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coming up in the next sixty minutes there should be more so-called burden sharing to go around. the u.s. to withhold sixty five million dollars in aid for palestinians washington insists it's not a punishment. we cannot and will not accept you as a nuclear state talking tough on north korea the u.s. and val's the pressure will continue on pyongyang. another crisis for yemen is that period takes hold. and pope francis expresses pain and shame the child sex abuse scandals involving the catholic church in chile. but first the united states is withholding hall for the financial aid it had to allocate if the palestinians through the united nations relief and works agency now this means the trumpet ministration is freeing up just sixty million dollars of the

one hundred twenty five million dollars it had initially promised for. now the u.s. state department says the decision is aimed at encouraging other countries to also provide aid to the palestinians this is not aimed at punishing anyone the united states government and the trumpet ministration believe that there should be more so-called burden sharing to go around. audra is providing vital services to the palestinian refugee population both in the occupied territories and in jordan in syria and in. lebanon. those services are of extreme importance not only for the well being of these populations and there is a serious humanitarian concern he but also in my opinion and they'll be that is shared by most international observers including so he's really ones it is an

important factor of stability let's go live now to our diplomatic editor james phases at the u.n. headquarters in new york we were half expecting this a tweet had a letter this to the fact that the trumpet ministration might be prepared to do this. yeah and it is a big blow for palestinians under a is an organization that's been around for almost seventy years and millions of palestinians depend on it for education for health care for social services we don't have a great deal of detail from the u.s. about exactly why it's doing this it doesn't like annorah and the way it's run it says there needs to be or the need to undertake a fundamental reexamination of under both the way it operates and the way it is funded they also say why should the u.s. be paying all this money being the key funder of why are other nations not paying more they're calling for burden sharing to take place among all members of the

international community i think it's worth reminding you though those are the official reasons but remember that israel's strong ally is the u.s. and israel itself has been very critical of in the past it doesn't like what underdogs and it doesn't like what i'm really says because unruh has been very outspoken in the past about the conditions that palestinians are living under i was going to ask you that a little bit more detail then what are the specific objections to the way. runs itself and the kinds of activities it pursues with regard to the palestinian refugees. well there making that point about burden sharing as one of the main points but clearly there is a political aspect to all of this i think from the trumpet ministration and there's likely to be a political effect of all of this because remember this comes hard on the heels of

the u.s. saying that jerusalem is israel's capital in their view these are two measures taken together which are really going to anger the palestinians and remember the president trump said he wants a deal of the century between the israelis and the palestinians well i think that's looking further away than any time in the last year that he has been president everyone thought it was a tall order to begin with but these are two measures that is that of a good one side in this dispute and it's going to be very hard i think to get the palestinians to listen to the trumpet ministrations plans going forward after this all right james thank you for that james bays at diplomatic editor live at the u.n. in new york now we can have a closer look at what this cut in financial assistance from washington would actually mean for palestinians and james who already has alluded to the fact that in twenty sixteen the lion share of u.s. aid to palestinians was worth three hundred fifty million dollars and it went to

the un's agency for palestinian refugees known as that same year under paid for the education of health a million palestinian children in more than seven hundred schools it also funded more than nine million doctors visits and around one hundred fifty primary health clinics in total help to the estimated five million people living in camps in the occupied west bank gaza strip jordan lebanon and syria. well palestinian refugees living in jordan say they're disappointed by the decision. to cut the aid will destroy so many families like my family because we depend completely on the right to educate our children all our medicines and medical treatments also the financial support comes to us from. we are ready to stay hungry and thirsty and to be homeless but you will never give up jerusalem and iraq's a mosque. ok we should. say now who's with the truman national security project

she was an advisor to the obama administration she joins us now from washington d.c. it seems that this is yet another ratcheting up of the pressure on the palestinians from the trumpet ministration yes and it is very unfortunate because over seven hundred thousand palestinian refugees and for diaspora when israel was established in one nine hundred forty eight and today it's estimated that over seven million palestinians live in refugee camps in lebanon syria jordan and other countries and for the united states to threaten these cuts can undermine u.s. national security broader regional stability concerns and also israeli national security so if you know you're harming innocent people explain that a little bit more will you say you think that this could actually backfire for u.s. interests. yes because there are many the majority of palestinians now live in

diaspora in refugee camps located in lebanon syria and jordan and as we've already seen there is rampant instability throughout the middle east and further instability is not in united states interests we also know that in any region in the world cutting funding for education services medical services increasing poverty just increases the opportunities for terrorist organizations and extremist organizations to recruit and gain power and so when there are trusted institutions such as the united nations relief and works agency such as the palestinian authority being threatened to be undermined by the united states that's only going to empower embolden other extremist organizations should we see this is part of what the emerging trump pola see towards the palestine israel conflict the so-called deal of the century has already threatened the closure of the p.l.o. office in washington d.c. he's made the controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of

israel now this what exactly does he hope this will yield politically. so it's really more a play to his domestic policy base and i think it's another example of putting his own personal political interests above the national security interests of the american people there are four final status issues when it comes to the palestinian israeli conflict one is the status of jerusalem two is the issue of the right of the return for palestinian individuals three is the issue of borders and four is the issue of water rights and access to water for the palestinian and israeli people what we've seen now in just a little over a month is the trumpet ministration severely undermining the final status of two of those issues one jerusalem and now the issue of the right of return for palestinian individuals one of the region's reasons why prime minister netanyahu is so critical of the united nations relief and works agency is because he says that it empowers in and bold and among the palestinian people this issue of the right of return and

makes them feel entitled to coming back to what they believe to be their rightful homeland and so that is one of the reasons why netanyahu is so opposed to additionally i'd like to point out just how much of a double standard it is by the trumpet administration because currently prime minister netanyahu is being investigated for corruption and is being and is accused of stealing from his own people the people of israel and yet the united states is not discussing whether or not we should review our aid policy to israel and we go back zero i mean get to improve and we get back to the pentagon high because i'm particularly interested in what your assessment of the situation is regarding the palestinian leadership now what. mahmoud abbas actually practically have given that he's already called this not the do this century but the slap of this century. exactly i think the trumpet ministration is really looking for capitulation from the palestinian people and i think it's made clear as day both from the statements

by united nations general secretary good to terrorise earlier today and other world leaders that the ball is really going to be removed from the united states court up until today the u.s. has really been viewed as the sole mediator in this conflict and as we know we haven't really seen any progress in resolving the crisis and so i think in terms of the palestinian authority leadership they're going to have to look to the european union to the united nations to other primary countries or organizations like the organization of islamic countries in order to broker an agreement i don't think that it's going to be determined by the united states at this point and in part a reason for that is because president trump has failed to even appoint keep positions in the sit in the state department people who would be ambassadors to these key countries people who are the real policy experts and until he is able to have true substantive academic expertise he's just going to continue what we've seen which is just playing to his domestic political base rallying his base and not

actually making you know and intelligent informed decisions on the long term interests of united states security in the middle east but thank you very much indeed good to talk to you. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including donald trump strategist he's ordered to testify before a grand jury in the u.s. rusher inquiry. a stock market high in the u.s. the dow jones hits twenty six thousand points for the first time. well larry. i'm here not to tell someone but to tell that the victims of the u.s. team gymnastics duck to confront him in court have a section the details coming up with in school.

that the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called for continued pressure on young until it abandons its nuclear program he warned against complacency as north and south korea engage in talks he was speaking at a meeting in canada that's looking at ways to better implement un sanctions imposed on the north officials from twenty countries are there but two of the key players china and russia are not there absent the object of negotiations if and when we get there is the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of north korea all nations here today are united on that goal we all must insist a full enforcement of years security council sanctions as this is the letter of the law we especially urge russia and china in this matter full implementation is an essential measure for the security of their people and a clear indication of their willingness to honor their international commitments we

cannot abide lapses or sanctions evasions we will continue to call attention to and designate entities and individuals complicit in such evasive actions. russia is a correspondent in vancouver as she joins us live now and so we've mentioned that two the big cases china and russia are not there tell us about who is on the invitation this his in vancouver. well among the countries that are taking part in this day long meeting here in vancouver include diplomats from the countries of colombia of norway sweden just to name three countries turkey is here at the invitation of canada and the united states twenty countries in all eleven of them foreign ministers the other lower level diplomats so it one you could ask whether or not this is

a kind of meeting that by the composition of those attending would be guaranteed to produce something that would be earth shattering in terms of resolving the crisis with north korea on the other hand you could also ask whether there is a possibility of bringing in countries of bringing in perspectives from countries that have perhaps not a direct geographic interest in the korean peninsula but who may have long running ties and does have some ideas on how to end the situation where it seems as if north korea is dead set upon expanding its nuclear weapons arsenal and so in the next hour or so we are expecting to hear from the co-chairs of this event the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and chrystia freeland the canadian foreign minister about what these twenty leaders have agreed could be the way forward they've been taking a look at the security situation they've been looking at the ongoing effectiveness

of the existing sanctions regime against north korea but it'll be interesting to see what deliverables what actions or strategies will be revealed when this meeting concludes in the next hour. and this meeting roles was actually arranged a couple of months ago at a time when the rhetoric was extremely high i think it was around the time when we were hearing that the fire in the fury speech from donald trump and and there were insults coming from pyongyang to the u.s. president as well i'm just wondering whether whether the climate has changed significantly since then given that we've we've had the first tools with the north and south in two years. well certainly there is a welcoming of the fact that north korean and south korean officials are talking to each other at least on the very narrow question of participation in the upcoming winter olympic games in south korea but also while welcoming the possibility that

north korea might be willing to entertain some of the other outstanding issues that it has with its southern neighbor including the question of family reunification of a perhaps political reunification down the road and certainly looking out the question of its nuclear weapons arsenal the south korean foreign minister hong kong made a point of stressing at. tuesday's opening session that even though her government welcomes these overtures from pyongyang that as far as seoul is concerned north korea still needs to put an end to its nuclear weapons program so it does preserve it does have it has broad i should say a different tone or sensibility to this day long set of meetings but at the end of the day there is uniform agreement that north korea can not trying to establish

itself as a state with nuclear weapons and that the long term goal is to get that country to get rid of its nuclear weapons program once and for all ok roles for now thank you very much indeed roslyn jordan our correspondent in vancouver will keep us right up to date with developments says we're expecting them to report towards the end of that conference in vancouver a little bit later on now let's go back to main story today that as the u.s. withholding funds for the un's relief and works agency for the palestinians we can now speak to christopher gunness who's chief spokesman for that agency he's joining us now live from amman in jordan chris thank you for talking to us a hugely disappointing decision no doubt but not entirely unexpected. it is certainly regrettable it was also rather approach and it is harmful because let us not forget that risk is one of the most innovative longstanding and successful

human development and surprises of united nations system in the middle east at stake is the education of half a billion children around the middle east one point seven million food insecurity refugees may have a risk now food and cash assistance we work with vulnerable children with the elderly the sick the dying with women the disabled in gaza through the summer months we provide all sorts of a sense of normality for hundreds of thousands of children these things are not risk and what we're talking about here is regional stability because this time in the middle east these human development services are an anchor in terms of stability in take chris the americans say that this is withdrawing all the withholding i should say of a certain percentage of their funding is a matter of burden sharing they'd like other countries to step up to the mark and take some of the weight off their shoulders but there's also a suspicion of course that they actually don't like some of the activities and some

of the utterances coming from the agency and we know these raids have taken exception to the statements sometimes made by has on rapper hats got too involved in the politics of the palestinian israeli conflict. to be clear we received from the united states last year about three hundred fifty billion dollars what we've had so far this year is sixty that's a huge differential there of course we will work to extend out on a base we will work to engage emerging markets the brics countries islamic charities foundations individuals will launching in a few days a global campaign in order to try to fill that gap now on the other question about what people have to say but under its mandate it is the general assembly that sets and hands down mandates in the general assembly very recently gave robust support to our mandate and we are very clear that it's an essential mandate because the

general assembly has described our work as indispensable the last part of your question is about neutrality we defend to the hilt neutral role do you really think that would have had access the wall so in the battlefields of syria in places like aleppo if there was any question about on neutrality the fact is that there are standards of you shall ity which we rigorously uphold christopher gunness chase folks are still talking to us live from amman thank you very much that's in thank you very much goodnight now the world health organization is warning that a depth area outbreak in yemen is spreading quickly only seven hundred people have now been affected forty eight people have died from the disease in the past four months and who data of the worst hit of the nineteen affected regions but there's some better news on the aid front for yemen the saudi led coalition says it will

allow for cranes at the pulled over data to begin operating they'll be used to of late food and medicine and as mohammed jenji reports that aid can't come soon enough. amid the worst humanitarian crisis in the world what could be a sliver of hope these four to donald cranes which have just arrived at her data port in yemen funded by the united states agency for international development will significantly increase the floating capacity here at the border to ease congestion and improve ultimately improve delivery of humanitarian and other supplies to the people who desperately need it across yemen the saudi led coalition fighting who the rebels in northern yemen is promising to allow the cranes to begin offloading food medicine and other basic

necessities there have been guarantees before but aid hasn't always flowed it can't come soon enough is there anybody can use when needed by fatah enough to yemen they want to make the best not to give you what used to come and you know sort of the majority of the nation the international committee of the red cross stresses however that while aid is arriving in yemen it's not coming quick enough. in the city of tire is dozens of protesters demonstrated against what they said is government negligence government leaders are accused of failing to control the collapse of the national currency or protect yemenis from rising food prices the company that you many didn't need is not enough this is a country of twenty seven even so many different agencies get enough fuel and food and medicine for the whole country what we need is for collusion. and the let will those inside of fish. the poorest country in the middle east is facing multiple

crises the worst cholera epidemic ever recorded and a diptheria outbreak that is spreading quickly in a country with some of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world and where more than eight million people are on the brink of famine a new report by unicef details how children have been scarred by war and says that since the escalation of the conflict in march two thousand and fifteen three million children have been born in yemen that's approximately three thousand every day. unicef says more than eleven million yemeni children need humanitarian assistance just one of the many reasons why few believe the suffering of the yemeni people in any time soon. in chile pope francis has express what is called his pain and shame over the country's sexual abuse scandal is the first time he's commented on the crisis surrounding a form of priest who was found guilty in twenty eleven of abusing teenage boys pope

francis made the remarks before holding an outdoor musts in the capital santiago from there in america editor to see a new man reports. chilean catholics and immigrants from many parts of latin america spent the night here for the chance to see pope francis up the pope's media never you never read them again it was worth it i love this point because the under schools the need for social justice which our political parties have forgotten. is that this isn't largess park and organizers calculated four hundred thousand people came to the pope's first mass in chile less than half of the estimated one million who attended pope john paul the second smash here thirty one years ago during chile's military dictatorship but those were different times back then john paul's mass was interrupted when riot police began firing massive amounts of tear gas into the crowd to disperse those who are protesting against human rights abuses and

calling for the pope's support which they fought three decades on chileans are still thinking about abuses but this time those committed by the church. so pope francis wasted no time confronting the issue in his first address here at the presidential palace he asked for forgiveness for clerical sex abuses against innocent minors. here i feel bound to express my pain and shame the irreparable damage caused to children by some ministers of the church i mean. i am one with my brother bishops for it is right to ask for forgiveness and make every effort to support the victims even as we commit ourselves to ensuring that such things do not happen again. many will be holding him to his word because a lot of that has to be corrected forgiveness is necessary. for every

day no matter what. the mass the pope spoke of peace before leaving to meet women prisoners on tuesday he's in the most complex stop of his trip it's the epicenter of a restive territorial dispute by indigenous is a place where chileans are hoping that his message of peace and reconciliation will be heard you see in human santiago. here at al jazeera look back on the u.s. president's first year in office and particularly. with tensions on the korean peninsula. the families fearing the worst as divisions between global powers threaten to open a new conflict syria. roger federer is on the right track for a twenty grand slam title has all the teams have training in a. hello

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take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees says u.s. assistance will threaten regional security it follows an announcement by the trumpet ministration that it will withhold part of the financial aid it had allocated to the un agency us secretary of state rex tillerson is calling for continued pressure on north korea and till it abandons its nuclear program he was speaking in a meeting in canada looking at ways to better implement un sanctions imposed on the north. the world health organization is warning at the very outbreak in yemen is spreading quickly almost seven hundred people have now been affected. now u.s. president donald trump is marking a year in office in just a few days from now and we're looking into how this administration has fared so far

one of his biggest foreign policy challenges has been north korea in the second of our five part series kathy novak reports from seoul. it was a year that saw the leaders of the united states and north korea exchanging threats of nuclear war and some rather undignified insults donald trump called the north korean leader a little rocket man kim jong un dubbed the us president a mentally deranged dotard they boasted about their nuclear buttons. the u.s. mainland is within the range of a nuclear strike and as you can hear bolton is put on the desk in my office at all times and sparked fears the korean peninsula could be edging closer to war they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen it certainly has elevated the level of tension on the peninsula president trump has made this issue his most important foreign policy issue so it has brought

a lot of attention globally. during trump's first year in office north korea launched its first successful tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles demonstrating that its weapons could reach the united states it conducted its biggest ever nuclear bomb test and late last year declared its weapons development program was complete in response the u.s. successfully pushed for tough u.n. sanctions including a cap on north korea's petrol supplies other countries in this region have been faced with a delicate balancing act signed us supported the u.n. sanctions but was unwilling to cut off north korea's oil supply completely and south korea has been pushing a dual campaign of pressuring the north while continuing to promote dialogue. with the new year came a shift for the first time in more than two years the two koreas sat down for official talks and agreed north korea would attend the winter olympics next month

the south korean government is now engaging with the north korean government and dialogues and north korean delegation visiting south korean february so we're in a very different place than what people thought even two three six months ago so what happens next south korean president monday and thank donald trump for helping bring about the talks and both say they would be willing to sit down with kim jong un under the right circumstances though trump has previously said any talks with north korea would be a waste of time mixed signals from his administration and even the fact that a year on he hasn't appointed an ambassador to south korea has some analysts questioning what trump's policy on north korea really is kathy novak al jazeera so all right we can speak now to gordon chang who's a columnist for forbes magazine and author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world he's joining us live from miami thanks for talking to us gordon let's

start with the here in the now and the rather encouraging talks between the north and the south it seems very much as though the south koreans are actually taking the lead in many ways and rather cleverly giving donald trump a certain amount of credit for this storm relations but nonetheless taking the lead in this conversation with the north. well yes they are and part of this is the kim family of north korea has a playbook they've used for seven decades part of it is first of all you refuse to talk to south korea then you make a bold overture which is what happened on new year's day with the the address by kim jong un there is that then a demand for concessions and finally if you don't get what you want you throw a tantrum right now we're in stage three of four and the south koreans are obliging by shoveling a fair amount of money to north korea by agreeing to pay for all the expenses of

the north korean delegation to the olympics and do you think that donald trump then and the the trumpet administration has handled kim jong un who. has been has been provoked beyond any other time before and and has been provoked into this kind of irascible performance at the scene in the past year. well the north koreans are going to build missiles and detonate nukes regardless who the american president is and we've seen that this program has started at least nine hundred sixty five maybe even before that this doesn't really have anything to do with whoever is sitting at the white house at this particular moment you know trump did provoke kim jong un but you know in the scheme of things that really doesn't matter what matters is the american policy of trying to cut off the flow of money to north korea that's important because if kim jong un doesn't have money he can't launch missiles he can't detonate nukes he can't engage in other dangerous

activities and that's why south korea paying all this money to north korea really is a step backward because money is fungible so every dollar that south korea pays the north korea for whatever purpose does is one more dollar for kim jong un to engage in this really destructive conduct now many believe that we are in this may meant to claim seven we have seen in seventy years to a nuclear believe that we would be in this situation regardless of who occupies the white house and oh absolutely you know the north korean weapons program has nothing to do with the united states you know you hear a lot of analysts saying oh you know if the united states had overthrown saddam hussein or moammar gadhafi you know the north koreans wouldn't be doing this but that's ridiculous because kim il sung who founded the regime start of the north korea nuclear weapons program about six seven decades ago so this is nothing to do

with american policy this is the world's most militaristic regime wants the world's most fearsome weapons and we've got to understand that this is not deterrence because kim kim jong il and has had to turns against south korea he with nothing more than just high explosives what they want to do is they want to use their arsenal to intimidate south korea into submission because that's the long term goal of the kim family which is to take over south korea golden chang thank you very much. now in our next episode on thursday we'll be looking at the sexual misconduct allegations that have dogs trump since the election campaign. and don't suck today will have a one hour special at seventeen hours greenwich mean time looking back at donald trump's first year in office and what we can perhaps expect in his second year.

closing in washington there were reports the president trumps former chief strategist has been subpoenaed to testify on possible russian collusion in the two of the sixteen presidential election it's understood that steve bannon will be required to testify before a grand jury he met the house of representatives intelligence committee as part of its own rush or investigation on tuesday kimberly how it is following the story from washington. the subpoena by robert muller for steve bannon to appear before a grand jury is certainly a game changer and marks an escalation in the ongoing probe into trying campaign ties to russia and whether or not there was any collusion it's not likely that bannon will testify before the grand jury but what this does seem to indicate is some strong arm tactics by the special prosecutor essentially there may be some sort of deal making in the works where there is with the promise to cooperate another promise that banham will not have to testify before the grand jury but it

certainly is problematic for the president given the fact that it is an unraveling relationship between the president and his former chief strategist one that has deescalated into name calling not only has steve van in that book fire and fury said that a meeting that donald trump jr participated in with a kremlin linked lawyer was treasonous but of course donald trump for his part has alleged that steele. bannon was forced out of the white house because he had in the words of the president lost his mind well this certainly could be some motivation for steve bannon to speak rather open and freely with the special prosecutor this is certainly a marking of an escalation in this investigation one that the white house has insisted repeatedly would be wrapping up rather imminently but of course has not the dow jones industrial average has raced pasta twenty six thousand miles for the first time in history the peak appears to show

a rising economic optimism under president trump as gabriel elizondo he explains. whether it be here in the u.s. or abroad the first year of president donald trump's time in office has been beset by controversies and setbacks he's one of the least popular presidents in modern times with his approval ratings in the thirty's to at best low forty's but one area where trump has seen a lot of success is right here at the stock market many people saying the u.s. economy as a whole is roaring like a freight train now the dow is one of the oldest and most watched economic indicators anywhere in the world it's the weighted average of thirty significant stocks traded on the new york stock exchange and nasdaq it's been around for over one hundred in twenty years and the dow has reached twenty six thousand points for the first time ever shortly after trading began on tuesday and it's

a signal of the strong health of the stock market and the u.s. economy as a whole the g.d.p. growth is up and unemployment is down the stock market started making gains shortly after trump took office on his promise to cut regulations that hinder economic growth and he's done just that cutting hundreds of regulations in the last year and now the markets are responding positively to trump's tax reform legislation which is promising huge tax cuts to corporations and seen as a gift to wall street add it all up and the dow has shot up more than forty percent since trump became president further helping is that crude prices are up to some of the highest prices in the past three years driven up by production cuts by opec and strong demand fueled by economic growth but going back to the dow in the stock market while without a doubt it is seeing record gains it is mostly benefiting the rich and well

connected millions of americans are seeing no or very little effect from it or only one third of the bottom fifty percent of wage earners have stocks in many ways this is a search that's a lot about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. the french president has called on the u.k. to do more about refugees and migrants who are trying to get into britain via cali meeting refugees and migrants emanuel macross said he would discuss the issue with the british prime minister tourism a on thursday thousands of people were evicted from a camp known as the jungle there cali before it was demolished last year the trash about to has more from cali. emanuel might call began the day meeting refugees at a state shelter in northern france is. still going to see them leave some regions of the ruins of them later in the port of cali the french president met politicians charity workers and police people here are fed up that hundreds of refugees

continue to come to canada to try and reach the u.k. mike ross said he will ask britain to do more to help when he meets prime minister to resume a on thursday visit. better manage the issue of unaccompanied minors reinforce police cooperation in cali and with countries of origin and transit on block funds to support important projects for the development of kalar simulating. police say that more than one hundred fifteen thousand attempts were made by refugees to reach the u.k. last year now that britain's voted to leave the european union many here say it's time to scrap the u.k.'s calley border britain's border here was agreed to under a two thousand and three franco british steel two k. accorded allows british police and customs officers to operate on the french authorities since then things have changed with the refugee crisis and brags that and now many people in cali saying that the u.k.

must manage its border on its own territory because it's a teacher because you know we need to get rid of this border it will make britain more accessible for the migrants who want to go there if the border goes it will make things easier here. so it's time to move the border the situation in careless becoming unmanageable in terms of security minded girl and i can't go out alone because of what's happening. mike ross says france will do more to help asylum seekers but he's ruled out building a refugee camp in cali and promise to crack down on illegal immigrants maya can forty is one of several activists who refused to meet the president she's angry that conditions for refugees are worse than ever you know malzahn miles and miles of fences and barbed wire in cali and when is that going to stop when it clearly does not work i mean it it diminishes the number of people who are here but this

will come back or will hope that this visit will put pressure on britain to reach a deal for cali but until the certainty over what breaks its means kelly status as a symbol of europe's refugee crisis seems secure natasha butler al-jazeera. bangladesh has announced plans to repatriate six hundred fifty thousand or hinder refugees back to neighboring miramar within two years the deal was settled this week in the first refugees will start to move back to me i'm our own cheers say hundreds of thousands of ranger muslims have fled a military crackdown that began in russia in state in me m r in august they joined others already in bangladesh after previous flares of violence kurdish civilians fear they'll become targets of turkey follow through on its threat to move against y p g fighters in syria turkey is preparing

a strike against the fighters which it calls terrorists the wife says form part of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces the s.e.'s any attack is likely to center on the city of our friend see them cause here lou reports from the turkey syria border. that is one of many kurds whose grandparents left northern syria years ago but he still has family in africa which is close by on the syrian side of the border to maine and his relatives there are growing increasingly worried as turkey prepares for a military operation against you has backed kurdish why preview fighters. the military has i'm no friend of the why p.g. they recruit young boys and girls that's why my brother in laws fled after in a move to stumble four years ago the weapons provided to those fighters by the us scares me my village is the closest to afrin we don't feel at peace while our people are there. the wife is in control of the land just beyond us war

the us reckons its fighters are key to wiping out eisel in syria that infuriated turkey which considers the y.p. g. to be an extension of the p.k. k. a kurdish group which turkey the us the european union deemed a terrorist organization. never asked for a friend for turkey six years ago after the syrian war. president put alice realises we can't go back to syria we came here and worked in farming with other refugees from the highest mountain from aleppo everyone wants peace in syria and africa because it's the civilians that get tom the most many kurds living in villages near the border avoid t.v. cameras some have relatives and a friend where military action is planned and the villagers may also need to seek

safety if the fighting that starts the turkish military is massed on the border and say's it's ready to strike against the new border force which it sees as a direct threat. at stake is the relationship of two need two countries. al-jazeera turkey syria border there a member of the cattery royal family who said he was being held against his will in the united arab emirates has now been released shake up dollar been found he has now left abu dhabi for kuwait on sunday he released a video statement saying that if anything were to happen to him would not be at fault the u.a.e. had denied the allegations saying he was free to leave whenever he chose well bahrain is release radar tracks that it says show cattery fighter jets passing by a morality commercial airliners the united arab emirates says it will file

a complaint against with the u.n. civil aviation agency accusing cattery air force jets of intercepting two commercial flights on monday cattle denies the allegations and the u.s. military says it hasn't received any reports of civilian flights being intercepted .

right it's time for the schools he's now his peter. thank you very much ninety eight victims of sexual abuse by us eighteen dr larry now have begun giving statements to a court as a judge prepares to sentence him for his crimes the former gymnastics team doctor pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexual abuse in november but since then many more victims have come forward including four time olympic gold medalist simone boyle's we released a statement on monday revealing she was also a victim fellow usa team members allie raised when mckayla maroney and gabby douglas were also abused masses already being sentenced to sixty years in prison for child pornography charges but he's victims no hope they statements to the judge at this hearing will prevent him from ever being released for years mr nasser convinced me that he was the only person who could help me recover from multiple serious injuries to me here is like a night in shining armor but alas that shame blinded me from the abuse he trade my

trust to get the energy of my youth and sexually abused me hundreds of times we got the current. juice for borrowing and this is the chelsea tell me what's wrong and she said mom he put his fingers in we we were the world and i suppose it was right there in the room when she goes you could see what was going on. and she said he heard me sexual abuse is so much more than disturbing physical act it changes the trajectory of a victim's life and that is something that no one has the right to do. after my parents confronted you they brought me back to my house speaker with me. sitting on my living room couch. i listen to you tell me no one should ever do that and if they do you should tell someone well larry. i'm here not to tell someone

but to tell everyone olympic gold medalist early rays ms criticized usa gymnastics for failing in the duty of care towards her and her fellow victims even though roseman says the organization is not doing enough to support them usa gymnastics is ignoring us they're not creating change so we have to share our stories and reiterate how traumatized you are how horrible this is and help so listen to us i mean i don't know how many more girls have to come forward for them to care i mean we're it's over one hundred forty janice and those are just girls that have spoken up you know there are still others out there unfortunately and those girls if they don't feel comfortable they don't have to come forward no one has to know everyone copes so they differently and so you know it's just it's devastating i don't know why they haven't created more change i don't know why they haven't asked us for help but they happen roger federer is off to the ideal stored as he goes in search

of grown slim total number twenty the thirty six year old defending champion was a winner on tuesday in melbourne at the australian open you know the came slovenian . in his opening round winning it three six six three six six three hundred rouble next day so young lyn it's true for all of germany on foods day. i'm hoping for it to go well again i'm just not sure if we can go this well this last year was just so good i'm just worried that i can and no it won't be because i'm a year older guys are coming back again rafa says in tip top shape i can't control it all last year was a fairy tales six time champion of a jacket which prevailed in these opening match in melbourne in the serbian showed no signs of the elbow injury that sidelined him for six months as he beat american donald young in straight sets. women's world number one samantha hallett survived

a huge scale in her opening round match the remaining and how to come from behind to claim the first set against team wildcard this to me eva but that wasn't the end of her dramas as halep injured her ankle which required treatment in the second set halliburton's of the courts and had little trouble seeing off for australian opponents from there she won seven six six one. maria sharapova has got her campaign off to a winning start as well the five time grand slam champion beat germany's tatyana maria in straight sets to reach the second round the russian winning it six one and six four it was her first match at melbourne since failing a drugs test at the twenty sixteen event that led to her being banned for fifteen months of form a f one driver who suffered life changing injuries in a crash seven years ago has been given a chance to return to formula one robert cubits who drove for both b.m.w. selby and renault has only partial use of these right arm after

a rally crashing twenty eleven but the pole has been signed as a reserve driver for williams next season after three successful tests last year kibitzer won the canadian grand prix in two thousand and eight. everybody's counting their victories podiums or race finishes for me there ought to be here it has been more about personal satisfactions and. i really felt that as one of my greatest days of my life worse when i notice and i will when i realize i'm actually able to do it again there was a familiar winner in the car category on tuesday at the dhaka rally frenchman stephan pets a handful took the stage from salter to bear lane in argentina is third over all the persian drive is a thirteen time winner of this grueling rally that has been held in south america since two thousand and nine the man who actually won that race nine years ago jamil de villiers was through the south african also managing to keep the camera crew on

high alert along the way over a leader call of science finished fourth on monday and that's all the sport for me will have another update for you again later and that's all for this al-jazeera news hour but don't go away because i'll be back in just a moment or two with much more of the day's news.

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