Rains are forecast until the end of september given morgan has this update from khartoum. The river that you see behind me is the nile river which a Sudanese GovernmentOfficials Say is unprecedented in terms of the level of waters it is carrying right now at 17. 621 meters meteorologists say its the high is that have been recorded in nearly a century and that has resulted in massive flooding in various parts of the country now one of those areas is right here in this island of tutti which lies between the blue nile and the white nile the flooding from the nile waters has resulted in massive destructions of Properties Many people have been forced to leave their homes to look for refuge and shelter and for drier lands. And. Most of the destruction isnt just because the river flooded we have an annual phenomenon where the water in the river increases during the rainy season the river manages to break the makeshift dams that we build this is will cause the most destruction but this year is the worst weve ever seen. Now countrywide at least one 100000 properties have been destroyed and at least 100 people have been killed as a result of the floodings meteorologist say that the reasons behind the high level of the rivers are due to 2 facts as they say one of them is Climate Change heavy rain falls and if you can highlands has resulted in more water flowing downstream towards sudan which has resulted in more flooding along the banks of the blue nile which contributes to 80 percent of the nile waters the other factor they say is the number of dams that have been built along the nile over the past few decades they say that has led into one want to being trapped in the clouds and into more rainfall as a result so sudans government has declared a state of emergency after the loss of lives and the destruction of properties there calling 180 in his nations to intervene but theyre also saying that the water levels will continue to rise over the next few days and are urging people to stay away from the banks of the nile and try to build as much sand barriers like theyve been doing over the past few days to cope with the rise of the nile levels they also said that if people do not listen to the cautious and to to alert that are being issued by the government there will be more. Destructions and more loss of life something that they were trying to avoid when the russian opposition activist. Has arrived in poland saying the authorities forced her to leave the country she said she was taken straight from prison to a Border Crossing from where she travelled on to warsaw kovach of us senior figure in the better Russian Opposition Coordination Council was sentenced to 10 days in prison on august the 25th. Meanwhile thousands of women and students have marched through minsk calling on president Alexander Lukashenko to resign. The country has been gripped by antigovernment protests since last months disputed president ial election because they could deny its opposition accusations that he rigged the polls to stay in office he accuses western governments of conspiring against him and says nato is massing forces on his borders. Thousands of israelis have gathered in west jerusalem where theyre keeping up their months of rallies demanding the resignation of their Prime Minister protests have been taking place outside Benjamin Netanyahu as residents for 11 consecutive weekends the demonstrators say he should step down while facing trial for alleged corruption theyre also angered by the governments handling of the corona virus that has crippled the economy. In the us the summer of protest is ending with rallies in several cities during the long Labor Day Weekend in an increasingly divided nation some are protesting against racial inequality and Police Violence while others are backing President Donald Trump and his calls for law and order one pro trump rally took place outside the Kentucky Derby horse race in louisville a black eyes matter march will also be held nearby. Those headlines Al Jazeera World is next looking at how your own data can be used against you see you after that. 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 fair amount of the best anything said that p. R. C. My bank account and that of lawyers representing marjorie delsea had reached out of Court Settlement with the company he been battling for several years and with. That closing of our banking facilities i was here had claimed that the Palestinian Return center had been wrongly listed on a database and that this would cause them serious financial difficulty about that we. And that is them to the museum by word thick on their secret that their beers if you do im sure are misleading allegations in 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 know 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 good and you understand the risk and brings to the bank in terms of Financial Crime money. Databases like christianity of 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 tamar elmas heart 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 our travel across both extremely frequently and a great many other providers are actually. The engine of what they provide is the dow jones as they refer to lists so they power lots of other providers lists as well i think of them i think definitive is 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 they can come as a shock to discover theyve been categorized as being linked with for example terrorism. An American Security advisor called Christie Creek got hold of a copy of the world check database in 2016 including what he called its terrorism blacklist. Mess hell spoke to vicary 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 track devil band joins us hes founder also executive chairman of world that shack. 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 scoundrels like thousands of the mines is that caused by instance go up reassessing the money routes and at the same time there was a significant global 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 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. In the apology 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 with the e. U. The European Union had already instituted some strict rules the u. S. After not having passed i think of the country 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 unit. Refine it if well check is still registered to the same address as Thomson Reuters in the canary wharf 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 28. 00 c. Thomson reuters so part of the stake in well check so they sold 55 percent of the company to investors but Thomson Reuters still owns 45 percent of finishes 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 track is 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 claims 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 to 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 has 3000000 people and organizations listed and its owned by Large Companies and its used by most of the banks around the world for a long time the content 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. The news. Today is considered a model of Community Relations but it attracted an adverse media and Police Attention in 1997 when Shaikh Abu Hamza real 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 are 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 the comma been genuine what you are than the comma behave out of. Ms yet. Here are sort of the most you dont know. What the hey baby 80 i mean or be another who was off with her but at a sort of call my want to check. Some of that and there was a lot of buried in bunk at us missy the only one of me and his 7 monkey say some of the local and then i shall reign in the a bit of the what is or is in the bank of one of the 5 theyve measured one of them well in most with the. 7 should he bother her. The math also monem in b. B. C. In austin 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 dont even know what health of the in a smoker most would. Feel he was successful had done some dumb songwriter all along. Peter oborne 1st broke this story for the b. B. C. I got the p. P. C. To make a Radio Program 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 c s n e had one category called terrorist which is a very serious things we were very very serious you cannot deal with people who are going to. And. And so we discovered the rest of the things ripoff mosque was listed terrorist from memory i think mr cause bar was very shocked as he should be. Those are we rang up world check we spoke to world show 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 myself came as you visit bit of out of. The end of the year billboard to check quite a fair bit of money. And the whole. Shake up the time sort of has been i thought in a a while it was such. That had all the had that was 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 have to have. A set of iraq a theater and that what was on him in a hustler then or for that account of the figure and the whole number of it not the how the over the when of his behaviors and 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 world check. Including margie downs zia head of the Palestinian Return center in london. Zia 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 margery dolls 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 cant agree 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 the games will change because all of them they settle 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 whenever we have time on those who. Have your whole. Park mosque other half of the the car a mother toyotas if you are of a word chick. Or than the full breath in can have. Less than all americas and i wou