series explores the ever growing challenges to democracy around the world. former became a fossil president, place come for, it goes on 5 for the assassination of his predecessor thomas, banker, context india, direct from them by brings insights and perspectives from the world's most populous democracy. who work is go to the pool in an election likely to define the countries future. october on al jazeera. ah, i'm here today because i believe facebook's products harm children stoked division and week in our democracy. a former facebook employee turned whistle blower testifies before us senators, same. the social media giant puts profits over people. ah,

hello, i'm barbara sarah. you're watching out a 0 live from london, also coming up revelations of widespread sexual abuse and the french catholic church spending more than 17 years. resetting that relationship, the 1st high level meeting between france and the us after a cancelled submarine deal tested a long standing alliance. and this appearing before our eyes are you and report wants them billions will not have adequate access to water within 30. ah, a facebook whistleblower has told congress that the social media giant is an urgent threat to the us that needs to be regulated. frances horgan also warned that the company is aware of the harm that it's platforms cause to users, but hasn't done anything about it. former product manager francis hogan,

says that facebook prioritized growth and profit over the safety of users. she says the chief mark zuckerberg has that wide ranging over side of the company and maintains the ultimate control of key decisions. the highly anticipated testimony comes a day after a massive global out. it outer jet facebook, instagram and the messaging platform. what's up for nearly 6 hours. facebook has rejected organs claims and says a significant amount of money has been spent on safety. i saw facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its own profit and our safety. facebook consistently resolve these conflicts in favor of its own profits. the result has been more division, more harm, more lies, more threats, and more combat. in some cases, this is a, this dangerous online talk has led to actual violence that harms and even kills people. this is not simply

a matter of certain social media. users being angry or unstable, are out one side mean radicalized events. the other, it is about facebook choosing to grow at all costs. shepherd hanson joins us live now from washington. d. c. a has been following the story as she had a fancy organ. there said that one of the key problems, one of the main issues is that facebook effectively operates in the shadows. so what can be done to actually make sure and how to account? that's where i think there is consensus. transparency is key now because the nature of the documents to remember don't just are testimony thought not just halligan's testimony, but the 10s of thousands of documents that she copy and then released to the press on the securities exchange commission. and congress, which show all the internal deliberations which actively seem to prove that in the past when we have our facebook executives, including mocker burke himself come and testified congress. they weren't telling the truth. so that's, i think, where you have that baseline consensus,

which is we need more transparency about the algorithms facebook is using in order to send us to content that is going to enrage us as much as possible. because as far as facebook is concerned in, rick enraging uses, gets them to interact with facebook and some to spend the longer time on facebook than they share stuff. the comment on self. but that also, that means that they're more exposed to advertising and be, and all facebook is about is getting us to click on adverse. and if you're engaging more than you're clicking more than you might stop, you see you have more opportunities to be confronted by adverts, which may also been sol, solved, picking up on. that's the easy part that i think there's also consensus about getting far more information about all the data facebook is harvesting about us and how it's using that. then it gets more tricky though. how good was very much saying we need some kind of watch door to police, facebook and police. the algorithm is perhaps academics, but already you're on tricky ground there because who is to decide what is inflammatory dangerous content and what is simply content that perhaps perhaps the

powerful don't want us to hear because it will make us angry because they're doing wrong things in one man's post, one person's post about police brutality and racism can be seen as terrible devices . so is that a good thing or about that? should we be getting angry about up already we, we have documented the, if you post about is really occupation of your people i territories and so on. israel and facebook are working very close group took to flagler place therapy. that gets, gets a little bit tricky. there, but the reason i think that basis of agreement, the very least will be more transparent at one point. hogan said, it's like the department of transport, regulating cause, but doing thoroughly just by looking at how calls are driving on the roads shops. basically what we have right now, damage to self interest in self worth of inflicted by facebook to day will haunt a generation. we want to pick up feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, rejection,

and self hatred will impact this generation for years to come. our children are the ones who are victims, teens to day looking at themselves in the mirror, feel doubt, and insecurity. mark zuckerberg ought to be looking at himself in the mirror to day. and yet, rather than taking responsibility and showing leadership, mister jack berg is going sailing ship. all of this is happening as that facebook comes out of its worse outage ever. about 6 hours. do we actually know what caused it? we do not have several statements from facebook, that it was nothing malicious, they say that it was the era of our own making according to a vice president of infrastructure. this is quite interesting statement to which i read a bit out of our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the

back bound, roaches routers that coordinate network traffic with our data centers whose issues interrupted communication, the disruption of network traffic advocacy, cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate basically through various internal internal problems with the messaging in the coding are facebook very service went down and then in fact, facebook's own data centers was simply just cut off from the internet from the outside world. so everything was down, but also that meant it took a long time to fix because those data centers will be connected to the internet. so the sort of a set of measures that could have been taken by engineers remotely. what able to be done to actually have to physically go into the facebook data centers and fix things. and that was took, took, took an even longer time. so that seems to be the, just it, but apparently it was their own fault. it was a bit of a mistake, a bit of a miscommunication somewhere in the coding and nothing malicious. and no, they say, of course, when you talk about facebook, you don't really know what this means, but none of our user data is compromised. of course, today was

a day when it seems pretty clear that most about use of data on facebook by definition is compromised, but at least no more so than usual. i guess shepherd hansi with the latest on that from washington d. c. she had thank you. the pope has expressed that deep sorrow after the release of a report and the sexual abuse within the catholic church in france. the report found there were nearly 330000 victims over the past 70 years, who were treated with deep and cruel indifference. the head of the french conference of bishops as expressed shame, ask for forgiveness and promised to act neeve barker reports. ah, many children abused by members of the catholic church were not believed or listened to for years. some were even accused of contributing to what had happened to them. among those victims, olivia 7 jak abused by a priest when he was 13. oscar, we sit and cease than we sit in while yes, the report is an earthquake. he yes, it's a hurricane. yes, it's

a sing army. what is she and it has to be as soon army because the day when we see the numbers on it so damning that no one can be in denial because we both within the catholic church and the whole it's it's i say don't. yeah. the roman catholic church betrayed the trust of the young and vulnerable on a devastating scale. the conclusion of a 2 and a half year investigation into clerical child abuse carried out by $3000.00 suspected peter files in the french church on a poopoo to shoot from, says in the french population. now aged 18 and over 216000 plus or minus $50000.00 was sexually assaulted by clerics priests or nuns, jones as mine against bushel of a city. and when lay members of the church such as teachers, a catholic schools are included all 6, the number of child victims, climes to 330000, to zip of the 7 decade periodontal and poor measure. he'd fool a magic when the must been the line is until the early 2000 new school that we keep

total and his even current difference for years. recent scandals have decimated the church. his credibility at a time of dwindling attendance is last year defraud, french catholic priest, bernard craner, was sentenced to 5 years in jail for abusing scouts in his care. several decades ago. the case also led to the resignation of his superior, the archbishop of leon philly. barbara accused of covering up the abuse the scandal in frances, the latest to hit. the catholic church, rocked by abuse scandals around the world. in june, pope france is said the church abuse crisis was a world wide catastrophe. this year he issued an extensive revision of church law, insisting bishops take robust action against clerical abuse. the french church said in march, it would propose some form of financial aid to the victims. the campaigners have been left asking how it's possible to put a price on suffering. e parker al jazeera ah

. the secretary of state antony blinkin is in france to patch up ties after weeks of strained relations over a cancelled submarine deal. he's mad french president emmanuel mccall and the fine eunice to shine even everything out. both sides have agreed that there is an opportunity to deepen cooperation. france expressed anger last lance when australia tore up a multi $1000000000.00 defense the or replacing it with a contract with the us and u. k. while emma norma crohn said he hopes that he can discuss the submarine issue with the us, based on the facts. and i think we with google to, to discuss together mid october. we will catch up during the g 20. and i think that will be the right occasion to see how we can round gauge very concretely m. my point is not honestly, i don't,

it's not an issue about words or perception issue about facts and what to do to give natasha butler has more now from bordeaux in slovenia. my call said that he thought this dinner was a good opportunity for you. leaders to discuss the use position on the international stager. micro said, as far as he was concerned, he believes that you should work very closely with its historic allies, but it should remain more so her line may suffer in an area such as technology, the economy and defense. he said, now of course, this is the 1st time that the $27.00 you leaders come together since the diplomatic rout erupted between paris and washington over the aka steel that deal, that was signed by the u. s. u. k. and australia seemingly without any consultation from a european allies, certainly not with the french. the french, very upset by that. i know earlier today the french president had

a meeting with you as secretary of state on 20th lincoln in paris. the 2 are saying that they work together to cooperate in the future on, in certain areas. certainly the u. s. trying to rebuild trust with the french president the u. k. has sent its 1st delegation to meet the taliban in kabul since it's takeover of afghanistan. salmon gas. the u. k is a special representative for afghanistan held the talks with the taliban deputy prime minister moo labrador. a u. k. government spokesman says the envoy discussed how britian could help of canister and address the humanitarian crisis and raised the treatment of minorities and women, stephanie decker, as more from cobble on what this meeting means. it's certainly in line with what we've been hearing from, particularly the british foreign secretary dominic robin. he was in katara in doha, just a couple of weeks ago saying that they weren't going to recognize the taliban yet. but that dialogue was important. and i think this is what we're seeing now.

certainly it is a significant visit. there is a dialogue, there's an open line of communication. and i think this is what the international community is doing. it's using this fact of international recognition of the taliban as the, the legal official governing body of this country to try and put pressure on the group to adhere to certain a certain, you know, norms that they want to see as pick their, the rights of minorities. the rights of girls and women to go to school, to work, to stick to the agreement in the sense of, you know, making choices. another thing they disgusted a that afghanistan doesn't become what they call a safe haven for terrorists. so these are things of continually being discussed. i think this is what a lot of a foreign leaders have been saying and using is pressure on them with this legitimacy was sort of recognizing as a governor to try and put pressure on them to dock to certain things. we are at a time of course when the taliban is seeking that international legitimacy, they need the millions and millions of dollars in funds to help get this country forward at a time when you know the winter is looming and we've got an economic dire situation

. people have no money, there's drought, there's famine and all these kinds of things. so what you're seeing is a political dance, if you will, so to speak. i don't think it means or any closer to officially recognizing them as the government. but a dialogue is in place and they also mentioned how the u. k. could help the humanitarian situation. that is something that still goes on. meanwhile, i solace. claim responsibility for sunday's blast outside a mosque in the afghan capital which killed 13 people. the taliban says at the store and i saw cell in the north of cowboy hours after the explosion, which was the largest attack since the u. s. troop withdrawal. i saw an afghan to stand previously claimed responsibility for a suicide of packet cobbles, airport in august, which killed about $170.00 afghan civilians and 13 u. s. soldiers still to come here and al jazeera a 2nd. the chinese property company default says that laden ever ground hopes to dodge collapse, plus why the bolivian capital has become

a battle ground over it's blossoming. co come like ah hello again. it's been a huge amount of rain in the north west of italy, studying results in peer monson and then luxurious the northwest really running off the mountains. but it's also fallen lower level. and the client brought this stuff he has moved on. there is some movement in this is a very active area than beyond that you've got what looks more or tom opened the british isles. but if you're down in spain and portugal, well enjoy the warped. it's still there. we're in the twenty's, not the thirty's, but it starts to be settled whether in eastern europe terms resent the teens now, but again settled whether was sunshine in the sky, so that have focused them. although there are going to be warnings,

moving slowly out of its lean towards the balkans at the moment on wednesday. still this northwestern part of it meets at risk of fear. the flooding orange is showing itself on his way to greece. his whole area has got a potential to provide more funding and it's slow revolving movement. it does leave the north of italy, rather i will be pleased to see you on thursday and on friday and the autumnal flow while that's limited to ireland and scotland. and it's drawing a very warm, suddenly flow ahead of it, which extends all the across to scandinavia. tempt is on that high, but when the rain is falling, it's still about 5 degrees above average, which is good. the glasgow ah, the on air or online, the part at the debate or pacific people, the ocean is our identity and the source of well being. we are the ocean when no topic is off the table, it's a children's side 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 julie not global community. if he were on right on youtube right now, you can be part of this conversation is wealth this street. oh, now to sierra lou lou, i remind her now of the top stories on al jazeera facebook whistleblower has told congress that the social media giant is a threat to the us. francis huggins said that company is aware of the harm it's platforms calls to users, but hasn't done anything about it. the pope has expressed that deep sorrow after

the release of a report of the sexual abuse within the catholic church in france. it found that there were nearly 330000 victims over the past 17 years. and the secretary of state is in france to patch up ties up to weeks of strained relations over a cancelled the submarine deal. australia tore up a multi $1000000000.00 deal with france for one with the u. s. and the u. k. a 2nd chinese property developer has defaulted on a payment, has concern grows about the debt laid and sector. fantasia holdings was due to pay $205000000.00 to it's a bondholders on monday. investors are already worried that chinese real estate giant ever grant might collapse. rob mcbride reports from hong kong in recent weeks, as a grand has been selling off assets to meet its debts, but it's still been missing. we payment deadlines. now analysts are predicting it

may have to sell off part of its property management unit to a hong kong based real estate company to raise billions of dollars more as ever. grands problems have snowballed, it shares have lost more than 80 percent in value this year. it has well over a 1000 property developments across china, putting many homeowners at risk of losing their investments. founded in the mid ninety's ever grant has grown quickly into a conglomerate, not only involved in real estate, but with interests in sectors from personal finance, to food and drink and electric cars. any union, even owning one of china's most important football clubs. and there are growing fears about the possible contagion effect for other large property developers, because the ever grand saga has been dragging on for some time. the air poverty market had really come to a stand still and,

and part. but if prices are fully given ever grand size and reach across the chinese economy, there's real concern about the fall out if it fails, or even if it can be allowed to fail by the central government. especially in a country where maintaining social stability is so important. in the southern chinese city of shane gen worried investors have laid siege to the companies offices, return our money chances protesters. it's widely believed the government has been prodding state back entities to buy assets from have a grant to prop it up with the priority being to settled debts at home 1st ever ran has a heavy exposure to the overseas investors upon market. and then i think they're the last in line to gather paintings, selling more assets will give ever grand another respite, but the billions of dollars of debt it will still carry forward makes its whole

future and uncertain. rob mcbride, al jazeera hong kong, the current philippine president to says that he's preparing his defense against an international criminal court investigation into his so called war on drugs. there was a legal detail. they previously insisted that he would not cooperate with the inquiry claiming the court has no jurisdiction in the philippines. rights groups of estimate had tens of thousands of people were killed as part of his campaign on saturday did have he announced the old retire from politics after his term ends. for the son of the late philippine leader ferdinand the medical says announced that he will run for president in next year's elections. further on the articles junior has been involved in politics since is returned from exile in 1991. his father was overthrown in 1986. after more than a 1000000 filipinos protested against controversial martial law. a group of

farmers have taken control of believe, years largest coca market to buy force members of the younger community, fort police, and rival groups. before they stormed into the market place in the capital lepers, they say they are the rightful and historic owners of the countries cocker trade or a burden. manley has more ah, a moment of celebration for a group of coca palmas from bolivia is ethnic younger community that spent 10 days trying to take control of this marketplace in the capital, a path from rival performers. the scene is in contrast to the violent confrontation earlier with security forces. outside their protesters blocked a nearby road and its surrounding area and cascade of tear gas dispersed. the crowd bounced, they soon resumed breaking through police lines to enter the market place. thank

god, god did justice for us, so we could regain our coca market. oh, we're only the producers. the police who support another group of coca growers wants to silence us with gas and bullets. lupins has been a battle ground between 2 rival groups of cocoa farmers, one loyal to the government, the other to the opposition which had taken the market from its young rivals last month. the market place is important because more than 90 percent oblivious. coakley business is done here, and it generates a $173000000.00 us dollars a year. the cocoa leaf is often choose, am brewed by people in the andes to cope with altitude sickness. and it's also a roar ingredients. in cocaine, members of the younger community, say they at the right 4 and historic owners of the coca industry. they have caught

on the government to allow them to continue this tradition and they accused their leaders of trying to profit from their trade. they say tough working conditions have forced them to protest. oh no, we demand that the government under the general coca log that a resolution has to be passed to enable the transfer of a commercialization market to a new site for coca growers in order to guarantee the peace and unity of the youngest president. even morales has accused the youngest of being paid off to act against his government. he says he's organizing account to march next week. and the battle controlled of bolivia lucrative coca trade hangs in the balance. law about a manly al jazeera the nobel prize for physics has been given to 3 scientists afford discoveries in climate and complex of physical systems. 9 year old japanese american, its

u. cool man. i bay one for creating the 1st predictions of the effect of carbon dioxide on the planet. he was joined by 89 year old german klaus has selman, who helped show how those predictions are reliable and easily that ga, that easy was honored for explaining why gases and liquids appear to move in random ways. a new report has reveals 14 percent of the world's coral has been lost in less than a decade. the u and back the global data network says more reefs are at risk of disappearing because of climate change. warming oceans are co causing more coral bleaching. that's when corals under heat stress expelled the colorful algae living in their tissue and die. will the united nations, whether agency is says the world will experience serious water shortages unless countries urgently adopt reforms, the number of people suffering water stress is expected. the sword due to dwindling

availability and population growth. the report says 5000000000 people will have inadequate access to water by 2050. despite some advances, 107 countries will not meet a target to achieve sustainability in their water resource management. by 2030 and the u. n. agency estimates that 60 percent of national weather agencies that are responsible for warning people and governments about climate changes impact on their water resources are not able to do so. or climate change is transforming a lake in northern marley into a desert sand dunes have replaced vast expanses of water in the un says more than 300000 people have been displaced. land suitable for farming is becoming scarce, provoking regular and violent disputes between farmers and the livestock herders. nicholas huck reports on the edge of tim booked to is a disappearing lake with the temperatures approaching 50 degrees celsius,

vanished into thin air or the green waters of the mighty lake figure being remark modified. i'm a do as much as it's getting hotter. he's no longer a fisherman, he's witnessed waves of sand gradually take over the waterways. he once sailed for fish. the sea shells from a life that once existed, remain gone. are the mango trees and the green gardens for farming mourns who smuggler deborah would attack again? not if it went on with one, there was water on our land. we grew rice and wheat. look at it. now the people, the village, are building natural barriers to stabilize the sand dunes and stop them from moving already the sand is dangerously close to their home. from above, the natural barriers looks like a fishing net cast over the sand and attempt to stop the unstoppable desert dunes have already buried homes. now it's headed for the nearby school. i'm from edible oak seen oakland up but a cut sign of you see this sand dune wasn't there before it entered the school from the right. the ground was flat between those 2 blocks. this is a school for almost 400 students. that's an entire generation. last generation,

a generation condemned to fleet or be recruited more droughts here, a rainfall on the water has become scars, farmers and herders fight over it. in areas where the mountain state is largely absent arm groups including a kind of control access to water and arable land, giving it only to those willing to join their ranks. the combination of the om conflicts and the effect of climate change is like a death sentence for those population. when the whales are empty, i mean people are on as to flee in search of her that warner, and there are places where people fight for water. it's a source of conflict between communities to day 300000 people have fled an area where there was once an abundance of water, the surface of it was once leak. fucker bean is hot with an unknown gas in its killing. the remaining shrubs, forcing the last people to leave this vanishing oasis, in search of

a more friendly climate. nicholas hawk al jazeera, a russian actress and film director, have successfully arrived that the international space station to make the world's 1st movie in orbit jojo. paris sealed the and the clim chapin code blasted off in a saw use the spacecraft for a 4 hour journey from earth over the next 12 days. they're gonna film scenes at for a movie day about on director who travels in the space suitably enough to save the life of an astronaut. the successful launch puts russia ahead of the us in the film industry's own space race. ah. and now the top stories on al jazeera, facebook whistleblower has told congress that the social media giant is an urgent threat to the us. that needs to be regulated. francis hogan warned that the company

is aware of the harm it's platforms cause to users, but hasn't done anything about it. facebook rejected the claims and says a sick.