well i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or i'm sure i'll see you there . is much anticipated covert tracing out is used to send just 14 alerts in 3 weeks that's half a 1000000 people deleted from their phones research the streets of paris to find someone who's using it. no no no no no no we don't fit. america's reputation in europe is dealt a big blow by its handling of the coronavirus a new poll suggests there's the us it's an all time high of cases with 40000 i did just on thursday alone. more companies joined a boycott of facebook for its failure to remove hate speech and its reluctance to take down some of the controversial posts of

a new undercover report says that the social media giant has the president's supporters some time. the e.u. russia and palestine call on israel to scrap its annexation plan backed by the u.s. amid fears that it will have a huge impact on hopes for peace. even thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. a coronavirus tracing that was rolled out in france has alerted just 14 users about their potential exposure over the course of the last 3 weeks and it's despite the country recording many new cases of the virus every day. tries to find out why. stop covariates. 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 what it was 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 good tracing up one for catalonia. ok after a fold start some 2000000 people actually did download it tyrone you might think given that there are an estimated 47000000 people in france with small 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 to fix. this so mary who is actually down loaded it but then she said this as if yes i don't looted it but i didn't really understand how it worked every time i tried to use it nothing so wrong are 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 if this application is for that reason i

didn't download it. and that for the younger generation i wasn't interested and like younger people who move around a lot for their work. i didn't take the time to download it oh did you leave in a safeway for example i do could 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 centralized i plainly and truthfully i'm quite wary of what would be done with may data. and that phone the. principle behind the that issue or the personal data really had the french in much more civil rights activists were concerned about the right to the right to privacy while hundreds of academics voiced fears that they take out those could be we purpose for mass surveillance but perhaps they had nothing to worry about off there 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 serve it's a bit of a food live yes i think that 14 is not many if 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 clearly it 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 haven't been steadily declining in france said drake 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 we are using jollity will ski r.t. . meanwhile the u.s. has seen a record daily increase in covert 1000 cases reaching 40000 new infections on thursday these figures were revealed by johns hopkins university the previous high was back in april with more than 30 $6000.00 cases the u.s. still holds the sound record of the most global infections with almost 2 and a half 1000000 cases and this latest surge is for several states including texas and florida to suspend plans to reopen despite that president from says that his country is coping well with the pandemic we have the greatest testing program in the world we've developed it over. and wrapped almost 30000000 terrorists that

means we can have more tasteless 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. well as he says the u.s. has a lower mortality rate than the likes of the u.k. spain and ecuador with around 38 deaths for every 100000 people however that is still the 9th high step 3 globally meanwhile the spike in new infections is considerable and is being put down to young people testing positive especially in states in the south and west of the country and the way that the crisis has been handled in the states has dealt a blow to the country's reputation in europe a new survey of 9 countries there shows that 59 percent believe america's image has suffered during the pandemic while just 6 percent believe it's actually improved we asked europeans for their views. 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 prefer the french sorry then the americans 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 that you can see french people partying and doing. music festival and stuff so we are not better actually we cannot really compare. the new era everybody mostly reacted in the common way and only germany maybe suffered through let's let's comparing casual just in france italy england with america i think that they have lower mortality rate per 1000000 than we have so it's difficult to say. because in the united states they have managed coverage 19 poorly in fact it is enough to count the dead i believe that we have

controlled and manage the epidemic better. you know this is it for me the pandemic in america has not taken seriously a person like trump has done nothing he was able to build a separation war with mexico i suppose he will also keep people fighting this virus he could have done more but instead underestimated the situation or you would i believe that we can all judge the work done in the usa this is a large country that has a different law from ours has different economic resources and a different population we too have made our mistakes. the wealth of facebook founder mark zuckerberg has fallen by $7000000000.00 as its share price tumbles out a lucrative empathizes boycotted the network claiming it isn't doing enough to filter hate speech donald trump has a lot to do with the fury but a new undercover report by project veritas just the social media giant has been censoring supporters of the president for some time i can burger explains. oh how

the 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 confidence to increase its dominance in the industry at the expense of vulnerable and marginalized communities who are 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 they protect and support black uses could they called out holocaust denial as

hate could they help gets out the votes 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 hate 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 intellect. and then i saw

a play an exception that just target conservatives or favored liberals we really have to take the word from our side yes. ourselves really is that maybe one of the select growing political ads though so now they can get more exposure to the left there is the right right. facebook obviously 8. 100 percent believe sidelining 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 30 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 they become and they're with a viewpoint and i think we can say that about other source and whether you're looking to google whether you look at in 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 bird is ruing the day he ever even enter the thought of regulating content on a site all my name a fighting russian medal 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. well than

a 1000 politicians in europe a signed a letter asking israel to drop its an exception peace plan as approved by the us president trump believes that it will benefit everybody involved the his that it could actually end hopes for peace 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. a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risk of 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 fruit. i'm not surprised. the so-called peace plan would keep jerusalem 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 the west bank and gaza would remain part of palestine and be connected by roads and tunnels president trump offered $50000000000.00 worth of investment to palestinian authorities over that would come in exchange for israel gaining control of security most resources and diplomatic and security arrangements of palestine. the palestinian authorities rejected all notions of the plan from the moment it was 1st presented and they have not changed their position is the only testing that is all of the international community thinking in school on your land but i will put it very well all of that will lead to international will to advance regional peace and security and to preserve the

rule based molecular goal. we must prove it wrong. that's not a view shared by the u.s. and israel peace to prosperity is how washington calls the plan and claims that it will end hostility by promoting security interests as a great opportunity is no palestinians will have to leave their homes israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has set a date of july 1st for his cabinet to begin discussions on moving forward with the plans he spoke some of with some of the european lawmakers who signed the joint letter on the issue. first of all it is illegal under international law because these are a listing in territories there are plenty of united nations resolutions calling for israel not to build or to encroach on the mainland israel has miley quite

a number of un laws over the years and it has done so with impunity i hope international community which is very weak on this conflict for years this time will take on shoes 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 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 so

and this conflict this is about credibility and i think with trungpa new situation united says it has lost a lot of trouble too. in this conflict i really need to look at europe and i'm hoping that european governments will rise to the occasion and tell israel that they should not do this and if they do all day they should be a sanctions imply. implied on them if this is an exception this is coming for real we will need real sanctions one of the most profound aspects of this terry is because he's crossed party because he's crossed you know sort of you know he across 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 3 days or a few weeks this will be a huge a major turn over in this conflict and i don't know what distro can bring but i see nothing but that but then ger. extinction rebellion activists are back this time promoting shoplifting to fight poverty in the u.k. that story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the

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back to 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 united kingdom shadier to stash the reports 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 are

proclaimed 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 it's aiming big fs talk it next year has merit actions in london and they promise it's just the start we're seeing complete incompetence of the governing class there have been 20000 to know. that the crowning glory is the inability of the political class to respond to the extinction of 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 quietly accused of vandalism and promoting a populist agenda and all the while police in the u.k. particularly have been quite cautious in worried about taking any action against them and they fear of violating their human rights to protest so what do the people on the streets of london make of this extraction or about in moving up in the world into a different category like if you're stealing from a shop but given how it is you have very dropping the desk 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 if they. could just to keep it away at the same time. you don't really need to pay because it's. all the time to good what they've done. but. not that you can pay for it and i think the concept is a good idea i'm all for. you know 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 it isn't the right way to go about it my. legs are clearly have some big plans but they might have a way to go from sitting on the street to sitting in parliament sad especially arty . the detroit police department and prosecutor's office are to reassess events which led to the wrongful arrest of the black man robert williams due to a flaw in facial recognition technology city's mayor has apologized for the case and they're angry about that case and joint prosecutor kym worthy in my apology to mr williams but you have to think of the case and the case in my mind is about sub detective work and sub par weren't prosecutor work in january robert williams was arrested and held for more than a day on charges of theft police or facial recognition technology had matched his old driver's license photo with grainy surveillance footage of the incident leaves him self says it was obvious that

a mistake could be 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 you looks like me at all scanning technology is used by ordinary people every day to unlock their smartphones or to tag friends and social media however when it comes to the police investigations artificial intelligence has drawn a lot of criticism for false matches and it seems to make more mistakes when it comes to darker skinned people thought police say that they have brought the 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 before a rest can be made. the founder of encrypted internet service unseen police will face recognition should how thing criminal cases it shouldn't be the subtle level since. 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 and

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 now you have the software that's able to decode it and you know at relevance to make actionable information for law enforcement at least so 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 absolute 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 that you can put a person at that location at that same time with their cell phone with license plates with somebody had 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 with with bio identity. ok i'll be back with updates for you at home for

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. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss in washington coming up markets are slumping on friday after the federal reserve put a halt to buybacks in the midst of the copen 1910 demick we break down the ruling and what it means going forward and while the airline industry has struggled in recent months some big changes could be coming to the sector we take a look at some issues daunting the airlines and what the changes could mean for travelers we have a pack show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the united states setting another record for new cases of cope with 19 on thursday with the

nation seeing a spike in cases as certain regions.