thank you for more security more freedom more dignity have their hopes been fulfilled. where does the world stand today. 10 years after the arab spring. and rebellion starts june 7th on d w. this is news and these are our top stories u.s. president joe biden's administration has announced support for lifting coronavirus vaccine payton protections the move could bolster global vaccine supplies and help developing countries manufacture their own vaccines the white house says it will negotiate with the world trade organization but question of the talks could take time. facebook's oversight board has upheld the company's decision

to suspend donald trump's account but it said the suspension should not be indefinite and i set a 6 month time span to determine a proportionate response the social media networks suspended account 4 months ago for allegedly inciting the violence that led to the deadly january 6th capital riot . israel's president roven rivlin has asked opposition leader. to form a new government a day after prime minister benjamin netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition before an overnight deadline if mr lapid coalition building a successful it will end mr netanyahu has 12 year rule this is news from berlin you can find much more on our website d.w. dot com. former u.s. president donald trump will not be returning to facebook at least not now today the

oversight board at facebook known as the facebook supreme court upheld the band that was placed on trump earlier this year but it was not a black and white decision the board said the ban was justified but it also said making the ban indefinite was not it told facebook to come back in 6 months with a more thoughtful decision in other words mr zuckerberg this is your job not ours in politics this is passing the buck and facebook this is whatever mr zuckerberg wants it to be i'm bored golf in berlin this is the day. our. you know tempting we're giving dates but 6 months to conduct this review i believe it's going to be a catastrophic mistake for them if there are real disagreements about where the

limits obama and speech should be either restore mr crump the cannot harm the. trumping that on the platform and. make this harder for the family account for that period of time they causes a lot of problems that a lot of days here big mistake they shouldn't be doing it. also coming up when the next outbreak is about to break out there will be a number anyone in the world can call a burleson number today i'm on to announce mr director general said to us that the w.h.o. up and maybe an epidemic intelligence will be established. this year with the full support of the german. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states. and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day

with a ruling on facebook's decision to ban former u.s. president donald trump after the january 6 insurrection at the u.s. capitol in washington d.c. facebook kicked out president trump high profile controversial decisions like this are why facebook created an oversight board last year a group of 20 former politicians activists and journalists to deliberate these social media giants biggest decisions members of the board are to be independent yet they are selected and paid by facebook today the board ruled that banning donald trump was the right decision but how that decision had been reached was too vague so in 6 months facebook is supposed to come back with a more thoughtful polished final decision this means that donald trump could return to facebook later this year in washington lawmakers are calling the board's decision disgraceful republicans say c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is acting like the arbiter of free speech and democrats say

facebook allows itself to be used to spread lies especially when it brings in advertising revenue i want you to take a listen to what one of the facebook oversight board members said today there isn't one of us who say that everything is in this position is exactly how different an individual had once it. did actually have an enormous agreement on that that was right a facebook. message on from the crap that was in all of green about my 1st guest tonight is a member of the facebook oversight board to john samples is vice president at the cato institute that's a libertarian think tank in the united states is for samples is an authority on free speech and the 1st amendment because for samples it's good to have you on the program i want to ask you are you at liberty tonight to share how you voted today. i am not i am ever going to be at liberty to do that and what and why is that and

did the did the board decide to keep it secret or were you told by facebook to keep it secret. we have a charter that stablished a number of legal devices that established the board and its independence from facebook and that this rule is among others and let me say i do think in this case that and it found it to be the case that keeping an unlimited not disclosing who voted how who is on this panel or. has been very useful both in. fostering deliberation about the issues we deal with but also of course it can protect the personal security of members in some cases so people know who's on the board you could go to the. central website and find out but specifics are retained and i think that's

a very valuable thing yeah i mean we're not disclosing for example in your locations a night to protect you when you joined the oversight board did you ever think that being a member would involve issues that could maybe jeopardize your personal safety. i was aware as an abstract idea that that could happen but frankly i didn't expect that and i was out walking this morning between interviews and i reflected on the fact that it's possible but you know i still don't think it's a real threat i believe i'm correct about that that's probably not true for all members of the board there is we live throughout the world and you know there's different levels of risk let me ask you about the decision that came out today it basically throws the ball back to facebook what do you want facebook to do in the next 6 months. i would say what it does is return the

accountability for the decision where it belong to begin with it's very important to understand that this decision is not about mr trump or his policies or his presidency it's rather from the board's perspective about facebook itself facebook does content moderation on its platform it takes down things it put leads them up it that supposed to do that according to its rules and ultimately also according to international norms covering freedom of expression. it's important for accountability that they make these decisions and not pass them along to another group like say the facebook board so what we're saying is you have to decide this according to your rules the problem with the original decision was they applied a rule that did not exist at the time they also need to so they need to make a decision within 6 months and the time frame is there because we think they also

need to change their policies in various important ways and we've laid those out in the decision with d.n.d. believe facebook is going to follow the board's advice as i understand it your rulings or decisions are not binding. the ruling we made about they ask this question we gave mr trump an indefinite suspension for his account is that right or wrong is it you know is it justified or not that our answer yes or no to bad is binding right they have to do that they've agreed to do that the policy advice that follows from that case is advice they have they don't have to follow it up they have to respond to it and i think in this case they will want to consider these very closely and will in fact follow up on the east because i think they're very much in facebook's interest to build out their capacity to make consistent

decisions did facebook answer all of the questions that the board had for it as it was trying to reach a decision. no it did not we talk about that in the decision and it did answer most of them but there were other some decision sub questions were not responded to the rules we have govern the board. permit that but we had hoped that facebook would die answer all of it was made i think on our in for a better decision and the good sort of collaboration with an independent relationship that we look for there were questions that you didn't get answered i think one was did facebook data on its users and that allow advertisers to my current target people in the run up to the insurrection i mean do we know did facebook make make money on the mob. i don't know we didn't confront that

in the context of this decision because it wasn't didn't go to the question we were trying to answer now what we have done in the policy adviser is indicate that facebook should go back and see to what extent it was you know its systems its design and so on and i was a drop in the past few months i think for some reason i think they're already doing that and we certainly want to encourage them to continue down that. mr john samples from the facebook oversight board mr samples with you shake your time in your insights tonight thank you thank you for having me. could a human's one day become an endangered species scientists say we are not only grappling with the coronavirus pandemic and a climate emergency they say humanity is also facing a sperm count crisis analysis suggests that sperm counts in the west have dropped

by over 50 percent in the last 40 years and if the downward trend continues it's fear that the planet could be facing what scientists are calling a sperm a get and by the year 2045 scientists say our modern life is behind this decline and healthy lifestyles such as smoking and obesity and exposure to dangerous chemicals found in plastics cosmetics and pesticides. well my next guest is one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologist and she is sounding the alarm in her book entitled count down how our modern world is threatening sperm counts altering male and female reproductive development and imperiling the future of the human rates i'm joined now by dr shanna swan the i'm kind of the icon school of medicine it's good to have you on the program let me just ask you about this picture that you paint in your book

it's a rather dark picture for the human race by the year 2045 conceiving a child naturally will no longer be the norm why why is that. well we don't really know what's going to happen in 2045 our data go through 2011 however if you were to project the decline that we're seeing which is the rate of more than one percent a year you can extrapolate from 2011 and see that by 2045 you would get very close to no sperm at all now that's not possible this curve is going to have to be or often level off but nevertheless it will do so at a very low rate of sperm concentration we are already very low of the current level and at least in 2011 when we last looked was only 47000000 milliliters. and. millions per milliliter and that's down from 99 * so 99 back in

not that long * ago 197399 1000000 per milliliter was a good half the sperm count but now in 201147 is not very good because even though it sounds like a lot 40 is the point at which people then start to be considered suffer at all because it takes longer and longer to conceive a pregnancy so if you extend that line for there you can see we're going to pretty soon all or you know the majority of men or at least half of them will be below $40000000.00 per milliliter if we're not there already and that means that many many couples will have to use assisted reproduction if they can afford it and if they can succeed at it and you know this is this your book as i was reading your book it reminded me of the the movie the graduate there's a scene in there were a young dustin hoffman has given career advice and he's told that the future is plastics and we have plastics now we have the chemicals that are in them is that

where the danger lies is that what is causing us to have these low sperm counts for example. i believe that that is an important part of the picture it's certainly not the whole picture so chemicals in plastics including those that make plastics soft and flexible those that make it hard are chemicals that interfere with their body's natural hormones and once you do that particularly in pregnancy you are messing with the ability of that particularly male because it's testosterone it's going down the ability of that male to develop fully and when you interfere with the males development then you impact his later sperm function so we have drawn a line if you will from the mother's exposure to these plastics dustin hoffman was asked to cope and to live and work with to development of the male infant at birth

and later decrease sperm count and infertility that link has been made both in animals and humans you write in your book and we've got a quote we want to show our viewers the precipitous drop in sperm counts but we can pull that graphic up there we go the pacific is drop in sperm calles is an example of a canary in the coal mine scenario the sperm count declining that maybe mother nature's way of acting as a whistleblower drawing attention to the insidious damage human beings have wrought on the built and natural world i'm wondering is this canary only dying in the western coal mines i mean are we seeing these same infertility problems in africa for example. so that the paper that you're that you referred to earlier and i refer to it was reported on declines in western countries because that's where most of the sperm count studies haven't

gotten however for til it is a number of women born to a certain number of children born to a woman is declining all over the world not just in western countries and is declining at the same rate as sperm count is declining so that we believe that once we get are you want to have we have data from the non-western countries we'll see a decline there as well and we're seeing individual studies reporting that so i don't believe it's a phenomenon western countries on this one go about a minute left let me ask you do you see signs of hope particularly here in the west that we are getting the chemical problem under control. i don't believe that we've come to grips with this problem in the e.u. there is more progress because in the e.u. there is a policy called reach under which a chemical has to be proven safe before it's put into the market and for example in

the e.u. there are 1100 chemicals banned from personal care products whereas in the u.s. there are only 11 so we have a lot further to go in the u.s. but also in europe there are many many chemicals in in commerce that have not been regulated properly ok shanna swan professor of environmental medicine and author of the book down the how our modern world is imperiling the future of the human race but this one it was good having you on the show we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you. sure thanks for having me and i. germany and the world health organization say that berlin will host a new global monitoring center to help prepare for and prevent future public health threats such as the 19 pandemic the global hub for pandemic an epidemic intelligence will collect data it will monitor risk and it will help drive

innovations that could be 1200 new cars exposed guts in the global systems and epidemic intelligence and interconnected world and demi risks need to be identified as early as possible to prevent rapid global transmission of an infectious disease hosted invented in that deadly if your heart will be a global center that works was bottomless around the world to leave you no visions in under me can that be to make intelligence data set of illinois and i'm not a ticks the hold will allow us to develop tools for that sort of predictive analytics will also give us tools for managing joining epidemics a double edged up and to make an epidemic intelligence can make the difference for a safe future there are signals that may occur before epidemics vitus's move. but data can move even faster. are for more on this i'm joined tonight by mr veal

and sinan borg a member of the german parliament here in berlin for the opposition free democrats mr singh of august good to have you on the program the director general of the w.h.o. today said that the pandemic has exposed gaps in the global systems for pandemic an epidemic intelligence is he telling us that the w.h.o. has been asleep at the wheel in the past year year and a half before this pandemic began. i think we all have to learn some lessons and one lesson is that we need much more data collecting and data using and for this this cop is a good trust in the right direction and very proud in germany to get it and if they believe this is the place for it but it's only a small small. have to do much much more and also the

w.h.o. i think should do some thing more than just to give up to germany where this is a this is a big win for the german capital on why was berlin. i'm not sure about that i think maybe we have a sever use of the federal government like that or what constitutes a cape i which is central in situ in germany to obeisance and to make ideas how to deal with them make i think that many might be a reason and also maybe reason maybe the german government is giving $30000000.00 euro's or dollars to pay this institution do you consider these $30000000.00 euros do you consider that to be money well spent. no doubt because it is that is very good stuff and we are very happy to have this out here in germany and berlin

but it's just very small step we had shifted to much more than just look at the data in germany maybe you know that in germany we have a big problem with the data which have to be collected on the weekends to more than one to make. this already so i'm not able to provide the correct data if the inflammation information infection injuries weekends or if you don't have good data doesn't help the op so the 1st steps that should be the general should do is much better with the data collected in germany but there isn't that because on the weekends people don't work even in the pandemic people have not been working for the help offices that you make you think they've been. making the weekend. ok well that's maybe they can you know maybe that will change we don't know the german health minister today again spot said that nation states need to be

and i'm quoting here really transparent now how do you read that it's not a criticism of china in the way china handled the beginning of this pandemic. that's the we have the impression that china does not get all the data they had on the other hand. a temporary order generated 20 trying to be on you that in china pandemic it's coming on and i think all the european governments all of the general didn't really react properly so it would have had much more data from general but even with the data we got. we didn't deal with them in the correct way you remember that from former u.s. president donald trump he pulled out of the w.h.o. and pulled funding out as well president biden has returned to the w.h.o. but there's a question about the w.h.o. being fit for purpose what's your opinion is it. not the

need to w.h.o. and it's very possible that all the countries also germany is looking to the w.h.o. no doubt but maybe the could improve it but that. does help is a very small part of it i know that you sit on the german parliament help committee . is berlin the right place to have a pandemic hub i mean i know a lot of people today when they heard the news they were surprised pleasantly surprised but they were surprised. i think that it's a good place we're happy with this me a proud to be a show is giving this project it to germany to belittle i think it's a good place very good mr villain shown in bourg the german parliament for the f.t.p. party mr bergen it's good to have you on the show we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you very much.

her name was sophie show she was born 100 years ago this week she became one of germany's most famous anti nazi resistance fighters in the 1940 s. at the age of 22 she was arrested and executed by the nazis now a social media project is bringing her back to life for a younger generation the project explores what would the last months of sophie scholz wife have looked like on instagram. it's a period film shoot with a twist it's the 1940 s. but selfie show has an instagram account and true to the social media platforms format she mostly film says self. criticism facebook may 940 today and i'm about to get on the train sophie hurry up the train will wait. my sister she's never been late in our life the resistance activist shares her

political and private thoughts with her followers. of course safety is our hero our resistance fighter but she's also a normal woman with many different facets and with insecurities. the instagram series is a patchwork of clips in different media a selfie video of sophie's birthday party animation sometimes photographs they all share vents that happened on specific days 79 years ago. but seen more not even talk we chronicle every day for 10 months. that's given us the opportunity to tell our audience a lot about safety shell if you would. it was for all the right i'd have managed in a movie like. the instagram posts and when sophie is arrested for distributing anti nazi leaflets the moment when the resistance leader would have had her smartphone taken from. the project can be found on instagram

it is in german and to take a look follow at bin sophie show. where there is no sperm count crisis here are not one not 2 talking about 9 babies that was the surprise a 25 year old woman from mali received after giving birth in casablanca on wednesday the woman had been sent to morocco for special prenatal care after she was told that she was carrying 7 babies the 2 additional little ones they came as and there's no surprise doctors say that all 9 children and their mother are doing well getting some rest while she can. the day is always done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news or board golf t.v. we'll see you tomorrow.

enter the conflict zone the government goes sri lanka has been strongly criticized the un human rights council which warned them a deteriorating situation in the country and the increase marginalize ation of minorities my guest this week is john up column by secretary just 3 lanka's foreign ministry physically jones and his government to take the criticism seriously i was doing something about the conflict so for. next month difficult for.

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sky. it must be the sea all these things well you don't know about you proud of living in a. presidential pardon. the government of sri lanka has been strongly criticised of the un human rights council which warned of a deteriorating situation in the country the erosion of judicial independence and the increasing.