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so there were some victims who were in homes others were injured in stomach. hands or legs my cousin and other relatives were injured in the. war. i came to see the wedding i was looking at people dancing and then. i was he's my like the shrapnel from the rocket. we went to the wedding and suddenly during the celebration the strike came we didn't have anything there no weapons no nothing i lost a foot the same happened to my brother my other brother died because of the bombing we tried to flee but could not walk we had to wait until ambulances came and got us a dozen of the wounded are in a critical condition we've asked the started out coalition for comment on their investigation into the strike so far they've chosen not to respond the saudi led
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coalition launched its military intervention in yemen back in twenty fifteen in order to fight the rebels who overran large swathes of territory in the north of the country however riyadh says it does not target civilians since the start of it's a campaign the coalition has run a number of its own investigations into airstrikes that led to mass casualty as human rights groups continue to call on saudi arabia to end the conflict. facebook is looking to restore some damaged reputation after the data breach scandal involving firm cambridge and alyssa the social media giant will introduce a number of changes to the platform including a personalized news filter artistically and vica has been taking a closer look at what the changes have to offer. facebook is working hard to revamp its public profile in the wake of the privacy scandal and the platforms move to eliminate fake news from your feed is one such example i have your responsibility
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news is two things make sure people get trustworthy news and platform and the we're doing our job to help build a sense of common ground in society now who's to decide what news organizations are worthy the company's two billion users the social network has already started using the results of the user surveys to determine what news publications will be popping up in your feed and which will be suppressed and the range of an outlet is based on two simple questions have you heard of them and how much do you trust them and that means what's to be believed is based on the opinions of the internet not necessarily facts even flat earth errors and burglars may have cast their votes. we put that data into the system and insights and is a booster of suppression and we're going to develop intends to that over time we feel that we have a responsibility to further break down polarization and find common ground some rather wafted goals given that the internet isn't exactly known for bringing out the best in people there's also surely a risk that such a system will only cause people to further dig in their heels and not break down
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polarization hopes a result that was seen with one of facebook's previous attempts at tackling fake news last year the company pulled the plug on its initiative which had third party fact checkers read flogging disputed articles as it didn't have the desired effect academic research and correcting misinformation has shown that putting a strong image like a red flag next to an article may actually entrenched deeply held beliefs the opposite of fact to what we intended the big issue here is what. they mean is this credible or informative new source is it what fits mark zuckerberg political view is it what it's facebook's political view. in the terms of unbiased independent journalism i don't see a big success at all i don't see anything which puts a private corporation like facebook who has shown to be not the most trusting of sources of light i don't see anything that putting them in charge of this kind of responsibility could turn out to be successful in a way shape or form for independent journalism so here we are again watching and
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waiting to see how facebook's latest attempt at social responsibility pans out and that's not the only new feature facebook's working on the platform is also busy getting ready to enter the online dating sphere though not everyone is sold on the idea. no this is going to be there's going to be building real long term relationships are not just talk about.
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facebook's also facing criticism over its filtering of news sources that some activists are calling a form of censorship one organization called the u.s. conservative leaders claims the suppression of right wing news on social media has reached crisis point they say outlets from both sides of the political spectrum should be respected and given equal waiting on line but with the recent gains in major elections across the globe we all see new yorkers what exactly they knew about the term right way done days elections in austria where the latest example of a shift to the right in europe's politics this this shows that the far right wing
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has one which prevails holes in germany predict that a far right party will enter parliament the term the right wing is being used pretty liberally these days we decided to ask americans what does far right or right wing actually mean let's see what kind of answers we get what is far right mean. you're always put that be like a nazi in your extreme lee capitalist is probably a more militant version of right wing. maybe a little more inner. anarchistic view on the world. but just as probably a more extreme viewpoint a foreign far reitman's very far right. what does that mean on the right side very far ok donald trump is far right i think he's trying to come to the sent to because he has to administer right or he was more far right before he became the president i think he's all over the place to tell you the truth i don't know that he has an ideology other than donald trump no not necessarily in
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the keys right of center dave definitely yes but i mean the fact is he's a former democrat he's not that far right any world leaders that you would consider to be far right. call fundamentalist leaders are far right. and. i think he's right yeah maybe puton but like i don't know you you want i'm not sure. he's considered far right dick durban may be. prime minister of austria perhaps. i don't know there might be a few others seems that in politics words can be rather hard to define kaleb mop and artsy new york former u.s. diplomat jim doubtless believes there's a multi-faceted effect efforts by social media platforms to sideline views that don't fit with the company's political agenda. i think there's
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a real concern that the conservative voices are being discriminated against in social media not only facebook but twitter which i use quite a bit and google and the the idea would be to marginalize or stigmatize conservative voices as somehow being beyond the limits of legitimate discussion and we also have practices what they call shadow banding where there are there are ways to downgrade content if it's politically not correct so that it has fewer viewers that they try to deem monetize conservative voices so that they can't actually support their platforms in the way that voices on the left are able to do it which evidently is more acceptable in the circles that in which the managers of these platforms operate. their iconic boy scouts of america are about to undergo every branding of thoughts off the one hundred eighty is but it seems the
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decision to be introduced early next year isn't a popular one. i say. oh you're right we wanted to land on something that evokes the best but also conveys the inclusive nature of the program going forward we're trying to find the right way to say we're here for both young men and young women. the girl scouts is a premier leadership development organization for we are and will remain the first choice for girls and parents live. their lives let's be honest the boy scouts as we knew it is now effectively dead goes on are supposed to be
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a popular boy scouts they have their own organization go scout as a form of boy scouts i say this is a terrible idea boys need to be with other boys at times without girls being present to be boys the boy scouts raping the dualistic girls g.'s and losing membership and money feminists and loving the boy scouts maybe not realizing it may destroy the women run against dallas. but we had both sides all the arguments from political activist kate smyth wait until you go on media analyst lionel. there isn't a great deal of evidence to suggest that only boys want to do traditionally male activities and only girls want to do traditionally female activities there is very very obviously there are a lot of doctor like climbing trees and there are lots of there is like baking cakes and to try to say to young people you have to only do this what we should of course to do is give them a range of activities on sunday letting them actually encourage them to try new stuff because that's what. it is what it is right now i found that's not what this
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is about and you know it there was an absolute determined effort to destroy whatever was left of this thing called the jones are it's now considered almost like racist or inappropriate to do anything to distinguish boys from girls we're playing it so safe we've got a helmet there was a time when if you were a red blooded american male let's not have al maisons you have cancer in his writing ramage had cried i read here and there i mean fine and there was nothing wrong with it i'm kind of concerned with the idea that it somehow great to encourage boys to to fight and be super tip super rough unsupervised with each other i think that this is two thousand and eighteen and the idea that it somehow good for young men to be thrown into some sort of boxing ring i think that we should offer young people boys and girls a whole range of activities and there are definitely arguments in favor of allowing
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them to do some of those activities and violent marriage definitely arguments in favor of allowing them to do at least some of those activities environment what you're seeing is the woods sophistication of just boys and girls and how we are just turning their men to just these these i don't know these hominids or these kids who don't play who don't enjoy doing things like the idea that we did being a boy and roughhousing those people think that this is absurd kids are not allowed to be kids. moore if you look at the kind of science of it when young people do best it turns out perhaps surprisingly perhaps surprisingly that goals seem to thrive better in single sex environments for things like that but boys actually seem to thrive better in mixed environments it seems like having some goals join in maybe takes away some of the sort of culture if you like people are afraid that there are genders and that boys like to do boys stuff and the girls like to do
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girls stuff it's not evacuate their stake it's true for us police is calling for a trend called painful walls to stop after a wave of violence go the details on that story and plenty more after this short break. what hopes is to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to go right. this is what. are you people. interested as a. person. thank
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you. thank you. thanks. to the old welcome back now russian military jets has crashed off syria's coast shortly after takeoff from an airbase in the talk here region that's according to the russian defense ministry unverified images show a plume of smoke rising from the water where the jet is thought to have gone down
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officials say two pilots were onboard both are believed dead with the area still being searched as we speak preliminary preliminary reports suggest the crash was caused by a bird flying into the plane's engine the same a talkie a base was the scene of russia's largest military loss in syria when a transport plane crashed killing all thirty nine people on board back in march thanks to police but it comforted charles emerged of the officers of the u.s. to tasing a mentally ill man eighteen times i'm tremelo was later pronounced dead a warning you may find the following video upsetting. where you are.

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