bae systems is the developer of the technology. we managed to track down a former employee who worked on the system. it would be able to intercept any communication. you can pinpoint people ‘s location based on cellular data, followed people around and they are far ahead with less recognition and the crypt in staff. bae systems and dodgers sold its technology to uae but also a number of countries many of them accused of serious human rights violations including saudi arabia, algeria and morocco. critics argue that britain bae systems and should not be selling equipment to repressive governments. if one looks at british arms export laws, which covers all sorts of military equipment and training and services, no export licence is supposed to be granted if there is a strong charge that the sale of that equipment will increase the likelihood of the breaking of international humanitarian law. the british government says all exports are evaluated on a case—by—case case is and would refuse any licence when it is clear that technology coul

>> what they served their guests. >> reporter: but there was no luxury hotel for kenneth bae.mp specifically reserved for foreigners. >> i was carrying maybe coal from one place to the other, or carrying rock or digging the hole and any type of manual labor, i have to endure ten hours a day for six days a week. >> reporter: why the harsh treatment? it's because bae was on a mission to spread the word of god in north korea through his tour group. why is north korea so afraid of christianity? >> in north korea, do you know there's only one religion? it's worshipping the leader kim il-sung. we are afraid of someone like you coming in, trying to convert our people or influence our people with your religions, because if this spreads, our country will fall. >> reporter: kenneth bae languished for 735 days in captivity, the longest held american prisoner ever. bae confessed that he had committed serious crimes against the regime, after extensive negotiations with the u.s., the north koreans finally released him in november of 2014. today, bae is involved with a human rights group in

it's because bae was on a mission to spread the word of god in north korea through his tour group.fraid of christianity? >> in north korea, do you know there's only one religion? it's worshipping the leader kim il-sung. we are afraid of someone like you coming in, trying to convert our people or influence our people with your religions, because if this spreads, our country will fall. >> reporter: kenneth bae languished for 735 days in captivity, the longest held american prisoner ever. bae confessed that he had committed serious crimes against the regime, after extensive negotiations with the u.s., the north koreans finally released him in november of 2014. today, bae is involved with a human rights group in south korea, determined to help get the remaining three american prisoners held in north korea released without the tragedy consequences of otto's case. >> what happened to otto should not happen again. i do believe that something can come out from it. and impact the people in north korea and also all the detain needs that are waiting to come home. >> reporter: when we come bac

this was a huge opportunity for companies like bae systems to sell this kind of technology.the uae, saudi arabia, 0man, yes, these countries have bought it. what response have you had to the allegations you are making? just this morning after the story came out online the danish minister of business, because bae systems is working through a subsidiary in denmark, he said that his department is going to, "take a look at whether we can in future have higher requirements for the country's documentation regarding end—user and the risk of human rights violations: "_ we the risk of human rights violations: we approached all of the countries that were involved, we have had no reply from any of them. their technology played a crucial role in combating terrorism and they insist they are fully compliant with all export regulations. the british government issued a statement saying all exports are evaluated on a case—by—case basis and they will refuse any licenses where there is a clear risk the technology might be used for internal repression. the crucial point is surveillance tools ca

investigation by bbc arabic and a danish newspaper has uncovered evidence that the uk defence giant baeystems has made large—scale sales across the middle east of sophisticated surveillance technology, including to many repressive governments. doctors treating otto warmbier, the american student released on tuesday from a north korean prison, say he has suffered extensive loss of brain tissue and is still in a coma. now it's time for world business report. back from the brink again. after months of wrangling, lenders agree on more bailout money for greece and the chance of debt relief next year. could the greek tragedy be reaching its final act? plus, havana rethink — are cuba's growing business ties with the us now under threat from president trump? welcome to world business report. i'm rachel horne. also coming up, after the biggest recall in the history of the car industry, could faulty air bag maker takata be about to file for bankruptcy? we'll have the latest from asia. we start in greece which has edged back from the brink of financial collapse once again. late on thursday, after

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. >> media takeout is reporting the names are sean and bae in a nod to jay-z's given name and bae aftert been confirmed so don't take that as gospel. >> uh-huh. >> all right. not to be outdone, somebody from a kanye west are having a third child via a surrogate. doctors instructed her it would be dangerous to endure another pregnancy. as soon as the news broke twitter went crazy. >> what's her name? he refuses to say the. that's what's hot on that on hob tonight. we'll be right back. >> the union that represents metro workers held a bizarre protests against wmata. it was mock funeral for the middle classwork force. the demonstration comes on the anniversary of the deadly fort totten class. it was complete with a wooden casket flowers and even someone delivering a eulogy. wow. >>> the world of emojis is that expanding. >> 56 new characters have been approved by uni they include a t rex pretzel and range of people with different skin tones. companies like apple will not be able to make the new emojis until an ad support for something called unicode 10 program which i've been late at night

we saw this not only with warmbier but also with kenneth bae who was in bad medical condition. >> reportert an odd time. there was no relation to the visit by rodman and the release of warmbier. >> that's not my purpose right now. >> that's not your purpose? >> know. it's see if i can keep bringing thins to anesthetic. >> still, rodman does have the distinction of being among a handful of americans to have ever met kim jong un. his last trip there in 2014 to stage a basketball exhibition for kim's birthday. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: at the same time, he knows president trump, dennis rodman, having appeared on "celebrity apprentice." dennis, you're fired. >> rodman doesn't have a background to more accurately intercept what he's seeing. he's being shown these brand-new high rise buildings in pyongyang. he's not being taken out to the countryside to see the delab dated buildings. he's drinking the kool-aid. >> no outside diplomats were allowed to see warmbier for 14 months. swedish diplomats saw him in custody last month and urgently requested a meeting with u.s. officials. they w

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that profit off war and fossil fuel extraction, including the companies wells fargo, lockheed martin, bae systems, northrop grumman. in orlando, florida of people , hundreds gathered sunday night for a vigil to honor the 49 people who were killed at the pulse nightclub massacre one year ago. the shooting at the lgbt club was the deadliest mass shooting in recent u.s. history. the majority of those killed were young lgbt people of color. during sunday night's vigil, 49 people dressed as angels and carried candles as they surrounded the club, which is being converted into a memorial to honor the massacre victims. last night the tony awards. , among those who gave political speeches were cynthia nixon, who won best featured actress for her role as an abused woman in lillian hellman's play "the little foxes." >> it is a privilege to appear atlillian hellman's play this specific moment in history. 80 years ago, she wrote "there are people who eat the earth and eat all of the people on it, and other people who just stand around and watch them do it. i love, my gratitude, and my undying respect

. >> that's right, he was heavily criticized for not bringing up the case of american kenneth bae, whot more than two years in north korean custody. rodman had an expletive laden outburst during the trip. he did say after his return he was sorry for what was going on and meant the trip to be an instance of, quote, basketball diplomacy. a key question tonight, does the trip have anything to do with the four detained americans. we'll see over the next few days, wolf. who knows. they are four guys being held there, couple for quite some time. is rodman going to do anything regarding their custody? that's going to be a key thing to watch. >> certainly important to see if he meets with kim jong-un himself. i think he's the only american that has met with the north korean leader. thanks very much. breaking news in the situation room. >>> coming up, the attorney general jeff sessions prepares to testify publicly amid serious questions about his contacts with russia and the firing of fbi director james comey. will he claim executive privilege to duck some of the toughest questions? there's not

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look at this recent photo of donald trump and pope francis. [ laughter ] this meme is called, "when bae and busters but you thought you were going to da club." [ laughter and applause ] next is a photo of bernie sanders. [ laughter ] his meme is called, "when you spot the fidget spinners at walmart and you're like --" [ applause ] next we have a photo of sean spicer. take a look at that one. his meme says, "when you see your ex in target and you hope she thinks you a mannequin." [ laughter ] next is a photo of emma thompson. her meme says, "when the bouncer's escorting you out but you let the squad know you cool." [ applause ] she's the best, man. next up we have a photo of kim jong-un. [ light laughter ] his meme says, "when you lie and tell da restaurant it's yo birthday." [ laughter and applause ] next up is a photo of queen elizabeth. this meme says, "when your man says he's with the boys, but you know he's lying." [ applause ] and take a look at this next photo of donald trump in saudi arabia. this meme says, "when you get dat uber pool." [ laughter and applause ] and finally, here

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event lieberman's come back, look for defense names such as bae systems, a yellow line in the chart,lter. corbyn is not a of britain's nuclear weapons system. utilities are here because labor in the blue line is rbs. in general, smaller domestically focused companies would likely get hurt by a weaker pound if labor were to prevail. >> jen is weighing in on this as well. the relative performances, joe , the biasning their toward the stocks that have a key element of exporters, generated elsewhere outside of the u.k. what stuck in the thing you need to get along the ftse 100, short the 50 to 50 at the start of the brexit negotiations, because they expected to issue a drop and despite rise the fall we have rbc and in sterling, they believe sterling has got farther to go particularly relative to euro. joe: deadly demonstrates how the small cap and large cap is sensitive to the pound. very indicative. scarlet: u.k. elections tomorrow. let's head to the invest some it happening right now at bloomberg headquarters in midtown manhattan. the co-cio of elliott management is sitting down now wi

jong-un and said that kenneth bae deserved a 15-year sentence. bae was freed the same year. why rodman has called kim jong-un a friend for life, jim mattis is calling north korea, the most urgent of security to the u.s. earlier this year, president trump said he would be willing to meet kim jong-un, saying this. >> he's a smart cook by. >> reporter: trump has praised rodman, who appeared on "celebrity apprentice" in 2013. the former basketball star denying he was hired to free the four americans in north korea. >> that's not my purpose right now. >> reporter: rodman also said this is about bringing sports to north korea. this department official says they're aware of rodman's visit. he's there as a private individual and they wish him well. they warn all americans against going to north korea for safety. >> thank you very much. >>> there can be a verdict as soon as today in bill cosby's closely watched sexual assault trial. the jury deliberated for four hours last night. they're back at it this morning. hi, steph. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. bill cosby's fate no

bae said the proposed action was extreme and com pletely proposed action was extreme and completely unnecessarytwo other soldiers were killed at castlemartin rangers. flags lowered to half—mast at castlemartin as a mark of respect for the two soldiers who died. two others were seriously injured during a training exercise carried out here by the wiltshire—based royal tank regiment on wednesday. inevitably, because they are trying to get as close as possible to the real experience of testing and firing their weaponry, there is a danger element, a risk element, attached to that. this just serves to remind us that, as i say, these guys put themselves in this _ basis. used for tank training, where live firing exercises can take place. it is understood this incident involved ammunition. what happened here is being investigated by the ministry of defence together with dyfed—powys police and the health and safety executive. for the moment, tank live firing at castlemartin has been suspended as a precaution. the ministry of defence has not yet released any information 0ne soldier died in hospital, his f

bae was freed the same year.hile rodman has called kim jong-un a friend for life, jim mattis is calling north korea, the most urgent and dangerous threat to peace and security facing the u.s. earlier this year, president trump said he would be willing to meet kim jong-un, saying this -- >> obviously he's a pretty smart cookie. a smart guy. >> reporter: trump has praised rodman, who appeared on j "celebrity apprentice" in 2013. the former basketball star denying he was hired to free the four americans in north korea. >> that's not my purpose right now. >> reporter: warmbier is due home this evening in ohio. savannah, carson, back to you guys. >> thank you very much. >>> there can be a verdict as soon as today in bill cosby's closely watched sexual assault trial. the jury deliberated for four hours last night. they're back at it this morning. hi, steph. just outside the courthouse in philadelphia, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. no verdict yet, but the jury has started to deliberate today. they were here u

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and i get into the agency and can better understand it, as i understand it from public reports, that bae hafory detection officer function has been embedded with the regular tsa work force as well which to me makes a lot of good sense. you have a lot more eyes looking at passengers as they go through. i appreciate your comment about racial profiling or profiling of any nature. that's something we just don't do. if you get a report or complaint into that regard you need to look into it quickly to make sure if it did happen that you quickly adjust your procedures and training to make sure it doesn't recur. unfortunately that will happen on occasion. you just need to look at it quickly and adwres it right up front. >> great. thank you so much. >> thank you.>> great. thank you so much. >> thank you.front. >> great. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> senator kolb shar is back. >> okay. all right. mr. pekoske, sank you so much for being here and important work that needs to be done here and with have security briefing. and with lap tops to international airports as tsa administr

get him out before he died there in their country but there was an influence he did had when kenneth baesed. an american prisoner. >> he has had influence before. >> he has. >> what do you make of this statement from north korea just today saying they deny any cruelty towards otto warmbier and in fact, they say that they're the victims in this? >> well, what do you think? i mean it's really hard to know what's going on inside the country. for them to deny it is quite something. i never heard them do any -- have a statement like this to try -- this is getting so much attention, i'm sure they're wondering and afraid of how this will be portrayed. >> around the world. >> around the world. it's cruel. >> you've got an incredible special on "20/20" looking into this. what more have we learned about the 17 months that otto warmbier was in captivity? >> well, interesting, it's really difficult to say how he died. but they do know that he died because there was really a lack of oxygen in the brain so the brain started to decay for more than a year so when you talk about some kind of torture the

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sir ben ainslie's land rover bae our team are a step closer to the america's cup.t's the new song which people are talking about, but no radio station wants to play. the song criticises theresa may and the conservatives. it's already number 2 on the itunes chart, and could be number1 on the official chart, which is revealed this afternoon. but however high it gets, radio1 has said it won't be playing it. why? because we're less than a week away from the general election and the bbc must be impartial. but not everyone thinks that's a good enough reason. here now is jake painter, who came up with the hit. we did ask someone from the bbc to come on and explain the rules, but that wasn't possible. instead, we can speak to kevin marsh, a former editor at the bbc. and dr peter goddard, a media professor from the university of liverpool. thanks to all of you for coming in. jake, first of all, where did the idea come from for this track?|j wrote the song in 2010 initially, because i was pretty appalled at the coalition government and their austerity budget and tuition fees

>> bae workers, i know we already have large numbers that come in and have been coming in over the yearsbut looking on the d side, h-2b, working with labor, this is all about in the current administration, is all about american jobs versus people who come in to do the work. >> except i've doctored to get in. if the administration wants to send me beekeepers and doctors and oldest of americans who want those jobs will be glad to do that in my stable we got to recognize that in the meantime especially as relates to positions, it's extraordinary difficult to recruit physicians to my state. we have seasonal workers who we can't, i mean, obviously would love to hire locally but that is becoming increasingly impossible. and so i will probably submit a question for the record. finally, because a money at a time and want to get enough of this in, if you look at local border enforcement, the critical component in the states like ours is not just technology as senator hoeven talked about, but it's having a strategy and the plane. at that strategy and plan has to involve local law enforcement. you

. >> reporter: pyongyang freed kenneth bae in 2014 after two years in a prison camp. accused of anti-government acts. >> i believe the trump administration can do more to secure the detainees release of detainees. >> reporter: back in ohio, warmbier's funeral program featuring a poignant quote from his high school presentation speech. >> this is our season finale. this is the end of one great show but just the beginning to hundreds of now spin-offs. >> reporter: warmbier's two siblings and several of his friends spoke at the service. we're also told the two u.s. state department officials that were in attendance were recognized and given a standing ovation. back to you guys. catie, thank you very much. >>> we're getting a little p patte pattern. we talked about rain at the top of the show and doing the heat out west. >> it's expanded and extended all the way up into the pacific northwest. we're talking about heat advisories and heat warnings for 1 million people. and going out to texas, we've got about 1,400 miles. we have excessive heat spreading across the western t

aa former obama official adding secretary kerry has succeeded in 2014 in bringing kenneth bae and matthews officials did for decades. sticking to a no ransom policy denounced by families that the parentsic of james foley claime by isis in syria. >> the policy that's been a decades oldcy policy of not payg ransom i think is the right policy. >> reporter: a u.s. diplomat, ambassador joe young is the person who did negotiate twice with the north koreans and in new york and in norway and finally did bring him home.. obama officials say there's no explanation for why kim jong-un finally relented and how he got -- how this college student became comatose -- and for how long. hoda? >> andrew. andrea mitchell, thank you so much. >>> we have a lot more coming up on a friday morning.hi including a touching new tribute the to the original batman. >>> and why ben stiller is challenging you to a dodgeball battle. >> plus dads of "today" open up about what fatherhood is all about ins a very special backyad barbecue. >> and have you heard, a live concert from the queen of country pop shania twain. but f

. >> reporter: pyongyang freed ken benea gwyne bae in 2014.nary was accused of anti-government acts. >> i do believe that the trump administration can do more to secure the detainees and release of the detainees. >> reporter: back in ohio, warmbier's funeral program featuring a poignant quoteom his high school graduation speech as class salutatorian. >> this is our season finale. this is the end of one great show but just the beginning to hundreds of new spinoffs. >> reporter: warmbier's two siblings and several of his friends spoke at the service. we're also told that the two u.s. state department officials that were in attendance were recognized and given a standing ovation. back to you guys. >> catie, thank you very much. >>> we're starting to get a little pattern. we talk about rain at the top of the show and now we're going the heat out west. >> and it's actually expanded now, extending all the way up into the pacific northwest. we're talking about these heat advisories and heat warnings for 49 million people, 1200 miles stretching from s