factory starting march twenty fourth on g.w. . this is the w. news live from berlin combative and confident chancellor angela merkel lays out her new vision for her government to german lawmakers immigration industry criticism of the war in syria all featured prominently we'll get the details from our correspondent also coming up is this the man who got donald trump elected cambridge analytical c.e.o. aleksandr next pay the price for his part in the facebook data abuse scandal the

consultancy suspends him for boasting about using dirty tricks to swing the election. and boko haram militants free scores of girls kidnapped from their school and duck she nigeria but the extremists warn the girl's parents against ever sending their daughters to school again to go back to lagos for the latest. i'm sorry so much going to good to have you with us german chancellor angela merkel has marked the beginning of her fourth term in office with a wide ranging policy statement the chancellor addressed a number of issues including the emissions scandal surrounding the automobile industry and she also spoke about migration and islam in a contradiction of her newly appointed interior minister of course a whole for she insisted that islam had become a part of germany. it is up to no question. that historically our country is

christian but i am i am i'm right this is it's also right to say that the four and a half million muslims living in germany mean that their religion islam has not become a part of germany. let's bring in our chief political editor michelle or cooper who is in the bundestag. this was a chance or so first major policy speech since she was sworn in again as chancellor last week she did spend a good deal of time focusing on migration why is that. yes it is because as she describes the situation twenty fifteen when there was a sudden mass influx of people into germany she said that that was a magnifying glass for all the problems that already exists a problem of social cohesion you could probably still hear the applause has just come to an end she is receiving applause from all the delegates here present i dare say not from the far right if the party who of course came into this parliament in

september of for the first time on an anti maclin anti migration ticket she really rebuffed the very concept that the whole migration crisis crisis as it became known is really the source of problems here in germany she says there are differences social differences that preexisted and that this strain on the society here in germany all those institutions she said that that was just unprecedented and germany was ill prepared for it and that also together with the assurance that this would not happen again and at the very end of her speech she basically said that the aim of her now three and a half years still in office. would be to bring society closer together again to reduce those differences to see germany more as one and frankly i'm coming away from this this is the most kind of emotional almost touchy feely kind of approach to a policy outlook that i've certainly heard from the german chancellor did we hear more

about policy going forward michelle how she plans to address that issue of social cohesion. well i mean this whole coalition deal that she referenced to of course that includes some forty six billion euros that are being spent in large part on issues like schooling on health insurance a lot of domestic issues now very often when we have a government address that comes so close to it's in the run up to the you summit that we also see at the end of the week she also mainly focuses on kind of a larger concept now here she was very close to home in that sense mentioning the thousands of carers that due to be employed so a clear signal here that she has learnt from this process of these elections that she won but which one a victory that it's time to also focus on domestic issues did have used chief political editor michelle thank you very much now to some other stories making

news around the world the so-called islamic state says it is responsible for an explosion in afghanistan's capital kabul that has left at least twenty six people dead and about twenty others wounded the afghan interior ministry says a suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives on a road leading to a shiite shrine police in austin texas say the suspect in a series of bombings in the city is dead he died in an explosion as a police attempted to arrest him has been identified as a twenty four year old white man two people were killed and several wounded by five explosions in austin earlier this month. and me and mars first civilian president putin jaw has resigned saying he wants to take a rest from his current work is a close ally of de facto leader aung san suu kyi who is barred from the presidency under the constitution his office as a successor will be appointed within seven days. a british academic who created the app that harvested data on millions of facebook users says he's being used as

a scapegoat by both a social network and the political consultancy behind the data crap facebook says alexander kogan violated its policies by passing the data to cambridge analytic on the u.k. based company is now in hot water after its c.e.o. was filmed by undercover reporters boasting about the dirty tricks he uses to swing election results the center of london whoring to cambridge analytical. the firm 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 cambridge analytic is suspended next following an undercover investigation by british broadcaster channel four he was secretly filmed by repulsion posing as a client seeking to get candidates elected alexander nix outlined some dirty tricks to help things such as blackmail. we expect to.

speak to be. true. 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 its investigation whether the company illegally collected the facebook data this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app weak secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage their 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 trending on social media amid 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 of woke 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 social networks will want to celebrate it is the saviors of democracy now critics are starting to ask why the social media should be more closely regulated. and we have our social media editor jared reed with us here in our studio hi jared there's been all sorts of fallout from the scandal one of it being that one of the people who actually got rich off of facebook is now telling people to delete their accounts tell us more about this well it's brian act and he is the co-founder of the messenger service what's up which he sold to facebook in twenty fourteen for many billions of dollars now he's urging users on tweeted to cut the cord from

facebook in this tweet he says it is time hash tag delete facebook five words but a stinging blurred to his by mock zuckerberg and question lots of people are asking now to themselves and to each other should read to facebook and it's a question we are. social media community and lots of people saying look it's not really as simple as just deleting your facebook this user brian singer. wrote to us we old delete our account and then watch another social network feels the gap and we have the same or different problems the need for something like facebook will still be there a better regulation of datta seems to be the issue and another comment. on trade i'm not advocating for the deletion of your social media presence the delayed hash facebook poll to be honest given how data collection is part of every internet giant strategy for ad servicing we need to get better at giving out information

away so some pretty good points i think if you do want. go down that path what are the alternatives out there for you for facebook or clearly the reason there is a demand out there for service is similar to facebook and what we're seeing now in light of this crisis is developers pop up and trying to use this crisis to get themselves noticed one of them is called the open book challenge it's launched by a tech investor jason calacanis three off is seven teams one hundred thousand dollars to invent a better face for what he's called a bit of facebook it's unclear what he means by that facebook's basically become the world's biggest club and it's kind of hard to find alternatives we know that google plus tried and filed my space tried to make it come back and it failed and facebook sort of this convenient place where you can chat to your friends you can make video calls you can see what everyone's doing and you can you know there's a marketplace there too so it's going to be interesting to see whether developers like this guy going to be successful in launching alternatives to facebook you know

they're sort of few and far between but we have to wait and see our social media editor gerri reed gerri thank you very much now the government in nigeria says boko haram has freed seventy six of the one hundred ten girls abducted from a boarding school in northeastern nigeria a month ago the extremists are reported to have said they freed the girls out of pity and warn parents not to send girls to school they joined at the ready say the fate of the remaining thirty four girls is not clear. and we can talk to our correspondent in nigeria adrian krishna is in lagos a great you've been talking to the family with a family rather whose daughter was abducted what did they tell you. well yes i was actually there shortly after the abduction and i talked to our this morning and he was of course relieved he was where we happy and he told me yes his daughter is indeed back and then he passed the phone to his daughter and asked me

to talk to her and she sounded very tired very exhausted but of course also happy she said that she is fine and we learned from other girls they're doing their time captivity they were treated relatedly well they were given they were given drinks but also an indication that we're not of course everything is fine was that most of them were still wearing their school uniforms all the time for one month but as i said they are back now and those who are break are happy and it's not yet clear how many of them are back there one hundred ten girls where the current number that we heard was ninety one of them where returns but the government also says they're still counting they're still assessing the situation and trying to see how many of them are indeed back to what is the real reason that boko haram brought these girls back was it katie as they said nigeria's minister of information said they were released unconditionally but this is something most nigerians do not believe and it is not very likely that they would

adopt such a huge group of students and just return them without getting any sin anything in return we have had a similar case last year when dozens of the chibok girls where released and reports came out later on that the government not only paid about two million u.s. dollars for that to the terrorists but they also released some of their senor fighters and commanders and a lot of people fear that if that has happened once again with adoption girls if they have received money and fighters in return it will be yet another incentive for them to stage another attack on the community and to act another set of people . chris reporting for us from lagos adrian thank you very much. you're watching news a still to come south africa's wine producers are praying for rain a catastrophic drought threatens one of the leading wine industries worldwide.

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