al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme helping change the face of india. super thirty at this time announces iraq. was. the u.s. pushes for an emergency un meeting to discuss the anti-government protests in iran . follow on down jordan this is down to zero live from doha also coming up u.s. president donald trump hits back at north korea warning on twitter that his nuclear

button is bigger and more powerful than pyongyang's. pakistan denies u.s. claims that it's not doing enough to fight terrorism as washington pulls a quarter of a billion dollars of aid. and a cartoon about a sweet factory in gaza tells the bitter reality of life under siege. the u.s. has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to discuss the protests in iran the iranian supreme leader has blamed his country's enemies for six days of violence in which twenty one protesters and the police officer died a big security operation is in force in several cities mike hammer has the latest from u.n. 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 iranian 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. jonna called 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 some both at school the high prices that 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 explores the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack three which it can infiltrate to 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 the islamic republic and the islamic revolution. news agency put it reveals ongoing protest in a number of regions hundreds are reported to be in arrested and demonstrators continue to defy an attempted government blackout of social media back 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 i'll just hear a united nations well iran's foreign minister hit back at president trance remarks telling the u.s. to stay out of iran's affairs gerard's a reef tweeted iran security and stability depend on its own people who are like

the peoples of trumps regional b f f's or best friends forever have the right to vote and to protest these hardened rights will be protected and infiltrators will not be allowed to sabotage them through violence and destruction donald trump has responded to north korean leader kim jong un's claim that he has a launch button on his desk for nuclear weapons capable of reaching the u.s. in a tweet trump wrote i too have a nuclear button but it's a much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works we know all kim jong un has welcome south korea support for his offer to hold high level talks and his real stumbling cross border communications soul has suggested holding talks next tuesday it says any meeting would mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics which are being held in the south has been spent. 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 came on 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 earliest efforts 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 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. the u.s. says it intends to withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan and the decision comes after president trump again accused the country of

being a safe haven for terrorists those in jordan as more from washington d.c. the u.s. president doll tromped used his first tweet of two thousand and eighteen to attack the pakistani government trying to accuse the pakistanis of not doing enough to crack down on groups such as the head khan the network or the talabani say that these groups are destabilizing not just pockets stock 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 eldred her in her words nikki haley said there are real concerns with what is the 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 terrorist 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 destabilizing the region and she said that islamic bonds complaints simply aren't going anywhere. well pakistan has responded to the u.s. announcement in an e-mail to al-jazeera pakistan's envoy to the un wrote we have contributed sacrificed the most in fighting international terrorism and carried out the largest counter terror operation anywhere in the world u.s. spokes person should not shift the blame for their own mistakes and failures onto others they went on to say pakistan's cooperation is not based on any consideration of aid but own national interests and principles the us president is also

threatened to cut aid to the palestinian authority saying it's no longer willing to talk peace. palestinians after recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital sparking weeks of protests from u.s. space dollars of aid to the palestinian authority but gets no respect he suggested cutting off future payments has there been peace talks with israel in syria dozens of civilians have been killed in what i say was a government assault on rebel held positions near the capital damascus four hundred thousand people have been living under siege. for the past four years in desperate need of food and medicines. markets are being hit civilians the victims civil defense volunteers who rushed to help those who are still alive in recent days at least three people have been killed in what opposition activists described as indiscriminate. airstrikes believed to be carried out by syrian government warplanes have intensified in the

rebel controlled area of eastern. and it is residential neighborhoods that are coming under fire the government says it has launched what it calls a counter offensive because rebels are firing shells into territories under its control but rebels say the government is trying to help troops trapped in a military installation in the suburb of her. to secure their release. the recent attacks may be linked to the fight. but it has been weeks since the government stepped up its military and. the syrian observatory for human rights said almost two hundred civilians were killed in strikes and shelling including many

women and children. civilians are not just getting killed children are. warning that the situation has reached a critical point. and the international committee of the red cross has also expressed alarm what it calls a humanitarian crisis. populated some four hundred thousand people live their doorstep of damascus the government's power pro-government forces want to recapture this region but so far haven't been able to make any advances on the ground. for supporting the rebels in the hope that they. just education. history of.

stay with us. welcome back let's look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia subzero in almaty in kazakhstan but once again to becky standstill rowsley mild air there for tashkent now as we head in sisters day we'll see a drop in temperatures for tashkent otherwise rossetti fine around the caspian sea we've got eighteen and sunshine in baghdad but more unsettled weather conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean sea so some rain likely for parts of syria extending down through into lebanon here in the arabian peninsula is fine from mecca highs of thirty two for doha we've got pretty pleasant weather here temperature against or twenty two ish as

a high and not much change expect as we head on through into thursday but the fairly light winds or is the chance we could see some mist and fog returning for early mornings as we head across into southern portions of africa showers across northern parts one goler and some beer through into zimbabwe but you see this circulation appearing on the edge of your screen there and that's a tropical depression which could really develop into something quite spectacular in terms of rainfall is certainly possible there on the eastern side of madagascar over the next few days we could see ivan up to one meter of rain accumulating elsewhere we're looking at fine conditions for south africa and in fact a nice day in cape town. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put out every day but the message is a simplistic you have been trained good logical rational person crazy monstrous and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not hold well documented accusations and

evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour the u.s. has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to discuss the anti-government protests in iran the supreme leader of the islamic republic has blamed his country's enemies for six days of violence in his twenty one protesters and a policeman a die. yes president donald trump has more north korea that he too has

a nuclear button on his desk and that it's bigger and more powerful in response to kim jong un's new year's message in which he spoke of the launch button on his desk for weapons capable of reaching the u.s. . and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says washington will withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan the decision comes up the u.s. president again accused the country of being a safe haven for terrorists. but israel has given africans who entered the country illegally three months to leave all face imprisonment the migrants from sudan and eritrea been told to return home or move to another country those who leave by the end of march from the given air tickets and three and a half thousand dollars each rights groups have condemned the decision saying it puts lives in danger for months blumenthal is a senior writer for alter net dot org says it will be difficult to stop the deportations going head. human rights groups in israel it within israeli society are under unprecedented assault from a right wing israeli government and you know african and non jewish asylum seekers

have faced open race riots in tel aviv that were actually stirred by the culture minister a member of benjamin netanyahu was ruling could party who referred this rally to africans as a cancer in israel's body they face street harassment and violence and it's a very unpleasant situation for those who are actually allowed to be on the street and those who advocate on behalf of them from within jewish israeli society also its incitement and are very marginal so it's unclear to me how any group from within israeli society can create unnecessary pressure to stop this potentially calamitous mass deportation of over thirty thousand people fleeing a horrendous human rights situation my business is in the gaza strip have long been struggling under an israeli blockade many a barely able to keep their operations afloat with some forced to close due to lack of supplies and other difficulties well now a new cartoon band is running rights group tells

a reality facing one business welcome web reports from gaza. a girl called noah buys an ice cream and wins a ticket to visit a sweet factory. hey you know they have had them in my son i allowed them that's not enough now he was a highly yet as new as a fictional character in an animation made by an israeli rights creep but the factory and its owner mohammed tell bonnie a real and some of the many problems operating under the blockade of gaza by israel in egypt. no discovers them as mohammed shows have around starting with a power cut and it just these off most of the time in gaza. during my visit mohammed explained that since the siege began ten years ago most of his production lines are closed most of the time. he didn't want to fire any of his four hundred

staff their families depend on the wages so the employees had their hours cut instead. because the animation also shows the machinery they use has problems to israeli authorities restrict the import of anything they say could be used to make weapons the packaging made to be done or to my city by dismissing these disparate parts so it is not being allowed in this machine but cream filling and biscuits so i guess technicians come here and service it in order to come this whole production line being down for you some of the equipment these be sent to germany servicing and that's not allowed by. the miami doesn't believe the restrictions are just for security is the political. israel's military assault on gaza and its conflicts with hamas haven't helped either three years ago the factory was hit by an israeli rocket. mohammed gifts this week factory to nor has she sees its problems becomes

a story of shattered dreams. the rights group that made it cool says it aim to inform people but also challenge stereotypes we wanted to be able to tell the story of the movement restrictions on the gaza strip and do it in a creative way so that we could attract new audiences and open people's eyes to the fact that there is a different reality inside the gaza strip than the one they normally hear business is also being hurt by israeli restrictions on exports mohammed says trade won't pick up in unless the siege ends at the end of the film no makes everything right with her imagination in reality things aren't so simple and causes industries are still crippled malcolm webb al-jazeera in the gaza strip. meanwhile civil servants and gaza been protesting again over the unpaid wages they say they haven't received salaries since rival palestinian factions signed a reconciliation deal back in october hamas and fatah reached an agreement that was meant to overcome differences between them but now they're blaming each other for

the paid wages. well the number of homeless people in the u.s. is rising in new york one in ten schoolchildren spend at least part of last year without a home to call their own al-jazeera as christian salumi went to one school that's trying to deal with the challenges they face. 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 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. now they need. 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 selter 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 sea. he 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 new york. uganda's president just signed a bill removing the presidential age limit from the constitution the new law now allows your wearing a seventy to run for election again in twenty twenty one critics say the bill is his attempt to cling to power he's been in office since one thousand nine hundred six. moldova's 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 for a russian president igor doda on is stuck in a political standoff with the ruling coalition which wants closer ties with the e.u. and the us is the second time in three months the court has suspended the president's powers. police in brazil say nearly one hundred escaped prisoners are still on the

run after they fled general riot nine inmates were killed fourteen injured when a group of prisoners stormed a wing of the jail controlled by a rival gang up in the city of go yonder in the capital brasilia. now the united nations says that yemen is in the grip of the world's worst humanitarian crisis with twenty one million people suffering from war in the blockade and the latest in our series looking ahead to the year's big stories some of the reports now on what lies ahead for the country. good imagination and the skeleton of a motorbike it's all these children how they live in one day they're one of yemen's most impoverished regions import dependent and cash starved countries been under a saudi led blockade since two thousand and fifteen use of not sure what the new year will bring all his family has is a hot cobbled together with strong board. nothing is getting better everything is

deteriorating back in the days we used to feed our kids now i can't provide them with anything all i want is rice milk the basics just food for my kids. the biggest challenge for two thousand and eighteen will be to provide aid to the twenty one million yemenis in need of urgent assistance. the situation here has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis which is resulted in the world's largest cholera outbreak with close to a million suspected cases the u.n. says unless the embargo to provide medicine and aid is lifted the crisis could get even worse. they're blocking medical staff and supplies we don't have anything that's enough we don't have the basics to take care of our patients let alone the needs of those who need urgent and specialized care. become m.t.v. and crisis is directly linked to the war the saudi led coalition was asked by yemen's elected government to take back control from who think rebels north side has been able to claim a decisive victory the saudi backed forces haven't been able to move closer to the

capital sanaa from central. on the border incursions and attempted missile strikes by the who haven't won them any ground either the recent death of depots president ali abdullah saleh has dampened hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough. the head you know. for god's sake the saudis need to stop bombing yemen and end this war we are displaced we are starving we are cold and we are hungry. hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people are living in desperate conditions but despite the suffering some haven't lost faith in a peaceful settlement. we hope that in twenty eight eighteen we will be able to overcome all the difficulties we suffered in twenty seventeen we hope the yemeni family will be stronger and that we can find practical solutions to our economic social and political problem. many children have seen nothing but war in the last three years many civilians can only pray this year the fighting will come to an end some of the job is there and in the next part of our series we'll be reporting on

the upcoming presidential election in mexico with voters will have the biggest choice of candidates in the country's history that's on thursday right here on al-jazeera. now the conflict in south sudan is threatening not only the country's people but also its heritage thousands of documents have been collected from the nineteenth century but historians fear many more will be lost before they're even discovered even more going to ports in the capital juba every piece he goes through takes years of anya back to the past these files around the room are archival records of africa's youngest nation records of south sudan's history. i have archive for. tribal will have. governments. roads will have the documents on. gram of criminal cases and then we will have documents

a lot of documents that have the intelligence and culture and education thousands of archives can be found in these rooms they are primarily british colonial records from the late eighteenth hundreds when south sudan was still part of sudan it gained independence in twenty eleven but for an independent country south sudan doesn't have a museum to store and display its own archives and even though the collection started after two thousand and five most of the documents were stored in tents and till recently south sudan's ministry of culture had plans to set up a center for national archives seven years ago but the war was started in twenty fifteen has halted any progress just like with more or less anything related to development here the storage place or the archives collected so far is a simple house with only one security guard for years of civil war in south sudan have displaced millions of people and even prior to that the region had been experiencing conflicts for more than twenty years slowing down sometimes even halting the collection of archives and with

a illiteracy rate of seventy three percent many south sudanese don't know much about their history the man behind the project has selected some of the collection to be put on display many here say they're learning about their country for the first time i was in these archives are teaching me about what has been written down i'm learning my country's history anyone can read and learn about their heritage but preserving the archives is mostly done with help from donors and as the work continues discovering many details of salsa dance past has to be put on hold. it's true that different outbreaks of conflict have caused some delays to the project and of course because the donors have to also. react. when you find out they're in specific parts of town and for an archive they need to . document the very fragile some of them are over one hundred years old. over a hundred years old but to use it and many others there are precious records that must be protected at all costs and represent a country that has always been very fragile people morgan al-jazeera juba dozens of

hollywood a listers including reese witherspoon and meryl streep have donated to a fund to help fight sexual harassment the time's up campaign was only set up two weeks ago but it's already received pledges of thirteen point eight million dollars it's intended to provide assistance for victims unable to fund their own legal actions. because of a quick recap of the top stories here the u.s. has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to discuss the antigovernment protests and. the supreme leader of the islamic republic has blamed his country's enemies for six days of violence in which twenty one protesters and one policeman of lost their lives pakistan has accused the u.s. of trying to shift blame for its failures to washington decided to withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to islam in the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. made the announcement after president trump again accused pakistan of being

a safe haven for terrorists. pakistan has played at double game for years they work with us at times and they also harbor the terrorists 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. also threaten to cut aid to the palestinian authority claiming it is no longer willing to talk peace. last month he angered palestinians after recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital sparking weeks of protests tweeted that the u.s. pays millions of dollars in aid to the p.a. but gets no respect and the u.s. president has warned north korea that he too has a nuclear button on his desk and that it's bigger and more powerful in response to kim jong un's new year's message which he spoke of a launch button on his desk for weapons capable of reaching the united states. israel's given africans who enter the country illegally three months to leave or

face jail rights groups have condemned the decision saying it puts lives in danger tens of thousands of people into israel before it completes the fence along its border with egypt just over four years ago police in brazil say nearly one hundred scapes prisoners are still on the run after they fled during a riot in the state of go yes nine inmates were killed and fourteen others injured when a group of prisoners stormed the wing of the jail controlled by a rival gang police say they have recaptured more than half of the two hundred forty prisoners who escaped. uganda's president signed the bill removing the presidential age limit from the constitution the new law now allows your wearing a seventy to run for election again in twenty twenty one would you say the bill is his attempt to cling to power he's been in office since nine hundred eighty six well those are the headlines the news continues. after the listening post so much about early. we're football fans who don't think about.

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