this is. the slightly longer brags that britain wants it will get today the chief negotiators for the european union in britain announced they've agreed on a two year transition period for the u.k. to complete its exit but there is still no guarantee that that is a guarantee we'll get more from our correspondent in london also coming up no pull back at the border turkey promises to push on with its offensive against the kurds in syria now that the city of afternoons been seized and one hundred fifty thousand

people displaced plus facebook facing more blowback a whistleblower says fifty million user profiles were plundered to help create fake news and he says to put in the white house. it's good to have you with us tonight we know it will be a slightly longer divorce britain and the european union have laid out plans for a two year transition period following brags that the deal includes concessions from the u.k. which will allow it to stay in the single market in the customs union until the end of the year twenty twenty now for business isn't ordinary citizens this is good news but for the future of bright city itself the uncertainty remains.

a rare sight the two chief negotiators were full of mutual compliments and even smiles while it might be too early to call their progress a breakthrough this deal will prevent a so-called hard bread sit and allow for a transition period until the end of twenty twenty thanks to concessions from the british. during this transition period britain will no longer participate in each decision making because it will no longer be a member of the e.u. as of march thirtieth twenty nineteen months but it will continue to benefit from all of the advantages of the single market and the customs union. as you know and it will abide by all e.u. rules. unions and industrialists throughout europe had been sounding warnings about the impact of a hard gregg's it monday's deal provides for a twenty one month transition period when duty as an export barriers will not be applied after britain leaves the e.u.

next year businesses need not delay vestment decisions all rushed through contingency plans based on guesses about the future the. time is now less of a stress factor but important issues remain unresolved such as the border between ireland and e.u. member and northern ireland which belongs to the u.k. . are you want to go to our correspondent bob or his all she is following the story for us tonight from london good evening to you barbara so we've got these d.m.k. getting this transition period that it wanted. is that a reason for the brits the tears to celebrate. the prince of tears don't celebrate down honestly client one and lead the brits here to even say that it was nit picking to criticize now and the deal for extra time on britain was present negotiations only natural for us came out and centuries i'm

a should step down over it because this was a chain of cause and more or less treason and of course the scottish government said they felt betrayed back in london over the fishery rights so there are a lot of people who are sitting not to happy with this however of choice in the pejorative front to killie in business greatly relieved just because of the i'm gaining some time getting some time and a little bit of certainty but what remains uncertain is the future of the irish border the border between northern ireland and ireland it is still a thorn in the side of the u.k. and we understand that britain has agreed to what is called a backstop so lucian what is that. that's a legal fallback and mean simply is eight b. and c. will not be possible then d. applies no d. is what britain absolutely doesn't want and it means that northern ireland would

more or less have to stay in march parts of the customs union and the single market and then the next step is that if you look at it more closely and indeed in the border with then run between the european union and great britain are not so great britain after this is through out the irish sea that is something that a reason may have had an advance that is impossible it cannot be not never ever however that the pressure on her is so great to deliver this of bricks it solution this interim period solution and that she somehow said ok let's have a fixed off and we just have to come up with an idea how to solve this till autumn yeah i mean just a few weeks ago the british prime minister said that agreeing to this backstop. option was something that no british prime minister would ever agree to so we've got this dramatic turnaround it seems does that speak to the fact that breaks

in itself is still not a foregone conclusion. and she just had to turn in each of the words because she was the e.u. really had to reason made over the barrel the pressure on her was enormous and of course the european union played there and in this game of poker may could only lose because i was right quite clear that she had to deliver this interim period it's right out this week otherwise the next summit with being in june and time would go by and businesses would leave we thought about union after going and leaving the united kingdom and and moving to the netherlands and office might follow so that was a tremendous amount of fear and kingside pressure on the british government and so they just take that was they just sort of turn around and said ok. those red lines in the sand yesterday and we just walked right across them today i think because

there's shifting sands in politics our correspondent barbara vigil on the story for us tonight in london barbara thank you very much. well turkey is not letting up in its campaign against the kurds in northern syria turkey's president richard tell you everyone valid today to expand his military offensive in syria turkish troops have seized control of the city of afrin but it has left one hundred fifty thousand people displaced turkey views kurdish militants in the region along its border with syria as terrorists or one says he wants militia militias there entirely eliminated from the border. this is what victory looks like turkish forces and turkish backed syrian fighters are swarming into africa and they're armed to the teeth according to ankara it won't be the end of the fighting. i want to

man beach and co bonnie we will continue until we completely clear this corridor of kurdish held areas. and if necessary we will take permanent control of the terrorist camps in northern iraq we have told the iraqi government if you're going to do it do it and if you can't take care of it one night we might suddenly enter sin jar and clean out the kurdistan workers party. or take your pick a lot of the time isn't. enough for them they've already taken care of that this statue for in-city center is a symbol of kurdish resistance now it's gone along with the people's protection unit also known as y p g that turkish backed forces drove out. turkey sees the y.p. g. as a terrorist organization and a threat to its national security kurdish officials have repeatedly called on the international community for help with little success in the fight against nato

second largest army the kurds remain defiant goodly among our forces will be a nightmare for the turks in every area in africa and the resistance will continue until every millimeter of african is liberated and the residents return to their villages and homes. this child is one of about one hundred fifty thousand refugees that have fled and the surrounding districts they're bearing the brunt of the suffering and with turkish forces set to turn east it doesn't look to end anytime soon. or germany's chancellor angela merkel is in poland tonight and with ties at a low point through to serious disagreements over polish refugee policy n.-g. do so reforms merkel has been meeting with the country's prime minister now after talks with the prime minister marital stress how important relations between the two countries are despite the current situation the visit comes just

a day before poland has to officially respond to e.u. criticisms of its judicial reform. and standing by for us in warsaw as g.w. wojciech szymanski good evening to you wojciech so we know that ties between more so and berlin have been faustina ever since the right wing law and justice party came to power had you seen any of that frostiness today. well it's really frosting waltzer tonight but during the press conference from go america and polish prime minister. we didn't feel so much of that frost but to be honest it wasn't very warm and neither i believe that neither america nor did polish prime minister have any interest in escalating tensions that have been there for months merkel hasn't been much critical of poland during her press

conference for example when she was asked on this most controversial issue of rule of law in poland she has said something like well i hope that brussel we'll tell us soon dot there is some good development in that case the other important issue and she was asked if we should if the next budget of the european union should have some. impact or the fact if countries are. dealing with rule of law should this have some impact on the. on the next budget of the european union she said something like well these budget is complicated enough so let's not talk about that and we know that the polish prime minister has indicated that war so we might be prepared to make some concessions over these controversial judicial reform health serious are the signals would you say.

i don't really expect a war so to take any step back on this issue well has been. criticised through the european union for months now and it didn't really take any step back will polish prime minister said today he sees some light at the end of the tunnel but i guess polish government is only trying to wean some time for example these so-called white book which was presented in brussels just a couple of days ago it was more kind of a p r activity than really any indication that the government in or so could change its course ok our void section months kill the story for us tonight in warsaw thank you very much. well you already know that facebook is about sharing and tonight we are learning that the company is once again shared all of your personal information for political purposes and it wasn't intended to be that

way now according to a former staff member of britain's cambridge analytic up the personal data of about fifty million facebook accounts was misused during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election on facebook has announced a thorough investigation on what went wrong c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is facing some serious questions. facebook's mark zuckerberg enjoys the limelight as much as the next guy had least when the news is good but as far as the latest data scandal is concerned he's keeping a low profile more than two years ago his company discovered that cambridge analytical was using a data leaked to spy on fifty million of facebook's uses but facebook failed to inform those affected cambridge analytical was simply told to delete the data which according to media reports never happened instead facebook has opted to delete the accounts of those who brought the scandal to light people like chris wiley former

research director at cambridge analytical as part of an investigation by channel four news in the u.k. he described how the company worked a magic when i go and ask you i say hey if i give you a dollar two dollars could you fill out the survey for me just do it on this app and you say fine right i don't just capture what your responses are i capture all the information about you from facebook but also this app then crawls through your thoughtful network and captures all about data also so by you filling out my survey i capture three hundred records the users facebook friends was spied on without their consent of course their likes their gender sexual orientation and political leanings everything was gathered on friday facebook announced it had suspended cambridge analytical but that's not enough for politicians in britain and the u.s. they now want to tackle the issue and confront those responsible from facebook. and

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