this is like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers. i am doing this for the benefit of saddam people. so bad they see the importance of there are guys. who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. is providing vital services to the palestinian refugee population the u.n. says a decision by the united states funding for palestinian refugees will affect stability in the region.

without live from doha also coming up in the program we cannot and will not accept you as a nuclear state talking tough on north korea the u.s. trials the pressure on pyongyang will continue. another crisis for yemen as a dip bierria outbreak takes hold. the french president calls for more cooperation with the u.k. on the refugee crisis. the u.n. relief and works agency for palestinian refugees says reduced u.s. assistance would threaten regional security it follows an announcement by the trumpet ministration that it will withhold half of the financial aid it had allocated to the un agency is a diplomatic editor james pace reporting from u.n.

headquarters in new york. after years of conflict and poverty millions of palestinians rely on they will be devastated by this announcement that they should not cut the aid people here are sick and poor and have nothing to support themselves people here can't afford to buy bread so why does the u.s. say it's taking this action it has of long been a concern of this administration here and of the administration about annorah and how it handles itself and how it manages its money under the u.n. relief and works agency for palestinian refugees to give it its full title is one of the oldest agencies in the u.n. system founded almost seventy years ago the u.s. has been its biggest funder providing money for among other things clinics schools and social services for palestinians beyond the borders of the territory long disputed by palestinians and israelis in neighboring countries jordan and lebanon

it is not the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. that helps palestinians living in camps news of the cuts to the agencies funding started to emerge as a news conference by the un secretary general was underway in new york it's clear antonio could terrorists was not given advance notice by washington. i mean i've been in close contact with. what you are saying now i was not yet informed so no no official not i mean at all there might be something that i do not know because i mean it's impossible to accompany zings by the minute. until i was informed there was no official notification of the position but it might have happened. there is a political as well as humanitarian dimension to this president trump has said he hopes to get the deal of the century between the israelis and the palestinians and

yet this announcement hot on the heels of his recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital has alienated one side making efforts to get the peace process back on track harder than ever james zero at the united nations well as you've already had the twenty sixteen in the lion share of u.s. aid to the palestinians was worth about three hundred fifty million dollars that went to the same year paid for the education of half a million palestinian children in more than seven hundred schools and founded more than nine million doctors visits and almost one hundred fifty primary health clinics and in total helped an estimated five million people living in camps in the occupied west bank gaza strip jordan lebanon and syria but chris of again this is a spokesman for armor and he's been speaking to us from amman in jordan and he says more countries need to help support the party we received from the united

states last year three hundred fifty billion dollars what we've had so far this year sixty that's a huge differential of course we will work to extend out in the 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 mandates. the u.s. have to say drexel isn't says the world should step up pressure on north korea until it abandons its nuclear program he says the fact that pyongyang agreed to talk with south korea is proof that sanctions are working missa tennyson's been speaking at a meeting on north korea and canada officials from twenty countries of that but to

the keep that china russia not that 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 go we all must insist a full enforcement of us 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 designate entities and individuals complicit in such evasive actions but can go live now to vancouver and speak to al-jazeera israel's jordan who's there for us and draws we've mentioned that the big cases china and russia are not there but

tell us about the countries who are there. well you're talking about countries such as turkey such as norway sweden colombia just to name a few most of the countries that were here are part of what's known as the un sending states those were countries that provided either military or humanitarian support to the republic of korea otherwise known as south korea during its war with north korea between one hundred fifty and one thousand and fifty three but not all of the countries here were actually involved in that japan notably was not top providing support to south korea during that war that said this was an opportunity for these countries to get together and to really take a look at the current status of the security situation on the korean peninsula as well as to discuss the effectiveness of sanctions and to try to figure out what other ideas might be out there that perhaps the u.n.

security council has not considered before now in order to make those sanctions work as they were early and as affectively as possible of course both russia and china took a very dim view of this meeting here in vancouver as you pointed out martine in fact the chinese government went so far as to call this meeting on tuesday illegal we're not quite sure though on what grounds they saying so but that is the chinese position and have they taken into consideration what does appear to be a slight full in relations between the north and south korea and given that they've just had. the first time they've had to listen to you as. well certainly there was a knowledge that the opening plenary which was open for journalists here to was sit in and see what take notes on the south korean foreign minister. noted that while

her government. welcome to this overture from north korea to at least have a very narrow discussion about the upcoming winter olympic games she also indicated that there is perhaps an opportunity to deal with some of the other issues that have long separated the two koreas but she did stress ultimately and i'm sure this was a welcome news to others attending this meeting that at the end of the day north korea must abandon its nuclear weapons program and that nothing else whether it's economic support humanitarian support or person to person contact can be expanded in any reliable way alas the nuclear weapons question is settled and in the south korean view that means no nuclear weapons are grounds for now thank you very much. a correspondent reporting live from vancouver still to come here at al-jazeera another crisis for yemen as period takes hold affecting almost seven hundred people

safe plus we look back on the u.s. president's first year in office and donald trump's dealing with tensions on the korean peninsula. from flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello there it's clear across many parts of southeastern china at the moment is not a great deal of weather around atoll shanghai getting to around thirteen degrees and for us in hong kong will be getting to twenty four the further towards the south of course there is more cloud and more showers around parts of the philippines does look rather wet for many of us in news on their own wednesday but by thursday the show is generally breaking off a little bit and we see more in the way of dry weather a bit further towards the south and we've got plenty of cloud here as you might

expect and some of the shower. it's already very very lively particularly that those in the southern part of the borneo and across parts of java a few more likely here as we head through wednesday but the wetter of the weather this time we're in the northern parts of borneo doesn't really very wet hair gradually there showers begin to pull away as we head through thursday but we do have another weather system that's developing in the eastern parts of the we'll have to watch over the next few days further west it also looks a little bit dry forcing k.l. and singapore of towards india and pakistan dry and fine for most of us here tiny bit of snow in the far north of this gradually sinking its way south with but it's fizzling out as it does so so most of us looking dry it's in the fall south where there's the risk of say one or two showers i think for sri lanka will see a couple as we had three thursday and friday to. the with sponsored by the time base. i'll just see right explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how and why would we influence the course of history so that he did not get

enough credit for it in the book that would be the big story go figure but he was not the biggest on the way. the prisoner and the president came together to apartheid some time nelson mandela and to be deployed face to face at this time on al-jazeera. let's have a look at the top stories here at out here the u.n. relief and works agency or on rock the palestinian refugee says reduced u.s. assistance will threaten regional security it follows an announcement by the trumpet ministration that it would withhold hall for the financial aid is it

allocated to the un agency said just say drexel this is says the world should step up pressure on north korea until it abandons its nuclear program this into the since been speaking at a meeting on north korea in canada. as u.s. president donald trump is marking a year in office in a couple of days from now we're looking into how his administration has fared so far one of its biggest foreign policy challenges of course 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 our 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 trumps for. 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 un 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 south korean government is now engaging with the north korean government and dialogues and the north korean delegation visiting south korean ferry 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 thanked 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 soul. and on thursday we'll be looking at the sexual misconduct allegations that are pretty much adult president trump since the election campaign. and on saturday we'll have a one hour special seventeen hours greenwich mean time looking back at trump's first year in office and what we can expect for his second year the japanese public broadcasters issued false t.v. and mobile phone alarms about a north korean missile launch the alert said north korea appeared to have launched a missile and that the government was urging people to take shelter inside buildings or underground is still unknown how the force of the happened but it was

corrected within minutes three days earlier a similar mistake calls panic in hawaii the world health organization has warned the diptheria outbreak in yemen is spreading quickly almost seven hundred people have now been affected forty eight people have died from the disease in the past four months it been hard data of the worst hit of the nineteen affected regions but there is some slightly better news on the aid front for yemen the saudi led coalition says it will allow full cranes at the port of a day to to start operating they'll be used to offload food and medicine does mohammed gem june ripples 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 die no cranes which have just arrived at the data port in yemen funded by the united states agency for international development

will significantly increase. loading 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 this is very welcome news twenty nine by far the us yemen they're one language that doesn't matter if you what you is the problem and you know those are looking to the majority. 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 human dignity does not enough these icons of and seventy even so many do and agencies enough. and who would and mend it for the whole country what we need is for collusion. and the let will those inside 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 will end any time soon. bangladesh has announced plans to repatriate six hundred fifty thousand refugees back to neighboring miramar within two years the deal was settled this week in the first refugees and you just start moving back to me amar on tuesday hundreds of thousands of range of muslims of fled a military crackdown that began in state in august scott hardly has the latest from bangkok. after two days of talks in naperville myanmar's capital officials from bangladesh and myanmar have started to talk about the implementation of agreement they reached those two nations on the repatriation of those more than six hundred fifty thousand refugees who fled from rakhine state over into bangladesh now they

say that within two years they want all of the refugees to have returned to work and state now there are discussions over the two days of exactly how to implement that one is coming from myanmar side they are saying they have announced that they have to rate repatriation centers that they are constructing in rakhine state one is ready and will be online next tuesday they say to receive at least one hundred fifty refugees per day and nothing really coming from the bangladesh side is how that's going to be implemented but myanmar officials saying that they're going to be ready starting next week now the united nations has come in and said that they're concerned about the repatriation process they say it needs to be verified that those repatriations are voluntary it's very important for that because of obviously the horrors that these people fled that they said they fled back last year that they need to make sure it's a safe environment for them to go back into so it will be a slow process at the beginning but both nations myanmar and bangladesh saying that

that's going to start to go online very soon also next week there's going to be a new commission with international members on it for rakhine now this is an implementation commission that's going to have members from thailand from south africa and the united states to help the myanmar government implement recommendations from a previous commission headed by u.n. secretary general kofi annan former u.n. secretary general kofi annan they say they're going to start to meet and work toward implementing those recommendations from the kofi annan commission it's going to be interesting to see how and if the myanmar government takes those recommendations how quickly will come out but right now next week we're seeing a lot of movement toward the repatriation but it will be very interesting to see just how quickly it actually happens i mean our saying they're ready to start receiving on tuesday. the french president has called on the u.k. to do more about refugees and migrants who are trying to make it to britain via kalai meeting with refugees and migrants emanuel macross said he would discuss the issue with the british prime minister to resign me on thursday let's reports from

cali. emmanuel mccall began the day meeting refugees at a state shelter in northern france exactly all of us who are going to see them here in some regions of the who are going to 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 resign may on thursday. 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 stimulating . 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 deal 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 attention because you know we need to get rid of this border it will make britain more accessible for the my quilts you 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 promised 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 adding miles and 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's it diminishes the number of people who are here but but this will come macro will hope that this visit will put pressure on britain to reach a deal for cali but until vest certainty over what breaks its means calley status as a symbol of europe's refugee crisis seems secure. al-jazeera kalai. in chile pope francis has expressed pain and shame over the country's sexual abuse scandal is the first time he's commented on the crisis surrounding a former priest who was found guilty in twenty eleven of abusing teenage boys in america editor lucien newman. chilean catholics and immigrants from many parts

of latin america spent the night here for the chance to see pope francis a pope's media never you never read them again it was worth it i love this part because he underscores the need for social justice which our political parties have forgotten. that this isn't largest 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 seconds mass 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 were protesting against human rights abuses and calling for the pope's support which they got 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 and. 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 but abuses have to be stopped for ever no matter what the song during the mass the pope spoke of peace before leaving to meet women prisoners on tuesday he's into the most complex stop

of his trip it's the epicenter of a restive territorial dispute by indigenous my pooches a place where chileans are hoping that his message of peace and reconciliation will be heard you see in human santiago the president of the philippines has denied being behind a move that could close down a popular news website as nadeem baba ripples journalists at rappler say they're being targeted your rabbit the only one we're telling them hitting out at a website that's been a fierce critic of his and he's now said to be shut down the president of the philippines rodrigo to target it denies influencing the regulators decision to revoke the license of the rappler news website the question of risk read a. question above us. by. this very. switching to filipino he uses an expletive to accuse rich filipinos of

misusing the media. his administration insists there's nothing political about the securities and exchange commission's declaration that rappler had broken laws on foreign ownership but the s c c's decision isn't final and as the website prepares to fight the ruling in the courts it is allowed to keep going its bosses despite having two foreign investors the business is really being targeted for its journalism let me make clear one thing the actual charges are false. rappler is one hundred percent filipino owned i own twenty four percent of the shares i mean i love that all of the shareholders of rappler the journalist owned the largest share collectively the shutdown order comes as a parliamentary committee considers legal changes that would limit freedom of expression to the quote responsible exercise of the freedom of speech some

filipinos claimed that could lead to more media outlets being closed down the most effective things the democrats say. it's nice very hard for you chad. can't conceive how risky to marry the one thing in the employ of the people you might even have had a field of opinion last year media watchdog reporters without borders said the philippines was fairly free and diverse but noted what it called detail unveiled encourage men to violence against journalists now rattlers boss says a war of attrition is on the way one she and her colleagues are determined to win the. traverse to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees says reduced u.s. assistance will threaten regional security if allah is an announcement by the

trumpet ministration that it will withhold half the financial aid it had allocated to the un agency at diplomatic editor james pace reports from un headquarters in new york. we don't have a great deal of detail from the us about exactly why it's doing this it doesn't like the way it's run it says there needs to be or the need to undertake a fundamental reexamination of andro both in the way it operates in 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 sharing 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 u.s.

actually to say to rex tillerson says the world has stepped up pressure on north korea until it abandons its nuclear program he says the fact that pyongyang agreed to talk with south korea is proof that sanctions are working mr taylor says he's speaking at a meeting on north korea being held in canada the world health organization has warned a diptheria outbreak in yemen is spreading quickly almost seven hundred people have now been affected forty eight people have died from the disease in the past four months bangladesh is agreed to repatriate six hundred fifty thousand range of refugees back to neighboring miramar within two years hundreds of thousands of range of muslims have fled a military crackdown that began in me a mild rakhine state in august the french president is calling on the u.k. to do more about refugees and migrants trying to make it to britain via kalai emanuel mackerel has met some of them in the northern port city says he'll discuss

c.s.e. with the british prime minister to resign may on thursday all right you're up to date those are the headlines coming up next inside story. the palestinian president has to suspend recognition of israel as a further expression of palestinian following donald trump's decision on jerusalem but one of the consequences off cutting ties with israel and the palestinians have of options says inside story.