a legal political party in the country saying that actually their announcement is shameful and roderigo i'm going you're the leader of the fact that there is very sorry that this is their decision but that's the great majority of the former rebels have disarmed and are sticking our committee has to push forward a peace agreement to end its implementation in columbus. still ahead here on out is iraq trying to save their land the battles facing pharmacists in the amazon. and the haves and have nots a new report looks of the difference in life span between the rich and poor in the u.s. . tropical storm develop just west of luzon zones way to vietnam now if you see a lot of rain mostly of the water in the past 170 millimeters in 24 hours is

a lot of rain that's the potential at least to be realized as it runs in this is it's underneath here you can't resist circulation is no idea of a massive wide cloud so the rain that comes from it will be a vietnam cambodia must be laos the southwest of china and anything that's green here is largely fairly wet and the heart of it is going to be vietnam but for hong kong. and beyond even towards shanghai this is going to be a wet area for a couple of days so a lot regel such as for you not to sichuan one small good part of the rest of china is currently dry now the monsoon rains in india should be retreating into some degree they are of that mass of what you just sort of there those words into southern pakistan was nice but of late rain in the forecast is still something in this northwestern part of an it doesn't really cross the border i'm afraid but anywhere from here north nepal down towards much of a dish and beyond that could be potentially wet in monsoon showers that continue

now so far we've morse code talk to where we should be search could end up being a pretty normal monsoon period. think of some of the biggest companies in the world today all of them big tech with algorithms that the more that we want out of we do. we're in the midst of a great race for dunn and big tech companies are in the chase and are rising on the wealth of nations and we. in the 2nd term a 5 part series really re-examined is where the corporations are all of. american power of victory and.

you're watching al-jazeera our mind of our top stories this hour yemen's u.n. recognized government is accusing the united arab emirates of launching air strikes against its troops and aid the strikes which killed doesn't help to give a back southern separatists regain full control of the coastal 60. 4 members of colombia's revolutionary armed forces or fark say they'll take up arms again despite a landmark peace deal signed 3 years ago ivan marcuse who was a high ranking commander of the rebel group accuses the government of not sticking to the 2016 agreement it's a nice prime minister just because he is set to keep his job he's been given a mandate to form a new government by president sergio that iowa after a breakthrough in coalition talks between calculus and the center. the opposition in the u.k. says it will use all mecca mechanisms to stop

a no deal breaks it including a snap election the labor party remains open to a vote of no confidence in the prime minister who on wednesday and as he suspending parliament till mid october a group of them pieces asked a scottish court to decide if the suspension is legal and some members of johnson's own party have resigned some e.u. politicians have condemned johnson's moves saying it increases the chances of a chaotic brix it johnson says the u.k. will leave the e.u. by october 31st with or without an agreement well the opposition is now calling for an emergency debate in parliament. what we've got them a group of experts from trust that he's taking legal advice looking to see next we whether we can use the introduction of legislation to prevent me. in my well being or boris johnson does try and trigger a general election on his own terms but i will make sure that if there is a general election it will be on our terms as well and also part will make the decision about the time we have that we will be dictated to anymore by

a dictator in numbers and parliament now is reasserting the traditional centuries old democratic rights of the people well aristide has more from london. well of all the fireworks of wednesday and boris johnson's announcement of his suspending parliament for a fall 5 weeks all the pressure now is on the anti bricks its side the side that doesn't want to do certainly doesn't want boris johnson's version of bracks it to figure out what they're going to do to try to block him and the main problem they have against them is the absolute lack of time because with parliament being suspended from just over a week from now there are only about 3 parliamentary sitting days for them to come up with something their main line of attack continues to be to try to pass a law that would prevent a no deal bracks it at the end of october and ask for an extension from the european union but the problem with that is that if they want to pass

a law they have sue amend a government bill going through parliament and if the government doesn't propose any bills go through parliament then there is nothing for them to amend and as it stands at the moment there isn't anything for them to amend in parliament next week and so how then can they pass a law if that doesn't work there are other alternative is to force a vote of no confidence in the government next week which they could do but if they want to do that they have to propose an alternative government with norton it's of prime minister because if the government of the day were to lose a vote of confidence then the opposition would have 2 weeks to form a new government well south korea's supreme court has ordered a retrial in the bribery case against samsung boss j y e h it's part of a corruption scandal which saw president park geun hye impeached and removed from office in 2017 problem brad has more from seoul. as one of the country's most powerful business leaders jay wiley's imprisonment in 2017 cents shock waves

through south korea. the prospect of him returning to prison is equally traumatic the was caught up in the corruption scandal that brought down former president to par. hey and her longtime associate choice until both now serving long prison terms lee was judged to have bribed choy by providing funds to a foundation run by her as well as 3 horses for her daughter's equestrian pursuits but on appeal in 2018 a court ruled that the horses should not be considered as bribes reducing his sentence so he could walk free from prison. again i feel very sorry to everyone for not showing my best side and it has been a really precious time for a year we flecking on myself the supreme court ruling overturned that decision sending the case back to the lower court which could really impose its original

prison sentence which among the convictions and acquittal of the charges in the original verdicts the courts inspect the case involving bribery to the high court and so on. all of this comes at a difficult time for samsung caught in the middle of south korea's deepening trade dispute with its neighbor japan tokyo has imposed restrictions on the export of vital components and raw materials but sound song needs for its high tech manufacturing as it accounts for around 20 percent of south korea's exports that could hurt the country's worsening trade performance samsung's lawyers were quick to express their regret for the possible fallout from the case. i would like to note that the defendants feel very regretful to have caused disappointment and concern to many over this case. the case will be heard in the next few months more uncertainty to add to samsung's troubles robert bride al-jazeera sole. lebanon's

hezbollah is promising to raise hell against israel after accusing it of being behind what it called a suicide attack by self destructing drones last weekend domestic rivals have long accused the group of making security and military decisions on its own dragging the country to war this time lebanese officials are rallying behind hezbollah saying it harder has more now from beirut the israeli army has pulled back from its positions close to the border with lebanon it's on high alert awaiting hezbollah's promised retaliation for the killing of 2 of its operatives in airstrikes in neighboring syria since the 2006 war there is really military has largely refrained from targeting hezbollah inside lebanon instead it has been facing off against the group and its backer iran in syria that changed over the weekend the lebanese armed group is accusing israel of sending armed drones that crashed and exploded on a mission to attack in its stronghold in the sudden suburbs of beirut it is

promising to confront drones that violate lebanon's airspace and it has the support of the lebanese state everybody is aligned everybody rejects this israeli operation with raising premiums what what we've always wanted to have. a state the lebanese state's going to state is through a series and perhaps the majority of the lebanese people. lebanon's army and government officials described the drone crash incident as an attempted attack and the violation of the country's sovereignty president michel and who called it a declaration of war chaired a meeting of the higher defense council which stressed the right of lebanese to defend themselves by any means to deter further israeli attacks before the election or around there was always a margin. a margin of space if i may say between. official position of the lebanese state as well opposition as

a resistance. it's fortunate for i mean. recently has has been. diminished or has. become. has belong and its allies now hold political power in lebanon its opponents accuse it of doing iran's bidding in the proxy war with israel. the month long war in 2006 was sparked by a cross border raid in which hezbollah killed and captured israeli soldiers there is now the possibility of a new confrontation hezbollah says it will not reveal details of its planned retaliation and its timings but there are those who believe it will likely be a calculated response in order to avoid all out war. israel's response is not guaranteed back in 2006 the lebanese government disavowed itself from hezbollah today it is a different dynamic and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is warning the

lebanese state it will be held responsible for hezbollah's actions. beirut. brazilian president jabal scenario has signed a decree banning the practice of burning land for the purposes of clearing it the ban will remain in effect for the next 2 months the practice of intentionally burning than this meant to improve soil quality for farming the band follows the global outcry over the fires that are burning in the amazon region some of which were started deliberately well sonar was also calling for more development in the amazon and it's believed the fires are the result of illegal farming and logging which local government officials say they don't have enough resources to stop down yes one report from the northwestern state over on. it takes a tough breed to hack a living from the searing hot inhospitable amazon. they come to recap to learn to plant soya yams and much else besides they do so legally but the vulnerable in this

huge pool the peace region to illegal speculators. they're grabbing all of that area part of the john marine nature reserve they're grabbing everything and the word is they will cut everything down and if they do then they'll set it on fire it. this man said he feared for his life and his identity was revealed saying neither the police nor the authorities have the resources to protect him from neighbors who covered his land just when the president is being called upon to do more by the international community and some of those living here to do more to defend the amazon he moves in the opposite direction he invites more developments which many living here fill the environment and themselves a greater risk. president says too much of this forest is protected neither nature reserves or indigenous reservations the poverty awaits those who don't take advantage. but this rancher said he thought there had been enough deforestation.

on has to have cattle we don't need to de force anything else though just take care of the lands that are already deforested take care of the rivers of the spring this cattle is what we live from. however he said he doesn't blame the president for the lang grabs all the fires he believes the region is simply too big to police despite the efforts of the local authorities. crime happens everywhere however our policies have been positive. but because of the size of the state and the way its land is occupied our policies will take time to work to guarantee security in both urban and rural areas. other small farm farming can and should only be done in a sustainable way. some people don't respect the law and this creates a bad image of our country abroad but we keep fighting for local farmers who work with nature the ecosystem so that we can all survive. the battle for the land has

been raising since your arrival of the 1st europeans the green to these bars country there is enough for everyone to shattered by greed corruption and poor management of their elders era your state north west of the ville the top u.s. military officer says it's too early to talk about a fool u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan general joseph dunford says afghans still need support to deal with the level of violence u.s. negotiators have been in talks with the taliban for months on the issue of troop withdrawal the update by done for then defense secretary mark esper was the 1st joint news conference in 12 months storm dorian has intensified into a hurricane and is now building in strength after hitting the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico it calls power outages and flooding across the caribbean when it hit as a strong tropical storm forecasters are warning it could be a category 3 hurricane when it reaches the u.s. mainland in the next few days a state of emergency was declared for florida on wednesday. they got the life

expectancy between the rich and poor in the united states can be as many as 30 years and it's not just limited access to health care that's causing the less well off to die earlier john hendren has more now from chicago. in america where you live can determine how long you live you give me anything in a blink. yeah i can consume you some. problems. to some extent the lifespan gap between rich and poor exists everywhere but when new york university medical center studied the us the biggest disparity was here in chicago that gap is surprisingly wide even where the distance is short on the north side among the gleaming high rises of the city's streeterville neighborhood the average lifespan is 90 years 15 kilometers away in impoverished englewood it's 60 that is larry richards age you know in englewood you beat the odds right all my

life and money which leads to better health care or no health care least a better food better diet and rich people are just more aware of their bodies than poor people or they care more about others and they can afford the health care exactly in streeterville residents have easy access to medical care a healthy foods and a safe place to exercise here you can essentially buy a longer life because here is segregation in poverty go hand in hand people in the south have been hit by. all the ills here society gun violence is off the charts a lot of depressed you have. this running rampant on. some blame access to health care some blame a lack of healthy foods but researchers say the biggest cause of shorter life spans stress has what they call a weathering effect chronic disease sets in earlier people have

a rough life been pushed around their whole life and are being bullied their whole life and so what you get is a physiological reaction to being in some ways a victim of a lot of the social distribution of status in our society and there is a element of class to this and there's an element of caste meaning race is long as that divide remains researchers say so will a lifespan gap john hendren chicago. well you can find that much more on our website it's if you have there you can see our top story by the emmons un recognized government accusing the give you a year of launching airstrikes you can find all that and more at al jazeera dot com sina said. this is al-jazeera these are our current top stories yemen's un recognized government is accusing the united arab emirates of launching air strikes against

its troops at least 40 people have been killed in aden and zinjibar that's in the sights according to this information ministry the strikes help the u.a.e. backs up and separatists regain full control of the coastal city. yes security council's been meeting to discuss the humanitarian crisis that continues to unfold across syria the u.n. special envoy for syria drew particular attention to the growing numbers of dead and displaced people. while an instability in syria is extremely alarming we haven't ever rising civilian death all millions displaced on tolls tens of thousands detained or missing launch opponents of the syrian territory prime minister between different actors confrontations between states on multiple axis research and i saw stepping up its guerrilla attacks and yet the launch of a real political process these dynamics can and must change.

former members of colombia's revolutionary armed forces or fox say they'll take up arms again despite a landmark peace deal signed 3 years ago ivan marquez who was a high ranking commander of the rebel group says a new phase of armed struggle will begin and accuses the government of not sticking to the 2016 agreement it's really as prime minister just said he comes he will keep his job after a breakthrough in coalition talks he's been given the mandate to form a new government by the country's president conti resigned last week when the far right leader party withdrew its support from a coalition government. the opposition in the u.k. says it will use all mechanisms to stop a no deal breaks including a snap election the labor party remains open to a vote of no confidence in the prime minister who on wednesday in and he's suspending parliament until mid october a group of them peace has asked a scottish court to decide if the suspension is legal some members of johnson's

party have also resigned you are firmly up to date those are headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after all hail the algorithm by.

think of some of the biggest companies in the world today there's google amazon microsoft facebook we chat all of them big tech with algorithms at that one more than just uses or customers will these businesses would generate is a dot of they need us to like them for them to be indispensable because the more that we use them the more data we produce where in the midst of

a great race the dot and big tech companies are on the chase. for the past 3 years academics nichol dri analysts have been investigating a phenomenon they call data colonialism. while the modes scales and context may have changed they say colonialism same underlying functions of empire building extraction and appropriation remain the new lang grab going on there's not land that's being grabbed it's us it's human life the acquisition of the construction of data valuable data for corporate use out of the flow of our lives that's the lag right going on and that's why the work is the only way does justice to that let's

think for instance of all the and use her license agreements or the terms of use that we read whenever we sign up for a new social media platform and if we think about the process of being asked to agree to something that we cannot even understand when signing away certain rights signing away our property in this act i think it's a very interesting we're not for one moment saying. colonialism today with data involved the same horrific level of violence that was involved in the beginnings of columbia this. week saying that the core of historic colonus and was the force to involve people in a massive new system a new order a new organization of the world economy in the history of kuoni listen we've had different empires times of course we can think of this kranish empire the british empire i think we would say at this point in history in terms of data colonialism

we have 2 centers of power and we have the united states on one side and china in the other and of course we know the american corporations very well in terms of kugel facebook amazon maybe we don't know the chinese corporations very well because their reach is just beginning to expand. beyond china so far trying out has been kind of like an internal colony but we are starting to see how attorneys corporations how the infrastructure developed in trying out is starting to expand to different parts of the world including asia and africa. to china's biggest private company well way technologies africa has been a coal miner so it's countries like south africa nigeria kenya which is where now had delivered some of the biggest most rapidly growing tell it. has studied the

while way effect here in kenya they're building products for example that are suited to the african market the cheapest mobile phone that you can get in various african markets it's a chinese phone so you will not go home but if you looked on multiple people to the site and they are building relationships with governments they are providing infrastructure so while we has provided a lot of infrastructure for. surveillance in kenya and i see team kenya to work in every country whether it's developed by the people somewhere in the middle and that's really useful for governments here so we advise you know on that government data centers on the economy and services or anything else we can share those experiences from around the world the nice thing is of course it provides benefits of people connected to our business so they're generating revenue for us as well but the other piece of the chinese influence is the surreptitious war there's a lot of questions about data collection with technology that's coming in from china and in some ways it's the other side of the coin right there is

a whole lot of data that's being taken out from african countries and from african citizens to be kept handled used by people who are not this is certainly responsible for answerable to african people so while it is not. access people's data or cell data so i don't think that we are the kind of company. that are benefitting off people's data by the only day that we're using it just to improve our product themselves such as using artificial intelligence our smartphones in our network equipment so that it can then improve be faster there are skeptics who would question adam's assertion after all most big tech companies do exploit user data or in some way however even if while way doesn't do it there are other chinese operations in africa that collect and make extensive use of people's data. here in nairobi the dominance of chinese tech is undeniable

from telecommunication lines to satellite networks right down to the fines in people's hands and the outs on those fights chinese companies have this market and much of the data it produces in its cross trends in holdings for instance sells to over 40 percent of the mobile market in sub-saharan africa it's fun someone to the brand names techno i tell and in phoenix but its strategy doesn't end with the hardware data driven apps like the music streaming service being play and digital payment platform pompei add to a growing repository of data on african users and can help boost money making opportunities for transition when you think about digital partners and i think any i think the thing that gets lost is that the primary objective it was about money was fundamentally about using power using culture using all these kinds of tools to impose one society in another society is still of the 1st society could make money

off of that where you define corner as a map that then you really start to see the residences in china has been investing in africa many parts of asia for 2030 years very systematically is never pretended that the earth is doing anything other than expanding its economic interests it has not you. civilizing rhetoric because it doesn't need to let's contrast that for the moment with a company like microsoft which talks about democratizing ai or facebook to this concerned to give as it were connection cometary can just be a privilege for some of the rich and powerful and needs to be something that everyone shares. facebook has made a big push to present itself as a benevolent force to get people online since 2013 the company has been leading a giant project called internet dot all sort of gateway to the world wide web for

those with poor connectivity. the app that serves as the portal to facebook's version of the internet is called free basics and it's been launched in at least 60 countries more than half of them in africa the idea is to provide access to select sites without data charges in effect it's a stripped down version of the internet that has one very important component guaranteed connection with facebook and guaranteed possibilities of data extraction which is why despite the company's slick marketing not everyone is convinced that this is an entirely selfless exercise non-jury cimbali is a leading to general rights advocate i think what's most interesting in the what i'll call techno politics is the rush to connect the unconnected and the rush to retain the connected in very specific platforms a lot of these actors will do anything and everything to make sure at some point or other these users go through their platforms because it's all about the data it's all about how much data can i get about people's of arkansas ads so that you know

concrete predictive things to keep them hooked into what i'm able to offer and therefore the world will keep churning there's no way that a lot of these tech companies would be able to behave in their home countries the way they behave in the developing world there is no way that you would be able to roll out a project as big as free basic. without some kind of check or balance would some without some kind of ethic call. there was no effort to even say this is what this means this is how this will work for you and that is really telling rate of what they think that african people want and or need from the internet projects that are largely in this case emerging from a silicon valley or western america centric approach to connecting and connected really deeply steeped in the same condescending ways of doing development so this notion that give them something that is better than nothing i mean why would anyone

not want that vehicle in us some is framed in terms of a civilizational mission when people are connected we can accomplish some pretty amazing thing just like historical colonialism was framed as well in terms of bringing progress bringing something that is good and beneficial for humanity we can get closer to the people that we care about we can get access to jobs and opportunities and our participation is expected and our petition pretty soon we are told it's for our own good meanwhile all of this extraction and capturing of the you know it's kind of happening in the background without also realizing the consequences ready the facebook free basics model which is basically about expanding for facebook the demain of data extraction across the world at a time when demand for facebook is beginning to fall amongst younger people in particular in the so-called west. is very interesting just as in historic colonialism the apparent weakness of the colonized populations their lack of

weapons their lack of certain results it's the lack of an economic structure suggested to the colonizers that they need to be colonized they needed to have whatever the colonial system would offer them to bind them in. free basics is just one of facebook's many initiatives across africa. facebook's latest push here in kenya is called express why 5 companies teamed up with local internet service providers to install y. 5 hotspots like here in the mass i town of eagle on the outskirts of nairobi. jerry nimble c.e.o. is a hairdresser who signed up as of into facebook's express why. he gets a commission on every dot a bundle he sells his customers say they look like they drew his 1st book because even myself i use it and they friended their bundle keep the cheaper. drugs.