and those trick or treaters are gonna have to bundle up on sunday. you're down to minus 7 degrees below average. that's it says here. ah, the ah, top us oil executives deny they misled the public about the role of fossil fuels in climate change. ah, i mean, ron colon, the saw desert life window hall. so coming up france sees is a bridge he spoke and threatens his neighbor with sanctions in a row or the fishing rights. former argentinian president murray to mockery faces espionage charges, and the case related to a submarine sinking and good by facebook. hello, meta. but will

a rebrand tackle the social networks problems? ah, the leaders of, for oil and gas shines at face tough questioning in u. s. congress on thursday, the ceo's of exxon mobil, chevron b. p. america and the president of shell will asked about the roles their companies played in down playing the threats of climate change. this was the 1st time the oil chiefs have had to testify under oath on the subject. how deserve hardy's you cross stroke has more it's been a year of the historic wild fires in the american west. deadly freezes in the south and record breaking, flooding in the east. the fury of these weather disasters likely amplified by climate change nearly matched by the anger of democrats on the house oversight committee, who grilled oil and gas ceos on thursday. there are more of us than there are of

you. you can poise the planet to make money, but we're going to defend the planet so we can live and we will win. find it in yourself to day to tell the truth. it will be better for your company's futures and will be better for humanity's future. the purpose of the hearing, according to the democrats, who called it, was to force the oil and gas industry to admit that it knew of the harm of burning fossil fuels for decades. but chose not to tell the public as evidence, internal memos from exxon mobil drafted nearly 40 years ago, warning management that climate change could produce catastrophic effects for much of the world. mr. woods, given these grave warnings from exxon's own scientists over and over and over again. do you believe that it was ethical for exxon to run a new york times advertisement that down played down, played the risk,

and instead highlighted the potential positive impact of climate change from mobile. the oil ceo's denied deliberately misleading the public and pointed to recent efforts to move toward clean energy. b p says it's striving for net 0 emissions by 2050. i recognized that some may doubt how serious we are about or in it 0 ambition. i get it or progress hasn't always been a straight line. but we've learned a great deal and we view the path we're on as a business imperative then we and eggs on mobile lobbyist was secretly caught saying this in june. did we aggressively fight against some of the science? ah, yes, we're exxon mobil fired the lobbyist saying he did not represent the company's viewpoint. me well,

republicans have come to the industry's defense. one. we are nauseated by the continuous attacks on working americans and american industry. while you're getting beat down to day, there are people here that believe in what you're doing and we thank you. this is the beginning of a year long investigation that democrats hope will hold big oil accountable in the same way. big tobacco hearings in the ninety's eventually led to massive settlements paid out by the industry. although critics say it'll take more than accountability to stop the earth from warming. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. now jeff kogan, is it like director of the climate solutions lab, brown university, he joins in some from the u. s. state of rhode island. jeff, what did you make of those hearings? thanks for having me. on 1st, i thought it was a big day for the, for executives of the major oil companies to appear before congress. and set the stage for some of the discussion that's going on with the budget bill for

more climate action in the united states. and there was a continuing message from the oil executives of the kind of and denial and deflection that we've heard, unfortunately before from those companies. but this is much stronger language from certainly the democrats here, they are in effect saying we have a smoking gun. we have your own research, we have your own denials. you did deny the you did deny climate change. so how much further is this going to go? right, so one of the key moments today i thought was when one of the congressmen, our representative ro, connor asked at the current ceo of exxon about what a previous seo of exxon had said. right. and that previous seo had said he had denied that there was a link between fossil fuels and global warming. and so when the current ceo of

exxon was asked today about that, he simply refused to admit that that was a mistake, that that was a wrong statement. and so you get this kind of continuing problem of big oil not willing to own up to what its own scientists have been saying for more than 40 years. but even big oil has to pay attention to what happened in $1094.00 and the tobacco industry. i mean, the tobacco industry is defense in terms of congress then was, i don't know, we roll them, you smoke them. i don't know what happens after that. that didn't fly eventually we're looking at another year of challenges like this to them. they must be thinking that there is a way of us getting out of this, but we are going to get a slap on the wrist. that's right. and you asked where this is going, i'm in the chair woman of the house for a host oversight committee today said at the end of the session, look, i'm going to move forward with subpoenas for some of the documents that we haven't

received from the companies. they were asked to voluntarily provide them and they refused to do so. and so subpoenas are coming and that starts to set the stage for potential future litigation. and so investors, of course, should be paying attention to this and seeing the kind of risks that the owners of these major oil and gas assets are now facing. and due to public scrutiny, jeff golden, thank you very much. thank you. the u. k. has summoned the french ambassador after the seizure of the british fishing vessel over dispute involving fishing licenses. the dispute is over his own english channel. france says several vessels have been denied access because they couldn't prove they had fish there before. briggs, it, andrew summons has mall. i put his trawlers seized by french maritime police who say the crew was fishing for scallops without

a permit denied by its owners. it may sound like a small incident, but it's symptomatic of something much bigger. a potential escalation in a post bricks. it fishing rights dispute was causing much more than a ripple in luke, a french relations it cites, for example, jersey. the british crown dependency only accepting a 3rd of the fishing permit applications from france actually point unrestricted. it's time, but we are respected as it's totally insufficient and totally unacceptable. so now we must talk the language of force, and unfortunately, i fear that is the only thing that miss british government understands. but no. the threats go beyond banning british trawlers from offloading their catches at french ports because this only amounts to a small proportion of exports without a settlement to the dispute before. next tuesday, they'll be rigorous french customs checks on incoming cargo and they won't be restricted to seafood, but britain isn't offering any concessions. the measures being fretted,

did not appear to be compatible with the trade in co operation agreement or wider international law. and if carried through will be met with an appropriate and calibrated response. this isn't the 1st time the fishing rights issue has fled up in may french trawlers blockaded the main port in jersey. the british and french deployed a naval presence during the protests. this time, france seems unwilling to back down on demands to better get sit on coma. no, it is not war. it's a fight. the french fishermen have some riots. an agreement has been signed and we must have this agreement implemented here. we are fishing rides. we must defend them and we will defend them of hostile to his as you pay. france is also working on a 2nd round of sanctions if they're needed and that could mean a reduction of electricity supplies to the u. k. jose he is 95 percent dependent on french power. andrew simmons al jazeera argentina's former present,

maricia. luckily has appeared in court to face espionage charges. margaret is accused of ordering intelligence agencies to intimidate and spy on the families of crew members who died on board. a submarine which thank in 2017 but now the case has been suspended on a legal technicality. daniel schriner was there and sent this report. ah, it was more like a political rally than a court case with several 100 supporters of the former president modi's. your mac, re gathered in the small town of the lord is they believe he's innocent. that the charges against him a politically motivated ha ha. he can never have spied on any one. what's the point of listening to the families? they should be looking for these responsible for the submarine tragedy. i had a mother, i'm disgusted. they even started this case. it's unbelievable. they would spy on people who had suffered such a terrible loss. many of his supporters urging him to stand again for the

presidency in 2 years time. if he does this case hanging over him won't help. it was adjourned. legal technicality. the prosecuting judge hadn't sought the permission necessary to try a case involving the state intelligence agency is how can a market the market mirror we want a cleaner life with more transparency, more honesty, that's more constructive and includes an independent and impartial judiciary. ah, macros support is a jubilant about the delay. it's not know when or even if you'll be required to return. at the heart of all this, the legal wranglings and the political maneuverings lies the still unanswered question of what happened to that submarine? the i r a san juan, and it's 44 crew members. that's the question. their families are still asking. the submarine disappeared in the south atlantic ocean in november, 2017. with 44 crew board. it was sailing from the southern tip of argentina to the

naval base and mardel plata, when contact was lost. despite an extensive weeks long serge, nothing was found anxious, families were told nothing. as their anguish turned to anger their campaign, frances became a political football. a visit this shows a lack of respect these football chance show a lack of respect to us and our children, to the justice system. it's an unnecessary political circus. the wreck of the submarine was discovered a year after it disappeared at a depth of 900 meters, 460 kilometers of the argentine coast a technical for to cause an implosion. there were no survivors. the wreck will not be re floated, but the relative say they want to know more about i get all this is so that one has been suffering since this began comes to one end of their spying illegal, spying on my mom and dad on me. it's not just,

we want justice that they tell the truth yang did that while the san juan remains at the bottom of the ocean, while the falls on the case remain locked in military archives. and while those in office, at the time of the tragedy seek reelection, the families fight to discover what really happened to the 44 crew on board the submarine san juan, is like you to continue for some time. daniel showing their al jazeera dolores when us are, is province. so the head al jazeera, political instability in haiti has led as horizon, the number of kidnappings. we hear from one victim, plus the long journey home off to nearly a 124 years, a stolen bronze statue of the king of nigeria. ancient banana kingdom is being returned. ah

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off to japan. plenty in the way of sunshine. we've got this typhoon moving toward the east, but you're not going to notice it. took you sunshine. 20 degrees. maybe see those winds pick up gusts to about 50 kilometers per hour, southeast asia, plentiful showers, and storms top bottom end of sumatra rate across java and for western and northern areas of borneo. and the forecast on friday. c, as in the weather sponsored by katara ways. the corona virus has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color. but in britain, a disproportionately high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom fail, it citizens, britain's true colors coming soon on out. just sarah. ah

ah, the orgy out is there a reminder of all top stories? the leaders of for energy jones face tough questions before a u. s. a congressional committee, the oil and gas ceos were asked about their roles. their companies played in downplaying threat of climate change and the u. k. as some in the french ambassador, amid a deepening ro, over post spread exit fishing rights that comes out of the french authorities, seized a british paula operating in french territorial waters. and the espionage case against argentina's former president murray chew marguerite has been suspended on a legal technicality. mccrae is accused of ordering intelligence agencies to spot

in the families, a crew members of a submarine that sank 4 years ago. you as president joe biden, doesn't appear to have the full support of his democratic party for his $1.00 trillion dollars spending program. a key democratic group is saying that they won't vote on the infrastructure bill without the build back. better act, now abiding, has taken the rest at a meeting with senators at the capital to urge them to back the spending package. his revised bill has lawson top priorities as the president tries to get the bill through a very narrowly divided congress. these are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive or anything else to pitch americans against one. this is about competitiveness versus complacency. competitiveness versus complacency about expanding opportunity not opportunity didn't and i spout leading the whirl or letting the world passes by christine pillows. he is

a member of the democratic national committee. she say, she's confident that the spending programs will get over the line. i think that both bills are going to pass the build back better agenda. that all the democrats from the most progressive to the most conservative, agreed on and ran on last year from top to bottom is reflected in both pieces of legislation. what happened was, at the beginning of year, the republican said, well, we're going to give you a few votes on the american rescue plan to help people come out of coven, and we will give you some. and we will give you some support for physical infrastructure, but we don't want to pay for the care infrastructure that goes behind that. and so that the president got what he could get in the bipartisan infrastructure framework, but he's still very much wants to deliver on his bill back better bill. and they just released a section by section analysis of it for people to read. so within the next few days, he will get successful votes on both. what you're seeing now is what we call in

washington the making up of the sausage it's, it's very unpleasant to watch. but ultimately, the american people can trust that the democratic party knows it's time to deliver . we cannot wait and we still can't wait past the new year because you only get to do a budget bill once a year. so everybody knows that. and why you might see some parlaying for time. now . it's really just a matter of days before both of them will get passed. facebook has changed his name to meta chief executive marks like a bug says it reflects the met of us and a future world with formal online interaction. the change will only apply to the parent company and the social media site will keep the name facebook. the firm's found it says it brings together its apps, including instagram and loads up under one umbrella. ensure is an editor, seen it and technology news website. he says mark, talk about wants to be ahead of the next technological curve. there are 2 things going on. one is that there is unbelievable amount of pressure and scrutiny

happening on facebook. and that is something that's very important. it's a good conversation that we're having. and hopefully, one that's going to be a good thing. the other thing is that marks are covered the founder, the co founder and ceo. facebook has for a very long time, been very interested in the next phase with technology. he really is frustrated that he missed out on being part of the phone revolution. and he's frustrated that his future is tied to apple in google, who control the 2 main operating systems of our phones, iphone and android phone, which and so as a result, he wants to be. one of the leaders have been next stage of computing, which he sees as being the metal verse, right? the digital world that we all would experience together. and because of that, that is why he's making this name change. now the timing is pretty awful, frankly, but it's something that he's been talking about a lot. and so i'm not surprised that he just decide to go forward with it even

despite everything's going on. and i think that there is some sort of a future beyond are, right, we're not going to just be using computers and phones and tv for the rest of the time, you know, in the future, at some point something else is going to take over. i don't know what that is, and neither does mark zuckerberg, but he is betting that that, that the virtual worlds this met a verse will be a part of that. a misdemeanor complaint related to an alleged sex crime has been filed against former new york governor. andrew kindly come as accuse of forcibly touching a former executive assistant. he resigned his governor in august after 10 and a half years in office. his resignation followed investigation that found him sexually harassed 11 women and the kidnapping of american and canadian missionaries, and haiti has captured the world's attention on this. still no word on their fate. the waiver kidnappings in recent months is left people traumatized and terrified

across the country. oh, deserves rob. ronald spoke to one victim of kidnapping a warning. some viewers may find the images in this report. disturbing. she is a 15 year old girl. the only child of a family that is far from wealthy, but that didn't stop kidnappers from grabbing her off the street last month. on her way home from school. she asked best not to show her face or use her real name will differ. they took me and blindfolded me and put me in a car. i don't know where they took me. then they raped me. i was crying and calling out for my mom, and i could hear other children crying to her mother who also asked us to conceal her identity, sold all her possessions, and scraped together the equivalent of 2000 u. s. dollars to pay her daughter's ransom. went this at seeing artesia. i feel good because they didn't kill ha!

i was glad i could see her and get her back with them. my dad and mother and daughter are now destitute. living in a safe house run by a private organization that helps battered and abused women and girls. a near total breakdown of law and order has left many haitians at the mercy of criminal groups who use kidnapping to make easy money. women and girls are particularly vulnerable . honestly, there's no place that i can quite like. take your place in haiti right now. everywhere is unsecure, thought in girls. old women aid workers say some victims die in captivity and there remains are never found. others are too deeply traumatized. to go on, i heard some case that human all girls that had it has been kicked, not they kill themself. few, if any of these crimes are ever solved according to a haitian human rights research organization,

nearly 800 people have been kidnapped since the beginning of this year. mary is now receiving medical and psychological treatment. oh yes. we need security in the country. a lot of young women and men are being kidnapped now. she is one of many victims in a country living and fear. rob reynolds al jazeera, puerto prince united states in the you and increasing the price on so don's military as confrontations between security forces. i'm protests as continuing autumn after the use security council called for the restoration of a civilian that government present. joe biden says his nation stood with the demonstrators. thousands of people have been protesting in recent days to reject the return of military rule. kristen salome has more from the united nations and so fairly short statement, i have a copy of it right here, one page long and it expresses serious concern about the military takeover in the

suspension of some transitional government institutions. it also expresses concern about the detention of prime minister of dela hm, doc, and other government officials or the release also does call for the release of those who've been detained, noting that the prime minister has been returned to his home and yet cause for respect for human rights, in particular, the rights of protesters to be out on the street. it's important to note that the united nations integrated transition mission in sudan has been working there are to support the transition to elections and democratic institutions. and the statement also reaffirms those efforts. so the council is basically, i saying it's very concerned about the situation. they are i and, and, and calling for respect for these transitional institutions. rebels in e p up his he go regional say at least some people, including 3 children,

have been killed in another government and strike the if you be an army says it targeted a facility used by the t great people's liberation front and the regional capital mckayla but a spokesperson for the rebel says, a civilian residence was hit, fighting between the t p a left from federal forces had been going on for almost a year. but i strike some increase in the past week. and ross's capital has shut down for 11 days, as the country deals of the record number of new coven 19 cases, and related deaths. only 32 percent of russians are fully vaccinated in moscow. all schools, restaurants, and entertainment. venues will be closed until november 7th. president vladimir putin is also ordered a paid nationwide week long holiday to curb rising infections. and hungry is introduced a string of new measures to combat a 4th wave. a crone of virus infections, employees of state institutions, and other companies will require vaccinations a day earlier hungry reported on 3100 cases. it's highest jump in daily infection

since april a historic bronze statue stolen from nigeria more than a century ago is on its way home from the u. k. the university of aberdeen had held the bronze head of been in king for more than 40 years. now. it's become the 3rd european institution to return and artifact over the past 2 days. i would address has more from a buddha. after nearly 125 years in foreign lands, this tall and bronze statue depiction, the head of the king of ny juris, ancient benign kingdom is finally on its way all for more than a century. its beauty and craft was looked at and appreciated by a privileged view. it has taken companies and communities from why it was looted decades to get back this object of immense, religious and cultural significant. on wednesday, the university of cambridge became the foster institution to return such an addict

were all thrilled at seeing this, they arrive when the bronze is finally returned home, but were also painfully aware of having deprived it's rightful owner for so long of its presence. and we offer a heartfelt apologies for the historic from also in paris president the man on macro lead a ceremony to return a set of $26.00 pieces of art of votes stolen from france's former colony. been in, in $1892.00 left continent with icbc even france had to act given the fact that 95 percent of the african material heritage is said to be outside of africa. all young people need to take possession of their history to better build their future . there was no reason to condemn the african youth to be denied access to its own history. so extra say the events of the past few days are significant. there is some sort of potential now through these actions for some truth telling at,

for very even some reconciliation and the returns. so the significance either of these items really relates to their buy in conic states, us that underlying the significance of african arts. but companies and activists are also aware that getting all of the stolen artifacts back could take a long time. there's also a chance they may never succeed. the k brunley museum in paris hold some 70000 african artifacts. while london, british museum has tens of thousands more, while campaign is a happy with a progress in negotiations with countries like belgium, they're less helpful with others. in particular, they're worried about the fate of looted items in the hands of private collectors. we want to a metal nigeria as one particularly did or people to see what belongs to them in their objects of far history and cultural import us.

the campaign to returned the been in bronzes and thousands of other artifacts looted during the sensuous long colonization of africa. i stick in a long time campaign as hope the events of the united kingdom on france this week will begin a process that could see the return of most of africa stolen, historic and cultural artifact. ahmed edris al jazeera, a butcher, ah, there's out there, and these are the top stories. the leaders of for energy, jones faced tough questions before a u. s. congressional committee, the oil and gas ceos were asked about the roles their companies played in downplaying, the threat of climate change. the u. k. a. some in the french ambassador had made a deepening ro over post briggs at fishing rights. it comes hours after french authorities seized a british trula operating in french territorial waters. the espionage case.