lisa devastating intact, telling me environment. earth rises, explore some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientists. safeguarding one of our most valuable results is these are important samples. we have to make sure they are surviving to the refugees. striving to co exist with nature. okay, so what's going on? there's the assimilating. what happens when the elephant thomas life off to conflict on al jazeera? ah, a bad week for facebook, all its social media platforms are hit by a major outage affecting users around the world. and this as a whistleblower accuses it of prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation. ah,

hello barbara sarah. this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up several u. s. pharmacy chains go on trial, accused of fueling the nation's opioid epidemic. and the c o p as prime minister is sworn in for a 2nd term as people starve to death and he cry. and the war spreads to other parts of the country. ah, facebook, instagram and the messaging service whatsapp have suffered widespread outages for at least 6 hours. it's cut communication between people all around the world, or what's up is the world's most popular messaging app with more than 2000000000 monthly users. facebook owns both instagram and whatsapp. internet users have been taken to other forms of social media to vent their frustration. and among

them a was at facebook's a chief tech officer who tweeted his sincere apologies for the outage. my trope, 1st said the company is experiencing network issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore the service. twitter, of course, is one of the few major social networks that's not owned by facebook. get more now from rosalyn. jordan, who's live or for us in washington, d. c. m. and it's been several hours now. roslyn. the services have been down or any, any word on when they might go back online. well, it's really a matter of checking your service and seeing what's happening. and in fact, i've been able to get back into my facebook account in the last 3 minutes or so messenger is still a little wonky. what's app is still a little wonky. instagram for me isn't working, but i am hearing that the return to service for customers. really just,

it's just random. some people are getting their instagram back. some people are getting their what's up back. and i think we have to look back at the chief technology officers of statement on twitter that teams are trying to reconnect network connections. and so there's no rhyme or reason as to when people are going to get their access back to their accounts. but it does appear, at least at this point, that as far as facebook is concerned, there's nothing nefarious has happened. now, that doesn't mean that something nefarious hasn't happened, but simply that facebook is blaming this simply on the fact that something technological wasn't working. yes, so they've obviously had, well, i guess a mis up of one shape or another, but they were having a pretty rubbish couple of days. anyway. tell us a little bit about the kind of focus that there has been on facebook and especially on instagram as well. in the united states, well really,

this comes down to whether or not facebook has been taking advantage or abusing as critics would say, it's power because it is perhaps the most prolific social media company in the world of the there's been a, this leak to was the to the press about how people working inside facebook knew that some of the content on instagram was contributing to what a poor psychological state for teenage girls harming their sense of self competence and creating the problem of body dis morphia. which often does require some sort of medical intervention in order to keep people healthy. there was the really now famous a testimony on capitol hill last week before a senate committee looking into how facebook manages it's content, how it prevents people from gaining access to harmful content of all kinds. and i

was a rather ro, well watched and up, in some cases notorious like hearing because it seemed as if the members of the senate knew that there were problems. and there were officials from facebook steadfastly saying that they didn't have any issues that there weren't any problems . and then we have now seen the woman who worked for facebook until very recently, who has come forward to say that she linked the documents to the press because she could see that to the social media company wasn't taking these allegations seriously. and at the public, needed to know that using facebook really should come with a warning label. she's going to be testifying on capitol hill on tuesday about what she saw and perhaps what she was involved in while she worked at the california based company. and then of course, in not, you know, between these concerns about facebook, abusing its power in the marketplace,

as well as not controlling content. the, there was an impact in the usaa stock market today. facebook lost sub sub and $1000000000.00 of value during the trading. and so, you know, it's really been a bad day overall for facebook. yeah, we'll see what happens when the system goes back online. rosalind jordan with the latest and now for motion receive roseland. thank you. will rosalyn was just explaining a lot of the issues that are going on with facebook, obviously beyond the current, the outage will the bite and administration says it will continue to push for reforms of social media networks in our view, this is just the latest in a series of revelations about social media platforms. are they make clear that self regulation is not working? that's long. been the presence of human the view of this administration. they validate the significant concern that the president lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed about how social media giants operate and the power they've

mast several major u. s. pharmacy chains have gone on trial over their role in the nation's opioid crisis. nearly half a 1000000 people died of opiate overdoses in the u. s. and the 20 years leading up to 2019, the pharmacies are accused of misrepresenting the risks of long term opioid use, and failing to properly monitor suspicious orders of these drugs. john henderson, reports from chicago. had one of chicago's black market drug bazaars tie can't escape opioids. are you doing in bad? 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 robin real bad. so i leave you believe j. c. without any use 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 percent in illinois and 83 percent of those were due to fentenol. located mar, nell brown, says the fault lies with drug makers who dramatically underplayed the powerful lou revoke oil. is supposed to be a controlled substance. does what it does, what it unfolded as a control so that not there's out of control many start with legally bought, but highly addictive prescription painkillers like oxy co down in move to st corner drugs when their prescriptions run out, the street corner pills they buy are often laced with fentanyl and 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 on. 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 dealers are our path and on these jokes to any and everybody, every day on chicago's west side, john, right, more nell brown and his brother, kevin brown patrol for addicts and often find some one 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 the bird is the play. no, it's just me. no. okay. and on this order made it does was a brief. it was then from ornell 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 addiction that plays out in the streets of every american city in cities around the globe. john henderson, l. g 0, chicago. ah, javier ahmed has been sworn in for a 2nd. deter him, his e, his prime minister, he vowed to protect the country from foreign interference, amid global criticism over the conflict and the t gray region where the un says, people are now starving due to a government to aid blockade. and there are reports of fighting in the west of the country. there clashes between rebel groups and security forces of this place, thousands of people since sunday news is also merging of a mass kidnapping that took place last month in the same region. katherine sawyer has more details. i hello prime minister abbey

ahmed and a parliament dominated by members of his prosperity party warning for a 5 year term. the part was declared, we now of the june parliamentary election that was boy quoted by some opposition. parties. voting was also postponed in several areas because of logistical and security problems, including in t grey where the government is facing a rebellion. 3 of those areas held their elections a few days ago. but despite the problems, the vote was seen by some electoral observers and the african union as better run and more democratic than previous poles. the prime minister then went to the historic mask elsewhere in the capital, addis ababa with thousands of a few pins alongside several heads of state. helped him celebrate the victory. ah, ethiopia needs the cooperation of its friends for its journey of prosperity. ethiopia

wants the friendship from the international community. however, any friendship must never undermine ethiopia is owner and sovereignty. but some ethiopian octave is say, the prime minister's moment has been tainted by his inability to deal with a conflict in t gray that has now spread to neighboring regions. and rising ethnic tensions and fighting in other parts of the country for what people were asking whether they were protesting from 2015 to 2018 is not a radical change or the return to a past. but democratizing the system that existed in what are be on it, trying to do is basically centralized power and, and signaled as much as his intention to return to the country back to the kind of employee. okay. la garza, the prime minister said he's government is open to dialogue with a few parents who want peace. he did not mention the t guy, people's liberation front, or a p l f. and it's fighters. we're backing security to the teachers and whom the

government has labels a terrorist organization with them how to put them in the north of the country. betrayal and arrogance has made us pay a heavy cost as a nation. the conflict to cry is inflicted on us by few individuals who said that there shall be no e the opiate, if they can't arbitrarily govern. they created this conflict that you and says degree is facing a farming. and 8 is not quickly getting to those who need it most, both the government and t p. a laugh, accused each other of provocation and hindering humanitarian assistance for the region. as he begins his new tom menifee opinions hope the prime minister will resolve the t gray crisis man ethnic divisions in different parts of the country and bring if they appear back on track cat in soil al jazeera still to come in this half hour more earthquakes shake lapel lies part of the about thin volcanoes. krasier collapses sending lava surging towards the sea. last 2

americans who used the chili peppers to solve the mystery of how we sam's temperature and touch when the nobel prize from madison. ah hello, good to see you quite the weather, divide between northern sections of china and toward the south. so here let me show you what i'm talking about. we've got this batch of what weather running across the yellow river valleys been persistent, slow moving. so some days of rain here out over toward the korean peninsula, over the waters between korea and japan, and look at that heavy batch of rain north of honshu and south hotel where we do have some wind alerts in play. ok to that south and here sat heat that we were talking about 38 degrees,

but let me show the forecasts on tuesday. we're still seeing those readings in the high thirty's. then things are dry. here are plenty of sunshine on top. for se, stage i want to focus on the philippines because we've had this area of low pressure, vigorous area will go in for a closer look. or the past little bit, it's dropped about a 150 millimeters of rain in some places. heaviest batch of rain will be north of pure so princess on tuesday. and this could cook into a tropical cyclone so that something will keep tabs on. now down under still a bit of instability for that se, but i think a better day. and mel been with the high of 17 degrees. what's and breezy for hobart, and for new zealand, temperatures well above average here, aqua getting up to 20 degrees. that's typically what you would see in december and joy. that's it for me see soon. ah, that need to be told. find a way of getting a window into another life. these are my babies, my students where i go,

where i see them. it's just like we were in secondary from personal endeavors in epic struggle to colossal sacrifices in individual johnny witness joe cases in firing documentary the change the world on al jazeera lou. ah, a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, facebook and its platforms, instagram and walks. i have been hit by widespread outages affecting people around the world. facebook has apologized for the outage and blamed networking issues.

several major u. s. pharmacy chains have gone on trial over there, roland and nations opioid crisis. they're accused of missed her presenting the risks and failing to properly monitor a suspicious orders. ib ahmed has been sworn in for a 2nd term. as ethiopia prime minister, he vowed to protect the country from foreign interference, amid lobel criticism. over the conflict and the t gray region where the new and says people are starving due to a government the age located. are you an investigation? says all sides in libby as conflict have committed violations that may include war crimes. it details a, council's murder, torture, enslavement and rape. libya has been marked by conflict since the death of its former ruler more mar, gadhafi, 2011 with rival administrations fighting for power. so they get seni is international crisis groups, senior analyst for libya. she says the investigative panel will need to get more

specific and it's next report. 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 admit that they, 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 the level of detail needed for really specific follow up accountability. sedans, government has warned, the country is about to run out of medicine, fuel and weak because of the closure of its main port. for weeks protest her as of

blocked roads are on port sedan in the east. they're angry. a, what they say is a lack of political power and poor economic conditions in the region. last saturday, they shot a pipeline that carries oil to the capital cartoon. the man in charge of britain's finances has warned that taxes may have to rise further to pay for the pandemic recovery plan. chancellor richie soon, i was speaking at the ruling conservative parties annual conference and there is a growing concern in and outside the conference about a looming cost of living crisis in the u. k. po brendan reports from manchester. richie soon act is the former investment bank analyst, now running that you case treasury and widely regarded as a likely success as to the current prime minister boris johnson. when the u. k. went into coven lockdown in 2020. so next, government backed fellow scheme, subsidized the salaries of more than $11000000.00 workers at

a cost of $95000000000.00. now he says, it's time to start balancing the books. i have to be blunt with you. our recovery comes with a cost. our national debt is almost a 100 percent of g d p. so we need to fix our public finances. so this week, low income families will stop receiving a temporary 20 pounds or $27.00 us dollars a week. uplift to a social benefit called universal credit. and taxes are going up to is going to be a very tough winter for some am. i great worries that we're going to have lots more people pushed into downs of loan sharks, falls to use the banks. and i see that so necessary. you know, the government could just continue with the 20 pound weekly, late into the winter, into the at spring and summer next year. and that would just leave a huge amount of financial pressures on low income families across the country include in hand, great manchester. on monday the army began helping to deliver fuel to petrol, filling stations, a very visible sign of the u. case chronic shortage of truck drivers. the situation

which is caused petrol pumps to run dry, and also seen empty shelves in supermarkets. many economists are wanting that the united kingdom faces a cost of living crisis in the coming months. has energy prices go up and the government closed back some of the benefits it paid out during the pandemic, what's not clear is whether the chancellor's proposed ways of mitigating that damage are enough in deprived areas such as salt. proposals include a scheme called kicks dos to help young low income workers and incentives for companies to take on apprentices. in his sulfate workshop, mike cleary says, he's just about getting by. we're thinking over, i was hoping we could do a good well portrayed being put into place until next month. richie cynic delivers a formal budget which with detailed the government's financial plans. the

indications are that for many of the u. k. things are going to get worse before they might get better pull brennan, al jazeera manchester green peace activists have attempted to stop shipping traffic to a shall we, finery at rotterdam in the netherlands, police end of the blockade. after several hours. the port authority says that was minimal disruption. but the protest her say they still made a point. the bob reports now from rotterdam. police moving in on greenpeace protest is in rotterdam. campaigners with the environmental pressure group scaled this silo belonging to shell as part of a direct action. they also blocked off parts of rotterdam port with this 30 me to boat, while small a vessels played their part, calling for an end to all fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship in europe. a new greenpeace reports claims 2 thirds of recent social media ads by the likes of shell and hotel amounted to what it calls green washing. it could either be advertisement

that sell or renew of what energy, even if the renewable energy cossick is only a very, very tiny percentage of their investment. or it could also be what we will call full solutions. so for instance, a promoting affective teams that will allow you to continue driving your car as if nothing has happened. greenpeace is one of more than 20 groups. aiming to get a 1000000 signatures for a petition to the european commission. if they do, brussels must consider passing legislation. they want a ban on advertising that includes vehicles, flights or fairies that run on fossil fuels. but here in the netherlands, it's the oil and gas firms under the greatest pressure after a case brought by environmental groups earlier. this year, a court ordered royal dutch shell to cut its global carbon emissions by the end of 2030 by 45 per cent of 2019 levels and the ruling wards of an eminence. violation of the companies legal obligations to reduce dangers to human life,

which it knew about shall, is appealing against that judgment, but activists hope things like the petition will push it to act, to curb the growing climate emergency and confront him with a daily. i'm confronted with ads when i see the news, when i see a news about refugees coming because there's no possibility to live in their countries. i see it when the oil prices are rising in england. i see it in every day and i think we should just act shells as it respects the right to protest, but hold this action on its property unsafe and illegal. it also says it's important. it lets customers know about lower carbon options. buyer advertising port authority say there was barely any disruption to shipping traffic, but the message has been delivered. a call for europe to act over what big energy companies claim about their green credentials. nadine barber al jazeera rotterdam authorities in california are investigating if a ship's anchor may have had

a pipeline causing a 572000 liters of oil to leak from a reg. get 4 kilometers from shore crews or working round the clock to contain the slick in the pacific and clean up balls of tar that have washed up on the coast. the mayor of one coastal community has called it an environmental catastrophe. this bill has already killed fish and birds and close the southern california beaches popular with swimmers, surfers and tourists and approaching storm is threatening the cleanup effort. we need to come out and get this well here because it harms the environment very, very badly. one of these wells out here, we can the pipe, apparently, i don't know if it's under ground or if it's above ground or maybe want to shift into it. i don't know. i'm just here to pick up the oil parts of a crater on the abrupt inquiry via have all kino on the spanish island of lapel lush, have collapsed ascending yet more lava surging into the sea. the volcano has been

spewing lab of more than 2 weeks now. with its ruptured getting ever more violent. another to earthquakes were recorded on monday. earlier, the authorities briefly opened parts of the exclusion zone to allow some residents to go home and collect possessions. john hope went with them. well this is the closest we've been able to get so far. to this volcano we're on a sort of media tour that brought us to the exclusion zone. the danger zone. the authorities here describe it as and everywhere. a blackened blanket of very heavy volcanic ash the roadways absolutely covered in the stuff the pavements. the houses here look at it piled up high on the roof. i will having to wear protective gear across against the self. refer and look at this really quite heavy pieces of boca raining down on our heads all the time now.

but it's impossible to ignore, of course, the sound and the fury of that volcano. it's very clear that when a new or explosive aggressive phase of this rupture now late on sunday night, the main call fell in on itself. combining the 3 active vents into one and producing a huge surge of lava, a brand new river of lava, coming down the mountain side here towards the sea. and this is how close we take a look at it. this is the lava river that is sketching its way, carving its way through the mountain side here, right through these communities. these villages some houses of course, lucky to survive. others not so much. and as it comes down, creating brand new folk volcanic rock topography that will change the face of this island forever. and this is where it all ends up.

80000000 cubic meters of hot lava cascading over a cliff edge and altering this islands. geography with a brand new land mass rising from the sea, measuring 30 hector's so far off its western age. and for all those waiting to return to their homes for an island, counting the extraordinary losses to its economy, its tourist resorts sitting empty, evacuated. the question of course, is, how long is all of this going to go on for? well, the volcano shows no sign of slowing down. no, great surprise there. the average duration of an event like this is $58.00 days. and yet here we are at the empty tables and the empty beaches. on day 16, jonah hall al jazeera on la palmer island in the atlantic ocean. to american scientists have won the nobel prize for medicine for their discoveries in the how the human body census temperature and touch using chili peppers and meant sol,

david julius. and are them, but the pu pm identified receptors in the skin, which responds to heat and pressure. it's a finding which could lead to new ways of treating pain. the no bo committees, secretary general, call the discoveries crucial to our survival. the price comes with a gold medal and more than a $1000000.00. it is true that walking through the supermarket, i'll, when they sing all these hot chili pepper sauces, et cetera. i was thinking we really have to get this project done. and, and my wife said, well, then you should get on it as we're looking at these things. i was looking at all the spices, but you're right that you know sensory systems, how we, what we see and how we hear and, and how we sense temperature and pressure. these really tell us about how we interact with the world. so when we see things in the world around us, it begs these questions naturally, just out of curiosity. star treks,

captain kirk is once again heading into space. it's been announced that the actor william shatner will be on board a rocket flight next week. he's not going to be out there for long heading just over a 100 kilometers off the earth's surface for around 10 minutes. however, the trip will make him the oldest person in space at the age of 90. it would be the 2nd crude mission of for a rocket operated by blue origin. the company owned by the amazon billionaire. just phase us. more on our website, al jazeera dot com. ah, and now the top stories on al jazeera, facebook, instagram, and messaging service, what's up or returning after widespread outages for at least 5 hours. it cut communication between people all over the world for internet users. meanwhile,

took 2 other forms of social media to vent their frustrations. what's up is the world's most popular messaging app with more than 2000000000 monthly users. facebook owns both instagram and.