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millions forced into poverty in the aftermath of cove at 19 as the government scales back paid. ah, ty ones, defense minister says tensions with bay jaeger at the worst and 40 years, days after a record number of chinese aircraft end to the islands and defense is walnut. china could launch a full scale invasion of the island did just 4 years. taiwan is one of the issues in deepening strategic rivalry between beijing and washington. the u. s. president's national security advisor is due to hold talks with china's top diplomat in switzerland later on wednesday. well, joe biden says he had addressed the issue with his counterpart. she, she ping, i spoke with she about taiwan. we agree with will. bye bye. i want agreement that we are. and we made it clear that i don't think he could be doing anything

other than by you by the group or robert bride. it didn't hold. colin has more and the reaction from taiwan, the defense minister went on to say that the fact the relations now the tensions with china or 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 worried 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 china is 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. or scott harold is a senior political scientist at rand corporation and he thinks china's recent sure of forces 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 aging 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 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 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, sighing, one turkish and as, as a by johnny forces have begun. joint military drills near the border with iran. the 2 countries expanded. the defense ties following last year's war gates on media in the disputed mc owner, car, back region. this joint drill comes after relations worsened between becker and terran, ever around support of amina, and as a by jones relations with israel. iran held a military exercise along its board with azerbaijan. last friday. let's crossed out

to wrestle said, who's in istanbul, monitoring events to wrestle was this joint military drill a planned one or last minute decision? well, this sources that they have talk from the turkish side, and they also begun said that they said that it was not apt to land a joint military adrenal because as you also said, just couple of weeks ago, there was a military thrill conducted by azerbaijan. turkey and pakistan and iran was furious about it because it was, it was accusing this companies or this stabilize insecurity in the region. but then when the tension starts to escalate between azerbaijan and iraq, particularly rhetorically. and then the other b genocide started to arrest some of the pro iranian an actor, the both figures in azerbaijan, and also putting a control on the products that are carrying the materials from the iranian say to armenia down. destination got escalated, and iran initiated a military,

a military exercise their right after their there has been a decision. it came by surprise, the token azerbaijan, as of retaliation, are going to start a met it joint military exercise in natur one which very much symbolically is important. because on one hand, it is neighboring iran, on the other hand, it is close to the region, and that, that the zang as or corridor that was agreed to be oper to be opened in did do after the agreement that has been signed or last year after the car before the, for these cut by war. so that wasn't our plan one, but it is it, the actress sees that as a retaliation to the iranian military exercise and wrestles had turkey best about shine and pakistan that they conducted a joint drill a couple weeks ago. now what does this exercise aiming to achieve? and why now?

well, definitely they are trying to put the terrence on the it on, on iran because mosley now the key point here, the key region here is the zang as or corridor. it has been agreed to the open after the cut over what an armenian saddle say, agreed on that based on that agreement and the that the corridor of 60 kilometers is supposed to link turkey and azerbaijan directly through the land, and which means for iran is, will be sideline when it comes to the 3 rolls, because that will be under the control of turkey and azerbaijan, connecting these 2 countries. so iraq says that if that happens, it will bypass iran and cut the connection of urine with armenia and oper countries in, in the north. so in this, as iran is opposing that, yesterday, i was talking to an iranian expert lag regarding that. and he says that iran is quite serious, even the ready to put the military measures. if us obey john turkey and armenia go

for there. on the other hand, there are the talks between us, that'd be john, armenia and turkey to normalize the relationship. and that also could be read as a bad news for iran, because once these 3 companies are collaborating, iran's rule is going to be a reduce there. so, but there are the diplomatic tolls in past diplomatic towards the iranian, for the minister was in russia yesterday. and turkish or georgian azerbaijani, a minister of defense were in georgia and arminian for the minister just with to, to run their did the situation is escalate in there. but the diplomatic talks are also going that one of the key players is, is russia russia so far it has not reacted officially. but the expert says that russia can play a very crucial rule when it comes to then the escalation, the passion in the region, or esl. thanks for that to wrestle, said other in his dumpling tack, an investigation is underway into when authorities and the pipeline company in california learned about

a major oil spool merger. took 3 hours for the pike to be switched off once damage was discovered. lexia brian has this report of huntington beach in california, and ecological emergency is unfolding. look at it. look at this is everywhere. oil puddles on the once pristine, sand and work isn't, has met, suits cone, the shore on a clean up mission. any discharge boil 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 taken clear, 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 caused our investigator spoke with was inconclusive. so it

was saturday morning before it went out to investigate the reports that same morning about who i am and alon 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 maces along the ocean floor, possibly by ships anchor. it st. hundreds of thousands of liters of oil spilling into the water. and on 2 beaches and protected marshland, california's governor says the spell is more proof, aging oil platforms need to be phased out. so 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 stale air of normalcy versus the fresh air progress. safety advocates have pushed for years. the 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, to the possible negligence expert, say, it's too early to know the full cost to the local economy and environment. alexia brian al jazeera, so i had heard al jazeera of facebook accused of putting prophets before people. whistleblower urges us politicians to tackle the crisis, plus, ah, what protests is abroad, students main supply route to a standstill. ah,

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hill on light on each and right now you can be part of those conversations last this 3. 0, now to sierra. ah ah, i think you're what you ought to 0 remind about top stories is saw and ty, ones defense minister says tensions with beijing are at their worst and 40 years after a record number of chinese aircraft into the islands and to friends. say, he said that china could launch an invasion within 4 years. turkish and as a by johnny forces have begun joint military drills in the border with iran. 2 countries expanded at defense ties following last year's war against our media and the disputed to go to the car back reach. the u. s. coast guard says it was 10

hours before damage pipeline was investigated, of the oil seats into california waters. and they're trying to determine if the rupture that spilled at 570000 liters of oil was caused by a ships anchor. one of saddam's most vital ports remains blocked by protest. as in the countries east members of the badger tribes have forced the close report student protests, of what they say is the regions a lack of political power and poor economic conditions. deadlock with the government has raised concern of a shortage of medicines, fuel and wheat. as mamma today, miracles. they should be lumbering up and down sedans, roads, shifting supplies across the country. but dozens of heavy goods vehicle sa hold up here at the parking lot in ports had done. some of them are laden with goods, but with the port androids leading to the family closed by the protestants, none of them would be going anywhere. a one and

a lot were lame of that it in lot are only god knows how badly we've been affected by the port closure we've been here more than 20 days. we've spent the little we had and the government seems unable to resolve. the crisis protested from the beecher and had done daughters fights of distance, should done have been blocking robes and exits to the port, forcing it to close these in protest at what they said, that he just lack of political power and poor economic conditions. the protest as also andrew, the deal. the transitional government signed with sedans of rebel groups in october last to the crisis at the blockaded port is now slowly turning into a national crisis. the sudanese government sees the country is about to run out of a session medicine, fuel and witt at the main market in put should done trade us say business is bad if our levels and i'd rather than harm some businessmen have chosen to close down. we get the a few customers and we have all been forced to re negotiate our financial commitments

. but that if i, other than love of the longer the love them, i've never seen port sudan in this situation and the closure of the portion roads has really turned our lives upside down. port sudan is also experiencing full shortages where they still does a low patrol. it is, is it's a spot government official say the blockade on ports had done this was sending an economic crisis that begun under the former regime. this port is not just the lifeline for sudan, but also for its landlocked neighbor, south sudan, which ships $160000.00 bottles of oil. through here, every day, a government delegation managed to convince the protest as last week to allow south sudan to resume its exports of oil. costume has worn the protest as it won't allow the closure of the porch to continue any longer. the tribesmen say they won't leave till their grievances are dressed for now. the standoff continues. mohammed i da well. just eda put sedan. facebook's bosses pushing back after whistle blurred,

told members of the us congress that the social media john puts profit over safety . francis huggins. his sites owned by the company hom, children stood divisions, and we can democracy is she had returns, he followed her testimony on capitol hill. frances, how can 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. but goals, 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 on profits 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 disease is dangerous online talk has led to actual violence, a himes and even kills vivo. 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 uses is like the department of transportation regulating cars. i only watching them dr. young highway. facebook is called how gms testimony, selective and misleading. but both republicans and democrats on the committee expressed skepticism of the companies 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, this is a burg, is going sailing. but there is an active debate underway about how much regulation to impose off troll 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 is 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 a chairman and ceo mugs, zocker burke, who controls facebook's behavior. she habitants the al jazeera capitol hill. the leaders from e and western balkan countries, a gathering for discussions in slovenia. the plenary talks will focus on you investment in the balkans and over 19 recovery. elite is also expected to discuss wider issues including afghanistan, china, and european energy prices, and let speak to natasha butler who's in burn joints of snow. natasha. another big focus of today. summit is the western balkans membership of the e u. we like to see any progress on that front. oh, well that is the, the main topic of discussion, st. brideau. as lavinia enlargement western balkan countries want to become part of the e u in the future. but in recent years, negotiations of pretty much ground to a halt. now that has left the leaders of those western balkan countries feeling certainly frustrated a little bit disillusioned. what they want to see here,

they say, is real progress in some actions, not just promises and promises we certainly had. and we've heard the a european commission. i had a to have on the line when she arrived here for this summit. she said that of course the western falcons must become part of the e u. in the future. she said that is still very much supported in the blog. but as i said, there is that sense of very little a progress being made on the half the western balkans. from the use point of view, they really see some real obstacles in the way they say that what needs to happen in the western balkans is there needs to be better rule of law. more reforms need to be done more needs to be done to a rule like corruption. and then you've also got the fact that there are ongoing tensions between as some of the western balkans particular i'm thinking, serbian crossover and we saw tensions fled between those 2 countries. over car registration dispute on the border in the past few days. all right, so if there were some balkans at feel but the

e was dried years feet on enlargement. what are the risks? well the problem is as you say, when the western balkans feel that the e u is perhaps not doing well, it's in their point of view, they promise and that is including them in the you certainly are making those negation negotiations for accession go much faster than they are, well, there are real risks. there are risks that are the western balkans may look elsewhere on already. the influence of russia and china is being felt in the region . in fact, as serbia was, the 1st a european country, i should say to start producing chinese cove at 19 vaccine. so there is a real rest died. so the western balkans. oh, could turn away and look elsewhere. now what the e u is saying is that no, you know, there is a process. it is on track. perhaps it's not going as fast as the western balkans would light, but you still very much interested. and in fact,

they are expected to announce more than $30000000000.00 of investment, not only for infrastructure projects in the region, but all say fall cave at 19 or economic a recovery and health. and they say that is a sign all the ease, ongoing commitment to the western balconies. natasha thinks about the touch about the in, but i thank you. the number of people who've died of coven 19 the years so far this year is higher than the total recorded for all of last year. more than 700000 people have now died in the us as a result of current of ours. ah, yes, the washington national cathedral mom the fatalities by ringing its bell 700 times more people have be recorded as dying from the disease in the u. s. and any other country, but tens of millions of americans still refuse to get vaccinated. mike, hannah 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 are simply 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 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, or 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. i 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 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 when a growing number of people in brazil are struggling to afford food. as a consequence of the economic fall out of coping 19, many have been pushed towards poverty are, are and are unable to feed themselves at a nutritional died after the government scale down a threadbare, has historical eating every day has become a challenge for people like 80 done a former prisoner who lives on the streets of ria, the nato surviving year. the past year he says, has been

a challenge the way that his fellow members up on the meal 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. 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 foot 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, sinking low, recreate big, i'm with a, i've taken meat from the truck many times. we take the meat and are happy, but not is 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. was another 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 campaign against the program. so he would say that both of amelia was an immediate how bad lula and the politicians from the workers party from better use to buy people's votes to buy bose. ah good will. right. so as a substantial is a program that was g. people from working there is an ideal ideological barrier. at the soup kitchen in real, hundreds of people are showing every day to receive

a meal. they are in desperate need of help. they brought with rabbi learned covering for a dagger kimberly pre ogle. 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 year face a similar situation. they have lost their jobs and cannot afford to pay a 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 ah.