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likely committed against civilians and migrant. ethiopia, prime minister avia marys sworn in for a 2nd term, but faces a number of challenges, including the conflict into dr. i'll take this very person, very was almost robin prisoner of deborah. and we look at the u. s. t o p o. crisis. as a 1st trial of several major pharmacy chains is said to get underway. ah, thank you for joining as we begin with breaking news and social media giant facebook and nearly all of its platforms are experiencing an outage, cutting communications to billions of people around the world. facebook, instagram and the messaging service whatsapp have been hit by the outages. internet uses are taking to other forms of social to report their frustration. whatsapp is

the world's most popular messaging app and reports more than 3000000000 monthly uses. facebook which owns instagram, and what sob says it's aware, some people are having trouble accessing the services. we'll have more on this breaking news story in a little while moving on to other world news now and a un investigation says all sides in libya's conflicts have committed violations that may include war crimes. it details, accounts of murder, torture enslavement and rape. libby has been in conflict since the death of its formerly demo market are feed 2011 with rival administrations fighting for power. claudia gazande e is international crisis group senior analyst for libya. she says investigative panel will have to be more specific and it's next report. well actually this report that was published today is just the beginning of the process, the commission. this mission that was

a fact finding mission was supposed to deliver its final report by now, but actually was very late in having its presence on the ground. even in the report, they say that until this june, they weren't fully operative. so the conclusions in this report are, let's say, rather superficial. they just admit that the, these crimes took place. but without the level of detail, they don't name individuals. they don't point to specific countries except for mentioning them as supporting the conflict. so there's not that level of detail needed for really specific follow up accountability. we've all known and indeed also european member states that corporate with the live in co coast guards have been aware of these abuses that take place both at sea and on land in the detention centers. and despite all of that, they have continued to fund and corporate with the coast guards unless they're specifics of individuals that are named it's,

it's hard for them to be brought to justice. and i doubt, given the pressure on european and the states, italy in particular because of the flow of migrants. i doubt that they will be stopping or changing their corporation programs with the coast guards and relevant authorities. as a result of this report in its current state, he, she appears prime minister abbey met has been sworn in for a 2nd term after his party secured a landslide victory in june. elections is described the pole as ethiopian 1st attempt at a free and fair vote. or the elections were overshadowed by the conflict in t gray, where hundreds of thousands are facing possible family. meanwhile, there are reports of fighting in western ethiopia between rebel groups and security forces is displaced thousands of people since sunday. and news is also emerging of a mass kidnapping that took place last month in the same region. katherine saw, has more from nairobi on how abuse new term is being viewed in ethiopia,

and abroad. is government is under a lot of pressure from the international community with hard from the u. s. a key ally of ethiopia that provide a crucial on foreign aid to that country. i with heard from, you know, in the us basically saying that the prime minister needs to do better to handle the crisis into grow. we've heard from the european union with heart of, from the united nations as well. we know that in the last few days, and the if you can, our foreign ministry has expelled key officials of the un. i'm for reasons that i yet unknown. oh, the government has been blamed, of, you know, blockading a t gray region where millions of people are face are, you know, facing farm in government officials saying that that's not true, that they've allowed unhindered, accession of humanitarian aid to that region. but we have also spoken to our aid agencies was saying that this process is very slow. there's a lot of red tape,

so much more needs to be done ardently. so that 8 can reached out the most important people. and people who are suffering the most come in back to is c o p r, a lot of ethiopians. also concerned about the security, say to situation they say that the prime minister needs to do more or to regain the confidence of ethiopia because he came in a platform. what that you know, was very favorable. and now this confidence seems to be waning. so people say that the prime minister really needs to do better going forward years, friends and joe biden, straight cheese has been outlining washington's vision for ties with china. katherine tie says the usa, exploring new strategies to defend its economy, came to his after previous policies under president trump. worse and relations between the 2 countries. washington has accused beijing of not complying with a major trade deal signed in january 2020. our white house correspondent, kimberly how kate has more. it's interesting for all of the criticism that donald

trump perceived about his china trade policy. it really hasn't changed under president joe biden as the trade representative addressed a washington think tank. she outlined not only how the policies will remain somewhat the same, but the punitive action that this white house will take if china doesn't live up to commitments that were struck under the trump administration. namely to encourage the purchase of u. s. goods to the tune of about $200000000.00. so the united states trade representative outlining what the biden administration and we should point out what many administrations have seen as the sort of escalating problem with china and is trade relationship that affects normally the united states. but really, as the given the fact that the united states and china are both the world's largest global economies, this affects the world. and so that is a point that was underscored by the trade representative. also of concern is the

fact that not only has a china, not balloon living up to its commitments, but its actions are also sort of by living the norms of the global trade standard of practice. so don's government has warned the countries about to run out of medicine, fuel and wheat because of the closure of its main port. protesters have blocked roads around ports to don against. what they say is a lack of political power and poor economic conditions in the region. last saturday, they shut a pipeline that carries oil to the capital cartoon. why would i do? has more from the eastern city of for sudan. there is very little activity going all not pulled so done that be jet tribesmen were protesting what they call marginalization by the government of. but he came to the gates to the polt with huge rocks and also have lined at the gate to the polt. a with protest us will

holding homes to ensure that nothing exists or nothing and passed the port. and there was a delegation from the government led by competent ministers. and the only thing of the days of negotiations that they were able to go back with was m. yes, at to the exportation of south sudanese oil from these port please bolt is a mid july flannel, just for sudan, but also for neighboring cells. have done the 164000 bottles of oil. salsa, don, producers. every day are exported through these port m and and right now the government is complaining that they ease a shortage of medicines and vital commodities. and it says, these cannot continue coals. the actuals of the b j at tribesmen who have a cut it these auction out as criminal unsafe that will not allow them to continue holding the government hostage. however, talking to some of the bigger protest as they told us, that they will stay put,

they will not move an inch until the government accepts to listen to their grievances. on top of that is what they say that they were not consulted when the government signed the dba. peace accord with other i'm groups in the country, only we spoke to hollow tie, it was the managing partner, the think tank inside strategy partners in cartoon. she says having a fragmented government has worsened the food shortage usually does are not new and they're certainly back with a vengeance. now, i think that the main worry at the moment is that in a few days time by next week in 2 weeks time, situation will become so dire. so as to be, you know, very much the same conditions missile before the form appreciate which was a very tense time. and you know, this is all sort of comes down to that initial oven hat, which is that, you know, the minute the government is lost, united government does indians and the military i'm, they just don't see i to,

i know a lot of issues and recent tensions how, you know, precipitated this current state as well, which is that, you know, regional issues such as related to the east are now becoming you know, chips that, that can be sort of used as, as up by different parts of the government to exert pressure on the other to try and sort of win that battle in the balance of power, the transition period. but of course, this has real life implications to the people that are in a life saving location, weeds, petrol, other necessary every day, and necessities on now, i'm very much in short, supply and wincing even more. and it was that, that the has it, is it also within the east where, you know, the biggest sort of leaders all are impacting these embargoes on the port bear constituencies to we'll soon see a lot of sure what it is and we'll be putting pressure on them as well. still ahead on al jazeera, praying to change both sides is joined space leaders and side is to discuss climate change. and the nobel prize in medicine goes to 2 american scientists. will

research on human body react with with hello good to see. you say clone shaheen has really done a number on oman near its land for we saw more than 300 millimeters of rain within a short time. but look at that scene in basket waterlogged roads, just massive flooding here we saw about 2 years worth of rain within the span of just a few hours. so the system has dissipated. but we can still trade some of its remnants, causing this circulation near a sala. because the winds are fierce enough, it's kicking up the sand and does toward the southeast of saudi. and also drifted in some cloud cover for cats are dough. i will get up to a high of 37 degrees on tuesday, but it's bumping in some high humidity,

so that's feeling in the low to mid forties. now for pakistan it's a completely different story. the humidity has flushed out. we've got fresh air in play here. karachi up to $32.00 degrees, a scattering of showers for it. stan ball and we've got some driving rain for turkey's ne black sea region pushing in to georgia. now, through the tropics of africa, we've got our storms come in and go and, but some big ones bubbling up toward the east of the democratic republic of congo. a frontal system given us some disturbed weather for central parts of mozambique rate toward the eastern cape cape town, getting up to $22.00 degrees with wall to wall sunshine. sounds good and joy see soon. ah frank assessment. what's the point of view? and if multilateralism isn't part of the dna, we need some were sovereign. states can exchange use informed opinions, he focus likely to change biking behavior. it's not going to change their behavior,

they're going to continue to do what they do when it's going to be more in trade and less in terms of trying to match this more games mentality. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back our top stories on al jazeera, a u. an investigation says all sized in libya's conflict have committed violations that may include war crimes, the report details, accounts of murder, torture in said, went in rape. it says, migraines and detainees suffered for the most. ethiopia, as prime minister avia met, has been sworn in for his 2nd term. he is facing some of the biggest challenges of

his political career, including ethnic tensions, any months, long conflict any more than t cry reaching. and social media giant facebook and it's instagram in what sub services have been hit by widespread outages. facebook says it's a where some people are having trouble accessing the platforms, but hasn't said what's behind her. well, let me speak to ian chair about this, his, the editor at large at the consumer tech site. see net and he's joining us from maryland in the us. very good to have with us or tell us about what this all is about. i mean, facebook says some uses, but this looks like a global outage. how wide spread is it? well, it's hard to tell. i will say that when we're talking about facebook, more than half the world's online population is using it every month. so you know, a few users can be o users, but this is, this is a segment what these, these out is. this happen from time to time, right?

sometimes they are the result of bad behavior hacks or something. other times it's someone who pushed a wrong button and this time it seems like it may have been not a bad thing. it may have been someone pushed the wrong button or some computer is misconfigured, and that'll get fixed at some what this has been going on for over an hour now, which is long. yeah. it is long and look, these things tend to be unusual because facebook in particular, really prides itself on working really well. you know, over the last, i'd say 510 years, we've seen google, apple, facebook, amazon. all of them have been relatively stable before that. it was pretty, it was pretty normal for the internet to kind of go in and out, and some websites not to work. you can look up the twitter fail way all if you remember that period of internet history. so you know, this stuff did happen, but it is unusual more so now and so yeah, having it out for an hour is definitely a noteworthy and this is coming in a day after

a whistleblower revealed that the company, facebook prioritized profit over public good. and we know that political pressure has been building on the company. we're not speculating, of course, yet, whether there's a link between that and what's happening today. but i'm wondering, you know, with all this bad publicity right now for facebook and this political pressure can, can the company withstand all this bad pressure and bad publicity? what do they have to do to change them out? yeah, i mean look, i think that they are under a really a lot of pressure from all over the place. right. not just their critics and people like me and silicon valley, but also you've got the regulators in washington all over the world. and look, it's very clear that facebook needs to really reckon with what they have done, both in terms of actually allowing bad behavior to continue happening on their platform and how they haven't been honest and forthright with you and me and everybody else about how bad the situation is and that, that is

a really big problem. how bad is the situation? i mean, it's very clear that that is harassment and the spread of disinformation undermining democracy. all of these things have been happening on a wider scale than facebook has told us about. we don't have access to any data that actually tells us all we have our little sliver of information, right? so it is a big, big problem and the company is shown internally that they know that. right? that's what the whistle though, of course, revealed to, of, in, in a report that we read about yesterday. you know, when you see all this in a, you wonder, of course, if you know one company, facebook owning multiple major online platforms is a good idea. what can regulate is to about yeah, we look, there's been efforts inside of washington to talk about whether or not face who should be forced to be broken up. you may remember that 20 years ago that conversation was happening around microsoft. and the way that turned out was that

even though microsoft was found to be a monopoly, all the government did was slap it on the wrist and allow it to continue being microsoft. so i don't know exactly how far the u. s. government's going to be willing to go here, but i am curious to see whether this appetite for reigning in the tech industry will be any different from what it was a couple of decades ago. thank you so much for talking to us about this ian share from scene at joining us there from melanie. thank you for your time. thank you. now the vatican is pushing for more concrete action from well, lead is a head of a major comic conference. oh, francis and dozens of religious leaders made a joint appeal for government to take immediate action to confront the kind of crisis when they meet at a summit in scotland next month. adam rainy reports from the vatican is so good calling on the world faithful to join the fight to solve the climate crisis. departure 40 religious leaders gathered at the vatican on monday to add their voice

to the growing course, calling for world leaders to take legal action to tackle the crisis. the catholic pope look francis called the meeting but preferred to let others speak for you. what g, a, you know, shouting, i call on all young people regardless of their religion, to be ready to fight against any action that may damage the environmental or increase the climate crisis. the meeting was labeled faith in science and many spoke of the need to fuse our rational and spiritual sites together. faith and science, people of different faith can transform fear in hope. anxiety in confidence, in action, into action and the others highlighted. the responsibility. religion confers on humanity that the water is the father. the id is the teacher. and art is our common mother. just as we don't dis honor,

our mother, father and teacher. why would we dishonour these gifts from our creator? we must address the unequal economic systems and the human impacts of climate change. though they aren't political leaders, the president of the upcoming un environmental conference says they have an important role. there is a very unique voice that a religious leaders have when they talk to other worldly dis, the leaders of governments. and that i think is what now needs to happen for that voice from the religious world, from the scientific world to be amplified to tell world leaders that have to act to protect our planet and our people throughout his papers. he pope frances has supported environmental action in 2015. he published his 2nd and cyclical loud that those see and which he called for swift and bold action to tackle the climate crisis. and lis, last weekly. he virtually attended the youth for climate conference and milan,

backing the work of 400 young delegates as they drafted proposals for the you and summit. meanwhile, outside conferences, a growing protest movement is adding its own pressure. a consensus has been building that real action must come out of the scotland summit. and to that, we now have the support of the world's leading spiritual figures. adarine al jazeera vatican city farts of a crate on the convey via volcano on the island of la palmer has collapsed, says eruptions become more aggressive. volcano still spewing lava after you, wrapped in more than 2 weeks ago. the spanish government has placed $239000000.00 to how the island recover from the devastation by mister pet or sanchez made the commitment on sunday during a visit to la palmer, the financial package will be the 2nd stage of a plan approved last week john hall has more i think it's clear that we're in a much more powerful, more exclusive, aggressive phase of this eruption. for all part of the normal course of events were

reassured by the vulcan ologist. i'm as close as i can get to it right now. we're right up against the police road block here, cordoning off what they describe as the danger area. but if i step out, you can get quite a lot closer. i think through the eye of the camera, i'd take a listen just for a moment. it's a bit like being under the flight path of a very, very busy airport. it was clear throughout sunday that things were changing, developing loud booms, echoing out across this island and a very impressive plume of smoke rising into the sky. volcanic ash, toxic gases, much more impressive than before. and then late in the evening on sunday, something really significant did happen. a wall of the central code collapsed in on itself. effectively consolidated, the 3 vents into one and forcing a huge surge of volcanic lava. down the mountain side were told that has now joined the original flow down the western slopes towards the sea. but because of the

changing topography from 2 weeks now of molten rock and lava, there is the risk that it may deviate and put more property, more houses, buildings and farm land in the path of destruction. no sign at all of this volcano diminishing that's not surprising. because the average time it takes for an eruption like this to pass is up to 2 months. and this has already produced 3 times the amount of volcanic batter lava ash rock at than its predecessor in 1971. and in about a 3rd of the time so far for markets land leader carlos food demand has been treat temporarily after an italian court suspended his extradition hearing, which amount was detained by police when he arrived in sardinia last month, though, i judge ordered his release a day after his supporters have been rallying outside court. spain accused him of sedition over his role in catalonia field independence bid in 2017,

which amount has been living in self imposed exile in belgium. to the u. s. now where several major pharmacies are set to go on trial for their role in the nation's opioid classes, they're accused of misrepresenting the risks of long term opioid use and failing to properly monitor suspicious orders of the drugs. john hendrick, half a story. at one of chicago's black market drug bazaars tie can't escape opioids. are you doing in bed? yeah, real bad. he's woken up in an ambulance more than once. he's joined a rehabilitation program, but he can't help coming back for more. more rose, real bad. real bad. so i legally, tracy, without it again, he'd like to kick the habit with the draw of opioids is too strong. this block on

chicago's west side is a fentanyl epicenter. last year, deaths by opioids went up 30 present in illinois and 83 percent of those were due to fentanyl. located mar, nell brown says the fault lies with drug makers who dramatically underplayed the powerful lou revoke oil. is supposed to be a control softness does, would occur, does what it unfolded of the controls of the not there's auto control many start with legally bought, but highly addictive prescription painkillers like oxy code on in moved to st corner drugs when their prescriptions run out. the street corner pills they by are often laced with fentanyl, an opioid 50 to a 100 times more powerful than heroin. they don't know what they're getting before they would just get oxy code own. and now the oxy code on is compress is, is, is there crushing up of fitness and compressed in the, on to the peels,

all the different peel. so now, the st. villers are our path on these drills to any on every body. every day on chicago's west side, john wright more nel brown and his brother, kevin brown patrol for addicts, and often find someone overdosing when they do, they administer. nor can kevin has done it so many times, the addicts have a name for him. look up in his god, it's a bird to play. no, it just me. no, okay. and on this order made this was a repo was then for mar, nell brown, a recovered heroine, attic. the culpability of opioid manufacturers is personal. he says he can't escape his own responsibility for past drug use. with that for many addiction is aided and abetted by the industry. i take this very personal, very person, because almost of auburn prisoner of that war. i'm a casualty from that war. a war against the diction that plays out in this streets

of every american city in cities around the globe. john henderson, l g, 0, chicago, to american scientists have been awarded this. he has no been price for medicine. david julius and odd impact of 14 were a single dot for their discovery from receptors for temperature and touch. and nobel committee secretary general, call the discoveries crucial to our survival. i mean, the 1st of all, i think it's a very basic scientific discovery because it explains the north. i mean, it picks down so we can seem to have these feelings on the scheme. and actually also these pressure is up to saudi, involved in a lot of things being torn on the war against like when you extend the norm where the storm, if you close your eyes to see the sens cooled. roku st. paul, we say for some stockholm that was expectation that the prize would be even more timely, great expectation that it would be awarded to those who develop the m r n. a vaccines

used in the fight against coven 19. in fact, we had a protest here. it's a nobel form by a group protesting against by on tech, not sharing its formula with the vaccine produces in developing countries. but that have been happy because the prize did gars. he said to david julius and odd m. potter putin are considered to have made a very, very crucial breakthrough in an area that's key to our survival at touch and temperature being out the sense, hate, cold, and mechanical stimuli as they put it. now, how was this done well, with millions of fragments of dna, many hours, many years in the laboratory. but perhaps most noteworthy with red hot chili peppers, i in fact a compound in chillies, cold caps ice in that's enabled them to identify the genes that are, that respond to hate. and then using mental to identify the genes responsive,

responsible, responding to cold. and then simply prodding cells to get electrical impulses to see how they respond to touch. and now it already been known that cells responded to the stimuli where the breakthrough is here is how those a how touch hate cold is transmitted further on to the brain. and it's been found that specific molecules, proteins a present for each of those different sensations along the, the heat and cold spectrum and touch. and it's this that could make it possible to create better drugs to treat her syndromes, the sim, drones, and, and diseases that cause chronic pain. ah, megan m fully back to go with the headlines on al jazeera, social media giant facebook, and it's instagram and whatsapp services have been hit by widespread outages. what's up is the world's most popular messaging app and reports more than

2000000000 uses. monthly facebook says it's aware some people are having trouble accessing the platforms but hasn't experi.