and you re in the stream what s the danger of facial recognition technology civil liberties groups say privacy shouldn t trump protection but government and police argue the tack ensure safety what do you think will doing today will look at how major cities are taking very different approaches to facial recognition and explore how the chinese government is using this technology to track citizens but 1st how does facial recognition even work check out this clip from a documentary i filed for a.j. plus. facial recognition software creates data points that compare facial features databases are built from driver s licenses mug shots and surveillance video. the initial technology was developed in the 1960 s. today it s replacing fingerprinting and police lineups. facial recognition databases used by law enforcement in the u.s. including 117000000 adults that s one in 3 americans. san francisco california is widely known as attack but last week city officials voted to ban the use o
committed genocide during its so-called caliphate across syria and iraq our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the un. the un called the crimes committed by ice all in both syria and iraq a genocide now there are calls for a new international tribunals to prosecute the individuals who ordered and committed those crimes it comes from the foreign minister of the netherlands well i m here because i m confidence that there should be an international tribunal because the skill of sea atrocities committed by i sill is such that it may be me amounts to genocide and this just suffice in international tribunal he s reflecting a call by human rights activists including the z.d. campaigner nadia murat she spoke to al-jazeera shortly after she received the nobel peace prize and here for years now and then we see that the rights of easy to people have not been given to them but we have not stopped efforts but we are doing a tireless work and we hope that very soon we will be able
prison. there is no exception for rape or in says. this means a child raped by her father could be forced to bear his child. we will get the latest. then we look at the statandoff n ththe venezuelan embassy y in washingtonon as activists post regime change refused to leave the embassy. we are not going to leave voluntarily. p protect t the embassy. we have been here for 34 days. we will stay longer necessary and hope this results in an agreement between venezuela and the united states to protect his embassy protect this embassy. we are here and we are still resisting. amy: and the latest on sudan where mass protests continue calling for civilian rule following last month s military coup. the old regime has not fallen yet, therefore we are staying. you have seen with your own eyes the oppression that happened. we have escalated because we rejected thehe decisions by the transitional military council. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracy
prison. there is no exception for rape or in says. this means a child raped by her father could be forced to bear his child. we will get the latest. then we look at the s standoff n the venezuelan embassssy in washingtgton as activists post regime change refused to leave the embassy. we are not going to leave voluntarily. protectct the embassy. we have been here for 34 days. we will stay longer necessary and hope this results in an agreement between venezuela and the united states to protect his embassy protect this embassy. we are here and we are still resisting. amy: and the latest on sudan where mass protests continue calling for civilian rule following last month s military coup. the old regime has not fallen yet, therefore we are staying. you have seen with your own eyes the oppression that happened. we have escalated because we rejected t the decisions by the transitional military council. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.
this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. glor: this is our western edition. good evening. the flu is putting americans in the hospital at the highest rate in nearly a decade. the c.d.c. today reported 37 children have died of the flu this season. the agency does not track adult deaths. it is still recommending everyone six months of age or older get a flu vaccine. manuel bojorquez begins our coverage. there you go. reporter: concerns about this aggressive flu season are epreading, especially after the deaths of seemingly healthy people, like 37-year-old karlie clavin of indiana. her father says she had just helped her husband and children recover from the virus. i never even got a chance to talk to her again. reporter: the c.d.c. says the 9.u is more severe and sending people to the hospital at a egher rate than anyone, any year since 2009. by the end of this season, it s predicted 700,000 people will have been hospitalized, and si million will have contracted