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the news live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com and iran's supreme leader has spoken publicly for the first time about the anti-government protests which are rattling his country ayatollah ali how many says iran's external enemies of fueling the turmoil which according to state media has killed another eight people taking the toll to at least twenty two let me start with this report from matheson. gunshots in the city of persia and on monday night. demonstrators defy a government social media blackout posting these pictures from cities across iran of damaged cars frightened crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital tehran there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment

are serious concerns for people here my goddamn thing john the car i'm working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihood is on the money advanced and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult when i have a daughter in. the high prices it really put me under pressure at home u.s. president donald trump has tweeted that iranians are hungry for food and freedom and that's led to protests outside the white house demanding the removal of president rouhani that yes iran's supreme leader says the country's enemies are to blame for fueling the protests man montazeri if the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack through which it can infiltrate look at the recent events all those who are at odds with the islamic republic have used various means including money weapons

politics and intelligence apparatus to create problems for the islamic system islam and republic and the islamic revolution. on monday night protestors also continue to demonstrate against iran's support for syrian president bashar al assad as well as caused by law in lebanon and hamas in the occupied palestinian territories iran's republican guard is threatening to stop the demonstrations but there are still calls for more protests rob matheson al jazeera. and in the pantheon says is often the case we've had more reaction from the us via president donald trump's twitter account the people of iran to find the acting he says against the brutal and corrupt iranian regime all of the money president obama so foolishly gave them went to terrorism and into their pockets in inverted commas not sure why the people have little food big inflation or human rights the us is watching so this is a pattern whizzing certainly from president trump in the last couple of days let's talk to the now professor of political science at the university of texas joining us from there let's leave donald trump aside and talk about the supreme leader

ayatollah ali khamenei when he talks about iran's external enemies fueling this what's he talking about. ah yes all came all when these protests began on friday they were mostly peaceful and i mean the people have rightful grievances the economy is not doing too well when rowhani took over about five years ago it was expected that out of the result of the nuclear deal the economy would flourish and we would have a significant increase in direct foreign investment and while i do not deny that there has been improvements to the economy since rani took power nevertheless it has been much less than what people had expected for example the official unemployment rate in iran is twelve point six percent however when you study that in detail the unemployment rate for young people between fifteen and twenty nine is actually twenty six point six percent and that is the official rate perhaps it's

even higher so people have rightful grievances and they have been demonstrating since friday nevertheless what his lightly changed is in the past two days there has been a group of rioters which have become very violent burning police stations banks. tearing down street signs burning cars etc and there has been a change in the kind of people in the protests and this has led the government to accuse both israel and the united states as well those two of us are degree saudi arabia of perhaps exploiting the original demonstrations which were mostly economic or to this rioting which has actually as you mentioned has claimed the lives of twenty two people here and we should talk about that as well this is the simple fact here that twenty two people have died and that is a lot of people to die in protests now the leadership has said they weren't

tolerate violence but when people protesters die that only fuels i suspect the violence. absolutely so the rising casualties is something actually very negative for the government because the more casualties there are the more violent it will become nevertheless i think we should distinguish between the peaceful protesters which i think i would say are the majority of the protesters and the minority rioters which are looting banks burning down shops etc in that is the leading to violence for example some of these writers have attempted to actually take down police stations they actually burned down a police station and i would obviously lead to unrest and this is actually something that the so-called foreign powers which of course are not very friendly to iran like the united states and israel can and will exploit of course. we thank

you for your thoughts and your time thank you so much. lot of the pictures we're seeing out of iran a coming through social media no surprise there but the risk of rolling out the sort of used phrase sarra fake news is what we're seeing everybody take us through what you've been disseminating from all of this yeah absolutely in fact some of the difficulty is that not many journalists can operate from within iran so it's very difficult to verify what we're seeing on social media plus telegram and instagram just recently broke this week making it a lot harder to communicate with the rain ians of diverse opinions but my colleague me has been doing a bit of research and she's found some examples of videos their own quite what they seem now a video posted on new year's eve on twitter allegedly showing iranian forces opening fire on protesters it's actually from the two thousand and nine rainy and protests and with a quick search online you'll find the same video posted on you cheap seven years ago in twenty eleven now one of the trending hashtags of in the iranian protests

comes out of saudi arabia with a lot of iran related content as well in fact this video is from the same date december thirty first abdullah and saddam from surgery be tweeted saying uranian revolutionary guard ran over protesters but again the same video from two thousand and nine and already been posted on you cheap a year later and take a look at this video says it was filmed in december but these scenes are actually from the protests again in two thousand and nine and here's a picture taken by reuters you can see the same gate motorbikes and burning rubble and the person who posted it actually posted it from california now another fake video doing the rounds on social media is one by a pro israeli account and has had more than a thousand retreats and says the people of iran are waking up but this is actually from a protest from the other side of the world argentina and it was taken last month and if there's still doubt the people in the video are actually speaking in spanish

and one last example was this it was of an. rain in protest says three hundred thousand people march for democracy in iran but as someone else pointed out mohamed he says the demonstration is actually not in iran it's actually in bahrain and not in twenty seventeen or twenty eight seen bot twenty eleven and you can even see the behind the flags being waved by the protesters in the streets now let's take a closer look at the accounts sharing the fate content a lot of them are either supporting the u.s. israel or saudi arabia where leaders of all three countries are public critics of iran having threatened sanctions on the iranian government now here's a tweet by the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu and he is wishing the rain in people with what he called success in the noble quest for freedom so he's supporting the protesters there and also the u.s. president donald trump in its week said the iranian people are finally getting wise and in a new york times interview the saudi crown prince previously criticized iran's

supreme leader calling him the hitler of the middle east and of course this isn't to say the prices haven't been violent in fact they have on both sides police and protesters and at least twenty people have died. but if you have any doubt on the offensive city of what you're seeing on social media then check the source the dates that i cation of the video or even the image that you're looking at if you do a simple reverse image search on google if you know what's shown up as well online and if you can't verify anything else then the simple thing to do is just don't share it but we want to hear from you stay in such as during the show i want to it's and i'll respond to any of your comments good advice sorry if you spidey senses a tingling it's probably for good reason right now fake news here just five things you need to know about protests in iran it'll give you the background bird's short and long term to understand what it spawns approaches there are also links for the down to the interviews and articles there is an episode of inside story as well just search for five things iran and al jazeera dot com also good little opinion

piece here from professor of sociology and sudbury called why did protests erupt in iran where you also points out and you see in this court here some of the differences between now and the protests in two thousand and nine. get in touch with us contact details coming up the on screen now you've already been in touch i'm getting a lot of messages on the facebook live feed showing sympathy really for the will support shall i say for the protest as. some call themselves blue i don't know if that's correct but the iranian people want to be free of religious and capitalist oppression so how about other countries mind their own business and let them get on with it also carol said i understand the people are protesting the theocracy i support that one hundred percent so keep your thoughts coming and that's the what's that number plus one seven four five zero one triple one four nine tag everything with that the hash tag is a.j. news grid now the spokesman for the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem is equivalent to a declaration of war is ready m.p.'s passed that bill which means two thirds of the

knesset must now approve giving up the territory under a future peace deal simple majority was previously required comes a day after the party of prime minister benjamin netanyahu approved a draft resolution that called for large parts of the occupied west bank to be an it so it's happening on both sides of the divide here is mohammed in west jerusalem for us to talk us through it actually just do that for us mohammed because it is it does need a little bit of explaining here. yeah that's right kemal it's very complicated let's first try to unpack what exactly was passed in this amendment to the basic law jerusalem as what happened in the overnight hours essentially at its core this legislation means that going forward any legislation that the knesset is trying to pass that would deal with ceding any territory or part of jerusalem it would have to be approved by eighty members of the knesset that means

that it would take two thirds a super majority that's a change from what it was before when it could be just sixty one members of the one hundred twenty member knesset just a simple majority now this is a contentious bill this is something that has been in the works for quite a while in fact the first reading of this bill was this past july and so it took until now before they could have the second and third readings of that bill of that amendment that was early this morning what was expected to happen was also the passage of of a portion of this bill that would allow for the changing of jerusalem's municipal borders that would mean if that had passed that neighborhoods like neighborhoods like shot shot refugee camp these are both behind the security wall that they would then possibly be placed in a newness a polity meaning that they would not be part of east jerusalem any longer that brings in the demographics war that's been going on here that would call into

question the status of around one hundred fifty thousand palestinians that have been residents of jerusalem what would happen to them would they be able to vote in jerusalem is a power that was pulled at the last minute that's what we've heard from knesset members that we've spoken with today because it was just far too controversial it was going to be too much of a political headache for prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the rest of the knesset at such a fraught time so what we're left with is the original core thing that we spoke about which is making it now eighty members of the knesset as super. majority must approve any legislation going forward that would seed any part of jerusalem that in its essence effectively takes jerusalem off of the negotiating table in any future peace talks actually what i'm going to do mohamed just quickly is actually illustrate a little bit of that here on a map i've got to jerusalem actually showed this map to you last night on air which was the united nations one remembering that the purple colored areas of the jewish settlements and the yellow areas of the palestinian community so here's an

example of which is mohamed pointed out look at that that's the separation wall going through there should others on the other side if you like the west bank side but it does have rights to be part of the jerusalem municipality not that gets taken out well those people will now no longer have access to jerusalem and then further north and i think you mentioned us actually muhammad. you went there today what were people telling you there. look the reaction that we got kemal from academics and palestinian officials was a negative one they say that this is very dangerous that this is essentially if this legislation were to pass if it becomes part of the knesset vote that the municipality would change and that these neighborhoods would no longer be part of east jerusalem you know they see that as as basically signaling the end of any type of peace process they say that it's no surprise that this happened in the aftermath

of u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel they say that with the vote that happened early this morning once again the israeli officials are signaling that jerusalem is off the table when it comes to any future negotiations that they're not willing to cede any part of jerusalem to the palestinians going forward they're not surprised by that but they are very disappointed to find out that they believe that possibly in the next week one of the future knesset sessions that there will be this other vote and they do believe that israeli politicians are going to try to change the municipality of these neighborhoods and that really calls into question their rights as citizens where they will be able to travel to if they will be able to vote in future jerusalem elections it really concerns them and it really just brings more uncertainty at a time when there already is so much of him and so much uncertainty ok mama gem dreams in west jerusalem thank you for all of that let's put some of it to isaac

herzog joining us from tel aviv he is the labor party chairman he is also the official leader of the opposition in the knesset we thank you for your time you voted against this bill is that correct thank you sir. yes when the opposition voted against the bill but i want to add a few elements to the report of your a. correspondent first of all this bill can be rescinded with a simple majority of sixty one and that's made clear in the bell and secondly the issue of the neighborhoods of jerusalem whether they should be jerusalem proper or is something actually that emanates from the opposition for quite some time we say for quite some time that some of these villages have nothing to do with jerusalem per se they were included originally in one nine hundred sixty seven as part of a greater jerusalem but they actually are aligned on this is that it allows certain flexibility in the future as to issues pertaining to the palestinian population in

jerusalem but all in all i know if there is that these types of veils make an impression outside but the truth of the matter a is that if leaders were ready to move towards peace all of these veils would not necessarily be relevant and might be the case but they are happening now and it changes as mohamed pointed out just before it changes the reality or could change the reality on the ground for palestinians right now is it not just making life a whole lot more difficult when jerusalem is already such a contentious situation. there would be no impact of this legislation on anyone in jerusalem it's actually the bill speaks about if israel waved sovereignty over portions of jerusalem then what really is required for that matter and in fact jerusalem is the most important. issue in the life of jews in the

jewish people so it is it doesn't make sense that if the moment arrives and we sit down with the palestinians then we look them in the hours of the night and the whole world is involved in the process if something of that nature happens unite you need a special majority. source when it happens you know very. sorry just a minute it has no bearing none whatsoever on the lady life of jew jerusalemites but you're saying it's an important thing to jews and yes of course but it's important to muslims as well and to palestinians that you think of someone who is in the the camp which we talked about before. they have a permit which allows them to get into jerusalem to go to private alex and also for example something like that suddenly you take that away from them that's that's not helping that it's not getting anywhere towards two states and and solving the can but that's another term disability but that's about that's not what the bill says

the burden that. this legislation has nothing to do with that not all. let's be frank we voted against the legislation because we thought it's not necessary but none of what you just said is in the bill the bill speaks about what happens if there is a priest process pertaining to rules and where is that to do with people going to pray and unlocks a mosque but there's been a lot of things that law and it all of a project that i wanted to. when which sense on there is says nine hundred sixty seven these areas have been annexed to israel fifty years ago all of the arabs in east jerusalem can become israeli citizens and move freely none of this has to do with the question of a mosque some mosque and bin has nothing to do with it but what the bill has it has a political ramification on behalf of the political bodies and elements in the israeli political scene who will say we should make sure that nobody negotiates

anything to do with jerusalem so that's a political question for the future it has no bearing on anybody's daily life in jerusalem now does it have any effect on the israelis per se i can tell you that it was only a kind of a very tiny minute item on the israeli national agenda today although it's made the headlines and that's part of our criticism about it because it's a useless law with no real impact on anybody as it had so joining us from tel aviv we thank you for your time. if you're going to allow him on one more comment i'd like to hear the response of president mahmoud abbas to this space and i want to say that when president abbas says this is the very end of the priest's process i tell you again has nothing to do with it why because if the leaders on both sides want to sit down in a room and start negotiating that's what we've seen their money in for generations all righty then peace would come about despite any legislation that is what i'm

talking about certainly about the long term and i think for a lot of people on both sides probably the future would be considered now that was on joining us from tel aviv all right we're going to grab some other international news headlines from london now. pakistan's government has summoned the u.s. ambassador after president donald trump threatened to cut off aid accusing pakistan and giving safe haven to terrorists under pressure from its neighbors as well as the u.s. pakistan now plans to take concho of charities and financial assets linked to a man many countries consider a terrorist the u.s. and india say it was behind the two thousand and eight attacks in mumbai that killed one hundred sixty six people now has more. there's a ten million dollars reward for any information leading to the conviction of half is. yet here he is at a rally last week protesting u.s.

president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. the united states believes saeed is the mastermind of the two thousand and eight attacks in mumbai over the course of four days attackers used automatic weapons and grenades to kill more than one hundred sixty people say he has denied involvement in the attacks and a court in pakistan found there was insufficient evidence to convict him and twenty seventeen he was put under house arrest for violating anti-terrorism laws when it made his release prompted outrage from pakistanis and the u.s. government which is long been critical of pakistan when it comes to clamping down on terrorism the pakistani government has targeted saeed's assets and charities they include three hundred schools hospitals ambulance services and a publishing house the government is blocking fund raising and there are plans to

assume control of them the un security council has also banned two of sedes organizations pakistan is under pressure and their fire this new decision. has come after the british by the americans by you and by india. this is a challenging time in pakistan u.s. relations we must see decisive action against terrorist groups parading on their territory and we make massive payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfil its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face un sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim

al-jazeera. nigeria's military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by the baccarat and managed to escape i refined her name long gone no need to be ne and pose with child and manager says many of the captains were farmers and fisherman who were being kept as forced labor as ackman interest has more from i think the more than seven hundred hostages fled their captors after what the nigerian army called ground an elephant of over the last few weeks in northeastern nigeria now these areas there fled from chile islands in the lake chad because of the receiving waters of the lake on the borders with niger cameroon and china they've been some islands forming in the middle of the lake and these have been populated by villagers who are mostly farmers and fisherman now they have escaped after the army or the military raid in the lake chad region of northeastern nigeria now this is coming this discovery of large number of hostages kept bible quote came

almost a year after the nigerian government announced that a boycott arm has been technically defeated a lot of nigerians are not comfortable with the declaration by president mohamed widely when he made that announcement since that announcement was seen daring and sometimes devastating attacks by boko haram fighters in northeastern nigeria and they have taken a lot of hostages some of these attacks actually took place in two thousand and seventeen the army is continuing its operations to be against boko haram and boko haram has so far proved to be a resilient fall in northeastern nigeria and northeastern nigeria they show there are pockets around fillings launched and so i went to cali where she spoke to former captives of the group the families of those still being held hostage. this mother's in my golly a desperate for news of their teenaged daughters who were kidnapped by boko haram almost three years ago their tag of also killed men in the village in northeast

nigeria. was seventeen years old woman. only god knows where she is i've been praying to him to bring her back will keep saying maybe you can help us find her several other girls from this area have returned home after fleeing the boko haram kept his which gives this mother's hope thousands of people mostly women and children have been abducted by boko haram managed to escape. they were forced to become wives signed up how was life with her . we suffered a lot my husband beat me but i made good friendships with other women who had also been abducted. and how did you manage to escape. one day my husband left in a hurry he didn't tell me where he was going then i heard nigerian soldiers were

coming so i just started walking. in twenty fourteen more than two hundred girls were kidnapped from the secondary school in chibok some escaped. the negotiations between the government and. one in a hundred girls remain president. of the catholic church is taking care of girls who risk being kidnapped if they return home anybody that has had any close contact with him and stayed with them for a month or two months or more when they come back to the community this suspicion is still there these people really back to be incorporated in the community or are they back are spies men and boys are also in danger many have been taken and forced to fight for. when they escape they have to face tough military screening to make sure they're not active members of the group the screening process needs to be more transparent people need to know what happened once you surrender yourself to the

military and if you are in a sense like most of the people are then what's going to happen should you what are what what is the process you're going to go through because once they know that's they're going to be able to come back more back in my galley zainab says she was seven months pregnant when she returned now she just wants to take care of her child and prays often for the imprisoned women she forged relationships with back in the forest katherine sawyer al-jazeera but the galley northeast nigeria that's it from a from a news group now about to come all in the go thanks for that so plenty of your comments coming through on the hash tag deja news good on twitter and facebook mostly to do with the iran situation we've got one comment here saying iran is a prison for the iranian people has made a great contribution to the human history and it reflects a lot of the comments we're getting people saying that they run in should be allowed to not only protest but their government should be listening to them if you

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east would suspect to see some wet weather making its way across iraq for a time pushing a switch and that will continue to be the case as we go on through the next few days it makes way for the next area of right that's going to filter in across that eastern side of the mediterranean so there be some rain coming in across cyprus syria lebanon jordan pushing all the way down. from nine hundred forty back to around seventy on thursday away a couple of days coming through here and that is some snow over the high ground push a little further east in here it does look a little dry a little brighter. getting up to twenty five degrees celsius and similar temperatures to around the arabian peninsula sent in the case. with a high of around twenty four degrees a brisk breeze coming in over the next couple of days helping to shift the early morning fog that we have seen in recent days meanwhile quite a breeze coming into a good part of madagascar over the next few days with the possibility of flooding

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headline from al feel it all calm and what's trending as well at about that world words read between the u.s. and pakistan as the. not of donald trump's tweets that sat at the top of the momentum and plenty on iran as well as you might imagine approaches now into this six day if you're looking to something new something different this is what's trending right now at al-jazeera dot com. on monday we were talking about kim jong un's latest address where he threatened the u.s. but also made some conciliatory tones towards south korea while the south is taking that all of branch and suggested high level talks be held on january ninth primarily to discuss north korean athletes attending the olympic winter games in south korea now this would be significant if you look at it on the timeline from al jazeera dot com there haven't been any such talks since well about here december twenty fifth day in a more long term if you consider the history between the two countries of course they split way back here at the end of the second world war they were officially formed as two countries in one thousand nine hundred seventy years ago and remember

we have this period here from the korean war all the way up to today really because technically the war never ended it was only an armistice between military forces so any reproach you want now with the nuclear tensions so high would be pretty significant i think so then a smith has this report now on south korea's response to its northern neighbor. in the freezing environment of the winter olympics there might be a chance for a foreign relations between south and north korea hopes being raised following the new year address by came north korea's leader suggested sending a team to the winter games starting in south korea next month. government leaders in seoul were quick to seize the opportunity. the government proposes to hold high level talks with north korea on january ninth at the peace house in panmunjom true spillage to discuss north korea's participation in the pyongyang winter olympics.

south korea's president favors talks with the north as a way of managing pyongyang's nuclear and missile threats. and the improvement of relations between north and south korea cannot go separately with the resolving north korea's nuclear program so the foreign ministry should coordinate closely with allies and the international community regarding this the chinese say they've noted what they call positive signals from both sides of the border or. china welcomes it supports north and south korea taking ernest if it's to treat this is an opportunity to improve mutual relations promote the alleviation of the situation on the korean peninsula and realize denuclearization on the peninsula. while offering to send a team of athletes to the olympics came john and also said the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office a north korean nuclear bomb test last year as well as the firing of more than twenty missiles continue to defy the world u.s.

president donald trump wants to toughen sanctions further as pyongyang continues to develop nuclear missiles it says it will be capable of hitting the continental united states if negotiators do meet next week ahead of the winter olympics they'll be the first formal talks in two years bernard smith al-jazeera what we're conscious of jumping on everything donald trump says this is what he has since tweeted about south there or north korea sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have a big impact on north korea he claims that soldiers a dangerously flaying to south korea rocket man that's can join in now wants to talk to south korea for the first time perhaps that's good news perhaps not we will see. now to the united states where schools are teaching an increasing number of children who are homeless in fact one in ten public school students last year in new york state have no home which are quite sure around a hundred and eleven thousand people kristensen only visited one such school which

gives some people the extra help they need. when the island school in lower manhattan opens its doors in the morning principal swanny ramos is there to greet the children. and make sure they get a hot breakfast at this school where nearly half of the students are homeless late stragglers are common as are students dealing with many distractions from their school work we provide three meals hot meals so we provide breakfast lunch and a hot supper at the end of the day video recently moved from a homeless shelter into a subsidized apartment with her two children. she decided to keep them in the school for continuity even though it takes for more than an hour to get there on the subway. the school has a laundry room paid for with grant money so families struggling with the high cost

of housing in new york have a place to wash school uniforms the number of homeless students in new york city has been rising along with the general homeless population in the last year one in ten students spent time either in the city's shelter or living with relatives this presents a unique set of challenges not only for the families but also for the schools that serve them. because homeless students have higher rates of absenteeism and lower test scores advocates for children say the city needs more social workers for the one hundred schools where more than ten percent of the population is homeless we saw in new york city that more than half of students living in shelters were absent for twenty or more school days over the course of a year that means that they missed about the equivalent of a month of school principal ramos leaves her school open until seven in the evening providing as long as possible a safe and loving environment for students may lack the stability of

a home when they leave christian salumi al-jazeera. york. herald pollack with us now professor at the school of social service administration of university of chicago how do you explain this in the first place this instance of the number of homeless children is this still a in effect from from the financial crisis and people are still getting back on the face it just seems like an unusually high number especially in a place like new york well i think there's three problems and before i describe what they are i should mention that most of these kids are not literally homeless the not on the streets they're not in shelters they're living with aunties their families are moving around with relatives so they're in unstable housing they're not literally homeless in a physical sense as i thought that excellent report pointed out i think the reasons are pretty clear in the wealthiest cities like new york there's just not enough affordable housing and in poor cities in america just not enough living wage jobs

for the parents of these kids and then i would add one third thing which is some of these kids are separated from their families for example they might be gay or lesbian and having issues at home so there's several problems that are in play here and that school is doing such a good job of finding ways to help kids in all of these different situations i was really impressed by that report ok so what you described their. economic situation not enough affordable housing are you hearing anything from this current administration in the u.s. about fixing that about if this is to be part of making america great again as it were. no but fortunately state and local governments are doing a much more effective job than the federal government is at the moment i think the trumpet ministration is not particularly active on this issue but most of the really good ideas would be coming from cities like new york or chicago and from governors around the country this is the kind of issue that has to be addressed locally although i'd love to see national policies that were more effective in

helping the low income americans well this is a thing and us politics maybe you can just us life i should say maybe can explain is that states can actually end up having more power almost all the ability to do more than things happening at a federal level absolutely almost everything that happens in schools in the united states is financed by states and cities and all the key policies are made by states and cities so you know if if we need more social workers in schools that's something that mayors and governors will have to handle now what they really do need from the federal government is money and they also need the federal government to manage the national economy to help poor people so for example the recent tax cuts that were so weighted towards helping the most wealthy americans you know that's clearly a step in the wrong direction that makes it harder for cities and states to do these things well particularly since there were provisions in the new bill that really punish states like new york that are doing the most to help low income

people our public i'm glad we could talk to you about this very important topic thank you for your time we're going to talk down and dream is now that is dock of the program providing protection against deportation for the dream is the people who entered the u.s. illegally as children last year president donald trump announced plans to phase out dhaka by march which led to protests from the dreamers who feared being forced out of the only country they had ever known but as the deadline approaches some are now actually choosing to leave before they get pushed out julia galiano reports now from monterrey in mexico. there's not a single platform growing up in colorado kevin wehner always strength of going to college in the united states but there was one problem he was undocumented i ben was a student as a citizen i pay taxes i'm not a criminal and they're trying to treat me like a criminal or like maybe it's not for me so i started exploring options in mexico

kevin is a dreamer born in mexico his family took him to the u.s. when he was just for almost twenty years later he felt his options there were exhausted. it registered for the obama administration's deferred action through childhood arrivals program or dhaka undocumented minors to stay without fear of deportation. with president trump announcing the programs and and with increased hostility towards immigrants kevin chose to leave he received a full scholarship to study business here at the university of monterey in northern mexico but i cannot say. that this color ship is assigned as a positive message for our competitors in the u.s. it says we're economize your belly as a mexican as a human and as an asset and we want you here in mexico for many dreamers their only references of mexico are of violence and poverty but increasingly institutions such as this university are targeting these young men and women while they're still on

the u.s. side of the border and they're hoping that by offering them attractive professional adage occasional opportunities they'll choose to realize their dreams here in mexico instead. the mexican government has announced a series of steps it says will streamline the return of dreamers but it is very modest but no funds have been allocated and some feel more needs to be done to make mexico more appealing than the u.s. a lot of people this is saying here they're making and we know them we support them but at the end of the day a lot of people are also things like from like they are going to come and steal our our. jobs. returning home especially after so long it's never easy but those who've done it say this is mexico's chance to shine just programmed to think that you're in the best and you're about to go to third world country with no opportunities once i got here late like i remember better than i was in the states now and i see more opportunity and that's that's my motivation and. mexico hopes

kevin story can be repeated thousands more dreamers. al-jazeera monterrey mexico plenty more backstory on doc and the dream is that al-jazeera took on a choice this particular article because it gives you the facts and figures you know what other dream is what is daca but there are plenty of links and videos to which tell the human stories of those people who have known no other harm than the united states just search for what is done and you will find that one now sorrow we know online movements that come and go don't they but we've got news today out of hollywood have one that sort of evolved from last year take us through that that's right well let me start first by asking a question to these women just here have in common yeah they're hollywood actresses that's right but i also want you to stand up for women across all industries to say time's up on abuse harassment and assault in fact twenty seventeen may have been

the air of a hashtag meaty campaign but hours into twenty eight seen a new one has been created it's called time's up it's also the hashtag that's being used and they have sent out an open letter which you can see just here on their website it's written by more than three hundred women working in the film industry they won't realize action taken to and harassment inequality against women as well in what place now the campaign is trending and it's also already. received thirteen million dollars there is a nation's having been campaigning for the last few days or hours rather and also they ellis' don't need the money that's true but who else is it going to well it's being used to fund the will support for victims of harassment what but crucially blue collar workers are the ones that are going to benefit like waitresses farmers nurses those that can't quite afford legal fees to defend themselves and the time's up campaign also wants to ensure counts abilities saying companies must be penalized if they don't act on reports of harassment and they've also asked the for

hollywood film stars that events be attending the golden globes on january the seventh to wear black in solidarity with the campaign and they want to get people to talk about this as much as possible before actually go to the campaign website explains what's costa's harassment there are two types according to this website and first is quid pro quo and the second is hostile work environment is a few examples that some of just outright obvious harassment and some of them a little bit more subtle like if your boss or someone a future employer asks you out for drinks will dinner to disco discuss potential employment now the me two campaign was seen as a silence breaker last year and campaign is hope time's up office practical solutions this time but not everyone has been receptive to that someone like thomas says love these hollywood cowards who kept their mouths shut about rape and child molestation for decades overseas being sarcastic suddenly now telling you that time's up to such silence the time is up for paying you and listening to you sounds some have also criticized time's up campaign for not being completely inclusive

marina has simply says a pat need to save a women do not exist time's up is the one that's being used and what they're saying is that they're looking to actually action the meaty campaign now does any of this resonate with you we want to hear you stories get in touch with us if i'm on to it so much it's a handle is such a heightened thanks sawyer i'm sure it will resonate with a lot of people still ahead. the new. story about teaching a toddler about the concept of consent and then an. international with a hip problem with looking at just how tough it's becoming the top place to return from injury quick with its international weather.

but i was here to talk sports does anyone want to play the want to play tennis but cambered. become all very worrying start to the season because another day and another high profile tennis player is pulled out of the competition injuries to star players of rock the start of the new season and former world number one andy murray is the latest to go down the thirty year old has a hip injury and posted this emotional message on his instagram page long with

a picture of himself as a kid saying i didn't realize until these last few months just how much i love this game every time i wake up from sleeping or napping i hope that it gets better and it's quite demoralising when you get on the court it's not at the level you need to be to compete at this level murray says he'll stay in brisbane a while longer until he decides whether he's fit enough for the australian open hole murray isn't the only top player fighting injury novak djokovic pulled out of the caps are open while world number one rafa nadal is struggling with his fitness some of the games emerging stars are hoping they can use this opportunity to instil establish themselves further. sure but real so so to last year and then the russians are off for the dominance of the season so nobody really knows what's happening nobody really knows how the big names how they're feeling and how the injuries are going on so it's think it's too early to tell anything about it. now

injuries don't just affect players they also have an effect on tennis fans a lot of people taking to social media to discuss a prime of gandhi in mumbai tweeted from being the fittest generation ever players bodies are giving way and is going to create a gap big opportunity dough for younger players to make their mark or p.g. sums up his disappointment saying if twenty eighteen is going to be the same as twenty seven team then i don't even want to bother watching tennis so many injuries and broken players and christie ways and tweeting i think tennis is outgrown the human performer so many matches a year an increasing number of serious and chronic injuries or for more on this we're joined by andy murray's former coach miles maclagan thanks so much for speaking with us a lot of the fans feel the top players are overworked what's your view. the new

i think is a combination of and number of things and in some of the guys at the top of the game on getting older and you could always credit the recent medical science of the fact that they can play on the federal mid thirties by read it all talk which all into the east and they've been carrying injured injuries since the beginning of the year so it's not just about the off season i mean players you know do also need to look at themselves as roger federer has done and he's managed his schedule very well for a long time and realize that you know for the long term he needs to to to manage his body to play when he's ready but then we are unprecedented time when the top players have done so well in just about every single claim they're playing so it's been relentless that there's a number of factors that contribute to that and it's got to be fairly wearing for the a.t.p. that the term tour seems to be lacking the star power right now those names that you mentioned. it is the point of concern to me to put the next generation

the next informant middleman last year which was seen as a success i think with the big four five that we talk about if you include the shit korea that they've been so successful they almost haven't let anybody else to shine but i think we saw at the that there will talk finals last year how exciting tennis can be i think the big names that i mentioned have in some ways done themselves in the sport a disservice because they've made winning major titles look so easy and so routine was that it could become attractive in a different way we saw the tension with demitra up and go off and at the end of last year what it meant for them to big to win these big contracts and if you look you know i think back to when i was a kid i mean it was just it was amazing to in any tour talk a little mind. even though these big titles and federer the likes of you know the way he sort of that when the when the adult when roland garros made it look like a walk apart so i think it could be a different but it is

a chance the new person has his come through much talked about there the shape of the from from kind of the group live some of these young guys you know that they they're going to need to pick when the big try to if they're going to make them walk outside the sport ok once again miles maclagan thank you so much for speaking with us thank you and it's not just the man that are struggling it's the women too well number two guy are being. pulled out of her opening match at the brisbane international and due to like crabs it cost her a chance to go top of the world rankings ahead of the australian open. as always we'd like to hear your thoughts on the subject you can tweet me directly after underscore smile i'll be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to. keep an eye out for thar's approach from the tennis going on here as well the coverup in which is just begun that'll do it for

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