israel's parliament raises the minimum jail term for stone throwers to three years. ♪ hello there, i'm barbara sarah, you are watching al jazeera live from london. russian media says debris found where an airliner crashed in egypt does not belong to the plane. a rare cyclone slams into war-torn yemen, triggering flooding. and we'll visit the tiny village where refugees will

outnumber residents 7 to 1. ♪ the israeli parliament has approved tough new measures to crack down on stone throwing, raising the minimum prison sentence to three years. lawmakers voted 51-17 in favor of the move. weeks after the prime minister benjamin netenyahu declared war on anyone who throws stones at the security forces. parents of underage offenders also face new sanctions. the legislation allows for parent to be denied state benefits while their child serves jail time. meanwhile israeli forces have raided a palestinian radio station in the occupied west bank. it was taken off air and shut down overnight. the israeli army has accused the station of inciting violence, but the director says the shutdown is a violenting a greegs against the palestinian

media. >> reporter: israeli human rights groups have described the passage of this law, which has been fast tracked through the israeli parliament as harsh and extremely punitive. those convicted of throwing stones will now face a minimum of three years in jail, and a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison for the offense. it also means that a judge cannot offer a suspended sentence to anyone convicted of stone throwing, either. so a prison sentence is all but certain for those convicted of stone throwing. the law has always been criticized as amounting to collective punishment as well, with a provision involving children. children accused of the offense while they are serving prison, their parents will no longer be able to have access to national insurance here in israel.

now in the background of all of that, we have seen continued protests across the occupied west bank, and now we understand that a radio station in the occupied west bank city of hebron has also been closed by the israeli military, and israeli military spokesperson said the reason for that closure and the destroying of broadcasting material and equipment in that radio station was because it was broadcasting what it described as incitement. but if you speak to palestinians on the street, they say the reason they are protesting is not because of incitement, but because they are tired of living under israeli occupation, and that they want it to end. ♪ investigators have begun examining the two black boxes from the russian passenger plane which crashed in egypt sinai

peninsula. some reports suggest that some debris found at the crash site does not belong to the aircrafts. meanwhile the remains of nine victims have now been identified. the bodies of more victims arrives in st. petersburg on tuesday. a third plane is expected in the stipulator in the day. peter sharp has more now from st. petersburg. >> reporter: they have formally extended the crash site now. they are looking at an area of more than 30-square kilometers, and it's much a large area that they are using drones to try to search for more bodies and more debris. they found more debris and wreckage, but no more bodies today. meanwhile here in st. petersburg the awful task of identifying the dead continues. the family and relations are taken by car to the mortuary,

where they will have their dna matched with the bodies there. it's an appalling task. and when you think that there are 224 crew and passengers killed in this disaster, and they have only formally identified just ten people, so it's going to be a very long process. putin's press secretary has warned the media against trying to link the disaster with syria's -- with russia's operations in syria. he said this is most inappropriate, he said. iran yoon media is reporting that a colonel from the country's elite revolutionary guard has been killed in syria. he died during fighting in aleppo. at least 14 iranian military personnel have been killed in syria since the end of september. tehran denies that it is sending combat troops into the country. u.s. president barack obama

has defended his decision to send special forces into syria. he said troops would be worked a as visors and trainers. >> we have run special ops already, and really, this is just an extension of what we are contin continuing to do. we are not putting u.s. troops on the front lines. i have been consistent throughout that we are not going to be fighting like we did in iraq with a battalions and occupations. that doesn't solve the problem. speaking of the many problems in syria, the united states is warning of a looming crisis of statelessness for syrian refugees who have fled to neighboring states. its refugees agency says a child is born stateless at least every

ten minutes. most stateless populations belong to a minority group. a person is stateless if not automatically given state in the country they are born. without a state you have few legal rights and that means no medical care, education, and you can't move about freely. in lebanon, children born to syrian parents risk not been officially recognized. zana hoda has more now. >> reporter: these children are among a new generation of stateless people. this two year old, one year old, her cousin, they were all born in lebanon. syrians who escaped the war but are faced with another crisis.

she says she sees no future for her children. they don't have proper identification papers because she first has to renew her own residency and she doesn't have the money to do that. >> translator: living in lib non-is very difficult. >> reporter: for this family and many others like them, whatever money they can make is spent to survive, but with no id's these children cannot enroll in school and access to health care is hard. they are able to register their newborn children with the u.n. but the children risk becoming stateless if the parents don't register them with the lebanese government, and for some that is a difficult process. some don't have marriage certificates or any identification because they entered lebanon illegally.

others are too poor to pay for the paperwork, and many are scared to go to the syrian embassy, because they are wanted or live in opposition-controlled areas. >> we know that 60 to 70% of parents who have had babies born in lebanon have not completed the three necessary steps in order to ensure the rights of their child. >> reporter: there are more than a million syrian refugees in lebanon. the u.n. says no other country has taken in as many refugees in relation to their size. >> translator: their father is too scared to move around because of the check points. my daughter just gave birth to another child. >> reporter: her grandson is among the tens of thousands of

syrian refugees born in lebanon. at the age of one, abdul like many others has a future which is already threatened. germany may have promised to resettle hundreds of thousands of refugees, but the vast effort is putting a heavy strain on europe's largest economy. and there are worries about social and cultural change especially in remote areas. lawrence lee reports from a village where refugees are set to outnumber the locals by 7 to 1. >> reporter: such is the pressure on space to house refugees here that this big disused office complex, sitting uncomfortably in such a small place was deemed ideal for 750 who have made the desperate journey to live for a few months.

>> translator: i'm nervous and excited, not only me, but the whole team. but that's the part of it, if you take your job seriously. we are really excited about their arrival tonight. >> reporter: inside they try to make it livable. the charity acutely aware of the politics of housing so many refugees in a village of just a hundred, gave work to 40 local people, held countless townhall meetings, and hired mohammed, an architect from homs to help with the design. >> i think it's a little bit hard because only one building and it's really big for all -- and inside a lot of people will come, but i think it will be really nice because they will have only a short time until they go. >> reporter: elsewhere in europe no doubt this sense of being outnumbered would be met by furious residents, yet here,

mostly their minds seem far from closed. >> translator: i'm all for it. the people need a roof over their heads, the women and children need shelter now winter is approaching. we have a lot of space. people have tried to bring in a positive atmosphere, and we're all in favor of it, no question. >> reporter: yet ger mab -- germans seem increasingly concerned that their leader has bitten off more than even she can chew. there is something unsettling about so many turning up in a tiny village like this. to angela merkel's popularity has taken a dive. the idea that she is simply being far too kind to far too many people. so night came and the first hundred or so of the refugees arrived. the charity insisted on us not identifying them, but many looked absolutely shattered.

it must be as bewildering for them as their new neighbors to be living like this. but this is home for now. and the german government has to prove it can make this work. lawrence lee, al jazeera. iraqi politician a controversial ally of the u.s. during the 2003 invasion of iraq has died. he died of a heart attack. he helped persuade the u.s. that saddam hussein has weapons of mass destruction. but much of what he presented as evidence turned out to be false. still much left to come, including shell cover up. the oil giant is accused of making false claims about its cleanup in nigeria. and rome's fountain reopens after a million pound makeover.

♪ time now for a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. israel's parliament has raised the minimum prison sentence for stone throwers to three year. anyone found guilty could serve a maximum of 15 years in jail. russia's state media says debris found at the site of the crash in egypt does not belong to the aircraft. and the u.n. refugees agency says around the world a child is born stateless at least every ten minutes. it is warning of a looming

crisis of statelessness for syrian refugees who have fled from neighboring countries to escape the war. a tropical cyclone has hit war-torn yemen, triggering flooding and causing major damage. three people have already died and authorities are anticipating more loss of life. it made landfall before being downgraded. it's an area with a population of about 2 million people. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: as waves crash into the sea wall, strong winds and torrential rain flood the coast of the gulf of aden. at one point on thursday, this tropical cyclone was close to a category 5 hurricane with winds of up to 250 kilometers an hour. it has since weakened, but it's hurricane-strength winds were unprecedented. >> there have been on rare occasions fairly weak tropical

cyclones that have moved on to the coast of yemen. the last time there was a tropical storm strength cyclone in yemen was back in 1960. >> reporter: a weaker tropical depression strength cyclone hit yemen in 2008. that storm killed at least 280 people. this cyclone was much stronger. forecasters are expecting floods to bring mud slides. >> that's a few year's worth of rain falling in just a day or two. >> reporter: it has made land fall south of the yemen city that is under the control of al-qaeda. >> communication is a major problem. >> reporter: it is no longer a cyclone. it has weakened and is dissipating as it moves towards

the capitol sana'a. some relief organization worry that al-qaeda and the houthis are not able to handle this type of disaster. >> we are ready to respond, should the cyclone hit hard. it did actually sweep over the island yesterday, but the damages were not as big as initially foreseen, so we're bracing for a low impact now also for the rest of the country. >> reporter: it was also expected to impact the gulf state of oman, but then it changed direction. but there is concern in yemen still. the french president is in china speaking support for a global climate deal. he has met the chinese premiere at a green growth forum. they have stressed that they

recognize their global responsibility to address climate change. china is the world's largest carbon emitter. the french president says he wants a deal with china before the talks begin later this month. the climate is the biggest question facing us all. it will determine peace in the coming decades. it will equally decide the quality of life and even life. we would like the president and myself to be able to make a declaration ahead of the up coming paris summit. this will commit both of our countries to a deal, and be seen as the foundation of an agreement in paris. >> rob mcbride sent us this update from beijing. >> reporter: it was 21-point declaration from the two leaders. it sets up china and france as being partners in the fight against climate change. the declaration may have been short on facts but hit the right

tone, gave the right message, and hollande will be able to go back to france claiming he has china on board, which is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases of carbon, is obviously going to be very important for those talks. as -- as we said, they had both committed themselves to taking on climate change, describing it as one of the biggest challenges now facing humanity. china has been accused in the past possibly because of its own vested interest in driving the growth of its economy of scuttling talks, watering down agreements, now we possibly are seeing a maturer, stronger, more confident china being able to sign up as a protector, if you would like, of the world's environment. beijing is one of the most polluted cities in the world, but it's air is only half as toxic as new delhi. faiz jamil reports on efforts to

clean up the air. >> reporter: most of the commercial trucks entering the capitol are carrying goods destine for other states. these trucks are responsible for nearly a third of new delhi's air pollution. added to the seasonal fall in temperatures a smoggy haze can be seen this time of year. since most of these trucks go through the city simply to avoid paying tolls outside, the country's supreme court has imposed a green tax on all commercial trucks as a way to skap -- cap pollution, but there has already been problems in collecting the tax as the private operators who run the toll booths say they are no equipped to forcibly collect the tax from the truck drivers. critics say the green tax simply

moves the solution outside of the city instead of reducing it all together. and could increase pollution if drivers are forced to drive longer distances. it's one of rome's best-loved monuments, and after a $2.1 million makeover, the fountain has been revealed once again to the public. this is a live shot of rome. there it is, where it has just been switched on. it has taken 16 months to the frustration of visiting tourists. the repairs were funded by the italian fashion house fendi. parts of the fountain has started to fall off in 2012 after a harsh winter in the city. let's go to nepal now which is sending fuel truckers to china in an effort to ease an energy crisis.

fuel hasn't reached nepal from india for more than a month after protesters from an ethnic group started blocking a major highway. they are unhappy with nepal's new constitution, which they say reduces their political representation. the oil company shell is being accused of making false claims about the extent of its cleanup operations in nigeria. a report from amnesty international says shell failed to implement u.n. recommendationings. shell says that since the report was only released on tuesday it's too difficult to respond immediately to the accusations being made. first of all, what exactly are amnesties findings, and assuming that they are accurate, how do they explain how the situation still persists?

>> reporter: barbara in this new report, amnesty and the center for environment, focus on four specific oil spills that have taken place over the last few decades, and they basically say that shell climbed to have cleaned up the effect, but researchers found that these areas hadn't been cleaned up at all. they site one example where there was an oil spill 45 years ago. shell say they cleaned up the oil spill in 1975 and again in 2012, but when these researchers visited the area, they found that the waters were still heavily polluted, that there was dried oil everywhere, that farm land has been damaged and destroyed, that fishing ponds had been damaged and destroyed. and they had similar examples of the other three areas where oil

spills have taken place. they say shell is not taking seriously the recommendations by the u.n. that was published in 2012 that called on shell to urgently take action to clean up these spills. amnesty explained that the reason this situation has been allowed to persist ultimately is because the nigeria government they say is not doing enough to force shell to clean up these areas. they say that the government has failed to properly and adequately equip the main government agency that should be detecting the spills and should be putting pressure on the oil companies in the area. amnesty said one of the government's key agencies depends on shell for transportation to some of these spill sites, so how could they possibly come up with an independent report or finding. so a lot of pressure, a lot of anger within the community about

these new findings and obviously a lot of pressure now will be on the nigeria government to act. >> absolutely. thank you. police in frankfort have raided the headquartersover the german football association over an investigation into tax evasion, but questions are always being asked about the bidding process for the 2006 world cup. >> reporter: world football authorities have become synonymous are alleged criminal activity. after so much focus on the 2018 and 2022 world cup voting, it's the 2006 germany tournament in the spotlight. police have readed the football association headquarters looking into possible tax evasion. >> translator: all evidence will be considered with documents coming in that we have secured, and will be evaluated in the

next few weeks. for tax evasion, the law allows for imprisonment, between six months and ten years. >> reporter: the raid was focused on a $7.4 million payment made by the association to world governing body fifa ten years ago. the specific allegation involved unpaid tax, but the starting point was revelation that a slush fund was created to buy votes for the tournament. the former manager is at the center of allegations. in a statement to a german newspaper he admitted the payment shouldn't be made to fee tea. he said: a but he denies the payment was

to buy votes as does the current head of german football. now the investigation is closer to home. >> translator: i know i'm telling the truth so i have nothing to fear. what else might come out of it, we will see. but it's better this way. >> reporter: the common link to all of football's corruption problems the governing body fifa. with sepp blatter suspended and on the way out, the organization has no president and little credibility. at the time the 2006 world cup was seen as a success on and off the pitch, a decade on, germany's right to stage the party is part of football's ongoing corruption. spanish police have arrested three men in early morning raids in madrid. they described the men as extremely radicalized and allege

they were ready to carry out an attack. the spanish interior ministry says the raids were given urgent priority because of the unpredictable nature of the group. much more on our website, aljazeera.com. teams have now started to examine the black box from the russian airliner that went down over the skies of egypt. more than 218,000 syrian refugees entering europe in october. plus voting on legalizing pot. residents in ohio going to the polls. but it's one group that is backing the bill that would benefit the most. ♪