i now lou ah, welcome back. i'm kim vanelle. you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. this are. the african union has suspended sudan from all of the blocks activities of till civilian who is restored at workers from sudan state on to oil company have joined a growing civil disobedience movement against monday's military coup. israel has approved plans for 3000 new illegal settlement units in the occupied westbank, according to axial new site. the secretary of state vocally opposed the plan that attends phone call with the israeli defense minister. european union stock court

has ordered poland to pay a fine of more than $1000000.00 a day. it's part of a deepening dispute between the human. its members states have upholds judiciary. our facebook whistleblower has leaked documents showing how the company encourages divisive and emotional posts rather than factual content. it started in 2017 when facebook began treating emoji reactions as 5 times more valuable than the traditional, like the ferry was simple posts that prompted lots of reaction, tended to keep uses engaged, and that was good for facebook's business. but the company's own research is confirmed in 2019 that posts which sparked angry reaction, emerges disproportionately likely to include misinformation, toxicity and low quality news. that means for 3 years facebook promoted post that purposely thought emotional and often angry responses. well there maggie,

the ceo of connect safely dot org, that's an internet safety privacy and security organization. he joins us now by skype from palo alto in california. thank you for joining us. so is this news that facebook's algorithm is essentially lifting posts that have angry responses? is that surprising to you in any way? it's not terribly surprising. i mean, i think the intensity of that and what i think is surprising, perhaps not now, but if i were to you were to ask, have ask you this question 2 years ago, is the way in which it's contributed in still such a negative way to feature you know, not just anger, but, but vitriol and false information and even dangerous information. but if you go back to the original motivation of keeping people engaged, that's not a bad thing. i can't think of a single media organization that doesn't try to make its content compelling to people, so they remain tuned in that's what the nature of media is. and that's how you get eyeballs on to advertising. so it's definitely part of their business model and

nothing, nothing. it, you know, surreptitious or evil about the intention of but the reaction, the way in which it's unintended consequence of the cause harm is something that facebook's people have been debating. and i think it's why these documents exist, because there are people that facebook who are very uncomfortable about what they've created. oh, interesting. i mean, i guess i would argue that the, the difference between that and traditional media is, you know, many of us operate by a code of impartiality. but facebook doesn't have that right. it knowingly was promoting posts which were getting a lot of engagement even if they were not factually correct is, is that right? well, that's true. i mean, all of us in media want to get engagement of course that but, but absolutely, i would never knowingly put out something that was false. and the problem with social media is you don't have the editors and reporters like yourself who are professionally bound to respect accuracy. you've got billions of people out there with all sorts of things. and you've got bad actors,

perhaps from other countries who are deliberately poisoning the well with, with false information and what facebook's failure, if they haven't done a good note job to police sat and when you add in the algorithms which amplify anger and division that creates a situation that we find ourselves in where those actual social harm, a lot of people now are looking at facebook's business model or at least discussing this story in the, in the realms of, you know, well this is facebook's business model. is this a reminder to people? do you think that we all the product? yeah, we are, i mean the, the, the customers or the advertisers and the users are there to attract their eyeballs on to ads so that facebook can create revenue from that. again, if nothing surreptitious about that, that's the nature of the way of a lot of for commercial media operates, you get people to look at your product in the advertisers paid the bill. so that's

neither surprising nor, nor bad necessarily. but what is bad? is it some of the ways in which they've gotten people to pay more attention to remain more engaged have created? they said the social harmon, i don't think that mark zuckerberg would thinking, you know, sitting around thinking, oh, how am i gonna create havoc around the world. but i think that that's been the result, or least a partial result of some of his decisions. we would hope not, we would hope he wasn't sitting down planning that out. he thank you for your time and sure he was her larry. always good. still taylor and i get there from connect safely. dot org. thank you so much. are the leader of a christian fiscal policy called the lebanese forces has refused to testify on recent finance. in beirut scenarios, geologist was due to appear at the defense ministry but said he won't until the leader of hes bella, us on the swallow is also summoned. 7 shia muslims were killed and fighting earlier this month. they know how to reports. they created

a human shield along the road to march up north available. that's where the head of the christian lebanese forces party samir schon lives. he was supposed to appear at the army intelligence building, to answer questions related to the fighting in the lebanese capital. earlier this month, that killed several people. georgia support to say they are protecting him from what they call an unjust system. this must have been occupation. iranian occupation has been leverage over the court. busy over the over judges over political life should stop long time enemies the she, our groups has below and on one side and the christian. nobody's forces on the other accuse each other of starting that gun battle. the case is now in the hands of the military court, which human rights groups say has been used by the authorities to intimidate and retaliate for political reasons. for we do have very grave concerns about the

independence of those judges, given that they are subordinate to the executive. josh, i described the judge side, the ocoee, who summoned him as hezbollah commissioner in the military tribunal. and his lawyers are trying to remove him from the case many here worry about the lebanese for this party is being targeted because it is a vocal challenger of what the opposition called the hezbollah dominated political order. some opposition leaders also believe the case against judge will be used to bury the investigation into last year's explosion. at the reports has belonged to ally and accused thought it bitter. the lead judge in that investigation of political bias and want him removed and it seems they want georgia convicted nash had this seemed to be attempts to give georgia political and maybe even religious cover from the church. this is not acceptable. some years, georgia and all the killers should be taken to the place where they need to be. the

growing confrontation between the 2 sides has raised tensions that can yet again lead to sectarian violence. it is a dangerous standoff than the others, either they root. iraq's electoral commission has started manually recounting some results from this month's parliamentary election. the counting and never is now complete shot. the results are the same as when they were looked at initially. there are around 70 disputed pulling stations and total pro iranian factions in iraq witnessed losses and election and have been legit fraud. and supporters have been protesting for several days. many countries banned lead paint decades ago because of its health impact on young children. but in indonesia, these paints are still widely available. activists, the calling on the government to stop manufacturing and sales. jessica washington reports from jakarta, indonesia capital were naughty,

has spray painted cars for more than 20 years. oh yeah. i know the paint contains dangerous chemicals. it's very dangerous, so i will mask. despite his concerns, he says he has to work with what he's given. toxic pains with ingredients like lead a still commonly used in indonesia, on houses, cars, school buildings, and more well, a theme well 1000000 buff gun. lead exposure causes disturbances in a child's development. their neuro development is disrupted and it reduces their intelligence. the researchers say the widespread use of lead paint creates a hidden danger in unexpected places. is cami. oh jack sap. we have done testing in $32.00 children's playgrounds, around to carter, almost 70 percent of them had led levels above a 90 p p. m, which means they are not safe. and children can get lead contamination just from playing in the playground. and yet,

these volunteers are re painting equipment at playgrounds around the city. with safe nontoxic paints, a report by the local n g o nexus foundation found more than half of the paint brands available in indonesia sold at least one product with extremely high lead concentrations. many countries banned lead pains decades ago and implemented strict regulations, but the pains are still widely available here in indonesia and activists. a calling for stronger regulations, deteriorating lead paint is also considered a hazard as dust and paint chips can result in dangerous levels of lead exposure. get up when the regulations are still voluntary. it is not compulsory for pain companies to reduce unleaded paint. she's working with paint companies in indonesia to encourage them to make safer products. one company, mo, legs changed its paint formula in 2019 and started using organic pigments rather

than lead, without increasing its prices. placing a premium safety is not what we were after. this was important to us as most developed countries and abandon let it pains as early as the late seventy's. but authorities say it is still difficult to stop the sale of lead paint that the governor macedonian by the main problem is in small and medium scale industries. and they have problems switching to unleaded raw materials because of many factors including price in the absence of regulation and enforcement experts say toxic paints remain a dangerous threat to the health of young children. jessica washington out to 0 chicata thousands of ecuadorian continue their demonstrations against the government's economic policies. that demanding president scheme, lasso reversed his decision to increase fuel prices. protest his are also angry about plans to double oil and mining exploration in the amazon. let's bring it in

as a boat, who's just outside of kito, teresa, what's happening there? well well, well, we are right in a roadblock. as you can see, people here are moving trees, et cetera, to log all the roads across the country. we know that there's hundreds of roadblocks like this one that are happening all across a quarter. those members of indigenous communities, members of labor unions and communities like the one where we are right now. this is st miguel because lead on is just outside quito. this is as far as we could get because it's so difficult to move across the country. people are protesting. they want the government to reverse are the increase in the price of diesel and gasoline indigenous movement. also, i calling for the government plans to try to increase oil and mining expectation in many parts of the country. they say that in general it's indigenous communities who are harmed because of oil and mining exploitation in many parts across the country

. are those an ongoing crisis in by the president her getting more lateral came to power 4 months ago, he came with a promise to jumpstart this country's economy. to do that, he promised to increase all and mining explication. he also announced labor and tax reforms. i'm in among many other things, but there is a large sector of the population that is a poll thing, those measures, they're saying that all of those reforms that development in a while or comes at their expense, i was just talking to another culture or to a farmer here who was explaining to me that they need guys, for example, to move their products their i re cultural products. others say that they need gas are used at the pumps in order to water out of the soil and be able to get their flowers out. and weather is very, very famous for the flowers it exports. so there is an ongoing crisis here. the president who says that it will not that the government won't tolerate roadblocks like this one. so people here are waiting anxiously for the police to come. we know

that there's like dozens of police are just about a kilometer away from where we are right now. but they say that they won't move from here, that they will continue protesting until the government hears their demands. that as a while we've got you, do you think you can show us a little bit more about what's happening there? show us around a little bit and also tell us a little bit about what the protest is. plans are going forward. obviously they're hoping disruption will gone as some attention from the president. but what's their sort of long term plan? what exactly do they want? well, let me show you what's happening here. there's, i've got those people here who are protesting. there's other just up in the mountains. if you can see up there, they're the ones that are telling people what's going on, whether the police is going to be coming here, et cetera. they're not allowing any one to pass. we've been seeing our cars, motorcycles trying to pass this area. and they've had not been able to what we're

hearing from indigenous movement pick on now. yeah. which is the most powerful indigenous movement here in a while or is that for now? this protests are indefinite, that they will continue to be on the streets demanding change, demanding that the price of fuel is it does not increase because they're very angry or something the president did. a few days ago, the president said now that he was freezing the price of gasoline, but after increasing it just a few cents. so they're saying that they're not taken seriously. and that's white people continue to be on the streets, are also demanding the release of at least 20 prisoners that were detained on the protest that this protest began on tuesday. and that's another demand that we're hearing. but what i can say is that people here are convinced of their demands and that they will remain on the street. i'd theresa, i'm sure be checking back in with you for now. thank you for that update. and you and report shows greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high last year. countries are working to respond. poland has agreed with

the european union to hit the 2050 carbon neutral target load still generates 70 percent of its alec tricity by burning coal and other dirty fuels. the clark reports across poland, coal heartlands. this is a familiar site every day of the year and has been for decades, power stations working non stop to keep the country running. this is the biggest and most carbon polluting power plant to the whole of europe. it is a balance of power station and it accounts around a 5th, about 20 percent opponents total energy requirement. and it's fueled by this colossal open pit my. we can see in front of us here and employs nearly 10000 people but everyone across the industry is deeply worried about the future as a transition to renewables means kohls should be phased out entirely by 2049 at the latest. so the question is,

what happens to the minus now shows us not by m filet pro vision, but the proof i understand change is taking place in the money industry are necessary, but those changes have to put people 1st. it must be a just unfair transition. securing their existence for the government, the green transition is a huge challenge. it admitted to al jazeera, it's unlikely to hit the 2050 carbon neutral target, agreed by the e u. it might be a few years beyond that. we haven't said that goal specifically in our, in our legislation today, we are currently working on, on a strategic until 2050, but it hasn't been finalized. i don't want that stance. certainly does not make the forthcoming you in climate negotiations in glasgow any easier with their focus on the phasing out of co. a bad news too. because from a health perspective, the green transition can not come soon enough. across poland,

toxic toll smoke billows from millions of chimney tops. and this at a time when the world health organization says it, air pollution is more dangerous than previously thought. killing an estimated $7000000.00 people a year in poland itself. air pollution causes $45000.00 premature deaths each year, while the country has some of the most polluted air in europe. and 36 of europe's 50 most polluted cities are in the country. but in the one's badly polluted city of crack of science is hitching a ride into the evening sky. every time this sight, seeing balloon goes up on both senses, sent air pollution measurements down in 2019 city authorities band. the burning of fossil fuels within city limits and the effects have been immediate, is here great, changing the city, the quality of the air is se improving. the crack of experience demonstrates the possibilities ahead for poland, phase or coal. you slash emissions,

and clean up the air at the same time. but getting there is a challenge. mcclark al jazeera, salisia, poland, still come on al jazeera, will show you the baseball style. so desperate to feature in the world series, he played with a broken leg that's coming up with sorrow and sports. ah .

mm pool. ah ah ah. okay, it's time for some sports. your sorrow thanks very much. kim. well, it was just a 100 days left until the winter olympics in beijing, the organizes say they all venue, reggie, every least,

pandemic safety guidelines to allow local spectators to attend bought. the countdown has been paid by new cove in 19 outbreaks and cause for boycotts by human rights to this katrina. you reports from beijing. our beijing has entered the final stage of preparations for the 2022 winter olympics with just 100 days left until the opening of the games. volunteers have been recruited. test events underway and metal designs have been unveiled. chandler, him in with the support of the chinese people and the international community. we will be able to overcome all difficult challenges and successfully complete preparation and offer the world a wonderful olympic event. unlike during the tokyo summer games, local spectators in china will be allowed to attend, but regulations will be much stricter. organizes have released a so called pandemic playbook to control the spread of curve at 19. all

participants, including teams and the media, will be confined to a tightly controlled than you bubble. vaccination is required. birds who are not will face a $21.00 day quarantine that lasts longer than the games itself. exemptions on medical grounds only will be considered daily. covered 19 tests are compulsory. those who don't comply with rules could be banned from the event. officials here say the 2022 winter olympics will be the safest yet. but as organizes and to the final spring toward the games, the country is battling a new foss spreading outbreak of the grown of iris and delta variance. targeted, locked down, had again been horrors and domestic travel. discouraged. the latest outbreak has spread to 12 provinces, and more than 200 cases have been reported. authorities say 75 percent of the population is now fully vaccinated. booster shots are being offered to residence in the capitol. oh, the corona virus isn't the only challenge organizes face activists around the world,

a cooling for boycotts fighting human rights concerns. and growing tensions with taiwan threatened to overshadow the event. beijing has dismissed or criticisms. it's leaders herb a successful winter olympics. will underscore china's soft power and position on the world stage. katrina, you al jazeera beijing, us limping. i hockey team needs a new general manager for beijing because the man who had the job has resigned. fan bama left the role just hours after quitting as the chicago black hawks, jim. it followed an investigation which found the franchise, mishandled allegations of sexual thought back in 2010. the theme have been fined 2000000 dollars by the n h l. the head of football global players union says a world cup held every 2 years could have terrible consequences for player welfare . 5th pro, all skiing when will play gets a chance to rest off the fee for proposed to change the will cut from being held

every $4.00 to every 2 years on the side of the of the workload i think is a very self defeat. his argument from the different competition organizers to, to keep running, running, running the players, because in the end, yes, it's about the players rest and their family life and their, their physical ability. but who's winning? when the players are injured? who's, who's winning? the players can maybe only go 90 percent or 80 percent off on a case run. carmen will be hoping for much needed when against a con, later, with his job hanging in the balance pressure is amounting on the dutchman, also sundays defeats rail madrid. in classical foster and 9th and legal, fixed points of leaders realises a social course moves them. this is something that i enjoy the if the day comes where i no longer enjoy it, then i'll leave peacefully. i'd play golf 5 times a week. it's also a beautiful sport, but i still want to follow this path continue to improve this team. i understand

that it's a delicate situation, but i think i have a future within the club. confusion on whether on vaccinated tennis players will be allowed to compete. so the strategy and open continues with conflicting information from different political leaders. last week, the local and federal governments indicated that plays wouldn't be allowed into the country if they weren't double jobs against co bid. 19 boston, a television interview, the australian prime minister scott morrison contradicted this thing. they could be granted specialize this if they quarantine for 2 weeks, but it hasn't gone down to well in host state, victoria, which is only just emerging from months of locked down. here's what one on wednesday they starting with a prime minister. if you're on vaccinate, you go to court to the to waits. so that's, i'll be what if there is a special exemption that is, was warranted for an economic reason like that will that can happen, unvaccinated play should not be allowed in ministers. clarify the federal government's position tonight, i think re console. so i made some comments and what i want to make very clear is

that this side of victoria will not be applying for any exemptions for unvaccinated place. i think we just got to be sensible and practical. we want major events in this country. a lot of jobs depend on it. we want to strive to show the world that we're, when we're getting on with it. i'm going to ask and, and actually require people sitting in the grandstand people working at the event to be vaccinated while plays on. so we're not going to be applying for an exemption . so therefore the issue is basically result how it's nice to have, you know, all clear and, and hard and fast rules, but there needs to be a little bit of flexibility. so we can live with the virus. it's fair to say that the atlanta braves got off to a good start in baseball as wold series, especially their designated heads hole. hey salary. returning to the line on pops recovering from k v 19. we became the fast ever player to salt a wall series with a home run. the break with the away team, but they never looked back off to that bt the houston astros 6 to, to take a one nail lead in the series. but they did suffer

a massive blow by losing starting fit to charlie morrison to injury. it turned out he broken his leg off to being hit with the bull, but tried to carry on playing, even striking out jose oats her way. in the 3rd, any event she forced to leave the game and the rest of the series. and he said with alan, got me good. and then he used kind of walking a little funny. i didn't think it was broken. i just, you know, took a line drive off off his leg, but to go out there and check out the next guy with a broken leg to close on mine. moving on to t 20 cricket. well, cop england have beats and bangladesh by 8 wickets to make it to winds from 2 both seams. took the knee against racism before the game and abu dhabi bangladesh won the toss and chased about 1st. but we restricted to 12449. then england's open, adjacent voice stole the show, was 61 runs of 38 bulls off to beat the defending champions west indies in the opening game. even say top of that group, moving them

a step closer to the semi finals. right, well that's your latest sport for now, but i'll be back later. thank you for that, sarah. as news l, and i'll be back in just a moment before of today's ah, ah. a fearless mexican journalist, sidelines for taking on a precedent and a corrupt system ruled by a single party for over 70 years. only to then establish an investigative platform, determined to break through a poisonous media landscape in search of justice. an epic saga of truth seeking

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chemical warfare. a decade later, the same happened in the us state of oregon. these helicopters flying over the ridge brain, something they didn't even see the kids foot 2 women are still fighting for justice against some of the most powerful forces in the world. the people versus agent orange. coming soon on al jazeera ah, the african union suspend saddam and the well bank stops aid in response to monday's military coup. ah, whether i'm to but elvis is out there alive from doha, also coming up. israel approved plans for nearly 3000 new in the.