across the well sentimental glad you called hand al jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that mattie out is derrick. ah, taiwan says it's facing the worst tensions with beijing in decades off to china, flu, nearly a $150.00 fighter jets over its defensive. ah, about nicholas. this is out there alive from de also coming up. facebook accused of putting prophets before people, a whistle blur, just us politicians to tackle the crisis. ah, remembering lives last 2021 is now the deadliest year,

the korean virus pandemic for the us. but every morning, the fisherman leaps for the deep sea and that come back by late evening. but the say the catch of the not as good as they used to be. we were pull from bangladesh where pollution and climate change and having a devastating effect on fishing communities. ah, said anti one's defense minister says tensions with bay jing out that was in 40 years, days after a record number of chinese aircraft entered the islands as base is warned that china could launch a full scale invasion of the island in just 4 years. taiwan is one of the issues in a deepening strategic rivalry between beijing and washington. the u. s. president's national security advisor was due to hold talks with china's top diplomat and switzerland. later on wednesday, joe biden says he's addressed the issue with his counterpart teaching thing. i spoke with you 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 robert bride is in hong kong. has 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's own. 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 winery taiwan. and 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 jug a lot of asia and is using that economic power to further isolate taiwan. so a taiwan is feely, increasingly under pressure. china is happy to exert that pressure, especially with the currency incumbents, 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 arms length and dirt. 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 these shows of force or from neighboring china. while it's

here now from scott harold, who's a senior political scientist at round corporation, he thinks china's recent sure a force is unlikely to escalate to a full invasion. at this point. making 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 in the 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 joining the comprehensive and progressive agreement on a trans pacific 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 millage 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,

a jane clearly recognizes that the reforms that it launched people's liberation army in 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 peoples. 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 with china is looking to do is try to pressure taiwan. he tried to quit some red lines down some markers in the sand and to try to ex, delayed a campaign. psychological worker against the island leader president, find one emergency cruise in china, southern island of high not have rescued more than 30 people stranded by flood waters. 500 just use ross and bows to get people to safety. in some areas, the water was one half meters deep after a strong rainstorm on tuesday,

roads were submerged in more than 60 homes were flooded. facebook's boss is pushing back car for a whistleblower told members of the u. s. congress at the social media. john puts profit, it was safety. former product manager francis hogan, says the company should be regulated. that c o marks like a book says it's research has been taken out of context. on a post on facebook, he wrote that pushing content only for profit is illogical because facebook makes money from ads. he said facebook's advertisers don't wonder ads next to awful content. and that tech companies don't set out to make people angry or depressed. the front, as halligan says, site is owned by the company hom. children stood divisions and weaken democracies. she had returns, he followed her testimony on capitol hill. frances hogan presented a damning picture of facebook as a company knowingly disseminating false information 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 and 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 profits and our safety is, will consistently resolve these conflicts in favor and its own profits. the result has been more division, more harm, more lies, more threads, and more combat. in some cases, this disease is dangerous online talk has led to actual violence at himes and even kills me. of all. 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. i 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, mysteries are burg, is going sailing. but there is an act of debate underwear, but how much regulation to impose after all, who is going to decide what is inflammatory speech and what is simply information with a powerful don't want 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 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 in that data is mind and used to target them and try to get them to engage how good has 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 founded chairman and ceo mugs, zocker burke, who controls facebook's behavior. she habitants the al jazeera capitol hill. the number of people who have died of covered 19 in the us. so far this year is higher than the title recorded for all of last year. more than 700000 people have now died in the united states as a result of current of ours. ah,

yes, c, washington national cathedral mark the deaths by ringing its bell 700 times more people have been recorded as dying from the disease in the u. s. and any other country, but tens of millions of americans still refused to get vaccinated. mike, hannah has more now 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 the 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 variance emerging 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 at the death fatality rate has dropped by some 12 percent. so those are sign said health officials. i hope ucc 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. what credit hours does in russia hit a daily record on tuesday for the 1st time in a month, 890 fatalities were confirmed and more than $25000.00 infections. officials say the

numbers are concerning, but there are no plans to re introduce or lockdown kremlin has called on people to get vaccinated, saying it is the only way to stop the virus from spreading. today they are and out 0 tough times ahead. for many, we look at how an economic crisis is starting to hurt big businesses in afghanistan and ripping late becomes jews of sand in northern mom as the you and warns of serious global ones. i hello again. this been a huge amount of rain in the north west of italy, flooding results in p a mountain and then luxurious us the northwest. really running off the mountains, but it's also fallen lower level. and the cloud the brought it. this stuff here has

moved on. there is some moving in, this is just a very active area than beyond that you've got what looks more or tom over the british isles. but if you're down in spain, the porch go, well enjoy. the wall is still there. when the twenty's not the thirty's, but it starts the settled weather in eastern europe. temps is down to the teens now . but again, settle weather with sunshine in the sky. so bit of focus them. although there are going to be warnings moving slowly out of it's lean towards the balkans at the moment on wednesday is still this northwestern part of it. it's at risk of for the flooding. orange is showing itself on its way to greece is whole area has got a potential to provide more flooding and slow revolving movement. it does leave the north of italy rather dry. you'll be pleased to see on thursday and on friday the autumnal flow while that's limited to ireland and scotland, and it's drawing a very warm suddenly flow ahead with which extends all 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. but glasgow ah, with frank assessments, what's the point of the un if multilateralism isn't part of it's a dna we need somewhere where sovereign states can exchange huge informed opinions evoke is likely to change biking behavior. it's not going to change their behavior . they're going to continue to do what they do when it's going to be more in trade and less in terms of trying to match this more games mentality. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. ah,

you watch out 0 reminder about top stories issa, anti one's defense minister says tensions with bay jing, or at their worst and 40 years after a record number of chinese aircraft entered the island said to fencer, he said that china could launch an invasion within 4 years facebook ceo mach about is arguing his company's research has been taken out of context after whistleblower testified to the u. s. congress saying the platform homes, children, things division and weakens democracies. the number of people who have died of coven 19 in the united states. so far this year is higher than the total recorded for all of last year. have been more than 700000 deaths in the us and took an investigations on the way in to when authorities and a pipeline company in california learned about a major oil spill to managed. it took 3 hours for the pipe to be switched off once the damage was discovered. alexia braun has that of huntington beach in

california. and ecological emergency is unfolding. look at it. look at it. it's everywhere. oil paddles on the once pristine sand and work isn't has met, suits, comb, the shore on a clean up mission. any discharge of oil into our sensitive coastal waters is damaging to the environment and it is disruptive to the economy. at a minimum, this is a significant incident, and i want you to know, ah, how seriously those of us that live in work in california take it career. but as the days pass, more questions are being raised about how quickly authorities and the pipeline company responded to the incident. the coast guard was 1st notified of dirty water on friday night. at that time, in the approaches nightfall, sheen's can be very difficult to see on the water. the information from the reporting source that coast guard investigators spoke with was inconclusive. so it was saturday morning before it went out to investigate the reports that same

morning, about 2 a. m, an alarm had sounded and amplify energies control room warning that pressure had dropped in the pipeline. early finding show, the company waited more than 3 hours to shut it off. the pipeline had been split open and apparently dragged more than 50 meters along the ocean floor, possibly by a ship's anchor. it st. hundreds of thousands of liters of oil spilling into the water and on to beaches and protected marsh land. california's governor says the spell is more proof, aging oil platforms need to be phased out. it's time once and for all to disabuse ourselves that this has to be part of our future. this is part of our past, and we can moralize and talk about the good old days. we can talk about how important these rigs have been to the prosperity of this country in the middle class. but at the end of the day, this is about the stellar of normalcy versus the fresh air progress. safety

advocates have pushed for years for tougher rules on protecting spills and things like automatic valves to shut down the flow of oil. but the industries resisted such measures because of the costs involved along this coastline. beaches could remain closed for weeks, and the pipeline companies being investigated for possible negligence. experts say it's too early to know the full cost to the local economy and environment. alexia brian al jazeera leg. if i agree, being in molly as being reduced to a desert by climate change, the un says more than 300000 people have had to leave their homes and move elsewhere because there isn't enough water. mcclintock has this report 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 la, modify that when we do spun 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 mourns who smuggler w. talking to him and that if one hold on 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 homes. now it's headed for the nearby school. i'm from edible oak seen you called up a 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. water has become scarce. farmers and herders fight over it. in areas

where the marine 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 alm 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 saw that water and there are places where people fight for water. it's a sauce of counseling 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 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 e heads of states and leaders from western balkan countries,

a gathering for discussions in slovenia. the plenary talks will focus on new investment in the balkans and covered 19 recovery. european leaders are also expected to discuss wider issues including afghanistan, china, and european energy prices. libya as parliamentary elections have been postponed by months by the house of representatives in tor, brooke. they were originally scheduled for december the same time as the presidential vote. lawmakers are in a dispute with the unity government, and triply, they say elect. he, a new president is a priority. oh, bronson says he feels deep sorrow after a report revealing details of sexual abuse within the catholic church in france. it estimates there has been about 330000 victims over the past 70 years. investigation describes what it calls deep and cruel indifference by the church leave. barker has his report. ah many children abused by members of the catholic church were not believed or listened to for years, some or 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 on season, we sit and while yes, the report is an earthquake. yes, it's a hurricane. yes, it's a soon army way. and it has to be as soon army because to day when we see the numbers it so damning that no one can be in denial because both within the catholic church and the whole of society don't you? 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 i put food as shown from says in the french population, now aged 18 and over 216000 plus or minus 50000 was sexually assaulted by clerics priests or nuns known as mine. as soon as possible, the and when lay members of the church such as teachers at catholic schools are included. 6 the number of child victims climes to 330000 of the 7 decade

periodontal and poor measure. keyed full, a major point, the 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 prina, 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 it tens of thousands of friends workers took part to the national strike on tuesday to protest against prism to mental macros. policies. the angry about rising energy prices and the demanding better pay it working conditions. demonstrate is also what the government to abandon plans to revise pension and unemployment benefits. afghanistan's industries are being squeezed because of banking restrictions and frozen assets. some multinational companies are trying to keep their employees and continue with production. but as a jonathan jeff 8 reports from cobble staying a flight during an economic crunch is uneasy. 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 $46.00 countries, these carbonated drinks, so exported to the mid leaf infant measure, 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 studied enough on a son 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 more just about profit being enough, 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 lodge v, because if 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 of that. 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. hardy's, latino 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. 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 david other . there are a couple of climate change and pollution is threatening the livelihood of one of the oldest fishing communities in bangladesh. rivers, once teeming with fish, now empty, leaving many without jobs. from the child re reports from silicon. they have been fishing in the coastline on the bay of bengal for centuries,

using skills and trade pass down through the generations. but bangladesh is once driving him. the fishing community of more than half a 1000000 people is now facing a devastating threat. climate change. quarter m dash now in his forty's has been fishing in the best since he was a teenager. like his ancestors, a mother which i'm li just isn't enough fish to catch on like the days of our forefathers. because of changes in the environment and climate tv. there are more psych loans now. but your pattern changed frequently, which is why the fish stuck is diminishing, given in the peak sessions. now we don't get enough. the bays natural ecosystem are also under severe threat by environmental pressures. every morning the fisherman lives for the deep sea and they come back by late evening. but they say the catches are not as good as they used to be. they blame partly the weather and the pollution in the sea cushion alum from a local charity that assist the community fears the traditional way of jolla. dutch,

which is what they're known as here, is gradually eroding because of new challenges. as fish is declining, they have to ship the appropriation for our fishing to other but that didn't or people, those who are living on fishing since they had bought it is very difficult for them to switch off from fishing to other provision. but yeah, you know, ration not now shipping to jobs or do business to our better our the liver liver, don't it said that some manage to find work as unskilled day laborers in the nearby ship breaking industries or work as richer pullers on it. so we're facing many problems like the recent lockdown and the annual fishing been imposed by the government as fishermen. it's hard for us to find the way many of us have also taken out. loan was the so it's hard days for us auto legacy. several large rivers empty into the bay, occurring vast tides of untreated sewage,

plastic and waste from ship breaking yards and other industries endangering, sensitive married life, last nigella sided brushing them all the various industries you see around here are polluting the sea and humming the fish, stuck on a fishing net get caught in the propellers of the ships. sometimes even authorities cut fishing nets, but we have to continue that this is our way of life. environmental expert, one gradual accumulation of pollution in the bay of bengal, and changes in the climate could toes and even far the threat to fishing communities like the jello thus along the coastal regions of bangladesh. tunbridge chaudry al jazeera ship, i conduct ah, this is out there. these are the top stories untie ones. defense minister says tensions with bay ging are the worst and 40 years after a record number of chinese aircraft entered the islands air defense zone. he said china could launch an invasion within 4.