in pakistan on thursday authorities say d.n.a. tests will have to be used to identify most of the victims of the fire witnesses say some passengers were killed when they jumped out of that moving train to avoid the blaze the fire broke out after 2 gas cylinders and a stove exploded. here with al-jazeera still ahead coming up in just

a moment how service on the line of fire thousands are forced from their homes in the u.s. state of california. how the weather's looking pretty miserable across the good parts of western europe with my with lots of plows piling in from the land 16 going across the british isles western parts of france and pushing into that western side of the medics for any further races somewhat quiet say here because high pressure in charge so fine and dry early morning mist in photo ways and they should have is that that and cool enough just for celsius the top temperature in kiev struggling to get to freezing in moscow 7 i guess there into central parts of europe and only 18 into the eastern side of the med 18 there for athens further west not far of those kind of numbers for london paris 1516 celsius it's not enough but it could be

a pretty miserable day on friday strong winds lots of rain piling in here so that a fail as warm as that and not a whole lot better as we go on the sas day more cloud of rain coming into those western parts of the british isles central areas of france down swards see alps will see some a wessel weather and that is to the southeast including 19 celsius in athens with some dry weather and some sunshine here dry weather and sunshine so into possible of africa we got some heavy rain just around the central parts of the mediterranean as we go on through friday that what's the weather will gradually make its way further east. too often on the streets of india. are victims but a new force is that plain. female police officers are combat sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is

a challenge and so is life behind the badge. on. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera in the u.s. the impeachment inquiry into president trump is moving to a public phase with open hearings in congress after the house approved a resolution formalizing been procedure and. thousands of people protesting against pakistan's government have started to rally in the capital and a convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party entered islamabad on thursday demanding prime

minister iran resign. iraq's president has promised to hold early elections and says the prime minister. will resign but only once a replacement is green the announcement follows weeks of violent demonstrations against the government many are furious over corruption a lack of jobs and poor public services. back to the impeachment inquiry against president trump in the u.s. house vote that happened on thursday let's bring in joe so if you're a he's an associate professor of political science at texas a and m. university he's joining us here in doha thanks for being with us on al-jazeera so now that the process moves from behind closed doors to the public does this play in the favor of the democrats or the republicans on the president of course it depends on what evidence then testimony the committee collects but one would tend to think that this will favor the democrats they would not have moved forward from the closed door hearings into the into the public open hearings if they weren't

convinced that they had the kind of evidence that would convince the american people that the president had in fact acted inappropriately even though the trumpet ministration now itself will have the opportunity to put their own witnesses on the stand that's right the rules the house democrats adopted will allow the president and his team to cross-examine witnesses to potentially subpoena their own witnesses so the house is set up a very open and you know on paper even handed process do you think that the democrats are actually now one step closer to ousting the president it's unlikely that president trump would be removed from office pietschmann would result in a senate trial where republicans hold the majority but they are certainly closer to holding the president accountable as far as they are able to under the rules that are in place in the u.s. constitution and when you look at the vote that happened on thursday it was pretty much split right down the middle under partisan lines so what does that tell you

about. just the way that votes a place in the and perhaps the constitutional process american politics is deeply polarized around partisanship and it's a trend that's been increasing over the last 40 years it's not surprising that republicans and democrats both see the conduct of the president differently reached different conclusions about it and of course vote differently on the impeachment question itself the issue is whether they'll be able to. convince independents and the moderate members of their party to go along with the mainstream or more extreme wings of the separate parties yes so is that though indicative of that partisan split is that indicative of how the impeachment process is going to go forward almost certainly barring some huge new revelation or some you know incredibly more clear evidence than there has been already it's likely to continue to be divided by rip between republicans and democrats going forward all right so we thank you very much joseph a euro for speaking to us from to have thank you thank you so they have to the

philippines was struck by a powerful earthquake people are now concerned about possible aftershocks the magnitude 6.5 tremors struck the southern philippines on thursday killing at least 5 people some 12000 people are staying in shelters in the islands off mindanao. and we'll bring in genuine dog and she's joining us from north. that's in the philippines and as were saying to me that it's been a day after the earthquake struck and the real enormity of the task and help needed is perhaps coming to light now what do you see. while during you know it's very easy to underestimate the devastation like this if you only look at it from the feet dalat the number perspective with at least about 5 people dead almost around 16 from the other earthquake last week there is a tendency to underestimate the devastation but when you're actually on the ground and you see the enormity of the devastation then you realize that this is something that's going to last the impact it's going to last

a lot longer perfect example would be the facilities in florida and structures like this hospital behind me this is a district hospital you know and over the last few days because of the devastation and the impact of the damage and the building all of these patients are being treated right outside the hospital many of them all people who are not able to run when the earthquake struck and those with minor injuries are being treated here while those with more serious injuries are being taken to devil city the biggest city closest to north with about the province we're also seeing the rain as we were coming here from davos if the as you were coming you're in north of the we saw so many communities now living under tents at least 16000 people have already been displaced there is not enough food there is not enough water i mean these are very very basic but immersion urgent needs that need to be given and in just this sound alone the calamity fund has already been defeated the situation in this town is

similar all across many parts of north of about the province and it isn't the only province affected by these earthquakes are also feeling aurally aftershocks now and this is making many people uncomfortable here even patients even mothers who are refusing to let go of their children out of fear so this is quite a difficult situation despite very low. our apologies we seem to have connectivity issues with. reporting on the aftermath off that earthquake in the philippines. hong kong protesters have taken advantage of halloween to defy a ban on wearing face masks demonstrations were held in a busy party district with police using shields and tear gas to disperse crowds antigovernment demonstrators have been protesting against the ban on face mats at rallies which came into effect earlier in october and some wore masks depicting hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb protests have raised for 5 months over

chinese mainland influence over the territories affairs. homes lost more evacuations as crews in california battle new fast moving fires they're being spread by strong and unpredictable winds coupled with continued hot and dry weather priyanka groups are reports. this is what terrified residents of san bernardino in southern california to find. so out there. it's one of the 2 due wildfires in the area that have in cost homes and forced hundreds of people to escape the roaring flames our neighbor over here they came back door. here today. but they were here here. and then the fire department came up and he was right. my neighbor.

here. for ours far far to struggles against strong wind gusty winds to stop the fire from spreading in fact. untrue by valley by thursday morning the blaze have spread across 140 hector's of tended dry land local authorities are asking people here to stay alert i want to remind people stay. you don't see the wind blow and roll hard right now at least where we're but you go up on the side of a hill or up in the areas the winds are very erratic so we're clear stay vigilant. in northern california there was some good news hundreds of firefighters there were able to control 60 percent of a major blaze that's been raging since last wednesday. the came good fire is the biggest so far this season it's destroyed nearly 300 homes and properties and

burned thousands of hectares of land in the sonoma county wine region. the dry santa ana winds from the desert happen blamed for spreading the wildfires across the state winds so dry that the national weather service had to issue an extreme ref flag warning in los angeles and ventura counties. al-jazeera. hundreds of people have descended on the international monetary fund building and want to sirees demanding the organization should leave argentina. want the government to spend money tackling poverty instead of paying the country's debts argentina is facing a deepening economic crisis and owes a record $57000000000.00 through the i.m.f. but. more and more people are taking to the streets they are mobilizing because there is no work and there is more and more hunger here in argentina we say that money does not have to be paid to the i.m.f.

banks and capitalists should pay the debt and not the working people believe us president ever morale is has called for a truce with his political opponents as election results undergo an international audit the organization of american states is checking the results with saul moralists when a controversial 4th term sparking riots throughout the country violence left 2 people dead and several others injured. the government of sierra leone is resuming timber exports in an effort to counter falling revenue from mining but environmental activists are concerned it could erase gains made over the last 10 years to regrow the country's forests. reports from northern syria. another forest giant comes to the chainsaw. this tree took about 25 years to grow. but less than a minute to bring down. the rosewood is

most preferred by loggers across forests in 7 of these majestic trees are being cut down illegally to meet an increasing demand for timber. for to say they are struggling to enforce the law we handicapped by in own in adequate and intense shortages in our ranges to amend the forest so what we've done is to design programs where i mean if you know of as we have to target areas that are prevalent in our nautical fall rosewood and have listed. where i joined my whole going to trees once to all these past brush and undergrowth left environmentalists estimate that only 3 percent of sterile yards forest cover remains still bleeding from the cut its young trees like this and i mean targeted

by longer simply because the giants of the forests are gone and environmentally is our warning that in a short while there won't be trees this size to be cut anymore. near the port here in the capital freetown the timber is prepared for export to china. a large scale logging is not presuming it but the timber is exported to stop it from rotting away. resumption of office we. were met a situation wherein there are a huge backlog of timbers that were already have a stead sit in the bush and some actually started going bad and a case was made to government to lift a temporary ban on the exploitation of timber access that allowed those who actually invested in. the timber production to allow them to all too little export their woods or the logs so that is in place and the process is still ongoing

. these forests are slowly transforming into grasslands environmentalists say with the level of deforestation so even the shops will disappear they argue that the decision to leave the timber export by and temporarily set back the gains of the past 10 years to regenerate the forest initiative 3 years of this country. will never get them back once they are gone a new species so endemic you can't find them anywhere around the world except in sudan even if we lose those in the species and we've lost a whole lot have lost something it's clear those concerns for now i know by loggers was only focus is the money they get in a country where it's a struggle to earn enough to supply. the trees. more than 70 all. the marathon and race walk events that next year's olympics will officially be held

in such poor after tokyo's governor reluctantly gave her support to change the venue local organizers were left sock when the international olympic committee announced the move 2 weeks ago over heat concerns without consulting many of them 1st the i.o.c. has agreed that no other events will be moved and that tokyo won't bear the costs of changing the venue. you know as the host city in respect to the importance of building the system to strive for the success of the games although we cannot guarantee with the i.o.c. is decision the government of tokyo has decided not to interfere with the decision of the i.o.c. which owns the authority to make the last decision. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera and the u.s. the impeachment inquiry into president trump is moving to a public phase with open hearings in congress after the house approved

a resolution formalizing the procedures. people protesting against pakistan's government have started to rally in the capital convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party entered islamabad on thursday demanding prime minister imran khan quit it's come on haidar has the latest from islamabad it's. people have bedding they have gone where their food supply can bring on the road and a moron are giving an interview to our local television station that is given giving the day after their government are dying. to be up there in baghdad nic move to the situation quite critical if it indeed a very big rally iraq's president has promised to hold early elections and prime minister he will resign but only once a replacement is agreed the announcement follows weeks of violent demonstrations

against the government many are furious over corruption a lack of jobs and poor public services. u.s. is imposing new sanctions on iran this time targeting the construction sector the state department is accusing iran's revolutionary guards which it considers a terrorist organization of being involved in the country's building industry it's also identified for materials allegedly used in iran's ballistic missile program and has issued an embargo on its trade a day after the philippines was struck by a powerful earthquake people are concerned about possible aftershocks the magnitude 6.5 tremor struck the southern philippines on thursday killing at least 5 people some 12000 people are staying in shelters in the island of mindanao hundreds of firefighters are struggling to contain fast moving fire is sweeping across dry land in the u.s. state of california flames driven by strong winds have forced thousands of people out of their homes those are the headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news

coming up that's right after inside story that's next thanks for watching but by. the different scenes. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter where you take it. we'll bring you the news and current of the. twitter says no to political advertising the social media platform imposes a ban on the head of next year's us presidential election but how will this be enforced and what isn't courage it will stifle political debate this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm the. 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 twista 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 it's worth stepping back in order to address. well let's take

a closer look at spending around social media ads in the united states our 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 election 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 law and social media welcome to you all right 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 are then 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 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. commuter who are the power to create and share ideas and information

instantly without barriers to disease you need political ads possibly create barriers to free speech and also that a lot of them 10 years a lot of media. speech that is in line in all preterists is if you are allowed us this information to disseminate. paid other ties 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 well let me throw this tearful at and cause i mean i want to dig into this idea of if she had that essence right so it's not just ads around candidates and it's ads around issues and so any kind of promoted ad 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 decision 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 paid tweets brightstar as you said president trump can continue tweeting on his and on his own account of these 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. 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 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 often times that they 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 define the pose 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 stuff 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 affects 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 true misleading or false or not is also completely the wrong approach because then you reward misinformation campaigns and have the 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 fan opposed 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 of 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 spent was 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 $30000000.00 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. it may be maybe a savvy maybe meant to be a savvy business district decision on the part of twitter to set themselves apart from facebook but the at the end of the day it's like i said earlier 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 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 who's 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 in people who people don't know who i am it puts me at this distinct disadvantage and so it doesn't have the the consequence the in the intended end that twitter might be aiming for if they're aiming 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 because the candidates well i suspect this wasn't just about misinformation when it also potentially was about trying to set itself apart within the social media sphere and i see that the timing of all of this announcement it came to literally as about was announcing some pretty good earnings day cephus facebook and about doesn't seem to be much of a coincidence so i do want to play you something here because knocks out about has been under fire fed allowing political events months 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 were 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're not an outlier here you know the other major internet platforms in the vast majority of media also run these same ads so fed up i'm going to ask you to respond to that presumably you do agree with back that well i think really with the sentiment but with the decision to allow for that free speech come also comes for 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 the disc information campaign let and they can do so they can do so with through no partisan fact checking organizations i guess i do want to talk about enforcement of all of this right because even with this ban i imagine you could pay influences 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 the pool 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 in due to 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 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 marriage the reason bought involved wear it to 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 i know they do listen to one then let me ask you a little more about the protection as people's information right ok 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 recognize this fake information and this goes to the heart of the matter it's not about paid 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 weight of 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 turn around and say 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 start to butter and i think about this approach and i

don't. i don't really think it's saying 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 like what point do 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 how 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 i'm sorry i'm going to throw a last very quick question to you for that 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 had been 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 water faucet misleading the complaint is those are the answers while what it has done it has certainly encouraged an 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. in fact story for meanest ozzy attain the entire team here and i hope i found you.

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for 2 weeks during nationwide protests. thousands of anti-government protesters marched to pakistan's capital demanding prime minister in one colleague's resignation. and the end of a showdown with the international olympic committee governor reluctantly agrees that the olympics marathon should be shifted to the northern city of. helo the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump is moving to a public phase with open hearings in congress the democrat led house of representatives approved the resolution on thursday laying out the guidelines president trump is calling it the greatest witch hunts in u.s. history how do you know castro has more from washington. historic words from the speaker of the u.s.

house of representatives we gather here on that opening day with their families gathered around. to proudly raise our hand to protect and defend the constitution of the united states as congress took the 1st vote in the impeachment inquiry of president donald trump the measure which authorizes the inquiry to enter a public phase passed 232 to 1962 democrats joined a unanimous republican caucus in voting no those in staver cliche. those opposed say no. democrats are trying to impeach the president because they are scared they cannot defeat him at the ballot box that's not my words that's the words of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle that has offered impeachment 3 different times this impeachment is not only an attempt to

undo the last election is an attempt to influence the next one as well. over the past weeks more than a dozen witnesses have testified before impeachment investigators behind closed doors leaked portions of their testimony paint a narrative of trump using the power of his office to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rivals to morrison the russian expert on the national security council appeared on capitol hill on thursday despite white house orders not to previous witnesses have said morrison described having a sinking feeling after he learned a trump wanted ukraine's president to go to a microphone to announce investigations into korma vice president joe biden what's the problem here for the republicans and the presidents the founders. that the evidence is pretty damning the road toward impeaching president trump is still a long one and democrats into size that impeachment is not

a foregone conclusion but thursday's vote paves the way forward and forecasts a bitter partisan battle ahead with trump's presidency at stake castro al-jazeera washington joseph or euro as an associate professor of political science at texas a and m. university and he says partisan divides are likely to make it impossible for democrats to the impeachment through. it's unlikely the president trump would be removed from office pietschmann it would result in a senate trial republicans hold the majority but they are certainly closer to holding the president accountable as far as they are able to under the rules that are in place in the u.s. constitution american politics is deeply polarized around partisanship and it's a trend that's been increasing over the last 40 years it's not surprising that republicans and democrats both see the conduct of the president differently reached

different conclusions about it and of course vote differently on the impeachment question itself the issue is whether they'll be able to convince independents in the moderate members of their party to go along with the mainstream work stream wings of the separate parties barring some huge new revelation or some you know incredibly more clear evidence than there has been already it's likely to continue to be divided by rip between republicans and democrats going forward surface on russian troops are expected to start joint patrols in the so-called safe zone in northeastern syria ankur and moscow agreed last week to remove kurdish fighters to a depth of 30 kilometers south of the border inside syria. well move on to news out of lebanon and schools and some banks have reopened after weeks of antigovernment protests demonstrations continued overnight with activists demanding that all political leaders step down. let's get an

update crossover joining us from beirut zain i can see that you're standing right outside a bank what is happening there because there was some fear that people would pull out their savings and transfer money abroad resulting in capital flight what are you seeing. well like you mentioned banks have reopened after a 2 week closure massive demonstrations paralyzed the country so now they've reopened this as you can see behind me it's very very busy 70 percent of the workforce was affected by the banks closure especially businessmen who were dealing with checks so business transactions were affected now we've been speaking to bank officials what they're telling us is that they are imposing measures to ensure that there is no capital flight they were worried about this before banks reopened so right now for example any customer can withdraw up to $800.00 u.s.

dollars a day so there is a daily cap on how much money you can withdraw and concerning transfers of grog well you can't do that unless you have quote a valid reason so we asked them what is a valid reason well if you need to send money to your family or school tuition fees so they are doing their best to ensure that there is no capital flight because of it on say kaname is really on the verge of collapse the government's revenues are just not enough to cover spending and it's not just that in the past 2 weeks even before the protest movement began the lebanese leaders began to devalue on the black market which means the customers or the customers spending power purchasing power is reduced so people were really concerned so banks really imposing controls in order to prevent a collapse of the economy. and xina even though the president as we heard from him last night is keen to restore the situation to normalcy so to speak what is

happening right now. behind the scenes when it comes to deliberations on forming a new government and naming a new prime minister. well the street the protest movement they are continuing to insist that the ruling elite leaves office not just the prime minister who has already resigned but the president this well so the street remains very stubborn last night president addressed the nation it was his 2nd address since the protest movement began 2 weeks ago he was very conciliatory he did his very best to reach out to the people he even said that the new government should be made up of technocrats people with expertise and qualifications and not those affiliated with the political parties in power which really is a demand from the street but still people in the street responded by returning to square saying that we don't trust you you need to leave office so there is a serious crisis here those in power are not planning to leave office they are

trying to find a way some sort of a concession let's say a compromise solution whereby maybe the next cabinet could be made up of technocrats as well as ministers affiliated with political parties but like i mentioned the street the street remains very very defiant and they continue to try to keep blocking roads but every time they do that the security forces move in because there is a decision a clear decision by the authorities that they want the situation to return to normal and for the protest movement that's bad news because that was the only way they could continue to pile pressure on the governments ok and then a further thank you for that update from beirut so moments ago we were telling you about turkish and russian troops who are expected to start joint patrols in the so-called safe zone in northern northeastern syria let's bring in how some how about a for an update on that he's joining us from some new york that's on the turkish syrian border talk us through these joint patrols and how significant they are.

duryea were expecting the joint patrols just start now. and they would start with phase one particularly around the city of. and that's the 1st phase of those joint patrols it would be interesting to see whether they would be able to move all the way to was. because those areas have seen some confrontations between the rebels and the syrian government and the s.d.f. on the other hand over the last few days this phase 2 would be interesting to see how those joint patrols would be able to monitor the situation on the western side of the earlier we're talking about men beach at a lot of fat or all the way to any of those places in the past the as the i've said that you want to put out from these areas consider them stronghold for the turkish government on the other hand has been done and. has to pull out from all those

areas towards the west of the your freighters east of the euphrates story and on thursday has the president. speaking to state television and during that interview he did seem to say that the potential for a confrontation with turkey exists how likely is that to happen. well he didn't mince his words when he was talking about turkish president. play of saying that his country is in fading here is syria that he's a thief or that he's embezzled many of the potentials of the syrian government what's in it at a certain moment that if in the longer term the turkish military does not pull out from the north eastern part of syria the potential for a military confrontation is there but some of us had said literally the option of the left for us would be to go into war against turkey but then we do understand that for this particular moment this is part of a deal that was signed between the russians and between the turks and so so i

think the syrian government would give more time to this deal to be implemented in those parts of the of the country particularly the area of us freshers all the way from zobrist to anybody here on the border of iraq but the potential of a confrontation yes indeed it's still there because we're not only talking about those areas we're still talking about the areas along with the turkish military maintain some observation post there were criticized by the syrian president a few days ago when he was made a surprise visit all the all the are scores of the province of egypt saying that if turkey does not pull out war is still that ok thank you well a day after the philippines was struck by a powerful earthquake people are worried about aftershocks the magnitude 6.5. on thursday killing at least 5 people some 12000 people are.