if there's no movement on, hey, we are likely to be seeing more protests looked just from people like tomorrow, but workers in other key professions who enjoyed wrote support from the public. it's a $1000000000.00 money, no drink operation for coal. marsha is bigger than the company with financial institutions, regulators and governments complicit. roving with it. right. i'm just try that in a 4 part series. al jazeera investigative unit goes on the cover in southern africa, pittsburgh, we control 90 percent, has developed. once it's city falling, it's perfectly brandon. good. part one on al jazeera, ah, raising the rates, the bank of england bombs off its benchmark interest rate for the 11th time in a row. ah,

aman has withdrawn him and this is al. does he have a life from doha also coming up, the w h o, it confirms an outbreak of the mother advised disease loss of 5 people died and tens of nea and cases of appointed an equatorial guinea. ethiopia, as prime minister appoints a former senior to grier official to head up the northern regions, new interim government and empty classrooms in afghanistan as the 1st week of school. for some students, these girls left out ah will begin in the u. k. with the bank of england has increased its benchmark interest rate, but quarter percentage point that's brought the rate to 4.25 percent. while the inflation target is 2 percent. this is the 11th consecutive rate rise in just a day off the announcement that inflation has also gone up. and the u. s. federal

reserve put its rate up you case february inflation rate at 10.4 percent driven by high food and energy bills. port brennan has more from london the inflation that was an am on wednesday from 10 point one percent going up unexpectedly to 10.4 percent or the force in the hands of the members of the monetary policy committee of the bank of england when they made that decision this morning, i have to say there are some chinks of hope in the predictions that the bank of england are putting forward. saying for example, well, 1st of all, it was not a unanimous decision. it was $7.00 to $2.00 in favor of increasing the interest rates from 4 percent to 4.2 to 5 percent. the other 2 members of the monetary policy committee actually would prefer to keep interest rates where they were. so there are signs of, of a weakening results from the n p c. that the other thing is that the bank of england no longer predicting, but the economy will go into recession. there is a,

an expectation that the economy will grow in inverted commas slightly over the next year. so a little glimmer of hope that the other thing though, is that they also expect energy prices or the energy price contribution to inflation to turn negative during the course of this year. we of course have the ukraine war, which bums up the price of energy, mainly rushing gas because of the shortage of that. that is expected to come out of the inflationary pressure over the next. yeah, there's pressure eating as people find all alternative that said though it is a stone increase the rock concerns that as the bank central banks around the world continue to try to put the brakes on on inflation that it might spill over into a water recessionary pressure on the economy, so it's a very delicate balancing act that the central banks are having to try and tread vicky price is an economist and board member of the center for business and

economic research. and she says the latest interest rate high wasn't to surprise the u. k chance to follow what the federal zone does. it has done in a number of cases during the period of raising interest rates that we've seen the last few months. but what could have been expected just a few weeks ago would have been a 50 basis points increase and then maybe the end of the cycle for interest rate increases here in the u. k. i think there was a similar discussion in the us as well. but we've had the banking crisis of sorts if you want to call it that they the issues with a couple of, of, you know, specialized bank, smaller banks in the u. s, which required government intervention. and you said in europe, credit suisse being bought by u b. s. and the repercussions of that for other banks in terms of contagion on the shaft prices is something which i think has been taken into account. and the reason why we seeing just a point, 25 percent increase here and in the u. s. is partly because of that and inflation

is gone up, but it hasn't gone up only in february in the u. k. has gone having a number of countries in europe as well, and that's probably why the europeans are bank raises, own rates by 50 basis points last week. the 1st national bank has also increased its interest rate by half the point. switzerland's. key rate now stands at 1.5 percent. the banks ignored more hikes were possible. the move comes on the heels of turmoil, the swiss banking system. the state broke at a deal for banking giant u. b. s to buy its trouble driving credit suisse on sunday. moving onto the news now and another 8 cases of mob. a virus have been confirmed by the world health organization and equitorial guinea that brings the total number of cases in the country to 9 since an outbreak with 1st declared in february. at least 5 people have also died of the disease and 10th in the year. the cases were confirmed and new regions of the country indicating a wider outbreak. there were no vaccines or anti virus treatments approved,

treat the severe of viral fever and that feeling fears. it could spread further in the region with alarm sounding in cameroon, and kenya, the mob wireless disease, or m v d is a red henrich fever. it affects both people and non human primate. it's in the same bars family. as a bowler model has an average fatality rate of 50 percent, which varies in different strain and the worst outbreak and angola and 2005, the fatality rate was 88 percent had killed more than 300 people. well, let's get more on this now. we're joined by dr. much tv, so more to the world health organizations, regional director for africa. she's joining us from brazil, congo. dr. morrison. thank you very much for your time. and the areas that we're reporting cases and equitorial guinea are about a 150 kilometers apart. does that mean that there are a lot more cases than what's been confirmed?

yes, 1st. thank you very much for having invited me to join you and. and shane formation about this mac disease by yes indeed, i'm from the area concerned. we are concerned is suggestive of the fact that the could be mark it spread over quite a wide, wide geographic area. and as you know, there have been 9 cases that have been laboratory confirmed and 20 problem cases. so the investigation is still going on. the testing and confirmation are still going on of these cases. so the number of cases so far are low, but we know that it has a very high fatality rate. what is equitorial? guinea and hands in the a need to do to scale up the efforts to stop the chain of transmission here. yes. um, 1st and foremost though, we need to intensify the epidemiological surveillance so quickly,

confirming contents of cases cases themselves. and the most important thing to do, of course, is to stop the transmission of the virus that the virus is transmitted in body fluid. so blood, sweat alive, other body fluid. so what is very important is the festival for health care workers who are some of the 1st contacts and we have had a couple of health care workers die in a pictorial guinea. then to make sure that they are aware of all the precautions, even as they do their clinical care of people and investigations of the disease. they have the knowledge that they need and they have the equipment that they need. so personal protection, equipment, gloves, masks, and so forth to stop them being infected and, and very importantly, at the same time as we are, understanding further confirming the cases, isolating the cases to make sure that they minimize contact with other people. people in the community, in the families have to be aware of the risk of the presence of this virus in their

midst, and on the of the precautions that they have to take in order to minimize being infected. one of the key ways of transmitting these viruses is of course when somebody dies as happened, both in tanzania and in n, kentoria guinea, and then the types of processes that are gone through to mourn somebody to the burials. what is a barrels happen? alchemy? it's very dangerous, unless often also away for the, for the virus to spread, we need to have saved burials carried out. we have partners including non quantization who take action to be connected to communities. first of all, to persuade them we need to convince people, you know, this way of saying, but by to your loved one is not going to be the normal way. accept this because of the risk and find ways to help them to do safety safely. importantly, really it sounds like those i'm on it sounds like some of the challenges are those

that we faced when there was an outbreak of abolla. equatorial guinea is not far from the countries that were affected by a bowler has a bowler equipped countries around there. and to deal with such viruses and again, this virus is from the same family as a bowler. yes. i think they mala outbreaks both the ones in west africa in the democratic republic of the congo and most recently in uganda. have equipped both the countries affected and the neighboring countries because we always institute a preparedness process. investment by the government, by the people in being prepared for these for these outbreaks. let in a way, helps us to understand that even if we take the outbreak in tanzania it's in an area which borders quite closely tow uganda toll rhonda and to belinda. but those countries were all ready to some degree prepared to deal with outbreak. it thunder,

that does help, we have to progressively build up these systems so that we're not starting from scratch each time. and one of them, most important aspects of this is really the population's understanding communities, understanding and the role that they can play. because at the end of the day, our health systems don't penetrate the community to the degree that we can do without their own triggers of suspicion. and recall of this is what we were told we needed to be careful about. that needs to be reinforced. of course, we need community health contacts with the population, so people are reminded and enabled. so minimize the transmission dr much it is and more at the world health organizations, regional director for africa. we thank you very much for your time on this. thank you. but either your pin government has appointed a senior official and the to grind people's liberation form to the head of

a new interest to drive regional government and get a child run. does appointments come just a day after the t l f was removed from a list of terrorist organizations establishing a temporary government was a crucial part of the peace deal signed last year that ended fighting between 2 grand rebels and government troops. the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and 4th millions out of their homes. the piece in between the ethiopian government and the t p. f was signed in november last year ending 2 years of war. the fighting started in november 2020 prominence to be off with ordered a military offensive against the t p n f. in response to what he said, what attacks on army bases. the government declared a truth in march last year to allow humanity in aid and to cry. the un had repeatedly called for an end to the violence of choosing both sides as committed war crimes. but after 5 months of relative calm fighting started again in august, peace was finally reached in november by then more than 2600000 people had been

displaced and years of drought had left millions without enough to eat and get a chill. red spoke with allan to 0, shortly after his appointment was confirmed. he says he certain that t. p le forces will support efforts to sustain peace outright. us to the good, happy people who were in the war simply for the fighting or for the shooting. there was there to address political grievances that we felt as the people we had to rewrite to, to, to, to fight for. and we also believe that peace is the best given at this point in time. and as long as that can cause the rest in a peaceful manner. and we have reason to believe that of course, this can be address it in a, in a political dialogue. and then there is no reason why we should continue fighting it because we were not there. we were not in the fighting for the, for the sake of fighting, were there because we had versus,

we had to call us and we have reason to believe that our causes could be addressed in a peaceful manner. and i don't have the slightest that fighters will be fully behind to be out if it's to, to, to, to, to sustain peace and to get, to get back on track and rebuild it from ground up to have gone a saw. now when most schools have reopened after the winter break, but taliban authorities are still barring teenage goes from attending. since the fall bonds take over in 2021 only goes age 12 and under has been allowed to go into school. with all of our government has also banned women from higher education, the united nation nations course, it gender based partied. the only option now available to older girls is as lamb at schools, loans, mattresses, they provide religious instruction that are freshman of critical mca. then i found

them address a can't help me in becoming a doctor because that's done through the schools. and unfortunately schools are closed, but still them address. it is good for increasing all religious knowledge and it's a good place to enhance. so skills over matters, i want to get all the time, day and night. i imagine may be some day schools might reopen and my education will progress further and i will be more knowledgeable. i will never lose hope and if it isn't through schools, then maybe through them address us or online courses, because now there are telephones and the internet. more protests that underway in france against the government's plans to raise the retirement age. well, these are demonstrations and demonstrations, rather have blocked ramps, and roads outside shell into gold airport. also, passengers to get there on foot and other cities. union members have been blocking roads there or demanding max on drop the pension bills, something he refused to do in a public address. on wednesday,

it's bringing that caused bond at natasha butler who's joining us live from paris and what thousands of protest is behind you. they natasha yeah, thousands of protests is behind me on the pascal at bassetti and central power is so people have already started walking their walking across the city to another part of the city, the pastoral apparel. and there are still thousands of people coming here to join this protest. it is the 9th of nationwide protest and strike day since the beginning of the year. that means there's been a lot of disruption today across the public sector, particular cross transport, hobbes education, golf, which still piling up in paris hospitals. all that kind of thing. many work as many people say that they are very angry indeed about the french government. so plans to reform the pension law that bill is something that has been pushed 3 parliament denise. that method, which is made people particularly angry to day president michael was government use the power of decree which is legal under the french constitution. but use that

power. 1 to push this bill, 3 parliament by passing law makers, some people just feel that that's unfair. they fee and that was unjustified because already this reform was quite important at 3 quarters of the french population faith that they all against state. so there's a lot of anger on the streets here, but of anger, of the method by which her that bill has pushed 3 parliament people here. well, as i said, they just still keep coming. a lot of people are despite yesterday, but will it be putting any pressure on president micron? natasha, how vulnerable is he? a prison mccoy is under a lot of pressure socially and politically. not politically. his own governments are only just survived by a few votes. i had no confidence a motion in all the modes that was table just

a few days ago. that's certainly not good news for his government or for him because that's going to make anything they want to do in the future when it comes to future legislation. very difficult indeed because the parliament is so divided because there's so much animosity against his government and against him for some mark for those says that this reform his pension reform is necessary, but i'm to system needs to be modernized in order to be sustained for a future generations, he just did a television interview on wednesday in which he said, look, i know that this reform is perhaps unpopular, but is my duty to push it through because he feels that it is of the right thing to do. nevertheless, my interview, he gave no concessions than all the branches to some of his political opponents and pass also has put more fuel on the fire if you like. people really feel that he's disconnected. he's not listening to people in the streets, and he's not listening to some of his physical opponents. so it's very difficult to know which way things are going to go for now, whether these demonstrations will continue. certainly the demonstrate to say they

want to do that. and so the kaufman scraps here, it's reformer. how's the government is hoping that these protests are going to fade away? natasha. thank you very much for that. natasha button over the latest live in paris . still ahead on al jazeera, more protests, and as well as parliament passes the 1st laws change of the judiciary given more power to the state and find out how people in tokyo observing ramadan. i'm not devastating with how i welcome to look at the international forecasts on hope. all will start to see some dry eye brighter in a touch warmer on the weather across sir california as we go through the next couple days. spirit of high pressure slowly but surely making its way in and

that'll quieten things down. we have got an area of low pressure now moving across the plains. chain of storms on that, anywhere from around texas over towards tennessee valley pushing up towards the ne, knocking the temperature back in dc to around 16 celsius dryer to the north of that for the time being noticed still some showers, their winfrey showers, of course around the rockies up towards the pacific northwest, but it is an improving picture for ally. still a little colder than it should be, but temperate is getting up to rat. 18 degrees celsius, with some sunshine, warm sunshine there, into the southeast temperatures, picking up again in the good part of florida. this weather system sliding its way further south was bring you some outbreaks of rain across the caribbean. i think we'll pass. could see some wet weather as we go on through the next couple of days that rain making his way across. cuba, jamaica, hispaniola pushing across the east. and i was sinking further south was an even down towards trinidad and tobago. we'll see a few showers coming in to make our way through saturday and sunday afternoon.

ah, join the debate. we know that the sceptre seems empowered by history, the government, and the end by the government to day they are to government africans. how security is also global health security on it or online at your voice. there is no right to defense. there is no right to protest, we can't just keep relying on aid. there has to be some work towards a sustainable economy. at the end of the day, it is ordinary objects that are paying the price. this green on al jazeera lou ah, ah,

you're watching out there with me. it is of a thought of and doha, reminder of our top stories, the sour, the bank of england has increased its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 4.25 percent. it is the 11th consecutive rate rise. and just a day after the announcement that inflation has also gone up. another 8 cases of mother virus disease have been confirmed and equitorial guinea, bringing the total to 9 since the outbreak is declared in february. the disease killed 5 people in tens of nia this week. and the ethiopian government has appointed the senior official and the to grab people's liberation front. as head of a new interim to dr. regional government and get a chill run. does appointment comes a day after the t p l f was removed from a list of terrorist organizations as well as parliament has passed. the 1st of 7 laws that make up the government's controversial judicial overhaul that despite nationwide protest against the changes to the judicial system, the plan would limit the power of the supreme court critic say it threatens

democracy. hundreds of demonstrators have been blocking roads and protest. emron can, has more from west jerusalem. he will hear a calling it netanyahu's law. basically the law allows or will disallows rather now the attorney general from declaring the prime minister unfit for office. why does this apply to benjamin netanyahu? well, he has at least 3 court cases going through their whining through the system at the moment. so regardless of whatever the result of those court cases, he will continue to serve in office and that say the protesters is undelivered. craddick, it was one of the key things that the coalition government wanted to push forward. that's why this has been passed before. other parts of the, the jew judicial reform bill is a series of reforms, is going to limit the supreme court our now because this bill is passed, we are likely to see more people out on the street on saturday. there is also a protest. i a cross is wrong,

95 different locations across his world is going on today. but the big protests there on saturday and it's likely to get more and more people out on the street. but the government is passing. these laws is holding firm and it's holding firm because it does have a very slim majority in parliament and that we're george. he, that coalition is holding firm because this is what the coalition once it wants to restrict the supreme court. and it seems to be working so some form of this judicial reform bill will likely pass. will it pass before pass over before easter mid april. we don't know that that's the key moment in time. so let's see what happens in the coming days. take talk, c e o shows each you is testifying before the us house. energy and commerce committee is expected to face questions about the social media platforms, relationship for the chinese communist party. and it's use of data. when baker explains how tick tock and other social media platforms use data, tick tock is

a leader in grabbing people's attention to do this. it needs lots of their data. users need to give access to their phones, camera, microphone, photos, video, contacts, location information, and to their behavior online. now, this is all similar to what other major social media companies asked for to. this is an industry practice as a whole to violate our rights to privacy, to sell ads. and this is why we need term data protection. rule to end is damaging attitude that everyone is preaching privacy. so why shouldn't we, most of us know about cookies, which put code from the web onto our devices. companies also use what's known as a pixel tracker to keep tabs on users as they browse the web. these are bits of code hidden as tiny images and web pages or emails that report back to the company when you visit pixels are deployed by most big companies. on most websites. they're not always consented to, but they are mostly legal. in a study by ferret

a canadian security company pixel trackers from tick tock were found across the web as were pixel trackers from the other major social media giants. but tech talks were also found on government websites that did not know they were there. and the u . s government has find 2 american health companies for using pixels to track users . while they were looking at sensitive personal health websites. you start with the violation of privacy by just falling by, by, by following people on line and trying to know what they're doing. but once you get inside in those habits, then the company have an interest to try to see how they can exploit that. and company may explain that to sell you more either. but then other actor makes for that to, to try to, to change your political views. tracking is now a big part of our browsing experience, because our data has become the most valuable commodity for companies. when corresponded mike hannah is listening in to choose testimony for us and he's saying that there are many misconceptions about the company. mike, he is indeed the hearing's only been going for less than half an hour,

but he is ready face pretty hostile questioning. in particular with a tick tock is a part of chinese propaganda. whether it reports on the oppression of weakness, for example. does it record the events in gentlemen squared a decades ago? and all of these, he was answering that to talk as he puts it is a safe place. it will carry news as it wants to carry news. it is not in any way influenced. he says by the chinese government earlier statements, he made very clear. his insistence that kicked up does not share data with the chinese government in any form. and in fact, not even with its parent company by dance, which is based in china. but there are a number of issues at based in these hearings. first of all, a freedom of speech issue should they use tempted to close tick tock, dom go ahead. national security issues, the f b i, director, has already warned congress that to talk is a national threat. and of course relations between us and china,

which are ad ready at an all time low. but some civics contend that all these moves against stick talk are there with one aim and that is to get to talk to sell to an american company and therefore allow the us to reclaim global technical dominance. interesting life. thank you for that. that is, mike had a live in washington d. c. to take here now where people are marking ramadan and make shift shelters after last months. devastating. earthquakes. thousands depend on aid to survive. wrestle said thy reports from a cat, a displaced people in the city of the amman. o, an unusual ramadan in a d. m. o. the 1st prayer of the muslim holy month is held in a makeshift moscow. oh, grandmother is not only about fasting, it's also a time for joy and celebration. oh, but not this year. father. sure it is difficult to slip. braid from are done in

a 10 city conditions are difficult. i would never have imagined slip rating ramadan without a roof over our heads. muhammad gazelle and his family used to live in a 3 story house. it collapsed when the 2 portal earthquake structure, kia and syria in early february. the gazelles among about 5000 people who, how south shelter here. they all depend on your mac, on his mit, the video that we provide to meals p dave tower into a hole in the coming days will also have a temporary stage for traditional plays to be performed to help people overcome the psychological trauma of the earthquakes out of them jewels. but mama's wife came out, says it's impossible to forget what happened. she was trapped under the rubble of their home for hours, hugging her grandchild, and waiting to be rescued. dr. lavender did school lawyer give to school on. they

provide a psychological support, but what use is it after we've lost everything? we built that house with every penny we saved throughout our lives. during ramadan, i used to prepare meals for my family. now. i don't even have an oven to cook the whole for them. the earthquakes destroyed around a 1000 buildings in i d. m. on more than a 1000 people died. those who survived have turned to prayer, especially during ramadan o. many people who see the whole of their time intense will be short and that they will be able to move into houses quickly. but nearly 2 months after the earthquakes, that the optimism is fading. life here is becoming increasingly difficult and they're struggling to get used to the new normal bristol said that i'll jazeera or the amana, so these tortilla.