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support is a brazil from a president charl scenario. still the supreme court and congress in brasilia and surround the presidential palace. ah. hello i mariam demising in london. you watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. china reopened his board as after 3 years lifting quarantine requirements for travelers. despite a surge in covet infections, been in votes for its next parliament with opposition parties back on the ballot. after being far from the previous election, and joe biden visits the us mexico border for the 1st time since becoming president . after announcing new plans to block migrants, ah,

how we begin with our breaking news story. this is coming from brazil. hundreds of supporters of the former brazilian president char ball sanara of stormed the congress building and the supreme court. and surrounded the presidential palace. security forces use tear gas to try to repel both scenarios to port as, as they sought to gain access to congress, grounds or snar left office one week ago, after losing the presidential election to president louisa. nasty o. lulu de silver, who is currently in sao paolo, but ball center in his support is refused to accept the election defeat all scenarios supported the state a series of demonstrations after the results were announced, blocking highways and camping outside the military headquarters. well, let's get more now from mechanic he have, she's been monitoring developments that presidio. she joined us on the phone from rio de janeiro. what can you tell us about the presence of security forces in this

very sensitive part of priscilla and how these protest is we're able to overpower them? well, that is the question. everybody is asking why have not the security for what is being ready is this is something that has been expected. every analysts to during the past month had said, this is a pretty good because it's, it's printing from a trump pretty book that former president has been following from day one. everybody thought that there would be a similar situation as it was in capitol hill. now this happened in has a very peculiar architecture. it happened in the square called 3 hours because the 3 things representing the 3 powers are in the same place. so all glass buildings you have on in the center, you have the supreme court on one side and you have the perfect power on the other

side now. but both supporters have been camping out for 60 more than 60 days, more than 2 months is beyond the headquarters. the police was supposed to have dismantled the cap, but it's not the army said we'll have to take care of that. we talk to them actually on january, the 1st jury didn't lose the mouse. the non duration they were there, they said that they would resist until the end. the election was omen. think the supreme court is to blame because they say it's vital. so that's why they enter the supreme court. it broke glasses are images of shattered glass all over the place. and image of a police car, human lake, they just walked in virtually were not stopped. they had gas used. now the national for the starting to to to react the or helicopters over find

the areas co well waiting to see what happening in the coming hours. and just to be clear about the area we're talking about this is in brazil year. and you were just giving us an idea of the lay, the layouts of the land. there you have the national congress. you have the supreme court. and you also have the presidential palace and we understand that these hundreds of protest is managed to breach a police barrier that it gives that provides access to the chamber of deputies in the senate buildings. that's the congress. now is there a bit of confusion about whether or not they've managed to enter the, the presidential palace? i mean, i'm seeing footage on social media. that's obviously impossible to verify. we can't go by this, but is it clear whether or not they're inside the palace? well, the images we saw on television show them inside the pilots, inside the printer port and in a calling. this is their glass being so you have to

break glass to get in. it's not like a so anything like this. and why does they'll be right next to there? so they walk down, it's more like, like washington d. c. like a small there. and they stormed into the 3 buildings or take new selfie. they're taking pictures of what they're doing there. if they had said that they were, and they were hoping for the military stage, a cool now, since that didn't happen and they think it's up to the people to take power. dustin minister, the new just minister had just said that this is an absurd situation. already taking measures again, 3 courses for the capitol because they don't know why they weren't. why didn't they didn't act faster. now, brazil is right on the prices for many social issues. the next president has to be

a bit. and there isn't really much to spend money having to be billed palaces that have been or been destroyed. so people are very, very upset. yeah. and it's interesting because obviously these a hard core support has on the extremist side of the spectrum for them to be taking action like this. and even though we're talking about hundreds of people, which in a population of, i mean so many 1000000 and hundreds of millions, i think in brazil it's a very small proportion of the population. of course, there will be many more that support both scenarios because one thing that came out to the election was the division and the polarization in brazilian politics getting worse. and we see that trend in other countries in south america elsewhere in the world are small part of what creation, very vocal, and very something that is very,

i suppose symbolic, you know, when they, when they do something like this captures the world's attention. it, it gets on tv and social media, and of course it, you know, people all in all around the country can, can also see this happening. so, and what is the public reaction likely be well, of course not. all right, wing brazilians are both for not as supporters are radical. this is a minority, it's true that if you said it's very cool, they also don't believe and what they see were out there on the empty non duration as my colleague and human what's covering your official ceremony when i was out there with them. and they were saying that, i mean, they believe creation was happening, they were saying they weren't used to spreading light fire. they were saying the migration had been suspended point and they still don't believe that this

election was watched by well, so not by the way in florida. he's not even in the country. so although they don't have out of there all, but the army did not speak out for now. the feel that it's up to the people to take matters and hands. so it's a small minority, but it gets making a lot of the voice and just to be clear about why people are doing this, a focus part of the focus today is the supreme court, which approve the election result. and they are vehemently against not just are not just a victory for lou to silver, but they simply refused to accept that job ball sonora lost his bid for reelection . so help us understand what, what they're doing today. and the sort of mentality behind this sort of behavior. well, we believe that the supreme court is biased,

so they believe that the supreme court is not acting as an independent power and let it recognize the election because the fighting with you will not go back. they say that we never have run as president because he had been in prison on corruption charges. the trial was overturned, also by the supreme court. so that's another reason why the supreme court is biased and based on believe this, they believe that congress is taking sides as well that it really and dealing so they think that the people, the which a record bench should take matters. so it's, they're just doing what these formerly believe. then of course, this is the minority, but to see 3 major, the power, the building, the 3 major powers in the country to be packed so easily. of course, it's a very,

very shocking moment. very shocking image. all right, thanks very much mechanic. you have monitoring development staff from rio de janeiro course. this is all happening in brasilia. and joining me now is to go and borrow a brazilian lawyer and the law professor at the s t. v. law school in south palo. thank you very much for joining us on this. so there are only as parallels between brazilian an american politics, particularly as these developments just in the last hour come not just barely a few days after the 1st anniversary of the capital riots on january 6th in washington. what can you tell us about the way in which a politician allied job ball scenario uses the frustration of people use this sort of social and economic vulnerability for his own political purposes. how is that sort of exploited?

thank you very much. my for having me here. so this moment which is it's a symbol of loan, serious of frustration that it could divided by former presidential sonata against a solution being a spring mccourt or the congress itself or the political itself. so there are parallels media space not only in terms of the day itself where it's happening when it's happening now, which is a parallel, we generate it, but also the discourse of trying to discredit the solution in brazil, the electro see the supreme court. so it's kind of discourse, the rhetoric that we'll see, not only the election cycle, but also throughout the whole practice residency. a former president both sonata. so these moments, it's really the single, the concrete symbol of

a several years trying to discredit these to the political as additions and in the country. and how is this likely to play out now? because it was really about a very small number of people. hundreds of gera, both in our supporters and of course not all of those on the han write violence. we're going to take this set of extreme measure of, you know, breaching congress to see supreme court and the presidential palace. but how might president lula handle this? so that's what in, when these things in here, my raise that in fact it small group of people in comparison with a large population that voted for both the nato or even the large population that supports sonata. but the damage that we are seeing, the congress in the meeting room sort of court and even the floor. where

is the press office in brazil is the striking it's, it's really clear that there is a damage be the call, not only symbolic or lead to the country, but also physical damage. the beauty bear, what is happening now aim, but at the political circles and circles all president lula are discussing what are the measures that should be done now? so the problem is the police forces and of course, as a per seal not we're not acting with urgency that was clearly needed for this moment. we saw him this week, this weekend, a 100 more than a 100 bucks from supporters of both. so not are arriving to the cd you will be using but as for those of the earth, why not? not very familiar with the beauty, be the they are not isolated, so they can be easily accessible by ordinary people. so right now,

let's discussing what kind of magic they should do, whether the army should that being and protect the building. they are talking be the goldman or all that that, that base of that state. barbara and the government. but it's easier to see whether they can also help yesterday, the president of justice issue a decrease saying that additional armed forces should be deployed and probably they will be deployed. so now it's ongoing situation with the buildings that are involved to proceed and democracy will be the number of people, but actually people who are already doing that. so there are people on the floor of the senate be viewed as up people in the spring court, and now i love the challenge that he has is to coordinate with the local park and then also with the armed forces. what are the bass response that should not come a further the situation we've already severe enough and how smooth is not

coordination likely to be new le, now has to handle is very carefully between the police and the armed forces. would you, would you put this down to the, it just the bad planning and organization security forces just being too slow to respond to that decree for that to me, a greater deployment around this area. because you know that have been some we have seen, let's say, some of the hard coal, both nora protest is trying to trigger or provoke military involvement. and all of this would you, would you dismiss ability not at all. i would say not at all me or mirror. i think that we already saw videos only off today, off a police officer, and then i'm official master the some of them even taking picture. so it's a very similar tomorrow with the general state where you have part of the

forces and the police officer actually supporting a police whitley, or explicitly supporting the processor. so there they are not neutral players here in addition, just before and so here i saw in the bridge of the news that the main person responsible for the security in the federal street district. barbara was a former minister of justice posts on either. so it's a very complicated situation because on the ground lot of a police officer, the number for that actually supports this kind of action. on the other hand that there is a polity. there are politicians, a local governments of the federal street where they call support even the governor civil support, historically, both on either. so they are non neutral players. so it's not only the solution is not one call away from present. look,

because here we have to coordinate not only each 2, surely. what are the mattress that they should use to deploy forces there, which is probably what is under discussion right now, but also to be able to tackle those, those agents who are not indefinite and non neutral, to their processes. and they also should be deployed and should and should do their duty or protecting the institution. so it's a very, very delicate situation because the tools that are available for lola, they are also corrupting no way that the some of them are supported on mobile sonata. so it's a very complicated situation to be solved in a short. it's a critical question of where some of those loyalties lie within the army. but thank you very much. i do appreciate it going power of a joke. thank you very much. ah,

beijing is reopened, its orders dismantling the final pillar of a 0 covert policy which shielded the people, but also cut them off from the rest of the world. huge cues formed as people stream back into the country by air, land, and sea, with incoming travellers. no longer required to quarantine, it coincided with the beginning of the lunar new year travel period and a surgeon cases across the country. katrina, you reports now from beijing. for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic pump, they is getting ready for a trip to thailand. he says he's overjoyed, china has and did it strict 0 curve at border controls. absolutely. i'm so passionate about him and because i've been stuck here for like for years. the urge is so strong. a real on travel abroad, like i lived with highland somewhere easy. from sunday, those returning to china no longer have to undergo quarantine. the change has sparked a surge and travel begins. japan, south korea,

and the united states are among popular destinations. thailand has tops the list staff in this bangkok hotel and looking forward to welcoming back chinese tourists . 5000000 are expected this year and i hung her the and he home on a hack are chinese visitors are vital for the tourism industry throughout the country. they not only spend money in bangkok, but they usually travel nationwide or china's borders with hong kong have also been reopened. these passages are among the 1st to cross without needing to isolate at a government facility. this weekend also must the beginning of june, the travel period leading up to noon and new year. chinese railway department expect 2000000000 trips to be made over the next few weeks, many by migrant workers who were unable to travel harm in previous years to strict 0 current policy. but widespread covered 19 infections have prompted the government to issue guidelines cautioning against spreading the virus and rural areas.

governance abroad have also raised concerns with more than a dozen countries, including the united kingdom, france and australia. imposing restrictions on passages from china. punk, they says he'll steer clear of those countries for now and is just relieved that china's days of global isolation seem to be ending. katrina, you out sera, beijing. now vote counting is on the way benito parliamentary election. well, position parties were on the ballot after being banned from the previous vote. their exclusion in 2019 led to violent protest against present, patrice talon, and damage the country's image as a bastion of democracy in the region. but turn out for sundays vote was muted. and interest reports from katina 75 year old. this is yet a quick casts her ballot with only the future of our grandchildren on our mind, leaving me thought, well, we'd better go me didn't. i want

a better future for our years, jobs for them. so they can have a prosperous life. but for many voters, this election is much more than just about jobs. they say it's also about the future of the countries. democracy. means opposition is back on the ballot. after being excluded from the turn to 19 parliamentary vote, i moved that lead to violent protest. president patricia alone says the election validates the countries to what quarter credentials. yes, you're welcome to some work on it. i think we are definitely leaving behind the dock pages of our political history. the election was approached with susan and o boycott. if the opposition gets into parliament with significant numbers, some of its candidates could run for president in 2026 under the current and look for more candidates must be endorsed by members of parliament. and mass opposition also wants to get rid of laws that it's would impede, become christabel credit process. the election could also see

a record number of women elected to parliament. nearly a quarter of the $109.00 seats are reserved for women. what to turn out, however, was law in many areas, a surprise to many after the opposition candidates were allowed to run. the election commission says it was satisfied with the vote. good of ro, nod, repeat, even in the north of the country where we fed terror taxi, there was no incidentally wallows and protest at mod the election 3 years ago. haven't been seen so far this time, but where they stayed that way depends on the result. and how the opposition and the people have been received them. with edris al jazeera, quarterly or ukraine's military is dismiss claims by russia that it's killed more than $600.00 ukrainian soldiers in a rocket strike in the eastern city of crime. a tourist cranes at a school was damaged, but no one died in the attack. russia said the strike was in retaliation. few cranes knew yes, strike which killed dozens of russian soldiers,

but provided no evidence to support the claim. journalist at the scene said there was no sign of any casualties, while local said windows were blown out of buildings, but that there was nothing notable about the attack. google, cuba. there was an explosion and then another, a series of explosion and one made the window shake. really. there's nothing else to tell you. just a normal day. i just went back to sleep. i thought about what to do next, but i just went back to bed. why didn't joe biden as arrived at us mexico border for the 1st time since being elected is the thing, the town of el paso, in the state of texas days off turnouts, in plans to cub illegal immigration from full central and south american nations. the new rules will bob people from cuba, nicaragua, haiti, and venezuela, from applying for asylum if they have entered the us illegally. so john hendrick is live person el paso, texas, whereas your a by now joe barton is on the tarmac,

greeting officials after having gotten off of air force one, he's going to talk to local, federal and state officials and he's gonna talk to some community leaders. but we don't think he's going to be at places like this, at least not many. this is outside sacred heart, catholic church. and you can see there are many people who are lucky enough to live in shelters. the rest live out here on the street throughout el paso, you can see their red cross blankets. and if you look very carefully, you can see there are people actually sleeping against this fence here at raina that you are right there is a warming by us. and that's where people go to get warm because it gets down to near freezing overnight sometimes beyond freezing and as a place where they can charge their electronics. for some of them, their phone is their only way to really contact people. that's a food truck over there, and this line is people lining up to receive the donated food. but there are

hundreds of people who live out here. we talked to a man who was living right next to this bus here, says for 20 days in a cardboard box, which you said helps protect him from the elements. but president biden is coming down to get his 1st look at this. after 2 years in office, he's been widely criticized by republican for not having done that so far. and he's been criticizing congress for not passing comprehensive immigration legislation that would solve problems like this one. and that's been a problem for decades. congress has not passed immigration reform is, or there are millions of people living in limbo. most of the people here are venezuelans. and that's a particularly acute problem. because for those who did not cross the border legally under biden's new policy, they're not going to be able to go back home. and they're not going to be able to really advance here that new policy requires them to have entered the country

legally to have applied online and to have a financial sponsor who can take care of them. so this is where they live with really no hope for any change anytime soon. risen invite and we'll get a look at this 1st hand, but he knows about this problem. it's just been in intransigent problem, a broken immigration system across the us. and this is the epicenter. all right, thank you very much. john henderson and el paso texas. go to western australia now hundreds of people have been rescued from flooded towns and communities cut off by record breaking rainfall. an extreme weather system brought heavy rain to the kimberly region in the far north of the state cause in what emergency services calling once in a century, floods recovery and rebuilding operations are expected to take months elsewhere. more than $330000.00 homes and businesses in the usa of california are still

without power off the days of devastating storms. the clean up has begun, but the full cost is for yet more severe weather. in the coming days. at least 6 people have died since new year's weekend. alexandra buys reports. dominic kings restaurant would normally be full of dinars, enjoying food, an ocean views, but not any more. the village of capital, it was among the worst to be hit by last week's storm. it stirred up some of the biggest swells in years waves as high as 7 meters tore up historic piers and damaged homes and businesses. it's our family restaurant, you know, we've had it for like a decade it's. it's definitely places where we thought a lot of good memories, it's more than just a business. so it's, it's really hard to see it kind of in the state that it's in utility companies are

working to restore power to tens of thousands of people. california's governor declared a state of emergency to help with the clean up. but the damage bill is in the millions while they're reasonably feeling just traumatized. i mean it's, it's a, it's emotional as our community. we know that, that when you look around at the wreckage, there with the rebuilding looks like in an arduous process. the storm was powered by 2 phenomena, a large airborne stream of moisture called an atmospheric river and a hurricane force system known as a bomb cyclone. for 2 days it battered the region with fierce winds and torrential rains. we actually witness the pier go down and it was not only your sight to see, but to hear it, to hear the pylons rapping against each other. and the destructive force of the water was just incredible. and now become the day after and to see it works like

old war zone here. it's the 3rd storm like this to hit california in a week. researchers say climate change is making them worse and more frequent. the severe weather has killed several people since new years. and as communities try to pick up the pieces, there's no reprieve just yet. to back to back storms are barreling in from the pacific. and more than 15000000 californians remain under flood watch. alexander buyers, al jazeera, environmental activists have descended on a village in western germany seeking to stop the expansion of a coal mine. louis zera is due to be demolished, so the cold below it can be dug up. confrontations turned violent last week as police coordinator off. jeremy atlanta stop using cold by the year 2030. but it's rethinking its energy policy after the war and ukraine disrupted supplies. was born

. everything right here out is air dot com. ah, look our main stories now hundreds of supporters of the form of brazilian president jar ball snar of storm the congress building the supreme court and at the presidential palace and priscilla. security forces used tear gas to try and pull and push them back as they sought to gain access to congress grounds balls in our left office a week ago after losing the election to present you either nasty or lula to silver is currently in sao paolo. but well, snar and his supporters of refuse to accept the election defeat monarchy anarchy of his following events from rio de janeiro shows that there are serious questions being raised about how protested could have entered those buildings. that is the question everybody is asking why i have not to security forces. i was not ready if

this is something i had been expected. every analyst to during the past month had said this is a pre book. this is former us president donald trump pretty book that former president abel has been following from day one. everybody saw that there would be a similar situation as it was in capitol hill. banking is reopened, its orders dismantling the final pillar of a 0 covert policy which shielded its people, but also cut them off from the rest of the world. huge cues formed as people stream back into the country by land and sea with incoming travellers no longer required to quarantine. it coincide in the beginning of the lunar new year travel period and a surgeon cases across the country will vote counting is started in beneath parliamentary election where our position parties are on the ballot after being banned from the previous vote or exclusion in 2019 to violent protest against present patrice town damage the country's images,

a bastion of democracy in the region. 7 parties were allowed to participate in sundays vote. president job by ms. arrived at the us mexico border for the 1st time since being elected. he is the same. the town of el paso in the state of texas, days after announcing plans to come illegal immigration and for central from, for central and south american nations. were you more in everything, including the latest developments in brazil, in the news hour, in 25 minutes time. they let us examining the headlines. how big a breakthrough is this story moment for all summers research, unflinching journalism. i can see the part of the tree where 2 of the bullets hits there about my head. high sharing personal stories with a global audience. nature is so much more of an income for shareholders. it's the library else. my people explore an abundance of world class programming on al

jazeera. i think of some of the biggest companies in the world today is google, amazon, microsoft, facebook, we checked all of them, big tech, with algorithms that there were more than just uses or customers for these business with generations of data. they need us to like them for them to be indispensable because the more that we use them, the more data we produce. we're in the middle of a great race for data and big tech companies around the checks with blue me for the past 3 years, academics, nicole dri, analissa ma,

his have been investigating a phenomenon. they call data colonialism. while the nodes scales and context may have changed, they say colonialism, same underlying functions of empire building extraction and appropriation remain that the new land grab going on. there's not land that's being grabbed, it's us, it's human life, the acquisition, the construction of data, valuable data for corporate use out of the flow of our lives that the lag rep going on. and that's why we're closing this. the only way it does justice to that. let's think for instance, of all the end user license agreement or the terms of use that we read whenever we sign up for a new social media platform. and if we think about the process of being asked to agree with something that we cannot even understand and signing away certain rights, signing away our property in this act, i think it's a very interesting parallel. we're not for one moment saying that colonialism today

with data involved, the same horrific level of files in the beginning of colonialism. which saying that the core of historic hello just wasn't a force to involve people in a massive new system, a new order, a new organization of the world economy. in the history of colonialism, we've had different empires. and so of course, we can think of the spanish empire, the british empire. i think we would say, at this point in history, in terms of beta colonialism, we have 2 centers of power. we have the united states and one kite on china, india. and of course, we know the american corporations very well in terms of google, facebook, amazon, me, we don't know, it will be chinese corporations very well. because their reach is just beginning to expand beyond china. so far, china has been kind of like an internal colony, but we are starting to see how chinese corporations,

how the infrastructure developed in china is starting to expand it to different parts of the world, including asia and africa. ah, china, the biggest private company, while wait technology, africa has seen a gold mine of countries like south africa, nigeria, kenya, which is wherein now had delivered some of the biggest much rapidly growing in john new bola has studied the while way affect hearing kenyan. they're building products, for example, that are suited to the african market that she says, the mobile phone that you can get in various african markets as a chinese phone all over, every 90 percent of that. and they're building relationships with governments. they providing infrastructure to while we has provided a lot of infrastructure for surveillance in canyon i c t and kenya work and every

countries where there's develop divide be somewhere in the middle. and that's really useful for governments here. we advise them on the government data centers, on the government services or anything else we could share that it's benefit from around the world. and the nice thing is, of course, it provides benefits of people who are connected to our business. those generating revenue off as well. but the other piece of the chinese influence is that the surreptitious, what there's a lot of questions about their tissues, data collection, with technology that's coming in from china. and in some ways it's the other side of the coin, right? there's a whole lot of data that's being taken out from african countries and from african citizen to be kept handled, used by people who are not necessarily responsible or answerable to african people. the quality does not access people's data, our cell data. so i don't think that we are the kind of companies that are benefiting off people's data. the only day that we're using is just to improve our

products themselves, such as using artificial intelligence or smartphones in our network equipment so that it can improve be faster. there is skeptics who would question, adams assertion. after all, most big tech companies do exploit use a daughter in some way. however, even if, while way doesn't do it, there are other chinese operations in africa. they collect and make extensive use of people's data here, and i, robi, the dominance of chinese tech is undeniably from telecommunication lines to satellite networks, right down to the phones in people's hands and the apps on those phones. chinese companies have this not, and much of the daughter produces in its russ transient holdings, for instance, cells to over 40 percent of the mobile market in sub saharan africa. it's fine. so under the brand names, techno i tell an infinite, but it strategy doesn't end with the hardware. data driven apps like the music

streaming service during play, and digital payment platform. pompei add to a growing repository of daughter on african uses, and can help boost money, making opportunities for transient. when you think about digital calling as a marina cornea, again, i think the thing that gets lost is that the primary objective it was about money was fundamentally about using power user culture using all these kinds of tools to impose one society. another society is due at the 1st society could make money off of that. will you define colonialism like that? then you really start to see the residences. china is pretty investing in africa and many parts of asia for 2030 years, very systematically is never pretended that it does, it's doing anything other than expanding its economic interests. it has not you civilizing rhetoric because it doesn't need to. let's contrast that for the moment with a company like microsoft,

which talks about democratizing ai or facebook that is concerned to give as it were, connection connectivity had just been a privilege for some of the rich and powerful. it needs to be something that everyone share. facebook has made a big push to present itself as a benevolent force to get people on line. since 2013, the company has been leading a giant project called internet dot org sort of gateway to the world wide web for those with poor connectivity. ready the app that serves is the portal to facebook's version of the internet is called free basics, and it's been launched in at least 60 countries, more than half of them in africa. the idea is to provide access to select sites without data charges. in effect, it's a stripped down version of the internet that has one very important component guaranteed connection with facebook and guaranteed possibilities of daughter extraction. which is why despite the company slick marketing,

not every one is convinced that this is an entirely selfless exercise. ninja or assembly is a leading digital rights advocate. i think what's mostly interesting in the it, what i'll call techno politics is the rush to connect the unconnected and the rush to retain the connected in very specific platforms. a lot of his actors will do anything and everything to make sure, at some point or other these users go through their platforms. because it's all about the data. it's all about how much data can i get about people, so that can sell ads, so that it, you know, concrete predictive things to keep them hooked into what i'm able to offer. and therefore the, we'll get, we'll keep churning those no way that a lot of these companies would be able to behave in their home countries. the way they behave in the developing world. there is no way that you would be able to roll out a project as big as free basic without some kind of check or valid with without some kind of ethical loop. there was no effort to even say,

this is what this mean. this is how this will work for you, and that is really telling right of what they think that african people want and, or need from the internet projects that are largely in this case, emerging from silicon valley west and america centric approach to connecting the unconnected. i read the deeply steeped in the same condescending ways of doing development. so this notion that give them something that is better than nothing. i mean, why would anyone not want that data? colonialism is framed in terms of activity ational missions. when people are connected, we can accomplish some pretty amazing things. just like historical colonialism was framed as well in terms of bringing progress, bringing something that is good and beneficial for humanity. we can get closer to the people that we care about. we can get access to new jobs and opportunities and ideas. our participation is expected and our participation we are told it for our

own good. meanwhile, all of this extraction and capturing of data is kind of happening in the background without us realizing the consequences. ready the facebook free basics model, which is basically about expanding for facebook, the demain of data extraction across the world at a time when demand for facebook is beginning to fall amongst the younger people in particular, in the circle west is very interesting justice, in historic colonialism. the apparent weakness of the colonized population, the lack of weapons, their lack of sudden resources. the lack of an economic structure suggested to the colonizers that they needed to be colonized. they needed to have whatever the colonial system would offer them to bind them in. free basics is just one of facebook's many initiatives across africa. facebook latest push here and kenya is called express why fi?

the company has teamed up with local internet service providers to install why fi hotspots like here in the messy town of getting yellow on the outskirts of my road . jerry named bossier is a hairdresser who signed up as a vendor for facebook's express. why fi? he gets a commission on every data bundle. he sells his customers, say they love the jews facebook because even myself, i use it and they find their bundle shipper that cheaper than you compared to other networks. you get the 1st bundled 1100 and visit for free. yeah. if i were to come by, yes they do. they find it cheaper, refunded more valuable on the middle of this phone. express why fi has been an undeniable success. yeah. it is made web access cheap of the people living in underserved locations. linda, so many people living i don't water corner to do it. however, for those studying the activities of facebook and other big tech companies in kenya,

it's impossible to ignore the huge potential for data mining. last year, facebook was pushed to admit that it had added its own software to the why fi access points that enabled known facebook data, such as customer names and phone numbers to directly flow to the corporation. while facebook says the purpose of the software is to ensure that hotspots functioning well, there's no clarity on just how much additional daughter is being collected and how that's being used. a lot of these companies aren't african, they're not even based in kenya in africa. forget tenure long. so what is a kenyan citizen supposed to do when an american company uses their data, sells their data markets. it's, you know, as a product and without their consent, without their ability to intervene to appeal to a court system. that's kind of the gray area that we're falling into. the lot of these big tech companies. facebook isn't the only big tech company playing the connectivity cod hearing. can you? last year alphabet, the parent company whose most famous brand is google,

signed to deal with telecom, kenya, to quote, connect the unconnected using balloons. yep. balloons loon is a path breaking project that's been 8 years in the making. and the idea is deceptively simple. use high altitude balloons to provide internet connectivity in remote and hard to reach parts of the world. kenya is where the loon is making its commercial debut. i spoke with charles merida, he does represent loan, but it's more well known sister company, google. google's mission from the get go, was to really get a lot of the africans who are offline on mine, and to make sure that they get online in a more affordable and have better con content as well as relevance. and the mission around learn is to ensure that we're able to deliver connectivity to the most remote parts of the continent and around the world. so i'm proud to say that he in kenya is the 1st commercial agreement between noon i'll assist

a company and telecom kenya. what remains to be seen is what standards of accountability that will be. will it mean that people are restricted to only using google esc sites, for instance, that remains to be question what data will be collected in the process of connecting people. i put some of these questions to charles. he made it clear he couldn't say much more battling after all, he doesn't work for that company. he did tell me this though, about google's approach to data collection. so what we do at google is we ensure that we have employed a user trust. that is something that's really important and that uses understand exactly what we're doing with the data that we have on them. we also and sure that they're able to manage and control. so transparency, ability to manage and control the data that we have on our uses is really critical . and when it's so transparent, people get to enjoy the magic of google just uses

a lot of positive payoffs speak, especially when it comes to discussing matters relating to data. that doesn't come as a big surprise because data ownership access privacy is an incredibly sensitive legal and political issue across the world. governments and regulators have been looking at their data laws more and more seriously. but perhaps the most widely publicized is the european union's general data protection regulation, otherwise known as g d, p r, which set a global benchmark for strengthening individual rights or the personal data. that's really the discrepancy that we're seeing here is that western governments with the societies have more space to keep these companies and check and to force them to abide by their local social standards than countries in other parts of the world. and that's where the colonialism label really starts to become evident. there is not enough space for ordinary african citizens to push their governments on these issues. there's not enough space for us to actually demand

a different standard of treatment. ninja has a point. just take a look at the state of data regulation around the world, and you'll see how stock the imbalances ah, according to a study by the law firm deal a piper, north america, australia, much of europe and china have what they would classify as heavy will, robust regulation for many countries across africa, regulation ranges from moderate to 0, the kenyan government says they're working on it, but the speed at which they are developing policies is being outstripped by the speed at which private players are revolutionizing telecoms and internet connectivity. i don't think there's anything particularly wrong with our private sector actress taking a lead role if especially again, they have the resources and the wherewithal to be able to do this. the question is, where are state in this game to keep them in check because of the narrative around how any and all digital development is a positive or net positive,

are asking critical questions is almost seen as being an enemy of progress. and therefore, the risk is your people in the community several miss out. so because of that nuanced and problematic notion being created very few politicians and by extension government actors, one to step up to the play to play this game proactively. which come to think about data as being within ready to be extracted like oil can be extracted from the i suddenly used to think of my daughter that way before i begin doing research and interviews. but i since come to realize that our lives, location, family, members, our preferences, that dislikes all of this isn't really data until you create algorithms that can convert every single human being into a collection of bits that money can be made. so this means that the somehow the oil or they call it the day to exhaust naturally within it, which is natural, there to be used by corporations. it happens for their profit is incredibly

important message to say there's nothing we can do about this. this is the way things are, but go back 203040 years. this was not the way things we need to hold on to that path to remembering, to pass on the memory of that past in order to show that this remains the mr digit, the court, the colonial project. so we're not just talking about the big players, facebook, google, amazon, and in china by do alibaba 10 cent, etcetera. the social quantification sector is a larger industry sector that's composed of the big players as well as are all sorts of hardware manufacturers, software developers, all of these platform interpret tours as well as data analytic firms and data broker. so altogether, they constitute this factor that provides the infrastructure for making this extraction possible extraction of data from our human social life.

we are the bodies producing the data, but we are not necessarily the ones who benefit from that. so i'll stay here is people's ideas, people's dreams, people's hopes, people's frustrations being used to sell things back to them. where do we actually get our money back? we're not saying no tech in africa. we're not saying, you know, jump over africa as you're thinking about an internet has done a lot of really good things in africa to meet a lot of connections possible that were not possible even 510 years ago. the question is, how do you mitigate the harm? how do you make sure that you protect the good and you carouse, a bad model that we have now isn't doing that? i think we should be bold enough and brave enough to go back to the drawing board and challenge ourselves to think differently about this model. is there a better way of doing this thing? is there a more humane way of doing the connectivity thing that we're trying to do through all of the cooperation?

oh, technology is neither positive and negative or neutral. it will always serve the intrinsic motivation that exists in a community or where it's being deployed. one practical tip that i've found very useful is to keep myself informed and bring in as much critical thought and questioning of when we're told, you know, technology x is the solution and is the disruptor. you know, to question how we've arrived back conclusion. i'm supporting act as we're making that day to day lives to asked me things is one way to also keep making sure your views, your concerns are represented. and it's, you know, not given to their fear. we can still figure out how to heal the society. technology could help with that, but it's that teaching us that we, we need to go back to the basics of how we form societies,

how we find consensus and how we quote exist in this world. children who are now 5 years or younger, a growing up with toys, which are in fact robots algorithmically programmed, which operates by tracking everything they do and playing back to them in forms that help the child grow. everything they say, we don't know what happens to that data, but it will be probably impossible in about 10 years time to say to the child who is now by that stage grown up adult. you can live in a world without being tracked algorithmically, every moment of your life is therefore very important. we start in the sense, speaking the truth to a very new type of power that is walking the face of the i think it's easy to forget, you know, a time, even before all of our lives were ruled in a fan way, all of the technologies and yet when i talk to young people, i'm encouraged by the sense that they don't think all of the inevitable,

and they are actually less deterministic that i am. when i think about technology, when i hear them talk about their changing perceptions towards facebook towards social media, how they're becoming critical of it and how they're becoming more literate consumers in terms of reading the terms of service in terms of trying to make sense of up to technical, legalistic language. i think that gives me hope that people can become more active consumers and participants think that it's really important for us as we're thinking about the issues that are pushing. he's in the challenges at knology present to remember that human being, our core part of this and human nature is very teresa. and it's very repetitive. we've actually been here before with other forms of communication technology. when

you think about radio and the role that radio played, for example, in the 2nd world war, when you think about the launch of television and fears around advertising in the fields around how television will change societies. it, these are all conversations that have actually happened in the past. and so for me, the big lesson is, let's learn from what has already happened in the past. let's not be afraid to look back. there is nothing radically so radically different about internet technology that human beings haven't really grappled with before. ah

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