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Future of the rest of the globe, and its not looking good. along with the melting, large swaths of the arctic are literally on fire. wildfires are raging in russia over an area the size of belgium, and were seeing disturbing examples of what climate scientists call feedback loops. those fires in the arctic are burning peat which is releasing enormous amounts of carbon which in turn leads to more warming creating conditions for more fires which will lead to more release of carbon. and on the glac...

Who come over and over stay their visas. >> thats right. >> and yet the facts, those facts are not so widely in circulation on foxs pro trump talk shows. they were real reporters but the pro trump talk shows is where the president gets a lot of his information and warps his reality. the pressure he heard from fox and friends, from the other shows earlier this week, did seem to have a real effect and i think were in one of these feed back loops. were seeing action being taken as a direct result. ...

You believe that, you believe theres this invasion, this caravan, this dire threat, when most people, the most illegal immigration we know from people who come over and over stay their visas. >> thats right. >> and yet the facts, those facts are not so widely in circulation on foxs pro trump talk shows. they were real reporters but the pro trump talk shows is where the president gets a lot of his information and warps his reality. the pressure he heard from fox and friends, from the other shows ...

Hot house earth trend would be propelled by strong bio geophysical feedback difficult to influence but human actions what does that mean that these trends will continue despite attempts to me we can still address this there is still a chance to avoid these kinds of feedback loops and tipping points the report talks about what the report says is. there are certain things that can happen and once they happen they reinforce themselves once we trigger this these tipping points these feedbacks global...

The country can be generated in that sector. theres so many feedback loops, whether its hospitality, whether its restaurants, activities that go -- that tailor to create towards tourists so definitely a sector that will push egypt forward. >> nice to see you. now were in the cab of tour rim. rania, right in front of the travel mark with 40,000 visitors passing through the door wednesday. back to you, cyril and natalie. >> john defterios live from dubai. well see you more in the next hour. up n...

Wealthy. but now that they have made their billions, more are admitting that the company they created is destroying society. literally those are the words they used. former facebook president admitted the website was designed to be addictive and like cigarettes or prescription drugs, then bragged his wealth would let him live to 160. last august, an early investor called facebook a threat to democracy. now formerth vice president of e site says "facebook is ripping apart the social fabric of how...

One decision that is going to be harder for us to push back against the others. >> being the referee of free speech is complicated, just ask twitter co-founder, mr. williams. >> you get editorial guidelines and then you get in an area where most tech companies are like thats not something that fits in our model or that we would be good at. >> increasingly, whether or not you like it you have to make decisions that are editorial, wouldnt you say? >> there are judgments being made all the way down...

Platforms like facebook isnt just about producing propaganda that could essentially impact an election. ed williams, who created both twitter and medium tells me at the heart of the issue its about money and how publishers and tech companies are benefiting from low quality information. take a listen. >> i think the fact that tech companies have to accept is that there are judgments being made all the way down the line. theres judgments about how the algorithm works, what the system values, what ...

I knew -- i know something about using modern technology so that people dont slip through the cracks and fall through the cracks. this is what i see happening in the v.a. we, by the way, in my state made full employment a strategic goal of my administration for the last year and a half. not because we were doing well but because we were losing too many of our veterans when they came home and they were falling through the cracks. what i see has happened in our veterans administration is this -- t...

Whole lot of veterans coming home from iraq and afghanistan, from a long tour of duty, with really critical needs. but the v.a. has not updated the sort of feedback loops, the linkages by way of technology so you dont have a separate database over in the department of defense and a brand-new database in the v.a. without the openness and transparency to actually tell the v.a. administrators and managers that hey, we have a growing back dog, especially for veterans who need help because they have ...