with islamic state on the verge of total collapse in syria and the leaders of a round turkey on the russian move to kick start the peace process and bring an end to the country's devastating civil war. also ahead google admits tracking unjoined smartphones even when users have switched off their location settings. there's a backlash over a new children's book in sweden it features a horse who claims to be a dog and among the words women's clothing sparking fears debate about whether children should be taught right from the prison. about trying to i should say we were all curious what is going to be decided and what was going to be said when the key regional players the leaders of turkey and arrive and sought she all three

leaders looked quare asked to press their off button the syrian conflict has entered a new are expected to be and moscow are really warms and the new elections that i mentioned mr putin tried to convey this message to the leaders of iran and turkey and when it comes to the syrian opposition they are always in close contact with anchor up so the hope is definitely there politics professor syud mohammad marandi told us the idea of a syrian national congress would be a positive move he say yes there are still questions of brigs actually how it would function though. the very fact that for the first time. this process is being moved forward largely without the united states and its allies i think is one reason why it has achieved so much thoughts on the talks as well as the current

talks in sochi have. pushed the part of the process a great deal for the force things have shifted and changed of enormously on the ground and hopefully these talks will help pave the way for. the conflict to come to an end but i think that it looks good on paper but it i'm sure it's going to be very consciously catered in the weeks and months ahead one of the difficulties is what about those groups that align themselves and continue to be allies of al qaeda world the united states pull out of syria the americans have occupied significant portions of syria without the permission of the syrian government this is a violation of sovereignty there's a lot to do and it's not clear that the americans and their allies are going to help this process move forward or whether they are going to improve and competed.

to another headline stories this hour a google has been caught secretly collecting location data from under oig phone users even after they had turned off location settings and had no sim card in their devices on while insisting it has neither stored nor use the information collected google has agreed to stop spending more on the story killer bachmann. now your cell phone will often ask you annoying questions like would you like to share your geo location data well if you answer the question no you would assume that your geo data is safe well it turns out you're wrong cell phones operating on android are sharing information with google even if you take the sim card out the android phone will start gathering the addresses of any new year by cell phone towers i'm standing not far from one right now. essentially what you need is a few pieces of information you need the unique identity of the phone itself which

every phone has and in this case they're using cell tower locations and so if you have a single cell tower then that will only tell you something about a radius around which the phone is somewhere but if you have what say three cell phones it's pinging cell towers nearby and oval phone i.d.'s and their location for over a year now but they insist their intentions are good. in january of this year we began looking into using cell i.d. codes as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance as message delivery google claims that it hasn't done anything particular with this data and now is going to turn it off. i don't find out entirely credible because engineer or group of engineers had to spend trying to bring to the political bodies

our technological. age children is by the very nature korea as well as the book moves to try and ban the words boys and girls men and women mothers and fathers in primary education and this is a time when children really need to be if in their identity is who they are and this is just something that's far too much too young is going to confuse people because part of the natural spectrum of life for all and what species human and non-human this book is not about promoting or encouraging transgenderism it's about trying to affirm young people who don't feel they fit neatly into the male female roles and trying to tackle bullying and prejudice you know children are imaginative they play they pretend to be all kinds of things they pretend to be footballers they pretend to be alien space mountain unicorns they they just maybe pretend to be men and women as well but you have to separate your imagination and play from

objective scientific fact and the fact is that your gender or your biological sex is defined by your anatomy and by your chromosomes and that's the science that we need to be making sure that children know and the science that we need to be teaching children and affirm the been growing up in well no one's going to change their mind just because they read a book it's something that comes from within and no amount of propaganda or proselytizing can make someone transgender i think our starting point has to be the welfare of the child and my concern is that we know in countries all across the world. pupils who don't fit the gender stereotypes who are trans or gender variant they suffer teasing namecalling threats and bullying and that is truly shameful that is not good for the child welfare so what we have to do is to create an atmosphere in understanding where it's ok to be different in britain in the last

two years it's grown sixfold the number of children who have this gender confusion and it's because they're being exposed to these materials if they weren't they would just happily go on their own way being boys and girls yes there are differences in people who are boys and differences in girls and their temperaments and their behavior and their likes and dislikes but that doesn't mean that they're going to be transgender doesn't mean the whole idea of separating sex from gender is a new social construct. the collapse of call the talks in germany has left the country struggling in a political quagmire another leader of the free democratic party whose walkout derail the negotiations has ruled out resuming the talks christian linder ses it would not be it would be better not to rule than to do so badly and betray his party's principles. this is a situation which we didn't have so far any time but to sit down and hammer out

a new government and that can only be a coalition government because there is no party which has an absolute majority. whether it was a triangular negotiation period with liberals in addition to that but as a matter of fact this has found it so now one has to look out for a new possibility and there are very serious discussions now going on in the social democratic party and they really now instead of ritually immediately after the election results came out that they were not willing to new in government but they wanted to go deep into opposition now there are strong voices within the social democratic party that they should reconsider and that is the option of six grand coalition is not off the table. presently the queen

the social democrats and. it's an experience like you know fidel sort of because i want to share what i think what i know about the beauty. and the going to. it in minutes into the program welcome back the political crisis in lebanon has taken an unexpected twist after the country's prime minister put his surprise decision to quit on hold. we. announce my resignation from the post of prime minister i discussed my resignation with the president of the republic he wants me to wait before submitting it to put it on hold and to allow for more consultations into the reasons behind it i complied. well after hariri

annoying to his resignation in saudi arabia he took a small detour be turned before returning home to lebanon he visited leaders in private c. went to egypt and he also went to cyprus here's a quick look back of the uncertain period for lebanon and its pm. saudia prime minister saad hariri was forced the resignation was not his desire nor decision him.

and i hugged him and i am here in the kingdom of heaven as a free man who. turned a number of his supporters to write to show their support in the capital beirut while some of them believe horary was kept against his will by the saudis they still can't predict what's next for their leader. i hope that all the other countries in the region will leave lebanon alone so the lebanese people can decide their future for themselves it's unprecedented that saudi arabia held the lebanese prime minister by force and paid through any toppling over on the mind the power of

. hezbollah is if fortune ten goes ahead with its plan to repeal so-called net neutrality rules and its contents as the speed. it will live to modern lives it is very very important that a crucial part of modern life what this means. of course if this moves ahead if you go to a website that isn't favored that can't pay the huge fees to get faster access to the internet and then anyone who goes to a site and wants to watch a two minute video could end up sitting there for fifteen minutes and it's buffering and so they give up ascension they move to another site that has paid the huge fees so this does have enormous implications i think for the integrity of the political conversation going forward. from hollywood to westminster and the float of sexual assault allegations is seeing more and more victims feel they can finally speak either bud widespread abuse but there are still big hurdles in the battle to

be believed sim your account explains. defending women's rights is surely a noble cause and those who defend them are upheld as moral eakins yet recently some of these defenders have fallen from grace lena dunham a feminist icon is now being vilified as a hypocrite she's repeatedly argued that we should unconditionally believe women alleging harassment but when accusations were leveled against her co-author and friend she changed her tune while a first instinct is to listen to every woman's story this accusation is one of the three percent of assault cases that are misreported every year following a public backlash down of apologized but the damage had already been done someone else with the now damaged reputation is the los angeles attorney lisa bloom who made a name for herself advocating for women's rights but that didn't stop her from representing harvey weinstein when the storm of sexual harassment allegations broke i thought i had a chance to make a difference here on the other side he wanted to be respectful to women and he

still wants to be respectful for two women bloom left weinstein in october amid widespread outrage saying it had been a colossal mistake and then there's new york times reporter glenn thrush a self-proclaimed advocate for female journalists when harassment claims were leveled against prominent political journalist mark thrush was vocal in his condemnation young people who come into a news room deserve to be taught our trade given our support and enlisted in our calling not betrayed by little men who believe they are bigger than the mission but now it turns out threshed himself stands accused of sexual misconduct so it seems that the higher your professed standards in public life are the further you risk falling in private all these celebrities are going to say what makes them popular and what makes them more progressive but in private and in their own life.

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