Good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism, including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are well documented. Youtube, facebook, and twitter, among others, help to connect people around the world, give voice to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes and provide a forum for discussions of every political, social, scientific, and cultural stripe. These services have thrived online because of the freedom made possible by the uniquely american guarantee of free speech and by a light touch regulatory policy. But as is so often the case, enemies of our way of life have sought to take advantage of our freedoms to advance hateful causes. Violent Islamic Terrorist Groups like isis have been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize and recruit over the internet and various social media platforms. The companies that our witnesses
On board. I am a victim of revenge pornography. Another Major Corporation taking a stand against posting explicit images online without everyones permission. This is Al Jazeera America live in mark city. Im del walters. Ethiopian leaders are hosting a state dinner for president obama. Hes the first sitting american president to visit the african nation. Earlier he talked about security and human rights with that countrys Prime Minister. He also met with other regional leaders to discuss the crisis in south sudan. The situation is deteriorating. The humanitarian situation is worsening. The possibilities of renewed conflict in a region that has been torn by conflict for so longed and has resulted in so many deaths is something that requires urgent attention from all of us. We have more now on the president s visit. The u. S. President has praised African Union peacekeeping missions in somalia on taking key territory from alshabab militias. Hes talking about the retaking of towns in somal
Highlights of this years emmy awards. Hello. The release of six hostages held by Houthi Rebels in yemen. The houthi say theyre planning a mass rally in sanaa to celebrate the anniversary of their capture. Caught in the cross fire. Civilians seek safe shelters in taiz where fighting has taken over in the last few days. Progress is slow. The terrain is not healthful at all. The houthis have mined most of the fields in this area, and so were cautious. Yemen has not deployed most of its unities yet. Their leader remains defiant. We are confident we will ultimately prevail. Our people have defeated invaders in the past, and we will do the same thing again. We will continue the fight until we liberate each and every inch of our country. The houthi leader seems to be willing to compromise. His group has freed three saudi hostages as well as two americans and britains. With the help of oman. Oman is trying to mediate a political settlement between yemens warring factions. But these deals may b
Singing the praises of a project teaching American School children about opera. Hello, a new leader of a Major Opposition Group has spoken to al jazeera about its role in the peace process. The leader said that the group will attend u. S. Peace talks on january 25th in geneva. Well, there were concerns that those talks were in danger over the death of Opposition Leader Zahran Alloush. Lets go live now to hashem ahelbarra, who is on the turkeysyrian border. Hashem, in the past rebel groups have fallen apart when their leaders have been killed. Is this going to happen . Is the new guy Strong Enough to hold it together . This is one of the biggest concerns brought by different members of the Syrian National you council, but also activists on the ground because throughout the last four years generally speaking most of the powerful armed factions were based on the charisma of their own leaders Zahran Alloush was an activists. There was this whole aura about him. He was able to form an army
Local armed groups battle Houthi Rebels across southern yemen bolstered by the saudiled airstrikes. Kenya has told the United Nations it has to move the worlds biggest refugee camp over the border to sow ma i somalia, and it has been given three months. It has accused sal shah babb of hiding out in the rafael camp and the decision to say get out follows a decision on attack on an university that killed 148 people. William ruto said, they have asked them to relocate the refugees in three months, to which we shall row locate them ourselves. Lets go live to garrissa. They say that the United Nations is absolutely shellshocked by this announcement, but do they believe its something that we believe they will carry out or is this just an identify idle threat . Well, david, it is the first time that kenya has said its going to do the action of relocating the refugees into somalia in the calls of kenyan leaders also at the local level here in the region, which has been facing the brunt of the