A tree standing new structures have been built which are i would not say really worthy of inhabitation in that sense we have to make sure that when they return theyre not only safe but they also have a pathway to citizenship and that all these framework of very discriminatory laws which we call appetite like should be removed. 000 demonstrators. Are trying to keep out security for. A gas leak the rundown of Venezuelas Oil and gas industry thats left many people without hope. Has another heart to dry couple of days ahead across much of the middle east but we have seen and that generated sections of turkey let me show you where the way the clouds has been gathering that its really been sitting around the black sea region and opposing there. Was a turkey said by friday it will continue to work its way eastwards there is rain there but we could still see some flash floods to the south it is all about the heat the temperatures again so baghdad by south of the 47 celsius and even there for this time of year 43 degrees celsius in a q a city further to the south weve seen some fog in the Morning Hours into muscat we could see more of that as you go through friday and saturday that. Bringing that cloud further inland 39 celsius in doha on friday and around the same on saturday and kara conditions across the southwest of yemen that we have down into Southern Africa the temperatures here continuing to rise. Above the average so sunshine in the forecast the next couple of days 22. 00 in capetown 28. 00 in this 27. 00 johannesburg is about 7 degrees above the average for this time of year and then as we head into saturday it stays at about that level but you know to say she warms up with a high of 29 so for the pretty hot under all that sunshine. Trust is fundamental to all our relationships we trust banks with our money talk to us without really small talk what happens to trust you know my own. As more i want to sections of trust by these complex pieces of course the question that comes to never can we trust. The 1st of a 5 part series great question of when youre trying to get your point that the trust me im an algorithm one of your. Fellow were going to top stories on aljazeera japan has described south koreas decision to withdraw from an intelligence sharing agreement as regrettable the 2 countries are a lot of bitter raul over trade and japans wartime atrocities in the last century. The amazon rain forest in brazil is burning at a record really threatening the lives and livelihood of the Indigenous Community that prosecutors in brazil have started an investigation president also now says farmers could have illegally set forced ablaze. U. N. Investigators say the scale of Sexual Violence against the ribbon goes shows genocidal intent a report on sexual and gender based violence in myanmar revealed that the military routinely used rape as a weapon against ethnic minorities including children. Russia and the u. S. Have accused each other of risking a new arms race at the Un Security Council the meeting was requested by russia and china will discuss washingtons testing of a land based look clear capable missile test after washington pulled out of a cold war era missile treaty she would sound see reports from the un it took just over 2 weeks for the us to test a land based intermediate range tomahawk missile following its withdrawal from the intermediate range Nuclear Forces or i. N. F. Treaty in early august the agreement signed at the height of the cold war between washington and moscow in 1907 led to the destruction of thousands of missiles that long been a source of fear for europeans it was clear their countries would be the battleground in any nuclear war the u. S. Maintains it had no choice but to withdraw for 2 reasons the russians had long flout of the agreement something moscow denies and china which was not a signatory has been building up its arsenal of intermediate missiles these developments by the Russian Federation and china coupled with their aggressive and course of behaviors are key Drivers Behind a deteriorating security environment the United States will not and cannot ignore this reality but russia says the launch proves what both the obama and the trumpet ministrations of long denied its the u. S. That has been flouting the treaty with its deployment of what washington calls a Missile Defense system in Eastern Europe the missile launcher used in sundays test is the same model that the u. S. Has deployed in rumania and poland but with modifications to allow it to launch over fences intermediate Nuclear Missiles and moscow chided the u. S. Allies for sitting quietly as washington unilaterally nullified another treaty designed to preserve international security. Usually when you can you might just as well in public do you really not understand that what youve done with the americans step by step you are turning to historical situation when missiles were targeting european cities from different sides. The us allies however did stick to washingtons line obit while expressing concern about a new arms race china also stuck to its long held line its Nuclear Arsenal is defensive and dwarfed by those of russia and the us so its not relevant to this discussion so we. It is not acceptable to use china as an excuse for leaving the treaty china rejects the baseless accusations by the United States in fact recently the trump ministration has been making it pretty clear it left the i. M. F. Primarily because of china the us defense secretary even expressing the hope that soon perhaps in a matter of months they will be and into me and yet range conventional missile capability in the Asia Pacific Region where its unclear which Asian Countries would want to host such missiles and become a target just as europe was during the cold war. Era the united nations. Secretary of state michael peo says american officials are working on securing the release of 2 canadians held in china on payment the commons often meeting canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau 2 canadian men were detained in china 8 months ago over spying charges their arrests were seen as retaliation against canadas decision to detain most joe an executive from Chinese Telecom giant weiwei on a u. S. Warrants. Will not be used as a bargaining chip in the trade war between the u. S. And china yes it was a bar it was a bargaining chip it is a Legal Process by the United States department of justice designed to bring someone who we believe we have sufficient information to bring back to their states under the agreement between the United States very straightforward. President donald trump has scrapped a plan to freeze more than 4000000000. 00 in foreign aid the decision follows a strong outcry from both republican and democratic members of Congress Administration officials were considering using a specific budget process to revoke the aid funding already approved by both the senate and the house another round of talks between the u. S. And the taliban have begun in qatar sides are discussing ending u. S. Military intervention in afghanistan. Have been going on since october in a bid to end 18 year long conflicts the u. S. Special envoy is due to visit kabul next week to meet the Afghan Government and the president insists agreements made during the doha talks will have to be vetted by his government. Gonna stand shares the u. S. Goal of withdrawing troops as soon as possible but he says there will have to be comprehensive discussions before any deal is signed. Yet uses the money that get this the taliban are a part of this country but they cannot determine the fate of the countrys election is the legitimate right of the Afghan People they must decide to have a legitimate government i am not the want to go to break the taliban i will negotiate with the taliban powerfully and with dignity by Syrian Government airstrikes have killed several civilians in opposition controlled towns in Northwestern Province the syrian army backed by russia is continuing its offensive along the strategic m 5 highway which runs from the north of the country to the south Government Troops are already in control of parts of the highway after opposition fighters withdrew from the town of on wednesday. The Palestinian Authority has reached an agreement with israel over disputed taxes israel is releasing more than half a 1000000000. 00 of tax revenue which with since february israel had frozen part of the tax revenue paid to. Demanding that the p. A. And stipends to families of palestinians killed or jailed by israel un human rights experts are condemning the Internet Telephone shut down in indian administered kashmir they say the blackout enforced by the Indian Government is like a collective punishment on the people of the disputed region its been more than 2 weeks since india revoked kashmirs autonomy reports from one neighborhood in srinagar which is putting up a fierce resistance to the security crackdown. Its an act of defiance People Living in the sewer a neighborhood of srinagar have erected these barricades unlike the ones put up by Security Forces to control the movement of local people these have been put up to keep the Security Forces out. Of the common violently the night before last week they blocked us in from 4 directions and didnt let us pray in our main mosque theyve also autistic boys and girls from other areas so we have closed off the entrance here. This neighborhood has been a flashpoint of several protest since restrictions were imposed on movement and communications after the regions autonomy was revoked people here worry that makes them a target and if we look at the present situation it looks like theyre going to at least every one of us. Do the same glum botts brother was detained on august 9th while returning home from work spammy only learned of his arrest the next day since then their frustration has only grown. Police i just heard a case against him the cops tell us to come in the morning and they will release him when we do they tell us to come in the evening this is what we have been dealing with Security Forces remain in the city and region in large numbers indeed Officials Say there has been some unrest in the past few days but its been relatively minor. Also behave normally. Except. Under order restrictions have been eased this week with some people in vehicles moving around however most businesses in srinagar remain closed and in sora open defiance remains. In the sky above weve seen drones watching for protests which have been spontaneous in different parts of the city but here in sora authorities already know people plan to protest further and locals tell us they plan to resist as long as they can as Jamil Al Jazeera indeed administered kashmir. President has given political leaders more time to form a new Coalition Governments say. He wants a clear solution quickly after the Ruling Alliance collapsed and Prime Minister just resigned this week he says several Party Leaders are trying to come up with a deal to avoid an early election the president says any new government must be able to win a confidence vote in parliament otherwise he will be forced to call an election talks will continue next week. A court in germany has sentenced a syrian Asylum Seeker to 9 and a half years in prison over the fatal stabbing of a 24 year old was convicted of manslaughter and grievous bodily harm the incident happened during an altercation at a festival in the eastern city of. German authorities have also issued an International Arrest warrant for iraq a suspect whos been on the run since the incident the stabbing sparked germanys worst riots in decades with thousands of far right supporters clashing with police. Venezuela has the Worlds LargestProven Oil Reserves and so should be one of the worlds richest nations but years of underinvestment corruption and u. S. Sanctions have crippled its Energy Sector thats left many feeling let down by the government on the promises they once made tourism has more from the town of. Venezuela. Has always lived beside the lake of mica you will in the northwestern state. Hes a fisherman but he says pollution from the oil industry is destroying his way of life. This is abandon completely abandon in the past the oil and gas installations were taken care of but not anymore now are lake is filled with willing contamination our boats are dirty our nets are dirty my family depends on this and its killing us were close to the town where oil was 1st discovered in venezuela in 1922 it turned this country from Michael Cohen coffee producing nation into an oil giant but things have not been going well in the past 2 years the bottom of the lake of what i was filled with thousands of kilometers of Gas Pipelines some of them are broken if you can see right there thats a leak a gas leak this is just an example of the enormous infrastructure problems that. Its way less Energy Sectors has today were told tankers i rarely seen here Venezuelas Oil production has dropped by more than 70 percent in the past 20 years and a u. S. Oil embargo is further complicating the export market frenzy colonna has worked for venezuelas state oil company pay very sad for over 30 years at one time they were producing 80000 barrels a day now not a single one. I have fought with management how is painting a pipeline red maintenance when inside its rod and deteriorated weepin a pump and then it catches fire then things blow up thats the maintenance they want us to do with what we have and we have lots of accidents. Fransisco says hes paid around 8. 00 a month. Im a revolutionary but this is not the left i dreamt of i want to work but we have no tools no boats total deterioration in the past there were food halls not anymore we have said that until we are fed we cannot go out to work we cannot even buy food with our salaries so we are demanding a meal at least former president or chavis promised to improve peoples lives when he took office 2 decades ago and the state of company played a crucial role in his plan but experts say a lack of investment corruption and inexperience among chavez loyalist devastated the company now the government of the little with money from russia and china is trying to provide the only industry with a much needed boost so quick change in geopolitics to china for example is more costly because of the cargo shipments will have to see were ends venezuela has lots of debt with china and we will have to see whether they really invest in the country and if it generates cash and how the money is going to enter the country if we are sanctioned its a vicious cycle that generates lots of questions and problems many of these fishing. Supported what will chavez called the bolivarian revolution and believed in the benefits it would bring now they feel abandoned by a government they say has forgotten about the promises that were once made very subtle. Venezuela you can read watch more about whats happening in venezuela on our website as aljazeera dot com and if you had there youll also find the days top stories all of aljazeera dot com. The top stories on aljazeera japan has described south koreas decision to withdraw from an intelligence sharing agreement as regrettable countries are locked in a bitter rout over trade and japans war time atrocities in the last century. Rain forest in brazil is burning at a record radio indigenous tribes have joined the International Chorus to save what they consider to be. Devastating fires they say they will fight until their last drop of blood to protect their home you know our president. Continues to blame environmental groups for the fires. Now the amazon is bigger than you realize how can you fight 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. Un investigators say the scale of Sexual Violence against the roving goes shows genocidal intent a report on sexual and gender based violence of myanmar revealed the military routinely used rape as a weapon against ethnic minorities the un says those responsible should face war crimes charges russia and the u. S. Have accused each other for risking a new arms race at the Un Security Council the meeting was requested by russia and china to discuss washingtons testing of a land based Nuclear Capable missile. Secretary of state says american officials are working on securing the release of 2 canadians held in china on paper made the comments after meeting canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau 2 canadian men were detained in china 8 months ago over spying charges their arrests were seen as retaliation against canadas decision to detain an executive from Chinese Telecom giants weiwei on a u. S. Warns another round of talks between the u. S. On the taliban have begun in kandahar the sides are discussing ending u. S. Military intervention in afghanistan and have been going on since october in a bid to end the year long conflict u. S. Special envoy is due to visit kabul next week those are the headlines all hail the algorithm is coming up next. The story of a friendship between a filmmaker and a 7 Year Old Girl what is it would mean. Giving over to our future being the syrian war. In the face of deep rooted tension between the lebanese and the refugees. My syrian friends laugh bisect on aljazeera the leaders of the 7 most powerful economies in the world meet in paris this august for the Climate Crisis is high on the agenda. But trade was brick sit on the tension with iran be vying for their attention how much progress i might follow the g. 7 summit 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 challenged. I want to start here in australia where an algorithm used by the government has resulted in more than. 400000 people being in debt to the countrys welfare system essentially its been called the rodent 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 is being at 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 see if people have a dead cert some of the math was just bad just plain wrong like it was spread shapes the mashing the cells together in the cells to actual is a journalist whos been reporting on the robo dead story since it broke shes also an activist one of the chief organizes of the not why dead Grass Roots Campaign often people didnt realize that this was automated in the 1st place and it wasnt until we started getting people talking together on social media on twitter that we realized. Actually its the government thats found it was almost like 100000. 00 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 it are more checks is a bit of an understatement the old system resulted in around 20000. 00 descriptions you notice as a year but in the early days of the new automated systems. That jumped 220008 week. More than a 1000000 letters have been sent out by the algorithm sometimes disputing government payments from a fall back a civic and what was even worse was these systems were imposed on paper with intellectual disabilities with homelessness with. Its Chronic Health issues people who were barely literate will 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 its going into his action toward you but your son has done the wrong thing i know i have i want to details. And i was told i couldnt have that and the reason was that the computer looks posed to move and then sources appears to be. Another person here another person in the business and i cant provide a what to me is a comes in to many places and it was simply packed in other words the older rhythm is inscrutable its totally normal even the stock dont really understand it broken can you tell me how much evidence or how much notification didnt provide you proving that there was a didnt. Mean anything other than this mention of a thing that i. Finally 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 the government will do the right thing the fact that i couldnt prove to me that i owed the money. Really concerned me so i mean im fine that youre seeing a letter in the mail that is generated by an ai that essentially says the government wants to let you know that we underpay jubei 5000. 00 or that you should have been eligible for the services that we didnt tell you death for were telling you now and we can back pay nobody gets back had in fact youre only eligible for like back pay i think its 6 weeks of government service. Is that the government can robo dating back for many many is automation computerization algorithm a 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 digitals fault its not computers fault 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 assuring them foster. 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 not compliant. While. We pick out the 300000000. 00 to the back through that. Work and we will continue with. 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 employer. 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 word steal. My money my way now to throwing in new york state to make 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 it. Well technology was touted as a way to distribute Financial Aid more efficiently it 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 conflict. 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 only 970 s. Close to 50 percent of those living below the poverty line in the United States receive some from