dave lee, bbc news, in san francisco.fornia? bronzed bodies, golden sands, and surfing — lots of surfing. well, things might be changing, with a surfboard that is a little bit different, as the bbc‘s tim allman explains. in this workshop in the small town of carlsbad, a sporting revolution is taking place. dave daum and his colleagues are perfecting a new kind of surfboard. somewhere along the line i took my engineering talents and coupled them with surfboard and stand up paddle board design and worked out what i was doing, and came up with the foilboards and a paddle board like you see in the background. high—tech, computer designed, but these testing on the waves. cue the beach boys. surfin' safari. technically, it is not surfboarding, but foilboarding. either way it's a ride. we have so much fun. it was the worst conditions today, and we went out and had a blast. the board works like a hydrofoil. the wing under the water helps it to rise up in the air as it gains speed. and because there is less drag, it can travel muc

dave lee, bbc news.cted in 1913 of taking his white girlfriend across state lines. jackjohnson was arrested in 1912 with lucille cameron, a white woman who would later become his wife. he was world heavyweight title holder from 1908 until 1915. mr trump was joined in the oval office by rocky star, sylvester stallone, and boxer lennox lewis. he said the move corrected a historic us wrong to jackjohnson. today, as president i have issued an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, posthumus league, tojohn harford jackjohnson, known as jack johnson. the first african—american heavyweight champion of the world, a truly great fighter and had a tough life. they say he violated an act and had a convention that occurred during a period of tremendous racial troubles in the united states over a century ago. he went to federal prison for what many view as a racially motivated injustice. he was treated very rough. his sermon about the power of love was one of the highlights of the wedding of the duke and duchess

dave lee, bbc news. in 1913 of taking his white girlfriend across state lines. jackjohnson was arrested in 1912 with lucille cameron, a white woman who would later become his wife. he was world heavyweight title holder from 1908 until 1915. mr trump was joined in the oval office by rocky star, sylvester stallone, and boxer lennox lewis. his sermon about the power of love was one of the highlights of the wedding of the duke and duchess of sussex — and on thursday night bishop michael curry headed to the white house to spread his message. he joined other religious leaders at a candle—lit vigil. and he's been speaking to our religion editor martin bashir. imagine this tired old world when love is the way. when love is the way. there was passion in his preaching and rhythm in his voice as bishop michael curry fused race and religion at the royal wedding. reverend michael curry,... since returning to new york, his feet have not touched the ground. a preacher, now the most sought after interviewee on american

zuckerberg didn't feel they got the answers they wanted, as our north america technology reporter dave leesuited, composed and well briefed in front of politicians relishing the chance to throw questions at one of the most powerful men in the world. he may not enjoy it but mark zuckerberg is getting used to it. the format of the european parliament's meeting, members had to ask questions in succession with the answers coming all at once at the end. there was about one hour of questioning, leaving mr zuckerberg with just 25 minutes in which to answer. he used that time to reiterate his view that some sort of regulation was on its way. the question is asked about how i view regulation. i don't think the question here is whether or not there should be regulation. the question is what is the right regulation? the internet is becoming increasingly important in the lives of people. some sort of regulation is important and inevitable and the important thing is to get this right. he also said his company would would be fully compliant with upcoming european data previously laws. he said the protec

our tech reporter in san francisco dave lee explains.ve r kelly music in your own playlist and you want to search for r kelly and play his music, it will still be available on the service. spotify say they were never sent to someone in that way for something they do outside their own music, as it were alleged to have done in this case. what they have done in this case. what they have done in this case. what they have done it what a powerful statement. they say he will no longer be included in any playlist that the country —— company self creates. that could be through algorithmic playlists generated based on a person of a type of music they like to listen to. that letter will no longer be automatically suggested to people, nor will the peak —— company include his music in playlist the company puts together. those playlists are incredibly popular. this could have an impact on the revenues that r kelly and his record label made from his music. his most popular song, ignition has been strained to millions of times. having his music in fewer

respond to tweets from the accounts that have blocked them. 0ur north america technology reporter dave lee more about the case. this is the case that has big implications i think, i think, for not only how president trump conducts himself on twitter, but also public officials across the us. they're all being guided now by new recommendations by the judge in new york. what she said was that blocking people on twitter would impinge their rights to have a free and open discussion with those accounts. so for example if someone disagreed with president trump but was blocked by president trump, they wouldn't be able to reply to his tweets and nor would they be able to quote his tweets and therefore the judge ruled that was in violation of the first amendment. what the president and other officials can still do is mute people. so while the first amendment protects people's right to speak at the president, that same amendment doesn't force the president or other public officials to listen to what is being said. right now, president trump follows only around 50 people on twitter, made up mostly of

respond to tweets from the accounts that have blocked them. 0ur north america technology reporter dave leewitter to share his views on policy, the media and anything else that appears to arrive in his head. people that have disagreed openly with the president by sending tweets to him are often blocked, but a judge has now said that he can no longer do that. users that are blocked on twitter cannot see the tweet sent by the account that has blocked them, they also cannot reply directly to them. this was an infringement on the first amendment's right to free speech. however, thejudge did say amendment's right to free speech. however, the judge did say that president and other officials could still mute people on twitter, while people could he didn't have to hear all they had to say and those things would appear in his feed. this ruling doesn't just would appear in his feed. this ruling doesn'tjust affect president trump, but all officials in the us, so trump, but all officials in the us, so many of them now will be forced to unblock people that had been targeting them on twitter with things

the bbc‘s north america technology reporter dave lee has more., relishing the chance to throw questions at one of the world's most powerful men. he may not enjoy it, but mark tapper wrote —— zuckerberg is getting used to it. the format of the european parliament meeting meant members had to ask questions in succession with the answers coming up once at the end. there was about an hour of questioning, leaving mr zuckerberg was just 25 minutes to answer. he used that time to reiterate his view that some kind of regulation was on its way. some of the questions asked how i view regulation. i don't think the question here is whether there should be regulation or not, i think it is what is the right regulation. the internet is becoming increasingly important in people's lives. some sort of regulation is important and inevitable and the important and inevitable and the important thing is to get it right. he also said his company would be fully compliant with upcoming european data privacy laws known as gdp are. he said the protections put in place would

here's our north america technology reporter, dave lee.self driving software as an unknown object. the butcher was a vehicle or maybe a b i cycle. butcher was a vehicle or maybe a bicycle. the car did not slow down and she became the first person on record to be killed by an autonomous car. the vehicle, a modified volvo, had it its emergency braking system disabled. uber said this was to avoid erratic driving behaviour. it is not clear the system would have savedif is not clear the system would have saved if the system had been switched on. the national transportation safety boa rd's switched on. the national transportation safety board's report is not the final say on the matter. it's full, conclusive ruling is several months away least. but what is known so far the incident raises serious questions about the safety of uber‘s self driving programme. the company had its permit to test the self driving vehicles in arizona revoked, but said it hoped to test and other places, including the city of pittsburgh. however, that came as news to the

the bbc‘s north america technology reporter dave lee has more.. remember, he has not agreed to go to a address parliament in the uk, but they were left extremist russia could, there were really tetchy exchanges at the end of partly down to the format, this was 90 minutes, the first hour was the full political leaders in the parliament putting questions, but rather than questions followed by cancer, it was one hour of any questions and then half an hour of his replies. he was able to reply to this the questions the generality, saying facebook would go dell might do better and they didn't feel like they got a nswe i’s they didn't feel like they got a nswers to they didn't feel like they got answers to many questions, including about that data breach of 80 odd million users to cambridge analytica, did he know or approve the decision not to tell anyone about that? no answer. would they come clean about the taxes they pay in everyjurisdiction? come clean about the taxes they pay in every jurisdiction? no come clean about the taxes they pay in everyjur

the bbc‘s north america technology reporter dave lee has more. politicians, relishing the chance to throw questions at one of the most powerful men in the world. he may not enjoy it but mark zuckerberg is getting used to it. the format of the european parliament's meeting, members had to ask questions in succession with the a nswe i’s ask questions in succession with the answers coming all at once at the end. there was about one hour of questioning, leaving mr zucker burp with just 25 minutes in which to answer. he used that time to reiterate his view that some sort of regulation was on its way. the question is asked about how i view regulation. i don't think the question here is whether or not there should be regulation. the question is what is the right regulation. the internet is becoming increasingly important in the lives of people. some sort of regulation is important and inevitable and the important thing is to get this right. he also said his company would would be fully compliant with upcoming european data previously laws. he said the p

dave lee. good to have you on the programme. tell us how the software works, please.. the cloud computing platform and what they're going to do with that is stored an immense amount of information and computed extremely quickly. in this case, for police in oregon, they we re case, for police in oregon, they were getting mugshots and using that system to quickly identify people using facial recognition via a mobile lab. the system recognition, this is a major leap forward for law enforcement being able to identify people in minutes rather than days. the flip side is the american civil liberties union, they are really concerned that this technology may be used for other purposes, one of them particularly, but the political climate identifying undocumented immigrants automatically and quickly and the street using the technology. there is a high amount of concern that the uses that it's being used for today, our kind of what could be used for and therefore the aclu is saying that this technology being rolled out by law enforcement, across the country, needs to be much fir

decisions — what we choose to program — to reflect our values". 0ur north america tech correspondent dave leerom the service? what are they doing? no, he's not being removed, if you still have our chilli meat —— music in your own playlist you've made or you want to search for it and play some of his music that will still be available on the service. the say will never censor someone in on the service. the say will never censor someone in that way for something they do outside of their own music. as r kelly is alleged to have done in this case. what spotify have done in this case. what spotify have said they've done however is quite a powerful statement. they said he would no longer be included in any playlist that the company itself creates, so that could be through algorithmic playlist that are generated based on a person's type of music they like to listen to sell r kelly will no longer be automatically suggested to people. nor will the company include r kelly's music in any of the manually created or curated playlists that the company puts together. those playlists are incredibly popular.

following calls for transparency after the cambridge analytica data privacy scandal. 0ur correspondent dave leeeen under increasing scrutiny to keep the worst element of that community in check. so now, for the first time and under pressure from multiple governments around the world, facebook is releasing its own internal data to show the scale of abuse on its network. in the first three months of 2018, the volume of violent content being removed from facebook increased by nearly 200% compared to the end of 2017. of the violent material it found, 86% was detected by facebook‘s automated systems. automation also spotted 21 million posts of sexual content, 837 million spam posts and 1.9 million posts of terrorist propaganda, blocked or taken down before any users ever saw it. experts say this automation will help the company while it is learning to get on top of some of the problem areas. i think they're taking the right steps to clearly define what is and what is not protected speech on their platform and i think it is promising to develop machine learning tools that they can use to better equip

lee. ian, it looks quiet behind you. what is expected today? >> reporter: dave, we're expecting protests to kick up around noon time local time. there are a lot of funerals taking place today. that is where the people will be at the 59 funerals for people killed. including in those 59 people dead are eight children. including one infant who died in one of the camps that are behind me. there are hundreds of meters from the border. the baby died from asphyxiation due to tear gas. there is a lot of anger over the deaths here. we heard a lot of international condemnation from the united nations and doctors without borders with the level of violence. it is easy why we saw that. here, there were thousands of people up and down the border. their goal was to try to cross over. you ask why they are out here. they tell us frustration with the current situation. gaza has been blockaded by israel and egypt for over a decade. you have the embassy move. a lot of anger about the united states declaring jerusalem the capital of israel. you have this anger vented in that directi

dave. >> ian lee. thank you. >> what is iran saying about the tensions?with fred pleitgen from tehran. fred. >> reporter: good morning, christine. the iranians are taking their time with any response. we have not heard anything op open -- anything official from the iranians yet. mostly citing syrian sources and they knowledge the israelis blame iranians for what happened or starting it. they are saying they are waiting for some sort of response from the authorities here in tehran. so far, none has been forthcoming. not necessarily something that is unusual in the past when we have seen skirmishes like this when situations have boiled. it has taken a while for iranians to respond especially with iranian casualties involved. christine, this coming at an important time after president trump pulled out of the nuclear agreements. iran trying to save the agreement and in fact, a call between hassan rouhani, the president of iran and the president of france emmanuel macron trying to scope oeut way to move forward. >> fred in tehran. thank you. oil prices have be

dave? >> all right, ian lee, live for us, just before 1:00 p.m., thanks. >>> let's get a check on cnn money, asian stocks are falling overnight, spooked by the news that north korea has suspended talks with south korea and threatening the future meeting with president trump. stocks closed lower after bond yields rose to the seven year high. consumers spent more in april and that sparked concerns about faster interest rate hikes ahead. that drilled the ten year treasury yield to nearly 3.1%. bond rates of course affect borrowing costs for auto loans and mortgages and mortgage rates are at seven year highs. the bench fixed rate 4.88%. mortgage rates started the year around 4%. but have been rising since then. for the average borrower they're above 5% for very good credit. 4.8%. look, the housing market is in an interesting spot, the supply is tight, people are struggling to find affordable homes especially starter homes. they show no sign of easing up. >>> all right, prime members will get an extra discount at whole foods. it's amazon's latest move

dave? >> all right, ian lee, just before noon in gaza, thank you. >>> another midair scare, a sichuan flight forced to make an emergency landing after the co-pilot was sucked halfway out of the cockpit. it happened when the windshield suddenly blew out in an altitude of 30,000 feet. the co-pilot suffered scratches and a sprained wrist. a flight attendant was also injured. none of the passengers were hurt. the aircraft landed safely in southern china. one wonders what the pilot must have been doing to pull his colleague pack into the airplane and deal with the sudden depressurization of the cabin. >> will that pilot get back into an airplane. >>> a deadly explosion at a california medical facility appears to be intentional. more from orange county next. guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. medicare doesn't cover everything. and like all standardized medicare supple

we have cnn's ian lee with more along the gaza strip. >> reporter: good morning, dave. we are waiting to see if people come out here. yesterday at this time there were thousands of people here. thick black smoke behind me. today it is calmer. we are expecting the funerals to happen within an hour's time. that is where a lot of people are right now. yesterday was the deadliest day in gaza since that 2014 war here. a lot of people reeling from that violence. we talked to some of the people over in the camp here who spent the night out here. they say they are still energized, but wondering if they still have momentum to keep this protest movement going. yesterday, with that violence, you had the white house blaming hamas and hamas blaming the united states for the bloodshed. when you talk to people, there is a lot of anger of the current situation in gaza. gaza is under israeli and egypt post blockade for over a decade and anger over the embassy move. we will see if that anger comes out and translates today with protesters gathering. right now, dave. it is calm on the bord

lee live from jerusalem with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dave. yeah, last night we were hearing from the israeli military. they are stepping up their alert level after what they said were irregular activities of iranian forces inside of syria. what does that actually mean is that they opened up shelters for civilians in the golan heights as well as across northern israel. they also called up reservists. these are noncombatant reservists which include medics, intelligence officers, also people who can operate israel's anti-missile iron dome system. this highlights the increased tensions that we've been seeing in the northern part of israel along the border with syria. israeli officials have been afraid that there could be some sort of tensions and outbreak of violence around this nuclear deal, around the united states pulling out of it. this morning, though, we did have israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu before he was leaving to russia to attend the victory day parade inside moscow. he gave some statements, and he said that he wants to work

lee near dangerous situations. we will go to ian live in a moment. welcome back. i'm dave briggs. >> 32 minutes past the hour.begin with trade. u.s. and china on trade. the president is vowing to save jobs. chinese jobs. trump is working to get zte back into business tweeting too many jobs in china lost. commerce department instructed to get it done. just last month, trump's commerce department crippled the zte. barl b barred u.s. companies from selling zte parts. they violated the sanctions by selling zte parts to iran and lying about the employees involved. this is wilbur ross last year calling the actions of zte egregious. >> improper trade games are over. >> are they? trump's tweet grew sharp criticism by adam schiff. he said trump should care more about our national security than chinese jobs. trump's reversal come as round two of trade talks ramps up. in a second tweet, trump said china and the u.s. are working well together. after past trade talks were one sided. adding be cool. it will all work out. >>> tensions high in the middle east. the white house doing what past administrations promised to do, b

point, i think you will see the fed be reluctant to deliver lee invert the yield curve for fear that that might send a strong signal to markets. daveher calls connected to this, i'm guessing that you are saying inflation might remain contained. you see gold rising to 1375. mind you, the median forecast has it at 1310. look, there are couple of factors behind our view on gold our commodity team has demonstrated that the fundamentals across commodities oil.externally healthyin, one of the things that has surprised us this year is the positive correlation between commodity prices and the dollar, which flies in the face of historical behavior. so, our expectation that the dollar will reweaken in the second half of the year should go quite a long way to supporting gold prices. haslinda: before we let you go, we want to take a look at fed rate rises. consensus is there will be three for the year. what is your take? eric: working in reverse order, i think the jobs data on a months nine-month basis is not terribly important to the fed's thinking. as long as the jobs data continues to move in the direction of 150 to 180,000 jobs thatonth, i

a north america technology reporter dave lee says the company is under a lot of pressure to be more transparentas been published today, on tuesday in california, it isa today, on tuesday in california, it is a landmark report. it is the first time they have put this data into the public domain, indeed it is the first time they have collected some of the state for itself, they have had to develop new ways of counting inappropriate content on facebook in order to get a full picture, or at least attempt to get a full picture of some of the problems the social network faces. that is what is contained in this report. they do say it will be the first of several, they are going to continue developing the methodology. and i think what this is really about is the company trying to show that it about is the company trying to show thatitis about is the company trying to show that it is improving in this area and in the places where it still has and in the places where it still has a long way to go, and there are quite a few of those, that it is doing its best to develop its technologies or investing in re