personal information we now have an apology from mark zuckerberg the chief of facebook this is what he said we need to make sure that there aren't any other cambridge general because out there right or folks who have improperly access data you know we need to make sure that we don't make that mistake ever again so at this point it's revealed that essentially almost all of facebook's two billion users probably had some of their information access without their permission in an unauthorized manner now that's very very big and a lot of questions are being asked now we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their app son so that certain apps are more protected that the privacy of their users is more protected but as we see you know this call for for facebook to be deleted for people not to be used to using facebook is expanding so a lot of questions are being raised and it's certainly true that the reputation of this very widely used social media app is is severely tarnished all right we

asked internet law expert to your cohen and media analyst timothy car for their views on the facebook did it was scandal. kember generally the guys denying the figure they they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for me from the very thirty million to late a million i think is the principle behind the old story about but what about the use of internet robots as we call them boats in order to meddle with the us elections now still stories seem now a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear his desire to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing him to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is if this story was about influencing election but by third parties. rather than to see news as they've

done locally this is a company that route so rapidly now the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight that i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people go on google and other popular platforms in. the u.k. foreign office has deleted a tweet saying experts at a military lab had confirmed the nerve agent used in the script all poisoning case

was produced in russia he's honest as he interconnect reports now from westminster . the foreign office has deleted a tweet that it had initially posted on march twenty second which read that analysis by world leading experts of the laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military grade novacek nerve agent produced in russia now a couple of days before that boris johnson the u.k. foreign secretary also said that there is no doubt that russia was behind what happened you argue that they're sure of. the chalk in russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly but when i look at the the evidence from the people from from portland they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy why so i said are you sure and he said as they dodged well it seems that all of that was going well until yesterday when the chief executive of porton down came out and said that not only were the scientists not able to prove that the nerve

agent came from russia but generally speaking they didn't know what the source was we have not verified the for say source but we provided the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide aid you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular narrow feature is but it's not our job to see where that actually was manufactured so typically you'll not tell you to look cool down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that at the same time the foreign office is saying everything is still the way it was and nothing is inconsistent well suffice it to see that on social media things are not so clear to anybody who's been following this and there have been quite a few tweets posted here in the u.k. calling for the resignation of boris johnson we also know that the labor party has

challenged the u.k. foreign secretary to explain himself in the situation. well now it remains to be seen whether or not boris johnson is going to be answering any of those questions given the vigorous ness with which accusations against russia have flown very early on in this case pretty much as soon as the name of the mount poisoned sergei screwball came out into the spotlight meanwhile russia has called for an international probe into discrete paul poisoning case moscow submitted a proposal to the global chemical weapons watchdog v o p c w but request has been rejected artist peter oliver reports now from their. and the day started with russia's permanent representative alexander surely again putting forward russia's proposal which was for what he called a communal a inclusive. investigation involving all members of the the o.p.c. w now that was dismissed by the by the executive council it was voted down

by by fifteen to six with seventeen abstentions however russia's representative he was speaking to us just behind me now at the embassy here in the hague he said it's also the motion didn't go through it did show that more people didn't support of that they were actually in favor of it. unfortunately we didn't manage to get the needed two thirds of votes for the resolution to pass obviously the brits and americans voted against and then nato and some e.u. member states and u.s. allies followed suit for twenty three countries have a huge one way or another take this western viewpoint that's more than half of the executive council was viewed very differently by boris johnson the british foreign secretary he referred to the motion put forward by russia or is being ludicrous and said that it was defeated because of that he said that this is political story

which is a resentment. attention away from an investigation that was actually stayed focused on russia this is also backed up by a very strong message from the european union as well the representative from the nation saying that russia has provided basic information to the united kingdom that it should have been saying that. in fact there was a concern that showed russia not accept the findings of a p c w report that perhaps they could pull out of the chemical weapons watchdog altogether however the words coming from the. russian poet representative also the ambassador here in the netherlands was that perhaps some of these nations russia are involved in a best occasion because maybe found out you know. they fear the truth they fear to take responsibility for their plates an accusation and

a provocative statements from the head of u.k. diplomacy it looks like they're scared that the investigation will help to dot the i's and cross the sea and find out what really happened it's a fear it's a responsibility for slumber it's been a very long day here in the hague but it's been very short when it comes to some of the questions that we were perhaps hoping to move forward on here. many of those remaining up in the air and open questions as to just who was behind the poisoning . and who will be taking part in the investigation and how that will pan out on wednesday the u.k. representative to the o.p.c. w gave a statement in the hague setting out claims against russia john mentioned a chemical incident in syria which took place a year ago and led to the u.s. taking military action against syria he claimed that russia had convened a meeting in the hague to make

a political point former british diplomat peter ford told us that that statement highlights the lack of real evidence against russia. the british authorities jumped to the conclusion that they wanted to see a thesis on a pretext and then invented the evidence to justify that. was circumstantial evidence that russia might have been involved and the british government quickly built up on this but when you look at the statement today the only additional evidence is speculation it underlined the fact that the british argument weak. and therefore it was a diversionary tactic to bring up the earth and if earth story the allegations concerning. corn. in fact the. mission

weakness on the part of the british delegation if they were convinced the case solved sprit they should have concentrated on on that exclusively the u.k. statement here designed precisely to muddy the waters and near. russia. president putin has said that despite unfounded claims coming from western powers over the script he is not expecting any apology and euro news doom we are not waiting for anything we just expect common sense to eventually prevail on the much so that international relations will not be harmed as much as they are right now in the region as opposed to. let me put in was speaking at a media conference alongside the president of turkey and iran the three leaders met to discuss a peace plan for war torn syria and despite their differences they managed to find

a common ground as i.t.c. they patrol reports. the three guarantors have met here at ankara's presidential palace there's absolutely no doubt about the three countries commitment to what they're doing together though they're all here with their own different emissions. five aired on keep saying that his country won't tolerate any armed kurdish militias in northern syria so the so-called branch military op will continue no matter what the iranian leader hassan rouhani says that external powers although he did specifically mention the u.s. and israel keep trying to use terrorists on the ground to reach some of their own goals for tehran a strong foothold in syria is a strong message to tel aviv and some of its other regional adverse reese lot of our putin proudly speaks of russia's evacuation efforts and he's would have paid

off although perhaps the most important point from the russian president here and ankara was that moscow is in possession of some intelligence that points to plans by some radicals to destroy the road to peace with a chemical attack. on joint strategic goal is to eliminate the terrorists who keep trying to destabilize the situation on the ground and sabotage the peace process but they are doing this in every way possible we have obtained undeniable evidence of planned provocation by the militants with the use of chemical agents then something that wasn't planned happened then suddenly appeared on encourage the journalists to ask questions and we heard one that we've been waiting for for two days about america being back and forth over its future role in syria and here's what i mean by that will be coming out of syria like very soon very soon very soon

we're coming out of saudi arabia. is a very interest. no decision and i said well didn't you want to say maybe you can have to pay we are in syria to fight isis and that is our mission and the mission isn't over and we're going to complete that mission so it was the first one to jump in iran's hassan rouhani couldn't miss his chance to throw a punch at washington. the u.s. says one thing one day and then a completely different thing the next so we cannot trust the words and actions it seems they want to benefit from syria as much as possible a lot of reporting didn't seem to be impressed either with u.s. officials not being able to make up their mind about their future presence in syria all he said was you should go and ask the people across the atlantic and all mr airto on ones to say to the americans stop funding and arming the kurds well as our correspondent mentioned the trumpet ministration has given off

conflicting signals on whether it wants to keep troops in syria media reports a claim that donald trump reluctantly agreed to extend the u.s. presence during a meeting with military officials on tuesday and on wednesday the white house press secretary sara sanders elaborated on the u.s. role in syria. we're continuing to make progress we're continuing to work with our allies and partners in the region but we want to focus on transitioning to local enforcement. so we can now bring in retired u.s. army major general paul valli pour more on this paul thanks for being with us here on our to international as always. so as we just heard there sara sanders mentioned to transitioning to local enforcement in syria but she didn't really elaborate there so who do you think that she was referring to in that situation. well i think she's referring really to the region and try to get the message out to president

trump would like to deescalate the situation at least for america and u.s. troops in syria and i think it's part of your role strategy to withdraw as much as we can out of syria to not have bases in the middle east and we don't need any work and i think from that standpoint of president trump is working you're going to meet with president putin in june and as i've said before president putin truck console a lot of the problems over there and even were in some regards with the early going on in turkey but a lot of it has to do with the saw it in a new government in syria that can really cool the syrians together as a group and i think that needs to be done so the discussion in june with you.