us. we had someone from the bbc and the new york times. over the border, they received -- the three of us said, too dangerous, very simple. marie said, anyway, it's what we do. so off she went. with her photographer. and this is a really difficult journey involving being passed from people smuggler to people smuggler and having to crawl through storm drains like a sewer. having to crawl like this in a bent over -- i don't think physically i could have done it. they get in, she goes to the widows basement. the point of the story is that arafat said the only people in this is tervis. and she wrote the story about where the women and children were sheltering. she goes to the official line. and she went to the clinic which was, you know, where they were hanging coat hangers and doing surgery on people with no anesthetic. and then they say you have got to leave and she left. and she went and she brought the store and it was an incredible story. and i assumed and everybody assumes that was it. she was in, she was out and got an amazing story. then the next heard she was back in. she was b

until sunday. i called her and she wanted on cnn and bbc but i told her and the first thing i said, what the heck are you doing, why did you go back? she said, lindsey, it's the worst we've ever seen and i said, okay, what is your exit strategy? she said, that's just it, i don't have one, we are working on it now. about 8 hours later she was killed. she went back in because she was totally committed to that story and i think that felt that she was abandoned the people and the way she refused to abandon the people, she felt guilty that she was abandoning them and you can say that that was -- that is when you're blurring as a journalist, a line between people you're reporting on and if i say it was a mistake, a mistake, she didn't live the tell the tale, she was killed but that was the point where marie -- that was where marie stepped over the line and paid for it with her life. >> thank you, that's a good point to end this part of the conversation and to invite our guests and my colleagues to ask questions, we do have a microphone so please take the microphone. >> any questions? com

merits at the bbc we are more objective you have fox news that is less objective and probably as long as we have all of it and not just one model but i can understand why if you they are there for something that seems to be speaking more to them there is nothing wrong with that. >> i am curious if you have to be an optimist or a pessimist where we are headed with quality journalism and truth prevailing and crackpot conspiracy theories? you say for the first time in modern history facing the prospect of studies that exist without reliable news as it used to be understood and then you wonder at the moment the greatest existential crisis how much has lived up to the crying need and then another point discussing digital disruption of the business model but if not enough citizens or readers did want to be informed? i'm hoping you will answer the questions that you posed to yourself. are we becoming a society is the journalism profession doing enough to provide reliable news? are there people who want to be truly informed her just those news grazers? . >> there are 533 questions in this book a

the time. this can have powerful impacts for facial recognition. so for example, recent bbc reporter asked to test the system. he went to a city of 3.5 million people. gave his photo to the government to input in the system, asked them to find him. using their cameras and system, the automatic facial recognition software found him in 7 minutes in a city of 3.5 million people. so that is surveillance cameras at its peak. cctv is america to a strong degree. instituted in large cities such as new york, chicago, washington, and los angeles. in new york there is a cctv network hub this is called the domain awareness system the way it works is you have all cameras networked into a centralized hub that can be subject to realtime viewing analysis, and other tools facial recognition could become one of those in the future. oakland considered voting its own domain awareness hub this would link cameras all across the city used by government involving everything from port authority to police cars to cameras outside schools. smaller cities such as st. louis and new orleans have mass cctv

along and no follow-ups please, for the first question i'd like to call on the bbc, barbara platt. >> a question to the secretaries of state and defense. yesterday the senate voted to withdraw troops from yemen or to and us military involvement there, i should say and to unanimously enter ben solomon is responsible or the killing. what is your response? what action will you take an annual board to ignore this? >> to thecanadian foreign minister , are you concerned that from comments linking trade and the wobbly case to get the perception canada is acting on the americans behalf in a trade war and are you worried canada is becoming collateral damage in what is a trade tension between china and the united states because china has arrested canadians on the other hand it has agreed to suspend tariffs on us cars. >>. >> i'll begin. we certainly saw that yesterday, we always have great respect for what legislative branch does area we are in constant contact with members on capitol hill so we understand their concerns and do our level best to articulate why our policies are what they are and h

is true. that it is split but you could have something similar to britain like the bbc on national walter cronkite re-created into that institution and those are things that should be on the table because the media is critical and to talk about the centrality and efficacy of democracy but it's also clear right now that it is far too fragmented not enough clarity of what is true and what is made up and that is incredibly damaging long-term. >> your book has a number of things we should be doing like education or expanded trade or protectionism. but you didn't want to stop there and just make a set of economic recommendations. >> because then you are stopped by the politicians. so what? . >> how big of a difference would it be for what you describe? . >> i think it would be highly impactful but i also recognize that there is that we can agree there is a very good case that globalization is the right system for the world and all countries can benefit and the proverbial all boats will be lifted but i am now more skeptical if we can get to a place in particular with the democracies wher

and that's the important sign that i said with the bbc last week and with the wto if they continue to misbehave but that is much less likely path and if the concerns with the markets without pause we have seen with secretary mnuchin he is a better source for that but i can see a lot of positive signs with movement and to get stuff worked out and it could be worked out quickly if everybody wants to. the real good news for me is that the two presidents agreed we have to work together so now talking about tariffs over the next 20 seconds. the administration is going through a process now to evaluate the auto imports for the national security threat what is that argument quick. >> that is for wilbur ross his team is putting together that report they'll have that report on steel and i look forward to seeing that you have to see what argument they decide until the report comes out i wouldn't want to speculate. >> with the fed actually let's open up to the audience. . >> maybe will come right back to the fed quick. >> inflation lately is running a little below the target so should the fed

. >> bbc news. chairman powell, you talked about monitoring global developments. i was wondering, you touched on trade, the trade dispute with china, but could you elaborate on what economic developments you're referring to, whether brexit is one of those? what else? >> more broadly, i'm referring to global growth. so if you go back a year, 2017 was a year of kind of ongoing upside surprises in global growth. it was a year of synchronized global growth and people raised their forecast for growth around the world, kind of throughout 2017. ... >> fully prepared for the full range of outcomes that may come out of that we were happy to see those developments today that was a big result for the time being. honestly it shouldn't have major implications but there is a lot of uncertainty that has happened before so we will be watching that carefully. thank you very much thank you very much the

for the guardian and former journalist of the bbc and a correspondent in jerusalem and washington dc and across the united states covering genocide in rwanda and palestine and economic recessions receiving the prize a professional integrity and awarded the prize for journalism that told the unpalatable truth of events and former editor of the author in 2008 and we wish to inform you and stories from rwanda. the national book critics circle award and the guardian first book award those have been translated into a dozen languages you hide that you hate me. please welcome chris. [applause] >>. >> good evening it is an honor this one works. [laughter] a long time ago we met before 1996 and chris was doing truly outstanding reporting some of the best reporting i ever had the pleasure to read. so you have written about american overdose that i can say is a terrific book with an exceptional read and an urgent story how did you get into it? you have been in this country for a while how did you settle on this to focus and how did you get into west virginia? >>. >> how did i get into this?

, and i was -- the bbc put me in to discuss this with monty's step grandson who'd lived with him for quite a long time. and to my huge relief, didn't say this was a load of rubbish, he said, actually, i think this is an explanation. you always think you come up with something original when somebody points out, actually, there was a professor who had written a long paper 15 or 20 years before. [laughter] you're never going to be first in that particular way. but i do think it explains a lot about montgomery's problems about not being able to listen to other people and only filtering out anything which didn't agree with his own particular views, which is a major, major mistake in senior commanders. you know, confirmation bay whereas as it's rightly -- bias as it's rightly called. and monty suffered from it in a big way. also actually, let's face it, monty's boss once said nothing brings out the worst in people in high command -- the photographer, the great wartime photographer actually added to that also charity and amateur dramatics. but anyway -- [laughter] monty certainly, i'm afrai

you'll find pbs as government funding and bbc. they have universalize the disclosure but now we've got more protection because now we can tie source back to country. you might say of the russians. propaganda we all you want but at least you now know it is the russians doing it. we got those kinds of changes in place. there are no partnerships with fact checking organizations. i am ultimately the correct of that check.org. i sign off on all of it. where now part of the partnership that takes crowdsourced disinformation, checks it to say is it accurate or not and would post up content to facebook. when someone searches for they get our correction over to the right in the search structure. that's an attempt to dampen down the effects of this information without infringing on political speech. big issue is how do trying to get more information in an environment which privileges first amendment and not to nebulae that is possible? there are moves that a been made by the platforms. are not enough but the are there. where better protected than we were in the past. i'm concerned we haven't

, armageddon the battle for germany among others. he spent most of his years as a correspondent for bbc t.v. and the london evening standard. reporting 11 conflicts including vietnam. he was editor then editor-in-chief of the daily telegraph from 1986 until 1985. end of the evening standard 1996 until 2002. he has received many rewards both for his books and journalism. he was journalist of the year and reporter of the year in the 1982 british press awards and editor of the year in 1988. in 2012, the military library chicago presented him with $100,000 literary awards for lifetime achievement. his most recent book, vietnam, and epic tragedy is available for purchase and signing in the lobby following his presentation. now please join me in welcoming, sir max hastings. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you all for coming to hear me tonight. i feel rather an intruder is a mere english and writing about a war that above all, was a tragedy but then also an american tragedy. but this war in the country has meant a lot in my life. and to meet so many veterans some of them right here in the c

asperger's. the bbc put this in to discuss -- me in to discuss this with monty's grandson. he didn't say this was a load of rubbish, he said, actually, i think this is the best explanation. and, of course, you think that's something original when actually there was a psychiatrist who who'd written a large paper 15 or 20 years before. [laughter] so you're never going to be first in that particular way. but i do think it explains a lot about montgomery's problems about not being able to listen to other people and only filtering out anything which didn't agree with his own particular views, which is a major, major mistake in senior commanders. you know? confirmation bias, as it's rightly called. monty suffered from it in a big way. so that was one of the problems there. also actually, let's face it, field marshal brook, monty's boss, once said nothing brings out the worst in people than high command. the photographer, the great wartime photographer cecil beeton added to that. monty did not behave well in these circumstances. he was not listening to what, certainly, admiral ramsey, the sort

you will find rt is government sponsored content and pbs has government funding and bbc. so what they have done is universalize the disclosure but now we've got more protection because now we can tie source back to content. as i said, you might say i love the russians. propaganda all you want but at least we know it's the russians doing it. we have those kinds of changes in place. there are now partnerships with fact-checking organizations. and ultimately, the director of factcheck.org runs it in practice but my policy center directs it so i sign off on all of it. we are now part of a partnership that takes crowd sourced disinformation, checks it to say is it accurate or not, and we post up content through facebook, when someone searches for it they get our correction over to the right in the search structure. that's an attempt to dampen down the effects of disinformation without infringing on political speech. big issue is how do you try to get more information in an environment which really privileges first amendment and ought to, in every way that is possible. so there are moves th

. >> certainly. >> isis? >> absolutely. a lot of tunisians -- there was a famous case the bbc covered but the jihaddist in a wheel cheer. a tunisian who went to syria to engage in the online jihad in the wheelchair and he got and isis decided he would be a suicide bomber, and then he called his family to rescue him in syria. they came, wheeled him out to syria, back to tunisia, and when he balance back his family was frustrated because he couldn't find a job and was look for another jihad to join. they complained, he hasn't found his new jihad. it's a desire among young people to have valuable lives and to be -- have meaningful live, and whether it's toppling dictators or making revolutions-this is what they're looking for, and just to fast forward to a solution, i've been advocating for seven years, and starting to catch on, revolutionary national service in few nearby sharks putting putting the initial or so unemployed university graduates are, who major playeres revolution to work, doing projects, like peace corps volunteers and would be very willing willing willing and tunisian govern

approaching the point where we all going to on a daily basis but much like that bbc reporter, track of the automated computer computer system that is being monitored with a million little eyes. thank you very much. you can read more about our work at pogo.org and looking forward to the rest of the conference. [applause] >> so the classic feature of surveillance makes that a mechanism of power is it is an equal in the jeremy benson and octagon, the prisoners and the ultimate survey of the prison know that they're under potential observation. they can be seen by can't see the u.s. so when it comes to public networks of cameras monitoring as, maybe one of the most effective things we can do in order to encourage people to react to the changes that are happening around them is to be aware of them. and so on fascinated by tool the electronic frontier foundation has now to try to help you practice the ways in which surveillance in public is exploding around us. to talk about that i want to invite dave maass. >> thank you for having me today. my neighbors dave maass and i'm with electronic fr

. there are good models though, you know, the bbc and abc of australia, there are other models in other places. i see it a very slim possibility that that's going to take hold in a meaningful way here. >> is there anyone who has further thought on that? >> well, i'll add one. because when you said there was no hope, bob. i was recalling a conversation we had a few years ago where you had suggested in-- we're going to start taking questions. [laughter] >> you had suggested there was no hope for "the washington post." and that my optimism was entirely unjustified, and i think it has proven that it was justified and so, i think -- i want to be -- there's no question, the real crisis in american journalism and the most severe crisis in american journalism is at the local level in many states you only have one person for the major-- the biggest newspaper in the state covering the state legislature and that person is supposed to cover the governor, both houses of legislature, all the government agencies, cover the daily news and do investigative reporting somehow and in a vast majority

take them now because we are approaching a point that we will be much like the bbc reporter tracking down through automated computer system being monitored so thank you very much. you can read about our work, looking forward to the rest of the conference. [applause] >> classic surveillance that makes sense, mechanism of power, jeremy benson, they know they are under observation. they can be seen with public networks of cameras, one of the things we can do in order to encourage people to react to changes happening around them is be aware of them. to try to help people recognize the ways the public is exploding around us. >> thank you for having me today. my name is dave maas with electronic frontier, if you are not only with who we are we are based in san francisco and have been here since 1990 and we exist to make sure our rights and liberties continue to exist as our technology advances. i work on the surveillance project, which is transparency and public awareness, deploying in the communities and a lot of times the work looks like filing public records requests. for examp