time today professor of history and international relations at lebanese university in beirut thank you. the internet has long had a sinister side which few people ever experience but which should be of concern to anyone who gets online. this is just. well securing information held online is now and endless battle with cyber crime having rocketed in recent years and it's thought the cost of countering it could double over the next five years cyber security expert barry spielman explains some of the dangers. the dark web has become a place where a lot of very bad things are going on over there it wasn't always that way and it wasn't meant to be that way the dark web was a set up a originally by the united states navy to be used as a place for dissidents or people in third world countries who want to have connections with the outside world or to provide privacy and anonymity but the problem is is that the dark web has been hijacked by bad people because of the same reasons that it's providing that same anonymity and basically today you have tremendous amounts of cyber crime that are being

most of thank you very much jamal wakim professor of history and international ations after lebanese university in brit thank you. living on the historic nuclear agreement with iran is in jeopardy now after president trump announced he won't certify tehran's compliance with the deal his decision comes despite the global nuclear watchdog as well as u.s. and european officials saying iran is keeping its side of the accord. we will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real threat of iran's nuclear breakout importantly iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal but the move means the u.s. congress now has sixty days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions against iran as well as come up with new legislation to try and i'm in the nuclear deal but if those negotiations fail trumps the deal will be terminated which risks undermining the front child balance the nuclear deal secured here's why the american president might be considering ripping up the agreement. four reasons why trump needs to pick a fight with iran. after all his policy fl

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the canary islands the universe seems to feel closer to long with other locations in southwestern europe the spanish archipelago is an ideal location for observing the sky. lebanese levity in the iberian peninsula and the canary islands should actually be considered as a nature reserve for practicing astronomy in europe. less than a meal in. their geographic setting with the mountains and climate make these islands a kind of window on the cosmos where many nations would like to carry out groundbreaking research. to this book we have telescopes from a great many countries especially at the observatory about the record their last one shot show sun the palm island you'll find the best set of telescopes in the northern hemisphere there if not in the whole world is going to the moon. astronomy arguably the first science cultivated by humans is in some danger light pollution from cities obscures the stars. and. astronomers and astrophysicists were the first to identify the danger of losing the night sky society wasn't aware of the importance of preserving that sky people thought astronomers were the only ones interested for scientific or personal reasons but it's the m