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and you don't know it's not you might die trying to make them mine you'd need special equipment to keep yourself from getting a dose of the stuff but there's ways to do that for twenty or thirty thousand dollars so there's nothing. bottom except for not killing yourself it's a very simple modifications you could almost imagine making one by mistake which would be a catastrophic moment for that chemists but but there you know i could give a problem set in my first year grad course how would you make these and the students would all get it. facebook has admitted that the scale of a data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be followed to them previously thought was the tech giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with data or search cambridge to elicit a. fifteen minute. in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s.
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may have been improperly shared with cambridge and only to cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge and a little and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essential to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of the potential voters based on what they have collected from facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent. however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanation we also have seen the trend
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delete facebook all over social media with people you know tweeting out you know delete facebook calling for people to stop using facebook in response to this perceived you know dissemination of people's personal information that we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps 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 but we are the internet law experts yeah cohen media analyst timothy kafir that if you stay on the facebook data scandal. generally because you know i feel good. they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of for the from the very thirty million to late in the year and i think it is
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the principle behind it it's the old story about what about the use of intimate robots as we call them books. 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 was designed to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing them to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is that if this story was about influencing election but by both parties. rather than access the 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
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data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process. 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 and 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. it seems the presence of american troops in syria has become a confusing issue even washing said last week donald trump announced he wants the withdrawal to happen very soon but reports in the u.s. media say he's being advised not to pull the troops out at all so with an ever changing white house rhetoric trump is bad. petaling promising that a decision on the matter should be taken soon but not get the hell out of isis will
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become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now our primary mission in terms of that was getting grid of isis we've almost completed that task and will be making a decision very quickly to pull the troops out say i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation the question of america's withdrawal from syria was raised at a summit in un korea with the leaders of russia turkey and a wrong to run expressed it skepticism at washington's plans. the united states says one thing one day and then a completely different thing the next so we cannot trust the words around actionis it seems they want to benefit from syria as much as possible the main focus off the ankara summit was to discuss a peace plan for war torn syria and despite some differences russian iranian and found common ground as he put trenchard explains. the three guarantors have met
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here at anchor us 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 visions fibered on keep saying that his country won't tolerate any artist militias in northern syria so the so-called brand continues 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 to iran is strong foothold in syria is a strong message to tel aviv and some of its other regional adverse reads a lot of our putin proudly speaks of russia's evacuation efforts and he's cute. which 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
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that points to plans by some radicals to destroy the road to peace with a chemical attack. on a 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 there were no questions planned but suddenly top aired on encouraged the audience to ask some things and then the first question came it was about the price that there is to pay for. and a lot of said that all three countries feel it's their duty to spend money on that and help syria recover but he also encouraged everyone else the entire international community to get involved in actually turn words into actions
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people in the u.s. state of michigan take on food giant nestlé over the use of ground water for both laying on has that story for you after this break. you mean you don't. want to. get a court. what are you most. special to. make.
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love to know he. said. no terminator that. you speak french. was. that same year the. new president used to make good songs because of the cold sweat discs. welcome back now students at a florida school where a mass shooting took place have spoken out against new security measures the teenage shooter killed seventeen people at parkland high school in february one of the survivors who joins the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration with this see through backpack which is one of the school's new safety measures students say they
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want well thought out changes not useless quick fixes a similar kong reports it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at margaret stoneman douglas high and by the editor of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the end i raise agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter of senior year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and mission a middle school teacher in. georgia asked to do is to write a letter to congress demanding stricter gun controls the assignment enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder
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attempts to gain any work class terms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plan a which was for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their view and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this and make sure solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . there's a david and goliath battle playing out in the u.s. state of michigan despite widespread public opposition food giant nestlé is being allowed to extract more drinking water from the state's groundwater table can now
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extracts one thousand five hundred liters per minute which is five hundred more than previously allowed and this has sparked huge concerns about the environmental consequences eighty two thousand people voted against the corporation getting a permit to pump the water versus just seventy five we thought it was a good idea in full transparency the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to issues of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative problem and decision. opposition goes back to two thousand and one when nestlé was first city for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction people in michigan are once again voicing their concerns he says when we moved here you can see that there is no or no growth on either side nestle has
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a reputation worldwide of going to perp or rural communities are from the kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really the tiriel eyes are taking as much water as they can get and when a stream runs dry they believe the nestlé contractor who received the permit says it will carefully review the agreement and will comply with all its requirements michigan environmental council says the water extraction is going to be highly monitored if they do pompano but one of the water goes down this is something that groups like your own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that oh so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that they're slow maintains a healthy glow and in cases where if the stream flow starts to drop then they're
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required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then what we're asking state officials to boil the curb it and make it worse make nestle turn the wells off. now the hunt for alleged kremlin back to trolls is once again in full swing and this time a u.s. think tank has determined the most likely culprit foreigners who views poor english on social media. one of the things which betrays genuine russian troll factory counts is the language look for an inability to use the n a russian is one of the languages which doesn't have the. word going to the group this is just
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a political refugee came to the us when i was money and i still sometimes you have that on article i in just about all the immigrants i know have been booed and shamed because of imperfect in which. many twitter users who voiced use of an indefinite articles to stay within the character limit twitter does not always slant itself to good syntax. interests and does not mean most us citizens serve russian trolls since bunch of them can't even form a crack to a complete sentence. well get in touch and tell us what you think by following us on social media we'll be back in about thirty minutes with the latest headlines.
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they've been waiting now this for a long time because it talking about the dollar that this wall reserve currency countries are tired of funding and america's wars because ever there's got to be a trainer in dollars according to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets commission is that like a wage wars all over the world. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year per truck so i chose to drive truck people rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to gold but this beautiful story ended with pollution and
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devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in the slowdown so much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal. with this manufactured consent to step into public wealth. when the room in clusters to protect themselves. in the final clearing go around the sun be the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million. henry kissinger once said the brochure in the united states went into the ukrainian
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crisis acting rationally based on mutual misconceptions with tensions heightened over the scruple case other sides guided by misconceptions would deliberately misrepresenting suits. for someone said all of them. i don't mamma little bit of that over the menu. the old read a little frisky. i'm not getting through a lot what if they're going to be chilcote you know. sort of. what i mean i knew them would think he's going to get so for us from. the question
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as to yes but oh yes the chest but. everyone that is for you with the. i. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. i'm bart chilton and coming up new car sales numbers are out and they are really good we'll talk with a car coach lauren fix to get the dates and u.s. infrastructure remains in terrible trouble nicholas o'donovan looks at the nation's
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airports this time plus tit for tat trade war between the u.s. and china continues to heat up alex mahela bitch and i will discuss all that coming up but first let's get to some headlines. disney has offered to buy british broadcaster sky news after regulators in the u.k. issued a provisional rejection of fox's attempted buyout a parent company sky broadcasting fox currently owns thirty nine percent of sky broadcasting and announced plans to buy another sixty one percent in twenty sixteen but the regulatory body known as c.m.a. found fox's takeover of sky to be not in the public interest regulators are concerned about concentration of u.k. media outlets under control of twenty first century fox which is owned by rupert murdoch now disney which is in the middle of acquiring fox's media assets including the stake and sky stake and sky says they want to buy scott's news directly and if
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successful plan to keep it whether or not the merger with fox proceeds and in other media merger mania news of viacom has rejected a first merger offer from broadcast networks c.b.s. the c.b.s. offer was all stock and valued below viacom's market price c.b.s. c e o les moonves would have led the merged company and viacom c.e.o. bob bakhash. with had no role industry observers predict a long tough to go she ation with viacom pushing for as much as thirty percent of a premium on top of their current valuation both companies however may be motivated motivated to resolve the issue before the next earnings which should happen in the next several months the merger would reunite two corporate units that were separated just twelve years ago a c.b.s. viacom merger was also considered back in two thousand and six. and australian oil and gas firm santos is formerly considering
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a fourth takeover bid from us harbor energy ltd the latest offer reportedly worth ten point four billion u.s. dollars or thirteen point five billion australian the bit also incorporated to demand from the premier of the state of south australia that the merged company retain its current santos headquarters and adelaide the merger was also going to be approved by the australian foreign investment review board regulators will be anxious to hear how a merger might affect the domestic supply of gas after a critical shortage on the country's east coast critics have suggested that santos is heavily invested in eighteen billion dollars liquefied natural gas export project has also caused santos to divert gas from the domestic market. and general motors chrysler and ford company ford motor company all beat expectations for its sales in march g.m. in particular more than doubled the most optimistic estimate with a sixteen percent increase from february the overall march seasonally adjusted
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annual rate rose to seventeen point four million new cars outpacing the estimate of sixteen point eight million and more than feb seventeen point one million the rate of new car sales has slowed since two thousand and sixteen when a record seventeen point five million new vehicles were sold here discuss more about autos is the car coach lauren fix lauren welcome back why are we seeing these pretty great sales numbers well the big thing is the huge drive for pickup trucks crossovers and s.u.v.s and there's some great incentives out there last month also seems to have been a great month for redesigned s.u.v.s like the jeep compass and my favorite the lincoln navigator and the g.m.c. terrain what's behind that lauren. well obviously new designs and this was needed by many of the manufacturers the top increase for the month of march was volvo they brought out the x e forty they had big sales on the x c sixty which was the north american utility vehicle of the year and of course they're bringing out wagons and sedans so bulls really change their whole product line and their whole initiative
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and then also land rover which we all know is a very popular vehicle but they've brought their price point down to that thirty five thousand dollars range and they also have incentives and then on top of that you also got jeep and so jeep has really come on strong so you get a landrover for thirty five grand basic right now your scion if the land rover discovery will get you in at that price point of course you can bring it well into the three hundred thousand dollars range which is what we saw at the new york auto show was going to ask you that anything else interesting at the auto show that's going on right now right right the mere thought of shows going on right now one of the hype things you're going to see is a lot of s.u.v.s and a lot of crossovers not a lot of green cars because really the overall sales are about one point seven percent which is quite light will get the real numbers before the week is out and what total electric vehicles and hybrids actually were they are going to be on the softer side cost of gasoline is down and people want room they want roomy cars that
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fit their families and the hot cars that are there were things right along the you would think the lincoln aviator which is a product coming out in the near future you've got the new key a sedona the new new sorento every single manufacturer was bringing out some form of an s.u.v. or a redo because that's where the money is and you certainly don't want to be left behind in that case now something you mentioned the aviator lincoln a view that smaller than the navigator it was met around a few years ago is that one they're bringing back. right there getting away from those three letter acronyms that are really her and k s m k x people find that very frustrating just tell me what it is it's a navigator and by the way they can't keep navigators on the lot they're making them as spassky as they can there's a six day turnaround which is really really short in this industry which means they make them and they're sold by the time they hit the lot the aviator won't come out till the end of the year it will look just like the navigator smaller and it's all about beauty and that silence you get when you're inside your vehicle and i know
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lincoln they're going to do it right let me ask you in general about these sorts about the s.u.v.s and these larger vehicles it is part of it because gas prices are fairly stable you are not low but there are you know two fifty ish nationwide right now and that not four dollars is that one thing behind it or is it people who want to make the purchases before interest rates rise too fast or what your take well it's actually both the cost of fuel is low so people are incentivized to buy s.u.v.s sedans just aren't popular right now the second largest category after all that crossover vehicles which would be like c.v.s. and s.u.v.s pickup trucks are still hot still the number one slave vehicle right now is pickup trucks actually has been for for over forty years and the top selling vehicle over all of them is always the ford f one fifty it's held that rain for a very long time like i said over forty years i think thing is i have a lot of friends and you probably do too they have four or five kids you cannot do
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that in a city and you need to have three rows and if you've got two kids like when i have two kids they always want to bring a friend with them so people want to transport people with them and have a good time and be family and moving to do that is either a minivan which are kind of not that popular right now a way in which are getting more popular like the jaguar sport break and then you're also looking at large s.u.v.s they're super popular and you'll be surprised including on the luxury line i want all that luxury i want all that space i want that utility the performance the tech now. ology the safety and easy to put it in a very large vehicle then try to cram it into some small vehicle that doesn't meet your family's needs this route real quick this answer is the camry still the number one you talked about the f one fifty the truck is a camry camry still the number one car being sold in the us you know the reason the cameras the number one selling cars because they sell so much to the fleets so whether it's hertz or avis all the rental car companies you will always see the toyota camry selling to fleets where the hundred core their direct competitor does
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not sell fleet cars and so that's the difference in the sales numbers and they have quarter unfortunately isn't selling where it should be but sedans just are popular they're selling series so people they make what people want let me ask you one quickly we've only got a little bit of time tesla they've had some bad memo jammo recently with the death of an autonomous car driver in a test vehicle and those one hundred twenty three thousand cars which you had corroded bolts and they have a recall on that but their stock took a dive on monday they came back a little bit on tuesday what's going on with them lauren ok when it comes to tesla first off the model x. that had the accident there was only five seconds that they were able to prove that the driver did have his hands on the steering wheel the national traffic safety board is investigating they're also very unhappy that tesla released that information to consumers before they had a chance to do their investigation and besides it that there are no black boxes on tesla so whatever information they're getting they're getting whatever that data is
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coming from their autopilot system which is by the way knocked and knocked on this car and that's what they were selling it on that's going to be an ugly situation and plus the fact they can't produce level three says quick as they like when you learn musk is sleeping on the production floor yes he is on the production floor all night long and they're working three shifts not producing model x. not producing my less just the model threes and they still didn't make those numbers they're in trouble i don't know what the future is a lot of the financial companies out there are saying this might be the end of tesla you might go down the road of de lorean. well we'll keep watching it and thank you so much for your expertise your always insightful lauren fix the car coach thanks again thank you. as we continue to look at the infrastructure needs of the united states today we focus on airports nicholas o'donovan brings us the latest on the ratings for the
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country's flight ups for most people coming into the u.s. the first thing they see is one of these and they're poles and all those america considers itself to be the leader of the developed world the truth is that it's airports only ways passengers from the middle east asia or europe would expect president trump didn't hesitate in saying that america's airports the third will facilities when i look at airports in china when i look at airports and abu dhabi and qatar and the different places like a third world country you land in new york at la guardia airport at kennedy airport it's like a third world airport system and its latest report the americans.

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