and your family from caesar's and home by plying the five keys to sea for food use them you also have a role to play. this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin musters of manipulation now mired in scandal shadowy political consultancy cambridge analytical suspends its c.e.o. after undercover reporters filmed him boasting about using dirty tricks to swing elections and facebook is also under fire over reports that the consultancy illegally harvested millions of users down also coming up she's been sworn in for

a fourth term now the work begins this transfer on the american liaison her priorities for the next four years can she convince parliament that she's taking germany in the right direction. plus all international day against racism how do people in germany experience racial discrimination we meet a group of students from different backgrounds who are all won't have one thing in common the overt and casual racism they encounter on a daily basis. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. political consultancy cambridge analytic has suspended its c.e.o. alexander nix after undercover reporters filmed him boasting about the dirty tricks he could deploy to swing elections revelations came hot on the heels of an exposé

by a whistleblower who detailed how the company scraped facebook for users data then turned it against them to influence their voting patterns the center of london home to cambridge analytics. the firm's c.e.o. had a reputation for enjoying media attention but in the past few days alexander nick seemed less happy in the media spotlight. on tuesday can reach analytical suspended next following an undercover investigation by british broadcaster channel four he was secretly filmed by reported posing as a client seeking to get candidates elected alexander nix outlines and dirty tricks to help things such as blackmail. the effect to be just to. speak to the. true

picture. or entrapping politicians by filming them in compromising situations that. shortly before being suspended next told b.b.c. he was exaggerating the company's work. we. undertook this meeting and spoke with a certain amount of hyperbole about some of the things that we do but these latest accusations on the only problems dogging cambridge analysts account the company had previously bragged how to use facebook profiles to help get u.s. president donald trump elected now the u.k.'s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were

asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big dataset really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is like a bigger trending on social media and made calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year when politicians have woken up we as the public awoke it up and it's time for the tech

companies to wake up because they don't get their act together they are going to face serious repercussions. when celebrated as the savior of democracy now critics are starting to ask why the social media should be more closely regulated. correspondent barbara vessel is in the u.k. following developments there and she joins us now from london barbara the u. case information commissioner as we heard there was announced a probe related to this case what's happening with that investigation. yeah everybody here wonders why your british takes so long to give her the warrant that she needs to get into the offices of cambridge analytic which are right in the heart of london around the corner from where i'm standing on you oxford street there was a large press scrum there last night but not much to be seen alexander nix the then demoted c.e.o. sort of entering the building and then sort of disappearing into thin air so he is

gone but the problem grows by the hour is seen so far from the british side because they can't get the information the information commissioner simply doesn't have enough powers that's what everybody here is says because now cambridge analytical has had days of warning they could have wiped any server they ever used in sort of cleaned up all their left ups and i think senator nicks the c.e.o. he used to have those that in those talks with channel four that they had a self destroying e-mail system so it may even be hard to sort of find the evidence for the things that have gone on there and barbara's taken media reports investigations by channel four there to push the topic back onto the public agenda british authorities are supposed to be monitoring internet privacy why didn't they come up on this earlier. it seems quite incredible and there's no real

explanation for it because the information commissioner mitra did interviews yesterday and instead of being in the offices of cambridge and logistica she did the tour of the t.v. studios and she admitted in interviews that she had been on the case of breaches of privacy office social media for months since the spring or early summer of last year and things were moving so slowly at a crawl you might say that then finally it took the press to blow this whole thing out of the water and to sort of really do this sting on an extended aches and cambridge analytical analytical to sort of bring this into the public eye more evidence is emerging that the parent company off cambridge analytic a company called strategic communications laborde theories which has their past in the military background that this company used to work all over the world influencing elections for instance in kenya for instance in caribbean countries and

they there is evidence for that and they hadn't even government funded parts for that for those actions so the scandal grows by the day well not surprisingly barbara u.k. lawmakers have called on mark zuckerberg of facebook to testify before select committee they want to hear what he has to say about all this is he likely to comply. we don't know this but they have invited him they have given him until next week to say if and when he will come but remember rupert murdoch i mean that was he appeared and he had to appear before the parliamentary committee and that was a sort of like a crucial moment for his company so again something similar might happen was mark zuckerberg today the parliamentary committee is going to hear by video link x. employee who was a sort of compliance officer at facebook some years ago and he says that there were

no checks on privacy breaches at all at facebook that is the exact opposite from what the company says so they're starting like in the in the ranks and even we have maybe more whistleblowers coming out they are waiting for that and they have some names in the background and then of course the the main act will be a mark zuckerberg he will eventually have to come out of hiding because this old scandal is not going to go away it really plays a huge role here in britain because people are just outraged at it you know because barbara bay's all there reporting from london thank you so much all the fallout from the face book scandal of course is hitting the markets hard the company's share price has been tumbling that is right terry investors have been giving their thumbs down to facebook shares of the tech giant have lost almost ten percent over the scandal in the last couple of days wiping out tens of billions of dollars in

market value now for more let's bring in our financial correspondent now to milan in frankfurt you know with pressure from regulators increasing on facebook do investors see the company's business model question. well they do and they're obviously very worried the stock is still performing poorly in fact some investors are even suing facebook for what they call quote military materially false and misleading statements about its policies so just to put into perspective how big of a problem this is for a business we have to remember that facebook made close to forty one billion dollars in revenue last year on the bulk of online ads and this was expected to grow to fifty five billion this year with the main question question being how to optimize a video ads and look how far we've come from that discussion regulators are expected to take apart that advertising model as we know it some analysts are saying that this could cost facebook up to five billion dollars in ad revenue annually but the

final figure of course will depend on what regulators will be satisfied with in the end will they be satisfied to with increased investments in security in screening mechanisms and content in ad content so that's really hard to say for now so many here would hesitate to say that this is the this is the death of a profitable business model but perhaps it would herald the stop of a model that seemed to be endlessly growing for a really long time and you know a lot of companies in silicon valley rely heavily on their customers. what do the most recent developments mean to their business model well clearly we have one of those situations where the competitors aren't really benefiting from a hit to specific company because they're all in a similar boat so to say so we've seen twitter's stock for example stumble more stumble past the ten percent mark also closing in the red so the thing is it's been

going so long it's going to be it's been going so well for so long for tech companies that their growth outpace the capacity to regulate and this is something that will catch up to all of them as a sector as we can see now another one on reporting from frankfurt general thank you. i'll have more business for you later in the show the world including the latest on the brewing trade war on both sides of the atlantic for now back to terry oh thanks. it's catch up on some other stories making headlines today the israeli military has acknowledged it destroyed a suspected syrian nuclear reactor in two thousand and seven although israel was widely believed to have been behind the airstrike it had never before commented publicly on it the defense ministry now says the operation eliminated a major threat and that current turmoil in syria has further indicated the strike. be on mars first civilian president putin jaw has resigned saying he wants to take

a rest from his current work he's a close ally of defacto leader aung san suu kyi who is barred from the presidency under the constitution hootin jaws' office says a successor will be appointed within seven days. and twenty three russian diplomats who were ordered out of britain over the poisoning of an expiry i arrived in moscow this morning the diplomats the u.k. prime minister theresa may said were spies have been given a week to leave. them police in the us say the explosion on tuesday evening that injured one man in a charity shop in texas austin texas was not a package bomb attacks and capital is on edge after a series of recent parcel bombs in the area that killed two people. twenty chancellor angela merkel is due to lay out her government's plans for the next four years in an address to parliament today and so after being sworn in last week for a fourth term lawmakers will be watching with interest after months of wrangling to

forward government many in parliament are still on happy it with the result a grand coalition between michael's conservatives and social democrats basically a repeat of last legislative period now it's up to medical to win their confidence . she spec after the longest coalition negotiations in decades. chancellor for a fourth term she can look ahead to some challenges. the new government's plans for the coming term take up one hundred seventy seven pages the coalition agreement devotes its opening chapter to europe and also references the e.u. and its title that's a first never taken such priority. meanwhile he's been waiting patiently for a german partner before forging ahead with his own plans for europe french president . the eurozone to have its own budget and finance minister germany hasn't taken a final stance but is prepared to spend more money. on the pos

germany and france have achieved a great deal working together. committed to doing so in the future as well. the new government is also facing challenges on the domestic front with initiatives on education pensions and digitization including a major expansion of broadband internet. one of the toughest tasks ahead is not spelled out in the coalition agreement but looms large nonetheless germany's new government is determined to prevent a trade war with the us. many are concerned about the prospect of a possible trade war global jitters there with trolls planned import tariffs looming that's right those levies on steel and aluminum are set to go into effect on friday now members of the world trade association have been meeting in india

ahead of the deadline they've been warning of the dangers that unilateral trade measures could break. india's secretary of commerce and industry soroush prabhu delivered his concluding remarks after a two day informal w t o meeting of nearly fifty countries in new delhi he didn't mention the united states by name but it was clear who he was referring to has always been important but now is because you want important considering that he said that you know that nothing. that i do you know lightly except in action long don't harm everybody therefore if you must ensure that the keep the global data which benefits our look at this. director general roberto azevedo said recent you know lateral trade measures could escalate tensions we heard today many many countries saying we have a concern with this there is a potential for his coalition we have to proceed very carefully and try to work

within the framework of the. the comments came as the deputy o. is set for a stormy meeting on friday when the united states china and the european union will be among those airing their grievances about each other's trade policies. and with the most recent agreement on a transition period the european union and britain may have taken a decisive step towards the ukase withdrawal from the block but potential pitfalls remain take dribble to the colony on spain's saw the southernmost tip belongs to britain but voted almost unanimously against bracks it it's governor continues to insist that any breaks the deal must take to baltar's special status into consideration and gibraltar its economy is looking for solutions as well. it's lunchtime here in the restaurant world trade center and anyone eating here who wants to pay with crypto currency bitcoin no problem speed transactions easy

transactions of people taking back control of their own money away from. banks and governments and i think it's definitely the way of things moving. this man is determined to be part of that future gibraltar's finance minister has made sure that his country is probably the first in the world to regulate block chains like technology that will shape daily life in the future from insurance to buying music online. we want to promote safe good quality business with consumer protection in mind but at the same time to promote innovation to happen from. action the regulations were brought in in january sparking the interest of companies and countries worldwide these two london based investors came here recently as part of a fin tech conference to check things out. eighty travel and malcolm paul spent the conference looking for new business ideas they're considering opening an office here soon you need protection you need we need rules to follow so that's what is

very special is that you brought us created this and he has attracted experts that attracted intrapreneur structed lawyers specialists in the area so it's a great way to actually gather the right people the right skills to develop your company in this space gibraltar's economy has been transformed radically over the past few decades as a way of surviving and now there's block chain technology and because that pays no heed to national borders it could mean that gibraltar can rest easy even after brics it. is back to terry now and efforts to tackle an old problem that's been making gains in recent unfortunately every day on. all over the world people suffer discrimination because of the color of their skin their nationality or ethnic origin racism xenophobia and intolerance affect millions to draw attention to the problem the un has declared today international day for the elimination of racial

discrimination now the day commemorates the massacre in the township of short hill in south africa on the twenty first of march nine hundred sixty thousands gathered to protest against the country's racist apartheid laws police opened fire on the crowd sixty nine black people were killed and one hundred eighty wounded many were shot in the back as they tried to flee nearly sixty years later much has changed in south africa and the rest of the world but racism persists in two thousand and seventeen last year united nations warned that racism is on the rise in countries like the u.s. and australia this was the scene last summer you may recall in charlottesville virginia a closer to home the picture is much the same far right parties are on the rise in europe and britain for example experienced a spike in racist hate crime after the break. now

throughout the day and we're looking at how racism is affecting different regions in the world first we'll take a look at russia we're joined now by alexander effect costy the director of the sofa center for information and analysis in moscow that's a nonprofit organization that monitors nationalism and racism in russia thanks for talking with us can you tell us more about the work you do related to race. we have been his asian so we mostly collect information on most brutal forms all for racism and discrimination i mean hate crimes. groups related to incitement to hatred and such things and also the measure of a garment takes to counteract that. and we prepare reports try to educate. for more effective as recent this here ok what does your

research show how big of a problem is racism in russia oh oh yes it's a problem but it depends on which forms we are talking. in previous years we had a huge problem with violent hate crimes in the us time. around two thousand and eight. two thousand and nine we. knew more than honda people killed and nearly on a basis all racist and or related hatred bought last year it now goes better there are less and less of such hate crimes thanks to the full name but there are some other circumstances but it should tone to discrimination to every day discrimination it's still a serious problem for example it's very easy if you look at public announcement all

given should ask for and it's just not almost to see that given issue at all only to slavic people slighted family something like that nobody even is ashamed to write it that. people didn't see the. ok who are the typical victims of racism then in russia how does it manifest itself among which groups primarily. mostly people shoreham central asia are affected. both because they are. different let's say and many of them he corruption not so good and also they own the social the social level of most of these migrant workers most of them are migrant workers you saw the low so they have twice as ethnically different and

as people on the low social status. there are many problems most here in guiding to communication and the air aleisha and shapes in on labor. ok thank you so much we were talking there with alexander is director of the so the center for information and analysis in moscow thanks for talking with us three well here in germany human rights activists say racism is often seen as a historical problem associated with the nazi era but for people of color living here today racism can be an everyday experience as we hear in the next report. to germans to foreigners they all share an apartment in germany each of them has experienced racism. each of them fights in his or her own way to feel like they

belong. to a laundry lawn co has given up being accepted in germany a few years ago he was visiting a friend on his way back to the apartment a neighbor in the stairwell brutally pushed and beat him he thought laundry was a burglar because of his skin color. i was really angry if i were german he wouldn't have asked me why i was there it would have been completely normal. laundries roommates have not experienced physical violence but they heard many a racial slur and one question over and over again. is in hockey hold they just see the color of my skin and immediately ask which country i come from they label me as a foreigner as if i didn't belong here in germany who. it's war says like this man's which sure a prejudice and marchin allies people andre poken bird from the right wing party

alternative for germany. with the rise of right wing populists the debate over foreigners has intensified the flatmate say the question of where they come from is being asked more and more frequently off by that so much that wasn't the case in the past. for example when i lived in cologne at parties when i met new people they didn't care about my skin color or ask me where i was from and i was just like them but how do you know . the four emphasize their similarities they don't want other people to dictate to them who belongs in germany. i know i'm german but i've also experienced things that maybe someone who only

knows germany can't imagine and that's why i see myself more as a german plus. but laundry line co has had enough of not being accepted after his studies he plans to leave the flat and return to his homeland in cameroon. and we have some breaking news just coming in an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has killed at least twenty six people and wounded about twenty others that's according to the interior ministry the explosion comes as afghans start celebrating the persian new year holiday. the explosion i'm told took place near a shiite shrine in kabul. we're getting more details on this story as they become available you are watching v.w. news from berlin we have a another bulletin for you at the top of the next hour thanks for being with us.

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