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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 ban 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 for golf in berlin this is the day. it doesn't have the power. you're giving 6 months the doctors

review i believe it's going to be a catastrophic mistake for them there are real disagreements about where the limits of our mind speech should be either restore mr cross account harm. from being that on the platform and. make the spend. for the spent. part of that period of time to causes a lot of problems that a lot of states here big mistake they shouldn't be doing it. also coming up but when the next outbreak is about to break out there will be a number anyone in the world can call a berm lynd number today i'm on to announce mr director general ted was that the w.h.o. up and maybe an epidemic intelligence will be established here in this eod with the full support of the german. and to our

viewers on p.b.s. in the united states. in 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 the 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 lines especially when it brings in advertising revenues 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 decision is except how. individual one city and we did actually have an enormous agreement on that that was right a face. missing child from the capitol so that was a lot 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 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 is established a number of legal devices that established the board and its independence from facebook and 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 was on this panel or so on 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 trend 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 what do you do you 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 guy answer all and 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 micro 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 e is indicate to 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 unhealthy lifestyles which is 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

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 are 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're already very low of the current level

and at least in 2011 when we last looked was only 4x7ww years. 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 2000 and $1147.00 is not very good because even though it sounds like a lot 40 is the point at which people men start to be considered fertile because it takes longer and longer to conceive a pregnancy so if you extend that line down further you can see we're going to pretty soon all * are 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 it and you know this is this your book of as i was reading your book it reminded me of the movie the graduate there's a scene in there were

a young dustin hoffman it's 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 to vote meant 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 go into it and work with 2 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 maybe we can pull that graphic up there we go the perception is drop in sperm counts is an example of a canary in the coal mine scenario the sperm count decline 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 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 it's to climbing 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 phenomenal western countries on this one got 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 5 8. 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 for this one it was good having you on the show we present 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 cope of 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 clearly as possible to prevent rapid global transmission of an infectious disease hosted in bed lean that deadly if your heart will be a global center that works was bound to notice around the world to leave you no visions in pandemic and if you did we can tell aegis data surveillance and are not a fix the hold will allow us to develop tools for that sort of predictive analytics will also get was tools for managing joining epidemics and w.h.o. to make an epidemic intelligence can make the difference for

a safe future there are signals that may occur before epidemics happen vitus's move fast but can move even faster. are for more of this i'm joined tonight by mr deland sinan borg a member of the german parliament here in berlin for the opposition free democrats mr zuckerberg it's 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. step you 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 cherubs. i'm not sure about it i think maybe we have a several years of the federal government like that or what constitutes a cape i which is central institute in germany to obeisance and to make ideas how to deal with endemic i think that many might be a reason and also maybe reason maybe the german government is giving $30000000.00 euro's all 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

very good step and we are very happy to have to stop here in germany and poland but it's just very small step reach shifted do 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 year of. the german authorities are not able to provide correct data of the inflammation information infection injuries weekends and so if you don't have good data doesn't help the op so the 1st steps there should be the gemini 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 yet 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. well that's the we have the impression that china does not get all the data they had on the other hand. temporary or 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 it much more data from genoa but even with the data we got. 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. and it's very important that all the countries also germany is looking with the w.h.o. no doubt but maybe the could improve it but the average joe does have 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 is projected 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 berger 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 entirely 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 life have looked like on instagram. it's a period film shoot with a twist it's the 1940 s. but sophie scholl has an instagram account and true to the social media platforms format she mostly films a self. produced a face the main 142 years and i'm about to get on

a train sophie hurry up the train won't wait. and my sister she's never been late in a life the resistance activist shares her political and private thoughts with her followers a. lot of course a few zahira 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. selfie video of sophie's birthday party animation sometimes photographs they all show events that happened on specific days until 9 years ago. but seen more not to even talk we chronicle every day for 10 months. that's given us the opportunity to tell our audience a lot about safety shell with. it for us when all the light i did manage 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. well 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 baby 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 across dr 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. t.v.

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the tell me you're not a great option delicate topic africa's population is growing. and young people clearly have the solution the future belongs. to 77 percent now. on d. w. o. . what does it take to make it in the world of business is it all just a game basically coming down to a the luck or skill well of course fully actually

a bit of both of those and much mall rightly or wrongly various factors dictate who wins the race to the top where we come from perspectives even agenda can all make or break a korea equal opportunity for all that's the theme for this edition of made leader we use business magazine. now many companies claim to be an equal opportunity employer but so rarely is that actually true lots of things dictate your chances of landing a job including all too often you'll race however since the killing of george floyd by a white police officer in the united states many corporations have taken a stand on racial prejudice the very 1st time it'll be used upon the chin belew asks whether we're witnessing a game change. in a game every player begins at the same starting point they all get the same number of chances the rules are clear so whether you win or lose depends more on strategy

and luck. we like to think that's also true of the labor market that anyone's hard work can pay off. but that's not the case especially for some groups like people of color. in doing so if you don't know if in germany we still ask the question where are you from far too often people aren't asking who are you and where do you want your career to take you. where you come from still plays a role in our discourse and our attitudes toward the more mention of women and in hiring too it's a problem that mostly affects ethnic minorities and they often face similar barriers in the workplace that's also why blacks and people of color a more likely to end up in lower skilled and lower paid careers. the picture is

very different at the top. corporate boardrooms in germany much like in france the u.k. and the u.s. don't reflect the societies they come from at this level of leadership there's little by way of racial diversity and yet the words race ethnicity and racism i'm missing from discussions about diversity in corporate germany. is. i don't think it's definitely the case that most companies and most employers avoid using the word racism they think it's a dangerous word. and it expresses something that doesn't apply to them. so there's still a lot of education to be done you know between and germany. he is not alone in that the european network against racism says ethnic minorities and migrants of color especially face significant discrimination across europe.

what is the common type of exclusion that you seen from the labor market and europe what we see is that racial as groups racialists individuals might have a very high level of experience and qualifications but they are actually in low level. low qualified jobs and there is also at this risk of exploitation for certain groups when you get into the more corporate sector as you see that there is wage disparities according to different rich racialized groups where whites people may earn more money doing the same work and unemployment rates are also higher for people of color and ethnic minorities you can see that there is a difference between the national unemployment rates and the unemployment rate for migrants with the unemployment rate for migrants being higher c.e.c.

in different countries the ethnic minorities might be experiencing exclusion from the labor market based on various different reasons whether that's juice of the population in that specific country or the history of colonialism and the history of slavery that name exists in in europe. the global discussion on racism has shifted since the killing of george floyd in may 2020 in the u.s. triggered a wave of black lives matter protests which reverberated across the globe. thousands gathered in solidarity in cities across europe while also calling for racial justice at home. the protests have changed how many u.s. companies are responding to social justice movements several american brands issued statements supporting the calls for racial justice from the black lives matter

movement by august 2020 corporate america reportedly pledged more than $7000000000.00 to support efforts to fight racism leaders recognize they were in a position of influence but also that there was a demand if they wanted to eat their consumer is happy with their products and services corporations are really the most powerful entity in society that has a mensch influence over all we're seeing over work. over a host of issues that our society wrestles with. chris mello works for ice cream maker ben and jerrys heading the company's social justice campaigns the company took a stand on racial justice years ago it began supporting the black lives matter movement in 2060 and still they vents of last year changed everything.

the murder of george florida the resulting protests showed was that there was increasing expectation and perhaps a redefinition around what it means to be a corporate citizen and that corporation. we're being looked to to be a part of the dialogue that's happening within society ben and jerry's has launched a podcast on the history of racism in the us and consulting firm mckenzie established the institute for black economic mobility which advances research on racial equity those are just 2 examples of how u.s. corporations are signaling their desire to take part in the ongoing dialogue on racial justice. we cannot address the underlying racism that exists the systemic and structural nature of it in less we

can admit that racism exists whether it's you know the movement around the rights and dignity or seekers and refugees in europe or for that matter the work that we're doing around climate justice in australia corporate america is advertising its efforts to grapple with racism and to engage with society on questions of racial justice in europe things are a bit more complicated many researchers anti-racism activist and diversity experts say that european companies still haven't engaged with the reality of racism the lack of data in many european countries to show that the effects and impact of racial discrimination helps corporates avoids this issue in europe the biggest opportunity is being. all the information that's out there are around if an ethnic groups racial groups. and with that valuable data

or information companies can do wonders in the sense of recognizing where where their challenge. just solve this we have to create very transparent hiring situations there needs to be that mutual respect. well i'm not winning today i'm definitely losing but at least i know what the rules are but that's not what it's like with racism or any form of discrimination it's like playing a game where the walls are always changing and you end up being excluded without knowing what there will be rules are. now every so often a stark reminder comes along of how far we still have to go with equal opportunity

for all one of those came no that long ago when russia made dozens of jobs available to women sometimes the very 1st time believe it or not women have been barred from driving metro trains and really showing reports on one drive as long wait to get behind the wheel. the women are finally in the driving seat and are pushing full speed ahead on gender equality in the russian capital. started working for the moscow metro almost 18 years ago at the time women were not allowed to operate subway trains in russia but arenas says for her it was worth the wait. this is my childhood dream i used to play with model ships and airplanes with the boys my father was a pilot so why the metro somehow it drew me and the fact that it's underground i guess it's like flying under the ground. before every shift irina gives

the metro train she'll be driving a once over here you know was a station guard on the platform for years helping out passengers since january she's a driver now she tries to get a sense of each individual metro train. treat each train like a person and i think each train has a soul to the feeling of driving the metro it's like pure happiness i'm happy when i'm driving. irina is proud to be one of the 1st 12 female metro drivers after all the moscow subway is legendary the soviet government started building it in the 1930 s. calling it a palace for the people for commuting workers in the 1980 s. the government decided women had no place driving these trains they said the metro is too deep underground too loud and too dark for women and the vibration from the trains could damage their so-called childbearing function even now women drivers

are only being deployed on the most modern trains and only operate one line that runs partially over ground despite the fact that they get the exact same training as their male counterparts. has her dream job. and the next group of women will start training to become drivers. but outside of these metro tunnels gender equality is still a long way off. gender inequality is still a major issue in workplaces the world over women are less likely to rise to the top of organizations and on the way they can expect to be paid less than men doing the same job plus the gender pay gap is not the only inequality that leaves women out of pocket and women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities right not by a long shot consider getting a bank loan to buy a home for example how things turn out often depends on the applicant's gender and

where they live. in india. was turned down by several banks because she's an unmarried woman in $117.00 countries creditors are not prohibited from denying bones on the basis of gender what's more in most economies women are over represented amongst those without a bank account women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities hardly take the world of work women are much more likely to do unimpeded work than men on family farms in family businesses and in particular caring for others those that do get paid often earn a lot less than their male counterparts the gender pay gap varies from country to country that has to do with politics and tradition women are also sorely under represented in top jobs among germany's 30 leading blue chip companies there is just one female c.e.o.

named gary ho at merck and she was only appointed this year same rights and same opportunities at least before the law nope in more than $100.00 countries certain occupations are reserved for men in russia for example female ship captain spent years fighting for the right to helm of the essel 100 jobs are still off limits to women in russia what about maternity leave and pay in more than 50 countries employers alone are responsible for maternity pay there is no state support that's a significant disincentive for hiring women because it could get expensive equal rights and opportunities for all what can be done to achieve that making laws fair would be a good start. even the most well meaning recruit can be influenced by their biases be they conscious or otherwise that's why bosses are increasingly turning to

artificial intelligence to help them objective lay choose the best candidate but does taking the human out of human resources actually work elizabeth layman. schmidt report. these people all have at least one thing in common they're considered attractive by conventional standards. 'd in a beauty contest held by the mobile beauty dot ai the finalists were chosen by an all robot jury the results guaranteed to be objective. over 6000 selfies were submitted from all over the world. but surprisingly nearly all of the winners were white. it turns out the artificial intelligence was trained using data from central europe and wasn't good at assessing faces from elsewhere. join bolam wienie is one of the leading ai researchers.