what is recorded is accurate and truthful. i'm sen ah. ready facebook says, sorry for a global outage that's crashed at social media platforms for hours, a mob office. and this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up if he appears prime ministers sworn in for a 2nd term, as people starve to death into gray and fighting spreads to other parts of the country. global airlines commit to 0 carbon emissions by 2050, but chinese carriers say they're reluctant to sign up. i'm experts,

i 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 apologized for technical problems at crush the social media site added subsidiaries, instagram and what's up for hours. it says is, has no evidence that user data was compromised. it's the latest headache for mach zocker bugs company, which is also facing accusations from a whistleblower muslin. jordan reports from washington dc for 7 hours on monday for billions of face books. customers no likes, no insta moments. no worldwide phone calls are messaging. facebook's chief technology 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 percent, 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 is 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. some found the outage at facebook, instagram and what's app funny. but for whatsapp users, analysts say the disruption could have been catastrophic. what's app is tremendously 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 say 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. the thing i saw facebook over and over again was there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was gay for facebook. in facebook over and over again shows to 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 face another hurdle hog and testifies before congress about facebook on tuesday, rosalind jordan l g 0, washington, rama bright and hong kong has this update on how the drop in facebook stock price affected trading in the opening markets in asia, there has been this big sell off of your 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, 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 2 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 ethiopians primus, or i'll be on it has been sworn in for a 2nd term after he had his party won a landslide victory in june's elections. his described it as if he of his 1st attempt at a free and fair vote. but the pulls were overshadowed by the conflict into gripe. hundreds of thousands of people could be facing of famine. and there are fresh reports of fighting in the west of the country. catherine saw his more. i hello prime minister abbey ahmed and 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 held the 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. 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 ethiopians honor and sovereignty. but some ethiopian octave, a 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 i'm 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 imperial pay locked out of 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 a p, a laugh at fighters who are battling security forces he t guy, and whom the government has labeled a terrorist organization. with them have to put them in the north of the country. betrayal and arrogance has made us pay a heavy cost as a nation. the conflict in to 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 that t great crisis manned ethnic divisions in different parts of the country and bring if they appear back on track. cathy sawyer, alta 0 there and says all sides in libya is conflict of committed violations that may include war crimes has been giving details of murders, torture, slavery, and rapes. libya has been in conflict since the death of its former leader mama gadhafi in 2011 rival administrations have been fighting for power. sedans. government says it's about to run out of medicine,

fuel and weight because the main ports been blocked by protests for over 2 weeks. demonstrators of closed roads or on ports are done to complain about a lack of political power and a poor economy. commodore has more from port saddam 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 it just the lack of political power and poor economic conditions. what i don't feel about that is that doesn't mean that the government just takes all the texts from our port, starting without leaving us anything. sedan is not held together by war or rule of the gun. we need them to wholeheartedly took with us as we have genuine grievances underwear. the protesters are also angry with a deal. the transitional government signed with students triple groups in october

last year. in the south sudanese capital, juba, widely known as the juba 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 in 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 did them 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 is that still done? but it's either the protest us will have blockaded this port to lift it immediately . the government has 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 on

a legal law 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 shipment of food or medical supplies from leaving the poor. i've been what, okay, a year that demonstrates as ugly last sunday to allow that assumption of exports of crude oil from landlocked south sedan through a terminal that had seaport. there also force the closure of a pipeline that carries imported crude to the capital cartoon. sudan was already facing shortages theming from the economic upheaval caused by the overthrow of prisoners on what has anal basheba in 2019 mohammed underworld. as ita puts had done the pfizer vaccine reportedly gets 50 percent less effective in preventing covered 19 infections. after 6 months. the influential lancet medical journal has published data, which is used by u. s. officials when deciding on the need for booster shots. figures showed visors

effectiveness dropped from 88 percent to 47 percent 6 months after the 2nd dose. but it's still shown to be up to 90 percent effective of preventing the need for hospitalization and deaths even against the delta variant. international tourists won't be able to get into australia until 2022, even though borders have started to reopen. foreign minister scott morrison says priority will be given to skilled migrants and students for the vaccinated citizens, as well as residents have been stranded overseas will be able to go home from november and australians will be allowed to travel abroad again. still ahead on al jazeera, i green peace activists try to block access to a shell refinery at rotterdam in the netherlands. while the volcano on la palmer keeps spewing lava, we're going to have a report from the exclusion zone after it was briefly opened. ah.

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 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 nearest 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 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 coming and going, 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. ah. on counting the cost of the miracles, legacy and you have an economy that is the envy of the world. but unprepared for the digital age, apple kicks on game, make an effort from an app store. is the phone, make it abusing it's monopoly and afghan businesses and losing international customers? counting the cost on l. just it investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on al jazeera.

ah ah. ah. you're watching or is it a reminder? what top stories this are facebook instagram on what's up mostly back on line off to users will blocked for several hours. billions of people around the world have been affected. facebook, which owns all 3 sites, has apologized. if he'll be his prime minister, i'll be on that and has been sworn in for a 2nd term. he's promising to protect the country from foreign interference. is governments facing global criticism over the conflict and that's a good reach. sedans government says it's about to run out of met some fuel and

weeds because the main ports being blocked by protests for over 2 weeks. demonstrators of closed roads to run the port saddam, to complain about a lack of political power and a poor economy. say of always, parliament has approved a law given the government's sweeping post to deal with so called foreign interference. it allows the authorities to force social media platforms and website operators to provide user information and block content appeals will be held by a tribunal, not a court rights group. reporters without borders is wanting. the law could be used against independent media outlets. airlines say they want to cut carbon emissions to 0 by 2050 chinese carriers, so they're not king to sign up. and experts have their doubts. it's the annual meeting of the international air transport association, but they've also been talking about the impact of the corona virus. pandemic announcement comes just weeks ahead of global climate talks in scotland. kribble elizondo reports from the whole city austin,

$137000000000.00. that's how much money airlines will lose to the end of next year . because of the pandemic, even as domestic air travel picks up in some parts of the world, airline losses this year are expected to be a staggering 51000000000 before being trimmed to 11000000000 next year. all this, even after us carriers received $25000000000.00 bailout last year from the 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 a 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 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 missions 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 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. gabriel's hondo al jazeera boston, greenpeace activists have tried to stop a shipping tour shell refinery at rotterdam and the netherlands. please send her the blockade after several hours. the port authority claims that wasn't much disruption for the protesters say they still made a point. i didn't bother reports from rotterdam. police moving in on greenpeace protest is in rotterdam. campaigners with the environmental pressure groups scaled

vis seiler. 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 report 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 shell or renew of what energy, even if their renewable energy cossick is only a very, very tiny percentage of their investment. or it could also be what we will call for 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 to 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 burns 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 percent of 2019 levels and the ruling wards of an eminence. violation of the company's legal obligations to reduce dangerous the 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 curve the growing climate emergency and confront him with a daily. i'm confronted with and so when i see the new, 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 called this action on its property unsafe and illegal. it also says it's important. it lets customers know about lower carbon options. wire 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 bob al jazeera rotted m u. s . president joe biden's accusing republicans have been reckless because he says they won't work with democrats to raise the countries 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, they incurred, they incurred nearly 8 trillion dollars in 4 years, 8 trillion dollars in additional dead. in bills we have to now pay off, not only republicans refusing to do their job, the threatening or use the power,

their power to prevent us from doing our job, saving the economy from a catastrophic event. i think quite frank, a shipper critical, dangerous and disgraceful investigators in california say, a massive oil spill could have been caused by a ship's anchors striking a pipeline, a loose being described as an environmental catastrophe. more than 570000 liters of oil has spread into the ocean. rob reynolds reports from huntington beach in california, an environmental catastrophe on the california coast. sandy beaches fouled by globs of tar shore birds waiting through wetlands soaped in oil. a burst pipeline from an offshore oil rig gushed half a 1000000 leaders of crude into the pacific from the air, 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'd kind of knew it's inevitable. emergency crews at sea 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 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 environmentalists say the only way to stop future spills is to 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 and hollywood have voted to go on strike for the 1st time in their union's 128 year history. the international alliance of theatrical stage employees says workers want better pay safer hours, reasonable rest periods and guaranteed breaks negotiations ground to a halt after the most recent 3 year contract expired in july. many prominent names in hollywood say they support the crews demands. there's been violence that of farmers protest in bolivia, variety police in la pause, fired tear gas at demonstrators after some through firecrackers. several cook of farmers unions have been fighting over the leadership of their umbrella body and the capitol, whoever controls it, controls permits for the market there. the conflict turned violent when one of those groups took over the associations headquarters. processors say they want

their market back. parts of a crater on the la palmer island volcano have collapsed as explosions become more aggressive. it still spinning lava after erupting more than 2 weeks ago. the spanish governments place $239000000.00 to help the islands recover by mr. pedro sanchez made the commitment on sunday during a visit there. a thought is briefly open parts of the exclusion zone on monday, where john 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 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 would having to wear protective gear of

course, against the selfless air. and look at this really quite heavy pieces of back, both canada, 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 scanning 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 volk,

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, the thing empty, evacuated the question, of course is, how long is all of this going to go on for a while? 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, how al jazeera on la palmer island in the atlantic ocean. william shatner's boldly

going for no other living. sy, fi stars have gone actually into space. the 90 role doctor became a science fiction icon when he played captain kirk him the u. s. sy fi series star trek is going to be joining 3 others on board of blue origin capsule, which is going to blast off from texas next week. shatner's going to become the oldest person to go into space so far. ah, this is audra 0. these are the top stories, facebook and it subsidiaries, instagram and what's up or now mostly back on line. after users were blocked for several hours, billions of people around the world have been affected, the companies apologize and says it does not believe any user data was compromised . phase.