france's much anticipated tracing app is used to send just 14 alerts in 3 weeks that is half a 1000000 people deleted from their phone we searched the streets of paris to find somebody who's. not it's over no no no no no no we have to defend america's reputation in europe is dealt a big blow by its handling of the coronavirus and you suggest that is the u.s. it's an all time high of cases cropping up 40000 alone on thursday and more companies join a boycott or facebook for its failure to remove hate speech and its reluctance to take down some of donald trump's more controversial posts however

a new one to cover a full does say that facebook is actually censoring the president's supporters and the e.u. russia palestine calling on israel to scrap its plan backed by the united states amid fears it will have a huge impact on the hopes for paid. follow very good afternoon you're watching r.t. international where she's gone 1 o'clock here in moscow now a coronavirus tracing out that was rolled out in france has alerted just 14 uses about their potential exposure over the course of the last 3 weeks that is despite the country recording many new cases of the virus every day charlotte been skiing looks at what. stop code it. was a priest to be a bright idea that could help prevent a 2nd wave of infections and on your smartphone that uses bluetooth signals to keep

track of the devices and therefore the people that you come into contact with and when it was launched a few weeks ago the french digital minister said it could also to a flying start as of this morning 600000 people managed to download the app so it's a very very good start. well after a few hiccups perhaps including a delayed release that so many people in france accidentally downloading another tracing up one for catalonia. ok so after a full start some 2000000 people actually did download it corowa you might think that given that there are an estimated 47000000 people in france was smart phones that's barely a dip in the ocean ok some 2000000 people die lou does it but

almost immediately 460000 men decided that it wasn't a great idea and deleted it so we've got much on to the streets of paris to find out who took the plot. number 2 no no no no no no we do the thing. yes somebody who is actually down loaded it but then he said this is it it is yes i don't looted it but i didn't really understand how it worked every time i tried to use it nothing so raw you were is this a true resistance to an up that was only supposed to keep you safe from the biggest threat the more world has ever apparently seen. i take precautionary measures like a mosque but so i have a problem with giving my personal data for this application it's for that reason i didn't download it the. internet for the younger generation i wasn't interested and

lucky younger people move around a lot for their work if you actually. didn't take the time to download it oh did you leave in a safe way for example i did bike and stop taking the metro a see my friends but i don't need a lot of people i don't have the need to download it because it's a centralized i plainly and truthfully i'm quite wary of what would be done with may data. and that phone the. principle behind that issue of a personal data really had the french in much more civil rights activists were concerned about a right to the right to privacy while hundreds of academics voiced fears that they take out those could be repurposed for mars surveillance but perhaps they had nothing to worry about off the or was it since emerged that only iran $68.00 people informed the platform that they had been infected with covert and only 14 uses were

alerted that they were at risk that's not going down well with those we spoke with we it's of a way yes i think that 14 is not many it was only 14 people who are informed. by shows it's not as successful as hosts by the authorities i think that people were a bit wary about this exchange on the mobo would you continue to pay for something you don't use no i don't think so paying for something which is not used one should ask question. clearly delete is the other thing that nobody was thinking the up would work anyway france's digital minister has been trying to save face saying the numbers reflect a decrease in the fire. this is prevalence and this is true the numbers of infections have been steadily declining in france said to break oh says he will be

useful if there's a new spike in cases until then the french state looks set to pick up a bill of up to $120000.00 euros a month for an app that you are using challenged you will ski r.t. . meanwhile the united states has seen a record daily with 19 cases reaching 40000 new infections on thursday those figures were revealed by the johns hopkins university now the previous high was back in april just over 36000 cases the u.s. still tops the global infection chart with almost 2 and a half 1000000 cases and this new search has put on hold plans to reopen several states including texas florida and also arizona spot that the president trump says his country is coping well with the pandemic. we have the greatest testing program in the world we've developed it over. and we're up to almost 30000000 that means

we're going to have more cases if we do want to test or if we didn't just we wouldn't have cases but we have cases because we test deaths. we have one of the lowest mortality rates we've done an incredible historic europe well as he says there in terms of the motor mortality rate the u.s. isn't doing so badly and is actually fairing better than the likes of the u.k. spain and also ecuador there were just over 38 deaths for every 100000 people however the infections is high and it's being put down to young people testing positive especially in states in the south and west of the country well the way the crisis has been handled in the u.s. has dealt a blow to the country's reputation in europe a new survey showed that 56 percent of those questioned in 9 countries do you believe the america's image has suffered during this pandemic while just 6 percent believe it has improved we are sure of pains for their viewers. they don't have

such an effective medical system as others do plus the social security system in america differs from ours for the moment europe does better but it isn't united. for now i would i prefer to be french sorry then american the good health system and health care system so it makes it better and makes us happy to be in france right now but at the same time i can't really judge them like it's not you can see french people partying in doing. music festival and stuff so we are not better actually we cannot really compare. the new group everybody mostly reacted in the common way and only germany maybe suffered through a let's let's comparing casual just in france italy with america i think they have a little mortality rate per 1000000 than we have so it's difficult to say.

because it was a little under united states they have managed coverage 9000 poorly and in fact it is enough to count to 10 so i believe we have controlled and managed the damage better. eat up this is a 20 lupin demick america was not taken seriously a person like truong has done nothing yet he was able to build disappoint mexicans i suppose he was on some people fighting this virus he could have done newman out instead underestimated the situation when you want to argue separate so i believe that we can all judge the work done in the usa this is a large country that has a different door for most of these different economic resources and a different population we too have made on the state books. facebook is facing a huge boy caught from really creative advertisers who believe it isn't doing enough to filter hate speech nice surprise that it is donald trump that has a lot to do with their fury but a new undercover reporter by project or a task to suggest to the social media giant to censor the president's supporters

for some time jackie vega has more. oh mighty have fallen ok maybe not fallen but facebook and other platforms that owns like instagram are getting hit where it hurts by an advertising boycott led by civil rights groups in the us every day we see ads from companies place to jason's to hateful content occupying the same space as extremist recruitment groups and harmful disinclination campaigns you add buying dollars being used by the conference to increase its dominance in the industry at the expense of vulnerable and marginalized communities who were often targets of hate groups on facebook that started out small but as the days go by bigger and more powerful companies like ne viber are dropping their ads and things really got kicked up a notch when verizon join the fray a company that reportedly spent almost $2000000.00 on advertising on the 2 platforms just last month now this is all a push in order to get the social media giant to increase moderation on its side

could protect and support black uses could they called out holocaust denial as hate could they help gets out the vote but absolutely could but they're actively choosing not to do so let's send facebook a powerful message your profits will never be worth promoting hates bigotry racism anti-semitism and violence and a large number of facebook employees seem to agree with that just a couple weeks ago they conducted a virtual walkout after the us president wrote a post that was deemed by many to be inciting violence after the incidents occurred said that the company would be reviewing its policies but also cautioned against new forms of moderation in general i worry that this approach has a risk of leading us to editorialize on content we don't like even if it doesn't violate our policies so i think we need to proceed very carefully and yet that's just the problem the company seems to have a new undercover report has once again revealed an anti trump left leaning bias at the company i worked as

a subcontractor for facebook i was seeing them interfering on a global level in elections and then i. blame exception that just targeting conservatives or favored liberals we really have to take the word from. the left side yes good. outside of the realist which is the middle of the long political ads though so now they can get more exposure to the left there is the right right but facebook obviously had to give 100 percent believe to fight lining conservative opinions and meddling and elections crazy right so if you come as no surprise that the right isn't happy with social media giants either twitter royally ticked off trump when they put a label on a couple of his posts warning that they could be potentially misleading he responded with executive order to $33.00 choices the twitter makes one it uses to suppress that blacklist shadow and our editorial decisions pure and simple their

editorial decisions in those moments twitter seasons to be a neutral public platform and then become an editor with a viewpoint and i think we can say that about other source and whether you're looking to google whether you look at facebook social media companies that engage in censoring or any political content will not be able to keep their liability shield and now a number of users are calling it quits and link to platforms that call themselves on bias that remains to be seen but in light of all this something tells me that dr burke is ruing the day he ever even enter the thought of regulating content on a site all name a fighting russian metal one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information operations in 2016 we were slow to identifying the type of new information operations ever since then the debate over what's moderation and what censorship has gotten more and more nuanced and guess what that's not going away the users just might. more than

a 1000 politicians in europe have signed a letter asking israel to drop its an exception pace plan approved by the united states our president believes it will benefit everybody involved he does fear it could actually end hopes for pace in the middle east this move will be fatal to the prospects of israeli palestinian peace and will challenge the most basic norms guiding international relations including the un charter acquisition of territory by force has no place in 2020 and must have commensurate consequences i call on the israeli government. it's an extension. of my vision presents a win win opportunity for both it's a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risks for palestinian statehood to israel's security today israel has taken a giant step toward peace it's

a great plan proves wrong it's a great plan for peace frankly mr president. given all that you've already done through. i'm not surprised so-called peace plan would keep true slim as israel's undivided capital leaving palestine with a capital on the outskirts of the city palestine would also be demilitarized to remove any potential threat to israel west bank and gaza would remain part of palestine and would be connected by roads and tunnels president trump also offered $50000000000.00 of investment to the palestinian authorities although that would come in exchange for israel gaining control of security most resources and the diplomatic and security arrangements of palestine palestinian authorities rejected all notions of the plan from the 1st moment it was presented and they haven't changed their position. there's an endless testing that is all of the international

community thinking it's colonial and but i it's when but it will all of the collective international will to advance regional peace and security and to preserve the rule based muscular general order. we must prove it wrong that isn't if you shared by the u.s. and israel washington calls the plan peace to prosperity and claims it will end hostility by promoting security donald trump says it is a great opportunity is no palestinians will have to leave their homes israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has set a date of july the 1st for his cabinet to begin discussions on moving forward plants were the 1st of all it is illegal under international law because these are a list in territories there are plenty of united nations resolutions calling for israel not to build or to encroach on the land israel

has miley quite a number of un laws over the years and it has done so in futility i hope international community which is very weak on this country for years this time will take on sions of the danger behind this and action i hope with all my heart that we can prevent this dangerous move that israel government's doing now this is time now that we can he lead to international rules and norms sadly there's only one country that can persuade israel not to build on this land so united states of america and donald trump as you know all really disregards united nations and international law by saying yes to anything israel wanted to do . i think is marginal nice him self and this conflict and

this is about credibility and i think with trungpa new situation united says it has lost a lot of credibility to bring. in this conflict really we need to look at europe and i'm hoping that european governments will rise to the occasion and tell israel that should not do this and if they do or don't they should be a sanctions imply it implied on them if this is an exception is coming for real. real sanctions one of the most profound aspects of this letter yes because it's crossed party because it's crossed you know sort of you know we have crossed europe and it has leading figures who have supported israel and palestine over decades i think. the international community specially europe needs to say enough is enough

we have the power to refix the balance and citrus rael we are partners we are friends but we also friends of the palestinian people and we want peace in this region so think about what you're doing. and work for peace instead of destroying the 2 state solution if an action is this country. in the. few days or few weeks this will be huge a major turn over in this conflict and i don't know what what distant you can bring but i see nothing but the bench or. in spain or a famous painting has been made i'm recognisable laughter restoration work and decided to add a little bit of creativity in fact it isn't the 1st time a famous work has received a bad make over sparking calls for tougher regulations. i

don't think these people should be referred to as restorers let's be honest they're buggers who botched things up they destroy things. after the break the financial rebellion activists and back this time promoting

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me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again the environmental action group extinction rebellion staged a dramatic comeback this week carried out a number of new protests around the world including a shoplifting stunt against poverty in the u.k. with more on that is shutting edwards dashti. it's been a while since climate change activists extinction rebellion have been well making any headlines but on thursday they were back in the news after a seemingly provocative stunt that seems to be based on the old robin hood tale robbing from the rich to give to the poor in london 5 activists went shoplifting in

a food shop although they targeted a major corporate chain rather than a smaller private business running out of the supermarket they then proceeded to give all of their bounty away in a protest against poverty they also slap stickers around the shops which were proclaiming things like new lower price free because poverty sucks news the infamous marie antoinette slogan let them eat cake with the word cake crosstown their banners i'm not stealing food i'm a gift aiding it we're changing the rules because the rules plain wrong this is not against sainsbury's but the profiteering of a basic human need the stunt also proclaimed the appearance of a new political party called u.k. beyond politics and is aiming big 1st talk at next year's marathon actions in london and they promise it's just the start we're seeing complete incompetence of the governing class that have been 20000. from coup that the crowning glory is the

ability of the political class to respond to the extinct. the human race this move into the world of democratic politics has surprised many people because extinction rebellion has always prided itself on being a direct action through pretty movement all about staging numerous acts of civil disobedience all across the world never the less they all widely accused of vandalism and promoting a populist agenda and all the while police in the u.k. particularly have been quite cautious and worried about taking any action against them and fear of violating their human rights to protest so what do the people on the streets of london make of this rebellion moving up in the world into a different category. if you're stealing from a shop but given how it is yes very but i don't think that's how they should be processed it's not by stealing doesn't set a good example i wouldn't talk to them. just to keep it

away but at the same time. you do really need to pay because it's. all the time to good what they've done. but at the end of day no not that you can pay for it and i think the concept is a good idea i'm all for taxing the rich or more in order to redistribute up funds you know more efficiently and fairly but to display they're doing right by is the right way to go back to my. ex are clearly have some big plans but they might have a way to go from sitting on the streets to sitting in parliament. the detroit police department prosecutor's office is a recess events which led to the wrongful arrest of a black man robert williams to a flaw in facial recognition technology the city's mayor has apologized for the case. of the reality that case prosecutor kym worthy in my apology to mr williams do you have to think of the case and the case in my mind as detective work and

prosecutor work. robert williams was arrested and held for more than a day on charges of theft police said that racial facial recognition technology had matched his own driver's license photo with grainy surveillance footage of the incident williams they said himself that it was obvious a mistake had been made. when i look at the picture of the guy i just see a big black guy i don't see a resemblance i don't think he looks like me at all well face scanning technologies used by ordinary people every day to unlock their smartphones or to tag friends on social media however when it does come to police investigations artificial intelligence has drawn a lot of criticism for false matches and it seems to me they do make more mistakes when it comes to darkest skinned people troy police say they have brought in new rules because of the williams case facial recognition software is an investigative tool that is used to generate leads only additional investigative work

corroborating evidence and probable cause required to before an arrest can be made the founder of encrypted internet service unseen believes that while face recognition should help in criminal cases he shouldn't be the sole evidence there are cameras everywhere now and the law enforcement didn't even have to pay for the cameras if you look at the video cameras you look at the cameras in people's phones the resolution is in some cases it's almost like a theater or a movie theater so you've got very high quality resolution you've got people who are you've got a ubiquity of these cameras and there you have the software that's able to decode it and you know relevance to make actionable information for law enforcement at least or they think now i think what you have to do is you have to handicap and say well there's probably a probability that this person might be the person you cannot hang your hat 100 percent on anything it is not. so is that used to determine that this person is

going to get arrested no they have to. go find a bunch of other evidence to put the person at that location at same time with their cell phone with license plates with somebody have a fingerprint or there's d.n.a. think it just becomes a part of that kind of bio collection but this really points to the problems in general i identity it is just coming up to half past 1 here in moscow thanks for watching our table back again at the top of the. you know what wall street's up to its usual bag of tricks now back in 2008 global financial crisis and remember that movie the big short and remember how it was obvious that everything was going to blow up and remember how the wall street people were conspiring and then it all blew up in

a few people make billions and billions of dollars because they cooked the books grabbed all that cash and we're causing reports that you know what this exact same thing is going to happen again in 10 to 12 years and guess what here we are 12 years later the. secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however he even the most prosperous can be deceived we've been to 0 zone there were 2 view houses were allowed to leave prison and were located and the only people had access to the story for investigators she covered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. you great ignore. for justice.