shift the focus, the pandemic that's turned out to be a handy little pretext. the prime minister clamped down on the press covering the waves. the news is covered for listening post on a job. i a c o p are expelled, several senior you and officials, including some overseen the humanitarian response in the war torn region of pig ry . ah, hello, i'm barbara sarah. this is al jazeera alive from london, also coming up. first thing a government shut down for now. the u. s. congress passed as a temporary spending bill, but a show down looms over the president's trillion dollar infrastructure bill. risking

at all for the american dream, the migrants waiting for their turn to cross. the diary and gap, a dangerous stretch of jungle between columbia and panama, and the former french president nicholas cozy is found guilty of illegal campaigns financing. but as courtroom battles are far from over, ah, if you is expelling 7 senior, united nations officials after accusing them of meddling in its internal affairs, they've been given 72 hours to leave the country. this comes one day after the un humanitarian chief accused, the c o p government of stopping desperately needed aid from reaching the region of p gray or diplomatic editor james bay's reports from the un. these are some of the most recent pictures from t gray, but they are weak, so the region is quite deliberately,

it seems being cut off from the rest of the world. un believes famine has already taken hold, that humanitarian access remains severely limited. and now the p o p government in a tweet has announced its expelling 7 top un officials. they have 72 hours to leave the country and responds to spokesperson for the un secretary general. read out this statement, he's issued. i was shocked by the information that the government of v t o p r has declared 7 un officials including senior un humanitarian officials as personnel non grata. i have full confidence in the you and staff who are in ethiopia doing this work. the u. n. is committed to helping ethiopian people who rely on humanitarian assistance. we are now engaging with the government of v t o p. out in the expectation that the concerned un staff will be allowed to continue their important work. of the un security council ambassadors viewed the

planned expulsions as a most unwelcome development. do you believe this expulsion of the top you and staff as part of an attempt by the government to use starvation as a weapon? look like the sector general. i'm deeply shocked by what we've just heard by the expulsion of senior humanitarian workers. you've heard me time and again here, rates are concerned by great i would say about northern ethiopia with 400000 people now facing famine. that's more than the rest of people facing fam in the world. so we've got a real humanitarian emergency. we've been working now for almost a year since the conflicts started to get humanitarian access in to try and bring the parties to piece. so i think relate developments will only intensify, determination to try and get a breakthrough. several security council members have told me they'd like to discuss these latest developments as soon as possible. i'm told a meeting could happen as early as friday. james bayes al jazeera of the united

nations there have been rallies in the sudanese capital to condemn. last week's qu, attempt hundreds of people to the streets of car, to calling for an end to a power struggle within the transitional government. the attempted coup has been blamed on forces loyal to the deposed. the former president of the sheer mohammedan, has worn out from her to the familiar slogan from the protest 420182019. once again, echo was done in the capital cartoon. hundreds took to the kids to express their anger at what they say is an attempt by the ministry to disrupt the cancer transition to democracy. in a month, we were expecting a speedy transition to civilian rule. we don't actually feel there is a transition to anything here yet. today, there is no freedom piece or justice in sudan pensions between st. dunst, military and civilian politicians, reached

a law point this week after the recent attempted coup. when it took part 2 years ago, the transitional government promised to fix the decades of his management in tunnel conflict and international functions under the former president of bullshit. but it's yet to demonstrate to the people of sudan, but it can undo damage done by bushels, redeem kickstart the countries struggling economy, and move the country toward genuine democratic governance. and i've done everything in the what we needed to revamp and strengthen government institutions, especially our weak institutions of justice. only then would we stop worrying about who rule sudan against all odds and most. so for dance young people have in the past both a peaceful, under split movement. that's all the toppling of one of the world, most of the across a good game. that's awful. my president. how can i help you? i know that transition in that country remains, so that's all white in fighting and hopefully within the company come home. now once again, finding themselves trying to hard to get the voice as hard this

protest of also angry the plumbing lists of those who died 2 to 3 years ago. yet to get justice public. this content has also been mountain economic reforms, but severely review subsidies on petrol and more than doubling the pseudo these pound runs on civil official and black markets rates and depreciating, causing a loss of cash from the formal economy. these activities say nothing will stop the much having a better way of life, and they will bring one mission that's non literal. for decades, coming out the world is either her tombstone began b as truth commission has delayed the release of a report on crimes committed under the former president. jim is a 22 year rule. hundreds of victims and former government officials testified at the hearings that lasted for more than 2 years. they accuse john ms. regime,

which fell in 2017 of rape, murder and torture. the findings were due out on thursday, but the commission says 4 volumes of the report are not finished. said mattie joys, the executive director of began b as a center for research and policy development. he says many gandy and feel betrayed by the government history or in what happened to the guy where he was implemented on was want to move forward in the whatever might not be for me to implement. and i think it has to be what, what's happened in the process where they,

agnew them so that when it comes to friction, when it comes to the number of government with on the u. s. congress passed legislation to avert a government shut down the stopped up funding bill easily passed the house and the senate. it will now go to president and joe biden for signing before government funding runs out at midnight. but another test of biden's agenda lies ahead as the house of representatives prepared to vote on a one trillion dollar infrastructure plan. how does your customer joins us live now from washington d. c. disaster, a versa. not quite the last minute, but almost. but all of this isn't over just yet. is it heidi?

it is not barbara because just says congress is stamping out this fire. averting the government is shut down. there is yet another blaze that is arguably bigger looming on the horizon. and that is the debt ceiling. that is the point at which the us will run out of the ability to borrow more money to pay off its debts. and the date that is likely to happen is october 18th, unless congress does something to raise the debt ceiling. if the us does default on the loans, economists are predicting disaster potentially throwing the u. s. economy into recession and d, stabilizing global market. that could be millions of jobs at stake. now, historically, the congress has come together in a bipartisan basis to continually raise that debt ceiling. but this time, republicans say they refuse to do so. they did raise it 3 times under former

president trump, but they will not do it this time for president biden, saying that it is because democrats are in control of government. the democrats must make their own efforts to prevent the us from defaulting, which is possible to democrats could do that without republican help, but it is a treacherous path in the parliamentary maneuvers that must be done. and any error might result in an accidental default. that is not even mentioning already. democrats have their play full with this tending infrastructure bill before the us house. that is still scheduled for a vote this evening. and it is a part of the president rater domestic policy agenda, which in total total sum, 4 trillion dollars in expanding the social safety net. now, there is fighting among democrats that is putting the fate of those that those policy initiatives at risk. because progressive democrats want the entirety of that

of the president's agenda to be in a vote. but moderates are bulking at the high price tag, which would require tax increases. they just want the smaller, slimmer infrastructure bill to be passed alone and to push off the bigger policy package for debate. later progressives though, are using their support for the infrastructure bill as leverage for that greater package. so all of this is to say, there are still a lot at stake here. this vote is likely to happen, though it may be pulled, and the outcome is very uncertain. barbara had a jo, castro, following all developments there for us from washington dc hydro. the form of friendship, president nicholas or cosy, has been handed a one year jail sentence, but he is unlikely to spend any time behind bars. he was found guilty for his role in illegal over spending for his failed attempt to win a 2nd term. the judge said he could serve the sentence confined to his home. but as

the tasha bullet reports from paris, this isn't the end of his legal battles. nicholas saul cosy was not in the paris court for the verdict into the city called the 1000000 corruption trial. but he's 13 co accused were always found guilty of a legal campaign financing so cozy was sentenced to a year under house arrest. the president, so cozy with whom i spoke on the phone just now asked me to go an appeal, which i will do immediately when i leave here. and of course, the judgement will not be enforceable. nicholas saw cozy, failed to be re elected as french president in 2012. despite a lavish campaign, the scale of his rallies was designed to impress, but instead it set off alarm bells on a police investigation acute saw cozy in his campaign theme of spending more than doubled the 27000000 dollar legal limit fits by different date and hiring a p o,

a company called big 1000000 to help cover up the spending with a system of fake invoices during the trial so cozy, denied any wrong doing for the charge in her birthday. because we knew how much to be spent on the presidential campaign because he did wrong before and he knew the law. she also said that he had twice received written warnings about the risk of over spending. symbolically important to say that a president doesn't get any immunity and has to respond to the load. it is also important because the campaign for 2022 is coming. so we have to have this reflection about out prevents illegal financing a firm political campaign. so cozy, served one term as president from 2007, a straight talker with love of luxury. he was tough for the immigration and crime. he retired from politics in 2017. in recent years,

the political right wing has struggled in from both saw crazies remained prominent for lots of and she is then who vote for the right side. and you could ask the team as you've got enough all time somehow to ring. the conviction is the 3rd blow to so cozy reputation in march, he was found guilty of corruption in a different case, and he could soon be back in court. he's accused of receiving illegal campaign funds from the late libyan leader mohammed duffy for cozy legal problems. it seems a fall from over the cash bottler. i'll just 0 paris filter come here on the al jazeera leaked research, put facebook back in the hot seat. this time over the harmful effects of instagram on the mental health of children. world leaders promise to listen to team climate activists says they take the fight for their future to

ah hello there. let's start in australia where slow moving thunderstorms are affecting the south. you can see the cloud cover in the satellite image there. we've seen heavy rain and some hail and that's cause driving conditions to be hazardous in parts of adelaide. now that weather is going to continue across the south east. as we go into the weekends. a wet weather, full pots of queens and new south wales, victoria and tasmania. and it doesn't easy go into saturday and that system pulls out to see, but it is still looking rather wet as it is for perth. we've got a system that's moving its way across south australia and that is going to bring some of the brisk winds into play up north, a few spotty showers as well. around darwin, it will centrally. we are seeing a fine and dry a weather. lot of heat coming back into alice springs. we're seeing the temperature

edge up close to 40 degrees. they're talking about settled weather. let's have a look at new zealand. it's looking fine and dry across both islands. a lot of warms coming through in the south. we've seen the temperature pick up in christ church on saturday, 800 degrees celsius, lots of sunshine to be enjoyed. therefore, south east asia continues to be very wet across parts of india. china. we've seen flooding in thailand, we could see more of that as the rain continues. the hospitals and clinics across asia battle code 19 mountains of medical ways piling up the one 0, one east investigate dangerous pandemic for one al jazeera that's the u. k. trying to move on from the pandemic, poorest johnson. we'll set our plans to pay for the damage done to the economy club

with post directly. whoops, and to plan benefit. can the government offer reassurances of better times ahead glide coverage of the conservative quality companies that just oh, i a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, ethiopia is expelling at 7 senior un officials saying they are meddling, and it's internal affairs. it comes a day after the us who went to terry and chief accused the government of stopping aid to the t drive region. the u. s. congress has passed legislation to avert a government shut down. the sub cap funding bill easily passed the house and the senate, but another test for president jo biden's agenda lies ahead is the house of representatives

prepared to vote for a one trillion dollar infrastructure plant. and former french president nicholas or cosy, has been given a one year jail sentence. after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing, he set the sort of the sentence confined to his home. more than 22000 refugees and migrants are stuck in the north colombian beach town of nico clea, waiting for smugglers to help them cross into pen the migrants who are mostly from haiti, or attempting to travel for one of the most dangerous and impassable regions in the world, the diary and gap is the only overland route between south and north america. $500.00 people are allowed to board boats in nickel cli each day, which takes them to the start of their perilous journey. but $1500.00 arrive in the small town every 24 hours. those who do find the boat, then face a 6 day journey on foot through roadless lawless jungle. they often arrive in

panama dehydrated, ill, or robbed of their belongings from their they still have to make it through nickel on doris, guatemala, and then mexico. before finally reaching the us border. allison around 50, joins us live now from nickel. clear, listen, we just had an insight there of the kind of journey that lies ahead for the people in nickel clear where you are. tell us a little bit about the sorts of things that they're telling you. are they aware of the difficulties ahead? yes barbara, some of them are some i think they don't really grasp what waits afford them after they manage to leave this town where they are now hold up at times for many weeks up to a month actually we were talking to some of them who have very young children,

one year or even younger and telling them just how treacherous, how notoriously dangerous the track through that area. and gap is to get to many say that they have already spent most of their money to reach this point that they want to lease to manage to make their way to mexico. if not reach their final destination as soon as possible. which for the great majority of them is the united states and they're saying that if they win or they lose, they don't know, but they want to continue. that is the case with most people. now the fact that they have received the information that the united states is the porting thousands of haitians. back to haiti back through their home countries, giving them a paul. some of them are in the thinking of going back to their original their, their homes that, that, that countries where they've settled in past years in south america. but they said that they didn't see

a future for them there. they weren't able to get the appropriate documents to be there. they weren't able to work anymore because of cobra. 1900 restrictions. so the great my joy, they are saying that they will continue. they're going to try to continue going forward no matter what. and tell us a little bit of the atmosphere as they are now, because we are hearing, of course, the thousands of people arrive every 24 hours, 1500, but only 500 people. and they are allowed to board the boat. so obviously a lot of people just amassing their waiting to be able to leave yes, that's the case. this is probably the worst moment in this crisis that actually started back in august. this has been around for migrants for many years now. many of them from a havi, also, venezuelans, cubans, and also people arriving from africa,

or as far as if county stem from what we understand. but this is the 1st time that this kind of bottle back has happened. first of all, because more people are on the move with the reactivation of the economy at the ending of many of the covey 19 restrictions. and secondly, because there is now a quote in place, the panama is just letting 500 people into the country. and so colombian authorities are only selling or are telling private companies here that they can only sell 500 tickets for day. it's unclear just how many more people arrive any given day. there are days where in the to 1500 people are more arrive, other days less. but what's clear is that there are more people arriving, that the ones that are able to leave. so this will situation will continue for quite a while unless that changes. ellison that on p p with the latest they're from nickel clee, in columbia. lasandra, thank you. facebook has insisted it's products do help young people

even though the company's own research found that could harm them. the tech giant's global safety chief told the us senate hearing that it monitors how children use its apps to minimize the bad and maximize the good. practical have has more from washington dc. see a gene, you'll probably see them on a social media screen. now the us senate is asking, is that harming them? suicide grade for 10 to 14 year old. as double for young girls, it has wide group. instagram didn't create this crisis, but from the documents provided by the whistleblower. clearly facebook's own researchers describe instagram itself as a quote perfect storm. the whistleblower giving instagram's own research to the wall street journal, showing slides with the headlines. one in 5 teams say that instagram makes them

feel worse about themselves. teens who struggle with mental health, se instagram makes it worse. we make body image issues worse for one in 3 teen girls. that's their own description. and the reason antigone davis, ahead of mobile security for facebook, which owns instagram, what's called to testify. i want to be clear that this research is not a bombshell. it's not causal research. it's in fact show different products this. this research is a bomb shell. it is powerful gripping remedying evidence. i disdain for the company was clear across the board. you quantified how many children have taken their own lives because of your products. and number 2, as the global head of safety for facebook, what would you say to a mother? what would you say to a father who lost a child because of facebook's products?

first of all, senator cruz, the research that you are referring to is in fact not causal research. critics say congress can dramatically change how the company operates, cracking open the algorithms and saying you can no longer optimize your algorithm for things that hurt people and society. and if they can't make money and they can't survive in the marketplace with that type of agenda, and that focus the may shouldn't be playing in the marketplace. and it's going to get more chance for facebook here in capitol hill next week. a whistleblower is scheduled to testify, likely fueling a growing desire to regulate social media. that seems to be coming from both political parties. patrick line al jazeera washington, a former british police officer has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering a woman after falsely arresting her when cousins abducted 33 year old sarah ever art as she walked home in south london earlier. this year he then raped and

murdered her, and then disposed of her remains in woodland. the case prompted widespread protests about women's safety. 2 weeks ago, another london woman had been anessa was killed in a park on the way to meet a friend of police in germany. have arrested a 96 year old woman accused of nazi war crimes. after she went on the run, when she was due in court, ermengarde foreigner is charged with aiding and abetting the murderer of thousands of prisoners. at a concentration camp in poland during the 2nd world war, she worked as a typist at the camp for 2 years. at the end of the war. during that time, nearly 11 and a half 1000 people died at that camp. she will now be assessed by a doctor to see if she is fit to be imprisoned. the lava flow from the cobra of year have volcano on the in the canary islands is continuing to pour into the atlantic ocean. scientists say that the island of la paloma is actually

expanded by more than 3 square kilometers. as the molten rock builds up its western shoreline, toxic gases, given off when the lava hits, the ocean are so far being blown out to sea. but there are worries that the wind direction could change. the volcano has so far the straw more than $800.00 buildings. hundreds of young activists have had the chance to speak directly with world leaders over how to address climate change. i had of the cop 26 summit in november. their ideas include completely eliminating the use of fossil fuels within the decade. adam rainy reports we just act of his credit to berg and other young environmentalists attending a climate conference in milan. have one a seat at the table meeting with italy's prime minister matthew draggy. there is no plan to be there. audience with

a g 7 liter comes 2 days after 10 bags skating criticism that politicians weren't acting with urgency to solve the climate crisis. your pressure is very welcome. we need to be wheat into action. your mobilization has been powerful and rest assured we are listening. hundreds of young environmentalists from around the world gather here to propose climate solutions directly to global leaders. ahead of the cop 26 summit taking place in scotland and november world leaders beamed in as did the pope to give backing the delegates or calling for the elimination of our fossil fuels by 2030, a more transparent and equal climate finance system and climate education for global youth, their proposals will be considered in the next few days at a pre cop meeting here in milan, ahead of the scotland summit. this is only going to be meaningful if things are

changing in governments right now reflect what we are saying. because that's never happened, the process should be with us and far as not just for us because the process that is just for us does not include as a dog. dozens of protesters outside the perimeter, briefly blocks of traffic before police dispersed in. the delegates found an ally in italy's 1st minister for ecological transition, who shares a key vision of theirs? this is exactly what the government list together said. even put together the session and call it the global level and the climate change emergency. we have to treat those together, otherwise we simply fixes that the climate problem. but then we have millions of people losing the job. the name youth for climate can be seen as just a branding mechanism, but veteran attendees of global environmental. some that tell us by focusing on young people's ideas, this conference is actually injecting

a sense of optimism and urgency. sometimes lacking at such meetings. they don't have the baggage that a lot of other people have. right. so they have dancers. yeah. maybe in the name of wanted to change the war. i think that's an essential ingredient as an active if the activists weren't so naive, those to believe everything they're told and will turn up the pressure if leaders don't deliver on promises made here. adam rainy al jazeera milan there. ah, and the reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, a few years expelling 7 senior united nations officials after accusing them.