and. borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's not the sixties instead of being an obstacle to toll wastes it became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al jazeera. this is. and i'm chained up and this is the news. coming up in the next sixty minutes the. u.s. pushes for an emergency un meeting to discuss the antigovernment protests in iran.

pakistan had played at double game for years the u.s. pulls millions of dollars of aid to pakistan accusing it of not doing enough to fight terrorism. south korea seizes kim jong un's olive branch proposing to meet its neighbor next tuesday for talks and there's hundreds of boko haram hostages escaping me to form a captive of the armed group. the u.s. has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to discuss the protests in iran the supreme leader of iran has blamed his country's enemies for six days of violence which has not claimed the lives of twenty one protesters and one policeman riot police are now out in force in several cities across the country mike hanna has the latest from un headquarters in new york. ambassador nikki haley called a briefing to outline u.s.

priorities at the united nations in this new year and top of her list the situation in iran if the arraign in dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the un must speak out in the days ahead we will be calling for an emergency session both here in new york and at the human rights council in geneva we must not be silent the people of iran are crying out for freedom all freedom loving people must stand with their cause this echoing sentiments expressed by president trump early earth who said in a tweet the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt or a new regime all of the money that president obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets the people have little food big inflation and no human rights the u.s.

is watching. this little evidence in the streets of tehran of the turmoil evident in some other parts of the country but there are deep concerns expressed about the rise in food prices and drop in employment. to join the cause 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 ammonia das and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult we have tenants i have a daughter and son both at school the high prices really put me under pressure at home iran's supreme leader has broken his silence on the protests accusing iran's enemies of responsibility montazeri if the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack three which it can infiltrate because 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 the islamic republic and the islamic revolution. news agency footage reveals ongoing protest in a number of regions hundreds are reported to be the arrested and demonstrate just continued to defy and attempted government blackout of social media that at the united nations the new president of the security council has confirmed the u.s. has been in contact and discussions are ongoing but it's not clear at this stage whether the u.s. appetite for a formal meeting is shared by the wrist of security council members some may be reluctant to intervene in what they would regard as an internal domestic dispute my kind of syria united nations iran's foreign minister has hit back at president

trump's remarks telling the u.s. to stay out of iran's affairs jeavons a rift tweeted iran security and stability depend on its own people who unlike the peoples of trumps regional b f f's or best friends for ever have the right to vote and to protest hard and rights will be protected and infiltrators will not be allowed to sabotage them through violence and destruction france's president emanuel macron is calling on president rouhani to show restraint the two spoke by phone mccrone expressed concern about the number of people killed during the protests a visit by his foreign minister to teheran planned for later this week has been postponed every ground of his a.f.p. media's deputy bureau chief is currently working in tehran he says the source of the protests is long running discontent. well for now it seems relatively calm but i have to say that it's very difficult for us to report from aaron i mean there are very tight restrictions on what the media can do and surround we know there's

a heavy police presence but around is actually not in the focus of much of the rest unlike the last major demonstrations in two thousand and nine it's mostly been out in the provinces we've had only scattered protests the last few nights and it does you slightly come as far as we can talk now as much as people want to see this revolution and some of the slogan certainly happened revolutionary in terms of attacking the islamic rebels regime and. these have been driven by economic grievances bread and butter issues such as high unemployment soaring prices things that have been bubbling away in iranian society program. and people are simply fed up with the fact they tried reformists they tried moderates they tried hardliners and conservatives and none of them have been able to deliver on what really matters to people which is jobs and the future that you're yes plans to withhold more than

two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan the decision comes after president trump again accuse the country of being a safe haven for terrorists doesn't jordan is in washington d.c. . the u.s. president doll trump used his first tweet of two thousand and eighteen to attack the pakistani government accuse the pakistanis of not doing enough to crack down on groups such as the head khan the network or the talabani say these groups are destabilizing not just pockets but also afghanistan to the west on tuesday the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley made it plain that the u.s. president simply wasn't tweeting elder to her in her words nikki haley said there are real concerns with what is law is doing to fight but the u.s. calls terrorism pakistan had played a double game for years they work with us at times and they also harbor the

cherished that attack our troops in afghanistan that game is not acceptable to this administration we expect far more cooperation from pakistan in the fight against terrorism in addition the state department spokesperson heather nauert told reporters on tuesday that pakistan knows what it needs to do in order to make the region safer and she said without going into too many details that it definitely means trying to crack down on these groups that are doing stabilizing the region and she said that islam abides complaints simply aren't going anywhere pakistan plans to take control of charities and financial assets linked to half a side too many believe was behind the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks the traffic a name has more on that. there's a ten million dollar reward for any information leading to the conviction of hof is sight yet piri 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 at 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 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

. pakistan calls times accusations in comprehensible and even summoned the american ambassador to discuss the issue. is the director of pakistan studies at the middle east institute is also an analyst on pakistan and afghanistan at the u.s. state department joins us on skype from washington d.c. very good to see you thank you for joining us what do you make of this move by the u.s. why they're doing it well i think what we're seeing here is frustration with pakistan i think the question here is will this tweet which seems to frame where our foreign policy is toward pakistan at the moment whether this will be constructive will not use some reason to believe that the character of the lie that president trump used will have will backfire on this is going to be very difficult

for pakistan now to make further concessions if you will to the united states on terrorists and terrorism issue also i would add that so much of this is predicated on the fact that pakistan holds the key to the ending of the or at least the peace possibilities for peace in afghanistan i think that's over stated pakistan has certain leverage over the taliban but cannot dictate to them is do you think it is exaggerated do you think the u.s. has exaggerated the sort of impact that pakistan has over the taliban and what it can do about reining it in. well you can see the poppy stone in a way has spoiled little power it has the capacity to to throw out a monkey wrench as we say into the works of thought any kind of outcome

in afghanistan that it feels would not be in its interest but that's different than being able to dictate an outcome in afghanistan it has never really been able to get the taliban to do anything they didn't want to do so i think we have to understand the nature of the influence that they have ok you say that's my to pakistan slightly hostile towards the us what sort of impact would withholding this non-chalant of aid from pakistan have on the country itself i think and if it is ten hostile against the us. what sort of impact would it have on the us presence there and in afghanistan yes the financial squeeze here it's been going on for years for actually for some time it's been in the method of far in which the united states has been ratcheting up its pressure on pakistan i don't think financial issues are going to play

a very large role here what really is important is is the united states prepared to follow up if in fact pakistan is not doing enough willian ited states now you know a lot of really trying to do so in that might involve a greater use of yes even military options this could be i think are ultimately very confrontational making pakistan are conceivably down the road here or road here an adversary we've got to be very careful about because pakistan still whatever else they are it can be no real stability in the region without caucus time so it's getting up just on to share our basic interests here because they recognize that it's in their interest that will really work and i had not been one bond thank you. pinto ahead on the news i'm kidding we'll tell you about a new israeli know that the palestinian president says is equivalent to

a declaration of war. and in sports andy murray became the latest becomes the latest top tennis star to suffer an injury setback the head of the australian open . south korea has accepted the north's offer of talks proposing that the two sides meet next tuesday seoul said they would mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics which are being held in the south and it's with reports. that in the freezing environment of the winter olympics there might be a chance for a foreign relations between south and north korea hopes are being raised following the new year address by kim jong un 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. 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. woman. china welcomes it supports north and south korea taking earnest 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.

would you have something while offering to send a team of athletes to the olympics came. 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 burnet smith al-jazeera the u.s. state department is skeptical about kim jong un's sincerity about holding talks with south korea you know if if the two countries decide that they want to have talks that would be certainly their choice we have a very strong relationship with the republic of korea as we do with japan we have had a strong alliance with them for many many decades that hasn't changed kim jong un

may be trying to drive a wedge of some sort between the two nations between our nation and the republic of korea i can assure you that that will not happen that will not occur we are very skeptical of kim jong un's sincerity and sitting down and having talks our policy hasn't changed the south koreans policy has not changed that we both support a denuclearized korean peninsula. direct diplomacy between the two koreas has happened before but with mixed results the first into korean summit was held in two thousand and declaration was signed allowing separated families from the north and the south to have meetings in pyongyang and soul seven years later leaders at the last into korean summit called for international mediation to replace agreements that ended the korean war diplomacy has fizzled since then the last government to government talks happened in december two thousand and fifteen and ended in failure and in february two thousand and sixteen and have

a very full agenda the south koreans would like family or unions that's a very emotional issue in south korea the south koreans are really concerned about nuclear security right where the north koreans going to do with their nuclear weapons how many they have what kind of maintenance and safety protocols they have there's concern about your noble style incident on the peninsula so the south koreans on a full agenda my guess is the north koreans going to play that and say you know if you want to talk about all these things you want some kind of concessions we want aid we want cash and so on i would imagine the north koreans will treat this is a way to get some kind of concession so same same this is what we've seen time and time again yeah i would imagine so right i mean north korea really hasn't changed a great deal right we have this new came he's been in power now for six or seven years but he hasn't actually really changed that much right on the olympic bid isn't really the of the offer of participate the olympics isn't really a concession is kind of a pseudo concession because it doesn't actually required in north korea to make any serious changes on things like human rights or nuclear weapons or something like that and that's what we really want to see that's ultimately what would be required for a major deal be the north koreans and say look we'll do something serious on you know capitalism or human rights or something like that in exchange for

a major shift in south korean policy and that's ultimately what we want you know i mean exchanges of musicians and athletes and so i think that that's nice it gets the ball rolling but doesn't really affect the strategic strategic issues which keep the peninsula so tense i mean other than trying to drive a wedge between the u.s. and south korea do you think that sanctions against north korea beginning to hurt i mean is this a little cry for help. that's actually a really good question and it's very very hard to measure whether or not sanctions are working with north korea right because the primary measure that we use for that would be things like north korea's g.d.p. which has actually grown in the last few years at least by our estimates the north korean nuclear program i support saying something it's a good idea because i think without sanctions a nuclear program would be even worse but it's hard to see that the sanctions are really biting in part because the chinese allow the north koreans to bust the sanctions so much you know the americans and south korean just caught the chinese off loading oil to the north koreans in the day everybody saw those pictures globally i don't really perceive this as a as a cry for help that's an interesting interpretation i see this rather as just

a way to sort of push the americans and south koreans against one another because it's really obvious the americans don't want the north koreans to go to to them next i think that's that's that goes without saying and couldn't get his way i mean could this cool with some sort of freeze on between the u.s. and south korea yeah i do i think that's possible that south korean south korean president is a liberal who was a part of the what they call the sunshine policy under the previous labor governments about a decade ago the sunshine policy was a gauge and policy would reach out to north korea and bring them into the international community and things like that and moon jane was an important architect of that he really really wants talks and he really does he really believes that talking to north korea and pulling them in is the way to actually get movement on these issues and the americans are really going the other way especially under donald trump right we've seen much more belligerent hawkish rhetoric from trump than any other president and so you've got the potential for a really really wide divergence in the united states and south korea i'm actually really impressed in two thousand and seventeen how the two sides managed to paper over those differences but i mean this wedge this wedge issue you know a wedge

a sort of divide between the two i mean this has been waiting for the north koreans for a while i'm surprised it actually took them this long to fit try to figure out a way to drive them apart ok robert kennedy thank you thanks for having me. here is president donald trump has threatened to cut aid to the palestinian authority saying it is no longer willing to talk peace last month he angered palestinians after recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and now a new israeli know makes it hard to hand over parts of jerusalem to the palestinians a spokesman for the palestinian president calls that equivalent to a declaration of war on a genuine reports from occupied east jerusalem it was to say the least a controversial vote members of the knesset israel's parliament setting a higher threshold for any future attempt to give up any parts of jerusalem instead of a simple majority of sixty one votes now a supermajority of eighty votes or two thirds of the one hundred twenty seat knesset will be needed to approve any legislation ceding parts of jerusalem to any

foreign parties it places a major hurdle in the path of jerusalem being part of any future peace talks palestinian leaders while frustrated are not surprised saying similar laws are being pursued in an israeli effort to consolidate its occupation look after that some promise its screen that we are moving directly in another path you know the path of the changes on. this is very clear there is however considerable confusion about what happens next one of the key questions for palestinians now is what impact this legislation will have on areas like of iraq up where we are now and the shop at refugee camp it was originally expected that as part of the bill the knesset would also vote to allow for the changing of jerusalem's municipal borders meaning that neighborhoods such as cooper and shuffled refugee camps both located behind the security wall would no longer be

part of jerusalem municipality which could among other things potentially strip approximately one hundred fifty thousand palestinians of their residency status that provision however was withdrawn at the last minute the head of the covert october as it is committee says even if the law were to pass his group would make sure it won't go into effect immediately i don't think that will happen before five or six years because we going to go to court at cannes that we as a committee over here by the name of a lot of people we are going to go to the core and to helping us and this will of the committees of the human rights when they were can is there and some of them put a note of some of them as it had but they will tell both the good the court the stand in the court against that while the exact date isn't known it's expected the knesset will attempt to debate the issue of jerusalem as municipal borders in the near future adding another note of uncertainty during a time already full of concern. who put iraq up in occupied east jerusalem

the need of israel's opposition has criticized the new no. what the bill has it has a political ramification on behalf of the political bodies and elements in the israeli political seam who 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 out of their have any effect on the israelis but i can tell you that it was only a kind of a very timely 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 israel has given thousands of africans who entered the country illegally three months to leave or face prison the migrants

from sudan and eritrea have been told to go back home or to another country those are leave by the end of march will be given a ticket and thirty five hundred dollars rights groups have condemned the decision saying it puts the refugees lives in danger thousands of them entered israel before it built a fence along its border with egypt. at least thirty people have died and proved off the bus they were traveling in plunged eighty meters off a cliff onto a rocky beach the bus was carrying fifty seven passengers to the capital lima when it collided with another vehicle along a narrow stretch of highway known as the devil's curve rescuers had to climb down to the beach and have been battling the tide to recover bodies five survivors have been taken to hospital. that's ahead on al-jazeera on the rise of five dollars. civil servants in gaza return to the streets to demand what they

say they are. we visit a school in new york that's providing more than just education for vulnerable children. and sports is a prize finest is decided at football's golf cup tournament. hello there take a look at the weather across the americas it's all about the really cold air which is still there across much of north america extending all the way down into the south chooses my son temperature for dallas atlanta only just above freezing you've got to get down into the florida potential before you see what you describe as mild weather as we move on through into wednesday there's not a great deal of change for many of these eastern areas further south we're seeing the return of slightly less cold air but we've got this low pressure developing and this could really produce some very heavy snowfall on parts of the eastern seaboard

had to enter into thursday and this could cause some serious trouble disruptions so you need to keep updated on this if you're traveling to that part of the world otherwise those temperatures remain way way way below freezing for the most part we got some rain coming into parts of california so the good news i suppose heading down into the caribbean we've got this area of cloud and rain across central parts of the caribbean extending across jamaica with some really heavy rain for panama marker well for sr over the following twenty four to forty eight hours so expect some flooding here once you get north of us and to costa rica and further out through the isthmus the weather conditions gerri aren't too bad into south america showers across the amazon basin further south looking dry and fine should be a nice day but he's there is in argentina highs thirty two. unbelievable it sounds like an agreement between criminal busts just like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever comes to ask the

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you watching al-jazeera mine of our top stories this hour the u.s. has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to discuss the antigovernment protests in iran the supreme leader of iran has blamed his country's enemies for six days of violence which is now claimed the lives of twenty one protesters and one policeman. here is ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says washington will withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan the decision comes after president trump again accused the country of being a safe haven for terrorists. and at least thirty people have died in peru after. the bus they were traveling in plunged eighteen meters off a cliff onto a rocky beach the bus collided with another vehicle along a narrow stretch of highway known as the devils of. nigeria's military says more

than seven hundred people held hostage by the armed group boko haram have managed to escape if you know close to the north eastern border with chad the army says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen who were kept in forced labor camps made it just has the latest from a butcher. the more than seven hundred hostages fled their captors after what the nigerian army called ground on elephants of over the last few weeks in northeastern nigeria now these areas there fled from chile islands in the lake chad because of the receding waters of the lake on the borders with niger cameroon and charred. islands in 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 i 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 mahmoud widely when he made that announcement since that announcement was seen daring and sometimes devastating attacks by boko haram fighters in northeast 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 boko haram is still holding many people hostage catherine so i met some of their families waiting to news of their loved ones as well as from the captives of the armed group and mother galley that's in northeastern nigeria. 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 a woman. only god knows where she is i've been praying to him to bring her back will keep a 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 hope. we men and children have been abducted by. managed to escape. they were forced to become wives signed up how was life with. someone. 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. after negotiations between the government and. one in a hundred girls remain prison as. the catholic church is taking the risk being kidnapped if they return home anybody any clues contact with stayed with them for. two months or more when they come back to the community. these people. to forage in the community or 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 needs to know what happens 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 to you what are 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. but the galley northeast nigeria. uganda's president has signed a bill removing the presidential age limit from the constitution the new law allows you amos seventy to run for election again in twenty twenty one critics said the bill is his attempt to cling to power he's been in office since one thousand nine hundred six although his constitutional court has temporarily suspended the

president after he refused to endorse new ministers the court says the parliamentary speaker or prime minister should take over pro russian president igor daughter on is stuck in a political stand off for the ruling coalition which once close to time is with the e.u. and the us it's the second time in three months the court has decided to suspend the president's powers in syria dozens of civilians have been killed in what activists say was a government is sold on rebel held positions near the capital damascus four hundred thousand people are been living under siege in eastern go to for the past four years in desperate need of food and medicine saying one hundred reports. markets are. the victims civil defense volunteers to help those who are alive in recent. opposition activists indiscriminate. airstrikes believed to be carried out by syrian government.

and the rebel controlled area. and. the government launched what it calls. because rebels are shells into territories under its control but rebel say the government is trying to help troops trapped in a military installation in the suburb. to secure. the recent attacks may be linked to the fighting but it has been weeks since the government stepped up its military campaign in what is supposed to be a deescalation zone the syrian observatory for human rights said almost two hundred

civilians were killed in strikes and shelling including many women and children. so billions are not just getting killed in attacks children are dying from malnutrition patients are dying from the lack of medicines eastern waters under a tight siege by syrian government forces the united nations is warning that the situation has reached a critical point food is in short supply and the international committee of the red cross has also expressed alarm with what it calls a humanitarian crisis. eastern is densely populated some four hundred thousand people live there it's on the doorstep of damascus the seat of the government's power pro-government forces want to recapture this region but so far its forces haven't been able to make any advances on the ground so its strategy is to punish civilians for supporting the rebels in the hope that they all surrender. beirut egypt has extended its state of emergency for another three months the decision

follows two attacks against christians in their hell one district south of cairo on friday egypt first impose the state of emergency in april of the two church bombings killed at least forty five people a former saudi finance minister who was detained as part of an anti-corruption drive has been seen attending the kingdom's weekly cabinet meetings abraham. was among turn to businessmen the members of the royal family who were arrested in november saudi media say he was released last month. civil servants in gaza protesting again over their unpaid wages back in october hamas and fatah reach a deal that was meant to overcome differences between the two palestinian factions now they blame each other for the salaries that on being paid not web reports from a rally in gaza city. the problems with a reconciliation that was meant to happen by now between palestine two main

political parties from hamas hamas has governed here in gaza after the last ten years the reconciliation was meant to see a handover of all of the government offices here form a must the palestinian or thorazine so i must stop paying the salaries of these people about three months ago the palestinian authority says it won't be able to resume paying any salaries till the end of january all i see this is our eyes start off i mean it's almost children we need our. government employment also forms networks of political patronage and fattah also has thousands of employees who used to work here in gaza. what happens to the two cents of workers and their salaries the key question posed by the reconciliation while people here say they just want to be paid their leaders have a political message for the p.a.

. if the government will not pay the salaries of the employees and respect the rights the government should leave and we will make a new government from all the factions to solve the problems. many people here in gaza have high hopes for the reconciliation he thought it could potentially bring some serious improvements in quality of life one of the things it was meant to include was the reopening of the rafa crossing the border with egypt which for many people is the only way in and out so that it opened free movement of people would have enabled young people here to go and study abroad people could work abroad and i think people would improve trade and improve the economy which is in very bad shape unemployment more than forty percent things haven't gone smoothly so far the reconciliation brokered by egypt has gone quiet we haven't heard anything for the last few weeks as this demonstration shows not everything is smoothly falling into place. police in brazil say nearly one hundred escaped prisoners are still on the

run after they fled during a write nine inmates were killed and fourteen others injured when a group of on prisoners stormed a wing of the jail controlled by a rival gang it happened in the city of gori around the capital of priscilla police say they have recaptured more than half of the two hundred forty prisoners who escaped. the indonesian holiday island of bali is counting the cost of recent eruptions by the gun volcano visited numbers have dropped by more than seventy percent since september and billion dollars in revenue has been lost that's prompted the government to work hard to entice tourists back to the island and reports from bali. inside the danger zone tourists are visiting bally's most famous temple. just seven kilometers from the crater of the erupting volcano and was off limits for the past three months the decision to reopen a tourist attraction shows the government's eagerness to lure visitors the whole

gay know is still at its highest alert level or agree with this decision there are many other places where tourists can go in delhi we can predict nature it's a better to put safety first around five million tourists visit every year but after the eruptions and airport closure last month several countries including china issued travel warnings hotels far away from the volcano where i am and owners were forced to temporarily suspend staff. to reassure tourist president joke of a daughter took southeast at one of bali's famous speeches tourism has recovered slightly during the holiday season but many balinese are suffering among has worked as a guide on mt i'm going to take in around one thousand hikers every year since september his business has stopped promising and i'm talking i'm confused what to do now i want to work but i have no other work experience than being

a guy i hope someone can give us a job because all sixty two guides of a girl are now jobless and we have no money to go back to farming them. vocal knowledge is saying nobody can predict how long will a rupture or if the eruptions will become bigger the last time it erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three it killed more than fifteen hundred people all living near the volcano well a volcano continues to erupt the government has gone out of its way to convince tourists that bali is safe outside of the danger zone ten kilometers from the crater the huge losses in tourist revenues has taken the authorities by surprise and some say this is a wake up call for the holiday island not to fully rely on to. or isn't. my do you we just has learned how fragile his business is over these past months his small resort in a safe area near the volcano has been mostly empty and he hasn't been able to pay his staff in the new class of what i have learned from the situation is that we

have no choice than to accept what happens to us and start to look for alternatives if my resort business fails then maybe i can start selling food. but not all is lost for some tourists the erupting volcano has become an attraction in itself perhaps with the right safety measures in place bally could use to spec to call of nature to its advantage step fasten al-jazeera superman. dozens of hollywood a listers including reese witherspoon and meryl streep have died in a legal fund to help fight sexual harassment the time's up campaign which is now gone viral on social media was a new set up thirteen days ago and is ready seen more than thirteen million dollars pledge the campaigns designed to help women and men who would otherwise struggle to meet the cost of taking court action. still ahead and all the support including manchester city are in

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the number of homeless people in the us is rising in new york one in ten school children and at least part of last year without a home to call their own christensen we went to one school that's trying to deal with the challenges that presents. 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 leo 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 miss 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 new york and san for sport with her. thanks very much manchester city have started the new year as they finished it and that is unbeaten in the english premier league they watch for it at home

sterling started off the scoring inside the minute mark watford then gifted men city their second through christian cab assailing sergio guerra put the home side three no lock before watford pulled one back in the final minutes of the match it finished three one to man city for games played on choose day west ham scored in injury time against west brom to get themselves out of the relegation zone crystal palace also out after beating southampton and taught them accounted for swanzy to know that result has lifted top name above arsenal into fifth place on the ladder as for man city their lead over nearest rival man united now sits at fifteen points their place chelsea face arsenal on wednesday. armada have booked a surprise appearance in the final of the gulf cup it's a bi annual football tournament for eight teams in the gulf region and their money is paid bahrain to set up a date with the u.a.e.

at least helen reports was scenes of joy and happiness for my mom's football fans after players as they celebrated applies in the final of the gulf come up it's a region where football delivers almost unbridled passion and oman's air force and sports ministry had put on eight free planes to get their supporters to kuwait for their semifinal with buffer aim but often the caught a hold of the victory however was also a good time the second was over a first half on goal from bahrain was all that separated the two tames as a modern one one nil the armani's led by dutch manager pinned the bike now have a shot at adding to the title by last one in two thousand and nine i'm going to know what it was in the fall of the fall of the level where the only team that entered this tournament without any pressure possibly because the group is young no one expected all man to play to this level we were in a difficult group with kuwait the u.a.e.

and saudi arabia yet we managed to qualify and i hope we will all for a good performance in the final. it was a bumpy start for the united arab emirates in their semifinal against iraq the armani national anthem played by mistake and i missed a chance to clinch the game in the eighty ninth minute as headed to extra time that was. one there and then it went on to penalties where iraq missed two of their shots. the u.a.e. then prevailing to repeat their victory from the twenty thirteen goals cup final and booked their spot in the twenty seven tane edition on friday home an al-jazeera . twenty eighteen is a big year for football fans right across the globe it's a world cup here with the tournaments to kick off on june the fourteenth and for russia it's also a chance to change their perception sporting world following doping scandals that's

seen athletes barred from the olympics worry chalons reports from moscow. empty stadiums often have an atmosphere of expectation about them they need the rule of a crowd to bring them alive and moskos luzhniki stadium fresh from a complete refit is waiting for the biggest footballing spectacle of them all races the direct instruction took about three years then to a core of it had to be demolished except for the external walls the statue huma's a high technology facility the base has natural grass with a special ventilation and a heating system and there are more than sixty five kilometers of engineering tubes under. the readiness of russia's twelve world cup stadiums is facing the usual precomputed scrutiny your cats are in berg's temporary stands raise concerns a few months ago assures us everything will be fine all together they'll be seven matches played here luzhniki including the opening match the semifinal and the

final itself together with the olympics the world cup is one of the two biggest sporting events in the world which makes it not just about football but about politics to. the glory of russia's last big sporting bonanza barely lasted beyond the closing ceremony two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi were tarnished first by russia's military involvement in ukraine and then a widespread doping scandal so providing everything goes well this summer the world cup is an opportunity to mend russia's reputations and it happens to be a presidential election year two persons extremely tremendously important for russian people for russia as empire of. military force. to lesser extent economic force political force. sports means. war for for the salutes national pride

masses hugely in russia particularly with many people left poor up by the recent recession in a wintry central moscow they dare to hope. of course we believe in our football team we believe in our victory so you know we will aim for the finals we are supporting them we believe in them this is our russia summer can't come soon enough reach islands al-jazeera moscow with tennis his first grand slam of the year the australian open less than two weeks away many of the top players are struggling to be fit and that includes former world number one andy murray who has withdrawn from the brisbane international the thirty year old britain says he may require surgery on an hip problem he hasn't played in a competitive match since losing at wimbledon last july and has slipped to sixteen in the world rankings murray says he'll decide by saturday whether to fly home or

try and regain fitness in time for the australian open which starts on january the fifteenth roger federer is fully fit ahead of his defense of the australian open title the thirty six year old father time in melbourne champion beat russia's carrick catching all the hopman cup a record crowd of close to fourteen thousand people watched the match in perth. earlier we spoke to tennis coach miles maclagan who says there are a number of factors that are contributing to the declining fitness of top players with novak djokovic and rafa nadal also on the sidelines. i think it's a combination of and number of things and some of the guys at the top of the game all getting older and you could always credit you know the recent medical science of the fact that they can play the only federal mid thirty's married adult which all into the thirty's and they've been carrying injured injuries since the beginning of the years 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 this schedule very well for a long time to realize that you know for the long term needs to to to manage his body to play when he's ready and then we are unprecedented a time when the top players have done so well in just about every single told player it's so it's being relentless that there's a number of factors that contribute to it and that's all your sport for now more later on from firing off from me for this but i'll be back in a few seconds of the news see the.

the sam's in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to

emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that moves us forward to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life here and part of life is culture. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power. how has this radical transformation occur. i mean it i mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people this time on al-jazeera. last. us pushes for an emergency un meeting to discuss the

anti-government protests in iraq. and this is. coming up.