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these businesses and media organizations simply balloon out goes a 60 minute warning. oh, now g 0. ah, be the hero, the world needs right. washer. ah ah. facebook says sorry for a global outage that's crashed at social media platforms for hours. ah, no baptism, this is are the 0 live from don't have also coming up. if he appears prime minister sworn in for a 2nd term as people starved to death and to grow and fighting spreads to other
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parts of the country. global airlines commit to 0 carbon emissions by 2050, but chinese carriers say they're reluctant to sign up an experts, a skeptical and a massive oil spill in southern california may have been caused by a pipeline being hit by the anchor of a ship. ah, facebook has apologized for technical problems that crashed the social media sites and its subsidiaries, instagram and whatsapp for hours. it says it has no evidence. user data was compromised. a massive outage is the latest headache for mark zuckerberg company, which is also fixing it, facing accusations from a whistleblower. osland jordan reports from washington, dc for 7 hours on monday for billions of facebook customers. no likes, no insta moment. no world wide phone calls are messaging. facebook's chief technology
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officer needed twitter to tell customers it was having massive technical difficulties. and then he apologized. facebook services coming back on long now may take some time to get to 100 per cent, to every small and large business family. an individual who depends on us. i'm sorry. the outage also shut down operations at facebook's california headquarters. no phones, no computers. some workers reportedly using zoom to hold meeting. 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 that much anymore. he used to be a lot more common, like a decade ago. some found the outage at facebook, instagram and what's app funny. but for whatsapp users, analysts say the disruption could have been catastrophic. whatsapp is tremendously
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important for communication in a lot of parts of the globe. i mean, it does raise questions around, you know, how important it is for there to be redundancy, but also questions around, you know, should private companies be solely in control of infrastructure. so critical to communications and the outage comes as facebook is under fire for how it does business. us regulator, st. facebook is a monopoly and should be broken apart. a move, the company opposes a spoke note last week. the senators grilled a facebook official about a whistle blowers allegations the company refuses to block hate speech bullying and other forms of harmful messaging from its sites that whistleblower just gave her 1st tv interview explaining why she thinks this is the case. thing i saw facebook over and over again was there were conflicts of interest between while was good for the public and was game for facebook. and facebook over and over again shows to
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optimized for its own interests like making more money. facebook denies francis hawkins allegation saying quote, to suggest we encourage bad content and do nothing is just not true. but the company's efforts to build on the public's trust. now faith, another hurdle hogan testifies before congress about facebook on tuesday. rosalind jordan l g 0 washington. robin bright is in hong kong and he's got this update on how the dropping facebook stock price affected trading on the opening markets in asia. there has been this big sell off of their own wall street over night, contributed to caused by a tech stocks heading downwards. and that's how the spillover effect into asia is trading has started, especially given the heavy weighting of technical stocks on the asian markets. but it's also been contributed to by fears of over inflation, and that's been stoked by the rising oil price and the decision by an opec oil producing countries to increase output,
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but not by as much as people had wanted. so there are real concerns about a rising oil price economies kicking back into gear after the pandemic. and then with this rising o price leading possibly to inflation. so we've seen market such as the nick a in japan, a down by a 3 and a half percent at one point, although it has now rebounded the cost. be in south korea down to and a half percent. and then in taipei and here in hong kong on the hang sang index, both indices heading towards one percent down. but again, rebounding is he of his prime minister, abbey, amanda has been sworn in for a 2nd term after he and his party won a landslide victory and jews. elections is described as ethiopia, his 1st attempt at a free and fair vote. but the pulls were overshadowed by the conflict into good i. hundreds of thousands of people could be facing of famine and there are fresh reports of fighting in the west of the country. catherine sawyer has more. i hello prime minister abbey ahmed and
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a parliament dominated by members of his prosperity party warning for a 5 year term. the party was declared, we now of the june parliamentary election that was point quoted by some opposition . parties. voting was also postponed in several areas because of logistical and security problems, including in t guy where the government is facing a rebellion. 3 of those areas, how the elections a few days ago. but despite the problems, the vote was seen by some electoral observance. and the african union, as better run and more democratic than previous pulls. 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. ethiopia needs the cooperation of its friends for its journey of prosperity. ethiopia wants the friendship from the international community. however,
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any friendship must never undermine ethiopia is owner and sovereignty. but some ethiopian octave, they 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. 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 tried to do is basically centralized power and, and signaled as much as his intention to return to the country back to the kind of imperial period loc, grenada, the prime minister said he's government is open to dialogue with a few pins who want peace. he did not mention the t guy, people's liberation front, or the p l. f and it's fighters. were battling security to decline and whom the government has labels
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a terrorist organization. with them and how to put them in the north of the country . betrayal and arrogance has made us pay a heavy cost as a nation. the conflicting t cry is inflicted on us by few individuals. he said that there shall be no e. theo, p if they can't arbitrarily govern, they created this conflict. the u. n. c. d guy 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 mini philippines, hope the prime minister will resolve the t. grey crisis mand ethnic divisions in different parts of the country and bring it feel peer back on track. catching soy alters here. the run says all sides in libya's conflict of committed violations that may include war crimes has been giving details of murders, torture, enslavement and rapes. libya has been in conflict since the death of its former
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leader, mama gadhafi and 2011 rival administrations have been fighting for power. sedans, government says it's about to run out of medicine, fuel and weeds, because the main ports been blocked by protests for over 2 weeks. demonstrators of closed roads or on port sedan to complain about a lack of political power and a poor economy. ha, my daughter has more from port said on 2 weeks of protest, but angry is done, sir. done. tribes have brought operations at what sir. dan tossed on the protesters from the b j and had done the tribes have blocked roads and exits to the port, forcing it to close these importers up. what they say is that he just lack of political power and poor economic conditions. what i don't know about that is that doesn't mean that the government just takes all the texts from our ports to her to without leaving us anything. sudan is not held together by war or rule of the gun.
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we need them to wholeheartedly talk with us as we have genuine grievances underwear . the protesters are also ugly with a deal. the transitional government signed with sir dunst, ripple groups in october last here in the south sudanese capital, juba, widely known as the jibber accord. the deal includes a wealth sharing agreement, as well as repressions for those hot by the countries long conflict. it also promises that a ton of refugees displaced by fighting. i saw some mama's jo marble on it. okay, i didn't amana we are totally against a job or a court. we were not invited in the whole process was hijacked by foreigners. the government knows who our lead is, are to will that i'm still talking with them if they want this blockade lifted wind and how the other non sedans, traditional government has pledged to walk on a political process to resolve the problems of instances done by it's either the protest us will brocade of this port to lift it immediately. the government has
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also saved the countries on the verge of running out of a session. madison's fuel and wit. the protesters, however, deny they've been holding back shipments of food and medical supplies. i'll buy arnold gallow by them by on the statement from the government was only meant to gain sympathy from the public water out of the protests. we haven't stopped even a single got shipment with food or medical supplies from leaving the port number. ok, i that demonstrates as agreed last sunday to allow the resumption of exports of crude oil from landlocked south sudan through a terminal on the red sea port. there also force the closure of a pipeline that carries imported crew to the capital cartoon. sudan was already facing shortages steaming from the economic up people caused by the overthrow of present or more has an al basheba in $21900.00. put sudan, still had an al jazeera paying for the pandemic. the new case chancellor explains
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why taxpayers will have to fund his plan for britain's economy. plus the nobel prize for madison goes to, to americans, scientists for their research on how our bodies react to temperature and touch. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways, voted will's best air line of 2021. hello, good to see you. cyclone shaheen has really done a number on oman near its landfall. we saw more than $300.00 millimeters of rain within a short time, but look at that scene and 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 out the sand and does toward that se of saudi. and also drifting in
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some cloud cover for cats are dough i will get up to a high of $37.00 degrees on tuesday, but it's bumping in some high humidity. so that's feeling in the low to mid forties . and for pakistan it's a completely different story. the humidity has flushed out. we've got fresh air and play here karachi up to 32 degrees, a scattering of showers for it's damn 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 soon. the weather sponsored by cut, our airways, voted world's best air line of 2021 on air or online, the part of the debate, or pacific people, the ocean, is our identity, and the source of will be we are the window topic is off the table. it's
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a inside atmosphere, people are demoralized, they're exhausted, and many health care workers are experiencing p t s d like symptoms jump into this dream and jew, he now global community appeal on right on each and right now you can be part of those conversations. wealth. this 30 now to sierra, ah ah. you want to go to 0 reminder. i told stories. this are facebook instagram on whatsapp, on mostly back on line after users were blocked for several hours. billions of people around the world have been affected. facebook, which owns all 3 sites, apologized if europe is prime minister r b, i'm, it has been sworn in for
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a 2nd term. he's promising to protect the country from foreign interference, as governments facing global criticism over the conflict and the to dr. regional sedans. government says it's about to run out of medicine, fuel and weeds because it's main ports being blocked by protests for over 2 weeks. demonstrators of closed roads are unfold so done to complain about a lack of political power and pro economy airlines say they want to cut carbon emissions to 0 by 2050, but chinese carriers say they're not came to sign up. and experts of their doubts, it's the annual meeting of the international air transport association. they've also been talking about the impact of the corona virus pandemic enhancement comes just weeks ahead of global climate talks in scotland. gabriel alexander reports from the whole city, boston $137000000000.00. that's how much money airlines will lose to the end of next year. because of the pandemic,
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even as domestic air travel picks up in some parts of the world, airline losses this year, or expected to be a staggering 51000000000 before being trimmed to 11000000000 next year. all this, even after us carriers received $25000000000.00 bail out last year from us government. that new financial figures are according to the international air transport association that represents $290.00 airlines and 82 percent of the global air traffic is still a long way to go. international air travel still heavily restricted as result of the government measures. we know that once those restrictions are removed, the demand for travel remains very strong. but at the annual meeting in boston, the talk was also about another emergency. the airline industry is contributing to carbon emissions. if the global airline industry was a country, it would be the world's 6th largest polluter. out of all of the carbon emissions
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that are released from passenger planes. 25 percent comes from aircrafts that are landing or taking off out of airports here in the united states. after that, the 2nd biggest emitter is aircraft in or out of airports in china, followed by the u. k. japan and germany dear line industry announced a goal of net 0 airline emissions by 2050. but already chinese carriers are reluctant to agree and analyst are skeptical that goal can even be met in 2009. the ation industry agreed to cut emissions by half in 2050. if you look what happened afterwards, emissions actually grew faster in the 10 years after the announcement was made. so overall, this is a really positive announcement, but it does point to the need for governments to hold the airlines to account for their actual obligations. these are projects that literally take carbon out of the
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atmosphere in an effort to lower emissions us base carrier. united airlines announced it will buy $100.00 fully electric commuter planes. but it will only be able to fly 400 kilometers and carry 19 passengers in an industry with aspirational goals to become a cleaner form of transportation. gabe rosato al jazeera boston goes. president. jo biden's accusing republicans are being reckless because he says they won't work with democrats to raise the country so called debt ceiling. if the government doesn't increase the amount, it allows itself to borrow by october. the 18th. it won't be able to make payments and what it owes. the reason we have 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,
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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 shipper, critical, dangerous and disgraceful investigators in california is say, a massive oil spill could have been caused by a ship's anchor striking a pipeline. the leaks being described as an environmental catastrophe. more than 570000 liters of oil is spread into the ocean. rob reynolds reports from huntington beach, california, an environmental catastrophe on the california coast. sandy beaches fouled by globs of tar shore birds. wading through wetlands soaked in oil, a burst pipeline from an offshore oil rig gushed half a 1000000 leaders of crude into the pacific from the air,
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the oily shining covers parts of the ocean surface beaches along a large stretch of coast are now closed. we know that there is oil ranging from huntington beach and now we know as far down as laguna and, and likely moving, continuing to move in a southerly direction. the area is so popular with swimmers, surfers and sun bathers, that huntington beach is nicknamed surfed city usa coastal conservation advocates are devastated. you know, it's kind of a sense of ha, you know, really sadness and tragedy combined with a sense that you've kind of knew it's inevitable, emergency crews, etc. and on land are laying floating barriers to try to contain the oil and prevent even more damage. a number of birds soaked with oil have been rescued, but the impact of the spill will be felt throughout the ecosystem of beaches and coastal marshes. say environmentalists is going to get on to the rocks and under the rocks. and it's going to also settle in different places and in the levels of
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the, the, the water. so there's gonna be some on top. you can try skim as much of that off as it can, but some of them could settle to the bottom and just stay down there for a while. the clean up will likely take months. there are $23.00 oil platforms off the california coast. all of them date back at least to the 1980s. for years, environmentalists have been warning that aging oil industry infrastructure and pipes together with lax regulation are a recipe for disaster. the company that operates the pipeline, texas based amplify energy, emerged from bankruptcy protection. just 4 years ago, it has a long heard of violating federal environmental laws, amplify energy ceo says it's unknown what caused the spill, but the pipeline has been shut down. there is no active weakness we are aware of, and especially in that specific area that we've, we've identified environmental to say. the only way to stop future spills is to
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shut down the offshore rigs for good. this is a wake up call that we need to stop offshore drilling our for our coastline. the damaging spill comes amidst a national effort to switch to clean sources of energy. a major part of president joe biden's proposed infrastructure legislation. rob reynolds al jazeera, huntington beach, california. behind the scenes workers in hollywood have voted to go on strike for the 1st time in their unions, 128 year history. the international alliance of theatrical stage employees says workers want better pay safer hours, reasonable rest periods and guaranteed breaks negotiations drawn to a halt after the most recent 3 year contract expired in july, many prominent names in hollywood say they support the crews. demands has been violence at a farmer's protest in bolivia, riot police in le pies fight tear gas at demonstrators after some through fire crackers. several cook of farmers unions have been fighting over the leadership of
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their umbrella body and the capitol, whoever controls it, controls payments for the market there. the conflict turned violent on one of those groups took over the associations headquarters. protesters say they want the market back. the man in charge of britain's money's wanting the taxpayers will have to pay for the you. case, pandemic recovery plan chancellor. re, she cynic as told the annual conference of the ruling. conservative party that it would be immoral to keep loading debt on to future generations. but there is concern across the u. k. about a looming cost of living crisis all brennan reports from manchester. richie soon, ac 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. soon ex government backed fellow scheme, subsidized the salaries of more than $11000000.00 workers at a cost of $95000000000.00. now he says,
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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, it's going to be a very tough winter for some. and my great worry is that we can have lots more people pushed into downs of loan sharks valves to use the banks and not see that so necessary. you know, the government could just continue with the 20 pound weekly, later into the winter, into the yes, 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 has caused petro pumps to run dry and also seen empty shelves in supermarkets
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. many economists are wanting that the united kingdom faces a cost of living crisis in the coming months. has energy prices go up on the government, closed back some of the benefits 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 sulfur. it proposals include a scheme, cold kicks, dos to help young low income workers and incentives for companies to take on apprentices in his sofa workshop. mike cleary says he's just about getting by. we're thinking over making a copy. we could do that. what we offer will get well portrayed wouldn't be put through bluetooth, done through next month, re she soon act delivers a formal budget which will detail the government's financial plans. the indications are that for many in the u. k. things are going to get worse before they might get
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better. pull brennan, al jazeera manchester barnes of a crate on the la, paloma island volcano have collapsed as explosions become more aggressive. it's still seeing lava after erupting more than 2 weeks ago. the spanish governments placed $239000000.00 to help the island recover by mr. pedro sanchez made the commitment on sunday during a visit there earlier on monday. local authorities briefly open parts of the exclusion zone were jonah hall, filed this report. 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 into the exclusion zone. the dangers own. 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 would having to wear protective gear of
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course, against the selfish air. and look at this really quite heavy pieces of back. volcanic got 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 scrapping 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,
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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 while the volcano shows no sign of slowing down, no, great surprise there, the average duration of an event like this is 58 days. and yet, here we are at the empty tables and the empty beaches on day 60. jonah,
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how al jazeera on la palmer island in the atlantic ocean to america, scientists have been awarded. this is nobel prize from medicine. david julius and other important part to push in was singled out for their discoveries about receptors for temperature and touch. the secretary general of the nobel committee called the findings crucial to our survival. the prize comes with a gold medal and more than a $1000000.00. it is true that walking through the supermarket, i'll one day seeing all these hot chili pepper saucers, 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 is when you'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 needs 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. williams harkins boldly going for no other living. sy,
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fi stars have gone actually into space. the 90 year old actor became a science fiction icon when he played captain coke in the us. sy fi series star trek is going to be joining 3 others on board. a blue origin capsule which will be blasting off from texas next week. shatner is going to become the oldest person to go into space so far. ah, this is all the 0. these are the top stories, facebook and it's subsidiaries, instagram, and what's up? i know, mostly back online after users were blocked for several hours. billions of people around the world have been affected, the companies apologized and says, it doesn't believe any user data was compromised. facebook's chief technology officer at to use rival platform twitter to tell customers it was having technical difficulties on all those comes as facebook faces. another crisis, a former employee, has leaked documents that appear to show over the phone,
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putting profit before the safety of its users. it's also accused of ignoring warnings that instagram was having an impact.

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