b.t.w. . this is it we do is live from berlin european lawmakers deliver a major blow to internet giants and supporters of online freedom by passing controversial copyright reforms well despite protests ahead of the vote from critics worry the changes could lead to censorship the majority of any piece of proof the news was saying they will compensate content creators more fairly also coming up and fit to rule algerian present with a clique of faces fresh calls to step aside this time from the country's powerful

army chief general ahmed sala is calling for a constitutional process to declare the nation's ailing leader medically unfit for office will get an update from algiers and is it a window of hope for abused women in jordan we take you inside the country's first protective shelter for women whose lives are at risk from family members. on we'll iraq is great to have you along everyone while we begin with sweeping changes in the e.u. that could have a big impact on the content that you see online on the e.u. parliament is voting by a narrow margin today to approve controversial legislation to overhaul copyright law across the block the heart of the law is the much debated article thirteen and

proponents claim it will help copyright holders protect their intellectual property but opponents fear it could lead to a restriction in online freedoms. four years of intense argument came to a head in strasburg on tuesday when the european parliament debated copyright reform german law maker x. of fast negotiated the deal on behalf of the parliament thank you. start this is about the rule of law it's all one we're talking about is protecting a fundamental right it's about property and about the right to intellectual property and finally it's about fair payment for content creators it's up to us to save european cultural products and not to hand them over to tech monopolies for them to plunder. was. the aim of this reform is to require those who profit from content shared on the internet to obtain permission to do so and if necessary to pay the originator it's

. people like musician alexander dommage who currently find it almost impossible to benefit when their creative work is uploaded to the internet. this is about a fundamental right to creators who want to live from their efforts composers photographers whatever have a right to share in the commercial exploitation of their work that means to receive payment for the. critics fear the change will make the internet less free and lead to de facto censorship that's legitimate content is mistakenly kept offline they also worry that small platforms will struggle to chase down all the licenses to use content. tens of thousands of people across europe have demonstrated against the plans many feel strongly regulation of the internet should be as light as possible

although others say the protests were part of a managed campaign by big corporations like google. with european elections just weeks away the issue of copyright on the internet has become intensely controversial. opponents of the reform say that change means content will be checked by also messy filters rather than human being. what the politicians expect algorithms to be able to do is to tell the difference between a copyright infringement and satire as long as artificial intelligence does not develop a sense of humor this is something that's going to remain impossible i think we should not trust the block black box of an algorithm to tell us what we can and cannot post online. in the end the strasberg parliament voted in favor of the full package of copyright reforms by three hundred forty eight votes to two hundred seventy four. you member states miss now formally approved the legislation before

it can take effect. we're going to now weeks for both sides of this issue with one opponent who is a composer and a calm as men do you have a you social media all right to warn i want to start off with you you are a musician you are a composer to be more precise how is this new piece of legislation going to protect your rights well hopefully very well i mean it's don't know exactly how particular is going to protect the mid it's definitely good start to try to equal was a level playing field a little bit because these big companies like facebook you tube google have been earning a lot of money from a lot of creative people's efforts a verb many years now and the creatives and up and see very much of the you know the selling a lot of advertisements and very little is trickling down facebook for instance pays twenty percent less and spotify does and so the hope is that maybe they will

get to renegotiate new. rights some revenue call we'll see hundreds of people take to the streets over the weekend what are some of the concerns being voiced to be clear i think a lot of these people in the streets they're. asking for you know free m p three s. or free downloads of hollywood music i think a lot of these protesters they share a lot of the same concerns they want artists to be paid as well but there's a few things that they're worried about i mean one is that this is a very sweeping directive it's also very vague i mean this will handle all kinds of content we're talking of music but also videos photos text unclear how forms are supposed to filter out something that is copyrighted from something that is not and what many of these protesters fear is that these platforms i use something called upload filters essentially automatic algorithm that's going through a system and blocking something that has a copyright but of course there's legal ways to use copyrighted material you could remakes a song you could take a clip from

a video and talk about it that's protected usage of copyrighted material so the fear is if you have this blanket filter all this stuff could be caught up in it and it limits free speech you won't be able to post what you want so really it's maybe well intentioned but it's a poorly written directive it's very vague so basically fears that there's going to be this dragnet effect you don't share that concern you know i mean i understand where they're coming from because i mean the letter of the law is vague and i mean all things legal to be complicated all things brussels soon to be complicated you know so it's going to be a while until they actually get that sorted out but the upload filters are in place and they've been working quite well as far as i'm informed you know this big there's been a lot of hype on the issue you know the lot of fear mongering you know almost from from my perspective and so i don't i don't quite share the same fears i'm in the there's some there's some issues but you think that could be worked out basically you know and we nobody can expect a silver bullet you know we do but we have to start someplace you have to have

something that is the change will be incremental oh ok well carl how is this affecting platforms especially the small i mean we're talking about the big ones you tube and facebook have a smaller ones all the big ones you tube facebook twitter that they have the resources they have the technology to employ. and a system to check for copyrighted material but say you're a start up you want to start a new social media company you want to start a new video service you won't have the money to develop your own technology and put this into place and that's what other people are fearing as well could you how can you have a new start up company and compete with something like you tube because you won't have the technology and a lot of the technology to the law as it stands right now says they just have to make a reasonable effort to comply so you know who knows what that means and i think that that's really i think the you know the problem that they have i mean it's not like every is going to have an upload filter but they're going to try to do something this is they don't want to do they want to be clear about what they should do that there could be big fines associated with having copyrighted material on your signed no no start up once that either so this is

a problem and you also now have two sets of regulations you have regulation and u.s. regulation facebook is treated completely differently in the u.s. as we know than it is in europe how will the small company handle these to regulate it could be easier because at the moment there is u.s. and there's french and there's an english and there is a german regulation so maybe it'll actually turn these are you know if you. have to stream lighted somewhere what i want to end up i want to end with you when do you expect to see your money. it's going to take. the countries of the european countries of two years to see implementation from the syrians who knows where that school is this gentleman thank you so very much i want to poland and crown last month thank you for this interesting discussion. announcer all geria where the army chief has called for the president to be declared unfit to rule the army says it wants to trigger a constitutional process that would put a caretaker leader in place this is beautifully has been in power for two decades and is now in failing health algeria has been to see no weeks of peaceful mass

protests calling the president to resign. straight to the algerian capital algiers journalist so if you know who is standing by for you can you fill us in that what's the latest. really think. we had protests going on the whole the whole day calling for good to speak up to step down and against next tension altered mendeleev but now off to the physic aeration off on the cheap with so many quiet in the capital there's no celebrations ongoing. we have a lot of security some police forces team deployed in the city quite normal and i think person to know exactly that there is no rules and no reason to celebrate right now because this step was long overdue. now or it's up to the constitutional process also finding out how to punching you with this political

crisis and so it looks like the algerians are taking a wait and see where you are why did it take the army chief this long to make a statement like this and what does it mean. venture to have the statement is that it's actually not about the army chief he has not for the constitutional rights to declare the president an unsecure only it's a it's first it's up to the constitutional council but the fact that also the whole . you know nigeria right now is taking up the statement so that very clearly whom is in charge for everyone knows that it's the army it was the kingmaker in this political divide now all right the algerian journalist sisyphean us we're putting from algiers thank you and let's get you now the back story on this a developing story with the d.w. arabic said bashir ahmad and he's with me here in the studio bashir talk to us

a little bit about what influence this move is likely to have on this along developing story now i think that have been a struggle of power inside the regime for the last three weeks. because of the key . of. the for the one hundred and two has to be applied is of course that it's a bit too late the people in algeria has been calling for this since six years because it would think i had been hit by a stroke in two thousand and thirteen and he was not able to talk at all to take any decision since then so what would happen now the constitution says that both chambers of parliament have to vote proves the vacancy of presidency with a tooth majority and the president of the council of the nation. will take over power as interim president for four forty five days and after forty five

days look a second time and see if they can see is not and it will be of course then he will be charged with organizing new elections within another forty five days so we will have been in three months i think in three months new president new elections of course if the protesters accept this move. and that that brings me to my next question of course you have had the sustained protests for over a month now on the streets in l.g. are calling for which if we could to step down it appears now that the military felt for star its hands were forced to intervene is this what the algerians want for the military to intervene are they reassured by this what we have to say now that this is not a direct intervention of the military does sheaf of the military is calling for the both chambers of the parliament to take their responsibility but what the

protesters did when they went to the streets for five weeks they were only calling for a renouncement for this sort of put to sleep on the regime they didn't accept it at the beginning they were. only if only hundreds of thousands but now we have more than twenty millions. investing in the streets calling for the objection of the whole regime they're not interested in all the solutions. it's up to the whole of the not only the clown of good sleep but the brings me to my final question i've got twenty seconds for this is it tough on you but i want to ask it nonetheless you're referring to but if they said this is the end game for british wake up but he has that entire infrastructure all these tentacles are everywhere of his clan i those people just going to disappear no. i think his clan

is finished but we have money clans at least some inside the regime who had this struggle of power in the last years and the tool rest to rest in closet will try to recycle themselves through in order to stay in power all right to be continued going on from arabic thank you for providing us with the back story. next we had to jordan where years of campaigning for the government to provide a better protection for women threatened by domestic abuse is beginning to bear fruit and of the country's crime prevention law it has been common practice to jail women at risk of abuse supposedly for their own protection but last year the government finally opened a secret shelter and as did reduce found out it's giving vulnerable women hope of starting new lives and safety it's been years since last saw her

husband but the abuse she suffered at his hand is still fresh in her mind. when the beating got really bad i would run away to the neighbors my husband suspected i was having an affair with my neighbor so he beat me again and strangled me. authorities feared one of husband might kill her in the name of family honor so they put her in prison. the forty two year old mother of eight was incarcerated for seven months under georgians crime prevention law which has long been used to indefinitely jail women consider to be at risk of so-called honor killings supposedly for their own protection. the hope of a jailed me with women facing the death sentence women convicted of drug crimes were the ones on just a row are hard to deal with the whole lawyers were able to get more out of prison after her husband left the country but the circumstances of her release are extremely rare. a woman is usually told that someone must come

and bail her out in guarantee has safety usually a brother or a father her son or her husband and that's difficult because these are often the same people who were threatening her they had to do all. it is estimated that hundreds of women have been jailed under the pretext of protection with some spending over a decade in prison but after years of campaigning things are finally starting to change. according to the government cases like more out won't have to spend any more time in prison for their own protection and twenty eight in the jordanian ministry for social development opened this home known as the purpose of it is to house women whose lives are under threat by members of their family today we're being given a rare look into the home and the lives of its residents. the shelter subject around the clock protection and surveillance its location is kept secret. and is one of the first to be transferred from jail to the shelter after spending almost

six years in prison. for safety reasons we cannot give details about the twenty six year old's story only that her life is under threat from multiple members of her family. when i arrived here for two days i could not believe that i could just go out on the balcony and see people the world and life had been almost sixty years and i had not seen the sign and i had not seen people. shelter director does that insists this is not just a place for the women to eat and sleep here they also receive psychological counseling legal aid and vocational training with the aim of reintegrating them into society children up to the age of sixteen remain with their mothers recorded for ted and and when a woman comes to us she's entering an unfamiliar situation we let her know that being here is voluntary one of her choices on our first task is to comfort her help

and once that happens working with her becomes much easier. since its opening twenty women have been transferred from prison to the shelter around twelve still remain in prison but the ministry intends to gradually move them here as well three of the women transferred from prison have left the shelter after they were deemed to no longer be in danger if a woman wants to leave beforehand she's informed of the risks and cannot be held against her will. my goal is to one day be able to leave and find a suitable place to live i do not want to be threatened anymore. the opening of the shelter has been hailed as a major step forward but activists say the law which allowed for these women to be held in the first place must be repealed to guarantee this never happens again. reporting there from jordan is with me here in the studio in person good to have you back all right contextualize this for us how big is this issue in jordan so

we're talking a very about a very very specific group of women we're talking about women whose lives are under threat because of so-called honor when needed and so they are at risk of being murdered by their families in the numbers on these women that are held for that reason have always been extremely scarce the government was not very open to talking about the numbers of women and car survived in prisons for that reason in two thousand and three there were about ninety seven in two thousand and eighteen when the shelter finally open the government said there were about thirty two but all of the activists that i've spoken to that have worked on this have said it's not about the numbers it's about the gross miscarriage of justice that is being incarcerated for essentially being a victim because you had women who would spend basically open open sentences until somebody came to build them out and guarantee their safety there was one case when i was doing my research of a woman who was incarcerated essentially when she was in her early teens she had spent twenty two years in prison because they were afraid that her family would

kill her for an honor with a good issue and a couple of months before we went to film the reports she had passed away she had only had four years of freedom after after being in prison for twenty two years she just simply couldn't cope the other problem again it's not about the numbers it's about the injustice of this law that was used to to incarcerate women a lot of lawyers argue that this was actually abuse of the law because the crime prevention law is supposed to. who gives the gov the power to take in a person who is suspected of committing a crime not not the victim so a lot of people also a lot of activists old also argue that this law has been grossly misinterpret grossly abused and and that's that's really the where the scale of this problem is not about the numbers it's about the injustice that just says because they haven't committed any crime they are victims of potential crimes or of crimes and then they're serving sentences basically all right now are there any plans to expand the

shelter scheme at all so from i've spent some time with the staff of the shelter and also official from the ministry of social development that runs the shelter there are no plans to expand this model the shelters capacity is about thirty five at this moment but they say that that is very much in line with the amount of women that are being held again because we're talking about not just victims of abuse but victims but really women whose lives are under threat we're getting death threats because under threat of an honor killing essentially so there aren't any there are any plans to expand it and it's a very very young project just open the door just in september of twenty thousand so it's still very much an experiment and we need to watch it very closely and see where it goes keep watching it and keep us posted abraham thank you so much for your reporting. all right we're going to shift our attention now to the u.s. and the controversy surrounding minnesota congresswoman ileana omar she's one of the country's first female muslim congresswoman and has courted controversy with

recent comments that some have interpreted as anti semitic but in her home district her constituents are firmly on her side as you know we use others on a phenomena found out. a busy morning at the village market with the barber shops and it would be the most highly popular among the member of the one yap only the american community they tell me they're proud to be represented. and immigrant like them despise the wreath who controversy we will support a hundred percent like she she should she should talk about the truth she shouldn't fear anybody shouldn't feel like any group and that's exactly what she's doing we don't believe it's on to so my take on our fellow jews and the most names and everybody else we just. in washington however you handle mara drew an intense backlash for a tweet suggesting american support for israel was all of all the benjamins baby

a reference two hundred dollar bills and four remarks you made about apec a prominent the israel lobby group. in this country that says it is ok. for allegiance to a point country. i want. why is it ok. for me to be in movies of the n.r.a. fossil fuel industries or be pharma and not talk about our whole lobby. group that is doing all of your comments steve cohen and things play dangerous anti jewish there are types the director of the jewish community relations council in minnesota met with omar three times. when we met on february nineteenth i brought along this picture on the site is

a picture of my maternal grandfather barney applebaum and this gentleman gerald sonny cohen. he would have been my cousin had he lived there were sixty nine hundred forty four son is killed in action in france ne france laid to rest in the military cemetery lorraine france so i brought the picture with to make the point to represent of omar to understand american jews you have to understand their profound patriotism. critics here in minneapolis their comments are especially problematic amid a recent spike in anti-semitic incidents in the us which rights to talk to one omar about her controversial statements but the congresswoman declined our request for an interview stating that she wants to focus on her constituents and not the media . law. at the. center

in august twenty seventh the center was the target. the man mohammad omar thinks the controversy over the congresswoman is a distraction from growing aggression against all kinds of minorities the problem always getting caught up in the corner of not paying attention to what's going on what's going on. what's going to white supremacy why did missions and this is the threat that's emerging to this world that's where he says that is targeting both jews and muslims and this country right. now a quick reminder of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour the spine because syrian you are the european parliament has approved a controversial reform of copyright laws all the measures aimed to protect intellectual property but critics say it will hamper the free exchange of information on the internet. you're watching it every news coming up next and you

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