What is happening anywhere on the planet through social media. Social media appearing in our lives we realize that thats a shell media enables us to gather in the streets and make revolutions we saw how twitter a key role in touch with anya and communicating to the world what was happening during the elections and the Police Brutality that we saw. Marseilles a big city of europe we are a very Brutal Society with a democrat the book. I have a lot of visitors every year so we are an open minded society and for the 1st time in many years on october the 1st of 2017. Government asked the people to bolton our friend just to say if the citizens want to be going defend them from spain or not it was like yes or not this confronted with the party of spain. That called out that referendum was illegal. The courts gave the order to the spanish believes on this it will work to avoid barbara for and they have to they gulf and the old boxes on the people as the court say that they have to avoid the re
Africa. In our hyperconnected world social platforms such as Twitter Facebook telegram and whats up have revolutionized the way we communicate under 78 information to society. Its estimated that more than 5000000000 people have mobile devices more than half of these. They have a camera and Internet Connection millions of text images and videos on a daily basis through social media making it difficult to distinguish between real and false content the battle for control of the truth has just begun. Information warfare is a weapon and a very dangerous weapon if i see a piece of content i have an emotional response to it takes less than a 2nd for me to share the consequence of a very very dangerous. Covering. How is fake news created how does that affect society and what impact does it have on states the Mainstream Media social media and governments arent to scrutiny and are being called upon to stem the rising tons of disinformation. Real responsibility now to be very careful very transpa
In ukraine there has been a major step forward towards the path to peace. The president and opposition signing a deal negotiated by a Multinational Coalition of foreign ministers. It comes in the wake of bloody street battles the u. S. And e. U. Imposing sanctions at least 77 people are dead. Jennifer has been following and story and joins us from kiev. Does this mean an end to the violence, jennifer . Reporter del, certainly thats what people are hoping for here in ukraine. Now, just a few minutes ago they announced that the parliament passed the law here in the square and there was applause in the square. That certainly is a positive move for. The Opposition Leaders know its the people behind me, the thousands of people in the square that they have to convince this is a good deal. It does mean that the president will step down early, but elections wont be held until before december 2014, december of this year. So the question is will that be soon enough . They are playing, if you can
Now your smirks. Reporter two men confessed of badly beating a man at a baseball game and what they did to set off a judge during their sentencing. There really is no middle class. Reporter the widening income gap in one American City and what is causing the divide between the rich and the poor. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. After days of blood shed in ukraine that left dozens of people dead, all night crisis talks may have a cease fire agreement and the president Viktor Yanukovich announced a tentative deal, was worked out with russia and eu ministers and the government website said the deal would be signed later today but there has been no official response from Opposition Leaders. A french official inside the talks said the opposition has not agreed to the proposal yet. At least 70 people have been killed in kiev in the worst fighting since unrest began and that is a live picture of kiev now and Jennifer Glasse is joining us and mixed signals comin
There is a tab that says book club and you can participate in the discussion. We will be posting video reviews and articles up there tomorrow. The discussion will begin tomorrow and we will be having a regular discussion question. I hope h you will be able to participate in winnings history for beginners is that february 2014 book club selection. Next on booktv the coauthors talk about their biography of the warrior red cloud the most successful and powerful native american in u. S. History created this is about an hour. Thank you all for coming out today and everyone associated with the National Archives museum. This is one of my favorite places. This is my second time here. We fought over who would get to this and we flipped a coin and you might have noticed when he introduced me i sounded like susan. All these things ive been nominated for and ive never won. [laughter] anyway, this book is a bit different. This book we feel and i hope that you feel when you read this it is basically