this is deja vu news live from berlin making the case for a crackdown on big tech u.s. lawmakers press the leaders of apple facebook google and amazon in congress they accuse the tech giants of killing off the competition to boost profits also coming up. the u.s. slashes its military presence in germany by a full 3rd the decision coming after president trump repeatedly said berlin was quote delinquent on its defense spending. and nigeria's appetite for

wild game meat often puts endangered species on the butchers for w. follows one man's quest to save wild animals before entire species are wiped out. and a giant leap in the search for life on mars nasa preparing to launch a new mission that it hopes will help solve the riddle of the red planet. i'm brian thomas critelli with us today global tech giants have been accused by u.s. lawmakers of creating unfair market conditions that suppress competition for of america's biggest names and technology have appeared before congress to answer questions from an antitrust battle the leaders of facebook google apple and amazon deny that they're crushing competitors and acting like cartel. america's tech titans

on the defensive facebook's mark zuckerberg alphabets pichai amazon's jeff bezos and apple's tim cook all face the virtual grilling on capitol hill lawmakers say the c.e.o.'s and their companies are abusing their position and crippling the competition many of the practices used by these companies have harmful economic effects they discourage entrepreneurship destroy jobs high cost and degrade quality simply put they have too much power what for hours these big tech c.e.o.'s addressed allegations including abuse of power data survey links and political censorship why does google steal content from honest businesses i disagree with that characterization just last week i made many small businesses in fact today the support of 1400000 small businesses supporting over

$385000000000.00 and there are economic activity amazon has nearly 7 times the market share of its closest e-commerce competitor one seller told us that and i quote amazon continues to be the only show in town no matter how angry sellers get they have nowhere else to go so are you saying that these people aren't didn't go when they say that amazon is the only game in town. congresswoman with great respect i do disagree with that i believe that there are a lot of. cooks in the soccer bergan system their companies aren't invincibles we don't have a dominant share in any market or in any product category where we do business new companies are created all the time all over the world and history shows that if we don't keep innovating someone will replace every company here today and that change can often happen faster than you expect also on this play partisan divides on this

cut to the chase big tax out the conservatives that's not a suspicion that's not a hunch that's a fact republicans say these companies are unfairly suppressing and censoring conservative opinions in media but democrats say big tech isn't going far enough in cracking down on misinformation and hate speech a lot to talk about let's look at this now with rob watts from did have you business good morning to you rob i see you get on in this hearing was billed as a day of reckoning for big tech didn't live up to those expectations but they certainly got a grilling very much you have to say a long slow cooking because this was 5 hours of questioning on various aspects of businesses now this feels in the u.s. congress and there was a certain amount of pot isn't split between the questioning that they were getting from the 2 sides for example the democrats want to talk a bit more about this information and then you go to republicans wanting to accuse

these tech companies of suppressing conservative voices of having links to china those issues are not really to do with competition and antitrust which is what the issue at hand was supposed to be has said to some extent they were. diluted and these major figures in the tech industry were let off the hook on those particular issues there was also the issue that some of these congress people didn't perhaps know the subjects that they were discussing to the extent that they might have hoped for example at one point mark zuckerberg was asked about donald trump jr tweeting about hydroxy chloroquine and having his account suspended obviously mark zuckerberg counter that by saying well that was something that happened on twitter not on facebook but it was a broad ranging discussion no real hits landed i would say that ok what we saw in our piece there the bosses of tech giants you defending themselves are some tough allegations that they were facing yeah absolutely and they batted them

all back and one of the things that was quite surprising to see was against these allegations of being uncompetitive we had for example mark zuckerberg playing down facebook's strength saying that in for example the sector of advertising facebook is a huge player in that he said well you know we're not the biggest get was the biggest and we're not the fastest growing amazon is the fastest growing advertising platform on the issue of working with china google being accused of working with the chinese military while turning down work with the u.s. military being accused of being unpatriotic but summed up which i said well actually that's that's frankly just false and then also i am isn't being accused of driving small firms out of business but jeff bezos saying well actually no american companies created more american jobs than amazon now apparently some congressional probes are being planned one congressman said the firms should be broken up and

after they are they should be tightly regulated what kind of government action can we expect moving forward the big discussion is around the sides of breaking them up but whether or not we'll actually see that. i'm not so sure because 1st atsic i was very much against the ethos of many republicans to smash up a company and to interfere with it to that extent also some of them will be sympathetic to the tech giant's own suggestion that by cutting them up what you have practically doing is giving the chinese have stopped that main competitor but there's seems little doubt that antitrust laws in the united states do need to be changed they need to be updated they come from the 1800s now from the times of the railroad long before we had the internet and we had companies of this size so expect to see an awful lot of scrutiny of these tech companies over the coming is particularly if they try to expand ok cluing modernizing the laws that would govern all of this rob thanks so much for gore alleged offenses on the territories new

national security law they're accused of what authorities are calling organizing and inciting secession beijing imposed a sweeping security law on july 1st that makes advocating independence a crime punishable by long prison terms. around says it has launched ballistic missiles from an underground base with the 1st time as part of a series of military exercises which also included targeting a dummy american aircraft carrier us troops stationed in the region were put on alert during the drill. german police have ended there today search for a garden used by the main suspect in the disappearance of british toddler madeleine mccann the reports suggest they found a seller at the site it was not commented on that were any other 5. the boss of london's heathrow airport wants a british government to back a strict rotavirus testing regime for passengers arriving from countries like the

united states john holland kay said quarantine for arrivals could be reduced to 8 days for most if they're tested twice in one week. the united states has unveiled plans to withdraw nearly 12000 troops from germany that's a 3rd of its military footprint in the country defense officials say the move is in line with addressing new threats from china and russia present trump though has tied the reduction to germany's defense fund. the historic reduction in the number of american troops stationed in germany even more will be leaving than expected. the us secretary of defense mark asked for announced the withdrawal downplaying its significance it is important to note that in nato is 71 year history the size composition and disposition of u.s. forces in europe has changed many times but u.s. president donald trump said the move is meant to send

a message to germany. for. this thing trump often points out that germany does not meet a nato guideline that all members should spend 2 percent of their economic output on defense germany only spends 1.4 percent but that guideline refers to spending on each country's own military not directly to nato medo members are now seeking answers as to how the new u.s. plan will be carried out and what it will mean for the future of european security there has been pushback from the u.s. congress and analysts say even the pentagon was reluctant to carry out trumps demand for troop withdrawal you can imagine the arguments and the discussions and disagreements that would have been going on back in washington inside the pentagon and with the white house but at the end of the day the president says we're going to do this and so the department of justice ok well here's here's how we're going to do it there are about 24000 u.s.

troops will remain in germany but some observers worry trump's costly message to its nato allies could weaken the whole alliance we're joined by. terry shoals in brussels where nato has its headquarters to date you terry can you tell us what effect will this withdrawal have on the nato alliance as ability to fulfill its mandate. well let's start off by saying that these are plans so we're not even 100 percent sure this will happen and if you look at the response on capitol hill lawmakers are very much intent on making sure this doesn't happen i mean nobody nobody there seems to think this is a good idea so if it were to go through what was announced by secretary esper and the supreme allied commander yesterday there would be some capability and headquarters moved to belgium here to the supreme allied commander. operational center down in mons belgium there would also be

a couple of battalions moved to italy there maybe more forces moved to poland this morning we've seen the baltic step up and say hey we'd love to get some of those troops i mean made those 1st 1st preference would be that no troops get moved out of germany and that more troops are constantly added to europe but as it stands now they would very much like to see that as many as possible remain here in europe and not go back to the united states ok what about countries like poland the baltic countries you mentioned but they like to see those u.s. troops or imagined alliance members some of them at least would be supporting this . well again they would like to see no troops moved out of germany and poland has a bilateral deal with the united states that more troops would be coming to poland and i've spoken to polish diplomats and they would not be happy to see troops taken out of germany and moved to poland they were hoping to get additional forces but that said if they're going to be taken out of germany they would very much like

them to be put there along the border with russia the baltic states have long been asking along with poland to have more u.s. troops there on the ground so again if there are going to be more than $5000.00 pulled out of germany and repositioned in europe of course they'd like to see them along the border with russia. these plans as you mentioned still need to be approved by congress but it comes you see new tensions within nato especially between greece and turkey in the mediterranean what's the state of the alliance right there are always tensions within nato there are also tensions between turkey and france in the mediterranean and these are very big concerns inside the alliance but of course it makes more tension it makes more sort of unnerved allies when the problems are with the united states that said we knew this was coming president trump made the announcement summarily and this time at least secretary general stoltenberg was sure to point out in his statement yesterday at

least the u.s. briefed the allies on monday there was a meeting where. ok we're going on to our next story known that's about airbus an airbus has posted a quarterly loss of 1900000000 euros the playmakers as a coronavirus pandemic as presented the industry with the greatest crisis ever sold half as many planes during the 1st 6 months of this years it did during the same period in 2019 airbus is planning to cut more than 10 percent of its workforce worldwide in response. to residents of the tiny town of levine you need to lose it's a familiar event and the 3 unity is on the way. whenever one of the aircraft is assembled in the nearby factories part of the fusion h has to squeeze through the tons narrow streets this time it's for plane to 17th to last the giant airbus a 380 has been discontinued after just 15 years in production i think that people

would have loved to have the sec raf you know being produce for a longer period of time anyway again i think everybody is very proud about the x. raft and what it means to help us the know how the skills that we developed along those is very important then to pave the way for the future i know they show. up to $850.00 passengers fit on the a $380.00 today but times have changed airlines around the world a normal looking for maximum capacity nobody want their aircraft to be cost effective and flexible the end of the a $380.00 couldn't come at a wash time for us we've barely recovered research and development costs and at the same time the company is dealing with the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic . is in charge of cabin design but today he's in charge of delivering

a long haul aircraft of the new ether 50 type to lift tons of. the pandemic he says has picked airlines around the world in a precarious position. is feeling the knock on effect. in the end of $911.00. we've seen crises in the past 911 the sars virus those were just small dates that didn't affect our long term growth less time the losses are big and they're going to last much longer that means we have to think in terms of years before things get better. around the globe airlines are struggling with insolvency and cancelled orders airbus has had to cut production by 40 percent since the beginning of the pandemic employees like pilot thomas wilhelm see each delivery that takes place on shared you as a glimmer of hope. that once is restricted. it's important for us to keep our production stable even if it is a to lower level or it is a very good feeling and

a positive sign that we're delivering bank planes like the ins. and so was his group tory girl who falsely from what the 1st flight of the new a 350 was a success but stuff for one and airbus has announced plans to cut 15000 jobs from its worldwide work force. in other news today chinese telecoms giant weiwei has become the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones market research shows while way over took its main rival samsung in the 2nd quarter of this year analysts are saying china's early recovery from the pandemic reinvigorated wall weighs domestic market sells more than 70 percent of its phones. thousands of taking to the streets and cities across bone garriott to demand the resignation of the government it's accused of corruption suppressing free speech and maintaining ties with the mafia government protests are the biggest a country has seen in years. mexico's supreme court has

rejected a case which sought to decriminalize abortion in local areas just means anti abortion laws in the state of vera cruz will remain in place religious groups celebrated the decision in front of the supreme court. firefighters in brazil are battling blazes and then alll the world's biggest tropical weapons the number of fires in the region is more than doubled so far this year compere compared to last year in response the regional government has declared a state of emergency. the corona virus pandemic has been raising new concerns about the health risks of selling wild life at markets for human can see. action but in nigeria it's long been a common practice and poses a threat to endangered species laws are on the books to block the trade but are rarely enforced d.w.

correspondent fanny far visited a major bush meat market in lagos she talked with a man struggling to keep species from being wiped out. it doesn't matter what day it is this market stays open shortly after the april lockdown it was the 1st 2 are calm it's customers back. at 1st side this is just the fish market but if you look a little bit closer you will find this is one of the biggest markets for bush meat in africa the thing that you can buy here are not supposed to be on anyone's plate yet they are crocodiles penguins endangered species are openly source here available to anyone willing to pay the right price yeah certainly you know. this one is not a business does business follow a crocodile goes for $30.00 to $75.00 a small penguin for $25.00 bush meat is pricey demand is high.

because i don't know how they preserve. so. it's not just seen as a delicacy among wealthy nigerians the country is an emerging transit hub for the illegal wildlife trade tons of penguin scales are shipped to asia every year. we are meeting china do more ball at this market he's a wildlife activist who says nigerians place little value on their own white life they feel this is. what they don't understand is that most of this animals that you have continued home to over time are reducing in number very soon they will be gone i mean if you can see it any more even in real life so this is where culture more start its own limit. today is on sale to do is trying

to buy up animals that are still alive and save them before they are killed a race against the clock. if i don't buy them 2 for my purpose which is for free and corporate i believe people will come and buy them for food and if you've seen most of these animals they come in like this every day did they are lost in nigeria to protect the species we are showing the pictures to representative of a governmental agency that is supposed to enforce the law so why is this business floor xing them. away a toll. try to just put to the thing to do really know what is happening so you can adjust spouse some people who have to kick the people 1st saw. in the kitchen and then of course then they force them to follow the lead to the o.t. agency rita raids how important it is to safe wildlife it does not have any

sanctions in place for those who breach them all or policies to shut down wildlife markets altogether this takes time we are told. she knows who says nigeria has a lot of problems and wildlife is not the priority we meet him again at a sanctuary he created to raise animals and teach children about what life we have to prepare coming up in the future sort of become one big. decisions policies that affect wildlife positively no one knows how much wide life will still be left in nigeria by the time they say next generation is able to act to the us the country's preparing the launch of a new mission to mars to search for signs of life there are rockers at a blast off from the national nasa mission control keep canaveral florida later today it will be carrying perseverance a new rover that will study the martian surface like never before.

they're both his descent will test out a new navigation system it's an autopilot designed to work at the best target location and steer towards it. it's supposed to make touchdown safer and more precise. the rover is aiming for this riverbed in the year 0 crater. perseverance will investigate it surroundings with cameras and measuring devices. researchers hope the data will give the new insights into the geology and climatic history of mas but perseverance has another job too to search for signs of life. we probably won't find old d.n.a. or anything like baton miles. but we might find rocks that were formed by biological processes that's what we're expecting or at least we're hoping.

viewers. must camp said has been specially developed to search for these traces of life. it has 2 cameras which can deliver detail to color photographs in 3 d. the camera system also has an advanced zoom to help research to see tiny patterns and structures in the rock with the all. there is our team leader is a professor in arizona and he always puts it like this imagine you're sitting in the stands of a football stadium at the goal and you can see a fly buzzing around between the goal posts at the other end. of. the mission is also sending a small helicopter to mars. its job is to carry out autonomous test flights where it controls the whole process by itself. it's propellers have to spin 8 times as fast as on earth because the atmosphere of mars is so thin. since the 1st flight

attempts it's taken engineers 5 years to get to this point. the mission's most important goal is to collect rock samples examine them and pack them ready for transport to do this perseverance is fitted with the most complex robotic system nasa has ever developed. perseverance will deposit the samples on the surface of mas in 10 years another rover will collect them and bring them to a launch pad iraq it will then carry them to a satellite in orbit which will finally bring the precious cargo to. some sports now the exeter chiefs the leaders of the english premiership of decided to retire the team's big chief mascot the decision follows a petition calling for an end to the club's use of quote harmful imagery but the

sheaves name will remain the mascot featured a native american a fan's group and gar thousands of signatures to use to stop using him as a mascot the petition against the chiefs came in the wake of the n.f.l.'s washington team changing its redskins name and logo. if you're a minor now of our top stories u.s. lawmakers have accused apple facebook google and amazon of using harmful practices to stifle their competitors the c.e.o.'s of the tech giants were testifying at an antitrust your rational panel is weighing whether to regulate the company's whatever. and the u.s. is slashing its military in germany by nearly 12000 troops will be redeployed in the u.s. and elsewhere in europe trump administration says the move aims to counter new threats from russia and china. don't forget there's always more of these other stories that are social media platforms and at our website for now though for

me brian thomas the entire team thanks much for good. measure.

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rights around the world there are reports of invasive surveillance authoritarian power grabs my guest is the head of human rights watch can it follow from any limitations are people willing to accept in order to fight a threat like coronavirus conflicts the 1st. being 60 minutes on d w. are they friends so long to be with you if you try to steer the board which it wasn't really a full of fun among the glittering isn't munition or are they and i mean he's going to. see you in the real person you know the bowling pin is usually what he's going to go give most of my demo work for geoff donald trump on sunday mirror now we're 2 part documentary analyzes the difficult relationship between russia and the us and between their presidents how does their little rate and their dangerous mutual

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