retaliation we're going to go go back she firing canisters of gas subsidies i believe it was to prevent the beginning anyway and that's good for according. to. the achieve something that never happened before. right.

this is al jazeera. live from studio fourteen harrod al jazeera headquarters and. you're watching the news grid. in papua new guinea a police have forced asylum seekers out of a decommissioned prison camp they refuse to leave about fifty were taken away in buses but more than three hundred remain saying that they fear for their safety we hear the very latest from our reporter on the scene. also on the great man agrees to take thousands of wrecking jail refugees who fled to bangladesh at least six hundred thousand have a state since the military crackdown began in august we'll delve into the details and the role the u.s. secretary of state played in all of this plus three months ago deadly hurricane harvey made landfall in texas today more than eighty people it was the most expensive tropical fike turn on record two hundred billion dollars worth of damage in around his county hundreds still remain homeless he didn't live to tell that

story and i'm leah hardy and us from in sanaa sixteen is in the headlines again but this time it's about sexual abuse several of the women say their team doctor molested them for years we have their story and your reaction coming up next be sure to connect with us for the hash tag. so that you know where the news grid live on air and streaming online for you tube facebook live on al-jazeera dot com now police in papua new guinea have raided a former australian run prison camp on menace island and have forcibly removed about sixty refugees the facility was closed three weeks ago and authorities cut power and water supplies but more than four hundred refugees refused to leave and have continued protesting inside undertows reports now from minus sign and. the police came in early in the morning more than three weeks after the former australian. prison at its power and water supply cut off refugees who are refusing

to leave say they were peacefully resisting but the police hit them with sticks and stones after twenty three days surviving on rain water and small amounts of smuggled in food the refugees weakened by hunger say that at least two men collapsed or were knocked unconscious in the rate police seized mobile phones to stop the refugees posting more videos and photos the flow of information became a trickle one refugee managed to speak to al-jazeera before his phone was confiscated. immigration law. only short for. oh i thought for a few would you. be

gracious not. for me. everything about sixty refugees were loaded onto buses and taken away al-jazeera filmed them as they sped along the road into town refugees shouted help to us from an open window. a delegation from international humanitarian organizations who are visiting man a silent promised access to see conditions in the former prison on thursday following the raid they were told their visit was off. there is the thing to close and here am i later of civil society can even get in and from a democratic nation under the rule of law who for thirty years has gone to lots of disasters and humanitarian situations and i'm not allowed to visit we were told to though there was no way we'd be allowed past the checkpoint on the way to the prison. the men taken out brought here to lauren the main town on the island they

knew accommodation is near and australia's government says it's ready for them and they should have moved in weeks ago but i've seen some of the accommodation and the still heavy machinery working on it and we tried to film a new home from a nearby road so private security contract stopped us this is the accommodation of the refugees are moving to the australian government says it's ready to go for. that because there are trucks there it's clearly still being worked on but the state of the new camp isn't the major issue for the refugees our protest our resistance is. the main reason is because. we want our freedom we didn't come from. they fear being dumped and what they see is merely an alternative to jail still on a remote island and the australian government takes no responsibility for it at all

andrew thomas al jazeera on matter side in papua new guinea. now tell you what if you want to get a refugee view of what's going on a very current situation this is the twitter page of bear is it you heard from him he's an iranian journalist a refugee young man assad we just saw him in one package he was arrested and later released and he describes events pretty much as happening right now so that's well worth looking at a facebook question that's just come in about manners from. where do they expect these refugees to go and will the us. straining government make preparations to return them to their homes so very important question to be answered there and ongoing all the time and we want to hear from you about these stories to keep in keep those questions coming in the senate all your comments to any one of our online platforms you can tweet us at a.j. english or on facebook at facebook dot com a.j. newsgroup it also send us a whatsapp message at plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine and

as always you can use of course the hash tag a.j. news grid now has agreed to take back hundreds of thousands of revenge of muslims who fled the army crackdown in western iraq hind state since august the government has signed a deal with bangladesh where refugees found temporary shelter this agreement comes after weeks of international pressure on me and miles leadership it's an hour from scott hide in the i'm gone after days of negotiating bangladesh's foreign minister abdul hassan mahmud ali and myanmar leader on song suchi reach an agreement on a repatriation plan for the ranger who fled rakhine state over the last three months the memo of understanding was signed in a foreign minister level working group created as the leaders reached agreement some of the hundreds of thousands of for him to refugees who fled the violence spoke of their concern about how the repatriation will work. i don't think we did they discriminate against us because we are muslim and rango if they accept us as

running is and give us full citizenship and allow us to live in peace and harmony then we will consider returning obviously the fight we have really suffered they have committed so many atrocities against us killed many of my family members been to homes and taken our land if they give us equal rights citizenship and security then we will consider going back added pressure on myanmar to move forward with the red crisis coming from washington a week after his visit to the country u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson called the army crackdown in rakhine ethnic cleansing that's the first time the troubled ministration has used that description in his first visit to the capital neighbored or last week to listen call the events in rakhine as just horrific he also said an impartial independent investigation is needed. russia's ambassador to me on maher says the ethnic cleansing label is unhelpful and an independent investigation is not acceptable for me and more so many young gone agree but i'll maybe going on you when you know in my opinion the

statement by the u.s. secretary of state is one sided he's meddling in our country's affairs. even though a repatriation agreement has been reached it's not clear how quickly the refugees were turned to myanmar not to mention of they'll be going back to the villages they were a victim from or even if many villages which were left in flames still exist it's got harder al jazeera young gone. i just want to show you some really excellent work for a mile a web team here at al-jazeera dot com an interactive explaining all about the range of prices that they're showing me and more in bangladesh there's rakhine state there in red with the euro fleeing from northwest across bangladesh's border into cox's bazaar right there and that's where refugee populations have been swelling all the time in makeshift refugee camps set up where more than six hundred thousand as we've been hearing and fled into bangladesh could be about to get. well if you scroll down of those pages you can also see

a map of the wider region showing numbers that have fled since the nine hundred seventy s. began a long time this story totals more than a million and shows where they're living now in countries right across that region now syrian opposition groups meeting in the saudi capital have renewed that demand for the removal of president bashar al assad to begin any transition process for a solution says the governing body could include members of the government saudi arabia which backs the syrian opposition says the aim of the conference is to unify various factions ahead of negotiations in geneva on shoes day speak now to really suffer who's a professor of political science at how i'd been at university and catherine was a member of the syrian national council for political office joining us now here welcome to the show what's your assessment of where we are at now the opposition is still saying they do not want assad to be part of the transition but the reality is that is going to stay there for

a while at least. this is what things look look like at this point because what what's what we have seen in the. conference is one step closer to meeting the demands and the plan of the russians which is to keep really at least. in the short run but there is no guarantee that he would not be continuing in office so yes there was a reference to removal of said as a desired but it looks it looks like from the language is negotiable at this point right so this is a unified stance and that could make the difference. well i think it you know it is good that the opposition have kept together some important. you know post but clearly. the communique seems to present a unified platform but still there is

a lot of division internally and different vision of how the political solution will look like for example the bus called the more mosque or platform led by the regime in same's to to see to refusing that the essential step down but rather he should stay on the run for office in the next elections has come up with is this concept of the peace congress so there's that and i'm also interested know where the u.s. fits into all of this. what it looks like to us really this point is focusing on fighting. and now making sure that dash will not come back and so the trumpet mistakes will latch key forces in northern syria where the forces now. are staged. but it seems that there is a touch you know there's an acceptance of the russian solution and there is

a clear position and trump has been very outspoken about did that assad has to remain at this point he said you know we know he is a war criminal but but we're not going to push for his of stuff all right larry great to get your perspective on this and very much appreciate it thank you very much indeed for joining us here in the studio plenty more on our program inside story and you can find that it's all about the rocky road to a peaceful settlement and pose the question is the war in syria almost over it's presented by my colleague laura carle inside story interesting lineup of guests that just go to al jazeera dot com and go to the shows tab and select inside story ok let's take a look at the the multi view here and see what's going to be voted may have putin is speaking there and various other events taking place including a rather large giant inflatable firemen from somewhere i'm not sure exactly where that is but let's go straight to london felicity barr is standing by.

i then act like so much we're going to start in yemen that's where the main international airport hasn't reopened despite the saudi led coalition saying it would the military alliance announce they would be allowing humanitarian aid into san our airports and the seaports of the data they've been facing increasing pressure from the u.s. and u.n. to lift the blockade ports were closed to weeks ago after who the rebels fired a missile at the saudi capital riyadh the u.n. and aid agencies say the measures could lead to mass starvation will general goldbrick is the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen and he told us that requests to be made to offload days with no response. well i was going to see them and you know some and from the coalition to see them they were there and of course all humanitarian cargoes to come in and we also hear her or her son was also because of the. quest and to bring sensible. diet and so the four grain of loading with the same

time for the sun here or for you in an international passengers. well we were told that the northern gauge received a says twelve o'clock on the twenty third which is today so we incurred in their obligations for a quest for the ships to come into the ports and also for flights to come in and to deliver medical material to some and also to bring it to national stuff so we were going through the normal procedures to get aboard overnight and we all flew those planes can resume to more and more for that we some of the ports as well as north acacias or the actual operation. started but there has been a lot going on because they know how it is a little more from nations days and from the un itself the thing that's where we are today and there was a letter from the second general which said that they want to the ports opened at the airport open and then the u.n. grid send an international team to the to discuss some of the concerns that are so

ticklish and the team will be dispatched as soon as we get the green light to see that back we were in the not just the humanitarian side of things it was also commercial issues that we need the fuel shortage in the countries very severe and we want to try measuring the fuel is also a comedy to this part of this as by the stoical addition to our operations to continue. now the lebanese group hezbollah has held prime minister saad hariri star turned to the country saying it will help lebanon return to normal really shocked the country when he announced he was stepping down while in saudi arabia this month he's since returned to be a very. old saying the political crisis is a wake up call for lebanese citizens to unite and put country first and a whole has been talking to people in beirut to get that take on what has been a dramatic few weeks the political crisis has eased but the main problem between the two major political alliances the pro and pro hezbollah camps has not gone away

hezbollah's arms and the group's decision to militarily intervene in conflicts beyond lebanon's borders have long divided the lebanese political differences that are unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. i believe an agreement can be reached to stick to the disassociation policy lebanon should stay away from all the conflicts of the arab region we need a new disappear because of politics. just like. the ball game somebody is playing with them all controlling them. three weeks ago lebanon found itself yet again on the brink prime minister assad of how do you resigned while he was in saudi arabia it was unexpected even his closest aides were shocked to stay in the kingdom was mysterious many in lebanon including

the president accuse saudi arabia of forcing him to resign and holding him hostage last week he left riyadh for paris after french mediation he came back to beirut late tuesday he then decided to suspend his resignation saying he wants to give time for dialogue so what happened many here believe it was not an internal lebanese affair can he do when you can be a major power. small opposed to avoid direct conflicts which is the case between iran and saudi they each supporting small groups in lebanon to fight their battles for example the saudis are using prime minister hariri to pressure iran and hezbollah. another month they have eighteen six hereon groups and many of them are supported by foreign powers and none of them are sticking to dissociation policy here nor are they working for the interests of lebanon security and political sources have told al-jazeera that zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has been granted immunity from prosecution they say the deal was brokered as part of

his resignation guaranteeing his safety in zimbabwe and letting him avoid. the same gobby stated that he wants to die in his home country or that's it for me here in london back to doha and tonight for say thank you very much thank you yes now as foreign minister says his country is committed to eradicating terrorism of all kinds of shaikh mohammed bin abdul rahman al tani was speaking at a counterterrorism conference in london saudi arabia united arab emirates egypt and bahrain cut off ties with cancer back in june of course accusing it of supporting terrorism. but that it wants constantly. to seek a new collective approaches to the global threat on terrorism and a changing. since two thousand and four but that it took aggressive steps to cut off the flow of finance of terrorists by developing the proper

legislation properly just let a framework and improve our financial monitoring system and it is a work in progress which needs review and improvement well let's hear more about what's been happening to my shell joins us live from london jamal the big global issue this of course tell us more. indeed nic i mean it is a significant conference it is the first of its kind for a long time in fact specifically since the g.c.c. crisis plays but obviously also beyond that you're talking about the continued fight against i saw myself being on the back for it in terms of losing territories in iraq and syria and the idea about this conference is to find ways to ensure that . what this person used to be probably the biggest threats against many of the countries which is terrorism in this part of terrorism is countered through a unified approach and the fact that's an arab nation not caught that is taking the lead in this is very significant and i'm actually joined by dr tiny who is qatar's

foreign ministries special representative to terrorism a position which is unique in the arab world i want to ask you about this conference what is the significance of an event like this well first of all i think this is a very important conference timely and important conference that comes in a time while there is a critical we are facing in the current well in a critical very it in our region more oil and there is a lot of conflicts going on and i think we shared a lot of information among ourselves there are a lot of challenges well that's not only the region by the international community as a whole is facing large. political challenges legal challenges intelligence challenges and we're trying to address all these challenges and this conference and that's why i think it's quite important because without international cooperation regional cooperation then we will have some difficulties in solving what sort of what to

what messages or your government trying to send by organizing a conference like this well i think solidarity cooperation complementarity collaboration among all nations is quite indispensable for us to do to defeat terrorism to compare them without collaboration coordination solidarity unity there's the will be it will be very. to defeat terrorism you're talking about unity and solidarity and cooperation but the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council obviously its future is under threats because of the crisis that's gone on for six months what impact has this crisis had on the fight against terrorism considering that qatar is host through the u.s. base the h.q. of the. coalition being in doha what impact has the crisis had on the fight against well first of all in terms of our relation with the united states it's stronger than ever before. we are strategic allies the united states and united states as

well so if you tickle as to what the problem is with this crisis which we have nothing to do with but unfortunately this a crisis that does undermine our collective for security does that does undermine our collective could kill operation. of countries i think it's not in the interest of any countries it's not in the interest of any any states it's the interest of interest of groups this kind of crisis so we would like to end this crisis but not in the expense of our. integrity and political independence and sovereignty but i would look after me thank you very much for your time so although the main theme of this conference and. countering terrorism obviously with a lot of focus on emphasis on groups like i saw in the attacks that have taken place in several countries particularly in europe there is that undertone of the on the current kind s. which is the current g.c.c.

crisis and what impact that's having particularly considering that qatar has been accused by the blockading nations of sponsoring terrorism doc i want to show that far from it actually it is taking the lead in terms of combating terrorism so it is a very significant event that has been taking place but obviously a lot of politicking taking place around it thanks very much indeed that is the picture from london. reporting there of course have you got any views or thoughts on any of the stories we're covering we want to hear from you can use any of our platforms tweet us at a.j. english or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. newsgroup and you can also send us a whatsapp message at nine hundred forty five a one trick one four nine and as always you can use the hash tag a.j. news grid now coming up on the newsgroup for frequent viewers on market find out how young people in vietnam a video over the rocks is a challenging tradition also ahead on the program it's not your average test we

show you why the college being true for example south korea gets the attention of the entire country from. school. however we have yet more right in the forecast for the middle east is staying rather unsettled rather disturbed at all that cloud that we have making its way from west to thais you will see some heavy bursts of right so the onset of weather that is spilling out of turkey the country's just pushing over towards central areas of the region some heavy rain certainly a possibility into northern parts of iraq ten celsius in tehran could see some snow there over the high ground the far north of iraq looking rather unsettled just seventeen celsius there and baghdad the west weather tries to not just way further east with some snow over the high ground there of afghanistan wet weather for many

then maybe while a little bit of wet weather to into the arabian peninsula some think a cloud there just around us here and carter could see a little bit of shabby rain still a possibility through friday i suspect just in the process of diminishing moving out of the way the wet weather we have across southern into the red sea cultivated again as we go through the next hour or so but certainly feeling cooler than of late it down haha is. twenty six degrees celsius but while we've got some rather wet weather to go into the eastern side of south africa over the next few days you can see the dab weather draining out of the tropics pushing further south with the eastern cape say showers through friday and still unsettled saturday. transport measures employed to tackle pollution in one of china's showcase cities the thing that my twenty twenty on attack seem to want to be only on lightning.

and how environmental grassroots campaigns are joining forces in the u.s. there is a global connection that is happening and we're going to utilize that power to make changes not only for today but for future generations as well. this time on al-jazeera. sometimes pictures of the only way to truly tell a story and al-jazeera so goes the extra mile to use some of the latest camera gear and technology to make sure these images are innovative to be a little images not just in behind the best bits of giving them the feel of what the team whenever needed. as a child of political refugee is i've always been aware of different kinds of stories and different kinds of sensitivities al jazeera is a space for that. the

air . the air . they can look at a plain english ferret out there a dot com top there from set up the soundman of a report from our political analyst situation the saudi arabia has expanded its country blacklist and also a bit further down the story which ties into doubt about it creates a need for on the side of no choice it's an unannounced visit. we've also got of

course thanksgiving day today in the united states what is it all about did you know that abraham lincoln was the first u.s. president to declare the festival a lot more about thanksgiving there on the web site and there's also the of course there were going to deal that we've been talking about you know. between bangladesh and six hundred fifty five of you if you do you clean into bangladesh. harken whole of it was the most expensive tropical cyclone a record it's winds and waters did nearly two hundred billion dollars in damage breaking the record set by harken katrina in two thousand and five and nowhere was harvey's devastation felt more than in texas our insists county where hundreds remain homeless over the holiday of thanksgiving john henry reports now from the town of fulton. carry everything to me. over on this thanksgiving holiday the people of fulton texas have fewer blessings

to count after their thought about taking my lap one time for manic depression status and we're going to have a christmas is going to get a christmas. card. 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 they got quite a few of their own with that ninety eight percent of those they're homeless in some way corn in the 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 he 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 the neighbor's house yeah they were as an friends and customers know everybody needed

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. well please they we can the joint join hundred live from port in texas and join tell us why so many people are still homeless three months old will make actually so little has changed since three months ago there are piles of debris outside of town but very little has been reconstructed so there are very few homes for those people to go to if you just look at this hotel where i am perhaps a place that people who are homeless would otherwise state and see how devastated it is and it is left entirely unguarded unfixed there is still debris on the ground

let me take you into a room here. this obviously has not been cleaned up as has happened throughout much of this town here rockport is where the eye of that storm struck the texas coast so here is where many things are worse there are a lot of small towns along here and what we found is that of the twenty seven thousand people who live in iran's this county here only thirteen thousand of them have registered with the federal emergency management agency now that's something you need to do in order to get federal aid and half of the people here have either chosen not to do that or don't realize that is what they have to do some people are mistrustful of the federal government some people are proud perhaps overwhelmed by the huge amount of paperwork that is required twenty fema trailers have arrived here but more than three hundred people have asked for help with housing and that's why you see the kind of tent cities that you saw in that story you get

a real picture of that right there where you are of just how devastating it must be and that was somebody who once was that tell us about abroad is going to cross the whole region. well they're coping with depression as you could hear from the sheriff in that story and this is a guy who's actually fairly well off compared to a lot of people so there's a lot of untreated mental issues going on here you've gone people obviously living in tents we talked to a woman there who talked about how depressing it was to live there where it was dirty for three months receiving help from a number of other people many people are living with relatives the sheriff himself is sleeping in his living room because that's the only place where he has electricity and many people here are surviving on donations from kind people who send them into the region. but what we've heard is that on this thanksgiving holiday people say they may have less to be thankful for but they are more thankful

for what they have that this event has actually crystallized for them what is important that woman in this story melissa who had the chocolate factory that was wiped out she said it wasn't her first business it won't be her last she's now working at a furniture store where it's doing very well because everybody here needs to replace their furniture yeah it was ranged in june when the she was talking about how she'd lost the american dream john hendren thanks very much indeed for that we can i can just put you in the direction of a very interesting program examining the impact of hurricane hope in houston whether the storm will deepen the city's social and economic divide that to find that program very good for lunch programs is going to a website odds are it will come and so that documentaries the documentaries tap and find fault lines and you'll get it right that. now there may a former team doctor connected to the united states a limp gymnastics team faces forty years in prison for sexually abusing at least one hundred twenty five underage girls the judge told larry massa had used his

position of trust in the most vile way to abuse children it is the latest in a series of sex scandals in us sports entertainment journalism and politics rob reynolds has more. four 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 in all one hundred and twenty five women and girls reported that nassar assaulted. i was sexist by larry certainly after a thirtieth birthday and it was a dark secret and so i put the pieces together last september nasser 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 nasser 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 at such a horrific thing to happen he was reaching under there leotards or under their clothes with ungloved hands without consent without prior knowledge without another adult in the room and in many cases digitally penetrating them nasser apologized in court and i'm so 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 abuser and for decades the i think you own policy of on reporting sexual abuse created an atmosphere where predators marion arthur and hundreds of coated 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 nasser faces additional charges including possession of child pornography he faces a possible minimum of forty years in prison a judge will decide his sentence in january robert oulds al-jazeera well it really is a shocking story and one that you've been following for us from social media right what's interesting about this is that many of those gymnast's that we heard from are also sharing more of their stories online their testimonies of what happened have been quite bold really the team was known as the fierce five at the london

games and many are saying that that name is still very fitting three of them say that they were sexually assaulted here gold medal gymnast being one of them gabby douglas she tweeted here can demean the sexual acts and then brought back the hash tag me to the reaction online has been one of disbelief especially since as we said one hundred twenty five girls were impacted steph here saying why haven't we heard these stories as widely reported as the ones against movie stars and politicians u.s. olympic champion ali raisman who we also heard from she shared more of her story about what happened with her and the team doctor in an interview with sixty minutes on c.b.s. i was just really innocent i didn't really know you know you don't think that of someone you know so i just i trusted him you thought it was medical treatment i didn't know anything differently we were told he is the best doctor he's a united states olympic doctor and the usa gymnastics doctor and we were very lucky

we were able to see him why are we looking at why didn't the girl speak of why not look at what about the culture what did usa gymnastics do and larry nasser do to manipulate these girls so much that they are so afraid to speak up you're angry i am angry hate it i'm really upset. olympic champion gymnast gabby douglas also took to twitter to address victim shaming in a tweet she said quote no matter what you wear it never gives anyone the right to harass or abuse you it would be like saying that because of the leotards we wore it was our fault that we were abused by larry nasser i did not publicly share my experiences because for years we were conditioned to stay silent usa gymnastics has sent set up what they call quote the safe sport policy and they say one of the main goals is to quote promote an environment of empowerment that encourages speaking up the president of usa gymnastics resigned in march following the sexual assault

allegations with the team doctor the new head will take over the organization on december first i've been tweeting articles and interviews about this all day feel free to comment on those post to let me know what you think my twitter handles leah harding a.j. and as always you have a hash tag there hash tag aging is great nick we have things for which we think you know the pressure is on the hundreds of thousands of students in south korea as they sit for their exams we all know about the challenges of the of these all important college entrance tests often set the course of a young person's future especially the have you know about reports know from school . south koreans have a reputation for education fever going to university preferably a prestigious one is extremely important in this confucian society most students will go to school all day and then after that there's more classes at what's known as cram schools will be there until about ten p.m. and then they're still homework all of that leading up to this all important

college entrance exam. 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 the ok was welcomed to school by a 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. make them 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 planes aren't allowed to take off morning 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 sooner and 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 in college admission 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. just still exists because you know there are many academies and students are pressured to be more excelling because the universe in a verse cities are you know a 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. so all of this of course is extremely stressful for students south korea produces some of the world's most successful students but also some of the most unhappy about nine percent of high school students said they had suicidal thoughts more than three times the government seems to recognise this is

a problem and is taking steps to change that we heard there in the story about making it more easy for students to try to apply over the course of their high school career for university rather than leaving it up to this one single entrance exam the government is also trying to tell students that it's ok not to go to university at all and to take up vocational training instead some of the message seems to be getting through the number of students that went on to university after high school peaked in two thousand and eight at around eighty four percent well last year that number was closer to about seventy percent because we talk about exam day pressure around let's go do a hard enough or story trending on the internet about the internet yes well it's about this signal if you hate this it's so my friends call it the pin wheel of death the need to listen up because people with the internet if you don't like seen this it's because no one really likes waiting for this game but so digital

activists in the u.s. are afraid that the internet may actually lose one of its best qualities being unlimited freedom the f.c.c. or the federal communications commission unveiled its plan to reverse a ruling that controls the powers behind the internet the current legislation approved by the obama administration in two thousand and fifteen basically guarantees all internet traffic should be equal that i s p's or internet service providers cannot control what you search or how fast you get there this is called net neutrality you probably heard of it it's complicated i know but let's break it down in another way. what makes the internet great is the freedom it gives us whether it's staying in touch with friends watching movies or spending hours finding the perfect job but right now that freedom is at risk the open internet is protected by something called net neutrality which big companies like comcast of arisan and eighteen t. have been attacking for years net neutrality means that your cable company can't

block you from visiting your favorite websites they can't artificially slow sites down and they can't make special deals to speed up some sites and slow down others there are two sides to this fight in support of net neutrality are the biggest web companies small startups and organizations who advocate for your right for free speech. who's on the opposing team the cable and phone companies. it's not complicated cable companies see getting rid of net neutrality as a way to squeeze more money out of internet users and businesses everyone else supports it because net neutrality means no government before ration can control what you do online the good news is in twenty fifteen the f.c.c. passed strong protections for net neutrality the bad news cable companies are already on the attack and the new f.c.c. is on their side and wants to gut the rules that means the fight to protect the internet is far from over. so how will this affect all of you as a consumer well it might look like this instead of buying

a big bundle with the same speed for everything you have to decide do you want faster social media apps or streaming services it's essentially like a pay to play model now online thousands have come forward to protest this using the hash tag net neutrality and this includes users and companies like netflix who oppose f c c's proposal now senator bernie sanders he also took to twitter saying that quote the trumpet ministrations sides with big money and against democracy if this passes the internet and its free exchange of information as we know comes to will maybe cease to exist there's even a campaign for americans to call their congressmen and women to try and stop the changes the new legislation might allow the creation of so-called fast lanes meaning small projects will have to compete with giants like netflix imagine if facebook in its early days was competing with facebook as it is now many worry the

new law will kill online innovation and turn the internet into a monopoly. what's going to happen is essentially that that is going to be do what it docks in on the internet because startups and businesses and students who want to build apps will not have the freedom to essentially create the apps that they want if you create a negotiation gene that do lawn tonight but we don't want an online service you have to go in there with a nice be for the bundling back it's suppose you must suffer because they're going to the end up getting less of the internet and that's face it a few sites are not the internet. diet internet is the internet the internet provider should not be allowed to pick and choose which pieces of the internet they want to deliver to your house or who gets to reach your computer faster than who else imagine paying for premium version of facebook or premium version of. all of this stuff that we kind of bet our phones and tablets and laptops and just kind of

take for granted is free services are either going to get worse or more expensive or both. on the other side of this you have the government that does not think that the new laws would hurt consumers some of these telcos could hold could hold streaming services like netflix hostage by demanding more money from them do you worry about that well i think the key word in your question is could this is all entirely hypothetical we have never seen that in the twenty years or so that the commercial internet has existed and going forward we require transparency as i said to make sure that any practice like that would be disclosed and we empower the federal trade commission to take to take action against any company big or small that behaving in any competitive way or otherwise harming consumers. in the official f.c.c. statement that high further said that quote the federal government will stop micromanaging the enter net instead consumers can buy the service plan that's best

for them and entrepreneurs and other small businesses can have the technical information they need to innovate the f.c.c. will vote on the new regulations on december fourteenth with a republican majority in the commission though the change is expected to pass we want to know what you think as always get in touch with us of the hash tag nick thanks very much indeed a very complicated story very well explained thank you know. there was just a very we want to hear from you about all the stories we cover you can send your comments in to any one of our online platforms we've got several you can tweet us a.j. english or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a j news grid also send a waltz message nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine and as always you can use the hash tag a.j. news grid well the oldest cricket contest is underway bit this picture that sparked the social media storm from here just a moment. or

let's find out what people are talking about. thank you so much nic one of the sporting world's most notorious rivalries has begun australia is hosting england and the first ashes test it's all taking place at the gabba in brisbane the aussies haven't lost a test match there since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight but england have made a strong start to the competition which takes place at least once every two years a tourist and a day one on one hundred and ninety six for for now if you're like me and don't

know whole lot about the ashes here are some interesting facts i've picked up along the way it all began in one thousand nine hundred eighty when australia's cricket team beat england on english soil the home of cricket after that victory a british newspaper posted a mock obituary saying that english cricket has died and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to australia ever since then it's been known as the ashes england won back the ashes after that series the two sides take turns hosting each other in a five match test series and the winner takes home this urn measuring just eleven centimeters tall and according to legend it's said to contain a burnt cricket bale. you think social media usage would be a tale of two countries but we've had to add a third this is a heat map that shows that we're going of all tweets using the hashtag ashes over the past twenty four hours thirty seven percent of total tweets came from the u.k. but there were actually more tweets that came from the cricket loving country of

india than from the host nation of australia. now away from the action on the field there's been a big debate in australia over the past week over diversity in sports commentary teams it started with this this picture was tweeted by channel nine who broadcast the ashes in australia meet our commentary team you might notice something missing in that this tweet captures it it's twenty seventeen i need you to do better than this there are a multitude of talented capable female presenters that could have joined the panel a women's cricket podcast in australia joking you're all absolutely right there is diversity here one of these men is wearing a hat on the other side of the argument to our all these haters these eight are the most qualified most knowledgeable presenters that cricket of all craig norm birds was manager of a.b.c.

grandstand a famous radio broadcaster of cricket in australia he's also criticised channel nine for their lack of diversity here's what he had to say. it wasn't just me a lot of people jump straight on the photograph and see what's missing here some of them said it was the worst boy band ever others see the obvious thing which was the lack of diversity that was being presented there so i simply just replied and see when i was head of sport at the ivy surrey we did almost made it our mission because in my wife's thinking your commentary tame should represent the audience that you are going to that you are broadcasting to one of the reasons why i think out to syria is so good because it does reflect its audience it reflects starve us it's one of the few broadcasters of the moment that is actually moving in that area in taking forward steps in that area if you have a good sport all right all around the world and i think if reflecting their audience by sport slowly making its way towards that jesica mende is has been an

analyst for e.s.p.n. on baseball but cricket is the same slowly dragging in so going twenty first century one of the things i noticed when i had dealings with cricket australia was that they wanted more diversity but i'd imagine that when it comes to some of the big sports the almighty dollar wins outs and they sign the contract they don't build into the contract please build diverse cities because the sports such as cricket being played all around the world and they're trying to push into serious lang far behind us and it's certainly not a knock on the ashes commentary team as such yet they've all played for australia except one there's a guy on the channel on coventry tonight and don't have to go in and names because the people watching you don't playing cricket nations one understand what i'm talking about but there is one guy that that hasn't played for australia and it seems they make an exception for him because he's a man but they won't make an exception for women who have actually played international women's cricket have actually captained at the at the highest level

and could add something to the team so when they say everyone on our team has played the guy well not everyone has and it's not just cricket that does it it's a lot of sports. ok share your views on this issue with any others. or i'm on twitter at underscore i'll be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to me for they very much as well let's go to seeing you later that is it for this news group do you remember. the hashtag of course is a.j. news groups the ways connect is. the fifty.

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