leaders of china and taiwan are due to meet for the first time in almost 70 years, but not everyone is happy about it. ♪ ♪ i am shiulie ghosh you are watching al jazeera live from doha. also coming up from the program more diplomatic efforts to end the war, the u.s. an voir to syria will meet russia's foreign minister in russia. on the growing island of lesbos they say there is not enough room to bury those that died making the journey to our think. and a summit for education in doha. ♪

♪ china and taiwan have announced historic talks between their leaders will take place in singapore on saturday. it's the first touch meeting since the end of a civil war in 1949, taiwan split from china that national assists fled there after di defeat by the communiss in the conflict. could i juan is recognized as an independent state by 21 u.n. member states and the vatican. china considers the island its territory and says it should be under beijing's control. taiwan's president has been friendly to china since he came to power in 2008. but his spokesman says there is no breakthrough expected at the meeting. >> translator: they will exchange views on issues such as promoting weighs across the straight and maintaining the status quo across the straight. there will be no deals signed and no joint announcement after the meeting, the president will

return to taiwan on the same d day. didemonstrators worried about beijing's influence on the island say the president has let down the taiwanese people. >> reporter: this will be hugely historic for both mainland china and taiwan and a culmination of a process going on for several years now, especially under the stewart ship pushing for closer ties. we have seen those closer links in business terms in, communicationcommunications, tr, millions of people traveled between china and taiwan. we haven't seen the corresponding closeless in diplomatic terms that's far more fraught. it's hugely significant and adds

a very interesting dimension to the presidential elections in taiwan in january. now, the main opposition party is expected to win those elections, they are opposed for closer ties. so this was seen as the last, best chance for this historic meeting taking place while the president was still in power, both sides of cautioning there won't be any agreement signed at this meeting. it is purely some pollack but as symbolism goes in terms of cross straight relations it doesn't get much bigger. the tensions over competing claims in the south china sea have led to an impasse at a southeast asian defense summit. i joint declaration raise of the asean nations was due to be signed wednesday, it's now been canceled. chinas been lobbying to block any mention of its man main islands in disputed areas of the sea. caan emirates us professor.

saying the division is having an impact on the berrick an block. >> earlier in the career malaysia it is the chair of the asean committee tried to cobble together something. that means at this time the defense ministers meeting plus with its eight dialogue partners they can't even mention that in a joint statement. they alone can preventure consensus from being reached and in this indication we have u.s. officials saying there were a number of asean countries wanted it mentioned but majority doesn't rule. one can block the entire group. and it also means that china is able to reach if to a regional organization and get its way. an earthquake of magnitude

six about the pitt on the struck near dili. causing minor damage it was recorded at a depth of 143-kilometer no, sir immediate reports of casualties. theup special envoy for syria will meet sergei lavrov later in the russia part of the latest diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. but president assad is still the major obstacle. >> reporter: the out come of an aerial bombing campaign laid bear. bare. this video is said to show damage caused either by russian or syrian military strikes in the city of raqqa. there is no way of independently verifying this. the russian government says it's working with syrian opposition groups to fight isil, but the freer is own army says it isn't one of them. >> translator: we are in a state of war with the russians, they are bomb barting the positions

of the free syria army and all infrastructure and hospitals if they want to coordinate with the free syrian army they have to stop all miles a military operas forever and be ready to move forward to the final stage aircraft transition the stage without assad your honor the sponsorship of the united nations. the issue you of i assad's few certificate main sticking points. there were renewed optimism in talks last friday between would pourers working both sides. no representative from sear was what there the although iran was at the table for the first time. now all syrian minister says nothing has changed. >> translator: some media publishes our russian friends are looking to hold another meeting but we have not received any formal invitation. the so called transitional period does not exist except in the mind of those who are sick

and those that don't live in reality. >> reporter: separately russia is stepping awayfro a long held position that assad must remain in office. >> translator: we have never that said assad had to go way or stay. what we did say is a regime change in syria could become a local or even regional catastrophe and secondly, only the syrian people can decide the president's fate. >> reporter: yet the fate of the syrian people seems to be decided for them. more than a quarter of a million people have been killed in the war, a figure that only grows with each passing day of air strikes and failed diplomacy. gerald tan, al jazeera. russia says it's possible the syrian government and opposition members could hold talks next week in moscow, the u.s. says that had be too soon. >> we look forward to moving the process, getting the syrians involved as soon as possible it's their country, their future. we are not ready for those

discussions yet until the international community can reach a greater consensus on the way forward. the u.s. says its pilots have conducted a communication test with russian counterparts overseer vinnie skies it was done to validate the safety pro comes agreed last month between the two countries. the deals to designed to avoid clash between the two air forces, russia began carrying out sake trikes in september. the conflict is syria is fueling the refugees crisis in europe. officials in lesbos say there is not enough room to bury those that died. >> reporter: at this hour in greece the sky darkens as quick as the fear sets in. but still they come. attention turns first to those that risked everyone for. the young they must comfort think the old they must aid.

having survived the sea, they land in to a situation so chaotic, even our team was asked to help translate. yes, she has on her side of her head. and her cheek. the car accident in turkey just a few hours ago was bad, but this woman and her family still made the crossing. i can't even explain my emotions he tells me. we came such a long way. we were just praying we would make it to greece and then we did, thank god. the medics arrived quickly and treatment was given. but during these days of crisis on lesbos, even aid workers a customed to helping the emotionally traumatized are at a loss. >> they flee towards a better life. most of them now feel guilty because they bring the family, they brought the families with them, children

and, now they are dead or they are looking for them. actually, you cannot saying anything to a woman that has lost a husband and children as well. but they just need a hug someone there to be next to them and facilitating with all the procedure. >> reporter: it's not justifying their loved ones that is so difficult. even finding a final resting place is near impossible. these graves are a stark reminder of how harsh a life and how sad a death these refugees had. what makes their fate even more tragic, is the fact that many of those buried here were put in to the ground anonymously. overcrowded with bodies, this cemetery has run out of room. >> reporter: grave digger understands death better than most. but this he struggles to comprehend. >> translator: the refugees come to find a better future. instead they get a painful

death. we greeks, we also were migrants, but we didn't have to die in the sea. >> reporter: now even for the ref jays who manage to escape with their lives, it's death that seems closer than ever. mohamed jamjoon, al jazeera, lesbos, greece. russian media say unusual sounds have been heard from cockpit voice recordings at the a moment a passenger plane went off air and crash ed in egypt. it came down killing all two to four passengers and crew on board. it was on its way to st. petersburg, no distress call was made by the pilots. peter sharp has this update. >> reporter: they have formally extended the crash site. they are looking at an area more than 30 square kilometers and it's such a large area that they are using drone to his try to search for more bodies and

more debris. they found more debris in 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 cream tore yum and mortuary where they will have their dna matched with the bodies there, it's an appalling task. when you think that there are 244 crew and passengers killed in this disaster and they have only formally identified 10 people. it's going to be a very long process. mean while putin's press secretary has warned the media against trying to link the disaster with russia's operations in syria. he said this is most inappropriate he said. >> and the russian ministry of emergency situations has released new aerial images

of the crash site in egypt. the video was taken by a drone on tuesday. isil-linked group in egypt says one of its fighters has carried out all sue ida tack in say nigh. 10 others were wounded. the attackers targeted an officer's club. qatar's world innovation sum foyt education has honored a woman who has helped to get at least 6 million people to school in afghanistan. she has dedicated mitch of her life to educating women in a country that faces security, infrastructure and cultural challenge, caroline malone reports from doha. >> i had only challenge. >> reporter: it's not been an easy journey for her, but she is taken the opportunities given to her as an educated woman to help millions of others in afghanistan. many of whom wouldn't be in school without her.

growing up, she had the support of her father to go and get a degree abroad at a time when it was difficult for her to get within at time. they tried to turn to afghanistan but became a refugees of war. >> in the refugees camp it wasn't easy. it's to see how these people were devastated. they lost their lives. they lost their children's lives. they lost their family. they lost their home. they lost their belonging. they feel so mizzell rail. how these people are feeling what, can i do to change their life. >> reporter: she listened and saw the need to teach, train, and provide health support for we'll examine girls so she is up the afghan institute of learning and since 199 sick, 12 million afghans have benefited from its education and health programs. some of the most conservative groups in afghanistan are against girls getting an education.

the taliban closed girls schools in the 199s, some were reopened after a u.s.-led invasion in 2001. but with armed groups still controlling many areas, there have been and continue to be at on girls' schools but she says she believes so strongly in getting cools to school she'll work with anybody who whip hirscher achieve her girls, including the taliban. >> as long as they recognize that the woman has a right. women are important. women are important of the society. if this company wants to be -- country want to be rebuilt if it wants to progress they must involve women. she's received a lot of recognition over the years but says receiving the prize here in doha is special because it recognizes the importance of education. something she has built her life around. caroline malone, al jazeera,

doha. u.s. first lady michelle obama says a major shift in attitudes and belief is needed around the world to solve the crisis in girl's education. >> if we truly want to get girls in to our classrooms, then we need to have an honest conversation about how we view and treat women in our societies. and this conversation needs to happen in every country on this planet, including my own. coming up here on the program, british m.p.s are set to did he participate bay bit seek to go give the government swing powers to monitor suspects online. from clicks to bricks, online retail ore amazon opens a high street book shop, stay with us.

♪ ♪ you are with al jazeera. let's reminds you of the headlines now. there have been protests in taiwan against the upcoming talks between its leader and the chinese president. the two countries announced the first talks in 66 years will take place in singapore on saturday. a territorial dispute in the south china sea led to an impasse at a southeast asia defense summit. china have been lobbying to block any mention of its man-made islands from a joints declaration, now the signing has been canceled. the u.n.'s special envoy to syria will meet with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov later in the moscow it's part of the latest diplomatic efforts to

end the syrian conflict. as the war in syria continues those who fled to neighboring lebanon are facing another crisis, babies born there to syrian parents risk not being officially recognizes. zeina khodr has more on the agreeing problem of children who fine themselves without any nationality. >> reporter: these children are among a new generation of stateless people. two-year-old mohamed, one-year-old, her cousin, they were all born in lebanon. syrians who escape from the war but are now 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 some 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 never mine. >> reporter: for this family and many like them whatever money

they make is spent to survive. but with no i.d.s these children cannot enroll in schools and access to healthcare is hard. syrian refugees are able to register their newborn children with the u.n., but the children risk becoming stateless if their parents don't complete the process by registering them with the lebanese government and for some than a complicated process, 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 there are many who are scared to go to the syrian embassy because they are wanted or live in opposition-controlled areas. >> based on a random sampling we know 60 to 70% of parents who have had newborn babies in lebanon have not completed the first three steps, the necessary steps in order to insure the rights of their child to the

nationality and that's a large number. >> reporter: there are more than a million syrian refugees in lebanon the u.n. says no other country has maining as many refugees in relation to its side and lebanon is cheating refugees crisis as a security issue. >> translator: their father, my son-in-law is too scared to move armed because of the checkpoints. my daughter just gave birth to another child. it is difficult to get him papers, we need a sponsor and to go from one got department to another. >> reporter: her grandson is among the 10s of thousands of syrian refugees born in lebanon at the age of one, he is like many others, he has a future which is already threatened. zeina khodr, al jazeera, beirut. there have been calls for protests in lon an as egyptian president sisi makes his first visit to u.k. he'll hold talks with david cameron on thursday, but human rights activists say he shouldn't have been invited.

from london barnaby phillips reports. >> reporter: he's the former military strong man who would now like the world to see him very differently. as a democratically elected leader, a statesman fighting what he calls terrorists. egypt's president abdel fattah sisi. but nobody in egypt has ever been held to account for this. the 2013 massacre of hundreds of supporters of the former president and since then according to international human rights groups, 10s of thousands of opponents of president sisi have been impressed. hundreds sentenced to death. >> egypt going through its worse human rights cries face decades, far from moving towards did democracy under sisi the president of egypt what we have seen is ferocious crack down on descents the denial of fundamental rights and freedoms and the building of the state that people were protesting and revolting against in 2011. >> reporter: and yet president

sisi is by no means a pariah figure in europe. he's already enjoyed visits to france. and more recently to germany. european governments may not approve of much of what president sisi does at home, but they feel he provides a degree stability in a troubled region. and as paris and berlin think, so does london. >> we should not have any illusions about government's priorities which are usually in dissenting order, security both domestic lick and internationally and economically. and we also should not forget that governments usually can only look no further ahead than the next elections. which means that when they are in office they have to talk to the people month happen to be in power over in office in other place as as well. >> reporter: opposition offices have called on the government to cancer the visit base of of egys

human rights record the government will argue it's an opportunities to put those concerns directly to the egyptian president but it's has zone in its recent dealings in countries such such as china and saudi arabia that it is pragmatic and will put britain's strategic interests over any human rights. a russian cargo plane has crashed in south sudan shortly after taking off from the capital's main airport. at least 10 people aboard have died. two others survived. the presidential spokesman says others on the ground may have been killed as well. it's been called the snooper's charter. a new surveillance bill in the ick to monitor suspects online. it's designed to keep the public safe in the digital age but critics warn it will be easier for the government to spy on eights citizens. neave barker reports from london. >> reporter: the controversial

new bill is expected to give the government power to know who, where, and what everyone is doing online. allowing plus and intelligence agency to his reach deep in to people's private lives. the bill is yet to be published but it's expected to include measures requiring internet firms keep records of all customers' web, phone and social media usage for 12 months. the bill could also see a ban on tech companies like apple and google from offering unbreak am encryption that could only be deciphered by private customers. police and security services are expected to see what websites people have visited but need a warrant to see individual place, this power to issue those is with the government. it should be reserved only for judges not politicians these groups say. >> their ability to see every communication, see and read

everything we say and do electronically, their ability to hack in to our computers, is not hysterical to be very concerned about giving the government those kind of powers. >> reporter: the government says the new bill will stop so-called terrorists, child abductors and other serious criminals from communicating beyond the reach of british intel jenks or the police. two years ago whistle blower edward snowden exposed some of the techniques use booed i world government to his mon tore internet use in the u.k. many of these powers are more than 15 years old and lack any proper legal framework. the latest bill to be submitted on wednesday is a serious attempt to update the surveillance law the last attempt was defeated accused of being too inning truce and i have under mining civil liberties but will anything have change third degree time around? the government says it's already dropped the most contentious

points from the latest bill including powers to go through earn's browsing history but it could struggle to con since lawmakers of the difference between protecting the public and spying on it. neave bark he should a al jazee, london? shares in japan' postal company have been bought. along with its banking and insurance units made their debut on the stock edges change. the prime minister hopes it will boost investment in japanese firms. the best book deals may only be a click way, but now amazon has open aid real, physical bookstore in apple. the it comes 20 years after its website went live. alan tells us what to expect from the store in seattle. >> reporter: it's been rumored for quite sometime, but here it is being brick and mortar

reality. welcome to amazon books, it seems counter intuitive and odd after all this is the company that made eights mark by not having any kind of physical retail presence and made a considerable mark in the business world. they will have 5,000 different title on his display at any time here. it's actually quite few for a bookstore this size. some minor differences you see is all the books are turned face out you don't have to look satellite on yoga this way, you'll actually be able to look at it that way and every other book and you won't find any price tags on this book, you bring it over, stick it under the bar scanner, and that's the same thing you would play if you bought it on line, they have will he views, customer reviews, reader reviews, you might even find a note from jeff the amazon founder under one of these books. so why seattle? well, amazon tells us they know this is a literate, book buying, book loving town and they have

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