The number of malaria and cholera fatalities due to stagnant waters during rainy seasons affected residents blame the former government ousted in april of neglect now opposition leaders say steps need to be taken to ensure that what happened in chile doesnt happen again because we only know having yes we use rationing players we need some deeds we need to be new dams new. Floods coming from the far east. It is more than having the you vision in place it is about political will it is about the restructurings area coming was new ideas to prevent any flux in the future. For imus who has to pick up the pieces to rebuild his home starting over wont be easy and with the rainy season not yet over he hopes no more flash floods come to take away what little he has left he morgan aljazeera hearts on. On the weather is next then indonesia shuts off the internet in west africa and sends in more soldiers as it tries to put an end to riots. High schoolers running in hong kong and threaten to boycott classes until theres change. Hello again welcome back to International Weather forecasts well here in the western pacific we are watching a Tropical Storm pushing up here towards the northwest so were going to see whos going to be affected over the next few days because that is going to be in question as we go into the weekend heavy winds are going to be a big problem across parts of the philippines as well as southern taiwan but as we go towards saturday one particular model has a system making its way towards hong kong while another forecast model makes it a little bit more towards the northwest towards taiwan so thats going to be the big factor were going to be watching as we enter into the weekend heavy rains going to be a big issue across much of that region anyway here across parts of india we are going to be seeing some very heavy rain across much of central india over the next few days anywhere between 2250. 00 millimeters across much of odisha state as well as to the west there new delhi though really not looking too bad with the temperature by the time we get towards saturday of 34 degrees and then very quickly over here across much of the gulf winds are going to start to ramp up as we go towards saturday but here in doha expect to see a high of 39 degrees of abu dhabi at 40 degrees but by saturday those winds really kick in across much of the southern gulf at 38 degrees but over here towards misc up we could be seeing some morning fog for you with a temperature of about 32 degrees there. Trust is fundamental to all our relationships we trust banks with our money talk to us without really. Knowing what is to trust you know. As more want to citizens and for us by these complex piece of. The question. We trust. The 1st of a 5 part series great question of the neutrality of digital the. Trust me im an algorithm on a job. You want to know just a reminder of our top stories this irans foreign minister zarif says hes willing to work on french proposals to salvage the 2015 Nuclear Agreement french president emanuel not call says hell either try to soften sanctions all come up with a way to compensates the arabian people. And the french president has told british Prime MinisterBottas Johnson that the u. K. Must respect the deal already made on braggs it was johnson wants the e. U. To compromise. Brazils president says his government lacks the resources to put out the fires raging across the amazon rain forest a number of fires now burning is at a record level of 84 percent in the same time last year. Strikes have killed several civilians in opposition controlled towns around an important highway in syria near a turkish observation post the army backed by russia is continuing its offensive in the northwest and problems over along the strategic and 5 highway Government Troops that are already in control of parts of the m 5 following the rebel withdrawal from the town of concha cohen well on monday. The latest attempt to repatriate to handle refugees to me and more looks to have failed almost 300 families interviewed by the un and Bangladeshi Government all said they dont want to go back unless their safety and citizenship are guaranteed bangladesh says no one will be forced to return hundreds of thousands of rohingya are living in camps in coxs bazaar on the Bangladesh BorderStephanie Decker is there. The 2nd time that authorities have tried to repatriate to send back some of the rangar refugees the 1st time was in november of last year no one wanted to go back then and it seems for now at least that remains the case. When you interview 295 listed families none of them expressed their willingness to go back to their country at the moment this process will continue and anyone who says they want to go back we will facilitate their return to me and more now one of the core issues is trust part of that press conference was a member of Chinas Embassy here also a member of me and more as diplomatic representatives i off them why they werent allowing journalists particularly the United Nations access to the areas where these people would be returning to because that of course is crucial even the United Nations cannot give the guarantees to people here of what they will be facing on the other side and u. N. Investigators say the scale of Sexual Violence against the working year demonstrates an intent to commit genocide a Fact Finding Mission found evidence that soldiers routinely and systematically employed rape gang rape and other for sexual acts against women girls boys men and transgender people the u. N. Says those responsible should be prosecuted for war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity the report adds that Sexual Violence and persecution appears to still being going on in me and more common to swami was on the Fact Finding Mission shes joining me now from the u. N. Headquarters in new york thank you very much indeed for being with us can you explain to me how you were able to gather information from this report and stephanie was pointing out just a few moments ago the u. N. Is not allowed into the areas where there would have been going to. Well we have as you know been on the ground in cox bazaar weve also interviewed refugees in malaysia and. We have been in thailand where people from me in ma have come and spoken to us as well so we have had teams on the ground its not only as individuals who have been interviewing these people. Of Sexual Violence witnesses Sexual Violence but the purpose of this report is to show new areas that we felt were not mentioned in the earlier ones which is the area of sexual slavery which is something the rowing as especially. Experience but is also present in the. Conflict areas were also looking at Sexual Violence against men and boys especially in Detention Centers and prisons were looking at balance against transgender people who to some extent had some measure of dignity when laws were negative against them and were also looking at the Sexual Violence terms of forced labor. Also we want to show how discrimination in. The country contributions really to the violence when you could lated the figures in the details that you had in the report what was more shocking to you the fact that it was happening at all or this gale at which it was happening. Well i think 1st its shocking that its happening at all and if you look at their kind if you look at the shan chin yeah there is we should have been alerted to the fact that the tatmadaw used Sexual Violence as the 2 of of their military tactics it is very much a part of their tactics what is called the full cuts. But in especially in the rowing areas what happened is extremely violent extremely brutal to the point that we said that it showed a kind of intent to destroy in whole or in part of a population so i think both were shocking the fact that it was done by some scale but there are also the fact that one community may have been down with the intent to destroy the whole power as we were mentioning before the Rohingya Refugees that are currently in coxs bazaar have seem to have no intention of returning to an area over which cant seem to guarantee the safety and going by the details in your report that is perhaps understandable how can the the people who are perpetrating these these crimes these if they are true. Be good how can they be weeded out of the situation how can they be removed from the situation to be able to give some sort of guarantee of safety and security for their here who are going to return. Well in our report last year we mentioned 6 generals whom we felt were particularly responsible for this kind of strategy whom we thought account that who should be held accountable and we have also pushed for International Mechanism to deal with this issue when you push for International Sanctions i think its really important we have actually seen satellite imagery of the areas these people was forced to return to not a building as everything has been bulldozed not even a tree standing new structures have been built which are i would not say really worthy of inhabitation in that sense so i think to some extent we really have to be concerned units has from state self in the world that it will not allow people to go unless its a safe and voluntary return and from what we have. And theres the other issue of discrimination which is that the laws in the Rakhine State are such that. You know if there are the marriage laws affecting growing and also education issues Health Issues mal valid titian travel all these very discriminatory frameworks so we have to make sure that when they return theyre not only safe but they also have a pathway to citizenship and there are all these framework of very discriminatory laws which we call appetite like should be removed. Youre saying that much of this seems to rely on the miramar government being trusted to carry out the efforts that youre suggesting should be put in place before the wrecking moves back but in the event that it does so or indeed that it doesnt so what kind of International Pressure do you think can be brought to make sure that the government doesnt allow this to happen again. Well i think we have to bring. First we have to make sure that these people return to a safe and shall we say. Dignified. Return and i think to some extent we have to just be very clear that this kind of thing will be told not be tolerated and the only way that can have lives there is if there is accountability for those who actually did commit these crimes we do not think a master process will work we do not think that the framework of law exists and we dont think anyone can be so independent as to withstand the political pressure and the military pressure that they would be subject to. Any kind of judicial mechanism on such an important issue so we are pushing very much for our International Mechanism if it can take place and where hope that that will happen there is quite a bit of Political Support for that but theres also resistance to go home as well i mean after our sorry sorry like there are unfortunately time is against this but we do appreciate your explanation of the reports findings Radhika Coomaraswamy thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you indonesia has restricted Internet Access and arrested dozens of people in its west papua province where there have been days of violent protests 1200 extra security personnel have been deployed to contain the riots which began on monday began when 43 papuans students were arrested and racially abused for allegedly disrespecting the indonesian flag on independent state. Well problems have been simmering for decades the region which sits on the western side of the island of new guinea used to be a dutch colony they started with a drawing in the 1950 s. West papuans want to have their own country but indonesia began and searching its claim over the province now in 1962 indonesia was appointed temporary administrator under a un backed treaty that agreement stated that a free and fair referendum should be held on independence by 969. 00 when that vote happened though only a handful of the locals were allowed to calloused ballots and son say they will coalesce into voting to become part of indonesia ever since Security Forces have been accused of committing human rights abuses against the local population and then asias government denies this and says its Building Infrastructure to improve west papuans lives one protest as says theyre sick of being victims of racism to be dealt with the word monkey is used to insult the pap and students this is been going on for too long we dont have freedom to leave here its as though were not indonesian citizens where he had to study we need to create problems people have always treated us as if were animals. A salvadoran woman acquitted of homicide after giving birth to a Stillborn Baby is calling for abortion to be legalized in her country 21 year old Evelyn Hernandez was exonerated this week in a closely watched retrial shed previously been sentenced to 30 years in prison and spent 3 years behind bars she wants to ensure other women dont have to go through the same ordeal. I feel free i feel to be born my plans are to study i want god to help my fellow inmates who are in sight so that they can also have justice and. I want the president to really see the cases of fiction women were discriminated against and want to think that legalizing abortion dozens of High School Students who rallied in hong kong and many are threatening to boycott classes next month large protests in hong kong began 3 months ago in opposition to an extradition bill the grown into a Broader Movement against the influence of Mainland China in hong kongs affairs Hoda Abdelhamid was on the rally. 3 months and this wave of protests that has taken in hong kong. Has really. Many sections of Hong Kong Society here High School Students teenagers well they say that they should be part of the current coverage sation ongoing here because most of it is about their own future when they become young adults when they become Young Professionals not many of just low has started here are actually exactly the same that you have been hearing on the streets of hong kong elsewhere liberate a Home Revolution of our time the students here are also considering carry out a strike on september 2nd thats when the School Year Starts over summer also floating the idea of having the strike on a regular basis throughout the year its not yet set in stone but certainly there is a whiff of this young generation. Part of whats going on in hong kong some of them saying it is a good moment and they should. Know you can find a lot more no websites there just for that says w w w dot aljazeera dot com. This is all just here of these of the top stories irans foreign minister zarif the says hes willing to work on french proposals to salvage the 2015 Nuclear Agreement president emanuel says hell either try to soften the sanctions or come up with a way to compensate the iranian people the french president has told the u. K. Prime minister bought his johnson that britain must respect the deal already made on brings it but as johnson wants the e. U. To compromise brazils president jacob also says his government lacks the resources to put out the fires raging across the amazon rain forest fires now burning is at a record level up 84 percent on the same time last year the world. Now the amazon is bigger than europe how can you fight criminal fires in such an area it is clearly criminal how can you do it you need to catch them in the act otherwise theres nothing you can do now nongovernmental organizations are losing money money that came from germany and norway they are unemployed now so they are trying to overthrow. A torrent of water released from an indian down has exacerbated the effect of monsoon rains in pakistan submerging towns and villages floodwaters now cover hundreds of hectors and Punjab Province and the river levels are still rising the Pakistani Army has turned a military base into a relief camp for people evacuated from their homes but some are refusing to leave flooded areas because it would mean abandoning their crops. Airstrikes have killed a several civilians in opposition controlled tons around an important highway in syria near a turkish observation post the army backed by russia is continuing its offensive in the Northwestern Province of idlib along this to t. J. And 500 waynes the latest attempt to rip the refugees to me and more looks to have failed almost 300 families interviewed by the u. N. And Bangladeshi Government all say they dont want to go back unless there is safety and citizenship are guaranteed thousands of High School Students are rallied in hong kong and many are threatening to boycott classes next month large protests in hong kong began 3 months ago in opposition to an extradition bill those are the headlines coming up all hail the algorithm but for now. Is resistance. In akra people are grabbing social and political issues by the horns. And donna saying creativity parody and protest to challenge and change ideas. Gonna controversial a witness documentary on aljazeera. Trust is fundamental to all our relationships not just with our family and friends we trust banks with our money we trust doctors without really personal information. But what happens to trust in a world driven by algorithms as more and more decisions are made for us by these complex piece of code the question that comes up is inevitable can we trust algorithms. From google searches to g. P. S. Navigation algorithms are everywhere we dont really think too much about them but increasingly governments corporations and various institutions are using them to make decisions about us who gets Public Services who gets to nod how people are monitored and policed how insurance is charged. I want to start here in australia where an algorithm used by the government has resulted in more than 400. 1000 people being in debt to the countrys welfare System Center like its been called the road at scandal. Back in 2016 a decision was made to fully automate a key part of the astrology and welfare system the part where the earnings of low income people are compared with the amount of government money they received the government says they do this to ensure the right amount of Financial Assistance has been that all the data matching algorithm officially called the on line compliance intervention had been in place since 2011 any discrepancies previously flagged by the system were investigated by a Government Employee 1st with automation all human checks were removed the government had instituted an algorithm that essentially said lets match 2 lots of data together and mash them together and say people have a dead cert some of the math was just bad just plain wrong like it was french a pill or mashing the cells together in the cells to the actual is a journalist whos been reporting on the road that story since it broke shes also an activist one of the chief organizes of the not my day ross Roots Campaign often people didnt realize that this was all made in the 1st place and it was until we started getting people talking together on social media on twitter that we realized. Actually its the government has found it was almost like 1000 people have been gaslighted into thinking theyre done the wrong thing that it was their fault and theyre outraged when they realized that there was a fault in the actual algorithm in the car and the Israeli Government disagrees we are doing arent. We are. And we are recruiting money for our more checks is a bit of an understatement the old system resulted in around 20000. 00 descriptions you notices a year but in the early days of the new Automated System that. Jumped 220008 week. More than a 1000000 letters of being sent out by the algorithm sometimes disputing government payments from a fall back a city and what was even worse was these systems were imposed on paper with intellectual disabilities with homelessness with. Chronic Health Issues people who were barely literate or not literate all people who didnt know how to use a Computer People who were living in remote communities without access to internet people who just had no bloody clue how to deal with this sort of administrative bureaucratic. David begnaud was notified he correctly declared his income from a teaching job while he was on a disability pension back in 2011. Ready 4088. 00. Rather he says its going and his action toward you that youve seen have done the wrong thing i know i have i want to details of more debt and i was told i couldnt have that and the reason i was taught was that the computer looks posed to move and then sources a piece of information another person here another person in the business and i cant provide all that to me because it comes in to many places and it recently but in other words the older rhythm is inscrutable its totally normal even the stylists dont really understand it can you tell me how much evidence or how much notification didnt provide you proving that there was a to. Be anything other than this election. Thing that i have finally my text message. To say hi the money is doing today. The fact that you couldnt get any concrete evidence about this is how we have calculated your days here is what you hear the hours you work. That really i found. It sure any confidence that i had in that the government will do the right thing the fact that i couldnt prove to me that i owed the money. Really concern me you know find that youre seeing a letter in the mail thats generated by an ai that essentially says the government wants to let you know that we underpay june by 5000. 00 or that you should have been eligible for the services that we didnt tell you there for telling you now and we can back pay nobody gets back hide in fact youre only eligible for like back pay i think its 6 weeks of government service. Says that the government can right by getting back for many many is automation computerization algorithmic ties ation if thats even a word theyre always sold to us as such a positive thing all upside no downside as a stroll is department of Human Services put it computerized Decision Making can reduce red tape ensure decisions are consistent and create greater efficiencies for recipients and the department the problem is how the challenge a system that has no facts no name and no besides the bottom of your letter say you know im in charge of this. Good afternoon welcome to the department of Human Services center like on a good day heated up sitting on hold for a couple hours to speak to a human the real question is how does it come about that the government has either pay people but billions. Because really. The criminal waste is occurring at the end of the governments line its the government thats doing this otherwise youre saying 100000. 00 citizens have made mistakes or if thats the case then the system is too difficult for people to negotiate so im not here shaking my fist at technology its not you know digital fall its Like Computers fall this system has been you know designed you know quite explicitly you know by government governments responsible for its failures and governments are really responsible for the hell theyre putting all sorts of welfare recipients through unfairly by issuing them for. This is something i heard from virtually everyone i spoke to about wrote it they said were not against technology its not like algorithms are all bad its the people and the institutions designing these codes we cant seem to trust and this really gets to the heart of our relationship with algorithms there are often complex hidden behind walls of secrecy with no way for those whose lives are actually impacted by them to probe them because theyve been kept off limits. Despite all the criticism and even a formal inquiry is trolling government stands by its algorithm and automation in the welfare system. We do have a compliant. While. We pick out the 300000000000. 00. Through that. And we will continue. And there are at least 20 different laws in australia that explicitly enable algorithms to make decisions previously made by ministers will start we dont really know the full extent of how these are being applied but there are places around the world where the use of algorithms are even more widespread. Like here in the United States where algorithms are being used to make Big Decisions across everything from the criminal Justice SystemHealth Education and him. Point to the United States has a longer history of algorithm use than many other countries Silicon Valley is a big reason for that of course but also theres much looser regulation here on how private companies and governments can collect and use data before theyre studying the effects of algorithms on American Society one thing is clear often its poor marginalized to get the west to. My my way now to croydon new york state to meet weve been ginning you think shes the authority on everything to do with the board of mating inequality actually the title of one of the books the geniuses americas poor and working class have long been subject to invasive surveillance and punitive policies she writes about prison like poor houses of the 19th century the bad conditions with thought to discourage undeserving poor from supposedly taking advantage of the system. What i see as being part of the digital poorhouse are things like automated Decision Making tools statistical models that make risk predictions about how people are going to behave in the future or algorithms that match people to resources and the reason i think of them as a digital poor house is because that the decision that we made an 820. 00 to build actual poorhouses was a decision that Public Service systems should 1st and foremost be moral thermometers that they should act to decide who is most deserving of receiving their basic human rights the genius studies into the automation of Public Services in the United States points to developments in the late sixtys and seventys along with the Civil Rights Movement came a push for welfare rights people are forced to live in the most human situations because of poverty africanamericans and unmarried women who were previously bought from receiving public funds could now demand state support when they need to do. Well technology was touted as a way to distribute Financial Aid more efficiently in almost immediately began to serve as a tool to limit the number of people getting support so you have this moment in history where theres a recession and a backlash against social spending and social movement thats winning successes that and discriminatory treatment and there really is no way to close the roles they cant close the roles the way they had in the past which is just to discriminate against people and thats the moment we see these tools start to be integrated into public assistance i think its really important to understand that history i think too often we think of the systems s. Just simple administrative upgrades sort of natural and inevitable but in fact there are systems that make really important consequential political decisions for us and they were from the beginning supposed to solve political problems among them the power and the solidarity of poor and working people in the early ninetys