with me is stephanie hare, an independent research analyst.om new zealand. the prime minister announcing that the gun laws will change. they seem to be moving fairly rapidly on this. it is such a striking contrast with the us where we are used to so many shootings. nothing happened within congress because of the powerful nra lobby. in new zealand they are taking an approach much similar to that of australia, which banned

with me is stephanie hare, an independent research analyst.'s start with the latest developments from new zealand. the prime minister announcing that the gun laws will change. they seem to be moving fairly rapidly on this. it is such a striking contrast with the us where we are used to so many shootings. nothing happened within congress because of the powerful nra lobby. in new zealand they are taking an approach much similar to that of australia, which banned guns after a massacre, and had an amnesty. it can be done if there is political will. there has been i think a lot of praise and admiration for the way that jacinda ardern has provided leadership in the days after this attack. she has shown an incredible human touch and compassion in her leadership style, she has gone and promised to cover the cost of the funerals and to help the cost of the funerals and to help the families as they move on with their lives, and she is taking very swift action on the gun laws within new zealand, and they might even be looking at social media laws. let's

with me is independent analyst stephanie hare. that's start with the toronto star, iimagine that's start with the toronto star, i imagine they are all over this story, with the resignation of a second cabinet minister, philpott, after the resignation of her friend, jody wilson—raybould. after the resignation of her friend, jody wilson-raybould. this is all about a scandal around a company, snc—lavalin, and justin trudeau believes that job losses snc—lavalin, and justin trudeau believes thatjob losses could result from that company being prosecuted for fraud. this is quite a big shock and surprise, when she made that choice. it puts the prime ministerjustin trudeau in quite a tricky position. when he was elected, quite soon after donald trump was a late did in the us, he was seen as this poster boy for a new era in politics, everyone hailed him, he had huge diversity in his cabinet. where is he now? is he in a crisis? this article implies it is the worst crisis he has seen? crisis? this article implies it is the worst crisis he has

with me is independent analyst stephanie hare.art with the toronto star, i imagine they are all over this story, with the resignation of a second cabinet minister, philpott, after

dr stephanie hare, who's an independent analyst, a regular here, joins me now.the us president argues is not working for the us because when it comes to us exports into india, they are not getting the same treatment. that is right, another reason is because india changed e—commerce laws, so they wa nted changed e—commerce laws, so they wanted companies like amazon eat indian data localised in india, so thatis indian data localised in india, so that is a trend worldwide and the other is that they were introducing higher tariffs on electronic products and smart phones, so that is obviously going to hit the bottom line for us companies. so the indian government is saying this is not the end of the world, it is worth $250 million to them but obviously, this is still going to affect india's online as well. and it is quite interesting that we're hearing, we have not heard confirmation yet but there is a lot of speculation that when it comes to the us and china, there could be some breakthrough on there could be some breakthrough on the ongoing trade war as it were, an

let's talk to dr stephanie hare, independent technology researcher. as well. that is one of the things that facebook has raised, they might reinvest advertisers. we could see a class action suit as well. they haven't been given an explanation as to why this happened or how long it would go on or if it could happen again. we are hearing that there are some minor outages in certain parts of the world even though the site on the whole appears to be recovering from all of this. is it clear what has caused this yet? they have not come out with a public statement saying what it is but what they have said is what it isn't. that is a distributed denial of service, which isa distributed denial of service, which is a cyber attack. it is possible and one of the things we do know is that facebook announced they would be integrating facebook, instagram, messenger and whatsapp. possibly they are doing some sort of work on they are doing some sort of work on the back end of that but that is just speculation at this stage. will this lead to renewed calls in the unite

stephanie hare, an independent research analyst.s is one of the most chilling aspects of the whole thing. the fact that it was streamed live as it happened and was subsequently shared. an social media companies really scrambling and failing to halt it. here. they were able to use artificial intelligence to help stop the upload of that video. facebook put out a statistic over the weekend that they had stopped 1.5 million uploads. around 300,000 of them still got through. that was in a 24—hour period. it just still got through. that was in a 24—hour period. itjust shows it is not 100% artificial intelligence working to stop these videos, it is still relying on human moderators. that is why it is challenging for the social media platforms, the tech to stop this from happening is not developed yet. part of the problem is so many of these sites now have videos set to autoplay. even if you we re videos set to autoplay. even if you were innocently scrolling through a feed you could find yourself, or bed for a few seconds, but forced to wat