Transcripts For ALJAZ The Database 20240712

Vote and then if for some reason after that it shouldnt take that long it comes in theyre not going to be able to tabulate it because you will have voted but you have to make sure your vote counts because the only way theyre going to beat us is by doing that kind of stuff trying to be nice well chris adelson is an assistant professor of government at the American University he says trumps comments are dangerous and could get his voters into legal trouble. I think what the president is doing not just here in this this this action but other ones as well so you sending a clear message is voters he said in the clip you just picked you play it if i lose president trungpa saying it means that the election was rigged and hes laying the groundwork hes doing something very dangerous by suggesting to voters that they should vote twice which is a crime its happened before after the 2016 election a woman in iowa who of trumps reporter believe the trunk was telling her the election was rigged so she voted twice to try to test that apparently was prosecuted and playfield 3 to a felony so its dangerous for voters but its even more dangerous for our system because i think its supporters are going to believe the only way he can do this if its rigged teachers told them that. But i think also what really makes sense right now although i want happen sadly is both republicans and democrats in Congress Need to stand up and reject what the president is saying republicans need to say there is you dont need to vote twice its illegal to a vote twice theres no rigging in the election if the president loses there is no evidence that hes going to lose in a way that is illegitimate the president is trying to undermine the election and this is not a partisan issue i would like to see republicans stand up and say that at this point sadly i know they wont i guess perhaps we can hope that maybe republicans who are not currently serving in congress some of whom of interest joe biden because of these concerns about the president maybe at least they will stand up and tell people the president is doing something very dangerous your main all democratic president ial candidate joe biden has spoken with jacob blake and his family during a visit to the u. S. City of commotion thats where blake was shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer last month the shooting spot large protests against racial inequality and Police Brutality. Rescue workers are searching the rubble in lebanons capital after scanners detected signs of life these are live pictures coming to us here of fire brigade workers as a pulse was detected about 2 meters below the rubble its been a month since an explosion tore through beirut killing more than 200. 00 people. And Emergency Operations under way of sri lankas coast to put out a fire on a fully loaded oil tanker the vessel is carrying about 2000000 barrels of oil but flames have not yet spread to the cargo area of Sri Lankan Navy says one of the ships crew members is missing feared dead. Un human rights experts have criticized chinas new National Security law in hong kong warning it breaches International Obligations in a rare open letter and u. N. Advisors say it could be used to prosecute activists and undermine freedom in the city. Polls have closed in jamaicas general election thats been held a made an increase in coronavirus cases the vote was called in 6 months ahead of schedule polls suggest the center right Jamaica Labor Party will win another 5 years in power. Nato has announced greece and turkey will hold talks to defuse tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean theyve been locked in an escalating dispute over Gas Exploration rights turkeys welcome the move but greece theres been no talks on this turkey withdrawals it ships from disputed areas and russias Prime Minister has met belarus then battle president Alexander Lukashenko to discuss energy and economic ties its the 1st such high profile visit from moscow to minsk since antigovernment protests began last month so those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after aljazeera world stage intense watching. 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 lawyers representing margy delsea had reached an out of Court Settlement with the company he been battling for several years and the other 15 that the always think of our banking facility c b i was here had claimed that the Palestinian Return center had been wrongly listed on a database and that this had caused them serious financial difficulty about it that we had been and done that that is them to the committee im by i want to take on their secret that there is if you do im a misleading allegation in 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 our travel across both extremely frequently and a great many other providers are actually. The engine of what they provide is the dow jones as they refer to lists so they power lots of other providers lists as well i think of them i think definitive is 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 they can come as a shock to discover theyve been categorized as being linked with for example terrorism. An American Security advisor called Christie Creek got hold of a copy of the world check database in 2016 including what he called its terrorism blacklist. Tomorrow miss hell spoke to victory and asked how hed found the list of over 2000000 names. Well i think the world check database looking for whats known as couch d p instances its a type of database that can be accessed through a web browser and dave 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 tom or vicar his 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 shack. 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 standards like thousands of the mines is that caused by and hes gone reassessing how the routes are not the same time there was a drugs. Program emerging so all of these things conspired to 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 remit of those databases widened significantly. In the apology 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 rules the u. S. After not having passed i think of the country 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 wolff 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 28. 00 c. Thomson reuters some parts of the state well check so they sold 55 percent of the company to investors but Thomson Reuters still owns 45 percent of finitude 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 track is 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 to 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 has 3000000 people and organizations listed and its owned by Large Companies and its used by most of the banks around the world for a long time the content 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. The news. 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 mass 3 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 are 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. And im not going with us the water and the whole bother. Than that the comma been genuine what you are than the comma behave out of. Ms yet. Here are sort of the most you dont know. What the hey baby 80 i mean or be another who was off with her case but at a sort of course i want to check. Some of that and there was a lot of buried in bunk at us missy 31. 00 m. B. And his 7 monkey say some of the local and then i shall reign in the a bit of the is bank of one of the 5 theyve missed you want to put it on well in motion with their. 7 should he bother her. The mythos im on 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 it the more us if you dont you can look at health of the innocent most would. Feel more successful have done so on some sort of. A last check. Peter oborne 1st broke this story for the b. B. C. I got the p. P. C. To make a Radio Program 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 c s i may have one category called terrorist which is a very serious things were very very serious you cannot deal with people who are going to. And. And so we discover the rest of the things ripon 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 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 myself visit bit of out of. The income they have the board to check quite a bit of money. A shake up the sort of which has been i thought into a what it was. This minimum that had all the had to fit or some organisations i would want to say well cannot be on the whole loaf was enough he had the arc of the game as you said have to have. A set of iraq a theatre and that what was on him in the hustle and then a fair that is going to figure out and the whole number of it not the how the over the when of his behaviors and 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 the world. Including margie downs zia head of the Palestinian Return center in london. Zia 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 margery dolls 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 cant agree 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 the games will change because all of them they settle like they did with this one of mr my details here they normally agree that the classification was a breach of the Data Protection act they pay some compensation and they offer to pay the legal costs and thats it whenever we have time on those who. Have your whole message. Park mosque or behalf of the the other toyotas if youre out of a world check. Or than the full breath in canada and i guess you mean. Less than all americans and i would have a sufi its also not my favorite. Careful behind the fence bit or bark mosque was and afaik have been as good or twice in the fianna fail sleeve. Wow that im never there you 1st said. In kenya and you have the ill will have been at odds several more to get it was so bad that youd have. Had to hear me and i would only mark has allowed fear to lock up their mobile revenue in the arm or fuck off 11 s and i think you have the mass of a fair fight and a lot. Of fear not sorrow but i just wrote about was. There myself going to cost theme with that i was having a quite 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 call of economics im on a message about a lot of you have for 100 have clearly what you have. You had him i sat dish we had was once a Palestinian Return center was on the list what worship 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 the 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 yeah but none of that looks about or come out a little color. So what im talking about when i could just ask him. This is whats called the statement in a. And court in the case between marjorie delves in and reuters ltd who had a majority share in world check at the time. It set sound the reuters offer to settle mr l. C. Is claims the damages figure and that reuters agreed to move his profile from the terrorism category of the database and pay is 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 l. D. S. 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 mass office in europe. Tomorrow ill miss 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 the people should have access to banking their role is to provide information to the best of their ability to parents who then apply what we would call their own risk. To that information contacted riff 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 it spank 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 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 for h. S. B. C. So in your count is 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 red flag was popping up. And he said oh its not letting me do this is not letting me and role 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 on certain 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 of 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 courier variable 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 blogs that you have to be more cautious with to. Expect it to employ just want to. The 2000 mile trip across europe seems impossible. As the boat comes route begins to close for refugees it has become a race against time for one syrian famine. Its a perilous journey from greece to germany but theres no turning back to the ravages of war left at home. On. Sky and ground a witness documentary on aljazeera. His countrys begin easing coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infections in the last few days. In front of the neighborhood and many fear the economy is be prioritised about for human life until fall of people getting the focus and they are here because i can put it like in places we bring you the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus fundament special coverage on a. If you are looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this rice is a religion that they have an indepth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drug this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pay for the well smaller and smaller we dont want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on aljazeera. Hello im daryn jordan in doha with the top stories here on aljazeera rescue workers are searching the rubble in lebanons capital after scanners detected signs of life a fabricated worker says a pulse was detected about 2 meters below the rubble its been a month since an explosion tore through beirut killing more than 200. 00 people. U. S. President donald trump has again called on his supporters to test the integrity of mail in voting by going to the polling stations to check their ballots been counted if not hes advising them to vote in person sign you may know ok you sign it and send it in and then you have to follow it and if i dont lecture. Early voting that is not tabulated and counted you know vote and then if for some reason after that it should take that long it comes in theyre not going to be able to tabulate it because you will have voted but you have to make sure your vote counts because the only way theyre going to be this is by doing that kind of stuff trying to be nice democratic president ial candidate joe biden has spoken with jacob blake and his family during a visit to the u. S. City of kosher thats where blake was shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer last month the shooting sparked large protests against racial inequality and Police Brutality an Emergency Operations underway offshore lankas coast to put out a fire on a fully loaded oil tanker the vessel is caring about 2000000 barrels of oil but flames have not yet spread to the cargo area. U. N. Human rights experts criticize chinas new National Security law in hong kong warning it breaches International Obligations in a rare open letter un advisers say it could be used to prosecute activists and undermine freedoms in the territory. Polls have closed in jamaicas general election thats been held a made an increase in coronavirus cases the vote was called in august 6 months ahead of schedule polls suggest the center right Jamaica Labor Party will win another 5 years in power. Hundreds of argentinians have been rallying in the capital to demand justice for a man they say was killed by police the 22 year old body was identified earlier this month after he was reported missing in april and was last in the custody of one as early as police were the headlines and news continues here on aljazeera after Al Jazeera World statement that so much of life now. 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 tip world check run such databases. But tamar l. Miss howell 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 achieved when listing. Magic. Yeah so we can see that he was listed in the terrorism consecrate in 24 st and these countries listed palestine and it says hes the director general of the Palestinian Return center in london which is allegedly affiliated its to the hamas office in europe and to the Muslim Brotherhood no nasa series of links pages whether youve drawn this information so weve got a website crudes global m. B. A. And another one called global m p reports and weve also got 2 websites from israel weve got the Israeli Government website and. Organization causes of terrorism in full in israel but many other governments around the world do not agree with israels classification of who is a terrorist so the question is why is a London 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 or 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 ken a 3 joke 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 mean court cases opensource is necessary because the Banking Client must be able to demonstrate on demand to regulate its way or 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 youre highlighting now you see weve done a lot of. And you find organizations heres a picture story ive written about this you know websites schork used of from 18 far right and is them a phobic agendas. That being 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. We 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 is again thats because for foreign why arent terrorists through alqaeda 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 a 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 some of us like welch at the halls is that hoover this and he 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 climates of paranoia about terrorism and of course that is something that impacts all muslims most of all and i think what well done unfortunately is taken some of the worst lies and innuendo about muslims from the darkest corners of the internet may free packaged as reliable information i think thats very concise. And a letter dated the 13th of june 29 teams griffin achieve world checks 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 or 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 welched on the lists toward forma in the organization i was astonished to learn the the standards for the creation of profiles were very low let me give you an example one profile reviewer i spoke to said that they reveres 3. 00 to 600. 00 profiles every single day now in 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 on the law and source of the nation 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 maintained across the world also the 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. Associated press or other drug abuse organizations or New York Times of Washington Post of the times when you can but if you can reasonably except that theyve taken care over you for it to come to. And in that story if its own somebodies word press books you have to be more cautious than to its very unfair to expect me to apply my judgment to bones to the. Banks of the principal subscribers to databases like christina chief will check dow jones and lexis nexis but the overall market for their services is now much bigger. I found over 300. 00 Law Enforcement and intelligence agencies across the world for years on this of us i also asked a number of the person or enforcement agencies including such reports and police councillors and command the National Crime agency and the city of London Police and all of them to me but i had to strip chanst all chocked he will also have various mortgage providers using some of us visa Screening Services you have they 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 sanction screening. For you 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 where there are all kinds of countries that 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 its connected to Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists were d not that hes a paid 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 in britain 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 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. I. O. S. Game 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 about him watch it move. On womans dont you know. If you are there at the have there were muslim that are your church. Work you know what i was the lead here they were and who. Said. That they are the mossad well. He will back them 1st of all that they are well behaved. At almost the only home and so the yet here we should be here and must assert one of them out among their vision that. They had and that it also no sun if i had a journey or a climate want to check. It heavy and would have the cause. 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 scrutiny may be appropriate this does not mean that subjects included in wild check necessarily has a risk but the point they eat 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 sure clinically all the beauty of it sort of oh 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 former seal journalist ive almost always of the just reported equal sickles it all could have it up the problem is a lot of problems with the dick sequel sick not jekyll plea one of the possible to all to moderate the video here is a former soldier dont judge people whose last resort is was will serve a fair decision on how we the system will get there dont is this a dish at peril has possibly did this both of you to get to know you stole this post is a form of show conform to the the web of the providers of this information driven as if they are doing another or in a way. Courtroom a similar situation that some of the social Media Companies in our platform provide they are an application 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 and presenting it to the banks 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 kristof ikari 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 underworld checks countering Terrorism Financing category. Tamar 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 cant agree on the source was still the u. A. E. Sanctions list. The files of marja dolls here on the fence great mosque had been changed as per their out of Court Settlements they. Been removed from the funding terrorism list but added to the individual and organizations categories. This is not really helped the Finsbury Park mosque in s. F. Such as we see it often than if the one whos up for howell of his and more abandoned called the you know is out of business they say im not a lament that he let me out they have a lot of the happening and there are me so my thing was youd be so martin the atrocities that when that message we somehow got 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 the other 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 and innocent 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 the 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 dented 5 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 maine 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. Thats 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 judgment cools and not made and it is inaccurate to suggest that while check assists and the 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 n. 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 databases is from firms who are themselves regulate and. This probably i mean there is clearly 2 sides they are going to be regulated. Possibly 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 applied to the banks and that would then be reflected in which knowledge is applied 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 able to make a 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 it 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 thats asked a lot in the us hes clearly know from both human beings the human. 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 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. And 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. Journeys of danger. And hope. To tools to move to get to break. Out is there a world follows for refugees facing the challenge of building a life in europe while staying close to their roots i still have this more open plan or some very crowded looks entirely cause im not going to insure a place of refuge growth and amsterdam on aljazeera. Hello there is still a bit more rain to be squeezed out of the edge of the monsoon trough of of pakistan and maybe afghanistan that is forecast for friday but beyond that youve got a pretty scattered showers over the high ground of yemen and saudi arabia rather more cloud in saudi as you can see a shower too maybe somewhere in the caucasus but it should be hot and dry at this time the it without any real wind that is true although there have been reports of damaging squall lines running through the gulf which surprised me i have to say and we cant forecast anymore and theyre going to i think avoid major conurbations temperatures the thing to watch this time the year it is hot still in iraq but surprisingly hot further west jerusalems temperature of 39. 00 to damascus is forecast into the fortys each is 35. 00 so a 7 above the average not quite at record values which are to 45. 00 in september but pretty close its halt but it shouldnt be quite that tops and even this time of year now dropping down towards the tropics the temp is steady in the low thirtys usually theyre not going to be concerned about we watch out for big showers and therefore may get in the ethiopian highlands and drifting slowly westward but further south on the coast of somalia its quite dry. A month after the beirut horse explosion hints of life beneath the collapsed buildings and rescue teams digging into the rubble. Hello and welcome im peter w. Watching al jazeera live from our Global Headquarters here and also coming up fire erupts on board a super tanker carrying 2000000 barrels of oil off the coast of sri lanka. The u. S. President donald trump launches another attack on the credibility of mail in ballots a day after suggesting people should vote twice