>> the days of irregular migration to europe are over the e.u. and turkey sketch out a new plan to stop the flow of refugees and migrants you're kwachg jams live from our headquarters in doha. also coming up, north korea slapped with even more sanctions. this time from its southern neighbor. tunisia closes its border with libya after an attack kills at least 53 people. plus. >> reporter: i'm in an illegal mine in north-east india where

the mine owner is still using children to extract coal turkey has made a bold proposal to tackle the refugee crisis in europe. ankara is offering to take refugees stranded in greece in return for more money and its fast-tracking to become a member of the e.u. it was put forward in a summit in brussels. >> reporter: finally at the end of a long day and night the break through they had hoped for. the european union has reached an agreement with turkey that they believe marks the beginning of the end of europe's refugee crisis. >> this is game changer. the days of irregular migration to europe are over. our objective is to discourage illegal immigration to prevent human smugglers, to help people

who want to come to europe through encouraging legal migration. >> reporter: the agreement means in future turkey will take back all those making the perilous and illegal journey across the aegean sea to greece. for every syrian refugee returned one syrian refugee from camps in turkey will be resettled in europe. thus opening a legal route of entry. turkey wanted more from the e.u. in return for its health, more money, double in fact, the 3.3 billion u.s. dollars already pledged to help syrian refugees on turkish soil, more cast-iron guarantees about the reopening of its e.u. member slip plan and quicker sacks for turkish citizens to e.u. visas. none of these are promises made by the e.u. here. there are crucial details and difficult ones yet to be

discussed and there are key objections to be overcome within the e.u. it is concerned that turkey ask using the crisis to further >> e.u. bid vetoing any effort to resettle other refugees. an agreement in principal only then. it is nevertheless an important milestone. jonuh hull as they outline their strategy, thousands of frustrated people stuck in greece have been pleading with macedonia to open its border. >> reporter: the balkan state is only allowing in a small number of refugees to cross each day. thousands have been gathering at the border fence demanding to be let through so that they can their journey north.

they were not offered much hope. >> translation: the refugees at the border. they have to understand that they will not be able to cross. we have to have readmission for those who do not qualify for asylum. for the moment these people need to be supported and provided with aid. greece will be responsible for this and will be financeed by europe two iranian migrants have returned to their home lands. they were sent to cambodia last year from the australian-run camp in nauru. cambodia agreed to take asylums from australia under the 40 million dollar deal. tell us why the asylum seekers returned to their homeland. will this likely lead to more

criticism of the plan? >> reporter: it's unclear as to why they've returned to the country iran from which they fled. the government said in a brief statement that they didn't know why they were chosen to return. this has been criticized all the way through. it was first struck in september 2014. it was supposed to be the solution as far as the aub government was concerned in terms of what to do with refugees who came to australia by boat that australia were made quite clear would never been resettled here. in a bid to persuade others. 2000 came to australian run prison in either nauru or png. the idea was never that those refugees were permanently settle in those countries either. the idea was that australia would find another country to do a deal with toic its refugees. cambodia was supposed to do that. hundreds of refugees were supposed to decide to go to

cambodia rather than stay in nauru. five refugees agreed to go to cambodia and now with this iranian couple saying they would rather go back to iran than stay in cambodia, and another myanmar man did as well, just two remain in cambodia. all this as a result of the intensive deal australia did with cambodia. it doesn't look like that policy has much legs what does this mean for the government? are they going to be pushing on with this plan regardless? >> reporter: australia's government say yes they are, that this was always an option open to refugees. they could always decide voluntarily to return to their countries of origin. they say that is what has happened in this case. they say the option is still there for refugees to go to cambodia. crucially cambodia made a deal that they would not take refugees who were transferred involuntarily to cambodia. they would only take refugees

who chose to go. if three of the five refugees who have decided to go to cambodia have decided they're better off in the countries from which they fled rather than staying in cambodia, it doesn't suggest much faith in cambodia as a long-term designation as far as refugees are concerned. whether any more refugees who are currently languishing in camps will decide to go to cambodia, it is looking less likely than this. australian government is saying cambodia is a lng term action. they haven't given up on the plan and deal armed groups in syria which are not part of the limited pause in fighting are gaining more ground. al-nusra and another group have captured the areas of al eis. they two two hill tops from the government. it has been a week since the

conditional ceasefire came into effect but fighting conditions in many areas. the u.s. military says it has killed more than 150 al-shabab fighters. al-shabab has confirmed the attack but say the number killed was exaggerated. somalia financials earlier said 27 people had had died. the camp was bottomed with missiles. al-shabab which has links to al-qaeda wants to overthrow somalia's government and is responsible for numerous attacks in east africa. the white house spokesman says the strike was preventive measure to stop future attacks by al-shabab. >> reporter: >> the fighters who were scheduled to depart the camp posed a threat to u.s. and african forces in somalia. the removal of those terrorist fighters degrades their ability

to meet their objectives in somalia the spokesman for the somali government talked to us earlier and gave us this statement: the australian navy says it sees a large cache of weapons that were intercepted last week. the australian navy is part of an international maritime force patrolling the waters. it says at the time not clear who the weapons were meant for in somalia, but such a shipment could violate a u.n. security council embargo. south korea announcing sanctions against north korea over its recent nuclear test and missile launch. they include put willing

individuals and organizations on its black list for financial transactions. seoul has also put a ban on any ship that has been to north korea. tension s are high in the area following an escalation of metric and military activity. can you tell us more about the announcements. >> reporter: they are meant to heap further pressure on north korea coming on top of the wide-ranging sanctions agreed last week by the u.n. they will be targeting key individuals and organizations from north korea from having financial dealings with institutions in south korea. there are further restrictions on trade with ships that have called in at a north korean port, being prevented from visiting south korea for 180 days, also targeting loopholes in the current restrictions, goods that have been exported from north korea going to a

third country then finding any way into-- their way into north korea. even targeting north korean restaurants abroad. the government says its campaign urging citizens not to attend those places. pretty wide-ranging. this is south korea turning the skree, as it said, at a press conference when it announced these measures that it wants to give the north no choice but to change its current path does this mean we're seeing a hardening of seoul's position, then? >> reporter: i think so. you do sense a growing frustration just about the effectiveness of the u.n. measures announced so far, whether they are being strictly applied by all the member nations who have signed up for them. also a certain frustration at the policy of the overtures which have been made by south korea to north korea's ally

china, building much stronger relationships with beijing in the hope that that would bring pressure would undermine the north position and bring great pressure on north korea. that doesn't seem to have worked by the south korea, so they have to take these threats and as a way of emphasising that threat the south korean spy agency has chosen the same day to release a very wide ranging report about the cyber warfare activities of north korea with apparently the smart phones of south korean officials being targeted, hacked into, even north korean hackers apparently getting targeting the traffic control system of the south korean rail network. these are all allegations which north korea has denied in the past, but from south korea's position it shows a growing threat that requires a tougher stance from seoul

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the top stories on al jazeera. some european leaders have agreed to back turkey's proposal to stem the flow of refugees to europe. ankara is on offering to take back refugees from agrees in return for extra funding a

fast-track of its e.u. membership bid. south korea has announced sanctions over north korea over the nuclear test and missile launch. it clues black listing for financial transactions. al-shabab attack in somalia. tunisia has closed its border with libya following an attack which killed at least 53 people. an armed group targeted security forces. it is believed the fighters entered the country through libya and the curfew has been imposed there. >> reporter: people here woke up to this. the sound of heavy gunfire. the attacks on the town were coordinated on the national army

and security forces. some local people reported seeing dozening of fighters roaming the streets. the authorities say they killed many of them, including this man that they crews attempting to fire a rocket to the police station. >> reporter: what this attack shows is there is an organized well armed group operating in this border region and capable of hitting strategic targets. >> reporter: some called this the wild west known for the smuggling of goods from nearby libya. its markets and shops have now closed. tunisians have travelled from here to fight for i.s.i.l. in libya. many believe i.s.i.l. is behind of this >> translation: they are dirt. we're not afraid of them.

i am a citizen. for us everyone is in solidarity for the government. we hate them. they don't represent us. >> translation: of course i'm afraid. we're all afraid here because it is the first time that something like this has happened >> reporter: one possible reason for this attack is revenge for recent u.s. air strike on an i.s.i.l. camp in western libya. most of those killed were tunisians. it is thought the strike happened with the help of tunisian intelligence last week around a dozen crossed the border attacking security forces. this time it was a much larger group. >> reporter: this is an unprecedented attack. >> reporter: the government built a barrier along it's border with libya to try to stop

arms trafficking and fighters from coming in. this fighting also shows a police isn't just coming from libya. it is already within tunisia itself a faction of the packs stan ee taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in the court building in the north west. at least 17 people were killed. the armed group says it is revenge for the execution of one of its fighters last week. it is the second anniversary of the biggest ever aviation mystery, the disappearance of 239 passengers and crew board malaysian airline flight of mh370. mps in the parliament stood in silence at this rally. families of the missing demanded answers as they protested

outside a buddhist temperature. debris found to be part of the jet was found. it took off from malaysia's capital bound for beijing in the early hours of march 8 2014. an hour later communications from the crew ceased. it was tracked then vanished from the radar. tran submissions from one of the systems indicate it then possibly for hours towards the southern indian ocean following this monarch off western australia dh has become the focus of the search effort. florns lui is joining us. interim reports on the investigation expected on tuesday. what might we see in that? >> reporter: it has already been

issued. as we've expected, there wasn't anything new in the report. this is an interim report under the rules of the international civil aviation organization such reports have to be issued on each anniversary of an aviation accident. this is the second year since mh370 disappeared and it is the second interim report. the report made mention of the fact that a piece of aircraft has been found and confirmed, but this was the pets piece that was found on union island last july. that has been confirmed by makers of the aircraft boeing and investigators that it was a piece of the plane. other than that, the interim report hasn't disclosed anything new. that is bound to be a disappointment to families and relatives of those on board flight speaking of the families, how do they feel about the

progress of the search and two years on? >> reporter: the families have been very unhappy about the way this has been carried out for several reasons. one, in the early days after the plane disappeared, the way that the conferences were held were not inspiring. the search pralgs which is taking place in the southern indian ocean is expected to come to an end sometime this year, possibly in july. investigators, the search operation team led by australia's transport safety bureau has said that they've already managed to comb about three-quarters of the search area. so this is an area totalling 120,000 square kilometers. the families are very worried

that once this comes to an end and if no plane wreckage has been found that the search operation could be discontinued. they don't want this to happen. they want it to continue. families have also been in a rush to file compensation claims and lawsuits because the two year mark is up. that's the situation with the families thank you for that. youth unemployment is a major problem across africa. it is expected to get twice as bad. around 400 million young people could be jobless over the neshgs 30 years. having a high school diploma or university degree is not making it easier to find work at our correspondent reports from johannesburg. >> reporter: this privately run job training center is teaching high school graduates basic technical skills such as computer courses.

this center could help them find work. some have been unemployed for years. this man owns the training center and employs a few workers. he se finding work for job seekers isn't easy. >> for the opportunity, you find yourself sitting with over 2,000 people coming to apply for that opportunity. many people are distressed and lost hope >> reporter: the official unemployment rate in south africa is at least 25%. the unofficial rate is thought to be much hoper. >> reporter: it is very high, more than 90%. many teenagers don't graduate. many who do can't find work. u.n. says more than four million young south africans were unemployed last year. >> reporter: having a degree doesn't make it easier to find a job. there are more than 600,000 unemployed graduates. students about to finish their

degrees are worried. >> i might not get a job. >> reporter: the government has created some jobs but many are temporary and unsustainable >> they're probably missing the structure. people are wondering if they're going to work in low levels of low mash, but in terms of the aged pension, we get this shock of young people that are not going to be employed. >> reporter: rising unemployment levels is a challenge facing most african countries. youth unemployment rates are double those of adults. the continent has the youngest population in the world. almost 20 million people are between 15 and 24 years old. the u.n. says that number will likely double by 2045. most african economies are not

growing fast enough to give most of them a chance of employment a large fire in the united emirates have destroyed boats. more than 200 boats were moored in the marina at the time of the fire. the police are not sure what caused it. prosecutors in venezuela are leading an investigation over 28 goldminers who have been missing since friday. the family members say the minors were killed over a dispute over a gold deposit in a jungle area. the government says so far there's no evidence anyone was killed there. the opposition insists it is all a cover up. three years ago al jazeera filmed children working in coal mines in the indian state. a year later the government banned coal mining in that area. now we have returned to see if the government's actions had any

affect. a report from north-east india. >> reporter: this is a miner turn farmer. when the indian government banned coal mining he, he and many others switched to farmingment. he makes less money but says he is happier >> translation: mining pays more. if i was to think about the mine and my family's health and safety, farming is better >> reporter: we spot at least active mines around his field. the ban has had little effect. we investigate further and find pember. he was filmed two years ago. he was rescued by a charity but is back to working in the mines. >> translation: people like me who don't have an education, who is going to give me a job. all i can do is manual labor and rely on myself. >> reporter: he confirms mines

here are still operational and that children are still being used as labor. he takes us to meet some of them. the smaller one is his brother. he says he is 13 years old. >> translation: coal is very hard. sometimes when it creates a spark. my picks axe has broken before too. i'm not afraid of this. what scares me the most are the ghosts down there. >> reporter: these boys make five times more than the poverty line here. they have to buy all their own equipment and no-one wears a helmet. this mine is too large. it continues to extract coal in violation of the court order and it is using children. these kids and their families are caught in the seek el of exploitation because mining is all they have ever known. they don't know what else to do.

coal that was extracted before the ban went into effect was allowed to be transported. all new mining had to stop. that was two years ago. the transport of coal from these mines going on. >> reporter: we showed the evidence to a local member of parliament who also used to own mines in the option >> i don't say there's no violation. so many kids have been fined and arrested. when you have been in the business about for so long and people have nothing too so people with tempted. >> reporter: all the ban has done is cause the small mines to be closed down while the big ones attend to operate unchecked. the children who work in them seem to have no other alternative heavy rains have pounded peru's south cities flooding

neighborhoods and destroying hundreds of homes. they inundated ten communities forcing at least 20 families to leave. the el nino pattern has been blamed for that severe weather. understanding read that on our website on aljazeera.com thanks for joining us on america tonight. i'm joie chen. this evening we look at the power of young women, young women who won't be limited by the obstacle that fate has put in their way. you and i might see the challenge of extreme poverty or a difficult home life or a physically debilitating disease and think, i can't overcome that. in our stories this evening, we