and they named it yahoo! after rednecks, yahoos. >> yahoo!cise in organizing the internet. it quickly became the leading way to find things. it was a directory-based system. it wasn't a search-based system. the idea was to curate the whole web. >> wall street now values yahoo! at around $700 million even though the company is barely profitable. >> with the success of netscape and the growth of these digital upstarts, yahoo! there was this energy that was not all in seattle. >> it's not really silicon valley versus what's going on in redmond, washington. it's more mankind versus microsoft. so silicon valley is just one outpost against the evil empire to the north. >> this is silicon valley, the heart and soul of the nation's computer business. here microsoft is respected and feared as a powerful giant whose every footstep sends shivers through the entire industry. >> there's this emerging war basically between the silicon valley culture built up around the web and the microsoft culture up in redmond. it's not just a cultural clash but an econo

chief who went definition it's on yahoo who are easier to attack the attacks on mandel but he sort of comes from the side in this is well he's been pressured by other people but that's i think one thing that you're going to see is man look what is actually a known factor in the israeli society before being attorney general cabinet secretary he was the top lawyer in the army and it was very well thought of and i think that's going to be one thing that's going to be difficult for him it's on you to contend with again that with voters that are willing to see both sides voters who are going to vote for it and you know no matter what this isn't going to make a difference to them but every country has its independent voters and those voters take obvious i mean the seriously thank you for putting into context for us appreciate it yanna jeremy bob joining us there from leicester some from the two recent post thank you. well in other developments today the united nations says israel's crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza might amount to war crimes u.n. investigators say israeli soldiers

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based on a two year investigation by the police into three separate corruption cases and that's and yahoo denies any wrongdoing or has the party is calling it political persecution ahead of april's election it's the first time a sitting prime minister has been charged bernard smith joining us from west jerusalem to talk us through the extent of the investigation bird how big is it and what happens next. well this has been overall a three year long investigation during twenty senior justice ministry officials going through thousands of pages of evidence they've taken one hundred forty witness statements and five of those witnesses are either current or former cabinet ministers are reaching to the very top of government now what happens now is that benjamin netanyahu gets the opportunity through his lawyers and himself to argue his case before the attorney general before there's a final decision on the indictment that is a long way away it's a very unlikely to before the election which is in april and it will take is a months long process so you're a long way from seeing netanyahu actually

he is a senior political correspondent for yahoo news and published in the washington post. new york republic, the huffington post, the daily caller and the washington times. he and his family live in washington, d.c. and i see him in here all of the time. join me in welcoming me our author mr. john ward. [applause] >> all right, the mic is a little low. [inaudible] >> thank you for the introduction and what a cool night this is for me to be here with like i know about 90% of you. that's really, really special. [laughter] >> thank you so much to all of you for coming out. it's a tremendous honor, privilege to be here. i want to say thank you to east city books. had the vision to bring this place to life as a result she and her incredibly passionate staff brought life and joy into capitol hill, so thank you to lori. yes. [applause] >> this is like a homecoming event for me. it's my neighborhood bookstore, it's dear to my heart and as i said the room is packed with familiar faces including my parents, chip and dianne who are here, my wife allison, three of my kids. love you gu

his advisor discussing the arab israel attention's welcome back to the show mr ben i mean that's one yahoo hardline leader who's base is to the right of center among the conservative more militant israelis do saying the ideology that his appeal rests on will let him actually give something up to palestinians i mean will his voters and ministers and army general friends allow him to do it. no they she was not with out of their will allow him or hope their usual himself is not permitted to give anything he is not giving this is what i eat this is our daughter to do that is ok by netanyahu has been given the chance in two thousand and ten he had meetings with our president at the state department and the presence of secretary head of there couldn't be then he had meetings with our president there sharma ship and the president so has to go bach and then he had a third meeting with our president at his house and was generous of him so all in all he had all the opportunity today to proceed and make progress with this he never did and i think that he has and i don't know just and his that afflict

>> he sold it to yahoo! yahoo! sold it to a bunch of nice guys in mountain view the mccaskill brothers who own smug mug and they're making changes. >> the changes we've been talking about, if you use the photo sharing site flickr you may have to start scrambling to save the memories because as of today, flickr changed the policies where users can only store up to 1,000 images, and you have to pay $50 a year to store more. flickr plans to start deleting users' photos, over a thousand and the olders go first so you want to save those, until they reach their limits. so when yahoo! owned flickr it offered up to 1 terabyte of storage but it sold last april to a san francisco company, so you know the pictures are very precious to a lot of us. >> oh my gosh. >> you talk about those pictures all the time, saving all of them. >> that's why i know terbyte te because i is a lot of my kids. >> plobl some people taking pictures of their kids playing in the snow this morning. it is going to be very cold as you get ready to head

still ahead on al-jazeera and even at yahoo launches a slick election campaign but will it be enough to win another term as israel's prime minister. and a body is recovered from the wreckage of the plane carrying football i merely on a solid far will have all the details for us. hello there we're going to start with a look at the weather over new zealand where we've got some wildfires at the moment these pictures are from nelson in the north of the south island where we've got the worst of the fires at the moment and the fires may not have been sparked by the weather but the weather certainly isn't helping with the fight against them it's a bit of cloud just working its way across the north island a mass where we've got the great conditions and a few outbreaks of rain but elsewhere it's dry and the humidity is also a very low when there's no great change on the horizon so as we head through friday and into saturday the temperatures are just rising there for christchurch the winds will be a lot stronger as well so if you're trying to find toward far as what you want is some rain or de

on the streets of nigeria there are thousands of merchants like yahoo who live at subsistence level nigeria's economy has been in recession since president obama took office in two thousand and fifteen mainly because of the low oil price the economy is barely diversified and it's basically the youth who are suffering from the consequences. according to official statistics four out of ten large areas are unemployed or underemployed according to economist smile and show the figures have been rising dramatically for years in two million nigerians. so it is quite quite dangerous. the hatred of the implement cannot be going to do with the. you know this kind of clutches of to happen a lot of problems in nigeria you know it's illegal actually is. done by these you know how does form a class is how all associated with a good plan. because maybe to somebody doesn't have anything to do who don't believe you for trouble because he has nothing to lose in the last election campaign president bihari took up the cause to fight against unemployment but he hasn't been able to deliver any results his biggest

when the time yahoo has sparked controversy after he referred to a quote war with iran in a tweet which has since been deleted he's now refreeze his comments saying this is an open meeting with representatives of leading arab countries that are sitting down together with israel in order to advance the common interest of combat in iran all right let's get more on all of this now and for that i'm joined by digital you correspondent tanya kramer who's in jerusalem hello to you tanya so netanyahu is tweet caused a real stir in warsaw what's behind it. well i mean mrs you know it's known for it taking a tough stance against iran but it was this particular use of words war against iran there was a statement being put out last night in the english translation where the first version of it actually quoted that to find a common stands. and to advance common interests in a war against iran that this statement was again then just some time later every issue that was somehow soft and into combating iran and of course the rains have. picked up on that and they said well this shows rather the true co

connection with three separate corruption cases just weeks before a general election system that's in yahoodescribes the charges as political persecution we'll take you to jerusalem. also on the program the u.s. president cut short his her knowledge summit with the kids saying sometimes you have to walk for this particular visit with.

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decision from the attorney general is going to going to be announcement of an intention to indictment and yahoo that's not a final indictment which could come six to twelve months later but it basically says that's where he's going in the meantime the campaign and the primaries for netanyahu likud party are being conducted in what's become the mainstream of israeli politics the right the night before likud members cast their votes a series of senior party figures including the intelligence public security and culture ministers signed onto a charter promoting a radical expansion of illegal settlements it calls for the adoption of a plan to settle two million jews in the occupied west bank signing up to it cements a politician's right wing credentials and also allows the party to define itself more clearly against a new arrival on the political scene could voters benjamin netanyahu legal troubles have done little to diminish either his power or his popularity there is a substantial and constituency among jewish israelis and for years they've been looking for a viable also. hopes. and israel's for

literally everyone. >> zuckerberg said no to yahoo's offer as he continued to follow his vision.cebook took the site off campus welcoming non students and grew to 12 million active users. zuckerberg took the next big step in 2007 opening the platform up to outside developers. and encouraging them to build apps for facebook. >> in retrospect one might say it was not a good idea to have a made facebook an open platform. but from zuckerberg's point of view open platforms seemed to have the most growth potential, the ability to have the most impact on the world. >> zuckerberg's decision had far reaching consequences for the company and for the millions who'd come to depend on it. >> in exchange for creating these apps and games and stuff to make facebook more engaging they kind of let these app developers have an open door to user data. this included things like likes, your ridging, political information, your name, your e-mail. opened all kind of stuff up to random app developers. >> coming up, without knowing it facebook members give up their personal data and the data of their fri

the israeli government has not become public and not something that's nuts and yahoo for sure will be happy about. and as far as the israeli prime minister benjamin mixon benjamin netanyahu is motivation for coming there as you say he's been meeting with gulf leaders is this his way of of telling the israeli people that i'm the leader. that you need do you need to stick with with the with the israeli elections coming out. of course i mean for sure you've got to read into the context of this i think the fact that he decided to talk about swore ahead of the elections is something significant and not coincidental on the fact that he is showing that he is the statesman that's welcome from east to west around the world he was sent the sage that family photo lost lights and obviously was one of the people that are trying to show that he's calling the shots and in reality he has been at least the israeli agenda has been the one that's been a driving force flushed by a very pro israel administration in washington one that says openly admitted to being so and therefore it is something that he

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world i is expected not just condemnation but concrete action, but is this summit too little too late yahoo! venezuela blockades itself against attempts to bring humanitarian aid. president maduro closing the country's border with brazil and considering doing the same to the border with colombia, claiming any aid as a pretext for u.s. intervention. plus, a conference in frankfurt today tries to tackle the increasing numbers of anti-semitic incidents in and outside football stadiums across the country. i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world, welcome. tonight, and unprecedented summit on sexual abuse is under way at the vatican. pope francis kicked off a landmark gathering with bishops from around the world to address clerical sexual abuse. he began the meeting by saying that the church must listen to abuse victims, but some survivors say the pope's efforts do not go far enough. the summit comes after an allegation -- an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting children and raping nuns. let's talk about the significa

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under domestic scene we do remember bit on that yahoo and his wife are you know accused of. financial corruption so the best thing to do on the eve of the election new elections in israel is finding a boogie man a bad man abroad in order to deal really public opinion from inside the country the domestic scene and the financial corruption and charges to our foreign enemy and who's better than iran and who's better than netanyahu when it comes to escalating tensions and confronting tehran. the european commission has expanded its dirty money blacklist by another twenty three countries including saudi arabia the name states are accused of failings in regard to financing terrorism and money laundering some of the inclusions work they've ruffled feathers it all of expects. isn't the first time that riyadh is been accused of having either direct or in direct links to terror organizations but what the european union is hoping to do here is provide some kind of proof lactic for its own financial institutions against those that are trading in this dodgy money we have to make sure the

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weekly webcast almost social media that pledges to quote get rid of the fake from the news and that's a yahoo use the first show to celebrate its triumphs and to lambaste the media and to put at the roots of god's wisdom swivels with. the media to draw the votes he accuses them of teaming up with the police and the judiciary in three corruption cases he calls it a witch hunt designed to force him out of office trumps going to similar show is called real news updates that was hosted by trump's daughter nor is really one is hosted by any arrests he's famous not so much for his journalism but for having appeared on a reality t.v. show which one irony that big brother you really could not make it up you've also been working on this week's feature story the second in a series that you've done about dry and from the world of literature who often saw themselves as journalists not just authors yes the first story went out last year it was about american writer tom wolfe for the second installment i believe king at the video you got to see a marcus he wrote books like one hundred years of solitude lov

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thinks the netanyahu yahoo's war comments about iran are way of saving his own reputation back home. iran has shown to be a prudent party a very responsible one it knows the real objectives behind this move that has been done by netanyahu hope this move has been done for domestic purposes as well as international ones under the massive scene we do remember that netanyahu and his wife are you know accused of. financial corruption so the best thing to do on the eve of the election new elections in israel is finding a boogie man a bad man abroad in order to deal raila public opinion from inside the country the domestic scene iran and who's better than netanyahu when it comes to escalating tensions and confronting tehran. the head of the us senate intelligence committee has officially admitted there is no direct evidence donald trump colluded with russia in the twenty sixteen presidential race that's after an exhaustive two year probe into the matter. well i'm not sure how to cure him and i've said it before we have no factual evidence of collusion between. the two the probe got some par

on corruption charges in a defiant reaction to that decision that yahoo said that he will remain prime minister for quote many more years the decision to charge netanyahu follows more than two years of investigations into allegations of bribery thawed and breach of trust is marie separate cases and it comes just weeks before new elections to the israeli parliament the knesset. our correspondent on ukraine where she joins us now from jerusalem good evening to you. you know he reacted to this move bear in a very defiant way what more can you tell us you know it was quite an and passionate statement he said he wanted to oncet to this announcement by the attorney general right away and he said what he had said all along that this is a move to a topple the his government to move pressure by the left wing and in order to install what he called a left wing government he also cost. supports by his writing a coalition his others also crisis own party put out a statement saying this is political persecution dela criticize also the timing of this decision so shortly six weeks before the elections

this case we're talking about a person who has control over israeli media website and and it's on yahoo as being dictating to him what do have in that media -- website and and especially we saw during the last election campaigns the influence nathaniel had on this a website and in return. a new in netanyahu's also the minister of communications gave shell out of each and get a hot- and and and a deal which wasas worth hundreds of millions at a local a currency yes that means. that the hundreds of millions of euros i would say in his chair in broadcasting and television over cable television. listeners no smoke without five the so there's a lot of cigars as you mentioned sixty four thousand euros with -- sammy thank you so very much indeed we wait and see what happens with benjamin netanyahu said case they state iowa locations --- the semis outlined that the case is -- is is corruption on a number of levels and dignity of same the cavs case will collapse at like a house of commons of course when a semi circle -- with that. nixie ally from paris we look at the s. situation regarding the u

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recommendation is based on a two year investigation by the police into three separate corruption cases next on yahoo denies any wrongdoing while his party is calling it political persecution action it's the first time a sitting prime minister has been charged the united nations says there is evidence the israeli army may have committed war crimes in the way it responded to palestinian protest in gaza un investigators say israeli soldiers intentionally opened fire on civilians close to two hundred palestinians have been killed along the gaza israel border since may of last year. that will release a captured indian pilot on friday prime minister has called the move a gesture of peace after days of tensions those are the headlines inside stories coming up next on al-jazeera then it's the news hour i'll see you then bye bye. walk away from their summit in. what. and where does it appear threat from north korea this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm hard on that hamid sometimes you have to walk this was how u.s. president donald trump described the sudden end to his summit with north

israeli prime minister binyamin us and yahoo's two main rivals are joining forces for the country's upcoming general election forward finance minister your lockheed has announced a centrist alliance with ex military chief of staff benny gantz if they win they say they will rotate as prime minister. then a chinese tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than one hundred years has been found alive in the galapagos islands an adult female specimen of the species known as. dino island toward his was discovered during a recent expedition conservationists are preparing to search for more of the species in the galapagos. well here in germany a verdict is expected today in a court case that's being closely watched by former employees of the arms maker hecla and call it a bit on trial in stuttgart since may of last year they stand accused of illegally supplying mexico with hecla and call german made weapons. a courtin stood guard has been trying five former hacker cock employees on charges of exporting weapons illegally in two thousand and fourteen six people were killed in protests in the so

government workers in the street and slashing funds for electricity supply from israel to gaza that's on yahoo has been accused of us of choking gaza i understand that he's measures are aimed at pressuring hamas to disarm but i mean people support for the group is as strong as ever this is mean mom would have asked his measures are in a sack this. well look is actually putting all of these sort of things that he has in fact is that it is who is putting a seizure it is like that has been since two thousand and seven until today that has been really closing off gaza for the un totally there is no movement to people if it is going to allow. the stadiums out of the gaza strip even to come to the west bank we welcome that if it is going to allow trade between the west bank and gaza we want them by the state doesn't get a lot of people off there are a set of the measures that have been taken and now these measures are to just sell it as has gone from fifty votes on to seventy five got a son and now it's going to be a totally different story so that we should not really shift focus from who is puttin

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east however critics will say that its may have very well done the opposite by enabling that's and yahoo has government international law and continues to illegally occupy arab lands and by favoring a more confrontational this approach rather than a diplomatic one when it comes to iran. and still to come in this half hour. the netherlands have a. have a. person's prime minister suffers and now that the fate of the hope for exit strategy. how it is too disappointingly dry in northern queensland has been flooded in the last three or four weeks but it's still wet season it should rain every day and it isn't really doing that most of the action is nice circulation of cloud up of of and beyond in fiji so whilst it is dry it's also quite warm can shouldn't be thirty three thirty five degrees and has been recently should be near thirty one a variation in the tropics that is quite notable is warm for the south but no longer hot there the thirty mark in sydney camber and brisbane and is warming up in adelaide at twenty nine after great disappointment in the teens recently hotter still in percy's

for example jobs or if the iranian foreign minister in the past you've had been german that's and yahoo you have obviously mike pence and you know u.s. officials in fact this year will have the largest delegation from congress u.s. lawmakers coming to it so whilst there will be definitely a lot of politicians and leaders gathered behind me who will be pushing for maybe more confrontational approach towards dealing with iran there will also be many who will be insistent that's actually it is diplomacy that will bring about some sort of consensus or resolution there so. iran will be high on the agenda obviously it is extremely significant not just because of the role it plays in the region of the war in syria on terms of interference in different countries affairs in the region as it is accused of but also because of the trade it has with for example the united arab emirates or that it has with europe and other countries and other continents as well. lifeless in munich thanks to. the india's government is promising a strong response after an attack in indian administered kashmir they kill

of trust and bribery but he is simply not going to go down without a fight we've heard from that on yahoo that the attempts to indict him will fall apart like a house of cards he also said that this is president election interference to topple the government now his likud party has also issued a statement and called this political persecution now the prime minister will be given a chance to appeal the charges that are being filed but that hearing will only take place off to the election that is being held on april the ninth and this is where all eyes are turn to at the moment is what is the decision the announcement by the attorney general mean for netanyahu chances in the upcoming election in which he's seeking a fourth consecutive term in office the latest poll suggests that his support has dropped already by four to five percent now his supporters say that this is political interference that this is a sad day for democracy of course they would have wrong that the attorney general made that announcement after the elections on april the ninth but his critics certainly say that he now nee

decision from the attorney general is going to going to be announcement of an intention to indictment and yahoo that's not a final indictment which could come six to twelve months later but it basically says that's where he's going in the meantime the campaign and the primaries for netanyahu likud party are being conducted in what's become the mainstream of israeli politics the right the night before likud members cast their votes a series of senior party figures including intelligence public security and culture ministers all signed on to a charter promoting a radical expansion of illegal settlements it calls for the adoption of a plan to settle two million jews in the occupied west bank signing up to it cements a politician's right wing credentials and also allows the party to define itself more clearly against a new arrival on the political scene and while it could voters benjamin netanyahu has legal troubles have done little to diminish either his power or his popularity here there is though a substantial anti netanyahu constituency among jewish israelis and fears they've been looking for a

benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases that in yahoo has rejected the allegations saying they are politically motivated ahead of elections in april he claims he is the victim of an unprecedented witch hunt but it smith reports now from west jerusalem. he is the first sitting israeli prime minister to be charged with bribery fraud a breach of trust benjamin netanyahu says he's innocent of will stay in his post and we're going to. i am telling you citizens of israel this house of cards will collapse i'm certain about this i am four thousand percent certain about of this are battling to keep serving you and the state as the prime minister for many years to come don't believe all the spin this depends on you it's not dependent on the officials all the analysts. there's no legal requirement for him to step down. and parties will feel to the supreme court say look at slow it's not logical the job of a prime minister is a very complicated job because the city of security issues in society is called ohmic issues you can go to law serve spend da

middle east however critics will say that it may have very well done the opposite by enabling and yahoo government international loring continues to illegally occupy arab learns by favoring more confrontational this approach rather than a diplomatic one when it comes to iran. or so others of i saw a fight as of surrender to syrian democratic forces in the eastern region of derren saw that's where kurdish fighters have launched a final push against the group in the village of baghdad areas the last territory that i still controls in syria thousands of people in bug fled to help positions to escape the violence yes the efforts been sorting civilian men from women carrying islip fighters hiding among them and khan has moved on the turkey syria border. those patrols between the russians and the turkish forces began on thursday president of the one the turkish president has actually spoken and said that as a sort of corp russia and turkey to agree to start joint patrols in order to contain radical groups his words not ours so this comes as the syrian democratic forces are still fighting the

east however critics will say that it may have very well done the opposite by enabling that's and yahoo's government international law and continues to illegally occupy arab learns by favoring more confrontational this approach rather than a diplomatic one when it comes to iran. at least forty four people have died in the warst attack on indian forces in kashmir since two thousand and two a car laden with explosives slammed into a military convoy in a heavily guarded highway in the poor woman district of indian administered kashmir india's prime minister has called the attack the speakable. reports. multiple casualties after a blast along a highway in indian administered kashmir one of the worst attacks to hit the disputed himalayan region in almost three years according to reports the majority of those killed were indian paramilitary personnel when a car filled with explosives rammed into a military convoy in the district of full while the attack happened on a main road that connects the state capitol street a guard to the city of new pictures from the blast site showed bodies and body p

decision from the attorney general is going to going to be announcement of an intention to indictment and yahoo that's not a final indictment which could come six to twelve months later but it basically says that's where he's going in the meantime the campaign and the primaries for netanyahu party are being conducted in what's become the mainstream of israeli politics the right the night before likud members cast their votes a series of senior party figures including intelligence public security and culture ministers all signed on to a charter promoting a radical expansion of illegal settlements it calls for the adoption of a plan to settle two million jews in the occupied west bank signing up to it cements a politician's right wing credentials and also allows the party to define itself more clearly against a new arrival on the political scene a loyalist could voters benjamin netanyahu as legal troubles have done little to diminish either his power or his popularity here there is though a substantial anti netanyahu constituency among jewish israelis and fears they've been looking for a viable a

now and then yahoo's got an opportunity to make his own arguments in front of the attorney general and only then will the attorney general finally decide whether to go ahead with an indictment or not is months away what matters now and what has become quite a tight election campaign is if any new details emerge about the nature of the challenges netanyahu faces whether that more unsavory details might be enough to put off and at the moment loyal support base baba but in smith for the latest on that from west jerusalem bernard thank you but we're joined in the studio now by al-jazeera is a senior political analyst i'm not one. good to see you following on from burnitz point there i guess it all hinges on what comes out in this investigation before the election as to the effect it might have actually happened you know i think there's a general sense in israel that. you know what i missed something i was not exactly the most on sky and that he and his wife are probably guilty somehow because the trial of public opinion is more important at this point in time before the elections than the

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