according to cambridge press releases, and a recent internal report, facebook requested cambridge and its affiliates to remove any data received from the doctor. cambridge said that they removed the data and filed legal certification to facebook saying as much. i had requested that cambridge analytica appear at this hearing to explain these facts and tell their side of the story. cambridge recently commenced proceedings and therefore determined they could not participate in this hearing. the underlying story has not changed much since 2015. except for two different events. first, cambridge began doing work for the the trump campaign and secondly, the trump -- president trump won the election. these two that sounded an alarm that revived the cambridge story. this does not diminish the importance of this discussion. it only highlights the extreme partisanship in play and more importantly, that this conversationd y taken place 20 this conversation could have taken place much earlier. advertising agencies and political campaigns have utilized tools for many years. campaigns including thos

or by you to cambridge analytical. do you recall that moment? >> yes, sir. cambridge analytical provided those terms of service to me to put in the app. >> do you know the origins of those terms of service? >> chris riley wrote them. my understanding was that this would be a way for us to make a fully commercial app because prior to that was an economic app. >> those terms of service provided for the sale or sharing of information, did they not? >> yes, they did. >> they were known to facebook, were they not? >> yes, they were. >> despite mark zuckerberg disclaiming any knowledge of them? >> i don't know if he personally knew about it but we provide the terms to facebook. >> no question facebook knew >> at the very least they have them and could have taken a look. >> mr. matel, facebook for years was the best friend that data brokers could have. in march facebook announced that it was shutting down the data broker program to quote help improve people's privacy on facebook. end quote. according to public reports faceboo

banner was with cambridge analytica, he introduced mr. banks to cambridge analytica. we have that on evidence. fact, a former employee of cambridge analytica introduced aiq to the campaign. those are facts. we're trying to fit them into the story. >> that's not what you said. what you just said, you refuse to believe in which analytica was not involved in the referendum. that is not the fact. it is not supported by the hypothesis you put forward and the relationships you alluded to. there's no connection between that statement and what you set out. >> what you chose to allude to in a small world you operate within, such a position is irrelevant. >> i think we have covered it. meticulous line of questioning, absolutely ridiculous. >> you said your company you worked with on the referendum campaign, >> legally, if you worked on the referendum campaign willingly, anything happened, you did not get the designation or the relationship did not go further. nothing. the problem with that, it's a great deception with my line of work. >> the deception, chris wylie can state to

cambridge analytica as a firm s now technically been shut do. e inancial tim" reported fnt page this morning that as soon as reporters started asking around earlier this year about this data story about them building their firm based on all this stolen data, that guy who you just saw testifyingrethe ceo of cambridge analytica, according to the "financial times," immediately withdrew $8 million from the company. so alexander nix, the ceo, is now under considerable pressure on that part apart from investors who were helping the country essentially shut down as cambridge analytica so it could reopen as some new rebranded entity. they appear to be a little bit miffed that $8 million they thought was in the company's coffers had instead been taken home in alexander nix's pockets that led to some exceedingly awkward questions for mr. nix today about the money. >> did you take $8 million out? >> answer to your question is that -- >> yes or no. >> i'm not answering your question. >> can you use that in any circumstance? so this guy from cambridge analyt

about cambridge analytica. we also feel that facebook was not open and honest with the committee and your [ indiscernible ] and we challenged them about that. i think is false on both sides. what we asked you was pretty clear you chose not to talk about any of this. and the documents that we seen, not just christopher wylie documents, but it lays out for the committee the nature of the work that alexander cogan did. [ indiscernible ] and that work was based on the data that he acquired from facebook. and from facebook's view quite wrongly. [ indiscernible ] [ multiple speakers ] >> i would continue to address the point that was making before. >> not that it will be [ multiple speakers ] >> [ multiple speakers ] you are free to make that statement anyway you like. that's not the question that you asked about. it was quite clear you were going into [ indiscernible ]. >> the fact that he set up a complete that's competing company to undertake exactly the same work that cambridge had been set up to do. using exactl

elections or cambridge analytica. not only did we not have the in house capability to edit or produce videos, we . >> one of which is a political campaign which only constitutes about 25 to 30% and most of the time is selling toothpaste and things like that. >> and just if i'm back up, please, this question in this session. you told us previously about the relationship in respect to the organization, we have no relationship with wikileaks. we've never spoken to anyone with wikileaks. we have no relationship with them period. and does that remain the case? >> that remains the case. >> i see that this afternoon there's an article on the guardian website suggesting that virtually one of them came down in february of last year. and it was -- [ inaudible conversations ] >> discussed what happened during the u.s. election. an article goes on to say that she also claimed to have channeled currency payment and donations to wikileaks. is that correct? >> i simply cannot speak to that. that is the first time that i've heard tha

do you mean by cambridge analytic? >> i'm afraid i don't understand the question. >> can you describe all the work that you did? >> we analyzed the membership with the view to understanding how that could be incorporated into such to build a targeting model. >> so there could be data to look at. of course any owas any of that ? >> that is correct. >> the final question now is you also make pictures of the [inaudible] >> i am not entirely sure if that is correct. i believe the representatives from the company's sa said that isn't to suggest the services to become a client but i don't want to mislead you. >> as far as you are aware of. i don't even recall. >> you were clear when asked about her involvement >> we were not undertaking any more. >> do you stand by those words as much now as you did then? >> i feel entirely vindicated. >> repeat what you indicated as you know they described the work anyou said you provided the concepts. what is the proof of the concept and what did you offer? >> why would he subscribe to wor

elections or cambridge analytica.not only did we not have the in house capability to edit or produce videos, we >> went into tell the committee this before? >> this was prior to the other testimonies and i was not aware of this video even existing. video existing subsequent to giving evidence, on this specific point, we still did not know an example. it is the first time we've heard about this today. >> just listening, you are a bit unlucky with that testimony. with everything you have done -- andly and unethically, it was the one that was exposed. know that iid not was unlucky. i think of their business meetings are an undercover reporter that is trying to distract you. and the conversation never moved. i never moved conversations into those subject matters. it was a very deliberate and coordinated program of deception. mr. nix: the truth of the matter is that we are a very small advertising agency that happens to work across a number of sick ears, one of which is political campaign. that only constitutes about 25 or

trust well according to newly leaked documents from cambridge analytical parent company s.c.l. it wasn't just for meddling in political campaigns in two thousand and nine s.c.l. carried out a surveillance operation in yemen called project titanium it involved a network of western trained operatives tasked with infiltrating local populations and identifying potential terror threats the nice thing focuses on identifying the groups that support or are conducive to violent jihadist recruitment project titanium was essentially a psychological profile operation against the hottest it's architects wanted to find ways to divert people away from islamised ideology field research is used to identify a clear influence pass to do something target groups those who took part were deceived and led to believe that they were part of more innocent surveys but it was for a noble cause especially at the height of military operations against al qaida the s.c.l. group was acting on behalf of our came in to a us based military company they get billions of dollars from the defense department for intel

according to newly leaked documents from cambridge analytical parent company as c.e.o. it wasn't just for meddling in political campaigns in two thousand and nine s.c.l. carried out a surveillance operation in yemen called project titanium it involved a network of western trained operatives tasked with infiltrating local populations and identifying potential terror threats the nice thing focuses on identifying the groups that support or are conducive to violent jihadist recruitment project titanium was essentially a psychological profile operation against the hottest it's architects wanted to find ways to divert people away from islamised ideology field research is used to identify a clear instance pass to do something target groups those who took part were deceived and led to believe that they were part of more innocent surveys but it was for a noble cause especially at the height of military operations against al qaida the s.c.l. group was acting on behalf of our came in a us based military company they get billions of dollars from the defense department for intel ope

cambridge. more revelation show. company was involved. in yemen. french authorities scramble to. travels to europe's largest jail. on security. for an interview with austrian giving rise to a wide ranging discussion. was remarkably. international news center in moscow. good to have your company i'm you know neal our top story the israeli prime minister is in berlin on the first leg of his europe. trip where he's seeking to push for the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal to be dropped binyamin netanyahu the german chancellor angela merkel wrapped up their talks earlier i've spoken to journalists in the german capital peter all over brings us more in today on food. well benjamin netanyahu certainly being trying on this first leg of his three day european tour where he's been meeting or will be meeting with e.u. leaders to try and convince them to follow the united states is lead and move away from the iran nuclear deal that was a very bad deal because it gave you are the capacity also to develop advanced sort of futures forty times more effective in the intervening years so they coul

or by you to cambridge analytic. do you recall that moment? yes. know the origins of those terms of services? >> my understanding was that this would be a way for us to make a fully commercial app. prior to that it was just a nap. alform>> despite mark zuckerberg disclaiming any knowledge of them? >> i don't know if he personally knew about it but we provided the terms to facebook. >> there is no question that facebook about those terms of service. click's they had them into that taken a look. they had them and could have taken a look. was the best friend that data brokers can have. in march, facebook announced that it was shutting down the improve people's privacy on facebook. facebook told at agencies that they would be prevented from uploading to this later. advertisers complained and persuaded facebook to allow them to continue targeting facebook users with ad space on -- adds based on this. board. on the this is one of facebook primary partners. it had extensive involvement in the online advertising market. i me

top stories the misuse of private data by scandal hit cambridge and said to be discussed in the european parliament revelation show that it's now defunct parent company was involved in a secret counterinsurgency operation we've got the details. israel's prime minister heads to europe to persuade leaders to abandon the hard for iran nuclear deal germany france and britain have pledged to rescue the agreement after it was abandoned by america. and the french authorities raised the alarm over radicalization in prisons. europe's largest jail. over crowded lax proper security. twenty four seven from international. this monday at three pm here in moscow first cambridge analytic of the company at the center of a scandal for using private data for political ends is to be discussed in the european parliament in a couple of hours from now but even as that happens yet another scandal has surfaced investigative journalist max blumenthal has published documents he says were leaked from cambridge analytic his parent company they allegedly revealed that it's been collecting data for private military co

groups being shut down and the head of cambridge a little q. which is also close will be testifying before the british parliament later in the week there's been no comment on those new allegations i can tell you now staying with yemen the saudi led coalition there is closing in on the port city of have died there aid agencies for it'll worsen the humanitarian crisis in the whole country now and this is why it died it is yemen's third largest city and its port is a lifeline for yemen but ninety percent of all food and medicine arrived in that country through that very port you can see how crucial it is the saudi coalition said it targets who see rebels only but humanitarian organizations warn that the military operation mostly impacts the lives of civilians some eight point four million people are severely food insecure and at risk of starvation if conditions do not improve a further ten million people will fall into this category by the end of the year we're extremely concerned about the direct impact on civilians and it is up but also what is

according to newly leaked documents from cambridge analytical parent company s.c.l. it wasn't just for meddling in political campaigns in two thousand and nine s.c.l. carried out a surveillance operation in yemen called project titanium it involved a network of western trained operatives tasked with infiltrating local populations and identifying potential terror threats the initial thing focuses on identifying the groups that support or are conducive to violent jihadist recruitment project titanium was essentially a psychological profile operation against the hottest it's architects wanted to find ways to divert people away from islamised ideology field research is used to identify a clear influence pass to do something target groups those who took part were deceived and led to believe that they were part of more innocent surveys but it was for a noble cause especially at the height of military operations against al qaida the s.c.l. group was acting on behalf of our camera a us based military company they get billions of dollars from the defense department for intel

or by you to cambridge analytica. do you recall that moment? >> yes. a providedanalytic me the terms of service. senator blumenthal: do you know the origins of those terms of services? >> my understanding was that this would be a way for us to make a fully commercial app. prior to that, it was an academic app. senator blumenthal: those provided the sale of information, did they not? >> yes. senator blumenthal despite mark : zuckerberg disclaiming any knowledge of them? >> i don't know if he personally knew about it but we provided the terms to facebook. senator blumenthal: there is no question that facebook about those terms of service. >> they had them and could have taken a look. senator blumenthal: facebook was the best friend that data brokers can have. in march, facebook announced that it was shutting down the data broker program to help improve people's privacy on facebook. facebook told at agencies that -- add agencies that they would be prohibited uploading lists two days later. advertisers complained and pers

these big stories right now the misuse of private data by scandal head cambridge analytical is said to be discussed in the european parliament in a couple of hours time revelation show that it's now defunct parent company was involved in a secret counterinsurgency operation in yemen. the israeli prime minister heads to europe to persuade leaders to abandon the hard fought iran nuclear deal. to rescue the agreement after the us walked away. and the french authorities scramble to tackle the threat of radicalization in prisons travels to europe's largest jail guards overcrowded and that security is inadequate. global news from moscow this is r.t. international i want to welcome you this monday at seven and five in the afternoon here in moscow off first story cambridge analytics the company at the center of a scandal for using private data for political ends is going to be discussed in the european parliament in the coming hours but even as that happens yet another scandal surfaced investigative journalist max blumenthal is published documents that he says were leaked from cambridge analyt

this hour the misuse of private data by scandal hit cambridge analytic or is set to be discussed in the european parliament today at the same time two more revelations show that its parent company may be involved in the secret counterinsurgency operation in yemen i'll tell you all about it coming up. israel's prime minister heads to europe to persuade leaders to abandon the hard fought iran nuclear deal germany france and britain have pledged to rescue the agreement after it was rejected by america. and the french authorities raised the alarm over radicalization in prisons r.t. travels to the largest prison in europe where guards say it's overcrowded and lacks proper security measures. and the good afternoon just turned midday or mosque as one of the fourth of june my name's kevin i bring you the latest marty h.q. then for the next half hour and stay with me. now to listen care of the company at the center of that huge scandal for using private data for political ends is to be discussed in the european parliament later monday but even as that happens yet another scandal surfaced investi

misuse of private data by scandal hit cambridge a little curious set to be discussed by british m.p.'s monday at the same time more revelations show that its parent company may be involved in harvesting data in yemen for military contractors. israel's prime minister heads to europe to persuade leaders to abandon the hard for the rand nuclear deal germany france britain have pledged to rescue the agreement after it was rejected by america. french authorities raised the alarm of a radicalization in prisons r.t. travels to the largest prison in europe but guards say it's overcrowded and lacks proper security measures. i am here in moscow this month of the fourth of june my name is kevin i went with the latest for you from r.t. h.q. for the next half thanks for taking the time to be with us first in cambridge analytic are the company at the center of the scandal for using private data for political ends is to be discussed by british m.p.'s today but even as that happens yet another scandal surfaced leaked documents reveal that cambridge analytic his parent company has been collecting data

the former chief of scandal hit cambridge analytic or is set to appear before british m.p.'s today more revelations show that its parent company may be involved in harvesting data in yemen for military contracts. israel's prime minister heads to europe to persuade leaders to abandon the hard for iran nuclear deal germany france and britain have all pledged to rescue the agreement after it was rejected by america. coming to the smaller french authorities raise alarm over initiative to release forty radicalized prisoners in the next two party travels to europe's largest prison in france. good morning it said just turned eight say i am here in moscow this month in the fourth of june my name is kevin owen here with the latest from r.t. h.q. the next half hour for you and the former chief of cambridge analytic the company at the center of that scandal for using private data for political ends is to appear before british m.p.'s but even as that happens yet another scandal surfaced leaked documents reveal that cambridge analytic his parent company has been collecting data for priva

ok to another headline stories this hour cambridge and well that's again that's the company at the center of a private data scandal has reemerged with yet more controversy investigative journalist mark blumenthal has published documents he sees were leaked from cambridge a little her company they allegedly reveal about it had been collecting data for a private military contractors in yemen here's artie's quarter. remember the cambridge analytical scandal millions of people's personal information being mined for financial gain and influence cambridge and a little it's actually a data analytics company dedicated to one thing figuring out how to manipulate you at all costs this shadowy consulting firm right surreptitiously gained access to personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users weaponized personal data you have to look at cambridge analytics for the loss of trust cambridge analytic scandal this was a huge breach of trust well according to newly leaked documents from kay. bridge analytical parent company as c.l. it wasn't just for meddling in political campaigns i

stories from the misuse of private data by scandal hit cambridge analytic is said to be discussed in the european parliament within the hour. defunct parent company was involved in a secret counterinsurgency operation in yemen. president putin signs new legislation that aims to give russia greater scope for retaliate against. radicalization in prisons and travels to europe's largest. overcrowded in the securities inadequate. you were you watching this monday at six pm here in moscow and this is your world news from r.t. international first off cambridge analytical the company at the center of a scandal for using private data for political ends is to be discussed in the european parliament in the next few minutes or so but even if that happens yet another scandal surfaced investigative journalist max blumenthal published documents he says were leaked from cambridge analytic his parent company they allegedly revealed that it had been collecting data for private military contractors in the yemen as explained. remember the cambridge analytical scandal millions of people's personal inform

i went to cambridge.is your take on this story, and is there a realfailure within these to make huge historic institutions to change, or not? when i was there about 25 years ago, there were so few black faces. there we re there were so few black faces. there were whole university that didn't have any black people in them at all, and it is bizarre, and i think it is perceived as this... this is bizarre, when you think about cambridge and oxford and how you get into those universities. it is about muqqy' into those universities. it is about muggy, isn't it? into those universities. it is about musgy, isn't it? certainly, into those universities. it is about muggy, isn't it? certainly, the public schools are exam making machines and exam passing machines andi machines and exam passing machines and i have always claimed, not with fa ke and i have always claimed, not with fake modesty, that one of the things that a good school does is basically training new to pass those exams, get those three as. it is our sc

cambridge. company was involved in this country insurgency operation in yemen. also had president putin signs new legislation to give russia greater scope for. french authorities. in prisons are. overcrowded security. around the clock across the world international from the team. welcome to the program our top story the israeli prime minister is in berlin on the first leg of his european trip where he's seeking to push for the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal to be dropped. german chancellor angela merkel wrapped up their talks just a little earlier and i've spoken to journalists in the german capital bring this up to date with all developments. well the german netanyahu certainly being trying on this first leg of his three day european tour where he's been meeting or will be meeting with e.u. leaders to try and convince them to follow the united states is lead and move away from the iran nuclear deal that was a very bad deal because it gave you are the capacity also to develop advanced sort of features forty times more effective in the intervening years so that

nearly 300 patients havejoined the personalised breast cancer programme in cambridge.tailored drug treatments. we've had lots of cases where we have either opted for the patient to go on to a clinical trial, because of the results of the consequencing, or where the patient has been offered an alternative standard of care treatment because that was better than one of the other options. and this is a glimpse of how treatment might change in the future, using what scientists call mouse avatars. all these mice have the same patient‘s breast tumour cells growing under their skin. the mice on the right got a drug which didn't work — the tumour has grown. but the mice on the left got a different drug, which did, and the tumour is gone. scientists say these animal models are essential for speeding up the development of new cancer medicines. this is a remarkable example of how cancer research is becoming ever more personalised. in future, it should mean that promising drugs can be tested first in the lab, and then in mouse avatars, to find which one will work best in a patient.

according to newly leaked documents from cambridge analytical parent company as c.e.o. it wasn't just for meddling in political campaigns in two thousand and nine s.c.l. carried out a surveillance operation in yemen called project titanium it involved a network of western trained operatives tasked with infiltrating local populations and identifying potential terror threats the nice thing focuses on identifying the groups that support or are conducive to violent jihadist recruitment project titanium was essentially a psychological profile operation against the hottest its architects wanted to find ways to divert people away from islamised ideology field research is used to identify a clear instance pass to do something target groups those who took part were deceived and led to believe that they were part of more innocent surveys but it was for a noble cause especially at the height of military operations against al qaida the s.c.l. group was acting on behalf of r.k. middies a us based military company they get billions of dollars from the defense department for intel ope

could it be more than what we know that cambridge analytica had access to?analytica had access to, i know for a fact that there were more than just the, this is your digital life app that tends to be getting a lot of press these days. >> that's the personality quiz that gathered information on facebook users and their friends. brittany kaiser says she knows of two similar programs cambridge analytica developed to collect information. >> so, what are we looking at here? >> this was an all-company e-mail. >> she showed us a 2015 note from a data scientist behind a quiz called music walrus. he asked colleagues to share it with family and friends but added please do not mention that it is an scl thing. say that a friend of yours made it. >> and why would the senior data scientist be working on this app not want somebody to say that it came from scl, the parent company of cambridge analytica. >> at the time they were receiving significant press for its political work and this data scientist was probably well aware of what might have happened in the press, if it l

collected personal information this comes in the wake of the facebook data breach scandal in which cambridge analytical used personal data to detect political preferences and when if you're late voters. proponents of political micro-targeting insist it is necessary tool for engaging with electorates however unless these political technology machines are built upon fundamental rates of access and privacy by design it strains credulity that democracy can survive uninjured if we do not absorb the difficult lessons that we can learn from the cambridge analytical catastrophe the hearing also aims to identify how the misuse of these data encroached on europeans fundamental rights such as privacy and of the right to impartial information the european parliament is also looking at where the facebook abused its dominant market position hearings are set to continue until next month. starbucks c.e.o. howard schultz has announced he is retiring from the coffee company over thirty seven years he has transformed starbucks from a single coffee shop in seattle into a global brand most recently aligning the

cambridge associates and the subsequent things that the u.s. private equity overvalue d it' extremely overvalued right now. what you have to do is figure out the risks, the projections on page 13. there's no bear market in there. there's gonna be a bear market some time in thefection five years. the emphasis on tech is good, but tech is highly overvalued. their free cash flow has increased 10% annually over the last five years. their market cap has increased 30%. that's what's driving us. everybody wants a school or somebody to buy them. that's what's driving venture capital. everything is really, really overvalued right now. i'm just gonna make one comment for this and it's gonna pertain to all of the presentations and i won't bother you with them all. these presentations at this stage of the cycle should be focusing more on risk mitigation in their respective sectors. that's it. thank you. >>> thanks, mr. furlan. this is a discussion item only for the board. any other comments or questions to write in the report? just as a reminder to us, wha

fergus walsh, bbc news, cambridge.el dowden said he did not consider evacuating the tower even as residents came out coughing and covered in soot. the inquiry heard that a more senior officer would usually have overseen a fire of that scale. our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds reports from the inquiry. a daunting prospect. michael dowden was grilled for hours about the night he was incident commander in the first hour of a major disaster. what did he see, do, order others to do, what did he consider doing?“ you had decided to adopt a strategy of full—scale evacuation, could you give me some kind of idea of what you would need in terms of firefighters and equipment at that moment? there were regular long pause as i has he attempted to formulate his answers.” pause as i has he attempted to formulate his answers. i cannot comment on that because that is something i have not had experience of. it is a hypothetical question andl of. it is a hypothetical question and i really want to talk about my reactions that nigh