hidden away in the room a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera. 'd an arctic blast leaves millions without power in the u.s. state of texas with freezing temperatures set to last for days. along daryn jordan this is out as iraq live from doha also coming up. facebook was wrong. facebook sections were unnecessary

thumbs down from the australian government as facebook blocks new sites in a dispute over paying for content. in mass military issues arrest warrants for 6 celebrities for encouraging people to join until 2 protests. and to be seen but not heard japan's ruling party says women can attend a high level meetings but only if they keep quiet. welcome to the program an arctic blast continues to cripple large parts of the united states where at least 30 people have been killed but once in a generation the storm has left millions without power and 3 quarters of the country blanketed in snow the national guard has been deployed right across texas which is among the hardest hit states types of burst in the freezing temperatures.

and water treatment plants of stop working 7000000 texans have been told to boil their water while over a quarter of a 1000000 have no running water at all but generators water and blankets are being sent in by the federal government but the governor of texas says it will be days before the situation starts to improve most of the state will be below freezing tomorrow morning along i 10 in north will remain in freezing through thursday night with ultra cold temperatures once again on thursday night we should across the state start getting above freezing on saturday al-jazeera and the gallica has more. snow and ice are wreaking havoc from ohio to the rio grande but much of the u.s. now gripped by severe winter storms the states of louisiana missouri kentucky and texas of all reported deaths amid historic freezing temperatures north carolina and

georgia storms brought tornadoes across the rest of the nation millions are without power as rolling blackouts continue this is fair and for the feds they were better . you know i'm going to do some planning after all this is over and make sure there's an alternative source of energy texas is bearing the brunt of the arctic chill with power outages forcing people to use warming centers families desperate to keep warm have taken to lighting fires in sugarland texas authorities believe that's what killed a grandmother and her 3 grandchildren just incredibly tragic young woman 41 years old. family children it just doesn't get worse the seniors to a struggling as care homes run short on medical essential xl oxygen for those already concerned about their parents amid the coburg crisis it's

a worrying time if we weren't here i can't imagine. because there's really not a lot of information flow the rolling blackouts in texas have led to criticisms over the state of existing power grids many residents of calling for alternative sources of power others say that's a conversation for another time this week we have to get warned i mean people are losing homes they're losing food they're i mean we've seen absurd people have died so it's like we should concentrate on that 1st and maybe figure out the solution next week so it doesn't happen again the severe weather is hampering efforts to get people vaccinated for covert 19 forecasters say another extreme cold front will affect south and central parts of the u.s. in the days ahead and a gallica al-jazeera. now facebook has blocked users in australia from viewing or sharing news on its platform because of proposed laws to make tech giants pay media groups for content the blackout also affected some government agencies as pages carrying health and weather warnings went blank the government has criticised the

move as heavy handed google had previously threatened to pull out of australia because of the north but a signed deals with several media outlets in recent days australian treasurer josh frydenberg says he expects facebook to restore government accounts as soon as possible facebook was wrong facebook sections were unnecessary their way ended and they will damage its reputation here in australia their decision to block a strained access to government starts be they about support through the pain to make mental health emergency services the bureau of meteorology were completely unrelated to the media code which is yet to pass through the senate so let's bring in sophie mcneill she's australian research at human rights watch and joins us via skype from perth in australia sophie set seems australians have found themselves in

the middle of this huge battle between their government on the one hand and big tech companies on the other but the result of course is that facebook blocking new sites is already having a huge impact isn't it. yes memorable stratton's of the one scored in the middle here because last this lore is aimed at news companies there were a whole range of community organizations have been affected the weather bureau you know it's bushfire season here in australia some other people rely on these pages to get emergency warnings on fires that are very popular facebook page wasn't working today indigenous community legal groups who do a lot of work in our remote communities with vulnerable people their pages suddenly disappeared we're in the middle of a state election in western australia and one of the candidates suddenly had his facebook page disappear while the other candidate had his working that's political censorship it's not something we're used to in this country and this is really alarming and dangerous what facebook has done today in australia yes sophie and of

course in the middle of a pandemic many people rely as you say on updates on code 19 vaccinations important information from the government and health providers do you think facebook has crossed some ethical line here. it does appear to be that way jaran to cut off in the in the date of not you know the entire access to news and information on such a popular platform for an entire country it doesn't same like an icicle way of operating to me and human rights watch is calling on facebook to immediately lift these restrictions with saying some lifted today but still a whole range of groups still don't have access to their facebook pages and as you mentioned as the strength in treasure mentioned this is in the middle of a pandemic so we're trying to get out that same programme rolled out in australia in the next few weeks and the number of people who rely on facebook for the news and information for those kind of services is huge particularly older where the ones that need that vaccine it is older people who do rely on facebook more than

any other group so suddenly to not get to get that information is out if it is interesting because the head of facebook mark zuckerberg has said in the past he doesn't think a private company should be able to sense the news which ironically is exactly what facebook is doing now what is human rights watch his position on this because this is a huge political very political hot potato. it is a big political hot potato but you know the. votes over what he said that he didn't think a private company should be able to place the news and control the flow of information in a democracy and we agree with you mock and that's why we don't think what's happened today is the right thing to do you know we think it's incredibly incredibly dangerous and i think you know facebook is worried that other countries could follow astray as late so exact a very harshly here this little hasn't even posh it so we're calling on kind of cool minds to be listened to when we think that the company has really overreached

today in the kind of huge backlash so if you're just a final thought to you is this new rule which is being proposed by the australian government perhaps a warning shot across the bows a big tech companies like facebook because not many other governments around the world are willing to stand up to facebook look i think that's why facebook is so wide and why we've seen them act like this today they were that other countries could follow a strategy is laid and whilst they have a range means to pay for news in other countries they have a formal arrangements with some commercial news outlets but they don't want governments to tell them what to do but at the same time you know we don't want big 1000000000 dollar companies to control the flow of information in this way and just kind of flick the on and off switch to essential news and services for an entire continent so there needs to be clearly some better negotiations going on here and i think that the way that facebook is trying to force a struggling government into a corner here it's already certain signs of backfiring because so many australians are just so upset at what's happened to that so to make me feel very good to get

your thoughts thank you for talking to al-jazeera chose death. now meanwhile as manager john to has issued arrest warrants for 6 celebrities for encouraging people to join protests hundreds of demonstrators are back on the streets of the commercial capital young gone a day off to some of the biggest around these yet that calling for the release of deposed civilian leader and. close to 500 people have been detained since the start of a civil disobedience campaign nearly 2 weeks ago scott hyde lives in the thai capital bangkok with more on the latest charges placed on unsung cinci. there wasn't any appearance on wednesday that was supposed to be for the 1st charge brought against her by the joint and that was illegally possessing walkie talkie radios and this was supposed to happen monday they pushed it to wednesday but it didn't happen and presumably that's because there was a 2nd charge as we just heard put on her as well and now we're hearing the next hearing for her will be the court hearing for her will be on march 1st so it seems

to be a bit of a pattern i think they just want to delay delay delay it so they can keep her essentially under house arrest in her property in neighborhood or the capitol that day started wednesday by this civil disobedience movement where the broken down car campaign is what they call it where people pretended that their cars were broken down and they parked in the middle of bridges and roads throughout the city and they're doing that again today and again maybe you will see as big numbers as we saw yesterday again hundreds of thousands but we know that they are at least going to start the day off very similarly it was interesting we spoke with a taxi driver just before that internet shutdown knightly internet shutdown kicked in and wednesday night and he said if the internet is broken at night our cars will break in the morning so i think we're seeing kind of this as a retaliatory move by the protesters in other words if they have blackouts for the internet at night they're going to come out and they can pretend the cars are broken down to bring the city at least in the end gone bring the city to

a standstill. that's what's coming out as they are included in jailed hong kong democracy activists jenny life faces another round in his legal battle for bell. and the u.s. charges 3 north koreans broke a straight in cyber attacks to steal $1000000000.00 more than stay with us. for. well it's turned unpleasant in northern egypt on the coast the levant as well the temperature at the height injuries about 8 degrees and ahead of it all this frontal system those ways south now when that happens you tend to get sand ahead of it sand behind it gusty winds and sunder storms on the line itself so about time to get into thursday it will be to round gone through kuwait the temps have dropped about twenty's on his way down to his behind and got outside their house forecast is quite light to be an increasingly windy and dusty evening on thursday

thunderstorms overnight or on friday and then the schimmel to follow for saturday so drop in temperature quite substantially so this is normal weather she's been see much of it recently unfortunately it stays pretty cold all the coasts all the way from egypt to lebanon gaza reasons as cold as jerusalem so 12 degrees to 16 for you it rises slowly tommy get to sunday in the showers dying out mozambique not a place that's very fond of tropical cyclones with another depression is one of them may well be named as a cycle and very soon it looks like on thursday it will be just affecting the sags but on friday as it winds up of the water wars the increase in wind and rain could be affecting the puter and probably still stay south of bear. it's america's worst kept secret cracked open the time of

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across texas which is among the hardest hit states. facebook is not just trails from doing all sharing news on its platform because of proposed north to make tech giants pay for journalism estradiol government to slam the move and demand that its pages that have gone blank be restored as soon as possible. and me and miles military joined has issued arrest warrants for 6 celebrities for encouraging people to join anti to protests crowds continue to rally young dawn demanding the release of the post civilian leader and sang cinci. cambodia's government has unveiled plans to set up a file war similar to china's to control and monitor online traffic officials say they want to maintain social order and protect national security but critics are calling the move a violation of democratic freedoms prime minister hun sen's government has stepped up its crackdown on dissent in recent years banning the main opposition party and arresting dozens of its members and cambodia will be far from alone governments

around the world are increasingly reliant on internet control saying it's a public safety or to ward off crises researchers say india the world's biggest democracy is the global leader in internet shutdowns the government blocked services in the indian administered region of kashmir for months back in 2019 me and military has been using nightly internet blackouts to control growing popular protest against the coup on february 1st china's great firewall is the biggest and most sophisticated online censorship tool in the world it can monitor block and even replace the content of its nearly 1000000000 internet users are matthew bua is the head of the asia program of article 19 that's a human rights group peace as the proposed internet controls in cambodia a cause for alarm. this is a massive threat for freedom of expression and internet freedom in cambodia and it's actually something that should be worrying for the entire region really there's 2 main concerns here the 1st is censorship the government already has some

tools to restrict what people can see on the internet but this will make it much easier for the government to do that with all data having to pass in and out of a single portal and the 2nd big concern here is survey once the government's going to be collecting all ip addresses so the government is going to know not only which websites you visited what you've done on those websites so i think this is quite a concerning development and something that needs to be be pushed back against this is been a rough year for freedom of expression in southeast asia we've seen the crackdown on protesters in thailand and a lot of their online protest activities. the in the wake of the coup in myanmar there's been a lot of very stringent restrictions on internet use and internet shutdowns blocking of social media apps and now this in cambodia so i think this is a really worrying trend and what's worrying for southeast asia is the export of

sort of a chinese style approach to digital authoritarianism war restrictions on internet freedom and that's now being replicated in many countries in southeast asia it's a really huge worry. jailed hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie is in court to continue his appeal against a ruling denying him bail is accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's controversial national security or. is the most high profile person among the more than 100 people arrested under the new legislation. the u.n. says hundreds of millions of people are being left behind in cope with 1000 vaccinations and 3 quarters of all that's nations have been administered by just 10 countries ahead of the un is calling on wealthy nations to help kick start a global vaccination plan separate general antonio but that it says the coronavirus will keep mutating if it's allowed to spread in poor countries and conflict zones as it has diplomatic editor james vai's reports. refugees being vaccinated for

covert 19 in the zardari camp in jordan but this the u.n. secretary general told a meeting of the security council is the exception rather than the norm progress on vaccinations has been widely and france just can't countries ever minister did 75 percent of all 19 vaccines meanwhile more than 130 countries had not received a single goal. and those affected by conflict and insecurity are at particular risk of being left behind. the current president of the council the u.k. is proposing a new resolution calling for cease fires in conflicts around the world so that vaccines can be administered and by calling for vaccination cease bothered by calling $900.00 x. nation plans to include all high risk populations including refugees in this resolution and this council really has an opportunity to. help get back into

distributed to the most vulnerable communities across the. bow to the state councilor of china and the u.s. secretary of state took part in the meeting both stressed the need for global solidarity even though there's still real tension between the 2 nations this perhaps an indication that it won't further stall global efforts on code 19 the un secretary general is now calling for a global vaccination plan he believes the g 20 is the best body to finance this and he's calling on the g 7 leaders who meet on friday to kick start this process james bays al-jazeera at the united nations now a caravan of migrants and refugees and several african nations and haiti have clashed with police as they tried to enter parun officials there say they don't have the resources to take them in money in a sanchez reports now from lima. escaping the pandemic

desperate migrants forced their way across security lines on an international amazon bridge the group is mainly made up of haitians as well as africans some are pregnant or with children and are carrying what little they have but the border is closed and when state police and the military stop them and sent them back the problem man in the morning there were more than 300 they pushed the police and ran to the peruvian size but then the police partly pushed them back here with violence should not be allowed to happen. the caravan. been stranded in the border region of mother since friday they set up tents waiting for a chance to make their way north official say to haiti panama or the u.s. security they just want to get to their lands looking for a bass a life here they lift waiting for days in the middle of the bridge in the rain small children get ways it's a desperate situation was some among the most vulnerable were allowed to stay on

to do side some tested positive for corona virus there's only one doctor says the mayor and no infrastructure to take care of them and then. we have a dang epidemic no health services the clinic is a small tent the rains are difficult even for the police and soldiers it is very difficult to tend to them in this situation. u.n.h.c.r. officials say the migrants are fleeing strict lockdowns a lack of jobs and the virus raging in brazil and the solution for any government is not d.c. you know what i mean the people want to continue but the northern borders are closed and it's difficult to ask authorities to be flexible to health care in peru has absolutely collapsed if they get sick there are no hospital beds and allowing them to continue is taking the problem from one place to the next. borders have been closed for months in january authorities send tanks to guard the poorest northern border to stop an assailant migrants from crossing from. it is usually has

an open arms policy for migrants now local authorities say the foreign ministries of the one brazil should find a quick solution because those migrants are already living in dire condition and there are so many more desperate the caravan is likely to grow. for now the mayor on both sides of the bridge and the catholic organization are given these migrants some food and water but despite the hurdles they're stationed on the bridge waiting for the next chance to get across the innocent just i just see that even if they do . you. president joe biden has spoken to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu by phone for the 1st time since he's taken office the leaders talked for an hour on issues including the perceived threat from iran and israel's budding ties with arab and muslim countries the delay in the traditional courtesy call had fueled speculation of a frosty relationship which both sides of downplay libyan's of mark the 10th

anniversary of the start of the revolution that toppled leader moammar gadhafi revolution spot fighting between gadhafi forces and libyan rebels killing or injuring thousands malick trainer reports from tripoli. this is for sure it's known as the sport of tripoli in 2011 people here were among the 1st in tripoli to stage peaceful protests. ones day marks the 10 year anniversary of an 8 month armed revolution that toppled longtime leader wal-mart gadhafi. here those who died are honored and celebrated as heroes who liberated libyans from a dictatorship mohamed says he is throwing this party to honor his brother a doctor who was killed when the eastern warlord before huffed are attempted to seize the capital he says the revolution isn't over but he remains hopeful of a school in 2011 we sacrificed so much to be

a free and democratic country i'm sure we'll have a civilian state we will continue to sacrifice like my brother did i guess half we will not allow libya to return to a military rule celebrations are happening across the country but it's here in martyr square where the biggest crowds have gathered to find out what may god to unite all libyans from east to west and give a stability and make our country prosperous we have to celebrate every year as long as our hearts are beating we celebrate for martyrs in our evolution we don't care about politicians they fight today but tomorrow they act like friends despite years of conflict and political divisions for libyans this is a day of joy in tripoli people singing songs of victory and freedom not only against the death but also perhaps the celebrations here are going into the night people here are confident that democracy will prevail nationwide elections are set

to take place in december i would train up al-jazeera tripoli. japan's ruling party says it wants more women to attend key meetings that are usually dominated by men but only if they don't talk it comes just days after the head of the tokyo lympics resigned saying women talk too much in meetings and liberal democratic party has proposed allowing 5 female pilots. to join its board meetings as observers but they won't be allowed to speak during the meetings and can only give their opinions later to the party's office but is an historian at the university in tokyo she says the party has been slow to address gender imbalance it really did feed a lot of headlines that now women can be enter these spaces but still can't talk in and there's nothing inherently wrong or bad about a political process that requires that people be observers 1st before they can be

full participants but i think the problem is that this is. a promise long deferred originally in 2015 the l.d.p. under the abbey administration set a goal of 30 percent of women in executive positions in japan and here we are 6 years later and so it's a little too little too late there are a few dangers here i think that actually since 2014 we've seen a lot of window dressing tokenism a lot of rhetoric about letting women shine but again these are policies that were created and proposed suggested under l.d.p. governance but the l.d.p. has been the slowest in actually adopting these are actually aggressively pursuing these quotas and there are also concerns that hashimoto is being set up for a glass cliff the olympics is a troubled event already and there is evidence or studies that some

corporations organizations when in trouble put a woman in front to take take the fall that's maybe too conspiratorial but. this said does seem a little bit like a superficial solution. the u.s. department of justice has charged 3 north koreans for a series of global cyber attacks they are accused of trying to steal more than $1300000000.00 from banks and companies prosecutors say they also targeted a hollywood studio revenge for a film depicting a fictionalized assassination of north korean leader kim jong un investigators believe the operations took place while the 3 were working for north korean military intelligence our white house correspondent kimberly healthy has more from washington d.c. . well what we know is that the biden administration has built on a series of charges that were put in place in 2018 just to underscore how much of a priority this is to the united states government in fact one of the top officials

calling this a criminal syndicate with the flag referring to these state operatives that were working for north korea's military intelligence in addition to the canadian american that assisted in this scheme and as you point out the amount is enormous 1300000000 stolen in cash or cyber currency through various means including extortion cyber hacking it was a sophisticated scheme and what this tells officials is just how much the same actions that are put in place by the united native nations as well as the united states have really had an impact because the amount is certainly significant in terms of the desire by north korea to get its hands on hard currency so these are charges that are again building on what was already in place and do have some connection to that 2014 attack by north korea on sony pictures here in the united states but we know that there have been other attempts as well as not just the

extortion methods of the hacking we also know that there have been some spearfishing attempts by these individuals allegedly targeting the state department the pentagon they operated under a number of different names the lazarus group as well as advanced persistent threat so the united states taking this threat very seriously that's why they have handed down and announced these charges. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. stuff a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera an arctic blast continues to cripple large parts of the united states and has caused the deaths of at least 30 people millions are without power the national guard has been deployed across texas which is among the hardest hit states the governor says it will be days before the

situation starts to improve. facebook has blocked australians from viewing or sharing news on its platform because of proposed laws to make to.