first by omar bongo and by his son. the government announced it had a stroke.e fascinating recent episode, that december, bongo appears in the national address to ring in the new year. or did he? his head moves strangely, he barely linked and as radio lab reported, a political opponent of bongo proclaims the address a deep fake. some suggested that bongo was actually dead. this rumor had real consequences. military officials attempted a coup. in the end they did not succeed and experts have said they have no evidence that the new year address was fake. that did not matter. the mirror kpexistence of deep fakes make people doubt what they saw. deep fakes can be eradicated. there is way to curtail the spread. facebook announced they bann mot deep fakes from their website. that pelosi video was allowed to stay. the defense department had also invested in technology to detect deep fakes quickly. congress should make social media companies responsible for the content posted on their platform which would pressure them to stop the dissemination of deep fakes. it won't

it's been run did i the same autocratic dynasty by more than five decades, first by al ali bongo.ing public appearances. rumors started about the state of his health. the government announced he had had a stroke. then as radio lab reported in a fascinating recent episode, that december ali bongo appeared in an address to ring in the new year. or did he? viewers pointed out something strange and stilted in the address. his head moved strangely. he barely blinked. as radio lab reported, a political web activist proclaimed the address a deep fake, and some proclaim that bongo was actually dead. and this seemed to have little consequences. after the death, military officials attempted a coup. in the end they didn't succeed, and experts said they had no evidence that the new year address was fake. but that didn't matter. the existence of deep fakes and well-timed suggestions from activists and political opponents made people doubt what they saw. deep fakes can't be eradicated, but there are ways to curtail their spread. facebook recently announced it would ban most deep fakes from its

criticizes those breaking libya's weapons of bongo warning the remits it is hanging by a freight. sudan's ousted president omar bashir appears in court to face allegations of war crimes in darfur. and a giant new coal miner straightly is banking on to help fuel its economy while other countries look to renewables. and in sport home riders dominate cycling's tore up colombia sergio police or at least the overall standings heading into the final stage will be live in colombia later this hour. doctors in china reporting a slowdown in the number of new cases of corona virus for the 3rd successive day the world health organization though says it's impossible to predict which direction the epidemic will take 142 deaths were reported on sunday along with 2000 more infections most are in who by province where the outbreak was 1st reported in december world wide 1669 people have died taiwan's recorded its 1st fatality while an elderly chinese tourist in france became the 1st to die in europe . it's impossible to predict which direction this. will take we are concerned about the levels of r

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the rest of the day's news one of the un's top representatives on libya says of the weapons and bongo that has become a joke and that those who preach it must be held to account it comes out to foreign ministers from around a dozen countries met to discuss the conflict on the sidelines of a security summit in munich member. the libya international committee reaffirmed calls to end foreign military support for the warring sides and to stop the flow of weapons into the country war $24.00 half those forces have been fighting to capture the capital tripoli since april. the truce is holding only by a thread with numerous over 150 violations reported and it is the libyan people that continue to suffer the most the economic situation continues to deteriorate exacerbated by the oil blockade and the looming banking crisis. let's go live now to munich and diplomatic at the james bays 'd who's following that meeting for us james. has something on your tie there. the german foreign minister said alongside that u.n. representative that real progress has been made today has it. well we'll see felt

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well it says good things i think it says perhaps that as bongo suggested when he won the golden globe a little while ago he said that audiences should just get over the one inch barrier of subtitles and then they'll be open to a huge international cinema which is seems to be the case with the parasites win but i don't think we should see this is anything negative for hollywood because if you look at the other nominees in the other winners hollywood that is the big studios that really really well parasite was the only independent film nominated for the oscars this year all the other films were either from big studios or from netflix and so it does show you that those are traditional hollywood the big studio hollywood is still doing very very well while the same time opening up to cinema from around the world ok so a parasite winning is a positive development and your opinion and you say that's actually a bit of a surprise not just that the oscars now agree with you and the other big surprises at this year's ceremony. not so much i mean as i say parasite was the big. big shock for me be

barbarity i'd like to remind you that as a result of the operations in iraq and mosul country and bongos i told you about that thanks to the information. published we know about this in mosul that was taken by the. i still more than half a 1000000 people were attacked from 721-0000 people died as a result of and strikes and several 1000 were injured according to un habitat that assessed this. to ation right after the operation in the eastern most these strikes from the air an artillery destroyed more than 90 percent of all residential homes 90 percent of all residential homes this is the example of cell activity is it that we are trying to be preached about today or should the collie's prove that the hospitals and clinics were not actually touched in most all that they were just in the remaining 10 percent how many open sessions of the kinds we had how many press conferences absolutely 0 there be no u.n. investigation into this either perhaps the operation in iraq or was conducted differently but there were mortars there were so many you to.

isolation here as well adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong and un envoy to libya says the weapons and bongo there has become a joke foreign ministers discussed the issue at a security summit in munich they agreed not to interfere in libya but many of them have been deeply involved in the conflict and diplomatic editor james bass has more . this was diplomacy is groundhog day foreign ministers and other representatives from 13 countries repeating the same thing their leaders said exactly 4 weeks ago that is summit in berlin. but despite their words arms have continued to flow to both sides in libya and showing what some might call great hypocrisy the countries who are breaching the embargo are actually all among those here mr foreign minister you talk about a deplorable breach of the arms embargo we know who is breaching the arms embargo they were in the room with you what did you say to them now when all of those who continue to breach the embargo need to know that they will be detected and they will be named we will discuss that with the e.u. council on foreign affairs tomorrow and we will