Hello I'm Aaron Marshall with the b.b.c. News from says recording its ambassador to Italy for talks after what it said was a series of unfounded attacks and outrageous statements by Rome on Wednesday France warned Italy's deputy prime minister Luigi Demaio not to interfere in its internal affairs our correspondent in Paris Hugh Schofield reports on an escalating diplomatic the foreign ministry in Paris does not mince its words France it says in a statement has been the target of repeated accusations groundless attacks and outrageous declarations from the Italian government what it is referring to is a meeting that took place on Tuesday when the 5 star leader Luigi Dimaio came without telling the French government to the central French town of all dodgy and met some leaders of the n.t. System yellow vest movement pictures on his social media accounts for Mr to my you smiling in the group photograph of his text reads the winds of change have crossed the Alps for president back wrong this is a clear breach of the unwritten rule that foreign countries do not intervene in the politics of their neighbors the president of the European Council Donald Tusk as said there's no breakthrough in sight to the deadlock over Britain's exit from the European Union after meeting the British prime minister to resign may Mr Towser tweeted that talks would continue this is May is again being in Brussels where she said there was a strong desire for the u.k. To leave the European Union with a deal the European Parliament's Breck's a coordinator gave a half stat said Europe was worried about what would happen if a deal would not reached a no deal is for as not an option and it is a disaster on both sides off the channel and it is in fact irresponsible from some politicians in Britain to go for such a no deal and to be fair in fact such an ordeal the head of Instagram has vowed to remove all images of self harm from the image sharing app after an outcry over the suicide of a British teenager Molly Russell. Speaking to the b.b.c. Most area admitted that his company wasn't doing enough to police graphic images of self harm and suicide we have to accept the responsibility that we have to keep people say we have to of more quickly make more progress on all of those issues and I think we also have to be transparent about what we do and how we do it is to preserve He also said he would consider his position if such images were still found on the app in 6 months time while the Russell's parents believe the 14 year old took alone life in 2017 after viewing graphic material on the app regulators in Germany have said they will impose new restrictions on the way Facebook collects data from its uses sometimes without their knowledge the German anti trust watchdog accused the company of abusing its market dominance to gather information Facebook said it would appeal against the decision. You're listening to the latest world news from the b.b.c. In protest at the London conference on the development of Somalia's oil reserves demonstrators accuse the government of illegally trying to sell oil exploration zones before the national parliament could pass a law on how resources should be shared the government says the conference is only a presentation about the regulatory framework and applied auction of oil blocks has been postponed to senior directors of an investment firm in Benetton have each been jailed for 10 years for defrauding tens of thousands of people in a Ponzi scheme the chief executive of i.c.c. Services he a programmer and the director general due to the guy who were convicted with 2 others at a special court hearing for economic crimes up to $300000.00 people many on low incomes were lured into parting with their life savings with the promise that they would double their money. A British made Rover vehicle due to be sent to Mars in 2020 has been named after the British d.n.a. Scientist Rosalind Franklin her work played an important role in decoding the basic unit of life x. Ray images allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to decipher d.n.a. Is double helix shape an engineer working on the rover cat Styles said naming it in Rosalind Franklin on her was an inspired choice she uncovered some of the building blocks of life as we know it and our Eva with her namesake on it will be going across the surface of Mars and uncovering potentially evidence of life underground on another world and uncovering how those building blocks acquainted that which could tell us a lot more about how life itself comes to evolve on any planet an outbreak of flu in Britain has forced the cancellation of all horseracing until next Wednesday at the 3 vaccinated horses in the same yard in England tested positive for the disease the British Horseracing Authority said there was a risk of spreading the flu more widely and the health of the animals must come 1st b.b.c. News. On the members of the Lancet National Council of provinces philosophically This is our guest on the b.b.c. World Service on bench a loss for life this is going 5 past 5 here in London and just going 5 to 7 in South Africa the voice you hearing is president so rather Tyler has just begun his state where the nation will address the parliament in Cape Town Let's listen and think you know us to Miami now and one member of the are certainly here none other that Mr Julius Malema whispered and said sing it. Sing it he was challenging me to sing the song I hesitated for it was. Thinking that I would take him up on his challenge and sing I thought wise not to do so. Yesterday by accident I met Mr Julius Malema and we reached an agreement on how best a song like this could be sung we are agreed that if the e.f.-s. Wins the election. Is installed as the president of South Africa. Then he will invite me to come up stage and sing for him so that is truly moving forward thank you and by Cher accident I also met missed most of my mani. And I also recruited him to become a member of the band and we are going to form a if we're going to form a wonderful bat and when Mr Mollett Maryse president and stands here we will perform for him. It is a great or not to stand before you today to deliver the 25th Annual State of the Nation address in a free and democratic South Africa this year as a diverse people and as a united nation we were all of us South Africans celebrate one of the great has also human achievements. We are. The triumph of freedom over subjugation the triumph of democracy over a show. And the triumph of hope over the. Present we were. Of South Africa beginning his State of the Nation Address in parliament in Cape Town with a couple of gags to be honest before we got into the meat of the politics and Starr said laying out some of the key themes talking about a couple of the opposition party leaders who are also in that chamber Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters party always evidence in that chamber in their red uniforms and Berets the policy that threatens some disruption in this address or maybe. Trying to diffuse some of that ad before he gets into the meat of what he's talking about and also mentioning. He's the leader of the Democratic Alliance and those 2 will be his challenges in the presidential election later on this year is South Africa votes once again and our team in South Africa are listening to all of that speech and will bring you all of the key points that Cyril Ramaphosa makes a little later on this hour on this and give some analysis of the message that he has been putting across this is our us on the b.b.c. World Service from politics in South Africa let's go to politics in the United States we spotted the phrase green new deal as one of the top global Twitter trends at the moment let's speak to our senior with America reporter Anthony circa in Washington d.c. To explain what the green need deal and what is it also phrases been around for a couple of decades but it's really been adopted by Alexandria casu Cortez who's the young new member of Congress a Social Democrat out of New York who upset a long serving member of Congress and become a star on the progressive left and the way she defines. The Green New Deal is outlined in some some think she's put on her website and legislation she's sponsoring and that she calls it a 10 year national mobilization to address climate change a mobilization on the scale of what the United States did in World War 2 The goal would be dramatic cuts to carbon emissions the ultimate goal would be a total reliance on renewables 0 emission energy no fossil fuels and eventually no nuclear Now I said this is legislation that she's back in is more of a sense of Congress resolution this is an actual law that can be passed that's more a statement of principles and the idea is to transition the United States away from the current fossil fuel based economy and turn it into something that's renewable beyond that even talking about quality health care I guarantee job for every American affordable housing sorts of things they say would help cushion the blow from a transition such a a massive transition in the u.s. Economy is not for a deliberate act Franklin d. Reason after the Great Depression the program was cool giant. Deliberate Fry So we said it's a big conversation on social media we can see lots of people talking about how it's not conversation playing out well the people on the progressive left are embracing this the idea that this is a environmental crisis the world is facing that something big has to be done to address it they don't talk a whole lot about the cost of this they say it will be paid for by the government and taxes but they say the crisis is such that it requires thinking big like this now there are other people course who are criticizing this as unrealistic it would cost trillions and trillions of dollars there is a quote from the House speaker Nancy Pelosi who obviously is going to have a lot of say over over the direction of legislation in the House of Representatives and she said that this green. New Deal proposal is just one of several maybe many suggestions that they're going to receive she called it a green dream or whatever and she says no one really knows what it is but she appreciates their enthusiasm so she's effectively thrown a little bit of cold water on this she has put together a select committee on the climate crisis in the House of Representatives to address climate change and it's notable to say that Ocasio Cortez or the other member of Congress who is sponsoring this Ed Markey of Massachusetts neither of them are on this committee will climate change become a big issue in the 2020 presidential election we know and we've heard in the past President Trump so capacity right although in president's trumps state of the Union Address on Tuesday night he didn't make one mention of it at all however there I number a growing number of Democrats seeking to be the person who will challenge him next year for the presidency and all of them are starting to talk about climate change in this idea of a green new deal because it is popular among the progressive left among people who vote in the primaries they're being pushed to have their opinion on it and one of the reasons why because you Cortez's come out with more details on what the long term goals of it are is because she doesn't want people running for president for the Democratic nomination saying they support the Green New Deal but then putting their ideas on they want to have some sort of a framework that they can push these candidates to adopt but it is something that pretty much every candidate is going to have to address at some point because it's something that is being talked about on the progressive grassroots as an important issue for them and they have to they're going to be pressed to take a stand on whether they support these long term goals of 0 emission 0 carbon emissions doing away with the necessity of air travel by adopting high speed rail for instance a things like that is going to be a challenge for them to try to talk about this but also appeal to moderates and keep keep themselves open to support from. Independence that they'll need in the 2020 election and very briefly Anthony when it comes to President Trump people will remember and it sticks in the mind his phrase about climate change being a hoax and talking about the Chinese involvement and in his view. Does that remain his his position but that's pretty much is position he'll tweet about it every so often when there's a cold snap somewhere in the United States saying you know wish we had a little bit of global warming if he views that I think is a way of baiting the left because it's an important issue to them but he doesn't view it as something that needs to dramatically be addressed he is very much on the side of well the climate may be changing it always changes humans may or may not be contributing to it but it does not require anything that would cause upheaval in the u.s. Economy thank you very much indeed for our senior North America reporter Anthony. To. Catch up on the process of bricks it Britain leaving the European Union British prime minister to resign May has been back in Brussels today to try to seek a legally binding changes to the BRICs it withdrew agreement the agreement setting the terms under which the u.k. Will leave the European Union of course he's got to do that because the u.k. Parliament voted against that deal she spoke to reporters after meeting the president of the European Commission and. She told reporters that she was intent on getting a deal with Brussels and insisted the u.k. Would leave by the sched jewel departure date that's the 29th of March crucially president and I have agreed that talks will now start to find a way through this to find a way to get this over the line and to deliver on the concerns that parliament house so we get a majority in parliament and I'm clear that I am going to deliver Brecht's it I'm going to deliver it on time that's what I'm going to do for the British public I'll be negotiating hard in the coming days to do just that so promise to Theresa May who's been. Brussels Brussels reporter Adam Fleming is always there he of course has been following the talks we spoke to him earlier what's happened is that they're going to have a meeting next week between the British Bragg's secretary gargles even Barclay and Michel Barnier the chief negotiator on the e.u. Side and are going to talk about finding a solution to this deadlock so in the few days of the last few days or the e.u. Saying comes with some suggestions you can't reopen the deal now they're still saying the same thing but there's going to be a formal process where the 2 sides will at least talk so it's reason make and say she has got something because on the face of it it doesn't look like this any common ground until well as soon as they announce that they were going to talk again you got different emphases from the 2 sides the u.k. Was saying yes we're going to discuss the withdrawal agreement that's the legally binding divorce treaty which the u.k. Wants changed and the e.u. Said Well don't be so Casey this is just an opportunity for us the e.u. To hear what the U.K.'s ideas are so definitely differences of emphasis there and the e.u. Continues to say that the withdrawal agreement will not be reopened which is what the u.k. Wants I was really interested in though as I said as a connoisseur and a geek of the process this political declaration which is a separate document this not legally binding but sets the the some ideas for the future relationship will be the blueprint for the future relationship negotiations which will take place after Bragg's day in March the e.u. Is now dead keen to upgrade that with better language about the speed of the negotiations and I wonder Will that convince some wavering members of parliament when they see that in black and white just about the E.U.'s intentions and its desire to not use this I was backstop ever if that will convince just enough people did Donald just comment yesterday special place in Alan all of that changed anything today I don't think so because he didn't actually criticize the prime minister her South he was very careful to talk about people in the British political class but not her. Those reason may did apparently give him a bit of a telling off when she saw him face to face today the B.B.C.'s Adam Fleming and if you enjoy that geek Yury around Brock's it then d.c. Can be cast podcast wherever you get your podcast with detailed conversation around every aspect of this process let's look at what's happening from a perspective from Poland now. Is a correspondent for Polish public broadcaster t.v. Pay also in Brussels following this story thanks for taking the time to speak to us how have you seen today's events. Hello Mr Peter I'm sorry for my both but I'm still a little bit sick. So in Poland we are observing this we. Attention because of the few fact that there we have there is a big group of Polish people working and living in the u.k. So for power and questions that. Are exciting important 2nd for Poland the u.k. Is still one of the main power inside the e.u. And NATO as well so for us it is very important and from Polish point of view of course today there is no visible progress but we hope that it will be a conversation that debate will continue and that it will be some chance to find some compromise between you and you create the fight. Is how it breaks because it was there were threats to not ever and what sort of compromise do you think might be palatable to the Polish people the Polish government what do you think willing to encourage the e.u. To compromise on if anything if they believe that that's what's required and not the British to do the compromising I have not only be the chance recently but also we for European peace and I heard few versions 1st that maybe it would be possible to postpone the activation of Article 15 and it will be not the end of March but maybe join our even next year so we'll take. Time to find some solution and also to Brussels it is 1st of 3 and secondly that maybe it will be kind of a smart. Cosmetic changes in this agreement negotiated November in Brussels I think it's now. Is a cosmetic changes so changing what some of the wording said to keep the the meaning really that a substantial meaning of what has been agreed but maybe with a few. Yes to take give confidence to those who who might be critical here in the u.k. Exactly I mean some small changes but to give a chance the prime minister made to show the. Success conversation process and. The votes now for this agreement on another process I think that it is very important and I think that both sides should be rather for compromise not only Ok but also. Another 27 countries for. European Union because. Their worst scenario would be how it breaks it and we should do everything to avoid this why would that be problematic for Polish people we've heard some warnings from those who oppose. Leave the u.k. Leaving the European Union without a deal from people in Britain who see big downsides in that from a Polish point of view what's the conversation around why that would be bad. If some people are afraid that maybe they would those kind of position social position which they have reached since now that maybe it was their position in the job so much worse so what they are they afraid that they we lost our benefits. For good it yes before I let you go Dominique I must ask you about what we were talking about on the program yesterday actually the comments by Don and European Council president who is Polish former prime minister of Poland at talking about a special place and how for those who promoted Brock's it without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely. With those comments that surprised people in Poland. Not specially because it's very well known that he's critical to people countries who are considered by him. So it is not. Of course a record for. Disgusting for me he shouldn't make this kind of comment because he's representing our 28 countries so he shouldn't make these kind of comments and they . Comment on these he didn't mention by name but that instead of talking about. We should talk and we should try to find a solution which would be of both. Thank you so much for speaking to us Dominique. Is a correspondent for Polish public t.v. T.v. I hope you get better as well so you know that voice probably been standing outside government buildings and European buildings in the cold in the winter so get well soon thanks for speaking to us. And. You with us this is the b.b.c. World Service I'm Ben Jane sitting in the middle of the b.b.c. News Stream to tell you $33.00 more tech stories that you might have missed today Germany's competition regulators told Facebook to substantially restrict how it collects and combines data about its users unless they give it explicit consent the watchdog carried out a probe into the social network following concerns that members were unaware of the extent of the firm's activities a Japanese pro game said he's truly ashamed after faking his age to gain You Tube subscribers known to his followers as a result of the game again notoriety have to be to a fortnight world record in November despite being only 12 years old at his You Tube audience doubled following the news he's now revealed that he's 16 and have been calls to re-examine the safety of electric scooters following another definite . Series of severe injuries in American cities Irish exchange student Marc sands 21 years old died after a collision with a car in Texas in the early hours of Friday and you can see Mr Di suggests that been 1500 Steves related accidents in the u.s. Since 2017. Now earlier we noticed fire was trending on Twitter in Kenya is because on Wednesday night it was a fire at the key combo market in the center of Nairobi people sell clothes food or other goods that has seen repeated fires this market many of them serious one last June killed 15 people many on social media asking why on earth this keeps happening I've been talking to Nancy a journalist with The Star newspaper in Nairobi she'd been down to the markets earlier today when a section of the market that was destroyed today the structures that caught fire and it's created but it wasn't as big as on the top and best again November. Just a few houses there is down and like it said Burn injuries are not dense as that would have and nest in November as you mentioned been many fires this market yes a couple last year one of them that killed a quite a number of people when it comes to one that happened last night do we know. A fire started in the 1st place you know nobody told as aboard a what caused the fire but of course the cynics the nation that we normally have when regionally they'll tell us maybe because an electrical fault maybe somebody forgot to put off their stall or what they used to read so it's something that we never really know what the fire at one point it was aboard to land on the ship yet their residents were claiming that you know there are some who are just out there to you know try and get the line and you to go so you never know because they never call it exactly what. So the theory. The fires are a means to clear the land of traders so it can be used for something else which is experiencing a lot on social media there's no as you say there's no proof of it but it's a suspicion that lots of people have and has anybody's analysts think about trying to stop any more fires like this in future because what that's 3 now in less than a year absolutely president working with us last year when opinion to investigate the cause of but does not mean conclusive and even the governor himself said that you have done some mechanisms to make sure that the destructive with a bear I don't want but beneath the fire what has been started this doctors and what I am but it's something that is just the hearsay Saul is saying them but with still waiting to see if it will be possible only theory and we're just hopeful that he might really come through about 2000 earmarks some Cota governor of Nairobi about building a sort of more a new market a new style market so the traders could trade in safer conditions but you've not seen anything. Constructive or not yet the things actually happened nothing's happening it's the same stuck a little being baited and being in a constructed one. So I guess he's trying to bring something you do see a thing maybe you say something but here's a look at Table x. With the markets able to open today after the fire yes yes the market does discuss Actually it was not like a whole lot of you know electoral today there are no injuries there are no deaths so it means just a section of the market you find that people still go to the market because some of us actually traders are opened and they're selling them just as as usual thank you very much indeed see Nancy she's with the star in Nairobi telling us about that story I can see so run the prices still on his feet president of South Africa giving his states of the Nation address we'll bring you some of the key lines next half hour here on Earth. This is the b.b.c. World Service bringing you the story behind a remarkable archive of songs the phobia in 1940 Alexander coolish a vigil a Polish law student was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where the secret gatherings he and his fellow prisoners perform songs for which there was only legally as they were just meeting somewhere in the evening or during the night in the corner of the barrack. Sums that capture the brutality of life and death in the camps who before wrote songs about crime at Oriel. And he promised to remember those who died he was really the 1st voice of Holocaust witnessing I'm Melandri and I'll be exploring his musical legacy he was this living tape recorder songs from the depths of hell at b.b.c. World Service dot com. Hello welcome to our house on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Ben James in the b.b.c. Nice room now one talking point in recent weeks here in the u.k. As self harm comes hands on platforms like Instagram and whether he'd be better at regulation because of it it came after one father blamed Instagram for his teenage daughter's death today Instagram has been talking to the u.k. Government they've also been talking to the b.b.c. The head of the firm as promised that things will change will play that interview in the next half hour. B.b.c. News and Marion Marshall France's recalling its ambassador in Rome because of what it calls an unprecedented series of unfounded attacks by Italy Paris accuses the Italian populous coalition government of interfering in French domestic politics but it is deputy prime minister Luigi mio who met some members of France's anti-government yellow vests movement near Paris on Tuesday so this was not meant as an act of provocation the president of the European Council Donald Tusk says there's still no breakthrough inside in the am passed over breaks it after leaders met the British prime minister to resign may in Brussels she's again been seeking to persuade the e.u. To make legally binding changes to the backstop the insurance policy to keep the Irish border open in the absence of a wider deal. The head of Instagram says it will remove all images of self harm from the image sharing app after an outcry over the suicide of a British teenager Molly Russell speaking to the b.b.c. Serry incivility that Instagram was not where it needed to be on policing graphic images of self harm and suicide they've been protesting the Sudanese capital Khartoum in support of hundreds of people who've been arrested since anti-government rallies erupted in December over the price of bread riot police quickly confronted them with tear gas. 2 senior directors of an investment firm in Benetton have been jailed for 10 years each for defrauding people in a Ponzi scheme up to 300000 people many on low incomes were lured into parting with their life savings based on a promise that they would double their money an outbreak of echo and flu in Britain has forced the cancellation of all horse racing until next Wednesday at the earliest 3 vaccinated horses in the same yard in England tested positive for the disease they had raced on Wednesday b.b.c. News. Welcome back to the b.b.c. News are in this is on the b.b.c. World Service it's just gone $530.00 here just come $730.00 in South Africa we're continuing to follow President Cyril ram opposed his State of the Nation address we'll get back to our reporter in Cape Town who's there at the parliament following it later this whole family scrolling through some of the live blogs on the South African news sites are looking at this time as live as some of the journalist tweeting about the investment conference that has just been talking about saying that that attracted lots of investment pledges from lots of companies around the world he said he's talking about that as predicted by our correspondent numbers in a 2nd about 40 minutes ago on the program investment employment a couple of the big themes so far so we'll continue to follow that and bring you around up of what he said in about 20 minutes at will play that interview in a few minutes as well that the head of Instagram has given the b.b.c. All about the issue of self harm comes hands in potential regulation of social media networks because of that but 1st of all let me introduce you see our colleague from b.b.c. Africa he's come to talk to us as you have a number of times know about the situation in Sudan and where protests have been taking place frustration over rising bread and fuel prices that led to calls for President Omar Bashir to resign so we know that have been fresh process today we've had this since we've been on air seems maligns on that in Khartoum what's been going on well today is people took to the streets are being requested by the Sudanese Professionals Association the body that has been orchestrating all these protests over the past 2 months. This is a very interesting development because that had been some new law and the intensity of these protests but today thousands of people took to the streets of downtown. We've seen a lot of footage on social media coming go out from the. And some activists have actually reporting we've seen videos of a lot of tear gas being used to disperse but these appear to have attracted a considerable number of people 15000 took to the streets of central Khartoum which is a if you know the area it's quiet the small area and then that are some protesters who took to the streets in other hot spots like the District of votary which had been reported quite often some have said that some of the people protesting today have been arrested contrary to what the head of Sudanese national security Salam Gore said last week that all detainees will be released and just going through my Twitter unconfirmed reports that some live on munition was used but no confirmation of thus far is going to ask about not and there's been a lot of talk about the heavy handed response by the author it's a sad that finale people and a danger that some of the protests have been in because they've been taking policy nice price and so on night you worked continue to see whether nice reports come be corroborated by the colleagues at b.b.c. Africa does it feel like it's still momentum behind these protests that. Definitely yes what we have had since. Yesterday the president called a lot of journalists photo conversation in the evening and one of the president should residences and sort of home. From various reports some people who were out of the they said it was a very frank discussion with the president and many journalists even journalists who are considered to be close to the regime conveyed to the president. What is happening in the street is huge that is some call that evolution is manifesting on the streets of sort of 2 and they said the president did in 3 allies the extent of the violence that has been unleashed by the security forces whether that's true. Or not we don't know but the president since has. Said. Or has gone on record people who were there are suggesting that the president said that the government is going to release all detainees reporters that the government is going to allow some space for the newspapers to carry or for the media generally to county that reporting as required Sasquatch shift that here is to me how major concession he also acknowledged. A very controversial problematic law and so has called the Public Order Law This public order most since it had been enacted in the early ninety's had been used as a tool to control public behavior on the streets in private parties and so forth. The brunt of the public law fell not sure and on women because in dictating their dress code how they should look the president apparently yesterday said that the public order law is a flawed low that it should be removed or counseled all together and that is very interesting. He is trying to appease the protesters he's he's saying that this public order law is used against young people and it's frustrating young people but whether. People the way people dress smoking shisha as with all of these kind of like cosmetic touches will go to the core of the issues that the people that are protesting in the streets remains to be seen from activists reacting to it. One of the chance is that the people want to bring the regime down the shop beauty to Scotland is up and a lot of people are. Making a joke about it we're asking for the Regina to come down not the change of the Public Order Law which is not a big says. Alarm So they want that in which an exam was the president thinking about got it but of are a bit wordplay there is well here's a little on thanks very much for all of your house I thought talking about this big story from Sudan which will keep a very close eye on it here on the program. And off my goes back to his colleagues b.b.c. Africa to continue to work on that story Alex carry on now talking about Instagram we've spoken a lot in the program over the past few weeks about self harm content online in particular on that particular app which is come under a lot of criticism after the death of teenager Molly Russell the apparent ease of accessibility videos in photos depicting self harm she took her own life her dad spoke to the b.b.c. About him saying now today the head of Instagram has been meeting the U.K.'s health secretary mats Hancock The B.B.C.'s Angus Crawford has been speaking to him as well Adam and he started by asking Adam about the cell phone content that can be accessed it her visitor I think we have. Responsibility I think that it's clear. Where we need to be on the issues of self harm and suicide. As a parent you know it hits me my kids are young they don't have 3 and ones who are not quite ready to use a phone yet but I can appreciate how. I can appreciate the gravity of the situation but what they're really saying is they feel Instagram is a dangerous place. Yes that is clearly what they're saying I think that most of what they have done is look for undiscovered self harm content and suicide content and one of the things that I think is important to stand is we've approached self harm and suicide for a long time but we were posted mostly from the perspective of someone in pain someone who is reaching out for help and these individuals can often be in an immense amount of pain and be really really vulnerable and we've been worried about . Stigmatizing their situation but also we've been worried about making sure that they can get the help that they need but I clearly hasn't worked has it I mean new psychologists would say showing graphic pictures of unarmed caught from elbow to wrist helps that person surely So I would agree with that So actually this is actually what I think what we were focused on I can walk through what I think we were under focused on we were focused on the individual who might be have a gun or have a knife and be talking about hurting themselves making sure that their friends could see that so they could get that person help and we've got lots of examples of when someone's life has actually been saved because their friends I was going on and intervene we were under focused on the effects of particular graphic imagery on everybody else and under focus on how easy it was to discover graphic images was actually a number of changes you know as the few last week there actually a number more they were not saying today to try to address exactly these kids so you clearly got it wrong I mean this has been disastrous for the reputation of Instagram have you as its head actually considered resigning I take this incredibly seriously I mean I'm here in person to talk to organise. Asians that are experts in academics talk to policymakers talk to as many people as I care to really to listen and to make sure that I can communicate what that what we're actually doing is a bunch of changes coming but also to communicate the tension between the need to action now and the need to act responsibly because the concern from I think some of those mothers and others is that in effect Instagram in the words of money Russell's father has been monetizing misery people been placing these awful images these awful content on alongside it has been advertising how do you respond to that monetizing misery we're not looking to monetize misery we look to connect people with their friends and interests that they love and care about we think that we create a lot of good in the world but there's also risks Honestly I've been at Facebook for over 10 years now and when I started we were very very focused on all the good that came out of connecting people sharing your story empowering small businesses etc and we were not as focused as we should have been on the risks that came along with connecting so many people but the lesson that I think we've learned over the last few years the unfortunate reality is a lot of these issues take a long time to get to a good place and we haven't been where we need to be on several issues including the issue of self harming the issue of suicide but we believe that it's our responsibility to get to that place as quickly as we care but as a result of that tardiness new regulation is coming from government is not a question of if it's when some of the headlines recently here said that there could be thawing out or even executives could go to prison you paid for the potential if you don't get this right if you get into prison for Instagram. I think that governments have an important role in all of this I actually think that regulation is important and I actually think it's also important we collaborate so one of the things that I'm doing while I'm here is a meeting with Secretary writer and we are secretary for her and card to talk about regulation. Systems work to talk about opportunities to improve and to get their take on where we are and where we need to be that collaboration is critical that is the had of Instagram Miss Sarah speaking to the B.B.C.'s Angus Crowfoot about all of those issues self harm eating disorders emotional distress and all of those things part of the story now if any of those things affect you and you can find help and support by searching for b.b.c. Action line that is a b.b.c. Website that gives you links to help and support and all of those if she said do you seek that out if you've been affected by any of the issues in that story there is another story around today all about I guess young people on social media and medical offices for Chief Medical Officer In fact here in the u.k. Have advised that smartphone should be banned from the dinner table and also at bad times they said that children should also take a break from screens every 2 hours so we've been asking our listeners around the world through a what's up fine for their thoughts and how they manage that with their kids a little be sure this is. Where stuff. His son likes to blow it a mobile phone but restriction much as possible. I think is not the best. Be money on how. Mobile phones in schools and. Mobile phones should we buy from. Times because. We observe the skinless a problem. Above all for children aswell. Thanks very much indeed for the what's the message I will give you the number one more time before we end this edition of Iraqis were lawyers on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Ben Jane. I want to take you now through some more of the top trending global stories at the moment at one of the most watched videos on b.b.c. News online is about a baby who ended up riding solo on a train in the United States his father had left the carriage to smoke a cigarette and didn't make it back before the train departed from the station in Cleveland Ohio thankfully they were reunited by trying stuff when people realized what has happened trending in Nigeria the phrase body bag is after a governor who's a key ally of President Mohamed Bihari said foreigners who intervene in next week's elections will be sent home in body bags the European Union says its observers will continue their work in the country and even beyond the February 16th elections that's a week from Saturday. Crazy. The top trend in Ghana the former football boss spoken on the radio for the 1st time since he was banned for life by fee for breaking bribery rules. Taking cash from an under cover reporter pretending to be a businessman but he alleges that Haiti has paid the reporter $400000.00 to target and destroy him. We're going to spend some time in Thailand next a story that's been dominating life there for the last couple of months in the capital Bangkok severe smog since December and if particular concern the presence of a particle called pm 2.5 in this pollution according to the World Health Organization it's known to be carcinogenic 2.5 it's basically referring to it's smaller than 2.5 micro meters and that means you can get really deep inside now a group of activists have taken the government to court and they allege the government has failed to do enough to tackle the problem I've been speaking to. From the b.b.c. Type in Bangkok he told me more about what the activists have been saying in court . That the government. And do nothing they don't even try to change our policy they send out some people to check. Possible class that might cost this pollution as some factories outside of the city and they found nothing they said we went today we checked we found nothing everything is clean and fire but in the city is we cannot see clearly I have to wear a mask are the time I even got sick from this whole event so you got sick yourself what happened Well I think most people have to strike hard and my sister even have to know slating from pollution is that bond and you can see them you can see the smoke in the air as well as I listen you learn yes yes yes I can see it I can see the skies very has the I can see the sun that try to hide out but that's no light it's just almost like the. Pull off and this is very different is it to how bang coke normally is you know I had smoked like this before really never have something like this before so this is strange event so what are the theories about why there's been such bad small for so long this year in Bangkok. So according to my research I talked to one professor who said he did the research part 20 years on the issue itself he said that he studied the map it's almost like the weather map you can see it from satellites but this map only detect fires so he said he found a rest but mostly in Cambodia and when he studied separate map he caused a high wind map he said he found that job in happened to blow into central Thailand . At that particular moment so he claimed that everything that we have it came from the burning off can't Haitian in Cambodia that his theory but I talked to a. Local in geology Greenpeace they said that this event is might be one of but what's scary even more scary is that. Apple has always been this bad but we cannot see it because. Very small and he said that is the problem and when day it's. Part they never include Hi-Fi into the report that we saw come out good so pm $2.00 This is the source of pollution lots of people are talking about it refers to how small it is it's less than 2.5 micro meters across these particles which means that it can get very very deep into your system penetrate right inside your lungs even into your your circulation and the World Health Organization says that it can potentially cause cancer it can't hard cancer can cause how to attack and a stroke which must mean people are so worried having to live with in the air that they breathe the funny thing is I think 50 percent of people who live in Bangkok they don't even care about it I wear a mask every day because I what might happen like some of my family member died even valid Mass Medical outsize said this is serious you know you should you should protect yourself because this this is something that you cannot see you cannot feel it today but it might be in your body and this might be harmful in the future. This is our house on the b.b.c. World Service live from London let's talk now again about a couple of stories that center around black faced white people dressing as black people by darkening their faces you might have seen that the luxury fashion brand Gucci with through a jumper from say off to criticism that it resembled black face with the Balaklava part of the jumper that went up over the face of the person wearing it and also another story or a big one from the u.s. State of Virginia where 2 senior political figures 1st the governor and the attorney general have acknowledged wearing blackface in the past after photos merged and. Just online now I last hour you might have had me speaking see Barrett's hands pick never freedoms Genest he writes a really interesting piece of b.b.c. News online behind the legacy of America's black face he was telling me about the history of black face why it's so controversial and his experience as a black man growing up in the state of Georgia but I've also been speaking to a journalist in the states if you genea to understand more about the state and its place in this whole conversation at a journalist name is Jeff Shapiro right he's a political columnist for the Richmond Times Dispatch it's a daily newspaper in Virginia he's been living math 40 yes Virginia in the late seventy's or early eighty's was beginning to emerge or reemerge as a suburban dominated state its diversity it was also beginning to flower the economy of the states was shifting as well from one dominated by manufacturing to one dominated by services that said clearly across Virginia there were pockets if you will of the old ways at the time these offenses these suppose are defenses these perceived defenses were taking place the genuine is ready to elect its 1st African-American to statewide office Doug Wilder in 19851 year for example after the photograph appeared that races photograph appeared in Governor North thems medical school yearbook Doug Wilder would be elected lieutenant governor the highest African-American official in the state and then of course 4 years later Doug Wilder would become not just the genuine 1st elected black governor but the nation's there are certainly signs and you know one and look at the evidence that's. Emerged in the past week that vestiges of what were perceived to be the old attitudes endured even if they were somehow perceived by those behind them as amusing when in fact they are hurtful Did you ever come across somebody wearing blackface of a turn of a policy and that someone once was a common sight I certainly have not but talking with native Virginians from particularly rural Virginia they have memories of blackface Mistral Stroh's being performed as fundraisers and as charitable events the people who mention this point out that by the sixty's this was really beginning to fade so what might the message you've been from someone who might have dressed up and face puts on black face to go to a party say what might they have been trying to say by doing not by sight in 1900 at least for public consumption these public figures are saying that they were trying to essentially harness the personalities of noted African-American figures in the governor's case he made reference to wearing a Michael Jackson costume to a 10 a dance competition in San Antonio Texas where he was a young Army doctor the attorney general Mr Herring said that he and several schoolmates went to a party wearing blackface but dressed as rappers I don't want to get too anthropological about this but I suspect the explanation may be that they were simply trying to harness consciousness of popular culture yet probably. Knowing that this might not take it that way these are people who as public officials now froth hadn't considered what this behavior might telegraph downrange one thing we should talk about actually is the state of Virginia and why it stays at particularly a full line in terms of these conversations about Rice's history might not be so well known around the world but yes Virginia is certainly viewed by the outside world as the south its capital Richmond was the 2nd capital of the Confederacy and supported the Confederacy for most of the 4 year civil war this is a place where one doesn't have to go to far to see reminders of the genuine rebel past that said the majority of people who live in Virginia are non natives when I landed in Richmond in 1979 the Genyen for the most part we're either white or African American with a smattering of Native Americans Ours is a state now that is roughly one 3rd minority with Asian and Latino populations that each account for 6 percent to 8 percent of the overall Virginia population thanks to Jeff Shapiro of the Richmond Times Dispatch right let's just have an in the listening and hear on our last see what's happening in the South African parliament presidents around the post crisis we will call on the capabilities of the state as well as the private sector to I just infrastructure traveling to these nearly an hour in which to his State of the Nation address that speak once again to the B.B.C.'s Noam some a 2nd he's following it there in Cape Town What if we missed Numsa What's he been saying. Well President Obama or so has said that his government will focus on 5 urgent tasks which he says will be able to underpin everything is able to somehow take South Africa forward and those are accelerating inclusive growth and job creation improving their education system improving the lives of poor South Africans and stepping up the fight against corruption and state capture and we are still expecting presidential run up also to announce or to make a pronouncement about when the elections are going to be this is an important big year for South Africa the president is making a speech just a few months before the country goes to the polls. Thank you very much indeed life with us from Cape Town following the State of the Nation Address 2nd stimulus now for her reporting on the b.b.c. World Service over the next hours as people digest what. Has Set Of course you can find folk of French on the b.b.c. Africa page is on b.b.c. News online as well thanks you company here on our us. Here from the b.b.c. Nice ring similar to. This is the b.b.c. World Service where a drama series tells the story of the 1979 revolution in Iran this is it is all we have to put it out there was nothing would be achieved by distance leaving such a turn you're only going to continue on I. Never saw a need to change this continues at b.b.c. World Service dot com. And b.b.c. World Service dot com is health check with Claudia how many is your smartphone keeping you awake at night and putting your health at risk we'll have the results of a study on night time phone habits of 25000 listeners to Danish radio and can I read the text size improve your computer speak Stay with us for a click of the b.b.c. World Service the world's radio station. Welcome to Outlook I'm Emily Webb today the woman who fought violence and corruption with her pen Maria designer has risked everything to do her job as a reporter one of Colombia's top newspapers she was on the frontline at a time when a violent power struggle was underway between different groups in the country despite the risks Maria and her colleagues refused to stop publishing stories even though their lives were in danger when I was 20 I had already my editor in chief killed Iraq on was killed by palace guard and the pattern military squads that word supporting him this added to keep on asking us as we were the investigative unit and the newspapers so they missed to get they've unit was this month and the newspaper was bombed after that Maria carried on with her journalism that then the day came when a close family member was targeted So why did she carry on her story after the latest news. Ally Marion Marshall with the b.b.c. News the head of Instagram has vowed to remove all images of self harm from the image sharing app after an outcry of the suicide of a British teenager Molly Russell speaking to the b.b.c. Serry admitted that his company wasn't doing enough to police graphic images of self harm and suicide we have to accept the responsibility that we have to kill people so we have to move more quickly to make more progress on all of those issues and I think we also have to be transparent about what we do and how we do it Mr Muskerry also said he would consider his position if such images were still found on the app in 6 months time Bali Russell's parents believe the 14 year old took her own life in 2017 after viewing graphic material on Instagram regulators in Germany have said they will impose new restrictions on the way Facebook collects data from its users sometimes without their knowledge the German added trust watchdog accused the social media giant of abusing its market dominance to gather information Facebook said it would appeal against the decision the ruling is likely to influence watchdogs in other countries France's record is ambassador to Italy for talks after what he described as a series of outrageous statements by Rome the rebuke comes after the deputy head of Italy's government met yellow vests protesters who are preparing to contest the European elections Hughes.