the limits of tech and the potential of other creative ways to deal with the issues we face track it when tech tools go viral episode 3 of all hail the lockdown on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara starr and this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. rising tensions over delayed election results leave 5 dead in ghana where president now now a call for a dog has now been declared as the winner. fish on but menu as far as johnson holds a make or break breaks it talks over dinner in brussels with the e.u. chief ursula on the line rich countries are accused of courting covert 900 vaccines

leaving poor countries able to vaccinate only one in 10 people next year and $46.00 u.s. states team up to file an antitrust lawsuit against facebook which could force it to sell off instagram and whatsapp. and in scorpions she is controversial champions league match against the turkish side. has resumed players and officials of both teams took in me in an anti racism message before kick off details later in the program. we begin in ghana where the election commission has declared president nona though the winner of monday's poll with 51 percent of the vote this after at least 5 people were shot dead this tension grew over a delay in the release of the results police say more than 60 incidents of violence

have been reported since the presidential and parliamentary vote well a coup for those team has already released an official results suggesting that he was leading the race but his main opposition challenger former president john the hama has accused them of trying to rig the election the 2 rivals assigned the peace pact on friday saying they would both accept the official outcome of the election goes straight out midriffs in the capital a crowd so the result is now no it is a clear victory 51 percent but what is the mood like considering the violence that we saw leading up to this result. for the supporters of the ruling party and president an hour before i go is celebration night a short while ago we left the party headquarters where president went to address most crowd there and he's been going round to visit party supporters across the

city to congratulate them of course for the hard work that ensured his we election and for the supporters of the opposition leader john muhammad. taking night in fact hundreds of them beseech the election commission headquarters and they were stopped actually by the police and the military from accessing the headquarters where they stood and waited for the results to be announced they might have forced the change of venue for the and all from and from the international conference and to the election commission headquarters because of their presence there but again what they expected at the end did not happen the other candidate was declared the winner and there was in fact a pin drop silence when the name of. a quad was pronounced by the election commission chairperson and then shortly after the huge crowd thinned out and then

disappeared but not before one of the supporters told us that they would not accept this result and they will fight against it how they were going to do that he didn't say a lot of people now are watching to see what watching to see what president former president john muhammad would say in his address is due to address the nation according to his supporters and handlers a very shortly what he will say will determine whether or not the supporters or be opposition party the main opposition party will accept that result and if they don't come down the supporters a lot of people fear that we could see more skirmishes or even violence in the days ahead because i mean you mentioned that many of the supporters may not accept that result but actually. on friday the 2 rivals signed a pact saying that they would accept the result so i guess how key and you mentioned it a little bit at the end there how key is it that the 2 leaders themselves try to quash any potential violence or rejection of the result.

well it's important they draw their attention or call their supporters to order for president i know a lot of people have been calling him to kind of be magnanimous in victory and humble in victory as well as address the concerns of the opposition at least to try not to raise the temperature up and for the opposition to try to use all available means at their disposal to challenge the results in court but not to resort to violence or taking the law into their hands whether or not their supporters will accept that it's difficult to say for now for now before i do he's fought hard for this victory he knew this might as well be used last because at 76 years old he knew he doesn't have much chances to fight if you laws base and action and for mom would join with in his sixty's probably. a good

chance to again come out in 4 years time to stand for the party's. flag to contest the post of president however that will also depend on whether or not the party will agree that he uses the right choice to stand on their behalf in the next 4 years well as you say we are due to hear from president the coo full. address the nation we will of course bring you the latest on al-jazeera for the moment though amid the interest from the capital thank you so much. that was a brick sit trade deal deadline looming britain's boris johnson is in brussels at a make or break there are with european commission president or saliva on their line on the menu fish and other so many issues that have left the negotiations that locked they have just 22 days left to resolve their disagreements and the chief breaks in the gosia has warned the probability of

a no deal is increasing before leaving for brussels johnson said there was still a deal to be done the but the e.u. was pushing trade terms no prime minister could accept that the report's. heading for brussels for crisis talks but giving nothing away earlier the british prime minister told parliament he was prepared to reject a trade deal with the european union if the terms weren't right whether the new arrangements resemble those of australia's with the e.u. or whether they like those of canada with the e.u. i have absolutely no doubt but that from january the 1st this country is going to prosper mightily mr. johnson is meeting ocilla vonda lion president of the european commission over dinner but it's simply to gauge appetite for compromise something needed to break the impasse if nothing emerges the chances of a no deal scenario on the 1st of january look greater the german chancellor insists

the use ready for that she says the area where the 2 sides are furthest apart is how to ensure fair competition in the midst of a level playing field nationals are what we need a level playing field and not just for today but for tomorrow and the next day we need agreements on how each side can react when the other side changes its legal parameters otherwise it will result in unfair competition and we won't let this happen to our businesses. differences over what access e.u. fishing fleets have to u.k. waters seen as more solvable the other sticking point. how to enforce any trade deal this week a u.k. e.u. joint committee agreed specific arrangements for northern ireland including managing the border with ireland now the u.k. has dropped legislation that would break international law but the committee's co-chair says level playing field demands remain a big problem the prime minister has been clear that we are going to maintain high standards in this country but we're also going to be

a sovereign country and that we need to be in control of our own rules and regulations or laws and ways of doing things e.u. leaders are holding their own summit on thursday and friday if there is no resolution tonight i think we will have more calls from eagerly decides to step up the narrative preparations but at the same time the e.u. will not walk away from these negotiations they will try to negotiate until the very end until the actual deadline which is the said the 1st of december and no deal bricks it is what many businesses in britain and the youth fear most incredibly nobody truly knows whether that's what they'll get in a few weeks time nadine barber al jazeera well let's cross live now to paul brennan who joins us from brussels or paul any news on what may be coming out of that dinner between doris johnson or 7 they're lying. now they've been inside for 2 hours now and no news at all as to exactly how the talks are going in that what's

clear is that they were a little bit sort of testy with each other as they as they went in boris johnson keen to take the masks off for a photo call we saw live on the land rather nervous about that and insisting that they maintain a 2 meter distance between them and kept the masks off for as brief a time as possible before they disappeared behind those sliding doors and into the talks what we do know is that the negotiators teams are joining the 2 leaders so that they're all going to be sort of in the same room and able to talk about how this might go forward but what's also absolutely necessary is that needs to be a kind of political impetus now for the for the negotiations if the negotiations are to go forward from here but negotiating teams feel that they've exhausted every avenue that within the parameters of their mandates that they simply can't go any further and they haven't been able to reach an agreement so therefore some movement needs to come from a political level and that's where boris johnson and the land come in can they find

some kind of flexibility new flexibility in order to give the negotiations a chance because if they decide that they can't the only alternative is that the the europe and u.k. relationship goes into a kind of w t o terms from the 1st of january and if something as you heard in the dean's report that it's not an ideal situation from all sides interesting that fish was on the menu scallops for starters to serve as the main course you know fisheries has been a major bone of contention between the 2 sides so other somebody's got a sense of humor or somebody is making a point i guess so and paul on thursday it's more of this meant to be a european summit as well that's when the leaders of the 27 countries members of the e.u. gather thing apart at all the timing of that with these think. you know and i'm sure 5 probably not so in the commission buildings behind me european council buildings 100 meters in that direction away from the agenda that was

published tonight by showing the show the president of the european council doesn't even have breakfast on it so i'm sure that when the leaders assemble here in person but on the lay in will brief them as to what's been happening here it's a night that's brooks it is not formally on the agenda for the european council meeting for thursday and friday of this week so i'm sure we're going to talk about it but not in it not in any formal structured way they've delegated to us live on the land all responsibility to represent the european union countries in this unfriendly to. the polls there and in this. would be interesting to see if and when we get some kind of resolution and that the a for the moment paul brennan in brussels thank you. so would a no deal mean well the u.k. and the you would trade on the world trade organization terms which are the rules for countries without trade deals both sides would charge tariffs pushing up prices

the average tax on u.k. goods entering the e.u. would be about 2.8 percent for non agricultural products but 10 percent for cars and more than 35 percent for dairy products well the movement of goods could also seize up overnight with the sudden need for more custom checks at the u.k. e.u. border there are particular concerns that the supply of medicine could be disrupted at channel ports supermarkets have warned that fresh food might also be affected and both sides could lose access to fishing in the other's waters which could lead to confrontations between boats. meanwhile cities in poland and hungary have late buildings and the monuments in blue to show their solidarity with the european union the colorful display is ahead of the summit which both countries' leaders have threatened to block the use a budget the other one being hungry by the mayors of or so and budapest have

condemned that they are governments calling on the e.u. to bypass them entirely poland that hungary's leaders of threatened to block over 2 trillion dollars in funding over a close linking the money to rule of law safeguards. coming up on this news hour from london it's a feeling i want to say that if we have too much contact over christmas and afterwards it turns out that that was the last christmas with the grandparents a bleak warning from angela merkel as germany suffers its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic. and i'm nicholas hawkinson the gauls tomba region find out next how this once bustling town attracting migrants looking for work has become a major transit point for migrants trying to make it to europe. plus in sports find out why this former england rugby player plans to take legal action

against the sport. canada has become the latest country to approve the pfizer buy on tek a covert $1000.00 vaccine this as it tops a chart of rich nations accused of hoarding enough vaccines to inoculate their populations almost 3 times over the people's vaccine alliance says that means 9 out of 10 people in $67.00 poor countries will not get the coronavirus vaccine next year canada has enough confirmed doses to inoculate 5 times its population and the option to expand to 6 times it's followed by the u.s. and u.k. which are both looking to have enough for populations 4 times bigger than what they have on the other end of the scale there are countries like lebanon where the government is nearly bankrupt it's only got enough to vaccinate 15 percent of the population and last is bangladesh with just enough to cover 9 percent muhammad

yunus is a nobel peace prize winner and chairman of the yunus center one of the groups spearheading the people's vaccine alliance he says companies produce uncovered vaccines are actually breaking with precedent the president is like. the chords on a stuck doing going to. 'd fix it he declared this is it people's this is this is like a sentient you nobody can proceed under sentient so this should be belong to all people so this isn't a tradition like it's a b. aids they became free goods to break into the good stew so this is a tradition in a bid by lifting the tradition in rich countries buying up several times more than they need it 5 times but they don't support as many population you have in the mean game good or countries don't have any access to anything and in what i'm afraid of this will create a boston market for feet vixens now that the back since i'm not i'm not available

to large number of people 90 percent of the people are still not connected with the banks. the philippine government says it will have to rely on $1000000000.00 loans and private donations to get enough faxing doses jimmy the island organ reports from the capital manila. general so the door is a covert 19 survivor he spent 2 weeks in hospital in a critical condition and he says he spent his life savings a few 100 dollars on medicines he's now without a job and despite reports a vaccine against coronavirus will be available early next year he's not confident his family will get access to them. you know i didn't even get any cash this entire time so i don't even think about since something like that either i just worry about the children that's all i care about this so the doors live in one of the poorest communities in manila the center of the pandemic in the

philippines there are some people here however who don't share cheer will specimens him and are hopeful the vaccines will signal a return to normality. our residents belong to the poorest sector of society we the global mentor girls are looking forward to the suboxone hoping will be made a priority the government aims to vaccinate at least 60 percent of the country's population in order to achieve herd immunity but in an archipelago of more than $7100.00 islands and a national budget that's barely a knock even official theory admit it won't be easy for weeks now countries around the world have been trying to secure deals to buy vaccines when they become available wealthier countries are bidding for a huge share of supplies hoping to vaccinate their entire populations but the united nations says 2 thirds of the global populations will not get enough and many

countries including the philippines do not have the logistical support to establish an adequate vaccination. program they also don't have the capacity to produce their own vaccines officials here say they hope that by taking part in face she trials and joining initiatives with other less developed countries they may be able to procure enough doses be our frontline nurse the 50 percent will be dedicated or the government will be given to the b. sectors and particularly our headquarters and our poor and vulnerable community while at the present to be given to the private sector will also be given to their front line or low income laborers to give fair access in its ability to contain the virus in southeast asia over the past few months the philippines is seen as the worst performing country and many here fear it will also find itself on the bottom

of the list for the vaccine development duggan al-jazeera in the. scientists in the u.k. say people who suffer a significant allergic reactions should not have the pfizer vaccine it's after 2 people who received the javelin tuesday suffered adverse affects the spike vaccinations beginning and there are concerns across europe that restrictions may be around for a while infection rates keep rising with sweden warning that intensive care ward and stockholm are full and germany recording its highest that they lead best told yet charley angela. britain's rollout of the fai's a biotech vaccine continues but advice on who can take it is changing up to 2 people with a history of severe allergy suffered reactions both recovered quickly but the agency who approved the vaccine is making revisions last evening we were looking at 2 case reports of allergic reactions we know from the very extensive clinical

trials that this wasn't a beach or if we need to strengthen our advice now that we've had this experience in the vulnerable populations that groups have been selected as a priority we get that advice to the field immediately. britain's mass vaccination program already poses one of the bigot's logistical challenges since world war 2 that scientists warn that vaccines alone will not change the course of the pandemic immediately and face months which help prevent the transmission of code it should be worn for another year but to be very clear for the next 3 months we will not have sufficient protection we're going through the most difficult time of year for respect infections and the most difficult time of year for the n.h.s. so the idea we can suddenly stop now because the vaccines here it would be really primitives. bleak news too in germany where infection rates continue to rise despite restrictions and as intensive care ward speech capacity many of calling for

even tougher lockdown measures wednesday's german death toll of 590 was the highest since the pandemic began sparking an impassioned plea from chancellor angela merkel is very one sided and they had to feel it i want to say this if we have too much contact over christmas and afterwards it turns out that that was the last christmas with the grandparents then we will have really messed up and we should not mess up . in front to the numbers and not encouraging new infection stand it around $13000.00 per day down dramatically on a month ago but still $8000.00 more than the target president emanuel not cross said in order to release the country from lockdown restrictions despite the vaccine the arrival all 3 countries fear a 3rd wave of corona virus could hit when hospitals are at their most vulnerable charlie angela there there are calls for mass testing in south korea after the

country of reported nearly 700 new virus cases in one day for the 1st time since march the country has now seen nearly 40000 cases but is still regarded as having controlled it while the spread of the virus in the capital seoul and surrounding areas has focused as forced the authorities to raise the alert level gatherings of more than 50 people are abandoned facilities such as jeans and karaoke bars will be closed business hours for restaurants and non-essential shops of also being restricted. an italian airline is trying what it hopes could help revive air travel through the pandemic a quarantine free flight all the passengers on the alitalia flight tested negative for kovan 1000 before leaving new york and after arriving in rome in means passengers can fly between some u.s. this the nation's and italy when they show a negative test at the airport or get tested before boarding with another test on

arrival they can then avoid the incoming quarantine rules. the spanish government has begun deporting west african migrants who made the crossing to the canary islands more than 22000 people have attempted it this year with over 8000 arrivals recorded in november alone from the remote village of big kauto in senegal's a region nicholas hocked reports. i'm a do so i had never seen the ocean before he stepped on took boat hoping to make it to europe a land he saw filled with opportunities he cannot find at home but the coward are from tom burke who was caught by spanish coast guards and sent home empty handed to his family his son saadi and mohammed streams to play professional football in spain gone are his daughter my mood his hopes to study medicine in europe i'm a do feels like he failed his children he was i didn't know i wanted to head to carl's for

a family in spain maybe that would have changed my life in my children's lives. in the end unprecedented wave of illegal migration from west africa to europe spanish coast over $600.00 migrants have died trying to make it to the canary islands this year among the dead are many school age teachers that does a professional high school students learn to become electricians in a country where most have no electricity the students say they are learning skills for jobs they cannot find in senegal and then there is this false rumor that. dying of the coronavirus or leaving jobs vacant for young african men to take. the school principal says every week a student disappears attempting the journey looking for a better future but they're often there is someone in their village or neighborhood that witnesses someone that made it to europe and succeeded in building a new house and being successful and that motivates young people to follow suit.

among those that have made it to the other side is a my do so is neighbor cherno so he was a young man when. he took the boat to the canaries after spending 12 years in the suburbs of madrid selling flowers he came back to the whom he built to celebrate his wedding with his 2nd wife something he would have been able to afford had he not gone to spain he explained. if you stay here you're on a pittance just enough to survive you will never be able to build this once in europe everything becomes possible to leave loved ones in order to make their lives better flee not war or poverty but in search of a dignified life despite his failed attempts to reach europe it is a pursuit so is not yet ready to give up his hauke algis iraq be to console southwest senegal sudan's army chief says the council overseeing the transition to civilian rule is failing and deepening the suffering of the people general abdel

fattah called on the cabinet to bring in the legislative council or interim parliament that was promised within a 2900 transitional agreement or had heads the sovereign council one arm of the transitional council the other is the cabinet headed by prime minister abdullah one duck that that line to bring in the body is the end of the year the united nations is appealing for calm after 2 days of violence inside parliament in the democratic republic of congo supporters of president felix you say k.d. clashed with those backing his predecessor joseph kabila both inside and outside the building on monday and tuesday the brawls come after the president moved to end the country's governing coalition on thursday parliament will vote on a motion to force out its weaker who's from could be less people's party for reconstruction and democracy. a major outbreak of brown

locusts has been the clarity in 3 provinces in south africa more than 100 farms are being invaded by the insects who've been feeding on grass and cereal on properties in the western cape northern cape and the free state. lots more still to come in this news hour including donald trump valves to intervene in the texas lawsuit a day after the supreme court rejected another republican effort to overturn the presidential election result in rio tinto restitution an australian inquiry finds the mining giant should pay for destroying sacred aboriginal drop shelters and sport will tell you why this football star just became $10000.00 poorer.

will cold and wet saw dry pretty much sums up the weather across europe at the moment nothing great to speak about here that's why weather is further east we got high pressure blocking things off the west well that's for the west central parts of the mediterranean seeing more wet weather not a system pushing in from the atlantic that will introduce further clouds and rain that will stream across those western passes because through the next couple days of the temperatures sixes and sevens the glasgow for london paris at 7 celsius. just bragging about phrasing there in 08 minus 5 in moscow where we strive we have got some western weather across that eastern side of the mediterranean 3 greece through turkey pushing up to bulgaria romania ukraine and heading up towards that western side of russia just around belarus we've got some further showers across the western side of the mediterranean what's the weather continues just slide its way for the race was and then things thoughts down

a little more mobile from the west as we go through the next day get up to the dizzy heights of 9 celsius in london that way should be 11 degrees there for pass a lot of cloud and right and snow over the highest ground it's cold enough is enough to cross the far north of africa more than possible geria northern areas of morocco seeing some western weather out also in the impasse libya. covert 19 is grounded global travel for countries dependent on tourism like kenya the effects a devastating. effect thank you. for somebody who is vanish people in power reveals the hardships facing affected communities and the efforts being made to protect wildlife from the threats of increased poaching in the wake of the pandemic kenya the unfathomable virus on al-jazeera. 'd

held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell deny the right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent saying his crime journalism. to demand my true thinks and boy solidarity with all detained journalists sign the petition. 'd to say. the a. comeback is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera 5 people have been killed in violence following monday's election in ghana which has seen president of the cleared the winner with

51 percent of the vote police say more than 60 incidents of violence have been reported to. the british prime minister is in brussels for talks with the e.u. chief for some of underlying in what both sides say is one of the last chances for a break sit deal talks have stalled over 3 issues and rich nations have been accused of hoarding coronavirus vaccines as immunization programs get underway the people's vaccine alliance's 9 out of 10 people in 67 poor countries will not get the coronavirus vaccine next year. iran's president hassan rouhani has blamed u.s. sanctions for his country's a struggle to procure vaccines. and our people should know that what ever we want to do when we want to import medicine or import equipment or vaccines we have to kiss trump a 100 times as he has created so many problems in annoyances a simple job that would normally be done with a phone call

a message or swift transaction takes weeks or months to complete and the whole country has to work together to transfer money from one place to the other just to buy medicine the bunch of spending their last days of this sinister 10 year at the white house our vets work it. an average of more than 200000 americans are being infected with the coronavirus every day the 1st time that that barrier has been passed that civil so soared to an average of more than 2200 a day matching the 1st peak reached back in april health experts say the crisis is all but certain to get worse over the christian christmas period but a vaccine still appears they's away from getting the go ahead in the u.s. president elect joe biden has vowed to provide 100000000 vaccines in his 1st 100 days donald trump has asked the u.s. supreme court to let him intervene in a lawsuit by the state of texas which seeks to throw out results in 4 states that

he lost to president elect joe biden now the lawsuit targets the states of georgia michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin trump has falsely claimed that he won reelection alleging widespread voting fraud officials from the 4 states at issue of call the lawsuit a reckless attack on democracy on tuesday the supreme court rejected in the temp by republicans to reverse joe biden's electoral victory in pennsylvania i can joins us live now from washington d.c. so other states are trying to join the texas lawsuit as well as donald trump tell us a little bit more about the lawsuit itself and what is the supreme court likely to think of it. well 17 other states have nala asked for permission to file briefs alongside that brief from texas now there's so many issues about this that meet explaining texas has done the very unusual measure of approaching the supreme court direct now the supreme court on numerous occasions in the past has

said it's very reluctant to take up such cases because it doesn't have any jurisdiction it would appear in this particular case filing suit against what happened in other states the same would apply to those other 17 states that are attempting to join this particular brief and president trump saying that he wants to join in the brief as well this is what president trumps lawyer had to say this is what they have to respond to that's the depth of the paper the legal arguments that have been asserted for these various motions and the states have to file a response by tomorrow at 3 o'clock i expect to have significant action on this case i mean it's already significant action but i mean possibly determining the action. these are early as friday. there's a number of other issues involved here firstly yesterday was what is called safe harbor day that is

a very significant date because all the elections that have been certified by that particular date are regarded in effect as. very unusual for any court cases to go into the voracity of those elections after a safe harbor day the other issue of course is that the supreme court has already thrown out a judgment attempt to overturn the pennsylvania supreme court judgment basically not giving any reasons but refusing to even hear the case and this is exceedingly unlikely according to legal observers to be the same in this particular brief but lastly a moment of real irony in all of this texas itself actually extended its early voting it extended the time for mail in votes in effect texas did exactly what it is now accusing the swing states of doing saying it is unconstitutional and illegal and that is something that the justices while considering this particular brief are likely to take heavily into account mike hanna with the latest from washington d.c.

mike thank you. thing in the u.s. president elect joe biden has officially introduced his choice for defense secretary retired army general lloyd austin the nominee to lead the pentagon joined by then in person event in wilmington if confirmed that lloyd austin would make history as the 1st of black secretary of defense but the nation has already been opposed by some democrats who are these real castro joins us live now from biden's hometown the wilmington high the i could understand if some republicans had issues with the slogan ation explain to us why some democrats are not convinced. sure barbara so their objections don't center on lloyd austin's qualifications almost all commend him for his resume and for showing able leadership on the battlefield as well as in diplomatic talks however what the concern concentrates

upon is how close he is still to his military service there is a federal law that says you must be at least 7 years out of the military before taking the job of u.s. defense secretary well austin has only been out of uniform for 4 years and so he would require a congressional waiver basically saying that law does not have to apply in his special case now austin has been close with president elect joe biden for some years now we heard biden introducing his nominee today talking about the time they spent together in iraq when austin was u.s. commander of troops there overseeing the withdrawal of u.s. troops under the obama biden administration biden said that is when he saw austin's leadership seen giving him the capabilities of serving now as u.s. secretary of defense and we also heard austin addressing the concerns about him

not being a civilian for that long he said that he would approach this new job from a civilian perspective and that he would continue working to strengthen international coalitions. i understand the important role of the department of defense and the role that it plays in maintaining stability and deterring aggression and defending and supporting critical eye inches around the world including in the asia pacific in europe and around the world and i firmly believe that as you said before sure that america is strongest when it works with its allies. and general austin would become the very 1st black american to lead the pentagon which is notable pointed out by president joe biden given that more than 40 per

cent of active duty troops in the u.s. are also people of color. how does your caster with the latest there from wilmington in delaware heidi thank you. 46 us states filed a major lawsuit against facebook accusing the social media giant of violating antitrust law the legal challenge is being led by new york's attorney general who says facebook has spent vast amounts of money to acquire smaller potential rivals such as instagram and what's up it's accused of leaving consumers with fewer choices and privacy protections the u.s. federal trade commission has also filed its all suit against the tech company for nearly a decade facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition all at the expense of everyday users

by using its vast troves of data and money facebook has squashed or hindered what the company perceived as potential threats every deuce choices for consumers they stifled innovation. and they degraded privacy protections for millions of americans teddy a soft meister is a professor of law at the university of dayton he joins us live via skype from cincinnati in ohio sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera now facebook a bolt instagram back in 2012 then it got brought south in 2014 quite a while ago now why is all of this happening now well thank you for having me barbara well the government for the most part is loath to involve itself in the running of a business and so they don't want to rush into taking action against the company until really they feel their hand is forced and so i think they wanted to wait to

the very last minute to actually say let's take action against a large tech not technology company here in united states so what do you think the main issues are then against facebook well this was sort of came out in the previous hearings of last year when it was asked well 1st what is facebook's competition does it does it have a competitor and some people feel it doesn't others would argue maybe snapchat pinterest or something else could be a competitor and once once you determine that it doesn't have a competition the next is whether or not they used anti-competitive measures to maintain this type of control obviously the government has a lot of resources in fairness a so so does facebook so this could go on for quite a while but ultimately what do you think is going to happen do you think facebook might be forced to sell off for example what's up on instagram. no you're exactly right this is not going to be resolved overnight it's going to be drawn out and by mentioning that we don't know exactly what the environment is going to look

a year 2 years down the road to see whether or not this is still an issue but back to your main point here what is the end result you know what could happen is they could decide that facebook is a monopoly it's anti-competitive so we need to break it up such as when they did a t.n.t. but as you probably know in microsoft they decided that at one level and then microsoft appealed and they did they kept the company together so that is one tactic they could take place they could say that microsoft are going to sell off some of these new assets that you acquired or they could do what they did at microsoft and require that facebook share some of its intellectual property and also allow an oversight board we have seen other countries especially in europe try to take on the big tech giants i guess the u.s. for cultural reasons as well and step back off a little bit when it comes to you know messing about too much with business and do you think that we are seeing a real cultural shift because of the size and the influence of these media tech

giants. no i think you're right on that that you do european countries the european union where the for the leading charger's on this is you saw this with google as well antitrust i don't think it's a cultural shift in the united states what i think is a technology shift and they did a lot to protect these companies so they could nurture and grow but facebook has grown to such a size that it doesn't need protection by the government any want more and it needs to beat it and the governments take a closer look because if we do allow monopolies to get this sort of control over the over the the industry that it what it does it stifles competition and that's really the big concern is that you can still be pro business and then be and then support antitrust mase measures because what's going to happen to the future facebook's how are they going to get started if facebook has such a control and lock on on this industry thaddeus huff my step professor of law at the university of dayton thank you for joining us thank you barbara rights groups

say beijing is using an automated system of mass surveillance and attentions to repress the countries we girl muslim minority this comes from a new report from human rights watch based on the leak that list of at least 2000 we go detainees apparently flagged by the system all of them were sent to political education camps in china's western xinjiang region the report suggests the majority were flagged by authorities for lawful behavior that included traveling being young or acting suspiciously. well beijing has this mr human rights watch report as an attempt to smear china's reputation nice to others the so-called human rights group you mentioned has always been full of prejudice and stirring up trouble words are not worth repeating. well ken roth is the executive director of human rights watch he says china's reaction to the report is not surprising somebody beat an official database containing 2000 names of and we are another target muslims who were

detained we simply didn't analysis of the database of course they can't refute it because that's their own words that basically show how little it takes to be detained if you are a muslim in china and you know the chinese government likes to say oh this is just a counterterrorism campaign we're just going after criminality but what this database shows is that basically they're going after islam there was one man for example who was detained because in the mid 19 eighties she studied the koran and in the early 2000 she left his wife wear a veil that was it you know he was just a practicing muslim back got him detained hong kong pro-democracy activist agnes chao has been denied bail ahead of an appeal against her 10 month prison sentence she was jailed for her role in rallies near police headquarters last year them astray sions the authorities say were unlawful agnus child was jailed last week

alongside prominent activist joshua wong at least 16 other protesters have been arrested since monday in what critics say is a major crackdown on opposition to chinese rule mining giant rio tinto is facing a renewed pressure over its destruction of sacred aboriginal rock shelters in australia a national inquiry is recommending that it pay compensation to traditional owners and rebuild what the steroid nicolette gauge reports for canberra. this documentary paid for by mining giant rio tinto describes the deep cultural and historical significance of the. caves in australia's remote pilbara region. to expand one of its. the incident sparking global outrage and grief from

traditional owners who had tried to stop it from. a national inquiry into their destruction has delivered a report saying the traditional news will let down not only by radio but by governments their own lawyers and native title law. to prove will to damage the site in 2013 under aboriginal heritage laws but a year later an archaeological dig to salvage anything found there discovered just how precious the caves were containing evidence of human activity 46000 years ago. the report describes rio tinto his actions as inexcusable saying it's knew the value of what it was destroying but blew it up anyway it also says significant issues were raised about the culture and practices within the company and

recommended rio tinto negotiate a compensation deal with traditional owners known as the p.k. k.p. people while committing to reconstruct the caves. can't just be a token. people have the leverage to make a decision about what kind of restitution they believe to be appropriate 3 top executives including the c.e.o. who have resigned over the failings that you can gorge with the inquiries findings not legally binding many and now watching how rio tinto responds to gauge how does era camera. boeing's 737 max jet has returned to the sky after being grounded following 2 deadly crashes the revamped aircraft made its 1st comer commercial flight for goal airline between the brazilian cities of sao paolo and porto alegre the jet was grounded in 2019 in the wake of the crashes which killed

$346.00 people boeing hopes it can turn the corner after the damaging crisis which cost millions of dollars before a repair was found. so ahead in this news hour. in sports well 13 time european champions in riyadh rid of void and embarrassing group stage exit details coming up with stunning.

and now your son there with the sport. thank you very much barbara all p.s.g. have resumed their champions league match against istanbul but shock share a day after it was abruptly halted on tuesday both teams had walked off the pitch in protest after the 4th official allegedly used the racist term 2 words in the system coach of the turkish champions appeared before wednesday's kickoff at the park to pass players and officials took a knee and wore no 2 braces and t. shirts the game finished 51 to p.s.g. . one attach a butler has more from paris yes it certainly got off to a very powerful start in terms of symbolism and imagery of the players from a both sides the turkish and french teams taking and maybe the symbol of the black lives matter movement a symbol of anti racism some of the players star players like. p.s.g.

for example even raising their face a very powerful start to this match the continuation of the march that was a properly halted on tuesday when those 2 teams are walked off there was a different team of referees during this game led by a dutch referee replacing the referees that are taken part on tuesday including of course the remaining referee who is accused of using racist language when addressing the assistant coach of the turkish team the former international football appear where he had been given a red card on tuesday night that red card though was suspended by you a for allowing pierre webber to actually sit on the bench during this game. through to the last 16 of the champions league 13 time champions bruce young russian gladbach that soon l. and avoided being eliminated from the group stage for the 1st time came benzema was

the star of the night scoring twice in that crucial when they now top group b. . america has been fined $10000.00 by africa's ruling body cast who say the forward undermined the reputation of african football while on international duty with the ball last month a boy and his team had been detained at the airport in gambia for more than 5 hours the arsenal stop posted images of his team mates sleeping on the floor ahead of their african nations cup qualifier against gambia while officials are good over covert $900.00 testing and one post wrote nice job cath it's as if we are back in the 990 s. former england rugby player steve thompson the says that he has been diagnosed with early onset dementia the 42 year old who won the world cup in 2003 says he's joining a group of former plays to take legal action against the sport the 8 players all

under 45 accuse world rugby and rugby football union england and welsh rugby union of failing to protect them from the risks caused by concussions cannot remember being in australia so i can't remember the homes oh situation of the world cup watching the game for england not in compliance. can see me that i was and that is not me it's just bizarre. well earlier we spoke to the daily mirror rugby correspondent to alex spink. i think in truth ever since state the n.f.l. was involved in concussion settlements around 2013 rugby probably looked across the atlantic to that saw that rugby is also. a contact sport or a heavy collision sport albeit one played without helmets and

a lot of people felt probably don't sooner or later this was going to come across the pond and now it has 8 players yet say 8 former pleasant have so far. come forward 3 of whom put their names to it he couldn't stay thompson new england's rugby world cup winner from 2003 that's a shock to a lot of his friends and teammates at the time who didn't really know there's probably a problem but he suffered too over the last few years it has definitely been a greater awareness of head injuries a greater concern shown towards that concussion has been moved right up the agenda to the very top of the gender of rugby now but the problem is year on year players get bigger stronger faster the pitch they play are never changes in size so the physics of the situation just say that the bigger they get the heavy occlusions they're going to get the more power is coming back at them as they as they're giving more out so it's just

a problem what and it's difficult short of changing the title height completely to change the whole kind of look of the way place a tackle below the waist as they used to be in amateur days where you're right that it's difficult to see how they can get around this one. south africa's cricket is set to a pakistan for the 1st time in 14 years they will play 2 tests and a t 20 series starting next month the protests will be just the 3rd team to play test cricket in pakistan since it started staging the longer format again in 201910 years on form the attack from the attack of the sri lankan team bus in the hole and that's it for me a back to barbara in london summer thank you very much and that is it for this news hour to stay with a stone going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news and sports.

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