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
And welcome to aljazeera live from my headquarters and dog peron im also ahead. The gunmen stormed the offices of a global aid agency in afghanistan after a bombing at the entrance. President ial hopefuls draws from the Election Campaign the day after he was arrested. Im surprised in hong kong coming up the city. Skyline may be under pressure to do lots and. Five days of fighting and five thousand people are escaping the war a Northern Syria turkey is offensive against kurdish showing few signs of letting up Turkish Forces are targeting could they call terrorists encores agents. Out of a fleeing and create a thirty kilometer buffer zone to protect the border with syria which president has just said that two hundred and sixty eight fashions have been quote neutralized by his. And Free Syrian Army forces to the north east and west and Syrian Government forces to the south many civilians are trying to escape through the Syrian Government held areas they hoping to get to an enclave and sli
Out of a freeman created thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect the border with syria turkish president has just said that two hundred sixty eight fighters have been neutralized by his forces now a free man is surrounded by turkish and Free Syrian Army forces to the north east and west and Syrian Government forces to the south many civilians are trying to escape through the Syrian Government held areas theyre hoping to get to and on plave inside aleppo city controlled by Kurdish Forces human rights activists say Government Forces are blocking their escape Stephanie Decker has the latest from the turkey syria border. There is heavy shelling going on now along this western border with and this is in line with what the u. N. Finds its finding that a lot of people have fled from the border areas because of the shelling around five thousand people according to their sources on the ground also very very difficult to get out with the u. N. Is saying that the local authorities enough hav
In doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. On the move with nowhere to go thousands of civilians are unable to escape fighting in Northern Syria. Also a gunman stormed the offices of a global aid agency in afghanistan after a suicide bombing at the entrance. And egypts president ial hopeful withdraws from the Election Campaign a day after he was detained by the military. Im going to get your ask out with our top sports story for the first time there will be a career in play in the semifinals of a tennis grand slam dunk chungs next opponent could be but ephedra. Gadhafi company all the news are five days of fighting hundred five thousand people are escaping. In the war zone in Northern Syria now turkeys offensive against kurdish fighters is showing few signs of actually letting up now many civilians are trying to escape the kurdish controlled city of a freend through therion government held areas to the south theyre hoping to get to an enclave inside aleppo city controlled by Kurdish
Plus 106yearold woman who returned a visit to the white house into a dance party. Ill be here with the days sport including chelsea are in the quarter finals of the cup as they maintain their unbeaten run in the competition. Officers have taken uganda main Opposition Leader from his home and holding him at a nearby Police Station and he was detained as he tried to leave his house today where he has been held under house arrest since saturday and he disputes the results of ugandas president ial elections and has been detained onandoff in the past week and we are live in campala and police are talking about this and what are the details, do we know malcolm . Reporter well the Commanding Officer at this Police Station where he is held has come out and given a briefing to journalists who are outside and has intelligence he was planning to mobilize protesters to come into campala and disrupt the city protesting against the Election Results and says this is something that should be pursued w