this is coming to you live from the both the facebook bricks is admitting mistakes have been made mark zuckerberg says he saw me a boss of companies hounding them to take up privacy. but is it enough to deduce from facebook we've talked to a digital analyst. kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls written on hold in. captivity extremists warn their parents don't try educating your daughters again. and jailed for life

a migrant is found guilty of raping and murdering a student. the case has fueled far right outrage in germany. we made mistakes that's what facebook boss mark zuckerberg a second response to the data scandal involving his company and data mining firm cambridge analytic in a statement on his face the profile apologized and promised users new features to turn off third party apps absolutes cambridge analytical 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 knife ancient us election scientists behind the craze says he is a scapegoat. you know what their interest was no i mean. i was pretty out of anything as far as 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 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 testify as to the practices of his company he can make millions of dollars in the united states around the world but at least he. added to a plummeting share price and threats of legal action from investors. has much to think about perhaps the biggest concern is loss of trust. when weird things happen might be struck down like that's exactly right just in search of the internet that kind of freaks me out a little bit worried about what he's doing with my information of course and this last information across from the process makes this feeling even stronger. the more that a marriage is the more questions my going to buy one company's role in data protection and democracy. fifty now join

a room and not hear quite he's an expert in digital technology in a serious room and what is your reaction to this apology from mark zuckerberg the morning well you know the problem isn't cambridge analytical clearly i mean this is a disaster but we all knew about it i've been writing about this two years ago so this is really no news what we need to discuss is what is the business model of facebook and what are we doing if we find out which is quite likely that there are more incidents like that the trust that people have in facebook was always something i criticize i mean the data of the uses the the data off all of us are something people are trading with i mean this is the material that they make money off so everybody should be aware of the fact if you use facebook and other social media it's not for free you're paying with your data and mark zuckerberg has

promised a new security and privacy measures do you think there will be enough. well again i mean it's his business model to to sell the state or to a certain extent i mean you can you can go to the to the advertising manager of facebook and you can address in a very specific way certain target groups even broke down to the individual this may be very useful to companies. it can also be misused of from a new coalition and a good taishan and what we see now is that in our companions in political campaigns this is being misused and facebook is now in the need to tell us how are you protecting us the people from the menu pollution of certain parties or even individuals and we have learned from the past in europe so much that one

individual can do harm and this is why we have public radio and why public radio so strong in our society and why we care so much about data protection and one of the chief issues seems to be selling data without the consent of the users now you talked about your experience as a european experience do you expect governments to introduce more regulations would facebook be open to the enforce this kind of a collision. well it's not really true what you say they have the consent of the user because you accepted the terms and conditions and this is indeed the problem the biggest problem that i see is not facebook itself it is the new and the they believe in the technology future that politicians in europe have and they are not well informed they need to inform themselves not with all technology what is the digital revolution all about it is not about flying cars and it it's not about

a few metres of cable it is a bold data protection so what is happening with artificial intelligence with machine learning and how will that influence us in the future these are substantial questions and politics does not have an answer on this room on american idol in syria thank you very much for sharing your expertise that us thank you they started look at some other stories making news around the world former french president nicolas sarkozy has hit out at allegations he illegally accepted funding from late libyan dictator muammar gaddafi sarkozy says there's no physical evidence of wrongdoing he was placed under formal investigation wednesday for allegedly accepting millions from gadhafi with two thousand and seven election campaign. on the roof president kaczynski has offered his resignation this comes just before an impeachment vote inclusive congress that was set for later today which in ski 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. brussels airport observed a minute of silence to mark the second anniversary of the bombings that left thirty four people dead belgian prime minister kind of this mission was among the dignitaries present he laid a wreath at a memorial in the departures terminal a similar native place at the metro station where the second attack took place staying in buses and evade is arriving in the belgian capital for a busy to this summit that begins later today they'll discuss the policing of the former russian spy and proposed the u.s. status but the main topic will be bragg said correspondent this is covering that summit in brussels and he joins me now from there good first of all what can we expect from this summit i'm richard three key issues on this summit first of all

of course the e.u. will have to prepare for a scenario where they will not be exempt from u.s. tariffs long term you know not that well that they will not get a long term exemption from u.s. tariffs on steel and olive minium so they need to prepare for such a scenario secondly you have the issue of a nerve agent attack in the u.k. so expect a strong condemnation here from e.u. leaders and finally to reason may is in town and she will get the sign off for a transition period that has already been agreed because tree negotiators it's the latest achievement in what has been a tough year of negotiations and i've put together the key events and here is what happened previously on brics it. forty four years after joining the european union britain's ambassador to the e.u. delivers the bracts that notification letter in brussels the u.k.

formally triggers article fifty two leaf the european club. so. six pages. their notification from. triggering. fifty. britain sex it is now officially set for march twenty ninth two thousand and nineteen. the. june two thousand and seventeen snap election backfires for theresa may new government is fresh on. this government will guide the country through the crucial. that's begin in just ten days. and they begin with a huge compromise britain's press secretary david davis agrees that trade talks

will have to wait until sufficient progress has been made on the divorce bill citizen rights and the irish border we want to find a solution without. any kind of border but the u.k. offers no solutions and only draws red lines david davis is told the u.k. will not be allowed to cherry pick the u.k. it wants to take back control wants to adopt it own stand outs and regulation. but it also wants to have these dogs recognised automatically in the e.u. she simply impossible. the british prime minister with a charm offensive in a high profile speech. promises that the u.k. will honor its financial commitments in full. the success of the e.u. is profoundly in on national interest and of the wider world. while they are

waiting for the u.k. the e.u. acts in november two thousand and seventeen that new agencies based in london are relocated to the continent to today's voting. we selected. to be the new seat of the european mid seems agency and paris to be the new seat of the european banking agents october two thousand and seventeen and there is still not been sufficient progress the european parliament votes against proceeding to the second phase the breakthrough comes only in december went to reason maybe a greece to a backstop solution for northern ireland the e.u. paves the way for phase two sufficient progress has not been made on the street terms of the people march two thousand and eighteen the u.k. has granted the transition face but on europe's thom's the final goodbye is pushed back by almost two years the deal was struck today should give us confidence that

a good deal for the united kingdom and the european union is closer than ever before. but the clock is ticking and key issues are yet to be agreed. as the annual reports go a long and winding roads towards bragg's and want to add the key issues which still have to be dissolved. i would single out two key points here key sticking points number one is that the u.k. will have to realize at some point throughout this year that the deep and special partnership they seek will be a free trade deal if they stick to their red lines and that means that they will not have the same friction less relationship they currently have being part of the customs union and the internal market and that will be a major change for the negotiations secondly the key issue of northern island so far theresa may has kicked the can down the road if she's made promises to that

there will be no bore hardboard end on the island of violent but she also made promises that there will be no customs checks in the irish sea now you can't have it both either one of the these sites will have to find some form of hard border if the u.k. gets out of the customs union and so those are the key points that need to be addressed and time is of the essence because if a deal needs to be struck by march two thousand and nineteen it has to be basically agreed already you know this october this year for all the e.u. institutions and the u.k. parliament to ratify that deal and basically go given these two big issues still remain unresolved will this deadline of march two thousand and one thousand be met thing it's going to be very tight it really depends to what extent the u.k. comes to terms with the red lines it has chosen and to what extent the e.u. is prepared to make further concessions such as for instance that transition period

that leaders have or are about to morrow to agree to a good young much as in brussels thank you. turning to nigeria and the homecoming no one was expecting extremists have freed most of the hundred ten schoolgirls it's not from the town of dop she a month ago but the act of seeming clemency came with a chilling warning to the parents don't try sending your daughters back to school again we'll be back our correspondent has this report. there were new 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. but many of them however are still in shock. was that. we don't know why they brought us back out but they told us we're 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 she's a christian and refused to renounce her religion and that is that. the parents of the returned girls can hardly believe their luck with some of them even fainting. and yeah why am i how i am i was crying a few days back but today i am laughing and feeling happy for the release of our girls i'm 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 they needed something that they. had 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. has come under massive pressure for its slow reaction to the kidnapping and its failure to protect

local schools. you're watching news coming up ahead jailed for life a refugee is found guilty of raping and murdering the student in the german town of five we find out why five high profile right groups seized on the case. the first the subjoined save a business and why raise about new u.s. tire of sunshine of pissed off it's not just u.s. allies in europe they're on the edge of their seats over the threat of punitive terrorist the united states is expected to announce hefty penalty charges against chinese goods as punishment for stealing intellectual property of u.s. companies all told the terrorists could affect up to sixty billion dollars of chinese exports every year. beijing is bracing for an announcement from u.s. president donald trump on thursday slapping more tariffs on chinese imports chinese premier the key chain used the national people's congress this week to appeal to

common sense in a verdict in impending trade war. i hope that we can act rationally rather than being led by emotions in order to avoid this trade war. but donald trump remains adamant that the u.s. is at an unfair advantage when exporting american products abroad and insists on changing that. and i keep telling these countries no you have to buy american i want you to buy american you know we help people we help countries we give aid to countries i say where do you buy your quip until we buy from other countries i said what about buying from the united states well we haven't been doing that now they do it on march eighth trump signed a tariff order on global aluminum and steel imports the exceptions to the rule were metals from the u.s. neighbors canada and mexico. the tears to be announced thursday only affect trade between china and the u.s. and are expected to affect a wide variety of chinese goods from clothing to electronics the measures will

likely also curb chinese investments in the u.s. as well as kept visas for chinese researchers and escalation of the brewing trade war now seems inevitable. well you leaders are among the few who haven't given up hope in fact the european union expects president trump to announce that the bloc will be exempted from fresh tariffs on steel and aluminum that's according to the european commission now earlier germany's economy minister peter altmire voiced similar hopes he and the ears trade commissioner have traveled to washington earlier this week to make the case for you still producers the white house has said the terrorists will take effect beginning friday. well for more let's bring in. the stock exchange frankfurt for us the e.u. commission is expecting to be spared from trump's tariffs or the markets buying it . well the issue is that donald trump will still have the final word

on those exceptions such investors are still feeling pretty wary broadly speaking european indices are down today this morning we also saw a key index of business confidence here in germany sync up to an eleven month low as a result of these trade tensions now the problem is also this even if the e.u. does manage to get exemptions from steel and aluminum tariffs the interwoven nature of global trade doesn't mean that they would necessarily be exempt from the fallout of a trade war fault elsewhere between other trading partners like the u.s. and china especially if it depresses growth and demand in those places now years terrors for chinese products are much more likely and could come into effect today how's beijing responding. they seem to have adopted a carrot and a stick approach with the carrot approach being represented by conciliatory statements towards finding a win win solution they also made overtures earlier this week to say that they

would be opening up their markets more and protecting intellectual property better and while the retaliatory measures on the other hand represent the stick approach that they're apparently preparing they said that these approach these measures could hit the agricultural sector the most and that is of course a sector in the us that is still running a trade surplus china's commerce ministry has also said it will take all the necessary measures it needs in order to defend itself so they will take signing tariffs definitely as a declaration of a trade war to now the milan reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange well thank you. there are headaches ahead for french commuters as the country faces a new wave of strikes against president model macross political reforms many train services have been cancelled and there's forecasts to be widespread disruptions to air travel as well. there have been days of warnings with only one in three trains

up and running in the capital parisienne transportable storage fees 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 nearest 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 for the four point five million daily train passengers to get from a to baby food should personally i find these destructions threats by the extremely serious i've never seen anything like this. the catalyst for the action president mcconnell's 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. the verdict is out in a controversial murder case here in germany i'm reading that's right christoph a german court has found and of can refuse you guilty of murder in a case that few far right time go over the country's migration policies the defendant identified only as hussein king has been sentenced to life in prison. he came to germany from greece where he'd been released after serving two years of

a ten year sentence for attempted murder then he killed a teenage student in the city of. many critics said the case has showed the german government and the e.u. failed to adequately monitor refugees coming into the block. now for more on this story i have it mean in our studios our political correspondent kate pretty well can so the man identified with police as hussein has been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison how significant is that exactly say he was sentenced to life in prison but that in germany is fifteen years and so in theory he could have been released after fifteen years but already that's being so it's most likely impossible as he's also been sentenced to preventive detention but one of the main points here is that in the end he was tried as an adult and not as a juvenile of course you might remember last year when in two thousand and sixteen when he was first arrested he said that he was seventeen but evidence ascension that he could be anywhere between twenty six and thirty two years old and his age

of course had other implications we come to that in a bit but first to me why is this case garnered attracted so much attention in the country well the issue here isn't the fact that this is a murder that's being committed by a mike and migrant is the fact that european authorities actually failed to trace the one who had already been convicted in another country and down the german government has admitted itself that when the defendant actually arrived in germany as an asylum seeker authorities were completely overwhelmed and perhaps had they not been then they would have maybe flagged up any suspicions about his age but berlin has also pointed the question pointed the blame should i say greece as to why when the defendant fell off their radar for different comes action why they didn't issue an international manhunt as opposed to the national manhunt so this is raise debate about the cooperation or rather in this case the lack of cooperation between european databases and then on top of that you have the far right in

germany or the a.f.p. that's the alternative for germany party and they very openly use this case for their political gain and to highlight their message all then. you that migrants supposedly don't integrate although they supposedly are prone to attacking germans and so this case is really part of a bigger issue in germany which is a polarized nation of society particularly on the topic of immigration and that decision by angela merkel back in two thousand and fifteen to open germany's borders right and then you were talking about this within this context what all those the importance of who seen case age exactly so when he was first arrested he said that he was seventeen and actually when he arrived in germany as an asylum seeker in two thousand and fifteen he said he was sixteen so this in itself has launched a debate over a different piece of legislation in germany which concerns asylum seekers who

arrive in germany as a minor so under eighteen's generally have a better chance of being current granted permanent asylum status in germany and so in this specific case this now murder convict was able to register as a minor as he arrived without documents and told german authorities that he was sixteen that's also prompted calls for better checks on a.j. on the ages of people kind of. selling themselves as minors when they arrive in germany right kid pretty film of thank you very much for bringing us up to do them that story. you're watching the news i'll have more news coming up for you been half an hour i look forward to seeing you then. taking a look at a mom and apology and look that means i cannot.

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