on, on al jazeera, smiling through the coals, tamara and her colleagues at the school for pupils with special needs, wants to pay royce that meets the rising cost of living and keeps people in the profession. these teachers are making sure bad jamal, and so i don't what is clearly a sizable demonstration, is there a number of industrial action taking in various parts of the economy? calling on the government prepay arises, that meets inflation. if there's no movement to pay, we likely to be seeing more protests look just from people like tomorrow, but work as in other key professions to the joy growth support from the public. ah tough questions for tics on the ceo. 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 della also coming up now to 0. investigation . finds a seen a diploma in zimbabwe involved in a huge money laundering scheme, signs of strain. and israel's governing coalition. after reports the defense, she wants to hold controversial judicial reform. and it's the world's most infectious killer. we look at the what we've done to end tuberculosis once unfold. ah. that at the worlds fastest growing social media faced 5 hours of grilling by u. s. house committee, tick, tock, seo. josie chu was grilled about teenage safety and data security out there with 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, our national security here at issue here of 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 the committee, the charm offensive carried on tick tock itself. i'm super excited to announce there more than 150000000 americans on take on decimals half of the us. but congressional critics were not deterred kick talk is a grave threat of foreign influence in american life. has been said is like allowing the soviet union, the power to produce saturday morning cartoons during the cold war, but much more powerful and much more dangerous than kritisha 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 alleged 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 to 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 us law. and under the control of the u. s. that security team, i was 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, pick, talk down, but the move was stopped by the court. and whatever merges from these hearings, there's likely at some stage to be a protracted legal argument based on 1st amendment grounds. my kind of, i'll just hear a washington. thank you for calling. 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, contact vocation, 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 e mails 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 following 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, fears about tick tock, alleged data harvesting are grounded in reality. and we've seen this out of the chinese government before where they pack 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 concerning 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 citizens in protector data. you look at take tax documents and says it gives access to any sort of device that's connected to the phone

and it can associate the 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 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. only people that should have that sort of thing or are 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. meanwhile, utah has become the 1st st in the u. s. to pass legislation restricting the use of social media for minors. specific parental permission will not be required for anyone under the age of 18. to use platforms like tick tock, instagram, facebook laws designed to make social media johns more responsible to their content . and the effect it has on young people's mental health. i seen

a diplomat from zimbabwe has agreed to loaned up more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. and what he believed to be a meeting with chinese gangsters and his ears investigated unit has found the diplomat was videotaped to making the offer in a meeting with undercover reporters as part of an investigation by al jazeera and to networks in africa that use gold to learn the vast sums of money. but lou but angel is a british zimbabwe on business man. and the presidential envoy. he claims to have made it to the africa, forbes richness in 2013. his net worth is around $60000000.00, and he calls himself the profit of success. alexander james has this exclusive report to see you in undercover reporters posing as chinese criminals. meet one of cimbawe boys most senior diplomats that i'd like them. um was it a bit of a compass but on the special envoy? i'm a representative of the prison. that means i can find conference i can find to deal with the government without the prison getting involved. woman with the trip. no.

roberts angel is also in evangelical preacher. glad only goes. he says he has the gift of prophecy with powers to heal the sick. it takes the power of god, but it takes somebody to believe it was something to happen like this. angel was personally appointed by president emerson, man and guy, glad to bring investment ins as in bob way use my assist ambassador obliged assigned to promote zimbabwe brand. zimbabwe 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. and we can make the call right now. it is done with the address they go from my with my nose association, right this minute. the president of zimbabwe minus federation is henrietta rash.

wire. the warning president, golden by gordon, maybe send a private big picks up go every week. i do it for $5000000.00 can be cleaned every week. we get go with 5000000 in me. yes. remember 5 miller, the ambassador is not bothered that the cache is being laundered. it's money that cannot be declared in the country warren, who to go. i'm 60 that we don't that with no, 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, with 1.2 media info to written, written differently. he conducted under the vienna convention states agree to exempt diplomatic luggage from apple such as a new lindy's mom was in, but because you did well. yeah.

and did you politically ambassador angel henrietta rash way and president, man and gaga did not respond to our request for comment. alex on to james al jazeera, well hope hope to know, know as a, as in bob, we an anti corruption activist and documentary filmmaker, he says the revelations will not surprise anyone in his home country. the findings are shocking to the outside world, but that they're not shocking to generalise. oh, investigative, i just dislike myself because when i was reported about these things, but what i'll do is 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 laundry or money using state institutions

is they say in the documentary film, most generally in this country that have come across this information. i'm 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 3 that 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 republic. and that one is involved not only in the smuggling of gold and wondering money, but also charging people to have access to the president, the 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 the 4 part series in the al jazeera investigation, gold mafia, the laundry service. on friday,

a 1200 gym to china says force to u. s. war ship from disputed waters in the south china sea for the 2nd time. and as many days, beijing says the destroyer and its territorial waters again near the parasol islands. on thursday, washington denied any intrusion saying the best was on a routine operation and left the area of its own accord. and the u. s. has count out what it calls precision air strikes on targets and 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. the strike targeted a us led coalition base net, i'll ha, soccer in the northeast. israel's defense minister has canceled and addressed of 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 overhaul of the judiciary. the reform proposals are prompted months

of protests. the prime minister is refusing to back down only whom 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 will early on thursday, israel's parliament passed a law that limits the grounds for removing our prime minister from office. it can only be for health, for mental reasons, and only the prime minister or government can make the decision. critics say the law is specifically designed to protect netanyahu was facing corruption charges for stevenson as, as a professor of political science at the university of san francisco. he says, despite the protests, netanyahu will push ahead with the reforms because he knows he has the support of parliament or in a canal now who may be a crook and with autocratic tendencies and a racist and repressive and all these things. because a very skillful,

skillful politician and he's been able to luster the kind of a coalition necessary to push through the so called reforms that will protect him from criminal or prosecution and move israel in a more authoritarian direction. basically what netanyahu's, unable to do is to give the various factions what they want. he's, for example, the ultra conservative religious parties he's nailed to kind of push, legislate and push through legislation that that lives up to their, their rigid theocratic ideals. i. he's let these very overtly anti air races. so parties are run a mock. we've seen what happened in the, in the and it was been happening in the west bank in terms of the attacks and full grams and, and our son and other, other atrocities by these rampaging settlers. i mean, he's a, he seems to have a, it seems to, it seems to recognize that israel as

a country has moved well to the right over the years. israel, despite all the terrible things it's done to the palestinians over the years to its credit has been a democracy for its jewish citizens. and what, what's upsetting are the many israelis is that are, that is in question now. and so they are primarily fighting for their rights as a, as israeli jews to maintain this israeli jewish democracy. and unfortunately had they had not been able to, they have not been willing to really address the very the core issue of the palestinians. but there's a, there's a link and has the thing is that is no question. that is the 3rd that the, that decades of occupation has basically a hardened the israeli attitudes to help bring about this authoritarian shift and, and in there and, and their politics. let's come here now, does air including the world athletics council bands,

transgender women athletes and taking part in a neat competitions and displaced undecided flight of some of the most vulnerable victims of conflict in the democratic republic of congo? morning ah, hal i, we've got some really nasty weather across the east side of the red. it's radiant at the moment. big area cloud just rolling through the levant and it's bringing some very disturb whether it's a pretty windy weather as well. you can see some rain there, some snow over the mountains and kia, that'll make its way further east was expect to see some showers there around syria, lebanon jordan, the occupied. i was to me in territories. israel that will slide further east, which as we go one through sas day, so very much a case of some dry weather,

but also wet and windy weather to watch out for times. central pause, a saudi arabia, also seeing some ryan fine here in kata. doha, at around $28.00 celsius, they'll be some showers, some of the wintry slowly making the way across afghanistan, that disturb whether we have a cross at east side of the mediterranean, also affecting the north east of africa, northeast to libya, seeing some wet and windy weather at times and push his way further east was cairo 32 celsius on friday, falling back to route 23. as we lose as suddenly when that pushes through towards the sinai peninsula and the rain setting in here, lot of showers there across west africa. now joining up with a heavy shower rod across the heart of africa, war with a coming into uganda into kenya and tanzania. ah, with

lou ah, welcome back, a quick remind about top stories here, this our tick tock, seo shows, each who has testify that a tense us congress hearing to face questions about the social media platforms, alleged relationship with the chinese communist party. and it's use of data out 0

is investigative unit, has found a senior diplomat from zimbabwe, agreeing to loaned up more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. but angel was filmed, meeting out 0 journalists, 2 opposing as chinese criminals. and israel defense minister has canceled and addressed to the nation after being called into a meeting with prime minister. benjamin netanyahu. you, out, gallant, was expected a cool, fine enter, controversial overall, of the judiciary, which is spot months of nationwide. protests, world athletics has decided to ban transgender women from elite female competition . the governing bodies president sebastian co said the decision was made in the interests of fairness and protecting the future of the female category. but he said a working group would be set up to consult with transgender athletes and monitor scientific developments. what sharon davies is, a former british olympic swimmer. she welcomed 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 fan is,

that's the whole principle of sport. we have lots of different classifications. we've done a lot 15 year olds, for example, to identify the under 12. we've done away a lot of heavy weight books is to identify as bantam white, 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 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 or equal weight and size to a female will punch a 160 percent honda. so in contact sports, it was incredibly dangerous. the been large protests across france in the later show of anger against president emanuel michaels plans to raise the retirement age

. the city of bordeaux demonstrators set far to the front of the town hall. those days on rest were some of the worst and 3 months of protests and strikes earlier, there were confrontations between protest as and security forces in the capitol. natasha buckler has more from paris, whatever for him and beg musicians say for that 1000 for people. and the last in central power is to pay synonymous with the french revolution. and to protect 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 even that good sport people out today. it's also the fact to person macros government of pushed through this pension reform bill by decree, bypassing parliament. and people say that just shows the michael has no respect for people in the street. and he has no respect for promises. institutions they say,

let me look for the actual sunday. we're waiting for the union to bring the country to a standstill. the only thing that will stop macross, we've had enough mcroy, they want him to go, he's not democratic with that, you see when i go to the demonstrators all form the public sector. teachers help welcome. gov. it's collective energy workers. so of course that's of course, a lot of disruption across the country nipping demonstrations like this in cities and towns across from your d. v. meet you. there are some jobs where you can't keep working. and to $64.00, we fired fighters are fired under broken. so our much the government and the president is we are angry and he must hear us all these demonstrators all gone to collect pleasant suit. workers here in paris, they have been on strike now, according to me to roberts has been hiding out in the city. the protest have been maybe people to happy, some focus of i didn't put all of this pressure on president a manual mark on what he says the pension reform is necessary to sustain future

generation pension system. it will recall, but he feels he has a duty to do it with these demonstrate se continued until the government got more than 800000 people have been force on their homes in eastern democratic republic of congo in the past year comes as the m 23 group has been advancing, taking territory from government forces community to say there are thousands of people in displacement camps who have disabilities and are in need of help to zeros malcolm web reports from belinda camp. nigrama fellow, may boucher. she had a said her leg was sprayed with bullets 15 years ago. it was during a conflict between the rwandan back group and government forces. here in democratic republic of congo. he struggled to walk ever since. then last month, the $23.00 arms group attacked village, i mean, you know,

never. so that's the only thing i can remember is many soldiers running away. i shoot and so everybody started, ryan, i was in my house and there was nothing i could do. but luckily a young man came and carried me away on his back and everything, including my wheelchair, was left behind. one, follow me. one is dozens of people with disabilities in this camp. he wanted to speak to us. some of them lost my ability at birth. later in life from untreated illness, most of those we met said they were injured in past conflicts. and they told us, struggling to remain more than a 100000 people. he's been forced from their homes in the last year as m. 23 widely understood to be backed by neighboring. rwanda has taken swathes of territory from government. forces in the east relented denies backing the group. the ground here is made up of these sharp broken volcanic rocks, not a great place to make a camp, but there's nowhere else to go. most people sleeping without even mattresses on the

floor. and it makes extremely difficult for people in wheelchairs on crutches to get around there a few wheelchairs here since most were abandoned when people fled. one like this, made a bicycle parts welded together, costs about $75.00, about him up, up to people don't even have enough seed. i don't think i was if queuing just to get a russian card. and then another day spent queuing as his food distribution for some lentils and rice, which this man con, carry back to his tent without help. he said the uneasy is trying to find all the people with disabilities in this camp register will help me. he's had shrapnel in his leg for 15 years. charities estimate about one in 7 people in congo have some kind of disability. that means there are nearly

a 1000000 people with disabilities who have been displaced in and got the physical way. people with physical disabilities, a need to be protected, just like and you're the person because they're human medical services her are in abby court. they might be able to treat somebody with malaria, but they can't do anything in this come to help people like me who need specialist treatment or surgery for the la mother. decades of conflict and lacking health services have already made life hard. and now, yet more conflict has made it even harder. malcolm web al jazeera will engage democratic republic a full day. now tuberculosis has long been known as the silent killer, although cupboard 19 as killed millions. during the pandemic, t b has killed many more people over the years, whom i called him surely as the leader, tuberculosis 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 coven 19. it's caused by bacteria that spread through the air and mainly affect the lungs. the pathogen is hard 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. i'd a 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 seen the b. c, g is more than a 100 years old. it's effective in children, but not adults will account for most transmissions. t b is treated with antibiotics, but its resistance to drugs is rising. with only 7 years left to reach the world

health organization's end t b milestone the races on for a new and more effective vaccine. helen mac shane is a professor vaccine ology at oxford university. she says it's important to develop an effective vaccine to wipe out to re there are about 12 candidate vaccines and 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 and adolescence, so young adulthood. when we know the effect, b, c, g is starting to weighed less than $72.00 as a one is an example of a protein at your back. seen 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 incidence of t b 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 the tv vaccine at the moment designed to boost b. c, g. there are other candidate vaccines, both of which are being developed to replace p. c. she. those are both being tested at the moment and 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.