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this is deja vu news live from berlin facebook's boss breaks his silence admitting that they made mistakes mark zuckerberg says he's sorry about his company's handling of the cambridge analytical privacy scandal but is it enough to prevent an exit from facebook also coming up an emotional homecoming dozens of kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls return home from boko haram captivity but the extremists warn their parents don't try educating your daughters again over we'll be back with a teenager raped and murdered by an asylum seeker germy await the verdict in
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a murder case that has sparked serious debate over migration. also coming up we're turning to normality after years of islamic state occupation celebrations as the first school reopens in mosul's old town it's just one stop on the iraqi cities long road to recovery. and a fish farm of the future products are used to grow vegetables as part of a self-sustaining operation could it be a solution to drought well to the teenager behind it. i'm serious almost on a good to have you with us we made mistakes that's what facebook boss mark zuckerberg has said in response to the data scandal involving his company and the data mining firm cambridge analytic in a statement on his facebook profiles michael berg apologized and promised users a new feature to. turnoffs third party apps apps which came with analytical
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allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an innocent passion ology quiz and ended up with the data of fifty million facebook profiles being used to sway elections now the question is why did facebook academic research to end up in the hands of political consultants paid to win the night u.s. election the scientist behind the craze says he is a scapegoat. you know what their interest was no i mean. i was pretty heavily siloed of anything us forest fund clients i found out about donald trump just like everybody else or to give people more options than just like facebook founder mark zuckerberg broke days of silence on the scandal and met in the company had made mistakes. i started facebook and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what
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happens on our platform we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward. he promised to make it easier for users to manage their privacy settings. even saw from europe to the united states lawmakers are demanding answers from the man at the helm. wouldn't it be great for him to show up like most americans do want to have to testify as to the practices of his company he can make millions of dollars in the united states and around the world but at least you want to respect our laws added to a plummeting share price and threats of legal action from investors. has much to think about but perhaps the biggest concern is loss of trust. when weird things show my face go down like i that's exactly why i just been searching the internet kind of freaks me out a little worried about what he's doing with my information of course and his last
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information to go through the process makes is feeding us stronger. the more that a marriage is the more questions my going to buy one company's role in data protection and democracy. and we can talk to technology analyst charlene lee from the ultimate are group there a text research and consultancy company and she joins us from san francisco charlene good to have you on our program what do you make of this apology from mark zuckerberg is the only saying this because his company got caught i think he's great sincere in trying to do the right thing first of all he has a long history of having made previous mistakes of on privacy and has always come clean in many ways about what they did wrong and also what they wanted to wait i think is this time ago that the breach was so big and it happened so many years ago that the question becomes how much more damage has been done and so the question now is a lot of cleanup the facebook hassidic arrow and today is just the first step that
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mark a second part of that cleanup is new security and privacy measures that mark zuckerberg is promising including turning off third party apps for example do you think that's going to be enough. it's a start but i think more than anything else there's one thing that they cannot control which is what do people with that data already what can they do with that the problem of the kibosh analytical is that this book tried to make sure with legal certifications that they had gotten rid of all of that data and they took it on good faith but when you have bad actors you have to do more than just depend on faith you have to actually go in and verify that the data is clean and these are down as is and thousands of application developers all around the world who have been sitting on this day there for the past three years and who knows who else has that data at this point we're seeing facebook come under a lot of scrutiny from american and british governments at this point do you think
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facebook will be open to a stricter regulation well i think first of all other be open to having those discussions there are calls for it mark zuckerberg and his team to show up and come to hearings all around the world and he's going to have to go through every single one of those at least to be able to respond to the questions that people have i am skeptical though about how good regulations can be in terms of making sure that facebook does these things because i think this book is going to have a higher standard for themselves and be faster moving than any government could ever dare the number one thing that pays for cassatt repair is trust and they will do that faster and better in many ways than any government entity could be able to do it trust is important for the users surely in the delete facebook campaign does seem to be gaining some traction how much damage can it do here. i think first of all that this one is the latest in a series that been around for many years out there have been previous campaigns
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every thing from facebook became back in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight even to the current day so i do think that many friends who have actually written to me and sat i've done i'm not i wasn't using it very much i don't need this off of facebook but the reality is that many people still rely on it and buy in tremendous value from it so i think you're going to see people do leaving facebook on the fringes and the question becomes how will that damage the way that people use it every single day where people be just a little more hesitant use it just a little bit less all that curative the fact of people using it less will impact their business model and their practices tremendously shirley leaf from the ultimatum group in san francisco thank you so much for joining us thanks for having me now to some other stories making news around the world french prosecutors have reportedly charge former president nicolas sarkozy over
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a list of the campaign financing that's according to french judicial sources sarkozy faces allegations that he accepted millions of euros in campaign financing from the late libyan dictator moammar gadhafi in two thousand and seven peruvian president pedro public has offered his resignation it comes just before an impeachment vote improves congress that was set for later today has faced multiple allegations of dishonesty and corruption he denies the accusations but said he was resigning in an effort to maintain unity in the country. two american tourists have died in australia's great barrier reef region after the helicopter they were travelling and crashed into the ocean near the with sunday islands police said the bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from the helicopter and pronounced dead at the scene. now it's a homecoming no one was expecting in nigeria the islamist group boko haram has freed most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls that they snatched from the town of dop ci
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a month ago but their act of clemency came with a chilling warning to parents don't try sending your daughters to school again or we will be back our correspondent do increase as this report. there were no limits to the jubilation in dempsey. to the complete surprise of local residents a convoy of pickup trucks out into the town on wednesday morning and released dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. many of them however are still in shock. why was that. we don't know why they brought us back out but they told us when muslims and we share the same faith so they didn't want us to suffer they didn't molest us or subject us to any kind of sexual harassment but they kept one of the girls on religious grounds when she's a christian and refused to renounce her religion and that is that. the parents of the return girls can hardly believe their luck with some of them even fainting. and
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yeah why am i how i oh i was crying if you guys back but today i am laughing and feeling happy for the release of our girls and that oh i saw with my own eyes how the insurgents drove into town this morning with the girls they were waving the flag and telling people not to run away as they were coming in peace then it is time to let. one hundred ten schoolgirls were kidnapped and up she last month for weeks that desperate parents receive no news of their fate the government of president how do bihari has come under massive pressure for its slow reaction to the kidnapping and its failure to protect local schools. and christian joins us now from lagos for more on this story hi adam some of the more than one hundred girls are still unaccounted for do you have any news on what has happened to them. about five to six of the girls
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are still unaccounted for and the government hasn't given any a reason why this is the case all we know is the reports home by witnesses some of the girls said the day of the abduction their way all packed on to pick ups and some sort of accident happened and allegedly five of them diets and also we had in the report before one of the girls is still with the terrorist because she is a christian and she refused to give up on her religion i didn't why did to boko haram decide to release the majority of these girls. or less the big question here right now the government claims that there was no condition attached to the release by the not of nigerians do not believe that the government said the very same thing last year when dozens of the chibok girls you might recall almost three hundred girls were abducted in two thousand and fourteen and dozens of them were released last year and the government also said there was no money paid later on some internal sources within the government confirm that about two million u.s. dollars where the consequences of course would not be another incentive for the
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terrorists to raid another community and another set of people i do a book around release these girls with a message to not send your girls to school again or we will be back how are people there reacting to that warning are they going to listen to that message well of course this kind of message is a catastrophe for the entire region education has been a major issue in the northern part of the country for long and when the abductions happened i went to deputy to the village shortly afterwards to talk to some of the parents and that's the question i asked them will you actually send your kids to school again if they come back and most of them told me no we're scared the government cannot take care of the security of our children why would we send them back to school so this message is very very scary and might have very severe consequences in the long run for the entire region. reporting for us from lagos thank you hadrian. now here in germany
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a trial that has sparked a debate over the government's migration policies is due to end today a teenage girl was raped and murdered and the accused is a migrant who came to germany at the height of the migration crisis critics of chancellor angela merkel say he was only able to enter the country because she decided to suspend border controls today judges deliver their verdict. it was here that medical student maria l. was killed. she was on her way back from a party when someone pushed her off her bike sexually assaulted her and threw her into the river. the main suspect named only as hussein kay came to germany as a refugee and he claims to be just sixteen years old the authorities said he was much older in court he confessed to the killing a mental health assessment found hussein kay fit to stand trial now the prosecution
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say he should be sentenced as an adult and they want a life sentence. it emerged that he already had a conviction for attempted murder after leaving afghanistan he went to the greek island of course food where he attacked a woman pushing her off a sea wall she was severely injured but survived for that hussein kay was sentenced to ten years in prison but he was released after two years on the condition that he register regularly with local authorities instead he fled to germany and in time that's another find them home to get unfortunately the greek authorities did not launch an international search. if they had the suspect would have been identified during routine checks. of. one of the open questions at least has been answered a medical examination showed that he was not a teenager but at least twenty two at the time of the killing if convicted he could
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be in prison for more than twenty years. our political correspondent kate brady has been following this story for us hi kate critics say that this crime could have been prevented if there were sufficient border checks how is the government responded to well anglo-american made it clear from day one and she said that this crime should not be utilized to target an entire group of people in this case asylum seekers and one of the main concerns of the government is how and why european police failed to actually trace the defendant of course we know from that report that the defendant did in fact push a different woman over the edge of a cliff in greece back in two thousand and thirteen he was in fact sentenced to ten years in jail but released after two years and after he went off the radar grace actually only. set out a national manhunt not an international manhunt and that is what germany has is
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they have pointed the finger then at greek authorities but of course the defendant did arrive in germany at the height of what's now become known as the refugee crisis when germany so authorities were really overwhelmed would be quite an understatement and so there are have been questions as well of how the german authorities dealt with this huge influx of migrants back then you know this case triggered a huge backlash didn't it tell us more about that exactly one of the most vocal backlash is of course came from the far right a day that the alternative a german a party and they. they openly used this case for their own political gain highlighting that view at least that many migrants supposedly refused to be integrated and are supposedly prone to attacking germans and we even saw last year a small group of a.f.c.
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supporters actually protesting outside the first day of the trial and the case also brought up more debate about german law which of course protects minors of minor asylum seekers when they first arrive in germany and so under eighteen's actually have better chance of receiving full refugee status regardless of their country of origin but there were questions that were brought up about his age were there exactly so at the time of his arrest he said that he was seventeen years old and since then juices and evidence he had to to thank structed back in two thousand and sixteen police now saying authorities now think that he is around the age of twenty six now this makes a big difference in this case as if you was seventeen years old at the time of the crime as he first suggested then he would have been tried as a juvenile and would face up to ten years in prison but instead he will now be tried as an adult and faces a sentence a life sentence which in germany is that really only fifteen years for the
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prosecution are actually pushing for him to actually be sentenced to life imprisonment and then preventive detention ok now part of the backlash was also about the media reporting on this case explain that to us that they were this was similar accusations this what we saw after those sexual harassment sexual violation attacks in cologne back at the new year in two thousand and fifteen and there were some accusations that there was media bias and one of those examples was day one of germany's public broadcast is that they didn't in fact report this case initially but they did say of course that it was at the time a very local story and so that was their reasoning behind that all right a very controversial case here in germany our political correspondent kate brady thank you very much. you're
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watching news still to come germany's soccer team is limbering up for its world cup and warm up match against spain can they beat the tournaments other favorites. because i think. now the face of the federal reserve board may be new but it's most recent decision felt on the air like his predecessor new chairman jerome powell has announced a short term interest rate increase by a quarter of a percentage point essentially raising the cost of borrowing money in the united states now the move is seen as another vote of confidence in the country's economic recovery pauwels message is that the fundamentals of the u.s. economy are on a positive course the job market remains strong the economy continues to expand and inflation appears to be moving toward the form seems two percent longer run in gold the quarter point rise is the fourth in the span of a year and it continues the fed's move away from recession era trend of cheap
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borrowing to encourage stimulus another rate increase was widely expected by markets although some observers wondered if powell might speed up the timeline of bringing rates back up power places former chairwoman janet yellen following his nomination by president trump last year but as powell made clear the latest rate hike continues the work of his predecessor. is gradual process has been underway for more than two years and it has served and should continue to serve the economy well and the board is unlikely to change course soon to more quarter percent hikes are expected this year. steadily raised interest rates as its economy has been improving in recent years the picture looks much different in the eurozone where the economic recovery has been slower to take hold consequently the european central bank has taken a different path than the u.s. federal reserve it's kept its key interest rate at zero which you can see here and
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that is unlikely to change soon however in january is to be president mario draghi have its bond buying program from sixty to thirty billion euros a month the e.c.b. pledged a gradual withdrawal of these so-called quantitative easing to smooth the return without rattling financial markets now european authorities continue to crack down on tax evasion and have not announced concrete measures against tech giants like apple and google they will now have to pay more and stop the carrying taxes in the country with the lowest taxation the measure could benefit public finances in several countries but could also scare away international investments. ireland is popular with tech giants who want to lower their tax bill the firms concentrate their business activities in places where tax rates are especially advantageous that's why apple google and facebook have their european headquarters on the emerald isle but the e.u.
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commission wants to change that they plan to impose a special three percent tax on certain divisions within the tech giants today's proposal are simply about fair for all companies they're about creating the right environment for modern businesses and they're about future proofing the single market so that collectively we can rise to the challenges of our globalized and digital ice age and in the future tech companies would also be taxed where they sell their products and not just where they're registered that would mean a nice windfall for public coffers at the same time as drawing out european tax. well that's go back to our lead story here with the federal reserve in the united states raising interest rates and let's bring in harvest meeting chief economist at bear in baghdad he joins me from london welcome hug or is this raise an interest rates a smart move with the threat of
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a widespread wise for trade dispute looming yes it is a good move the threat of a trade dispute is there yes but the u.s. economic data fairly solid u.s. inflation is gradually edging up the u.s. economy definitely no longer needs the support of very low interest rates the fed is right to gradually normalize its policy starts now how hard would a veritable trade dispute between the u.s. and some of its biggest trade partners hit the u.s. economy. the said news actually is that such a dispute would hit the trading partners much more than the u.s. the trading partners such as germany depend a lot on the trade with the world including the us the us depends less on trade so a trade dispute would be both bad for both sides but it would hurt trading partners even more so than the u.s. economy u.s.
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president donald trump has been very critical of the policy of former fed chair janet yellen now as all take to replace or stays true to that very same policy is that a good sign in terms of the independence of the fed. indeed it's a good sign in terms of the fed independence and as to trump he's been critical of so many things over his life that we can really always pay attention to that the good thing is the fed does have a good board it does have a good chairperson and it's pursuing by and large the right policy even after the change from yellen to power let's take a look at the situation in the eurozone the german council of economic experts among others is calling on the european central bank to tighten its monetary policy more quickly what is your take on that. i don't think that the e.c.b. should tighten its monetary policy more quickly inflation in the euro zone is
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significantly lower than in the us we are in a different situation and the trade disputes of which you already mentioned are probably more of a hit to business confidence and business investment in trade oriented europe then they might be to business confidence and investment in the u.s. i think the e.c.b. is right to gradually very gradually step towards the exit from its policy stance there is no need for hurry on that side of the atlantic ocean meeting chief economist at bear in burbank thank you for your insight. now the world cup kicks off in just under three months it's time to decide who gets on the bus and me well that's a question chris off because the coaches of the thirty two teams taking part in the world cup are deciding which players they will be taking to russia this year and what better way than a couple of friendly matches to test their players in one of the juiciest clashes reigning champs germany meet fellow european giants spain on friday. it's almost
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decision time on friday night germany take on spain in the first of two world cup warm up matches for coach you know a human love it's a chance to test his side's mettle against a fellow tournament favorites and an opportunity for his players to show why they deserve a seat on the plane to russia competition is a stance as. this one you sort of view but we have always had good play is. not just eleven but twenty or twenty five. so it's a great situation for a coach this is from that and put it to its own despite the embarrassment of riches at his disposal love knows this side will need to be at their best if germany are to repeat their world cup heroics this time around the showdown with spain and their match at home to brazil on tuesday night should provide
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a glimpse of their credentials. in tennis twenty three time grand slam champion serena williams has crashed out in the first round of the miami open losing to naomi osaka it was a first meeting between the veteran and her emerging twenty year old opponent powerful serve helped her claim a six three six two victory this is this is the latest big win for the japanese player just days after she won her first career title at indian wells. you're watching the news still to come in iraq life is only slowly returning to the shattered streets of mosul but in the old city the first school has reopened we'll talk to our correspondent who's just returned from the celebration of cool and an aspiring biologist creates one of south africa's biggest tonics businesses. to talk to the teenager who's leading the way in sustainable farming. those stories and more coming up in the next thirty to.
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a child i'm filled with anger at the cost. the free force of egypt starting on t w. welcome back you're watching news our top stories facebook boss mark zuckerberg is that he is sorry about his company's handling of the cambridge analytic up privacy scandal and a statement on his facebook profiles october promised users a new feature to turn off the third party apps. and scores of schoolgirls freed by vocal run of rejoin their families the islamist militants snatched the girls from and nigeria most of the one hundred ten students have been freed a few remain in captivity. now the iraqi city of mosul was liberated last summer after three years under the control of the so-called islamic state the battle to drive the extremists out of iraq's second biggest city took
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nine months and left the city in ruins recent estimates by the u.n. suggest that repairing the city's basic infrastructure will cost more than one billion dollars and will take years to complete. well we have him with us here in studio has been following this story for us there is some good news deschooling mosul's old town it has reopened what can you tell us about the situation there i mean the old town of the city of mosul is quite significant because the city of mosul is divided into two parts the eastern part in the western part of the old parties and the old city is in the western part of mosul and that was sort of the part of the city that was liberated in the last month you had for about two months a large number of civilians entrapped in the old city by isis fighters in the iraqi army really had to go sort of door to door guerrilla warfare to free these people from force in the forces of the islamic state the u.n. estimates that about five thousand housing units are needed to be rebuilt in the
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old city itself not to mention its historical significance of course so in the midst of this you know a city reduced to rubble you have the school opening for about three hundred students or it is quite good news indeed and we have a report on that school reopening that let's take a look at that now. it's a day of celebration for these children the first school in mosul's old town is reopening. and i asked rule there were no lessons here children were not allowed to attend school now three hundred people is able to study here one small. and iraqi volunteer group raised ten thousand u.s. dollars to rebuild the school from a bombed out shall. a gal recites poetry at the opening ceremony.
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red handprints left on the school wools for good fortune and to ward off evil spirits the reopening of the school is one step and mosul's long road to recovery. there was ok there were little i will call i hope they open more schools so that educational life can improve. my wish is a better future for the whole old city of mosul was tossed. over and this part of the city has suffered greatly from the tyranny of the islamic state. died there are still dead bodies lying around the city the smell of the dead is still a. threat that. after leaving the school and driving through the neighborhood you realize that it's an oasis among the rubble bombed out houses lined the streets of . mosul tastes. it's such an uplifting story to see this
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school as we said they were amid the rubble tell us more about the ngo that was responsible for this reconstruction so what's the. charity group made up of iraqi young iraqi volunteers are they really i mean the group itself is very diverse and it's a make up cut through all kinds of all of the ethnicities insects of iraq of course iraq is a very you know has problems with sex and religion so to have this group working together across these lines is quite significant of course they have disagreements about this but they're very very i would say very open about it i met them in march of twenty seventeen about thirty kilometers outside of the city of mosul right when the battle was for the western part was getting. to sort of the intense level that then led to the city to that part of the city being liberated at the time their activity was a little bit different from what they did now they were really involved with sort of first responders to the i.d.p.
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to the civilians then that then became displaced because of the battle so they were stationed thirty kilometers outside of the city walls with the iraqi forces making sure that people that were coming out of the city got medical care psychological help were assisted in finding their documents or family members that had been that had left the city before them or were in different parts of iraq so this was the way that they did back then and they cooperated with with the with the iraqi forces there were also times where they went into the city itself. you know accompanied by the military to also help people inside the city now that the battle is over their work has changed in its nature naturally and now they've sort of directed their efforts into rebuilding efforts and helping with the rebuilding efforts of this affected areas such an important effort where did they get the idea and the money to rebuild the school this particular school was. funded by donor money so they have raised about ten thousand dollars to renovate and we. the school to make it
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beautiful as we've seen in in the report i mean i think i think what they've told me is that they've seen the importance of building the school in the larger context even if it's a small school in the larger context of trying to rebuild iraq in a recent donor conference the iraqi government asked for by billion dollars from the international community to rebuild isis affected areas now that's a huge number and they're rocking government was able to raise about thirty billion of that so there's still quite a huge gap and they see that even though this is a very small project in this bigger context that they're doing their part in providing education for the children of most of the children of didn't really get an education under isis rule i mean isis administered these schools but of course once the government came back and was in charge of the city these years of education were not recognized by the government so you have a lot of children that have real years that have missed real years of education the child that was featured in the report for example his parents chose to have him
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stay at home when isis was in the city and then take a test and then he was placed one year below his actual age. about seventy percent of iraq's displaced children have missed at least a year of education and so this is really the really sort of their their contribution to that effort even if it's a small one it is such a massive effort to reconstruct mosul after what it's gone through and this is just one ngo who else is going to rebuild the city nominally the government like i said they're trying to raise the eighty eighty billion dollars that. that there are estimated to to rebuild isis isis affected areas but this is across iraq not just mosul like you said mosul needs about a one billion to be rebuild these are u.n. estimates because really as we as we've seen the city has been reduced to rubble and then a lot of the big gap is left to volunteer groups like. to try
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and help with the do their part this is a rock second biggest city how much was it devastated by us will have to change under i is through i mean mosul has great historical significance in the fight against isis of course because this is where. the islamic state declared the islamic state almost three years ago so. and so of course for the for the government to recapture it it was it was of course a very great logistical importance but also a great sort of symbolic importance that now we have really defeated. this terrorist group. like you said iraq's second largest city but a million people have been displaced in total throughout throughout the battle for mosul in those three years so we gaining it has sort of signaled a promise that maybe these people can now return of course one cannot ignore significance when it comes to iraq's christian community we were all remember those images where the christian minority of iraq was the first victim really after isis
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took over the city completely pushed out or massacred their properties burned it cetera so the significance of mosul sort of on the logistical level being the second biggest city but also on the symbolic historical level in this whole fight against isis cannot cannot really be under arrest and rebuilding the infrastructure is one part you know what needs to be done and what is being done to actually help people bring life back to the city to find jobs again for example attempts like initiatives and attempts like what was there were of course of great interest like we've seen we've seen in the report the teacher was talking about. how you with education whether it's in the school. reform or education level awareness level is very important when i talk to people a lot on the ground and they say you know isis is gone sort of physically but the ideas that this group have left are very much still there and you know having an extremist interest insurgency again is not completely out of the question so really
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education and awareness and attempts to try to eradicate this kind of thought completely are really what's needed here the government really needs to step up and of course the first focus is on infrastructure and trying to rebuild the city make it habitable again i know that the group is for example trying to reopen water a water center in the city because has a huge sanitary water problem but of course things like trying to raise awareness trying to eradicate extremist islamic thought are also things that the government needs to start paying attention to randi to bring is this very important story the first school opening reopening in mosul is all to town thank you. to south africa now where the drought around cape town has been in the headlines recently the situation isn't as critical in other parts of the country but it has motivated people to look at how they use water one young woman in particular has been working out a way to use it to increase food production her solution is something called
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aquaponics take a look. her passion is farming fish reka liza reineke a is sixteen and still at school four years ago she started implementing an aqua panic system on her father's farm in pretoria south africa it combines conventional aqua culture like raising fish in tanks with hydroponics cultivating plants in water she started out with a thousand fish now her experiment has grown into a business that supplies fish and greens at the same time. this isn't just about me this time it's moving so you can be in your backyard when you do. this is than can feed about four to six people on everything the basis to make the place in the south sustainable with fish and vegetables said has high protein indicate that you know the. alternative systems like this one are especially
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important as south africa suffers from one of the most severe droughts in its history many farmers have lost crops and animals due to the lack of water. we make getting knowing the rainfall we should be getting at this time of those of the year the summer season and it's only a devastating effect on me and on the water table set up poles are drying up that one of the things we're going to be doing this week of actually learning up wolf trying to. get a little bit more water out of it. we have two bowls of literally dried up enough that we can even use aquaponics is a reliable alternative especially in dry times rick lazio uses what she calls a decoupled system in order to save water it's a simple way to recycle used water back into the system we send all that wood to turn a friend tank the same thousand to tank from day it's been full just through this system that pounds of muscle holding a chance and then also in eight hours cycle that what. cleaner than what it was in
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the fish so sending the same this week to back to the fish so this is basically a big big filter or in a natural way she can say it's a big way to. another advantage you can grow anything from cucumbers to tomatoes and lettuce leases vision is to roll it out to places where people are poor and water is scarce. and you can sell sally to have an income. in south africa next is still in its infancy and so far there are more than one hundred ninety freshwater and over thirty salt water aquaculture farms official see a lot of growth potential in panic systems. we have awareness campaigns we also have programs whereby john and i would it's companies who are. and told to get hold of from us hand by hand to advise them on how to start and. we give
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them step by step excise i do not think i think that the government has helped enough. especially for young upcoming interesting is who needs funding going needs financial advice i don't think i've got enough help and advice from the government in south africa. with or without government support. will continue her business and passion growing vegetables and farming fish on a big scale. and rick elisa joins us now from pretoria regal is a great to have you on our program good morning to you now i understand that you're an m.p. lording i understand you're at a boarding school right now who's looking after your fish. well i have trained workers at home so they don't take care of all the fish during the week but on weekends hire come home that it's my bed into the gulf so ok so you have
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a good support system that's important tell us how you became interested in our culture affirming while at its best started after i watched the movie dolphin tale and then i was inspired by coming in marine biology but the moment i started doing research as you found out there is not a lot not a lot of an arena resources and it and that just to get it and i knew i had to do something to stop it so after large discussion of my father reclaimed you the conclusion that i want to start bonding with rich but he say he will only how we were once on planet five so then i attended a course he didn't know it's going to happen so soon but he had to say you had to go with me out to the course and then i was qualified so he had to help me and goddesses them but we thought it would only be a small system i had a passion it was so big that i just the system just created grew yeah it's not small adultry can lead to tell us about your fish from in the green how big are
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they and how much do they produce. well they have a super sterile five hundred forty screen it says and last year we produced six point four times our face and now they're four point two times our vegetable. that's pretty impressive so it's a profitable enterprise. while all the different systems is been running for three years now the one system is only running for one year so i can say after three years in the game didn't wrathfully it is starting to get near a small income you can become a millionaire out of the fish farm and that's not my privates i just want to feel that so who are your customers who are selling to. well local restaurants and dailies to schools also recently opened an aquatic shop as i know it's the fullest aquaponics shop where you can go and buy all aquaponics produce as well as
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equipment so we try to send all our party students shop and then all our customers come from the shop now we've seen cape town in the headlines recently because experiencing a severe drought is a water scarcity also a problem where you are in pretoria. and we have problems of war two we only have two thousand which is will change their day and that nothing will that needs to be a not. sustained the household as well as also all the animals and on to get water so here's what is a problem but we managed to be careful to make sure that this is now or to everyone and everything do you think people understand how important an issue sustainability is no i don't think so at all but i hope i can create that people can see but they expect it is a need there will. focus on what they can do to enter into develop solutions.
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now you doing all of this alongside your school studies how do you manage to combine both. well it takes a lot of prioritizing and i needs to make i'm going to do every week in the beginning i knew what to do but today i didn't really know what to do either but still i need to prioritize i'm need to make sure what is the most important thing kindly school is priority one so i need to close on school and then farm comes not well job well done we can leave the ironically an awkward panix for me at boarding school in pretoria thanks so much for joining us our program thank you very much. ok now to india are many cities are grappling with mountains of trash it's common to see groups of rag pickers most of them women collecting and sorting waste and then selling it it is hazardous work and there is little job security but in the city of puna a cooperative of three thousand waste pickers has joined up with the city's
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authorities to collect waste from door to door and fight for better working conditions are india correspondent sonia found a car met one of them. it. is known as the fanti of garbage in the slums including and she's got plenty of work to do. and her job is to go from door to door to pick and trash like most waste because it's from india's done it untouchable community to face white spirit prejudice and marginalization she started wreck baking when she was a teenager more than thirty years ago for a long time city officials and residents had a store and she told in filthy unsanitary conditions that treated nine years ago and also joined a co-operative with speakers called swatch it struck a deal with city authorities to get the rights to collecting the city's garbage. earlier there was so much discrimination we couldn't even use public taps to drink
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water people used to call us thieves now there's been a huge change people let us into their homes to get the garbage some even offer us a glass of water we provide a professional service and return we get respect. you if i'm not. working conditions have also improved the corporate it services about six hundred thousand households across the city from slums to high rises municipal authorities provide workers like also detected the q. and hilton shots this. can use the energy to know something should remember as we speak others were denied. houses in this apartment is sixty two piece that's less than a year old every month for the garbage collection service. fighting for her rights is something horse a load of corporatists will be along with other ways because she's on the
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organizations board many women including cos are illiterate but that hasn't stopped them from making the voices heard here hoss. was even invited to france a few years ago to speak about with speakers rights. and the decision makers of this organization itself means there's a lot of process of any problem and that's going on before. twice a week or so heads to a neighborhood scrap to. separating plastics. and glass she said which is the recyclables from a daily garbage called the trash which is the sole to recycling helps boost them. all together takes home about one thousand rupees that's around one hundred twelve year olds every month it's a significant sum in a totally informal sector. also also has big plants. along for
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the co-operative help to build a concrete house for herself and her family after years of living in a makeshift in hot in the city. the two story building could be ready in a few months. because they've been able to send their children to school and college thanks to the work in the corporate but she says the benefits and just want a tree. after years of organizing protests and fighting for our rights i've learned to overcome fear i'm self confident now. that for now the corporate it has achieved an uncomfortable try women from the lowest cost of pushing for their rights and cleaning the city with a sense of dignity and purpose. now it's a necessary step for migrants in sweden hoping to prove their status as miners medical tests that help determine their age which could make the difference between being given asylum or being sent back home the tests are done by looking at x.
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rays of teeth and m.r.i. scans of knee joints but critics say they aren't reliable and they want other factors to be considered. it's a bad day for aside from afghanistan this compulsory medical examination is supposed to show whether he's still a juvenile as he says or whether he's really over eighteen that would dramatically change his life as a refugee in sweden ok on this. if you're found to be over eighteen when you lose your home overnight the author or it is will send you to a refugee hostel you might have been to school for two years have built up a circle of friends relationships had a guardian has been very helpful all of that is gone within a few days of shooting at all or part org there's a lot riding on this check up but the procedure for determining age is highly controversial medical examiners such as professor henry drew it have to sign off the radiologists assessments without verifying them he finds the method floored so
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. the medical examiners confirmation of the assessment forms the basis of a decision on whether a person is granted asylum or expelled it's enormously important that this evaluation to be as accurate as possible to make it. so it is a quick doesn't it many medical experts no longer want to sign up for the controversial process which decides the future of refugees such as saeed international cross-checks come to different conclusions in almost half the cases but politicians are sticking with the system. of law that we decided not to process the fourteen thousand eight assessments in the same way as the criminal justice system which is also controversial everyone understands we can't evaluate exact age we can only measure a likely probability that. a bag of all thought up sides age check can only give the swedish authorities a semi scientific basis on which to decide his future the views of his school are
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not a factor. bigger whose work you did or the integration or thirty's don't take into account what the school says they just make their own decision i've had a lot of dealings with them and find them incompetent subjective observations mean a lot of young people fall through the net and that's terrible. present still. uncertain the future of young refugees in sweden depends on arbitrary evaluation rather than established scientific fact. minor now of our top story at this hour facebook boss mark zuckerberg says he is sorry about his company's handling of the cambridge analytical privacy scandal and a statement on his facebook profile of promise users a new feature to turn off of third party apps. thank you for watching we're back in a few minutes.
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