i've. asked here in moscow facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the social network after it was revealed that the personal details of his customers were being used for political purposes in a lengthy facebook apology zuckerberg detailed exactly what went wrong with policies and what steps have been taken to solve the problem he added that the company quote will learn from this experience to make the community safer for everyone going forward now to remind you this scandal involves a data gathering called cambridge analytical it worked with multiple u.s. presidential campaigns including donald trump's and reportedly harvested the details of fifty million facebook profiles for its political operations the company is now under investigation and has even suspended its chief executive however despite the fact that the scandal concerns an american tech giant and american data

mining company there are still been bizarre attempts in the media to tie the whole story to russia. imagine being a liberal a democrat and being stuck in a trump presidency for a year is it must be horrible waking up every day guessing that what russia was songe boughts or hackers have cooked up today cambridge analytic i had powerful connections to candidate trump including one time top advisor steve bannon and billionaire donor robert mercer so presidential son in law jared cushion or and consultant brad parr scale brought in the company which is now accused of utilizing data from fifty million facebook users without permission facebook was how donald trump was going to win wait a sec something's wrong where's the bad guy who do we blame this on. there it

is questions are also swirling about a possible link to russian metal cambridge c.e.o. reached out to julian a songs of wiki leaks seeking access to e-mails from hillary clinton's private server there's no evidence ricky leaks had such information but wiki leaks was releasing e-mails from the computers of other democrats which authorities say were hacked by russians and another trump advisor roger stone great innings i actually communicated with what how do you even make the connection what's your logic if someone speaks to a songe their russian agent there is zero connection here other than the word russia being in every other sentence there is only one explanation c n n's report must have been put together by a random generator literally this explanation makes more sense than cnn's

report as savage the dia and see oil trump the russians cambridge had because we've got the keywords just fill this. basis with whatever he also directly message to russian hacker he says he did nothing wrong and despite another claim that cambridge had ties to a russian oil company the campaign insists there were never any links to russia are you comfortable that they're trying to campaign through their cameras and had a connection to wiki leaks. they did have a connection or wiki leaks let me demonstrate if you are of average height and your birthday is in july you are closely tied to. see how easy it is let's do this again if you like snow and the russians like snow you are lined with russia or if you want lots of money and all the

guards have lots of money you are susceptible to russian influence it's all nonsense but who cares it's about getting the keywords out there about confusing and confounding not explaining or investigating keywords people keywords the russians everywhere. it's been revealed that the much praised security of the virtual currency bitcoin may have indeed been compromised by the us national security agency classified documents provided by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden demonstrate the efforts by the agency to track down users of the currency and so something previously thought to be practically impossible r.t.c. leaper trying to fix up the story. question what's in it for bitcoin buyers besides

the price boom last year when its rate kept go and up people got themselves crypto was to get rich but bitcoins have been luring enthusiastic with something else since long before the twenty seven thing boo no central bank control privacy and transaction anonymity i'm sorry this could have all been an illusion you haven't followed snowden or have you. the n.s.a. worked urgently to target bitcoin uses around the world according to classified documents provided by snowden so let's look into the national security agency files which caught the eye of the intercepts journalists back in the days when the bit corn was only worth less than one hundred bucks march twenty third teeing the u.s. was already working hard on tracking down crypto wallet holders and the n.s.a.'s number one priority among the new currencies was bitcoin they did come up with

a mysterious tool called monkey rocket and guess what analysts of from value in the monkey rocket access to help track down sanders and receivers of bitcoins how much value is the question here that no one will give you an answer to but come on the n.s.a. is almighty when it comes to getting hold of all kinds of data so no matter how underdeveloped monkey rock it was back then the agency could have filled in the missing puzzle pieces using a stunning array of other spying tools the whistleblower suggest with this sort of information in hand putting a name to a given bitcoin user would be easy monkey rock it is also described in the files as a non-western internet and on the ms ation service how many bitcoin owners have so far been tricked by the n.s.a. into using this product that we can only guess there was never trust in the institutions like the n.s.a.

ever since know it and originally came out with this revelations a lot of the pretense of stopping terrorism but most of the governments want to know what all of their citizens are doing all of the time so nothing really changed a reading of the latest reports over a block chain and what the n.s.a. is trying to do to track it i'm not surprised at all because when i was never really doubt anonymous and when people were thinking of it as anonymous. those people were proven to be wrong in their core properties of big. on confiscate all assets if held properly and censorship resistant value transfer hopefully have unlimited tools will come in the near future but we're not there yet we're in march twenty minutes actually five years since these n.s.a. memos where it's said we should do our best to track down bitcoin users were written but the guys at the snooping agency haven't really been wasting time

a million to train co in moscow. widescale home foreclosures by greek banks have triggered riots in athens. thank. you. people gathered in the city center on wednesday to protest against the city he was part of a nationwide i want a movement led by the leftist popular unity party homes that belonging to groups are being repossessed through digital auctions to meet the demands of international pressure to. the worldwide headlines in just a moment. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you.

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spokes person off the month the libyan leader moammar gadhafi will run for president if elections manage to go ahead. father was. killed in twenty one and while holding no official position was one of the most recognized persons in the country he was even described as the de facto prime minister during his father's rule saif was then held captive for six years before being released last year amid political unrest and we heard exclusively from saif lawyer on the presidential bid. saif al islam has lots of supporters they are ordinary people there are even those who were against moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven and now they support the views of his son the situation we have

in libya now is the result of the destruction of all the state institutions not only the toppling of the regime forty countries did against libya back then our country was bombarded and shelled all the military and civilian infrastructure was destroyed many civilians were killed and now saif al islam has put forward a comprehensive overview of the situation in libya that's a reform project which will bring calm back to libya there are many young patriots in libya now they are so enthusiastic they're not concerned about political affiliations the main thing they care about is a patriotic spirit and they see it in the reforms by saif al islam they view them as an effective tool to fight corruption. after the nato led incursion civil war has raged in libya since more market he was overthrown and with a power vacuum two competing governments are vying for control of the country the conflict has led to a massive migrant crisis widespread terrorism as well as violence among tribal

militias loyal reveals that saif life is still in danger. as about saif al islam whereabouts are kept secret for security reasons as his lawyer i will do everything to protect saif al islam from all anti libyan plots masterminded by the country's interfering in libyan affairs as promised saif al islam will make a speech when the right time comes then everything will be revealed libya will return back to its roadmap and become a democratic sovereign state a state where the law will triumph libya will no longer be a country of organized crime illegal migration human trafficking as it is described in the media we will defend the interests of the libyan people and will protect its resources which cannot be squandered the libyan people must decide their future themselves. dozens of children in the moscow region are being treated for gas poisoning people in the town of vala columns blame

a landfill site and gathered outside the hospital where the kids were taken the crowd booed at the regional governor when he came to visit. was the old one hundred eighty people in the area are suffering from noise and dizziness landfill site has allegedly made the ad toxic a former presidential candidate visited the hospital and spoke to one of the kids being treated. in the famous photo was a fake if you like if it kept going to wish they were if i was guessing it was for it was you waste of the day it's just less it was you.

this was a that she was but usually it is because scheduling is should only change the law let's just stay focused on that many parents among the protest as they wave to ban those with messages saying stop poisoning our children and of all columns we are suffocating the teens video agency talk to some of the residents he blew me wendy's night emissions happen my child coughs as if he's suffocating he can't sleep he cries he has a sore throat it's not it isn't just an ordinary quote still pretty good question fights when we put the kids to sleep we seal the doors and windows with wet towels so that they won't believe this and what they did in the new issue is up if it hasn't bearable the smell is awful that we had to hold suffer when our children suffer more because we're always nervous sometimes we don't even know whether they will wake up in the morning because many suffer from asked my or allocate space to

the to the going to school to see if the children are daisy they vomit the teachers have to call ambulances my son goes to the local school. just eight we just want people to hear our cry for help with the following the outcry from the residents so the russian general prosecutor's office has said it will launch a probe into the poison gas well there's plenty of news stories for this thursday here and off the international hope you can join us again in a half an hour. time you got email bed of the internet you might even want to get it. but again. pedal going to die me about him and my money and i know god knows you won't think

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welcome to the alex salmon shore from college green just outside the house of commons this week just about all of the news has been overshadowed in the media mill storm in the aftermath of the chemical poisoning in salisbury however that doesn't mean the other important business has been happening just has gone largely unreported one such event was a remarkable example of all party cooperation which allowed to private members bill to make progress this was angus brendan mcneil spare fiji family reunification bill named refugees family reunion number two bill that sailed through its first comments test this proposed legislation would allow a company john refugees who've already arrived in the u.k. to sponsor family members to join them and also makes provision for legal aid to be made available in such cases and this edition of the alex i'm sure we deport the program to this bill considers full implications and evaluate its chances of ultimate success the first over to alex in the studio with your tweets your emails

and your messages. now as you might imagine there's been no shortage of commentary tweets or e-mails or messages alas we sure are interested in not just on the chemical poisoning in salzburg i'm for example highlights interview with human rights campaigner peter pacho who she says leaves us annoyed out what happens in russia today and a bit of factual foundation thanked us for the interview including peter's critique of putin's human rights abuses against his own people to see debates whether this can be added totally free why is alex salmond on a russia t.v. show the right or wrong but actually why you can almost tell me that alec would be free to criticize putin of the right. the government will be fair to the the previous two tweets not just me incidentally but my guess as well a free to say what they think importing scott says i never really bothered watching alex salmon sure but thanks to the for audi this week i decided to give it

a shot it's no serious link so thanks for the heads up and thanks to all our tweets and e-mails and messages i think we can be certain that will be returning to the issue of the salzburg poisoning as more evidence of marriages from the o.p.c. w. whose experts are no on the spot. now back to the house of commons where last friday by a remarkable one hundred nine twenty nine votes the forty two i guess brenda mcneill's refugee bill passed a second reading here are some of the highlights of that the bid. to move the family union bill and nobody read second time the thing about this bill mr speaker is that it really could be introduced by any member in this house it's a bill that's conceived by a partnership of good samaritan organizations the british red cross oxfam the refugee council the un he and amnesty to name but some and this bill is the support

of m.p.'s for from seven political parties conservative liberal s.n.p. do you be liberal like canary and green so i want to find going to members right across the house of course sponsor of the bill to do this members from across their school sponsored this this shouldn't be a bill about party politics it's not a little bit red yellow whatever it's about compassion unassailable member for orkney and shetland said just a few moments ago humanity as well everybody perhaps think gets what and who invest he ends this is somebody who is feeling a place that they know that the house of commons procedures make it extremely difficult to secure passage of a private member's bill usually either the bill has to be non-controversial enough to attract government support but it is stopped in its tracks making that very thing happened to other measures only last for those other i'm just meals bill and child refugees it's not supported by the government but it still struck

a cross party call but when you see them together as a family unit you see why they motivated and why they contribute positively to our community by making it easier for a parent to join a child refugee i would contend that this could incentivize families to send their child to her. on a poster often in the highlands. people traffickers i presented a petition from to my primary school some patricks and signed into law in january where they had done a project putting themselves in the position of being child refugees they had drawn little suitcases with what they would take what was most precious to them and the thing that struck me was in every case was a photograph of their family we should be doing the same and if we're a bit too old to imagine ourselves as children can we imagine the help and support we would wish someone would give our children if they were in the service. one of

the reasons that this bill attracted such cross party support inside the chamber is that it had huge support state parliament i spoke to laura perdue and spokesperson that you any one of the many humanitarian organizations to been supporting the bill . welcome to examine sure laura what have you any been doing then to actively garner support for the bill through parliament well we decided to support this bill firstly because refugees have told us that one of the key barriers to their really feeling settled and being able to integrate in the u.k. is this feeling that they have left close family members behind in either the country that have come from or in refugee camps in the regions what is the government's view in relation to what's proposed in the bill and why are they against it well the government's position is that immigration will. allow for refugees to bring family members but that's only exceptional cases and

then outside the rules fast that really doesn't provide enough of a safeguard for for people who really are in need of bringing close family members the current immigration laws are very restrictive it's also very complex procedure so for us it's really important to make those changes what it would allow is for a child. refugees to be able to bring their parents to the u.k. at the moment the u.k. is one of only two countries in europe that doesn't allow children to bring their parents or their siblings and children child refugees some of the most vulnerable people and it really is observe that they can't reunite with their. parents because now all children do need that support but refugee children in particular do need the help of their parents to be able to integrate we also think that the definition of family under the current rules is very very restrictive the moment parents can bring their children up to the age of eighteen so for us the private member's bill

would allow a greater definition of family it would allow parents to bring children over the age of eighteen under the age of twenty five because a child doesn't stop being a child once they've reached eighteen i think all parents would feel that they would want to reunite with their close family members and especially if for many refugee parents if they've left an eighteen year old daughter she could be in really precarious circumstances that would leave her very vulnerable so for us that was very important and then thirdly and finally the bill would bring back refugee from the reunification under the scope of legal aid because at the moment it can be very complicated and you do need really expert legal advice so those are the three things that the bill seeks to do and we think is really crucial for refugees to be able to integrate in the u.k. and i'd also heard to be mention of that beginning to legislation founded in bill

would in carthage just a situation i simply don't understand encouraged us to make that journey and as you've heard so much testimony over many months indeed years unfortunately lieschen to particular study in crisis and what parent would anybody put their child in such a position of danger. by suggesting the cross seas if that wasn't a sea for option than staying where they were so i think and i'm sure you would agree that this idea that it would encourage people to make the journey seems to me like a rather shallow argument to me i mean a currently we're facing the biggest levels of displacement that we've had since the second world war but actually in the u.k. asylum numbers are dropping because it's so very difficult for asylum seekers and refugees to reach the way we do you think they need to be safe legal routes so that people who are fleeing danger on putting their children's lives at risk but that

they can reunite safely it took some time i suppose to get support from certainly some newspapers inhalation to the refugee crisis and unfortunately i think you remember this image of love a little encouraging on the beach that got people into action think we really need to do something about it and that's part of the reason i suppose why we are where we where we are to d. what does this mean for refugees you obviously you meet with refugees what do you think this will mean for for those young people those two who are far away from their family for this legislation to become a reality well i mean the refugees are supposed it would mean everything i think for all of us you know family is at the center of our lives and refugees are no different to anyone really know for them to be able to rebuild their lives to have close members of their family around them is so so important so it's not going to affect a huge number of people but for the people whose lives it does affect it would really mean the world what's the public perception what's the feeling on the ground

in relation to this particular bill was the since you that you gave what we've had a fantastic and overwhelming public support tens of thousands of people constituents have written to them and pays asking them to turn up to vote on a friday passed this legislation we've had great support from high. i profile celebrities and you're in a show goodwill ambassadors like david morrissey like neil gaiman's actors like gwendolyn christy we've had me in westwood alan cumming peter policy who have all come out and supported this so much of an impact do you think celebrity endorsements probably the inappropriate word to use but celebrities to that reason when it's in relation to issues has ordered on the support for that particular public support well i think it has had a huge impact actually because celebrities can use you know their personal followings their social media platforms to raise awareness of an issue which can be

quite difficult to cut through it's quite a technical legislative issue so to. high profile support that we've had from celebrities it does actually motivate constituents to want to their own pace and i think that has been really important in kind of having that momentum raising awareness and encouraging them pays to stay in vote and that's why we had such a fantastic turnout. you know weren't really expecting but it was a hugely welcome for so many and pays to stay and vote if you got cross each and see work. for it because i think what this shows is that it's a matter of principle not politics and this bringing refugee families together it's about compassion is about humanity and above all it's about family so that it's not a political issue i think everyone can relate to them so if i was that i name p. disinclined to be supportive of this legislation what would you what would you add the c.r.c. to me to try and bring me on board or surprise yourself in the shoes of

a refugee i think everyone would want their family close family members to be safe i think that's what everyone wants is a really basic human instinct this bill wouldn't seek to open the floodgates it would just mean that for a very small number of refugees they would be able to bring that out to. children children will be able to bring their parents these are people who have fled desperate circumstances war conflict human rights abuses and i think that we can be compassionate we can offer a humanitarian safe legal route for people who have fled unimaginable dangers and i think that you know i really hope that we can see this bill three of the committee stage so that it does become a reality but certainly an impassioned plea almost as good as i'm spending make you look like it cannot be just before we finish the situation or at least into a mic.