in two thousand and eight al jazeera documented a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme of helping change the face of india. super thirty at this time. we will not accept a nuclear armed north korea the us secretary of state says the vancouver meeting on north korea has agreed that china and russia must fully apply the un sanctions on pyongyang.

follow on down jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up hong kong's high court has sentenced the pro-democracy activist joshua wall to three months in prison. who is providing vital services to the palestinian refugee population the u.n. says a decision by the united states to cut funding for palestinian refugees will affect stability in the region. and the french president called for more cooperation with the united kingdom on the refugee crisis. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called on the world to step up pressure on north korea to end its nuclear program he's joined a summit in canada discussing how to tighten sanctions on pyongyang out as there was also in jordan reports. a show of diplomatic commitment in vancouver to ending

north korea's nuclear weapons program but the meeting co-hosted by canada and the united states yielded just one new tactic for the fight an agreement to prevent so-called ship to ship transfers of outlawed goods to pyongyang i think we all agreed together with our partners here that the timing has turned out to be really for to attack us because we are seeing we we want to be clear headed we don't want to be in any way pollyannas about this but i think we collectively believe that the peaceful pressure is beginning to have an impact north koreans know our channels are open and they know where to find us but a sustained cessation of north korea's threatening behavior is necessary is a necessary indicator of whether the regime is truly ready to pursue a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the security threat that it has created our

nations must remain united on sustaining pressure until north korea takes concrete steps toward and ultimately reaches did nuclearize asia thank russia and china were excluded from the meeting only countries that supported seoul during the korean war were invited to the gathering in moscow and beijing said this one sided event could aggravate tensions however two of north korea's neighbors said now was a good time as any to tell people yong to abandon its nuclear ambitions we should not be naive about their intent nor should we be blinded by north korea's charm offensive in short it is not the time to pressure or to reword no it's career we stand ready to provide a brighter future for north korea if it makes the right choice. analysts said the band coover meeting won't be a major venue for resolving the north korea question but it isn't

a waste of time either if the clouds can park just a wee bit with a little bit of sunshine coming in then those countries are going to be necessary whether it's to talk about verification or whether it's to talk about new forms of economic assistance to north korea that could be part of the opening process the u.s. and canada have promised to brief china and russia on the discussions held here on tuesday it's not clear whether this gathering will have turned out to be instrumental or simply a side bar to diplomatic efforts at the you when rosalind shorten al-jazeera vancouver well our correspondents have been following the story across the region casanova is insult the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says there is no difference between the policies of the united states and south korea when it comes to dealing with north korea even as the u.s. pushes a campaign of maximum pressure and sanctions while south korea continues to promote dialogue and hold another round of talks with north korea today both of the

secretary of state and the south korean foreign minister have said that these policies go hand in hand but that the idea behind sanctions is to force north korea back to the negotiating table now the talks that are taking place today are around the logistics surrounding north korea's participation in the winter olympics both north and south korea will be discussing the possibility of a joint team for the women's ice hockey also the possibility of walking together in the opening ceremony they'll also be talking about details such as accommodation the size of north korea's delegation and costs south korea has to be careful when it moves to facilitate the north's participation not to violate any u.n. sanctions against north korea which are the very focused of the discussions at the meeting in vancouver. bride has more now from done dong in china. there's been stinging criticism here in china of this summit with the state run television the

newspaper editorials criticizing what it says is a cold war mentality asking why the united states and its allies would want to jeopardize what seems to be an improving relationship with north korea right now there's a lot of concern here in china about how the use of naval forces to enforce these sanctions around the korean peninsula might play out leading to the possibility of some accidental encounter with north korean naval forces that might escalate very quickly or also the possible confrontations between the ships of the u.s. navy and its allies and the chinese navy and chinese merchant vessels around the korean peninsula as far as china's position is concerned it is implementing fully the u.n. sanctions but here at places like dandong one of the most important links with north korea of course ninety percent of north korea's trade goes through china it

is still very busy with the kinds of commodities and foods and goods that china is allowed to trade with north korea but we are seeing evidence as far as the chinese authorities are concerned of clamping down on some of those activities and businesses that provide north korea money such as its north korean restaurants or companies that are trading in north korea but the suspicion is always that individuals and companies are simply changing their names or changing management structures as a way of getting around the sanctions hong kong's high court has sentenced the pro-democracy activist josh along for a second time for his role in the protests and twenty fourteen he's been given a three month jail term his lawyers have asked the court not to rest until their request for an appeal is considered difficult palin has more from hong kong. now two of the sixteen at. sentence today are going to jail that's joshua wall and

rafael wong both prominent leaders of the twenty fourteen pro-democracy protests the rest have been given suspended sentences or fines joshua long was defiance before going into courts think i will go all the way but they have the. wherewithal to do it is if we need to face a prison sentence westfield going to fight for democracy in the future the charges stem from the two thousand and fourteen umbrella occupied movement when one of the protests sites not the main one was being cleared by police bailiffs had ordered the area to be cleared and according to the judge joshua was wrong rafael wong and the rest of them had resisted the police clearance and this is in criminal contempt of the courts while many skeptics are questioning why it's taken so long to sentence them particularly since they had pleaded guilty from the start joshua long rafael long though happily to call him visions as for joshua long he's facing other

charges and he's already been sentenced to prison earlier in august he's currently out on bail fighting those charges a military court in thailand has decided not to prosecute a historian for insulting the monarchy so lots of iraq was charged after he commented on a battle that happened more than four hundred years ago the eighty five year old has been in and out of court since twenty fourteen scott high blood has more from bangkok. when the eighty five year old historian. walked up to the courthouse here in bangkok he held up a walking cane saying that belonged to a former prime minister known as a democratic icon here in thailand he entered the army courthouse behind me and stayed in there for only about fifteen twenty minutes then we got word that the army has said that they won't pursue this case further the trial will and now that they say because of a lack of evidence after that happened through law came out here and spoke with the media here he said that they asked him to stop criticizing the monarchy he said he

stood by the facts and that he said that if he did completely stop criticizing he would die little by little he also said something interesting that is this is a majesté case that is about criticizing the royal family and members of the family the extended family he said that he believes the current king roma ten intervened to get this case thrown out that something he believes came after he petitioned to the king several weeks ago that this case be thrown out. time for short break your dodgers era when we come back a prominent kosovo's politician is shot dead outside his office. while these people are protesting on the streets of boston learned a day before the regional parliament is to be sworn in for the state.

hello there we've got yet more rain on its way towards turkey still with us just yet we're seeing a little bit of cloud just drift its way across us but we're going to see some heavier downpours as we head through wednesday night to and into thursday so wednesday really the calm before the storm and then all of that cloud of rain and snow piles in thursday so it will be quite a wet blustery day we'll also see some of that rain stretch a bit further south as well so force in lebanon also looks for all the way here as well elsewhere generally fine and dry eight degrees is the maximum there in back from ati will be getting to freezing a bit further towards the south and here in doha the winds have picked up now and they're bringing in some slightly cooler air so you will notice it gets a little bit fresh at night now so twenty two or twenty three will be the maximum temperature during the day but at night with your feet all the way down to around thirteen degrees so certainly feeling cool for us before the towards the south we've got this swirling mass of cloud head this is our storm is gradually working its way towards malicious and lever union does look very very wet there over the

next few days a very stormy as well but i think the major problem from that storm will be the amount of rain rather than the strength of the winds we're also seeing some very heavy rain over parts of mozambique recently as well more still to come for wednesday and for thursday as well. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put out every day but the message is simplistic you have no frame and good logical rational person crazy months and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on the al-jazeera u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is calling on the world to step up pressure on north korea until it abandon just nuclear program he's joined representatives of nineteen other nations in vancouver to discuss ways of tightening sanctions on pyongyang. hong kong's high court has sentenced the pro-democracy activist josh along for a second time for his role in the protests in twenty fourteen he's been given a three month jail term his lawyers have asked the court not to arrest him until their request for an appeal is considered. and a military court in thailand has decided not to prosecute a historian for insulting the monarchy so lots of iraq was charged often commented on a battle that took place more than four hundred years ago. now the un relief and works

agency for palestinian refugees has warned that reduced u.s. assistance will threaten regional security the trumpet ministration as an al state will withhold hoth of the financial aid it allocated to the un agency our diplomatic editor james bays has been following the story 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 or an element of a they should not cut the aid people here are sick and poor and have nothing to support themselves people here can afford to buy bread so why does the u.s. say it's taking this action it has long been a concern at this administration here in 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 and 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 agency's 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 no i mean at all there might be something that i do not know because i mean it's impossible to kompany 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 bays al-jazeera at the united nations well christopher gunness is the chief spokesman for the men tains the organization has always been neutral we defend to the hilt our neutral role do you really think that annorah would have had access war zones in the battlefields of syria in places like aleppo if there was any question about neutrality the fact is that there are standards if you shall a team which we rigorously uphold police in sudan have fired tear gas at demonstrators

protesting against the soaring price of bread hundreds of people took to the streets near the presidential palace in khartoum on tuesday police used battens to control the crowd before making arrests nationwide protests started early this month and the government's new economic reforms caused bread and other prices to double. kosovo's government says the country remains calm and safe despite the killing of prominent politician oliver event of each he was shot dead outside his office serbia has called the murder an act of terrorism his poor brain. the yellow forensic markers show where all over event of a tree fell the sixty four year old shot at least five times outside his party headquarters in the town of me tributes he was rushed to hospital but doctors couldn't save him the killing appears well planned with no witnesses and the speculation a silencer may have muffle the sound of the gunshots and avoided drawing attention

but the repercussions were quickly felt all across europe in the serbian capital belgrade the country's president and prime minister convened the national security council was sort of. the state of serbia considers this act an act of terrorism and we were treated as such to the costs of an government also convened its security council and warned against speculating about motive. shows us for us this was a shock for all of us particularly for kosovo it is very important as soon as possible we have the answer on who did this and in brussels as news of the murder emerged the latest round of e.u. mediated talks between serbia and kosovo one of broccoli called off it's also of paramount importance that the situation remains calm anything important at all sites and a show of restrain so that the rule of law and justice can take its course despite serbia losing control of kosovo after the one nine hundred ninety nine war some fifty thousand ethnic serbs still live in northern kosovo and the town of mitrovica

remain starkly divided between serb and ethnic albanian areas after the war all over event of each came to prominence as a relative moderate among the mainly ultra nationalist kosovo serb leadership he was a central figure in the post-war talks involving nato the un and the e.u. . in two thousand and sixteen though he was convicted of war crimes linked to the killings of four ethnic albanians a retrial was ordered last year and at the time of his death event of it was actually free on bail. in july his car was set on fire and no one was injured now his murder raises serious tensions in a region where embassies were already delicately balanced a twelve thousand dollars reward has been offered for information leading to the kilis paul brennan al jazeera spanish m.p.'s elected in the catalan regional vote last month will be sworn in on wednesday but parliament's expected to be emptier

than usual as many who won seats are either in jail or self-imposed exile facing criminal investigation following october's outlawed secession referendum a skull panel now reports. so far the chance of freedom for the prisoners have been ignored as catalonia as parliament in barcelona reopens handful of elected separate as politicians remain in jail others fled abroad we demonstrations we are there anything to. keep we can say the flame you know burning if someone things that. we give up they don't know cut balance the first task the members of parliament on wednesday is to choose a parliamentary speaker next devote is needed for the new head of the cattle and government but it's complicated madrid shut down this parliament last october now rested cattle and leaders for rebellion after they held

a referendum to break away from the rest of spain. in a snap election last month the citizens party which favors remaining part of spain emerged as the biggest single party but a coalition of separatist parties. to form a ruling majority. ahead of the new session of parliament separatist politicians headed into closed door meetings the key concern seemed to be how to press ahead with the goal of breaking away from spain. obstacles are a constant issue we will have to look for new solutions but we have never rejected the idea of negotiations but the only thing that the spanish state offers us is prison exile and direct rule of the ousted catalan first minister. remains in self-imposed exile in belgium judges war he will be arrested if he returns to take his seat in the capital and parliament separatist party say they

will try to reinstate montas first minister but the pro unity citizens party fears that would aggravate the crisis. the separatists parties are used to breaking the law so it's difficult to know exactly what they will do next mr puts him on lives in a parallel universe like in the movie the matrix. groups of schoolchildren continue to talk parliament this week to learn how you would make a building began assault weapons and ammunition store none of the guys were predicting what might happen in the next chapter in catalonia as political battle. al-jazeera barcelona spain well many of the protesters in catalonia were on the streets specifically to support two of the imprisoned pro independence politicians . have been imprisoned for three months they face charges of sedition for their role in organizing the referendum last october. the french president has called on the u.k. to do more about refugees and migrants trying to make it to britain via money or

mark ross said he would discuss the issue with the british prime minister to resign may on thursday that has more now from. emmanuel mccall began the day meeting refugees at a state shelter in northern france exactly all of us to the same region 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 resign may on thursday. better manage the issue of unaccompanied minors reinforced police cooperation in cali and with countries of origin and transit on block funds to support important projects for the development of cal a simulated 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 brought the u.k. must manage its border on its own territory. we need to get rid of this border it will make britain more accessible for the my current so 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. in miles and miles of fence isn't barbed wire in cali and when is that going to stop when it clearly does not work i mean 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 the certainty over what breaks its means calley status as a symbol of europe's refugee crisis seems secure natasha buckler al-jazeera kalai bangladesh plans to repatriate six hundred fifty thousand reinjure refugees back to neighboring million mile within two years both countries agreed to set up temporary camps a short term housing for the ranger the first refugees will start to move back to

me in my next week hundreds of thousands of range of muslims have fled a crackdown began in may and mass rakhine state last august the un has insisted any repatriation must be voluntary. what is it that is essential on these is to make sure that the return is voluntary its safety and dignity and that people are allowed to come back to their places of origin which means that the huge effort of investment because there is a lot of reconstruction to be done and a huge effort of reconciliation is needed to allow it to take place properly the worst would be to move these people from camps in bengal there should do camps in myanmar. keeping an artificial situation for a long time and not allowing for the for them to regain their their normal lives. two u.s. navy officers are facing possible homicide charges of a deadly ship collisions that left a total of seventeen sailors dead both officers commanded navy destroyers in the

pacific ocean one collided with a philippine container ship in june and the other struck a merchant ship near singapore in august. a former u.s. intelligence officer has been arrested and charged for allegedly holding on to highly classified information jerry challengingly is accused of maintaining handwritten notes including names and details about spy recruits and other cia employees he now lives in hong kong and was arrested when he flew into new york on monday the president of the philippines has denied being behind a move that could close down a popular news website as the name barbara ports journalists at rappler say they're being targeted you are probably the only one word and i will tell him hitting out at a web site that's been a fierce critic of his and he's now said to be shut down the president of the philippines rodrigo deter to deny is influencing the regulators decision to revoke the license of the rappler news website out of 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 shoes i mean i of they get all of the shareholders of rappler the journalist own 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 things he didn't say. he sniffed very hard for you. can't conceive how risky the marriage the one thing in this point has been to people even though they feel happy now and 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 under way one she and her colleagues are determined to win. al-jazeera donald trump has completed his first periodic medical exam as u.s. president the white house doctor running jackson says trump has an excellent

medical condition he also said the president took a cognitive test to put questions about his mental health to rest. i was not going to do a cognitive exam i had no intention of doing one the reason that we did the cognitive assessment is plain and simple because a president asked me to do it he came to me and he said is there something we can do a test or some type of screening that we can do to assess my you know my cognitive ability one of the ones that was a little bit more involved it was the longer it was that it was the more difficult one of all of them it took significantly longer to complete but the president did it exceedingly well on it and you can catch up on all the news on our website david is on the screen the address al-jazeera dot com. our top a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called on the world to step up pressure on north korea to end its nuclear program he's joined

a summit in canada discussing how to tighten sanctions on pyongyang we agree that the need for u.n. member states especially china and russia to fully implemented agreed upon sanctions is essential to their success we discussed the importance of working together to counter sanctions evasion and smuggling and we also issued a call to action to strengthen global maritime interdiction operations do for oil the illicit ship to ship transfers hong kong's high court to sentence the pro-democracy activists joshua wong for a second time for his role in the protests and twenty fourteen he's been given a three month jail term his lawyers have asked the court not to arrest him once and their request for an appeal is considered. a military court in thailand has decided not to prosecute a historian friend sultan the monarchy so lots of iraq was charged after he commented on a battle that took place four hundred years ago eighty five year old has been in

and out of court since twenty fourteen. the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees says reduced u.s. assistance will threaten regional security follows an announcement by the trumpet ministration that it will withhold half of the financial aid it had allocated to the un agency. 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 two u.s. navy officers are facing possible homicide charges of a deadly ship collisions which killed seventeen sailors both officers commanded navy destroyers in the pacific ocean one collided with a philippine container ship in june and the other struck a merchant ship singapore in august and 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 mccraw who has met some of them in the port city says he would discuss the issue with the british prime minister to resign may on thursday thousands of people

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