give me the notice for deportation they told me that you have to leave the country so they're going to send me where i will depend differently because of abdul barry was a front line in ten percent with british forces in afghanistan from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten. i know that if i join the british forces. trust for me but i have to do that because our country was. the situation in our country was very bad so i have to help the international forces to protect other countries so they came to my country to protect us so why should i not hopeless but working with u.k. troops made abdul a target for local taliban forces that was a phone call from my from my father and a letter put on my door saying you know that your son is working for the infidels so tell him to leave the job that they were and still be slapped are the threats soon turned to violence when the taliban grated on my family my father and my

mom and my dad so on that time when that happened he was completely angry all the problems happened to me just because of you creating problems for us with his and his family's lives in danger abdul was forced to flee had enough time to go and seek peace or protection or something like only tice was for me one choice to leave the country he came to britain illegally through cali and applied for asylum on the very first day since then the home office has rejected his initial application and his appeal the government says it's safe for abdul to return to kabul where he says his life is in danger that was. ours and justice cause when i heard i helped the british forces in a very risky time but at the moment i'm at risk so i need help but this still ignoring me. as an asylum seeker can't work and this is the modest accommodation

that the government provides for him he also gets thirty five pounds a week in living expenses and he has the constant threat of deportation looming over. him there are around a thousand afghan interpreters that worked with british forces around four hundred of them have been given u.k. visas which means abdul is one of around six hundred who haven't qualified the system has been described as unfair and a lot of a low sherry that abdul's best friend that managed to win applied for his visa while still in afghanistan and after a two year wait he was brought over to the u.k. under the government's official afghan interpreter scheme do you feel guilty sometimes that you got the visa and abdul didn't buy one visa for everything to those who spend time over the taleban is under seventy per cent not going to feel

more powerful be able to be this searching for people. that they were would. call me. but not before so. if you want to get back in afghanistan abdul was a professional boxer he can't compete in the u.k. because he doesn't have a work permit but he can still train since i came here he can do nothing to staying at home going out sometimes they keep busy with my turnings you googled market the woman your human being. told you very. few of the challenging part. of the work. you'll be told me but i have a full. view of the world the world. of which you would go

to people would trust the rules. and you. would need a buffer if you were all abdul can do now is wait for his final appeal against deportation to be considered to by the home office. yes the problem terrified in afghanistan. are the same because there was a big target for me the taliban and here i have a very bad depression my depression is getting worse so my life and nothing could happen to me quite a break oh i see greater manchester officially the u.k. government says it investigates every claim of intimidation and considers all cases on an individual basis i can tell you we asked for reaction to absorb situation from a number of organizations focusing on human rights are yet to hear anything back if we do we'll let you know. american news outlets released a database know of tweets allegedly sent by russians to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen us presidential election n.b.c.

news boasted about recovering some two hundred thousand posts indeed deleted by twitter it is crusade against the kremlin's alleged reach on social media claiming the information came from sources that asked to remain anonymous it also gave an open invitation for people then to go on to use these findings to quote shine a light on the persistent threat to democracy jacqueline join my colleague colleen bray to investigate how malicious and how for studious the russian scoop really was . for a while now social media has been wrapped up along with the allegations of russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election in the u.s. scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook and all social networks in order to influence potential voters and sway the election that's what the idea is here and suffice to say u.s. politicians are more than a little bit concerned about this new film portals into our society russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media

sowing discord in the us by inflame passions on a range of divisive issues truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election i would have clearly got the. dish the what's in these tweets while of course there are a number of tweets on the list that either support trump or specifically against hillary clinton the opposite of that is also true you can find in the mix tweets in favor of clinton encouraging people to vote for her but that also comes with along with attacks on trump himself everything we've worked toward comes down to today if you're voting for hillary. gets called to yet another line this time about his inauguration but if everything's all about the election no many are completely off topic focusing instead on the hard hitting woes of sleeping in your contacts of the dislike for alarm clocks i fell asleep with my contacts in i had to get up to take

them out right quick now awake that alarm clock. what's happening in genetics is jaw dropping we've also been told that twitter bots have been used to promote inflammatory tweets to get messages to divide people in the country and yet you can also find among this database tweets that are calling for peaceful solutions for unity in the country referring to black lives matters protests so it's all in there but the real. harry on the top of this whole story is the fact that there are a number of anti russian tweets in this list and a lot of them are really interesting they're going on about how russian hackers were involved in the election how heller warned us against trump or russia collusion and how those ties must be investigated let's take a listen to some of the best hits of what they are to be found in there. to demand that house g.o.p. do its job and investigate don't trump rush into this things you can't ignore

a russian plant as your next president of the united states some americans have been subtly radicalized by groups russian propaganda to electronic perhaps the biggest threat and those are supposed to be tweets that are coming from accounts that are linked to the kremlin it just doesn't quite fit together and the internet is of course it's just a very divisive place everybody has their opinions and everybody feels free to post them there so this database really just does feel like our roundup of the typical things that you can find on twitter well n.b.c. news was a recently accused of false reporting news coverage of alleged russian interference as cyber security chief indeed from u.s. homeland security was interviewed for its report for misrepresenting her words we saw the targeting of twenty one states and in an exceptionally small number of that twenty one were actually successfully perpetrated as you heard clearly saying hackers targeted the states as to the exceptionally small number of systems but

n.b.c. headline read that quote russians had penetrated u.s. voters systems code or changing the words that are a lot the networks support though insisting it was accurate and so has not made any corrections this is our international right after the break we see how the olympic athletes of russia brand is being received at the winter olympics and who knows about it. protocol is hard coded to dismantle the world as we know it and those who try to get their way will be destroyed by it but those who want to come on board like a friendly regulator that's ok. a bit wary though you know it's the classic good cop bad cop so there you go you know when to regulate. the gift you have to be a little leery.

to mars the coalition negotiations germany's three largest parties have provisionally agreed on a compromise that may yet fall through. all of these difficulties a sign of something major going wrong in german politics the birthing pangs of the country's fourth from coalition. to winter olympics now there are two unusual teams there this year one is the united squad from north and south korea course competing is one for the very first time in twelve years the most being seen as a positive light relations could be warming there and of course the other team is

the olympic athletes from russia known as o.a.r. taking part under a neutral flag after the doping scandal that hit the official team if we're trying to stay on the reporting some spectators whether they recognized the branding of russia's athletes. it will take a long while for russian athletes journalists like myself that i can tell you first sure to forget the acronym oh ok r after chang twenty eight thing well just before the winter games a group of russian designers thought they could take advantage of the international olympic committee's language sanctioned. i put one of those on myself and decided to walk around near the olympic park a little bit. what kind of team do people with this kind of sweatshirt support i'm sure. it's

a limb take it half really believe he can for the russian north koreans are doing north for russia the russians the food to be here because they don't if you lose a limb to. something of a limb think athletes of russia what would you chant if you wore annoy our team supporter oh. we come from really full on our. own lower. leg some people say a russian animal can make it sound like that they're going to russian bear siberian tiger the fear was. fear will make it sound like it's going to reach. for gold medals well judging by the first few days

of the winter olympics the russian fans have chosen to stick to the more traditional chants and symbols. played here we have to try and go our t.v. n.p.r. chang. the french president's own course to take another campaign pledge off his list of minor micron's promising to bring about compulsory military service and his party has been busy trying to whip up support for it is course on the we call it the national service because it's the place where the youth of our country and the nation meet one another where they get to know the military service on the one hand and civil engagement on the other it's where one gives his time to the nation and to society. what about the age range it will cover all age ranges both

boys and girls will take part in the service will be obligatory polls three years ago suggested the day two percent of people were in favor of the move that seems to dwindle down to a little more than half shell of the people in paris what they thought about it. but you play as are you ready to serve your country yes i have even tried to get in the army. i think there are many ways to help your country and not on the in the army it's not all about taking a weapon in your hand. but. army training is definitely way strict sort of in the school curriculum but this experience gave me a new perspective on things. as well i think military service is something good this creates unity around the

country but servant should be optional. at the moment at all seems quite crazy her as they say it would be obligatory then they say not. do you know the french national anthem at all is off. the. tracks but have your moro told us he doesn't expect the crowns plan to work out. when my call is no being a one of is a proposals he did during his campaign talking about three of six months is a course correction and couldn't work because to teach the basic knowledge is to basic skills to a soldier it needs many three months is it possible to make something useful for. a modern army like the french army where there is a many high technical systems. if you get your daily

dose of world news from social media there's a preview there facebook is a pearl is planning a revamp of how it presents on its platform and using a ranking system of what it deems to be quality use we are for the first time in the history of facebook taken a step to try to define what quality news lukes hike i think we should agree that now all news is created equal and this is a big step for us to begin thinking about according to the head of facebook news feed they can use three factors to determine quality namely location information and source however we spoke to an internet law expert who suspicious of how those rules will be applied. he needs a subjective each to do it the most important thing of course is that people will know what core tyria iis being used they don't publish the courtier as there won't be their own people to one manipulate. the content so so the whole process is very

highly secretive provided we know what to do the the core theory is then we can judge for ourselves whether it is right for facebook or for any other organization to remove content or not but as long as we don't know about it. it seems to me pretty much totally terry and this old regime well how do you check out china dot com online for the latest news twenty four seven the don't forget our you tube channel as well a lot sky pictures there and the story's not tied to anybody here so when i watch that's it for me for now i'm back with more live news just about half an hour. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decades long ten. studying so hard it requires trust to.

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i. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. the belly of the beast i'm part shelton and coming up is big brother watching you today we discussed surveillance in our society we talk with science smith the c.e.o. of cognition analytics and anastasio churkin reports from london on one if not the most surveilled cities in the world you're going to be amazed with all of this plus we talk with the executive director of the healthy markets association tyler lash about markets regulation and some risky financial products now let's get today's some of those are today's top stories and that one's. at least one u.s.

regulator and i surmise more are looking into whether prices linked to the u.s. stock markets volatility and x. the vix which they sometimes refer to as the fear index have been manipulated concerns about such manipulation of existed for several years at the chicago board options exchange cboe but now a whistleblower says they could be costing traders millions of dollars today to be clear there's no evidence that such is the case but it's certainly something to be examined and i'm glad that regulators are on the case further complicating matters are the myriad financial products which investors use for exotic bets like leveraged and inverse exchange traded products which can boom or yes you guessed it bust a traders portfolio in a single day i was personally contacted by several traders one who lost his entire life savings on these risky products i've been speaking out about the need for more

disclosure especially for average my. and pop investors and we'll have more on this topic coming up in today's broadcast. president trump's infrastructure proposal released earlier in the week looks like it's a little too little and a little too late for many on wall street when mr trump was elected after promising to focus on a trillion dollar rebuilding efforts many on wall street cheered and markets rose on the prospects of prosperity for increase jobs but here we are thirteen fourteen months later and with less federal government commitment and more federal government cover it appears unlikely at best that something significant will be approved by congress and passed in the near future. today will be watching the watchers surveillance has increased over the years to the point that some people question if people's privacy is a thing of the past with thousands of satellites overhead cameras on many street

corners and the fact that we carry motion monitoring devices around with us have we become overly observed and who is watching us and what are they doing with the information we go to one of the foremost experts in the world in this field his career in technology and data analytics is impressive he's pioneered technology developments in areas like network analysis and intelligence he holds many patents and is the c.e.o. of cognition analytics we're really pleased and honored to be joined from atlanta by size smith so i thank you for being with us we sure appreciate it by the way how many patents do you all. it's over twenty five bart quite a number internationally in a lot of different companies but it's four in the u.s. and then dozens in other countries around the world all right well that you are the guy then so they'll give us an overview on on how we're being watched whether or

not it's satellites or any other mechanism what's happening people want to know what's a part we live in fascinating times from a technological viewpoint. as you mention i've been in data analytics for a long time so for me it's all about data and we do have a lot of surveillance and some might see that as as is not so good another see it is good. i think it's i think it's a great thing as long as the organizations and the people that have this data use their powers for good and not for evil so to speak but we have in north america today we have about sixty two million security cameras to millions on sixty two million throughly throughout north america my gosh. we have three hundred twenty three million people in the u.s. and about two hundred twenty four million of those people carry around smartphones or those mobile devices which are in essence serving

a sensors to collect data and information and pass it on to friends or pass it onto to other organizations that might use this data for various purposes. you know but it's not that new you know since we've been in the electronic age you know we've had credit cards for a long time. we have over one hundred seventy four million people that carry around credit cards at that store and collect information any times a transaction so a lot of different sources of data collection you know it just turns out that we're with the advances in technology we're in a day i like to quote an earth wind and fire song one of my favorites says sounds never dissipate they only recreate at another place and that's the same with data it would nobody throws data away anymore it just gets recreated at a different place in a different aggregation viewpoint for different purposes so nothing and nothing ever disappears anymore. two one one thing you know you always get me with the song

lyrics i but to you know yes like those those the old t.v. shows where they would say you know if you're going to go on the lam go on the run you know don't use your credit card but really a credit card or a way of finding out where people were what time what they were doing then you'd see the the police officer show up and ask the proprietary about i don't know the long haired guy with wear glasses or something but who is it these days sigh who are or who is it that's watching us one of the entities. you know it's basically every individual i mean you can't go outside and if you think you're going to go outside do something stupid today you gotta remember if i do that somebody is going to have their cell phone and they're going to video and it's going to one up on you tube so everybody's collecting data out in public now that's at an individual level but you know most government agencies are now collecting data for efficiency purposes most organizations are collecting data you know what we used to do

manually you know you even way back in the day when you go to the mom and pop grocery store they want to keep an idea of what customers bought what products and services so they'd know better how to market and that sort of thing today it's just all done electronically and all this data and information is collected automatically so it's not really new it's just more efficient in the way the data is collected but but all the all of government agencies again we have negative connotations about what some may be doing with that but. some will abuse it obviously and some will but for the mat for the for the most part most organizations are using this data to create better products and services and make better advances so that we can all have a better quality of life i so i want to ask you about that i mean people you know are concerned about their privacy except for a you know at many instances for good reason but but what are the good things other than maybe catching bad actors out there somebody gets mugged and they're on camera

but what other sorts of good things come about from the use of these sorts of technologies. well you know obviously from a safety standpoint you know there's there services like enhanced nine one one so we all have the expectation that would we dial nine one one from our mobile device that the emergency responders are going to know exactly where we are in case we're not able to tell and we all appreciate that that safety aspect of of data collection or surveillance of this kind so to speak you know other things that happened in one of the things that got me into a business of providing traffic data using mobile devices to monitor how fast vehicles are moving is actually i'm a movement that started in the mid ninety's called intelligent transportation systems and an example of that was in atlanta just before the olympics in one thousand nine hundred eighty six city of atlanta spent a received a grant for over one hundred fifty million dollars to put sensors video cameras and

fiber optic cables and speed detectors on about forty miles of interstate and that's a lot of money to spend for the government to visit to build out surveillance technologies now since then those every major city in the world has developed some form of electronic surveillance so they could better communicate what's going on with traffic to people on the roadways and we all love that we take for granted sometimes the efficiencies we get but you know there's no excuse for being caught in traffic anymore because you can know before you go how bad the traffic is and whether or not you should take a different route or whether or not you should just stay at home are something we all benefit from inside those cameras outside of atlanta are those they use those for not just look at traffic flows but they use it for speed and to give folks tickets except for. they don't give anybody tickets with this with this system and most systems they're not giving tickets and again i think most government agencies and others realize that they've got not only from the laws that protect us on what

they can and cannot do but also from a public perception if they started giving out tickets with these cameras there'd be a big public backlash and and the public would probably force them to to remove some of those but they do certain things like tell us how how the traffic is moving but the other thing most cities have roadside assistance program so if you get a flat tire and you have to pull off the interstate. nowadays you're going to find that there's there may be a government truck right behind you ready to help you fix that flat tire and get you off the road and out of traffic it saved many many lives. with this type of technology so again just benefits that we sort of take for granted when when we were thinking about technology and surveillance there's so many good things that happen from from the fact that all this data is collected and processed and in an automated way nowadays and site what's going on worldwide is the u.s.

more diligent about watching folks or or is it happening around the world too. it's all over the world bart i mean the technology is is being used in many different many creative ways you know i would say the most monitored city in the world is beijing china they have different use cases and purposes for monitoring what's going on around the city of beijing london is probably a second most monitored they've got about four hundred fifty thousand cameras throughout their city and as compared to the united states and chicago is one of the most monitored cities in the u.s. with about twenty five thousand and twenty five thousand security cameras so it's happening all over the world and like i said most of these organizations are using it to provide great value services for for citizens so i smith c.e.o. of cognition analytics thank you for joining us what a fascinating conversation we hope you'll come back take care thanks bart.