web from scratch what would you do? that was the experiment behind flip board. can you talk about the conclusions, the convictions that that thought experiment led you to and that played eut in out in flip board? >> yes. this all happened, when your writing an e-mail, great e-mail. you've got everything right. you're about to hit send and the computer crashes. you lose the e-mail. and you've got to write it again. but when you write it the second time it's better. you know, you realize, well, i probably could have done this a little bit better, could have been more concise here. and it is something better. that was the thinking around how i approached my next venture. i wasn't even sure i was going to start a company. i was just doing what i loved following pickens' advice, just doing what i loved, building products thinking about, you know technology. and, you know, the big thing for me was i felt that content stories were being lost on the web. when you flip through the atlantic or national geographic, you have a narr

you can find on the read-a-thon web site the link to first giving. first giving is a platform for donations that many people are probably already familiar with. it's again, similar to what's used for marathons. and you can donate any amount or set up your own fundraising page and raise funds that way. and it's under the event called national read-a-thon day, so it's easy to find on there. >> host: is there a target for how much money you want to raise? >> guest: you know, this is our first year, so we're just leaving it completely open to see what's happening. i'm thrilled there's already $15,000 raise inside the early days so i'm really pleased to see the diversity of people donating. even smaller amounts, 5, 10, $20 are going to make a big difference in overall getting us to a really nice number to give to the national book foundation. >> host: all right. who are some of the corporate sponsors behind national read-a-thon day? >> guest: we have a great group that came together. good reads is onboard and has been talking about the read-a-thon in thei

it's just kind of how the web works now. i think one of the most important elements is that it's easy for you to fall into the trap that, you know, everyone used to come to our site and look at our content structured in our way. there will be people who will do that. but also, you need to be able to think about your content in an atomic way. you know, these atomic units that travel throughout this curated web. there will be a group of people who are really passionate about something. for example, on flipboard, i found a magazine this morning called " middle east for the perplexed." it's a guy hand picking great content from around the world, about the middle east, to help explain it to normal people without all the hype. that's a really big deal. that idea that that person is forming a new node in this curated web, with a collection of all this great content. so for publishers, it's really important to think about that. they might be on facebook or twitter or linkedin or all of the above. that's just how the web works now. >

the initiative is drooping popular on the french web.here were countless creations on social media. most accompanied with the je suis hashtag. recommitting themselves to the valleys of the french republic, freedom of expression. they want to send a message to say the people of france will never let terrorists win. the initiative has proved so popular, a facebook page has been set up to catalog the drawings drying close to 10,000 likes in a few days and features hundreds of pieces posted by web users in response to the attacks in paris. ♪ this french musician composed " je suis charlie" just hours after the shooting and is grooving extremely popular on social media. it has been viewed over 10 million times. you are better off posting a facebook status update early morning or late at night to reach the maximum numbers of users. twitter is read during office hours. this info graphic was together and shows the over 45 are for google plus and tumblr users spend more time than the average users. a tech artist has added her own personal touch t

there's a lot of junk on the web. all of it? >> you sample all of it. the way to think about the web, it's kind of a collective human consciousness, it's what we're thinking and doing at any given moment. we're all thinking -- we're thinking about a lot of junk at a time. >> a time capsule in effect constantly changing. >> as the web evolves, it will become something we can't comprehend. the web ten years from now is something we can't comprehend right now. to have a record, will tell you about how it changed, how it evolved and how our species is changing, too. >> that means they're also sampling things like twitter, what people are writing, and facebook. >> facebook is hard to get. facebook has sort of closed itself off from the rest of the web. you try to get everything you k. there are definitely sites that have created gardens. that's part of what facebook does. >> i look at it as looking at commercials i saw growing up in the '60s which you think are useless, but they tell a ton about how we lived. >> they tell

it's web news. ♪ >> welcome to the web news, with our pick of the stories making online headlines.s lebanon in hot water for posing with miss israel. and an american dad creates a massive children's play area. miss isrtaael is currently in miami for the miss universe pageant, which will be held january 26th. she posted a selfie to her instagram page in which she's posing alongside fellow contestants from japan, slovenia, and lebanon. seems harmless, but it prompted strong reactions in lebanon, on social networks, and in the press. a lebanese paper reports that the photo triggered controversy with many criticizing miss lebv anon for appearing next to her israeli competitor. they say that israel and lebanon are still technically at war, and that she made a big mistake. miss lebanon responded to the criticism, re-posting the controversial photo but reframing it so miss israel is no longer in the picture. she also posted a short message saying that miss israel photo bombed the shot, and that she had been doing everything she could to avoid her in the lead up to the competition. miss is

we do not have anything like that on the web. it is getting better. but back when we were starting flip board for years ago the web looked like it was frozen in the mid-90's. we wanted to say if you are going to build a new web today you would optimize it for mobile touchscreen devices. the reason why magazines are beautiful is in part, they do not have to have a lot of ui controls you don't have to have a navigation bar. just great content. you use your finger to flip through pages of content. that is something we wanted. with a touchscreen device, you can lose all of the user interface and have that beauty. the other really important thing is the power of people. people know how to tell a story. they know what makes a good story. we wanted to leverage social -- the idea that the web is becoming, not just the connection of an article to another article, which is a very part of full thing -- very apparent thing -- very powerful thing but a person to a group of people. i you not think that we has an industry have begun to grasp how par for that is. --

web news is up next on "france 24." >> hello there, and welcome to the web news. coming up on today show, facebook is cracking down on viral hoaxes. the movie "american sniper" sparks controversy. in a statement posted to its official blog on tuesday, they's book announced plans to crack down on false or misleading stories. the decision comes after a growing number of requests from social networkers who were that up with seeing their newsfeed inundated with bogus stories or links to hoaxes and scams. so the company will between getting its newsfeed software and says it will be giving users the option to strike things as a also new story via a drop-down menu on each post. if a lot of ace bookers -- if a lot of ace book -- facebookers market, it will not be removed entirely but a warning will appear in forming uses it may contain false information. facebook's move to attack the spread of misinformation has been warmly received online. web users have been saying it was high time the social network took steps to combat this type of content. many have pointed out that

imagine yourself being very anonymous but when you arrive at a web site and a retailer web site or someone is trying to say something they have quite a bit of information about you and they can dynamically change the page to tailor to you. this is marketed to personalization. sometimes it is when amazon tells you what books you might want although they only books they tell you our nsa -- i already have them all. but what i wanted to find out at the journal in my investigations was how is this thing is to provide different prices because that is what i think is ultimately what i would want to to do as a retailer so we did find in 2010 the capital one was using this information to change the credit card offer. when he went to their web site they had never seen you before and it's like boom here's a card for you. it was kind of disturbing because it analyze the traffic your web site sent back and forth to them and is set in the traffic there and send analysis like low income or middle income and how much education i thought you had. now let's be fair you can apply for any credit card you want

besides the web site, is there a hash tag? >> absolutely. we are using the hash tag time to read reminding people why we make time to read the importance of making time to read these you can search on any platform, already see a bunch of people participating talking about what they plan to be reading that saturday and you can share yourself what you will be reading, why you are excited about it. and participate in the larger virtual community out day. >> host: there is the money aspect. what is it? >> it is similar to walkathons or running a marathon, is optional, but if you are raising money for the national book club foundation, it is most famous for the national book awards they give out every fall in fiction and nonfiction and poetry but they also do incredible work around the country bringing everything from literacy training, tutoring office to speak to kids around america, communities that are not necessarily getting diverse rich programming in books and national book foundation isn't filling that gap. we're is an ongoing effort. >> h

coming up on today's show, web users in argentina react. controversy over zimbabwe's plan to sell elephants to global buyers, and the military helicopter takes on the mythical dragon. late on sunday, or early monday, several hours before he was due to speak to a special committee of congress, a federal prosecutor was found dead in his when srs apartment -- his buenos aires apartment. he had leveled accusations at top argentinian officials who conspired with a rack to cover up its responsibility for the bombing. lively commentary was sparked online. thousands of web users have been posting sharing their sadness over the prosecutor's that and paying tribute to a man they say had great integrity. a lot of social networkers have been questioning the circumstances of his death. government officials they all signs point to suicide, but the people behind these twitter posts that to differ and suggest the lawyer was murdered before he could expose any government secrets. while many have taken to the web to share their sorrow and indeed their anger,

it is time for web news. ♪ >> hello there, and welcome to the web news.e are picking the stories making the online headlines. rallies staged across the globe in solidarity for the people of france and a man frantically trying to escape award of hungry zombies. as we can say from these amateur documents posted online by french web users, hundreds of thousands of people took heart in the rally sunday, january 11, to show their commitment to the values of the republic. an unprecedented show of unity which has been echoed across the globe with a number of marches and demonstrations of the weekend. in europe in particular, dozens of rallies took place on saturday and sunday, from madrid to prague, from dublin, to budapest. hundreds, thousands of people took to the streets with the now internationally recognized slogan "je suis charlie." as we can see from these online pictures crowds gathered in new york city, moscow, and when osiris. patriots marched outside local nationals and rejection of any form of terrorism. and the muslim world was also present. there w

around five or send a people have access to the world wide web in the way that we know it in the west. -- around 5% of people. they like that because it is easy to control the cuban people, but it is a test of the cuban government. will the cuban government start to take down its internal embargo as the external u.s. embargo is also weakened by obama? >> thanks very much indeed. time for a quick reminder of our headlines. there's a political crisis in yemen. the president has quit. he's been the last two days holed up in his presidential palace surrounded by shiite houthi militias, who are now claiming this as a victory. it has been the bloodiest day in months in the conflict in ukraine. dozens of people were killed today as fighting rages on in the east of the country. pro-government forces have now abandoned donetsk airport. and 50% of islamic state commanders have been killed. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry says the u.s.-led coalition is working. he has been meeting with allies in london. let's get an update on the business news now. the european central bank has made its b

>> we are most known for fire fox web browser and fire fobblings mobile phone. we are structured differently in that the corporation mozilla is owned by the 5013-c foundation. at the end of the day, we are driven by our mission, and our mission is to advance the open web. >> funed founded by netscape originally? >> yes. there was a donation of money that started the original mozilla foundation which was netscape navigator and later became fire fox. >> so this is the product you are best known for. how do you make your money? >> through licensing deals primarily, but the bulk of our money comes from search licensing deals. when you install fire fox for the first time, there is a default provider of search that is there. you downlone fire fox, there is a search querrey, and that takes you to a specific preengined de -- pre-arranged fault -- default search engine. in the beginning it was googling -- google. we discuss at the end of our agreement with google we discussed with google and yahoo and then we decided to go with yahoo. >> what is your background? >> i spe

silk road put the web on the radar. while vice grabbed the headlines, the deep web is used for vurt use activities. activists from iran's gripe movement used the deep web it circumvent gough internet restrictions -- government internet restrictions. >> hidden services are used by four people. >> reporter: deep web hiden services are used by law enforcement, the military and people who don't want their online activities monitored by the government or other outside parties. >> i think the deep web and tourism services are a force for god. the future will bear it out >>> we are learning about a bartender in ohio accused of plotting to kill house speaker john boehner. michael hoyt was indicted last week charged with threatening to murder john boehner. he used to serve the drinker drinks at a country club. he told police he wanted to poison or shoot the house speaker. he has a history of psychiatric illness and held for mental evaluation. detroit is out of bankruptcy and trying to bounce back. there's more work to be done. f

those motors you hear are music to web's ears.t's a robotic 63 skeleton called the row walk helping paraplegic with the ability to walk up right. >> every time i get up it's an incredible feeling again to be walking. never thought it would happen and get a device like this it's incredible. lifts the spirits that's for sure. >> web has been involved in clinical trials of the row walk at months rehab for two years. today, he's walking home with one. one of only eight people in the united states to own the device. for web it's live changing. >> somebody doesn't have to push you. if there's a little incline i can go up. i can go out in the street now. i can cross. i can go to a store. >> web's row walk suit was donateed but the device fda approved costs $70,000. a price tag most insurance doesn't cover. but with so much potential the hope the row walk will soon be available to more than a million people in the us living with spinal cord injuries. >> people with spinal cord injury we never really had anything really good that we could

>> time to have a web presence. >> and meetings upon meetings upon meetings. i'm always taking on a lot, but this time, i may have gone too far. >> how am i going to get everything done and shoot this episode?how am i going to get everything done and shoot this episodhow am i going to get everything done and shoot this episodhow am i going to get eveg done and shoot this episode? the answer might just be putting those two things together. that's right. i'm going to harness the power of artificial intelligence to help me be more productive and get it all done. first step, look for that perfect robot helper. i mean, let's be honest. the robot of my dreams is probably the robot of your dreams. this humanoid robot that can walk around, talk like us, do things for us, everything we could imagine it will do in the real world but in the real world, these robots are few and far between, but i'm about to meet dennis hong and if anyone could help me find this robot, it's this guy. >> thanks for havicoming. this is where the magic happens. >> with 20 operations under his

it a web lot of activities. pictures of his private parts store suicide letters. [laughter] it skirted too much information but it became the way we communicated on line. that eventually they wear it shortened the name then it becomes a community medium. but everything i have talked about has been the lovelace the vision that we end up connecting more carefully for it to believe. gore as touring would say would replace a sorry get rid of us. when we can think it weighs isn't that what with the pds -- wikipedia is? know it is a great piece of software with creativity of millions of humans. i remember a the wonders and when wikipedia cave i was writing by either side book early in the process i would start to edit stories away billions of others stick. -- did. there was one passage that said in 1937 isais secret the travel to albania so the could give him a visa to escapes the nazis. everything in that sentence is wrong. he did not go there so i took it out to. anybody can edit a and it comes right back. i take it

she redid his web site and helped with some of the web 2016 material. (laughter) >> jon: i believe i have a clever repost for that. so you are saying jim webb is embroiled in a scandal involving his web site. (laughter) the most ironic fall from grace since senator melvin dickpictweet. (laughter) you know when he was done that wasn't a thing. and as he got older, they-- hey dickpictweet he is like oh i should really see what this is all about. obviously it hurt his career much to his apparent disdain. so not that we need other options for president, but please tell me we have other options. >> independent vermont senator bernie sanders is hinting that he mate try to fill that void. he's not yet a democrat officially but he has visited iowa four times. (laughter) >> jon: visited eye way four time its and judging by his hair, he ran there. (laughter) i got two words for bernie sanders-- what did dow, go to the barber and say give me the doc brown. i mean come on! run for president old man. i will own you sanders. i will own you. come on keep them coming p

that's just how the web works now. >> there was some new research in august. what was concluded was that the average u.s. smartphone user downloaded zero apps. >> ha ha! >> per month. in a world -- how do you reach new users when people aren't using -- aren't downloading new apps and in many cases are using only a handful of apps that they find on their home screens? >> the good news is there are literally billions of apps being downloaded. so there are definitely people downloading apps. so, you know, we have, for example, 250,000 new users every single day on flip board that are coming in and setting up flip board. so people are definitely still downloading. but i also think you have to figure out, you know, smart strategies, so, for example our publishing partners help promote flip board. you need to make it in other people's best interests to promote your app and create an ecosystem ideally and that will help get you to rise above the noise of a million apps or so that you could possibly you load. >> two questions i want to make sure which get to. one is a

those motors you hear are music to web's ears. robotic exoskeleton called the re walk, helping paraplegics with the ability to walk upright. >> every time i get up, incredible feeling again to be walking, never thought it would happen. and get a device like this, incredible. >> lift the spirit, for sure. >> web involved in clinical trials of the re walk at moss rehab for two years. today, he is walking home with one. one of only eight people in the united states to own the device. for web, it is life changing. >> so many different to push you, if there is a little incline, i can go out on the street now, i can cross, i can go to a store. >> web's re walk suit was donated, but the device fda approved costs $70,000, a price tag most insurance doesn't cover. but with so much potential the hope is the re walk will soon be available to more than a million people in the u.s., living with spinal cord injuries. >> people with spinal cord injury, never really had anything really good that we could use to get somebody up and walking on thei

web news is next. >> welcome to the web news. coming up, outrage over a chinese property developers dubious practices. the tunisian web users taking on a challenge. a puppy replacing harrison ford in raiders of the lost bark. this video footage was filmed in china and in developer has been hiring people with hiv to intimidate people to make way for a new development. a number said that they have been throwing still falls at their window and letting off fireworks very early in the morning. >> as we can see from these photos, they also cover parts of the residential buildings where the chinese characters for a demolition brigade. they had been affecting residents of the hiv virus must make leave their homes. the story stirred up lively reactions. the local authorities have been slammed for being in cahoots with these corrupt and shady businesses. others are concerned about discrimination against people living with hiv and aids. it is not easy for them to find work. when they do have a job offer they have little choice but to accept

there were some very --. >> host: the web site got fixed. >> guest: after the web site was fixed whenfor example it was considered a good deal for a short time that something like 4 million people were losing their insurance. the whole controversy. that was rightfully so a big deal. when i went to them and said -- i found evidence with the help of people who support obamacare and insiders pointed out to me that it was in the cbo projections and the government's projections that something like 13 million more are going to be bumped off their work insurance. i said this is the least important because we are talking about more than three times the number of what you thought was important last week and they suddenly were like let's wait until it happens. so my producer and i went off and discovered it was already happening. several people were losing their work insurance. we came back to them and said we have examples on the record that it has happened. you know i have no time for that program. it was really stunning to me that he could bring them important issues. more people were paying

he invented the world wide web. he did not invent the internet. he invented the world wide web that sat on top of the internet and made the internet accessible for everyone. the achievement of the world wide web was that it took the internet and made it popular. the reason i bring up 1989 is because we all thought that his -- actually it represents the real beginning of the 21st century. i think in 100 years, when we look back -- i'm sure the war with interesting. but you have this symbolic hanging over of history from the industry -- issue of the cold war to the issue of the digital revolution. today, 1989 seems to be the year that what -- marked the difference. in my view, he is a hero. he was a publicly spirited scientist, who did this out of love. no one was paying him. he essentially gave it away. he could have owned the world wide web. he could have put all sorts of ip around it. but he didn't. the problem with tim burners lee , as the internet shifted from public lease dated guys like into aggressive entrepreneurs and he has become kind of

what are the strategic issues involved in them going into these web sites?dering if, in cyber command, that they must be looking at these web sites all the time, and is there some strategic interest in actually allowing them to operate so that you can monitor or collect a certain amount of information by allowing them to operate? >> well, first of all, in terms of monitoring the web sites, obviously that's something throughout our intelligence community, we refer to that as open source information, so we regularly monitor those for a variety of intelligence collection purposes. i think the real issue here is what i would phrase as cybervigilantism, and is that something we want to encourage? to use the internet to protest, for all aspects of free speech, for whistle blowers for a legitimate cause, all of that makes sense to me. but you cross a line when you start to take actions that would constitute a cyber attack. as cory said, a denial of service would constitute an attack. but a country like ours, there are certain people authorized to take those types o

web from scratch what would you do? that was the experiment behind flip board. can you talk about the conclusions, the convictions that that thought experiment led you to and that played eut in out in flip board? >> yes. this all happened, when your writing an e-mail, great e-mail. you've got everything right. you're about to hit send and the computer crashes. you lose the e-mail. and you've got to write it again. but when you write it the second time it's better. you know, you realize, well, i probably could have done this a little bit better, could have been more concise here. and it is something better. that was the thinking around how i approached my next venture. i wasn't even sure i was going to start a company. i was just doing what i loved following pickens' advice, just doing what i loved, building products thinking about, you know technology. and, you know, the big thing for me was i felt that content stories were being lost on the web. when you flip through the atlantic or national geographic, you have a narr

so he was keeping a list of cool web sites and also kept a log he called it's web log, of his activities, what girls would date him exactly what happened when it did pictures of his private parts, a poem about his father's suicide. it really skirted the line of too much information. but it became the way we communicated online and soon other people were doing web blogs. they everbal live shortened the name to blogs, and all of a sudden the street found its use for this web and it becomes once again a community medium. i give that whole story this way and then i'll open it up for questions in a moment or two, because if you see everything i've talked about has been ada lovelace's vision we end up connecting more carefully, more closely, more intimately with our machines instead of creating machines that as lord byron would say, will replace us and get rid of us, and people say, well, haven't we gotten near artificial intelligence when machines can think in ways we can't and that isn't that what say, wikipedia is it has all this information. you can find anything there. i say no, wikipedia

basically web sites for news and also investigative web sites.y crashed and they obviously appear to create a hacking attempt. we are trying to chase that line. this comes off the back of the fact that french cyber defense security saying up to 19,000 cyber attacks happened in france last week. this is france. let's turn our attention to germany. several developments overnight. we have heard that two arrests taking place in germany. 11 raids happening across several apartments in germany. several people having links to syria. one believed to have been in syria in may and coming back here. no reports of whether there was an attack that was imminent. authorities taking this seriously. one of those men is alleged to have been involved in a recruitment ring with chechen jihadists. all of this happening, john as we report new isis video published. three french speaking jihadists saying they will wage more war on france. it says we are going to come to europe and there will be more operations across europe. cnn cannot independently confirm the authenti

web users in the u.k.have mocked the proposal, saying the prime minister would be better off ignoring -- avoiding a subject he knows nothing about. the official website uses encryption. others say the suggestion is an absurd step backward, and only authoritarian regimes for the safe encryption, as highlighted on this map. in "the guardian," a journalist says the ban would be ineffective and risky for the economy. he explains the technology does not just protect online communications. it is also used to protect bank details when online shopping. he's is putting an end to encryption would have serious knock on effect and spell the end of e-commerce. prince william, his wife, and brother have their own joint official twitter account. there twitter handle refers to the london residence of the heirs to the british throne. web users will be able to follow updates on their day-to-day activities. it is proving pretty popular so far, drawing over 31,000 followers in less than 24 hours. this interactive map indicate

coming up next, it is web news. >> hello there and welcome to web news with our pick of the stories making the online headlines. coming up on today's show, a canadian artist makes a portrait for the and original women's. a paraplegic's new legs, and a u.s. police officer getting down to taylor swift. >> part-time illustrator evan monday has been sketching and inking portraits of canada's missing and murdered aboriginal women, showing one per day. indigenous women are four times more likely to be murdered than non-indigenous women. his sketches have been met with mixed reactions online. while many approve of the project, saying it is raising public awareness and drawing media attention, not all are in his favor. the people who posted these tweets say the project is disrespectful to the victims' families. in view of the criticism he has decided to discontinue the portrait series and is now encouraging web users to donate money to the it starts with us website, to support families of missing women. a growing number of canadians and organizations are lobbying the government to take action on v

used the green web in 2009 to circumvent gott internet restrictions to educate citizens. >> servants are used by all kinds of people. >> deep web services are also used by law enforcement investigative journalists, the military and ordinary people who don't want their online activities monitored by the government for other outside parties. >> i think the deep web and services are a force for good. and i think that the future will bear that out like it has any technology. >> patricia, aljazeera new york. >> and they reamed us that while criminals often exploit technology for their own purposes the technology itself is agnostic. >>> where was this guy when i needed him? find out what he thinks about the recent slowdown by the police in giving out tickets. >> last month the white house announced the creation of an american task force to initiaiate trust between the list and the people they protect. the first meeting in washington, it's creation followed widespread roasts for grand juries in new york decided not to indict the police officers in the deaths of black men. the group sent spe

investigators trying to unravel a web of suspected sleeper cells. new arrests include five in belgium, two more in france. prosecutors say those two are crossing into italy. this morning, belgium officials are seeking extradition of someone caught in greece. two suspects dead there and one injured. police out in numbers. numbers not seen in 35 years. patrolling the streets and guarding embassies and the national jewish museum. standing by live in brussels is senior international correspondent ivan watson. good morning, ivan. >> reporter: good morning, christine. we are getting the identity of one of the suspects of that belgium police raid thursday night in the town of verviers. two suspects opened fire on police and killed in a gun battle. a third man arrested at the time. his defense attorney is identifying him as marwan abali. he is being charged with participation in a terror organization with possession of explosives and weapons and with armed rebellion. the defense attorney insists that his client is innocent of any kind of terrorism charges.

the most notorious of these deep web marketplaces is silk road, shut down by the f.b.i.ast year following the arrest of its alleged creator ross albrecht, it has since resurfaced at silk road 2.0. silk road put the deep web on the public's radar earning it a reputation as a haven for criminal activity. the deep web is also used for virtuous activities. >> activists from iran's green movement used the deep web in 2009 to circumvent government internet restrictions and anonymously organized protests, as well as educated citizens. deep web services are used by law enforcement the military and people who don't want their activity monitored. >> i think the deep web and hidden services are a force for good and the future will bear that out like it has with any technology. >> al jazeera, new york. >> the size of the deep web is difficult to calculate. researchers say the general public have only access to 1% of the entire worldwide web. >> climbers pushing up the word's largest monolith, nearing the peak using their hands and feet. it is at yosemite national park. they should f

50% of those hits on the web site came from china. does that mean the red army is monitoring our church web site? >> depends. what do you know and what are you into? >> totally innocuous. important for the community but could not possibly have any kind of universal significance. >> sub subversive group using propaganda in china. >> there is some point we should be concerned about this kind of -- >> you should also be concerned about somebody who is not supposed to be in your network. in a wait it's bizarre it sounds your church group would be being ping by the chinese-at the same time it doesn't surprise me at all. their whole m.o. is throw bodies at the problem and threaten just sort of see what sticks. know is why they were poking around that day on your church web site. >> so the question is, should we be concerned? is anything that we can do. >> you should have good network security and if you have somebody managing your web site make sure you have the right protocols and antivirus protection in place and do not open e-mails from

go to the web page sfgov, tv dot org. >> and if you are interested in all of the films at super fest the screening, there's information about upcoming festivals http colon back slash back slash super f fest film.com. >> with no further business ahead of us, i'll adjourn this meeting thank you all for coming. >> >> good afternoon. and welcome to the transbay joint powers authority board of directors' meeting for friday, january 16th. i wanted to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who make each of our meetings available to the public online and also transcribe our meeting. and recognized jessie harlan and egan. >> do we have any announcements. >> ly call roll. director lee. >> here. >> lee present. >> director nuru. >> present. >>> director reiskin present. >> director harper present. >> i will note for the record that director sartipi will not by able to join us today due to scheduling conflict. >> do we have any communication or board of directors old or new business? seeing none we'll move to the executive director's report. >> good afternoon everyone and happy new year. we start with s

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. >>> and we track the top stories on the web. >> turkey detains another journalist. the president braggs about having the freest press in the world. as you are watching joun the discussion by tweeting to us at aj "consider this" and leaving a comment on facebook. >>> president obama echoed what many feel calling the american troops the finest fighting force in the world. my next guest argues the limitless praise shows america is a chicken hawk nation willing to do anything for the troops except take them seriously. meanwhile president of afghanistan ashraf ghani is taking them seriously, saying he'd like president obama to re-examine the two year deadline imposed, wanting them to be out of a war. i'm joined by james fallos national correspondent for "the atlantic", and author of: good to have you with us. the american military as you say, is the best equipped fighting force in the history of the world, professional well trained, motivated and disciplined. what is the tragedy as you see it. >> the tragedy is winning battles, winning wars. i try to argue for the past d