Stopped people descending on the capitol for a 4th week of protest against the continued leadership of president Alexander Lukashenko he claims he won the august 9th election with 80 percent of the vote the opposition say the poll was rigged and they want to read from. Those protesters made their way home on sunday Security Forces seem to take advantage of the thinning crowds pulling out people apparently at random according to witnesses and bundling them into vans. Another video has emerged on social media of masked men in civilian clothes beating up people on the streets of minsk. In wall now breaking down the door of a cafe where the owner had given shelter to protesters. With imagine if everybody people started running in say to the door and then out on 15 to 20 people in black masks started to smash the glass into some people our human rights experts from the United Nations say theyve received hundreds of torture a shes a torture impeaching you. This is older call kovar of the Opposition Coordination Council sentenced to 10 days in jail she appeared in poland on saturday after she says she was forcibly taken to the border and theyre pretty hard. They came to the center where i was isolated they gave me had a mask. Took me out of prison they made me lie in the back seat and they drove me we from the isolation center. At the president ial palace in minsk it was tight security to protect us from the people. We wont forgive we wont forget their shouting the videos emerging out of minsk on sunday night suggests that whatever tolerance the government have for the protesters is wearing thin but could increase pressure on western powers to impose sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko and senior members of his administration with the way his foreign minister says in an interview that the European Unions lack of action over belarus is undermining the credibility of its Foreign PolicyBernard Smith aljazeera vilnius thousands of people have been rallying in months negras capital against the pros National Coalition that won a slim majority in last sundays elections protesters fear it will push montenegro closer to serbia russia. Nearly 300 people have been arrested in hong kong after riot place cleared prodemocracy protesters and sunday were demonstrating against beijings new security law people are also angry about a delay in local elections. Libyas rival sides are meeting in morocco 2 weeks after they announced a cease fire agreement and a geisha tripolis u. N. Recognized government and the eastern based parliament are holding talks south of robot ahead of a larger meeting in switzerland on monday on delegates meet in morocco the leader of the tripoli based government is in istanbul meeting one of his most important allies president at a one take hes expected to play a major role in those talks in switzerland. Saudi arabia says it has intercepted and destroyed an explosive laden drone from yemen the Spokesman Says several drones were sent to attack port in response to an increase in saudi air strikes in yemen more than 1800000 people in japans kyushu island have been ordered to leave their homes as the countrys battered by its 2nd typhoon in a week. And has hit southern regions with Gale Force Winds and rain its now moving to where south korea those are your headlines news continues their world. 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 ive got lawyers representing moggi delsea had reached an out of Court Settlement with the company hed been battling for several years with the 15 that you always think of our banking facility i was here had claimed that the Palestinian Return center had been wrongly listed on a database and that this had caused them serious financial difficulty about it that we had. And i know that that is them to the committee im by i want to take on this secret that there is if you do im a misleading allegation in the world check database is now often known as ricin its of 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 our travel 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 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 and they can come as a shock to discover theyve been categorized as being linked with for example terrorism. An American Security advisor called chris of ikari 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 it runs on a specific port so if something has Data Available on the couch he port 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 most or tomorrow vickerys initial thoughts well 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 who created the 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 letterman. 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 they managed risk and at the same time there was a Significant Growth 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 on the World Trade Center in 2001 the remit of those databases widened significantly. In the pali because it forced the United States particularly to focus much more on funding of terrorism. It was an area that although had previously been legislated for in the 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 911 passing through 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 unit. Riffel 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 seen reuters announced the sale of the majority of its world check shares to the private equity group blackstone. In 28. 00 c. Thomson reuters some parts of the state 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 the company that will check. Thomson reuters is a Canadian Media conglomerate but its made several data related acquisitions. While Thomson Reuters as a Financial Service agency and it has an interest in making money out of Financial Services well 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 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 theyre 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 alone. 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 until today it has 3000000 people and organizations listed and its owned by large companies. And is 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 the listing in well check that was still connecting them with terrorism even though the mosque had no more connections with terrorism. Finsbury park mosque is in northeast london and is attended by hundreds of worshippers for friday noon prayers. Today its 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. The names were on will checks database as being linked to terrorism. Will check was still under Thomson Reuters ownership at that time. Of the somewhat and the whole. Of the new the comma bijani one where the now the comma behave thought of them as youd miss youd. Sort out the mess you dont know well. What the heebie 80 i mean or the unknown who most often. By the at such a comb my want to check. Some of that and them was all up not buried in a bank such as me see 31 of me and the 7 monkey. Of the local and then i shall reign in the that beautiful snowy is in the bank of one of the 5 theyd miss you one of them when he moved to the. Back of the. Im a thoughtful man im in b. B. C. In austin b. B. C. What all of a minimal fee have a mobile feel if you dont feel at all often as you call him or us if you that he can walk out. Of the and most would. Feel he was successful have done some dumb sort of. A lot check. 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 we discovered the existence of a confidante show database it was called world check by Thomson Reuters at the time c s i may have one category called terrorist which is a very serious things were very very serious you cannot deal with people who are going to. And. And so we discovered the rest of the fence ripoff mosque was listed terrorist. From memory i think mr cause was very shocked as he should be. Laws of the rang up world church 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 a hard. Game cover your billboard to check quite a fair bit of money from a nephew to be on the whole. Show at the time sort of has been i thought in a a while it was such a synonym in 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 after his bubbly a set of iraq a theater and that what was on him in a hoss other than a fur that it going to figure out 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 who had the hustle. Following the Finsbury Park mosque case other organizations and individuals did take legal action against the world. 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 call 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 into 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 act they pay some compensation and they offer to pay the legal costs and thats it whenever they have time on those who. Have your whole. Park mosque other half of the the car a mother toyotas if youre out of a word chick. Or than the full breath in canada and i guess you mean. Less than all americans and i would have a sufi it also not matter. Can a careful behind the spirit or bar mosque was and afaik most would twice in the fianna fail sleeve. Wow that im never there you 1st said. In kenya and you had the ill will have been at odds. With their care it was so bad that youd have. Had me and i would all americas allow their fear to lock up their mobile revenue in the arm or fuck off 11 s and i think you have the mass over fair fight and a lot. Of fear not sorrow but i just wrote about what i did not get myself going to cost theme with the time i was having a quite how to channel well i used of the my it i love it was so wonderful to you and i have been doing your color taken home as a man on my feet about a lot of you have for 100 have clearly where in the house. You had him i said no we had was once a Palestinian Return center was on the list what word check tends to do is that all the directors or the senior people also get listed individually so mr mudge of those years was listed only because of his connection to the palest