black. which support the asmt n has brought a response from the tripoli base fifty which has asked the u.n. to investigate.

live now at united nation in new york. we understand leon has been speaking about his new job. what have you been hearing? >> the security council was addressed but that was a regular meeting basically updating the security council on his outgoing position, updating them on the status of the u.n. brokered political arrangement, the political power sharing agreement that the u.n. is trying to foster there. however, it was overshadowed by this controversy about leon taking this job with the uae, also negotiating with one of the parties backed by the uae. we had a chance to ask him about this after he came out of the security council meeting and take a listen to what he had to say. >> i prepared the way out. you may say look at the optics is not nice, and i can agree

with this, and if it is a matter of saying i could have done things in a different way, maybe this is the right answer, but what is important is six months ago/eight months ago, when i didn't have any result of my work, you could say this guy is biassed, this guy will support one side or will support the other side. today what you have is the result of this work. you have an agreement and you have a government. can you say, can you find any element in these agreements or in the government that you consider it more inclined or it reflects a nonneutral position of the united nations. if it is the case, please let me know and we can comment. the rest is about saying, look, the appearances are not good, which i can accept

defending himself as you would expect. how is this, though, likely to affect efforts to bring peace to libya? >> reporter: well, this really goes beyond that and to the united nations. as you mentioned, they are trying to boecker this peace deal between the two governments that both claim to be the legitimate governments of the country. now, the gnc, one of those, sent this letter to banke mouns office and to the council basically saying that they now question the impartiality of the process that the u.n. is trying to hammer out. because leon is taking this job with the u.n. ae and the apparent conflict, it throws in the question the entire political process at this very critical juncture. there's also questions on how the u.n. is going to respond to

this. he has not spoken directly on this. his spokesperson did at the daily briefing today. we asked him about it and it pretty much says there are clear ethics rule that he expects all of his special envoys to follow when they're looking for outside employment, but beyond that he said there's probably not going to be any major investigation by the u.n. into this. he was brushing it off a little bit and saying that they think he has done a very good job getting the process in libya this far along thanks very much. live for us at the united nations. you're watching al jazeera. still to come rome tries 46 plea toyingss and gangsters of rigging lucrative contracts for years. a prized video book helping are gen teen's - argentina's deaf

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welcome back. you're watching al jazeera. egypt's president sisi says he is ready to work with what he described as outline our friends-- all our friends to ensure safety of foreign tourists after the senai plane crash. german airline group lufthhan harks has cancelled all flights. -- lufthansa flights.

in other stories following a confidential report by the global chemical weapons watchdog has found mustard gas being used in the syrian conflict. gas has been used by i.s.i.l. and another rebel group in august. it is the first confirmation of musts dart being used in syria since the country said it will destroy the arms. war planes that bombed eastern syria, a number of people were injured. the town on the border with iraq has opinion under i.s.i.l. control since last summer. the syrian government says it's taken control of a strategic high into the divided city of aleppo. the road was cut off by i.s.i.l. forces last month, but the government has lost ground on another key supply line in

northern hammer. a bottle for control on beirun in neighbouring lebanon. >> reporter: this is one battle on a war that is focusing on syria's highway. neckaching control of most of mourek on the main road in the west of the country has been under control. they have been backed by russian air strikes. the rebels have managed to take background in this region. mourek is north of the city. it is close to a main highway that runs through syria's major cities. the government wants to take full control of the countryside to be able to protect its strong holds in lappakea around push further north. >> translation: the ray gene pushed to-- jay gym pushed into land roots. the opposition has now turned the tables and cut the road.

the government is in a difficult position now. >> reporter: it has regained ground on another front. its forces have recaptured an important supply route. when i.s.i.l. captured the road over a week ago, it was seen as a setback for the government. this road is a life line for the military and the people who live in western controlled districts in the divided city of aleppo. the town has been blocked by the opposition. >> reporter: this battle is about securing highways. the army has had manpower problems, even with support of movements, it has had to choose battles. the goal of the government and its supporters now is to secure movement between the cities and maintain control of what it calls core territories. this fight, however, also has political goals. each side is hoping to change the balance of power in order to impose their own settlement. while tactical gains have been

made since the start of the recent military campaign, neither side has achieved a strategic win the u.n. humanitarian agency is expecting at least 5000 refugees to arrive from turkey to in greece every five days. germany has started to expel asylum seeksers. in the first nine months of this year more than 70,000 or a quarter of all asylum seekers came from syria, yet more people than that, some 75,000 come from cosovo and albania. many arrived in germany during that same period from serbia as from afghanistan. now reporting from berlin. >> reporter: parts of berlin, multicalth i as the germans said

have said that some have arrived from belkin. these people say the new asylum law has left their community trying to work out whether a hostile germany is actually any better than a life in poverty where they came from. >> on the one hand they see that it is a much better life, they have security and hospitals, doctors and all of these for their children, but on the other side they feel this home sickness because they are here with kind of strangers. >> reporter: the numbers suggest that even more people made the journey through the balkans this year than syrians and german opinion has hardened against the numbers. the feeling has grown that the

economic crisis has been used to come into germany on a false claim. this situation has helped mekel help keep her right wing in place. mekrel can argue that getting rid of tens of thousands of people from the balkans can free up money and space for tens of thousands of december separate refugees from syria. the removals are already beginning. police station arriving at apartment blockss to explain to various people that they have to go. >> translation: it's a really big job and the immigration authorities and police don't have enough resources to expel all of these people, but there are trained police talking to them, hoping that they will volunteer to leave. we offer them money to return home. yet the central claim by german government that all the balkan

countries are safe since they're not war zones isn't shared by human rights groups who say some, in particular many roma, are at great risk if they are forced to return. >> i would not say that they would fall under geneva convention, back-up we have the situation of what they would endure if they had to go back to cosovo, it would not allow them to have a life and dignity. >> reporter: still the bald facts is that nearly 200,000 people from the balkans will be removed understand this scheme, however desperate their situation at home, whether they think they are worth regees status rescue teams are searching through the rubble of a collapsed factory pa pakistan with 150 people thought to still be inside. at least 21 died on wednesday's incident, but it is not clear what caused the building to

claps. there was structural damage in the air due to an earthquake there last week. protestors in bangladesh have been carrying mock coffins through the streets. they represent the bodies of journalists and bloggers that have died since february. the herreds are being blamed on hard line muslim groups. the government is beinga accused of failing to take action against these groups. more than 40 people have corn on trial in rome in a major corruption case. criminals, businessmen and politicians are all accused of being part of the network that rigged lucrative public contracts in italy for years. from rome. >> reporter: rome is on trial. is this the capital of italy's criminal understand world. over the past 11 months authorities say they have unearthed evidence that the city

was run by under world criminals, politicians, who used extortion, money laundering to rig public contracts. the investigation was rebranded capital mafia. >> translation: it is a classic mafia method. in rome members of a former criminal gang manage good to condition local politicians. they corrupted the public service contracts and if someone didn't cooperate, they used violence. is >> investigators say the network was led by this man, a convicted criminal nicknamed the pie have pirot after he lost an eye in a shoot out with police on 1981. he and his accomplices are accused of siphoning off lots of mon money. the crime syndicate allegedly

also won contracts to manage my front reception centres, exploiting centres in the mediterranean. they called it more profitable than drug trafficking. on thursday the lawyers of the defendants did not deny claims of corruption but said they shouldn't be tried as mafia mob sisters. >> translation: in this trial there are no charges relating to blood or violence. there has been no shots are cars. it is difficult to pay public servants in exchange for favours. >> reporter: rome is in desperate need of solid leadership. the former mayor is under investigation over his role in the scandal. the new mayor was recently forced to resign over a relatively minor expenses scan at all. even though he handed over the proof of years of corruption in the cities administrations and

authorities. even though this is a fast-track trial, it will take months for a verdict to be reached. in the meantime, rome is in the hands of a commissioner appointed by the government. he will have to manage a city in financial ruin in argentina, young deaf children has been introduced to books. . >> reporter: hello. i live in argentina, she says using international sign language. she is also an avid reader of the now prize winning video books produced here. it has favouritess like sleeping beauty and little red riding hood and other stimulating titles. the project was started in 2011 by the civil association with

the collaboration of the country's deaf community and funding from the inter american development bank. they had several challenges to consider and overcome. >> translation: signing is a visual language and has different characteristics from written spanish. it is a complicated language. you can sap everything in sign language and tell all stories, but first we must do the work from interpreting from one language to another. >> reporter: they use texts, pictures spoken and sign language which enabled deaf children to enjoy alone or with their friends and family stories that previously they might not have had access to, stories the rest of us take for granted. >> reporter: what the video books do is allow access to deaf children to a world previously denies them, a world of story telling enjoyed by generations of hearing children, but on their own terms and meeting their own special requirements. there are an estimated one million deaf and hearing impaired people in argentina who

often feel they're excluded in many ways from the rest of society. >> it's hard for me sometimes to understand the text, but sign language makes it easier for me to get excited about the story. >> reporter: you'll i can't says being-- julia says being deaf should not upset her writing. >> many deaf children don't have sign language at home with their families. so they don't see sign language stories or learn to read and write from an early age. it's essential that they have a deaf adult as a model to identify with linguistic models and at the same time be exposed to stories in an accessible language. >> reporter: every language has its own sign language, but these writers are hoping that their model can be adopted and used around the world so that all deaf children can have access to stories. their joy at winning the prize

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