numbers they once did. to most australians cats are pets but those calling say wildcats should be considered a different species and a dangerous one at that. andrew thomas, al jazeera. >> remember you can fete the latest on everything we are ever cooing on our website at al jazeera.com. >> a white house meeting iraq's prime minister visits president obama. more weapons to fight isil, trying to stop the fighting in yemen, u.n. scouter council passing tough new restrictions on rebels that will bring about a cease fire. and heading to jail former educators are sentenced in atlanta for their role in a chiefing scandal. some may spend up 22 decades.

this is al jazeera america. iraqi prime minister came to washington looking for more help and he is getting some, but not as much as he might have hoped. in the last hour, he met with president obama at the white house, the president pledged 200 million-dollars in humanitarian aid be uh the prime minister spokesman says the body wanted billions of dollars worth of drones and other weapons patty coal haines is live with us, and patty, certainly he is not getting what he most wanted is he. >> well, tony, i have to tell you the story has taken a strange twist. josh earnest the press secretary is proofing reporters as we speak and he just said that all of those reports are wrong, it isn't that he had any sort of list, didn't really ask for anything so that's the position the white house is taking but as you know, we

have been speaking with our reporter in baghdad who spoke directly to the prime minister spokes mapp, and he said that the army has been delayed because they don't have the quit that they were going to ask the u.s. president for drones apache helicopters saying they these those if they are doing to launch the offensive, if they are going to take that territory back from the islamic state of iraq and levant. so the white house press secretary is denying the reports the president was specifically asked about it. what about the f 16s the drones and here is how he dodged the question. i think this is why we are having this meeting to make sure we are improving our coordination to make sure that iraqi security forces are in a position to suck seed how saw that for a nonanswer answer? kind of a classic dodge from the president. put no, it does appear that he

is leaving with about 205 million in aid. slightly less, it was 208 million last year. so he is also coming here for economic aid the iraqi government budget has been badly hurt by the foreign gas prices. $22 billion budget deficit he wanted money he wanted weapons although the white house says no he didn't. >> got you. i will ask you about the shouting i hear in just a second here. first, the president also talked about iran and this fight against isil didn't he? >> he did. and you made that one of the top priorities he said any foreign assistance, he didn't say military or monetary, he said all assistance needs to go through the government. it sends the signal that it is it's onion.

how also said bier doing that then the iraqi government is fully on the hook. we know there have been claims of as troyties once the prime minister to be able to say this happened you are responsible, make it stop. that's a group that tends to protest at the white house when there's any kind of meeting. >> good to see you now to the war in yemen. and their ability to get weapons u.s. ambassador spoke right after the vote. >> weakon determined the undermind the security, and stability. in response, the houthis working in close coordination with former president have intensified their campaign,

bombed adan and extended their offensive to yemen's south. the united states strongly opposes the action. demands that the houthis crease military operations and called on all sides to once again return to the negotiating table. >> james bays has more now. >> well, it is now international law this resolution it has passed the u.n. security council the only abstention was from russia jordan, technically proposed this resolution, but all the work on it was done by the gulf cooperation council. the countries of the gulf which are all involved in the military operation with regard to yemen. worth mentioning that that saudi led operation is not mentioned in this revolution, not directly mentioned at all. what is mentioned and the main

thrust of it is towards the houthis it demands they end all violence, it demands they withdraw from all the areas that they have captured including the capitol. and it introducing new sanctions and new armed embargoing not just against the three people but also against his son and also against the may lootty leader. this is something that the u.n. secretary general is supposed to coordinate, although following intense negotiations he has to do it in coordination with the government. >> and remember the government very closely linked to that military operation. so it seems likely that any pauses will be done in conjunction with the government that will do it in conjunction with the saudi military command as well. >> and according to the al

quaida branch. one of the groups leading has been killed in a zone strike. there's been no confirmation from either officials he was released from the prison at guantanamo bay in 2006. the international red cross says ukraine is in desperate need of humanitarian need. they have been distributing aid to displaced residents but officials say many people living on the front lines have battled with no possible of work or income, overnight fighting broke out in the rebel strong hold. and that came hours after russia and ukraine agrees to pull back more weapons. it has been exactly one year since bomb caha ram abducted more than 200 school girls and today the country's president admitted they may never come home.

more than 200 girls have gathering here today in the capitol to stop protesting the fact that more than 200 girls were kidnapped a year ago today. each of these girls is carrying a small placard which has been named and a number but each of the girls who disappeared a year ago and it's a way of identifying each girl reminding nigerians that each girl is special in the individual that their families are at a great los. >> they say the girls have not been forgotten.

>> to do more to bring you home. >> unicef also tweeted this message, adding that scores more children have gone missing since the girls were abducted. judgement day in atlanta for some educators convicted in a test cleating scandal, nine of them will spend time in jail. three former educators have been sentenced to 20 years but will serve seven and pay $20,000 in fines. a former principal got a year in jail. andy gallagher at the courthouse in atlanta. he was offing a plea deal, he said to him simply you have to

apologize your part. if you do not do that you will receive a very harsh sentence. two came forward to take that plea bargain. each to serve seven years in jail, 13 queiroz base in one case and huge fines $25,000 a piece, so i think the judge made himself very clear. and there are some emotional scenes. the judge saying this is the sickest thing that has ever happened to atlanta. so i don't think the sentencing were a surprise, they could have been much harsher, but those eight will be appealing in the next 30 days. the instruction was pretty good, it was a plaque and whitish shoe, apologize or receive a harsh sentence, why

they didn't do that, a couple of them came up to speak to the judge and said they sid my didn't know this was going on, they knew they should have known, if they would have known, they would have said something, but the judge said look the evidence in this case is overwhelming you were all accomplice sit. three of them were executive directors of the school system, so they were in high positions the judge said the evidence was there you were culpable so therefore you have to serve the time. >> a volunteer sheriffs deputy has now turned himself into police. officials say baits mistake his gun for a tazer and his lawyer believes the charges are misdirected. i feel they are unwarranted. >> they have taken the fact that this man has been good to the community, and has been benevolent to the community and been a great citizen for our town, and made it

something bad or sinister. >> . >> to a part of a undercover sting operation he ran and his capture was recorded on police sun glass cameras now the volunteer deputy has heard on the tame saying sorry for shooting the suspect. one of soul music's legendary performers has died. >> ♪ when a man love as woman ♪ man, what a song, what a voice, percy sledge was the co writer and certainly the voice behind this classic. on the billboard chart the 73-year-old was inducted into the rock & roll hall of fame, sledge was suffering from liver cancer when he died at his home in baton rouge louisiana.

>> coming up. a surprising find in the cargo hold forces a plane to make an emergency landing and the other side of mexico's police problems it is not just about corruption. why some are holding 48 hour shifts and having to buy their own bullets. match match

>> roxanne that reports from myanmar.

>> like many mothers she face as dreadful decision to see her family go hungry or send her young children away to work. i wanted to go find work in the city so i asked my mom to look after the kids but she didn't want to, there are no jobs for women in the village my husband doesn't have much of rah job we are poor, and we can't take care of our kids well. just under the league working ainge, he may have to leaf school and his family. many kids from this village and the three hour drive south. in one of the thousands of tea shots he is his big brother he is moving hoar three months ago, he has worked from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day of the week. he is 12. >> i have sent $70 back to my family so far.

could your family survive without you working? do they have enough money. >> it would not be very good. >> the owner insists this is not child labor for him, it is a service to society. we don't torture these kids or force them to work, we take them in and give them work, and here they have a place to live and eat they might end up in a worse place. >> five kids work here, they serve food, wash the dishes and after 15 hours they one these together and fall asleep on top of them. >> brokers help fuel child labor,s they deliver children to employers for the a fee p. they need cooks at their homes they just call a broker sometimes hey find me one girl, two girls. >> our local producer found

about a poker living in this apartment building her two friends and our photography went in with a hidden camera posing as clients. they got right to business, negotiating over the commission for finding a 12-year-old house maid. the broker agrees and of course ad her to call back in a through weeks. and that's how casualty these deals take place. >> back at the tea shop, giving him and his friend a day off where he can go to the village together. a sack of rice costs $20 lasts us a rice. w that money we can pay off the debt she suddenly started

to cry. >> she wanted to do more, he wanted to provide more and wanted them to get out of this situation. but now he can't. investigation is underway after an emergency landing involving an alaska airline jet. have a listen. not sure you can make it out but faintly there was banging and crying for help from inside the cargo hold. well it forced the plane to turn under a. once it landed they found a crew member trapped inside the hold. ramp agent said he had fatten asleep the man was not in

dangerous, the area was pressurized. he said the worker had just finished up a 9 1/2 hour shift. mexican police have often been criticized for corruption, but what most might not realize is that those same police deal with some pretty brim conditions. often working 48 hour shifts four hour shifts where some office evers told him how bad things are. here officers are underpaid underequipped and even have to buy their own bullets who didn't feel safe showing his face or leaving his car. >> if we have better equipment, and it is paid for we are able to do our jobs better.

>> officers add many mitted to us that's often the case, but argue they are struggling with little support. >> almost all the police have been too afraid to go on camera p they told us they work shifts of 24 hours and barely earn enough to get by. i finished my shift by 7:00 a.m. by 3:00 p.m. they were free and at the door of my house threatening me. >> the police don't go to work they go to steal.

instead of taking care of the civilian, they are there to see how to get money out of you. many local municipal forces continue to be badly paid and undertrained. rather than improving their conditions several state governments have new small elite forces backs by cinematic star. >> it is a lot easier to stay a strong police force the coffers, the whole state for example, then actually having 10,000 police officers actually local mys improve their capabilities. without sufficient training they struggle to convince the public they are fit to defend them. >> two nuclear reactors from restarting the judge sited

safety concerns it is the second ruling to politic nuclear plants this year. it is also a win for the country's antinuclear movement that has gained in popularity since the fukushima disaster, and since then, devastating tsunami we are getting a look inside the fukushima nuclear plant. it shows the damage inside one of the reactors, three reactors suffering melt downs the amount of radiation inside this could kill a human in less than one hour they may with the most important insects in the world. honey bees responsible for pollinating more than a third of the food you eat what is killing them. and the new push to save them.

>> bees around the world are dying at an alarming rate. upwars of 30%. no one knows exactly why but with billions of dollars worth of crops at stake scientists are racing to find answers. jake ward reports. >> if you look there are still bits of nectar in there they

didn't starve to death. >> researchers were all there something else killed them. >> jeff anderson is a third generation beekeeper, he is trying to recover from the death of 70% of his stock part of a worldwide trend of disastrous losses. like hundreds of beekeepers jeff represents his hives to farmers so his bees can pollen nate billion dollar crops. now he is facing trouble his predecessors couldn't have imagined. he is bringing the bees he has left to detoxify. >> this frame here is full of honey. and that should in theory be the sign of a well fed good healthy population, but these dies off anyway, and now they are entoming all of this with a special layer, they are

basically quarantining this, and that's a sign of bad health. it is that weird signal that has people concerned for the future. >> a highly toxic pest size that is used to treat the seeds and is taken up by the plant from the soil. i think about a play, spraying a whole crop, but you are talk about putting it in through the soil? >> yes. these are applies to the soil and taken up through the roots of the plant and transported to all parts making it toxic to the insects that bite into it. so what i want to show you here is evidence of this systemic transport. she says there's almost no federal research into their effects on bees.

ewith haven't seen any indication that they are interesting in pursuing it. it is almost as if they would just wish it would go away. and the e.p.a. says it won't approve any new uses protests led to a two year moratorium, but u.s. farmers especially those growing pig crash cops like wheat soybeans are using the chemicals widely. in an email, one of the largest manufacturers argued that a lack of pests and the rigors of a life

>> and on the next day he went to ford esthete tore watch a play that's where john wilkes booth shot him. he died early on the morning of april 15th, that's all the time for this newscast, thank you for joining us, the news continues next from london.

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