to chilion wet across cape town, but that cold front is now pushing off to the east is gonna be lots of sunshine coming through. and we are going to see the temperature pick up over the weekend. still come here on the news for you. cuba facing a search in corona virus infections, we'll get an update on the situation and around the broader region. drug companies reach a landmark settlement for their role in the us opioid epidemic. and, and sport a you can to weightlifter who disappeared in japan next way back home details coming up in about 15 minutes. ah, the native names as it breaks agriculture production across the north nigeria, greens, a serial production about if the decline with detailed coverage that demands or not you've been made. i know many times before. now the allowed was desperate because they say the situation is much worse from around the world. and these external,

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welcome back. welcome. if you just joining us, you are watching the news from the top stories. indonesia is now the empty center of the latest wave of corona virus, in se, asia, it's reported more than 1400 deaths and 35000 cases in just one day. thailand and south korea have both reported a record number of new infections. the highly contagious delta variant is driving the search across the region. china is deployed as military to the province. the central region is struggling with its worst flooding and recent history. troops of burst a near by them deliberately to reduce the risk of more flooding. to study 3 people have been killed. now, chances are, you don't know. neither did i until we started researching the story of what automated decision making software is. but chances are you've had it pointed out, you literally, it's computer programming built into most of the products and the services we use

every day. it starts with a real person who writes it, but there bias can linger in what becomes the artificial intelligence that is built with their computer coding. politicians across the united states are trying to establish some ground rules to make sure decisions off fair. a bias can be seen when software begins to prioritize or overlook certain groups of people based on data available to it. now take credit scores prime example. if a person's post code is used to determine their credit worthiness, that could negatively impact an entire ethnic group that lives in that particular area. another example of this kind of a bias is when globe e commerce giant amazon for example, ditch to computer program. it was using a few years ago, an algorithm was developed to screen job applicants based on key data sets, but instead it ended up discriminating against women for certain technical roles. let's talk now to mark colberg. he's

a professor of philosophy of media and technology at the university of vienna. he's also a member of the high level expert group on artificial intelligence for europe in commission. he's the author of a ethics. he joins us on skype from brussels. mark, great to talk to you again, mark, put this in context for us in different regions in different parts of the world. what's the difference between bias and sensitivity? so one thing, any kind of a i system needs to make a difference between people because that's why you use it. for example, for security reasons to, to pick out potential risky person. so you do need to make a difference. the question is, is the difference, you know, in case of bias of unjustified bias, or is it just part of the function of the system? and the cases you mentioned are clearly problematic case of bias where, where people have spoken out against them because of this, this effect on,

on specific groups and individuals. understandably, i guess, as well the american politicians are having a hard time nailing down whether this is an issue of privacy or an issue of the genie being left out of the computerized bottle in as much as if you, for example, have to hire a female nurse to work in only a role that can be fulfilled by a woman. you can't by definition, right. bias into that programming or can you and indeed should you well, that's. busy the question and of course this, this connects with questions that we should ask in our society as a whole, right. and in this case, why do we assign certain professional roles. busy to specific gender, can we do things in a different way?

so i think the this you use the matter for junior in the buckle. i think what, what's happening is that a lot of political issues are suddenly fired up in this side of discussions about a i. and that's not very surprising because acknowledge these tend to have a political dimension and an unethical dimension. and so the way they are used, the way they are designed can have these effects. so i think it's important with all these technologies to, to always evaluate what kind of consequences they could have for people and, and link that to the political discussions. and the thing is, we're not even sure in our society, we have very much controversies in all societies about what justice is, what, what a fair way of treating people is. and so this,

this discussion about artificial intelligence in this way really becomes very political. i guess this is a global problem. that's what we're saying. but one size doesn't fit all here when it comes to a course correction because the course correction must entail. going back to the source of the problem, the source of the problem is the ideology, the beliefs, the persuasion system that somebody has grown up in as a child and a teenager before the then go on to become the man. a woman who writes the software that becomes part of the a i that is may be directed at, i don't know, say a migrant wanting to cross the border. that's right. and the technology often doesn't take into account the personal stories, the, the context and also the different cultural approaches. so we have big companies that have software used everywhere in the worlds think google think amazon. but

the consequences are for people in different cultures and with different backgrounds. and i think this will what reading lacking is more thinking about these problems in a, in a, in a global way. and that's important for all kinds of reasons in the world. for example, the emerson, so the a, b, i have written a into their strategy sort of future is wanting to invest more index in this. i think it's important to also if, if that's going to happen. so also look at these ethical and political dimensions and make sure that the impact on people, if it's fair and politically responsible. is it your sense that maybe that governments and big international companies should actually welcome this added scrutiny. they should go completely transparent on it because if they did,

that would mean that we could kind of fast forward through this as an issue and maybe maybe just maybe get the stage where we could wholly trust the a i that say filming us when we swipe our smart card id, passport to get out of or into a country next time we get off a plane. yes, i think more transparency could really both trust trust in the technology, but also trusting the companies and organizations and governmental use them. and i think it would be good if other companies, if they explained to people they're dealing with these problems of bias, it's not so easy. explain how complex these problems are. and also, i think would be in their advantage that they support regulation. because regulation creates a playing field, a framework within which business can be done. so i think it's,

it's in their advantage to have more clarity and half robust for regulation in place market. a really interesting conversation. great to get your thoughts on this mark about the joining us on skype from brussels. you're welcome. could be 1000 cases in australia on the rise in many regions, despite weeks of long lock downs. new south wales is reporting another 124 new cases. that's the highest number. in 16 months the government is strongly urging people to get banks unaided, as the delta variant continues to spread. it's cruel. why this far as is contagious . any human contact means you can pick up the bars or give the var spivey spreading luck. we've never seen before. and i especially want to thank our contact traces because if it was not for their, if it's the 120 full case number 2, i would literally have been in the thousands. and i don't say that lightly. australian prime minister, apologizing for mistakes made in dealing with the pandemic. now as i said, yes,

i take responsibility for the vaccination program. i also take responsibility for the challenges with head. obviously something's within our control somethings that are not. and i'm, i'm chained to ensure, as we have been either of these many months that we've been turning it around. i'm certainly sorry that we haven't been able to achieve the max that we'd hope for at the beginning of this year. of course, i and. but what's more important is that we're totally focused on ensuring that we've been turning this around, police and pretences of thought outside the greek parliament during a rounding against mandatory corona virus. vaccinations for health care workers. i was the 2nd science rally and a week offices, you're going to assume water cannon to disperse, the crowd could be 19 infections. have been rising increasingly 6 weeks with almost 3000 cases reported on weapons, day keepers, racing to vaccinate its population as it faces. its 1st major wave of corona,

virus infections and average of 6000 cases and are being reported every day. john holmes, in mexico city, he has this update on cuba and the wider latin american region this late stage, and the pandemic cooper is experiencing its 1st real way of coven infections. the country managed to hold out quite a long time against virus. as a result, strict quarantine procedures, remember this is an island nation and also largely shutting down is tourism industry. even though that had a big economic impact on the country. but now it seems that the relaxation of their own, the restrictions and also new strains of the virus meant more and more people started to get infected in cuba. the numbers have been creeping up. and now the health authorities say that transmission is elevated. now, cuba has one hope in all of this, and that's the home grown vaccines that the island has been developing. the health

authorities say that they're very efficient that they're very effective at the moment they go about 30 percent of the country population with at least $1.00. now hoping to really roll those out fast, so that by the end of august about 80 percent who have themselves back today to they can try and control this spread. so cooper at the moment, struggling with that. and it was actually one of the causes of the protests on the 11th of july in the country now across the latin america as a whole thing, just sort of in the balance. she got countries like this will mexico? no. so other countries like chile, we've had a vaccination drive, it's been relatively successful, but you've also got country, like haiti, and home do us that have one percent or less of people that are being vaccinated. most drives already just starting. now the regional arm will help organizations says the latin america and the caribbean as a whole, only about 15 percent of people are fully vaccinated. there's

a long way to go here. as covey continues to strike. parts of iran are into the 3rd day of a short locked on there. the restrictions were brought in ahead of the muslim holiday of each other, which usually sees millions of people travelling around battling a search in case he's fueled by the delta barion and reported a record daily high of more than 27000 infections on tuesday. the government's being criticized for a slow vaccine rollout, which blames on us sanctions. the maxine shortage has led many iranians to travel to neighboring armenia for jobs tourist. there are being offered free vaccines. its lips were big boost and visitors with around it. not 1000 iranians. heading for armenia in the month of june, that's up from $5000.00 a month earlier. less than 3 percent of iran's population has been fully vaccinated . a number of protest is and one police officer had been killed in demonstrations against water shortages in iran. it happened in the oil rich congested province. crowds vented their anger for a 7 states in a row. according to local media,

solidarity protest have been held in several other cities as iran suffers in west route in 50 years. which is he, in red, crescent, says at least 17 migrants from bangladesh of ground trying to cross the mediterranean sea. their boat sank after setting off from italy for italy, from the water on libya's northwest coast. 380 people were rescued by the tennessee and coast guard. among the migrants from syria, egypt sit on eritrea, molly and bangladesh, the drug manufacturer, johnson and johnson, and 3 distributors have agreed to pay $26000000000.00 to resolve thousands of claims for barrow. in the us opioid epidemic gabriel elizondo has that story from new york. robert canter was addicted to opioids for 3 years. it nearly killed him. all my relationships collapsed. my finances collapsed my health. everything on

wednesday faced with mounting lawsuits. johnson and johnson, the largest maker of prescription opioids, plus 3 other of the largest distributors, agreed to a proposed $26000000000.00 settlement, announced by coalition of state attorneys general. today's actions sends a message to drug distributors and pharmaceutical companies, and we simply will not accept this type of behavior. opioids or a class of drugs naturally found in opium. poppy plants that are then used in illegal street drugs like heroine. but also in some prescription medicines, like highly addictive painkillers, such as oxy, cotton and bacon and fentenol, a synthetic opioid as much as $100.00 times more potent than morphine. america in the middle of an opioid epidemic, a half 1000000 people died from opioid drug overdoses in the last 20 years. 93000 last year alone. and state say,

it's the pharmaceutical companies. they produce the opioids that are mostly to blame. not only for the loss of life, but also for the huge financial strain that it puts on local governments and their health systems. in a statement, the company said it had deep sympathy for every one affected by the opioid endemic but added. the settlement is not an admission of any liability or wrong doing, and the company would continue to defend against any litigation that the final agreement does not resolve. i don't think that 26000000000 is enough just to end the calendar. the united states has with addiction and overdose, but it could save a lot alive. as for canter, he feels a settlement now is better than going through more lengthy litigation. it's a victory because we have to balance the amount that these distributors and johnson

johnson are willing to pay versus the amount of time that's going to be lost. so we can get these dollars for treatment. it might not be the end of the settlements. prosecutor said they are investigating other companies with involvement and opioids, and are leaving the door open to filing more lawsuits. gabriel's ando jazz eater new york, the former hollywood producer harvey weinstein has pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges in los angeles. he was expedited to california from new york state, where he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual assault and rape. weinstein was one of the most powerful, produces in hollywood until dozens of women came forward in 2017. today mark's 10 years since a gunman went on a rampage, killing 77. people in norway, commemoration ceremonies being held, attended by government officials, survivors and family members of the victims. earlier noise prime minister and a soleberg said, hatred and racist ideology cannot quote, stand unopposed. still to come here on the news,

we look at why the 1st protest by athletes of the tokyo olympics are causing a scandal. that story and more coming up in sport. ah ah ah ah ah

ah me oh, a time to international sports news is our peter. thank you so much. we start with a developing story. guinea has become the 2nd country to withdraw the team from the tokyo olympics. 5 athletes from the west african nation were due to appear in tokyo . the sports minister is blamed the decision on the resurgence of cobra 19 variance

and concern with preserving the health of the countries athletes. there are reports, the decision is due to financial restrictions. north korea is the other nation to withdraw from the games. australia have a fence argentina and the men's football competition. the to time limited champions played the 2nd half with only 10 men. after francisco ortega was sent off just before half time. australia took advantage of the extra player finishing the game with it. you know, when japan has continued its good start to the games they were too strong for south africa, leading them one nil had been out ahead of the match that south africa would have enough players to feel the teen $21.00 members of the delegation had been deemed close corona virus contacts and had to undergo additional testing procedures and games were charleston scored. a hat trick is brazil beat germany for to mexico

were too strong for france and zealand had won no win against south korea to go top group b. the opening day of competition at the game saw a number of women's football players neil ahead of their matches. the international committee has allowed athletes to protest this year ahead of their events. similar action is banned during metal ceremonies. despite this, the seas, social media team were reportedly bad from posting pictures of the players kneeling on wednesday. that position has now been overturned. that was, you know, a moment to kind of reflect on this past year. you know, there's been a lot of strides made in the u. s. and across the world with regards to racism and social injustice. and so i think it was really great to be able to show the bit of solid arity with our team and swimming before the game. and at a world stage like this that has been been a year in the making. those really nice to have those couple seconds before the

game to just reflect on where we've been and richardson is in tokyo and has been taking a look at why these olympics are still going ahead. athletes will have to get used to the sound of their own efforts in tokyo. these olympic have already cost the host nation, at least $15000000000.00. much of the money spent on venue that fans and now banned from attending you to rise in cases of cobit $19.00. the cost is being shouldered for the great part by the people and not really by the government. and so people are really getting sick and tired of having to make so much 5. so you really do have, you know, very well divided society. and maybe i honestly, you know, united in opposition. i guess, you know, this is about as close to the sporting action as tokyo residents will get in a city where cove at 19 infection levels, the hitting heights. not seen since january, dan animal, united nickel,

monday. he don't have it. i don't know what to say considering how much the virus is spread. athletes have been training so hard for this. i would feel sorry for them if it doesn't happen. so i wouldn't who wanted to take the risk of watching it in the stadium. it's enough for me to see the games on tv. while last ticket revenue is set to cost the hosts, hundreds of millions of dollars. a made for tv events does make financial sense for the international olympic committee. the i o. c max approximately 75 percent of its income from selling broadcast rights to the games and around full $1000000000.00 could have been lost if the olympics had been cancelled. and the legal, small print will tell you, it was always the see here, the final say as to whether or not these olympics went ahead, organizes will be hoping the public mood shifts in their favor. once the games are up and running, we'll have like a very, a negative agenda across like different media outlets before the games. and as soon

as the games are going to how like, fair me. like the mind at one like congress tends to be like more positive and focus more. all the stories that are taking place within stadium in support of the games can be found with the host. now, banking on sporting dramas rather than medical was rubbing the headlines in the days ahead. and richardson al jazeera tokyo of despite the attention and focus corona virus, is getting out these games. the international drug testing agency says it's determined to catch those, trying to achieve we hear we're fully focused, we're fully determined to do our job, the best we can and to catch, to cheat with the tools that we have available. so in that sense, covet has obviously made our life more complicated, but that has not impacted our determination, our focus and the tools that we have at our disposal. olympic gold medalist

mohammed to be he is set to make history on friday by becoming the 1st muslim to carry the british flag at an opening ceremony. the 33 year old rowers says he feels immense pride and hope to be a source of inspiration for most of the children in great britain. british selling gold medalist hannah mills will be the other fly bear under rules implemented last year. each country can now dominate one male and one female athlete to carry the flag us track and field athletes in tokyo say they would be prepared to take a cobit 19 has twice a day. if it means they get to compete this making sure we take care of ourselves and just super excited to finally have a game and just kind of go through it with what we gotta do. and if that takes a cobra test every 12 hours, whatever it takes throughout us, just excited to be able to compete again and just fall what they need to, what they think is best for us. the us mans basketball team are beeping up their roster ahead of their 1st game on sunday chicago. zach levine has cleared health

and safety protocols and we'll join the team on thursday and running on the big champions, train to tokyo for the 1st time. on wednesday. the teams preparations have been hampered by players having to withdraw due to cobra 19 related issues. while the planes going to affect them, that's not an easy flight. but it is true that they won't be ready to play in the sense of execution that we might want. but that's understandable. and finally the you got an athlete who disappeared during pre olympic training in japan has now left the country 20 year old weight lifter julius to quito. lacto fled his hotel in osaka. a week ago, you failed to me to lympics standards after entering japan, and was due to return home when he didn't appear for a mandatory corona virus test. instead he left a note behind saying he didn't want to return to his country and that he wanted to stay in japan to work. ok, and that is all your support for now. back to you,

peter. ok, thank you very much for that far. when we come back on the other side of the break, we'll take a live in the us of new delhi. we'll try to work out how much this is a politically sensitive moment for the movie government. in the light of those revelations about the pegasus spyware scandal. they with us, i leave you mixed reaction is well and away at the full snaps in the province of hopefully in northern argentina. it is referred to as to why gold of renewable energy layer a. we're trying to establish a small supply chain of lithium batteries. so we can comply with demand. one of the demands is a transformation of the public transport system. argentina has one of the biggest in the region and we would try to transform our bosses. wanted a system. i didn't know bolivia until i have a wrong 70 percent of the world's lithium research live in liquid ryan research

located in full flat like this one, thousands of liters of water are necessary to pump up the frying research to the surface there later on, distributed in evaporation pool communities around this area are concerned that few extraction could complicate their access towards besieged by violent crime and drugs. confronted by racism and integration. 0 traces the history of 1st generation lebanese australians. exploring the conflicts and their struggle for acceptance. once upon a time in punch bowl on our 0, i coveted beyond well the taken with hesitations and died for

the power they find out. a lot of new babies were dying. i did not think it's neglected babies to death. people and power investigate, exposes, and questions they use them to be of our around the globe on al jazeera ah, could resend them. it gets worse, in se asia, with the numbers of deaths and infections soaring across many countries. ah, malcolm, i'm peter w. watching alex is here alive from i headquarters here in the also coming up. central china, worst flooding in recent years,

provokes anger and scrutiny about the government's failure to prepare for the disaster. the rain has.