hasn't been done before, it can be done even better. as long as a human being is doing it. you can do it, no matter how you possibly it looks. it's you to putting the effort to put in the lock and you will have to be patient with me. i am the captain, a science in me, a so continued kenya and am was so at this the stand which we are the only ice hockey team in east in central africa, b as b. i frowns, bob progressing pretty well. we had managed to play in some international games then when koby gimme the ice rink was closed. and it's the only ice ranking the country. ah. ready tough questions for tics off the ceo of the chinese social media. john gets grilled before the u. s. congress of a day to privacy. ah,

hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from de also coming. now deserve investigation . finds a seen a diplomat in zimbabwe and bolt in a golden smuggling sky. the world athletics council bands transgender women athletes from taking part in elite competition. on one of the world's top infectious diseases, we look at the work being done to and to work gloves is once and for a bed of the worlds fastest growing social media faced 5 hours of questioning by a u. s. house committee. tick tock, c e. o. z o z. chu was grilled about teenage safety and data security. my kind of reports from washington dc. it was a rare moment of bipartisanship in a divided congress. welcome to the most bipartisan committee in congress. we may

not always agree on how to get there, but we care about our so our national security here at issue here are free speech rights. federal control, social media and national security issues in recent days shows the 2 and his team had been lobbying in washington, including eating each member of this committee, the charm offensive carried on tick tock itself. i'm super excited to announce that more than a 150000000 americans on take talk decimals half of the us. but congressional critics, we're not deterred, chick talk, is a grave threat of foreign influence in american life. it's been said, it's like allowing the soviet union, the power to produce saturday morning cartoons during the cold war, but much more powerful and much more dangerous. and i'm pretty sure and shown to the committee disturbing, tick tock, content that was found on the feed of a 16 year old, who killed himself by jumping in front of the train. it's the ledge,

the content contributed to this suicide. we must save our children from big tech companies like yours. number one, we will keep safety, particularly for teenagers as a top priority for us shoe insisted tick tock didn't share information with the chinese government, saying the company would take steps to ensure independent monitoring of data use. all protected us data will be under the protection of u. s. law. and under the control of the u. s. that security team, i will 1st a few liberal members of the house of oppose the move to shut down tick tock. the primary fear that this would be against the 1st amendment, the freedom of speech clause in the constitution. but it appeared the majority support either shutting the app down or forcing the sale to a us company. the f b i director has told congress that tick tock represents

a national security threat. the federal government has ordered that it be removed from all federal devices. the previous administration attempted to shut tick tock down, but the move was stopped by the court. and whatever merges from these hearings is likely at some stage to be a protracted legal argument based on 1st amendment ground. mckenna, i'll just era washington or colon baker explains how to talk 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 ad. 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 people 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 me explain that to sell you more ads. but then other actor makes 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. for don horen as a former deputy chief information officer for the state of new york, he says he is about to talk. the ledge data harvesting are grounded in reality. and we've seen this out of the chinese government before where they, they hack in the systems. data is, is so valuable today. and the fact that you have real time data on 150000000 people . it's concerning, it should be concerned to any country. i'm not saying that a ban of tick tock is the solution to everything. i think there's needs to be a lot of policy change in the united states to protect consumers, protect our citizens in protector data. you look at take tax documents, it says it gives access to any store or device that's connected to the phone

and it can associate information from that phone to other information that that tick tock has the direct evidence said, going back to the chinese government, i think i'll, i'll leave that up to the data to come to that conclusion and investigation. i think any social media application should be banned from government devices. the only people that should have that sort of thing or, or communications people. and those devices should be segregated from other networks. they should just run off 5 g networks and not be connected to why fi networks and have location data on them. a senior diplomat from zimbabwe has agreed to learn more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. and what he believe to be a meeting with chinese gangsters on to zeros investigative unit has found the diplomat was videotaped to making the offer in a meeting with undercover reporters as part of an investigation biologist era into networks in africa that use gold along the vast sums of money, but little bit angel is a british and bobby,

and businessman and the presidential envoy, he claims to have made it to the africa, forbes rich list in 2013 is net worth though. it was around $60000000.00 and he called himself the profit of success. alexander james has this exclusive report to see you in undercover reporters posing as chinese criminals. meet one of the bar boys may senior diplomats like a member of our country, special envoy. i'm a representative of the present. that means i can find contracts i can find to deal with the government without the prison getting involved. women with the trip that angel is also in evangelical preacher powder what he says. he has the gift of prophecy with powers, to heal the sick. it takes the poem, god, but it takes somebody to believe something to happen. angel was personally appointed by president emerson. man and guy, glad to bring investment in his in bob way, you know that it lodge assigned to promote the

brand. and bob with economy has been devastated by corruption and more than 2 decades of sanctions imposed by the united states and europe. the local currency has no international value. the country's biggest owner of us dollars is gold. you want to gold gold, we're going to do it right then we can make the call right now and it's done with the minus minus. and right this minute, the president of zimbabwe minus federation is henrietta rash. wire the warning prison, golden by golden, maybe send a private big biggs up gold every week. i do it for $5000000.00 can be cleaned every week. we get go with 5000000 in me. remember bigler, the ambassador is not bothered that the cache is being laundered. it's money that

cannot be declared in the country or in kindergarten countries. did that. we don't . ready the know we don't want to, so he explains a plan to smuggle the dirty cash in t, as in bob way, using his diplomatic status. right now again, i did with 1.2 video and good written reading. the berlin conducted under the vienna convention states agree to exempt diplomatic luggage from apple searches with elizabeth was in with good. well b o b let it play. ambassador angel henrietta rash wire and president, man and gaga did not respond to our request for comments. alexander james al jazeera will hope ho to no, no as a, as in bobby, an anti corruption activist and documentary maker. he says, the revelations will not surprise people in his home country. the findings are

shocking to the outside world, but they're not shocking to generalists. oh, investigative, i just like myself because when i was reported about these things, but what audi has done, which we were not able to do is to put the evidence and to have the people speaking themselves about how they are involved in the looting of public funds. the plan of about was natural resources, the smuggling of these resources and the laundering. money using state institutions is the same in the documentary film. most generally in this country that have come across this information, afraid to report about it because they will be thrown into prison while the government has not responded officially. but the ruling party is used to one of the handles to dismiss the film on the basis that it does not involve a government minister or it does not involve

a single sentence. but the fact that the ambassador lodge was appointed by the president of the public. and i was in vogue not only in the smuggling of bouldering money, but also charging people to have access to the president is screaming now. so we're not waiting to see whether the government is going to prosecute these people, but we are not hopeful, based on what is up in the past. and you can watch the 1st of 4 part series in the al jazeera investigation, gold mafia, the laundry service on friday at $1200.00, gm to the bank of england has raised interest rates for the 11th time and 18 months . its height, the rate to 4.25 percent. the u. s. federal reserve took similar measures to combat inflation on wednesday. the rate rise in the u. k. comes just a day after the announcement and inflation went up last month hitting 10.4 percent . was driven by high food and energy prices. for early on thursday,

the swiss national bank increased its interest rate by half a point switzerland key right now stands at 1.5 percent. the bank signal more heights were possible. the move comes on the heels, a terminal in the swiss banking system. the state broke it a deal for banking john, u. b. s. to buy its troubled rifle credit suisse on sunday world of lennox has decided to ban transgender when from elite female competition. the governing bodies president sebastian co said the decision was made in the interest of fairness and protecting the future of the female category. but he said a working group will be set up to consult with transgender athletes and monitor scientific development. the counselors agree to exclude male to female transgender athletes have been through mail puberty from female world ranking competitions from march 30. first. this year, the majority of those consulted, stated that transgender athletes should not be competing in the female category.

many believe there is insufficient evidence that trans women do not retain advantage of biological women and more more evidence than any physical advantages have been ameliorated before they are willing to consider an option for inclusion into the female category. what sharon davies is a former british olympics from us. you welcome the band saying it's wrong to put transgender women in the same category as other female athletes is just basically unfair. you know, a sport is all about fairness. that's the whole principle of sport. we have lots of different classifications. we don't allow 15 year olds, for example, to identify the under 12. we don't away allow heavy weight books is to identify as bantam, wait, some race in fight people much lighter than them. so this is all about categories that have been put across society to create level playing fields to give the biggest opportunities for whole society to be competitive in sports. and we were taking that away from half of the world which are biological females. and it's not

that we're better or worse, it's just that we're different. we have different biology and it doesn't enable us to have male puberty to have the dynamic strengths. but that male biology brings. and so now in sports, it was anything between 10 and 30 percent, and for example, in something like a punch, a male of equal weight and size to a female will punch a 160 percent harder. so in contact sports, it was incredibly dangerous for usaa card out what it calls precision air strikes on target. some eastern syria, the pentagon said the operation came after 5 american soldiers were injured, and a contractor was killed in a suspected iranian linked drone attack early on thursday. attack target a us led coalition based, mal hossa in the northeast for a short break here. now to 0, when we come back signs of strain and israel's governing coalition, after reports the defense chief wants to hold controversial. judicial reform on france is one of us, worst days of unrest since the start of protests against pension reforms,

more than say, ah, with hello, welcome to look at the international forecast and hopefully we'll, we'll start to see some dry up. riots are in a touch warmer on the weather, across a california as we go through the next couple of days. spring of hi, precious, 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 a 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 temperature. picking up again in the good part of florida is where the system sliding its way further south was bring you some outbreaks of rain across the caribbean. i think all pass could see some wet weather as we go on through the next couple of days that rain making its way across . cuba. jamaica hispaniola pushing across the east and i was sinking further south was and even down towards trinidad and tobago, we'll see a few showers coming in as we make our way through saturday and sunday afternoon. ah, the coveted beyond well taken without hesitation. fought and died for power defines how well we live here. we make the rule not now they find an enemy and then they try and scare the people

with people and power. investigate, exposed is and questions they used and abused of our around the globe on now to sierra. ah ah, welcome back here to reminded the top stories here, this our tick tock, seo. josie chu has testified that a tense u. s. congress hearing to face questions about the social media platforms, alleged relationship with the chinese communist party. and it's use of data out here was investigative unit, has found a seen a diplomat from zimbabwe, agreeing to load up more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. but angel was film meeting out to see what john was posing as chinese chemist. world of metrics has decided to ban transgender women

from any female competition governing bodies. president sebastian co said the decision was made in the interests offenders. the been large protests across france and the latest show of anger against president among the old macros plans to raise the retirement age. and the city of bordeaux demonstrate to sit far to the front of the town hall, whose days unrest was some of the worst. and 3 months of protests and strikes with earlier confrontations between protest as unsecured, he forces in the capital, dozens of people were arrested. butler has more from paris, whatever for him and beg musicians over that thousands of people, and the last in central powers, the pay synonymous with the french revolution. and his protest, a lot of people who are here angry with the french government pension reform bill, they say it's on just different for that. it is going to impacts poor workers much more than others. but it's not any that good sport people out today for say the

fact the person macros government of pushed through this pension reform billed by to creep, bypassing parliament. and people say that just jose the makeover has no respect for people in the streets. and he has no respect for frances institutions. they say, let's talk a local financial sandy. we're waiting for the union to bring the country to a standstill. that's the only thing that will stop micron. we've had enough mcroy a want him to go, he's not democratic with that. you see when i go to the demonstrators all for the public sector, teachers help workers. gov, it's collected energy workers. so cool. that's of course, a lot of disruption across the country, and they've been demonstrations like this in cities and towns across from uv be me through. there are some jobs where you can't keep working until 64. we fired fighters are fired and broken. so our much the government and the president is we are angry and he must hear us all these demonstrators, all garbage collect,

doesn't sewage workers here in paris. they have been on strike now. oh, coordinated to reach robin hiding up in the city. the protests had been made peaceful, the happy, some focus of violence, but all of this put pressure on president a manual. michael, what he says, the pension reform is necessary to sustain future generation. acquaintance with it, but he feels he has a duty to do it with the demonstrate to say without them to continue protesting until the government scraps it's recalled. not tuberculosis has long been known as the silent killer. coke 19 us killed millions. during the pandemic, t b has killed many more people over the years, whom i called to him. sure, he thought the details jubal to losses or t b is a disease that's preventable, treatable, and even curable. yet it's killing $1600000.00 people each year, making it

a leading infectious killer after co with 19. it's caused by bacteria that spread through the air and mainly affect the lungs. the pathogen is hot to detect. no country is free of t b, but these 8 nations account for more than 2 thirds of infections and deaths globally. all age groups are at risk, but people with poor immune systems are the higher risk, like those living with each i v. in 2021. nearly a 100. $90000.00 people died from each harvey associated with t b. they only license but sin the b. c. g is more than a 100 years old. it's effective in children, but not adults who account for most transmissions. t b is treated with antibiotics, but it's resistance to drugs is rising. with only 7 years left to reach the world health organizations end t be milestone. the races on for

a new and more effective vaccine. well, helen mcshane is a professor vaccine ology at oxford university. she says, the only way to eliminate the tbr damage is with an effect of oxy. there are about 12 cabinets at vaccines in clinical trials at the moment. that's fantastic. 11 years ago in 2001, there were no new tv vaccines in clinical trials. there were a variety of candidates. some of those candidates are designed to replace b, c, j, and some of those candidates are designed to boost the effect b, c, g, typically an adolescence, so young adulthood. when we know the effect, b, c, g, a starting to weighed level $72.00 as a one is an example of a protein vaccine. it is the leading sub unit vaccine design to boost the effects of b. c, g. there was a large phase to be trial down in south africa that was reported in 2019,

which showed that and 72 s o one reduced the incidents of tv disease in people who were already late in the infected by just under 50 percent. so that's a fantastic achievement. it gives us proof of concept. it tells us it's possible, but of course, 50 percent is probably not good enough in the next 5 years. i think we will have the results of the next m 72 trial. so that's the leading nicky vaccine at the moment designed to boost b. c. g. there are other candidate vaccines both of which are being developed to replace b. c. she. those are both being tested at the moment. over the next 5 years we'll see results from those trials as well. but i think even if any of those trials show that we have an effect to vaccine, it will then take another 2 or 3 years before the vaccine is actually licensed and, and deployed another

a cases of mob virus have been confirmed by the world health organization in equitorial guinea that brings the total number to 9, and probably cases to $0.20 an outbreak was 1st declared in february, at least 5 people had died of the disease and tons and ia vaccines or anti virus treatments approved to treat the severe viral fever. that's feeling fears it could spread further in the region. european union leaders are gathering in brussels for 2 days of talks. the united nation 2nd generals, also attending meetings will focus on the support for ukraine. the block, single market economy and migration. 27 leaders from across the union expected to join for my russian president to major meditative has warned the west against acting on an arrest warrant issued for vladimir putin by the international criminal court. the warrant was issued for the alleged deportation of children from ukraine to russia, made their deb said, if any country moves to arrest putin, it's a declaration of war. but especially when your pastor let us imagine,

obviously it's a situation which is never going to happen. but nevertheless, let's imagine the situation came true, an incumbent leader of a nuclear state had arrived, for instance, in germany and was arrested. what is this a declaration of war on the russian federation, as well as defense minister has canceled and addressed to the nation after being called into a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. you have gallant was expected to call for an end to a controversial overhauled the judiciary. the reform proposals have prompted months of protests for the prime ministers refusing to back down. but only for shim, we are determined to responsibly promote the democratic reform that we have restored the proper balance between the authorities and yourself. corn. i will do everything everything to calm the situation and unite the rift in the nation. because we are all brothers are not, but early on thursday as well as parliament passed a law that limits the grounds for a moving a prime minister from office. it can only be for health or mental reasons and only

the prime minister or government can make the decision. critics say the law is specifically designed to protect netanyahu is facing corruption charges. north korea says the military has tested what it calls a new underwater drone state media. as a leader, kim, john oversaw and attack simulation using a device on tuesday. young has stepped up. miss our testing this week to coincide with joint military drill in the u. s. and japan, which finished on thursday, taiwan has recorded some pastor to honduras off to the central american country move to stablish. former ties with china on juris has been one of the few countries to officially recognize the self governing island which china considered part of its territory by the rapid report. a diplomatic dispute in central america. as taiwan recalls its ambassador to honduras. this following an announcement on march 15th by hunter and president, jo maddock asked that honduras would be re establishing diplomatic ties with china

. gentry good, will you answer? sure. what we welcome the urine governments positive statement to develop relations with china. we're ready to establish undeveloped bilateral relations on the basis of equality and mutual respect. on tourists in taiwan, have had strong diplomatic ties for decades by creating a new diplomatic relationship with china. however, those ties could now be broken. on thursday, taiwanese foreign minister, joseph wu, said taiwan would continue to try to preserve the diplomatic relationship with ponderous, but added that taiwan would not compete with china is spending in order to draw in more support. it's one china policy the other saw demand at a high price. but as we don't engage in dollar diplomacy with china, we've already entered a very texting phase. but all the colleagues posted in honduras are still making

efforts. we will try our best until the very end under and officials have denied allegations that the country was seeking $2500000000.00 in aid from taiwan before ultimately announcing the new diplomatic partnership with china. during a recent bilateral meeting between us and hunter and officials, the us express concern over honduras favoring china over taiwan. honduras is foreign minister, defended the decision, citing economic interest and a desire for honduras to attract more foreign investment. mark them out in the president made some general comments on the decision made, but obviously, if the united states government commented, this is a sovereign decision from the honduras government. and as such, they are respected. the ongoing spat between nations is taking place ahead of a visit by the taiwanese president to guatemala and believe next week to of only 13 diplomatic allies. taiwan has left as china's influence continues to spread and

strengthen across latin america. but we'll wrap hello al jazeera ah. type of question of the headlines here on al jazeera, tick tock, seo shows. e chew has testify that attempts u. s. congress, hearing to face questions about the social media platforms, alleged relationship with the chinese communist party. and it's use of data they've been calls to banned the app and several western countries which directly they are more than a $150000000.00 americans who love our platform. and we know we have a responsibility to protect them, which is why i'm, when i'm making the following commitments to you and to all our uses. number one, we will keep safety, particularly for teenagers as a top priority for us. number 2, we will.