what i think is this is the found that is what. britain prefers to our banker and sail away from the e.u. as it heads into the uncharted waters of brigs it sounds all would have brewing mutiny from both scotland and northern ireland. fears over the corona virus outbreak grow people around the globe reporter spike in discrimination against chinese people. and it's a race against time to save a one year old boy's life this is parents trying to raise the millions needed for the world's most expensive medicine. good evening and welcome this is r.t.

international. in 7 hours from now britons to divorce from the e.u. will be complete with the exhibit guillotine for the going to 47 year partnership on the eve of britain's departure but if you're a files and european angle files gathered in london and brussels to mourn the bells in capital square was illuminated in you need colors as bands for a british music iconic figure such as sherlock holmes was seen at the gathering in london a pro e.u. groups that outside parliament in a show of sadness with britain set to walk out of the exit doors at 11 pm local time a storm of uncertainty is growing about what the future might hold down hawkins with more like a big day is here but u.k. is finally divorcing the e.u. after 3 and a half years of seemingly endless negotiations that lays ministerial trips back and forth between london and brussels we now have the unique opportunity of witnessing the brics it unicorn rex it means bricks it and we're going to make

a success story of bricks that steel breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it why does it look like nothing's changed well. just because you can't see bricks' it doesn't mean it hasn't happened or the u.k. isn't about to dive head 1st into single life any time soon for now and they'll be no new relationships or partners divorce is pretty tough and i'll take some time to get over things which is why they'll be an 11 month long therapy bore transition period where the u.k. and the e.u. will talk about the new relationship that means for now the u.k. stays in the comfort zone of the single market the customs union and the budget the 1st day when they'll stop co-habiting and go their separate ways will be january the 1st 2021 if there are no delays so despite the u.k. staying for a little while it'll be like renting a room in a house where you can live there and help with bills except you'll have no say in

any house matters british m.p.'s will be sent home and won't take part in any decisions and definitely no union jacks allowed what about our national flags we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with you please sit down resume your seats put your slags away you're leaving and take them with you if you are leaving now was. so what exactly is the deal what will the u.k. gain and lose the 1st to go next year it will be the single market and the customs union but the u.k. will be able to find new friends negotiate new global trade agreements e.u. regulations go out the window for example g.m. food companies like buyer which brought monsanto in 2018 aren't allowed to develop or sell new genetically modified products in europe or the u.k. bret's it could change all that well the biggest brics that blockage was northern

islands the question of border and customs check seemed almost impossible to resolve both sides argued until the cows came home. compromise is a stalling with tween 2 falls says stephen fry at least unless it seems your northern island the plan is for belfast to stay in the u.k. customs there are 3 what follow e.u. customs rules the border won't be here but somewhere here in the irish sea so everyone should be happy and if they're not belfast can vote to change things after 4 years then there's the question of fair play brussels wants a level playing field in any trade agreement that means definitely no massive tax

breaks havens subsidies or crushing labor and environment standards basically the e.u. is worried it's losing a member and gaining a competitor right across the channel of yours on your own and it in we will do our this in the knowledge that with the departure of great britain a potential competitor will of course emerge for us that is to say in addition to china and united states of america there will be great britain as well but talks have both sides warrants it's back to the drawing board on workers' rights for the regulations and many more questions and businesses are jittery especially with sajid javid tough talk there will not be alone months we will not be a rule to go we will not be in the single markets and we will not be in the customs union and we will do this by the end of the year across the channel the neighbors seem more optimistic that a deal can be reached devoted. if we want to be complete so that everyone is clear

about our intentions on the european union side there will be 0 tariffs 0 quotas 0 dumping them but it's not all smooth sailing while the northern ireland situation seems result from the. at least scotland is seriously thinking about it so scarce it and planning a 2nd independence referendum the stunning election win last night for the s.n.p. renew is reinforces and strengthens the mandate we have from previous elections to offer the people of scotland a choice over their future that mandate says that it is for the scottish parliament nort a westminster government to say whether and when this should be a new referendum on independence with so many unknowns the brits might have agreed that at least some special bricks of koreans would be a good idea to market historic events and spend some taxpayers' cash surely money could bring everyone together and not what it comes to bricks it a fully fledged war is on the way hash tag breaks it 50 p.

is an insult to all of us who want to remain the brags that 50 pounds marks the acceleration of the new iraq of dogma nation always and debilitating control freakery so the government prefers to spend time and money and it's pathetic breasted $50.00 pants and the so called breck's it festival rather than try to sort out the problems the bracks it creates well with so much left to be settled before bricks it lost means of bricks it at least we can finally see the promised bricks unicorn even if it looks slightly more like a goat with a horn. the 1st 2 cases of corona virus have been confirmed in the russia into chinese nationals thursday the world health organization declared an international health emergency saying the some countries simply are prepared to deal with the outbreak i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of

norval colon of a coroner voters let me be clear this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china. on the contrary dudley continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak the world health organization's emergency committee has cautioned countries against stigmatizing behavior as increased global discrimination is being reported against people from china where the virus originated these it is done off the story. borders on lockdown zombie like scenes of quarantine cities the world is united in trying to concoct a healing seram virus which has infected hundreds in china has now reached the united states villages have started to physically block themselves off from the capital and new cases have been confirmed around the world including germany and japan.

in the contest of deadliest bugs the new coronavirus doesn't even come close to the or old familiar flu but tables turn dramatically when it comes to the ability to strike fear in the masses and this fear is also bringing out the racist in some people with the chinese diaspora in canada among those at the receiving end our friend of mine has told me the other day she dropped out her daughter and her daughter was just having a bad day she's 3 years old and. the daycare teacher kept saying if she said she'll k. and she kept having to justify herself and say no we haven't traveled or we've been back to a certain amount of time i had one friend a colleague of hers went around to everybody who was asian in her office and says

are you trying to lose our usual china are you chinese has become a frequent question faced by canadians of asian descent chinese school students whose parents have recently visited china have been urged to stay at home for a while in france a local newspaper published this on its front page headlines saying yellow alert and yellow peril and the internet. did what it does best made everything worse if we could all agree not to eat this things like it's grown a virus in china it wouldn't happen just sink to the virus will die soon because it's made in china. i just want to mask to protect myself from this corona virus but it's made in china so i'm playing myself. when it disgustingly

ironic that people are being racist towards asian people as they get cynical rotavirus and back in the colonial era white people literally played in the system and killed thousands of indigenous people online jokes and puns adding to the mocking of the chinese cultural habits but the asian communities fighting back with a hash tag i am not a virus we're already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking our reclast people's everyday away from us it's 2020 what we should hope that our children wouldn't have to deal with the same things that we had to deal with growing up and that really is the biggest concern calls for self quarantine are being so. all over the world by ordinary citizens and authorities alike such tactics against the virus have been made into a trend by big governments who have cut ties with china and by beijing itself which however says that the isolation measures are

a necessary evil to stop the new disease in its tracks the purpose of the government is to put 2 lives and health of the people at the top of all priorities therefore i have been personally directing and deploying the epidemic prevention and containment work this time now it seems it's a matter of whichever comes 1st either the virus or the hype around it has to stop but who knows whether the outbreak of racism will also be halted the reality is that the flu killed a lot more people ill people are comparing this to the sars outbreak sars killed 44 people in this country 41 people in my city alone the city of toronto are hit by cars last year you know so the risk is much higher on the day to day life things 3500 people in canada die from the flu 70. 800 people a year die from air pollution so there are certainly rest that are much much higher

that because we see them on the day to day will internalize those as miss right now in all of canada there have been 3 confirmed cases of the coronavirus the odds of someone actually catching it are very very low and i think it's just fear based it's something that's unknown it's in the media there's a media frenzy so people have just reacted in a very illogical manner. the family of a one year old russian boy fighting for his life trying to raise the money required to treat his rare condition but the medicine mcquire just happens to be the most expensive in the world and if a national explains. seymour have just turned one most kids his age would have taken their 1st steps by now but to more hasn't he can see either even rolling is a hard task right now he has a rare disorder caused by a defective gene spinal muscular atrophy known as a semi without special medicine team or might never get the chance to blow 2

candles out on a birthday cake and they smell is the most expensive drug in the world ever. the bill now is $2400000.00 they made a discount it was $2.00 our life has turned into a nonstop crowdfunding marathon with limited time very limited time but time is against him more doctors say he has 12 months maximum otherwise even the most expensive drug ever want to be able to help at the time we spoke to his dead they had so far only managed to reach 10 percent of their goal for northrop and will give us that we have a goal and we simply aim towards reaching this goal and we do not think about anything else but this goal and we are optimistic that when u.s. regulators approved the gene therapy last may there was plenty of talk about how revolutionary it is it can save a life with

a single injection but there was so much small talk about just why it is so incredibly expensive we have used value based pricing frameworks to prise orgasmatron 50 percent less than multiple stablished benchmarks including the 2 in your current coast of chronic spinal muscular atrophy therapy it's very difficult to say what a fair price it all depends on what the distribution is going to be despite all these the large. investment costs it's very difficult for people to really know how much is actually a return on investment and how much is just pure profit so i think. we've got a bit of a broken system right now is the company appears to recognize the barrier the prize presents its run in a yearly lottery with 100 days of the miracle treatment the in given for free at last free where the prize is a child's life crisis old medicine at this level is a deeply worrying new reality for health systems right away around the word and we

know all that increasing numbers of drug companies are charging these very excessive prices and if we don't do something about them then it's going to cause this doing ability old access to health care for literally millions of people will be called into question there is no point in having medical innovation and having new medicines if they are priced so high that the patients that need and can't get access there are not too many s.m.a. diagnosed people around the world that is the order affects one in 6000 to one in 10000 people but each of them or rather their families in every corner of the planet will have to struggle to get expensive treatment trying to strike a balance between hope that it could be cured and fear that they might not have enough time or enough money. hearty from moscow.

facebook has settled a long running legal battle over how it tags and scans its users photographs the case filed in your state of illinois has resulted in a payout of more than half a $1000000000.00 comes amid a growing controversy regarding facial recognition technology here in illinois an act of the statute not to float innovation but to protect individuals privacy as technology advances corporations must be mindful of the privacy of their customers and more importantly comply with the law. the social network giant will have to pay $550000000.00 to a group of facebook account holders who brought the case a court agreed with their argument the company's facial recognition tool violated illinois privacy laws facebook went so far as the supremes court to get the case thrown out but that was declined.

joining me live now to debate this topic privacy activist and technology expert build new and former u.k. place of is a pita curtain welcome to you both gentlemen 1st to you take that just looking at it from a legal aspect did you agree with the ruling that finding facebook guilty of the abuse of users privacy rights. it's concerned me for some time how the likes of facebook and other social media platforms are using facial recognition it's not really news for law enforcement person where there is

a justification behind it's pretty clearly being used. to further the interests of the social media platforms which at the end of the day come back to making money. or to just simple entertainment if you are in a for a graph with someone who is on facebook you may or may not wish to have your name associated with that photograph your profile associated with that photograph it's bad enough trust in your friends not to tag you into it but when the software that it cites in automatically that's different caliph issue and. i think people really should worry more about what's normal or unfortunate in with this rather than what law enforcement doing with it interesting point every t. bill would do you think you agree with the really similar concerns the pate. obviously the main issue here was the lack of consent we have to be very careful that we get bringing users with us in the use of these kinds of technologies there

are concerns both on the commercial side and indeed also on law enforcement side that such technology you are being used not only effectively but responsibly on the effectiveness front there is a very limited ability to identify accurately some of the people and the pick up rates in the accuracy rate has been in the low single percent on certain trials and occasions on the the responsible use of these technologies that certainly irresponsible of facebook to use in a commercial basis without consent but people still also have concerns about how law enforcement bodies do this and what the judicial supervision is going to be how do you feel about that peters former police officer in facial recognition it's controversial but it has some purpose doesn't it when it comes to fighting crime. and most of the concerns opinion expressed being expressed about things that are

not actually happening. we've always had wanted posters we've always circulated the pictures of people that are wanted for something who were on belle or the conditions not to enter a particular area put in place to protect somebody who are banned from certain things such as from football matches because of who we're going to or whatever we've always had we've always had those images circulated internally within law enforcement so you've got a cop with a clipboard looking for people coming in and if they make a match visually intervene in a zone you shouldn't be here or you want to do whatever all the police are using this for now is to use the technology that's available to make that far far more efficient and effective because it can cover far more people than a single cop with a clipboard. and so when we're talking about the concerns we need to keep that in proportion people are expressing concerns about the police gathering all this data

and having a database of everybody in the country and matching sorts of things well the day our start listening to them is the day that they point to me point me towards the multiple tower blocks full of people making all those connections and managing all that information it simply isn't happening. what do you think about the do the benefits outweigh the negatives when it comes to facial recognition software which as i understand it pretty czech is going to start to its existence in terms of our accurate it is. certainly the accuracy is a concern if we're going to be introducing this technology we wanted to be as effective as possible and we don't want people to be inaccurately flagged and of the moment i don't think technologies yet there needs improvement with regard to the responsible use of the technology obviously the police in the past have been criticized for some of the stop and search techniques tactics and therefore they're

not above reproach and therefore we need to ensure that we have the right level level of judicial supervision and finally we also need to be concerned with how safely inside securely the data is stored for and how long it is stored for the problem that you have with biometric indicators and in this case with facebook the illinois law was put see if it particularly related to biometric data and it's some of the most stringent more in the world on this particular front you can't reset your face or your d.n.a. or your fingerprints in the same way you can reset a password when it's lost and therefore if for some reason there is a data breach in the data was lost or in some way it is used the responsibility then there is no comeback and that person's identity has been lost forever and there is an enormous caution needs to be saved and not only only responsible use in the secure husbandry of this tons of data but we also need to start improving the

effectiveness of the fake recognition so it's actually more accurate and effective . peter what do you think about the the amount of damages awarded half a $1000000000.00 is that the right amount of compensation do you think that for this level of privacy violation just put it in perspective you know half a 1000000000 it's kind of a drop in the ocean for a company i think they made 7300000000 it's reported profit in just the last quarter financial quarter. it isn't it shared between a lot of climates. it's hard to tell america tends to be somewhat bizarre in relation to the amounts of money that are would in a conference ocean for various things. seem to start off with some of our numbers and then on appeal and whatever those numbers get dropped so it's hard to tell without being an expert in u.s. civil law whether or not there are appropriate level of compensation or do you think building it's a large amount of money but is it enough to deter

a very powerful social media company like that for just continue move what they're doing and taking advantage of people in and using their private private data in a way that they shouldn't basically is it going to deter them that kind of. i don't think this fine alone is going to deter them because while it's not a drop in the ocean it is a significant amount of money it is not the only sanction or the only fine that facebook are facing this is the 2nd significant one in a short period of time but certainly there are a large number of cases that are under examination and consideration under the regulations in europe called g.d.p. are something like 15 major cases currently on the books all of which i think something like 12 of them are against facebook and therefore facebook has got a lot more of these kind of fines significant and and possibly a punitive coming down the pipe and the reason it settled this particular case is i think it's trying to clear the decks it has an ambition to actually be able to

pivot to previously and actually correct its technology so the. it can actually deal with the more privacy oriented era but it's not there yet many of these incidents are historic and therefore you need to consider that it's trying to get its act together but you also need to be aware that isn't quite there yet. pigs are going to get my own opinion or anybody else who seems to me that some of the social media giants they think can have a element of devil may care about them they at 1st take advantage of scenarios the use of data and think will just pay the fines later we can we can handle it so it seems to me i don't know what you think about it but are you concerned in the way that they operate. you know that certainly seems to be. how they operate i guess some of it could be down to them not actually realizing some of the pitfalls of the technology the soul knew and surely in they start playing with and

so they're not recognising the downsides before they happen and we see that in lots of lots of places but one thing that i've noticed with facebook over the last year or so is that they do seem to be realizing that they can't just do what they like and they are making noises and making changes to try and reposition themselves how successful and that's another matter i'm not a great facebook for myself and i don't spend a lot of time on it but they do seem to be making moves in the direction of becoming a more responsible. corporate citizen if you like. and bill in are expressed some concerns that some people might share about the kind of the freedom to experiment with technology that social media giants have but at the same time they're the guys who are pushing for the for the boundaries of technology technology that maybe will. prove to be extremely useful society in the future is a balancing act of allowing them some room to experiment you know without giving them too much. of course we need to have

a correct balance here we need to have on the one side meaningful protection and with g.d.p. our own with c.p.a. which is a new regulation in california and the likes of the illinois biometric regulations we have in place meaningful protections whether those are being effectively enforced is another thing because there are big cases brought against the regulator in the fact that it has failed to follow up on certain concerns people have had one pretty activist called max friends has actually taken them to the european high court because the regulator wasn't being forthright in enforcing the regulations so we need to ensure that those regulations aren't forced but at the same time we need to balance this with the maximise ation of economic and social value we need to innovate we need technology to transform the way we do things but it needs to be done responsibly and the balance needs to be correct. much appreciate you are going to be gentle and build me a private sector vison technology expert also alongside him for me u.k.

police officer painted kirk and thank you so much guys. thank you and that wraps it up for this news hour always appreciate your company back at the stick around the caramel have updates for you in half an hour. join me every thursday on the alex salmond's show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that. i actually don't think monopolies percent are the problem it's monopolistic access that when hubble is have to credit or to politicians and probably both the crony financial ism crony capitalism that's the big problem.

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