let's speak to dr andrew morris, an infectious diseases specialist at the university of toronto. rsity of toronto. to talk to you, thank you very good to talk to you, thank you very much for your time. i know the situation is pretty difficult in canada, what difference do you think all this will make? i think and long—term, canada expects to see the result that most countries do in that (audio gap). doctor morris, i am really sorry. i don't know if you can hear me all right but we have not some problem with the connection and you are breaking up quite a lot. bear with us, we are going to try to fix this and we will come back soon if we can. joe biden has nominated his former rival pete buttigieg to be transportation secretary, a move that would make him the first openly gay member of an american cabinet. mr buttigieg is the former mayor of south bend, indiana and campaigned for the democratic nomination for november's election, but later dropped out of the race and supported joe biden. let's go to indianapolis and speak to adam wren, contributing editor at politico who's spent a l

phone of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab research at the university of toronto it is still security watchdog says the president of cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates investigators say mobile phones were infiltrated with militias codes which uploaded data on to foreign service without users taking any action to avoid also raises questions around the security of apple i phone. my colleague nick clark spoke to bill mcharg zack who is the lead author of the report and a senior research fellow at the system of the university of toronto he says it's difficult to guard against 0 click hacking. certainly our research methodology here at the citizen lab when we track this sort of spyware is typically that we ask journalists dissidents members of civil society to keep an eye out for any sort of suspicious messages suspicious links to special attachments and trying to avoid clicking on them but also fording them to us so we can potentially get a copy of the spyware but in this case with the 0 click exploit not only does

this on let's speak to bill a monk psych he's a senior research fellow at citizen lab at the university of toronto in the lead author of this report and joins us by skype from in california welcome to the program bill so you guys did think this detective work tell us how you did it and what you found. well i work actually started in january of this year when a journalist at al-jazeera arabic channel temora told mr hall reached out to us and said hey i'm worried about my phone potentially being under surveillance so we set up a system to monitor the internet traffic of his phone and look for any sort of suspicious communication with servers that we identified as belonging to spyware you know internet scanning and it was on 19th of july 2020 this year when we saw his phone suddenly reach out to a server that we had links to in a circumspect is the spider right now and usually you discovered that these phones were being infiltrated not by the user clicking on the link which is a noble sort of process for infiltration isn't it. that's right yeah in this case it was what we call it 0 click exploit whic

to bill knox that he's the lead author of that report and a senior research fellow at the university of toronto citizen lab he says it's difficult to guard against this type of hack which can happen without the user taking any action at all. certainly our research methodology here at the citizen lab when we track this sort of spyware is typically that we ask journalists dissidents members of civil society to keep an eye out for any sort of suspicious messages suspicious links to special attachments and trying to avoid clicking on them but also fording them to us so we can potentially get a copy of a spyware but in this case with the 0 click exploit not only does the target not really have a chance to notice or prevent a hacking but we as researchers are sometimes robbed of the opportunity to identify additional targets and additional victims so we think that the targets that we have disclosed the 36 targets that al jazeera are simply the tip of the iceberg of a much larger global campaign and it also raises questions as a saying not least about the the parent vulnerability of apple i phones yea

phones of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab researches at the university of toronto the digital security watchdog says the cyber attack is likely to been ordered by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . well those are the headlines doraine will have more news for you here on al-jazeera to witness and also after that. zeroes here it's a report on the people often ignored but must be heard how many other channels can you say will take but what extensive fall into reporting from under reported areas of course we cover major global events but our postle lawyers are making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like libya assad. and so many others who go to them you make me up for we care. morning or morrow morning for you doing today are you felt good. when you hear. the 3rd chance. and nervous ol will but. don't play a little finger sensor tell your fingers but i haven't been to syria for probably 30 years i'm fortunate that i was able to come over here and to going to medical field i think it was footage of a father carrying his son with his arm completely

al jazeera journalists that's according to researchers a citizen lab which is part of the university of toronto the digital security watchdog says the unprecedented cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. stargazers are being treated to once in a lifetime celestial event as jupiter and saturn make their closest alignment since the 17th century the 2 largest planets in our solar system have been inching closer together since september coleman dating in what's known as the great conjunction while they do pass one another every 20 years as they circle the sun jupiter and saturn haven't been this closely aligned in the night sky for centuries those are the headlines rewind is up next on al-jazeera. hello and welcome again to rewind i'm elizabeth prana oddjob want to rewind a survey visit some of the most important programs and more than a decade of al-jazeera documentaries and to find out how the story has moved on since today were turned into a film which had a major impact on the world's biggest plane maker in 2019 boeing hit the headlines when th

phone of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab research at the university of toronto intelligence experts say the unprecedented cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates the report also raises questions around the security of apple i phones. macau is marking the 21st anniversary of its return to china from portuguese control but unlike hong kong a gambling house has embrace beijing's tightening grip as to vehicle pollen reports . this is a tale of 2 cities macau a former portuguese colony now a casino powerhouse the other hong kong a former british colony and an international financial center both returned to chinese rule in the late 1990 s. . but while hong kong pushed back against beijing's tightening control in the following years there was little opposition in macau macau has a large population with a very strong mainland chinese attachment emotion the politically and culturally having said that in the reason years there are a minority of young people in macau who tend to support western style democracy and one of tho

joined by its author margaret mcmillan professor mcmillan is a professor of history at the university of toronto in americus professor of international history and a former warden of st anthony's college at the university of oxford in oxford is where she's joining us from today good day professor how are you very well thanks all right so let's start with a book even a lot of books about that the 20th century and then you wrote this one which is of course about the 20th century which is known for these great wars but it's actually a much more broad look at history on this one topic of war why did why did you write it i'm also curious are you surprised at all by the response to it. well the 2nd question is easy to answer yes i am it's something i've been thinking about for a long time but i thought it will come out it's a book that a few people might like be nice it got some nice reviews that i am i am surprised it's something i've been thinking about it for a long time if you do history war comes in and out of history a lot it has a huge impact on history and i suppose war was in my own backgroun

united nations weapons inspector and into and we have mohammad marandi he is a professor at the university of toronto gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to professor marandi interim 1st professor marandi even over the last year iran. saw the assassination of one of its. celebrated military officials probably the greatest. cherice hunter and killer in the world and then we have as scientists. over the last few days sas unaided and by all accounts it was an israeli operation we don't know to what degree the americans were knowledgeable of it but it doesn't really matter here so it looks quite likely a new administration will be coming into power in january there's a lot of speculation about the last days of the trumpet ministration and some saber rattling when it comes to iran and of course there is the j. c.p.o. away on the line here a lot of speculation about what bae may or may not do.

the university of toronto originally crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump anytime you want and i always appreciate you ok let's go to professor marandi interim 1st professor marandi and over the last year i ran. the assassination of one of its. celebrated military officials probably the greatest. cherice hunter in killer in the world and then we had this scientist. over the last few days sas unaided and by all accounts it was an israeli operation we don't know to what degree the americans were knowledgeable of it but it doesn't really matter here so it looks quite likely a new administration will be coming into power in january there's a lot of speculation about the last days of the trumpet ministration and some saber rattling when it comes to iran and of course there's the j.c. p.o. way on the line here a lot of speculation about what by may or may not do. what is your thoughts on this here in this transition because iran stays the islamic republic stays but american presidents come in go go ahead professor well iran has been around for a lot longer than the united st

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we are a cybersecurity and human rights research lab based at the university of toronto in trying to canada. great to have you all of the you cast. i'm going to start with and how does your online show called start here. they looked at surveillance during this era of a global pandemic, and wondered how far east see far in terms of invasion of privacy. so i'm going to hand over to saundra. if our men and the media and what is out to help us track of it 19 quantify covert 19. there's an app for that crucial recognition g.p.s. glue to make it easy. cameras and drones keeping honest to this is a kind of mortar should be very surveillance, is really spreading to everything working. it's all about tracking people to contain the spread. but some want to know who's policing the police doctrine or as adults in terms of technology and what's possible, what if you see what is exciting for yes, from my standpoint, looking at it from the public health response is missing. when we talk about contact tracing, the role for technology could be very big in that. now practice. just saying that privacy i

phones of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab researchers at the university of toronto the digital security watchdog says the unprecedented cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates investigators say mobile phones were infiltrated with malicious code which uploaded data on to foreign servers tamir and ima sharlee is an al-jazeera investigative journalist explained that with the help of citizen lab his team began monitoring their phones after receiving threats. this hacking just came after we published a story in july an investigation a program on the story of the we'll known indian investor and businessman b r city who has who are 6 came from you after a scandal there in this investigation we called and marty official barty's and none of these are from this phone to give them the right of blood on our investigation and be our city story and the other interesting point in this hacking that has been hurt by a technique and a spy work we'll known by what is called biggest technique 0 click because through the timing of observi

phones of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab researchers at the university of toronto the digital security watchdog says the unprecedented cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saadi arabia and the united arab emirates doctors in kenya have joined other public health care workers on a nationwide strike they want better protection and more effective equipment for treating covert 19 nurses and other health care workers began protesting earlier this month saying they won't stop until their demands are met but the government warned that dubey son if they don't return to work those weather headlines are back with more news in half an hour's time next it's counting the cost. i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost of al-jazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week the pandemic decimates millions of jobs and pushes many into extreme poverty could have green recovery be the solution to saving the global economy. flag of convenience chinese ships and crews but flying the senegalese flag local fishermen say the waters off the coast of being over

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al jazeera journalists that's according to research shows that citizen which is part of the university of toronto the group says the attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. those are the headlines the arab spring 10 years on is up next on al-jazeera but by . doing it with the money that it's borat we bring you the stories and developments that are changing the world. as congress debates it will seek to raise billions of dollars for the super rich families. that are counting on al-jazeera. it's been 10 years since a young fruit seller in tunisia set himself on fire in protest against police ruby tim and seized his cart and produce mohamed bouazizi died 18 days later triggering outrage. hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to challenge the regime of the same lobby deemed benignly after trying to for years of course or tarion rule the 90 fled the country on january the 14th 2011 saudi arabia granted him refuge. was left in turmoil. eventually protests spread beyond its borders. people in different countries across north africa and the middle east the mount

professor at the university of toronto, a professor emeritus at oxford and author of a book "war hows." welcome, professor mcmillian. >> thank you. >> tell us first about that moment in 1919. what actually happened and why did the myth develop that germany had actually not lost? >> i think the myth developed for two reasons. the german public had been kept in the dark how the war was going. from the late spring of 1918, the war had been going badly for germany. its allies were falling way and fell away in september and october 1918. germany was left fighting on its own. its troops were short of supplies. they were beginning to retreat. throughout august, they were retreating in france, miles back towards the german borders. they couldn't fight on. and they were short of men, short of supplies, short of everything they needed, and so the german government sued for an armistice, which it got on november 1 9, 1918, and the hig commander changed their minds and said we could have fought on. they refused to take responsibility for the loss. that was the beginnings of this conspiracy theor

the hack was uncovered by the citizen lab at the university of toronto, which tracks use of the softwareknown as pegasus that allows users to remotely exploit and monitor hacked devices. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are believed to have been behind the attacks. the number of journalists killed in retaliation for their work more than doubled this year, with mexico being the most dangerous country for journalists in 2020, followed by afghanistan and the philippines. this according to a new report by the committee to protect journalists. the report found at least 30 journalists were killed around the world this year. in related news, in mexico, a former mayor of a small town in the state of chihuahua has been arrested for complicity in the 2017 murder of la jornada journalist miroslava breach. hugo amed shultz is accused of providing information about breach, who covered the drug war, to an organized crime group suspected of her murder. israel is headed towards its fourth election in under two years after lawmakers failed to pass a national budget by a tuesday deadline, trigger

of al jazeera journalists and also according to research a citizen lab which is part of the university of toronto the digital security watchdog says the unprecedented cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates investigators say mobile phones were infiltrated with malicious code switch uploaded data on to foreign servers. michelle is al-jazeera investigative journalist explained that with the help of citizen lab his team began monitoring their phones after receiving threats this hacking just came after we published a story in july an investigation of programme on the story of the we'll known indian investor and businessman b r city who has who are 6 came from you after a scandal there in this investigation we called and morality official but these are none of these are from this phone to give them the right of a blight on our investigation and be our city story and the other interesting point in this that it has been hurt by a technique and this by word will known by word is called biggest as a technique 0 click because through the timing of observing

phones of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab researchers at the university of toronto the digital security watchdog says the unprecedented cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and vesta gaiters say mobile phones were infiltrated with malicious codes which uploaded data onto foreign servers let's now speak to. an al jazeera investigative journalist he's joining us from doha tom and thanks for your time so this alleged hack was discovered after you launched an investigation with citizen lab talk us through what you discovered and what prompted that investigation thank you the. yes we started this investigation last january it wasn't an easy one it was very complicated we put forth that we are using in our investigation a broader mahaffey of them tip of the us back on monitoring and tracking incorporation with the we'll known canadian citizen lab we brought this phone after we received threats on this phone from different numbers unknown numbers and through even different applications threatening us to hack our phones af

first the courseware with jon lindsay is assistant professor at the university of toronto. we also have eugene gholz who is an associate professor at notre dame and it at just, at the we have john mueller here is the woody hayes senior research scientist at the center of the university, at the ohio state university, and a senior fellow at cato institute. finally we have jackie schneider who is a hoover fellow at stanford university. uncoated or over to jon lindsay to kick this off. >> great. thank you very much for the introduction, brandon, thanks for including the cato institute for hosting this. i am grateful for events that were hosted back in the before days. like cato i i was able to meet with colleagues in congress on the ideas that eventually made their way into this book. i'm grateful to be on the panel like this i think i'm excited -- i cited most of not all of you in this book. it's really my privilege to share this panel with you. now, his book grows out of some of my personal experiences in uniform and the u.s. navy, so it starts with two vignettes. the first i

montenegro alexander cohost the podcast sorry they're calling in toronto and the like mr roach professor of humanities at york university toronto and in berlin we have gerald nelson founding chairman at the european stability initiative welcome to each of you like to begin in puerto rico 1st with alexander. this was a landmark historic agreement it brought an end to the bloodiest civil war in europe since the 2nd world war. was that the end of it well that was the end of the actual cold i mean the something that gets repeated after him but he doesn't care repeated often enough is that the dayton peace accords was made just to stop the war and stop the bloodshed which you as a result however is a continuation of the we can i think we can probably call it conflict between a truce 3 side 3 major ethnic groups. and that has now moved on into politics well has moved on into politics a long time ago 25 years ago and has been continuously so for since then. i think you can safely claim that bosnia has been in the slim bourse rather star status quo for what 2 and a half decades. and it's wrong to i mean bush rove edge if if thi

of the universe, and now there will be a hybrid in the future. vonnie: thank you for that breakdown. we will be watching this space, literally, as they say. and amandaew york lang in torontoat weekend. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ mark: this is bloomberg first word news. although the prospects for a relief package before the end of the year are growing, legislators got a warning today about the potential cost of an action. inaction. a report shows that americans have left because of covid-19. the jobs numbers are not as bad as they seem says larry kudlow. in kudlow: i may have come under expectations. 6.7% unemployment rate, that is big news. the cbo and others do not expect the single digits until early 2021, so we have this ago digits the last couple months. mark: he added that the white house wants a targeted stimulus plan. president trump has raised millions of dollars since october for more than 207 million -- with more than $207 million coming after election day, an unusually large amount to raise after an election. much of the money probably will go into save america,