brought about by the series of earthquake this month has forced doctors to attend to patients right outside the hospital and they're very difficult conditions extreme heat and basically according to doctors there's a shortage of medicine and water here their stockpiles of medicine have been stuck inside the pharmacy and they have no way of getting it for now they say they need help because the situation is getting even more difficult with hourly aftershocks and more patients coming in and. most of the patients here are old people and some of them even tell us they were not able to run fast enough when the earthquake struck many of them are being treated for minor injuries here and those with serious injuries have been brought to the city the biggest city closest to north about the province and beyond the immediate need of medical food and water patients you tell us they're also worried about the long term impact of this earthquake many

of them have lost their homes and their livelihood and they're hoping for a promise from the government of assistance beyond just now this week also but in the coming years to come for them. still ahead on al-jazeera the mounting cost of weeks of often violent protests in chile against poverty and corruption also new fires forced thousands more from their homes in the u.s. state of california. hello again to welcome back well of course all eyes are on japan as we go into the rugby world cup here on the weekend and things are looking quite nice in terms of the weather not a lot of clouds here on our forecast map on saturday and temps of wise we are looking at probably the low twenty's as your high going into the teens in the

overnight hours there for tokyo $21.00 degrees and for a sucka we do expect to see a temperature few of $22.00 degrees there well here across much of china things are not looking too bad out here towards the east but we are picking up a lot more showers on saturday across much of the central regions as well as clouds as we go for the south on kong it is going to be a mostly cloudy day if you are $28.00 but we are picking up a lot of clouds and rain as well across northern vietnam with a noisy attempt a few of 24 and rain in your forecasts and then very quickly down here towards the south where we are going to be seeing over here towards the philippines some very heavy rain across much of the region on saturday. off and on raif you at $31.00 degrees down towards the south though we are going to be seeing some rain showers for jakarta but over towards bangkok it is going to be mostly cloudy conditions a few with a temperature of $31.00 and down towards a cell the cross much of southern thailand that is where we're going to be picking up much of the heavy rain there singapore very very nice day few with a temperature of 32.

how much will react to the girls 5 on the scale of modern slavery in the u.k. is enormous we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg really to sort of call the modern slavery act i'm just being sort of the we don't come roast you know punch someone in the storm why haven't companies need to understand that this is exploitation if it sounds too good to be true it probably is and there are some very very nasty people out there al-jazeera investigates britain's modern slave trade.

well again the top stories on al-jazeera after weeks of protests and road walks across lebanon schools and banks have reopened their doors there is concern over funds being sent to broad because of reports that some banks may impose restrictions meanwhile protesters are continuing their calls for the entire government to resign. turkish on russian troops have started joint patrols in northeastern syria a so-called safe zone follows a deal to remove kurdish y.p.u. fighters to a distance of 30 kilometers south of the border. thousands of people protesting against pakistan's government has started to rally in the capital a convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party entered its bomb about on thursday. after weeks of hearings behind closed doors the impeachment process targeting u.s. president donald trump is moving into a new public phase the house of representatives which is controlled by trump's

rivals the democrats voted to advance and formalize the investigation but not all democrats were on board as heidi is oh castro reports from washington and historic words from the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives we gather here on that opening day with their families gathered around to proudly raise our hand to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. as congress took the 1st vote in the impeachment inquiry of president donald trump the measure which authorizes the inquiry to enter a public phase passed $232.00 to 1962 democrats joined a unanimous republican caucus in voting no those in staver cliche. those opposed say no. democrats are trying to impeach the president because

they are scared they cannot defeat him at the ballot box that's not my words that's the words of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle that has offered impeachment 3 different times this impeachment is not only an attempt to undo the last election is an attempt to influence the next one as well. over the past weeks more than a dozen witnesses have testified before impeachment investigators behind closed doors leaked portions of their testimony paint a narrative of trump using the power of his office to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rivals to morrison the russian expert on the national security council appeared on capitol hill on thursday despite white house orders not to previous witnesses have said morrison described having a sinking feeling after he learned a trump wanted ukraine's president to go to a microphone to announce investigations into korma vice president joe biden what's

the problem here for the republicans in the president's the fenders is that the the evidence is pretty damning the road toward impeaching president trump is still a long one and democrats into size that impeachment is not a foregone conclusion but thursday's vote paves the way forward and forecasts a bitter partisan battle ahead with trump's presidency at stake. castro al-jazeera washington. and jordan explains more about what these developments mean in what is a long and highly politicized process the vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry in the house of representatives on thursday was a formality there's nothing in the u.s. constitution that requires members of congress to actually take the step in order to conduct an impeachment inquiry of the u.s. president however congressional republicans have argued that the process which has

been led by house democrats has been illegal the president has called it a witch hunt so by calling this vote on their state the house speaker nancy pelosi essentially was calling house republicans bluff challenging them to say that they did not support a public and official inquiry even though the. it had been their complaint all along the next up for house democrats is to try to move from the closed door preliminary questioning of witnesses inside the trumpet ministration to a series of public hearings perhaps by the end of november at the earliest what democrats are hoping to do is to convince the general public that what has been reported has been breaching the u.s. constitution and they want these witnesses to make their case before the general public house republicans however are looking for ways of stopping this process from

taking place but regardless of what happens in the coming weeks it is clear that there is a real question about the president's credibility and about whether he was crossing the line in order to advance his personal political agenda house republicans saying they're going to make certain that this is not what they are calling a coup. trillanes government says the damage caused by 2 weeks of unrest has now surpassed a $1000000000.00 to major summit to be held in santiago have been cancelled and despite a 2 day public holiday the demonstrations for social reforms continue or latin america are trying to see a new man reports. but 3 said the lalla nectars fernandes are locking up their hardware store in downtown santiago after taking out everything with saving. the. little we had in this stall but there hasn't been a single day without looting we've lost 60 percent of our income particularly we have commitments bills taxes and salaries to pay i don't know how we'll manage.

until 2 weeks ago chile was the envy of the region home to the so-called chilean economic miracle. but an explosion of social unrest has changed all that. while most demonstrations are peaceful who did an extremely violent groups all over the country have been burning and pillaging private and public property. that includes this emblematic public library that was just ransacked. until now the vandals have respected our center but yesterday they went too far they took the books and everything. the damage so far has well surpassed a $1000000000.00 according to the government tourism is also being devastated and not just because of the cancellation of the cop $25.00 and the apec summit which would have jumped millions of dollars into the economy in this area for example

downtown shops have been burnt down even a hotel seriously damaging to its reputation as that americans say 1st and home this country. many shopping centers and hundreds of damage supermarkets remain shut along with small businesses all of which will impact jobs the situation is quakes. for a very large percentage of the relation because the small companies you've the largest employer so that would reflect all people so the government will have to take very serious measures. congress has in fact passed a bill at lightning speed freezing electricity prices until the end of next year and obliging the power companies to reverse a 10 percent tariff hike that winter to affect this month. it won't be enough to appease the widespread demands for profound social and economic reforms but too many it's proved that their politicians will only listen when they are under

extreme pressure. to see an human just see that santiago. protesters in hong kong have taken advantage of halloween to defy a ban on wearing masks demonstrations were held in a busy party district with police using shields and tear gas to disperse crowds anti-government demonstrators have been protesting against a ban on face coverings at rallies which came into effect earlier in october. strong dry winds have in is the u.s. state of california giving crews a chance to get on top of wildfires that have destroyed homes and forced thousands of people to flee electricity cuts that were imposed to prevent more flare ups have largely been reversed priyanka gupta reports. this is what will cause the terrified residents of san bernardino in southern california to find. so out there. it's one of the 2 due wildfires in the area that have been

cost homes and forced hundreds of people out to escape the ruling flames our neighbor over here they came back door. here today. but anyway here here's the. far as we can see it and then the fire department came up and he was right by. my neighbor. said you got to go get out of here. 4 hours far far to struggles against strong wind gusts to stop the fire from spreading in san bernardino valley by thursday morning the blaze has spread across 140 hector's of tended dry land local authorities are asking people here to stay alert i want to remind people stay vigilant you don't see the wind blow and roll hard right now at least where we're but you go up on the side of the hill or up in

the areas the winds are very erratic so we're clear stay vigilant. in northern california there was some good news hundreds of firefighters there were able to control 60 percent of a major blaze that's been raging since last wednesday. the can't get fire is the biggest so far this season it's destroyed nearly $300.00 homes and properties and burned thousands of hectares of land in the sonoma county wine region the dry santa ana winds from the desert have been blamed for spreading the wildfires across the state. winds so dry that the national weather service had to issue an extreme red flag warning in los angeles and ventura counties. al-jazeera australia's national carrier qantas has grounded 3 of its planes after cracks were found and their wings the boeing 737 next generation jets will now have complex repair or

other carriers elsewhere in the world have taken the same action after discovering similar problems u.s. regulators regulators excuse me say airlines should check 70 sevens that have made more than 30000 trips timber exports are resuming in sierra leone as the government tries to make up for a lower mining revenue this say environmentalists risks undoing 10 years of reforestation efforts. reports. another forest giant comes to the chainsaw. this tree took about 25 years to grow. but less than a minute to bring down. the rows with its most preferred by loggers across forests in sydney all of these majestic trees are being cut down illegally to meet an increasing demand for timber. holder to say

they are struggling to enforce the law we handicapped by. in adequate and intense shortages in our ranges to amend the forest so what we've done is to design programs where i mean of if you know of as we have to target areas that are prevalent in our notable fall and have listed. when i joined my whole guinea trees once to all these past brush and undergrowth on the left environmentalist estimate that only 3 percent of sterile yards forest cover remains. still bleeding from a cut its young trees like this and i mean targeted by loggers simply because the giants of the forests are gone and environmentally sound warning that in a short while there won't be trees this size to be cut anymore. near the port here in the capital freetown the timber is prepared for export to

china. has a large scale logging is not receiving it but the timber is exported to stop it from rotting away. in front of office we. were met a situation wherein there are a huge backlog of timbers that were already have a stead sit in the bush and some actually started going bad and a case was made to government to lift a temporary ban on the exploitation of timber to access to allow those who are actually invested in. the timber production to allow them to all too little export their woods or the logs so that is in place and the process is still ongoing . these forests are slowly transforming into grasslands environmentalists say with the level of deforestation so even the shrubs will disappear they argue that the decision to leave the timber export by and temporarily set back the gains of the

past 10 years to regenerate the forest initiative 3 years of this country will never get them back once they are gone a new species some endemic you can't find them anywhere around the world except incidentally if we lose those in the me species and we've lost the whole world i've lost something. it's clear those concerns for now i north by mothers was only focus is the money they get in a country where it's a struggle to earn enough to supply. more than settle. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera after weeks of protests and roadblocks across lebanon some schools and banks have reopened their doors there are restrictions on how much money people can send abroad to prevent capital flights

customers are also ingrid about limits on daily withdrawals. as continue their demands for the entire government to resign turkish and russian troops have started joint patrols in northeastern syria so-called safe zone it follows a deal to remove kurdish fighters to a distance of 30 kilometers south of the border has to have about a has more it's just a few days ago in some areas like tel tamada and also the outskirts of us that i there will have the clashes between the syrian opposition fighters the i said they and the syrian army and the i.d.f. on the other hand turkey although it's had reassurances from russia the 34000 fighters from the white beaches or retreated from the safe so still it needs all the ground to verify on its own that that has indeed happened and this explains why this is going to be a critical moment for the 2 countries thousands of people who say they're fed up

with pakistan's government have started demonstrating on the streets of the capital a convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party entered islam about on thursday demanding prime minister imran khan resign they say khan who's refused to step down hasn't fulfilled his promise of strengthening the economy. in the u.s. the impeachment inquiry into president moving to a public phase the house of representatives approved a resolution paving the way for open hearings in congress and formalizing procedures for that investigation a day after the southern philippines was struck by a powerful earthquake people are now worried about aftershocks the magnitude 6.5 quake struck on thursday killing at least 5 people this is the 3rd powerful earthquake to strike the philippines in 2 weeks about 12000 people are staying in shelters in the island of mindanao there was another earthquake on friday off the southern coast but no reports of injuries or damage up to date with the headlines

on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next. twitter says no to political advertising the social media platform imposes a ban on the head of next year's u.s. presidential election but how will this be enforced and what does encourage all stifle political debate this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm the star of the attack now social media has transformed the way we debate politics and no one knows that more than the president of the united states donald trump who often uses twitter to announce new policies attack opponents and even retreat what many consider to be misleading information and over the years facebook twitter and you tube have been criticized for allowing political hate speech and misinformation to flourish on their platforms now with just a year to go before the u.s. presidential election twista is banning all political advertising around the wild for next month while some democratic candidates welcome to the move president trump's campaign manager called it a very dumb decision intended to silence conservatives on twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey says this isn't about free expression this is about paying for reach and paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today's democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle it's worth stepping back in order to address. well let's take

a closer look at spending around social media ads in the united states now political parties are expected to spend $6000000000.00 ahead of next year's presidential election but only about 20 percent of that will cover digital media most of the rest will go to television now twist estimates that it and $3000000.00 from political ads during last year's midterm elections now it's not a huge amount democratic presidential candidate come of the harris has spent more than a $1000000.00 on twitter ads since last june to put that into perspective president trump has spent less than $7000.00 his campaign is more focused on facebook spending more than 21 $1000000.00 there and facebook says political advertising will account for about 0.5 percent of its revenue next year. well let's introduce today's panel joining us from the eastern dutch city of and stay for the gray he's a professor in philosophy at the university of 20 and an analyst on the threw us

a fee of technology in philadelphia that's joe watkins a republican political strategist and also on skype from essex in the u.k. cia cohen who's an analyst on internet law and social media welcome to you all right to begin with i think it's important to define what we see political advertising is being so jack dorsey here is referring specifically to promoted tweets or tweets that companies with and pay for when people engage with them but it isn't just tweets that promote candidates that he's wanting to ban it's also issue advertising as well yeah i am going to start with you because that sounds very tricky where do you draw the line that. i think you you draw the line. is the very very the very ok we need to go back to basics you need to look at the mission statement of each of these are going to be safer so when you look at lucia 7 and say of twitter. one of the power to create and share ideas and information

instantly without barriers to this is you. political it's possibly create barriers to free speech and also that a lot of them then is a medium of speech that is in line in or twitter is saying is if you are allowed us this information to disseminate. paid other ties a means. of justice our own mission statement so this is where we draw the line where we know the. p.v.p. goes again it's we well let me throw this tearful at and cause i mean i want to dig into this idea that isn't right so it's not just ads around candidates and it's ads around issues and so any kind of promoted ad around a topic could potentially be banned here and what's your take on that. well i mean

twitter and other social media they promote all kinds of speech including political speech and political advertising is a form of. speech. and these companies also allow other forms of advertising so why not political advertising it's a form of speech that in my view should be protected especially on these large social media platforms that are used by millions even billions of users i have so i i feel like a way of having each other off air in tens of what is free speech so what we're also talking about is is paid speech so what point is paid speech speech free speech let me ask you that question day well. i've been a candidate myself for political office i've worked for a u.s. senator and i worked in his campaign for the u.s. senate he won and i worked in the i worked in a presidential campaign i worked on

a couple and the president 1st when i worked on the president the can they won and won the presidency and served in the white house and i worked in his white house staff i know the power of words and i know that the importance of freedom of information i think that twitter is probably trying to trying to stop the flow of dissin from ation that many felt had an impact in the 2016 presidential campaign so i think this is a move to try to stop the flow of dissent from ation from from outside parties but i'm not sure that will have the consequence the desired effect that is at the end of the day president trump uses twitter not for pollute paid political ads and you can see from how much how little he spends he's probably not ever going to spend very much on political ads with twitter but he uses twitter as a way to get information to millions of people in a matter of moments and he's been very very successful with it and that won't stop he'll continue to use it he'll continue to dominate that platform and to to move

markets and also to move people using the twitter platform. however twitter will take a small hit in terms of its. unwillingness step to pay for these it to allow for these paid ads because it'll elim pack their their balance sheet but not much but a little bit and at the end of the day it won't really disrupt much john going to come back to the numbers in just a minute but i want to pick up on one of the things that you said that because this profess to pave tweets rights or as you said president trump can continue tweeting on his and on his own account of these on promoted tweets and he has i believe something at the moment 66400000 followers and tourism is his primary vehicle for communication in the lead up to the last election so despite the fact that this move does potentially. incumbent's rights or jack dorsey has already said this the trump campaign has said that it's dumb and then we've had mostly positive reactions from the democratic side so i'm curious break that down for us how how will this

affect campaigns leading up to the 2020 election well campaigns to spend money on these political ads he's paid political ads to influence people and oftentimes that the as if they pay for are meant to meant to cast their opponents in an unfavorable light so these are very very important very important tool for campaigns they want to define their opponents before the opponents have a chance to define themselves and they want to defy the poets in a negative way and so that's how people in campaigns use paid political advertising in this case. the trump campaign would probably think this is obviously trying to slow them down slow down the people who would on their behalf pay for these ads and twitter and so that's why the trump campaign would like it but on the other hand it's not going to slow the president down from being able to get his message out on twitter to millions of americans across the united states and also people around

the world well so one of the arguments against doing this ban is related to this because we've heard also from civil society groups that it could it could damage people who aren't necessarily in the media spotlight so lessen the voices of of smaller candidates perhaps or affects the voices of other advocacy groups rights or on a month 2nd bag from facebook who doesn't agree with this has said that ads are an important possible voice. who does this hurt the most philip. well it's hurts most of all it hurts political discourse and it hurts democracy because for a well functioning democracy you need political speech and that includes papes political speech and it's very unfortunate to have this bad because it also affects that didn't reason that jackson dorsey wants this is he says there's so much false and

misleading information out there political advertising and he says it challenges civic discourse and democratic infrastructures so that may well be true but by banning all political advertising as a result including the ones that are not false and misleading you're throwing out the child with the bathwater and you're still allowing the unpaid false and misleading speech so you're still having that problem now what mark zuckerberg is proposing to just keep airing these political ads with no interference whether they're misleading or false or not is also completely the wrong approach because then you reward misinformation campaigns and have the negative consequences that jet jack dorsey warms about so we need to find a middle ground between banning all ads and just allowing all political ads yeah i

want to ask his respond to what fun it was to saying that if this thing the baby out with the bathwater or as this at the top santa fe speeds. i think there is a fundamental difference between free speech and paid speech these 2 things on all the same free speech means that speech is free for everyone so everyone can can can express themselves in a way which is equal and whoever wants to listen to the speech can listen to the speech we have a dozen will listen to the speech does not have to listen speech we paid speech paid advertising means that 1st people who are who are able to afford to pay for it for more advertising their voice will be had louder but also it means that we are forcing speech of put people who may not necessarily want to hear that speech so it is ok if if you're a follower of an individual well it is the united states president or body else if

you're willing to hear what they have to say or if you really that want to hear that kind of stuff but it is forced upon you because that individual it paid for advertising so so i think that the simplicity of the phrase free speech need to be looked at in a little bit more detail here. speaking of paid dates i want to look at some of these figures and so i know there are some discrepancies about reporting in his and was and where and what's classified as political ads but let's take some numbers here from the u.s. federal election commission and it says since 2008 and that's really beth and social media and tens of political campaigning campaigns have spent something like 4.