citizens have fallen victim to his repression, executions, torture, censorship is not acceptable. and you won't hear such strong words from, let's say berlin or paris or london man in cairo on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm barbara sarah. this is the al jazeera news, our live from london. thank you for joining us. coming up in the next 60 minutes. 3 failed rainy seasons pushed 13000000 people into severe hunger. the warning is sounded over catastrophic drought. in the horn of africa. the diplomatic pushed to deescalate tensions between russia and ukraine. the french, german and polish leaders say the priority is to prevent war in europe. the

corruption trial of former israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is delayed by allegations that police use the legal spyware to hack his phone. and that reclaiming they are rain forest deck, where there was highest court rules that indigenous communities must have a greater se, over oil. and mining projects on their land. i'm jeff nash with sport a chinese tennis play, a punch. why makes a rab public appearance for the winter olympics and brazilian cyber palomares yvonne's to the club? well cup final sites to a to new in every dips inside. mm hm. hunger is getting worse across the horn of africa, and agencies say it's only a matter of time before hundreds, thousands of lives will be in the balance. kenya,

somalia, ethiopia, and their retreat are suffering the most. after 3 rainy seasons failed and the humans world food program says that 13000000 people across the region now face severe hunger units of says that around that 5 and a half 1000000 children in the region are right now. risk of acute malnutrition. well, the biggest concern is that a drought a decade ago could actually be repeated. that drought killed a quarter of a 1000000 people in somalia alone together. unicef and the world food program are asking for $450000000.00, which they say is the only way to prevent catastrophe. what on some ferry is a spokesperson for the u. n. z world food program and he joins us live now from geneva via skype ser, thank you so much for joining us here on alger 0, i mean the numbers that would just for about an hour. incredibly distressing. give us a little bit more detail. first of all about what the situation is like there right

now. while people are down and out barbara, they are barely corklin. i have just been to karen to kenya and returned over the weekend. i met pastoral families but a lot entire hands of livestock to get drought. and farmers were felt to have this not once, nor twice, but fries. they have been 3 consecutive failed, rainy seasons, and 3 consecutive fell drained seasons would deal a huge blow to anyone. it what, what is strange is that it is only the beginning of february, and typically you would have grazing pasture, you would have water ponds that would have regenerated from october to december, short rainy season of this time with different these nor grazing pasture. there he's no browse these nor water sources, their own drink, dow malnutrition, rants high. some. even his high up is 50 percent. and in one rural health center that i visited, like data counting,

theresa nursing charge told me that they are now having to treat more people for mount nutrition, but any other ailments. for the situations quite, i mean, you mentioned astro families and i was reading that. let's say the average family might have between 2020300 livestock. now they're down at the 10th, almost impossible to live at almost. where are those families? now? these are families that are scattered across north east of canyon. they also put a huge number in somalia, particularly the central part, and you also have quite a few of people who have been affected by the drought in, in the south himself, eastern part of europe. yes. so you do have a cost your own people. what now struggling will waking up angry with the law i deal with the next me will come. i mean as we mentioned before, i mean unfortunately, drought, per se is nothing new in that part of the world. but we're now talking about 3 rainy seasons. i that have failed, so um,

what do you attribute the situation to right now? the drought is the main driver, but obviously it is not the only factor here. they are underlying issues in the order of africans, but least of the quantity that has been protracted in somalia. you inflation as well as the long term socio economic impact from the coffee. 19. all 3 countries that have been affected us bugging really to shackles that the long term impact of course 90. these are people were badly heat by quoted 92, and now being put down our leaving from the drought and the majority of them they, they are leaving from basically selling off the lifestyle that they leave. but now they no longer have but livestock, in some of them dissipate in agricultural activities and the crops have been decimated by the drought. there is no one to tend to accept international ssl and the wilfred program that is launching a drought response plan. you already have teams on the ground. tell us

a little bit more what you're asking for. i know it's $450000000.00, but crucially what you're doing now and what you'd spend that money on what the priorities are. our biggest priorities to serve lives. so we are providing life serving food and nutrition assistance to effect weird. it's their teams across all 3 countries. we are also additionally providing cash grants insurance, gibbs so that we do some of those families to buy food, to buy for them to keep their last look at life, as well as compensating solve those last the last into her hands that have lost the majority of their heads, but we will quickly bring them back to their feet, but we do need resources and we need additional resources to be able to scan all these and to do it. yes. so are we, so what would be families? this surely as we hand towards the next 2 to read minds, which i went to be critical in the order of, you know,

i don't want to push you into an area that you may not be comfortable with talking about politics. it's not sort of where i want to take the question, but that part of africa can often be politically unstable. we see it in somalia, we see it, of course, in parts of ethiopia as well. i mean, how much does a situation like this, where people effectively cat greys land where they used to know pastoral families that are tied to the land? how much does a situation like this also create or potentially create political instability? look, oh, when you have a doubt of this nature, obviously its impact is going to go beyond farming it offense education. it affects finance facets of life. and when people cannot, cannot, cannot find posture nearby, they tend to take over long distances and batches, consequences. you run the risk of intercourse, you know clashes. i meant families in kendall. we're tracking a distance of 160 kilometers, just in central grazing plaster. they're getting new people, people,

they don't know along the way. and battles cause congest rise to do some deadly flashes that lives out in one of african. while we'll definitely be monitoring the situation. i here on al jazeera for the moment thompson theory spokesperson for the u. n. world, the food program speaking to us from geneva. so thank you so much for clarifying the horrible terrible situation in that part of africa right now. that is all much whenever me now the u. n. food agency says a cyclone that's damaged crops in madagascar will worse and food shortages in the country. at least 21 people are dead and more than 60000 have been left homeless. the indian ocean country is one of the poorest in the world and has experienced a series of environmental and climate disasters in recent years. same visit avi has more cycling, but sir, i brought with it heavy rain, strong winds, death and destruction. the tropical storm weekend as it moved across madagascar,

but not before causing serious damage. thousands of buildings destroyed or flooded across the island. it's already southern africa. the 2nd biggest cycle on this year, the residence of menagerie. the epicenter of the storm are still waiting for help. our house collapsed. we don't know where to go. we have no food. we have nowhere to go. all our things were in our house. the children's clothes, school supplies, everything was destroyed. we have to help everyone where they live on the beach in the city. we really have to find a solution. the world's food program warned the cycle and destroyed staple crops, making a food shortage crisis in the months to come, almost inevitable. we know for sure that the life of the rice crops will be damaged, will be lost. so this is the main main crop for mother go mcgasey people is and they will be seated will effective in that full security in the next

a 36 months if we don't do something immediately and we don't pass them to recover an estimated 150000 people have been affected so far. more than 3 quarters of madagascar 28000000 people live in poverty aid workers are expecting the number of affected people to go up. still reeling from a tropical storm in january, which killed 55 people before the extreme wet weather communities were coping with years of such severe drought. the un warranted could lead to the world's 1st climate change related famine. the african continent, its leader say is paying the highest price for climate change. then basra v o g 0 coming up on the snooze hour from london to former pope benedict. the 16th asks victims of sexual abuse in the catholic church for forgiveness. we have reaction from one survivor, hong kong and forces its toughest coven restrictions. yet,

as bailey cases reaching you highs ah, the leaders of germany, france, and poland are meeting in berlin to discuss ways to deescalate tensions over the russian military. build up on the border with ukraine. german chancellor, all of sholtes said their common goal is to prevent a war in europe. he warned russia would face consequences for any incursion into ukrainian territory. was like in mind, the mysterious antique, our common goal is to prevent war in europe. marcia was shot, the amassing of russian troops on ukraine's border is of great concern. and our appraisal of the situation is united. as is our position on this, be of any further attacks on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine is unacceptable, and we will draw wide reaching consequences. my so i clicked on to russia will slumber politically, economically,

and just strategically here. or french president the manual. nicole emphasized the importance of europe remaining peaceful and stable in certain contant readers yield only some interview. we will continue to act in the following greeks with simple goals. the 1st one is to avoid war, peace and stability of the european constant or our treasure, and we have to do everything in order to preserve them. secondly, we need to consolidate and constantly defend the unity of europeans and our allies for marcia castile that was mc thirdly, we need to defend the principles that have made that you in the past 30 years. you particularly respect of the sovereignty of every state, territorial integrity, and respect of our values defined in our charters. the shock for the missing can just hours at the french president manuel la kron met the ukrainian leader in kia. he said russia and ukraine can now move forward with talks. after telling violet amir zalinski of ukraine did he so concrete and practical solutions. russia

maintains it has no plans to invade its neighbour. despite massing a 100000 troops near the border or the bell, hamid reports now from the ukrainian capital. it was the 1st visit by a french president in 24 years. emmanuel, my call in care after holding a 5 hour marathon meeting room with rushes. president vladimir putin in moscow on monday, the french president thrusting himself at the forefront when it comes to european diplomacy. you're bringing to the ukrainian capital, his efforts to diffuse the tensions. but what went on people pushing so many push armoire or goal for coming weeks. and months is to have a stabilization of the situation and kickstart through new currency mechanisms, the lasting de escalation in this context. the cool had in this, you have shown the restraint that all parties have shown and word indeed are essential. i court also said he had received commitments from both the ukrainian

and russian presidents to respect the means, the agreement which was signed in 2015 only ukraine has always seen this cease fire agreement as favoring russia. but for the french president, it's the only way to protect ukraine sovereignty. and consider france also pledge $1300000000.00 to help stabilize the economy. signing deals to improve some of the infrastructure around the country, but with no sign of de escalation yet, ukraine continues to prepare for the worst case scenario. ukrainian troops are to hold military drills around the country, starting february 10th. the same day rush and blues are due to start phase 2 of their joint exercises. the ukraine and minute she will be displaying some of the weapons received from nato members. this army has grown from 6000 to nearly 850000 combat ready troops. and the country has also upgraded its own military

industry on the 1st spoke of. so if a particular bump, yes, we can cover our needs. when it comes to anti tank weapons for land and mobile unit . we also produce all types of talk go where from us war you clean has improve. it's multiple launcher rocket systems, wilker, which will help protect its borders and costs. but for now, is diplomacy that is prevailing, even though presidency. lensky is being cautious. dampening perhaps a little of the optimism shown by emmanuel michael for his feet flora. yet, i don't trust words in general, every politician sincerity appears in their specific steps. in our case, the sincerity is de escalation. i believed it put in has everything to do. this is specially as this person is very sincere. as i understand in this, the young assured me, i don't know an entity in europe who would be able to put strong pressure in russia . the occupation of our country is still not happening. it seems all parties have

agreed to continue talking to normandy, contact group. we'll be meeting on thursday, france, germany, ukraine, and russia sitting at the same table. if anything, it would reaffirm my cause vision when it comes to europe, security. would that, that, i mean, al jazeera cave, the corruption trial of visuals, former prime minister has been delayed after allegations of legal spyware use by police, and is really newspaper claims officer is hacked. the phones of benjamin netanyahu son and his associates protest or his business leaders and cabinet ministers are also said to have been targeted using these really made pegasus spyware. prime minister natalie bennett has promised an inquiry, a hurry for citizen, west jerusalem, and has more now on how the allegations could affect netanyahu's corruption trial. as far as his lawyers are concerned, this is something that they are very much trying to use to their advantage already

before these latest revelations came out. there was this one very significant witness against us and you know who the former director general of the communications ministry. i form a very close associate of netanyahu. there were questions as to whether the allegations that his phone had been drained in this way could affect his testimony, which was originally scheduled for next week. now we have that yahoo son and other very close associates, also being drawn in school. this prosecutors so far have been saying that any use of the software is separate from the investigation that the allegations against the, the charges against that being based upon. but certainly they will have to try to prove that. and so his lawyers are saying that this has to be probably investigated and it does potentially pose a threat to the, to the validity of the trial going forward. but also the fact already see allegation that the police weren't as they had been saying,

seeking propositional approval for each use of such technology. that essentially they were going on expeditions, trying to see what they could find on phones and then building cases around them. the police have been denying, at least that part of it, saying that they were only acting in proper criminal investigations. however, the, the broadness of these allegations are extremely serious. and that is what this inquiry will have to try to sort out there being protest. cindy occupied westbank city of knob bloss after 3 palestinians were killed, is really forced to say the men were suspected of involvement in recent attacks against soldiers. palestinian officials are demanding an international investigation to the killings and chappelle has more. it was just after mid day in the occupied westbank city of nablus when israeli special forces along with domestic security agency, sion bet carried out the raid. according to witnesses, under cover troops used a taxi with palestinian license plates pulled up next to

a car and opened fire spraying it with bullets in broad daylight. visited notice lane is on messiah offense. after these weighty forces left people gathered to see what happened. no one suspected the vehicles who carrying israeli soldiers simply because of the palestinian number plates. these railey soldiers continue to fire for a minute. they fight more than 80 bullets and the young palestinian men killed on the spot. the palestinian men were accused of involvement and recent attacks against israeli soldiers and civilians. the troops were filmed, taking weapons from the vehicle before they left the scene. oh, a case of extra judicial killings, according to the palestinian authority. that requires an international investigation. oh, family members gathered outside the morgue to share their sadness and anger along with members of the community. oh, grandmother nicole got a lot of them. summer school, my son has been hunted by the israelis from months. the israeli intelligence called for my children and threatened them for my son to give himself in israel's defense

minister, been against commended his security forces for the operation. prime minister naphtali bennett says, there is no immunity for terrace, but has all of us as well as i am really sad, not only for this crime, but for the entire situation. the palace in people have it in for decades, will buy them. and if i would never believe we are used to these crimes, but we must act in response. i am really sad. we are filled with anger, but no one is lending us a helping hands on the alex, a martyrs brigade, the armed wing of the fatigue party says it will retaliate. 3 more young men caught up in a seemingly neverending cycle of violence. inter chappelle al jazeera people displaced by 10 years of war in syria are struggling to survive in the north western province of it live. tens of thousands of being left homeless by the conflict, and unemployment is widespread. al jazeera cinema co say glued reports now from the

town of ottoman where people say they are now battling the rising prices of basic goods. these women in the town of ottoman in northwest and syria, hope every stage might bring them some income. there among at least a 1000000 people, the place by the war were living in 10 cities in what is considered the largest community of this place, people in the country. maria opened the workshop for women in her community 2 months ago with a few resources mom and her friends make traditional dresses from fabric that's been donated their seeking support from n t o. so more women can join them, especially those who lost their husband. full of we launched this project because there are many which was around here, we only to work to provide for our families. but we don't have the opportunities here except for knitting at home and selling our work. and that's why we try to

include as many women as we can. very, i'm husband died in an accident 5 years ago that left or depending on whether we're help, she could get and raising her 3 children alone. others are grateful for the hope she's given them. i have 7 children and my husband doesn't have a job will learn how to so hear from marian. now hoping to make a life of our own at the province's last rebel health area and syria with a population of nearly 4000000 people. and unemployment is rise. the turkish theory is used as the main currency, but a collapse in its valley is making daily life harder, or the cost of living. rising fat. the people who live here tell us their lives haven't calmer for the past 3 years. what's the revolve and walk? it's a tax, but the latest battle they face is the rising food prices in the market. 2 years ago, the local authorities switch from using the syrian pound to the turkish direct afford

and collapse, and the war torn regions fragile economy. everybody on the exchange rate, you ask for a bunch of parsley. if they let me check the dollar price, people don't have mercy on each other as the wholesalers raise the prices. so july i make total profit because many people can barely buy a packet of bread. some displaced people here have been uprooted several times. and starting over has become or t and many say they need international support. now if they're to cope with a dark conditions, they live in the num castillo al jazeera asthma. it live north syria. the speaker of libya's to brook based parliament says elections will not take place this year, but a new in trim prime minister will be chosen on thursday. the incumbent, however though that's abdul hamid. the baby who leads the tripoli based unity. government says he'll stay until elections are held in june. there's been

increasing friction between the countries arrival at legislatures. elections in december were postponed because they couldn't agree on a new constitutional framework. reli traina has more now from tripoli. really the feeling here among people is one of disappointment, of one of one of disappointment and sadness that they weren't able to exercise other democratic right to vote who they want into power. i think it's also really important to talk about why the elections didn't happen to begin with the high council state, which is the lead legislative house based here in tripoli. and was voted into power in 2012. but eastern base parliament was voted into power in 2014. now, when libya divided into 2 separate governments, 2 separate sides, a libyan political agreement to place in 2015 disagreement called for for both legislative houses. they extended their mandate and stated that they were to agree

on a constitutional framework for elections to be help. that never really happened. so really, people, libyans are really sick and tired. they're tired of the parliament, they're tired of the legislative houses. they want to vote in a new parliament, a new legislative house. but, you know, these parties haven't been able to agree. so i think the feeling here now is one of disappointment. and, you know, really, libyans are just sick and tired of these politicians staying in power and dividing the country in what many describe as a david versus goliath battle ecuador is highest court has ruled that indigenous communities must have a far stronger say over oil and mining projects that impact their land, the ruling is a serious blow to president, ga, yet molasses plans to award mining and oil confessions in the amazon rain forest who seen human reports. this is the ancestral territory of the ica,

fun community of seen on the way at the entrance of the amazon basin in ecuador kitchen relations. this indigenous community has lived off of what the rain forest provides from food to medicines and boots. but when they discovered that their territory was being invaded by gold mining projects all along their river isolated community took action, men and women. there was a little we also have the right to protect care for and patrol our territory to identify the most impacted areas to tell the state enough. enough contamination enough of putting our territories in danger. but their indigenous patrols weren't enough, was as common somoza. we began going to the capital to the minute ministry to see what was happening to me, and we discovered that the government had approved 52 money concessions for 25 years. was there was never any consultation,

nothing yet. as soon as with the legal assistance of the n g o amazon front lines, the community brought a lawsuit against ecuadorian government. al jazeera was visiting the community when they received the supreme court verdict. oh, you've won, you've won. the unprecedented ruling obliges the state to consult communities over oil and mining projects that impact their land and to seek their consent. it applies not just to this indigenous community, but to all those all over the country. many of whom suffer massive environmental damage from the oil industry. the country's largest, the ruling is a blow to the government's ambitious plans to double oil production, and significantly expend mining, most of which take place in the amazon. now we can see this movement spreading across ecuador and spreading across the amazon, because what's happening in ecuador is actually happening all over the amazon. a

kudos mining association insist that responsible mining is imperative for the country's development. it is only due to a mass. this is an indispensable industry for human beings and also for our economic welfare. we don't oppose consulting communities, but we oppose being discriminated, has need lately. the tiny seemingly community has won a huge battle, but it may not necessarily have the last word. since the court ruling does leave room for exceptions in the name of overriding national interests, lucy newman al jazeera also are still to come in this news hour, including religious leader as a pen, a letter to mark zuckerberg, asking him to stop plans for instagram, kids, golden girl, one of china's biggest olympic stars, the liver is when it really matters in beijing action, coming up with gemma and sport.

ah, the pouring rain and the blustery winds have moved away from is stumble. hello everyone, so that energy out toward the east. we've got snow over the higher ground, lower ground is well, for example, in ankara with a high of 2 degrees, outbreaks of rain across cyprus and levant and also breezy conditions through the age, react, the aegean and the eastern mediterranean. now for central europe, things are calm, we've got high temperatures here. so for example, budapest, 14 degrees in belgrade, 11 for you. soak it in after the northwest, also high temperatures. london coming in at 12 degrees, but okay, there's some snow and wind for scotland and same goes for norway and we know what goes up. must come down. so we'll take this out a few days. the dark of the blue and the purple, the lower the temperature. so london, 7 degrees on friday,

that's below average. eject, suppose that to what's going on in africa. conversely, the dark of the red, the higher the temperature here. so bungie 38 degrees, your february record is 39. so getting mighty close here is where the remnants left over is of tropical cyclone. bats. ry are out over the open water and we've got some soaking brains, really, from a southern angola into western namibia. they stay in cape town at 24 degrees. ok, that's it for me. i'll catch up with you later. ah. the chuck o region of paragon. corner of south america, we want a 2 man who seemed to thrive on the challenge. a veteran truck try to answer every call. whatever the web to provide for his growing family. and the cowboy who enjoys his ra only lie risk in it. a paragraph on al jazeera

americans are increasingly say, authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way where the chain of command you like tried is covered up. what's your take on why they've gotten this so wrong? that to me is political malpractice, the bottom line on us politics and policies and the impact on the world on al jazeera, from the villas of correct us. so the battle fields around most of our job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. lou ah,

we'll come back here is a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, the u ends. world food program says 13000000 people across the horn of africa face severe hunger because of drought, kenya, somalia, ethiopia and re tray are suffering the most stuck to the failure of 3 rainy seasons . the leaders of germany, france, and poland have met in berlin to discuss ways to deescalate pensions over the russian military build up on the border with ukraine. german chancellor, olive shots said their common goal is to prevent a war in europe. and the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister has been delayed after reports that police hacked to the phones of benjamin is now son . and his associates. prime minister natalie bennett has promised that the former pope benedict the 16th has asked victims of sexual abuse and the catholic church for forgiveness and inquiry found that he knew about abusers when

he was archbishop of munich, but failed to report their crimes. the former pope has rejected allegations that he was involved in any cover up his lawyers of published would there calling a fact check denying that he was involved in any misconduct markets. rooney is europe coordinator for the survivors network of those abused by priests. he says the apology isn't enough for victims to fully understand the gravity of these lapses this one, you have to keep in mind that in some of these cases overlooked by benedict that was the accusation. right? that he overlooked the crimes committed by his priest. well, in some of these cases, the perpetrators were prosecuted and found guilty. so these were known facts. and despite that, even after a prison centers, they were literally kept on. this priest are allowed often to work with children putting this child in obvious danger. so those are or fact that nobody can, can deny that or really shocking. the fact that priest were allowed to minister to

children and families young, vulnerable people, even after being prosecute. just pedal files is truly appalling. as far as i understand the evidence there's, there's written evidence saying he was present that the meetings where the decisions were made, et cetera. i think it is just too easy to simply reject any responsibility that's too easy and wash with the community of survivors around the world. we're not complete tools 75. religious leaders from 20 faiths have written to meta chief executive, mog sucker berg calling for him to abandon plans for a version of instagram for young users. instagram and parent company. mr. platforms formerly known as facebook, of course, have come under intense scrutiny over the impact of their services on mental health . last year, the whistleblower frances, how good leaked tens of thousands of facebook's internal documents alleging the

company knew that its products are damaging to teenagers. mental health mater says the documents paint a false picture and that instagram for kids aims to provide a safe place for younger users. they delayed plans to set up the app after the document leak, while the letter and spearheaded by the fair play not for profit organizations said the app will serve as a catalyst kitty gateway for young children to the already documented problems. adversely impacting teens. well, joining us not from pasadena, california is cutter callaway, a signatory to that letter sent among sucker burg and associate professor of theology and culture of the fuller theological seminary. he's also the author of the book, theology for psychology and counseling. sir, thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera your, of course, as we've just said, a signatory to this letter. this is a topic that has been debated widely. tell us why the 75 religious leaders felt the

need as religious leaders to write this letter. oh, thanks for having me in a big part of at least why i was a signatory m as a that a person that kind of operates in the space of religious leadership is to say that this is not something that's unique to any one particular religion or spiritual tradition, but instead is something that we all hold in common and that is a concern for our children. and as you just said, when a multinational corporation, their own research demonstrates that the product that they are purveying is causing damage to our most vulnerable and impressionable. and it's, and coming upon all of us. and that's not just religious leaders, but it because that's who we are. and it's, it's incumbent upon us to say that we'd like to ask them to think differently about their product and to put the interests of their consumers over profit. at you mentioned consumers that is your issue with the internet in general, which we all know is difficult if not impossible to regulate or specifically what

is you issue with these platforms. yeah, it's, it's specifically with the platforms and their economic model. and a lot of the research that i've done in sort of the experimental psych, a world is really focused on the affects the psychological effects of digital media . and it's not all digital media, but in particular web 2 point. oh, platforms like instagram. not only is there architecture there algorithms driven and ways that leverage some of the most susceptible and vulnerable parts of a developing mind. but they also are driven to profit off of those. and so it's kind of a dual a problem. one is the way that these algorithms run, but then to it's the way that the economic model is based, both for facebook and instagram. now instagram for kids has been suspended as we understand, but the plan hasn't been scrapped. and how do you think this letter will be a welcome door, as you know, sort of seen by mark zuckerberg,

do we know much about his religious leanings or how he would view the fact that it's religious leaders writing to him as opposed to many of the other people that have highlighted the same issue. yeah, i don't know my, it could be a david and goliath story, to use a, a religious story here. and so it's, it's the best that we can do with what we've got. but i do think that it's important for him to recognize that m we as a group, aren't just the 75 that are signing, but we represent a pretty large constituency of folks who are facebook users. and so the hope is that it's something that he hears and responds to, but it's also very similar to you know, decades ago with a big tobacco. and what you'll see is that corporations that have the information that they know it's harmful. right now we're in that stage very similarly, where the argument in response is that we know that it's poisonous. we know that it's damaging, but you know what? i'm just like it was with smoking for kids. there's some social benefit to it,

right? there's, there's some goods, you know, smoking, it encourages people to gather together and whatnot. but we would never create something for 13 year olds. and under that would say we want them smoking. same thing here. it's, it's to me just very common sense as a parent, as a spiritual leader, but then also as a, as a consumer, as someone who am actually facebook sells my data to companies. i think it's, it's really an obligation that facebook has to hear us. i'm to take a seriously and hopefully to actually cease and desist from creating this new platform. i mean, oh for grant tend to be particularly damaging for younger girls a specifically, what is the difference between using instagram now if let's say your 1314 year old and maybe in the ninety's, leafing through magazines that still projected unrealistic had, you know, visions of, of you know, of young women often photoshop. what's the difference? yeah, i am a will to main differences. one i'm in terms of just

a body image and representation. there's not a lot of difference, but the, the core differences are that it's a b, the capacity for big data to track and monitor the way bet end users. consumers are actually interacting and then shaping their behavior in light of it's much of what goes on behind the scenes is driven by artificial intelligence algorithms that are new. we didn't have that 102030 years ago. and so a big part of this is really behavior modification of consumers without their express knowledge or consent. the other side is the economics of it that i mentioned in that is that in this case, young users all users, but in this case adolescence teenagers are, are b, b, a math. the algorithms actually incentivizing images that actually lead to negative mental health outcomes. that gets and generates the most impressions that generates the addictive ways in which we actually interact with this media. and that is

actually quite new in comparison to, you know, flipping through a magazine that you could put down. this is addictive, and it's also leveraging and exploiting. many of those are psychological subsystems that beforehand we could set down and ignore and now it's, it's coming at us, it's attacking us and it's targeted in ways that are shaped by these big data algorithms. thank quick, final question. have you had any reply or acknowledgement to your letter from meta? no, not as far as i know it just a release very recently. so we hope to hear somehow soon. of course, as you said, they had put the project on pause and we hope to hear that it's permanently on pause. but as they say for me once, shame on me fooled me twice or no only want shame on you. only twice, shame on me. so you won't, we will see what happens. cutter callaway, a signatory to that letter sent to mark zak, a brigand associate professor of theology and cultured the fuller theological seminary at sir. thank you so much for sharing of use with us to let us though, if we get a reply to that letter. wonderful. thank you so much for having hong kong has

brought in its toughest restrictions yet as it battles a record. daily number of coven 19 cases. 625 infections were recorded on tuesday. public gatherings will be limited to 2 people, even out doors. and people will only be allowed to invite members of one other household to their residences. but climate reports now from hong kong, a record serge of cases in hong kong triggering the cities toughest pandemic measures yet come yacoma getting. today we are in a fear pandemic situation. i hope that the public we accept that we have to go back to the most stringent level from thursday, only 2 people will be allowed to dine out together. more than use, including places of worship will be ordered to close. and for the 1st time, there will be limitations on private gatherings at home to the new round of measures. also focus on the need for vaccine passes, in order to improve low vaccination rates among the elderly. with residents needing

to prove their immunized against coven 19 to enter shopping malls and wet markets. fines for those who break the rules will double to nearly $1300.00 us dollars. you go you golf out. i agree with the measures because the situation is worsening. otherwise, how can we get the virus under control? we have to be patient. i or the, i think the government should encourage people to stay at home in the state. the government should open more testing seen to so that people do not have together. here was only, there was no difference between 2 people or 4 people, gathering more from the government to think about how to control the spread of the virus. in these social distancing measures, i'm meaningless. shortage of vegetables is adding to pandemic. grievances in hong kong after truck drivers who tested positive were unable to transport them from mainland china. into the import reliant territory. panic shoppers swept several local markets, clear of fresh produce mainland chinese authorities have offered to help with labor

shortages if hospitals become overwhelmed. for now, hong kong appears to be sticking to the same 0 tolerance strategy adopted by the mainland with locked downs and mass testing. now commonplace testing centers like this one as scattered across the city since cases started to escalate. they've seen a surge in demand with long cures forming hong kong cases might still sound low compared to other major cities. but for many people here, this is uncharted territory. brit clements al jazeera hong kong. campaigning is kicked off in the philippines ahead of a presidential election said to take place in 3 months. candidates are vying to succeed, present it will be able to pass there as a 6 year term comes to an end. contenders include the mayor of many, the son of a former leader and the retired boxing champion. photo is will head to the polls on may nice jemila, alan dog and his warner from the capital manila. the 9 today election period has

officially started in the philippines, a thousands of candidates buying for around 18000 spots on the 15th left in the philippines. i'm usually a festive affair, dancing music, and lots of catchy phrases and powerful themes. but it doesn't make it any less visit the 2023 elections. it's seen as the most contentious in recent, a lot unique. i in any way that are candidates who can do many things under kind. and let's see that their corrupt but no, it's hard to find someone who is not corrupt. we have to consider their actions and how they're taking action. now, someone who is patriotic and who will put the country 1st began denay. oh, i hope that the candidates will provide jobs and help the economy not on and off, just like now because sometimes people have something to eat or sometimes they don't really keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. and the next

president is expected to inherit unprecedented number of challenges in the country . the country is facing it's of course, the phenomena, recession and decade. staggering unemployment rate. each candidate is promising reform unity and change. but this election is no different. most of the candidates are using their family connection money and popularity to get elected. more than a 150 and yos, have asked the e u to block the construction of a border wall between poland and vella roofs. the 180 kilometer long metal barrier is being constructed through the b r. low wizard of forest. the world heritage site to deter migrants crossing into the e. u from bella roofs. more than 40000 people from the middle east of ganeth them and africa tried to cross the border last year, while the organization say that the project will actually block migration routes of the european bison links and other endangered species. putting them further at risk

relatives of those behind bars in woodland, the have told al jazeera that between 3 and 400 inmates may have died in prison in a prison fire. in the capital good tag are in december. the government says only $46.00 prisoners were killed. malcolm webb has more this woman's husband was an inmate, could take a prison into rudy. hidden her face and changed her voice for her safety. when it caught fire 2 months ago, she was worried. she says she's been to the prison to try and find out if he survived, that she has not been able to see him since the guards told her nothing and sent her away. his another inmate told her, her husband was among those who burned to death. we don't know how they were buried . our children keep asking me where their father, he's. i tell them that he died. one of them asked me, will you take us to see his grave?

when he has someone called me, he's asking if it is his father. because he didn't see his funeral or his body. she's one of many relatives of inmates who haven't had any official answers. to nearly 100 year old prism was over crowded, holding 3 times as many inmates as it was built for. the survivors say one block was badly burned, and the guns refused to unlock the door. the vice president visited the following day. he said in electrical folk offered it. the government has since said a report is being prepared and $46.00 inmates died. oh, we spoke to an inmate who says that's not true. from my sale, i could see the bodies being removed in the morning. they pitched tense, and in each tent they packed $15.00 to $20.00 bodies and we counted, there were 20 tents. so it's about 300 or 400,

a shocking number of dead people. the government declined to comment when we asked rights group say that government is going to cover up a disaster, which is responsible that he should investigate and publish the list of names of those who died. when you have a fire such as this with, with potentially massive discounts, that goes well beyond the shall number. that's an embarrassment. it reflects the reality, which is that there is it, there is a systemic issue with incarceration in burgundy. this man says he wants to know what happened to his brother. he was an inmate that he fears being jailed or killed himself. we cannot continue asking questions for the sake of our safety. asking again is like a criminal offense. we have to keep quiet, or least from one of dozens, maybe hundreds of bereaved family seeking closure, but a too scared to even ask what happened to their loved ones, malcolm web al jazeera. still ahead in this news our find out why this premier

league player has left football fans across the world. shocked and horrified. that's coming up in sport. ah.

with whole ah ah. hard to get all the sports news now here is gemma in doha. thank you barbara, brazil. my rest of the book just bought in the final of the club. welcome in the you, a baby to gyptian side ally to advance rafael vega. i'm guessing the goals despite

the let me find out this is america best game of the south american champions. they qualified ultimately the law school, all the african champions. i lastly had when a match to qualify their faith chelsea or saudi arabian side al, hello in the final european champions that take on the asian champions, frequent is on wednesday in the other semi shall his preparations have been half a day, had coached almost to who is not in the u. a having tested positive for david 19 the club all hope for the german can join up for them for the final place play off on saturday. the are the continuity in contact to thomas. you have a lot of a lot of meetings together. the use video calling all the time, the recording, the training and dissenting, the training and difficult composition we try to make is that he is here with us. we after the out, we have to technology now that we can communicate straight away. so hopefully

we try to, to fill it up even if it's impossible to, to feel it. but everybody we will need to step up west have decided not to drop cut niema for the latest primula mash. despite condemning that player, after a video emerged of him kicking and flapping his pet cat, the defender was in the starting lineup for tuesdays when i was for the day after the message is circulated, video showed zoom in his kitchen that kicking his cap across the floor and throwing a pair of shoes that the animal is trying to escape soon, the has apologized and says there was no use for his behavior last time at dealing with the incident internally and the metropolitan police and not going to investigate ideas of any manchester united or up against the bottom of the table, bunny and looking for me, i'm in a window and a right and it was i can get for them when i pull up the one up in the 1st half back. kimberly after the break j. rodriguez, making it $10.00 and the current 8. how it down going all the much in that final few minutes a new console be able to miss $31.00. and she says again,

christine erickson, that says he knew 2 days after his cardiac arrest that he would play football again . he's been training with his new club brentford, 7 months after being disgusted face on the pitch bang to denmark. you are a former midfielder returns for the premier league as a free agent. he left into milan because rules and italy bound him from playing with an i. c d. the fibrillation device, the the beijing now where chinese at tennessee punctual has made a rare public appearance at the winter olympics. the 3 time a summer olympian was seen speaking to the see president thomas back at the freestyle scheme competition in beijing. hong's wellbeing has been a global concert and also she accused a senior chinese official of sexually assaulting her in a social media post in november. but in an interview with a french newspaper this week, she denied making such allegations. palm was that as the china is eileen gay,

in golden, women's free ski big competition. the 18 year old with born in the united states. and this is her 1st olympics. she saved her best jump for loss with a full rotation. 16. 20 complete with a perfect landing, any frenchman that had pulled that move off in competition before, but it didn't have to settle this time. you have more chances for gold and the flight style and the half 5, which is an event she's unbeaten. and this season gave it from san francisco and learned to ski in california, but she chose to represent china, not the usa in the lympics. it comes at a sensitive time and relations between the 2 countries. with the u. s. declaring diplomat diplomatic boycott of the games, china's human rights record. i definitely feel as though i am just as american as i am chinese. i'm the american when i'm in the us and i'm chinese when i'm in china. and i've been very outspoken about my gratitude to both the u. s. and china for making me the person who i am. my mission is to use sport as a force for unity to use it as

a form to foster interconnection between countries and not use it as a divisive force. so that benefits everyone. and if you disagree with that, then i feel like that someone else's problem, austria's mathias my. i became the 1st man to win an alpine skiing gold medal at 3 consecutive olympic games. as after he won the super d title on the rock course, i just for hundreds of a 2nd. my also one at the super g for years ago in south korea and downhill gold at the 2014 games in such a cheque rabbit republics. ethel udette's garrison cools for a unique double off the retaining has snowboard parallel slalom cycle. 4 years ago she became the 1st competitor to win gold in 2 different sports. the same games she had the chance to repeat the fate with her skiing events to come and what a performance in the figure skating american nathan gen posted a wild record school in the short program of the men's singles. he's already the

well champion and well on track for olympic goat and just to let you know that much between burnley and manchester united, the english premier league finished one. 0, that's all your support from me. it's back to barbara in london. jemma. thank you. now let flicks western, the power of the dog is leading. this year's oscar nominations competing in 12 categories at this year's 90 force academy awards, the films director of us. jane campion has also made history becoming the only woman to be nominated for best director. for a 2nd time. sy fi, drama, dune is also up for best film as well as 9 other prizes. and kenneth branagh has become the 1st person to be nominated in 7 different oscar categories throughout his career. this year he wrote and directed the movie belfast. well that is a for this news. our do stay with us. i'm going to be back in just

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the merest project witness on al jazeera. hi susan, to supply along the russian crane border. u. s. presidential bypass threatening president who took this severe economic sanctions saying if conflict occurs, it could be the largest invasions world, war 2 kinds of nomadic talks, a few possibilities, what we live for moscow to bring the latest development on al jazeera americans are increasingly saying, authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way. where does that chain of command it's you like tried to cover? what's your take on why they've gotten this so wrong? that to me is political mouth for the bottom line on us politics and policies and the impact on the world on al jazeera. i've worked out their english since it's lordship, as a principal present. and as a correspondence with any breaking the story, we want to hear from those people who would normally not get that voice is heard on an international news channels. one moment i'll be very proud off was when we

covered the depaula earthquake of 2015, a terrible natural disaster. the story that needs to be told from the hall of the effect today area to be then to tell the people story was very important at the time. ah, 3 failed rainy seasons pushed 13000000 people into severe hunger. the warning is sounded over catastrophic drought in the horn of africa. ah, hello, i'm barbara sarah. this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up the diplomatic effort to de escalate tensions between russia and ukraine. the french, german and polish leader is it say the priority is to prevent war in europe. the corruption trial a former is.