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For those decisions, it's hard to say exactly who's responsible, but you don't get major decisions without the most senior people and knowing about it A BBC investigation discovers the tech giant Meta is running paid adverortts on Instagram in India, promoting child sex abuse material Rescue efforts are ongoing in Venezuela nine days after the deadly earthquakes that rocked the country. The interim President, Delsseie Rodriguez, says the number of people known to have died has reached almost two thousand six hundred As rescue workers reach more and more devastated areas, there are stark contrasts in the stories that have emerged On the one hand, relatives forced to dig with their bare hands trying to free their loved ones but getting there too late And on the other hand, stories of complex international rescue operations and remarkable survival. Like earlier, in Catia Lamar, as a man was pulled alive from the ruins of a collapsed seven story building Our international correspondent Yuigita Lemai was there as the man, Heran Gill, a forty three year old security guard, was freed There it is, I'm watching the moment as this man who's been under the rubble. it's now day nine, it's day nine and this man has been pulled out successfully, it's taken a mammoth mammoth rescue effort. People are trying to stay quiet here. there's a lot of joy in the air, but they are trying to stay quiet here because this is a man who' been underground, who was in this cramped position for days and days, didn't know whether he was going to survive. And now wow, he has been pulled out So what I can see in front of me is that he's been brought out on a stretcher and now he is being put into an ambulance They're doing it very slowly, very carefully. They put him on a saline drip and there's somebody who's holding that up next to him. That was the moment of the rescue. As for the rescue itself, Manny Sam Pang is from the Los Angeles County Fire Department and is part of the international team that worked for days to reach place that he was located, he was a parking attendant security guard in a subterranean parking complex approximately two stories below grade. The structure above him was a residential apartment complex, which had collapsed directly above his location. The debris pile was basically on top of his location and being suspended by the bree itself So it was a very slow methodical process in order to remove the debris enough where we can access them without having any further collapse on top of us and on top of him. In all honesty, it is likely a miracle him to survive in the debris pile that he was in as well as to be successfully extircated from it. It was a huge effort by all the international teams that are here in the operational area. It was a great success. Our correspondent Vanessa Silver, who is in Caracas, gave me more details about the rescue It's really a miracle what we seeen in La Waida state with this rescue moment. I was able to speak with the head of the Chileian Fire deepartments, the medical team Ven Bornia and he will explain me how after five days of the earirquake, they reached this security guard And they were able to feed them through a channel through a soup They provided eleven liters of water and isotonic drinks in seventy two hours. But that helps that Ernan were able to to move by himself through the tunnel to the stretch at the moment of their rescue And the doctor says that he's quite sure that he will recorate very soon of this episode at least in medical conditions. But there is a huge contrast, isn't there? Because we hear about these huge international rescue efforts, but then also, as I said, families digging with their bare hands. So how exactly is the help being distributed The level of devastations in that area is just 'sain hard to describe The magnitude of what happened there in that town No matter the amount of help that arrives is so many buildings, so many rubble to remove, to find people alive or there that there is not enough hands. So at the very beginning it was just The relatives that survive or arrive into these buildings, finding for their loved ones the ones who try to remove the robble and help them. And it's still going on because there is not enough machinery. Well, the help is there and everyone is trying to help as much as they can Vanessa Silver in the Venezuelan capital In the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials are fighting to contain the rapid spread of the Ebola outbreak There have been more than oneteen hundred cases and four hundred and thirty deaths from the current Bundibugio strain of the virus, which has no approved vaccine or treatment But now the World Health Organization says it started clinical trials to find a treatment. in what it says is a major step to tackle the epidemic The WHO's chief, Ted Ross at Hannam Gubriesis, says two drugs are being tested The clinical trial of two therapeutics began with the enrollment of the first patient Despite all this progress, We continue to face significant challenges, including mistrust and violence Such acts not only endanger patients and health workers but also impared efforts to stop transmission and save lives I heard more from our global affairs reporter and Barrasan Ethiraja The WHO chief was describing this as a milestone in their attempts to treat this very rare strain. they Bundy bug you strain of this Ebola virus which has caused havoc in a democratic Republic of Congo Now, there is no vaccination or no treatment for this disease at the moment So that is why the health experts from around the world are trying to find a vaccine, but usually vaccines take years or even several years to get a treatment. So but they are fast tracking this. and that's why they have started this treatment. They got the first patient today. So this being done in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So they're using two drugs. One is monoclonal MVP one hundred thirty four and the antivirus Remdicvere. So they are giving them in combination as well as alone and then to see how patient is being treated, but they're also warning that it may take months or even up to next year And they may need at least one thousand patients to see a pattern, a decisive answers they can get. Yeah, because people will remember, weren't they from the COVID pandemic that it's not as simple as just finding the vaccines. As you say, these things do take time moreore than four hundred recorded deaths at the moment. You time is not something that people have necessarily is it? The weight is spreading, it is prettyread fast. The percentage is about thirty one. So that's why the World Health Organization is really concerned. And there are also other issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo There is a conflict going on with various ethnic groups It all started in the Ituri province and then where most of the deaths occurred and then you have north and South Kivu provinces where it has all been affected and also they are struggling with another issue. Some of the locals, they think this whole thing is a conspiracy and people are trying to make a profit. Western pharmaceutical companies are trying to make a profit. And there were attacks on some of the Ebola centers in Itthuri provvince and some people are killed. And that's what the W two Chief was highlighting that on the one hand, we are struggling with this disease where people are dying Many people are getting this because it spreads through bodily fluids On the other hand, we have this regional conflicts And also the attacks on these centers that push all the efforts back because when the security is at issue, many health workers won't come. So And then already people displaced by war. You need food, shelter for displaced refugees, internally displaced people because of this ongoing conflict. So it's all happening at a very complicated situation and that is why You know, they are facing multif faceted challenges. Andmbarron Ethiraja Now most Western governments take a hard line on illegal immigration But the Spanish government bucked that trend by launching an amnesty programe in April this year and offering legal residency and workers' rights to undocumented migrants. The window closed on Monday, and on Thursday, the government announced it received nearly one point two million applications. Our Spain correspondent Guy Hedgego has more Initially when the government announced this initiative a few months back, it said that it was expecting only around half a million migrants to apply for this legalisation scheme But there were some estimates by think tanks and other organizations saying that it was likely to be quite a bit higher J because of the number of undocumented migrants that were believed to be in Spain And as it turns out, the number is much higher than the government had initially said The governments told us that nearly one point two million migrants have applied for this and around half of those are currently being processed. so you'd expect those to go through and be approved. The criteria are to have lived in Spain for at least five months leading up to January of this year and to not have a criminal record in Spain or in the migrant's home country Spain's population is around fifty million And the country has seen a large influx of migrants, particularly s since the turn of the century, in particular from Latin America. The vast majority of these who are requesting this of legalization are from Latin America, but not just from Latin America, also from Africa as well, migrants who arrive by sea, for example, to the Canary islands and small boats and so on Spain's economy has been growing much faster than most of its European neighbours. And the data does actually show that a lot of that economic growth can be attributed to the foreign workforce. And the government's saying we need more foreign workers and if they are legalized then they can pay taxes and they can contribute that much more efficiently to the economy I think Prime Minister Podro Sanchev He quite enjoys this status that he's been creating for himself as this sort of big kind of left wing figure of Europe. And I think he sees this immigration issue as a way of mobilising voters on the left and pointing to the political right and labeling them as xenophobic and intolerant and also not making much economic sense Guy Hedgeco in We are fast approaching the fourth of July and the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence from Britain Ben Rhodes is the former deputy national security advisor and speech wrriter for President Barack Obama, and he's just published a book about fifteen speeches across the US's two hundred and fifty year history, which for him offer a revealing portrait of his country It's called All We Say, The Battle for American Iidentity Given that title, has that battle now been won Tim Franks put that question to him I don't think it has. I think the core jumping off point for the book for me was a feeling that You know, if you look at the last decade, Barack Obama and Donald Trump both represent in their own ways two stories that have been doing this battle from the beginning. and To shortthand it, one is a more exclusionary form of American nationalism This is a white Christian nation, the inheritor of a certain sense of supremacy versus a kind of progressive nationalism that America is dedicated principle that all are created equal and American history is kind of a struggle closeed the gap between reality and that aspiration and And that's obviously the tradition of the abolition movement and the suffrage movement. Now, I do think that part of the reason politics is so intense right now in the United States is that Donald Trump is trying to declare the battle over So, so in his mind And I end with his second inaugural speech, he's essentially saying Hey, the competition' over, I want I think if you look at American history as I have in this book Nothing is ever finished. It iss not a permanent creation. It's always temporary. Can I ask you about the format that you're using to sort of examine these ideas of American identity, the idea of America which are these fifteen speeches. They are in their own way, sometimes baleful, sometimes brilliant, great. great speeches. I just wonder whether it's a sort of dying form Yeah, I wrote this book aware of the times that we're in. And I think one of the things I really came to appreciate is how much technology in the way people consume information has shaped and changed the way people speak At the beginning of this book, the age of Benjamin Franklin The only people who could hear a speech were sitting in the room, and so speeches were written to be reprinted in newspapers and that favored kind of carefully worded arguments. And over the course of the nineteenth century, In America, a speaker circuit emerged and speakers became performers and you got people like Frederick Dougl, who's in my book or Anna Dickinson, a really dynamic woman who is a suffuffragette, performance starts to matter. Can you rially up a crowd day after day Radio comes along and plain spoken explanation matters, and you get Franklin Roosevelt's kind of conversational style, someone talking to you in your living room And then television comes along and spectacle matters and Chrisma. and I have King and Kennedy and these speakers that could captivate an audience visually as well as with their words. Well, now we're in the age of the internet and social media And what that's done is people very rarely listen to a whole argument or make a whole argument And also and the, you know, the stridency repays. I mean that you encourage engagement That's exactly right Most people don't what they consume is a clip that an algorithm chooses for them to trigger them to make them really sure their views are really angry at their opponent. And Trump is kind of the perfect politician for this age because he can give an hour long speech at a rally knowing most people won't watch that. But the internet will do the work for him. The next day, all of his support is energized and all of his opponents will be polarized. I do make the case though that Even if we're not all sitting around listening to forty five minute speeches, A speech is the venue where you figure out your story that you're telling to people It's how you make people believe you can get to a different future because I saw Barack Obama. get better as a speaker because he could respond to what the audience was responding to and refine his arguments and figure out a better way to tell a story. And so I do think we need to kind of recapture a capacity to speak in the age of the internet and social media. Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor and speech wrriter for Barack Obama, an author of the new book, All We Say. Still to come in this podcast. I mean in my brain, it's royalty, that's for sure. Yeah, I feel like this is the American royal wedding at this point. ye. 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Watching that video led to more Instagram's algorithm quickly began serving up similar content and my feed soon filled with accounts I'd never searched for. Increasingly, sexual and explicit videos featuring scantily clad women Even though you know I'm a good good officers. Using a new phone and an alias account, I followed the trail laid out by Instagram's algorithm to see where it would take me. within days and in violation of Instagram's own policy I was shown an advertisement featuring naked men and women Having sex Then it took a darker turn The ad started promoting material involving exploitation of children They linked out to apps where users could buy videos of child sex abuse One ad showed what appeared to be a seven or eight year old girl crying with text indicating she had been sexually assaulted I reported it to Meta They replied, saying the ad did not violate their guidelines While MEetA does have safeguards in place to remove and report material showing the sexual exploitation of children The fear is that illegal content can still slip through the net just as user posts paid advertising. I worked at Facebook for eleven years in a variety of leadership roles helping to shape product and market strategies. Brian Boland is a former Vice president at Meta He helped build the company's ad strategy, but later left Ma and publicly raised concerns about user safety on its platforms. When an advertisement is uploaded into the system, it goes through an automated review process So there's been an increased reliance on technical solutions. and then some they may put into a human review process. and then people have to review and manually approve those ads How do these decisions go about how much the algorithm how strictly it should be monitoring or how loosely it should be monitoring. For those decisions, it's hard to say exactly who's responsible, but you don't get major decisions without The most senior people and knowing about it Meta, which owns Instagram later told us it doesn't knowingly target ads featuring children to users identified as having an inappropriate interest in such material but acknowledged, its ad review process may not detect all policy violations At the Moonbi teech Week, MetA's innovations are being celebrated. So ladies and gentlemen, welcoming the MD of Meta Why don't she us Arun Srinavas is the head of Meta in India my chance to confront him with our findings and to ask Answers. Excuse me cuse mister Srineivvas I' from BBC and we have discovered that Instagram has got pornography and child sex ofuses, mit videos as ads on its platform, sir. Will you agree for an interview and speak to us about it, sir? Sir you headed the ads business,ir you were the director before you became head of Mina, sir So will you please give us an answer, sir. Who is responsible for this? mister Shinivas disappeared backstage and his security guards prevented me from following him In a statement, Meda told us They fight child exploitation on their platforms block links to third party websites hosting this material remove ads and accounts found to violate their policies and report such content to the authorities They said they had removed content flagged by the BBC and denied prioritizing revenue over user safety Sia Aa. And that is part of a full BBCI documentary, which you can find on the World Service YouTube page. It's called The Careless Machine expxosing Instagram's Darkest seecrets R update from the Football World Cup next because the European champions Spain are through to the last sixteen after beating Austria three nil in Los Angeles. There were some Hollywood Alistters in the crowd, Penelope Cruz and Haver Bard em among them. Here's what some of the Spanish fans had to say about the game It was a great game to see. So many Spanish flags and Spanish es. It was a sensational game It was just like beauty, you know? Laminam Ma is a phenomenal player We're in in good shape for the rest of the games, right H heroes a fantastic game I love a win for Spain That match happened before we had one of the games of the tournament so far in Portugal versus Croatia. I spoke with our correspondent Isaac Fannim, plenty to unpack with him. He was at the Spain match. So I started by asking him what he made of the Spanish team Spain were sensational against Austria. They got two goals from Mikuel Oazabal and one from Pedro Poro. Brilliant, brilliant performance. One of the craziest stats I think you'll find. consonsidering the amount of success this Spain team have had of course, European champions is that this is their first World Cup knockout win in sixteen years since they lifted the World Cup for the first time It was a brilliant performance by them and they really have set their marker at this competition as one of the teams to be them and France, they both have had really convincing wins in the round of thirty two and every team that is looking at them will be thinking, o those are the two teams to beat. And now we move on to this quite baffling match, Portugal versus Croatia. It finished two one and it had something that we've not had too much of at this tournament so far, an incredibly controversial technology based decision that absolutely affected the outcome of the match. Absolutely did. One of the best matches at this tournament so far. So Croatia took the lead one nil Christian Rondes had so much criticism in his time playing for Portugal at this competition They got a penalty though. he got the penalty, scored the penalty to level things up. sururprisingly, Roberto Martinez took him off. Portugal managed to get a winner via a brilliant goal from Gonzalo Ramos ninety fourth minute in. There was ten minutes will of added time and it looked as though Croatia had equalized with the very last kick of the game and the controversy you're talking about, let me describe to you the goal the ball was crossed in and it brushed the hair of one of Croatia's players, Egor Matanovic. And when it fell to Mario Pasich, she squared it across to Yosuko Vardiao. Now why do I mention that it touched Egor Matanovic's hair? is because if he had a haircut before the game then Croatia would have equalized and we'd still be playing because there's new technology in this worldorld Cup. the ball So had touched Matanovich, which meant that when the ball landed at Mario Pasilich, he was offide and it so removed one of the great moments in World Cup history Croatia thinking that they had equalized and it sets up an incredible round of sixteen ties Spain against Portugal I have to mention as well after the game of the Portuguese players, paying tribute to Dioo Giota who died a year ago on Friday, so they poseed with his shirt number after the game world up inccredible drama in the World Cup. Isaac Fannon there in Los Angeles. And if you want more from the World Cup, we've got a podcast called More Th than the Score. You can find it wherever you find your BBC podcasts Right, something has been happening in New York. There have been road closures, extra police on patrol, and the booking out of the city's massive Madison Square Garden indoor Arena for a three day special event And whilst we can't officially say it's got something to do with arguably the most famous singer on the planet and a certain NFL footballer, if you ask any Taylor Swift or Travis Kelsey fan, they'll tell you It's wedding time. The permit for the event states one hundred guests should have been enjoying a pre party celebration, pretty much around the time we've been recording this podcast. Sounds a bit like a rehearsal dinner, doesn't it? And if you need more evidence, loads of swifty friends, Ed Sheiran and Sabrina Carpenter among them have already been spotted arriving in the city. pllenty of fans have been showing up by the truckload too, and they couldn't be happier We're so excited to be here. We came all the way from Little Rark, Arkansas to celebrate Taylor's wedding and congratulate her on her big day. I think it's our version of her rooyal wedding because she's so popular in her your husbands so popular, you know 's going to be all eyes on them the whole weekend. We're huge Haylor Swift fans and we're happy that it's happening for them I mean, in my brain, it's royalty, that's for sure. Yeah, I feel like this is the American royal wedding at this point. Yeah Still, with no official confirmation, it is still a bit of a mystery, so our correspondent Nenatorfic brave the blistering New York heat wave to find out exactly what's happening at Madison Square Garden