this is data of leaders lie from berger and it looks like our number had is about to roll of the world's biggest carmaker vaults fog across material may be heading for the exits as a company says it is considering further involving its leadership structure we'll see if we can decipher the management speak also on the program the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons says it will send inspectors to syria they'll investigate a suspected poison gas attack that opposition activists say killed dozens of civilians in the weekend. town will be live to washington as facebook boss mark

zuckerberg appears before u.s. lawmakers will face questions over revelations of big personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly accessed used to during this one sixteen u.s. election. welcome to the program the chief executive of the world's biggest carmaker of volkswagen could be on his way out the company says he's considering change to the top and that could mean a new chief executive to replace my. report suggests that the successor will be the current head of the v.w. brand have at least the group board but the group board is shuttle to meet on friday. it's the most important job in the german car industry as miller took over the helm of fox dog back in twenty fifteen his mission dragging the company out of

the diesel gate crisis and by some measures at least he succeeded last year v.w. sold more cars than ever before is this kind his lips first. considering the journey so far which has felt like a roller coaster at times it's not a given that we can say today parts of the company is in very good shape. is good for us and miller has been praised for managing to communicate effectively with both trade unions and politicians and for restructuring the company but it's up to the man who could succeed him to announce the most sixty year cost reductions here about d.s. v.w. brand chief is not a favorite with the unions but he appears to be popular with the board of directors they'll meet on friday potentially to decide on a replacement for miller. let's get more from financial correspondent daniel cope the frankfurt stock exchange and steve desley from d.w.

business so welcome both let's start with you steve why is this happening now given that diesel gate exploded what nearly three years ago the company's profits the soaring consumer is still loyal to the v.w. brand. the short answer is that we don't know. the longer answer is that you have to remember what the past two plus years have looked like four months mueller he was head of porsche c.e.o. there by all reports he was happy in that job and then these will get exploded and he was tapped to head up folks wagon the world's largest automaker and they incredibly politically and socially economically important industry the pinnacle of the most important industry in germany at its most difficult time so mueller has had to answer he's had to be the face of volkswagen as the investigations have been ongoing as colleagues have been arrested and as he's tried to shepherd the brand through sort of it's it's changing face he's tried to

put on a new face he's tried to change the corporate culture he's had to put on more environmental face he said to expand access in the china all of these things come with intense pressure is an intense job his contract does run to twenty twenty but considering what's happened the to put the past two plus years it's a lot for one person so the question of whether this is truly a strategy change still lingers because many of these questions still remain diesel gates still lingers the challenges of getting moving on from a diesel past moving towards electric expanding the china those will continue for his successor. just to be clear given the much of this is speculation we don't know if he is out of a job. or if he's just going to be moved somewhere else within the company that's right we don't know yet we only know that these is supposed to come on and take his place. in frankfurt let's talk about the share price how has this news affected.

well phil let me tell you first that also investors here at the trading floor were very surprised of all this news there were no rumors this really came as a surprise in general it has been a very successful trading day for the share price already this morning the shares were jumping high after china announced lower import tariffs for foreign car imports then after the news was breaking about a possible new c.e.o. the share price of even jumped higher at the end of the trading day with senior plus a five percent investors are telling me that they're actually thinking that this is the good timing right now in general volkswagen is very strong last year they had a record sale numbers now it's time for a new chapter and they are actually very optimistic that this will be the case with as a possible new c.e.o. so final word to you steve bisley what will mathias legacy be

for v.w. feel that it's going to be a mixed legacy i think daniel so obviously he oversaw volkswagen a time of record profits at a time of expansion further expansion to markets like china but the issues of diesel gate continue you remember there was the monkey testing affair in january that broke under mueller you know that in the u.s. folks were going to have to pay billions and billions in settlements to volkswagen car owners in europe they haven't paid anything so these are continued criticisms that he's faced as well as the continuation of diesel and volkswagens general continued push for clean diesel and it's sort of hedging on the future of diesel in europe so there's a lot of criticism there but in terms of the actual hard numbers again as daniel said they've looked incredible steve bisley thank you daniel coupe in frankfurt thank you as well. german chancellor angela merkel has taken the capitals of the

two day retreats trying to hammer out the details of a government program for the coming months months the most pressing issues of drafting the new budget reforming germany's refugee policy but the chancellor also needs a few fractious heads together. they have been politically marriage for a month but there hasn't been much of a honeymoon in germany's new coalition rarely a day has gone by without cabinet members making controversial statements about issues like the role of his not mean germany security or refugees and much of the controversy has come from these two men interior minister holds a whole for health minister yes. now merkel and her cabinet have an ideal opportunity to smooth things out there today retreat this rock castle maze a bag not far from berlin it has been described as the german equivalent of competence a bit in the u.s. or checkers in the u.k.

there the government also hopes to further develop its work schedule. and stock up germany is a strong partner in the world it has a strong economy people look at us with envy because we're doing well but nevertheless many citizens have fears here and we want to deal with them. a particular focus will be on finance minister orloff sold says new draft budget which he aims to present at the end of the month the e.u. and nato are also on the agenda with two high profile guests at mazen back nato secretary general shelton back and e.u. commission president. and the cabinet has also been discussing issues like how to reduce unemployment or force the digital development the new government has so far achieved little but the expectations are certainly high. the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons says it will send inspectors to syria to investigate

the site of a suspected poison gas attack opposition activists say gas was used to kill dozens of people need to mask the weekend and blame the syrian government which denies any involvement united states has warned of a possible military response to the attacks and president trump has cancer plans a trip to south america to monitor events friends. already did nora poor is a member of the german parliament committee on foreign affairs he speaks for the green party on this issue welcome to day doubly so russia and america have tabled competing u.n. resolutions calling for inquiries into the use of chemical weapons in syria will any sort of inquiry do any good i hope so you know this is not a first time that there is a state of denial on the side of the alliance around assad. and it would help to have a new independent inquiry there and having experts telling us what exactly happened

but it's quite obvious that there are not a lot of airplanes around there and that syria russia and iran are the forces around moscow's having the power to do such a thing and nobody else. tell us what good it will do if the inquiry finds chemical weapons were used the words used people will still be dead the fighting will continue what good will have been done. there is one thing we could be it could make a difference and this is that we're talking about the usage of mass destruction it wouldn't be the first time that these happened in syria but maybe we can have a clarity we never had before so it would be good to have the great organisation of the c.w. in syria these days the united states and france have been talking about military interventions if he's demonstrated the chemical weapons were used would you back military action. i think that they shouldn't be in punitive four for such

a horrible usage of. weapons of mass destruction nope no place on earth but the question is how. they gonna react and what kind of military options they have so i wouldn't give them a blank check but i would just wait and. see what the inquiry results going to be what sort of military options would you back. and depend of their results you know it's obvious that a usage of chemical weapons happened several times in syria and it never had been someone accountable for that so this is why it's happening again and again and again i think it's enough that i wouldn't talk about military options but a body inquiry and we need more evidences for for that what happened except that you keep saying that you keep repeating about that this would not be the first time that chemical weapons have been used the chemical weapons have been used in the

past the world has continued to talk about it in the past and the world has done nothing in the past you have an influential voice within the german parliament and yet you have not yet set out clearly what you would wish to happen if chemical weapons were used this is now your challenge to do that let me give you two examples of things we could do immediately the first one is. talking about the russians it is it would be helpful to to wait for a european position but it's not that easy in these days so it should be good to act as germans and the german policy and politics may policymakers and in politics just cancel that gas pipeline of knowledge into which would harm russia which is one of the most important supporters of assad and syria the second thing we could do is talking to america to our american friends and calling them for for just keeping the nuclear deal with iran that would give was a lot of space to talk. harsh sanctions against iran and for

a highly aggressive policy driving the whole reach thank you for joining us on the north pole from the german farmers committee on foreign stock you thank you. watching the d.w. let me just bring you the scene in one of the committee rooms in the u.s. congress at the moment these are some live pictures from the committee room where mark zuckerberg is due to take the stand make a statement in front of in front of congress and then take questions we'll be bringing the statement to you live at sears happen in the next half hour or so here on talk about what it does we'll bring it to you. in the meantime u.s. president to donald trump has reacted angrily to a raid on the office of his personal lawyer describing it as disgraceful the f.b.i. searched the offices of attorney michael cohen saying it was acting on a referral by special counsel robert mueller who is investigating russia's alleged

meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. president trump was blindsided by news of the raid on his long time attorney's office trump condemned the action of the beating with military chiefs called on monday to discuss syria. and today the president has taken to twitter describing the raid as a turtle witch hunt and complaining that attorney client privilege is dead trump attorney michael cohen came under scrutiny after he admitted to making a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to an adult film actress just days before the twenty sixteen presidential election stormy daniels alleges she had a sexual relationship with donald trump in two thousand and six she says cohen paid her to keep silent trump has denied the allegations the raid followed a referral from special counsel robert muller he's heading a separate investigation into suspected russian meddling in the u.s.

election it's not clear whether the radius directly linked to malice proved but that didn't stop trump on monday from railing against the inquiry an attack. country that. we all stand for. why don't i just fire moment where i think it's a disgrace what's going on and we'll see what happens but i think it's really a sad situation lawmakers on capitol hill a warning the president to allow the investigation to go ahead without political interference and the latest f.b.i. raid suggests that for donald trump they could be more legal trouble ahead. let's talk about this what with the top news how much weight has been following the story you know for so welcome so draw a liar in between. trust the president of the united states investigation into russia's meddling toward the sixty eight election there's actually

a lot of lines that have to sort of come together to make this story make any sense so if you have heard the name of bill cohen in the media recently it's because he is donald trump's personal lawyer he's been with donald trump for a decade or more and he is the person who wrote the one hundred thirty thousand dollars check to buy stormy daniels is silence in the wake of her allegations of a sexual affair with the president so the raid that happened is thought to be in connection with that it is being reported that he is accused of bank fraud now i've never written a one hundred thirty thousand dollars check to anyone i don't know if you have. it's a question of where did the money come from how was it recorded was it a campaign contribution if so was it legal. as such that is why it is thought to be a part of the reason why the f.b.i. and the department of justice conducted this right now we know that they dug deeper than just a stormy daniels question ok so so two agents is the one agency investigated. this

alleged payment so the old this is interesting it's nothing to do with us but you might like to take a look at it actually it was the other way around it was robert mueller who. on this somehow and said that well this is not under my purview but there may have been wrongdoing here and passed it off to turn in general of the southern district of manhattan which is one of the the biggest districts in the united states and it was them who arranged for this raid now we have to point out that f.b.i. raids don't just happen they have to go through an intense review a process and a judge has to sign off on this this was an invasion of attorney client privilege privilege this going into this office to pick up whatever document it was they picked up they could just take a. we think pretty much we were not sure quite what they picked up but we know that they picked up e-mails possibly financial documents correspondence between cohen and trump which is the attorney client attorney client privilege question there possibly files related to cohen's practice in the law and the thing is cohen is so

intensely amassed in trump's life that you can't dive deep into cohen's life without taking up things that relate to trump so we're not sure what's going to come out of this but we know they have picked up now a lot of information that's possible and some of it is going to be relevant to miller's investigation how much. you know and speculate but i mean how much is this going to affect the president or we've heard him saying that it's a witch hunt it's disgraceful and now he's actually accusing mauler of overreaching his mandate which is of course going to become the republican talking point the pro trump talking point now. again we have to we have to emphasize that this was this is a big deal the fact that there was this raid if there was a raid it means that the f.b.i. things that cohen was not going to react properly to a subpoena he wasn't going to come forward and provide them with the information that they needed and the fact that there was this raid means that it's going to be

incredibly hard for trying to keep using this line that this was an unfounded white taunt let's right a very interesting thank you. in the next hour or so one of the world's richest and most influential men is that due to appear before the u.s. senate facebook boss about damage limitation since it was revealed that the data of millions of users was improperly shared he's come under sustained from previous account payments politicians and investors. there's plenty of reason for the anger about to be unleashed on zuckerberg a political consulting firm scraped the data of eighty seven million facebook users a russian campaign created fake accounts and advertisements both efforts to sway the two thousand and sixteen presidential election neither stop by facebook now users feel uncertain politicians are concerned investors are rattled facebook stock has dropped significantly most alarming for the fourteen year old company is that

its very business model making money from users data is increasingly under fire that data was supposed to be used by advertisers in the mean time facebook would connect the world as sucker berg likes to say or instead it's been used to divide societies along partisan lines with evidence that the company either didn't notice or didn't care now many wonder if that's a structural flaw instead of a glitch and one that needs to be corrected. protect our promises just on the basis of somebody telling you that they're going to protect it so does that mean the law yes does that mean regulation yes and adding to the interest around his testimony is the image as a calculating awkward genius an archetype of the new tech titans an image he has tried to undo in recent years yet his appearances have been rare selective and generally on his own terms succored has been preparing for this testimony for weeks

according to news reports facebook has been laying the groundwork with new privacy measures and more interviews according to his pre-publication testimony sucker burke will stress his company's responsibility and he'll apologize. but when the questions begin can he help his company recover or at least avoid further damage. well when he does start speaking we'll bring that to you live here on dortch brother in the meantime how did we get here. as a technology journalist you say that by step every step with vice is multi media tech platform a motherboard whelk of. what are you expecting from today i expect a continuation of his apology tour and i do not expect him to break any news also not unintentionally i think this is what his team has prepared him for and this is why he also went on this little tool with telephone conferences with journalists

but we will get some unconfirmed questions for him especially about the scope and dimension of the entire last six months which were riddled by scandals because this is a thing where when we see these not just bugs but when we see the heads of the big corporations and the big courts doing something with their organizations because there is something they deny deny deny deny deny oh ok you have evidence fair enough right i'm sorry about that i apologize ok now tell me what you're apologizing for what would mark zuckerberg be apologizing for well i think he might be apologizing for not closing the loopholes earlier but then say in in concussions or that they. have has now close these you know polls you know he will not push back on how and how many he is collecting because he's still things that facebook is a very responsible data collector and in the end it's at the core of their business

model we're going to this is we're just going to take a look now inside the congressional building where the hearing is to take place that's the scene now with the reporters. just quite something to happen assume something does. but we'll bring that to you live here. now one of the things the people speculate well one of the many things people speculating about is whether this will be the event or the series of events that means there is to be more legal oversize of the way not just facebook but many of these tech companies operates what was your thought well i think facebook wants to avoid that at any costs this is the silicon valley stance we self regulate and please leave us alone if you look at how congress has handled other data breach scandals and also. issues of. privacy of the american people they have sold off quite happily to big

corporations and in the past and they're not that technically say advance to grill them on the on the exact issues and also you have people with very. conflicting interests and there you have got democrats who say hey you put our election at stake for some advertising dollars but you also have some republicans who say facebook is a liberal platform and suppresses very conservative views so it's not exactly clear facebook is an uncomfortable situation in the middle there but i'm not sure whether this hearing will not be a little bit of a mess and a little bit of each rush economical political issues that entire situation i'm not sure if that will unravel in a way that leads to more oversight oh really so you think this is really among voters has to be sorry and can try to do is the old story tour for the next few

weeks or months or whatever is the world will pretty much go on as it did before well i mean i put my i put my hopes in the new e.u. dr. laura form that takes i think it's a next on may twenty fifth. because that will provide users with many more options to consent on how their doctor is being shared and where their data is being processed and sold on to but says he wants to roll out particular areas of these features to users worldwide but he hasn't said if he sees a type of bill fit for a face before american uses and of course he will probably say look we've had problems it was my mistake but i've really really improved the company and close loopholes and this will not have the where they say that i take full responsibility for this now let's move on to ok what do you want to stop and. why we're talking

about this. is because facebook is not just a bit of software it's not just some how it messed itself in so many of our lives just give us an idea of the the. user with the importance of facebook to just living life in the twenty first century right so facebook isn't this unique position where managed to outrun its competitors by either acquiring or cloning them or cloning the features which maisie's basic basically impossible to build communities other than around facebook and so that means in a political sense. it controls a lot of how we perceive reality and that applies to what's app to instagram and to facebook and that particular big influence is i think one of the major problems that stands behind all this dot and privacy scandal how could

a company become so powerful yet we sort of the sleeve walked way into that of course now that all this this cambridge analytical business house come out and lots of people are very angry about the way that it has been used on lots of other people are wondering whether they should. close their accounts thea. in washington d.c. spring is in the air well almost but with facebook making all the wrong headlines and what better season for some digital cleaning many americans have said they'll delete their accounts could this be a turning point for facebook and. mark zuckerberg is testifying before congress for the first time to answer questions about a major data privacy scandal he's hoping to convince both facebook's users and the company's investors that he's taking the problem seriously but just how worried are people are you a facebook user. are you concerned about some of the allegations of data privacy breach and definitely i really want to close my page you're going to you're going

to delete your facebook absolutely because i just feels just privacy is just not there you know use facebook. why not the person. instagram took over. you know instagram zone by facebook yeah but then i very different thing everybody knows they use it. as ads including ones meant to get you to vote in a certain way information collected from eighty seven million users was improperly harvested by a company called cambridge analytic it says its research helped donald trump win the twenty sixteen elections his campaign denies it. zuckerberg has apologized for the oversight and promised a new privacy features before his hearings but it seems unlikely lawmakers will take any serious action. i went to ask an expert if the changes facebook has promised are enough to win back public trust you know. so facebook said they're

going to make it easier to find your privacy controls to see what information they have on you is that enough i think privacy concerns are just one of the issues here facebook has been dealing with so many different issues there are discriminatory ads online there's been a lection manipulation there's been. security issues they think while they're making some changes they're going to need to do a lot more in order to regain the trust of both the users and regulators around the world. a long list of fixes for facebook as it faces a political reckoning. the first possible political reckoning your should happen in the next few minutes just take a look at the these pictures this is the scene inside the congressional hearing room where mark zuckerberg is due to read out a prepared statement and then face questions. so as soon as that happens we will bring that to you live here d.w. in the meantime we will talk through some of the matters arising with technology

journalist. here with me in the studio now. why did mark white house mark zuckerberg agreed to. always look for the leveraged we'll leave that question how you in the we we see on the screen there mark zuckerberg has in fact arrived at the u.s. congress is facing the media is going to be quite a scrum for him to try and get through actually taking a position. is this blood had been going on that while the makes his way to the podium. why you know has he agreed to testify because apollo it's around the world. i know that in the u.k. they want to be able to do it with a chief operating officer who they now accuse of misleading them so why in this instance has he said yes i will testify to the u.s.

congress well the last time facebook was supposed to testify before congress was just in october which is when google and twitter and facebook were called in to face questions about potential meddling in the russians and. u.s. election and back then they only send static top lawyer to testify and i think because some of these questions are still hanging in the room at some point he actually has to face the music himself so i think also because it took out five days a time out to be ready to put out that statement after the cameras and let a cuss candle and also because there are questions hang fire and as to why he didn't inform the public of why is competent and from the public when then you can mention logica hop it how is that the he sees just that he's taken a. wealthy gets himself ready we'll say foster this question we get

because. let's see that let's let's listen in to what's happening you know u.s. congress we welcome everyone today's hearing. on facebook social media privacy and the use and dish and abuse of data. although not on precedented this is a unique area the issues we will consider range from data privacy and security to consumer protection and the federal trade commission enforcement touching on jurisdiction's of these two committees we have forty four members between our two committees that may not seem like a large group by facebook standards but it is significant here for a hearing in the united states senate we will do our best to keep things moving efficiently given our circumstances we will begin with opening statements from the

chairman and ranking members of each committee starting with chairman doom and then proceed with mr zucker bergs opening statement. we will then move on to questioning each member will have five minutes to quiescent witnesses i'd like to remind the members of both committees. ned time limits will be and must be strictly enforced given the number that we have here today if you're over your time chairman tone and i will make sure to let you know there will not be a second round as well of course it will be the usual follow up written quite shins for the record questioning will all in eight between majority and minority and between committees we will proceed in order based on respective committee

seniority we will in kiss of brain a couple short breaks later in the afternoon and so it's my pleasure to recognize the chairman of the commerce committee. and the chairman threw on for his opening statement thank you chairman grassley today's hearing is extraordinary it's extraordinary to hold a joint committee hearing it's even more extraordinary to have a single c.e.o. testify before nearly half of the united states senate but then facebook is pretty extraordinary or than two billion people use facebook every month one point four billion people use it every day more than the population of any country on earth except china and more than four times the population of the united states it's also more than fifteen hundred times the population of my home state of south dakota plus roughly forty five percent of american adults report getting at least some of

their news from facebook in many respects facebook's incredible reach is why we're here today we're here because of what you mr zuckerberg had described as a breach of trust. a quiz app used by approximately three hundred thousand people led to information about eighty seven million facebook users being obtained by the company cambridge analytic a there are plenty of questions about the behavior of cambridge analytic and we expect to hold a future hearing on key bridge and symbol and similar firms but as you said this is not likely to be an isolated incident of fact demonstrated by facebook suspension of another firm just this past weekend you promise that when facebook discovers other apps that had access to large amounts of user data you will ban ban them and tell those affected and that's appropriate but it's unlikely to be enough for the two billion facebook users one reason that so many people are worried about this

incident is what it says about how facebook works the idea that for every person who decided to try an app information about nearly three hundred other people it was straight from your services to put it mildly disturbing and the fact that those eighty seven million people may have technically consented to making their data available doesn't make most people feel any better the recent revelation that malicious actors were able to utilize facebook's default privacy settings to match e-mail addresses and phone numbers found on the so-called dark web to a public facebook profiles potentially affecting all facebook users only adds fuel to the fire what binds these two incidents is that they don't appear to be caused by the kind of negligence that allows typical data breaches to happen instead they both appear to be the result of people exploiting the very tools that you've

created to manipulate users' information i know facebook has taken several steps in intensity more to address these issues. nevertheless some have warned that the actions facebook is taking to ensure that third parties don't obtain data for months to spectate users while necessary will actually serve to enhance facebook's own ability to market such data exclusively. most of us understand that whether your using facebook or google or some other online services we are trading certain from asian about ourselves for free or low cost services but for this model to persist both sides of the bargain need to know the stakes that are involved right now i'm not convinced that facebook's users have the information that they need to make meaningful choices. so you are looking at video you're hearing and seeing that the opening remarks of senator john thune who is chairman of the senate commerce

science and transport committee they were to question the chief executive of facebook's mark zuckerberg the first time i've seen him not in a hoodie we'll go back to that soon. starts talking with me here is teresa locker from vises multimedia tech but for motherboard. jobs soon the making points which is going to haunt her all for the rest of our lives that there is an implicit bargain whether it is spelled out or not you get nothing for nothing so if you if you sign up for whether it be facebook or sign up for one of the sit on facebook. something you trade your data for it even if you say yes yes yes yes yes do we really know or sodomy we don't we don't especially we didn't know up until now and that was frightening but what was it for every one person three

hundred other people got signed up a did not know about something that just came out today is actually a link that facebook sent around with which users can check whether their doctor has been gobbled up by cambridge and latika which of course just did and didn't come up with a result but it means everybody who has a friend who might have tried of this app could be the status quo that i could be at stake but it is like one tiny step on to more transparency of course of course and what i found interesting was sheryl sandberg the c.e.o. of facebook who came out five days ago i think and she was asked do you can you ever imagine that traped going somehow differently could there be an opt out of facebook. sharing and selling your data to advertisers basically challenging the

very business model and she said something interested in interesting she said yeah it could be but that would be a pay product which of course highlights the importance and the value that our daughter have and so i mean she doesn't say she didn't say whether there were any plans of making. sharing or less sharing facebook an option for people but i think it is interesting that she actually pointed out that this would be the plan you know if you pay for it then you could get an option for more transparency that's just how facebook sees it or you could just not be on facebook which brings me to a quite interesting point i think who's on facebook now because for you it's started off as being a youngster saying now you see stickers on my dads or your dads on facebook so when people start talking about coming off it it's not going to bother them i don't know

how the marketing works well we don't have any numbers on how many people actually deleted their account since that scandal broke but there wasn't and was a hash tag that trended and we just heard in the piece that people on the street were saying yeah i'm i'm deleting my facebook account but people say that but don't actually do it right i suspect so as well because the main demographic of facebook is fifty five years old and what older yeah mostly it's elderly people who rely on facebook also to maintain their relationships with people like for example their daughters and sons who have left the city and so when they see their ties with facebook it also means that they have to find another way to set up the community this online community and that's actually a high thing to do for people to understand that so there's a person that i was going to put to you before we sort of rudely interrupted by the chairman of the committee that. is each is it just is this the start of

something bigger i wonder if we'll go to see the chief executives of the likes of google and apple appearing. if either in front of committees or just appeared giving the appearance of being more accountable well facebook is unique in the scope of the scandals that have rattled the company basically in the past nine months where just facebook facebook facebook apple for example takes a different stance on privacy a very user friendly stance on privacy actually they have not have had this scandals infect they were only to be held accountable by the f.b.i. when they didn't want to unlock a phone of a terrorist. so i think they they have a different and they have a different stance on that with twitter i think they have been in front of congress in october testifying about the potential meddling in the russian elections when

trolls. by russia have disseminated information pro trum but it was easy for them to kind of step out of that or make their way out of it because they have a different programming set up which doesn't hort people as facebook does it ok we'll have more for you later in the program but from a lock or from a vice thank you so much we will return to live coverage of those congressional hearings when they go from facebook actually stands up and starts speaking in the meantime let's take a look at some of the other news other stories making news around the world from saudi arabia reported summerside business deals worth eighteen billion dollars the reformist the saudi crown prince i'm having a good sound so i guess his first trip to france i mean seeing the president emanuel because i'm across stuff from the. agrees with saudi arabia that iranian

expansion in the region should be curbed. north korea's leader kim jong un has made his first official mention of possible talks with the united states this is according to north korean state media kim reportedly met with top party officials and discussed the prospect of dialogue u.s. president a trump has agreed to meet today is the opposite number as soon as next month no date or venue has yet to be agreed. in the u.k. the yulia script has been discharged from hospital and is a safe location and she and her father sergei a former russian spy were poisoned with a nerve agent in britain last month it's unclear exactly when she was released some media reports it was late on monday. business user. gave us for the latest on a controversial gas pipeline project here in europe thanks very much phil indeed we're following the story ukraine's president petro poroshenko has demanded a stop to the controversial north stream to pipeline from russia to germany via the

baltic sea the project was called quote political bribe for loyalty to russia to inflict an economic and energy blockade against ukraine on what the pipeline was one of the main talking points during a meeting between poroshenko and german chancellor angela merkel let's take a look at what's at stake here portugal's problem actually is easy to understand until just a few years ago millions of tons of gas were actually passed from russia to the western european countries via the ukraine then the north stream pipeline one was built and now the north stream two is planned and that means that the ukraine will not be needed any longer as a transit country the implications are not only economic as ukraine will lose millions but also political in a sensitive context with next door neighbor russia. the planned pipeline will be twelve hundred kilometers long and transports russian gas to europe via the baltic sea but the north stream too isn't simply an economic project it's taken on

a political dimension to specifically concerning the role of ukraine in overland transfers. it's upping its scope for the dependence on russian gas persists but for ukraine revenues are at stake and there's also a strategic significance that's why we've made clear that from our standpoint the north stream to project is impossible if we don't have clarity about ukraine's role as a transit location that's it all of i think it. needs to move to his credit there are talks between the governments of germany and ukraine have already been planned the c.e.o. of the ukrainian gas company enough to gas is pinning his hopes on them in an interview with joy to valley he expressed his concern that north stream two would expand russian competitor gas problems market dominance we believe by removing transitory craig if we can elsewhere basically clears his way for full scale military

operation should the pipeline project continue with that transiting ukraine the economic cost to the country could be up to three billion euros annually. the trade dispute between china and the us has kept global markets on the edge but now china is calling everyone down this tuesday a chinese president xi jinping again vowed to open the economy and actually cut tariffs a different tone to the hostile tariffs threats we've been hearing from both china and the u.s. recently. cars are a major sticking point in the trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies the us pays a twenty five percent tariff on cars it brings to china while china only pays two point five percent in judy's on cars it exports to the u.s. that's not the complete picture the u.s. sells six times more cars in china than the other way around but appeasing washington was the thrust of chinese president xi jinping speech to an audience of

international business leaders at the ball out for. young. she charges we will lower the import tariffs for cars. young at the same time we will lower the import tariffs of some other products the only illegals are card to respect the people's demand for special superior product imports. she also pledged improved access to the financial sector and stronger intellectual property rights although the us was not specifically mentioned she speech seemed that addressing the sources of the trade conflict his words were welcomed by markets the world over but china has made similar commitments before with little implementation this time around however the stakes are higher insufficient action could pave the way for further escalation. here in germany thousands of travelers

were disrupted today several airports had to deal with cancellations german airlines counselled hundreds of flights to the striking trade union members in addition to that nursery schools local transport networks and other public sector areas of also dealt with strikes. one flight canceled after another left tons of alone has had to ground every second plane leaving thousands of passengers stranded like here in frankfurt an estimated ninety thousand customers are to be a factor that many have decided just to wait until it's all over most of them are taking it in their stride. because it looks like we're in fact is about to strike a flight was canceled but the travel agency has been really helpful and they've managed to book as a new flight. but we've not been a fact as yet but it's understandable the workers want to work with the unions to get more money it's just a shame for us that it happens to be today one of the. eight hundred planes can

take off because security stuff striking in protest the nationwide strikes also include public sector employees like nursery school teachers and hospital workers they're demanding more money. from the indians people are dependent on public sector employees we want to see the current strong economic situation in germany reward such workers not just shareholders we want to see a clear strong pay rise. to avoid the door to the cliff to get. a rise of six percent or at least two hundred euros per month per employee and of knowing cream and candy max the thirty union plans to expand to strikes. and travelers in france are not doing any better the country's most important air carrier air france is canceling hundreds of flights due to strikes as well employees are fighting for a six percent wage hike which the airline says is out of line those strikes

continue through one state were likely to resume before the end of the month. that's all for business but people keep track on the hearings of mark zuckerberg for that i'm going to hand you back to fill the bill. thank you so much so let's just take a quick look at the committee room in congress where mark zuckerberg will. be speaking in just a few minutes at this is the same and. also. you know so various chairs or various committees on the great record of making their speeches before that the main event as soon as mark zuckerberg does take the podium take the mike we will bring that to you live here on the v.w. in the meantime with me is that she's a technology a journalist based here in berlin she's an editor with vice is a multi media tech platform motherboard welcome back that's right what

to me is even more surprising about this whole cambridge analytical scandal is that between them all the various people say it wasn't us we were just we were just sticking to the rules where we don't know what all this fuss is about but between them cambridge analytic and the developer of that app up seem to have gamed facebook. i'm completely with you that. it's strong spruce is the face of people all the brightest in the guy. yeah i mean the platform has all these options for advertisers to target certain audiences and facebook always takes. his because it was really important to emphasize that they don't sell user data but they sell the excess to certain demographics that they build well this might be just a technical little. difference but the fact is that this

use was leveraged so those use of the particular demographics was leveraged and it was not leveraged only for cameras and logica but also probably in the spread of fake news which was a scandal that. was just nine or ten months ago a little more prevalent in the media and also in the potential meddling of russian trolls in the election and so the. this scope and the just the size of facebook makes it apparently possible for malicious actors as facebook puts itself. puts themselves to gather access to doctor that they're not supposed to and for until now and i'm excited to hear what my second book can say today about that facebook has not specified what kind of malicious actors they're actually talking about so there must be there must be a particular group or more groups that were able to. skim off facebook

by stolen data sets that they found on the dock net and it punched it into the facebook search and came up with data sets that facebook users and what they did. and what he really knows from now on so quite aside from the previous issues the big deal here of course is that v. i think the book is actually going to speak about so much more for feinstein who the remember nelson members of the committee. we face a number of important issues around privacy safety and democracy and human rights fully have some hard questions for me to answer. before i talk about the steps we're taking to address them i want to talk about how we got here facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company for most of our existence we focused on all of the good that connecting people can do and it's facebook has grown people everywhere have gotten a powerful new tool for staying connected to the people they love for making their

voices heard and for building communities and businesses just recently we've seen the me too movement in the march for our lives organized at least in part on facebook after hurricane harvey people came together to raise more than twenty million dollars for relief and more than seventy million biz small businesses use facebook to create jobs and grow but it's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well and that goes for fake news foreign interference in elections and heat speech as well as developers and data privacy we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here so now we have to go through our all of our relationship with people and make sure that we're taking

a broad enough view of our responsibility it's not enough to just connect people we have to make sure that those connections are positive it's not enough to just give people a voice we need to make sure that people aren't using it to harm other people or to spread misinformation and it's not enough to just give people control over their information we need to make sure that the developers they share it with protect their information to across the board we have a responsibility to not just build tools but to make sure that they're used for good it will take some time to work through all the changes we need to make across the company but i'm committed to getting this right. this includes the basic responsibility of protecting people's information which we failed to do with cambridge analytic. so here are a few things that we are doing to address this and to brevet it from happening again first we're getting to the bottom of exactly what cambridge analytic a did and telling everyone affected what we know now is that cambridge analytical

improperly accessed some information about millions of facebook members by buying it from an app developer that information. this was information that people generally share publicly on their facebook pages like names and their profile picture and the pages they follow when we first contacted cambridge analytics they told us that they deleted the data about a month ago we heard new reports that suggested that wasn't true and now we're working with governments in the u.s. the u.k. and around the world to do a full audit of what they've done and to make sure they get rid of any data they may still have second to make sure no other app developers out there are misusing data we're now investigating every single left that had access to a large amount of information in the past and if we find that someone improperly use data we're going to ban them from facebook and tell everyone affected third to

prevent this from ever happening again going forward we're making sure that developers can access as much information now the good news here is that we already made big changes to our platform in twenty fourteen that would have prevented this specific situation from came with cambridge analytic a from occurring again today but there's more to do and you can find more details on the steps we're taking in my written statement my top priority has always been our social mission of connecting people building community and bringing the world closer together advertisers and developers will never take priority over that as long as i am running facebook. i started facebook when i was in college we've come a long way since then we now serve more than two billion people around the world and every day people use our services to stay connected with the people that matter to them most i believe deeply in what we're doing and i know that when we address

these challenges we'll look back and view helping people connect and giving more people a voice as a positive force in the world i realize the issues we're talking about today aren't just issues for facebook in our community there is shoes and challenges for all of us as americans thank you for having me here today and i'm ready to take your questions. i'll remind members that maybe you were here when i had my old meaning common sense that we're operating under the five year five minute rule and that applies to. the five minute rule and that applies to those of us who are chairing that committee as well. as start with you facebook handles extensive amounts of personal data for billions of users a signal a significant amount of that data is shared with third party developers who you to utilize your platform as of this early this year you did not actively

monitor whether that data was transferred by such developers to other parties moreover your policies only prohibit transfers by developers to parties seeking to profit from such data number one besides professor cole guns transfer and now potentially q.b. you a do you know of any instances where user data was improperly transferred to third party in breach of facebook's terms if so how many times does that happen and was facebook only made aware of that transfer by some third party. mr chairman thank you. as i mentioned we're now conducting a full investigation into every single app that had a access to a large amount of information before we locked down platform to prevent developers from accessing this information around twenty fourteen.