nicaragua, costa rica ah ah, the. ready i want to fence minister warns china will have the ability to mount a full scale invasion within 4 years as tensions escalate over beijing's ariel show a force ah hello, i'm emily anglin. this is al jazeera, alive from doha. also coming up. i'm here today because i believe facebook's products harm children, stoked division and week in our democracy. a whistleblower accuses facebook of putting profits over safety in u. s. senate testimony,

as mark zuckerberg says the allegations are just not true. ah, washington national cathedral mach 700000 cove in 19 fatalities as the number of deaths in the u. s. d. c. surpass is 2020 figures. and homeless in brazil, millions forced into poverty in the aftermath of coven 19. and the government scales back age. ah, ty, one's defense minister is warning. china will be capable of launching a full scale invasion of the island within just 4 years. it comes after a record number of chinese aircraft, ain't it? ty, ones, a defense on the islands. defense ministry says $148.00 chinese war plains had breached the areas since friday. badging has recently ramped up pressure on taiwan,

which it says is part of its territory. in an article published earlier on tuesday, ty one's president warned of catastrophic consequences for the wider region. if the island was to fall to china and taiwanese, one of the issues in a deepening strategic rivalry between badging and washington, the u. s. president's national security advisor is to, to hold talks with china's top diplomat in switzerland on wednesday, joe biden says he's addressed the issue of taiwan with his counterpart. she's in pain, a bar. i want to group that we are with for more on the story. let's bring in rob mcbride, who is live for us in hong kong. hello there, rob. i want to speak to you about what president biden had to say, but 1st time wants to fence minister certainly hasn't means to words. what more did

he have to say about china and it's escalating aggression? well, this is a start warning from taiwan. and i think a taiwan has been genuinely rattled by the a scale of the incursions over the past few days in the last couple of years or so we've seen these types of aerial incursions launched from mainland china into what's called the air defense identification zone. this is the air space that runs up to the island on the approaches to the island at. but really it was the scale of that. the last few days that i think is alarmed people in taiwan, abba, nearly a 150 aircraft. i think a taiwan has been looking with some alarm just at the scale of the and of the growth of the military air in mainland china, especially the, it's growing air air force. and also it's a naval capability. the addition of all of these aircraft carriers and so on, and i think on the wider than the wider front, it's also

a recognition by tie one that i, that it's china is economically also. and now that juggernaut in asia, where is in decades gone by, taiwan, used to be able to rely upon it's a more advanced industries. it's great, a commerce, as a, as a guarantee of its survival. they could use that as influence. well, that's no longer the case, it's 9. now china, that is the economic juggernaut that has the ability to further isolate taiwan. so taiwan, i think really does feel increasingly under pressure. and china certainly wants to apply that pressure, especially with citing when the current president of the island who has taken an unlike her predecessors. far more of a standoffish approach with china. it wants to keep china at arms length. beijing doesn't like that. it is happy to try to one to minor and put pressure on her. that danger for china, of course, is that that can backfire as we saw with tying when's re election with

a great majority. last year, there are many forces in taiwan who are increasingly would want to rally round there. and boy, dependently minded president run especially in the face of this same military aggression or perceived as military aggression with these incursions from china. and while we heard it just before we crossed you a quick comment from president biden at batch in pain in the so called taiwan agreement. what exactly was he were fairy? take it with this is it seems to be the, the agreement by which the united states recognizes diplomatically ebay, ging rather than tie one. but on the understanding that taiwan is treated a not a peaceful approach from a mainland china. so that says seems to be a that what he was referring to there. i think there were probably is on all sides an attempt to de escalate this. it has raised attentions. so a bind and the bike the administration or wants to reassure mainland china that it,

there's no chance of giving diplomatic recognition to taiwan. but by the same token, as we've heard from the by the administration from a spokesman jen sack is spect jan sack. he recently at the united states still stands by taiwan. it's right to defend itself. it will continue to supply a very sophisticated weapons to tie one which always angers mainland a china. so we have that tension always underlying this in the background. i. but i think as far as she, jim pink is concerned, they have probably made their point. this is a very important time for both neighbors. it's just after october, the 1st which is china's national day, they wanted to send a clear message to taiwan a in advance of what will be their national day on the 10th of october. so we just a few days away from that. but it does seem as though every body, it seems for the moment, have made their points and have moving pads to the sun. thank you very much. rob mcbride, they live press in hong kong. scott harold is

a senior political scientist at rand corporation. hey, china is a re sent show of force is i'm likely to escalate to a full invasion. at this point, the beijing is looking to put enormous pressure psychologically and operationally on taiwan in taiwan society as well as i one armed forces. at the same time, beijing is a signal to the rest of the world to try to elicit from the rest of the world. some sort of understanding from china that their position is correct in the taiwan will not be allowed to do things like joining the comprehensive and progressive agreement on a trans pacific partnership or deep. and it's unofficial ties with the united states, japan, australia, and european actors. however, i think what aging is doing is clearly millage rising. the situation of pushing the rest of the world to recognize the nature of the chinese regime. that's aggressive threat for peace and stability. region aging clearly recognizes that the reforms

that it launched people's liberation army and 2015 still have a long way to go. 100 miles of open sea, the china would have to cross to bring forces over to taiwan, to try to conquer free people. really be a very big challenge for china, even if it was only fighting the taiwan armed forces to say nothing of having to fight the united states. and coming to i want assistance with possibly other countries, even beyond that bringing assistance or economic pressure to bear. i think right now what china is looking to do is try to pressure taiwan. try to put some red lines down some markers in the sand, and to try to ex, delayed a campaign. psychological worker against the island leader, president, sighing one to the rest. the days news in facebook, c o. mark zuckerberg has pushed back after a whistle blow as testimony to you as congress. he says he's company's research had been taken out of context for my product manager. francis hogan alleges the social

media giant is an urgent threat to its uses and should be regulated. she says the company's side's hom, children's stock division and waken democracies. she had her tansy followed the testimony on capitol hill. frances hogan presented a damning picture of facebook as a company knowingly disseminating folded formation that could have side anger and hatred among uses negatively impact, teenager mental health and even stroke ethnic violence. the goal, she says, to increase the time uses spend on facebook. instagram, actively engaging with posts, and then potentially being exposed to more advertising, which they would click on. this is how facebook makes its money. i saw facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its own prophets and our safety. facebook consistently resolved these conflicts in favor of its own prophets. the result has been more division, more harm, more lies, more threads, and more combat. in some cases, this desert, this dangerous online talk,

has led to actual violence that harms and even kills people. what makes huggins testimony so important is that she has the documentation to back up her claims, tens of thousands of internal pieces of paperwork that royal facebook's knowledge of the consequences of its actions. allegedly in its pursuit of profit. how can call to more transparency and oversight over the algorithms. facebook users is like the department of transportation regulating cars by only watching them dr. young highway. facebook is called hogan was testimony selective and misleading. but both republicans and democrats on the committee express capitalism of the company's truthfulness. they knew what they were doing. they knew where the violations were, and they know they are guilty. mark zuckerberg ought to be looking at himself in the mirror to day. and yet, rather than taking responsibility and showing leadership,

mr. jackson bird is going sailing. but there is an active debate underway about how much regulation to impose after all, who is going to decide what is inflammatory speech and what is simply information with a powerful but what the rest of us to hear. a starting point though, it does seem to be more transparency, transparency about the algorithms facebook is using to make us angry in the 1st place and also more information about all the data facebook is harvesting about all of us. there was actually pure gold data supporting all these downstream harms of the way the platform works on those issues that are really at the integration of book. you know, the way data is used this, what we call surveillance, capitalism, where the user is tracked everywhere they go, and then that data's mind in use to target them and try to get them to engage. how can i filed several complaints with the securities exchange commission alleging with our documentation, but facebook has misled its investors and congress in the past? and she's clear it is found of chairman and ceo mugs, zocker burke,

who controls facebook's behavior. she hubbard, nancy al jazeera capitol hill. the death tal from carver 19 in the us. so far this year is higher than the total recorded for all of last year. more than 700000 people have now died in the united states from the virus. ah, the washington national cathedral marks the fatalities by ringing its bell at $700.00 times on tuesday. the u. s. has reported the highest number of deaths from covey. 19 in the world. tens of millions of americans continued to refuse to get vaccinated. despite more than a 1000 people dying from the virus 8 stag, my cannon has more from washington, dc. in all there are some 70000000 americans who have not been vaccinated. this, despite the fact that the vaccination is free, that it is freely available in all parts of the nation. and clearly the period is

that this 70000000000 if they are not vaccinated now, or simply not going to get vaccinated for whatever reason. and health officials pointing out that this is a new pandemic of the un vaccinated they. it is, according to the health experts are the ones who driving the surge. so this, of course, a major concern experts pointing as well to the possibility of new barian submerging beyond the delta variant. given the fact that so many remain unvaccinated in total, about 55 percent of americans are unvaccinated. the only bright point of one can put it like that is that over the past month, the drop in hospital admissions has been some 25 percent of the number of recorded infections has also dropped for roughly the same figure. and since september, the 23rd of the death fatality rate has dropped by some 12 percent. so those are

assign said health officials are hopefully showing that this particular search may be nearing an end. but they warn very, very strongly that there are possible variance on the way and that there is still no end in sight to the a damage being caused by the delta variant itself. and that people need to get vaccinated current of our sets in russia have he had a daily record for the 3rd time. in a month, 890 fatalities were confirmed on tuesday and more than $25000.00 infections. officials say the numbers are concerning, but there are no plans to arrange for g to lock dam. the kremlin has called on people to get vaccinated, saying it's the only way to stop the fires from spreading. investigators say a damaged pipeline that caused a large oil spill in water of southern california was not investigated for nearly 12 hours the coast. god says he didn't have enough evidence and was hindered by

darkness and a lack of technology. they considering whether the lake was caused by ships anchors striking the pipeline more than $500000.00 lasers of oil is spilled into the ocean and is now washing up on beaches. we've determined that approximately 4000 feet of the 17.7 mile pipeline has been displaced and it's been latterly displaced by a 105 feet. what they further located was a 13 inch split in that pipe on, on the side of the pipe. that is a. 6 likely source of release of oil. still ahead on al jazeera the living farm is take over a coca marketplace and say they want to biggest stake in the industry. and tough times ahead for many, we look at how and economic crisis is starting to her big businesses in afghanistan

. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways voted world's best air line of 2021. of the tongue of rainy stretches in citron, rut at through the yellow sea by the yellow river, and the yellow sea toward north korea is going to keep going. that was what division between cooler than average relative. beijing represents that much warmer for the sas city. 7 is ridiculous that both of these cities will see sort of re balancing on thursday as the rain because it is a bit weaker risk for the south. in fact, we got red showing up on the cast the coast to southeast and china as well, or what was in the korean peninsula has been the circulation, but not producing very much rain over land. however, the south china see there is a much bigger and more active circulation. i don't think it'll necessarily fit into a cycling definitely depression. and that orange represents heavy rain. some of it

in luzon, most fit in central vietnam, and the course the shouts are pretty watch for the south of that through malaysia and indonesia. the southwest one soon is all the turn. in fact, this is probably the existing line as anything to the south. so potentially wet caretaker goer possibly time will. now we will see bit of rain in the next couple of days, potential flooding here. it will move away. i think during so sick, don't dry there up in pakistan. most the middle east, the remains a shaheen just here. on the coast of yemen, otherwise it looks dry and not as hot as it was. the weather sponsored my cattle airways voted world's best air line of 2021. to often of con, astonished portrayed through the prism of war. but there were many of gonna stop thanks to the brave individuals who risk their lives to protect it from destruction . an extraordinary film, archives spawning for decades,

reveals the forgotten truth of the country's modern history. the forbidden real part for the era of darkness on the just 0. ah ah, and you're watching al jazeera, i'm emily anglin, a reminder of our top stories this alum tie, one's defense minister is warning at china will be capable of launching a full scale invasion of the island within that just for years. it comes after a record number of chinese military aircraft, ain't it? tie one's a defense on facebook. c, e o. mark zak, a berg has defended his company after a whistle blow as testimony to us congress. he says,

these companies research has been taken out of context, former employee, frances, how can these, urging us congress to regulate the media giant claiming it poses an urgent threat to its uses. and the death toll from cova 19 in the u. s. so 5 is he is higher than the total reported for all of 2020, more than 700000 americans have now died from the virus. the washington national cathedral mocked the fatalities by ringing its bell 700 times a growing number of people in brazil as struggling to afford food. as a consequence of the economic fall out of covered 19, many are now homeless and unable to fade themselves in nutritional diet after the government scaled down, aid to raise a bo reports eating every day has become a challenge for people like eddie on a former prisoner who lives on the streets of rio, these unable surviving here the past year, he says, has been

a challenge live with this problem. this up on the real issue. since the beginning of the pandemic, the streets are very crowded and everything is become very difficult. now no one stops here to help us. there are a lot of people dying because they couldn't get emergency aid. the impact of coven 19 has devastated brazil. almost 600000 people have lost their lives, and millions have been forced into poverty. i mean, rising food prices and unemployment. researchers say at least 19000000 brazilians are struggling for food. and recent images of people scavenging animal carcasses for scraps of food have shocked the country as the difficulties people are facing each day sinkin lucky big i'm with i've taken meat from the truck many times we take the meat and are happy. but now there's a lot of demand because everyone has caught onto it. they either taking it from the truck or straight from the supermarket. at the beginning of the pandemic, for sales press it enjoyable. tornado campaigned against lockdown,

saying hunger was worse than coven 19. that's why last year the government distributed emergency cash handouts to help families and businesses. but this year, government aid has been dramatically scaled back. now this problem is that on the one hand, he has a very new liberal ah, minister of economics that does not want to spend, does not want to provide direct help for, for the population. also not always convey against the program. so he would say that both amelia was an immediate, how dad lula and the politicians for the workers party from better use to buy people's votes, to buy bose ah, good will. right. so as a sustain shalicia program, there was g. people from working there is an idea ideological barrier at the soup

kitchen in real, hundreds of people are showing every day to receive a meal. they're in desperate need of help. if i were to buy learned of him for a dad or 2000000 preschool, i was working. i had a job, i rented an apartment and i was able to pay the rent. i worked and earned a salary every month than the panoramic game. i lost my job, i couldn't pay my rent anymore. volunteers in the soup kitchen say, most of those coming here face a similar situation. we have lost their jobs and cannot afford to pay rent anymore . 20 years ago, brazil became a success story when government programs pushed millions of people out of poverty. now it's an example of the government's inability to deal with a consequences of coven 19. but he said, well, i'll just cedar hebrides are a british envoys. the 1st official from europe to maine, the taliban in cobbles, since his takeover of afghanistan. simon gas, the case especial where presented it for afghanistan. how talks with the tele bonds,

deputy prime minister molla paradigm? stephanie deca has more from cobble on what this meeting means. i'd certainly in line with what we've been hearing from particularly the british foreign secretary dominic robin. he was in carter 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 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 sure this is another thing they discussed today that afghanistan doesn't become what they call a safe haven for terrorists. so these are things that 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 with sort of recognizing as a government 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 afghans industries. meanwhile, a bang squeezed because of banking restrictions and fruits and the assets. some multinational companies are trying to keep their employees and continue with production. but as some have been jervey reports from cobble staying afloat, ensuring an economic crunch isn't easy. ah,

it's 6 30 am in cobble. and the morning shift is ready to begin the day. a multi layered securities needed at the largest beverage production plant in afghanistan, rear success story, which began its carpet and t trade more than a century ago. and now his presence in 46 countries, these carbonated drink, folks ported for the mid leaf infant measure. the one's family on firm is a multi $1000000000.00 enterprise. it's a household brand, and that will understand and the workers take pride in maintaining the quality of their product. but since the balaban took over the revenues and production has been effected, it's mostly drawn by young. are found professionals the out 2000 employees and afghanistan. many have children not to leave their country after foreign forces pulled out. i have started in afghanistan and i have to serve the nation and serve are my soil and my country. that's the

biggest reason i have a state being in afghanistan is more just about profit being in of honest on is about to provide services for white products and to contribute to the economy of the country. for this company has been able to survive the tumult economy largely because if headquarters is not in the gland sun, even during the economic price, this factory continues to produce 72000 tons of energy drink and our but this is an exception because the wider economy of up 9, the sun is suffering and people cannot buy. what is that? what do you say? the construction industry, for example, is at a standstill since contractors, agencies, and people in general have no real access to cash. most equipment hasn't moved from yards. had you select the it says used to send labor and equipment all over the

country. now he's laid off 12 employees. they all mash kiln nestor. this is in this month. there isn't any work for us. the banks are closed and i had to pay salaries in about how can i manage with only $200.00 a week from the bank florida letter? my request of these la mc emerett is to stress on the banks to resume service yellow. there are about 200 to 300 construction companies here. they've all shut down and the staff had been sent home. but if the sunsets on the stationary construction equipment evening shift has started work in another part of carmel workers here, sir. taliban fighters have not come to the company or made any demands. although many are very of the economic crisis, is here to improve security means they do not have to worry about being robbed or killed on their way home. they are hopeful their factory will continue its operation and in return attract investors to help revive the economy. the guy with other vera double a group of farmers,

is taking control of bolivia is the largest coca market by force, members of the younger community for police and government backed protest as before, storming into the marketplace in the past. laura barry and manley has moved a moment of celebration for a group of coca promise from bolivia, his ethnic younger community bid spent 10 days trying to take control of this marketplace in the capital. the path from rival could perform as the scene is in contrast to the violent confrontation earlier with security forces outside their hotels. this slot in nearby road and its surrounding area and test gates 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, or we could regain our coca market. oh,

we're only the producers, the police who support another group of cook, a growers wants to silence us with gas and bullets. lupins has been a battle ground between 2 rival groups of coca form, with one loyal to the government, the other to the opposition which had taken the market from its younger 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 coca 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, the younger community say they at the right for and historic owners of the coca industry that 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. eva morales has accused the youngest of being paid off to act against his government. he says he's organizing a counter march next week. and the battle for controlled of bolivia as lucrative coca trade hangs in the balance. law about manly al jazeera. ah ha, you're watching.