bialik asked. managed by from. this is deja news from the boss of facebook briggs's honest admitting mistakes have been made. since he's sorry about his company's handling of the cambridge. privacy scandal but is that enough to prevent an exit just from facebook also coming up. european union leaders head to brussels for their latest summits hopes that the

e.u. will be exempted from president adams on imported steel and aluminum and of course the. glass release but also a chilling warning jubilation as dozens of nigerian school girls return home from. the beauty but the extremists when their parents do not educate your daughter will only be back. hello and welcome. he 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 analytical it a statement on his face the profile apologized and promised users a new feature to turn off third party apps apps which cambridge analytical

allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an innocent personality quiz and ended up with the dates of fifty million facebook profiles being used to sway elections. now the question is why did facebook allow academic research to end up in the hands of political consultants paid to win the night u.s. election scientist behind the quiz says he's a scapegoat did you know what they were going to do with it did you know what their interest was no i mean. i was pretty heavily siloed of. course funder requirements i found out about donald trump for everybody else to give people more options than just like facebook's founder mark zuckerberg broke days of silence on the scandal admitting the company had to make 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's promised to make it easier for users to manage their previously setting. even so 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 you want to respect the law but there's concern outside the u.s. too. for a long time demanding an explanation of how this could have happened whether german users in accounts were affected and what facebook intends to do to stop anything like this from happening again. so for. added to a plummeting share price and threats of legal action from investors circle back has

much to think about but perhaps the biggest concern is a loss of trust. when weird things show my face go down like my that's exactly right just in search of the internet kind of freaks me out for the way to worry about what he's doing with my information before sunday's information with the gold . makes this feeling even stronger. the more that emerges the more questions mount about one company's role in data protection and democracy. and within this it is a social media editor and shouted reduced people have kills on this story for us since it is off to the welcome shouted. knox has finally broken his silence what do you make of the statement that's right as we know mark zuckerberg parts of a lengthy statement to facebook and then afterwards went on this media blitz and said sorry and i'm sure you sorry but of course what's interesting to look at is what he didn't say he didn't explain why when facebook learned all these years ago

that the daughter of fifteen million users was being harvested why it didn't tell them at the time why were only finding out about this now he in effect through cambridge analytic or this data services firm at the center of this controversy. and by positioning facebook as having been as deceived as os the uses when we know that these was allowed to happen because of facebook's inadequate policies he hasn't explained fully how facebook can protect us from being manipulated politically because as we know during election cycles there are problems with things like russian propaganda he did in another interview explained that during our last year special election in alabama facebook deployed official intelligence to try and crack down on this propaganda so we'd like to know a bit more about one thing he did promise he's promised to limit develop his information to. add to our information is something that facebook did in twenty

fourteen when it found out its dot it was being abused but of course there are new finding out about all of this now he said he'd be willing to testify before congress he doesn't totally opposed calls to regulate social media companies so that's that's all good news i do think though he knows he's got a bit of a battle on his hands and this is just a way to prepare for the night he waited one week before he spoke so what people are making of his response he did we actually asked our followers about that and we've polled them on trees there and a lot of them are calling as a non apology so not good enough mark zuckerberg clearly has lost a lot of people's trust here however it does seem that many many want to give him a second chance like he's used writing that he feels sorry for mark zuckerberg saying let's look at the bigger picture here facebook has changed how we communicate mock is the great man in my book whatever the outcome he's got my support and one of these responses came to mark zuckerberg parsed actually mock you

did a great job on c.n.n. arning the issue you've built the world's most powerful social platform and now we're all realizing it can be weaponized it's a new world which which is that is a sphere is such a tumultuous week and you know people are still concerned about that data for. privacy what have people learned from this episode well i've heard that people are learning that just because facebook is free doesn't mean it is for your paying with your doctor your privacy and facebook makes billions of dollars each year in trading in our information and in a way facebook's been i want to get away with behavior like this because generally people are somewhat naive lawmakers too about dr about privacy and about technology so we need to understand how the data we give to facebook is traded and how we give our consent when we when we logon important questions from a social media desk thank you listen take

a look at some other stories making news around the world a german court has sentenced in afghan refugee to life in prison for killing a teenage student in the city of freiburg far right groups had seized on the case because the defendant after being convicted for attempted murder to increase critics say checks on refugees inadequate. full of french president nicolas sarkozy has hit out at allegations he illegally accepted funding from libyan dictator moammar gadhafi says there's no physical evidence of wrongdoing he was placed under formal investigation on wednesday allegedly accepting millions from gadhafi for his two thousand and seven election campaign. has observed a minute of silence to mark the second anniversary of the bombings that left thirty four people dead belgian prime minister. recep even more. were the two suicide bombers struck a similar seventy took place at

a metro station where attacker set off explosives. seeing investors and european union leaders are heading for the city for a busy two day summit that begins later this afternoon the big two topics will be us president donald trump's new talents on steel an aluminum and of course briggs it that we now do in a corresponding of motus who was there to cover the summit for us and beth is gil is there any chance that the e.u. will get the exemption from these tabs which is hoping to get from done from. there are at least positive signs of return trade commissioner from the european union just returned from the u.s. and she brought the message that she may have achieved that the u.s. at least in the short term exempts the e.u. from these tariffs on steel and alum minium however there's not the sort of clear

if this would be a long term exemption and also in case there's no exemption at all the leaders will have to prepare today for a scenario that by midnight or some in the early hours of tomorrow these steel tariffs could hit europe right and the reserve me the british prime minister is also in brussels what is she hoping to get from e.u. leaders at the summit. there are two key sticking points in the brics negotiations well first of all what i want to say she will get the official sign off but that's just a formality for this transition period but the key stumbling blocks remain and that is. a different understanding about the future relationship the u.k. wants a deep and special partnership a really special deal potentially with access to the internal market and the e.u.'s said look the red lines you have to draw on will only give you a free trade deal and then you have the contentious issue of northern ireland where to resolve a is agreed to a backstop if there is no solution on the table but of course that solution will

get to have to be found and so lots to talk about for leaders here and we can. long way since these negotiations first started but how likely is it that the two sides the e.u. and the u.k. really meet the deadline of march two thousand and nine thousand to have a final begs the treaty. the real challenge is now to put a deal on the table to hammer out all the details a so that in time and that is by october as council president toast put it a deal is there for all the institutions the european parliament the european commission the european council but also the british parliament for all of them to ratify that steel so in fact they can meet that deadline in march next year and it will be a tight race the red government isn't duffus thank you very much for keeping across that story for us. christopher joins me now from business is in the e.u. thinks it's off the hook when it comes to these messages from the us crystal at

least for now and looks like the negotiation negotiation efforts are showing some success the european union expects president trump to announce that the bloc will be exempted from fresh terrorist on steel and aluminum later today that's according to the european commissioner for trade now earlier germany's economy minister peter . had voiced similar hopes he and the commission heard trade have travel to washington earlier in the week to make the case for steel producers not the white house has said the tariffs will take effect beginning friday. now for some more assessment of the situation let's bring in. the frankfurt stock exchange now the e.u. is expecting to be spared from trump's tariffs but european markets keep trading in negative territory is there no optimism there among investors. while they're finding it very hard to be optimistic considering that we're talking about donald

trump here he's a pretty unpredictable figure in a lot can still go wrong so european in this is simply reflect that sentiment as does for example i keep iran matter of business confidence here in germany. it's limited to and on the an eleven month low on these trade tensions also these investors are aware that we live in a world where global trade is very interconnected even if that you've managed to secure extensions from the aluminum and steel tariffs it doesn't mean that they won't be affected at all by trade wars being fought else elsewhere by other trading partners for example between between the us and china especially if growth in these countries slow down and that in turn depresses demand for exports from that you know you mentioned a drug there is not just the europeans that are on edge of their seats over the threat of punitive terrorist the u.s. is expected to announce penalty charges against up to sixty billion dollars of chinese imports as punishment for allegedly stealing intellectual property of u.s.

companies. beijing is bracing for an announcement from u.s. president donald trump on thursday slapping more tariffs on chinese imports chinese premier the cape cheating use 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 disadvantage when exporting american products abroad and insists on changing that and i keep telling these countries you have to buy american i want you to buy american you know we help people and we help countries we give aid to countries i say whether you buy your equipment or 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

where 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. back to the milan of the frankfurt stock exchange so now the u.s. administration hasn't announced the terrorists yet but chinese officials have been giving statements all morning while that they say. while they're trying to walk the line here somewhere between conciliatory and convert if they've said that they welcome friendly a negotiation about are opposed to unilateral moves and that they will take all necessary measures to defend themselves now the form that these measures will take will probably be retaliatory measures aimed at the u.s.

agricultural sector which we know is one of the sectors that is still making a trade surplus so the drama continues to now tomorrow thank you. tough times for commuters in france as a new wave of strikes is hitting the country only two of every five high speed trains were running on thursday and half of the regional trains across the country have been cancelled the walkouts come in response to president amano macross labor market for for air travelers are facing problems as well. that 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 tele 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 but if it's an unofficial strike then it's essential that public services can function enough of a full point five million daily train passengers to get from a to b. fortune personally i find these destructions threats by the union 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. that if micron 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. and the specter unexpected homecoming in nigeria that's right christoph boko haram extremists have freed most of the hundred ten schoolgirls this nasht from the town of dop cheat a month ago but the act of semen clemency came with a chilling warning to the parents don't try sending your daughters to school again or we'll be back africa correspondent. has this report. they will new limits to the jubilation and. 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.

we don't know why they brought us back out what they told us were 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 where 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 thinking. yeah why am i how are you i was crying if you guys 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 their flag and telling people not to run away as they were coming in peace. with one hundred chance school girls were kidnapped and up she last month for weeks that desperate parents receive no news of their fate the government of president bihari has come under massive pressure for its slow reaction to the kidnapping and

its failure to protect local schools. syrian state television is reporting that more than two hundred people have been evacuated from the rebel held town of hard assed in eastern huta a deal allowing them to pass through a corridor to government territory was announced after weeks of bombardment officials involved in the negotiations said sixteen hundred fighters and their families are expected to leave the britain based syrian observatory for human rights says the government's offensive on what has killed more than fifteen hundred civilians since february. within the city and now is dr mohammad cut though he. to coordinate the humanitarian response in syria and he also works as a medical doctor himself including. today he briefed members of the german bundesliga upon them and on the situation in eastern huta welcome to the country we've talked to you from syria when you would it was

a pleasure to have you with us in the safety of us studio tell us the united nations chief once described the situation in east a hoot if you weeks ago as hell on earth is that your opinion is that how things are out there thank you for having me here today i actually every day we service the was two months. and then the next day. the day before this a have been under siege since five years so there's a the sense was sort of supplies shortage of food and and of funds for people cannot be treated because of some health because people don't have access to regional hospitals because the continuous attacks on the have been neighborhoods and even the very basic medicines are not available in this area because of the season or the attacks on the. hospitals or the attack even on the warehouse even if you will and convoys could reach the area and some less than ten percent of the needs even those are targeted by the size of the syrian jima hundreds of lights

like you've aboard and brought up in eastern huta you have contacts there you have operations going on there how difficult is it for doctors to work in eastern huta given what he was saying the bombing is going on the shelling has been going on was so hard because there are limitation for everything's and then the doctor had to have to had a very hard. decisions to treat who to leave who to save because of of the very few. resources they they have the cannot just decide who to to treat and who to leave and even their safety that if the attacks since years . and always since the beginning of this year ten health workers in some water well killed by the air strikes so you can imagine a doctor who is concerned about the safety of his family about the safety is of of his colleagues and about his and safety also shortage of medicine and supplies is

a big issue also to deal. chronic diseases don't have any chance to be treated because of the security situation where women are delivering baby in underground shelters don't have the access to the hospitals to be. cheated and even when they have asked if they cannot stay because a hospital is a dangerous place and i mean a lot of feel prison is running field hospitals and they can have different difficult circumstances do you get the sense that actually hospital facilities were targeted deliberately of course because the rate of attacks that we see here is life is one of every twenty four hours and so it's cannot fail in a deliberate attack and recently we started sharing coordinates of those hospitals through the u.n. and with all parties all the military part is that are operating on the ground or from from from the sky so. even after those bases are still being targeted there is

a target using all types of weapons even bunker buster which translates all for difficult research to try to fortify the hospitals to protect our staff and to protect to protect the patients we used several ways to protect the hospitals like when it's distributed the hospital in several divisions and the kinds of places so at least we can i minimize the damage if one of those facilities was attacked then even though those things there were instances to work in now did the civilians have begun leaving easten would as we heard do you think they'll be safer once they're outside of. the issue here there's no monitoring mechanism to monitor the protection of all civilians where the syrian army is the. be the first responder for the business if the government army is the first responder for for those evacuees it can't remember exactly is actually they are displaced people they are forced to be displaced under severe attacks for four weeks then they decided to leave and then you and is only allowed to provide aid which is might be food might

be mobile clinics but definitely no monitoring for the protection of those the videos they are under arrest for being arrested under and the risk of being stupid and then they started receiving information our reports from. teams on the ground that many people were arrested from those evacuees families are separated so women are not allowed to stay with what their men and the same and the same place many violations taking place there but without anyone telling the large number of internally displaced people dr moment caught them it's a pleasure to have you this two years and we wish you all the best in your humanitarian operations in your country especially in eastern hotel which is facing a very difficult time at the moment thank you thank you very much. for the violence false this man is pushing ahead in his quest to become a professional footballer well same boat train with bruce here dortmund on friday

and he warmed up for his big audition with a friendly match against donna. i often germinating the athletics track for almost ten years you saying bolt has turned his attention to football. at the age of thirty one he wants to try and go professional this way he got his big chance to impress manchester united coach joe same radio in a five a side prime of vents. you know. the front seat. belt was looking to does alongside fifty seven year old diego maradona. though his football skills were not always on show was. his big test however comes on friday he will join his latest side parisienne dortmund's for an open training session.

which are. difficult to do to. keep the sort of. it's a part trained for now but bolts athleticism and no small measure of confidence maine the most outrageous crossover in sports could really happen. he was indeed a news coming to you live from berlin here's a recap of the top story the following fields facebook tossed mark zuckerberg says he's sorry about his company's handling of the cambridge analytical privacy scandal in a statement on his facebook profile a stock of the promise to use this new feature to turn off third party apps. i have only seen happen to them and they can always get lost on our website anytime anywhere anyplace at the dot com good to have your company the bat.

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but i was a woman in egypt some things turned out to. forced marriage genital mutilation humiliation. so i now while we rebalance. the written word to stand up for women's rights. now with. 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 actions my guest this week here in strasburg is johan pascoe a vice president of the european parliament and a former defense minister of romania can the e.u. he'll its divisions and start living up to the values it claims to hold so dear.