this is. from berlin tonight facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg faces off with the european parliament. to european lawmakers for the recent data scandal at the social media giant he says the company was too slow to react after user data was manipulated and he was given a warning that europe considers facebook to be a monopoly also coming up dialing down expectations u.s. president says talks planned with north korea for june could be delayed it came as

trump met his a south korean counterpart. in washington also coming up britain falls silent on the anniversary of a deadly attack. a year ago today a suicide bomber killed twenty two people and injured scores more at a concert in the city of manchester. it's good to have you with facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg came to brussels today expectations were high that this would be the toughest grilling yet for the social media giants ball instead lawmakers consumed all of the time with statements and questions leaving little for answers from zuckerberg one of the takeaways from today. ok europe demanded better data

protection and privacy measures from zuckerberg now today's questioning in brussels it comes in the wake of a massive data scandal at the company where information for millions of facebook users fell into the hands of a political consulting firm that got zuckerberg assured lawmakers that facebook had taken steps to improve security and transparency and he issued an apology but it's also become clear over the last couple of years that we haven't done enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well and that goes for fake news foreign interference in elections and developers misusing people's information we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility now is a mistake and i'm sorry for it. but the two heads a group of liberal lawmakers in the european parliament he told zuckerberg that all he seemed to do was apologize for facebook's scandals also the fact that maybe you

have less control no control about your own company for the moment because you have to apologize now i think in total you apologize now fifteen or sixteen times the last decade in two thousand and three you start that every a you have one or other wrongdoing or problem with facebook and and you have to face the reality and to say sorry and to say that you're going to fix it last year i think it was twice that you apologize and this year three times already what my point is about that is all you capable to fix it. that's a big question there let's put our correspondent here as he has been keeping an eye on that meeting and joins me from brussels tonight going even to you georg i mean we certainly cannot say that what we saw today was a question and answer session i mean how would you describe what happened the day. what a missed opportunity brand we have here and as you've pointed out correctly

a lot of time spent on questions it was just the structure of the talks that was the of the of this hearing that was already a wrong the there were starting collecting questions after that statement of course there was an opening statement there was an apology we all expected that to come and then came the questions but all the questions from the different lawmakers were collected and then basically mark second mark was given the opportunity to pick and choose what he likes and in fact at one point he ventured on to other topics which he said that hasn't been mentioned in the conversation which wasn't exactly a conversation in your home unaided for me in his statement to say well have i missed any anything anything else something important i should be touching on so he really picked and choose what he liked to answer you know i've had these a good point that you bring up we were watching it and i know that a lot of colleagues were shocked at the format because as you say you gave zuckerberg plenty of time to cherry pick pick and choose what he wanted to answer

at the end so it wasn't much of a grilling what did vin answer at the end of the day. well there were a number of small things that were interesting in fact the number of fake accounts for instance ahead of the french election thirty thousand were taken offline he talked about artificial intelligence when it comes to targeting terroristic activities that was interesting he acknowledged the need for regulation and said yes there needs to be regulation but it needs to be flexible but whenever things got specific there was no answer so for instance targeted advertisements a key issue for lawmakers a no on survey data that has been shifted out of europe just ahead of this new law that comes into action nothing and then when he was asked to name just one competitor a question he hasn't answered in front of the u.s. congress well he has not answered it here in the european union yeah i mean he has

been trying in the us and now here in europe to draw a line under facebook's data scandal it did this appearance did it help or hinder him paul it helped to me in the sense that he used it as a platform he did not he was given the opportunity let's put it this way by the european parliament in the kind of format he was asked questions to shift around the tricky wants to avoid all the questions that were uncomfortable and there were some good questions in there but unfortunately at the end of this hearing the head of the european parliament even pointed out that he has no legal obligation to oncet or written questions when some of the lawmakers in a in a final moment of desperation if you want try to squeeze in a couple of questions that have remained on answered so rather disappointing appearance here in front of the european parliament disappointing and shocking at the same time our correspondent on the story for us tonight in brussels georg thank

you. well the british city of manchester has marked one year since a deadly attack left twenty two people dead and scores more injured a suicide bomber killed the mostly young victims at a concert by the pop artists are we on the ground manchester on the road the dead with a minute's silence and a moving memorial service. twenty two colored candles and mentions turkey drill representing the twenty two people who died in the manchester arena bombing. the youngest was just eight years old. survivors families and friends of victims and first responders gathered in the cathedral for the national service of commemoration. they were joined by prince william british prime minister theresa may and other dignitaries.

it's exactly a year since a suicide bomber blew himself up as thousands of music fans started leaving mentions to reno after a pop concert. hundreds of people were wounded. twenty two people lost their lives over eight hundred stirring the services manchester's bishop david walker urged britons to never stop caring for survivors. things. that. are not things we can simply franchise out specialist provide us with an issue that we have just. we seized on going road in supporting the victims of the families of the read. whilst they continue to grieve about what has happened to them then we shall also fail in the practical tasks the building society for them to live in. the service

included a minute of silence observed across britain. would you please stand with me as ribs the one minute silence with people around the country the commemorations in manchester continue on into the evening. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world an explosion in the southern afghan city of kandahar has killed at least sixteen and wounded dozens more what was first thought to have been a minibus packed with explosives authorities later said were two containers stored near mechanics workshops no one has yet claimed responsibility the palestinian foreign minister has referred israel to the international criminal court following recent bloodshed on the gaza border palestinians are calling for an immediate investigation into alleged israeli crimes more than one hundred people have been

killed in recent weeks israel says it is defending its border against terrorists a court in germany has rejected the move by prosecutors to rearrest the kettle on separatist leader carlist which demotions german prosecutors argued new evidence from spain showed that the cattle on a leader was provoking bonds which has been in germany since he was arrested on an international warrant two months ago. or doubts over next month's scheduled summit between leaders of north korea and the u.s. are growing today u.s. president double trump warned of a possible delay as he welcomed his south korean counterpart to the white house the two discussed trade between their two countries and upcoming talks with north korea trump said he still believes north korean leader kim jong un is serious about denuclearization but the plane summit could still fall apart over a disagreement on the details of negotiations. we'll see what

happens there are certain conditions that we want and i think we'll get those conditions and if we don't we don't have the meeting and frankly it has a chance to be a great great meeting for north korea and a great meeting for the world. if it doesn't happen maybe it will happen later maybe it will happen it is different but we will see. our washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon has more from the white house this meeting today between the south korean president and u.s. president donald trump was actually managed to find human enjoying strategy for dealing with the north korean leader during this planned summit and now it seems to have become more of a crisis session and really remarkable that president trump for the very first time has admitted that this summit may not take place on june twelfth that it's may be delayed and we have to understand that we have to remind ourselves what happened

last week the white house was caught off guard when the north koreans fired of a string of inflammatory statements against you as late as you asked south korean military drills in the region saying that they are not going to take to participate in a meeting with south koreans and then threatening to cancel their planned summit with donald trump and since them since then we have to say that. this have become increasingly skeptical that kim jong un is really committed to pledges to seriously discussed and you close the asian so actually what's happened today it's not coming as a huge surprise. that was our alexander for number they're reporting at the white house where with just over three weeks to go until the start of the world cup in russia the host nation has received some good news as their squad has been declared

free of doping by. global soccer's governing body you said that samples taken from high level players were really analyzed and that all results were negative there had been suspicions around the team following a report by the world anti-doping agency it revealed more than a thousand russian athletes were involved in a conspiracy to conceal a positive test result. well the worst kept secret in german's augur is out has been appointed as the new. coach on a two year deal the experienced swiss manager is leaving the french club nice to return to the bundesliga but the former gladbach boss has a big challenge on his hands at one of europe's best supported saw. lucianne side of the is the man dortmund fans hope can revive their club after a fantastic start of the season dortmund slid into

a real crisis under-paid up bush he had to go in december and peter shergold was brought in to try to fix things in the end dortmund snaring managed to secure a champions league spot in the bundesliga but it was far from elegant now has been tasked with putting the former european champions back on the right track nobody has done this league experience having managed had to berlin i'm glad but where he turned things around with the helm munchen bloodbath went from being nearly relegated to the champions league playoffs within four years. after a bad run though five was suddenly resigned in september twenty fifth dean and later joined at nice where he impressed the sixty year old has long been linked with the dortmund job and will be presented in july and things are bound to get interesting phablet is known to be a real perfectionist so dortmund's players will have to improve hugely on last season and he has a reputation for making his offensive players incredibly efficient another

characteristic of dortmund will need if they want to challenge for a big honors next term. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day tonight an in-depth look at zuckerberg and the european parliament and a missed opportunity today to see if it. i i. i .