so. like he's it'll be all right for the. family to. see if you like kids. with. him and agrees to take back thousands of refugees who fled to bangladesh but many

a fight and to return. without leaving the city bought this is al jazeera live from london also coming up . her south be asylum seekers who had refused to leave the film australian run prison camp among a side of. zimbabwe sought market has lost six billion dollars in a week can the new president rescue the ailing economy. and his relatives await news of argentina's missing submarine crew and i reports here in what may have been an explosion. followed me and ma and bangladesh have signed a deal for the repository ation a brief injury refugees on the desk that it will begin within two months but it's not clear how many refugees would be allowed to return home since august more than

six hundred thousand have fled a military crackdown and me and not many are now concerned about how this deal will affect the so-called high the reports from the angle. after days of negotiating bangladesh's foreign minister abdul hasan 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 our hindu 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

burned 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. so many and gone agree but no 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 not hard to al-jazeera young gun or by germans a walk is a thought i with harvard law school's human rights program and says any. u.n.h.c.r. has to be involved on the myanmar side of the border to assist to assess whether or not the conditions for the return of the ranges are such that they can return in both safety and dignity and on the bangladesh side of the border refugees are entitled to the given adequate and accurate information so that they can make an informed decision as to want as to whether or not they wish to return any return any repatriation has to be fully voluntary and entirely safe u.n.h.c.r. often facilitate something called go and see visits whereby certain select numbers of refugees cross back into their country of origin and are able to see for themselves with their land their houses their cattle. are intact and waiting for

them and if such is not the case they have the right to refuse to go back. police in puppy guinea have raided a former australian run prison camp on mount a silent and forcibly removed about sixty refugees the facility was closed three weeks ago when power and water supplies were cut but more than four hundred refugees refused to leave and have continued protesting inside there is that the thomas has more from man a sign and. the police came in early in the morning more than three weeks after the former australian run 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 raid 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 boat was confiscated. immigration. gratian. 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 were 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 a leader of civil society kind of thing getting in and from a democratic nation under the rule of law who for thirty years gone to lots of disasters and humanitarian situations and i'm 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 or brought here to lauren the main town on the island then your 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 so the australian government says it is ready to go with.

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 our freedom we want our freedom we didn't come from. prison for ever they fear being dumped and what they see is merely an alternative jail still on a remote island and the australian government takes no responsibility for it at all andrew thomas al jazeera on my side and in papua new guinea. now zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has reportedly been granted immunity from prosecution under a deal brokered as part of his resignation security and political sources have told him and guarantees his safety in zimbabwe and means he won't go into exile the

sources say mcgarvey expressed the wish to die in his home country andrew symonds has moved from the capital harare. there hasn't been an official announcement and there isn't likely to be warm but political and security sources are saying that there has been a deal between robert mugabe and the negotiators ahead of his resignation he had thought apparently that he had to have protection against any prosecution in the impeachment proceedings but no there was no offer initially of any form of protection but apparently there is now gabi has indicated not directly but indirectly that he wants to stay in zimbabwe he doesn't want to go into exile and by his side in that picture which again isn't official it was on social media it is apparently taken recently not in state houses saw elsewhere with grace mcgarvie there on that so far with three key figures behind them one of them

a negotiator another one an intelligence member and a prominent businessman now what is happening now is that seeing emerson. get in place for a major move at his swearing in to actually announced major change right across the board so all eyes are going to be on that historic event and all hopes it has to be said of seventeen million zimbabweans also resting on what he has to say on friday well zimbabwe stock market has shed six billion dollars on his main index a slump by forty percent since last wednesday when the military seized power which led to mccarthyism i think nation many are now hoping that emerson man and god who we sworn in on friday will turn the economy around and i was there as the media minute has visited the town of go to monsey to speak to people about their hopes for the future. anyway want to be making cabinets coffins and doors and go to monsey for more than twenty years business has not always been

great but it's worse than ever now the carpenter says a poor economy and political upheaval means rising costs and customers with less money to spend then i think. things will be changed now. the. know the president things will be i think we'll be ok the small town like many others in rural areas is in desperate need of development a single tarred road runs through the town center there's no running water and not everyone has electricity many years say government economic policies meant to help the poor have been ineffective often only benefiting the political elite most people here farm and salvage people to make ends meet with about eighty percent of zimbabweans unemployed many have few options some have stayed while others have left the bar where looking for work alongside the market shift but in love with six

repairing shoes for a living. i've got a wife i've got children. but look at my job what i'm doing i don't know what i'm doing after more than three decades with one president there's no promise of change but many here wouldn't speak to us on camera believing it's not safe after years of political oppression in private they did say they want peace along with economic recovery it's thoughts political freedoms won't emerge overnight began our policy changes that would immediately and courage investors investors are discouraged property rights the lack of probably rights and the indigenous social policies have been very discouraging and sort of investment for quite a while and therefore no job creation. more celebrations are planned when emerson when i'm god why is sworn in on friday but many zimbabweans are wondering

whether a new face will bring meaningful transformation always it will be more of the same for me daimler al-jazeera the arab ones is involved with. all right still ahead on the program. but in south korea. life changing experience. for me one hundred fifty years trying to keep the pipes. however we have yet more right in the forecast for the middle east is staying rather unsettled rather disturbing all that cloud that we have making its way from west to. 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 of fog north of iraq looking rather unsettled just seventeen in fact at the west whether tries to notice way further east with some snow over the high ground there of afghanistan wet weather for many then maybe a little bit of wet weather too into the arabian peninsula some think a cloud there just around us here and cause 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 day but certainly feeling cooler than of light of around twenty six degrees celsius meanwhile we got some rather wet weather to into the eastern side of south africa over the next few days you can see that damp weather draining out of the tropics pushing further south let's say showers for

friday and still unsettled on saturday.

well again i remind of the top stories on al-jazeera and bangladesh say they've signed a deal for the reprise traction of hundreds of thousands of or injured refugees but many fear for the violence if they would. the u.n. is a single strain here to protect refugees as a detention center it used to run in papa new guinea place among us on to try to take hundreds of refugees who are fleecing to leave. on security and political sources have told al-jazeera that zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has been granted immunity from prosecution as part of his resignation deal. he also into the navy says a noise detected near the last known location of a missing submarine with forty four crew on board is consistent with an explosion a huge c. and as such is continuing off the coast of argentina to find the a or a san juan. we received information of an abnormal singular

short to violent non-nuclear event that was consistent with an explosion. and this updates from cyrus. although nothing has yet been confirmed the news being relayed by the argentine naval or thor it is is looking increasingly grim for the forty four members crew members of the submarine the one which disappeared lost contact with your thorough it is now more than nine days ago than they were spokesman. came out to say that they have with information that an abnormal singular short violent nonu killer event that was consistent with an explosion that had been received he's not spoken about the fate of the forty four crew members after that news was relayed to the family members some of them came out to say they were very angry with the argentine or storage is first of all for taking so long to bring this

information to light and secondly about not being told anything any confirmed information about their family members that they are now many of them fearing the worst in the meantime the search and rescue operation involving aircraft ships and under sea rescue equipment from at least nine countries is still going on in rough waters in the south atlantic around the spot where communication was lost with the submarine something like four hundred thirty kilometers off the southeastern coast of argentina where as i say information means the hopes and expectations are increasingly dire but nobody is giving up just yet until that information has been confirmed sudan's president has also to make his country russia's gateway to africa ahead of a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin in. need of protection from aggressive actions by the u.s. . provoking conflicts in the region will save lives it is allowing russia to sit

downs red sea they say is. subject to arrest warrants the international criminal court alleged war crimes and genocide in sudan's darfur region. syrian opposition groups meeting in the saudi capital have renewed their demand for the removal of president bashar al assad in a draft resolution there had been speculation that behind a geisha committee would soften their position after the resignation of former chief we had her job the group is being backed by saudi arabia it says the aim of the we had conference is to unify opposition groups ahead of upcoming negotiations in geneva. when. there is no solution to the crisis without a syrian consensus start with achieve the demands of the syrian people on the basis of geneva one and the un security council resolution two two five four iraqi forces have launched an operation to clear remaining eisel fighters from the deserts bordering syria troops from the iraqi army and here popular mobilization forces are

taking part in the offensive against arsenal fighters who are hiding in a large stricken border land iraq's prime minister hyderabadi says he'll announce the final defeat of the army in iraq once the operation has ended lebanon's prime minister says the recent political crisis is a wake up call reminding his people to put their country first ahead of regional issues saad hariri put his resignation on hold when he returned to beirut on wednesday of the president asked for more dialogue his surprise decision to quit announced in saudi arabia two weeks ago was seen as part of the regional power play between saudi arabia and iran where we had a coalition government which contains the iranian backed group has been all saying holder has been talking to people in beirut to get their reaction to what has been a dramatic few weeks. the political crisis has but the main problem between the two major political alliances the pro. camps has not gone away hezbollah's arms

and the groups 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 i'm not. just like. i'm the one with the ball game somebody is playing with them all controlling them. three weeks ago lebanon found itself yet again on the brink prime minister 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 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 as you small opposed to avoid direct conflicts which is the case between iran and saudi they each supporting small groups in lebanon to fight the battle for example the saudis are using prime minister hariri to pressure iran and hezbollah. and you have eighteen six hereon groups and many of them are supported by foreign powers and none of them is sticking to disassociation policy here are they working for the interests of lebanon. yemen's main international airport hasn't been despite the sound like coalition saying it would. military alliance announced it would be allowing humanitarian aid into sun our airports around the seaport of the data they've been facing increasing pressure from the u.s. and u.n.

to lift the blockade was so close 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. most initials the leader of germany's social democrat party has met the country's president to see if they can break a political impasse since the election talks to form a government led by chancellor angela merkel broke down over the weekend she also so far refused to answer coalition talks about is under increasing pressure to do so john mccain is in berlin for us. it's been a day of meetings for the social democratic party leader martin short's first with his senior colleague the president of germany frank fattush fine meyer which was called at the request of the president basically to see whether mr shultz feels there's any possibility of being able to find a solution to the political and past that has developed since the weekend when the coalition talks between the other main parties collapsed and then there was

a meeting for mr schultz with his senior party colleagues on the s.p.d. the social democrat board later in the afternoon the point to be made there is that mr schultz has been implacably opposed until now to the idea of another grand coalition with angle america's christian democrat party but increasingly voices of senior social democrat colleagues of his have said well look actually if there can't be a government of a different political hue maybe we should go back into government with angela merkel because germany needs to billet that's the point to make here that there are very many other factors at play not least on the european scale given the importance europe germany has in the e.u. given breaks it talks and other important european matters that will require a stable government in germany has been an important day in south korea with hundreds of thousands of students sitting there university entrance exams south korea is

a competitive country and authorities take extraordinary measures to make sure students get the tests and do well so airline departures the delayed and many businesses open later to reduce traffic congestion having know that reports from seoul. the years of study and long nights of after school tuition have all come down to the us. i prepared a lot but now that the days here i feel uneasy and nervous. welcome to school by younger friends students in this new tory asli competitive. entry no 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 . has become a national event these students have shown up early this year on their classmate late hours can have a police escort and police aren't allowed to take off or land during the english

listening. 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 tsunami. 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 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 sure the just the exists because you know there are many academies and syrians are pressured to be more excelling because the universe in a verse it is 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 kathy novak al-jazeera saw some patrick's old cathedral in new york city is home to one of the

oldest pipe organs in the united states but cathedral staff are concerned the important historical interim and may not make it to its one hundred and fifty eighth birthday next year so they're trying to raise two million dollars to restore and preserve the glorious instrument jarrad lament so the cathedrals music director has become as much mechanic as he is musician he shows us what it takes to keep the organs pipes into. i'm gerald manzo i'm the director of music here at the basilica of st patrick's old cathedral in new york city. this organ was built by a man named henry urban back in eight hundred sixty eight and i like to think it was his finest work. it was boys for this room he designed it for this room and that's such an important part of why this organ special.

it's a wonderful combination of visual art and also sonic r. . and has almost two thousand five hundred pipes and it's all mechanical so you can see how everything works so here we are inside oregon. down here we have the bellows and they go all the way underneath the instrument and they go up and down and therefore. there is no electricity an eight hundred sixty eight the telegraph had just been invented in the little square so when i press down on a pedal air goes inside here and plays that no. organ right now has some issues there are little things that happen but since it's mechanical i can go back there and fiddle with it and get it working again and have a lot of these around because this happens all the time when mechanical issues it's

a lot of work it's done and all of those tens of thousands of services this played . now are approaching its one hundred fiftieth anniversary next year we're launching a fund raising campaign to preserve this instrument for future generations. it is a huge project but we want to conserve it as best we can with as much of the original materials as possible that's a wonderful connection we have with the past it's like this organs spoken to people hundred fifty years ago and it speaks to us now with this beautiful town. quick reminder that you can always catch up with the latest news that we're covering here on out there by going to our web site that is the front page at the moment the address as ever i was there dot com dot com do you recommend that you check out.

the top stories on al-jazeera and bangladesh say they've signed a deal for the repository ation of refugees on the desk officials say the refugees will start returning home in two months but me a mom hasn't specified how many will be allowed back in more than six hundred thousand were had to have crossed into bangladesh since a brutal military crackdown began in. myanmar has been facing increasing international pressure over the situation with the real hinge of refugees and outflow massive outflow from a kind state following a military crackdown here some three months ago they've been facing international pressure from human rights groups various reports saying that this was ethnic cleansing the united states secretary of state rex tillerson just on wednesday evening called it ethnic cleansing for the first time to drop administration has used that phrase so they have been facing some serious international pressure so they need to show some progress resolving the situation the u.n.

is a thing australia to help deescalate tensions at a prison camp used to run for refugees in papa new guinea and a sense of the facility or minus sign and trying to evict hundreds of refugees who are refusing to leave around fifty asylum seekers are believed to have left the move three hundred renee. security and political sources of 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 exile the sources say mcgarvey stated that he wants to die here in his home country. navy says a noise detected near the last known location of a missing submarine with ten four crew onboard is consistent with an explosion a huge sea of their search is underway off the coast of on t.v. for a long. sones president has offered to make his country russia's gateway to africa

ahead of a meeting with russian president vladimir putin in sochi omar al bashir says saddam needs protection from aggressive actions by the u.s. who get fuses of provoking conflicts in the region he's also hinted at allowing russia to use red sea faces and those are the latest headlines here on al-jazeera stay with us next it's inside story. with you ever. russia's plan to end the war in syria after six years of fighting is the kremlin now in the diplomatic driver's seat and is the white house taking a backseat this is inside story.