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a u. n. report says war crimes were lightly committed against civilians and migrants. i'll take this very personally. your report was almost over prisoner or there was also this our, we look at the u. s. opioid crisis has several major pharmacy chains. go on trial, accused of healing the problem. and the nobel prize in medicine goes to, to american scientist for research on how the human body yaks to temperature and touch. and in sports at tennis chiefs open an investigation into abuse allegations against alexander's vera. the german denies the claims made by his former girlfriend and backs the introduction of a domestic violence policy. for professional players. ah, thank you very much for joining as social media giant facebook and all of its

platforms are experiencing a major outage carrying communication between billions of people around the world. facebook, instagram and the messaging service whatsapp have been hit. whatsapp is the world's most popular messaging app and reports more than 2000000000 monthly uses. that spring in allen fisher in washington dc for is alan facebook saying some users are affected, but this looks like a global outage. what's the latest? we were hearing reports from south america from across the united states, from europe, from the middle east, and from africa as well. you're right. this seems like a global outage and has already gone on a lot longer than the 2019 shut down, which lasted for a boat, an hour, which was caused by technical problems according to what's up then. they also had a couple of problems to back in march, and in july they got them sorted very quickly. but this is obviously very concerning. while the reports are on some sites which monitor outages of 80000

people being affected or 50000 people, the reality is a lot of people will see that their facebook, their, what's out there instagram is down and they won't know where to report it. so you're talking about millions of users across the world who have a problem with this. now of course there's 2 questions. what's caused this? could this just be a simple failure in the system in the cloud? that means that facebook can't operate anything, or is this a potentially i ransom will attack him in? or there been ransomware attacks, particularly here in the united states earlier this year, and the number of big fish were caught by them at that point. and some companies even paid over millions of dollars to make sure that they could access their systems again. if this were to impact facebook, then this would be essentially taking don't a wheel and facebook doesn't have its problems to seek elsewhere. it was in court here in the united states just in the last couple of hours, asking a judge to throw out a federal case which would brand at facebook a monopoly, telling them to have the sale instagram and whatsapp. and on top of that,

a facebook whistleblower is you to go in front of a senate committee on capitol hill here in washington dc on tuesday. and we're expecting that whistleblower to see that facebook always puts profits before people . thank you for that. alan fisher in washington for let's discuss this a bit more now with in cher, who's editor at large at the consumer tech site. see net is joining us from silverspring in the state of maryland in the u. s. so i'm probably gonna ask you to speculate in what could be behind this you know, my bed is that someone pushed a button wrong, or a cord got unplugged, which seems really minor. but the reality is that we've seen these things before where eyes suddenly something is configured incorrectly. an entire swath of the internet, r e are not available. this is particularly as happened to people like amazon,

who are relied upon by netflix and the new york times. and all sorts of other places. and when they stop working, suddenly, the lot of the internet goes dark. so my bed is something like that. i did. the near times actually spoke with a couple of facebook, internal security people who said that it's very unlikely that it's a hack because usually i hack his targeted and this is affecting everything. if this is something minor, as you say, why would it go on for so long? i mean, its been over one hour, almost 2 hours. now, if this would was something my yahoo nav. so if, if i know, well, one of the things to keep in mind in these moments, it's a good reminder. the internet is incredibly fragile. it actually can have problems like this arise and not work for long periods. typically, we don't really experience it much anymore. it used to be a lot more common, like a decade ago, and i'm not saying bad. i know for sure what's going on a facebook. but the more i see what's being said,

and i see the error messages that people are getting around the world. it seems to be something a little more just kind of something is configured in correctly and they need to fix it rather than of being some major problem. i've alan fish, our reporter was saying that this is coming as a whistleblower has reveal that facebook has been prioritizing profit over public good, which i guess so a lot of you know, doesn't really come as a surprise. but political pressure is building on facebook can may withstand all this pressure bad publicity. what's facebook going to have to do to change its fortunes? they're going to have to convince us that they are taking this problem seriously. one of the biggest problems that this facebook whistleblower has really raised is that for the longest time, a lot of us who are facebook critics would say it doesn't seem like the company understands the problem. well, it turns out that internally they did understand the problem. they just weren't being honest with us about it. and now that we all agree, the problem is there,

the next step is they need to prove to us that they want to take care of it. thank you so much for talking to us in chair from siena. joining us there from mann and thank you for your time. thank. in other world news, a u. an investigation says old sides in libya's conflicts have committed violations that may include war crimes, a details, accounts of murder, torture enslavement and rape. maybe has been in conflict since the death of its former leader market off in 2011 with rival administrations fighting for power. earlier we spoke to claudia ga zeeny, who's the international crisis group. senior analyst for olivia, she says investigative panel will have to be more specific in its next report. well, actually this report that was published today is just the beginning of the process . the commission. this mission, that was the 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 to 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 specific sort 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 member states, italy in particular because of the flow of migrants. i doubt that they will be stopping or changing their cooperation programs with the coast guards and relevant authorities. as a result of this report in its current state. if he of his prime minister abbey made has been sown in for a 2nd term after he and his party secured a landslide victory and joins elections. is described the pole as ethiopia 1st attempt at a free and fair vote. but elections were overshadowed by the conflict in the know then take ry, reach, and way. hundreds of thousands are facing possible farming family. i'll get a chill is any feel care based or unless he outlines the challenges facing abbey in his next m. since 2018, the prime minister was appointed by parliament. this is his 1st time being elected . he was, he received an overwhelming support for, but it was a vacant rash on the election. a number of states including to grey that did not

participate as you know, the election that they held a year ago as what part of what provoked the conflict that's, that's been running for almost a year now. i mean, the famous a seems to have a wide spread support uniform like support in many parts of the country still. but you know, if you're here again, is an important country with the 110000000 people with an economy that's going. but it's also dependent on aid. it's been having issues with the u. s. government u. s. 8, which has been supporting aid or humanitarian assistance to some of the victims that have been coming forward since the beginning of the conflict. according to the un for more than a 1011000000 people are facing famine into grad loan conflicts. i'm in, i'm her region and see the conflicts we're seeing is overwhelming. the need is huge

and it's also in our fiery region. the government will be in a challenge to position, to address some of the challenges that country is facing. and this conflict is also pushing, or we some of there for an investment that has been important to us building a new image being from i need depend, a nation to an economy that respected. so the prime minister will be busy from day one that was suspect us more had on this news hour, including japan's new prime minister, lays out his plans for his country. find out what his promising to deliver. still spewing the spanish government pledges $239000000.00 to help the island of la palmer recover from its erupting volcano. and 7 times super bowl champion, tom brady says another nfl record general have the latest says ah,

in the u. s. c biden. administration has outlined its vision, fort ties with china. trade chief catherine tie says the u. s. is exploring new strategies to defend it's economic interests after previous policies. under present, donald trump worse and relations between the 2 countries. the u. s. has accused china of not complying with a major trade deal signed in january 2020. our white house correspondent, kimberly hock. it has more the us trade representative announcing that the united states will not lift the tariffs that were put in place under the previous trumpet ministration. instead, what the biden white house is doing is putting in place its own punitive measures what the trade representative announced on monday is that there will be an introduction of a system that will put in place targeted tariff exclusions. what this means is essentially that in order to try and encourage good behavior, there will be a system put in place that will allow for the removal,

but also the addition of tariffs should china not comply with the standard of norms that exists in global trading practices. for too long, china's lack of adherence to global trading norms has undercut the prosperity of americans and others around the world. in recent years, beijing has doubled down on its state centered economic system. it is increasingly clear that china's plans do not include meaningful reforms to address the concerns that have been shared by the united states and many other countries. now the reason the buying administration is taking this action now is that in 2020 china committed to purchasing 200000000000 of u. s. goods, but has lived up to just 62 percent of that commitment. and so in order to hold china accountable, the trade representative taking these actions. but there is another reason to and that is, is that the united states and china are the world's 2 largest economies and how

they interact has reverberations and repercussions around the world. and for too long, the biden administration says that china is global trade practices have been under cutting the american worker. 2 as well as the middle class and as a result is taking this action now in order to try and protect, but also preserve the american worker. and that shrinking middle class. while less bringing robert scott from on this, he is the director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the economic policy institute and is joining us a biased kite from maryland. thank you very much for being with us. mr. scott, what do you make of the binding administrations, china trade strategy here? i mean, present biden criticize tramps, aggressive approach. we recall, but it sounds like the policies will remain the same. well, i think that there is an important or important step forward. i think they've committed to defend

a american economic interest from shide is unfair trade practices they've, they've also gone into a different direction. they promised to work together with allies, and that was symbolized by a meeting with their e. you counterparts in pers, pittsburgh last week. the trade and technology forum, so i think those are important steps forward or, and i think they're the committed to defending american jobs. i think the problem is larger perhaps than they have gotten a grasp at this point. even though our trade deficit with china is down, our trade surplus, trade deficit with the world is sorry, and that's costing you as jobs. and it's mirrored by a massive growth and shaded chinese export. the rest of the world essentially that they're playing 3 card monte. they're shifting exports to the us through other countries like vietnam, malaysia and, and taiwan and others. and so the exports are coming here,

just 2 different ports. do you think this combative approach by the us when it comes to, to rising economic and also security threats? i guess from china, is it effective? i think it is i, i think that the, by the ministrations i think, committed to, to defend american companies, american interests. and i think that's appropriate. we've my own research shows that we lost over 3700000 jobs due to growing trade deficits for china. since 2001 looked a huge problem. it's decimated american manufacturing. it's widely accepted now by most economist. the problem is, what to do about it. i am my, my view is that the single most important cause of shy is unfair trade. is it under valued currency? i shot it has manipulate their currency by investing trillions of dollars buying up a usaa treasury securities and other assets that pushes down the value of hires

current. eaten pushes up the value of the u. s. dollar artificially. it makes us exports a and competitive not only in china, but around the world. and it makes china's exports to us artificially cheap. so we need to lower the dollar by about 25 percent. you know, to offset that unfair and artificial advantage that china has secured for itself, i was going to ask you about that. about the factors behind this unfair trade are from china. and one of the concerns has been of course, the fact that china's actions are violating really the standards of global trade practices. what can the u. f and other countries do about this? he talked about the don, our 4th, but i the other actions that could be take or certainly the shorter, the, acting on the dollar. we can certainly get much more aggressive about a defending unfair trade practices. and it's such as anti dumping complaints and those those have been pursued. those unfortunately are usually pursued by private

firms. and by the time firms get relief from unfair trade by china, most of the, the plants of clothes, the jobs are gone. it's hard to get them back. it rarely happen so, so i think other tools such as the 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, that to president trump imposed have been praised by the by demonstration. and it's help those industries recover. i think they're going to consider other possible actions in the i think, in the coming months of those kind. but i think the single most important thing they do, they could do is to address the undervalued chinese r m b. and again, i think the simplest way to do that, as i've laid out elsewhere, is to begin to impose some taxes on some of those excessive capital flows coming into the us, both from governments, as well as from private businesses. thank you so much for talking to us about this robert scott joining a san from maryland in the us. our president biden has the keys senate republicans

have being reckless. he blamed thank very husing to work with democrats to raise the u. s. is that feeling a got? my niece increased or suspend his barring ceiling by october 18th to avoid defaulting on back payments. the reason we had to raise a debt limit is impart because of the reckless tax and spending policies under the previous trump administration. in 4 years, bank curry that incurred nearly 8 trillion dollars in 4 years, 8 trillion dollars in additional debt. in bills we have to now pay off. not only republicans refusing to do their job, the threatening to use the power their power to prevent us from doing our job, saving the economy from a catastrophic event. i think quite frank is hypocritical, dangerous, and disgraceful. japan's newly elected prime minister says it must continue to have

discussions with china, which he acknowledges is very important to his country. for mucous shadow took office on monday replaces yoshida's saga who announced his resignation last one friday. 3 reports whom yuki shita, who one party pulls to lead japan's governing liberal democratic party or l. d. p. last week has been elected by both houses of the japanese parliament is in accordance with article 18 paragraph 2 of the rules of the house of representatives . formula, she does hereby nominated as prime minister of japan. his 1st order of business was to select his cabinet. there were 13 new faces out of 20 posts, but many important portfolios are going to powerful factions that voted for key cedar in the party election. his predecessor, you shaheed, a suger had announced last month that he would not be seeking re election as party leader after less than a year in office to get approval ratings had plummeted for his handling of the

pandemic. and his insistence on holding the summer olympics, despite public health concerns, he, she has inherited an economy that's been battered by the pandemic. in his 1st news conference as prime minister, he promised to make corona virus counter measures a top priority and to work on rejuvenating the economy and or emma emma conal under my cabinet. first of all, i will do my utmost to take measures against coven 19, which is an urgent and top priority issue. we will carefully explain to the citizens, so they have a sense of understanding and we will always be ready to respond to the worst case scenario. they feel as prime minister, he will also have to deal with an increasingly assertive china and security threats from north korea, which has conducted a series of missile tests in the last few weeks. he should, i says he's prepared to meet north korean leader john, good. without any pre conditions,

but kish does 1st challenge will be leading his party in the general elections, which will take place at the end of this month. some analysts say it's likely keisha is hoping to take advantage of a honeymoon period, usually given by the electorate to new governments. florence louis al jazeera former castle leader callous for jamal sex tradition. hearing has been suspended by an italian court. he was detained by police when he arrived in san antonio last month, but a judge ordered his release a day later. spain accused foot which amount of sedition over his all in catalonia, failed independence. bit in 2017. he's been living in self imposed exile in belgium . my parts of a crate on the con brave year have okay. now on the island of la palmer has collapse as eruptions become more aggressive, the volcano still spewing lover after erupting more than 2 weeks ago. the spanish government has pledged $239000000.00 to how the island recover from the devastation

. prime minister federal 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 from the palm. what i think is clear that we're in a much more powerful, more explosive, 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 of it 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 one has already produced 3 times the amount of volcanic batter lava ash rock than its predecessor in 1971. and in about a 3rd of the time, so far, saudi arabia and a united arab emirates on a lead for what's left of cycling. shaheen. there are tropical storm

a landfill on the arabian peninsula on sunday, killing at least 12 people in our mind. andrew chappelle has details and anooj rule an intense weather event in the gulf. tropical cyclone shaheen barrel down on omens north coast, with wind speeds of up to a 150 kilometers per hour as it made landfall on sunday. only the 2nd cyclone in modern record keeping to enter the gulf of oman and the 1st to enter. in the 2nd half of the year, the government declared a 2 day holiday to reduce people's movements. road traffic was suspended in the capital musket. the area where most of the country's population of 5000000 people live o flights were halted at the airport. evacuations ordered for some coastal areas. more than 2700 residents weighted out the storm and emergency shelters ports, women's coast received a year's worth of rain in a single day. the ground is bone, dry and unable to absorb the rain,

triggering flash floods and northern and southern governors. at least 6 deaths and dozens of injuries are being blamed on the storm. and se iran residents of a line in the united arab emirates have been told to stay home while saudi civil defense authorities have warned. several regents of possible flooding. enter chappelle al jazeera still had on this al jazeera and use our warnings. so don is about to run out of medicine. hugh and wheat after the closure of its main pipes were live in southern california where the races on to clean up a huge oil spill, which is being called an environmental catastrophe. and strict measures in place all athletes wanting to compete on the test events for the beijing winter olympics . details coming up later in sports with jim sailings. ah,

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 mascot. 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 that se 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 degrees, a scattering of showers for it's 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, susan. ah, ah, the earth is it tipping boynton? scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 years as the world's leaders failed to agree upon a solution. people are taking that who's into their own with family. now, with this, i forget which one to stand for the killed they bull and that it kills people now is already killing both fries return. with the people's voice cornell jazeera warner will be part of the greatest global gathering in history,

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a where some people are having trouble accessing the platform, but hasn't said what's behind the problem. are you an investigation? says all sides in libya's conflicts have committed violations that may include war crimes, the report details, accounts of murder, torture, enslavement and rate. it says migrants and detainees suffered the most and ethiopia as prime minister avia made has been sewn in for a 2nd term, is facing some of the biggest challenges of his political career, including ethnic tensions and the months long conflict in the northern to grind, reach nasa dance government has warned it's about to run out of medicine, fuel and wheat because of the closure of its main port. people have blocked roads or on port. so don, to protest against what they say is a lack of political power and for economic conditions in the region. last saturday, they shut a pipeline that carries oil to the capital cartoon. algiers, mom at our door, is in port suda. there is.