Was poisoned with a nerve agent not a joke and chancellor merkel says it was attempted murder alexina by any thoughtful and suppositions alexina valmy is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this in the shop as possible manner in the name of the entire German Government. Germanys foreign minister has summoned the Russian Ambassador saying its urgent that those responsible in russia be identified and brought to justice no found me whos 44. 00 was airlifted to germany late last month 2 days after being taken to a hospital in the siberian city of. The Charity Hospital in berlin says hes still on a respirator in intensive care and although the symptoms of his poisoning are declining it cant rule out long term consequences. Is a group of soviet era nerve agent such as the substance used to poison the former russian spy sergei script and his daughter in england in 2018 they survived but a member of the public dorm sturgis died after handling a discarded bottle containing novacek on wednesday the kremlin said russia was ready to cooperate fully with germany even of all nice case but his long time strategies learned folk of says it was clearly an action carried out on behalf of president Vladimir Putin he tweeted in 2020 poisoning the valley with novacek is exactly the same as leaving an autograph at the crime scene like this chancellor merkel says germany will update its European Union and nato partners about the results of its investigation how the west reacts could depend on whether Russia Office any cooperation something thats not been forthcoming in the past. The United Nations and human Rights Groups are condemning u. S. Sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor and another official of the International Criminal court here us secretary of state michael peo accuse the court of illegitimate attempts the subject americans to its jurisdiction the hague based i. C. C. Is investigating if u. S. Forces committed war crimes in afghanistan. President donald trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allow anarky and violence he says cities under review include Portland Seattle new york and washington d. C. Trump has been rallying with the democratic mayors of those cities over protesting against racism and Police Brutality. The u. S. Attorney general william barr says there is a false narrative that White Police Officers kill a lot of unarmed black men he made the comments a day after visiting kenosha with President Trump where an unarmed black man was shot in the back by police. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control has asked states to get ready to distribute a potential corona virus vaccine by november the 1st it comes amid concerns President Trump is pressuring the food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine before Clinical Trials are completed its the 2nd typhoon to hit the Korean Peninsula in a week has made landfall with winds of 162 kilometers an hour south koreas Weather Agency says typhoon may sack will affect most of the country Syria State News Agency says its air defenses have shot down most of a series of israeli rockets launched towards an airports and homes it comes just 2 days after 2 syrian soldiers were killed in an israeli missile strike near the capital damascus theres been no comment from israel but its believed to have carried out dozens of raids targeting irans military presence in syria qatars emir has stressed the need for a fair resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict by pursuing a 2 state solution shift i mean he hosted the us president s Senior AdviserJared Christian or christian or made a stop in qatar on wednesday during his tour of the middle east those are the headlines aljazeera world is coming up next but by. You know early 2019 the head of a u. K. Based palestinian lobby group made an announcement outside the rule courts of justice in london i speak on my behalf and as a fan of mine of the best anything said that p. R. C. My bank account and that of lawyers representing margy delsea had reached an out of Court Settlement with the company hed been battling for several years and. That the always think of our banking facility i was here had claimed that the Palestinian Return center had been wrongly listed on the database and that this had caused them serious financial difficulty about it that we had. And i know that that is them to the medium by word take on their secret that there is if you do im a misleading allegation and the world check database is now often known as ricin a tive its current oh no. Its not secret its one of the databases used by banks to help them comply with government financial regulation. No your customer is the term they use to identify exactly who theyre dealing with and hence avoid exposure to Financial Crime. A from a bank where your customer is vital part of both the on boarding process at least a few other new customers and maintaining that relationship and it requires you to mean sure that you know who that person is and that is very far and you understand the risk that brings to the bank in terms of Financial Crime money. Databases like riff initiative world check look for and collate data for their subscribers on individuals and organizations that might pose a financial risk what they call politically exposed persons. Or perhaps on names on a sanctions list or who have attracted negative media coverage. In this program. Of aljazeera arabic channel examines these databases theyre part of the Global Regulator a framework designed to combat Financial Crime but how transparent are they and what impact can they have on those that appear in them. In terms of the market it is dominated by 2 main players which is dow jones and riff initiative which used to be part of the Thomson Reuters organization. In my experience are come across both extremely frequently and a great many other providers are actually. The engine of what they provide is the dow jones of the river to do lists so they power lots of other providers lists as well i think of them i think definitive has probably the greatest reach in terms of the global banks but honestly theyre both pretty dominant players. But individuals and organizations have sometimes found themselves on these databases without their knowledge and they can come as a shock to discover theyve been categorized as being linked with for example terrorism. An American Security advisor called christian got hold of a copy of the world check database in 2016 including what he called its terrorism blacklist. Mess hell spoke to victory and asked how hed found the list of over 2000000 names. Well i think the world check database by looking for whats known as couch d p instances its a type of database that can be accessed through a web browser and david runs on a specific port so if something has Data Available on the couch to eat pork and successful to the public internet you can browse it yet i was just lucky and found it i guess persistence pays off when youre looking for lots and lots of data every once in awhile you find some real gems and i found it downloaded because it was publicly accessible and open and available to the public. Vickerys initial thoughts with you well the very 1st big reaction i had was when i was looking through the different rows and i saw people marked as terrorists thats when i knew oh my god this is a list that is probably not something that is normally out there and then i realized if this is a list marking people for things of that nature created this list you know so i had to look and see created world trade devil plan joins us hes founder also executive chairman and world that shaq. Will check was founded in 2000 by a South African born businessman called david left. The company was registered in london and started as a Risk Mitigation database there was a whole host of scandals like thousands of the ninetys that caused by instance go reassessing how the risk about the same time there was a drugs. Program emerging so all of these things conspired the banks started to look much more closely at risk and there was the formation of the Financial Action task force which is the global body responsible for providing the definition so perhaps for steering banks into how to manage those risks the market for data grew to include agencies and institutions in every sector particularly after the september 11th attacks in new york called the World Trade Center in 2001. The remains of those databases widened significantly after 911. 00 polly because it forced the United States particularly to focus much more on funding of terrorism. It was an area that although had previously been vegetative for let me us they probably werent as robust as maybe here in europe where the e. U. The European Union had already instituted some strict rooms the u. S. After not having passed a thing called the pantry intact and its specific he caused greater focus on the funding of terrorism as much as Money Laundering and organized crime search changed the landscape definitively. David led pan declined to be interviewed partly because in 2011 will check was acquired by Thomson Reuters as part of their governance risk and compliance here in. Britain that if well check is still registered to the same address as Thomson Reuters in the canary wolf Business District of london. But in october 28th chain has announced the sale of the majority of its world check shares to the private equity group blackstone. And 20 a. C. Thompson reuters some passive stake in well check so they sold 55 Percent Company to investors but Thomson Reuters still owns 45 percent of her finished which is the new name of a company that i will check. Thomson reuters is a Canadian Media conglomerate but its made several data related acquisitions. Thomson reuters as a Financial Service agency and it has an interest and making money out of Financial Services while chad has a very profitable business subscriptions can run into the millions of pounds there is a lot of money to be made in the sector. Well check a database of millions of people and organizations around the world who are claimed to be high risk people because of some connection with terrorism or crime or because of their political position and this is a system that banks around the world use to check their customers to find out if they are doing business with somebody who could pose problems for the bank. In an online brochure written it it will check set out its objectives and listed its different areas of activity including sanctions screening monitoring politically exposed persons and he Money Laundering countering the financing of terrorism and anti bribery and corruption. It said it covered 240 countries had over 400 Research Analysts and talked about the number of sources used and records. Over the years its grown and grown and still today it has 3000000 people and organizations listed and its owned by a Large Companies and is used by most of the banks around the world for a long time the contents of their state space have been kept secret and its only in the last few years thanks to the work of journalists and campaigners that weve begun to learn a little bit more about some of the issues with their state space so for example Finsbury Park mosque had their account closed and they eventually discovered a listing in well check that was still connecting them with terrorism even though the mosque had no more connection with terrorism. Finsbury park mosque is in northeast london and is attended by hundreds of worshippers for friday. A new prayer. Today is considered a model of Community Relations but it attracted an adverse media and Police Attention in 1997 when shake up new hams around mastery known for his radical views became him out. Of the mosque was closed in 2003 for its perceived links to terrorism. It reopened in 2005 with a new Management Team supported by the Muslim Association of britain. The changes at the mosque and now widely perceived as a Success Story but in 2014 the management was shocked to discover that their names were on world checks database as being linked to terrorism. Will check was still under Thomson Reuters ownership at that time. So. Im not going with us a lot of and the whole bother. Than that a comma binge earlier when what you are than the comma behave thought of them as youd miss youd. Hear sort of the most you dont know. What the hey baby 80 i mean or be a no who was off with her case but at a sort of my i want to check. Some of the earth and there was a lot of buried in bunk thats just me see 31 of me and his 7 and monkey say some of the law and then i shall reign in need that bit of the is in the bank of one of the 5 they miss you want to put it on well in motor with the. 7 should he bother her. The mythos of man im in b. B. C. In ross in b. B. C. What all of a minimal fee has a mobile feel if you dont feel at all often as you call him or us if you that he can what health of the innocent most would on a fee more successful have done so on some sort reuter all along. Peter oborne 1st broke this story for the b. B. C. I got the b. B. C. To make a Radio Programme and i presented this and we discovered the existence of a confidante show database it was called world check and by Thomson Reuters at the time serious and it had one category called terrorist which is a very serious things we all know very very serious if you cannot deal with people who are going to. And. And so we discovered that the rest of the things report mosque was listed terrorist from memory i think mr cause was very shocked as he should be. Those are we rang up world check we spoke to world show you i had a conversation and i said that they said that we always go should correct procedures or Something Like that i cant remember exactly when was this a visit to the. Game of the year the board to check on a fair bit of money. And the whole. Show at the time sort of has been i thought in a a while it was sort of this interim in that had all the had to fit or some organizations i would want to say well cannot be on the whole loaf was enough he had the arc of the income as you said after his bubbly. Rock a theater on that what was on him in a hostel and then or for that account of the figure and the whole number not the how the or the what if would be having the harder hit than if the who was on the one who had the hustle. Following the Finsbury Park mosque case other organizations and individuals did take legal action against well check. Including margie downs zia head of the Palestinian Return center in london. Decided to pursue a civil action against world check after his own and the centers Bank Accounts were both closed. The p. R. C. Provides a media platform for the palestinian diaspora. In 2015 it was given consultative status at the u. N. As a nongovernmental organization. The center campaigns to increase awareness of the palestinian cause and for the human and legal rights of palestinian refugees. But will check put the center and merge adeles here in the countering terrorism funding category of its database to which mr rouzier took exception. However in january 29th teen zias lawyers reached an out of Court Settlement with world checks then owners Thomson Reuters they agreed to remove his name from the terrorism category and to pay him 13000. 00 u. S. Dollars in damages its legal and in fact under the british legal system the judges and the courts prefer people to settle cases so to be honest with you the majority of cases like this we would expect to settle in world checks case so far we actually have settled every single case in other words theres never been a full court case against world change because all of them they set like they did with this one of mr my details here they normally agree that the classification was a breach of the Data Protection and they pay some compensation and they offer to pay the legal costs and thats it time on those with. A smack in the. Hole and all. Park mosque other half of the the car a mother toit was out of a word chick. Or than the full breath in canada and i guess you mean. Less than a