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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents it says contain details | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
The replacement for Obamacare plan has been unveiled. | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
Iraqi forces strike another blow against the Islamic | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Iraq's Prime Minister has been there. TRANSLATION: They will either | :00:24. | :00:37. | |
surrender and have a fair trial, their second choice is they will be | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
killed. Here in the UK, the government has | :00:40. | :00:40. | |
suffered its second defeat in a week in the upper house | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
of parliament over Brexit. The Lords want a bigger say | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
for Parliament on any final deal. And we'll bring you a BBC | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
investigation into Facebook that finds it failed to remove | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
inappropriate and sexualised It told us that it was releasing | :00:52. | :01:20. | |
false southern part one inside the CIA's global hacking force and it | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
was claiming the thousands of documents it has put online have | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
shown us how the CIA conducts hacking. -- vault seven. The BBC | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
contacted the CIA and it said we do not comment on purported | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
intelligence documents. Let me show you what Gordon Corera, our | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
intelligence correspondent, said. They claim to be from the CIA Centre | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
for cyber intelligence, leaked documents about the CIA's technical | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
ability to carry out hacking into electronic devices, things like | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
android phones, iPhones, even in one interesting document Samsung smart | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
TVs, so it could make it look like the TV is off and actually on and | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
collecting audio from the room and sending it back from a joint | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
operation with Britain's MI5, it is claimed. Extraordinary claims about | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the capabilities of the CIA has for hacking into electronic devices. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Links from the Hundred days programme spoke to the former CIA | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
director and former NSA director general Michael Hayden. Here is what | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
he had to say about the sleek. The agency is not yet confirming or | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
denying the authenticity so I've got to put that out there. Now, if what | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
I have read is true then this seems to be an incredibly damaging leak in | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
terms of the tactics, procedures and tools used by the Central | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
intelligence agency to conduct legitimate foreign intelligence. In | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
other words, it's made my country and my country's friends less safe. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Edward Snowden who knows a thing or two about leaks has posted online, | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
still working through the publication but what WikiLeaks has | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
here is genuinely a big deal. He says it looks authentic, although we | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
should emphasise, we are not able to confirm that is the case. As we | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
always do at this time, let's bring up the BBC's Anthony Zurcher live | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
from Washington, DC. Edward Snowden says it is a big deal, is that the | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
thought in Washington? There is concern that it has revealed | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
techniques the CIA has used to gather intelligence through | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
electronic means such as hacking and Trojan horses and malware, and also | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
taking advantage of existing floors in technological devices like | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
iPhones -- flaws. And even cars and apps you might have around your | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
house, the television connected to the Internet. These are all methods | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
this EIA developed and now they are being revealed. Interestingly the | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Obama administration said that whenever they came across a | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
pre-existing problem or a weakness in a technological device that they | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
would reveal it and would not hoard it and sit on it. This seems to run | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
counter to those promises. One story I wanted to ask about. Donald Trump | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
tuk-tuk twittered today to say our wonderful new health care bill is | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
out for review and negotiation and says ObamaCare is complete and total | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
disaster and it is imploding fast. Not everyone agrees with that. The | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
President himself said it had some good features a few weeks ago when | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
he talked about it. Evidently he has changed his mind. What we can agree | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
on is the bill is available to read on the public and party website. The | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
US Health Secretary gave a press conference earlier. Let me play you | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
some of that. What's happening now is the American people are having to | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
sacrifice in order to purchase coverage and as I mentioned many | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
individuals can't afford the kind of coverage they have now so they have | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
the insurance card but they don't have care. Our desire is to drive | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
down the health care costs for everybody and the way that you do | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
that is increased choices for folks, increased competition, return the | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
regulation of health care where it ought to be which is at the state | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
level, not the federal level. All of these things, which taken in their | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
aggregate, will in fact decreased the cost of health care and health | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
coverage and that will allow folks to purchase the coverage they want. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
The plan is for the first vote to be on this on Wednesday and that hasn't | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
gone down well with some Democrats. Jim Cooper represents Nashville and | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
says ObamaCare was public for 30 days after weeks of hearings. The | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Republicans have just released their plan and will force a vote on this | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
in two days with the public in the dark. Anthony, is that fair comment, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
is the public in the dark on this? I think this has only come out | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
recently. We just saw the plan last night. So, yes, this is a slightly | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
modified version of earlier plans, it tweaks some things and does some | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
other things but people had not seen this and two days is a rapidly | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
accelerated pace. I think they feel they have together get the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Republicans on board and voting for it quickly. They cannot take too | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
much time because then the various factions in the Republican Party | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
will turn on it quickly. They cannot take too much time because then the | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
various factions in the Republican Party will terminate and advance | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
their own priorities. The problem is that is already happening. Moments | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
ago members of the house freedom caucus, the Libertarian | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
representatives held press conference decrying the bill and | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
said they would produce their own straight up repeal of ObamaCare and | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
not offering to substitute. We are already seeing fraying in the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Republican caucus. Let's pick up on that theme of opposition, you would | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
expect it from Democrats but also from Republicans as Anthony has been | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
explaining. This memo is from the Republican study committee group and | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
it has 115 members of Congress in it and it describes the tax credits | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
aspect of this new bill as a major concern. It says this is a | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Republican welfare entitlement. I should emphasise, of course, that | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
not all Republicans are against this, many are supportive of these | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
moves of the trip administration, here is one of them. -- Trump | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
administration. The worst thing that ObamaCare did was put barriers | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
between the patients and their health care professionals, and that | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
is one of the things we have to do, make it more competitive. You will | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
see we are increasing health savings accounts and giving people tax | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
credits to buy insurance. We want to make sure people have control over | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
their health care, not this cookie cutter approach from Washington, DC | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
which says we know best and we will tell you what you need to be doing | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
with your health care. Health care is very personal and people want to | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
have control over their health care. Let's bring back Anthony on this. | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Some people argue they already have control they are just getting a | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
different type of control. That's right, the existing system gives | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
people choices whether it's within the framework of government | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
regulation and what they are trying to do is pare back the government | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
regulation and allow insurance providers to offer a wider variety | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
of plans, some of which are less expensive and replace subsidies | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
provided by the government to help pay for insurance with refundable | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
tax credits, as you mentioned. What the Republicans are trying to do is | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
keep the popular parts of the existing system while doing away | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
with the parts that are unpopular and that is difficult because those | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
systems fit together into a cohesive whole and as soon as you start | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
picking at one or the other the whole thing kind of falls apart and | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
it makes for some very hard choices. Anthony, thank you, I have a feeling | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
we will talk at the same time tomorrow. Anthony Zurcher from | :08:42. | :08:41. | |
Washington. The government has suffered a second | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
defeat in the House of Lords. This is a live feed coming into the | :08:44. | :08:56. | |
newsroom, a reasonably busy Lord's. The debate is still going on. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
But already the Lords have voted to support a "meaningful" | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
parliamentary vote on the final terms of withdrawal. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Or in other words a a vote after negotiations are complete. | :09:06. | :09:15. | |
Lord Ashdown was one of the those who voted against the government. | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Sorry, it's not Parliament's job to trust the Prime Minister. | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
It's Parliament's job to hold her to account. | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Look, we've done our Parliamentary duty today. | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
Brexit debate was all about the sovereignty | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
of Parliament and we've taken that seriously and said before this deal | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
is passed it must be passed by Parliament. | :09:32. | :09:32. | |
Let's be clear, none of this. Brexit happening but it may impact on how | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
the UK Government goes about it. Here is the BBC's Rob Watson. What | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
the government wants to do is overturn this completely and you can | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
understand why. Potentially this is a hugely significant development | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
because what the House of Lords have said is basically we want to have | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
the final say, Parliament, on Britain's potential deal or a lack | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
of a deal with the European Union, and that is precisely not what | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Theresa May wanted. She said parliament can have a vote on the | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
deal that I do with the EU but it will be a take it or leave it basis. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
You either like the deal or reject it but if you reject it we just | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
leave the European Union without a deal but we still leave what this | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
potentially does is to say no, Parliament has the last word. One | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
half of Parliament, the House of Lords, isn't elected and one half | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
is. Surely if it comes to it the Commons will have the extra power on | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
this issue. I guess you are probably right. If I had to bet on it I would | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
say the government will probably get its way and the amendment. You must | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
remember a couple of things. First of all, Theresa May only has a | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
rather small majority in the House of Commons and also have to remember | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
that there is a significant minority of Conservative MPs who continue to | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
think Brexit is just about the dumbest thing that ever happened and | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
they have not been happy with the way they have been treated. I guess | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
it is possible they may vote with opposition parties for this | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
amendment. A quick word about when Article 50 might be triggered. I am | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
sure rumours will be swelling around Parliament. What are you hearing? Do | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
you have any dates in mind? I am so trying to work it out, I cannot plan | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
the rest of my march without it but I've been hearing not next week, | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
probably one of the last two weeks of March. I know that is not very | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
helpful but there you are, that's the best we can hope for. It is | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
important to remember when you think about what happens in the House of | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
Lords and this amendment, manner that will delay the start of this | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
process. I am sure Theresa May will press the firing gun on Britain | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
leaving the EU before the end of this month. It is the effect that it | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
could have at the end of the negotiating process in two years' | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
time. Outside Source will be in the Netherlands next week covering the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Dutch elections. Stay with us. We have talked about the scrapping of | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
ObamaCare and the replacement of it with a new health care system. From | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
a political point of view with Anthony Zurcher. In a couple of | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
minutes we will talk live from New York about this as a business story | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
and how that works. Money for new grammar schools in | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
England is to be announced in tomorrow's budget, there will be 140 | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Free Schools setup using a budget of ?320 million in this Parliament and | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
the next. Theresa May insists this is part of a plan to make a good | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
education accessible to every child. We have protected the court schools | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
budget but crucially what we are announcing is ?500 million of | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
investment in schools, 320 million of which will be in new schools | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
creating 70,000 new school places. What this is about is ensuring | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
people can know that their child will have a good school place and | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
all the opportunities that that provides for them. And among those | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
new schools will be new maths schools like the one I visited, | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Kings maths school in London, crucially taking youngsters who are | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
interested in mathematics, giving them the skills for the future. That | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
is what we need to develop. It's about good school places and the | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
right education for every child. This is Outside Source live | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story is: WikiLeaks has | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
published thousands of secret documents which it says | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
contain details of hacking Here are some of the main stories | :13:31. | :13:44. | |
from the World Service. Burst, an awful story from France. | :13:45. | :13:45. | |
killed a white rhino and cut off its horn with a chainsaw | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
It's believed to be the first incident of this type in Europe. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
That is from BBC World News this radio. | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
China has expressed its disapproval after the Dalai Lama told a US talk | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
show that Chinese hardliners are missing the part of their brain | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
A coroner has found that George Michael died of natural causes. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
More significant progress for Iraqi government forces in Mosul. | :14:12. | :14:25. | |
This is one of Iraq's main cities in the north of the country which has | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
been in the hands of Islamic State for two years. Government forces | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
control the east of the city but now they have seized the main government | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
buildings, the courthouse and Mosul Museum. These are pictures from the | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
BBC archive. This was the Museum | :14:49. | :14:49. | |
several years ago. It was attacked by Islamic State | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
with many precious artefacts destroyed. The Iraqi Prime Minister | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
has been in Mosul and talk to the press earlier. TRANSLATION: They | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
have two choices, first either surrender and receive a fair trial, | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
or the second choice, they will be killed. Some RS baking but their | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
escape path is closed and that is why they should surrender -- some | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
are escaping. To understand more about the buildings taken by the | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
Iraqi government we asked BBC Arabic's correspondent to talk to | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
us. They are symbolic, they were almost destroyed, but the importance | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
of it is that they are advancing in areas that are considered very | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
important not strategically but from a symbolic sense. The so-called | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
Islamic State is losing on the ground, and actually these buildings | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
were not occupied by the Islamic State. Now the eyes are focused on | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
the next target, the old city, and the first on the list is the mosque | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
where Al Baghdadi made his famous speech in 2014. After that maybe we | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
can say we start the countdown of Islamic State in and moving into the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
new era that maybe could be not as easy as many expect. The Prime | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Minister was talking about some IS fighters fleeing the city. Yes. If | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
they leave where do they go? This is exactly what I meant when I said the | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
next era could be much more difficult, they could melt in | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
amongst the refugees, and if we go back to the Jihadist ideology we | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
have a live example which is Al-Qaeda. They can hit and run | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
anywhere and this is much more complicated than having a specific | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
address that you know where they are and everybody who is considering | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
their enemies come after them. Now they are targeting Mosul and Raqqa, | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
but after this they could be anywhere. They could be anyone. This | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
could be much more complicated than many think. | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
We've already talked about the politics of the Republicans' | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Now let's talk about the business of it. | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
I guess this new plan has major consequences for insurance | :17:06. | :17:15. | |
companies. Absolutely. If you look at the way the stock market has been | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
reacting we see that when it comes to some of the drug makers, their | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
stocks are down, and that's because we saw that President Trump tweeted | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
that he's going to try to get the prices of some of those prescription | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
drugs to come down. That has been a big problem, the cost of just how | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
expensive it is for Americans to get the drugs that they need. What about | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
the implementation of this? Presumably whatever changes come | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
through it will take awhile for businesses to alter how they about | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
selling their products. Absolutely. To give you a sense of just how | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
massive the health care industry is in the US, it is worth about $3 | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
trillion, and by some estimates by next year that's going to represent | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
18% of America's GDP. So, health care is just a major expense too for | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
most Americans. This will have a really big impact in terms of just | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
how you average American will decide in terms of their finances and where | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
their money goes. In terms of how companies operate | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
within the US health care system, we heard a Republican earlier say this | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
needs to be dealt with at a state level, the federal government should | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
be out of it. Does that mean each company has to work out 50 or so | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
different ways of operating? Right, as soon as you have a company that | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
operates in a few different states it's going to get really complicated | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
because each state, for example the state of New York, is very different | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
than the state of Texas, and what the two states may decide as being | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
important for the people who live in that state with regard to health | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
care could be very different. For bigots and police it could become a | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
lot more complicated. -- bigger companies. In their proposal they | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
have taken away the prescription that everyone has to have health | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
care. How that actually impacts the wider economy is still a bit of a | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
question. Thank you, Samira Hussein, live from New York. Now let's talk | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
about one of the main stories of yesterday and of this week. The BBC | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
has been speaking to the man in the middle of one of the biggest stories | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
of the year, this is Carlos Tavares, the CEO of Peugeot Citroen, which | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
yesterday bought the Opel and Vauxhall brands, this is the | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
President of the company. It could leave Peugeot Citroen with | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
overcapacity in Europe and job cuts could follow, it is feared. Simon | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Jack is at the motor show and had the chance to raise the issue with | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
the man who will be taking the decisions. It is fair to recognise | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
that a big part of the turnaround has already been implement it | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
successfully by the Opel Vauxhall team with the help of our company, | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
this work is significant but some has already been done. That could | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
have been achieved last year had not the Brexit happened and the | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
consequences on the pound. What we have to do now is to complete the | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
turnaround, consolidate the turnaround of Opel-Vauc Vauxhall and | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
bring the operating profit margin to an appropriate level for this | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
company to be able to generate recurrent positive cash flow. | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Everyone agrees there is overcapacity in the European market | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
meaning you have to take out cost and eventually if you are honest | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
jobs and plants must go. My answer is much more honest than the way you | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
are asking the question. We're not talking about shutting down plants. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Why? If you look at the situation and the PSA group today, our | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
capacity is 98%. It is much lower at Vauxhall. It is 82%, first, it is | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
not a dramatic number, 82% is not dramatic. Second, for many, many | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
years Opel-Vauxhall could not export cars outside of Europe. That was | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
something General Motors didn't want them to do. PSA is going to unleash | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
this potential but if you want to export we need to be cost | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
competitive, your quality needs to be absolutely superb and your costs | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
need to be competitive, hence the opportunity we have in front of us | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
is improved quality, improved cost, export, be more competitive and | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
altogether by sharing best practice. This is the way that we should look | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
at things. Next on Outside Source we must turn to a BBC investigation | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
into how Facebook is still failing to remove inappropriate and | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
sexualised images of children. You may have already seen this on the | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
BBC website. Here's the story on our website | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
which tells how a BBC team found a series of sexually suggestive | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
images and reported Angus Crawford is the reporter on | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
that story and said at Facebook's request we send them the pictures we | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
have reported which were not taken down by Facebook moderators and then | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Facebook reported us to the police. Facebook said today it is against | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
the law for anyone to distribute images of child exploitation. Here | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
is the BBC's Angus Crawford with his full story. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
The rules are meant to be simple - Facebook says it removes nudity | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
But our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
groups to swap obscene images of children. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
We informed the police, and this man was sent | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
Facebook told us it had improved its systems. | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
of children, where men posted obscene comments. | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
In every single one of these images, there is a real child | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
who is out there today - at school, probably - | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
and they don't know that their image is being used in this way. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
It is used and commented on by a paedophile that child is abused | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
again. We reported 100 posts that appeared | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
to break Facebook's own guidelines. They didn't breach Facebook's | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
community standards. Unconcerned that has been brought to | :23:36. | :23:56. | |
Facebook's attention and has not been addressed. | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
it casts grave doubt on the effectiveness of the measures | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
One former insider says moderation is a huge task. | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
I think the biggest challenge here is one of scale. | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
No-one has ever policed a site as large as Facebook. | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
1.8 billion people using Facebook every month means the company is | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
effectively running the largest police force is the world has ever | :24:26. | :24:26. | |
seen. Facebook asked us to send them | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
examples of what we had The company then reported | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
us to the police. Facebook issued a statement, | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
saying: We have carefully reviewed | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
the content referred to us and have now removed all the items that were | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
illegal or against our standards. It is against the law for anyone | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
to distribute images This matter is now in the hands | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
of the authorities. So, where does this | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
leave concerned parents? It sends a very clear message that, | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
actually, you can't trust Facebook's reporting mechanism, | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
and I think parents get There are many parents who contact | :24:57. | :25:09. | |
us and said they tried to raise an issue with Facebook and didn't get | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
anywhere. It will reinforce many parents' existing experience. | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
Even now, groups with inappropriate images and comments about children | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
Questions about how the company moderates | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
As I was saying there is more information on Angus's investigation | :25:21. | :25:34. | |
online and on the BBC News website. In the last few seconds of this | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
programme, let me tell you that Arsenal are not having much fun at | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
home to Bayern Munich in the second leg of their last 16 Champions | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
League tie, they are losing 4-1. They are going out to a huge | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
deficit. Find out more on OS sport in a few minutes time. | :25:55. | :26:07. | |
If you were watching yesterday you will know there was a variety of | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
impactful weather occurring around the world, let's start with the main | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
event, the | :26:16. | :26:17. |