top stories from here at including an italian far right leader says he's no kidnap but is the country's senate says he can go on trial for detaining migrants at sea and i'm peter simmons of all your sport formula one bosses postpone april's chinese grand prix because of the corona virus outbreak just a month from the start of the new season. so in turkey's president has warned damascus against further provocations in syria's rebel held territory reza type one says he will strike against government forces anywhere if they target turkish troops in the province he's also demanding syrian forces be pushed back beyond turkish observation post by the end of february syrian government forces have killed 15. turkish soldiers and in the recent days much of the fighting in the past week has focused on the m 5 highway which is a main trade route that links the massacres with the government forces are now fully in control of the highway and while the fighting has triggered a humanitarian crisis that has displaced nearly 700000 people russia is blaming the escalation in syria on turkey saying the presence of their troops in the making the situation worse and each really needs think it odd that see their reasons for the current a 2 year ration that we are witnessing is turkey's continued failure to fulfill its obligation under the sochi memorandum and on course transfer of units of the so-called moderate opposition to northeast as well as for much more of a stumble. the russian patrolled the northeast syria near the machine after u.s. troops in the area. killing one civilian the u.s. issued a statement saying they came under attack and had to fire the incident is now under investigation. that attack came on the same day turkey's president issued a warning to the syrian government please rationalize around 11 a little the president was up by a little and has given damascus until the end of february to put out beyond turkish observation posts it. says it talks with russia paid to stop syrian troops targeting turkish forces will respond harshly she was very strong the color we are determined to remove the syrian regime to beyond the boundaries of the sochi agreement that is behind our observation post by the end of february we will do whatever is necessary without hesitation without wavering on land and by air. damascus has dismissed the comments saying turkey is out of touch with reality but despite his anger and frustration president is still hoping he would be able to narrow differences with russian president vladimir putin. the 2 signed agreements into $1018.00 which allowed for save lives and destructive the rebels' movements the d.s. also prevented syrian president bashar assad from launching a military campaign to take over the last stronghold of the rebels as turkish russian relations remain strained the u.s. has stepped in. during a meeting with turkish officials u.s. syria ovoid james jeffrey delivered a sharp rebuke of russia iran and the syrian government which the us blame for the escalation. us tension mounts turkey sending more troops into it adding more out opposed to the 12 already established after an agreement with russia and iran 2 years ago. the syrian government has been increasing its offensive in the north taking over highways and towns from rebels but it can only do this with a close support of russia's military and its up to the russians and to the turks to decide what happens in syria next. it's the board well let's try and unravel what's going on we can speak to our senior political analyst moment shara joins us from london and what's your take on this is this coming to some sort of a head. well clearly the recent escalation. and the humanitarian situation and the killing of to the soldiers and the gaining of new territories by the syrian regime all of that of course culminating on a new crisis and this crisis is going to have to have way out and i can think of only 3 possibilities one is real escalation or the turks do carry on their ultimatum and there would be confrontations between the syrian regime and the turkish forces to a nude diplomacy some kind of a new such agreement now that the turks are visiting russia perhaps they are i about the new understanding and a 3rd possibility is that in the end the absence of an understanding that the turks might in fact lead to a new stalemate whereby they control much of a delay but instead of leaving it to some sort of an understanding to get n.t. the status quo that it would be that there are forces that would enforce that either one of these 3 scenarios could happen unfortunately the syrians will continue to suffer ended live outside a good regardless of which scenario right if if option one leads to option 2 them with the prospects of further negotiations we've had 70 negotiations over the past years that have led to the situation that we have now which is just syria in pieces what hope would you have of any resolution. absolutely this is the problem in syria that there's been too many cynical players over the last 89 years so much so that despite now we can think of so many of them geneva one and geneva 2 and of course sochi and and and so on so forth so many agreements but of course since the russians intervened in syria and september 2015 it was clear that the whole crisis in syria has moved to a whole new russia now a new strategic rationale but originally between the united states of russia and now which we in turkey and russia so something that i give now we know that over the last 40 years the turkish and the russian president met something like 17 times in only 40 years and instead it is some sort of a walk in agreement between them but personal chemistry is not enough for then to really enforce some sort of a new agreement because clearly they have totally different agendas in syria for the time being put in remains behind us neither turkey nor you at all nor the united states nor much of the international community agrees to that put in cannot seem to be able to digitalize assad then hence there will be no support for him from the west or elsewhere the fact that he had mains behind him on pushing him to take over more areas in northern syria that could lead to more escalation and more suffering unless must go changes its position i think turkey has no not no choice but to either strengthen the school session another in syria or unfortunately there will be some sort of escalation a gets a syrian regime or a moan thanks very much in the mob assure them the only good thing troubling situation in syria. now palestinians have welcomed a un report on companies with business ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank in a statement the un said it had identified 112 business entities with a reasonable grounds to conclude they have ties with israeli settlements among these was a us based home renting company b. and b. 70 deca has the latest now from west jerusalem. the israeli foreign ministry came out immediately with a strongly worded statement calling this a fateful surrender by the human rights council to pressure by states organizations were shooting to harm israel calling it a stain on the human rights commission the palestinians however have welcomed this is a victory for international law this is a long delayed list by the united nations highlighting the companies both israeli and international operating in the illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the timing of it also significant less than 24 hours after the palestinian president mahmoud abbas addressed the u.n. security council rejecting trumps so-called deal of the century of course has been a lot of talk here in israel also by prime minister benjamin netanyahu about the nixing immediately and axing those settlements following these upcoming elections it's something that if the americans have indicated they will give a green light for what this report does is highlight again the international community stance the start of the united nation that these settlements in the occupied west bank are legal and illegal under international law or some of the international companies it highlights air b.n. b. expedia of poto booking dot com it doesn't have any legality in terms of implementing consequences for these companies but it does open them to the potential for any b.d.s. that's the boycott divestment and sanctions movement or let's hear now from our dollar who's from the palestinian ministry of foreign affairs and he says these companies will face legal consequences if they don't stop working in the israeli settlements i do believe that. one the $112.00 companies that are working in this illegal illegal settlements will be and will be a legal consequence is not going to quit working in the legal settlements we do believe that the ruling court of justice in the last september. it is very clear about the legality of the production of the israeli settlements we think that maybe this report is not a legal it's a list of companies we need to war with the with the office of a commission not the high commissioner because she has to do a bit this list anyway lee we need to work with the states with countries to world view their responsibilities and to hold and as you move their responsibilities to talk to these companies telling them that what they are doing is illegal we do believe that we need to put other solution at one stage to call for these companies to the draw from from the illegal settlements in this way they will be a legal consequence over these companies another $39.00 people on board a cruise ship docked in japan have been infected with corona virus bringing the total to $175.00 and the japanese health ministry says the new cases include a quarantine officer with more than 3700 people on the cruise it's become the highest concentration of cases outside of china where the virus originated the diana princess has been under quarantine since february 3rd after a passenger who got off the ship was diagnosed with the virus and a cruise ship that was turned away by 4 countries have affairs of coronaviruses been allowed to dock in cambodia the m.s. westerdam is carrying more than $2200.00 passengers it's been at sea for days and taiwan and the philippines and thailand they all refuse entry to the ship despite there being no confirmed cases on board. well formula one has confirmed the chinese grand prix in shanghai originally scheduled for april will be postponed the virus outbreak is having a growing impact on china's economy overall a series of new monetary policies have been put in place vestments tax cuts and warnings to businesses not to lay off workers katrina you has more now from. the beijing's noisiest and detainment districts is now silent and these restaurants karaoke rooms and nightclubs have been closed until further notice all to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. this street has everything for us to eat drink and have fun we live here in the past we couldn't rest because it was too busy and noisy but now it's so quiet and you feel you. has really affected daily life with these closures at her van the virus i think the right decision some local governments say businesses must apply for permission before reopening punishing those who ignore the rules across china more than 80 cities have been partially locked down and people's movement is heavily restricted but president xi jinping says some of these measures have gone too far warning that it could harm the economy season paying a fine line between controlling the epidemic and its impact on the economy prior to the outbreak time is already struggling with slowing economic growth and the pressure to prevent a downturn now they have a clear message to the chinese public. 160000000 people nationwide are expected to return to major cities over the next week officials are trying to reassure the public that it's safe to travel and go back to work. we've tried to lower during by preventing passengers from sitting next to each other in vehicles trying. and the implementing ventilation this infection in temperature monitoring chinese factories are beginning to resume production but the damage has been done alast say the service and manufacturing sectors will be the hardest hit. by the virus that will be contained by and large then we would expect on some signs of recovery from draw for recovery won't start into the 2nd quarter of 2021 and the reason for that some time for industry is to adjust the production patterns to recruit new yorkers and a lot of. the economic impact of the outbreak is being felt globally i phone maker apple and south korean car brand he are among those expecting losses and outbound tourism could drop by an estimated 30 percent this year with many chinese choosing will be forced to stay home country you al-jazeera beijing. well probably most of the head here of the news are including pope francis dismisses a controversial proposal to ordain married men as priests bus in mexico where the number of migrants taken into custody along its border with the u.s. has dropped support so why and the portuguese big wave surfer is lucky to be alive after an accident one of the world's most dangerous events peter will have all the details but later. for an hour the upper house of italy's parliament has cleared the way for a controversial far right politician to go on trial with more let's cross tomorrow in london. that politician has met he can now be prosecuted for kidnapping after the senate left at the minute immunity he had enjoyed as the country's former interior minister can now be charged over his decision to keep more than 100 migrants aboard a coast guard ship last year a conviction that could potentially end his political career john holl reports. as italy's interior minister matteo salvini had promised his rightwing support base that he would reduce immigration across the mediterranean from libya. so in july last year when he refused to allow $131.00 migrants to disembark in sicily salvini was keeping his word but prosecutors say he was also breaking the law and a vote that has narrowly gone against him in the italian senate means his immunity as a former minister is lifted and a trial can go ahead. the migrants spent 6 more days aboard the bruno gritty rescue ship or salvini waited for other european nations to take them in italy he did sisted would no longer shoulder the migrant burden alone now at a sensitive time in italian politics with regional elections due on sunday salvini may try to turn the possibility of legal action to his advantage. that my children have the right to know that their father is often away from home not because he's spending time kidnapping human beings but because he is defending the borders and security of his country and that this was his precise duty it was not his right it was his duty and. this is a kind of historic thing in italy. to do the same thing so when he was under trial he was accusing. the judges and the prosecutors trying to boost his popularity this way depicting yourself as a victim of the system what selvi need did could have fateful consequences for the far right politician who hopes one day to be prime minister charges of illegally detaining migrants on the gregor kidnapping in other words could result in a jail sentence of up to 15 years the conviction would in seoul be nice political career journal whole al-jazeera. irish prime minister says he's likely to be the next leader of the opposition but hasn't ruled out a place for his part at party in government the left wing irish nationalists partition fame won the most votes but not the most seats in last week's election he says the onus is on the party's leader marrying the donald to put together a coalition what could be weeks of negotiations frank has been a gale came 3rd in terms of seats won with that fianna for winning the largest number by just one seat. meanwhile police in northern ireland say they have charged a 52 year old man with the murder of journalist and the king she was shot dead last april jaring sectarian. riots in london derry suspect is believed to be part of a group of 3 men who were arrested on tuesday under the terrorism act legislation was used after irish nationals minister ira claimed responsibility for the shooting . at the start of a 2 day meeting in brussels nato defense ministers have agreed to enhance the alliances training mission in iraq international troops who train and he eisel forces but don't engage in operations well led by the us but nato will now take greater responsibility that it comes after u.s. president donald trump put pressure on the alliance to expand its presence in the middle east some nato members are reluctant though to send more troops in the sector general young stoltenberg insists there is a need to ensure i sill is defeated so i expect the ministers to recommit to our training mission in iraq but also agreed to step up and be ready to do more to provide more support to iraq because it is extremely important to. us is never return. this is not able to return. well in other news from brussels airplane commission president are sort of on delay and says the blocks next budget should include climate and the digital economy as top priorities it is of the 27 member states will meet next week to agree on a 7 year budget for the union she said she would not accept less than a quarter of the budget being spent on fighting climate change speaking to any peace in strasburg wonderland said that without britain's contribution to e.u. coffers after a break that funds would be tighter we all know the negotiations will not be easy as a union of $27.00 as you said we have fewer resources it's about 75000000000 less for the whole 7 years period but more common challenges that no member state can solve on its own. one of the story we're following dutch police saying that extortion was the most have behind 2 lesser bombs which explosion 2 different locations on wednesday the suspect sent a ransom note to mounting payment and bitcoin one of the bombs went off in the amsterdam office of japanese electronics reiko while the targeted banking giant a.b.n. amro in the southern city of car cried no one was hurt in either blast but police have been investigating a spate of letter bombs they believe one person has sent since last month that's it for now i have more from london a bit later let's get back to nic and. martin thank you very much on to iraq now where security forces have reopened a bridge in central park that had been blocked since anti-government protests known to do the job it's all part of an effort to restore normal operations in the city less than 2 weeks off the mohammed tough week alone he was named prime minister designate zuma to fulton has more now from baghdad. soon that bridge here in baghdad has reopened for the 1st time since anti-government demonstrations began and of october you can once again see traffic is moving across this bridge over the river tigris now of course this bridge has been extremely important throughout the protests and has been the location of some of the major standoffs between protesters and government forces we have seen some major attacks against the most heinous occur on this bridge so as of now we only have one bridge that still remains closed here in the battle of course what the demonstrators have been trying to do here is to obstruct bridges and roads as part of a civil disobedience campaign to try to bring the daily life to a hold they want to prevent people from going about going to work they want to prevent businesses from operating all as part of an effort to try to force the government to listen to their demands well since the appointment of mohamed tawfik allow we as the prime minister designate she had cleric mark that al sadr who has until now mostly supported the demonstrators has called on them to open up roads to open up bridges for penalties against those who don't complain of course the demonstrators will not be happy about the opening of this bridge but some people are likely to welcome this move because as you can see here there are a lot of businesses who are located in proximity to this bridge in proximity to this road and they have suffered greatly as a result of this closure they have been called up inside clashes between the demonstrators and security forces we have seen even some of these shops being burned in the clashes between those 2 sides so these business owners are likely to welcome the return of normal life like it's really to see an increase in business once again now it remains to be seen how to demonstrators who will react to this move and whether they will try to retake this bridge of course we have. seen at the front lines if you want to call them that all of these demonstrations have shifted from one place to another but the cynic which has always been very important for the demonstrators and some of them have said that they will try to take it back to what we have to watch and see is how the security forces will react we have seen security forces the floyd on top of this bridge and it remains to be seen whether one protesters will try to retake this area where the security forces will use force to make sure that this bridge and these streets will remain open. a protest has taken place outside libya's national oil corporation of course in tripoli against the closure in blockading of many of the country's oil assets by forces loyal to the war i mean for half the analysts say more than $1000000000.00 worth of oil revenues has been lost since the blockade began one month ago. a pakistani court has sentenced the man accused of planning the 2008 mumbai attacks to 5 and a half years in prison hafiz saeed it was found guilty of collecting funds for terrorist groups 174 people were killed when members of the last type of group carried out a shooting and bombing attack for 4 days each financial hub of mumbai hundreds of indonesians who left the country to join isobel not be able to return the government's decision the government's decision affects nearly $700.00 men women and children most of them in syria critics say the move means hundreds will be left stranded in status and could breach indonesia's constitution which is or is just a washington reports now from jakarta. fashion months family is incomplete and torn apart by a decision hope brother made it nearly 4 years ago he left you can't go without notice taking his wife and daughter with him to join i so. my brother isn't a violent person my family isn't like to us i was shocked when they left of course i wanted to prove to. he's now in jail in syria the indonesian government's decision to ban former eisel fighters and their families from returning means she will likely never see her brother again on a says is that i want them back here i want them to have a normal life in indonesia again. among those stuck in syria and other countries are hundreds of indonesian i saw fighters and sympathizes and the question of what to do with them is one of the government has considered for months. but the government has the responsibility to keep more than 267000000 people safe that's our priority and that's why we won't take these foreign fighters back armed groups are a major concern in indonesia and i saw has been linked to dozens of attacks around the country in 2018 a family of suicide bombers carried out attacks on churches in surprise they were part of an eisel inspired armed group and there are fears returning foreign fighters could pose a security risk but some human rights activists say barring them from returning to indonesia is illegal in mexico situations again the. country is too perfect perfect all due me including the criminals are you there cleaner. the strong stance of the indonesian government will leave hundreds stranded with no prospect of returning home but the fate of young children many of them often remains unclear the government says their situation will be considered on a case by case basis leaving the door open for their potential return. according to u.s. intelligence 689 people left indonesia to join us all indonesian authorities are working to identify them just to washington al-jazeera jakarta. so i had her around 0 holding social media firms to account u.k. government plans to regulate the internet. and more why boeing struggled to take a single order for a new egg rolls last month. postponed coming up to 15 minutes to say the n.b.a. is number one pick a zone billions in aid gets its husk or yes all through the only delayed start to his debut season there. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across the middle east it has felt very wintry across many locations including up here across much of the north and even cooler down here across the gulf to the north though the snow is going to continue we're going to be seeing that pushing anywhere from turkey into parts of northern iraq and then into iran as well that will eventually make its way across parts of the caspian things get a little bit better across the region still cold in turkey as well there well here in doha here on wednesday it was quite cool we're talking mid teens things are going to be better as we go towards the weekend temperatures are going to be coming up so thursday at $1000.00 friday at 20 and by the time we get towards the weekend still into the low twenty's but plenty of sun in the forecast there well for the northern part of africa we are going to be seeing very relative got clear conditions across the north but still a lot of clouds across parts of algeria as well in those clouds we could see a spotty shower too to the north though for algiers we do expect to see a temperature of 19 degrees as for tunis 19 degrees as well and down towards the south into south africa into parts of parts of mozambique as we're going to see some very heavy rain across much of the region forecast wise harari it is going to be a very rainy day for you with the temperature of $23.00 in cape town at 32. but . in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment states of aliens increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platforms may be used to spread hate speech and trigger violence division conflict and terrorism which in turn contributes to undermining human rights. in this context the national human rights committee of qatar organizes the international conference on social media challenges and ways to promote freedoms and protect activists in cooperation with the united nations high commissioner for human rights the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international federation of journalists. that are going to watch out 0 month of our top stories at this hour and turkey's president is warning to mass because he will strike syrian forces any way they target textbooks and it opens syria's ally russia accuses ankara aggravating the situation by having forces on the ground. palestinians have welcomed a united nations report on companies with business ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank the un says it has identified 112 business entities including the us space. the rental company appian b. israel has described it as shameful. the upper house of a sleaze parliament has cleared the way for a controversial far right politician to go on trial and much yourself any can now be prosecuted for kidnapping in the senate lifted the immunities and patty joyed the former interior minister. betty saunders has narrowly won the new hampshire democratic primary the senator from vermont says the united states is ready for a left wing policies about the field is still wide open as more states prepared to choose a democrat to run against donald trump in november. i mean while trump has praised his attorney general william ball off to one of his former white house advisers received a reduced prison sentence for prosecutors investigating raja stone close ally of trump have quit the case of the u.s. justice department overruled them staying was sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison for lying to congress instruction and for witness tampering the justice department said it would reduce that just hours after trump tweeted the sentence was a miscarriage of justice a white house correspondent can be how it has the latest on that from washington. what we've got now is a growing movement in the form of a petition tens of thousands of signatures and still more being added by the hour essentially saying that there needs to be an independent investigation of the justice department through its internal watchdog they say critics of the president's action in actions and also the reversal or the move to influence the sentence of roger stone they say shows that the attorney general has been compromised and as a result there needs to be an investigation to ensure that the attorney general moving forward is not compromised in the future the allegation is that the president and the department of justice putting their sort of crony in cronyism if you will above the law so those are the criticisms and allegations but the president for his part is very pleased with what has happened so far in fact he's tweeted even more early this morning here in washington congratulating the attorney general for his actions praising the outcome saying that this department of justice in this case has been tainted from the since the start and essentially he once again called it the swamp something that we heard a lot on the campaign trail so why is the president doing all of this well he's doing it because it plays well to his supporters he is running for reelection and in fact there is not much criticism coming from the right in the conservatives because this is exactly why they elected donald trump to drain the swamp if you will this is exactly what they wanted to see so a lot of controversy and once again lot of division over this case. to mexico which says the number of migrants awaiting the outcome of a u.s. immigration case it's fallen from 50000 to about 2500 migrant crossings at the shed border with the united states has dropped by 75 percent since the start of last year the trumpet ministration has been sending many central american to cuban migrants to mexico policy has been a key element of trump's push to waves of migrants seeking asylum let's take this on let's speak to a ruse who's a associate policy analyst at the migration policy institute joins us live from washington d.c. welcome to the program so donald trump sources say 2 waves of migrants and touring the united states from mexico policy seems to be working down by 75 percent it is part of the print the work that in shows the evidence there is working we do know that there are other programs that are also working in collaboration as part of a larger. larger set of actions that are having this affecting the decrease that we've seen since the summer of last year to the ruse to reduce the preventions but m.p.p. in itself i think it's quite surprising drop that the foreign minister has announced today it could be that is true it's an it's is trying to understand actually where people may have gone if they're not already waiting for their cases in mexico still right and that's what i was going to say next i mean this is all very well these people not going into the united states but but what about them what is happening to them and what sort of conditions are they in. well what we've heard a lot from the advocates and others on the ground is that the conditions on the northern border northern parts of mexico are actually quite dangerous for the migrants waiting there and many of them for the last few months have been seeking to return voluntarily to their countries now that may be a smaller share over the total flow of people under under this program policy it's also palls very possible that migrants because they are tired of waiting in mexico may have otherwise tried to enter the country through other illegal points of entry . then we have this report from doctors without borders revealing that many asylum seekers suffering violence in mexico and there's been a doubling of those treated for sexual assaults between 280-2090 right them one of the key things that the report highlights is that the vulnerability of the migrants again that they're experiencing in mexico makes it more difficult for them to actually wait to see their case while they wait to hear from the united states it is something that's compelling factor since we've seen this program in the beginning of last year try to grow and become a larger permanent policy mexico has had this concerns for a while and they have they have said to increase their own protections for these migrants but the evidence would show that are you suggest that some of these migrants are not still having a bit the protections they need for them to actually follow up to their cases before they tried to see if they can enter the united states reisa given all of that is it fair to say that donald trump may have migrants entering the united states but it is come as a substantial cumin cost. well i think the way that i did that we look at this is to know that is not just the united states actually implement these policies but the collaboration with the mexican government has led to significant. decreases in the numbers of migrants coming to united states again this is one program of a set of a larger set of tools that they're ministration is using and therefore you begin to see that number some of the programs have more vulnerable ities in terms of huge human protections for the migrants but others are are expected to be better so i think overall you do see this as a lower increase and again it's trying to see how the mexican government will continue to sustain the will corporation over the long term history as we appreciate your time thanks very much indeed. the head of the roman catholic church pope francis has dismissed a proposal to ordain older married men into the priesthood issues from latin america put forward the controversial plan to address the shortage of priests in the arms and it would have challenge the roman catholic tradition of priests being celibate the pontiff says the solution to the shortage is to send missionaries to the region britain is set to become one of only a few countries to regulate social media companies with more on that let's return to marry him and on the merrier. that's right now the government here is saying that it's going to make social media companies responsible for harmful content on their sites companies and executives could face substantial fines or even prison sentences if they fail to act for britain has not my name's megan hence pressurized to send a nude photograph of herself to a boy at school within a day meghan hinton's private image had been circulated across the internet it can take days even weeks to be removed from the social media site so that could have a devastating impact you know when something's up there not only is out in the wide web people can save it's their phone so even when the social media company remains it's still in people's possessions social media is largely self-regulating platforms like facebook you tube instagram and tick talk largely set their own rules and standards sometimes relying on the platform users themselves to flag up anything inappropriate the u.k. government has been consulting since last summer on how to introduce a new online harms law to put the responsibility on social media companies to remove harmful content child protection charities certainly support that ultimately regulation is required that's what we would argue the big tech giants need to be held to account the regulator needs teeth so they not only need to monitor what's going on and talk about it publicly but also hold to account these multi-billion pound platforms one of the social media giants were available for interview prefer him to issue written statements the boss of you tube u.k. said to help keep our community safe we haven't waited for regulation we've created new technology hired experts reviewers worked with external specialists and reviewed our policies to ensure they're fit for the evolving challenges we face online facebook's head of public policy said we have clear rules about what is and isn't allowed on our part forms and are investing billions in safety we look forward to carrying on the discussion with the government parliament. and the rest of industry as this process continues the regulation of web content is a complex area which touches on issues such as freedom of speech censorship and jurisdiction and there's also the question of defining what is subjectively offensive and what actually qualifies as harmful but it seems the u.k. government is prepared to try to tackle the issue and the full details of the new law will be published later in the spring paul brennan al-jazeera london. i'm now joined in the studio by data protection expert tony vitale so off calm would be potentially in charge of social media regulation are they equipped for this job well it's interesting that the government chosen of course because they have a long track record of being able to issue fines and pin lies complete break the law but so far they haven't had any experience of bringing criminal prosecutions against companies or directors and if that's part of this new legislation it's an interesting choice to choose of com rather than the i.c.a.o. that regulates data breaches but that has to change doesn't it special powers will reportedly possibly include in the most extreme cases naming and shaming executives of companies and then also possibly criminal sanctions as well that you know they will have to have this ability absolutely and there's nothing that will focus the mind more of the directors of u.s. west coast conglomerates that run twitter and other social media sites then the threat that some of their senior directors may actually face personal criminal prosecutions and perhaps even imprisonment how difficult is it going to be to differentiate between content that is illegal and then content that is harmful but technically legal where these companies themselves at the moment already do a little bit of self policing and self regulation i think the important thing to remember is they generate income by algorithms and if you click on something whether it's harmful or not home for the ark with them so expect you to want more of the same and so our rhythms that make the money can actually cause us harm and that's one of the things that i don't need to go into they only need to actually look at the outputs of those arc with decide what's harmful and what isn't and stop the harmful content reaching the user that's going to be difficult yeah how did was going to say not easy to define what precisely is harmful it can. very subjective how long could this take what i think is it we already have examples we've got some very really sad cases like the case of molly russell where she was looking at self harm contents into it it took some action to remove some of that content not all of it and it's hard to remove because it's user generated they need to have teams and teams of people working on this because what you don't want to do is have a regulatory system that relies on investigations criminal investigations but actually you stop this material going online in the 1st place how might technology companies fight this we know that this is the digital tech is a growing part of the economy and it's growing very quickly might they be less inclined to invest in a in a country and start new businesses if they think they're going to be strictly regulated i think this new proposal from the government should be applauded and i think it could well set the blueprint for international ridged regime to be set up where these organizations face the same type of regime wherever they operate and only then i think we'll see them really taking it seriously i say plus the part of the potential for criminal sanctions to thank you very much genuine talent thank you going to have more from london in about 15 minutes time that's when i will see now let's get back to nick and our. thanks a lot a recent report by the world world life fund says threats to nature can lead to economic losses it's urging countries to take action against a harmless home from effects of climate change natural disasters the lead to coastal erosion and a decline in wildlife can end up costing billions hundreds of billions of dollars of the next 30 years the studies says these risks could be escalated increasing the use of fossil fuels or if there's an expansion in agriculture and urban development it goes on to say the united kingdom could be one of the worst hit countries of the united states and japan. well it's email from karen ellis who is director of sustainable economy at the world wildlife fund and she explains the rate at which these losses are occurring we're destroying nature incredibly fast globally we're destroying the area of a size of a football pitch of forest every 2 seconds so what we wanted to do with this report was to look at the economic costs of that destruction so we used for the 1st time a new methodology that combines analysis of how nature delivers benefits to the economy with global economic trade model that looks at how economies sell goods to each other to look at how those nature losses will affect different countries in the world and it showed that overall we stand to lose at least 10 trillion dollars of global g.d.p. by 2050 so the the hardest hit countries in terms of percent of g.d.p. are of the poorest countries so a country like madagascar for example stands to lose 4 percent of g.d.p. per year by 2050 which is massive for for a country like madagascar probably wipe out their growth prospects so yeah the poorest countries are the hardest hit but richer countries are the hardest hit in terms of absolute volumes of g.d.p. the u.s. japan and the u.k. other top 3 countries to be hit and for them the risks are more related to coast on ability increased coast of on ability as a result of sea level rise but also as we've destroyed some of the natural capital things like sea grasses and mangroves and coral reefs that protect the coast from storm surges and flooding so as a result of this nature loss they stand to lose a huge amount going forward. boeing says it's working to rebuild trust in the brand even as it struggles to bring its 737 max back into service the planes been grounded since last march following 2 fatal crashes the aircraft's john's reputation taking a hit and the company failed to book any new orders in january for as larry reports from the singapore. it was once boeing's best selling plane but no one is placing new orders for the 737 max these days the planes have been grounded for 11 months after 2 crashes within 5 months killed 346 people for boeing the single is a chance to put out a message that it's handling this crisis head on we absolutely have to rebuild confidence in the airplane and that starts with getting it certified bringing it back to service convincing the regulators that we've done the right thing that the changes to the airplane are right the manuals are right the training is right its focus is to have the max back in service by the middle of this year one of the 1st things that has to happen before the 737 max can fly again it's a certification test flight 5 big u.s. aviation regulator the head of that agency has hinted that a test flight could take place soon but the still no timetable for the lifting of the ban approval to fly will also have to be obtained from dozens of aviation authorities with more than $400.00 planes grounded around the world process to get all of those back in a year is not going to happen overnight is probably more like a year or 2 at least because they've got to go in they've got to service those planes it may not just be the impasse software that needs to be updated they may need to update software for the engines or lots of the other systems that are on the plane some supplies of boeing are laying off workers off to production of the 737 max was suspended last month and lines have had to cancel routes or keep older in service for longer one analyst says some adeline's could use this as an aa. but unity to reassess plans we could see you know air power lines that you know especially in this region that maybe don't need the airplanes immediate future defer their deliveries so the for taking a plane that would have been you know taken this year or next year for a few years the better manager asked the man but many analysts say the longer the mag stays ground it the worse it will be not just for boeing but also the aviation industry florence 3 al-jazeera singapore. i saw it come here on al-jazeera tiger woods aiming for a record or the breaking victory back where it all began to head the 16 year old and that's. all right let's get on this board is paid to make thank you so much the chinese has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak the race had been should do for april 19th in shanghai but there is no wood yet of a replacement date it joins a long list of sporting events to have been cancelled because of the virus which has killed over 1100 people nearly all of them in mainland china the last f one race to be postponed with the bahrain grand prix in 2011 because of the arab spring uprisings. in a statement former one said the promoters in china officially requested the postponement of the discussions with chinese motor sport bodies f one and the governing body the f.i.a. jointly decided to accept the request to ensure the health and safety of the traveling staff drivers and fans it ended up by saying alternative dates are being considered for later in the year if the situation improves. and while that some initiative has been taken and there were not putting anyone else in in risk you know the seats seems like it's still growing and getting it i would say out of control but it still hasn't been controlled to its full effect and problem is frayed and all that would need to go this week you know and they had to make an early call on it hopefully by april things are controlled. but this is a decision that needed to come soon. plenty of other sporting events have been impacted by the spread of the coronavirus next month's world indoor athletics championships in managing have been postponed by a year a limpid qualifies for women's football basketball and boxing have all been moved to different countries and the all electric formula emoter racing series abandon plans to hold a race in santa maria in march this football season keeps getting tougher for barcelona after slipping behind real madrid in the league they have now lost forward those man demba for 6 months the 22 year old frenchman has had surgery for a ruptured tendon any sty he also missed so euro 2020 with france it's a bad month for boss or who are trying to keep hold of lino messi off to a falling out with the club sporting director. former boss a star under 70 s the imprest on his asian champions league debut for japanese side coby a 35 year old set up to a big goals in a 51 win over malaysian side johor the rule tar them. scoring a hat trick. another japanese side yokohama f. marinos claimed a 21 win over john book motors the south korean side at 2 players seems off in the 2nd half after conceding a horror goal. professional big wave surfer alex will tell you is lucky to be alive after nearly drowning or being towed back to shore during an event. in portugal these were the conditions that surface were competing in of the portuguese coast on tuesday has been so dangerous in the past that competitors are no longer allowed to paddle out but must get a jet ski from the beach and back but that's when we'll tell you got in trouble he was on the back of the jet ski when it was caught between 2 breakers but was rescued and taken unconscious to the shore the world surf league says he is now conscious in hospital and in a stable condition an australian olympic b.m.x. rider has been placed in an induced coma after suffering serious head injuries in a crash. at a world cup event in new south wales he had surgery and will likely remain in a medical coma for 2 weeks with his condition described as critical but stable so cocky bara and he's younger sister had both been tipped as medal contenders for the olympics in tokyo a city where they spent part of their childhood. n.h.l. i thought he champions the st louis blues are praising the quick response of medical staff of the jay beaumier stir suffered a cardiac event during the game against the anaheim ducks the 36 year old defenseman collapsed on the bench towards the end of the 1st period but he received immediate medical attention and was conscious and alert as he was transported to hospital for further tests the game was postponed as a result of the emergency. the n.b.a.'s number one draft pick zion williamson put in his best performance so far for the new orleans pelicans erected 31 points in a win over the portland trailblazers and had 9 rebounds and 5 assists the 20 year old missed 45 games at the start of his rookie season because of nice surgery but he has now had 5 straight games with 20 points. meanwhile james harden and russell westbrook combined for 78 of used ones 116 points as they beat the boston celtics but in this boston's winning run at 7 get. this week tiger woods returns to the riviera country club in los angeles where life on the p.g.a. tour began there is as a 16 year old amateur he's competed a since 1918 but amazingly it's the course he has played most times without ever winning you know i've played in number of events over the years and for me not to win. has meant so much to me and my hometown. i've done well and seen you go. sure we're haven't done well here and so hopefully that i can but again this week and. while great conversation. climate change is being blamed for a lack of snow at a french ski resort in the pyrenees it's the 2nd year that the move te resorts has had to close mid season there is growing concern that the trend of warming temperatures could meet ski resorts lower than $600.00 metres on not even able to spray artificial snow as it will just melt from the experienced its mildest december and january for over a century and that's what the sport nick. hey thanks a lot see a late said that's it for this news my colleague merriman was moved but more news just couple minutes from a caucus questioner. in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment states railings and increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platforms may be used to spread hate speech and trigger violence division conflict and terrorism which in turn contributes to undermining human rights. in this context the national human rights committee of qatar organizes the international conference on social media challenges and ways to promote freedoms and protect activists in cooperation with the united nations high commissioner for human rights the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international 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