the news continues live from london next. and remember, you can check us out by going to our website, aljazeera.com. israel directs tough new measures at stone-throwing protesters. their families could be sanctioned too. ♪ hello there, i'm barbara sarah, you are watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up on the program, russian media says debris found where an airliner crashed in egypt does not belong to the plane. why the u.n. is warning of a crisis of statelessness for children born to syrians who have fled the war. and a rare cyclone slams into war-torn yemen, triggering

heavy flooding. ♪ the israeli parliament has approved tough new measures to crack down on stone throws, raising the minimum prison 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 of fenningers also face new sanctions. they will be denied state benefits while their child serves jail time. the israeli army has imposed a closed military zone in parts of hebron. the implications of the move are unclear. it comes after israeli forces raided a radio station and took it off the air. the station's director says the shutdown is a violent aggression against palestinian media. our correspondent has more from

west jerusalem. >> 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 also been -- krit sighses amounting to collection punishment as well, with a provision involving children. children accused of the offense, while they are in prison, their parent will no longer be able to have access to national

insurance here in israel. we have sene 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. an israeli military spokesperson said the reason for the closure and destroying of equipment 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, not because they are being told to, but because they are tired of living under israeli occupation, and that they want it to end. investigators have begun examining the new black boxes from the russian passenger plane which crashed in egypt's sinai peninsula. and reports in russian state media suggests that some debris

found at the crash site does not belong to the aircraft. any remains of nine people have now been identified. the bodies arrived in st. petersburg early on tuesday, a third plane is expected later in the day. peter sharp has the latest from st. petersburg. >> reporter: they have formally extended the crash site. they are looking at an area of more than 30 square kilometers. it's such a large area, they are using drones to try to search for more bodies and decree. they found more decree and wreckage, but no extra bodies today. meanwhile here in st. petersburg the awful task of identifying the dead continues. the families and relations are taken by car to the crematorium and 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. meanwhile putin's press sectarian has warned the media with trying to link the disaster with russia's operation in syria. he said this is most inappropriate, he said. ♪ iranian 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, including revolutionary guard commanders have been killed since the end of september. tehran denies it is sending combat troops into the country. barack obama has defended

his decision to send special forces into syria. in his first comment since the deployment was announced he said troops would be working as advisors and trainers. >> we have run special ops already, and, really, this is just an extension of what we were continuing to do. we are not putting u.s. troops on the front lines, fighting fire fights with isil. but 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. >> meanwhile the u.n. is warning of a looming crisis of statelessness for syrian refugees who have fled to neighboring states. it says that around the world a child is born stateless at least every ten minutes. a new report finds

discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion, or gender is the major cause of statelessness. a person is stateless if not automatically given nationality in the country where they are born. it can also happen if their country ceases to exist like during the break up of the former soviet union. without a state no country has any responsible for you, you have few legal rights, and that means you get no medical care or education and you can't move about freely. in lebanon children born to syrian parents risk not being recognized. >> reporter: these children are among a new generation of stateless people, two year old, one year old, her cousin, they were all born in lebanon. syrians who escaped the war but now face 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 lebanon is very difficult. i can't go out with the children because they haven't been registered. and we can't go back to syria, because i have no proof that they are mine. >> reporter: whatever money they can make is spent to survive, but with no ids these children cannot enroll in schools and access to health care is hard. they are able to register their newborns with the u.n., but the children risk becoming stateless if their parents don't register them with the lebanese government, and for some that is complicated. parents need proper documentation. some don't have marriage certificates or any identification because they entered lebanon illegally. others don't have valid residency permits or are too poor to pay for the paperwork,

and many are scared because they are won'ted or live in opposition-controlled areas. >> we know that 60 to 70% of parents who have had newborn babies in lebanon have not completed the necessary steps in order to ensure the rights of their child to the syrian nationality, and that's a very large number. >> reporter: there are more than a million syrian lebaneses in lebanon. and lebanon is now treating the refugee crisis as a security issue. >> translator: their father, my son-in-law is too scared to move around because of the check points. my daughter just gave birth to another child. it is difficult to get him papers. we need a sponsor and to go from one government department to another. >> reporter: her grandson is among the tens of thousands of syrian refugees born in lebanon. he just like many others has a

future which is already threatened. the syrian refugee crisis has been felt on both sides of the mediterranean. one aid group says it will increase its aid to greece and provide assistance to 200,000 refugees. the offer comes after the footage was released. men, women, and children were dragged from the rough seas after their boat capsized. at least 435 people have drowned this year as they were attempting to reach greece. german chancellor angela merkel says turkey and greece must work together. she says that right now it is the people smugglers who are in control in the region. >> translator: it cannot be right that we currently have a situation between turkey and greece two nato member countries where people smugglers are in

charge instead of the border control agents of those two countries. we must ensure legality again, otherwise people smugglers will be able to bring more and more people. 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. lawrence lee reports from a village where refugees are said to outweigh local residents by a sum of 7 to 1. a tiny settlement of farmers. but such is the pressure to house refugees here that this big disused office complex 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 a part of it, if you take your job seriously. we are really excited about their arrival tonight. >> reporter: inside they certainly tried 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 an architect from the ruined syrian city of homs to help with the design. and you think this will be a nice place for the refugees to come for a few months? >> i think yes. it's a little bit hard because only one building and it's really big for -- and -- inside it's 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 are all in favor of it, no question. >> reporter: yet outside germans seem increasingly concerned that their leader has bitten off more than she can chew. there is clearly something deeply psychologically unsettling about the idea of 700 refugees turning up in a tiny village like this. so angela merkel's popularity has taken a dive. her critics accuse her of what you could call humanitarian overreach, the idea that she is being far too kind to far too many people. so night came and the first hundred or so refugees arrived. 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. still ahead on al jazeera, we're in the world's most polluted city where a government green tax is failing to have any impact. and anger in south korea as the government introduces state-authored history textbooks. ♪

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♪ a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. israel's parliament has raised a minimum prison sentence for stone throwers to three years. anyone found gill city could serve a maximum of 15 years in jail. russian state media says debris found at a site of the crash in egypt does not belong to the russian aircraft. and the u.n. is warning of a looming crisis of statelessness for syrian refugees who have fled to neighboring countries. this man helped persuade the u.s. that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but much of what he presented as evidence turned out to be false.

tropical cyclone has triggered heavy flooding after slamming into the coast of war-torn yemen. three people have already died and authorities are anticipating more loss of life. it made landfall before being downgraded in an area of about 2 million people. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: as waives crash into the sea wall, strong rain flood the coast of aden. this cyclone at one point was close to a category 5 hurricane. it has since weakened but itself hurricane-strength winds were unprecedented. >> there have been on rare occasions fairly weak tropical cyclones that have moved on to the coast. 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 180 people and left quite a lot of damage behind. this one was much stronger. forecasters are expecting flood waters to cause mud slides. it may bring 250 to 500 millimeters of rainfall. >> that's a few year's worth of rain falling in just a day or two. >> reporter: it has made landfall out of the port city. the area has been under the control of al-qaeda since april. >> the power supply has shut down, and communication is a major problem. >> reporter: it is no longer a cyclone. it is dissipating as it moves towards the capitol sana'a, which is controlled by houthi rebels. some relief agencies worry that al-qaeda and the houthis are not

equipped to handle the situation. >> we're 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 even as the storm loses its strength after making landfall. the french president is in china seeking support for a global climate deal at an up coming summit in paris. he has met the chinese premiere at a green growth forum. the leaders 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 climate talks begin later this month. >> translator: 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 aeven 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, but will also be seen as the foundation of an agreement in paris. rob mcbride sent us this update from beijing. >> reporter: it was a 21-point declaration from the two leaders, which really now sets up china and france as being partners in the fight against climate change. the declaration may have been short on facts but it certainly hit the right tone, gave the right message, and hollande will be able to go back to france ahead of the paris talks

claiming he had china on board, which is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases of carbon, is obviously going to be very important for those talks. as we said, they have 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, and watering down agreement, well, now possibly we are seeing a maturer, stronger, more confident china being able to sign up as a protector of the world's environment. the chinese capitol is one of the most polluted cities in the world, but it's air is only half as toxic as that of new delhi. faiz jamil reports on the efforts to clean up the air. >> reporter: most of the commercial trucks entering in this capitol are carrying goods

december stated for other states and are merely using the city as a transit point. according to many studies these trucks are responsible for nearly a third of the air pollution. this city has the highest concentration of small air-born particles according to the world health organization. since most trucks go through the city to avoid paying polls outside, the supreme court has imposed a green tax on all commercial trucks. but there's already been problems in collecting that tax, as the private operators who run these toll booths say they are not in a position to forcibly collect the tax. and many environmentalists say having cleaner fuels throughout the country would be a much more effective method as the green tax simply moves the pollution outside of the city. in fact in the long term could increase pollution if drivers are forced to drive longer

distances to go around the city and the green tax. nepal is sending fuel tankers to fill up in china in an effort to ease an energy crisis. fuel hasn't reached the port from india after protesters started blocking a major highway. they are unhappy with nepal's new constitution. the oil company shell is being accused of making false claims about the extent of its cleanup operations in nigeria. a joint report by amnesty international and the center for environment human rights and development says shell failed to implement u.n. recommendations. the report says several sites are still polluted. shell says it needs to consider and respond to the accusations in time. there's anger in south korea where the government says it wants to introduce a new history textbook to address what it calls a left-leaning bias in

teaching. harry fawcett has more from seoul. >> reporter: to hold a protest outside of a government building here in seoul, you call it a press conference, and there are several going on at the moment. these are people opposed to the government's plans to bring in its own history textbook to correct the way that history is taught to young people in this country. it announced its intention three weeks ago. there has been the requisite period for judging public opinion. the protest has gotten bigger, but the government says it is going ahead as planned. >> translator: we should not teach our children with these biased history textbooks anymore. we should make a correct history textbook that serves the values of the constitution. >> reporter: there is currently eight textbooks approved by the government but privately produced. the government says seven of the weight has a distorted teaching

of history. the critics include opposition parties, university lecturers and teachers. they say that the government is trying to distort history, offer a glosed-over version of some of the leaders of the path. they include among those, the father of the current president. so some of the critics say the government simply needs to stand down on this issue. >> translator: current state approved history textbooks are written in compliance with the government's guidance, and subject to review. even now the government has plenty of power to influence their content. >> reporter: this has been the dominate issue for the last few weeks and shows no sign of slowing down. there are legal teams talking about possible court challenges,

and more than half of the superintendents around the count think are talking about promoting their own textbook no matter what the government says. it demonstrates just how polarized south korea is right now. frankfort police have raided the headquarters of the german football associate. lee wellings now reports. >> reporter: world football authorities have become synonymous with alleged criminal activity. and no it's german football under investigation. after so much focus on the 2018 and 2022 world cup voting, it's the 2006 germany tournament in the spotlight. police have raided the headquarters in frankfort looking into possible tax evasion. >> translator: all ef dlens be considered with documents coming in that we have secured. and will be evaluated in the next few weeks. for tax evasion, especially in

receive -- severe cases the law allows for imprisonment. >> reporter: the raid was focused on a paid to fifa. the specific allegation involved unpaid tax, but the starting point was the allegation that a slush fund was created to buy votes for the 2006 tournament. the former manager is at the sentence of allegations. in a statement to german newspaper he admitted the payment shouldn't have been made to fifa. he said: but he denies the payment was to buy votes, as does the current head of german football. his predecessor is antarctica.

critic of cat tar's 2022 hosting. 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, we will see, but it's better this way to do an investigation. >> 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 web of corruption. it's one of rome's best loved monuments and after a $2.2 million makeover, the fountain has been reopened to the public. it has taken 16 months to the frustration of visiting

tourists. the repairs were funded by the italian fashion house fendi. cart of the cornus began falling off in 2012. more on the website, aljazeera.com. >> teams have now started to examine the black boxes from that russian airliner that went down in the skies over egypt. more than 218,000 syrian refugees enter europe in the month of october, now aid workers say they are in desperate need of assistance. plus, voting on legalizing pot. residents in ohio going to the polls but it is one group that is backing the bill that would benefit the most. ♪