murder is being treated at the hospital friends describe his situation as serious as a reporter jared reed is with me in the studio now can you tell us a little bit. more about who this man is well this is the publisher and as you mentioned a member of this russian protest group pussy riot that's gotten very famous over the last six or seven years through its high profile protests against the kremlin and against vladimir putin now his very unwell he was taken sick earlier this week his friends say he has had trouble seeing speaking and moving and often being in intensive care in moscow he was taken to berlin video seeing he was posted to twitter by his wife is also a member of pussy riot at shin if it we conceive of he shortly after landing being aided on the plane on a stretcher now his colleagues in pussy riot believe that he was poisoned for political reasons by the kremlin although this hasn't been the cause of the illness hasn't been identified a few days ago pussy riot posted this far sorry to punish those responsible and as you mentioned visit love was jailed off to the world cup be

reporter jared reed is with us in the studio and he has been following this story what can you tell us about this man well he as you said is a is a member of this very famous protest group called pussy riot over the last six or seven years has stayed. some very famous demonstrations against the kremlin which have angered people like me a person now. was flying to berlin he is very unwell his friends say that he has had trouble seeing speaking and moving being treated in moscow he was flying last night this video was posted by his former wife is also a member of pussy riot at berlin's. we conceive of here shortly after landing being hated on the plane on a stretcher now people the members of pussy riot believe he was poisoned for political reasons and they're pointing their fingers at the kremlin although the cause of his illness hasn't yet been identified a few days ago pussy riot posted. to punish responsible and as you said he was jailed for taking part in a pitch invasion in the world cup final in russia which he said was in protest at the russians diet and against excessive powers

earlier i spoke to jared reed from our social media department and asked him what else we knew about the case so far packers were able to get bits of information that gave them access to fifty million user accounts as you said and the information cold tokens these are basically the digital keys to our account and they help us buy it by not not making us having to log back into our accounts every single time we use facebook so in effect they stole fifty million keys and they did that by exploiting the view as options you're on facebook kristoff and you've got different security options for different people and you want to know well what does my account look like if jarryd looks at it this is when you touch my name into view as and so the hackers got into view as took fifty million k's and looked at all these accounts facebook says it identified the problem on tuesday and it put a patch in. ok fifty million gone that's what we know what don't we know ok so we don't know who was behind this facebook says it's investigating who did it but it still is none the wiser it says whoever was be

earlier i spoke to jared reed from our social media department and asked him what else we knew about the case so far. packers were able to get bits of information that gave them access to fifty million user accounts as you said and the information cold tokens these are basically the digital keys to our account and they help us by by not not making us having to log back into our accounts every single time we use facebook so in effect they stole fifty million kids and they did that by exploiting the view. you're on facebook kristoff and you've got different security options for different people and you want to know well what does my account look like if jarryd looks at it this is when you type my name into view as and so the hackers got into view as took fifty million k's and you know looked at all these accounts facebook says it identified the problem on tuesday and it put a patch in. ok fifty million gone that's what we know what don't we know ok so we don't know who was behind this facebook says it's investigating who did it but it still is none the wiser it says whoever was behind

earlier i spoke to jared reed from our social media department and asked him what else we knew about the case so far. packages were able to get bits of information that gave them access to fifty million user accounts as you said and the information cold tokens these are basically the digital keys to our accounts and they help us by by not not making us having to log back into our accounts every single time we use facebook so in effect they stole fifty million keys and they did that by exploiting the view. you're on facebook kristoff and you've got different security options for different people and you want to know well what does my account look like if jared looks at it this is when you touch my name into view as and so the hackers got into view as took fifty million k's and you know looked at all these accounts facebook says it identified the problem on tuesday and it put a patch in. ok fifty million gone that's what we know what don't we know ok so we don't know who was behind this facebook says it's investigating who did it but it still is none the wiser it says whoever was behin

doing to stop abuse and foreign interference on their platforms we have our social media editor jared reed with us for more on this hi jared what is this hearing all about well basically these two top executives we've got sheryl sandberg from facebook and jack dorsey from twitter they're appearing in front of these politicians basically to convince them that they're ready for the midterms in two months time and that they're being proactive in preventing foreign interference and they have to do that because of russia and its attempts to use social media to interfere in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and they're saying now that iran is getting in on the action so maybe rule get some information about that the executives are going to be talking about what they're doing to clamp down on misinformation so they're trying to make political advertising more transparent deleting billions of fake accounts and pages hiring more stuff and developing the artificial intelligence technology to try and clamp down on abuse so what do you think we're going to see take place and i think we're

we just discussed with linda press underpressure encampment then we have our social media editor jared reed with us and also d.o.b. the charlotte show some poll who's been in chemist's reporting on events there good to have you both with us in the studio a jerk i want to start with you because this has been a rough week for journalists in germany a lot of stories of intimidation of journalist not being able to carry out their work to tell us more linda was saying we're hearing reports of journalists having to even hire security guards to simply carry out their work to the tax office of the situation and kevin it's blew up a lot of journalists went there to see what was going on to bring the stories to their audiences and they themselves were coming under attack and that they had to they felt insecure they were coming on to vote below physical attack and filled so insecure that they needed them so to have protection to simply do the job we can see some of the situations that journalists have been facing in cabinets like hiya you can see a video of a group of men assaulting a cameraman the sa

for more, jared reed from our social-media desk is with me. garrett, this sounds bad. at else do we know? jared: facebook said hackers were able to get information that gave them access to 50 million user accounts. and information called tokens, basically the digital keys to our count, and they help us by not making us have to account log back into our accounts every single time we use facebook. so in effect, they stole 50 million keys. and they did that might exploding the view-as option. so you have different security options for different people and you want to know, what does my count look like if jared looks at it? so the hackers got into view-as, to 50 million keys and looked at all these accounts. facebook says it identified the problem on tuesday and put a patch in on thursday. ? >> 50 million keys, gone. what don'jerod: facebook says ws behind the hack had to be pretty sophisticated. i guess we can believe that, i t doesn't hide the fact that one of the world's biggest social media companies was so vulnerable that it could get hacked. we also don't know was whe

sparked a backlash both against them and i guess twitter off more here is our social media editor jared reed good to see you jerry tell us about this group and their position regarding this practice right so there's a subsect of shia islam and they're called the woody bora community and female genital mutilation is something that is commonly practiced in this group and over the last year in response to more awareness and global pushback against the practice they have also come out and there are into their own practices particularly what they call the cuffs which is the term they used to describe female genital cutting now the group is called da woody bora women for religious freedom they're active online they have a website and a twitter presence a relatively small one are around fifteen hundred twitter followers but it's full of first person accounts of women who have undergone the practice. and they wanted to continue because they say it's their religious right now what's made people upset is that it appears twitter has allowed the group to pay to promote itself and what that means is that

course about democracy and been mean to each other thanks so much for bringing us up to date on this jared reed for us on the social media desk. at. the trumpet ministrations maybe fighting with the strain partners u.s. companies seem unimpressed now the pace of hiring quickened in august and wages grew at their fastest pace in nine years overall the u.s. economy added more than two hundred thousand jobs last month with the unemployment rate at three point nine percent the u.s. economy is considered to be at full employment now the u.s. federal reserve has said that under such circumstances it would continue to raise key interest rates the governing board is set to meet at the end of this month. now how did all of that go down with investors here's our markets meant only parts. the trade with china may be settling in but the u.s. economy are now coming along. growth. potential in august but the non-farm payrolls showing two hundred one thousand jobs created many more than expected were contributed were a broad range of sectors from construction to wholesalers to business services here also good

serious about stopping abuse and foreign interference on their platforms in our social media editor jared reed has been following the high profile hearing for us always good to have you here with us in person gerri first things first what was this hearing about basically it was billed as a way for sheryl sandberg from facebook and jack dorsey from tweeted to convince the politicians that they're ready for the upcoming midterms which are in two months time and that they're proactively trying to do everything they can to stop election interference from overseas because of the experience from russia in twenty sixteen and its use of social media to try and sell once the presidential election executives were contrite and said look we you know we didn't work fast enough at the time but we have learning out lessons and we're trying to prevent it from happening in other elections going forward i think though if you could summarize their responses it was sort of like we don't like bad things when we see bad things we try and stop the bad things and identify them i think there are facebook came out a li

recommendations for a timeline by the end of this year we just have to wait and see what it recommends to jared reed thank you so very much. now for decades local authorities around the world have complained about people throwing chewing gum onto the streets it's hard to remove it's unsightly and frankly it's just gross but the dutch city of our staff has come up with a novel solution to tackle this sticky problem. blowing bubbles with bubble gum it's a lot of fun and delicious to. think about when the fun's over. in the netherlands about one and a half tons of chewed up chewing gum gets tossed on the street and that causes more trouble than most people think. the problem with chewing gum is not just that it sticks to your clothes or that it's a pain when it gets stuck to your shoes the real problem is that it sticks around a long time it takes twenty to twenty five years to break down. that's why the city of amsterdam has brought out the big guns against old gum the idea was to work together with a few designers to produce a shoe soles made of up to thirty percent called chewing gum chewing gum in