the saudis used twitter to police within the country and gave birth to the hash tag twitter killed tookie i'll just. use the saudi activist and satirist living in canada is an example of how the saudi surveillance state extends beyond its borders abdulaziz says personal information the twitter had on him was turned over to riyadh then used by operatives to target his computer with state of the art spyware and malware made in israel but the information that you can gain from twitter would allow whether it's e-mail address phone number is a better way to target those this event with spyware if you have the e-mail you can do some social engineering deliver some malware to them via a convincing lie similar you can do that with an ip address or a phone number so those information points key because they allow the states in question the saudi government to refine the ways in which they might try to compromise the devices belonging to any dissidents. by the end of 2015 american investigators had informed twitter of the saudi spies within its ranks 6 months later the company's c.e.o. jack dorsey

talk to al-jazeera we were told that it is to ration has this been addressed by tookie we listen what is the proposal. for a couple and here we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter how does it. know the secret is go ok let's try this cut down on me all right right. ok. that's just trying to design to right extremes. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week big news that beijing didn't want out there somebody inside the communist party wants the outside world to know what is happening in sin jack conflict of interest the corporate kind reporters at bloomberg news cannot investigate their boss who happens to be running for the white house they're tracking journalists from inside their phones the governments are buying an insidious piece of israeli software to target activists and reporters they don't like and is a deep fake version of boris johnson those are all less why should you believe me any less credible than the real boris johnson. it is one of the biggest human right

yes the modem ara corresponded that in ankara as tookie starts sending back. to their countries of origin. jihadist fighters this includes the eleven french citizens. on americans already said he won't take them back. from twenty four has a special series of reports on libya offices with the militia trying to stop general hi lisa hopped up and taking triply coalition of western fighters is come together to stop the general who seeking to oust the you and backed governmnment. half those received the international backing of us president donald trump he was at a meeting in paris with a manual mackerel back in may this year when he refused the french president's request for a ceasefire. france would oppose reporters cap norris trent. judy dongle huff and abdullah moscow we. war has been dragging on for seven months now on the outskirts of tripoli. as they belong to generate all this was under the control of. we're embedded with fighters from misrata manning the front line in the now deserted neighborhood some ten kilometers from the center of tripoli. it's not a

with us not this is just happening and this is very clever by putting out the one with the yes and tookie was the country that mostly supported syrian opposition don't forget that the syrian uprising so now they will switch because they will say from our perspective assad is the lesser of 2 evils we will rearrange all self syrian troops along the border russian military police can even withdraw putting is that we had been normal responsibility there and this will be a major shift and the prize will be paid by syrian opposition or by syrian people that will long for something called. freedom and dignity which is not there anymore so i would argue that the west should not fall into this trap of an international diplomatic solution which is not taking place because assad will just keep his power the way he did during the last decades of study i 2nd that opinion and i think that i will genuinely have to find a way to deal with a sudden it's already happening and he's already delivered to my zing future in syria i agree with the argument that it's the lesser of 2 evils you know instead of havi

tool to use their own we were told to get to the ministry of ration has this been addressed by tookie we listen what he's the proposal. for a couple on you know we meet with news makers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question has congress convince the american people that impeaching president donald trump is justified let's get to the bottom line. the impeachment inquiry is officially 2 months old and it seems that the only thing that is really proved is that americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes in one donald trump tried to bribe a foreign country into investigating a political rival to win the elections next year and then the other democrats are conspiring to destroy the president at any cost and their partners are an evil media spewing fake news diplomats and bureaucrats from the quote deep state plus some ukrainians who many believe are the real meddlers in the last election rather than the russians so what universe are we fortunately.

time to get to the dustbin is to be able to gracious has this been addressed by tookie we listen what he's the proposal. for a couple on you know we meet with news makers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question has congress convince the american people that impeaching president donald trump is justified let's get to the bottom line. the impeachment inquiry is officially 2 months old and it seems that the only thing that is really proved is that americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes in one donald trump tried to bribe a foreign country into investigating a political rival to win the election next year and then the other democrats are conspiring to destroy the president at any cost and their partners are an evil media spewing fake news diplomats and bureaucrats from the quote deep state plus some ukrainians who many believe are the real meddlers in the last election rather than the russians so what universe are we in fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have the answer to that question rena shaw a republican strategist

they had this whole list of words that you couldn't say, one of which was tookis. i'm like what?rying to help the comedian by saying don't be too dirty, don't be too offensive because what is going to happen is you're going to say some questionable joke about sexuality and then steve from finance is going to laugh so hard that it's going to be awkward to work with steve for the rest of the year and he's going to be fired. >> i was reading a bible and found out jesus had a little brother. anybody know his name? james. when i read that i was like, how much pressure was that? jesus, your big brother? how many times do you have to hear, why can't you be more like jesus, james? >> there is a specific church circuit, comedians who themselves are christian who perform in christian venues. >> because a lot of people go i want to go see him but i don't want to be offended. you have somebody coming to your church, now they are in their comfort zone and all you have to do is do your show and talk about stuff that's not offensive. and all of a sudden, you got another fan of comedy. >> shaund

this is developing news and these are out top stories tookie and russia have launched joint patrols in northeastern syria as part of a deal to holt's turkey's offensive against could militias step cements a power shift in syria a month after president trump withdrew u.s. forces. german chancellor angela merkel is in india where she and prime minister narendra modi have signed agreements strengthening trade ties and cooperation on security markel also called for a peaceful solution to the crisis we pakistan over kashmir. british police say they now believe all 39 people discovered dead in a truck containing near london last week with from vietnam some victims have been identified and contact has been made with their families several the wrists have also been. germany is getting ready to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the building wall in a week's time festivities include installation unveiled at the city's brandenburg gate it's made out of messages from people all over the world explaining what the form of the wall means to them this is g.w. news from berlin for more foll