ah ah, taiwan warns china will be able to mount a full scale invasion by 2025 as tensions escalate over beijing's latest show of aerial force. ah, i'm not matheson, this is all 0 life and doe have 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 or putting prophets before safety. boss. mark zuckerberg says the obligations are just

not true. ah, remembering lives last 2021 is not the deadliest year of the pandemic for the u. s . and a rippling lake becomes jews of sand and northern molly as the un warns of serious global water shortages. ah, ty, ones, defense minister is wanting, china will be capable of launching a full scale invasion of the island within 4 years. a record number of chinese military aircraft recently flew within taiwan, so called air defense identifications, on the islands. defense ministry says a $148.00 chinese warplanes, a breach the area since friday. the fight stayed inside international aerospace, but close enough to tie one to require aircraft to identify themselves. beijing has recently ramped up pressure on taiwan,

which it says is part of its territory. in an article published earlier on tuesday, ty ones president warned of catastrophic consequences for the wider region. if the island was to fall to china and taiwan as one of the issues and a deepening strategic rivalry between beijing and washington, the u. s. president's national security advisors due to hold talks with china's top diplomat and switzerland on wednesday, and joe biden says he's addressed the issue with china's president. she, jim pain. i thought you were she about how we agree we will buy. i want agreement that we are and we made it clear that i don't think he should be doing anything other than by the roemer brides in home. cold, with more on the reaction from taiwan, the defense minister went on to say that the fact the relations now the tensions with china are the worst. they have been. he says, for a 40 years, i think taiwan has been genuinely rattled by the scale of this incursion. china,

as we know for many months now, has been sending air craft towards the island into the air defense identification zone. that's the air space running up to the island of taiwan. but it is the scale, the number of aircraft in the last 4 days that says, wiring tiwana. in recent years, taiwan has been looking at the military build up in a china with some alarm. it was always the case that taiwan, thanks in large part to the supplies of f sixteens and so on from the united states . it had a military superiority when it came to the technological capabilities of its weaponry. that is still the case to some extent, but a china is quickly closing the gap and is there also is a recognition in taiwan or of china is increasing economic strength. that is now the juggernaut of asia and is using that economic power to further isolate taiwan. so a taiwan is feeling increasingly under pressure. china is happy to exert that pressure,

especially with the currency incumbent of the presidency. they're saying when in taiwan, who was taken unlike her predecessors a far more stand osh offish approach a to china was to keep china at arm's length. and china was happy to try to undermine her. but of course, there is a risk, a danger in this of that a back firing that, that drives more people in taiwan to rally around their president, especially when they see the shows of force or from neighboring china. a scott harold as a senior political scientist at rand corporation and he thinks china's recent shore force is unlikely to escalate to a full invasion. at this point, beijing is looking to put enormous pressure psychologically and operationally on taiwan in taiwan society as well as i want 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 and that taiwan will not be allowed to do things like joined the comprehensive and progressive agreement on a transfer sort of partnership or deep. and it's on official ties with the united states, japan, australia, and european actors. however, i think what aging is doing is clearly miller rising, the situation and pushing the rest of the world to recognize the nature of the chinese regime. that's aggressive, threat for peace and stability. of region aging clearly recognizes that the reforms that it launched people's liberation army in 2015 still have a long way to go. 100 miles, an open sea, the china would have to cross to bring it over to taiwan to try to conquer, re, 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. you 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, went well with those tensions between taipei and beijing. soaring, a group of french senators has arrived and tie one truck will last until sunday, and includes meetings with president, sorry, one and other senior officials. like most countries, france has no formal diplomatic ties with the island, but it has previously sold it weapons. facebook's boss is pushing back after a whistleblower told members of the u. s. congress that the social media giant is an urgent threat to its user's. former product manager francis hawkins says the company should be regulated, but c all mark zuckerberg says it's research has been taken out of context. and a post on facebook is written that pushing content only for profit is illogical because facebook makes money from ads. it said facebook's advertisers don't want

their ads next to harmful content, and the tech companies don't set out to make people angry or depressed. but francis hogan says sites owned by the company hom, children, stoke divisions, and weekend democracies. she competency followed her testimony on capitol hill. frances hogan presented a damning picture of facebook as a company knowingly disseminating false information that could at 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 and instagram, actively engaging with posts and then potentially be exposed to more advertising, which they would click on. this is our facebook makes its money. i saw facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its own prophets and our safety. facebook consistently resolve 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 disease is dangerous online. cat has led to actual violence, a himes and even kills vivo. what makes hogans 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, only watching them dr. young highway. facebook is called how good was testimony selective and misleading. but both republicans and democrats on the committee expressed skepticism 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, mister zak, a burg is goin sailing. but there is an active debate underwear, but how much regulation to impose after all, who is going to decide what is inflammatory speech and what is simply information of a powerful don't want the rest of us to hear. a starting point though, 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 actual empirical data supporting all these downstream harms of the way the platform works on those issues that are really at the integration of both. 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 and used to target them and try to get them to engage. how can this filed several complaints with the securities exchange commission

alleging with a documentation that facebook has misled its investors and congress in the past? and she's clear it is found of chairman and ceo mugs, zuckerberg who controls facebook's behavior. she albert antsy al jazeera capitol hill. the 1st 9 months of this year, more people died in the u. s. from covered 19 than in the total recorded there for all of last year. 700000 people have died so far in the united states from illnesses linked to corona virus. ah, the washington national cathedrals, more of the fatalities by ringing his bell 700 times. a greater number of people have been recorded as dying from the disease in the u. s. than any other country, but tens of millions of americans still refused to get vaccinated. my county has more from washington, d. c. 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 the 70000000000 if they are not vaccinated now. awesome, please not going to get vaccinated for whatever reason. and health officials pointing out that this is a new pandemic off 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

sign said health officials, a hope who showing that this particular search may be nearing an end. but they warn very, very strongly that there are possible variance on the way as 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. the u. s. coast guard says it was almost 12 hours before a damaged pipeline was investigated. after oil seeped into waters off southern california, it says it didn't have enough evidence of the problem and the darkness and a lack of technology didn't help because got an accident. investigators a trying to find out of the damage was caused by a ship's anchor, or than 570000 liters of oil is leaked into the ocean and is now washing up and beaches still ahead on al jazeera, tough times ahead. for many, we look at how an economic crisis is starting to hurt big businesses enough

canister. and find out more about the breakthrough research that's on 3 scientists, the nobel prize for physics. ah, soccer and shaheen did its work, as you know through amman, it's still there as a little band of thunderstorms in the coast of yemen, and i be still affecting aries of a man as well. otherwise it's fairly dry picture. there's a possibility of a development in the radian sea that might turn into a tropical depression. it's showers coming off the coast of anybody further south than google route. and if it does develop into something, you'd a more likely come towards the cost a month for the serve. so it's dry, flexible future that includes all of pakistan as well. in fact, most the middle east and iran is dry at the moment, but as clearly some hint of the forthcoming change of season with snow falling in

afghanistan, stifling in the caucasus as well caught a strong wind across the caspian sea, bringing shouts into nolan. iran that same wind direction across the black see so clearly windy time. the boss was from a few showers in the north of turkey, becomes slightly better. ger existing, the supposed not falling, but the shower still there in the north. iraq as a by john jump. you'll always start with the seasonal rains coming slow disaster, you still see the edge the monsoon winds, catching. for example, kenya was not bringing you very much. rain with it. otherwise, in south africa, changes aren't as high as they were, but the still a hot boat wrong dollar eastwards ah, the housing has become a commodity instead of a human rights. that is some people the ability to take advantage of others. the elite feel free to violate basic laws, the working classes that have lost

a lot of ground in our society. a un special reporter on adequate housing troubles the world investigating the global crisis as people are evicted to clear the way for investors and properties too often left empty. push a witness documentary on al jazeera. ah ah, you want to know how to set a reminder. our top story is this our tie ones defense minister says relations with china other worse to more than 40 years and the beijing will be capable of a full scale invasion by 2025. a record number of chinese military planes recently flew inside a buffer zone close to tie one's air defenses. facebook boss. busy mark zuckerberg

is pushing back after a whistle blowers critical testimony to u. s. congress in a blog post. zuckerberg says his company's research has been taken out of context, and he says it's a logical to argue that facebook pushes content for profit. a former product manager, francis whiteman, has told law makers on capitol hill the social media. james is an urgent threat to its users and should be regulated. she says the company sites, hon. children stock divisions and we can, democracy's pope francis says he feels deep sorrow after a report revealing details of sexual abuse within the catholic church in france. it says that have been nearly 330000 victims over the past 70 years. investigation describes what it calls deep and cruel indifference. but a church may voc 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 and watch. yes, the report is an earthquake. yes, it's a hurricane. yes, it's a su nami. what if it has to be a c nami? because the day when we see the numbers it so damning that no one can be in denial both within the catholic church and the whole of society 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 known as minor since bushel. christie and when lay members of the church such as teaches a catholic schools are included. 6,

the number of charm victims climes to 330000 of the 7 decade periodontal emp. one measure full. a major point must been the line is until the early 2000 school there was a deep total and even quote indifference for years. recent scandals have decimated the church. his credibility at a time of dwindling attendances 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 . him francis 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. ne falcon al jazeera, a british envoy is the 1st official from europe to meet the taliban in cub walls, as it took control of afghan histone simon gas is the case special representative for of gamma stem cell talks with mala, bada the telephones deputy prime minister, a u k. government spokesman says they discuss how brittan could help. afghanistan addressed the humanitarian crisis and raised the treatment of minorities and women . industries in afghanistan are being squeezed because of banking restrictions and frozen assets. some multinational companies are trying to keep their employees and continue production, but tons of some of bon jovi reports from kabul, staying afloat. target 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, career success story, which began its carpet and t trade more than a century ago. and now his presence in 46 countries, these carbonated drinks exported to the middle east and central asia. the one's family on firm is a multi $1000000000.00 enterprise. it's a household brandon of london. and the workers take pride in maintaining the quality of their product. but since the taliban took over the revenues and production has been effected, it's mostly drawn by young, offend professionals, the out 2000 implies and afghanistan. many have chosen not to leave their country after foreign forces pulled out. i have started in afghanistan and i have to serve the nation and serve as my saw and my country. that's the biggest reason i have

a state being in afghanistan is not 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, use economy largely because its headquarters is not in the gun to thumb even during the economic price. this factory continues to produce 72000 tons of energy. think that our but this is an exception because the why that economy of apply the sun is suffering and people cannot buy as much as they. what do you the construction industry, for example, is at a standstill, since contractors, agencies, and people in general have no real access to cash, most equipment has moved from yards. how did you select the it says used to send labor and equipment all over the country. now he's laid off 12 employees. they all miss kiln nestor, this is in this month. there isn't any work for us. the banks are closed and i had

to pay salaries. and how can i manage with only $200.00 a week from the bank florida letter? my request of these lam, a camera is to stress on the banks to resume services that 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 demand, 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 of the guy with other. there are double hong kong chief executive. kerry lamb has been focusing on housing and unemployment during her annual address to the cities

legislative assembly is also set for an investment hasn't been stopped by a sweeping national security law introduced by beijing last year. falling mass protest in the city in 2019. my g gong while got some way. boating, how, how has governess, montana communications, laughlin, fine chambers of commerce and addressing that concerns. the national security law has been promulgated an implementer for period of time. a quote or observations. initial concerns are from businesses, have no to piece upside it. and the now most concerned about the restrictions across body travel. more than 30 people have been rescued from flooding in china's hine and province firefighters of use rafts and boats to get people to safety. in some areas the water was one and a half meters. deep roads have been submerged and more than 60 homes are said to be flooded. romania is president calling for consultations after the government was brought down by a no confidence vote in parliament. in oppositions accusing the government of mishandling, the corona virus pandemic and the economy. the president now has to nominate

a new prime minister. venezuela's reopened its land bordered with columbia for the 1st time in almost 3 years. it was closed by president nicholas maduro in 2019, in the middle of a diplomatic crisis between the south american neighbours. tens of thousands of venezuelans depended on the crossing every day to get basic goods and services. alessandra amputee reports from bull guitar just after nearly 3 years of being close to venezuela. now, authorities removed the shipping containers physically blocking the main bridge, connecting the country with columbia in a nationally televised address some monday vice president delsey rodriguez said it was time to turn to page sample, represent any thinking of our people and the brotherhood and co operation between the people of columbia and venezuela president madeira has taken the decision to open the crossing for commerce in 2019 president. my daughter broke off diplomatic ties with columbia and sealed the border after venezuela and opposition. members

attempted to bring international humanitarian aid into the country. the aid was backed by the united states in bogota. my daughter sawyer, this part of a plot to overthrow him. but the border of been officially closed since 2015, bringing a halt to trade between the 2 countries. that amounted to $7000000000.00 us dollars a year. colombian president divan duke welcomed the news, but said the reopening would be gradual. columbia, a, studies west columbia is also willing to begin an orderly process so that we can guarantee this border crossing. but i am going to be very clear that this is not going to be done clumsily, and it is not going to be done. suddenly, tens of thousands of venezuelans crossing to columbia daily for goods and services . some 1800000 have re settled in columbia, fleeing the country's economic collapse most resorted to using illegal crossings,

controlled by gangs and armed groups. when i do our am regarding the reopening can also help reduce the role that armed groups had achieved at the border. both colombians like yale and rebels and paramilitaries, and also then as well and gangs who were profiting from people's needs to cross on tuesday, venezuelans were overjoyed. never. it's the best thing that has happened to us. we spent 2 years passing through a legal roads as we have so many needs that we can only fulfill in columbia. the decision will bring relief to people on both sides of the border by they will probably do little to help restore relations between the 2 countries that remain at odds. columbia does not recognize my daughter as the legitimate president of venezuela, and it continued to support efforts to push for regime change in the country. allison that i'm get the al jazeera over with her, the world's going to run short of water unless big changes are made according to

the united nations. whether agency, as, as the number of people without water will soar because the population's increasing and there isn't enough for everyone. experts believe 5000000000 people won't be able to get access to water by 2050 hazards linked to water like floods and droughts are increasing because of climate change. a 107 countries are still struggling to manage their water resources by 2030 marley's lake. fog or be me in timber 2 is being reduced to a desert by climate change. the un says more than 300000 people of had to leave their homes and move elsewhere because there simply isn't enough water. nickos hoc reports on the edge of tim book 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 my mother thought that my reduce man says 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 mourn. so smuggler never would attack him. and then if it wouldn't with one, there was water on our land, weaker 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 homes. 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 holmes. now it's headed for the nearby school. i'm from edible oak seen aquanda, 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. a 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 1000000 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 arm 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, i have to flee in search of for that water 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 lake like a bean, is hot with an unknown gas in it's killing the remaining shrubs. forcing the last people to leave this vanishing oasis, in search of a more friendly climate. nicholas hawk al jazeera, the nobel prize in physics has been awarded to 3 scientists for discoveries in climate and complex physical systems. nobel committee says it's dakota mana be

close. huffman and georgia policy revealed ground breaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems that includes making it easier to find patterns. and that helps to predict extreme weather. the international space station is about to become cinema's most expensive movie set russian actress julia parcelled and director clim ship ankle arrived on board. they blasted off in a saw you spacecraft to shoot the 1st ever feature film in space. ah, this is audra 0. these are the top stories tie ones defense minister says beijing will be capable of a full scale invasion by 2025. since friday, a record number of chinese military aircraft are flown inside an air defense buffer zone close to taiwan, while remaining within international airspace. beijing seize the island as part of its territory. robin bright has.