that matter to you. down to 0. on the clock and the top stories here on al-jazeera into israeli reporters in china have been rushed home in safety concerns after a diplomatic standoff they sought refuge in australian compounds while their departure was negotiated it comes after the arrest of another trillion journalist last month. but i just i. just want to. believe as i said it stands that. in. a country with genuine rule of law. this is a world with some kind of. started to get to. india has denied its troops crossed

a disputed border with china and fired warning shots in the air earlier china made the accusations and said that troops took countermeasures in the disputed western himalayas region but india says it was chinese forces that fired shots from the base side usually avoid using firearms in the area tensions have been high since clashes in june left 20 indian soldiers dead katrina you has more from beijing. both sides india and china have had decades of this kind of tension because they fail to agree to agree over the line of actual control the delineation of the territory between both sides and over the past few months starting about from last year we've seen a build up of troops both on the chinese side and the indian side and according to some analysts we see a situation of quite literally troops from either side staring out staring down each other eyeball to eyeball and there have been some skirmishes although up until recently up until these last few months in june there were no actual skirmishes or

attacks where there were any casualties but in june there was a clash between troops not using firearms reportedly but there were casualties at least 20 on the indian side reported casualties on the chinese side although the chinese foreign ministry never released actual numbers now this latest incident is quite a shock because it comes just after a high level meeting between india and china took place in moscow defense ministers from both sides sat down in moscow to try to reach an agreement try to ease tensions and there had been talks taking place between chinese and indian military leaders as well as people in at a high level in the government but it seems that so far these talks have been very limited in terms of how much progress they've been able to achieve the mandela foundation is called donald trump good to know uninformed of the reportedly made disparaging remarks about black world leaders from former lawyer michael cohen is releasing a book which says the president described nelson mandela as a poorly who ruined south africa and said that no likely they can run the country

code is serving a 3 year sentence for lying to congress in financial offenses when jordan has more kinds book. michael collins apparently also has written in his memoir that donald trump was so incensed by the election of barack obama that he actually had a lookalike hired to play the president so that trouble could routinely bill rate him and then tell him that he was quote fired and he has released a photo from his memoir showing this apparent interaction between donald trump and the actor playing the former u.s. president well meanwhile donald trump is being accused of playing politics by suggesting a coronavirus franks he might be ready next month just ahead of you know his rival joe biden says science should dictate what advice he has available. the european union is calling on bellamy's to immediately release more than 600 people who were

detained for protesting on sunday is also condemning the disappearance of a prominent opposition activist a maria calista kerber is missing yalta being snatched off the street by most men and taken away in a van in the center of the capital minsk and she's one of 3 women who joined forces before last month's disputed presidential elections to challenge and examined on the shingle. campaigning has begun a mammal or head of november's election she kicked off the contest at her ruling party's headquarters in the capital but she had to pull out of the 1st touring events because of a growing number of corona virus infections the majority of cases are in rakhine state where tens of thousands of people have been displaced or are you have to state with headlines here on al-jazeera got more news coming up right off the al-jazeera world see them often are.

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 and that lawyers representing margy delsea had reached an out of

court settlement with the company he been battling for several years and the other 15 that the always 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 been and done 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. 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 person 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 as they refer to lists so they power lots of other providers lists as well i think of them i think definitive has 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 decree 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 bakery and os how he found the list of over 2000000 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 well 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 plan joins us he's founder also executive chairman and world that shaq. 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 he's gone reassessing now the risk and at the same time there was a drug. 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 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 legislated for 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. riffel 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. and $28.00 c. thomson reuters some parts of the state well check so they sold 55 percent of the company to investors but thomson reuters still owns 45 percent of finished which is the new name of 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're 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 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

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 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 are now widely perceived as a success story but in 2014 the management was shocked to discover. names were on will checks database as being linked to terrorism. will check was still under thomson reuters ownership at that time. and the whole. you had to know the comma bijani one which within that the comma behave out of them is you'd miss you'd. sort out the mess you don't know why or what the heebie 80 i mean or be another who was off the case by the at such a call my want to check. some of that and there was a lot of buried in the bank such as me see 31 m.b. and he said in monkey. of the local and then i shall reign in the that bit of. his bank of one of the 5 they'd miss you want to put it on well

in most with. the mythos of man i'm in and b.b.c. in austin 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 don't even know what. that the and most would on a. fee on some dumb songwriter over a welsh. 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 c s i may have one category called terrorist which is a very serious things we all know very very serious you cannot deal with people who

are going to. and. and so we discovered the rest of the fence ripoff mosque was listed terrorist. from memory i think mr cause was very shocked as he should be. and those of the 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 myself visit beloved. the end of the year the board to check when if a bit of money. and the future be on the whole. a comedy show at the time sort of has been i thought into a what it was. an interim in that had all the had to it was some organizations i would want to say what cannot be on the whole loaf was enough he had the arc of the income as you said after his bubbly a set of iraq

a theater and that what was on him in a hostel and then or for that account of the figure and the whole number of it not the how the over the when it was behaving the harder hit than if the who was anyone who had the hustle. following the finsbury park mosque case other organizations and individuals did take legal action against the world. including margie downs zia head of the palestinian return center in london. zia 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 and they pay some compensation and they offer to pay the legal costs and that's it whenever they have time on those who. have your whole message. park mosque other half of the the other toy cars out of the world check. 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 step mom. can a careful of the spirit or bar mosque was and afaik have been as good or twice in the reality of us leave. wow that i'm never there you 1st said. in kenya and you had the ill will have been at odds several more to get it was so bad that you'd have. had me and

i would all americas in i would fear the loss of their mobile revenue in the arm or fuck off 11 s and i think you have the mass of a fair fight and a lot. of fear not sorrow but i just wrote about was. there myself going to cost theme with that i was having a client how to channel well i used to love the my it i love it was so wonderful to you and i have been doing your color taken home as 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 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 you look for about or come out a little bit about. so what i'm talking about when i get to. this is what's called the statement in a. in court in the case between marjorie delves into and reuters ltd who had a majority share in world check at the time. it set sound the reuters offer to settle mr l.z. is claims the 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 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 or i'll miss hell 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 system. that poses some merit but it's not entirely true because it is not the role rufinus move or

jones 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 the 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 court 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 or 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. i 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 counsellor can move my money for a test p.c. 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 the 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 don't you 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 judgement to. on mexico's busy roads there are those who've had enough. cyclists are taking to the streets on mass. their objective to make the streets safer alternative clean up forms of transportation but when it proved to be an uphill struggle for this group of activists over the

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the day israel attacked america a major investigation on al-jazeera. oh i'm fully back in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera 2 australian reporters in china have been rushed home amid safety concerns after a diplomatic standoff they sought refuge in australian compounds while their departure was negotiation it comes out to the arrest of another australian journalist last month. or the. legal right there in. the country if you knew a little. piece of the world when you're going to.

go to the beach here in the india has denied its troops crossed a disputed border with china and fired warning shots in the air china made the accusations and said their troops took countermeasures in the disputed western himalayas region but india says it was chinese forces that fired shots into the air both sides usually avoid using firearms in the area attentions have been high since clashes in june left 20 indian soldiers dead the nelson mandela foundation has called donald trump our again and uninformed over remoxy reportedly made about black world leaders a new book by the us president's former lawyer michael cohen says trump describes mandela as a poor leader who ruined soft africa have been protests for a 6 straight night in new york state over the case of daniel proved a black man who died after being arrested in march demonstrators in rochester are calling for the 7 officers involved to be charged and convicted. is facing

criticism over overturning the death sentences for members of the hit squad that killed. 8 people have been handed jail terms of between 7 and 20 is was killed after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018. campaigning has begun in myanmar ahead of november's election and santucci kicked off the contest at her body's headquarters in the capital but she had to pull out of the 1st soaring event because of a growing number of corona virus infections and 2 people have been killed in japan and 4 are missing after typhoon haiyan battered the country on sunday when 300000 people are still without power 2 people are also missing in south korea those are the headlines i'll have more news for you in under 30 minutes time obviously your world continues next to stay with us. and 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 ricin a tiff will check run such databases. but term or illness whole of al jazeera arabic wanted to examine how they gather their information and what sources they use. journalist tom wills 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 will check in the

u.k. the palestinian return center and the finsbury park mosque to find out what sources the database it used when listing. magic in syria yeah so we can see that he was listed in the terrorism category in 24 saying . and his country is listed palestine and it says he is 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 that cools itself terrorism in full 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 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 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 and geo reprieve as well as for the international committee of the red cross. i think the muslims a 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 risen 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 well done unfortunately is taken some of the west's 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 29 teams griffin achieve will check 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 or example then this will be reported in well check. now mia should be be further questioned how much time world's. it's research analysts covering 240 countries and territories around the world would have available to collate information. on i spoke to various welsh 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 on the law and source of the nation 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 check in 2 minutes and all

analysts research is supplemented by both q.a. checks and east of technology to ensure high accuracy standards are maintained across the world also the 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. of of washington post of the times when you can but if you can reasonably except that they've taken care over the fact to continue that story if its own somebodies word press books that you have to be more cautious than to it's very unfair to expect me to apply my judgment to bones to the. banks of the 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 were using this of us i also asked a number of the person or in full so i didn't say yes including much reports from police counselors and command the national crime agency and the city of london police and all of them to me that i had access trips and still 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 offer is what they call sanction screening. for you sanctioned 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 a country which is long since like iran or for businesses sanction and that's for both you know for both terrorist activity and politically sanctions when there are all kinds of countries and organizations who for reasons of the. describe them. 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 it's connected to the muslim brotherhood as terrorists were 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 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 world check in the countering terrorism funding category is the federation of islamic organizations in europe or the f.i.f.o. 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. game 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 woman's don't you know. if you were there at the have there were muslims why they live there. was. no work there you know what i was the lead here they were and who. said. that they are the mossad well. we will back them 1st of all that they will behave. almost daily home and so the year to year we should be here and must assert one of them out among their vision that. they had and that it also no sun if i had the journey of our climate want to check. every. word of the call. emma he came in here with davey if human was

a certain amount would if you had them call him up anything about 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 fair discrete sneak may be appropriate this does not mean that subjects included in wild check necessarily has a risk but the point they eat 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 sure clinically all 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 these of the voters just reported equal sickles it all could have it up the problem is a lot of problems with a dick 6 or 6 not jekyl please one of the possible to all to moderate the video if your 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 out but who has possibly did this not every take it to know you stole this post is a form of show conform to the the web of the providers of this information driven

as if they are doing another it's all in the way. caught in the 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're doing of the database they are not responsible for the content that they are right because they are merely aggregating it and presenting it to the banks 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 underworld checks countering terrorism financing category. tamar 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 can't agree on the source was still the u.a.e. sanctions list. the files of marja dolls here on the fence break mosque had been

changed as per their out of court settlements they. been removed from the funding terrorism list but added to the individual and organizations categories. this is not really helped the finsbury park mosque in s.f. such as we see it often than if the one who's up for howell of his and more about them called the you know is out of business they say i'm not a lament that he been a better let me at the here there are a lot happening and there are me so my thing was you mr martin the 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 prevent 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 the 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 dented 5 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 maine 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 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 in wild 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 databases 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 is a question that's asked a lot in the us he's clearly 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. 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 welcomes another look at the international forecasts it's looking pretty quiet across the middle east now we have still got the hate just around the levant temperatures still getting up into the low to mid thirty's here few showers just around the caucuses between the black sea and the caspian sea but that aside we're really looking at a case of lots of hazy sunshine and temperatures getting up into the high thirty's so the high forty's there for kuwait and also for baghdad the low forty's here in doha $4142.00 over the next couple of days still a chance of want to choose showers around the southern end of the red sea joining up with the showers we have across central parts of africa making their way further west which song there is a sickly wave some big downpours still continuing into south sudan pushing across

into the central african republic right the way across into the gulf of guinea southern parts of nigeria killers but to see some flooding as we go through the next day also some live showers continuing to into cameroon all the way down towards angola to the south of that it does look generally dry with plenty of sunshine with say a little bit of cloud clearing away from the eastern cape so far too bad some quiet weather coming through 24 celsius in capetown a 21 importer lizabeth little cola as we go through wednesday. jump into the street and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy but with social media on hand will online be part of the debate. when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to

need to transform lives the way the skewed way we do business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on out is the. india and china accuse each other's armies of firing shots and violating agreements in a disputed himalayan border region. tell you watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha. also coming up back home to australian journalists returned from china after being caught in a diplomatic standoff donald trump is accused of trying to rush through a coronavirus vaccine for political gains and calling for help anger in senegal

over the government's response to devastating floods yes. thank you very much for joining us india and china are both accusing the others soldiers of firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says indian troops crossed the line of control in the western region on monday and opened fire and its soldiers took what it called countermeasures but a short time ago. india's military leads the blame with china accusing it of prevaricate of measures to escalate tension both sides usually avoid firing the using firearms in the area will be live with elizabeth ranum in india's capital new delhi in just a moment but 1st a katrina you in beijing so katrina once again we have conflicting claims from both sides about what's happening at that border region what is beijing saying happened in this latest incident that's right fully well

according to china's military this is the 2nd time they say that indian troops have violated aboard this border agreement in the past 2 weeks now they say that this took place in the eastern lundahl area which is close to china's tibetan autonomy it's region along this border area and according to the chinese side there were some chinese troops which approached the indian side in order to conduct negotiations and then they say that some indian troops fired at the chinese side and as a result china's military were forced to take countermeasures although we don't know exactly what form those countermeasures took and also we don't know whether there were any casualties involved in this incident now china has called this a serious provocation and violation of the border agreement we know that things between these 2 sides have been tense for some years but if this is true this will be one of the 1st times firearms have been involved in about 40 years that had been agreement to keep firearms out of it but we do.