this is d.w. news from berlin tonight masters of manipulation dealers in deceit the boast of one man called on camera the shadow of political consultancy cambridge analytic suspended c.e.o. alexander nix after undercover reporters filmed him boasting about using dirty tricks to swing elections the company already faces accusations of data abuse gleaned illegally from facebook also coming up tens of thousands of syrians fleeing

eastern ghouta as resistance to the government crumbles the un saying tonight it is deeply concerned about the fate of civilians there and elsewhere in the country and somebody has to be responsible somebody has to be accountable and we in the u.k. think that the. evidence points the evidence or culpability points to the russian state boris johnson tells g w news who's behind the poisoning of a former spy that as the u.k. to expose russian diplomats and a sad day for conservationists the world's last male northern white rhino dies in kenya only two females remain go away asked hope against the species extinction.

i bring golf it's good to have you with us there trick they said was making their work not look like propaganda now though the political consultancy cambridge analytic well they've been called al they've suspended the c.e.o. alexander nix after undercover reporters filmed him boasting about the dirty tricks money tramp's that he could deploy to swing elections the revelations come hot on the heels of an exposé by a whistleblower who detailed held the company scraped facebook for users data then turned that data against them to influence their behavior at the ballot box. cambridge analytic is coming under increasing scrutiny an undercover reporter posing as a middleman for a sri lankan businessman met with the head of the company he claimed his boss wanted help in getting his preferred candidates elected to office came each analysts ago offer to entrap their opponents what is the expertise of the people to

get it into to office. to get the true picture let's go to a source of tactics they're effective instantly. period that corruption. some credit cambridge analytical with winning the election for u.s. president donald trump by collecting data and profiling photos that help his message target those most likely to vote for him. at the weekend a former employee blew the whistle on its activities he said the company illegally harvested the private data of millions of american voters. we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months facebook is also under pressure amid accusations it's being careless with people's personal data or the other data breaches that we don't know about how effective off facebook actually stopping people taking data from their

platform in the united states and in europe calls are growing louder for greater accountability and regulation on the internet. you know these are huge questions to be answered to help us go through the facebook minefield here of the big tables or social media the gerrard rejiggered it's good to see you so the story is moving fast and i bring us up to speed on what's the latest well basically this story hinges on what happens to your data after facebook gets it so it appears from what we're saying that facebook isn't doing a good enough job of safeguarding the data because as a way hearing in these reports it appears that a company hired by a trump's campaign somehow got the dodder of up to fifteen million people and then as it's. an alleged used it to develop software to target voters with stories and with ads and we don't know that people are saying will influence the election that something we don't know are you one thing that we do know is that. the facebook c

hasn't spoken personally about that yet and there are calls for that to change by a number of lawmakers including. is a prominent european parliament politician he's tweeted when is going to explain what happened with. the data breach is an absolute scandal the european parliament must start an investigation i'll keep you updated about our progress and from dianne feinstein who's the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee in the u.s. news reports of cambridge analytical abuse of private facebook data to influence the twenty six day election is very disturbing the senate judiciary committee needs to fully investigate the matter so all we've heard from facebook so far is the statement denying any wrongdoing and also kind of laying the burden of responsibility on these uses these two hundred seventy thousand users who are in the very beginning downloaded or gave this. personality

access to their profile what they didn't know is there were two hundred seventy spiraled to become fifty million because these people probably didn't realize that they were giving this access to their friends list and their information to have someone on the show last night saying that it was in the fine print with the people agreed to but no one reads the fine print anyway users however they've been reacting to these stunning reports at the moment delete facebook is a hash tag that's trending not on facebook but on twitter people saying look this is outrageous i'm going to delayed my account you have to keep in mind that of course some people are going to delay their facebook accounts but i would wager the vast majority. not going to do that you know a friend of mine actually sums it out really well he posted in a facebook post today it's become such a controlling part of my life talking about facebook but i can't really give it up so i mean this situation where i feel controlled by this platform that i don't

really like anymore and that i don't trust anymore and i think a lot of people feel like that if they're not angry at least about what's happened they're probably just a bit creeped out that this is how or they feel trip what you like your friend was saying so if you're going to stay with facebook what can you do to safeguard yourself briefly you need to understand that your daughter is the basis of facebook and just because you're not paying for facebook with money doesn't mean it's not free is how you pay for it so keep your privacy settings and you know really tight controls and just be vigilant. be aware of what it is you're posting and sharing with the world to begin with as always thank you very much. well tonight the united nations says it is deeply concerned about the civilians fleeing from the crumbling rebel enclave of eastern go to in syria government forces are clearing out the last pockets of resistance in the area which is near the capital damascus that as the

country's civil war inters a grim terminal phase. the u.n. calls it hell on earth. and these pictures from the syrian white helmets are full of the evidence of that. the organization says they show a government airstrike on eastern ghouta the rebel held region just outside the capital damascus. the footage documents volunteers as they rushed into uncertain territory. some of the victims they find it's too late. others lucky enough to be discovered under the rubble. we don't know yet. out of the gulf war well. meanwhile refugees are still leaving their homes in the northern town of freeing.

the united nations estimates over one hundred thousand people have been uprooted here as they flee the fighting between kurdish rebels and turkey's own forces. there now trapped in rural areas outside offering and didn't desperate need of humanitarian aid. we are alarmed by the deepening of the humanitarian crisis in syria as fierce fighting in eastern goods out little damascus and often in the country's northwest causes massive new displacement at least in groups or alone more than forty five thousand syrians have fled their homes in recent days even h.c.r. is responding to gents humanitarian needs on the ground but we are today retreating for the protection and safety as as well. a full on hand it's continued humanitarian access to both the new displaced and to hundreds of thousands of civilians still trapped by fierce fighting and dying need of eight. for the injured to fail to escape makeshift clinics like this one are

a final solution in their daily struggle for survival. but here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salomon has kicked off a high profile three week tour of the united states first star washington d.c. to meet president donald trump the american president praised what he called a quote great friendship with the saudi crown prince who in turn held ties between washington and riyadh harvey weinstein's former company has filed for bankruptcy months after the oscar winning producer was accused of with any that. authorities in the u.s. state of texas are investigating the fifth bombing this month in the state's capital often the latest blast occurred when a parcel exploded at a fed ex distribution facility near the city police suspect a serial bomber is behind the explosions there is explosions have killed two people

and injured several others. russian diplomats expelled by the u.k. are on a flight back to moscow tonight of this as international weapons inspectors begin analyzing samples of the nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in the english city of solsbury russia has hit back at those allegations saying britain is behind the attack the kremlin is condemning all accusations demanding either evidence or an apology. a bitter farewell for russia's expelled diplomats in london followed from the diplomatic standoff. as russia demands proof or an apology the british military scaring out forensic tests on the car used by staircase people's daughter after she came from moscow to earlier this month. hours after yulia st paul arrived in salisbury she was found unconscious on this bench alongside her father scientists

at this bio chemical weapons facility say they were poisoned with a nerve agent nova chop this finding is now central in britain's case against russia but a direct link to the remains elusive. correspondence on a number of us sat down with british foreign minister boris johnson didn't have any solid evidence that poor had directly ordered it because what he said is the most direct accusation of russia's leader that ever is somebody has to be responsible somebody has to be accountable and we in the u.k. think that the. evidence points the evidence or culpability points to the russian state and as it did in the case of alexander litvinenko when you remember the trail of polonium led back very clearly to the russian state and in the end. mr putin is in charge and that is you know that i'm afraid he cannot escape responsibility and

cope ability both putin himself and those around him have stanched lee deny these allegations. sooner or later these unsubstantiated allegations will have to be answered they will either need to be backed up with something with some evidence or they'll need to apologize. to. chemical weapons experts in the u.k. are testing samples of the toxic substance used on the street piles the results will not be known for at least two weeks. well more we want to bring in our correspondent barbara faisal she's on the story for us tonight in london good evening to you barbara moscow asked one to back up its claims with evidence but apparently those tests are far from done does that mean that the brits don't have any real evidence so far. no they don't really because as we

heard the weapons inspectors need another two weeks to determine whether this type of navi talk is exactly the same kind that has been earlier earlier times sort of made up in russian labs and also the police finds it much harder to trace the way the took into the country then it was some years ago in the libyan and case because they're the polonium left sort of like clear trace evidence and eventually these traces lead back to two x. k.g.b. killers however this time it's much more difficult and what boris johnson the foreign minister has to offer all of it is just reverse or inverse evidence it could have been anybody else but putin so it must have been him the british prime minister has met with her security team to discuss more possible measures against russia so are we are we going to see new sanctions any time soon.

no you won't because three's may has held off for the reprisals the reason for that is quite simple she finds herself relatively isolated internationally if you listen to president to president trump today who sort of congratulated like a bit putin and wished him well for his future and his political career then you know and he didn't even mention saulsbury then you know that there's no help coming from the united states also there was another congress relation also very unwelcome in london from e.u. commission chief. congratulating putin straight out a lot of criticism against those these congress relations however the reason may sees that she really doesn't have a lot in her back the. foreign minister has said sort of more or less half hearted yes we're with you however there are no more sanctions and the british prime

minister doesn't dare to escalate this crisis all on her own and all sort of by herself because she knows in the end she she couldn't really sustain it our correspondent barbara biggs on the story for us tonight from london barbara thank you very much. it is over to javier now in european efforts to avoid oh yes fresh tariffs on exports to the u.s. that's another big conflict that is unfolding right now brant for sure the dispute over these punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum that donald trump plans to introduce is at the top of the agenda is this week now the european union is trying to change the mind of the trump administration a look at the facts and figures shows that the tariffs that the e.u. imposes on u.s. products are on average higher than the other way around let's take a look at that now the u.s. for example imposes levies of around five point two percent. or rather the other way around the e.u. imposes lives of five point two percent on average while the u.s.

imposes lower tariffs of three point five percent of goods coming from the european union now the e.u. slaps particularly heavy tolls on beef coming from the united states the amount for that is around sixty eight percent that's a lot now if you take a look at the other way around the u. for example has to pay levies a forty nine percent or twenty two percent or the us rather when it comes to products coming from the european union now experts say that leveling the playing field by reducing import duties to the same lower figure makes more sense than to begin a new upward protectionism spiral. life can be tough full foreign companies in china this little security for intellectual property and technology transfers are regularly demanded of all who want to do business there those are the main complaints but beijing is having none of it at the end of the annual parliament session and during the current trade conflict china's premier spoke of his country's welcoming economic culture or china will continue to safeguard free trade

and the reform and open up policy which is our basic state policy if there were any change at all to china's open door policy it would just be to open it wider china's economy has been so integrated with the world that closing our door would block our own development. furthermore all companies in china should receive a fair chance and everyone foreign businesses included should work to the same rules china sees itself as a pioneer of free open trade but is that will just talk only recently the federation of german industry complained about the communist party's tightening grip on businesses in china exactly the opposite of beijing's stance or at least its official one. let's cross over now two years caught at the new york stock exchange because the markets were nervous about these tariffs at the beginning of the week but it wasn't that much of

a topic today. you know we're waiting for friday what's going to happen then right now we did see the market recover a little bit on tuesday after the dollar lost a good three hundred points on monday and now on tuesday we recovered by a good one hundred points old so tomorrow the today a fed meeting comes to an end so that's also in the back of traders minds even if traders see one hundred percent chance that we will see a slight interest rate increase on wednesday's meeting but what keeps moving the stock prices yes is the facebook misuse of data what can we see today in the markets. what we hear is that the. dia federal trade commission is starting an investigation and theoretically then they can find facebook by as much as two trillion dollars even if that is highly unlikely because the f.t.c.

is not going to find a facebook out of business what we also hear is that cambridge analytics suspended the c.e.o. after you cut brought broadcast a secretly recorded him saying the company used bribes and sex workers to and trip politicians so that obviously was too much for the stock of facebook by the way it was another down day after losing about seven percent on monday this stock dropped another two and a half percent on tuesday we'll keep following that case with you thank you very much in new york for the analysis. over to venezuela now a country racked by hyper inflation the value of the believe out of the currency of the country has plummeted prices are doubling almost monthly and cash is in short supply in a search for solutions the country has raised wages and even turned to a digital currency now one town near the colombian border has come up with its own

enterprising solution. looking for a currency more stable than the boulevard how about the lords that's the new bill being printed by a venezuelan town of the same name city offices are selling it to coincide with a local festival that's drawing thousands of tourists with cash hard to come by the lords offers another system for buying goods the notes can be purchased cashless with a bank transfer the city then lops off an eight percent commission the notes come in fifty thousand and one hundred thousand denominations some have a picture of local independence leader jose andres a lot early reviews are positive. this is the perfect solution and you could just see how easy it was to get the notes and then come here and buy things easily. it's hardly a perfect solution many residents lack bank accounts and the reach of the lord is limited to its namesake city venezuela's poor economy is pervasive meanwhile the

central bank has responded by printing more money something critics say is only boosting inflation. that means the celebration will be brief or lord but a celebration nonetheless. it's a never ending story in venezuela and here's another never ending story it seems like fox bargains woes will continue forever the carmaker has confirmed that state prosecutors searched its voice spoke headquarters again in early march as part of an ongoing investigation into its diesel emissions cheating scandal public prosecutors on tuesday also raided rival car maker b m w's munich headquarters and offices in austria b.m.w. confirmed the raid saying prosecutors were looking into iran your sleep allocated software and more than eleven thousand luxury diesel models last month b.m.w. recall thousands of cars to fix engine management software saying it discovered that the wrong programming had been installed. that's all from the business desk

but that attitude of car makers here really cancer present in more breast meat it's not news that's for sure thank you very much. of the world has lost the last northern white rhino he died in a kenyan conservatory his caretakers say that they had to euthanize the white rhino after a sudden decline in his health now the very survival of the species depends on the only two remaining females the life of the northern white rhino can be a lonely one. the last remaining male of the species has died aged forty five intensive poaching has significantly reduced numbers scientists even turned to dating apps in an attempt to raise awareness and enough money to pay for a nine million dollar fertility treatment the kenyan conservation a-list looking after sudan held a tribute ceremony after his death just

a few weeks ago they hoped he would recover from an infection but sudan's condition had deteriorated rapidly we started the procedure of euthanasia to saddam to see. extensive pain of suffering. and also with holding extreme procedures to not have. better life for him. sue dunn leaves behind his daughter not jean and her daughter fought to the last two northern white rhinos locked up for their own protection. because. the extent of human greed and what sort of impact human nature with experts warning extinction is now more a case of when instead of if conservationists hope it's not lights out for these giant grazers. well to gonna wear some women are dreaming

of sporting success in the melbourne dating game of rugby now in doing so they're not only hoping to turn their country into a future rugby force they're also breaking down traditional gender roles. when these young women could be stars in the future but first things first the training is basic barefoot on a sandy pitch learning the sport for the first time. son had only seen rugby on t.v. before getting the chance to play they made the beginners but their goals are sky high. those. who feel inspired to. reckon hearts are worth it by. now we know that one of. the gun a rugby football association is focusing on muslim girls for

a reason. cited today strongly schools in no doubt. oh they think you know that they run for ladies gals for everybody what they say mostly. everybody comes. with the help of world rugby he's get into rugby program gonna is making the sport no longer just a man's game. all right here's a reminder the top story that we're following for you the political consultancy and data mining company cambridge analytic has suspended c.e.o. alexander nicks after he was filmed offering to use dirty tricks to swing elections this as the company faces allegations that misused facebook users users data in an effort to influence their voting patterns russian diplomats expelled by the u.k. have arrived in moscow and they've been kicked out of britain after the attempted

murder. former double agent which the government says the hallmarks of a russian. break i'll be back to take you through the day in london washington demanding answers from facebook tonight what is the berlin demanding stay with us.

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