Transcripts For ALJAZ The Database 20240712

Was poisoned with a nerve agent not a joke and chancellor merkel says it was attempted murder alexina by any thoughtful and suppositions alexina valmy is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this in the shop as possible manner in the name of the entire German Government. Germanys foreign minister has summoned the Russian Ambassador saying its urgent that those responsible in russia be identified and brought to justice no found me whos 44. 00 was airlifted to germany late last month 2 days after being taken to a hospital in the siberian city of. The Charity Hospital in berlin says hes still on a respirator in intensive care and although the symptoms of his poisoning are declining it cant rule out long term consequences. Is a group of soviet era nerve agent such as the substance used to poison the former russian spy sergei script and his daughter in england in 2018 they survived but a member of the public dorm sturgis died after handling a discarded bottle containing novacek on wednesday the kremlin said russia was ready to cooperate fully with germany even of all nice case but his long time strategies learned folk of says it was clearly an action carried out on behalf of president Vladimir Putin he tweeted in 2020 poisoning the valley with novacek is exactly the same as leaving an autograph at the crime scene like this chancellor merkel says germany will update its European Union and nato partners about the results of its investigation how the west reacts could depend on whether Russia Office any cooperation something thats not been forthcoming in the past. The United Nations and human Rights Groups are condemning u. S. Sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor and another official of the International Criminal court here us secretary of state michael peo accuse the court of illegitimate attempts the subject americans to its jurisdiction the hague based i. C. C. Is investigating if u. S. Forces committed war crimes in afghanistan. President donald trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allow anarky and violence he says cities under review include Portland Seattle new york and washington d. C. Trump has been rallying with the democratic mayors of those cities over protesting against racism and Police Brutality. The u. S. Attorney general william barr says there is a false narrative that White Police Officers kill a lot of unarmed black men he made the comments a day after visiting kenosha with President Trump where an unarmed black man was shot in the back by police. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control has asked states to get ready to distribute a potential corona virus vaccine by november the 1st it comes amid concerns President Trump is pressuring the food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine before Clinical Trials are completed its the 2nd typhoon to hit the Korean Peninsula in a week has made landfall with winds of 162 kilometers an hour south koreas Weather Agency says typhoon may sack will affect most of the country Syria State News Agency says its air defenses have shot down most of a series of israeli rockets launched towards an airports and homes it comes just 2 days after 2 syrian soldiers were killed in an israeli missile strike near the capital damascus theres been no comment from israel but its believed to have carried out dozens of raids targeting irans military presence in syria qatars emir has stressed the need for a fair resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict by pursuing a 2 state solution shift i mean he hosted the us president s Senior Adviser Jared Christian or christian or made a stop in qatar on wednesday during his tour of the middle east those are the headlines aljazeera world is coming up next but by. You know early 2019 the head of a u. K. Based palestinian lobby group made an announcement outside the rule courts of justice in london i speak on my behalf and as a fan of mine of the best anything said that p. R. C. My bank account and that of lawyers representing margy delsea had reached an out of Court Settlement with the company hed been battling for several years and. That the always think of our banking facility i was here had claimed that the Palestinian Return center had been wrongly listed on the database and that this had caused them serious financial difficulty about it that we had. And i know that that is them to the medium by word take on their secret that there is if you do im a misleading allegation and the world check database is now often known as ricin a tive its current oh no. Its not secret its one of the databases used by banks to help them comply with government financial regulation. No your customer is the term they use to identify exactly who theyre dealing with and hence avoid exposure to Financial Crime. A from a bank where your customer is vital part of both the on boarding process at least a few other new customers and maintaining that relationship and it requires you to mean sure that you know who that person is and that is very far and you understand the risk that brings to the bank in terms of Financial Crime money. Databases like riff initiative world check look for and collate data for their subscribers on individuals and organizations that might pose a financial risk what they call politically exposed persons. Or perhaps on names on a sanctions list or who have attracted negative media coverage. In this program. Of aljazeera arabic channel examines these databases theyre part of the Global Regulator a framework designed to combat Financial Crime but how transparent are they and what impact can they have on those that appear in them. In terms of the market it is dominated by 2 main players which is dow jones and riff initiative which used to be part of the Thomson Reuters organization. In my experience are come across both extremely frequently and a great many other providers are actually. The engine of what they provide is the dow jones of the river to do lists so they power lots of other providers lists as well i think of them i think definitive has probably the greatest reach in terms of the global banks but honestly theyre both pretty dominant players. But individuals and organizations have sometimes found themselves on these databases without their knowledge and they can come as a shock to discover theyve been categorized as being linked with for example terrorism. An American Security advisor called christian got hold of a copy of the world check database in 2016 including what he called its terrorism blacklist. Mess hell spoke to victory and asked how hed found the list of over 2000000 names. Well i think the world check database by looking for whats known as couch d p instances its a type of database that can be accessed through a web browser and david runs on a specific port so if something has Data Available on the couch to eat pork and successful to the public internet you can browse it yet i was just lucky and found it i guess persistence pays off when youre looking for lots and lots of data every once in awhile you find some real gems and i found it downloaded because it was publicly accessible and open and available to the public. Vickerys initial thoughts with you well the very 1st big reaction i had was when i was looking through the different rows and i saw people marked as terrorists thats when i knew oh my god this is a list that is probably not something that is normally out there and then i realized if this is a list marking people for things of that nature created this list you know so i had to look and see created world trade devil plan joins us hes founder also executive chairman and world that shaq. Will check was founded in 2000 by a South African born businessman called david left. The company was registered in london and started as a Risk Mitigation database there was a whole host of scandals like thousands of the ninetys that caused by instance go reassessing how the risk about the same time there was a drugs. Program emerging so all of these things conspired the banks started to look much more closely at risk and there was the formation of the Financial Action task force which is the global body responsible for providing the definition so perhaps for steering banks into how to manage those risks the market for data grew to include agencies and institutions in every sector particularly after the september 11th attacks in new york called the World Trade Center in 2001. The remains of those databases widened significantly after 911. 00 polly because it forced the United States particularly to focus much more on funding of terrorism. It was an area that although had previously been vegetative for let me us they probably werent as robust as maybe here in europe where the e. U. The European Union had already instituted some strict rooms the u. S. After not having passed a thing called the pantry intact and its specific he caused greater focus on the funding of terrorism as much as Money Laundering and organized crime search changed the landscape definitively. David led pan declined to be interviewed partly because in 2011 will check was acquired by Thomson Reuters as part of their governance risk and compliance here in. Britain that if well check is still registered to the same address as Thomson Reuters in the canary wolf Business District of london. But in october 28th chain has announced the sale of the majority of its world check shares to the private equity group blackstone. And 20 a. C. Thompson reuters some passive stake in well check so they sold 55 Percent Company to investors but Thomson Reuters still owns 45 percent of her finished which is the new name of a company that i will check. Thomson reuters is a Canadian Media conglomerate but its made several data related acquisitions. Thomson reuters as a Financial Service agency and it has an interest and making money out of Financial Services while chad has a very profitable business subscriptions can run into the millions of pounds there is a lot of money to be made in the sector. Well check a database of millions of people and organizations around the world who are claimed to be high risk people because of some connection with terrorism or crime or because of their political position and this is a system that banks around the world use to check their customers to find out if they are doing business with somebody who could pose problems for the bank. In an online brochure written it it will check set out its objectives and listed its different areas of activity including sanctions screening monitoring politically exposed persons and he Money Laundering countering the financing of terrorism and anti bribery and corruption. It said it covered 240 countries had over 400 Research Analysts and talked about the number of sources used and records. Over the years its grown and grown and still today it has 3000000 people and organizations listed and its owned by a Large Companies and is used by most of the banks around the world for a long time the contents of their state space have been kept secret and its only in the last few years thanks to the work of journalists and campaigners that weve begun to learn a little bit more about some of the issues with their state space so for example Finsbury Park mosque had their account closed and they eventually discovered a listing in well check that was still connecting them with terrorism even though the mosque had no more connection with terrorism. Finsbury park mosque is in northeast london and is attended by hundreds of worshippers for friday. A new prayer. Today is considered a model of Community Relations but it attracted an adverse media and Police Attention in 1997 when shake up new hams around mastery known for his radical views became him out. Of the mosque was closed in 2003 for its perceived links to terrorism. It reopened in 2005 with a new Management Team supported by the Muslim Association of britain. The changes at the mosque and now widely perceived as a Success Story but in 2014 the management was shocked to discover that their names were on world checks database as being linked to terrorism. Will check was still under Thomson Reuters ownership at that time. So. Im not going with us a lot of and the whole bother. Than that a comma binge earlier when what you are than the comma behave thought of them as youd miss youd. Hear sort of the most you dont know. What the hey baby 80 i mean or be a no who was off with her case but at a sort of my i want to check. Some of the earth and there was a lot of buried in bunk thats just me see 31 of me and his 7 and monkey say some of the law and then i shall reign in need that bit of the is in the bank of one of the 5 they miss you want to put it on well in motor with the. 7 should he bother her. The mythos of man im in b. B. C. In ross in b. B. C. What all of a minimal fee has a mobile feel if you dont feel at all often as you call him or us if you that he can what health of the innocent most would on a fee more successful have done so on some sort reuter all along. Peter oborne 1st broke this story for the b. B. C. I got the b. B. C. To make a Radio Programme and i presented this and we discovered the existence of a confidante show database it was called world check and by Thomson Reuters at the time serious and it had one category called terrorist which is a very serious things we all know very very serious if you cannot deal with people who are going to. And. And so we discovered that the rest of the things report mosque was listed terrorist from memory i think mr cause was very shocked as he should be. Those are we rang up world check we spoke to world show you i had a conversation and i said that they said that we always go should correct procedures or Something Like that i cant remember exactly when was this a visit to the. Game of the year the board to check on a fair bit of money. And the whole. Show at the time sort of has been i thought in a a while it was sort of this interim in that had all the had to fit or some organizations i would want to say well cannot be on the whole loaf was enough he had the arc of the income as you said after his bubbly. Rock a theater on that what was on him in a hostel and then or for that account of the figure and the whole number not the how the or the what if would be having the harder hit than if the who was on the one who had the hustle. Following the Finsbury Park mosque case other organizations and individuals did take legal action against well check. Including margie downs zia head of the Palestinian Return center in london. Decided to pursue a civil action against world check after his own and the centers Bank Accounts were both closed. The p. R. C. Provides a media platform for the palestinian diaspora. In 2015 it was given consultative status at the u. N. As a nongovernmental organization. The center campaigns to increase awareness of the palestinian cause and for the human and legal rights of palestinian refugees. But will check put the center and merge adeles here in the countering terrorism funding category of its database to which mr rouzier took exception. However in january 29th teen zias lawyers reached an out of Court Settlement with world checks then owners Thomson Reuters they agreed to remove his name from the terrorism category and to pay him 13000. 00 u. S. Dollars in damages its legal and in fact under the british legal system the judges and the courts prefer people to settle cases so to be honest with you the majority of cases like this we would expect to settle in world checks case so far we actually have settled every single case in other words theres never been a full court case against world change because all of them they set like they did with this one of mr my details here they normally agree that the classification was a breach of the Data Protection and they pay some compensation and they offer to pay the legal costs and thats it time on those with. A smack in the. Hole and all. Park mosque other half of the the car a mother toit was out of a word chick. Or than the full breath in canada and i guess you mean. Less than all americans and i would have a stuffy it also methamphetamine. Can the careful behind the fence put our barke most was a. Motivator twice in the fianna fail sleeve can have a wow that im never that you 1st said. In kenya and you had the ill will have been at odds several more take care it was all about and as youd have. Had me and i would all americas allow the fear to lock up then move out of a bundle in the arm or fuck off 11 s. And i think you have the mass of a fair fight than a lot. Of fear not sorrow but i just. Get myself going to cost theme with that i will have your client how to channel well i used to love the my it i love it was so wonderful to you and i have been doing your color taken home as a man on my feet about a lot. For 100 how quickly well in the house. You had him i said no we had was once a Palestinian Return center was on the list what word check tends to do is that all the directors or the senior people also get listed individually so mr mudge of those years was listed only because of his connection to the palestinian regions and. Misho asked how easy it was to communicate with will check at that time it is possible to have some email communication with them but generally speaking they are not easy people to meet to talk to matt mccall nothing what does he have trouble of you have been a market that you look for about or cover a local club. So what im talking about when i could just ask you. This is whats called the statement in a. And court in the case between marjorie del dia and reuters ltd who had a majority share in world check at the time. It set sound the reuters offer to settle mr l. Z. Is claims the damages figure and that reuters agreed to move his profile from the terrorism category of the database and pay his legal costs. Reuters also agree that it would list mr l. Z. As denial of any personal connection to hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood and that he believed that their inclusion on the socalled terrorism list by israel was politically motivated. However the 2 parties also agreed that quote mr olds ears profile can continue to include references to his designations by the israeli minister of defense as a main operative of hamas departments in europe headquarters in europe and how much office in europe. Tom realm is how also emailed h. S. B. C. The bank that closed the accounts of the p. R. C. In the Finsbury Park mosque to ask about the closure of those accounts but he never received a reply one of the common complaints against these lists is that they are the reason why people cant get access to the Banking System that pose some merit but its not entirely true because it is not the role referred to or to decide in a binary yes no moment where people should have access to banking their role is to provide information to the best of their ability to parent who then apply what we would call their own risk. To that information contacted rif in a tip and spoke to their head of communications but he declined the request for an interview. However in a letter to al jazeera dated the 13th of june 29th teen their legal representative said of the Finsbury Park mosque were not aware of any evidence that its bank account was closed as a consequence of the mosques inclusion on the database and the courts did not approve any such suggestion. How then looked at a completely different case. That of british former journalist Peter Humphrey. Humphrey run a Risk Advisory firm in shanghai that he and his wife were arrested and found themselves in prison in china for 2 years. After his release humphrey concluded that being listed on the world check database had led to the closure of his Bank Accounts in 2015 are my wife were released from china in in the middle of june 2015 so i was trying to find a new bank who would actually accept my bonnie and i went to several private banks in london but i also went to citibank in london and sat down with them and said you know this is my situation i would like to open a count so i can move my money from h. S. B. C. So in your count this very helpful bank officer was setting up an account for me and then he said he had to run some some checks on the system and all of a sudden the alarm bells were ringing on his computer and the red flag was popping up. And he said oh its not letting me do this is not letting me and roll you as a customer. And i said well why dont you show it to me so he turned his computer monitor around to let me see it and there i could see a database system showing red flags or newspaper headlines from chinese newspapers about our case and i asked him which databases the back was using and he he mentioned were checking the amounts and lexis nexis to me humphrey saw all the data bases had web links to news reports of an investigation he conducted for the Pharmaceutical Company glaxo smith kline. Aljazeera asked written it if it wished to comment on the Peter Humphrey case but they declined. Coming up in part to the sources these databases use are all in the Public Domain but how reliable are they as a means of identifying potential Financial Crime with all the reputational damage that can entail if a story is currently voices or. Associated press or other global news organizations you can reasonably except to tell if you care over the factual content within that story if its own somebodies wordpress blog you have to be more cautious than. Expected to apply just to those who. 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This poison could be identified unequivocal tests so its clear that alex you know devic to move a crime he was supposed to be silenced and i together with the entire German Government condemn this in the strongest possible terms this is disturbing information about the attempted murder through poisoning against a leading russian opposition figure of the United Nations and human Rights Groups are condemning u. S. Sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor and another official of the International Criminal court there are sectors they accuse the court of illegitimate attempts to subject americans to its jurisdiction the hague based i. C. C. Is investigating if u. S. Forces committed war crimes in afghanistan and President Donald Trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allow anarky and violence they include Portland Seattle new york and washington d. C. Trump has been rallying with the democratic mayors of those cities over protests against racism and Police Brutality the u. S. Attorney general William Barra says there is a false narrative that White Police Officers kill a lot of unarmed black men he made the comments a day after visiting with President Trump where an unarmed black man was shot in the back by police. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control has asked states to get ready to distribute a potential Coronavirus Vaccine by november the 1st it comes amid concerns President Trump is pressuring the food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine before Clinical Trials are completed. The 2nd typhoon to hit the Korean Peninsula in a week has made landfall with winds of 162 kilometers an hour south koreas Weather Agency says typhoon mesa will affect most of the country qatar is a mere has stressed the need for a fair resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict by pursuing a 2 state solution set i mean how many hosted the us president s Senior Adviser jared crestor on wednesday its back to aljazeera world thanks thanks for watching. In the global fight against Financial Crime Companies Including banks are required to carry out checks on customers to ensure theyre only dealing with legitimate businesses and law abiding individuals. So they subscribe to databases which harvest information on Companies Organizations and individuals that might pose some kind of risk because of their politics or being on a sanctions list or simply by having attracted bad publicity. Dow jones lexus nexus and riff in a tiff world check run such databases. But tom realm this whole of aljazeera arabic wanted to examine how they gather their information and what sources they use. Journalist tom wills kept a copy of the 2014 world check database when it was made public in 2016. He searched for 2 organizations that had taken legal action against world check in the u. K. The Palestinian Return center and the Finsbury Park mosque to find out what sources the database accused when listing. Magical. Yeah so we can see that he was listed in the terrorism category in 24 saying. And his country is listed palestine and it says hes the director general of the Palestinian Return center in london. Which is allegedly affiliates its to the hamas office in europe and to the Muslim Brotherhood and the nasa series of links hitchens whether youve drawn this information some weve got a website crudes global m. B. A. Books and another one called global m p reports and weve also got 2 websites from israel weve got the Israeli Government website and a organization that cools itself terrorism in fact in israel but many other governments around the wilds do not agree with israels classification of who is a terrorist so the question is why is abundant company that is providing information to banks all of its basing its information on the science of just one country. So the databases do use Information Published in online news articles a sources. But tomorrow misho wanted to dig a bit deeper and talk to someone with inside knowledge of a database to understand exactly how they use online sources. So he went to miami to meet kenneth regio who done some consultancy for world check any commercial database any commercial off the shelf database of high risk individuals must use open source materials that means news and magazine articles that may need court cases opensource is necessary because the Banking Client must be able to demonstrate on demand to regulators wire the information came from that he potentially used to make a decision about a client. British journalist peter oborne had already gone into the use of open source data in some detail this is a very serious problem which highlights. Say weve done a lot of this. And you find organizations heres a picture story ive written about this you know websites shorrock used of promoting far right and is them a phobic agendas. That being that being used as sources on the world check websites organizations like the us think that the gates Stone Institute organizations like jihad watch David Horovitz Freedom Center these are organizations which is just cant be trusted or relied on and have a it my view an ideological agenda in which case its irresponsible to use organizations like that and use them as sources. Using websites like these as Public Domain sources is problematic when they have their own political agenda the examples peter oborne used a known for their anti islamic views. So tom or examine the number of arab or muslim names listed on the world check database leaked in 2016. He found thousands of names from all over the world one of the issues that you heard with the sun with the sanctions list and with the adverse news that comes from it is that it is disproportionately targeted towards a return or isnt enough because for foreign why arent terrorists through qaeda and the taliban i still insist that whatever you want to call it a significant popular list in a way that maybe white supremacist or i do or jewish supremacists or whatever or not. He. Is an investigative journalist whos written for online news outlets and worked as an investigator for the human rights and geo reprieve as well as for the International Committee of the red cross. I think the muslims are disproportionately affected by this kind of service simply because muslims are more generally the victim of accusations of board brush accusations unfounded accusations and what service like the halls is that hoover this and the kind of online. Without much scrutiny about the source of the accusation i dont find any particular. Unusual focus on muslims or arabs in any of the 4 major commercial off the shelf databases a high risk individuals but as a matter of practice theyre going to contain more and more. Of entries are very nationals and muslim nationals because of the global war on terrorism i think what we can say is that this takes place as a risen in the post 911 climate of paranoia about terrorism and of course that is something that impacts all muslims most of all and i think what has done unfortunately is taken some of the worst lies and innuendo is about muslims from the darkest corners of the internet may free packaged as reliable information and i think thats very concise. And a letter dated the 13th of june 29th teen griffin achieve well check legal representative said in response that the suggestion that will check targets muslims was quote offensive and wholly unsubstantiated. There is no question of well check targeting any group and to suggest otherwise would be entirely inaccurate. If individuals who entities have been identified by government is being banned or in a watch list for example then this will be reported in well check. Now mia should be be further questioned how much time will checks Research Analysts covering 240. 00 countries and territories around the world would have available to collate information. When i spoke to various websites analysts current and former in the organization i was astonished to learn that the standards for the creation of profiles were very long let me give you an example one profile reviewer i spoke to said that they reviews 3. 00 to 600. 00 profiles. Every single day that i would an ordinary 10. 00 to 12. 00 out aisha that means youre spending less than 2 minutes reviewing a profile its no wonder that you are unable to check the underlying source of the militia or the allegations against the person or organization you dont have the time to. Refine it is lawyers responded by saying that these allegations were quote simply wrong. They bear no resemblance to the amount of time spent by well check analysts creating and reviewing records and the allegations demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of the operation of the database and mischaracterizes the wild Check Research and Quality Assurance processes. In summary considerable patents taken by our client in ensuring the accuracy of its reports it is impossible to create records in well check in 2 minutes and all Analysts Research is supplemented by both q. A. Checks and east of technology to ensure High Accuracy standards are meant taint across the world all sorts of news media reports stories some of them do so robustly and with a great care and attention and others maybe less if a story is currently very boring voices or in pain Associated Press or other global news organizations or New York Times or the Washington Post of the times when you can but if you can reasonably accept that theyve taken care over you for your content within that story if its own somebodies word press books that you have to be more cautious than to. Expect me to apply my judgment to bones to the. Banks of the principal subscribers to databases like christianity of world check dow jones and lexis nexis but the overall market for their services is now much bigger. I found over 300 Law Enforcement and intelligence agencies across the world for years of this of us i also a number of. The person or enforcement agencies including such reports and police counselors and command the National Crime haven see and the city of London Police all confirm to me that they had to strip chanst of all chocked he will also have various mortgage providers using us visa Screening Services you have the your taste Charity Commission screening potential Beneficiary Charities against the states of ice and also the department for International Development one of the key Services Financial Risk Assessment databases offer is what they call sanctions screening. For use sanctions and that means is there anywhere in the world that prevents the bank from doing business with you because there are the. Central european oligarchs they are involved in terrorism they could be you could be from my country which is long since like iran over business sanctions and thats for both you know for both terrorist activity and politically sanctions when there are all kinds of countries and organizations who for reasons of that. Put out describe that. As ations they dont like as terrorists so for example the United Arab Emirates has a habit of describing organizations connected to the most Muslim Brotherhood or those that think that its going to get to the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists were not the easy part peaceful organizations and so they classified as terrorist and so on and side is arabia i believe does the same and so on and we embrace them which. Claims to be a decent fair country should not tolerate. Or wanted to look into peter oborne point in more detail and did a search for sanctions issued specifically by arab countries. He found that in 2014 the United Arab Emirates had issued a list of sanctions against over 80 islamic movements and organizations around the world. One of the groups listed on the world check in the countering terrorism funding category is the federation of islamic organizations in europe or the f. I. F. O. E in brussels. Its made up of 27 separate islamic organizations in different european countries. Notice that this listing was made by world check immediately after the f. Iow he was included on the u. E. S. List of sanctioned groups published in 2014. He asked the president of the. About the connection between the u. A. E. List and his organizations inclusion on the world check database i want to watch it move. On warmers that you know. If you are there at the have there were muslims why they live there that are your church. You know work you know what i was the lead. They were and who you know who said. That they are the mossad well. We will back them 1st of all that well behaved. You know murder so the yet here we should be here and must assert one of them at a moment there is. The head and that it us or no sun if i had the journey of a comet want to check. It heavy and would take 100. 00. Emma he came in he had 30 if human was a certain amount would have you had them call him up or anything but for the pilot you know the sniff and the sleeve and what chick. Could be and based copy and paste. But do financial risk databases take enough responsibility for the information they provide to their clients. It is important to note that well check is designed to alert uses to possible risks and to situations where further screech need may be appropriate but this does not mean that subjects included in wild check necessarily has a risk but the point that you need to understand is that any Bank Compliance officer using a commercially available database takes all the information with a grain of salt he needs to look at the references at the bottom and see where did the information come from the end of the day a Compliance Officer is going to look at the entire background of an individual not just rely upon a. Sanctions list or or negative information which appeared out of the nondemocratic country in a money pothole fed or know the buoy or no design or more on the mission clinically all the beauty of it sort of what she would it. Because it i wish he would if any of us are good davidi fume is a form of human oh sure he does as a for my show if thats possible as a for myself journalist ive almost always all of the voters just reported equal sickles it all could have it up the problem is a lot of problems with a dick 6 or 6 not jekyll plea on of the past record all to moderate the video if you as a former soldier dont judge people as most of it is was will serve a fair decision on how we dont is this a dish up or has possibly did this both of you to get to know you stole this post is a form of show conformity the the web of the providers of this information are of benefit are doing the most all in a way. Courtroom a similar situation that some of the social Media Companies in our platform provide they are an abrogation of other peoples news and that means they have to include waivers to say that while they take care about what theyre doing of the database they are not responsible for the content that they are right because they are merely aggregating it and presenting it to the parents to make their own judgments old so they have to be careful. To assess the human impact this can have had so far relied on the 2014 world check database that chris of ikaria had found. But eventually he was able to view world checks 29000 database with the help of a world check insider who agreed to help on condition that he remain anonymous. He found businessman politicians journalists activists and Opposition Leaders in different arab and islamic countries on the 29000 database. The sources world checked used to list some individuals and organizations were often tabloid news websites with their own agendas a known for their anti islamic views. When they searched for several well known muslim organizations some had been included under world checks countering Terrorism Financing category. Or then checked the listing of some of the contributors to this program. The entry for the federation of islamic organizations in europe had been updated in april 29 teams. But they f. I. O. S. Was still listed in the terrorism category and the source was still the u. A. E. Sanctions list. The files of marja delozier on the fence break mosque had been changed as per their out of Court Settlements theyve been removed from the funding terrorism list but added to the individual and organizations categories. This it not really helped the Finsbury Park mosque in s. F. Such as we see it often than if the one has a howell of his a moral robot and he called the you know instead of listening to he say im not a let me into he been in a better let me at the here there are a lot happening and there are me so my thing was youd be so martin the atrocities the homeowner unless it be somehow what he did was he had well be some other agenda was there when we should we should stand up against these tests pick a sions we shouldnt allow Foreign Countries to use the power of the state to declare its political opponents terrorists and allow them to be punished in this country because they they so they dont go to baghdad as a result of a close classification by a foreign country so i really think its a terrible problem i think it needs to be taken up politically here to preventing this sort of how its very severe or is it or some people is the effect of these classifications. If it if will check had declined al jazeera arabic so offered to appear in an interview. And when given a further opportunity by aljazeera in 2020 they again declined. However in april 2020 their legal representatives did issue this long statement. It said that. While the check is one of many sources used by banks and other businesses to help them meet their regulator requirements and the dent to fight potential financial and related crimes such as Money Laundering and the financing of terrorism. It went on to highlight how big a problem Money Laundering is between 2 and 5 percent of global g. D. P. And that will check is not secret. Neither is it a blacklist nor a Law Enforcement function it provides information on individuals and organizations collected from reliable and reputable Information Available in the public to main and it does not prepare reports on individuals independent of this public information. It said that will check is governed by the 2018 british Data Protection act and that. These Data Protection laws expressly provide for information relating to suspicions of fraud Money Laundering and terrorist financing to be exchanged to allow banks to comply with relevant legislation. That included it said being regulated by the u. K. Data Protection Agency the Information Commissioners Office and it said it applies objective criteria when including information in the Public Domain. Political judgement calls are not made and it is inaccurate to suggest that while check assists any government in their agendas they continued that it does not offer opinion and that our terms and conditions require our customers to conduct that own investigations when using information in well to check the statement ended by saying that anyone can request copies of data held about them and ask for it to be updated or corrected. So is there an argument that financial Risk Assessment databases should be directly regulated rather than simply by association with the Banking System as a whole the databases themselves are not regulated at the moment largely because. The consumption of those going to bases is from firms who are themselves regular and and. This probably i mean there is clearly 2 sides they are going to be regulated. Possibly and to ensure that they apply robust controls but that would come with a cost and then that would be reflected in the charges that they apply to the banks and that would then be reflected in which knowledge of the plan to you and me it is really important that these firms exist and do what they do because the banks would struggle to on board new clients without it and therefore they do need to be on the commercial route. Very significant investment Data Protection is another key element of this debate. The Information Commissioners Office in the u. K. Is the independent or thorough t. Dealing with Data Protection reporting directly to parliament and its told aljazeera. Data has an Important Role to play in helping Financial Firms identify individuals and organizations that seek to use the u. K. s Financial System to launder the proceeds of crime and fund terrorism. Firms should take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of the data they use to base their decision on. We have been carrying out detailed inquiries into this issue and our work is ongoing. Do these databases always get it right is a question is asked a lot in the us hes clearly know from both you member of. My experience and i have i have worked inside institutions that interact with the iss they are pretty responsive and have good mechanisms for letting them know where the information that they carry is erroneous its not perfect and. The existence of financial risk databases raises several questions that should concern us all. Is it legitimate and fair for a private company to collect data which although its in the Public Domain comes from sources that may very well have their own political agendas. Is it reasonable for that data then to be made available to subscribers on be known to the individuals and organizations concerned. All for that data potentially to be used to close Bank Accounts and seriously affect the financial status of those involved. All the regulator resave gods of the Banking System alone sufficient to cover these databases. To protect the rights and Good Standing of individuals and organizations who may unwittingly be caught up in the ever widening net of big financial data. Allo thats been some flash flooding in oklahoma in missouri in virginia and this is the line responsible for it is fairly persistent stretches back over the border into northern mexico as well the be more showers on it and surprisingly on this slow moving frontal system its drifting a little bit slowly eastward so the ohio valley have West Virginia maybe well get some of these showers attended diet units at the in the middle still on the mexican side were ok and look at whats happening canada a significant amount of rain coming out the sky is still not cold is 18 winnipeg and 24 in toronto so dont try to drag in the really cold air yet but certainly story quieting down then for most of the southeast during friday the showers reappear in texas but rather died out in phoenix arizona phoenix is showing up by warming up to about 44 once more. Remarked little cluster of thunderstorms were talking about last couple days and there it is finally formed into a hurricane makes landfall in billys thats where it spends thursday billies eventually guatemala and then mexico so a mass of rain oversea briefly strong winds as well thats the line of weakness in the atmosphere so that a pretty big shot all the way back to well has been your luck. If you want to help save the world. Sneeze into your elbow. Trump threatens to cut federal funding to cities he doesnt mean its as lawless. The marching orders are on life from a headquarters in doha im dating obligato also ahead costa hold russia accountable after germany says it has unequivocal proof that Opposition Leader alexina romney was poisoned would not be charged. An attack on the rule of law the International Criminal court slams washingtons blacklisting of its prosecutor as a serious attack against the courts