i'm sick sick you devoid of planning we check china's most popular comes into effect across america will this put the strain on us china relations september on al-jazeera. the or. home fully back to bill in doha with a look at our main stories on al-jazeera 14 people accused of helping gunmen attacked the french the terek a weekly shop and a jewish supermarket have gone on trial in paris 17 people were killed in the attacks 5 years ago that has more from paris. well the 3 gunmen were involved in the january 25th attack saeed and shareef brothers and their collaborator and friend. day by police at the time so in their absence 14 people are going on trial here in this paris courts accused of helping the

government with varying degrees of logistical support for that could mean supplying weapons or shelter or helping for example with communications 11 of those will be present in the court will be tried in absentia including the woman who was the wife of. just a few days before the attacks with syria it is reported that she may still be alive but her whereabouts are unknown. is a newspaper in france is very famously known courted control for say it satirizes political and religious leaders famous people the attack is targeted because the newspaper had repeatedly published cartoons images of the prophet mohammed deemed to be offensive by many people however charlie hebdo has defended its decision to republic these cartoons for to mark in a way the 1st day of this trial the editorial staff are saying that for them this

is an opportunity to show that there is freedom of speech and expression in france that was repeated by the french president. only eve of the trial he was on a trip to lebanon and he said the france is a country where you are allowed to be where you are allowed to criticize for example the government and leaders but for many people the republication of those cartoons will be seen as merely a provocation by. some of the survivors. and the supermarket attack will be in court during this trial they will be giving their testimony. and no doubt it will be a very emotional few months this trial is expected to wrap up in november french president emmanuel mccoy is in baghdad following his visit to lebanon is the most senior foreign official to visit the iraqi prime minister mostafa since he took office in may mccall is discussing iraq's sovereignty in light of rival influences

from iran and the u.s. believes. any foreign intervention may undermine the efforts exerted by you as a government and i believe this visit carries a special significance as you represent a heavyweight of the region you are the cradle of civilization and iraq has always enjoyed a unique position in his to a geographic large scale come the camero executioner who killed thousands of combo dns in the 1970 s. has died he was 77 had been serving a life sentence since 2010 for atrocities committed in the notorious mass murder china has rejected a u.s. defense department report which says it plans to double its nuclear weapons over the next decade china is believed to have 200 warheads but that's a fraction of what the u.s. has in its arsenal china's foreign ministry has said the report is filled with lies . everyone knows that china's military expenditure is far from that of the united

states there's no doubt that the us military expenditure is actually the total sum of the next 10 countries on the list here as it's looking to create excuses for its pursuit of absolute again when you're in the military field we urge you as to abandon the cold war mentality and outdated concepts of 0 sum game look at china strategic intentions objectively and rationally and do more things that are beneficial to you as china relations rather than the opposite. the philippine president is ordering the country's top customs officials to shoot drug smugglers dead rodrigo tend to express disdain over the amount of narcotics entering the country more than $5000.00 and a half drug suspects have been killed during his time those are the headlines coming up next year 0 world.

you know early 2019 the head of a u.k. based palestinian lobby group made an announcement outside the rule courts of justice in london i speak on my behalf and as a fan of mine of the best anything said that p.r.c. . my bank account i've got lawyers representing margy delsea had reached an out of

court settlement with the company he been battling for several years with the 15 that pos think of our banking facility c b i was here had claimed that the palestinian return center had been wrongly listed on a database and that this had caused them serious financial difficulty about it that we had. and i know that that is them to the medium by word take on their secret that there is if you do i'm a misleading allegation and the world check database is now often known as ricin a tive it's current oh no. it's not secret it's one of the databases used by banks to help them comply with government financial regulation. no your customer is the term they use to identify exactly who they're dealing with and hence avoid exposure to financial crime. from a bank near your customers is vital part of both the on boarding process at least a few other new customers and maintaining that relationship and it requires you to

mean sure that you know who that person is and that is very far and you understand the risk that person brings to the bank in terms of financial crime money. databases light christianity of world check look for and collate data for their subscribers on individuals and organizations that might pose a financial risk what they call politically exposed persons. or perhaps on names on a sanctions list or who have attracted negative media coverage. in this program tamar elma's heart of al-jazeera arabic channel examines these databases they're part of the global regulator a framework designed to combat financial crime but how transparent are they and what impact can they have on those that appear in them. in terms of the market it is dominated by 2 main players which is dow jones and riff initiative which used to

be part of the thomson reuters organization. in my experience are trying to cross both extremely frequently and a great many other providers are actually. the engine of what they provide is the dow jones of the river that it lists so they power lots of other providers lists as well i think of the definitive as probably the greatest reach in terms of the global banks but honestly that goes pretty dominant player. but individuals and organizations have sometimes found themselves on these databases without their knowledge they can come as a shock to discover they've been categorized as being linked with for example terrorism. an american security advisor cool crisp vicary got hold of a copy of the will check database in 2016 including what he called its terrorism

blacklist. tom around this house spoke to vickery and honest how he found the list of over 2000000 names. at the world check database looking for what's known as couch d b instances it's a type of database that can be accessed through a web browser and it runs on a specific port so if something has data available on the couch to eat pork and successful to the public internet you can browse it yet i was just lucky and found it i guess persistence pays off when you're looking for lots and lots of data every once in awhile you find some real gems and i found it downloaded because it was publicly accessible and open and available to the public. vickery's initial thoughts with well the very 1st big reaction i had was when i was looking through the different rows and i saw people marked as terrorists that's when i knew oh my

god this is a list that is probably not something that is normally out there and then i realized if this is a list marking people for things of that nature created this list you know so i had to look and see who created the world trade devil that joins us he's founder also executive chairman and world to check. will check was founded in 2000 by a south african born businessman called david left. the company was registered in london and started as a risk mitigation database there was a whole host of scandals the late eighty's early ninety's that caused by and to stop reassessing now the risk of the same time there was anything. global drugs. problem emerging so all of these things conspired the banks started to look much more closely at risk and there was the formation of the financial action task force

which is the global body responsible for for providing the definitions of perhaps for steering banks into how to manage those risks the market for data grew to include agencies and institutions in every sector particularly after the september 11th attacks in new york on the world trade center in 2001. the remit of those databases widened significantly after $911.00 polly because it forced the united states particularly to focus much more on funding of terrorism. it was an area that although had previously been vegetative for let me us they probably weren't as robust as maybe here in europe with the e.u. the european union had already instituted some strict rooms the u.s. after not having passed i think of the country intact and it's specific he caused

greater focus on the funding of terrorism as much as money laundering and organized crime search changed the landscape definitively. david led pan declined to be interviewed partly because in 2011 will check was acquired by thomson reuters as part of their governance risk and compliance unit. griffin the chief well chick is still registered to the same address as thomson reuters in the canary wharf business district of london. but in october 28th chain has announced the sale of the majority of its world check shares to the private equity group blackstone. and $28.00 c. thomson reuters some passive stake in well check so they sold 55 percent of the company to investors but thomson reuters still owns 45 percent of finitude which is the new name of the company that i will check. thomson reuters is

a canadian media conglomerate but it's made several data related acquisitions. thomson reuters as a financial service agency and it has an interest and making money out of financial services while track is a very profitable business subscriptions can run into the millions of pounds there is a lot of money to be made in the sector. well check a database of millions of people and organizations around the world who claims to be high risk people because of some connection with terrorism or crime or because of their political position and this is a system that banks around the world use to check their customers to find out if they are doing business with somebody who could pose problems for the bank. in an online brochure written it it will check set out its objectives and listed

its different areas of activity including sanctions screening monitoring politically exposed persons anti money laundering countering the financing of terrorism and anti bribery and corruption. it said it covered 240 countries had over 400 research analysts and talked about the number of sources used and records. over the years it's grown and grown and still today has 3000000 people and organizations listed and it's owned by a large companies and it's used by most of the banks around the world for a long time the contents of their state space have been kept secret and it's only in the last few years thanks to the work of journalists and campaigners that we've begun to learn a little bit more about some of the issues with their state space so for example finsbury park mosque had their account closed and they eventually discovered

a listing in well check that was still connecting them with terrorism even though the mosque had no more connection with terrorism. finsbury park mosque is in northeast london and is attended by hundreds of worshippers for friday. news. today is considered a model of community relations but it attracted an adverse media and police attention in 1997 when shake up new hams around mass 3 known for his radical views became him out. of the mosque was closed in 2003 for its perceived links to terrorism. it reopened in 2005 with a new management team supported by the muslim association of britain. the changes

at the mosque are now widely perceived as a success story but in 2014 the management was shocked to discover that their names were on world checks database as being linked to terrorism. will check was still under thomson reuters ownership at that time. so. i'm not going with us the water and the whole bother. than that the comma been genuine what you are than the comma behave out of them as you miss you are here to sort out the mess you don't know. what the hey baby a i mean or be a no who was off with her case but a slut of course my want to check. some of that and there was a lot of buried in bunk at us missy the only one of me and his 7 monkey say some of the local er and then i shall reign in the

a bit of the is bank of one of the 5 they miss you one of them well in most of the. 7 should he bother her. the mythos i'm on i'm in b.b.c. in ross in b.b.c. what all of a minimal fee has a mobile feel if you don't feel at all often as you call him or us if you don't even know what health of the and most would on a. fee was assessment on some dumb songwriter all along. peter oborne 1st broke this story for the b.b.c. . i got the b.b.c. to make a radio programme and i presented this and we discovered the existence of a confidante show database it was called world check and by thomson reuters at the time c s i may have one category called terrorist which is a very serious things we all know very very serious if you cannot deal with people

who are going to. and. and so we discover the rest of the things ripoff mosque was listed terrorist from memory i think mr cause was very shocked as he should be. those are we rang up world check we spoke to world show i had a conversation and i said that they said that we always go should correct procedures or something like that i can't remember exactly when was this a visit to the out of. the end of the year the board to check quite a fair bit of money. and the whole. show at the time sort of has been i thought into a what it was. an interim in that had all the had to have or some organizations i would want to say well cannot be on the whole loaf was enough he had the arc of the game as you said have to have. a set of iraq

a theater and that what was on him in the house of a vendor for that are going to figure out and the whole number of it not be how the over the when of his behavior is the harder hit than if the who was on the one who had the office of. following the finsbury park mosque case other organizations and individuals did take legal action against will check. including margie downs zia head of the palestinian return center in london. decided to pursue a civil action against world check after his own and the center's bank accounts were both closed. the p.r.c. provides a media platform for the palestinian diaspora. in 2015 it was given consultative status at the u.n. as a non-governmental organization. the center campaigns to increase awareness of the

palestinian cause and for the human and legal rights of palestinian refugees. but will check put the center and margery dolls here in the countering terrorism funding category of its database to which mr rouzier took exception. however in january 29th teen zia's lawyers reached an out of court settlement with world checks then owners thomson reuters they agreed to remove his name from the terrorism can't agree to pay him $13000.00 u.s. dollars in damages into legal and in fact under the british legal system the judges and the courts prefer people to settle cases so to be honest with you the majority of cases like this we would expect to settle in world checks case so far we actually have settled every single case in other words there's never been a full court case the games will change because all of them they settle like they did with this one of mr my details here they normally agree that the classification

was a breach of the data protection and they pay some compensation and they offer to pay the legal costs and that's it whenever we have time on those who are. smart and highly. safiya holder will. park mosque other half of the the car a mother toy cars if you know of a word chick. or than the full breath in canada and i guess you mean. less than all americans and i would have a sufi it's also not my favorite. careful behind the scenes but our bark mosque was and afaik have been as good or twice in the reality of us leave . wow that i'm never there you 1st. in kenya and you had the imo have been at odds several more to get it was so bad that you'd have.

had me and i would all americas allow their fear to lock up their mobile revenue in the arm or fuck off 11 s and i think you have the mass of a fair fight than a lot. of fear not sorrow but i just. get myself going to cost theme with that i will have you know quite how to channel where i used to live the my it i love it was so wonderful to you and i have been doing your call of economics i'm on a message about a lot of you have for 100 have clearly what you have. you had him i sat dish we had was once a palestinian return center was on the list what worship tends to do is that all the directors or the senior people also get listed individually so mr mudge of those years was listed only because of his connection to the palestinian regions and. misho asked how easy it was to communicate with will check at the time it is

possible to have some e-mail communication with them but generally speaking they are not easy people to meet to talk to matt mccall nothing who what this we have problem of you have been a market that i believe about or called out will come out of the duct so what i'm talking about when i get to. this is what's called the statement in a. and court in the case between marjorie del dia and reuters ltd who had the majority share in world check at the time. it set sound the reuters offer to settle mr algeria's claims the damages figure and reuters agreed to move his profile from the terrorism category of the database and pay is legal costs. reuters also agree that it would list mr l.z. as denial of any personal connection to hamas or the muslim brotherhood and that he

believed that their inclusion on the so-called terrorism list by israel was politically motivated. however the 2 parties also agreed that quote mr olds ears profile can continue to include references to his designations by the israeli minister of defense as a main operative of hamas department in europe headquarters in europe and how much office in europe. tom realm is how also e-mailed h.s.b.c. the bank that closed the accounts of the p.r.c. and the finsbury park mosque to ask about the closure of those accounts but he never received a reply one of the common complaints against these lists is that they are the reason why people can't get access to the banking system that pose some merit but it's not entirely true because it is not the role rufinus move or

to decide in a binary yes no moment when people should have access to banking their role is to provide information to the best of their ability to parents who then apply what we would call their own risk. to that information contacted rif in a tip and spoke to their head of communications but he declined the request for an interview. however in a letter to al jazeera dated the 13th of june 29th teen their legal representative said of the finsbury park mosque we're not aware of any evidence that it spank account was closed as a consequence of the mosques inclusion on the database and the courts did not approve any such suggestion. how then looked at a completely different case. that of british former journalist peter humphrey.

humphrey run a risk advisory firm in shanghai that he and his wife were arrested and found themselves in prison in china for 2 years. after his release humphrey concluded that being listed on the world check database had led to the closure of his bank accounts in 2015. and my wife were released from china in in the middle of june 2015 so i was trying to find a new bank who would actually accept my money and i went to several private banks in london but i also went to citibank in london and sat down with them and said you know this is my situation i would like to open a count so i can move my money from h.s.b.c. to new york county is very helpful bank officer was setting up an account for me and then he said he had to run some some checks on the system and all of a sudden the alarm bells were ringing on his computer red flag was popping up. and

he said oh it's not letting me do this is not letting me and roll you as a customer. and i said well why can he show it to me so he turned his computer monitor around to let me see it and there i could see a database system showing red flags on certain newspaper headlines from chinese newspapers about our case and i asked him which databases the back was using and he he mentioned were checking the amounts of lexis nexis to me humphrey saw all the data bases had web links to news reports of an investigation he conducted for the pharmaceutical company glaxo smith kline. al-jazeera asked written it if it wished to comment on the peter humphrey case but they declined. coming up in part 2 the source says these databases used are all in the public domain but how reliable are they as

a means of identifying potential financial crime with all the reputational damage that can entail if a story is currently voices or. associated press or other global news organizations you can reasonably except to tell if you care over the factual content within that story if its own somebodies wordpress blog you have to be more cautious about. expected to apply judgement to those too. this lands of money you know. i played titian's playground during election season and they say few women bball never got nailed by the level up promises are made on votes are gobbling their votes are for sale for your little baby they're both very much real real changes make their way to the lives of the people who weren't low on

leave in those mounds. on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks a couple of hairs the black and indian democratic vice presidential candidate what happened here reveals a nation with a lot of work to do one criminal justice with details coverage have been living with the promise of peace for decades and then not hopeful it will happen any time soon and feel as generalism from around the world was on the comic eating told me i think he has their share of it and if they don't feed all. this is one of them both are sounding that no logical revolutions in all of this make our planet pretty good we have to meet the c o 2 emissions targets electric cars are made mitchum in motion they need to be mindful where people are just talking about lunisolar as if that's going to solve the problem the world of business and commerce is driving the energy transition is the promise of clean energy an illusion the dark side of green energy. on

al-jazeera. the. well again i'm fully back to bill in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera 14 people accused of helping gunmen attacked the french city. and a jewish supermarket have gone on trial in paris 1717 people were killed in the attacks 5 years ago. in paris with more now the government that will be behind these attacks to privatise saeed and cherie who washes to open fire on the saudis at their offices killing cell for the policemen outside and that collaborates a friend committee called a body that at the next 2 days killed the policewoman and also told people that it

takes the full stage in the jury supermarket as gunman shot dead by police at the times of course they are absolutely focused while on trial today 40 others people who are all accused of offering some form fair in degrees of the just hope and support and help that there is government from supplying weapons to helping with communications out there and open our eyes to the presence of a court be calling me. france's president dominion mccoy is in baghdad following his visit to lebanon is the most senior foreign official to visit the iraqi prime minister. since he took office in may mccoy's discussing iraq's sovereignty in light of rival influences from iran and the us. any foreign intervention may undermine the 1st exhibited by u.s. government and i believe this visit is a special significance as you represent the heavy weight of the region you are the cradle of civilization and iraq has always enjoyed a unique position in his 2

a geographical. doric the camero executioner who killed thousands of combo dns in the 1970 s. has died he was 77 had been serving a life sentence since 2010 for atrocities committed in the notorious mass made it china has rejected a u.s. defense department report which says it plans to double its nuclear weapons over the next decade china is believed to have $200.00 warheads but that's a fraction of what the u.s. has in its austin ill and the philippine president is ordering the country's top customs official to shoot drug smugglers dead were driven to take came to power in 2016 with a controversial untied drugs campaign more than 5000 and a half suspects have died during his time those are the headlines on his air world continues next. in the global fight against financial crime companies including banks are required to carry out

checks on customers to ensure they're only dealing with legitimate businesses and law abiding individuals. so they subscribe to databases which harvest information on companies organizations and individuals that might pose some kind of risk because of their politics or being on a sanctions list or simply by having attracted bad publicity. dow jones lexus nexus and riff in a tiff world check run such databases. but tom realm is hell of al-jazeera arabic wanted to examine how they gather their information and what sources they use. journalist tom wells kept a copy of the 2014 world check database when it was made public in 2016. he searched for 2 organizations that had taken legal action against world check in the

u.k. the palestinian return center and the finsbury park mosque to find out what sources the database accused when listing. magic. yeah so we can see that he was listed in the terrorism category in 20 forcing and these countries listed palestine and it says he's the director general of the palestinian return center in london. which is allegedly affiliates since to the hamas office in europe and to the muslim brotherhood now nasa series of mixed engines whether you've drawn this information some we've got a website crudes global m.b.e. watch and another one called global m p reports and we've also got 2 websites from israel we've got the israeli government website and a organization that cools itself terrorism in full in israel but many other

governments around the world do not agree with israel's ossification of who is a terrorist so the question is why is a london company that is providing information to banks all of its basing its information on the science of just one country. so the databases do use information published in online news articles a sources. but tomorrow misho wanted to dig a bit deeper and talk to someone with inside knowledge of a database to understand exactly how they use online sources. so he went to miami to meet ken a 3 joke who done some consultancy for world check any commercial database any commercial off the shelf database of high risk individuals must use open source material that means news and magazine articles that may need court cases opensource is necessary because the banking client must be able to

demonstrate on demand to regulators wire the information came from that he potentially used to make a decision about a client. british journalist peter oborne had already gone into the use of open source data in some detail this is a very serious problem with highlighting. you see we've done a lot of this. and you find organizations here's a picture story i've written about this you know swept sites schork used of promoting far right and is them a phobic agendas. that being being used as sources on the world check websites organizations like the us think that the gates stone institute organizations like jihad watch david horovitz freedom center these are organizations which is just can't be trusted or relied on and have

a it my view an ideological agenda in which case it's irresponsible to use organizations like that and use them as sources. using websites like these as public domain sources is problematic when they have their own political agenda the examples peter oborne used a known for their anti islamic views. so tamar examine the number of arab or muslim names listed on the world check database leaked in 2016. he found thousands of names from all over the world one of the issues that you heard with the sun with the sanctions list and with the adverse news that comes from it is that it is disproportionately targeted towards a return or is a mess because for foreign why aren't terrorists through qaeda and the taliban

i still insist that whatever you want to call it a. significant popular list in a way that maybe white supremacist or i do or jewish supremacists or whatever or not. he. is an investigative journalist who's written for online news outlets and worked as an investigator for the human rights and geo retrieve as well as for the international committee of the red cross. i think the muslims are disproportionately affected by this kind of service simply because muslims are more generally the victim of accusations of board brush accusations unfounded accusations and what some of us like wild shit holes is that hoover this and the kind of online. without much scrutiny about the source of the accusation i don't find any particular. unusual focus on muslims or arabs

in any of the 4 major commercial off the shelf databases a high risk individuals but as a matter of practice they're going to contain more and more. of entries are very nationals and muslim nationals because of the global war on terrorism i think what we can say is that this takes place as a risen in the post 911 climate of paranoia about terrorism and of course that is something that impacts all muslims most of all and i think what has done unfortunately is taken some of the worst lies and innuendo about muslims from the darkest corners of the internet may free packaged as reliable information i think that's very concise. and a letter dated the 13th of june 29th teen griffin achieve world checks legal representative said in response that the suggestion that will check targets muslims

was quote offensive and wholly unsubstantiated. there is no question of well check targeting any group and to suggest otherwise would be entirely inaccurate. if individuals who entities have been identified by government is being banned or in a watch list for example then this will be reported in well check. now mia should be be further questioned how much time will checks research analysts covering $240.00 countries and territories around the world would have available to collate information. when i spoke to various welsh analysts current and former in the organization i was astonished to learn that the standards for the creation of profiles were very long let me give you an example one profile reviewer i spoke to said that they reviews $3.00 to $600.00 profiles. every single day now an ordinary

$10.00 to $12.00 out aisha that means you're spending less than 2 minutes reviewing a profile it's no wonder that you are able to track the underlying source of a life all the allegations against the person or organization you don't have the time to. refine it is lawyers responded by saying that these allegations were quote simply wrong. they bear no resemblance to the amount of time spent by well check analysts creating and reviewing records and the allegations demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of the operation of the database and mischaracterizes the wild check research and quality assurance processes. in summary considerable patents taken by our client in ensuring the accuracy of its reports it is impossible to create records in well checking in 2 minutes and all

analysts research is supplemented by both q.a. checks and east of technology to ensure high accuracy standards amen taint across the world all sorts of news media reports stories some of them do so robustly and with a great care and attention and others maybe less if a story is currently very boring voices or. associated press or other global news organizations or new york times of the washington post of the times move of whatever you can reasonably accept that they've taken care over with far too content with that story if its own somebodies wordpress blog so you have to be more cautious with the impact expected to or just want to bones to the. banks of the principal subscribers to databases like christianity of world check dow jones and lexis nexis but the overall market for their services is now much

bigger. i found over 300 law enforcement and intelligence agencies across the world who hears of this of us i also a number of. the person or enforcement agencies including metropolitan police counselors and command the national crime engine see and the city of london police and all confirm to me that they had to strip chanst of all chocked you also have various mortgage providers using service visa screening services you have they your taste charity commission screening potential beneficiary charities against the state of ice and also the department for international development. one of the key services financial risk assessment databases offer is what they call sanction screening. for use sanctions and that means is there anywhere in the world that prevents the bank from doing business with you because there are the. central

european oligarchs they are involved in terrorism they could be you could be from my country which is long since like iran or for business sanctions and that's for both you know for both terrorist activity and politically sanctions where there are all kinds of countries that and organizations who for reasons of that. put out describe that. as asians they don't like as terrorists so for example the united arab emirates has a habit of describing organizations connected to the most muslim brotherhood or those that think that it's going to act into the muslim brotherhood as terrorists were 'd not that he paid peaceful organizations and so they classified as terrorist and so on and side is arabia i believe does the same and so on and we embrace them which. claims to be

a decent country should not tolerate. or wanted to look into peter oborne point in more detail and did a search for sanctions issued specifically by arab countries. he found that in 2014 the united arab emirates had issued a list of sanctions against over 80 islamic movements and organizations around the world. one of the groups listed on the world check in the countering terrorism funding category is the federation of islamic organizations in europe or the f.i.o.s. e in brussels. it's made up of 27 separate islamic organizations in different european countries. notice that this listing was made by world check immediately after the f.i.o.s. team was included on the u.e.s. list of sanctioned groups published in 2014. he asked the president of the.

about the connection between the u.a.e. list and his organizations inclusion on the world check database i want to watch it move. on was that. if you were there at the have there were muslims why they live there. was. no work you know what i was the lead here they were and who you know who said. that they are the mossad what. did the world back them 1st of all that well behaved and almost lost their home and so the year to year we should be here. at one of them at. the. had and that it also no sun if i had the journey of our climate want to check. it heavy and would have the call. emmah him a he. if human was

a certain amount would if you had given him up or anything but for the pilot you know the sniff and the sleeve and what chick. could be and based copy and paste. but do financial risk databases take enough responsibility for the information they provide to their clients. it is important to note that well check is designed to alert uses to possible risks and to situations where further scrutiny may be appropriate this does not mean that subjects included in wild check necessarily has a risk but the point that you need to understand is that any bank compliance officer using a commercially available database takes all the information with a grain of salt he needs to look at the references at the bottom and see where did the information come from the end of the day a compliance officer is going to look at the entire background of an individual not

just rely upon a. sanctions list or or negative information which appeared out of the non-democratic country in a money pothole fed or know the buoy or no design or more on the mission shuls call to make real the beauty of it sort of what she would. because it i wish he would if any of us are good davidi fume is a form of human oh sure he does as a for my show if that's possible is a form i still zone out of almost all the of the just reported equal sickles it all could have it a big problem is a lot of problems with the dick sick of the jekyll plea one of the possible to all to moderate the video here is a former soldier don't judge people as most of it is was will serve a fair decision on how we the system will get there don't is this a dish up or has possibly did this both of you to get to know you stole this post is a form of show conform to the the web of the providers of this information written

as if they are doing another it's all in the way. courtroom a similar situation that some of the social media companies in our platform provide they are an aggregator of other people's news and that means they have to include waivers to say that while they take care about what they dream of the database they are not responsible for the content that they are they are merely aggregating it and presenting it to the parents to make their own judgments old so they have to be careful. to assess the human impact this can have had so far relied on the 2014 world check database that chris vickery had found. but eventually he was able to view world checks 29000 database with the help of a world check insider who agreed to help on condition that he remain anonymous.

he found businessman politicians journalists activists and opposition leaders in different arab and islamic countries on the 29000 database. the sources world checked used to list some individuals and organizations were often tabloid news websites with their own agendas a known for their anti islamic views. when they searched for several well known muslim organizations some had been included under world checks countering terrorism financing category. or then checked the listing of some of the contributors to this program. the entry for the federation of islamic organizations in europe had been updated in april 29 teams. but they f.i.o.s. was still listed in the terrorism category and the source was still the u.a.e. sanctions list. the files of marja delozier on the fence break mosque had been

changed as per their out of court settlements they've been removed from the funding terrorism list but added to the individual and organizations categories. this it not really helped the finsbury park mosque in s.f. such as we see it often than if the one has a howell of his somewhere or abandoned called the you know it's obviously as they say about a lament that he had been in a better let me at the here there are a lot happening and there are me so my thing was you'd be so martin the atrocities the homeowner unless it be somehow what he did was he had well be some other agenda was the one we should we should stand up against these tests pick ations we shouldn't allow foreign countries to use the power of the state to declare its political opponents terrorists and allow them to be punished in this country because they they so they don't go to baghdad as a result of a close classification by a foreign country so i really think it's

a terrible problem i think it needs to be taken up politically here to preventing this sort of how is very severe and innocent people is the effect of these classifications. if it if will check had declined al jazeera arabic so offered to appear in an interview. and when given a further opportunity by al-jazeera in 2020 they again declined. however in april 2020 their legal representatives did issue this long statement. it said that. while jack is one of many sources used by banks and other businesses to help them meet their regulator requirements and the dent to fight potential financial and related crimes such as money laundering and the financing of terrorism. it went on to highlight how big

a problem money laundering is between 2 and 5 percent of global g.d.p. and that will check is not secret. neither is it a blacklist nor a law enforcement function it provides information on individuals and organizations collected from reliable and reputable information available in the public to main and it does not prepare reports on individuals independent of this public information. it said that will check is governed by the 2018 british data protection act and that. these data protection laws expressly provide for information relating to suspicions of fraud money laundering and terrorist financing to be exchanged to allow banks to comply with relevant legislation. that's included it said being regulated by the u.k. data protection agency the information commissioner's office and it said it applies

objective criteria when including information in the public domain. political judgment cools and not made and it is inaccurate to suggest that while check assists any government in their agendas they continued that it does not offer opinion and that. our terms and conditions require our customers to conduct that own investigations when using information n. well to check the statement ended by saying that anyone can request copies of data held about them and ask for it to be updated or corrected. so is there an argument that financial risk assessment databases should be directly regulated rather than simply by association with the banking system as a home the databases themselves are not regulated at the moment largely because.

the consumption of those databases is from firms who are themselves regulated and. this probably i mean there is clearly 2 sides they are going to be regulated. possibly to ensure that they apply robust controls but that would come with a cost and then that would be reflected in the charges that they apply to the banks and that would then be reflected in which knowledge is applied to you and me it is really important that these firms exist and do what they do because the banks would struggle to on board new clients without it and therefore they do need to be on the commercial route. very significant investment data protection is another key element of this debate. the information commissioner's office in the u.k. is the independent or thorough t. dealing with data protection reporting directly to parliament and it's told

al-jazeera. data has an important role to play in helping financial firms identify individuals and organizations that seek to use the u.k.'s financial system to launder the proceeds of crime and fund terrorism. firms should take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of the data they use to base their decision on. we have been carrying out detailed inquiries into this issue and our work is ongoing. do these databases always get it right the question is asked a lot you know if you will know from both human beings are human beings of. my experience and i have i have worked inside institutions that interact with those they are pretty responsive and have good mechanisms for letting them know where the information that they carry is erroneous it's not perfect and. the existence of financial risk databases raises several questions that should concern

us all. is it legitimate and fair for a private company to collect data which although it's in the public domain comes from sources that may very well have their own political agendas. is it reasonable for that data then to be made available to subscribers on be known to the individuals and organizations concerned. all for that data potentially to be used to close bank accounts and seriously affect the financial status of those involved. all the regulator resave gods of the banking system alone sufficient to cover these databases. and to protect the rights and good standing of individuals and organizations who may unwittingly be caught up in the ever widening net of big financial data.

hello there still some more rain in the forecast the northeast of ocean teena up into your quad the cloud just sitting across the region so what is there is a cool one to just 11 degrees celsius but eventually rain will move away so it's a draw to be a bit with all that rain city across the southeast opus ill but a nice warm day not too hot across into with a high of 24 bunch of rain across the areas to the north and of course extending

through the caribbean and central america but this is what we're watching this is tropical storm hanna this expected to strengthen into her construe out wednesday continue to work its way westwards. late wednesday into thursday but this whole entire region really is expect to see some very heavy amounts of rain it cools flash floods mudslides and the storm surge as well as it gets closer to the coast expected to be about one and a half meters now to the north of the united states some rather have to working their way eastwards they'll continue to develop across the southern plains as we go through wednesday out across the west the temperatures once again beginning to climb so there are excessive heat watches in place that will stay in place throughout these temperatures look back into the forty's in phoenix meanwhile across the south and the southeast we've got to rain and thunderstorms and some heavy rain eventually work its way through eastern sections of canada.

an experimental treatment in russia is hope and some multiple sclerosis sufferance the disease one stage of the treatment in us one o one east follows those trying to get in and out of moscow in a time of pandemic. the. al-jazeera. fully back to this is the news hour on al-jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes 14 go on trial in paris for helping gunmen attacked a french magazine that published controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed it's. rush hour accuses nato and the e.u. of meddling in bed i will send reiterate support for the embattled president alexander lukashenko also this hour.