this is t w news live from berlin facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg faces a grilling by the european parliament soccer burge apologizes to european lawmakers for the recent scandal of the social media giant but he runs out the clock to dog several tough questions on how user data has been shared and manipulated also coming up lowering expectations u.s. president says a plan summit with north korea in june may be delayed. meets his south korean

counterpart moon j.n. in washington. literary legend philip brawl at the age of eighty five we'll look back at the life of the prize winning american novelist whose confrontational works explored sex death and assimilation and provoked charges of misfortune. also on the show a royal disappears after an escape attempt on the high seas princess has not been seen for months in a video released after her disappearance she says she was fleeing mistreatment by her father the ruler of dubai we have a special report. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. lawmakers have demanded better data protection and privacy measures from facebook see. mark zuckerberg faced questions

at the european parliament in brussels in the wake of a massive data scandal at the company but a byzantine committee process meant sucker perk escaped a grilling on some details even if he made sure to apologize for the social media giants worst failures lots of fake zuckerberg demonstrating in front of the european institutions. but inside the parliament not so much the hearing of the facebook c.e.o. was supposed to take place behind closed doors so that gave some the impression that the privacy of mr zuckerberg was more important than the privacy of facebook users but some e.u. parliamentarians fought back and managed to have the hearing that took place right here in this room live streamed so everyone could see how mark zuckerberg apologized for digital facebook tools causing real world problems once again 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 was a mistake and i'm sorry for it. the start of an interesting debate not really the european parliamentarians used up most of the time to ask dozens of questions with zuckerberg sitting there quietly for nearly an hour in the end this questionable procedure worked to his advantage because he got to pick and choose those questions he answered now what we're doing is taking a much more proactive approach rather than waiting for people in the community to flag for us that there may be issues we are going through in investigating ourselves up front all the different apps that had access to a large amount of information but with time many parliamentarians felt like they

didn't get the information they wanted i am quite disappointed by his appearance here in the european parliament and i think that his company did the european parliament serious and told him to come but he didn't really talk to question serious which we had to pose and i think that he lost a lot of credibility tonight and the ability to also reste or trust with european consumers in the end the hearing left a bitter aftertaste for the way the european parliament handled it and for the answers it got from zuckerberg. for more on that we're joined here in the studio by matthew stander he's a digital rights activist and tech ethicist he's currently a fellow with the center for internet and human rights here in berlin good morning to you matthew now there's been a lot of talk since yesterday about the format for that hearing with the parliament in brussels did soccer get away lightly in your opinion. so i think it's important

to remember that this that facebook is a large multi national company that also is part of a family of companies so facebook is also. you know the owners of instagram and whatsapp that in one way it's interesting that this harlem the parliamentary hearing focused just on facebook at the same time that the spends in two thousand and seventeen and around two point five million dollars on lobbying in brussels alone and so it seems that some of those lobbying have paid off as far as the formats and i think the interesting to understand a little more about who who greenlit this this format and is this really the best kind of democratic oversight that the european parliament can. do a lot so in the end in this particular hearing the parliament itself the european union itself and it up getting a lot of criticism too well let's look more at facebook though some say it's not only that it's become too powerful do you think facebook is too powerful does it need more regulation. facebook is. and i think that it's very difficult to argue

that facebook is not massively influential it is a proprietary platform so it controls and is secretive about the way that its algorithms function when it comes to the displaying of contents in our social newsfeeds. it's also a highly profitable company raking in something told billion dollars in revenue i believe last year and so with the sort of massive amounts of money that it's raking in through its ad sales. you know the question is what is the the social impacts we've seen through the u.s. elections and that the sort of realities that are that are formulating through kind of personalized and customized content. really had the ability to shape society and so regulation and really to this point that facebook has been able to avoid regulation of the u.s. by claiming it that's not a media company that it's a technology company and so i think with the jeep you're going into effect this

week it will be interesting to see exactly how facebook is able to. kind of told us line between these these this new over to regulation and really kind of what it wants to do as far as corporate expansion your firm to new data protection measures are coming into effect this week in europe you know there's a lot of talk about that too many people want tougher data protection some argue that consumers however benefit from the kind of targeted advertising that facebook puts out using the information it's gathered about about the consumers how can social media platforms find a balance between this sort of useful part of media and the inherent dangers. i think with with facebook is the only interesting in the sense that it's not just the data that we have given to book but they also employ things like data brokers to be able to create shadow profiles so this company that in the social platform of

the two point two billion active monthly users does not mean that facebook has information just about these two point two billion people but also about many more people that they've been able to to aggregate in different ways and when it comes to regulation i think that there's ways. i mentioned algorithms earlier i think that there are there could be increased transparency about the ways in which that facebook is able to tell their users why are they getting certain content what is the sponsored posts and so i think there's some transparency really they can come along with. with not just the g b r but kind of the overarching goals of the way that we communicate well with you thank you very much matthew standers a tech ethicist and he's currently a fellow at the center for internet and human rights here in berlin thank you very much so you look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today but a swale a has expelled top u.s. diplomat says tensions rise between the two countries the american. defense todd

robinson and his deputy must leave the country after venezuelan president nicolas maduro accused them of conspiring to sabotage the recent presidential election often has refused to recognize but duros weekend victory. experimental vaccination program is underway in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization says more than thirty health care workers have received the shot authorities in congo are rushing to head off a major outbreak that's after the deadly virus was recently discovered in a large city for the first time. emergency workers are rushing to seal off a power plant in hawaii as a lava from the killer way a volcano approaches the site engineers have warned that the lava could breach underground wells releasing talks gases into the atmosphere the plant generates roughly a third of the island's electricity. american literary giant

philip roth has died he was aged eighty five roth who lived in new york and connecticut was best known for diving deep into the jewish american experience in novels such as american pastoral and portnoy's complaint the grandson of jewish immigrants he wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime he won every major u.s. literary award including the pulitzer prize. all with us in the studio to talk more about this is day to be a correspondent and bess if good morning at morning philip roth was considered a literary giant many of his books were also turned into films so he was he was hugely successful what made him so successful well first of all it's hard to overemphasize how big this guy was. if you study literature he felt like you belong more to this category of literary giants like hemingway fokker fitzgerald these

people where you just use the last name you know somebody who is a towering figure who was in every textbook if you want to talk about american literature the way he got there was through this idea of the great american novel he wrote not just one but several great american novels novels that use history the history of the twentieth century tell the story of what it meant to be an american and. if you look at his international fame he he also told the story of what it means to be human he's been published all around the world novels like american pastoral that. shows a vast expanse of of american history but in one jewish american family merican radicalism and issues like this so you put him in a league with with hemingway and faulkner when we talk about style we can define maybe a faulkner rest style did football have

a distinctive style of. adding is there a typical rough ian literary style sure if if you read one paragraph of roth and you're interested in roth iraq fan you know it's him but the thing is like a lot of his peers because he came after hemingway he was coming of age in the sixty's if if you look at his writing it's not like a lot of his peers or experiment thing with new literary styles is still very plain plainspoken he gets right to the point but he is extremely controversial because of the content of what he writes. he writes about male sexuality he uses very descriptive language it's raw it's painful but it's also whole areas of his books you laugh out loud if you read it but talking about the controversy it was if the portnoy's complaint came out in one thousand nine hundred nine and it shocked middle america and i would say it still would shock everybody now we think in the sixty's people were prudish but if i dare you to go back and read the book and and

not have to look away if you ok and he was course showered with literary prizes in the u.s. but the most prestigious international prize eluded him didn't it yeah that's true like he said he won the man booker the poets or the national book award but the nobel prize he was always on the list of a lot of people thought in two thousand sixteen that it was going to be him didn't happen and as you know the nobel prizes and go to deceased literary giants ok thank you so much for that assessment i mean from social media to us thanks much now doubts are growing over next month's scheduled summit between leaders of north korea and the us donald trump has warned of a possible delay but said he still believes north korean leader kim jong un is serious about denuclearization. the white house honor guard would also have been ready for the historical summit between the u.s.

president and north korea's leader but now concerns are growing in washington that kim jong un might ditch the meeting planned for june twelfth in singapore trump was still cautiously optimistic as he welcomed south korean president in their talks focused on efforts to convince john young to denuclearize and accept a lasting peace despite aggressive signals from the north korean capital. kim reiterated his unwillingness to completely dismantle north korea's nuclear program saying he needed to guarantee his political longevity. and 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 different. if the summit is canceled the memorial coin depicting trump and

kim which has already been minted may be obsolete before it's even been released. over the next few days several foreign journalists have been allowed into north korea will report on the destruction of the nuclear testing site it. the move is meant to be a confidence building gesture but since no independent experts will be on hand it may be viewed by washington as a destruction of evidence. staying in the u.s. after the shooting last friday at a high school and set up a texas lawmakers are holding a special session on gun violence but there is little chance that they will agree on any serious proposals like the student led march for our lives movement that pushed for stricter gun control after a shooting three months ago in florida the friends and families of the victims in texas or mostly mute on gun control. an increasingly common scene in the united states makeshift memorials for victims of

a mass shooting this time at santa fe high school in texas. there are prayers for the eight students and two teachers who lost their lives. but amid a nationwide debate over how to stop such massacres this community thinks it's not about guns and most say stricter controls are off the table. i think right now what i just really want to focus on is it is this the city healing i don't have the quick answers for this i don't know that anybody does knowing our town probably not or they think are going all those are good the way they are. a lot of things just need to be seen for the bigger picture than what it is and not these political reasonings that all these people keep bring you know about these guns and then i read r.j. doesn't have a minute to go in it's own person those. no other developed country in the world comes close to the levels of gun violence in the united states and many in santa fe believe it's not gun legislation but society that's broken texas has some of the

most relaxed gun laws in the country but many here don't feel that changing that would help prevent tragedies like the massacre that took place at santa fe high school the response stands in stark contrast to the student led activism that arose after a shooting in parkland florida but it represents attitudes in many parts of the united states that guns are not the problem. sixteen year old marcel mcclinton is trying to find a way to connect with communities like santa fe he is also announced shooting survivor two years ago and then open fire in his church he says sharing that grief is a first step to bridging the divide how can march for a lives how can people who agree with going to reform reach rock concert unities in a way that doesn't offend them it isn't you know that i speak for them. it's the unanswered question that has gotten so many students traumatized and others fearing that they won't live to see graduation. well the u.s. congress has passed

a landmark vote there rolling back regulation of banks go and that means the vast majority of banks in the u.s. will now face less strict regulation the u.s. congress rolled back part of the two thousand and ten daubed frank law which was and acted by the obama administration after the financial crisis its aim was to prevent another financial meltdown and future taxpayer funded bailouts of banks considered too big to fail rollback affects all banks with less than two hundred fifty billion dollars in assets that means only a few big bands will continue to face the previous strict rules which include more stringent capital requirements to go to seen as a win for u.s. president on trump. despite all kinds of conservation efforts the trade an animal of animal products from protected species is still flourishing be it a rat parikh eat rhino rhino horn or ivory you can find anything on the internet an animal protection charity has now investigated websites that specialize in random

products with shocking results. around one hundred fifty years ago africa was home to millions of rhinos and elephants since then their populations have been devastated and now due to a recent surge in poaching they're facing extinction in the wild national parks have to employ security guards to protect the animals from hunters but they're often too late as in the case of these elephants killed for their ivory tusks. ivory is in demand worldwide to make religious figure ins artworks and jewelry and it's often available on the internet. staff of the international fund for animal welfare spent weeks surfing through more than one hundred internet portals targeting users in germany france britain and russia. they found thousands of ads offering live wild animals and animal products worth millions of dollars. it takes just

a few clicks to purchase rare animals like it's not in birds or reptiles or primates buyers may often be unaware that they're contributing to the extinction of an endangered species but the online trade is driving poaching to new heights and if the hunting isn't halted a few years from now there may be no more rhinoceroses or elephants at all left in the wild in africa. and that's all for me it's back to tearing up that's right in just a couple of minutes we're going to talk about the mystery of the missing princess she said her life was anything but a fairy tale and many fear for her safety after her attempted escape and capture that scene is coming up in just a couple let's first italy's rival coalition parties are probably chosen who they want to lead the country in a bid to end more than two months of political deadlock the anti establishment five

star movement and far right lead have named just epic contests as their nominee for prime minister but most italians are scratching their heads wondering who is he and many are wondering if he is all he claims to be. he said because they hasn't even taken office but already controversy has erupted the relatively unknown attorney who's supposed to head the new italian government is suspected of embellishing his resume with false qualifications for example he claims to have studied law at new york university but n.y.u. says he was never unrolled there so what do italians make of him. i've never heard of him. i don't know him he's a newcomer but i'm going to have a bit we'll just hope for the best. italian president has expressed skepticism about conti's competence the new prime minister will have to deal with the new populist coalition and its stridently anti e.u.

rhetoric european institutions have been warning italy over the last few days because they fear iran could change its position on existing a huge contracts. the coalition says it wants to lower taxes and pay for other campaign promises with new debt the country's existing debt already stands at two point three trillion euros that's almost a quarter of the total debt in the eurozone but some italian say they're willing to give the new governing coalition a chance to get the important thing is that we start to see change because we're pretty tired of politicians that only think if they are in interests if they think about the citizens and the country will be happy but. we need to see the facts in the lead that been talking for quite a while let's see what i do now. we still need to see what happens we need to give them some time and then we'll know more. if the coalition manages to dispel the

president's concerns the new government could be sworn in by the end of the week. and here's a story for you a missing amorality princess a french spy a yacht sees an international waters it has the hallmarks of a bestselling geo political thriller but this is no novel princess latif of dubai disappeared after she tried to escape her family and her father the ruler of the emirate she had made it to the waters off india before she was apprehended human rights organizations are urging dubai authorities to reveal her whereabouts you'll still be judged reports. and. it's not such a. thirty two year old she wanted to flee from her father the ruler of dubai and prime minister of the united arab emirates shaikh mohammad bin rashid al maktoum.

to. the teach us friends released this video after she was abducted attempting to escape they want to raise awareness of her disappearance these messages where the last that they ever heard from her the last people to see what he found where those who helped plan her escape from her french spine bear and a friend from finland and then. and one with. some voice or i don't have to. have fled to dubai in february twenty eighth to get it with you know they drove to oman's capital most cat and then sailed on a small boat into international waters there was waiting for them on his yacht one son board they sailed for go on in india. after six days at sea they noticed they

were being followed their purse where's then board their wessel. we heard some noises from the other day that sounded like gunshots. because very very scared and we looked ourselves to the bus. and soon after their whole campaign started dealing with the smoke we were basically a mix with. men dressed in black. who values are don't. want my french. will die using. my likes. they were going to kill her later on and i saw lettie following on from that she was repeating that she wanted to see what wanted to go asylum. but they were not listening to her and she said shoot me here don't they don't take me back to

a room that was the last time tina and i have a solid they claim their wessell was boarded by him ready forces assisted by the indian coast guard but the authorities are not admitting anything. think we have real concerns about the issue of in force disappearance so to force disappearances when a government detain somebody and then they refused to confirm that that person is in detention. seen here skydiving has disappeared without a trace and ready media are keeping silent about her disappearance and anyone who asks questions has risks to reprisals. we've got bomb threats i have surveillance outside my home i had people you know coming into the garden banging on the windows anyone who would dare to criticize you even thought he could face arrest could be disappeared. you know the situation there in terms of respect for

basic rights respect for the right to free expression free association for use and means absolutely that's. the key for us lawyers have filed a complaint with the united nations in the hopes that it will help free her or. if the teacher is alive and we can get around the magnitude of this women's rights in the whole of the middle east he's groundbreaking. changes about lity for was aiming for and she wanted to flee to torture and control of her country especially when it comes to women's rights and basic freedoms. you are watching d.w. news coming to you live from berlin and we have another full bulletin for you at the top of the next hour and you can get all our stories of course online dot com thanks for. playing.

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