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let's get going and bangladesh say they've signed a deal for the repatriation of the refugees it is hoped it will allow the refugees to return home once their paperwork finished by bangladesh hundreds of thousands of russian fled across the border from me and to escape the army crackdown scott hietala joins us live now from yan gone scott why is this so important for both countries here well peter it's for me m.r. it's very important because it's showing some progress on this for hinge of crisis and the international pressure and criticism with the way this government has been handling the situation with the way the army had of the situation has been mounting steadily so at least this shows some type of progress to help those refugees the six hundred plus thousand refugees across the border in bangladesh for bangladesh they're obviously concerned about what's happening the state of of life for those

hundreds of thousands of refugees what would happen to those camps those refugee camps temporary refugee camps if this situation continued on for months to come so for both of them this progress is something good because it's at least going down that path but you know the way we can say this memo of understanding signing today thursday is big on hope but scant on details you know there's still a lot of details to come out quite frankly not many have come out other than they signed this agreement and there's going to be a working group foreign minister level working group to work out these details to what degree does this mesh with the comments we heard from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson this time yesterday. yet todd going back into peter the whole idea that why myanmar really need to push forward with this memo of understanding is that pressure that's mounting internationally you know the trumpet ministration has been critical of what happened in rakhine state over the last three months but they didn't use the term ethnic cleansing until wednesday evening and that was just hours before we you know

the negotiations were going but hours before this number of understanding was signed so that's obviously contributed i would think to the pressure to get this done and to show some type of progress from the myanmar government in efforts to try to resolve this crisis with the ranger final point briefly scott i guess the people the ring go they've got to be made to feel safe before they even think about going home on top of which there's not much for them to go home to exactly and that's why i was saying earlier you know big on hope when it comes to this signing this agreement but little details and those are two of the very big details that need to be. talked about and that is where are they going back to a lot of these villages the remains of villages were burned to the ground so where are they going to go and also how do we know what is the what are the assurances that going back to any place in return for going back into work kind state is safe

for them really not too many details coming out about that but again you know what we're looking at right now is an agreement to go down this path and that there's going to be a working group to mash out those details but right now those are two very important questions peter skulked ones from much. the police in papua new guinea have now entered a decommissioned prison camp on man asylum trying to evict refugees who are refusing to leave about fifty of them left on board buses but around three hundred thirty others say they're too afraid to go outside the former australian run facility fearing attacks by local people the prison camp was closed last month after papua new guinea ruled it was unconstitutional now since then the refugees have been living in increasingly filthy conditions without clean water or food supplies charney a refugee on the island gave us details of that police raid. in the immigration markets are now. so many reports that the. prison come

in is an attack. on life not for a few do. you want to. see . their gratian or. the family they are destroying everything all of belonging their funds. they are throwing. you know our shell. talking with people and treating people then you must move nice present on the roof you need is refusing to release prison camp because they are so young that we are not going to need this prison compound go to another prison. well australia's prime minister is insisting the refugees should go to the alternative accommodation that has been provided for them on the island. staying

there is obviously designed they think this is somewhere they can pressure the australian government to let them come to australia well we will not be pressured i want to be very clear about this. our border security the integrity of our borders is maintained by my government it is maintained by my government and we will not outsource our migration policy to people smugglers the people on manis should go to the places alternative prices of safety with all of the facilities they need they should do so peacefully and they should do so you know accordance with the lawful directions of papua new guinea we is the country in which the center is located. and are thomas now with this update from man a silent three bus loads of refugees have passed us on the only road to the

prison which is over the water there behind me now we know that the place went in early morning on thursday papa new guinea in time about four or five hours ago now the accounts we hear of what happened very refugee say that they use force or violence against them in the place so they didn't they only destroyed property and they were just trying to incentivize if you like the refugees to leave but in the course of that we heard that fifty or sixty men were taken by the place i think that those that we just saw passing along the road right here just in the last three or four minutes were those men the first bus contains refugees and one of them leaned out of the window and said help help us the second one had a man who went out and said some insulting things about australia but this is all a very live situation we're staying with the story patrick mcgorry is a professor of youth mental health of the university of melbourne he says the men aren't getting access to the psychological treatment they need. these men are chronically suicidal late they are extremely demoralized after four years of

incarceration with no real hope about their future and even other engineer refugees there's really no clear immediate plan for resettlement for them so in those situations then with the withdrawal of vented presence medical care and supervision there's a very significant risk of suicides occurring and that's one of the concerns that we had our strained medical association the president of that association dr michael gannon has made a bid to. urge the minister peter dutton to allow the air strike in medical association to send a expert medical team over to assess the health needs including mental health needs of these main. lots more still to come here on the news hour for you including these ones under pressure the saudi led military alliance says it will lift its blockade of yemen to allow the aide to get plus. i'm john hendren in fulton texas a town celebrating the thanksgiving holiday still devastated from hurricane harvey

. and in the sport it's argentina against brazil sign of south america's biggest club football one. incoming president who was reportedly in constant contact with military leaders in the days following his firing by robert mugabe the former vice president imus and. were turned home to cheers and celebrations as he made big promises to create jobs zimbabwe's economy has collapsed and many are already holding up a beacon of hope even before he's been sworn in as president has had him a tussle. with. the country two weeks ago he said he would be back to lead his people former president robert mugabe sacked him as vice president so

his wife grace could take over in just one week the military seize control resigned on tuesday the man nicknamed the capital returned wednesday and he is now in charge . you know you won't even remember this. what. he revealed they were plans to eliminate him he says he with poisoned allegedly by the g. forty faction in zanu p.f. by grace and got. their rulings on a. presidential candidate. but some people don't believe is the right man for the job he was a faithful ally of mugabe for decades we embraced by the one. they were

together. with that we are free but we are hoping we are free people who supports mugabe the former president what are the good things done by zimbabwe's first leader will be forgotten just that being for us. i think is of the highest order. normally of this period of liberation respect to the african. bent to also take up the torch in order. that spirit of liberation. says he knows and have high expectations they know he is a businessman some here say that gives them hope he has realistic plans on how to rebuild a broken economy. well the new president does have an uphill battle to turn things around in a country where ninety percent of the people are unemployed the international

monetary fund has just labeled zimbabwe's economic situation as very difficult it says high government spending is threatening any sustainable growth the i.m.f. wants and by the way it's taking media action to reduce its deficit and reengage with the international community for financial support for that to happen the i.m.f. is pushing urgent reforms zimbabwe hasn't been able to borrow from international lenders since one thousand nine hundred nine because of defaults on its debt repayments let's take you live now to harare and my colleague andrew symonds andrew i'm just saying that the m.d.c. have basically saying look you've got to dismantle all that mechanism of oppression what do they mean by that. well what they mean by it is they mean they need a total social change as well as

a different approach to the economy and i different approach the politics they want full inclusive governance and of course that's one of the questions that is playing out in a major way all of the elation we've been seeing here in harare and in other parts of zimbabwe rather way through the country has to be said hope that one commodity that it was in even less even more worst supply than the many others such as food the hope had been running out for so many people but there is a whole range of issues that the opposition are pushing forward now because this is the time that they hope they will get some sort of delivery from the government here so what we're going to see now playing out very very large on stage during the signing in the swearing of the from. tomorrow friday is another round of elation but then the reality comes on the working out the major

job to get the economy right back to you and thanks very much of course the g.c.c. crisis still continuing to fight in this region let's take you live now to london with a country foreign minister making a keynote speech since then we have successfully identified and prosecuted individuals and organizations within our borders who are suspected of supporting terrorism while implementing the goal of law and due process and would like to stress on the importance of the implementation of the law. and the due process because one of them in reasons after isn't a flaw is the absence of justice. and we shouldn't allow our governments. to disrespect the oil flow and the due process and use that terrorism as a reason or as

a justification to prosecute their political opponents which has been used a lot now and in our region. so it's very important not to dilute the meaning of terrorism by disrespecting the due process. that has lent that they key it either creating terrorism and its ideology must be through a holistic approach. by come by combining tough security measures with more lasting safeguards we can all succeed or the crises unfold in our terrible and region generations of vulnerable men and women are being targeted by extremist groups but accoutrements for evil ideology is happening online and across borders so we have to stay one step ahead of these forces at all tight yes they was of law enforcement and military and intelligence are crucial to counter terrorism but we

have found that tough security measures are not enough this approach should be one of many steps internationally but not a sit out over a decade ago to find the global partners who shared its commitment to fighting terrorism. those alliances are producing the results. we are an active member of the counter isis coalition and horse the command center for fighting isis we are of we are founding member of both the global counterterrorism forum and the global community engagement and resilience fund. we have partnered with the united nations and its agencies and effort to eradicate all forms of extremism we em to complement tough security measures with what we consider to be a lasting security measure. this lossing security measures take socio economic

dimensions into consideration. therefore we have invested in the human potential in cooperation with with with our allies around the world and providing education and economic development in the mena region believes that education is a vital tool in peace building and conflict prevention that's why it has committed to educating seven million out of school children and provide economy empowerment for almost half a million young men and women and them in a region. by doing so but our hopes that young people can lead lives of virtue and ultimately hope. we strive to convert that hopelessness which provides such a fertile ground for extremism. but if you question is not enough we have to be.

very foreign minister dressing an audience through see the royal united services institute he said we've identified people who support the events taking place in neighboring countries is very important he said not to dilute the meaning of terrorism generations he went on to finish being targeted by different groups across the region will stay with these live pictures also bring in our correspondent jamal al sheil who's outside russi there in central london jamal who is this central message aimed at. what peter sensually this is a major turning point as far as the g.c.c. crisis is concerned the g.c.c. crisis started off with saudi arabia united arab emirates rein and obviously egypt accusing cut off sponsoring terrorism using that as a essentially a facade to. impose the embargo and the blockade on qatar and take those units of

measure against her house for the past five almost six months try to essentially refute those claims but why this is a turning point is what this is showing now in terms of the international community particularly that this is taking place in such an important city like london is that but that is no longer just defending itself but actually taking an active proactive role in actually countering terrorism in terms of setting the narrative in terms of leading the discussion so for a conference like this to take place in london with such high profile individuals including the undersecretary of state for the world over the years as a foreign secretary of the you take your responsible for the mena region how does the problem that is something significant so that messages both directed towards the. anti terrorism or the counterterrorism circles where they discuss new ways of combating i sill or isis and other groups but also at the united arab emirates and saudi arabia telling them or your attempt to convince the world that qatar is sponsoring terrorism is not on you fail but that is now coming out stronger and

stronger that it is an active partner with such significant countries like the united kingdom in countering the extremism and terrorism the world over but when it comes to that countering of terrorism the world over i mean if we were to rewind by six months the kasserine narrative perhaps hasn't changed dramatically but is it all in that the the devil of the detail is about how that narrative or the explanation of that narrative is perceived across the border in saudi arabia. india i mean peter you know as well as everybody else it's all about the media and the messaging as far as the countries are concerned they believe their politics haven't changed what they have changed is essentially getting themselves out there trying to tell the world why actually this is what it is doing and you heard that in the foreign minister speech in terms of educating people young children in unstable areas in order to ensure that they don't slip into terrorism in terms of providing economic opportunity for those who are more desperate in order to ensure

that they aren't essentially easy targets for extremist ideology so what they're trying to do is say that that's what's changed over the past few months is rather than cut his policies or politics arranging the way in which they've essentially shown the world what it is they're doing that's what's changed but what's important now the question is really what is going to be for them to look at this in terms of the prism of the g.c.c. crisis what is the response going to be from the other side the other side have banged on this idea of trying to essentially pin and pair up but that to make it the party grandson animists with that of terrorism that has probably failed or for going to look at how things like this have taken place or what's going to happen next will this be a breakthrough in terms of finding a solution or not because conference this. as i've been trying to maybe illustrate here is as much about the g.c.c. crisis as it is about obviously countering terrorism in countering truman's jamal thanks very much. yemen's main international airport has reopened despite the saudi

led coalition saying. the military alliance had announced they would be allowing humanitarian aid into sana'a airport and the seaport of a dire they had been facing increasing pressure from the u.s. and the u.n. to lift the blockade ports were closed two weeks ago after the rebels fired a missile at the saudi capital riyadh aid agencies say the measures could lead to mass starvation we are monitoring these developments and we're trying to see whether that actually takes place on the ground of course if that were to happen that would be a very welcome and critically important development we've made clear the tremendous amount of needs on the ground we're ready to help if the ports are open so we'll keep tracking this and and see where we go from there let's bring in jamie mcgoldrick he's the un's humanitarian coordinator in yemen he joins us live on skype from amman jamie mcgoldrick we seem to have been going through a period now of about three weeks of the ports in the airports are open no they're

closed they might be open where are we right now today well as they were received in the room the coalition to say that with the aid of. humanity. to come in and we also hear. it was also because of the. request and to bring sensible. diet and selfish green or leave with the same thing for the son here or a huge international answer just come on ok has this now happened or is it about to happen i.e. is the aid about to start flying in again. well we were told that the northern gate receives this twelve o'clock on the twenty third which is the day so we could in the applications or requests for the ships to come into the ports and also for flights to come and. litigants here to some and also to bring

you know stuff so we were going through the normal procedures to get water over night and we all flew those planes in those into more and more for that we some of the ports as well as north acacias are the actual operational started. isn't of international pressure being brought to bear on the relevant players in this crisis or is it just that those players aren't listening nothing's been logging advocates in the highest level from nations stays in the un itself the thing that's what we've got to be on there was a letter from the second job so that they want to the ports open to the airport open and then the un a grid send an international team to riyadh to discuss some of the concerns the so english and the nineteen would be discharged as soon as we get the green light received a letter back then we were even then so not just the humanitarian side of things it was also commercial issues that we need the fuel shortage in the countries that he's in the air and we want to try measuring the fuel is also

a comedy to this part of this organised by the senate coalition to lower operations to continue we've spent a lot of time on this channel talking about cholera diptheria near starvation situation for a lot of people inside the country how long between that aid starting and your people on the ground being able to get it out there to help the people of yemen. well in the evening or not all this time the gist of what this look at is that as actually and sort the floor for basic commodities including food medicines a few and with an astounding as the prices of those goods have gone up and scalloped the reach of many many people we are serving the needs of certain million people who are completely dependent on us and we are supplying their water clean water to four hundred four million people and that concerns me more for your fund of the country this use them which is a research board in the us gottman have said that if there was a disruption any longer this option famine could tip the country three of four

months time and with color just starting to diminish as a threat the country we want in the gains of median call of the gains we've made on fun would be reversed by this blockade but still thankfully we start to see some so on there's been enough to get a gym in the building thank you very much. iraqi forces have launched an operation to clear remaining eisel fighters out of the desert bordering syria troops from the iraqi army and the popular mobilisation forces are taking part in the campaign against eisel fighters hiding in a big strip of border land in the iraqi prime minister hietala body says he'll announce the final defeat of the armed groups in iraq once that operation has ended . the united nations says syrians in a besieged suburb of the capital damascus are so hungry this scavenging from lots of ins government forces and their allies have cut off the rebel held district of eastern ghouta for five years days of relentless airstrikes of bombarded the

opposition stronghold the world food program says the situation could get worse for around one hundred seventy five thousand people when food stocks run out soon. the russian president has told his turkish and iranian counterparts there is a quote real chance of ending the war in syria let me put and believes a new stage had been reached in the conflict he says syria's president bashar al assad has pledged to hold new elections under u.n. supervision russia iran and turkey a key players in the conflicts russia and turkey back asaad of turkey back some rebel groups. syrian opposition group ings meeting in the saudi capital riyadh have renewed their demand for the removal of president al assad in a draft resolution there the communique states a governing body could include members of the government saudi arabia's is a backer of the syrian opposition it says the aim of the conference was to unify the groups ahead of negotiations in geneva for tuesday. now just

a few moments we'll have the weather for you with everton but also still ahead here on the news out. in sport the longest winning streak in the n.b.a. this season is brought to an end santa we'll tell you when we come back. by this guy nine of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. well starting off with a little more sport if you've been keeping an eye on the cricket in brisbane you'll notice that we did have a few showers here about lunchtime just about an hour and a half's play because of rain moving for and you can see little area cloud just store that is out of australia around the gold coast the sunshine coast slowly making its way out of the way it brought the skies to come back in behind it i think it should be in the clear now at least until around saturday we wait just catch the rope shower coming back in before i looks fine and dry we have got to

perhaps you may argue some better cricket weather down into the southeastern corner where the heat really has been on this area cloud here this little line a cloud just up towards adelaide that marks the boundary between some cooler air and some very high temperatures melbourne tasmania we've seen temperatures getting up to around thirty two thirty three degrees but you can see the cool air not too far behind that's associated with that rain band push on into friday we'll see the western weather just coming into that western side of victoria but it does return to the heat as we go on into saturday by that stage you may will see a little bit of wet weather just not in its way and elsewhere it does look fine and dry as i said generally fine in try for the cricket there as we go on through friday come saturday chance of the odds but i think it should be maybe study. the weather sponsored by cat time release. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short stories that

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welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha in the chair right now remind of the top stories of this hour me and bangladesh say they've signed a deal for the. of rango refugees it's hoped it will allow the refugees to return home once their paperwork finished by bangladesh hundreds of thousands of running a flood an army crackdown in me and. the police in papua new guinea have entered a decommissioned prison camp on minus island trying to evict refugees who are refusing to leave about fifty of them left in buses but about three hundred thirty others say they're too to afraid. outside the former australian run facility here

in attacks by local people. and we've just been hearing this an image of robert mugabe has now emerged is believed to be the first one taken since the former zimbabwean president decided to quit on tuesday you seen there with his wife grace has been the focus of much of the backlash against him. and that sound next story let's take you back now to andrew symonds joining us live from harare and we cut you off in your prime because we want to go to that developing story out of london the new president when he sworn in he's basically saying it's jobs jobs jobs but given the economy is such a mess how does he do that. it is going to have to really deal with this in a fast way an efficient way and also good governance is interlinked to getting the money and getting what is a desperate situation with the economy in some way port heading in the right direction and someone well qualified to talk about this with me now vincent the

same way he's an economist senior economist with much political experience of the past with one of the opposition parties can i put to you vincent if you are in the big chair if you just take in the presidency in this way what would you be doing to try to manage expectations with the economy well you know is are we seeing any i think andy's going to be important for particularly what he sees tomorrow he has to want to show us that he's serious about change and that he's actually going to appoint the proper people the right team that he's going to allow him in order to deliver but in terms of the mechanics of delivering how how do you approach the i.m.f. so for one year they convince how we set things on track in that direction the key issue and right now is the issue of liquidity we need money into the economy and one of the major issues is obviously the high debt overhang that we have which of course we have to address if you remember he had the lima strategy which helped to actually begin to address the high date with the i.m.f.

and financial sources for the country so i think that is really going to be a priority but everyone is saying that he has business credibility he's dealt with the chinese he's dealt with the i.m.f. he's dealt with it but of course history there's nothing in the way of major breakthroughs there but he has the experience what about other aspects to his business a career in the his interests here and indeed reports that he engaged with business people who actually were part of starting shortages rather than actually sorting them out yes i mean. it credibility issue. particularly with the kind of deals in kind of questions around the people he's been dealing with as a president i would actually advise him to get clean to clean that image up because obviously it doesn't create confidence with the rest of the market so that's a serious issue that it would he's really worried about would you put money on on him right now do you think it's right there is excitement here i wouldn't call it naivety but there is as a as a sort of qualified acceptance and enthusiasm about him but despite his

background and support despite some of these issues would you say this is the right way forward yes absolutely i think we have to give him the benefit of the doubt i am confident that he's definitely not going to be like mugabe i'm confident he knows what he has to do and particularly the expectations of the people of zimbabwe and in terms of managing those expectations how he really score the major card does he need to do something more than just call elections early next year march whatever does he have to do something else such as some government initiative to bring in the opposition as a empower the opposition to be able to move fairly and freely in the situation of the election yes i mean we are expecting number one to do with inclusiveness issues we need an inclusive approach to this problem an inclusive team to help him to achieve his objectives but number two we expect him quickly to remove all those

laws that have stopped freedom of association freedom of speech immediately because the he doesn't have to wait and more important he has to deal with the issue of the police and particularly how the police has been dealing with the public if it does those things for me it will indicate to us that we are now in a different country vincent so i thank you very much for your insights on that and of course we have the the oath on friday the new president in place so much going on many more developments to come back to you for now though under thank you. the pressure is on hundreds of thousands of students in south korea as they see. exams it's a very important all important college entrance test for them it's often said in the course of a young person's future they see it they were perspective and because of a rare earthquake kathy novak has that story from so. the years of study and long nights of after school tuition have all come down to this and that they're going to prepare a lot but now that the days here i feel uneasy and nervous was. was

welcome to school by younger friends students in this new tory asli competitive country know the day long exam can determine not only what university they will attend but also their career and marriage prospects and ultimately their status in society the exam day has become a national event these students have sewn up early this year on their classmate late comers can have a police escort and police aren't allowed to take up more land during the english listening to. when a rare earthquake damaged buildings in the southern regions of the country the exam was postponed across the nation by a week. but it is no longer a make or break event for everyone while her classmates were cramming in the hours before the test known as the soon i'm in was relaxing in a cafe with a friend she attends

a specialized school and has already been accepted into university through a relatively new system which considers high school grades essays and extracurricular activities instead of the single exam i feel grateful because i know there are some people who who look towards the tsunami as if that's their last chance to prove themselves and they study so hard to just show everything that they have studied and one day a growing number of students have been opting for the new system today only thirty percent of university applications are based primarily on exam results. the education and college admissions systems are changing to ease fierce competition among students and to provide more learning opportunities a focus more on learning and less on memory. i believe the level of stress that students have from study is lower than the past. second year student agrees her

stress levels are lower than they might have been but still not exactly low sure the stress still exists because you know there are many academies and students are pressured to be more excelling because the universe universities are you know big factor in their futures. and for many students this test could still be the crucial factor that determines what kind of future they will have. joins us live from seoul can see it all looks ferociously competitive. it is the south korean students are among the most successful in the world but they're also among the most unhappy because of that competition and stress a recent survey comparing nations in the o.e.c.d. group of developed countries found that south korean students were ranked twentieth out of twenty two countries in terms of their happiness that's

a bit of an improvement on last year though when they were lower ranked the last but it still is a very stressful environment and those students that we saw in the story there tend to go to school all day and after they go to the academies that one of the students was referring to also known as cram schools they stay there till around ten pm or later and then there is still homework so about sixty percent of high school students here are sleep deprived and of course all of this unfortunately contributes to a relatively high suicide rate as well about nine percent of south korean high school students said they had thought about suicide more than three times peter i mean do a lot of them end up with self respect to issues not just now but maybe in later life because success or failure total success or total failure decided at a relatively young age can you can kind of lay down troubles for later on. it really does set the course and that kind of ranking in society peter this is

a confucian society so education is extremely important as if it's important to go to university perth for a billy a prestigious one and that sets the course to having a good job if you can say that you work at a well known company in a big name such as samsung that means a lot in this society and these are things that are set in course from high school and even earlier so the government recognizes that this is a problem it is trying to take steps to alleviate that stress and competition as we heard there are some moves to try to make it a little bit easier for students to get into university one of the other things the government is trying to do is to get rid of what's known as elite schools these are schools that are designed to a sense of be specialized in areas such as foreign language but what has happened over the years is that they have tended to be looked upon as more prestigious as more favorable for university applications adding to the competition so the government says that it wants to get rid of that to sort of level the playing field

but of course there's a debate in the to society because as we've been discussing there is this competition to want to get ahead in a foreign language school can help students improve their abilities the students that we interviewed there as you heard have pretty good english and they went to a foreign language school so that's the kind of balancing act the government has when it has to look at trying to alleviate some of the stress on students which is driving them as i mentioned to think about suicide but then also to keep that balance in a society that really does put this importance on study on education on place in society and parents have invested fortunes in making sure that their kids go to good universities peter and i think thank you. hurricane harvey was the most expensive tropical cyclone on wreck or wind and flooding caused nearly two hundred billion dollars worth of damage breaking the record set by hurricane katrina in two thousand and five nowhere was harvey's devastation felt more than in . arkansas county in texas where hundreds remain homeless for thanksgiving john

hendren is spending the holiday in the texan town of fulton. here everything you me most over on this thanksgiving holiday the people of fulton texas have fewer blessings to count after. for many depressions they say and we're going to have a christmas these kids are going to get a group. promise you howard. mayor jimmie kendrick lost his barn two cars in much of his electricity in hurricane harvey and he considers himself lucky . three months after the eye of the storm ravaged nearly every building here a survey returned by most of iran's as counties remaining twenty five hundred students brought stunning news we've got quite a few that are home with that ninety eight percent of those they're homeless in some way according to texas law and school that means they could be without

electricity or could be in the situation or living with somebody else two percent and we're still living in tents. many live in this tent city even as demolition crews are still tearing down their homes about twenty trailer homes from the federal emergency management agency have arrived here in arends this county but three hundred fifty families have asked for help finding housing the fulton fishing pier used to be a gathering place for the town and it was practical the money generated from running fishing gear and selling snacks here paid for the police department but since the powerful winds of hurricane harvey tore through it at points it needs to be rebuilt from scratch many hotels restaurants and stores are either financially wiped out or wiped off the map what did you lose in hurricane harvey our little american dream so we lost our hardware brand new business it was all right here yeah it was just right here front door was right there ok so he's putting the deck

up today donna townsend own three businesses here one was destroyed one was badly damaged the third was rescued by fulton residents say a neighbor's house yeah they were is and friends are customers you know everybody needs a place to least say hello again how are you so the sugar shack became the town hall pretty much pretty much as texans along the gulf of mexico begin the long task of rebuilding their lives most of those we talked to say on this holiday they're thankful for what remains john hendren al-jazeera fulton texas. lebanon's prime minister says the recent political crisis was a wake up call for minding his people to put their country first ahead of regional is he has. put his resignation on hold yesterday when he returned to beirut self the president asked for more dialogue he made the sudden announcement to step down

in the saudi capital riyadh more than two weeks ago the move was seen as part of the regional rivalry between saudi arabia and iran hariri has a coalition government with the iranian backed group hezbollah. the french president says the u.n. security council should consider sanctions against libya if it doesn't crack down on people trafficking emanuel mack won't condemn the auctioning of refugees as a crime against humanity he said he was meeting the president is also chair of the african union commission the u.n. is calling for an investigation after an outcry over a video said to show african refugees being sold as slaves in libya and is forcibly deprive me of the situation it is crucial to condemn these situations and denounce them through international law to fight and do everything to eradicate it traffickers is now our priority we should try to anticipate the situation because libya is in a political transition there is presently no stable government we are working

actively in the framework of the united nations mediation it so that there can be a durable political situation now twenty four hours on and survivors of europe's worst massacre since world war two hailing a verdict yesterday from the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia on wednesday judges sentence the former bosnian serb commander ratko luggage to life behind bars he was convicted for his role in the murder of eight thousand muslim men and boys in the town of srebrenica in one thousand nine hundred five need from the hague. the chamber finds rocks coma at each guilty as a member of first drawn criminal enterprises of the following counts. count to genocide the verdict that comal out of his victims have waited decades for but the seventy three year old former bosnian serb general wasn't in the court to hear it he'd been a gentle moments earlier for this outburst. mr about if you look. if

you're continued like this. we adjourn his defense team had urged the judge to halt proceedings citing concerns over a lot of his blood pressure but the court rejected the plea finding guilty on one of two counts of genocide and nine of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the chaotic break up of the former yugoslavia the court ruled that melodic carried out of relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing and ridding non serbs from bosnian territory there's nothing curious about executing prisoners there's nothing greeks about foreseen thousands of people to flee from their homes saw individuals prosecuted and convicted by these tribunals are they receive much human was because there's been prosecuted and convicted for not respecting the geneva conventions among those crimes are some of the worst atrocities carried out in europe since the second world war thank you the four year sea of sarajevo which an estimated ten

thousand people were killed in shelling and sniper fire and the massacre of thousands of mostly men and boys in the town of srebrenica. option two his navy is investigating a noise detected nea missing submarines last known location it disappeared a week ago with forty four crew on board ships and planes hunting for the san juan and returning to the initial search area. still to come here on al-jazeera in the sport with son of the ashes are on the way one of the biggest contests and world cricket cricket sama is here with what happened on that day one.

time for this post is here thank you very much to a peta law the format team doctor of the usa gymnastics team is facing at least twenty five years in prison. pleaded guilty to multiple charges of sexual assault accusations and gas hand span across decades some of the united states' most high profile limpid champions are among his and as the victims. for years larry nasser was responsible for the care of most of the top gymnast in the united states in a michigan courtroom he pleaded guilty to charges of criminal sexual misconduct and admitted to using his position as team doctor to sexually abuse underage girls he molested seven girls ranging in age from under thirteen to fifteen you know all one

hundred and twenty five women and girls reported that nassar assaulted. i was sexually assaulted by learners shortly after my thirtieth birthday and it was a dark secret until i put the pieces together last september nassar worked at michigan state university and served as the usa olympic gymnastics team doctor during four olympic games high profile gymnast's including gold medal winners ali reisman and gabby douglas say national molested them under the guise of providing medical treatments i think is a monster and i think it is so disturbing to me what he did to me and so many other people this is so much bigger than just me i mean it's such a it's such a horrific thing to happen he was reaching under there leotards or under their clothes with an gloved hands without consent without prior knowledge without another adult in the room and in many cases digitally penetrating them that's their

apology. just in court and so horribly sorry also offering apologies was the usa gymnastics organization which failed to protect girls from nasser's predatory sexual activities the organization has compiled reports on sexual misconduct complaints against fifty four coaches but has declined to release them gymnast's and their attorneys say the institutions silence enabled their abusers and for decades u.s.c.g. own policy of on reporting sexual abuse created an atmosphere where predators marion arthur and hundreds of u.s. city coaches continue to prey on little girls if you want to stop this come clean fix what happened get rid of those who did it and move forward and instead what you're getting is stonewalling yes or faces additional charges including possession of child pornography you faces a possible minimum of forty years in prison a judge will decide his sentence in january robert oulds al-jazeera well more of

european football's biggest club to have secured their place in the last sixteen of the earth attempt is made by sounds on produce their biggest win in the competition to extend their perfect record in group b. now scored twice before his team to thrust celtic's seven one they now lead the group with fifteen points by english premier league champions at chelsea. as a to be done to secure progress in it from a group c. away and scoring twice in the four and nail a win. and there we must be presented to. the we. i want i want to get to go. to the next round the trip is legal. to avoid that. goes games. became a decisive for us i think it's very important. for barcelona have also booked their

spot at with a draw against eventis in group delia now messi started on the bench and turin brought a point was enough to see the team through. the shock of the knights came in group a manchester united losing to vassal no sides in the group have gone through yet in group munich to have already qualified for the next round they beat on the last two one stretching their winning streak on the coach you paying guests to nine matches in all competitions brazilian inside a game you have taken the opera hand after the first leg of the call calibur to dora's final this is the biggest club football competition in south america they were hosting argentinian sidelines who are competing in their first final news held firm and till the eighteenth a minute when midfielder to cerro came off the bench at to clint a one nil victory when you will head into the second leg and win

a cyrus next wednesday hoping to clinch the first. title since nine hundred ninety five. one of the fiercest contests in cricket is officially on the way with the australia hosting the first ashes test in brisbane rain affected the first morning of play at the gaba but england made a solid start to james vincent making eighty three on his debut before being run out of strain a struck back with two weekends late in the day to leave the tourists on one hundred and ninety six four for. and also made fifty three for england had cummings that was the best of the all the bonus with two wickets so on as a share the heading into day two on friday. the longest winning streak in n.b.a. this season has come to an end the boston celtics i had won sixteen straight games the fourth longest run to end their history but that was ended by the miami heat.

scored twenty seven points as the miami claimed the hundred four to ninety eight fifty three boston facing the field for the first time in five days. i have more for you later on specter pizza son of many things lost when you're on the website it's always there for you to see or go adrian is here in a couple of minutes i'm at peter don't be one eight ring of course is here with all the news on the top story that deal to do with the refugees going back to me and maybe the season.

december on al-jazeera we look back at twenty seventeen through the eyes of five families have been affected by some of the big stories of the year in an increasingly polarized world people in power sheds light on the darkest abuses of authority ten days of comprehensive coverage about nuclear arsenals around the globe and the impact they have on the diplomatic stage a special program dedicated to this year's nobel peace prize laureates i can and their pursuit of a nuclear weapon free world and we look ahead to the big stories that could dominate the headlines in twenty eighteen. december on al-jazeera.

we will maintain the finest fighting force the world has ever known united states army was so reliant on the private sector i would call the dependency we have a mismatch between the way we on the maj and work to be and the reality of the twenty first century in africa here in about a little for a while and i want to show you how many of the persons that you're sending out you should be your child soldiers and like i said my child soldiers reloaded at this time. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's that's what this job.