u.s. congress facebook's mark zuckerberg one of the world's youngest c.e.o.'s testifying before one of america's oldest senates almost half of the u.s. senate took part in a hearing that lasted more than five hours zuckerberg who was not sworn in under oath began his first ever congressional appearance with an apology we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here but that wasn't enough for some senators who want to see facebook take stronger steps to protect user data and privacy actually possibly under new government regulations your user of green what shocks as a facebook user are you are you willing to give me more control over my data as someone who uses facebook i believe that you should have complete control over your data if we're not communicating this clearly then that's a big thing that we should work on because i think the principles that you're articulating are the ones that we believe in and try to codifie

u.s. president at the white house donald trump says he's working extremely well with castle. and facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has finished only five hours of testimony before members of u.s. congress he said he was sorry about the privacy days a breach at the social media giant talk about admits the way facebook connects with other apps was designed in a way that's not good. one on our top story the resolution on chemical attacks in syria failing to go through the u.n. robert ford is a former u.s. ambassador to syria he says there is little hope of progress on syria at the u.n. . i think the odds of any productive united nations security council resolutions addressing the syria conflict are nil are zero and i'm going to be very frank here. i was involved in the two thousand and thirteen negotiations with the russians with secretary john kerry. russian foreign minister lavrov was there and the russians pledged that if the syrian government used chemical weapons again the russians would accept that chapter seven measures be discussed in the security council resolution and the russians broke there were many times issued vetoes and the russian simply aren't credible and i did i think

u.s. congress on tuesday facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg managed to walk a fine line as he came under fire from lawmakers he apologized for a range of problems that have be set the social media giant including the lack of data protection but didn't promise to support new regulations zuckerberg is being questioned by u.s. congress committee members over two days he has to answer questions on how his company handled data in the wake of a massive uses privacy breach we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first alan fischer has our report from washington was pitching his favorite group two shirts for a suit this was a polish to facebook c.e.o. with a performance to much. apologize for the massive data breach that impacted fifty seven million users worldwide eight we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry but the importance of this appearance was not lost on them senator it should be a wake up call for the tech community. we want to hear more with

and facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has testified for nearly five hours in the u.s. congress says he's sorry about the privacy days of briefs the social media giant admits the way facebook connects with other apps was designed in a way that's not good. the white house says the u.s. presence has the power to fire over to the special counsel has it hit accusations of russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election donald trump has described the latest federal investigation into his past a lot as disgraceful and another and what chant particle hey reports from washington d.c. . are you white house handlers didn't even wait a sec it shouted reporters out of the oval office before the president could be tempted to answer questions donald trump stayed silent tuesday the night before was a different story they broke into the office going on a long rant about the raid and his lawyer michael cohen's hotel and office environment why don't i just find a moment where i think it's a disgrace what's going on and we'll see what happens but i think it's really a sad situation when

u.s. congress well the last time facebook was supposed to testify before congress was just in october which is when google and twitter and facebook were called in to face questions about potential meddling in the russians and. u.s. election and back then they only send static top lawyer to testify and i think because some of these questions are still hanging in the room at some point he actually has to face the music himself so i think also because it took out five days a time out to be ready to put out that statement after the cameras and let a cuss candle and also because there are questions hang fire and as to why he didn't inform the public of why is competent and from the public when then you can mention logica hop it how is that the he sees just that he's taken a. wealthy gets himself ready we'll say foster this question we get because. let's see that let's let's listen in to what's happening you know u.s. congress we welcome everyone today's hearing. on facebook social media privacy and the use and dish and abuse of data. although not on precedented this is a unique area the issues w

u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and its plans to limit user data accessible to other companies. and of course facebook being a heavyweight on the new york stock exchange there have been reactions right there let's talk or financial correspondent in new york so fishermans he is joining us hi sophie it's good to see you but we saw the facebook stock recovered today two percent in part of the trading session so does that mean that mark zuckerberg words were enough to calm down investors. well that is exactly what it looks like at the moment it has been a bumpy ride for this topic dipped into correction territory and facebook shares have fallen more than sixteen percent since reports of the scandal surfaced in march but now the stock seems to be slightly recovering for the first time really since march and maybe let's see what some dacha bank and wrote in a note to the content and to limber up stock of burke's message get the first optimistic outlook for the company in weeks so the comments three quarters of a sack of work seem to have successful

u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and its plans to limit use the data accessible to other companies. britain is looking to kick its sugar have it improve people's health the majority of adults in the u.k. are either overweight or obese which is awful and to various illnesses the government has launched a crackdown now on the national sweet tooth with a tax on sugary drinks that goes into effect this week the goal get people to shed some light. the scales are merciless but every player must get on and get weighed before each match. one and a half killers lighter than last time zac is on the right track and so is the rest of his team. you get bonuses for losing weight so to to free lose weight they get one goal for. his access and plenty of bonus goals he's already shed fifty one kilos his story will be familiar to many overweight as a child he was bullied by the time he turned twenty he was in despair but then he found football and the pounds started falling off. if he used to do football sitting at home watching video t.v. and playing video gam

u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and its plans to limit user data accessible to other companies but with the social media giant not changing what it collects and shares some lawmakers may not be satisfied . so there is a lot to unpack here with me in the studio is my colleague to ponder general who. initially facebook said fifty million users were affected by this scandal now it says it's eighty seven million years how did that number change well obviously facebook didn't know how many people were affected all wasn't willing to say it at the beginning and that's what happened so obviously everybody is getting to find out the extent of this privacy breach if you can call it that. the fact is that facebook has also said that the two millett two billion users on facebook can assume that they are data has been perhaps compromised at some point and so that's something that could affect anyone who is on facebook right now that's certainly not good news while facebook and veiled a new privacy policy trying to explain more clearly to users the data tha

u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and its plans to limit user data accessible to other companies. let's talk about this case of ethics falling victim to big business with my colleague mike all the month explain the numbers first of all how did these huge numbers get even bigger well initially it was only fifty million that's what we all heard right that's what was reported but now facebook said this morning that they have crunched the numbers again they've reanalyzed all the data and now this could be up to eighty seventy million facebook user profiles that cambridge on the other cheek i got from facebook how did you get the data it was a small personality quiz up and even if you sign up for this app and we have friends on facebook it would have would have also gotten my data so it's crawled through friends not work so people thing is i'm not on facebook you are i have a whole lot of people have deleted their facebook profiles do we know how many well the last take the only really the only one who really knows is facebook mark zuckerberg this mo

u.s. president is expected to meet north korea's kim jong un in may or early june. facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has admitted making mistakes during a nearly five hour testimony before the u.s. congress he says he's sorry for the about the privacy data breach at the social media giant alan fischer reports from washington. ditching his favorite group two shirts for a suit this was a polish to facebook c.e.o. with a performance to match mark zuckerberg apologize for the massive data breach that impacted eighty seven million users worldwide eight we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry but the importance of this appearance was not lost on one senator it should be a wake up call for the tech community we want to hear more without delay about what facebook and other companies plan to do to take greater responsibility for what happens on their platforms the core issue was summed up with one question from democrat dick durbin mistress. would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night. no. mark zuckerberg was called in front of the senate after it was discovered millions of

facebook's chief executive has testified for nearly five hours in the u.s. congress says he's sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant it miss the way facebook connects with other us was not designed well of course i'm in ma has refused to drop a case against her voices journalist accused of attending secret government papers while loan and torso were arrested in december investigation the killing of ten men during a meant to crackdown on random muslims in the state. the gulf crisis and security issues have dominated the meeting between castles and. pani and the u.s. president at the white house says he's working extremely well with cattle. from flying there for the next ninety days as a response of us while opposing a three month ban on key panamanian businesses. from operating within its borders. have accused the u.s. of sabotaging the peace process after a key negotiator from the group was arrested. was taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in a u.s. court as i had line stay with us for a gora from d

facebook's chief executive has testified for nearly five hours in the u.s. congress logs uk about says he's sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant image the way facebook connects with wasn't designed well of course it has refused to drop a case against to doit's his journalistic use of obtaining secret government papers while lerner and charles so who were arrested in december investigating the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on the hinge of muslims in rakhine states the gulf the crisis and security issues have dominated the meeting between castles a mistake. pani and the us president at the white house donald trump says he's working extremely well with cattle it is of colombia's form of rubbles have accused the u.s. of sabotaging the peace process after a key negotiator from the group was arrested his son tritch was taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in a us court those are the headlines more news accounts they're off the listing. tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin.

facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is testifying u.s. congress for a second day about the massive breach of users private data he sat through a five hour grilling on tuesday when he admitted to making a mistake. let's have a quick listen to his parents be full the house of representatives and then and calmness committee and ourselves to be a financial institution although you're right that we do provide tools for people to send money so you've mentioned several times you started facebook in your dorm room in two thousand and four fifteen years two billion users and several unfortunately breaches of trust later facebook's today is facebook today the same kind of company you started with a harvard dot edu email address well mr chairman i think we've evolved quite a bit as a company. when i started it i certainly didn't think that we would be the ones building this broad of a community around the world i thought someone would do it i didn't think was going to be us so we've definitely grown and you've recently said that you and facebook have not don

u.s. congress he will talk about how facebook uses and protects user data facebook has also released a new privacy policy it aims to limit user data accessible to other companies but the social media giant won't be changing what it collects and shares and that is something that could leave them no makers dissatisfied. no u.s. president donald trump opposed to defy him to messages on twitter his administration signaled possible wiggle room the trade spat with china as a result asian stocks are posting gains this morning that after stocks on wall street managed a strong finish on thursday u.s. trade secretary wilbur ross said he would like to reach a trade agreement which is trying to soon and the president's economic advisor larry kudlow question whether he announced tariffs would ever take a falcons are that's rather well for more let's cross over to frankfurt and our markets man only bart's really a sigh of relief among european investors as well. that's surely the case i don't think anybody was reckoning with such a quick relaxation of the tensions between the united states and china per

u.s. congress he will talk about how facebook uses and protects user data facebook has also released a new privacy policy it aims to limit user data accessible to other companies but the social media giant won't be changing what it collects and shares and that is something that could leave them low makers dissatisfied. now while u.s. president trump posted defiant messages on twitter has administration signaled possible wiggle room in the trade spat with china as a result asian stock markets are posting gains this morning that after stocks on wall street managed a strong finish on thursday u.s. trade secretary wilbur ross said he would like to reach a trade agreement with china soon and the president's economic adviser larry kudlow questioned whether the amounts terrors will ever take effect. now for more on this i'm joined by york matters he is the head of the research unit of international economics at the german economic institute in cologne. you're going what will it take for this dispute to end who will give in first here what do you think. well that difficult to judge my thing to don

wednesday was the second time final day of facebook hearings in the u.s. congress in the wake of a massive data breach scandal on the social media platform the hearings revolved around political research firm cambridge analytical which improperly harvested data from eighty seven million facebook profiles with the social networks permission the data was sold to third parties and used in political campaigns facebook argues the sale was against its rules and promised to make sure all of the information gathered by cambridge analytics is deleted while the first session was dubbed and other sham by the media wednesday's hearing turned out to be much punchier. facebook now has evolved to a place where you are tracking every user's trusted facebook to prioritize user privacy and data security and that trust has been shattered you're collecting data on people that are not even facebook users that have never signed a consent a privacy agreement i can quickly respond to the first point to just say yes or no where were there the beds i need to get to that that on time we try

facebook c.e.o. has admitted making mistakes as he appeared before a u.s. congress hearing after the recent data breach mark zuckerberg apologized for social media networks failure to prevent the collection of information from more than eighty seven million people by a third party. police in indonesia are taking aim at the illegal alcohol trade that's after more than one hundred people died in one week from drinking bootleg liquor high taxes and a crackdown on illegal alcohol in the muslim and in muslim majority indonesia has created a black market among the poor steverson reports from in the west java. people thought at first they were suffering from a bad hangover the doctors soon discovered it was much worse those who rushed to hospital just days after buying drinks at a food stall had organ failure and blurred vision more than one hundred people have died so far one of them was twenty two year old hirees so her man who had just started working as a motorbike taxi driver together with autumn and he drank liquor from a plastic bottle for around two u.s. dollars th

facebook c.e.o. has seen better days this week he's been called to testify before the u.s. congress over data privacy and protection now that after the u.s. federal trade commission the f.t.c. opened an inquiry into whether facebook engaged in what it called unfair acts but at the heart of the story lies the issue of facebook enabling cambridge analytical to get a hold of all that personal information without people's concern exactly now cambridge analysts and got this data back in twenty fourteen when facebook allowed largely unfettered access to user information by apps on the site this means that facebook may have actually violated a twenty eleven agreement it made for the f.t.c. regarding the protection of personal data and for that they could be charged up to forty thousand dollars per violation so if you do the math forty thousand per violation up to fifty million users we're talking up to trillions of dollars correct now suck about has also been called to testify by m.p.'s in the u.k. they were told this past week by christopher wiley the cambridge analytical whistleblower th

u.s. president at the white house donald trump says he's working quote extremely well with cata facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has testified before the u.s. congress for nearly five hours he says he's sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giants it could be a good myths the way facebook connects with other apps wasn't good leaders of columbia's form of fark rebels have accused the u.s. of sabotaging the peace process of the key negotiator from the group was a raised it has to some tridge was taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in the us court the daughter of a former russian spy has been discharged from hospital in britain as she recovers from being poisoned but russia's embassy in london says any plans to resettle scruple and of father surrogate will be seen as an abduction of its citizens as the headlines and news continues but let's return to the kind of. the year six fifty six. just a quarter of a century has passed since the death of the prophet muhammad. and the foundation of the caliphate. the third caliph off man has been murdered by a group of rebels in the capital. baghdad m

facebook c.e.o. has seen better days this week he's been called to testify before the u.s. congress over data privacy and protection now that after the u.s. federal trade commission the f.t.c. opened an inquiry into whether facebook engaged in what it called unfair acts but at the heart of the story lies the issue of facebook enabling cambridge analytical to get a hold of all that personal information without people's consent exactly now cambridge analysts and got this data back in twenty fourteen when facebook allowed largely unfettered access to user information by apps on the site this means that facebook may have actually violated a twenty eleven agreement it made for the f.t.c. regarding the protection of personal data and for that they could be charged up to forty thousand dollars per violation so if you do the math forty thousand per violation up to fifty million users we're talking up to trillions of dollars correct now suck about it has also been called to testify by m.p.'s in the u.k. they were told this past week by christopher wiley the cambridge analytical whistleblower

u.s. president at the white house donald trump says he's working quote extremely well with cata facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has finished nearly five hours of testimony before members of the u.s. congress he says he's sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant zuckerberg admits the way facebook connect with other apps was designed in a way that's not good. leaders of colombia's form of rebels have accused the u.s. of sabotaging the peace process after kenya goes from the group was arrested as was some trades was taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in a us court fogged in dismisses the accusation saying washington wants to use sun tritch to cover up its failed war on drugs in colombia those are the headlines inside stories up next. an ambitious process of consulting the libyans.

compromised, facebook users find out today whether their private informwa their knowledge, and the company's ceo gets ready to face u.s. lawmakers. good afternoon, i'm kenny choi. congressants answers on how the facebook scandal happened in the first place and how it will be prevented in the future. kpix 5's jessica flores shows us what's at stake. >> reporter: before mark zuckerberg takes questions from lawmakers, he's turning to facebook users in a post on facebook this morning, he's telling users that the company is taking steps to become more transparent. >> and i'm really sorry that this happened. >> reporter: ditching his usual gray t-shirt for a suit and tie, here's mark zuckerberg today in the u.s. capitol. lawmakers will grill the facebook ceo on data privacy issues on tuesday and wednesday hearings. he'll explain how cambridge analytica accessed data to influence the 2016 election. >> my biggest worry with all of this is that the privacy issue and what i call the propaganda issue are both too big for facebook to fix. >> zuckerberg's latest facebook post says the company will establish an independent election research commission to look into facebook's role in

expressed concern that the humanitarian situation in yemen facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has testified for nearly five hours in the u.s. congress he says he's sorry about the privacy data breach of the social media giant admits the way facebook connects with other apps was designed in a way that's not good over the next two days like a bug will be questioned in detail about the cambridge a list scandal and russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election there's i had lines of it back with more news here on al-jazeera after rebel education. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to you. al jazeera. education matters the universal rights to expand arise and offer better prospects the possible to a better life yet around the globe. an institution brake. systems they deemed to be no longer. rethinking what school and how they want identifying the thrill of the knowledge needed in the twenty first century now a new wave of rebel education is sweeping. educate a radically changed the way. cha

u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and its plans to limit user data accessible to other companies. stocks on both sides of the atlantic are enjoying a big bounce back the dax finishing the day up two and a half percent the dow following suit investors believe a trade war between the u.s. and china could be over before it ever really began to trump administration a signal possible wiggle room in a spat with china trade secretary will ross saying it like to reach an agreement with china soon and the president's economic advisor larry could look questioning whether the latest tariffs will ever take effect. that the frankfurt stock exchange for us really how do you read into this could this be the beginning of the end of this very short lived trade war. i hope so but i don't know and i don't think anybody who reacted so positively to the positive signals from the united states knows either i talked to a trader just as he was leaving the stock market when trading that finished just a little while ago and he said you know who knows when the next tweet

u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and his plans to limit use the data accessible to other companies. that testimony could be some of the most watched television in a very long time i know i'll be watching it and really it's a lot here for motherboard germany because you'll be watching good suits reasons good to have you back on the show we know he's going to mr zuckerberg is going to testify before two congressional committees next week i think on wednesday and thursday. he'll be the only one testifying so he probably will be grilled what we've never seen grilling before but is that going to change anything. apart from some very uncomfortable questions i'm not really sure what the consequence of it aren't going to be i am more putting my hope at least for european users in the reform of the way. the farm takes effect next month exactly because that actually gives the user a bit more power or information that the network failed to provide the now it informs them what is being saved by whom and where it is processed and there is a lot of consent

now wednesday was the second and final day of facebook hearings in the u.s. congress in the wake of a massive data breach scandal on the social media platform the five hour session wrapped about half an hour ago and turned out to be much punchier than the first day which was dubbed an a to sham the hearings revolved around political research from cambridge analytical which improperly harvested data from eighty seven million facebook profiles with the social network's permission the data was sold to third parties and used in political campaigns and supported cambridge analytic it may still have the information that it gathered however many members of the two senate committees holding the first hearing are long time recipients of political donations from facebook some of them received as much as tens of thousands of dollars already this year maybe that explains why lawmakers were not particularly keen to go hard on the social media giant. and were these people eighty seven million people users concentrated in certain states are you able to figure out where they're from

u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and its plans to limit user data accessible to other companies. and of course facebook being a heavyweight on the new york stock exchange there have been reactions right there let's talk her financial correspondent in new york so fishermans q.'s joining us hi sophie it's good to see you well we saw the facebook stock recovered today two percent in part of the trading session so does that mean that more exact words words were enough to calm down investors. well that is exactly what it looks like at the moment it has been a bumpy ride for this stop it dipped into correction territory and facebook shares have fallen more than sixteen percent since three parts of the scandal surfaced in march but now the stock seems to be slightly recovering for the first time really since march and maybe let's see what some dacha bank and wrote in a note to the content and to limerick of that of burke's message gets the first optimistic outlook for the company in weeks so the comments to reporters of a sack of work seem to have suc

u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and its plans to limit user data accessible to other companies but with the social media giant not changing what it collects and shares some lawmakers may not be satisfied . so there's a lot to unpack here with me in the studio is my colleague to ponder. initially facebook said fifty million users were affected by this scandal now it says it's eighty seven million users how did that number change well obviously facebook didn't know how many people were affected or wasn't willing to say it at the beginning and that's what happened so obviously everybody just getting to find out the extent of this privacy breach if you can call it that. the fact is that facebook has also said that the two milot two billion users on facebook can assume that their data has been perhaps compromised at some point and so that's something that could affect anyone who is on facebook right now that's certainly not good news while facebook and veiled in new privacy policy trying to explain more clearly to users the data that it gathers but

u.s. presence at the white house donald trump says he's working quote extremely well with qatar facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has finished nearly five hours of testimony before members of the u.s. congress he says he's sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant zuckerberg admits the way facebook connects with other apps was designed in a way that's not good. leaders of columbia's form of fark rebels have accused the u.s. of sabotaging the peace process after kinda going from the group was arrested as was some trades was taken into custody by colombian authorities based on drug smuggling charges filed in a us court fogged in dismisses the accusation saying washington wants to use sun trick to cover up its failed war on drugs in colombia those are the headlines inside stories up next. an ambitious process of consulting the libyan people is underway it's hoped this will end the turmoil that's plagued the country since the end of gadhafi is ruled in twenty eleven but can libyans agree on their future and what impact a foreign cars having on the process this is inside story. thanks alex. hello and welcome to the program dennis now libya has been driven by a plethora of pro