u.s. congress as there are more revelations of the dollar break scandal involving millions of uses the death toll from syria's war and both damascus and the nearby rebels of east and. and in the u.s. state of texas the city is on edge after an unexplained string of bombings. seventy. has met the u.s. president at the white house but donald trump using the encounter for an unusual photo opportunity he displayed large cards to illustrate the benefits of being sold to riyadh but rights groups say those sales should not be made to solve the arabia which is leading a campaign in yemen against the whole rebels alan fischer report. from washington d.c. . it was a looky arrival for such a high profile visit the crown prince from saudi arabia did not go in through the front door but soon find himself in the oval office and the us president donald trump addressing mainly a domestic audience took the opportunity to outline the financial importance of the sided relationship some of the things that have been approved and are currently under construction and will be delivered so the review very soon this

u.s. congress. her faith is important to her. her faith in god. her faith in her community. her faith in our country. as a leader on the joint select committee on solvency of multiemployer plans, for example, she's a strong champion for retirees and their endangered pensions. the list goes on and on. from childhood to pensions, marcy has been there in the lead on the appropriations committee. by the way, the longest serving woman on the appropriations committee as well. later today, the reception, which you are all invited in the rayburn room, i will read a letter of congratulations from barbara mull -- well, in the congress she is, but marcy in the house. it's really important to know the impact that marcy has had on all of us. she's a person of the greatest integrity, sincerity, she knows her purpose, she knows her subjects, her judgment is respected and she always has a plan. and, therefore, as i said so many times, if you want to save yourself some time, just do what marcy asks you to do the first time around. the granddaughter of polish immigrants, she takes great pride

u.s. congress regarding the actions of the soviets in yemen and i think the grandparents will certainly hear from members of congress the president of course focusing mainly transactional way on these arms and the jobs that produce he united states that's in keeping with his american first policy like think there was a very message in the discussion itself in the congress about this this problem i think the crown prince is well aware from the western side that there are a lot of people worried about the saudi actions in the market attention to humanitarian issues in you haven't. in other world news facebook will brief the u.s. congress on wednesday over a scandal involving the dots of reach of millions of its uses cambridge analytic political consultancy based in london is accused of gaining an authorised access to the details of fifty million facebook uses the firm works for donald trump's presidential campaign and the bracks it campaign in the u.k. its chief executive has been suspended has been secretly recorded boasting about the firm's ability to sway elections news of the scandal hit f

u.s. congress and the british parliament are both demanding that c.e.o. mark zuckerberg appear in person and explain what happened at facebook face to face well suspicions that facebook is not being honest open it up front about user data is nothing new in the u.s. or here in europe my guest tonight is a member of the german parliament who warned us years ago that social media could be weaponized and used against western democracies i'm happy to welcome you to the big table patrick since porky's a member of chancellor angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. he's a member of the german parliament intelligence oversight committee he also chairs the parliamentary committee that make sure that the elections here in germany run the way they're supposed to business is because good to have you back on the show it's a pleasure to be here again we know once london once they've summoned the c.e.o. of facebook the u.s. congress wants him to come to congress what does berlin want from mr zuckerberg yeah i think there are a lot of questions questions what alexandr covens

u.s. congress is taking some preemptive measures because trump is now with. the hocks in charge in the white house is and leashed and is on a war path with iran and so is the crown prince. cover which just to vote in the us said it is decided not to and the country support for the saudi intervention in yemen what effects that could have then upon arms discussions. well. from the beginning there was weak support for this because of the strength of the republicans and the lobbying efforts by the white house to scuttle this yemen war powers resolution nevertheless you know the fact that. come up the crown prince is also headed to u.s. congress to meet with some lawmakers he's drawing attention to himself and he is a walk rhymes in yemen that has been decried by all the wall human rights organizations and the u.n. itself there's a you know three year a stalemate in yemen and there's no prospect for the saudis and its coalition to win that war the only solution is political in nature and that requires compromise which is absent from the mindset of this person desc

u.s. congress. her faith is important to her. her faith in god. her faith in her community. her faith in our country. as a leader on the joint select committee on solvency of multiemployer plans, for example, she's a strong champion for retirees and their endangered pensions. the list goes on and on. from childhood to pensions, marcy has been there in the lead on the appropriations committee. by the way, the longest serving woman on the appropriations committee as well. later today, the reception, which you are all invited in the rayburn room, i will read a letter of congratulations from barbara mull -- well, in the congress she is, but marcy in the house. it's really important to know the impact that marcy has had on all of us. she's a person of the greatest integrity, sincerity, she knows her purpose, she knows her subjects, her judgment is respected and she always has a plan. and, therefore, as i said so many times, if you want to save yourself some time, just do what marcy asks you to do the first time around. the granddaughter of polish immigrants, she takes great pride

u.s. congress is there are more revelations in the duck to break scandal involving millions of users. the death toll from syria's war visors and both damascus and the nearby rebel held suburb of east and. at the u.s. state of texas a city is on edge after an unexplained string of bombings. saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon has met the u.s. president to the white house but donald trump using the encounter for an unusual photo opportunity he displayed large cards to illustrate the benefits of being solved to riyadh but rights groups say those sales should not be made to saudi arabia which is leading a campaign in yemen against the rebels alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . it was a looky arrival for such a high profile visit the crown prince from saudi arabia did not go in through the front door but soon found himself in the oval office and the u.s. president donald trump addressing merely a domestic audience took the opportunity to outline the financial importance of the cited relationship some of the things that have been a. and are currently under construction and will be

u.s. congress says there are more revelations in the data breach scandal involving millions of uses the death toll from syria's war rises in both damascus and the nearby rebel held suburb of eastern gota blasts a three way summit south korea's president suggests a joint meeting may be possible with the u.s. and north korea. saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has met the u.s. president at the white house with donald trump using the encounter for an unusual photo opportunity he displayed in large cards to illustrate the benefits of being sold to riyadh but rice will say those sales shouldn't be made to saudi arabia which is leading a campaign in yemen against with the rebels alan fisher has a report from washington. it was a looky rival for such a high profile. visit the crown prince from saudi arabia did not go in through the front door but soon find himself in the oval office and there us president donald trump addressing mainly a domestic audience took the opportunity to outline the financial importance of the sided relationship some of the things that have been approved and are current

u.s. congress it's not known yet when that hearing would take place but sources say it could be as early asapril zuckerberg refused that invitation to appear before a british parliamentary committee lawmakers on both sides of the atlantic want to question him about how millions of users details got into the hands of a firm hired to influence voters. our next focus is building kareem he is the public face of the world's biggest social network but mark zuckerberg isn't feeling sociable when it comes to taking questions especially not from european politicians . as inquirers mom to face big news is the data of its two billion users he told this british parliamentary committee he would not be giving evidence we believe given the serious nature of the allegations that have been made around the access and use of facebook user data that it is appropriate the mark zuckerberg should give evidence to the committee. one man who did want to talk with the pink haired whistleblower at the heart of this data scandal he said it was the race for the white house that made him go public don't chung kind of ma

u.s. congress today that he was very doubtful that this was really a major breakthrough and vice president mike pence in the statements all options are on the table and our posture towards the regime will not change until we see credible very fireball and concrete steps towards the nuclear zation which in my view will most not happen because if we can judge from the behavior of the regime in pyongyang in recent years for them nuclear weapons are kind of a lifeline and insurance against a u.s. attack a u.s. military intervention so why should they give up those weapons now that they apparently have them and we know that there is deep mutual suspicion between north korea and the u.s. is there any way that the trump administration could say no to talks with north korea without the u.s. appearing to be the problem. well the trump ministration of course could do that and they might if they think that this. was not serious that north korea is just playing for time but having said that kili kim jong un the north korean dictator is playing this game very well and he's playing his cards very well h

u.s. congress because the u.s. congress -- >> can you subpoena him? >> you can. and i'm saying the u.s. verything that happened in the elections, was fine taking only the lawyers for these companies. no disrespect to lawyers. i love lawyers. but if you want to talk about policy and corporate responsibility, you need the ceos there. these are the same ceos -- >> we talked about it earlier. whlt financial crisis happened, the bank ceos with the tails between their legs shrinked down to washington. >> it's not only zuckerberg. these ceos give a lot of money to both parties. so, during a wide ranging probe over this whole year, the congress never got around to making ceos show up. mark zuckerberg's comment was he went farther thant he wanted to. there will be incredible pressure building with senator warner a warn warner -- >> they don't have a true understanding of what facebook does with your data. again, you said it earlier. we're the product, we're not the customer. the customer are those advertisers. and when they see they're not media companies, baloney, the media dollars that facebook

u.s. congress to reject donald trump that new pick for cia director over her involvement in the intelligence agency's torture program. we're broadcasting live reports that is moscow this is art international i'm sean thomas really glad to have you with us all right the british government has accused russia of breaching of the international chemical weapons convention that came at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council called by london over russian double agent to sergey scruples poisoning in britain was the president from all of this we can conclude that russia is in serious breach of the chemical weapons convention through its failure to declare the novi short program this fact alone means you should discount any arguments you hear about the possibility of other countries having inherited this technology after we heard the words from the u.k. ambassador who had called this emergency meeting of the fifteen member body that leads the united nations we then heard from the u.s. ambassador nikki haley now in her remarks she emphasized the special relationship between the united states

u.s. congress for jet donald trump's new pick for cia director over her involvement in the intelligence agency's torture program. hi good morning just turned one am here in moscow this early thursday watching out international with me kevin zero in so the escalating diplomatic crisis over the sergei scriptural poison is reaching new heights just a few hours ago the u.k. accused russia of breaching the international chemical weapons convention that's after london called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council over the russian double agents poisoning in britain. mr president for more of this we can conclude that russia is in serious breach of the chemical weapons convention through its failure to declare the no visual program this fact alone means you should discount any arguments you hear about the possibility of of a countries having inherited this technology after we heard the words from the u.k. ambassador who had called this emergency meeting of the fifteen member body that leads the united nations we then heard from the u.s. ambassador nikki haley now in her remarks emphasize t

u.s. congress on wednesday about a data breach of millions of its users cambridge and a litigator that's a political consultancy based in london is accused of gaining an authorized access to the information. the white house says donald trump is not considering firing the u.s. special counsel robert muller that follows a series of tweets from the president which criticized the investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election well last week melissa payne of the trump organization to turn over documents including song related to russia house speaker paul ryan says he's been assured that job is not in jeopardy those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us pricing the planet is up next. jeff a look at the problem of global warming where water is getting scarce and our planet thinking it's now big that we're interested on a six massive streak earth as we know it today will cease to exist in some new information that reveals. nature is the eldorado of the twenty first century. a new economic sector with thomas is a future tense for investors banks finance c

u.s. congress prevent the president from changing his main cabinet right now if he wanted to? marc: no. i believe that the president always has the ability to make the changes that he wants. i don't think when he's ready to make a change he'll do that. i'm not sure he's worried what that process is. again, i think our challenges -- our requirement is to put forward quality people. if you look at gina and director pompeo, they're incredibly qualified. we think they'll make enormous contributions to the administration and the american people and we hope the united states senate will confirm them quickly. thanks for coming.

u.s. congress.ebook was using its information to -- bob mueller has indicted russians for using facebooks to impersonate americans. facebook's currently bungled response to the data beach. as well as the people who use the site to practice housing discrimination, those are some of the controversies we have covered, where facebook claims it wanted to stop this bad thing it just discovered. but compare that to this new memo released tonight. the ugly truth, that anything that connects people on the site is the goal, even if lives are lost. that's the mentality of the company and fake news was never a bug for facebook, it was a feature, because it was popular, and popular means profitable. it was only the blow back from the government or users. now regulations can be pro or anti freedom, facebook censored speech in turkey. zuckerberg has been eyeing that large profitable chinese market for some time. >> . >> zuckerberg will do all kind of things to connect, that's their big word, to compete, to win. as

u.s. congress. this is democracy now! we will begin our debate with the tariffs in a moment. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we turn to a debate on the impacts of president trump's who theyfor tariffs, will help, who they will hurt. in washington, lori wallach is with us, director of public citizen's global trade w watch d author of "the rise and fall of fast track trade authority." here in new york, we're joined by michael hudson, author of "america's protectionist takeoff: 1815-1914." he is professor of economics at peking university y in beijing d at the university of missouri, kansas city. lori wallach, let's begin with you. were you surprised by president trump's announcement and where the you stand? >> i wasn't particularly surprised, to the question is whether he will follow through. mosts not managed in the artful way. and where i stand on it, this is an enforcement action similar to what has been done fairly systematic

u.s. congress prevent the president from changing his cabinet right now if he wanted to marc: i believe the president always had the ability to make the change he is wants. i don't think that when he is ready to make a change, he'll do that. i'm not sure he's worried about what that process is. i think our challenge, our requirement is to put forth quality people. if you look at geena and director pompeo, they're incredibly qualified. we think they'll make enormous contributions to the administration and the american people. we hope the united states senate will confirm them quickly. >> yesterday, the house homeland security committee held a hearing with federal, state, and local officials on the lessons learned from 2017's natural disasters, including hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria. see that tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on c-span. also tonight, testimony from interior secretary ryan sinnkey on president trump's budget request for his department he feel spoke before the senate energy and natural resources committee and we'll air that tonight starting at 8:00 eastern n c-span2. >> th

u.s. congress over the data harvesting scandal. it is been a brutal 10 days for the company's shares.hey have fallen by almost 18%. around $100 billion from the company's value. spread muchhas further than wall street. we saw asian markets selling earlier. technology shares falling across the board. london's ftse 100 getting a bit of a boost from the drugmaker shire. claire: turning to facebook. the social network has announced new privacy measures in the wake of that data scandal. to behas said is going giving users more control over privacy and data. the social network says it will outline e updates to its terms f service and data policy to better spell out what information it collects and how it uses it. it will also beginning users the option to review and the leak the information they have shared on facebook as well as download everything that they have posted on the social network. claire: news of a massive investment in solar power. >> softbank is investing $1 billion to create the world biggest solar project in saudi arabia. the goal is to produce 200 gigawatts of power in the

u.s. congress that those constraints should be lifted only by a change of behavior, and iran since the dealned has been like a tiger unleashed from its cage. the deal in bold and it come in rich did, and instead of joining the community of nations, they are devouring the nation's one iraq,the other, iran, syria, lebanon, gaza, yemen, the straits. i mean, the whole thing is going in a very bad direction and you should not enable this aggressive regime out to conquer the middle east, out to impose its shiite version of militant islam on the world to have nuclear weapons. you think you have a problem with one country now and asia, i am telling you that is a family business, peculiar one, but a family business. this is different. this is, as kissinger said come it is a cause, not a country, and the cause is a bad one. we are the small states in. you are the great sage in. we don't want the preeminent terrorist-sponsoring regime in the world to have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to washington, d.c. don't let it happen. [laughter] david: president trump agreed to move the american

u.s. congress on wednesday of a computer hacking scandal involving the data breach of fifty million of its users came with a political consultancy based in london is accused of gaining access to the information. that's on one of our top stories now the saudi crown prince has a visit to washington we're joined by richard le baron nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council and the former u.s. ambassador to kuwait and he's joining us from new york very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so the crown prince. on something something of a charm offensive and the u.s. is it working and what does he want to out of it well i think you want recognition or you. know you're and i think you also want to be exposed to the right. through the united states. the business to the cultural and so we. do a variety of. every meeting. with leaders. and they of course also want more weapons started a lot of what being used in the war and yemen which has killed thousands of civilians why don't you think about are we seeing more pressure from u.s. politicians on the subject well in fact i think we've seen

u.s. congress to reject donald trump's new pick for cia director over her involvement in the intelligence agency's torture program. now the incomparable union o'neill my colleague is in the studio next hour to update you on today's top stories but first the escalating war of words between russia and the u.k. over the poisoning of a russian double agent that is up for debate next on stay with us. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle it appears and highly likely these are the words used by u.k. prime minister to resume pinning blame on russia for the poison attack on a former russian intelligence officer turned british claims are made and threats of course without evidence. crosstalk in the poison attack in britain i'm joined by my guest alexander macarius in london he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com also in london we have charles shoe bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counterterrorism intelligence officer and in brussels we cross to any much shown she is a former british intelligence

u.s. congress is responsible for for any of the. laws particularly the federal gun laws and it would be literally an act of congress if that were to be changed. washington the place to find out who really shapes us gun laws a group of congressmen is bringing a bill which could further limit the a.t.f. the ability to investigate trafficking. our interview requests to them have gone unanswered so we try to find them in person congressman evan jenkins is the sponsor of the proposed new law. hi. i'm not from al-jazeera i'm actually looking for congressman jenkins his staff say they haven't received our e-mails and we ascend to way. we go in search of the co-sponsors of the bill sorry are you working with congressman massie. so you can question to you know if congressman hyde says around today he'll have ready right now. we have records of our e-mails but it's the same everywhere i didn't get a request we are mistreated as directed by ok we've put in a few requests we don't always get you know sometimes they don't do it might not you mus

u.s. congress needs to sort of get up to speed with britain and other parts of europe without more robustaws on privacy, which are doing more to try to ensure data privacy and no breach or this kind of usage of people's data can be possible. >> it's certainly true that we have lagged behind in terms of the oversight that we've done in congress. this is something that really transcends what the russians did. but the broader issues are even more important and that is how was this private information acquired? how was the use of this to manipulate voters conducted? who was knowing of this while it was going on? and even more broadly, what does this say about how americans now get their information? how much can we rely on what we see? and how much are we seeing only that which the algorithms want to show us? information essentially that we are choosing to see and contrary points of view we are choosing to ignore? >> very important points, which we'll discuss with our next guest. but for the moment, congressman schiff, thank you for joining us from capitol hill. >> thank you. >>> so what are

u.s. congress to do something about it, but why the inaction right now? >> i think part of the problem is that right now the trp administration is not terribly interested in human rights around the world. it has its own focuses. and that we in the media who ngrmally would be highligh these kinds of issues, we're now enormously distracted by president trump himself and there isn't really much of a business mod in journalism for covering these kinds of stories. rsd without coverage, these kinds of crises peist. >> stoenivasan: nick kr thanks so much joining us. >> good to be with you. >> sreenivasan: hedy lamarr was one of the most iconic actresses of her day, knowfor her great beauty and said to be the inspiration for catwomannd snow white. but there was a part of her life that almost no one knew about.ur it out, hedy lamarr was also a brilliant inventor. a erw documentary film about life opened widely in theaters across the nation this ek and will air may 18 on "american masters" on pbs. newshour weekend's megan thompson spoke recently to alexandra dean,

u.s. congress. social network i sent officials to brief staff from congressional committees in washington, but it's facing inquiries from many quarters as we report. reporter: new was for facebook calls for investigations into what the social media giant new and when about misuse of personal data on the site. e u.s. federal trade commission has launched a probe and it forces consumer protection laws. now it looks to whether facebook evaded its privacy settlement that said users must consent to sharing data. a fine of $40,000 per day for violation and for 50 million users, that would amount to $2 trillion. facebook represented at their briefings several representatives as lawmakers press for answers. >> there were facebook's in bed and can bridge analytica. were they aware facebook data was being ud? reporter: meanwhile, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg, who has yet to comment on the scandal, has been called to appear before congress as well as u.k. and eu parliamentary committees. >> this is ultimately

u.s. >>> congress i r in ae against time to pass a $1.3 trillion spending bill ahead friday's deadline or face another government shutdown. house p speakerl ryan said today the lawmakers do tun the talk and they worked their way unresolvedrious budget issues. ylan muiit is us tonight pt they have a snowstorm to deal with tomorrow. they have to work hard. when do you think we will finally see a billf some kind? >> republican leadership keep saying it will be today before midnight. but we have heard this story before. just as recently as yest the house is trying to vote on this bill on thursday in order e the senate time to pass it before that friday deadline. but we are already hearing from rank and file lawmakers that this time line could slip. maybe the omnibus spending bill doesn't come out tonight ande mae even better a temporary government shutdown and even mighteed another stopgap spending measure to give lawmakers more time to hamme out all of these details. >> i know there are a lot of issues out ere, what is the primary hang-up here? >> there have been two issues. one isunding for

u.s. congress for involvement in torture and destroying films of americans torturing. captives in thailand a few years ago so this is very much in line with what we've seen both procedurally in terms of how trump behaves how he behaves in an erratic and very personalized way and also in terms of the turning over of of personnel but also in point appointing people to high positions to who are less at least to say the least controversial not only in terms of their views but in terms of their adherence to a fundamental ethics and law in the united states and international law against torture and it seems like that out of a so this is going to go on for a long time i think as long as trump is there what we've been hearing. on the news of the exit of mr tennyson is that he appeared to be a setting hadn't he could come the horses after the turbulence of the white house the early morning tweets will the presence of mr to this him be missed in the middle east. i think the presence of tillerson will be missed in the world of lives according to russian olive tillerson was a pret

u.s. congress both want the c.e.o. of facebook to testify in a growing data scandal today mark zuckerberg reportedly said yes to washington thanks but no thanks to london plus more russians being shown the door nato joins europe the u.s. and canada by expelling russian diplomats suspected of being sponsor i'm off in berlin this is the day. our actions reflect the serious security concerns expressed by all our allies russia does not share our interest or avail. this sounds a clear message to russia the there are costs and consequences for its unlikes up the ball and dangerous path on all behavior and it's full. of comes first the response to a cup and insults prove this is an attempt to sow discord among our people to divide allies and to destabilize democratic institutions we cannot and we will not tolerate this. also coming up cambridge analytic says it did not use data harvested from fifty million facebook users today the whistleblower who used to work for cambridge analytic a told british lawmakers you were lied to.

u.s. congress to reject donald trump's choice to be the new cia director of her involvement in the intelligence agency's torture program. and welcome to block chain of mill we hear how the technology that helps underpin the security of the online currency bitcoin could be the foundation of the entire cities in future generations. hello and welcome you're watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron good to have you with us this hour. now the british prime minister will shortly hold a national security council meeting which is expected to decide on reprisals against russia moscow earlier rejected to resume may's midnight all to mason to answer questions about the nerve agents used to poison a former double agent and his daughter the kremlin has again reasserted that it had nothing to do with the incident and there britain's yet to respond to its offer to help with the investigation the investigation into the poisoning is ongoing but the or thorazine believe surrogate script powell and his daughter yulia were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent first produced in the soviet union traces o

u.s. congress.