africa women make science from the lab to the field on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world's. sneeze into your own well. 1200 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera i'm kemal santa maria with the headlines unfold the 1st time since he was shot in the back repeatedly by police and paralyzed from the waist down we've heard a message directly from jacobite in his hospital bed his shooting in the state of wisconsin as an added to the agora right across the united states have a racial inequality in place for tallahassee protests which is still going on around us but this ripples stables i stand was in my back state was speaking from

a hospital bed jacob blake described his constant agony 24 hours every 24 hours is pain is not. hers to breathe for her sleep to move from side to side has to eat. blake was shot in the back by a konoha wisconsin policeman in august he's had numerous surgeries and is paralyzed the state's department of justice is investigating the shooting i just want to save my daughter yeah ok then even older than me it's a lot more life to live. in rochester new york protesters clashed with heavily armed police. police used chemical irritants against protesters who had launched fireworks out there. was some protesters formed a human chain and there were several arrests the demonstrators were demanding justice

for daniel prude who died in march after police restrained him held him on the pavement and put a mash hood over his head prudes death was ruled a homicide. the new york attorney general announced she would empanel a grand jury as part of what she termed an exhaustive investigation into prudes death. 7 rochester police officers involved in the killing have been suspended. i was in louisville kentucky black lives matter demonstrators continue their protests over the death of briana taylor shot by police in her home in march the protesters gathered outside a racetrack where the priest did just kentucky derby horse race was run armed counter protesters calling themselves pro police patriots confronted them black

lives matter marchers there was arguing and yelling but no violence as the patriot group is then surely withdrew and in portland oregon more protests over police misconduct and systemic racism continued for the $100.00 consecutive night portland has come to symbolize the most extensive nationwide protests the us has seen in decades over racial injustice and as the summer season draws to its close the u.s. faces a long hot holiday weekend of protest rob reynolds al-jazeera. the other headlines and india has once again reported the world's highest single day tally of new coronavirus infections on sunday there were more than 90000 cases the government says this rises because of increased testing the death toll has now surpassed 70000. medical school graduates doctors and nurses have protested in

iraq's capital over a lack of covert 19 precautions and a lack of jobs iraq is seeing a surge of new cases there were record 5000 new infections on friday alone and anti-government protesters gathering for another rally in the better russian capital minsk large crowds of people have been making their way to the downtown area of police blocking major roads and warning people not to demonstrate telling them it's illegal as follows a woman's march on saturday also another senior opposition figure says she has been forced to leave the country police in hong kong are fired pepper balls and arrested at least 90 protesters on sunday the demonstrations are against beijing's new security law imposed on the territory this year people are also angry about a delay in local elections for hong kong legislative council which have been delayed for a year because of the pandemic up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera al-jazeera world starts right now.

you know early 2019 the head of a u.k. based palestinian lobby group made an announcement outside the royal 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 marjorie delsea had reached an out of court settlement with the company he been battling for several years and the other 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 committee and 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. a from

a bank where your customer 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 brings to the bank in terms of financial crime money. databases like 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 in a tiff which used to be part of the thomson reuters organization. in my experience our trouble across both extremely frequently and a great many other providers are actually. the engine of what they provide is the dow jones of the river to do lists so they power lots of other providers 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 r l mess hall spoke to bakery and os how he found the list of over $2000000.00 names. at the world check database looking for what's known as couch d p 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 of world that shack. 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 instance go reassessing how they managed risk at the same time there was

a 0. your global drugs. problem emerging so all of these things conspired that 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 and 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 remit of those databases widened significantly after 911 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 legislated for and in the u.s. they probably weren't as robust as maybe here in europe where the e.u. the european union had already instituted some strict rooms the u.s.

often i have been passing through the pantry 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 it if well check is still registered to the same address as thomson reuters in the canary wharf business district of london. but in october 28th seen reuters announced the sale of the majority of its world check shares to the private equity group blackstone. in $28.00 c. thomson reuters some parts of the state in check so they sold 55 percent of the company to investors but thomson reuters still owns 45 percent of finishes which is

the new name the company that 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 in making money out of financial services well 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 are claimed 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 and he money loan. during 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 until today it has 3000000 people and organizations listed and it's owned by large companies. and is used by most of the banks around the world for a long time the content 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 their 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 worshipers for friday noon prayers. today it's considered a model of community relations but it attracted an adverse media and police attention in 1997 when shaikh abu hamza real mastery 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 and now widely perceived as a success story but in 2014 the management was shocked to discover. but the names were on will checks database as being linked to terrorism. will check was still under thomson reuters ownership at that time. of the water and the whole. of the net a comma bijani one which within that the comma behave thought of them as you did. here to sort out the mess you don't know why. whether he be a d. i mean or be a know who most often. by the at such a comb my want to check. that and them was a lot. of buried in bank such as me see 31 of

a and he said in monkey it's a term of the law and then she had i need that bit of. is in the bank of one of the 5 they'd miss you want to put it on when he moved with. the 7 he's back to. the mythos oh man i'm in b.b.c. ross and b.b.c. what all of a minimal fee have a mobile feel if they don't feel at all often as you call him or us if you that he can walk but. that the and most would. feel he was successful have done so on some sort of like to. a well check. 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 we discovered the existence of a confidante show database it was called world check by thomson

reuters at the time serious and it had one category called terrorists which is a very serious things we're very very serious you cannot deal with people who are going to. and. and so we discovered that the rest of the fence ripoff mosque was listed terrorist. from memory i think mr cause was very shocked as he should be. laws and 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. of the of the board to check quite a fair bit of money. in the future be on the whole. comedy show at the time sort of has been i thought in a a while it was. this man or woman that had all the had that it was some

organizations i was well they'd be on the whole loaf was enough he had the arc of the game as you said after his bubbly a set of iraq a theatre and that what was on him in the hostel and then or for that account of the figure and the whole number not the how the over the if and when if would be having the harder hit than if the who was on the one who had the hustle. following the finsbury park mosque case other organizations and individuals did take legal action against world 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 its 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 act they pay some compensation and they offer to pay the legal costs and that's it whenever we have time on those who. have your whole message. park mosque or behalf of the the mother toy cars if you know of a word chick. or than the full breath in can have. less than all americas and i would have a sufi it also not my step mom. can i careful of the spit or bark most was a half a devil as most would or twice in the us leave. wow that i'm never

there you 1st said. in kenya and you had the ill will have been it 7. was so bad that should have. had me. because i would only mark has allowed 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 wrote about what. there was that's going to cost theme with that i will have your client how the children well i used to love the my aunt i love it was so wonderful to you and i have been doing your color taken home as a man on my feet about a lot. for 100 have clearly what you have. you had him i sat dish we had was once the 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 that 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 what does he have trouble of you have been a market that looks about or come out a little bit about. what i'm talking about when i could just ask him. this is what's called the statement in a. and court in the case between marjorie delves in and reuters ltd who had a majority share in world check at the time. it set sound the reuters offer to settle mr l.c. is claims that damages figure and that 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 l.d.s. profile can continue to include references to his designations by the israeli minister of defense as a main operative of hamas departments in europe headquarters in europe and how much office in europe. tom realm is how also emailed h.s.b.c. the bank that closed the accounts of the p.r.c. in 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 refer to it 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 parent 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 ran a risk advisory firm in shanghai but 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 are my wife were released from china in the middle of june 2015 so i was trying to find a new bank who would actually accept my bonnie 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 for h.s.b.c. so in your count 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 role 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 to the sources these databases use 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 than. expected to apply just to very slim. this is one of them told us down things are not 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

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will stay with them back stay with them and dance you do not want to have. 24 hours every 24 hours is paying is not. hers to breathe her sleep has to move from side to side her to eat some of the other world headlines and india has once again reported the world's highest single day tally of new coronavirus infections on sunday there were more than 90000 of them the government says the rise is because of increased testing the death toll now also supposing 70000 medical school graduates doctors and nurses have protested in iraq's capital baghdad over a lack of covert 19 proportions and a lack of jobs in iraq is seeing a surge in new covert 1000 cases there were a record 5000 infections on friday. antigovernment protesters are gathering for

another rally in the belorussian capital minsk large crowds of people have been making their way to the downtown area with police blocking major roads and warning people not to demonstrate saying it's illegal this was after a women's march on saturday as well and another senior opposition figure says she has been forced to leave the country police in hong kong have fired pepper balls and arrested at least 90 protesters on sunday the demonstrations are against beijing's new security law which it imposed on the territory this year people are also angry about a delay in elections for hong kong's legislative council they have been delayed for a year because of a pandemic and more than 800000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in southwestern japan as typhoon draws closer the 2nd powerful storm to hit the region in a week some forecasts predict record rainfall and unprecedented wind speeds al-jazeera world resumes in a moment and then it's the news hour. 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 tamar elma's 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 class agree in 24 saying 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 the organization cools itself terrorism in file in israel but many other governments around the wilds do not agree with israel's ossification of who is a terrorist so the question is why is our 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 source's. 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

materials 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 from 18 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 tom or 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. 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 ngo reprieve 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 welch at the halls is that hoover this and he

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 result and in the post 911 climates 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 it's about muslims from the darkest corners of the internet makes repackaged 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 welched on the lists of forma in the organization i was astonished to learn the the standards for the creation of

profiles were very low let me give you an example one profile reviewer i spoke to said that they reveres $3.00 to $600.00 profiles every single day now in 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 unable to check the underlying source of the militia or 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 the associated press or other drug abuse organizations or new york times of the washington post of the times when you can but if you can reasonably accept that they've taken care over you for it to come to . and in that story if it's own somebodies word press books you have to be more cautious than to it's very unfair to expect me to apply my judgment to those.

banks other principal subscribers to databases like christianity if will check dow jones and lexis nexis but the overall market for their services is now much bigger . i found over $300.00 law enforcement and intelligence agencies across the world for years in the us i also asked a number of the person or enforcement agencies including russia poets and police counsellors and command the national crime haven see on the city of london police and all of them to me but i had to strip chanst all chocked he will also have various mortgage providers using some of us visa screening services you have to hear taste charity commission screening potential beneficiary charities against the states of ice and also the department for international development one of the key services financial risk assessment databases often 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 arms and like iran over business sanctions and that's for both you know for both terrorist activity and politically sense and there are all kinds of countries that and organize ations who for reasons of that. put out describe that. denies ations 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 connected to muslim brotherhood as terrorists were 'd not that he's a paid peaceful organizations and so they classified as terrorist and so on and

side is a regular i believe does the same and so on and we in britain which. claims to be a decent fair 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 f.i.o.s. 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 woman you know. if you are there at the have there were muslims why they live there that are your church. you know work you know what i was the lead. they were and who you know who said. that they are the mossad well. he will back them 1st of all that they will behave you have. almost lost their home and so the year to year we should be here and master said one of them out there is that he had

and that it also no sun if i had a journey or a climate where the chip. would have the cause. emma he came out here with davey if human was a certain amount would if you had them call 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 michelle shuls call to make real the purity of it fit of what she would it. because it i wish he would if any of us are good davidi fume is a form of human oh sure he does as i 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 6 or 6 that jekyll plea on of the past record all to ma did you visit here is a former soldier don't judge people as most of his ilk is was will serve

a fair decision on how we 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 or in a way. courtroom a similar situation that some of the social media companies in our platform provide they are an application 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 a softening much as we see it often than if the one has a howel of his a moral robot and he called the you know instead of listening to he say i'm not a let me into he been 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 atrocities the moment when that message we somehow got what he did was he had well be some other agenda was the one wish we should stand up against these tests pick a sions 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 judgement calls are not made and it is inaccurate to suggest that while check assists any government in their agendas it continued that it does not offer opinion and that our terms and conditions require our customers to conduct that own investigations when using information in 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 whole the databases themselves are not regulated at the moment largely because. the consumption of those going to bases is from firms who are themselves regular and 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 of their plan 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 the human beings of. my experience and i have i have worked inside institutions that interact with the iss 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. they're fighting quite a picture across much of south america to the south some clouds this will bring some showers again into the southeast tend to linger over the next couple days and trial back into areas of peru as well from there we head into central america the

usual thunderstorms fairly widespread across the cobbett islands out across mexico some heavy rain we're watching this as well this is the latest storm is a small system and it doesn't really get very strong the rain is really still there very heavy across the central areas as you can see in 3 monday similar scenario that storm continuing to move away from land but some very heavy rain monday across into florida and down across into cuba some fairly have to thunderstorms across the midwest the last year as they will begin to develop again as we go through sunday out across the west it is about the haze people flocking to the beaches in southern california temperatures he expected to reach the low forty's celsius meanwhile the bunny and they are huge 5 and then notice contained this is in the sierra national forest and the conditions will stay hot the winds a fairly strong as well so this is what i mean about the heat in the town which is as you can say for. the southern plains but as for the weather as we go through monday quite a distinct change coming from the north some very cold air pushing down from canada

and through the northern plains cold and very wet. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across them with a timely take it will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. this is al-jazeera. it's 1300 hours g.m.t. on come on santa maria here in doha welcome to the news hour on al-jazeera better russians are staging a 4th weekend of mass demonstrations against president alexander lukashenko. hers to breathe for her sleep to move from side to side her eat. like speak

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