Please please please please please explain. To me. This is d w news live from berlin do you want issues that urgent new warning on Climate Change it says we must act now to prevent disasters that will occur if Global Temperatures rise much further its called the next few years probably the most important in human history. Also coming up for by politicians i are both sonata has won the first round of brazils president ial election he will face a left wing candidate for not doha dodd in the runoff in three weeks time a dog has warned of voters that pose an otto is a threat to democracy and u. S. Backed kurdish troops step up the battle to expel the socalled Islamic State from a stronghold in Eastern Syria these troops are preparing for their last charge here in Syria Against right as if they would within the next weeks is going to be a Turning Point for them thats why theyre preparing every day. D. W. Is embedded with the n. T. I. As a coalition and reports from the frontline plus china
keep praying. maybe he got help from someone. some of his friends don t give up i m sure your son is still alive. but you need posted pictures of rotten on facebook she went to the police the rescue service the local radio station so far nothing but dead ends. this isn t any just national search and rescue agency and this is where nice that came to report her missing son because on social media was purported that if people want to find out about the fate of their family members this is where they should turn to now we re here to find out what happened to me says report. were shown the missing persons record. not exactly a high tech database to help course priority here is search and rescue but they ve had some successes. out of. the rubble so far we were able to find some
thirty years. how has bee he been using social media in particular to boost his profile i mean he s been around he was a mayor for a long time but still kind of relatively unknown mission you can see his rival fernando dodd has only a little around you know a quarter of a million that s a big difference a huge difference and that s something that both sorrow was able to use as kind of a big edge for him you know he s not backed by a big party doesn t have those typical resources that you would otherwise have the traditional resources instead he really did use facebook to get his message out there and to get his voters out there in fact after that near fatal stabbing last month that we heard about he kept campaigning and he did so on facebook take a look actually this is from his hospital room he went live on facebook with a video he kept broadcasting several speeches interviews live on facebook these god more than million more than a million views per video and this was actually instea
a video that was circulating why leave had millions of views supposedly it shows people attacking a car because it had a pick sticker in the window supporting olsen or oh turns out that s not true this is from twenty seventeen this was a protest against the current president michel tame air that video was actually finally debunked then by a group of journalists in brazil they ve been working all campaign long called come prova they re trying to debunk this sort of fake news that s out there and spreading on social media but you know the descale is so big and the impact is really hard to judge because whatsapp you can just really hop in like facebook is not public these are private messages that were not happening in about two weeks those checkers will be busy there is more stuff out there and clearly the campaign is heating up lots of emotions now and as so much happening online cost and putting it into perspective for us thank you so much for. that a quick check of some other stories
it live he has a big backing as well from several high profile brazilians on social media famous brazilian footballer ronald denio has expressed his support on twitter for him and you know social media it s a family business as well one of his sons who is also a politician has a big twitter account he posted recently a picture of steve benen president trump s former campaign adviser so clearly using some trumpy in tactics by going straight to social media going straight to the people but what about the role of social media and spreading so-called fake news yeah i mean that is definitely a problem in this election in brazil is a big focus from facebook and mark zuckerberg but really it s on whatsapp that are you see a lot of this. new spreading is used by more than half the population of brazil one hundred twenty million people are on one stop and this is the main battleground there for fake news it s so hard to combat because all this is happening in closed groups of supporters we can