Continues to unfold in europe with exponentially increases in daily cases and matching but a scent that increases in daily deaths the evolving situation in europe raises great concern daily numbers of cases or a hospital admissions or approach and cover it is no defeat leading cause of deaths at the bar of 8000. 00 bits per day has no been reached kurdistans Prime Minister has assumed the powers of the president after the countrys leader has resigned so somebody has been called face that they really protests against his leadership since of the spirit of the election said yeah part of had been named Prime Minister just this week after his supporters freedom from jail Charles Stratford is in the east of the country. Its fair to say mr jeenbekov has been changing his story since these rigged elections on october the full initially off to those elections we heard nothing from him until there was a potentially a Statement Given by him saying that resignation was not on the columns. And then we had another statement from him saying that he was going to resign he would resign but only after a new cabinet was full and now yesterday a new cabinet was full by the new Prime Minister and it was late last night or last night we heard that he wasnt going to resign until there were new elections we understand that there was some very heated discussions held by him and the new Prime Minister and speaker of Parliament Last night trying to negotiate mr jeenbekov to punch journalists that we were with in bishkek where outside respect bishkek about 3 aus at the moment but those journalists were telling us that supporters were threatening to storm the president s building if he hadnt resigned by 830 last night mr powell if the new Prime Minister then calm those supporters down and today we understand there were more discussions between the Prime Minister the speaker and the now resigned president and he has indeed yes said that he is going to sit down. The speaker of the Cypriot Parliament has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal exposed by aljazeera that. After our investigation found senior politicians were willing to sell e. U. Citizenship to convicted criminals David Harrison is in. Yes well theres been another Dramatic Development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demitra serious has announced his resignation now as the suitors have been hanging on for a couple of days but weve seen protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights on his name as the one they were calling for to resign was a serious did not admit any wrongdoing he still maintains his innocence but he was a key figure in al Jazeera Documentary which revealed him to be agreeing to help a chinese criminal obtain an e. U. Pos course the last couple of days and also seen him being something of an object of ridicule with mean showing him holding the now notorious glass of red wine and winking at the camera theres a saloon wrist insists that he will be proven innocent when the attorney generals investigation is complete but for now its another scalp for the people who say that this man is corrupt despite his objections and that he house to step down the warring sides in yemen have begun a swap of more than a 1000 prisoners its hoped to move could build trust between the who the rebels and the saudi Led Military Coalition the swap a spot of a deal brokered by the united. Those are our top stories that stay with us unfair game is coming up next im going to have more news for you in half an hour i hope youll join me that thanks for watching. The election of the 45th president of the United States raises ethical and potentially legal questions. Today Mainstream Media can easily be disrupted and personal online data easily accessed. How can this information be used to sway the outcome off an election. And can it undermine the basic tenets of democracy that are so cherished. You think if americans knew this was happening they would be outraged. And we just werent mentally able at that point in time to see that coming. This is democracy taking place in darkness its not democracy. I will present the facts plainly and hottest. Staten island new york. In a state thats considered a stronghold for democrats this suburb is an exception. Most of the people here voted for donald trump. Scott libido lives here patriots artists and a big supporter of the president s. Is unconventional. I am unconventional im a new york city artist im selling for 45. 00 because hes the 45th president. Theres a new sheriff in town knows were going to get a clean house we can kick some ass did you need the media to win the election when it was stacked against him you know its always stacked against a republican no matter who won its the media is like that and just like that than that the ugly hatred you know the extent the obvious a tree its like you put on you know c. N. N. Knows the psych alright alright alright alright but ill flip around and its like holy. You know its an innocent b. C. And its like relentless they cant stand bad he beat vam because they said he wasnt going to win. Fed up with traditional media god gets his information on the internet its you know ill spend like analogous said before i go to sleep ill have my phone on and you know ill go from this to that and then all chant made a speech i didnt hear it today let me hear it now and i mean and sometimes its i dont even honestly i dont look like whos giving it. Like millions across America Scott believed most of what he saw on the web with little question. For example this article trump believes millions voted illegally. Or this one that Hillary Clinton received over 800000 illegal votes. Im not saying all 3000000 are but im sure a lot of them are absolutely you should not be able to vote if you are in a league if youre not a legal citizen thats a child but thats works and then they want to change that like no thats not how it works. This information is of course false it would be nearly impossible for Illegal Immigrants to vote in the United States articles like the examples of what is now called fake news. Scott is far from being the only one to refer to these sources Breitbart News is one such source known for its misleading stories. On breitbart we can trying to articles like this does feminism make women ugly. Or this would you rather your child had feminism or cancer. Breitbart is also obsessed with the west versus islam is the new cold war. Or Political Correctness protects muslim culture. Its content has been called missile genetic xenophobic and racist by liberals and conservatives alike. The right part is you know its a its a right wing media outlet that was founded by the late Andrew Breitbart a conservative activist and commentator and journalist. Breitbart is a real french publication its a representative of what they call the old right you know people who want to take on this stuff. As quote politics but do so in a very divisive way theyre rail against immigrants to this country they rail against people of muslim faith they you know devout use tactics to divide people on the basis of gender on the basis of race. Breitbart became a main source of information for the american far right its the sensually served as an organ for sort of the trap of then. The worldview projected by breitbart was in line with Donald Trumps and it touched a nerve with his outlook towards. People wanted to describe the trump voters as angry im not sure they were angry i think they were more fearful worried concerned scared about about the future in the spring of 2016 if we looked at the people who were voting in republican primaries these people were very concerned about terrorism very concerned about immigration they they saw the 2 of them working together as creating a threat annex almost an extension threat to the to the United States and this was something that was being spoken about by donald trump and not necessarily by other republican candidates these concerns were heightened as trump played to existing anxieties. Ted division has been in politics for 40 years for him it would be a mistake to think that fake news has no impact on american i like toro behavior heres whats happening in our politics people are consuming information entirely different ways that we used to you know when i started doing president ial campaigns when jimmy carter you know has an office i mean we turn on the news at 630 at night and wed watch 3 networks at once and that was the way america. Essentially consume news now there is a constant flood of information both on television in the cable environment and particularly online you know that that online consumption of information is having a real effect on things because whats happening is the legitimate media is being supplanted by you know this fake news where people get information which sounds like its real and true but has no basis in fact and in fact much of it is just made up and delivered you know by people who are attempting to you know affect the outcome in the election by introducing false narrative and information into the flow of information so you know so yeah i think it does have a real impact. Like of regard for the truth became more apparent than in any other us president ial campaign. According to politico fact an independent Fact Checking websites only 4 percent of donald trump statements during the campaign were true false information was constantly circulating in fact it became selfpropagating you have to look at our media landscape and how americans get their news nowadays conservatives get their news only from fox news or alternative sites like breitbart so thats the only news they see and they view the manged what they call the liberal media the Mainstream Media with distrust and they dont believe the kind of c. N. N. New York Times Washington post so they are only getting their news or large most of their news from very slanted sources and so. What trump will say trump picks up his information from the same news sources these voters hear something Conspiracy Theory and Breitbart News or something on fox trump hears it too says it in the viruses eye for eye for a die hard on the news and i heard that from President Trump so he must be telling the truth if theyre in a silo and its really hard to break that silence so its a self reinforcing cycle of mr. It became more difficult to discern fact from fiction and the Traditional Press was brushed aside sort of a way that these campaigns have you know traditionally been covered and. And that model of Campaign Coverage was not sort of created with donald trump in my hand trumps disregard for making true statements is something that a lot of reporters have had trouble dealing with as were not used to it were not used to politicians or press people just sort of straight out lying the Mainstream Media is disrupted and because the Mainstream Media is disrupted truth is disrupted and if truth is disrupted you can just spread your own version of that. I dont know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. 8383 will serve boulevard and address among the most prestigious offices in los angeles behind these windows at number 1000 are a few companies that would seem to have no connection. The 1st is break news regarded as a platform for the socalled ultra right. The 2nd is glittering steel its a small audio visual Production Company and these companies are linked to a billionaire whos rarely in the public eye. His name Robert Mercer. He is co c. E. O. Of a Hedge Fund FirmRenaissance Technologies whose ranks hes been climbing since 1993. Carol cadwallader has been investigating this computer engineer turned billionaire robot. He is an absolutely brilliant scientist. Really pioneering b. N. In the sixtys. And in the field of natural language processing which is the base of ai basically and he was there royce at the start of it and working out how to do my Machine Translation between languages so that google translates which we use all the time that is a descendant of the work that he did you know he is without a doubt one of the brilliant computer engineers of his generation and he was just an ordinary middle class god i am doing a professional job and he got an offer from renascence technologies this hedge fund to go with them and he did. It was in the early ninetys that Robert Mercer left i. B. M. To work for run a song technologies. There he applied his methods of calculation on the Stock Exchange in order to predict its fluctuations. At relaxants technologies he pioneered Algorithmic Trading which now is you know a massive deal written sources so it was something which still remains a big secret about tarzan make profit in markets but the origin of it is in applying a. Computer techniques to the data without worrying about fear of where the economy is going or what are the actual meaning of instruments or trading if youre buying wheat. Or if youre buying a car company. You dont really care that its a car company or that its wheat you just look at the performance of these futures or these stocks and the key thing was to view this just as a set of numbers by applying his mathematical tool. Robert mercer revolutionized Renaissance Technologies investment methods making it the worlds most Profitable Fund into a new years. Message became very rich read a source because the performance of the fund which he had his own money or. It was extraordinary i mean if it goes up 30 percent 35 percent every year then pretty quickly you become very rich. Robert mercer is known to be very private he almost never speaks publicly. Even google has a difficult time producing photos of him the few that exist are always the same. There is also a poor quality video a public speech in 2014 during a ceremony in his honor. Found out after ike this im sure ill accept this award but i would have to make it all right on some topic or other for an hour now which by the way is more than i typically talk and in a month. Robert mercer might have quietly enjoyed his new fortune but he decided to invest in politics. Hes been recognized as one of the most generous republican donors since 2010. Merces donations appear to be motivated by his own special interests. The political system in america is so broken right now because of the special interest money which floods campaigns i mean what happens is when the special interests have an agenda or if youre annoyed company for example and youd like to continue you know drilling for fossil fuel you know or your polluter and you want to make sure you can continue to pollute you go in and you support politicians who believe in your agenda politicians who will say for example that you know Climate Change is not happening because of bad made activities you know they will they will promote that publicly because that protects the special interests who fund their campaigns. Robert mercer set up his own foundation. The Mercer Family foundation. Headed by his daughter rebecca. But what exactly are these special interests hes protecting. Its hard to say since Robert Mercer never expresses his opinions publicly anyway youll never know whats going on in robert this is brian said just look thats what hes funding for all of the money that way and i think that kind of bill for the paycheck. To understand the ideas that Robert Mercer wants to promote we can. Look at where hes been spending we can do so with tax documents declarations of the foundations fiscal allocations for the years 2012 to 2015 mercer financed a number of institutes and lobbies among them the Heritage Foundation which fights taxes and economic regulation 1500000. 00. The Media Research center which fights leftist media bias 12000000. 00 the Government Accountability institute which tracks government corruption and publishes books against Hillary Clinton 3700000. 00 the Heartland Institute which defends Climate Change skeptics 2 point 8000000. 00. In new york he even paid for an ad denouncing the construction of a mosque near ground 0 in just 2 years Robert Mercer became one of the 10 most influential billionaires in politics according to the washington posts. And 2011 Breitbart News the right wing online newspaper was in financial difficulty. Mercer saw an opportunity and he invested 10000000. 00 in the web site. The executive chairman of breitbart was a prominent figure closely linked to Trumps CampaignStephen Bannon. A former Goldman Sachs<