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this is deja vu news live from berlin russia's vladimir putin is sworn in for his fourth term as president the k.g.b. officer turned a world leader holds total authority in russia he's also thrust the kremlin into a new rivalry with the west to move a look a little brighter to make special next sixty years also coming up hezbollah looks poised to make major gains in lebanon's election unofficial results show the militant group and its allies winning more than half of the seats it is being seen
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as a victory for hezbollah as backer iran. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. russia's vladimir putin has tapped a close ally dmitri medvedev for the first for the post of prime minister it is putin's first act after being sworn in for a historic term as president some five thousand guests attended the inauguration ceremony at the kremlin which was billed as a low key affair. putin
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won a decisive victory in march with more than seventy five percent of the vote but critics have accused him of corruption and silencing dissident voices the ceremony follows a weekend of anti putin protests in several russian cities with police arresting more than one thousand five hundred demonstrators through. and why let's bring in correspondent emily short one who is standing by with the latest from moscow so emily this ceremony. as we've heard it was relatively subdued compared to putin's third inauguration six years ago why was that. well sarah in two thousand and twelve at his last inauguration there were these images that were very much criticized of putin kind of riding through an empty moscow in a motorcade and that was happening in the background of widespread protests then and it kind of made him look like he wasn't really in touch with the people and then this inauguration ceremony we very much saw the kremlin trying to reverse that
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image. on the one hand we had him kind of we saw him at his desk he was wearing a shirt not not his formal jacket really kind of continuing his work into his new term and also the kremlin was showing him as a noun of the people that were more guests at this inauguration this time and six years ago there were five thousand guests more than double the amount. in comparison to last time and also putin met a bunch of young people outside after the inauguration ceremony itself he was talking to them listening to their concerns so very much we saw images there of him talking to people and it's him interacting with russia's future generation and is he really in touch with those concerns believing as you saw protests over the weekend ahead of the ceremony what is the buddha among russians those who begins his fourth term. there as you say there were widespread
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protests across the country on saturday and people came out onto the motto he's not ours so far ahead of this inauguration obviously a nod to the ceremony itself the inauguration ceremony itself and all the gold in the kremlin and so forth but there was a you know a real crackdown against against those protesters as well obviously a symbol that a signal that perhaps the kremlin won't be tolerating dissent for these next six years but over. for all of it's worth pointing out as well that you know putin was reelected with over seventy five percent of the vote he basically won a landslide and i think support for him basically here in russia is still widespread. and you know one of the other messages that of course has been sent we just have to mention is one of continuity because we know that your. is also set to return as prime minister how are russians likely to react to that.
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well i think overall russians do want continuity after all they did reelect put in for a fourth term but in the in the kind of ratings that people have given when it comes to trust the mere putin versus their trust of the government usually the trust of putin is much much higher than that of the government which of course of course has been leading he's become a symbol almost of corruption and of being out of touch with the people so the fact that he's been reappointed that he's likely to be reappointed. is of course a signal that perhaps the kremlin isn't really listening to signals from the ground i will be sure when in moscow thank you. it's going to quick check now some other stories that have been making news around the world in yemen at least six people
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have been killed in airstrikes by the saudi led coalition targeting coup three rebels the strikes targeted the presidential palace in the capital sanaa now under control witnesses say that two powerful explosions hit the building which is in a residential neighborhood. city officials in jerusalem have installed road signs pointing to the new u.s. embassy which is set to move there from tel aviv next week as follows u.s. president donald trump's controversial decision to recognize to roussillon as the capital of israel despite palestinian claims to the city's eastern sector. and british foreign minister boris johnson is urging the united states to continue backing the nuclear deal with iran he said that it would be a mistake to walk away from it at this time johnson is in washington for talks with the trumpet ministration ahead of the may twelfth deadline for the president to decide whether or not to pull out of the accord. the shiite militant group
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hezbollah appears set to make major gains in lebanon's first parliamentary election in nearly a decade if iran backed group does secure a majority of the vote as a major when. the results may not have been out but that didn't stop hezbollah supporters laying claim to victory preliminary results now show the radical shiite group and its allies making gains in the first elections in almost a decade he appears set to win a narrow majority. turnout was disappointing with less than half the electorate lining up to vote the war in neighboring syria security concerns and disagreements between rival parliamentary blocs delayed the vote until now many voters are deeply frustrated. with had enough of clans that have ruled us for fifty years. but nothing's changed.
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and yet the lebanon's old prime minister looks set to be reelected billionaire businessman fat hariri heads up a coalition campaigning for votes from sunni's and moderates but he's under some pressure as companies are floundering and many resent his cooperation with hezbollah. the anti israel group divides voters preliminary results suggest it's most better reponse have also done well it has been less says only it has the answers to lebanon's problems. but we are going through difficult times military success and hezbollah particularly needed without hezbollah we also have terrorists in this country and every few g. crisis similar to that of syria and iraq a. new protest parties are hoping to challenge the political elite some in lebanon are sick of corruption and divisive religious politics but it seems unlikely that there are enough of them to challenge the overall outcome. and we're joined now by
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correspondent who is following the story for us from beirut welcome to you what do these elections in lebanon reveal about the power struggles that are currently underway in the country and in the region as a whole. well first about lebanon lebanon is deeply divided society on sectarian lines and that's the legacy of the civil war in many ways and the result of the elections in a way reinforces these fault lines the sea has of water the certain way the sunni's of water to settle in still have the christians but the result of these elections which essentially is a majority for his will and its allies in the parliament would call to strengthen is in the parliament which would mean there's a legislations that come about that would be watched his would prefer this essentially would also deepen the divide between iran and saudi arabia levanon is a proxy battleground between showdown and sunni saudi arabia and of course it's
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a problem for israel as well which sees as well as nemesis because of his velocity sets in the war between israel and lebanon in two thousand and six all wrong the country is deeply divided on sectarian lines and those lines have been forced and you know the projections show that hezbollah and its allies are said to win over half of the seats here and parliament and we just like to ask you how exactly did this happen why did they do so well. they have a loyalist base and shias in this country feel that the hizbullah kid us to their needs and they were much poorer than they are now that's one part of it the other part of it is that they have cracked clever line says they are allies with the christians now broadly if you look at eleven on this the problem is divided between sunni muslims and christians and she ours which essentially are the hizbullah and i'm on our allies with the russians so because of this alliance they also managed in securing more number of wards as we're hearing now than the sunni parties but
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you know to counter that however the power sharing system stipulates that a sunni holds the office of prime minister that still means that we could see the incumbent side hariri return to power how is that likely to be received in the region would you say how does having him in power jive with other players in the region for example like saudi arabia. well in lebanon by one has to be managed politically and if it isn't then there is some concern and business world are leading having a majority in the parliament that essentially is the case southerly these talking to the press conference right now and amounts of the dead now be very who is the shia speaker in the parliament and an ally of his beloved is likely to also back simon who he as the prime minister what that essentially means is that his will has an open door with really and does not mind who read but saudi arabia does what it could mean is many things speculation as are the saudis will be happy with the
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current situation. and reporting from beirut thank you. well now among the vast numbers of photos and video shared online every second many contain forbidden images social media platforms like google and facebook have rules banning posts that contain violence terror or pornography but who actually sift through and deletes the offending comment content a new documentary film tracks down the so-called digital cleaners many of these crews turns out are hired in the philippines for labor costs are relatively inexpensive keeping profits high for the world's internet giants have a look. it is a neverending cleanup job and one that face book in co have outsourced not to silicon valley but monella the soulless grey office buildings or west versions of cleaners calling themselves content moderators get to work sorting the good from
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the bot. the video. was the cause of the extreme reprisals we ultimately had to decide that we could only show people in front of the camera who had just left the job before filming or knew they would do it soon and that. some cleaners can get through twenty thousand pictures and videos every day. digital sheriffs trying to clean the web here just like policemen. i mean goal is to make the platform healthy as possible. supervisors check the decisions of the cleaners on a random basis punishing those that make more than three mistakes in a month but what has a mistake laws can be fuzzy in practice internet companies to tell me what they consider a legal. kind of objective and guidelines do and there are no objects of guidelines that can be simply executed it's always about interrogating an image but taking the
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context into account and that requires cultural background knowledge back bro knowledge that can be hard to come by in a few days of on the job learning much to the irritants of this california artist to trail of a rather small trunk was removed from facebook with little explanation. if big reads child personality. where does art end weirdest pernod goofy began what is necessary documentation of war crimes and what's propaganda for terrorists social media has become a hotbed of conspiracy hate speech and fake news is that not a regrettable mistake as it's often called by mark zuckerberg but systematic everything that's extreme attention grabbing leads to clicks and those likes and shares and clicks which in turn can be converted into advertising and. the big
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