this is deja vu news live from berlin tensions as the u.n. security council russia and the united states in a bitter and heated exchange over and alleged chemical weapons attack in syria russia warns of grave grupper cautions of the u.s. takes military action against syrian targets also coming up. an attack for our country is atrocious and exactly what we all stand for president donald trump says he's the victim of an unprecedented which songs after f.b.i.

agents raided the office of his long time personal attorney. and saudi arabia's crown prince visits france to help with his reform program back home but demonstrators protest the red carpet treatment urging french leaders to raise rights issues with them. also on the show a day of reckoning for facebook's mark zuckerberg will face a public growing in the u.s. senate today about his company's role and misusing the personal data of millions of unsuspecting facebook customers. are brought in thomas a very warm welcome to the show us president donald trump has promised a swift and forceful response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria aid workers in the town of duma east of damascus the capital. say poison gas was used

to kill dozens of people in an attack last week the syrian government and its main ally russia deny any responsibility it was discussed at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council where russia and the u.s. traded heated accusations. did these bombs dropped on the last rebel held area near the syrian capital damascus contain chemical weapons the answer could be cause for escalation in the conflict there most of all between the united states and russia what we are doing that to global powers faced off at the united nations security council in new york. russia's obstructionism will not continue to hold us hostage when we are confronted with an attack like this one the united states is determined to see the monster who dropped chemical weapons on the syrian people held to account yeah yeah i call upon those slandering the regime to move forward with the assumption that there was no chemical weapons

attack. was not there we already conveyed to the u.s. side that force under false pretext against syria where at the request of the legitimate government of the country russian troops have been deployed could lead to grave replications. aide workers say chlorine gas killed at least forty people and injured many more in duma the u.s. and its allies want an investigation into what happened there but the u.s. may go further than an inquiry history will record this as the moment when the security council either discharged its duty or demonstrated its utter and complete failure to protect the people of syria either way the united states will respond. that response could look like this last year following another suspected chemical

attack us president donald trump ordered cruise missile strikes against a syrian air base. says military options are again on the table and action of some sort could come soon. and talk about where this is headed i'm joined by marcus carr mideast analyst from the german institute for international security affairs good morning chris what do you think will donald trump authorize military action against targets in syria i think he is two options very limited strike like. the. military attack or chemical weapons attack last year where the u.s. forces. military of as of syria or we could see more extended military campaign which could take a couple of days but what. has the difficulty compos possible confrontation with russian forces on the ground and the greater

problem is what is the political aim of this military campaign because the united states has announced exactly last week on the go one week ago that it would leave syria military terms ok now how would russia respond to any possible merit in military action i mean there is a big difference between a limited air strike like we saw last year or a larger campaign water rushes off it's difficult to say i think russia so far has avoided the direct military confrontation was insisting on the conflicting the military can paint of the united states and russia and syria in particular species so it's difficult to assess but i think it's pretty obvious that russia would would not withdraw its political and military support for the assad regime don't you know russia has also come out and said it was israel that was behind the airstrike yesterday morning that we talked about on that on that air base. in syria the

syrian government the air base do you see israel expanding its role in. in syria alongside the united states and on behalf of the west i think israel has two major goals first to contain iran and the reigning influence as well as the hizbollah influence in syria to avoid a direct need to go to military confrontation at the syrian is very bold at the golan heights and secondly to keep the united states engaged in syria politically as well as militarily and therefore i think that has been maybe clear signal to the united states the israeli attack on the syrian base a clear signal to the united states do not withdraw your forces from syria keep engaged help us to contain iran ok there are a number of other very big players in the region of course inside syria iran is among them it has no terry assets you mention the golan heights just across the border there how would a rand respond to north korea action by the united states in the days ahead i think

it depends on the on the on the kind of the response of the united states if it's limited as good like one year ago i think it doesn't they are a means of very much military campaign which would really weaken their military infrastructure in syria would would maybe change their behavior but at the end of the day i think it depends on the political program of the united states in the in syria if the united states would return as a political act that that could really contain in their own iranian influence ok now i don't it's not just iran and russia turkey has signed an agreement with them there's the three of them are cooperating right now in syria what would it do if america launched a larger campaign for example inside syria i think turkey so faucet is tied to put it this way it's to satisfy the territorial terms and has occupied certain parts of

syria which belonged to the ultimate and piled one on the. years ago and has left open the option that it wouldn't return them to syria maybe not and then annex them neagle terms but to keep them under their political and military control ok mark is time for us today as we look forward to how the us is going to respond if it will respond to the alleged chemical attack in duma thank you very much thank you for. all staying with us president donald trump has called an f.b.i. raid on the office of his personal attorney disgraceful the f.b.i. acted in part on a referral from special counsel robert muller miller's conducting an investigation of course into russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential campaign. the documents seized at michael cohen's manhattan office contain what his lawyer said are privileged communications between cohen and

his clients those clients include u.s. president donald trump the f.b.i. xrayed prompted a furious response from the president so i just heard that they broke at the office of one of my personal attorneys but man. it's a disgraceful situation it's a total which is an attack on our country the. attack or what we all stand for michael cohen came under scrutiny after he admitted to making it one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to adult film actress stephanie clifford. clifford who goes by the name stormy daniels alleges she had a sexual relationship with donald trump in two thousand and six. clifford said cohen made the payment in return for her silence trump has denied all its the payment was made it is unclear if the raid is directly linked to the motor investigation or clifford's alleged hush money either way it may spell more legal

trouble for donald trump. now for some of the other stories making the news this hour colombian authorities have arrested a former fark rebel leader on drug trafficking charges he's a song for if was arrested on an u.s. warrant for allegedly smuggled large amounts of cocaine into the u.s. in our faces extradition that could strain the fragile peace deal the colombian government struck with four rebels and twenty sixteen. at least six people have been killed and some nine others wounded in an attack in western afghanistan many of the victims were children officials say of were planted a mosque in herat province no one has claimed responsibility so for. a topless femen activists protesting against a bill cosby got within a few meters of the comedian on monday he was on his way to court for a retrial on charges of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in two thousand and four last year jurors failed to reach

a unanimous verdict. and democratic republic of congo five rangers in their driver have been killed in an ambush in the wrong the national park the director of the park which is home to endangered mountain gorillas as blamed the attack on militia fighters over the last two decades more than one hundred fifty rangers have been killed protecting the park and its roles. this is deja vu news still to come on the show germany's bundesliga title has been sewn up by byron munich but these two teams still have plenty to fight for at stake or leipzig and labor coup isn't a burthen next season's champions league. all key speech from the chinese president amidst fears of a trade war and the tone so far seems to be more george will as opposed to trade war who coming from the chinese premier there more openness from the world's second

biggest economy that's the promise that chinese president xi jinping has been making on a global stage and that is the message he reiterated at the forum for asia now that's an annual summit that's been dubbed the asian davos he said china would lower tariffs for vehicles improve access to the financial sector strengthen intellect intellectual property rights she's speech comes amid those tensions with the united states that have seen tit for tat tariffs slapped on each other's products. well for more on this let's bring in correspondent my tears burning up now in beijing mathias tell us more about what she had to say at this very critical moment for trade relations. well there has been a lot of expectations with regard to this speech she has been expected to make major announcements of further opening up trying to ease economy and that's what he

has done he has announced opening up chinese economy lowering tariffs for imports and even allowing more direct investments that means investments without having to pair with a chinese company in a joint venture specially in the car industry so these are major announcements one can say it is what has been expected promise is plenty saying that he's not seeking a trade surplus in favor of new chill benefits as you say them a ts and open global economy the question is of course are people taking him at his word on this. the problem is that he has made similar announcement although less specific before his prime minister has made these that announcements year on year. these are still announcements we will have to see what comes out he has a history off announcing

a more open policy when he started his tune into housing thirteen he has announced major major liberalizations off the chinese economy domestic and domestically and internationally you know nothing of this has happened the state has even further enhance and is grip on the economy so this would be a major turn in his policies and people are skeptical whether this will really happen some minor adjustments might happen. as a concession in this trade war that donald trump has been calling absolutely as you point out critics say that she has actually in fact been closing the economy to international investors and china has also said that it is evaluating the potential impact of losing its currency as a tool in trade negotiations in the spat with the united states what can you tell us about that i think we can see this as

a way off were warfare donald trump has been obsessed with this currency issue although a lot of experts have said that this is not anymore an issue as it was five or ten years ago so i think this is a direct response to donald trump china is also now laying its weapons on the table to show what it would be capable of i am not sure that it would be in their interest even to change their core currency policies at this moment all right so beijing laying out its. at least correspondent in beijing thank you. german airline of tons has canceled more than eight hundred flights planned for choose day off to public sector union verde announced walkouts of its own at some german airports of flights leaving from airports in frankfurt cologne in payment and munich have been affected some of them on long haul routes

of time says says ninety thousand passengers will be hit these demanding a six percent pay rise for millions of employees in various public sector jobs across the country. while you can get a flight travelling to turkey is quite a good deal these days the exchange rate of the turkish lira is hitting all time lows in advance of new stimulus measures on monday a euro was worth more than five layers for the first time in history in the us despite a generally strong turkish economy growth rates rival those in china the most recent g.d.p. growth was an impressive seven point four percent however experts are warning that cheap credit could lead to an overheated economy president to on is behind the loose monetary policy pumping money into the economy through government programs techies taking a risk as production could overtake demand causing a recession facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is in washington today to meet lawmakers and also questions related

to recent data breaches and data abuse like the one committed by cambridge analytic or in support of u.s. president trump campaign has raised questions regarding a cyber security around the world but hackers don't usually work for political or they mostly their goal is much simpler money the dawn of crypto currency as has increased the motives of criminals to hurt other people's computers and phones and service providers have a hard time protecting their appliances. this amazon fire t.v. stick has been contaminated with malware allowing it to mine for the cryptocurrency minera the malware sends the computer's processor into overdrive hiking its temperature up to forty two degrees celsius in this experiment twenty eight volunteers have allowed their devices to be contaminated. normally if you were to set up a crypto mining operation you would buy some very expensive hardware and you would have to provide for electricity and those types of things and what this does is it uses distributed networking to connect to multiple different people's devices and

harness the power of those devices and the energy in those devices to mind at the currency's any devices that are connected to the internet all right risk currently around seven billion consumer products and four point two billion business devices worldwide by twenty twenty these figures a set to almost double. anti energy bills that just one side effect of the malware. one of the things it does is it really degrades your battery life as the device starts getting you will face more and more crashes and ultimately the device becomes unusable because it's crashing all the time. the experiment at the mobile world congress involves mining just small amounts of crypto currency but by contaminating millions of devices real cyber criminals can make a fortune. now saudi arabia appears intent on updating its image and is

taking the message on international told on the road has a different song already in the u.s. and in britain latest stop paris conferences in france as he continues his global tour and that promoting a modern progressive image of the conservative kingdom he in a french leaders want to strengthen cultural business ties but the visit has not been without controversy so far. widely known as m.b.'s the saudi arabian crown prince mohammed bin sound man arrived in paris on the latest leg of a worldwide charm offensive first stop talks at the prime minister's residence. the prince also had a private tour of the louvre museum of works by the nineteenth century painter usually. as part of his drive to modernize the ultraconservative kingdom been summoned signed a deal for the paris opera to help the saudis produce their own classical music shows but it's not all been harmonious campaign is gathered in the shadow of the

eiffel tower to protest against french military support for saudi arabia a saudi led coalition has been fighting rebels in yemen for the last three years i know. it does not shock us that the saudi princes in france but to roll out the red carpet while there clearly are possible war crimes in yemen that's a bit paradoxical to say the least. amnesty international once france to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia the conflict in yemen has killed at least ten thousand people the united nations has called it the world's worst humanitarian crisis. for more or less story let's bring in. journalist in paris following this visit for us and first of presently trauma's rolling out the red carpet today for the saudi prince what does mccrone want to see from the. first of all not all but he is that france has

a role to play in the middle east and right now mohammad min sound man is entirely remodelling alliances in the middle east. a second this is part of the sort of all income possibly french house now it doesn't matter whether we necessary like the people receive but mccall is very clever in receiving donald trump very well so that don't trump no respect as a player in the international scene he has received an email to t. in a death site and this time it is receiving mohammed and solomon in the loo it's part of the general international offensive french foreign policy ok now for its part saudi arabia is among other things working diplomatically to isolate iran and to get western support and doing that will get diplomatic backing from paris and it's in the efforts to isolate tehran. i think he will get

a little bit you know nice talk and not much backing. recently many of them at home or had a discussion with her husband so when i say recently as a couple of months back when the saudi crown prince. convert literally the lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri to. in saudi and they would not let him go and call was instrumental in getting the liberation in ways in which nobody lost face. and he was then told by muhammad and. france should not be dealing with iran front of russia not be trading with iran and i mean i understand the journalist dexter filkins has reported that the reaction of mccall very gently was to say you cannot dictate to a country like france who she doesn't does not trade with and there's a feeling that this has been understood on the other hand there's this image of

france is very interesting that you know it's this meeting is you to be at the ruler when mohammed and so man has been revealed to be the buyer of the vinci painting a little bit on the windy that he is offering to leave and we don't lou we know the relationship between the emirates the is accounted gotz in the emirates and dubai and you know we don't be and i think he has and my that aspect of such a friend french soft power and he realizes that it also translates into politics ok thanks for bringing us up to date on this visit and elizabeth for us from paris this morning we have some sports now on a monday night it's a bonus like a mass lives with leverkusen always separated by a point in the standings both clubs are chasing champions league qualification now was of were goals roller of the last time these two faced off and see if last night's clash was just as exciting. leipzig drew first blood with their fearsome

attack marcel sabots or firing in a rocket in the seventeenth minute. leverkusen keeper banjul a no no match for this one. but just before half time laver couzens chi habits netted a beauty of his own to level the score at one all leon bailey with the assist and a fine finish from have it it's. and soon after the restart and struck again you only have branch out maneuvering his marker in the box and slotting home to make it to one. of. the flood gates were open just five minutes later some pinball in front of goal and panos red sauce drilled in his first ever been just legal three one for laverick. and they weren't done yet this time branch turned provider for kevin father who made no mistake. with

sloppy defending like this it's no wonder leipzig were getting shellacked for one the final score. laver cousins fans were overjoyed their team moves up to fourth in the table on track for that coveted final champions league spot. to their crandell a crumb in european football now the champions league liverpool travelling to manchester city hoping to seal the deal on the second leg of the quarterfinals they hold a three male lead heading into the clash so he. has admitted it will take a perfect game from the players to overcome the deficit. they say no lead is this a feed even if you're up by three golds that's why liverpool were hopping in popping a training before they big match against manchester city in the champions league. to coach you can plop nothing is fixed in stone. it's always the parents who

responded all the time right back and that's what. c.d.'s that can store and be up to cans to play again really really good and to win the game c.d.i. in a do or die situation there's no room for slip ups in the champions league especially not the kind that can cost you victory like blowing a two goal lead against manchester united on saturday in the premier league. pay as i kevin deprived. and raheem sterling also need to step up the magic. and with a master tactician at the helm figuring out a way shouldn't be that difficult to go through that to make almost a perfect being so critical chance has been clinically knew could the chances consider two chances then the chances are going to receive. you know do so well in our keeper say that all the conditions city have ninety minutes to overturn a three no deficit but liverpool were on smites

a training i hoping to spoil any idea of a miracle comeback. this is due to be in is still to come on the show of very public reckoning for one of the world's most powerful man look at what's at stake for facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg set to testify on capitol hill today. and that live streaming a million people in china earn their living this way look at the challengers and the rest so loving all life on launch. plus we're taking you to the fast. well that is literally dynamite it's a once a year event in mexico celebrated with a bang as you can see there from exploding sludge ramps. all forget you can always get interviews on the go download from google play or from the apple store that gives you access to the latest news from around the world

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york office acting in part on a referral from special counsel robert mueller. well say we're going to be talking about facebook and mark zuckerberg testimony today and one country where people don't have to worry about facebook passing on their personal data is of course china that's because the platform has been banned there since two thousand and nine backed up by tough censorship laws beijing's communist authorities keep a very close watch for any online content that may be even vaguely critical of the government but that hasn't stopped more than a million chinese from trying to make their livelihoods by doing nothing else but broadcasting their everyday lives online. it's a nationwide craze smartphone cameras poised they sing they've done things and rock their best moves it's all action in this nonstop talent show.

and others are happy just to present to the world their everyday lives what they eating today what makes them laugh. live streaming is a mass phenomenon in china they're all chasing viewers for some it's just fun others in looking for fame and fortune. beijing based lynn lynn is just starting out in her career as a live stream or the twenty two year old studied management in singapore back in china she got a job at a state owned enterprise but saw little future there. but one day. i don't want to be tied down by main job i love my freedom to. live streaming is a new industry i want to try it out and find out what i can do. this is lynn lynn's dream factory rope on rose small studios the agency has some nine thousand live

stream is under contract their job is to build up the biggest possible fan base. and kept it. even while eating she's still streaming as a newcomer she doesn't earn much like this man she engine is getting ready next door he's a star in the industry with more than a million followers after college she wanted to work in fashion sang in bars but then tried live streaming to earn more money when i started i wasn't natural a lot of people didn't like me and i hardly had any fans then my friends told me to

just be myself since then it's been going great. an assistant with a phone keeps a record of the digital gifts fans send in that's where the money is they range from virtual racing cars to roses and rings cheap ones cost less than a year ago but the fancy versions of priced at several hundred successful live stream is canon upwards of six thousand euros a month some top stars have even become millionaires most just manage to make ends meet. lynn lynn's agent gives her tips while she's streaming the agency takes a cut of the digital gifts and of course it wants to help the streamers improve their marketing. pressure and. to make it as a live stream or women must be good looking. and they need communication skills are called home men also need to look good but mostly they're streaming has to be funny

or do it we don't need a good sense of humor where you know you you know your more. anyone who doesn't meet the ideal of beauty can be made better looking digital filters can make the chin smaller skin smoother eyes wider lynn lynn herself looks different on screen and the. live streaming acts as a national popular trialogue but china's rigid censorship system the. nothing can be said written or performed which could be obscene or offensive to the communist party. anyone who doesn't play by the rules quickly discovers that critical keywords in chats are blocked by software and company employees several platforms have been shut down the party leadership supports live streaming because the industry creates jobs even so red lines must not be crossed and that includes

the fans from the. one users mostly care about games entertainment and personal presentations the main thing is that it's not political in other words to keep away from politics. and religion. china's state media are calling for stricter guidelines because live streams of becoming ever more reckless a twenty six year old extreme climber is said to have died falling off a skyscraper while filming a video selfie. lynn lynn just wants to make people laugh exhausted after hours of streaming she still has to deep grief with her agent not all her followers are nice. people if someone says i'm ugly i say there must be something wrong with their eyes and they should go to the optician once i look beautiful again then their eyes are ok lightly ironic that's how i react.

and then it's back to business many streaming stars take at least a year to build up a good following that's encouraging filin lynn. most lifestream is give up at some point and disappear from the screen as quickly as they arrived perhaps not surprisingly given the amount of competition. so much competition wolf it's tough to make a living as a chinese national in china what about for an ex-pat in the country sam temple does live stream or co-founder of the chinese internet celebrity tell management company he lives in china but joins us now live via skype from san francisco good morning sam thank you so much for coming in today being with us what made you choose a career in live streaming in china. such as it was mainly just sort of luck the brought me into it when i first got introduced to

live streaming it was when i was living out in shanghai working as a fashion stylist and i just had a friend who recommended me go shout this live streaming out that she was she knew some people who are working there for different agencies or for motion companies and recommended me to give it a shot and then i took to it pretty not really and within about the first month those hitting about ten thousand followers and had a pretty stable in there ok so you're doing better than than the average chinese who as we saw in our reporters struggling to make a living there yes and no because at that point it was late two thousand and fifteen early two thousand and sixteen so that was when the big push really came through that was when didn't matter what platform you're on if you just started streaming you were dedicated to it and every day you're more than likely go and blow up ok why is china different from europe where are the united

states in terms of the popularity of of live streaming you know we have facebook live we have periscope we you know we have twitch what's the difference between the two cultures. that's really hers i feel like. fur china a lot of times it's more traditional in the work life type of role that people are expected to have so a lot of people just end up in jobs that they're not super interested in or living sort of. not extreme with the lows so being able to use that as an escape is really nice for them as well as like x. box playstation a lot of gaming just isn't very consistent in china because like if you're playing cisco or call of duty year earlier halo or any any big games

a lot of times if you're playing on a chinese server the connection isn't going to work very well because it has to go across the great far wall. so like yes gaming live streaming exists in china but the novelty of the entertainment side of like watching people perform is much more appealing just because it's easier to. relate to us we're ok for another chinese culture. ok eventually the chinese firewall the censorship they're at what kind of what kind of role does that play mean china has one of the world's most extreme forms of censorship for any online content how does that affect you know one million people live streaming the personal details of their lives spontaneously . it's it's a slippery slope. i mean it seems like every month they're coming out with new

regulations on what can and cannot be put up and even beyond just the government's regulations a lot of platforms they have their own stricter regulations i think it was late last year maybe summer or fall early fall there was eight or nine lives from platforms that are completely shut down by the government because there are so many they were so lax in regulating gly more salacious or pornographic type of wives streamers. and so the they tracked it down pretty hard and after that i mean even if you talk about other platforms in your live stream sometimes your stream will just get shut down i just hysterical this process appears ok if any light of that ambiguity in the way lives families treated by the government where is the industry had it or people so again be able to make money with it. i feel like

a lot of what i've done in the past eight twelve months is what i feel is the real true future of wives during i feel if the novelty of just watching somebody dance or sing songs. is going to fade out i mean it's our research. but what i've been mainly involved in in the past year is more marketing promotion aspects of live streaming where in real time you're able to interact with fans customers who want to see how you would style an outfit or how you can use a certain product product and then they ask you any questions they want to about it and can just buy it straight from you turn the live stream has a. kind of a how to sales platform is where it's heading sams yet to play these live stream or live theme in a tell management from shanghai joining us safer san francisco sam thanks

a lot thanks very much. well we are about twelve hours now from one of the world's richest and most influential men getting a complete grilling in the u.s. senate facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is due to appear before lawmakers on capitol hill later today amidst the firestorm over his company in effect selling the personal data and details from the lives of millions of facebook users mainly in the united states and without their knowledge now the thirty three year old chief executive arrived in washington yesterday for a private meeting with some senate leaders this october didn't talk to reporters but he did issue a written statement in which he apologized and admitted that facebook did not do enough to prevent misuse top the agenda in today's hearings will of course these are the bergs admission that the personal information of up to eighty seven million facebook users mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly used with the political consultancy cambridge analytic of

helping put donald trump in the white house told today the only time we heard mark zuckerberg talking about the scandal was in the teleconference he held with a handful of journalists a few days ago this was also the first time he'd knowledge that he had indeed made mistakes clear now that we didn't do enough we didn't focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well and that goes for big. foreign interference election beach in addition to developers and data privacy. we're going to take a broad enough view of what our responsibility and that was a huge mistake it was it was my. huge mistake those are the words from our sort of words few days ago talking some journalist with me in the studio now is theresa locker she's a balloon based editor with vice is actually from vice is

a tech platform called motherboard thanks for coming in this morning to receive the talk about this major event in the texas tech industry isn't it what do you expect from mark zuckerberg day of reckoning to well i don't expect any breaking news to be honest because i think facebook's p.r. team has taken all measures to rule that out by going on this apology tour that marks a copernic is now continuing talking to journalists before but i do expect a show also from lawmakers who are trying to. emphasize how outraged they are now that facebook can be growth and also the presidential hopefuls will probably be in charge it is a big moment for this senate committee they're also looking to take the lead aren't they in regulating social media platforms like facebook is that where this is

headed to media regulation in this area i think that burke and facebook will do their best to avoid that because it is a tech silicon valley tradition to rely solely on self-regulation also you have to say that congress has not been too adamant in regulating tech platforms for example the handling of the acme folks. scandal and the recent months they have been too vocal on what the consequences will be after a major dot of reach made it out to misuse ok but there's a lot of public pushback all right now including in formats like saturday night live which usually president from they actually poke a lot of fun there at mark zuckerberg let's take a look at that clip right now. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg will testify before congress about facebook's a legend mishandling of the millions of users data here's

a comment is mark zuckerberg. thank you for calling began i contact two three and away i nailed it. mark zuckerberg doesn't have any support on this where you know people like you long must tesla and tim cook from apple i mean they have not backed up their very silent right now he's actually out there on his own. yeah and i mean the clip showed him as somebody who is a very simple coda and not exactly the most likable key are person quietly though in the background and i think this is why silicon valley is also watching really closely. my cycle because gobbled up the internet basically and a lot of the. a lot of time that we spend online is controlled by facebook so i think what silicon valley leaders also look at closely is what does it do when you have

a monopoly on the internet and what is the public backlash going to be like ok it's not only our time that's being gobbled up as you put it but it's our personal data too and that's that's part of facebook's business model isn't it you know gathering the data and you know as it works is we don't sell it but in effect it's being sold as yeah exactly that is one part and the other is that his book has been squashing their competitors either by buying them or by cloning them and ripping off all the features so when facebook for example when they say we need you to build communities and we want to enable people to build communities the question can be asked facebook's business model is also to. avoid people building them elsewhere making it virtually impossible ok there are some possible competitors out there varos one i've been looking at it's a it's a pay as you go it's

a subscription type of social media platform do you do you see facebook being broken up possibly antitrust action no no do you see the rise of competitors coming in either no need i don't think so it's going to it's going to. to be a player though the biggest demographic on facebook nowadays is fifty five plus so a lot of these people manage their contacts through facebook and they see hearing ties to facebook would mean seeing ties with actual relationships and that community and that that status has been built up for a decade and so when the delete facebook movement came along. it actually set off to what's well he hasn't seen a significant number deleting their accounts and so i think it will stay ok but there is an older demographic fifty five and over younger people are going to instagram and even instagram is old fashion for a lot of younger users what about the younger younger generation are they going to

abandon facebook i mean they're not there right now you know they're not there right now but yet as you said they were an instagram which is part of facebook and also facebook controls all kinds of our access to reality as for example the messaging service what's app everybody is and what facebook was smart to also buy those when when the competitors got too dangerous for them so i think the trove of dr that they said once they managed to tie this all together is enormous and is only to be compared with google ok a lot still to talk about we'll be looking at this in the days ahead theresa locker from vice from its multimedia tech platform motherboard thanks so much freezer for all those inside look forward to talking to you again thank you. and we will of course be keeping you updated on mark so a testimony here at the w. news you can follow us on twitter for all the latest and also to check out our

information we have at our website e.w. dot com you'll find all sorts of interviews there some in-depth analysis. including a who's who in the cambridge analytic a scandal we have all of that and plenty more as well. well if you are consider yourself a thrill seeker then our next segment is for you we're going to talk about the most dangerous festivals in the world there's quite a few of them now you might have heard of the rocket war that plagues takes place once a year in a small village to rival churches their fire up to sixty thousand rockets at each other's belltower and here's another one from spain since the seventeenth century the village of history of the mercy has held an annual ceremony in which infants are laid out on mattresses actors dress demons and leap over them in case you're wondering that festival hasn't had any mishaps well you think it can't get any more

dangerous than that wall think again we can take a look now what's happening every year in san juan de vague and mexico here's a hint it involves sledgehammers. welcome to san juan de la vega a town where for one day a year this happens. the process the result of homemade explosives tapes to how mous. quick were the force of the explosion ripped through my heart. and they didn't live and that many and left wounded. big poses big preparation and a big show. size is importance to the men here today. and it's all for him the town's patron saint john the baptist.

some here believe the saint will only hear their prayers if the sparks really fly. my cousin was stabbed in the chest close to his heart he wouldn't get better but then we called on someone and he was healed. you know it was. in a way this ritual is a dynamite devotional. and what did you pray for the beacon to have anything would happen to me. and. nothing. but there must be some sense to it we ask around. what's the connection between the explosions and the st. i can't exactly tell you. here's the bottom line is this ain't supposed to like you if you put yourself in

danger. i don't really know. most people here don't know where this tradition comes from but that doesn't seem to matter i want to know how you're feeling now. what we're really hurts on the sidelines some of the towns older residents chat about why the festival is so popular when it's so dangerous. well they don't care they come because they enjoy blowing things out but it was. not the end of the day a thunderous climax. along with these trousers the parade is very much finished. the whole spectacle has a kind of logic that only men seem to understand we hardly saw any women here in any

case. quick reminder now of the top stories we're following for you this hour. the u.s. and russia have clashed in the u.n. security council over an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria russia called groups reports of such an attack quote fake news president trump has said he's exploring military options in a forceful response. and u.s. president has also lashed out at an f.b.i. raid on his personal attorney's offices calling it a disgrace f.b.i. agents seized documents during a search of michael collins new york office acting in part on a referral from special counsel robert. this is the. lawyer from berlin we have more coming up at the top of the hour of course and don't forget you can always get the latest news around the clock on the website that's dot com for now though for me brian thomas of the entire news staff thanks

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