. >>> and to one of mark zuckerberg's former mentors. plus, as the syria war wages into its eighth year, the award winning journalist joins me with her new book about all the ordinary people caught up in it. ♪ >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. explosive undercover footage aired by britain's channel 4 news revealing what is reporting as nefarious tactics used by a firm tied to the victories of both president donald trump and brexit in 2016. the company is cambridge analytica, a london based analytics firm. british officials are seeking a warrant to get into its offices right here to inspect its servers and systems. this after an undercover reporter from channel 4 news posed as a possible client to obtain secret footage of executives. and in the next video, you'll hear the ceo. the report suggests he and his firm considered using bribes and entrapment to sway voters in an election campaign. >> we want to know what you can do to

one report says mark zuckerberg will testify before the us congress. he may be more comfortable in washington than westminster. rory cellan—jones, bbc news. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on facebook — i'm @sharanjitlelebc. this is sport today. coming up. australian cricket coach darren lehmann remains in south africa but replays including steve smith sent home. world champions germany are beaten in early on with gabriel jesus scoring the only goal of the game for brazil. and the head of the commonwealth games will find out how a geography teacher from commonwealth games will find out how a geography teacherfrom ireland has inspired generations of athletes to global success. welcome to the programme. plenty to get through. we start with a cricketing news that three australian players have been sent home from the tour of south africa including the former captain and vice captain. steve smith and david warner and cameron bancroft avenue david warner and cameron bancroft ave nu e left david warner and cameron bancroft a

mark zuckerberg breaking his silence to say i'm sorry. is that enough? lawmakers are demanding more. they want him to testify before congress. zuckerberg is open to it. >> the short answer is i'm happy to do so if it is the right thing to do. facebook testifies on a number of topics regularly. high profile or not. our objective is to provide congress with the important job to have the most information that they can so we try to send the person at facebook who will have the most knowledge of what congress is trying to learn. if that is me, i'm happy to go. >> you are the brand of facebook. people want to hear from you. >> that's why i'm doing this interview. in the issue of congressional testimony, what is the goal? that's not a media opportunity or it is not supposed to be one. the goal there is to get congress all the information they need to do their extremely important job. we want to make sure we send whoever is best informed of doing that. >> here come the regulators from the u.s. and urin-- u.s. and eu. that is hurting the stock price losing $50 mi

unfortunately mark zuckerberg does not want to let mark zuckerberg go right now. what will he change now, do you think? he has offered some things which will help, among them the ability for users to find and remove far more easily than they can do now the apps they have given access to data on their site but which they have no use for the last two months. all of those things you hook up to your facebook account and forget about, in the future you will be reminded and say maybe you want to unlink this. it has promised the wide—ranging order that they should have done back in 2015 when they we re have done back in 2015 when they were first aware of this. —— wide—ranging audit. going through apps with untrammelled access to user data for seven years, finding the ones which abused as ants notifying users that they have had their data taken. he spoke about a breach of trust, how much do you think there has been mapped and how much do you think it concerns people who use his site everyday and can like all the other offerings it puts in front of them? i think th

from wired, the people have lost their trust in mark zuckerberg. it says the days he took to respond to the data breach scandal have done irreversible damage to the company. and from quartz, uber‘s need for self—driving cars before running out of money may endanger the entire industry. and don't forget, let us know what you are spotting online. use the hashtag #bbcthebriefing. that's it for business briefing this hour. rural communities are being failed by the government, according to a new house of lords report. it says cuts to departments are having a profound, negative impact on england's biodiversity, and the social and economic welfare of rural areas. claire marshall has this report. the overwhelming number of people who live in the countryside are being failed by government, that is according to today's report. the house of lords select committee says there should be radical change in how rural communities in the countryside are looked after. it suggests stripping the regulator of its power to regulate on rural affairs. some of the worst

they want mark zuckerberg here yesterday. and you are starting to hear that term subpoena being thrown out here as a way to compel him to show up here and in previous iterations of issues with facebook on capitol hill we've seen the chief counsel and other high-ranking staffers from the company but not the ceo. and now lawmakers want more as we heard from some of them this morning. take a listen. >> senator, are facebook staff coming in to talk to your staff today. >> we've had on going conversations but conversations will staff or lawyers, that is good. but the public deserves to hear from the ceo. >> do you have confidence that facebook are going to cooperate and provide answers? >> i certainly would hope so. and i expect that to happen. >> can you do that without mark zuckerberg here? >> we'll get him. we'll get him here. >> reporter: so here is confidence there from senators that they will get mark zuckerberg up here. the facebook staffers are meeting with staffers of some of the committees, some today and largely i think

mark zuckerberg breaking his silence, but lawmakers are demanding more. they want him to testify before congress. zuckerberg is open to it. >> the short answer is i'm happy to do so if it is the right thing to do. facebook testifies on a number of topics. high profile or not. our objective is to provide congress with the important job to have the most information that they can so we try to send the person at facebook who will have the most knowledge of what congress is trying to learn. if that is me, i'm happy to go. >> are yyou are the brand of facebook. people want to hear from you. >> that's why i'm doing this interview. in the issue of coppingressiona testimony, what is the goal? the goal there is to get congress all the information they need to do their extremely important job. we want to make sure we send whoever is best informed of doing that. >> facebook faces tough questions from regulators in the u.s. and europe. that is hurting the stock price losing $50 million in market value over two days. rebounding slightly yesterday. expect volatility. >>

really made mistakes that's what facebook boss mark zuckerberg has said in response to the d.c. scandal involving his company and the data mining cambridge analytic up in a statement on his facebook profile apologized and promised uses a new feature to turn off third party apps apps which cambridge analytical allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an innocent personality quiz and ended up with the dates of fifty million facebook profiles being used to sway elections. now the question is why did face the academic research to end up in the hands of political consultants paid to win the night fetch us election the scientist behind the quiz says he's a scapegoat did you know what they were going to do with it did you know what their interest was no i mean. i was pretty heavily siloed of anything as far as funds are requirements i found out about donald trump just like everybody else or to give people more options than just like facebook founder mark zuckerberg broke days of silence on the scandal admitting the company had to make mistakes. i started facebook an

interesting to see what mark zuckerberg says when he speaks. notable movers, let's look at general mills, among other stocks, they are plunging after they cut the full year of profit forecast among rising cost. campbell soup is down in sympathy. the airlines, american airlines and southwest are lower. the storms in the northeast grounding more than 4000 flights according to sources. a bright spot is oil and energy movers, oil is up about 2% after a bullish department of energy report, giving a tailwind of big energy. mark: 90 minutes away from the end of the wednesday session. investors are waiting the outcome of the fomc meeting. stocks down for the second day in three. rising at their fastest pace since the end of 2016. signaling the year-long squeeze on living standards coming to an end in the u.k. basic wage growth accelerating to 2.6% in the three months through january at the employment rate return to a record high with jobless rates falling to 4.2% to match the lowest level since 1975. good news for households whose spending power has be

mark zuckerberg finally broke his silence yesterday. you can see what he had to say ins rt it was drawn by peter brooks. it looks like facebook is using rare editorial judgment. butooks really concerned, not with the news itself but the impact it has had on facebook, causing the stock to drop a 10% over the past couple of days. not a lot of sympathy for mark zuckerberg in the press. a columnist with the guardian writes that the scanda one of facebook's on making. saying that facebook has worked tirelessly to gather as much data from users as they can and profit from it. acoouss less willing to share information about themselves. >> the #deletefacebook has been gaining steam, as we have seen it do at other times when facebook has come under fire for things like spreading fake news. as much as you might hate facebook, getting rid of it is hard. facebook istting like trying to leave a store that is giving away candy. they say they are clever and when you try to delete the app they will pop up pictures of your friends and say they will miss

a second part of that cleanup is new security and privacy measures that mark zuckerberg is promising including turning off third party apps for example do you think that's going to be enough. it's a start but i think more than anything else there's one thing that they cannot control which is what do people with that data over eighty what can they do with that the problem of the kibosh analytic is that this book tried to make sure with legal certifications that they had gotten rid of all of that data and they took it on good faith but when you have bad actors you have to do more than just depend on you have to actually go in and verify that the data is clean and these are down thousands and thousands of application developers all around the world who have been sitting on this day there for the past three years and who knows who else has that data at this point we're seeing facebook come under a lot of scrutiny from american and british governments at this point do you think facebook will be open to a stricter regulation. well i think first of all other be open to having those discussi

our top story: mark zuckerberg apologises for breaches of data security at facebook, affecting the accounts of 50 million users. the suspect in the texas bombings blows himself up, leaving a recorded confession. police say it points to a very challenged personal life. brexit is set to dominate today's eu summit in brussels, with leaders publishing their vision of the future relationship between the uk and europe. it is magic until you understand it, and thereafter it is mathematics. also coming up in the business briefing: trading blows with beijing. the white house vows to hit back at china over intellectual property theft. this is the briefing, i'm sally bundock. and we will be looking at facebook in the business briefing. facebook‘s founder has broken his silence and admitted the social network made mistakes in its handling of users‘ data. mark zuckerberg also accepted there had been a breach of trust, and promised to make changes. it follows the scandal over cambridge analytica, the british company accused of mining the data of 50 million people to influence the 2016 us election, al

why haven't we heard from mark zuckerberg and sharon sandberg? now the market continues to struggle amid the facebook turmoil and a large tech selloff. face back has wiped out gates for the entire 2018 plunging as much as 13% in the past two days. for more let's bring in abigail doolittle. 45 billion dollars in market cap. abigail: and it is still evolving, and if we take a look at the heart of the matter, image analytic had access and retained data on facebook users -- 50 million users without their permission. facebook learned of this back in 2015 and they did not do anything to tell those users or to secure the data. facebook is saying this does not constitute a hack or breach but they do not allow that type of data to be sold to a firm. great thaty area, so the ftc is launching a prop to see whether or not this is a violation of the 2011 consent agreement act. if there is some violation it could equal a massive fine. it could be a stunningly large fine and worst-case scenario for facebook could be a big fine. that is also bringing the governm

a high profile interview from markers back of bourke. —— —— mark zuckerberg. mark zuckerberg has really been criticised very heavily over the last few days for remaining very silent, first we have the statement, now we have the interview in which he was questioned for a substantial period of time about exactly what the company is doing to try to address some of these issues. in an interview with cnn, he talked a lot about going back and looking at the problems there had been and he said he would contact the facebook users who have their data breached and that will be a substantial amount of work, it means going through thousands of apps, and fundamentally there's the question of can they even be sure of questions about whether they had information breached, he said they will look at whether potentially anybody have had their information breached. he said specifically it may well be the case there could be others out there planning what he described as a version two of russian interference in the elections. he said of 2016, "we weren't on top of potential russi

mark zuckerberg also accepted there'd been a breach of trust and promised to make changes. it follows the scandal over cambridge analytica, the british company accused of mining facebook data to influence the 2016 us election, although the firm denies any wrongdoing. here's our business editor, simonjack. facebook founder mark zuckerberg broke his silence tonight on a scandal that has engulfed the social media giant. in a facebook post, he said the company had "a responsibility to protect your data" and admitted the company had "made mistakes". he described how a british academic had invented an app inviting facebook users to do a personality test. 300,000 people downloaded it, it collected personal information on them and also all of their facebook friends, harvesting data on 50 million users. that data was obtained by a british consultancy, cambridge analytica, in 2014, a move mark zuckerberg described tonight as "a breach of trust", and it was later allegedly used in the trump election campaign. a campaign the company's executives took a lot of credit for when secretly f

mark zuckerberg assessing some serious questions. facebook's mark zuckerberg enjoys the limelight as much as the next guy had least when the news is good but as far as the latest data scandal is concerned he's keeping a low profile more than two years ago his company discovered that cambridge analytical was using a data link to spy on fifty million of facebook's uses but facebook failed to inform those affected cambridge analytical was simply told to delete the data which according to media reports never happened instead facebook has opted to delete the accounts of those who brought the scandal to light people like chris wiley former research director at cambridge analytics he's described how the company was. imagine i going to ask you i say hey if i give you a dollar two dollars could you fill out the survey for me just do it on this app

the brits are very unhappy with mark zuckerberg. idhow much longer can he a answering these questions? what can he expect from congress if he does testify in front of them? 't think he can avoid i -- answering these questions much longer. want ain a will there, phase about scheduling a congressional hearing, but i think public appearing -- public opinion, if nothing else, will eventually push him there. halawmaker been trying to get zuckerberg in front of cameras for years. his head on a platter is what they want. more and more issues are wrappeh up i. i don't think they are going to pull any punches, and he is going to have to be ready.me he is not e who has a lot of experience with the press. he has a tightly controlled media space. if he doesn't get this right, facebook is looking for a scapegoat, and he will be at the top of the list. jane: facebook has made no secret of the fact that they gather user data as part of the business model. why are they facing so much pressure at this point? question,ndeat it's not just facebook. th

the headlines at 11: the facebook founder mark zuckerberg admits the company has made mistakes in its protection of users‘ personal data. the pilot of a jet which crashed at the shoreham air show in 2015, killing 11 people on the ground, is to be charged with manslaughter by gross negligence. boris johnson deepens diplomatic tension with russia by drawing parallels between president putin and adolf hitler. and on newsnight, a year on from the westminster attack, an extensive investigation by newsnight uncovers significant information about the man behind it and why he may have acted when he did. hello. good evening and welcome to bbc news. facebook has admitted making mistakes in handling data belonging to some 50 million of its users. chief executive mark zuckerberg, in his first response to the controversy over the use of data, has promised tougher steps to prevent what he called "bad actors" from getting access to people's private information. the social media site is facing growing pressure about allegations that a british firm, cambridge analytica, accessed users‘ information

give him a second chance like he's used writing that he feels sorry for mark zuckerberg saying let's look at the bigger picture here facebook has changed how we communicate mock is the great man in my book whatever the outcome he's got my support and one of these responses came to mark zuckerberg parsed actually mock you did a great job on c.n.n. arning the issue you've built the world's most powerful social platform and now we're all realizing it can be weaponized it's a new world which which is that is a sphere is such a tumultuous week and you know people are still concerned about that data for. privacy what have people learned from this episode well i've heard that people are learning that just because facebook is free doesn't mean it is for your paying with your doctor your privacy and facebook makes billions of dollars each year in trading in our information and in a way facebook's been i want to get away with behavior like this because generally people are somewhat naive lawmakers too about dr about privacy and about technology so we need to understand how the data we give to

it's mark zuckerberg's responsibility. i think from the interview we had it sounded like he's final realized he might not have a choice. howie: when you were sitting down with him, did you have the impression this was once again as with the russian meddling a situation where after the fact, after the damage has been done, he does a facebook post or does a couple interviews and says he's going to fix it but offers only vague promises about that. >> it was very reminiscent. for people who don't know mark, it's hard to feel i am i think off of him -- to feel any sympathy for him. there are not a lot of people who feel bad for mark zuckerberg today. but as someone who has talked to him multiple times in the past. he comes out and he wants to fix things. a lot of this started because as he said himself he was too idealistic. he thought facebook would be a place where everybody would play nice and play by the rules. i think he feels legitimately bad about what happened. but there are not a lot of people who feel bad for him beca

caroline: we heard your voice calling for mark zuckerberg. the ftc is looking into whether facebook potentially has broken the consent decree. do you think regulators will get involved in the united kingdom as well? a very yes, this is interesting issue. in european law, there are restrictions based on people's political views and opinions. with that legislation didn't necessarily consider was the fact that people may harvest huge amounts of consumer data, data that people consented to give as part of surveys on their opinions or consumer habits. but they never consented for that data to be used in a political campaign or held by a company that is not a registered political party. this is a big area of concern and something the u.k. information commission is looking at. caroline: do think any changes will could -- will be put in place internally by facebook? what changes would you like to see put in place to put your mind to rest? damian: our concern is the way they manage and handle data. to understand how easy it is for developers and other

the ceo, mark zuckerberg, plans to testify before the u.s. congress he is coming under increasing pressure from lawmakers to explain how data firm cambridge analytica harvested 50 million users profiles >> a number of reports today saying mark zuckerberg expects to have to testify in front of congress in the coming weeks this comes after no less than three committees asked for his testimony. facebook would not confirm that, they just said they received the invites and are talking to legislators. one report saying he will appear on april 12th before the house energy and commerce committee. a spokesperson for that committee issuing a statement that says reports of mr. zuckerberg's confirmed attendance are incorrect the committee is continuing to work with facebook to determine a day and time for mr. zuckerberg to testify. there's still a lot of questions. one thing becoming clear, it's getting more difficult for zuckerberg to avoid appearing before lawmakers himself last week he did say he would do so if he was the right person. many government

but mark zuckerberg at this point is a world leader. he controls one of the most important companies on the planet, which has the power to shape campaigns and elections and wars. and so it is absolutely imperative. this is a process. this is part of an ongoing conversation. if he just stops today and stops talking, then, no, this is not enough. but if this is part of an ongoing conversation, that's important. i think two headlines right here. number one, he's willing to testify. he has never testified before a congressional committee even though, again, one of the most powerful men in the world. so he's willing to testify although he add a little wiggle room. he also said he's open to conversation about rememberlation. it's not whether there should be regulation, it's what kind there should be. >> he did say regarding testifying that if he was the only -- if it was a subject that he was the only person who was an expert on or, you know, the single expert, he would be happy to testify. i think that was basically his message. >> reporter:

we've yet to hear from ceo founder mark zuckerberg. isaac is a tech correspondent. good morning mike, i am curious about what you think happens next as far as what mark zuckerberg has to say and get to the core of what the scandal really is here facebook's rules, their api rules allowed for this type of data to be collected back when this happened, but this researcher collected ostensibly for noncommercial purposes was anybody collecting this for commercial purposes back then? >> yes, this is the sort of problem that facebook finds itself in right now. so i have been talking to a lot of programmers and developers in the valley in the past week since this dropped and, you know, a lot of the practices that this researcher was doing totally abided by facebook's api platform rules for app developers who want to access user data, pre2015 i think a lot of companies that had apps that used facebook platform back then are nervously shifting around and looking at each other, saying when are they going to tell everyone this was widely common practice >> it wasn't all research

mark zuckerberg feels he is not the right person. the letter they sent back said they are among the longest serving executives and they have extensive backgrounds and understand and they are well placed to answer the committees. interestingly, there is this statement from facebook. they say, the the u.k. and e.u. should not matter to you. we can confirm 1% of the global downloads of the act that came from the users in the e.u. and this app was designed by alexander kogan passed on , from cambridge analytica and therefore gave 50 million users those 50ok -- of million users, facebook says, hardly any of them are from the e.u. or u.k. that is why mark zuckerberg feels he does that have to come to parliament here. emily: facebook getting its ducks in a row and hiring for 11 different positions on capitol hill. talk about the extent of facebook's lobbying efforts and how that compares to other tech companies and what they are trying to change. sarah: the first thing we have to note, facebook's budget spent on law being in d.c. is so much

i'm sumi so much donna thank you for joining us we made mistakes that's what facebook boss mark zuckerberg has said in response to the data scandal involving his company and the data mining firm cambridge analytical in a statement on his facebook profiles eichelberger apologized and promised users a new feature to turn off third party apps apps which cambridge analytical allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an endless and passion allergy quiz and ended up with the data of fifty million facebook profiles being used to sway elections now the question is why did facebook allow academic research to end up in the hands of political consultants paid to when the knife edge us election the scientists behind the craze says he is a scapegoat. you know what their interest was no i mean that's the thing i was pretty heavily siloed as far as anything as far as funder or clients i found out about donald trump just like everybody else or to give people more options than just like facebook founder mark zuckerberg broke days of silence on the scandal admitting the company had made m

before we start the media session, i would like to get an update on the invitation to mark zuckerberg to give evidence before us on the serious nature of the allegations made around the use of user data. mark zuckerberg has suggested that chris cox, the officer at facebook, who is coming to london to get evidence to the committee in the first week after the easter recess. we'll be happy to invite mr. cox to give evidence. however, we would like to hear from mr. zuckerberg as well. we will see if he is available to get evidence or not. if he is available, we would be

how mark zuckerberg plans to increase data security. >> reporter: facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg posted a statement yesterday with a timeline showing that facebook knew back in 2015 about the unauthorized access of 50 million users data by cambridge analytica. at the time, mark zuckerberg says they spoke asked them to delete the user profiles but did not confirm or conduct the audit. in his post, he writes we have a possibility to protect your data and if we can't we don't deserve to serve you. he added, facebook made mistakes and there is more to do. congrats once more answers. >> the first thing that has to happen is facebook needs to come and talk to congress.>> reporter: on cnn mark zuckerberg said he would be happy to testify before congress himself. it is officials also say they want more details. >> weather or not facebook took appropriate measures, when they found that there may have been a breach. >> reporter: facebook posted online a list of actions it will take. among them, auditing apps that had access to large amounts of data prior to some 2014 security changes. remo

mark zuckerberg has reportedly agreed to testify before u.s. lawmakers about. the british parliament have summoned him to do this today he said to london thanks but no thanks and russian president vladimir putin blames what he calls criminal negligence for a shopping mall fire in siberia that left school. protesters are demanding answers amid rumors of a cover up. it's good to have you with us tonight there is more fallout from the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. london accusing the russian government of masterminding the attack which has left sergei in your script all fighting for their lives twenty seven countries including britain the us germany many other e.u. members and australia have since said that they are expelling more than one hundred russian diplomats in response nato joined the mass expulsions today announcing that it is sending home seven russian diplomats and denying accreditation to three more . with nato joining the expulsions of russian diplomats the alliance's secretary general said moscow had it co

mark zuckerberg and his team could end up being a big problem for everybody here. dave, thanks forjoining us. you're watching bbc world news america. still to come on tonight's programme: when art meets politics. ahead of this weekend's march for our lives, we look at how artists have reflected civic unrest over the years. french police have clashed with protesters in paris as public sector workers across the country went on strike. they are reacting against president emmanuel macron's plans to cut back the state sector. tens of thousands of teachers, nurses and other workersjoined rail staff on strike for the first time since mr macron came to power. lucy williamson reports. the old ways are often cherished in france and that goes for protests as much as forjob contracts. firecrackers, union flags and a few favourite chance, they stopped the march of change before, but are they a march for emmanuel macron? translation: emmanuel macron wants to| last translation: emmanuel macron wants to last union translation: emmanuel macron wants to | last - union bastions. tran

meeting in the course of tuesday night the chief operating officer sheryl sandberg or mark zuckerberg himself were present at that meeting and certainly a great degree of public discomfort facebook shares have been slashed on the stock exchange there's also investigations being launched by new york state as well as new jersey and the financial trade commission is now restarting an investigation that it ended when facebook gave assurances about the security of data and services a few years ago and both the u.s. and the u.k. are investigating the data breach accusations what we have seen in cambridge analytical of the allegations are clearly very concerning as is absolutely right that they should be properly investigated it's right that the information commissioner is doing exactly that because people need to have confidence in how their personal data is being used and i would expect facebook cambridge analytic and asians involved to comply fully with the investigation that's taking place. let's cross now to nadine bomber who joins us live now from london so in a deme have as anyone bee

mark zuckerberg may also testify on capitol hill not clear yet. if he goes he will be asked questions about facebook monitoring and collection of user data. he extended the same to google's ceo and twitter's ceo. but essentially, trish this, opens up big questions for tech, for privacy, for potential regulation. all of these companies right away they have to spend more money on their legal terms. probably mark zuckerberg has a extra direct report because of this and it is certainly going to be a distraction to the way they are trying to run their normal businesses. trish: it is their fault. thank you very much, deirdre. joining me for more analysis, "bullseye brief" publisher and founder adam johnson, along with bellpointe chief strategist david nelson. is this going to be the end of mark zuckerberg. >> it is starting to look like it. i tell you something, trish, there is a real trust problem which zuckerberg went on cnn looking all dough-eyed to sound con -- contrite. we don't understand our data. and whether the news feed is accurate because fak

we've made mistakes that's what facebook boss mark zuckerberg a sudden response to the data scandal involving his company and the details mining kimmage analytical in a statement on his facebook profile apologized and promised he uses a new feature to turn off third party apps apps which cambridge analytical allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an end this and passion ology queries and ended up with the dates of fifty million. when facebook profiles being used to sway elections now the question is why did facebook allow academic research to end up in the hands of political consultants paid to win the knife edge u.s. election the scientist behind the quest says he is a scapegoat. you know what their interest was no i mean that's the thing i was pretty heavily siloed as far as anything else powers funder or clients i found out about donald trump just like everybody else or to give people more options than just like facebook founder mark zuckerberg broke days of silence on the scandal admitting the company had made mistakes. i started facebook and at the end of the day i'

news live from berlin facebook's boss breaks the silence admitting that they made mistakes mark zuckerberg says he is sorry about his company's handling of the cambridge analytical privacy scandal but is it enough to prevent an exit it's from facebook. also coming up an emotional homecoming dozens of kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls returned home from boko haram captivity but the extremists warn their parents don't try educating your daughters again and we'll be back. also coming up we're turning to normality after years of islamic state occupation celebrations as the first school reopens in mosul is the old town it's just one step on the iraqi cities long road to recovery. i'm serious i was gonna good to have you with us we made mistakes that's what facebook boss mark zuckerberg has said in response to the data scandal involving his company and data mining firm cambridge analytical in a statement on his facebook profile suck up apologized and promised users a new feature to turn off third pack party apps apps which cambridge analytic allegedly used to harvest private information. it began w

an interview with mark zuckerberg did not calm investors. facebook stock lost 10%. >>> president trump kept everyone guessing but he ultimately signed the massive spending bill passed by congress this week. he signed the deficit busting deal to help the military. >> there are a lot of things i'm unhappy about in this bill. there are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill but we were, in a sense, forced if we want to bill our military, we were forced to have. >> earlier the president threatened to veto the bill because it doesn't extend protection to daca recipients or provide full funding for the border wall. back to you. maria: a rough week for wall street. it with as cocktail of bad news from tariffs to interest rates to a fiscally reckless spending bill and more turmoil in the special counsel investigation. all taking a bill toll on your investors this week. joining nenow, the founder, chairman and ceo of gamco investors. and mario, it's always a pleasure to see you. >> a pleasure to be with you. maria: what do you think

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>> i think mark zuckerberg is enormously intelligent. i think he understands and i think he should appear before one or both of us. >> that's very polite of you. he should definitely appear. >> he should be subpoenaed if he failed to do so. >> put zuckerberg on a shelf. what about cambridge analytica and the trump campaign. what concerns do you have? >> i have very strong concerns about cambridge analytica's relationship to the trump campaign but also to the russians and the potential links there both in terms of money and information. that is really the keys to the kingdom and i think cambridge analytica also should be brought for our committee, they should be subpoenaed. they are certainly knowledgeable and culpable for this massive breach and i can't emphasize enough how important it is for facebook to come clean and notify those consumers, still hasn't done so although mark zuckerberg has committed he will much as he did at my insistence about the fake adds and posts, all the users have been notified. >> you served as attorney genera

mark zuckerberg do or say anything now to the company's biggest ever bryce. golf it's good to have you with us tonight u.s. president donald trump is keeping his word on trade and could be starting a global trade war in the process today he unveiled up to sixty billion dollars in trade tariffs targeting china for alleged theft of u.s. intellectual property of that package comes on top of tariffs on steel and aluminum that go into effect tomorrow in say broadside beijing has already said that it will retaliate against despite trump's claims the move is justified. it's the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world it's out of control we have a tremendous intellectual property theft situation going on we're doing things for this country that should have been done for many many years are going to go now to washington our correspondent claire richardson is on the story for us tonight good evening to you claire so we know president trump is already and i so iran steel tariffs on many countries including china so why are we seeing the u.s. now seems

we have not heard from mark zuckerberg or essential berg. -- or spanish elbert. they say that may be a mistake. julia: the only game in town, this is the question i keep coming back to, with consumers and users in particular -- scarlet: good point. i want to bring in sarah frier who is covering facebook. she joins us from san francisco. we talk to you earlier, and this latest development is cambridge analytica, the board, has suspended alexander nick. from facebook's perspective, said it made personal data of million of its users available to this data analytic firm. tell us about cambridge analytica and what it did with this data? isah: cambridge analytica denying the reports that have come out saying they actually theyelete the data when said they did. meanwhile, they are saying maybe this data didn't necessarily improve their model. what cambridge analytica focuses on is this graphic targeting of these 50 million user profiles. it could have helped them build a model on who to best serve ads to during campaigns of candidates on the world. especially donald tru

let's not forget the fact that mark zuckerberg has political ambitions. we know cheryl samburg definitely has political ambitions. they know how to use the giant resource and giant company to their advantage. do we want people like this controlling information, controlling elections? we're worried about the russians. i think these folks, these managers at facebook are lot more threatening than the russians. >> a couple things. we don't know exactly what happened. at least i don't. why there is briefing tomorrow. we may need hearings to get to the bottom of this. all for transparency and getting the fact there is is distinction between a private company doing what they did. may have been wrong, we may need to get to the bottom of it, i'm concern about it, and there is certain what the government did. the fbi did this they used a campaign research document paid for clinton campaign, democrat national committee, made it look like it was legitimate intelligence. went to the court, didn't tell the whole truth to the court, namely who paid for it, the fact they

this is from mark zuckerberg, a letter he wrote. text on white background. " we have a response ability to protect your information and if we can't we don't deserve it." he says, we have investigated every single app that has accessed a large amount of data. -- we we fix this we will suspect there are others and you will find them. we will let you know which apps give access to your information so you can shut them off. i promise it will be better for you. why take the step of taking out so many expensive ads? tony: the company is under heat. zuckerberg has at least three committees that have asked him if you come in with questions about camera gallagher -- cambridge analytica. regulate is the european union -- on top of that, their stock twice -- stock price has fluctuated wildly. of steps that zuckerberg is taking that he has to address. >> if you are zuckerberg, what would you be most concerned about? tony: the penalty this carries could be incredibly steep. you have the wind back to 2011 when the ftc went after facebook for anot

and that is white mark zuckerberg feels he does that have to come to parliament here. itsy: facebook is getting docks in a row and hiring for 11 different positions on capitol hill. talk about the extent of facebook's lobbying efforts and how that compares to other tech companies and what they are trying to change. sarah: facebook budget spending lobbying is so much smaller than the companies that have been doing it for years, google, microsoft, apple. facebook is slow to join the party and in the past it and have a contentious relationship with washington and grew up in barack obama's presidency. now they are realizing they need to make nice and figure out how to get in on these issues before they come to a head. how to explain their product to congress and lawmakers because a lot of them don't understand the fundamental ways it works. are not fact most ads purchased through human salespeople and purchased through an automatic advertising system. all of the things that has become clear in the last few months -- it is like the general public -- congress has lots to edu

when will mark zuckerberg talk? >>> and the president's legal team sitting down with the special counsel's lawyers. now the president bringing in a flame throwing attorney who basically says the doj is framing him. >>> and overnight, the harvey weinstein lifting all non disclosure agreements with harvey weinstein. now how many more women are coming forward with abuse allegations in bankruptcy? good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> it is a busy day. i'm christine romans. tuesday, march 20th. first day of spring. 4:00 a.m. in the east. we are expecting snow. the crisis at facebook intensi y intensifying after it failed to protect user data. mark zuckerberg still missing in action. it has been days since the story broke of cambridge analytica accessed 50 moillion users. the story has cost him $37 billion. that is a big one-day move. that shaved $37 billion off the company's value. sparking the s&p 500 and nasdaq's worst day since february. investors think stricter regu r regulation for facebook is

mark zuckerberg is believed to be ready to make a statement within the next twenty four hours. and a palestinian teenager on trial for slapping an israeli soldier has reportedly except eight months in prison seventeen year old i mean he is accused of assault after hitting an israeli soldier in the face last year in the occupied west bank cases may tell me a symbol for the palestinian struggle that has drawn international attention inside story is coming up next i'll see you afterwards. millions of facebook profiles allegedly used for political purposes information that could have helped global trump and influence the bricks that vote candidates a swing elections and this privacy really possible in this age of social media this is inside story.

tonight, the ceo of facebook mark zuckerberg has reportedly agreed to testify before a u.s. congressional committee. it is not yet known when such a hearing would take place. reports say sometime in april, perhaps. earlier today zuckerberg refused an invitation to appear before a british parliamentary committee. lawmakers on both sides of the atlantic want to question n him about how millions of user's details got into the hands of a firm that was hired d to influee voters. >> our next focus is building community. reporter: he is the public face of the world's biggest social network. but mark zuckerberg is not feelelg sociablele when it comes to taking questions, especially not from european politicians. as inquiries mount about how facebook uses the data of its 2 billion users, he told this british parliamentary committee he will not be giving evidence. >> we believe given the serious nature of the allegations that have been made about the access and use of facebook user data, that mark zuckerberg should give evidence to the committee. reporter: one man who wanted to talk w

facebook chairman and ceo mark zuckerberg is just 33 years old. and although his bottom line took a big hit this week, he's still a billionaire many times over. the controversy over cambridge analytica harvesting user data has sent facebook stock prices tumbling. now he's being forced to defend his company and its mission. >> we're going to do a full investigation. >> and some critics are even calling for an end to the social media platform that has more than 2 billion users worldwide. but how did he get here? >> i got accepted. >> one of the newest members of harvard's class of 2006. >> zuckerberg was a talented computer programmer long before he was accepted to harvard. but it was there that he developed the facebook. >> drop the "the." just facebook. it's clean. >> that story going from harvard to hollywood. >> we have an idea we want to talk to you about. have you got a minute? >> you guys look like you spend some time at the gym. >> where the social network made him a pop icon. from "times" person of the year to a surprise appearance on "satu

i read some of that into what mark zuckerberg is saying. he's got to do something about this first >> he's going to have to, for the sake of advertising dollars. >> many while the dow down 473 points at this hour. >> ouch. >> that's it for "squawk alley." "halftime report" is starting up >>> all right, guys, thanks so much welcome to "the halftime report," i'm scott wapner. we begin with developments on two major stories this hour. stocks down sharply as the president is set to announce new tariffs against china at this hour you can see the dow jones industrial average down by nearly 500 points, a loss of nearly 2%. big selling remaining in tech today as well, nasdaq down 2%, a loss o