you know about the bullies my life when people need to be handed a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of real injured have fled ethnic cleansing imeem are from bangladesh al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online in the philippines millions live in overcrowded slums but some of found another place to call home public cemeteries one on one east meets those living among the dead at this time on al-jazeera. north korea restores a communication hotline with south korea after nearly two years ahead of tuesday's talks.

sam is a damned this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up donald trump threatens to cut off u.s. aid the palestinians and says he's taken jerusalem out of negotiations. after days of unrest tens of thousands of iranians rally in support of the government and closing the door on the open borders countries in europe shanghai in zone refused to give up passport checks. north korea has reopened communication inside the demur tries own with south korea for the first time in almost two years it took place ahead of talks between the two governments scheduled for tuesday. north korea's leader kim jong un has given an order to open the panmunjom hotline between the north and south from three pm on january third to contact south korea regarding the right time for talks

and sending a delegation to the peeling chuang winter olympics or they would need to gate park in south korea's government welcomes north korea's response to yesterday's offer to restore the public communication channel we would discuss practical affairs regarding yesterday's offer to hold south and north korea talks. ogram on why it is a research fellow over the institute of defense and strategic studies in singapore he says expectations very positive outcome should be high. i think there's a lot of hope and the the new found hope is a warranted one because we have had a very difficult year in twenty seventy with you know regulus not being from the north koreans of any offering of figleaves or olive branches sorry towards the other side and now we've seen a letting up and so things have happened very quickly and clearly boresight are trying to capitalize on europe on the opportunity to try and set up the best

possible stage in order for them to talk to each other i think we need to have a very modest expectation or what's in store for the upcoming dialogue next week it's going to be very focused very narrow and very mediocre so to speak centered around north korea's intention to send an athletic delegation to the twenty eight in winter games in february and i think that is a modest yet law hanging fruit that both sides should true on right now if they can get that right i'm quite certain that it can get the bigger things right along the way so this is really a moment to sort of secure this foothold talking to each other agreeing on something and getting something tangible done which is has dividends on and on cultural on a cultural and social level between will science 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 us in a tweet trump wrote i too have a nuclear button but it is much bigger and much powerful than heads my button works. trump is threatening to cut aid to the palestinian authority and says he's taken jerusalem off the negotiating table the angered palestinians last month by recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital palestinians one occupied east jerusalem as the capital of any future state trump tweeted that the u.s. pays millions of dollars of aid to the palestinian authority if it gets no respect says the authority is not willing to talk peace washington is also threatening to cut off funding to the un agency helping palestinian refugees according to the united nations relief and works agency more than one of the half million people live in fifty eight recognized palestinian refugee camps in jordan lebanon the gaza

strip and the west bank of the us is one of the main contributors to relief agencies for palestinian refugees it gave about six hundred sixteen million last year and foreign aid that went to education health and social programs for palestinian refugees washington donates almost thirty percent of its overall funding to the un's relief agency in a series of tweets the palestine liberation organization has responded to trance threats saying the palestinian people will not be blackmailed and trump has sabotage the peace process blaming the palestinians for the consequences of his own irresponsible actions the u.s. says intends to withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan to the decision comes after the us president accused the country of being a safe haven for the call terrorists rather than jordan has 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 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 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 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 islam abides complaints simply aren't going anywhere. pakistan is rejecting the u.s. allegations its envoy to the un tells al-jazeera we have contributed and sacrificed the most in fighting international terrorism and carried out the largest counterterrorism operation anywhere in the world the us spokespersons 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 a need for them on national interests and principles. is awful just vile is an analyst on pakistan a professor of international relations and applied the awesome university he says a move like this should not have been

a surprise to policymakers in pakistan. the americans are not asking about the half was practically they are asking about the how can a network which pakistan is denying that it did karli network i mean there from the taliban fighting all good that it does not possess any see if have been in pakistan because since yesterday our before yesterday if you see pakistan has once again to be uprooted is that there is no thief part of one taliban or anyone else in pakistan let me have submitted that since one year buck standard americans perception only more delegates all of understand have been. americans have been alleging or they were asking about five thousand of those fifty dollars you can see you start seeing normal you have to not forget here. in the start of our carlino world there are because you call it the alignment in the international politics and pakistan is drifting towards your no issue no lies is like china and that is not

acceptable to the american called two thousand same to national security strategy which was released by the driver in a speech on the agent december two thousand same thing that indie kids balance of power that indicated. as appeared all skewed to compete did whereas pakistan is against threat and i think that since one year pakistan has been preparing to respond or to bid this kind of a burden that's why in pakistan if you see public uproar it is one thing but on the other side of the garment the armed forces are under pressure because no one is here the opposition to go home it is desiring to appease america. tens of thousands of government supporters are rallying across iran it's the first major show of support after six days of demonstrations against the regime are gathering in at least force reduced to condemn the recent one rest in which at least twenty one people were killed meanwhile the u.s. has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to discuss those protests the iranian supreme leader is blaming

what he calls external enemies for six days of violence i can has the latest from the 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 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 earlier 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 i mean john a call 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 dance that there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult we attain it so 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. for said 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 portage 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 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 the u.s. state department is considering further action against iran we don't get ahead of sanctions but that is one to look at a couple things that we have in a very broad and wide toolkits there are a range of options that we certainly have going forward and that's why i say we are watching reports very carefully of any potential human rights abuses of these protesters who are protesting peacefully iran's foreign minister is hit back at president transfer remarks telling the u.s. to stay out of his country's affairs hundreds of observed tweeted iran's security instability depends on its own people who are like the peoples of trance regional b f f's or best friends forever have the right to vote and to protest these hard earned rights will be protected and infiltrators will not be allowed to sabotage

them through violence and destruction. still ahead on al-jazeera we're looking ahead to a challenging year for yemen she's facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world class a new york school this for violating more than just education for vulnerable children. from brisk noise and fuel. to the woman trying to use of southeast asia. how i would tend windy weather piling in from the atlantic into that western side of here see the cloud just tumbling through a big area a cloud just stretching its way down across germany through a good part of france and a real rock laying of showers coming on behind this area of low pressure this is what been become known as a storm out and then the very strong winds will remain across the region across a good part of the u.k. for

a good part of whedon's day mild air there look at those temperatures getting up to around twelve celsius there for london in paris shippey about six or seven degrees of that mild air that also makes its way down into switzerland zurich at about eleven degrees celsius the avalanche for is certainly a possibility have seen a fair amount of snow more that to come certainly over the high ground but with those sort of temperatures it does increase the risk of avalanches and you see the temperatures similar values as we go on through thursday by thursday notice them very wet weather down towards greece towards that will make its way further and still some rather wet weather there across southern parts of england down into france and the low countries that will push his way through on a brisk westerly wind dry if breezy across northern parts of africa will see temperatures now it is picking up now with a top temperature of twenty one degrees. the weather sponsored by the time. you are making. when they're on line the main u.s.

response to drugs and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been the criminal mind or if you join us on sat. in the morning and says i want to cover the world of darkness this is a dialogue that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the club conversation at this time on out. launching out to zero minded out of our top stories this hour for the first time in almost two years north korea has reopened communication inside the demilitarized zone with south korea this took place ahead of talks between the two governments

scheduled for tuesday. tens of thousands of government supporters are rallying across iran as the first major show of support after six days of demonstrations against the regime a gathering in at least four cities to condemn the recent unrest in which at least twenty one people were killed. us president dog trump says he's taken jerusalem off let me go sheeting table with the palestinians it's also threatening to cut off funding to the palestinian authority saying why should the u.s. go on making payments when it gets no respect. israel has given undocumented african immigrants three months to leave the country all face imprisonment those who leave during that period will be given plane tickets and three and a half thousand dollars rights groups have condemned the decision saying it puts people's lives in danger tens of thousands of people entered israel before it build the fence along its border with egypt. max blumenthal is

a senior writer for ultimate dot org he says it will be difficult to stop the deportations. human rights groups in israel it within israeli society are an under unprecedented assault from her 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 miriam reg a member of benjamin netanyahu is ruling we 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 the necessary pressure to stop this potentially calamitous mass deportation of over thirty thousand people fleeing

a horrendous human rights situation. well businesses in the gaza strip have been struggling under an israeli blockade many are barely able to keep running some of been forced to close because they don't have enough supplies a new cartoon by an israeli rights group shows the reality facing one business reports from gaza. a girl called nor buys an ice cream and wins a ticket to visit a sweet factory. where you have had even maisano lauder. yet. knows a fictional character in an animation made by an israeli rights group but the factory and its owner mohammed tell bonnie a real and so are 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 electricity is off most of the time in gaza during my visit i have

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. as 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 to my city by dismissing the need to spare parts exactly that's not being allowed in this machine but the cream filling and biscuits the kids 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 either. the mohammed doesn't believe the restrictions are just for security reasons it's there is the way that it's. this is always. the best

. the people is ready for this because that. israel's military assault on gaza has 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 less the siege and 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. egypt has extended its state of emergency for another three months the decision follows two attacks against coptic christians in the one district south of cairo the government first imposed a state of emergency in april after two church bombings killed at least forty five people. border checks within europe is passport free shang and zone are continuing this via rules allowing certain restrictions coming to an end it's two years since the peak of the refugee crisis some countries say security remains an issue poor resupport some of the busiest crossing points between denmark and sweden. from an open border for refugees to a closed border for anyone not carrying a passport or a swedish identity card sweden's policy on opening its gates to asylum seekers

during the crisis of twenty fifteen is long gone. but police checks on the train from denmark don't seem to be going anywhere soon the bridge between copenhagen. was the main entry point for more than a hundred sixty thousand people who applied for asylum in sweden in twenty fifteen that flow has now dried up the law allowing restrictions has expired but sweden is one of the countries citing security as a reason for the controls to continue. the closure of the balkan routes has led to a huge drop in the number of refugees arriving in europe yet sweden france germany austria norway and denmark have all continued to impose controls on their front tiers. those restrictions legally expired on november the twelfth under

article twenty nine of the schengen borders code. but article twenty five allows the countries to extend them for six months if they claim serious threats to public order or internal security. danes and swedes had previously been encouraged to see a newly branded region as a place in which they could freely commute between the countries they say the increases in their journey times are unjustified this is mainly. for show internal politics they're worried citizens are worried here in sweden about the mass influx of immigrants trying to show that they're doing something and reality this nothing happens here this is. yeah almost a circus a waste of time journeys of thousands of kilometers from the middle east and africa how finally ended here in recent years the question of whether free movement in the

schengen zone can ever begin again is still in the. whole race al-jazeera. the opposition honduras is calling for a month of protests ahead of the president's inauguration on january the twenty seventh in december had members was declared the winner after a tight runoff election but opposition. says he won the organization of american states says there were regular thiis and is calling for a new vote. yemen's facing what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis two thousand and eighteen will bring even more challenges it seems at least twenty one million people are said to be suffering neighboring countries around the pressure to help salvage of aid has this report the latest in our series looking ahead to the year's big stories. 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 the import dependent and cash starved countries been

under a saudi led blockade since two thousand and fifteen years 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 an italian 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 of. 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 hope. of a diplomatic breakthrough that they had 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 and yet 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 enjoying it does there or in the next part of our series we'll look at the upcoming presidential elections in mexico where voters will have the biggest choice of candidates in the country's history that's on thursday right here on al-jazeera . the number of homeless people in the u.s. is rising in new york one in ten schoolchildren spent at least part of last year without a home to call their own kristen salumi went to one school that's trying to deal with those challenges. 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 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 let's take you through some of the headlines now for the first time in almost two years north korea has reopened communication inside the demilitarized zone with

south korea this took place ahead of talks between the two governments scheduled for tuesday. your north korea's leader kim jong un has given an order to open the panmunjom hotline between the north and south from three pm on january third to contact south korea regarding the right time for talks and sending a delegation to the pianka chang winter olympics or do we need to get back in south korea's government welcomes north korea's response to yesterday's offer to restore the public jumped communication channel who would discuss practical affairs regarding yesterday's offer to hold herself to hold south and north korea talks u.s. president dog trump says he's taken jerusalem off the negotiating table with the palestinians it's also threatening to cut off funding to the palestinian authority saying it's not interested in peace talks last month the angered palestinians by recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital the u.s.

says it intends to withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan follows president trump's accusations the country is a safe haven for terrorists pakistan says the u.s. should not shift blame for its own mistakes tens of thousands of government supporters are rallying across iran it's the first major show of support after six days of demonstrations against the regime a gathering at least four cities to condemn the recent unrest in which at least twenty one people were killed the opposition in honduras is calling for a month of protests the head of the president's inauguration on january twenty seventh in december manders was declared the winner after a tight run election. opposition candidate salvador us ramos says he won the organization of american states has the word agreed laboratories and it's calling for a new vote egypt has extended its state of emergency for another three months the decision follows two attacks against coptic christians in the head of one district

south of cairo on friday the government first imposed a state of emergency in april is the stream next day with us here now his era. al-jazeera. and for you. hi i'm ali could be and here in the stream are you living in a political filter bubble well there are quite a few apps for that but how much can technology do to get us out of our echo chambers. i'm dating just i'm an engineer at google and i'm in

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