lol. facebook says it's removed thirty two pages believed to have been set up to employment the midterm elections in the us. i know there are more of. a live from doha also coming up a passenger plane crashes just after takeoff and northern mexico but everyone on board survived. as a bad way away it's the final result of the presidential election both leading parties are confident of success. and south africa's president says he'll go ahead with land reforms which would see white farmers denied compensation.

social media john facebook says it's discovered a coordinated campaign to influence the u.s. mid-term elections this from move thirty two accounts and pages that it believes a fake aimed at creating divisions before november's fight almost three hundred thousand people follow the suspended pages alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . the phone to the facebook mark zuckerberg went to capitol hill to admit his company hadn't done enough to form groups trying to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. now as part of its continuing investigation into election interference it discovered it's happening again and so it has suspended thirty two pages on the platform and instagram which it also means they are going to be a hair trigger alert for you know for the foreseeable future so any instances that

crop up like this they're likely to take to take action and then be public about that action the company uses artificial intelligence and human investigators to flag up automated accounts. you know only deal with the face of social issues aimed at finding conflict and upset one page called resisters created an event a counter protest to unite the right rally a white nationalist gathering in washington d.c. in august it was found to be a fake group and the page was disabled and the event deleted it says it can't definitively tie this is spending accounts to russia but suggests it was possibly involved american intelligence agencies have been warning for months russia's efforts to undermine american democracy are active under threat to november's elections at a cyber security summit in new york the homeland security secretary said the country is facing what she called a hard a can of threats let me also again take this opportunity to issue

a warning as i have in other forums in speeches to any foreign power that would consider meddling in our networks or in the affairs of our democracy the united states will no longer tolerate or accept your interference you will be exposed and you will pay a high price facebook has been heavily criticized for not doing enough to stop outside interference in the twenty six thousand election it's determined that won't happen again and it says it continues to work with the f.b.i. to identify threats and remove them from its platforms. al-jazeera washington. enough rangers chief technology correspondent x.e. austin she says whoever is behind the fake accounts is trying to sow further discord in the united states and there's no reason to think it's stopping here you know we've heard a lot of intelligence that there's a sustained credible campaign being targeted at the midterms so i would be surprised if this is the last of it to be honest i think this is what they were

able to identify now and i think also just when you look at what was attacked this wasn't pro one candidate or another necessarily this is just sewing the seeds of discontent and to the degree that that's the target that's the way that they're doing it that would require a much broader campaign these pages were generally about counter protests to the right so you have some people in the republican party saying look at the left so clearly russians or whoever is trying to aid the left i think that's a simplistic view i think the main goal here is to sow discontent so that could really be to benefit anyone who benefits from the destabilization of the u.s. that benefits from more divisiveness and political infighting so i think that's a much harder thing to pin but certainly you know it makes sense given what we know about the people that are looking to interfere with the u.s. elections a passenger plane has crashed in northern mexico shortly after takeoff a one hundred three people on board the brazilian built on we had jet survived but

most of them sustained injuries i'm a taken to hospital the plane belonged to the national carrier mexico and was on a domestic flight from durango to mexico city the government says the plane was hit by a gust of wind as it left the runway and john holliman has more from mexico city. it really was the great escape for those on board the plane in mexico that crashed just after the taken off when you see the pictures of the plane crash we flames coming out of it really is incredible that no one died on impact the plane was heading from durango a city in the north of the country to the capital mexico city and there are around one hundred people on board now some of those after the crash were reportedly able to walk to the nearest motorway to ask for help. then turned up and took people to nearby hospitals some of them suffering from burns others from other injuries now there's going to be really starting to be investigations about exactly what

happened what we do know so far is that the plane was trying to take off in quite bad weather but coupled with that is a sensation in mexico of relief over something that could have been a lot worse. zimbabwe's president and his main rival nelson chamisa both say they're confident of victory after monday's election but observers say it could be a tight race it was the first poll a sense of which by god they was forced from office how much faster has more from harare. the wait to find out who has won zimbabwe's presidential election could be a long one parliamentary a chicken but the presidential will only be an hour. polling stations have been tallied for now also bobbies can do is look at the

individual results posted outside a specific polling station the final official result will only be announced in the coming days leaving with movie. night sure this week because he is the only think machine no. choice and he will not so good with everything that comes out in the lives of the. opposition supporters say they are worried about vote fixing and insist they are ready to defend a vote that was impossible to say they are not willing to accept a phrase that was this week as far as they could take out of. the way. to his supporters who say they have already talita votes the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has one for those of us i want to turn except yes

and i want to clarify that was in that spirit of the film was quite what it. was with. but when will the official results can only be announced by the electoral commission we have marked it with. the actions of some political leaders civic organizations individuals and other interested groups. were pretty clear and direct they will amounts results we will speak to or the progresses of the. ladies and gentlemen sure. no one wants to provoke the ruffled. so into you. with both the readings on a pay party and the main opposition alliance confident of victory the stakes are high they can be only one winner and should all be a window be a loser. but zimbabwe as

a country will be the role winner if everybody please their product well whoever wins must be magnanimous in victory and whoever loses must be gracious in defeat. in africa elections often the stakes are very high and nobody has a backup plan for losing diplomats and observer groups say the race we saw a turnout of seventy five percent is too close to call. elitism. so africa's president says the ruling african national congress will push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation so run of jose says the a.n.c. will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters issue of land ownership as one of the most contentious in south africa with some pointing to neighboring zimbabwe's economic collapse after a land reform. the intention of this proposed amendment is to promote redress advance economic development increase are going to cultural

production and food security it will also transform their unjust special realities in urban areas to accelerate agrarian reform the sea has further directed government to urgently initiate farmer support programs in depressed areas before the festival this year this should include supporting farmers with two tractors fertilizers c extension services finance and access to key infrastructure. not try to as founder and principal of jam off tech markets africa and he says this is a political time i had of next year's election. the sharer is a significant move and certainly the political context is general elections that are that are scheduled to be held in twenty nineteen the economy has underperformed

and not met popular expectations since several months roma post was appointed president in february twenty eight hundred succeeding jacob zuma and so this expropriation without compensation is certainly a political ploy to ensure that the ruling african national congress has sufficient electoral support going into those crucial elections next year the political pressure and the support within the ruling alliance the ruling african national congress and its support of parties has really escalated over the recent weeks and months to ensure or to press forward with the expropriation without compensation of not only government owned land not only private own land but the white owned land in south africa and you heard the statements by president run the focus of these are identical statements that the government of zimbabwe enacted to ensure that they won their political base over the very difficult and challenging eco economic

conditions that that country faced and so while the elections are still more than six months away the pressure is on the run from a post administration in the end the economic african national congress to ensure that these policy pronouncements are enacted sooner rather than later. still ahead on al-jazeera venezuelans tell us how they coped without electricity for alice but power went out in the capital. and i mean it has affected my relationships with him that i as. a v.c. encountered after that. and women and south africa turned our social media to protect themselves from sexual assault. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise

atop an asian metropolis how little to say to change the weather i'm afraid from the east of iran right back to the east and measuring you know the score it's the height of summer it's hot it's often breezy and dusty twenty nine by route forty two in baghdad seems fairly no work to fourteen hour in tehran and of course turns quite high above sea level so it's hot dry weather and the breeze is fairly common in the northwest. quite often disappears is time the year unless he would weather around the gulf states is not at the moment such a court to drive whether the dust is further in than the middle of society's come right down to the south and so i was still enjoying that's probably the right word the car if it is leaves is hot dry part of the world across the tropics and down to southern africa where surprisingly it's quite warm in the middle of botswana you got nearly thirty degrees cape town's increasing cloud might give you

a promise of better rain but a lot of huge amount to be honest is just getting through the dry ice time really does get cold at night but not quite frosty not for the most part now back in tropical africa received significant rain recently in sudan and south sudan ethiopian eritrea and as you can see there is a long way north in chad right up into the southern so hard. the weather sponsored by cats on race. where were you when this idea popped into it whether online it's undoubtedly chief goal of overseeing inequality in society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like for you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for change join the conversation on our.

again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour. facebook says it's found evidence of attempts to end florence the upcoming u.s. midterm elections it says it's removed thirty two fake accounts that were being used to sway the outcome of the polls two in november. passenger plane has crashed in northern mexico shortly after takeoff one hundred three people on board the brazilian jet survived but most of them sustained injuries and were taken to hospital plane belong to the national aero mexico with on domestic flight from durango to mexico. and south africa's president says the ruling african national congress will push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land from white

farmers without compensation so rob oppose it says the a.n.c. will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighter. and saying in south africa and thousands of people are expected to march against gender based violence trade unions and civil society groups have organized demonstrations across the country they say violence and abuse of women is systematic and a demand to government action official figures show that around a thousand women killed on average every year mostly at the hands of their partners one report estimates a one hundred seventeen percent rise in killings of girls and women since two thousand and fifteen that's five times higher than the global average sexual offenses have more than doubled since two thousand and fifteen and last just seventy thousand women were victims overall it's estimated that one in five south african women will experience sexual or physical violence in their lifetime well some women in south africa and now using social media to seek justice welcome web

reports from johannesburg. yolanda kyunki had just started a degree at rhodes university in south africa but she says she was raped she went for a drink with friends she doesn't remember anything else the following day other people told her that two different men had sex with her it's just really made me angry. really angry and through kids and i mean it has affected my relationships with men in their eyes. obviously the encounter after they had my trust in people in general . and i guess i just was a become a prison's really and it's a sad. you landers met many other students who are tired of their universities and police not acting on reports of sexual assault. on exchange students marched in broad university in twenty sixteen as part of their campaign they published a list of students and university staff on social media they said responsible for

sexual assault students have also protested here the university has run in johannesburg and since the student movement began thousands more south africans have taken to social media to express their anger at the lack of justice for women who have been raped or killed when carol mcqueen i was found murdered in johannesburg last year it prompted hundreds of thousands of tweet activists say the pressure pushed all thirty's to act her boyfriend was found guilty of the murder earlier this year ten james won a study the movement she says the social media activism and the naming of suspected rapists may not always bring justice but it breaks the silence because of the of help quickly has text pick up your able to call out your repurposed and there's a bunch of people who say i believe you this is your first interaction been going to the police and saying this is happened to me and the police saying well what we were where were you what time was it south africa some of the highest rates of

sexual violence in the world activists say less than one in ten. ported rapes result in conviction we asked the state prosecutor what she thinks about frustrated victims be suing justice on social media instead i would consider that dangerous i love. are you disha will legal system i think it works extremely well where the burden of proof is on the kids or at least as a prosecutor i know i can sleep soundly at night because i know if i had can convince the court that someone is guilty that person really is guilty you'll understand a rapist has never been held to account just as your sources failed her no justice has been done malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg. and attack on a government building has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen others in the east of afghanistan two gunmen set off explosions and storm the office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours

to end the siege a separate incident a bus hit a roadside bomb in the west of the country killing eleven passengers reports from kabul. jalalabad one of afghanistan's biggest cities and in other words are as torn as mace the department of refugee affairs for a conference on how to help displaced afghans they were targeted. explosions hit the compounds exterior allowing to government to get past the rules but others have a hold of them again of i was sitting in my medical store when a gunman entered the refugee department right after that they started shooting and one of them blew himself up at the gate i saw two injured people come out of the building for several hours sporadic gunfire was heard across the neighborhood smoke billowing from the building as afghan special forces hunted the remaining gunman the building is next door to the city's main hospital ten people were treated with critical injuries. it's also just one hundred meters from the midwife training

center that was attacked in the same way on saturday three staff members were killed and sixty seven trapped inside for hours. in the last three months there have been thirty attacks against civilians in this province that have killed one hundred sixty people and wounded nearly five hundred attacks in afghanistan extend to every border when at daybreak in western far province killed a live in passengers of a bus and wounded dozens drove over a roadside bomb on the main highway towards kabul. i was taking one of my relatives daughters to the treatment of me our bus was hit by a roadside bomb or a highway i don't know what happened to the girl. the government is blaming the taliban for the bus bombing but in the province the taliban has denied any involvement leaving isis as the primary suspect the area is

a stronghold for both groups they're becoming more active with more complex attacks and increasingly it's civilians who are being killed or injured. the syrian army is continuing its onslaught on rebel held province activists are reporting shelling on just south of adlib city and in neighboring hama province it is the only significant territory still held by the rebels president bashar assad has said retaking the province is his top priority the u.n. special envoy to syria says he wants agreements from iran russia and turkey on the formation of a body for drafting a new concept syrian constitution stefan de mistura says he hopes to finalize the plan in september he made the comments as the latest round of peace talks wrapped up in the russian city of sochi all parties vowed to work towards the resettlement of syrian refugees as well as a pilot project for prisoner swaps between the government and opposition. more than one hundred sixty illegal migrants have been deported from libya as part of

voluntary program and was initiated by the un to ease overcrowding in detention centers deportation comes a day after libya's coast guard rescued five hundred seventy nine migrants headed to europe at least one thousand five hundred migrants have died in the mediterranean sea this year. dissolving governments and appointing new prime ministers has been jordan's way of dealing with this economic crisis after protests in june became the country's seventh prime minister in seventy years the harvard education to education economist is seen as a reformer harder reports from he's inherited deep structural problems and these to deliver public to a public impatient for change. m r how soon a is a supporter of him a youth movement that mobilized the streets against the government a few weeks ago the demonstrations described as the biggest in years were according to this twenty seven year old only the beginning. i have faith in the people who

demanded their rights they weren't just opposing economic policies but demanding accountability and transparency they proved they have power. just like in previous occasions protests and with the appointment of a new prime minister who then temporarily overturns unpopular economic decisions but jordanians seem to be giving. a chance when we hope his governments will be better than the previous one and he candid us the burden faced by the people. i'm optimistic is doing his best. results is seen by some as a reformer but there are challenges ahead of. them he is the best challenge for change in jordan but hard decisions are needed they may not be good for the people but necessary for reforms his plan needs five years to bear fruit but he is facing a lot of pressure not just from the people. as his government has until the end of

the year to fulfill commitments made to the international monetary fund to receive much needed loans that means reducing the large public debt but to do so economists warn would mean putting more financial burdens on the population jordan's economic problems are not new but they are getting worse the cost of living is on the rise prices of basic goods fuel and bread they have been steadily increasing unemployment is at eighteen percent the highest in decades. people want lower fuel prices and sales tax on basic goods slashed they don't want more taxes and for this use movement it's not just about the economy but the demand for change in the way the country is run they are giving the government one hundred days since taking office in mid june to deliver. right so venezuela's capital city caracas was left without power for several hours on chance day hashes

happen reckoning in rural areas to use the crumbling infrastructure but the rat and the couplet self as an actress mentor a court the blackout sabotage and reports. more misery for the residents of the venezuelan capital caracas. eighty percent of the city and some nearby areas without electricity thousands of houses lost power telephones were down and the city's subway system ground to a whole. we were on the subway full of people and finally it stopped due to the blackout we were half an hour in there we were suffocating. passengers either waited for radio overcrowded buses all the long distances to work. and this is serious how long will this go on no one can put up with this there's just one person responsible for all of this i'm sorry to say but he's aware what he's doing . he's referring to president nicolas maduro who many venezuelans blame for rampant

inflation the shortages of food and medicine and rising crime the president blames what he calls and he said the state including the united states the blackout came a day off to power was lost to the congress of the governing socialist party have been assuaged which the president again said was sabotaged power cuts are common in other parts of venezuela but less so in the capital where few in this all rich country is one of the few commodities there's plenty of store to say they're working to restore power as soon as possible hampered by heavy rainfall. there al-jazeera as president donald trump has held one of his make america great again rallies and tampa florida is campaigning for republicans ahead of the upcoming midterm elections he also defended his trade war with china blaming beijing for targeting american fondness. more than a dozen major fires continue to blaze across the u.s. state of california one of the hardest hit areas is close to the city of reading

where the flames have been extinguished the lingering smokers left the dangerous to breathe. sent this report. the city of reading in the state of california remains envelop by a thick layer of smoke and ash that is blocking everything including the sun it's been like this for the past five days making homes is heating advice from health officials who say any time people are outside they should wear masks i've lived here for twenty five years and. you know i've seen a lot of fires in a lot of fires but it's it's pretty bad this time we've had like ash and embers falling by our house and. you know still it's been a week still you see you know little. ash falling. all over town in air quality indexes any number of above two hundred is considered dangerously

unhealthy in reading it's registered as high as two hundred seventy three in recent days local hospitals are busy with people suffering from breathing problems particularly the people most vulnerable some people have something called c o p d which is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease typically it comes from smoking for a long time what happens to them though because of their breathing in these fine particles and it's getting in the lung and fortune causes inflammation and there are ways and their little muscles in their lungs constrict and so it makes it very difficult for them to bring you it's not only the smoke in the air that's causing problems it's also what's happening here on the ground when the fire came through here it completely incinerated all of the natural vegetation there's not one single tree that's still alive not even one leaf is still here it's causing the temperatures to be even hotter warmer drier and causing more health problems.

ash plank it's the ground that was once fertile land for plants in a city where the flames are gone but the health hazards are not people still can't breathe easy. until the smoke has lifted gabriel zonda. ready fornia. plenty more can be found on our website which is up to twenty four hours a day al-jazeera dot com. zero these are our top stories facebook says it's found evidence of attempts to implement the upcoming u.s. midterm elections and says it's removed thirty two fake accounts that were being used to sway the outcome of the polls june in november a passenger plane has crashed in northern mexico shortly after takeoff or one hundred three people on board the brazilian jet survived but most of them sustained

injuries and were taken to hospital the plane that belonged to the national carrier aeromexico it was on a domestic flight from durango to mexico city government drunker says the plane was hit by a gust of wind as it left the runway south africa's president says the ruling african national congress will push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation so rum opposes says the a.n.c. will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters or the one hundred sixty illegal migrants have been deported from libya as part of a voluntary program this was initiated by the un to overcrowding in detention centers deportation comes a day after libya's coast guard rescued five hundred seventy nine migrants headed to europe at least one thousand five hundred migrants have died in the mediterranean sea this year an attack on a government building has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen

others in eastern afghanistan two gunmen set off explosions and stormed the office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours to end the siege. firefighters in the u.s. state of california say they have saved a populated area from wildfires that are sweeping across the north of the state was diverted from the city of clear lake into the national forests at least six people have died and seven more still missing since the fires broke out more than a week ago destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands of families say now with all the headlines and we're back with another news after the street. getting to the heart of the matter unless we have new generations growing up to understand better our relationship with the natural world and soon there will be nothing left facing reality or our friends and allies the positive

all the friends and used to inform taking place here their story on talk to al-jazeera. ok and you're in the stream. millions turned out to vote one day in them by always historic close run election day we ask what's next for the country post mugabe so tweet us a comment in the live chat and you too could be in the street. monday zimbabweans voted in the country's first election since former president robert mugabe was forced from power here without mccartney's name on the ballot voters had to choose from a field of twenty three candidates including the two front runners incumbent president. faced a tough child.