this is d.w. news live from berlin facebook's boss breaks the silence admitting that they made mistakes mark zuckerberg says he is sorry about his company's handling of the cambridge analytical privacy scandal but is it enough to prevent an exit it's from facebook. also coming up an emotional homecoming dozens of kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls returned home from boko haram captivity but the extremists warn their parents don't try educating your daughters again and we'll be back. also coming up we're turning to normality after years of islamic state occupation celebrations as

the first school reopens in mosul is the old town it's just one step on the iraqi cities long road to recovery. i'm serious i was gonna 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 data mining firm cambridge analytical in a statement on his facebook profile suck up apologized and promised users a new feature to turn off third pack party apps apps which cambridge analytic allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an endless and passion ology quiz on ended up with the data of fifty million facebook profiles being used to sway elections now the question is why did facebook allowed academic research to end up in the hands of political consultants paid to win the night u.s.

election scientist behind the craze says he is a scapegoat. you know what their interest was no i mean that's the thing i was pretty heavily siloed as far as anything as far as funder or clients i found out about donald trump just like everybody else there's more to give people more options than just like facebook founder mark zuckerberg broke days of silence on the scandal admitting the company had made mistakes. i started facebook and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what 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 so 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 united states around the world but at least he ought to respect our laws added to a plummeting share price and threats of legal action from investors zucker bark has much to think about but perhaps the biggest concern is loss of trust. when weird things show from a facebook that like i that's exactly right just in search of the internet kind of freaks me out of it worried about what he's doing with my information of course and this information with the goal to the process makes this feeling even stronger. the more that a marriage is the more questions my into my one company's role in data protection and democracy. and we can talk to technology analyst charlene li from the ultimate are group there a tech 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 and 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 there is this time though 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 that was a lot of cleanup the facebook passage arrow and today is just the first step that 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 analytic is that they spoke 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 douses 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 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 to 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

these book 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 facebook has to 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 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 they've been around for many years out there have been previous campaigns 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 again i have many friends who have actually written to me and said i've done i'm no 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 tremendous value from it so i think you're going to see people deleting facebook on the fringes and the question becomes how will that damage the way that people use it every single day will people be just a little more hesitant use it just a little bit less all of that cumulative effect of people using it less will impact their business model and their practices tremendously shirley leaf from the automated group in san francisco thank you so much for joining us. now to some other stories making news around the world former french president nicolas sarkozy has hit out at allegations that he illegally accepted funding from the late libyan dictator moammar gadhafi sarkozy says there is no physical evidence of wrongdoing and that the claims have made his life a living hell he was placed under formal investigation wednesday for allegedly accepting millions from gadhafi for his two thousand and seven election campaign. and president paid little public since he has offered his resignation it comes just

before an impeachment vote in peru is congress that was set for later today as face multiple allegations of dishonesty and corruption he denies the accusations but said he was resigning in an effort to maintain unity in the country. leaders of the european union countries will be gathering for a summit in brussels later today they're expected to approve the terms of a transition deal for when the u.k. leaves the bloc this includes guidelines for negotiating a future trade relationship with britain. that'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 doxy 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 critias this report. there were no limits to the jubilation in dempsey. to the complete surprise of

local residents a convoy of pickup trucks and into the town on wednesday morning and released dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. many of them however are still in shock. that. we don't know why they brought us back out i 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 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 not 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 than it is i'm

delighted. with 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 mohamed to 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. yeah about five to six of the girls are still unaccounted for and the government hasn't given any reason why this is the case all we know is the reports from eyewitnesses some of the girls said the day of the abduction there where it 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 boko haram decide to release the majority of these girls. allez the big question here right now is 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 confirmed that about two million u.s. dollars were paid and also some senior fighters and commanders where released in exchange and a lot of people think that this has probably happened right now again and then they feel the consequences of course would that not be another incentive for the terrorists to raid another community and another set of people i drink a book or a release these girls with a message do 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 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. increased reporting for us from lagos thank you hadrian. now here in germany a trial that has sparked debate of the government's migration policies is due then today a teenage girl was raped and killed 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 where the young woman was killed she was known as maria al to protect her identity the nineteen year old medical student was on her way back from a party when someone pushed her off her bike sexually assaulted her and threw her in the river. the main suspect named irenaeus hussain k. came to germany as a refugee and he claimed 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 the prosecution say he should be sentenced as an adult and want a life sentence. it's emerged that he already had a conviction for attempted murder after leaving afghanistan he went to the greek island of corfu where he attacked a woman pushing her off

a sea wall she was severely injured but survived. for that his same 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. unfortunately the greek authorities did not launch an international search. where if they had the suspect would have been identified during routine checks. for. one of the open questions at least has been answered and medical examination showed he was not a teenager but at least twenty two at the time of the killing if convicted he could be imprisoned for more than twenty years. our political correspondent kate brady is following this story for us hi kate this is been a hugely controversial case in germany and critics say that the problem here is

that there weren't sufficient border checks and during the migration crisis in two thousand and fifteen how is the government responded well from day one michael said to this crime should not be used to tug at an entire group of people in this case asylum seekers and the judge of course as well in this case said that this shouldn't be this isn't germany's refugee policy hair on trial this is in fact a suspected murderer and the government's main concern is why the european police failed to actually trace the defendant a couple of years back of course he was released from jail early in greece and then disappeared off their radar so germany initially pointed the finger at greek authorities as they only issued a national manhunt for this defendant and not an international defend not an international manhunt and of course at the time that the defendant arrived in

germany. here were really they were just absolutely run off their feet and completely overwhelmed by the amount of numbers of migrants that were coming here every day and so there have also been questions after as to how authorities dealt with their arrival of these migrants in this case itself is triggered a big backlash tell us more about that that they one of the most vocal backlash is at least on the political stage came from germany's far right party as the alternative to germany and they really quite openly used this case to their political gain and they used it to highlight at least their view that many refugees a migrant supposedly refused to integrate in germany and that this supposedly prone to attacking germans and at the beginning of this trial we even saw a small group of a.f.d. supporters actually. protested outside the courts this case is also actually brought up a debate about

a different german law that protects migrants all minors when they arrive in germany i'm so if you're under eighteen you generally tend to have more chance of being given full protection as a refugee regardless of your country of origin but we are awaiting a verdict in this case our political correspondent kate brady following this story for us thank you very much kate. you're watching news stream still to come life is only slowly returning to the shattered streets of mosul and in the old city celebrations as the first pool reopen for we'll talk to our correspondent in iraq. u.s. president donald trump as much as fifty billion dollars worth of terrorists and penalties on china today mr trump accuses the country of stealing technology and trade secrets costing u.s. companies billions of dollars and killing thousands of jobs asian markets were

jewelry on fears the tariffs and penalties could affect a wide variety of chinese goods from clothing to electronics the measures could also include restrictions on chinese investments in the united states as well as a cap on the number of these for chinese researchers. germany's economy minister has told a german public broadcaster a.r.v. he believes the european union will be granted an exemption from president trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum the u.s. plans to impose. travel to washington earlier this week to make the case for new producers the white house. will take effect beginning friday. now for more let's bring in our very own standing by at the frankfurt stock exchange to now this question whether the e.u. rules. with these tariffs seems to be coming down to the wire houses being viewed

among people where you are while they're listening when german economy minister peter says that this is going to be a nail biter until the end but ultimately with a positive result so in a few hours from now e.u. leaders will be meeting to discuss how to deal with these trade tensions and before the. trade commissioner cecilia malmstrom what have brief them on the results of her meeting with the u.s. side with commerce secretary as well as u.s. trade representative robert light highs earth so late us until then clarity is expected on whether the e.u. will get these extension exemptions from steel and aluminum tariffs so that you know it's coming out of the e.u. delegation so far seem positive and they seem to be skirting around the word retaliation which is. interpreted here as a good sign still in the next few hours and vester is could see their worst fears confirmed or you know in the best case soon within the middling case delayed now

u.s. terror sitting china could affect today how is beijing responding. they seem to be adopting a carrot and a stick approach the carrot side being represented by conciliatory statements about finding a win win solution they've also made noises earlier this week about opening up their markets more better protecting intellectual property the stick side of course is represented by the retaliatory measures they're apparently preparing mostly aimed at the agricultural sector in the us and we know that this is one of the few u.s. sectors that is still running a trade surplus now if i can quote from the foreign ministry they say china does not want to fight a trade war with anyone but if anyone forces us to fight one we will neither be scared nor hide so fighting words there are made hopes that a fight can actually be avoided will be the carrot of the six we'll be watching for now tomorrow and in frankfurt thank you. there are headaches for french commuters today as the country faces a new wave of strikes against president. political reforms many train services have

been cancelled and there is forecast to be widespread to disrupt air travel as well . there have been days of warnings with only one in three trains up and running in the capital parisienne transport also richie's have advised people to come pull the trouble isn't confined to front either high speed train operated telly has cancelled services running between brussels and paris and several you're a star trains to london and not budging either. these are unregistered wildcat strikes and as such effectively illegal the communist union c g t is behind them it's urged members to engage in impromptu and repeated striking even outside of official strike days. the right to strike is laid down in our constitution if it's an unofficial strike then it's essential that public services can function enough of a four point five million daily train passengers to get from a to b.

personally i find these destructions threats by the union extremely serious i've never seen anything like this. the catalyst for the action president calls planned labor market reforms he wants to hike up the age of retirement for railway staff right now train drivers can retire at just fifty two other rail workers just a few years later french railways a deeply in the red and groaning under forty five billion euros worth of debt unions warn that if mccrone topples the long time privileges of railway staff it will open the floodgates for even hausherr labor market reforms mccrone has already announced plans to cut one hundred twenty thousand jobs in public services the showdown between the government and french workers is likely to continue. to sue now with efforts to rebuild iraq's second biggest city mosul was a liberated last summer after three years under the control of a so-called islamic state but the battle to drive out the extremists left iraq's

second largest city in ruins the u.n. estimates that rebuilding its infrastructure will cost more than a billion dollars and take years to complete the reopening of a school in the old city as a sign of returning life. effects a day of celebration for these children now the first school in muscles old town is reopening. under i.i.s. rule then when the lessons here children were not allowed to attend school male three hundred pupils are able to study here one small and iraqi volunteer group raised ten thousand u.s. dollars to rebuild the school from a bombed out shell. with. a girl recites poetry at the opening ceremony.

read hundred prince left on the school walls for good fortune and to ward off evil spirits the reopening of the school is one step in muscles long road to recovery lets run their lives over the one that said i hope things. are so that it has cation and life can improve one knows that my wish is a better future for the only rational that and this heart 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 an air. jet that. after leaving the school and driving through the neighborhood you realize that it is an oasis amongst the rubble bombed out houses lined the streets muscles historic old town was the last part of the city to be liberated from the so-called

islamic state bias fighters were holed up in the maze of narrow alleyways here forcing the u.s. control. she only recently returned to the city to find her home completely destroyed. many of the children here have suffered a similar fate. yet all the homes now in ruins now at least there is a refuge for them here in this school and hope for a more secure and stable future. the world cup kicks off in just under three months and coaches of the thirty two teams taking part in the tournament are deciding which players they'll take to russia and a what better way than a couple of friendly matches to test their talents in one of the juiciest clashes reigning champs germany meet fellow european giants spain on friday. it's almost

decision time on friday night germany take on spain in the first of two world cup warm up matches for coach joachim love it's a chance to test his side's mettle against a fellow torment favorites and an opportunity for his players to show why they deserve a states on the plane to russia competition is a stance as ever. since i knew sort of but we have always had good players. like not just eleven but twenty or twenty five. so it's a great situation for a coach is from then on as opposed to its own despite the embarrassment of riches at his disposal love knows this so i will need to be at their best if germany had 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 a glimpse of their credentials. are mine are now our top stories at this hour

facebook boss mark zuckerberg says he is sorry about his company's handling of the cambridge analytical privacy scam in a statement on his facebook profile promised users a new feature to turn off the third party apps. and scores of schoolgirls freed by boko haram have rejoined their families the islamist militants snatch the girls from nigeria most of the one hundred ten students have been freed few remain in captivity. thank you for watching t.v. we're back at the top of the hour. to.

enter the conflict zone fronting the powerful. wherever you look there's plenty to keep you busy and that should be my guest this week here in strasbourg zero am caution of vice president of the european parliament. i'm the former defense minister of romania. tell me you feel it's multiple divisions. to live. there the boss. women three top managers in europe speak out about the state of society with regard

to women in their careers. in abusive networking. quotas for talent what does it take to get more females into boardrooms i want it women in top management to implement. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word emerged in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not learned something simple online on your mobile and free shops d w z e learning course he can speak german made him see. we make up oh but we watch as office of the under budget we ought to seven seven percent. want to shape the continent's future. be part of it enjoy enough in youngsters testing share their stories their dreams and their

challenges. the seventy seven percent of these platforms africa journey. a chemical weapon attack in britain shock election results in italy which favored the euro skeptic parties wherever you look there's plenty to keep the e.u. busy and anxious my guest this week here in strasburg is johan pashto a vice president of the european parliament and the former defense minister of romania can the e.u. heal its divisions and start living up to the values it claims to hold so dear.