finding anyone else alive after last sunday's eruption killed at least one hundred ten people mariano sanchez reports from inside the disaster zone. i. said this is one of more than one hundred thick tims of the eruption. of boiling ash walks in fields were blown nearly two kilometers into the sky much of it landed a serious bill each she and many others didn't have time to escape the barrier about zero point two sons and two grandchildren died with her. in total eleven family members died sissy's may get to see her brother in law her body was one of the last to be recovered. it was the most of medical clinic irruption weatherman in decades nearly two hundred people remain missing more than twelve thousand others lost their homes. twenty one year old madeline the letter king and her two children are adjusting to their new life in a shelter they flagged down

a passing car and flew a blue leaving everything behind our door your valuable both of my children cried in fear and i begged god to save them so many children have died survivors are being helped by teams of social workers and volunteers children are showing clear signs of stress we must persevere get in their drawings they showed rocks red water like love our trees without leaves i'm not a psychologist speak and tell they are traumatized there are twenty one shelters like this house and more than ten thousand survivors have been given food and water and medical care the expectation is that they'll be here for a while experts say the danger may not yet be over apart from the t.v. heavy rains slides further putting at risk the lives of people in communities around the volcano. where will good team used to spew deadly clouds of. rocks and

films experts say the volcano will calm down but it may take a few weeks before that happens but i'm just i'll just. go what their man. still ahead on al-jazeera. heavy fighting in the libyan city of dallas forces loyal to renegade general khalifa haftar players in. and hands across the basque country demonstrators form a two hundred kilometer chain to demand an independence vote from spain. how i'm pleased to say that we have got some quiet weather pushing into the southeast of china over the next couple of days clara skies coming in for a time we have got a fair amount of cloud down into that southeastern corner more wet weather over

towards the southwest northern parts of vietnam so you can see hong kong generally drawing out generous satele that's the least through the next twenty four thirty six hours or so but the showers are set to return monday nazi bad thirty four celsius here in hong kong was the weather just pushing across the high now pushing across the south of the country will gradually make its way back in so we have got flooding at the moment the flooding eases for a time more heavy rain coming into further problems coming through than we've had some flooding as well pushing into northern parts of vietnam across parts of india china and of course into myanmar where we have seen some very heavy rain recently can see of the southwest the monsoon those showers longer spells of rain continue to drive their way and further north has seen some very nasty storms also pushing across northern parts of india chiefly into new delhi dust storms a volatile storm some very very heavy rain continuing to make its way in here bright skies to come back in behind more heavy downpours across much of the west

and cats. in afghanistan billions of dollars of international aid have been donated to girls' education but where has the money gone when one needs girls desperate to learn and why is the system failing them on al-jazeera. just.

a mine of top stories. u.s. president on trump has arrived in singapore ahead of tuesday's historic summit with north korean leader kim jong un kim touched down a few hours earlier before paying a courtesy call on singapore's prime minister. iranian president hassan rouhani has again criticized the u.s. for withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal saying it's your natural policies are a threat to all you speaking to central asian leaders gathered for the eighteenth summit of the shanghai cooperation organization in china. another flow of modern ashwin the guatemala has forced emergency teams to abandon the search for survivors a week after it first erupted killing at least one hundred ten people. the battle for control of a besieged city in eastern libya is intensifying downer is the last eastern city not held by forces loyal to renegade general hurley for have to his troops are

bombarding the coastal city from the east and west using machine guns and heavy artillery trying to oust armed groups some linked to al qaeda which are controlled and are for years the u.n. says it's worried about the safety of an estimated one hundred fifty thousand civilians living there. people are fleeing down there in greater numbers than at any time since heavy fighting began two months ago three hundred families who feared revenge attacks if the city falls to have to us forces have been rescued by red crescent volunteers aid groups appealing for safe corridors to be set up to move others to safety but would have to head has more from the capital tripoli. the situation in the libyan eastern city of there is going from bad to worse as street battles and fights from one street to another and from one building to another go on between forces loyal to libya's really good generally for have to and others

loyal to the dead in a protection force that is that evil arm of the group defending the city against have to his forces now have those forces have been very we'll equipped and they have been supported by egyptian and immorality warplanes and local sources and say that egyptian and immorality warplanes have been targeted have been targeting civil areas inside the city of the net now the humanitarian situation is excessive abating and human suffering is increasing in the city especially with the siege is that it's taken its toll on people especially civilians in the city the city has been very short of everything including basic needs food medications and medical equipment and the red crescent members in the city of there now say that they have helped more than three hundred tamil is leaving the city activists from the city of the say that they are planning to file a suit against the renegade general city for help to accusing his forces of

committing war crimes and crimes against humanity and especially after footage online have been secure lading online showing to have his forces lynching and mutilating a body of a rival fighter. fires engulfed a warehouse in baghdad with thousands of voting papers from last month's general election a stored the cause of the base is not yet known but the country is preparing for a manual recount of around ten million votes for an allegation of electoral fraud action spokesman says the fire won't affect the recount but the parliament speaker has called for the election to be repeated following the blaze populist shia cleric . was the surprise winner of the may twelfth vote. tens of thousands of people have linked arms in basque country to demand a vote on independence from spain they formed a human chain covering more than two hundred kilometers across the three capitals

of the past provinces campaigners want the spanish government to give them a vote on their political future campaign or has relations forced from rhetorical stares. with chants of it's in our hands the tales of thousands of people have turned out in spain's basque country to link hands and form a human chain their aim is to link the three main cities in this region right up to the border with france now their demand is straightforward they're calling for the chance to vote on their political future here in the basque country whether that means more self rule and devolve powers or even if it means independence i'm breaking away from the rest of spain now the cause of past nationalism is nothing new but sunday's event comes a month after the armed separatists group announced it was formally dissolving and that is allowing peaceful campaigners like these to step out of the shadow of that armed uprising it also comes at turbulent political times for spain as the nation

don't forget that the calls for independence in a breakaway of the catalonia region that issue is not resolved yet and earlier this month the central government was toppled in a no confidence motion amid a political corruption scandal now sunday's event may not be the significant defining moment of basque nationalism but nevertheless it is an indication that there are very fresh calls here for political and territorial issues to be resolved . u.k. human rights groups say saudi arabia has arrested two more women's rights activists who had campaigned for the right to drive by as iran a published a letter of support for detained campaign. and was then herself seized just hours later nineteen activists have been arrested in the kingdom since the fifteenth of may show at best reports. the saudi arabian traffic department releases

a video showing women in riyadh receiving their driver's licenses it's been decades in the making with just two weeks before women are free to drive. but some women's rights activists will not be behind the wheel but behind bars has was the first to be arrested in a government crackdown began on the fifteenth of may. security forces then swept up blogger him and the activist and professor as easy use of human rights lawyer abraham moved a mic and one of the kingdom's early feminists money and she took part in one thousand nine hundred campaign to lift the driving ban they could face up to twenty years in prison the saudi state news agency did confirm a wrists on the eighteenth of may saying seven suspects were charged as foreign agents reporting they did to violate the country's religious and national pillows

and last week the saudi public prosecutor reported coordinated moves to undermine the security of the kingdom seventeen people had been arrested eight were released . the government has not said what threat to security the activists pose but analysts say saudi leadership want to ensure the lifting of the driving ban a seen as a gift rather than a concession to domestic or international pressure they are telling the women in that your should not ask for more including you know ending male guardianship this . woman to issue their first or. without ms khan so it's very alarming and we are very much concerned about what's going on. right now the kingdom is trying to modernize but it has come at the cost of a crackdown last year academics religious leaders and activists would have timed well riyadh's ritz carlton hotel became a prison for some of saudis wealthiest mean the saudi crown prince mohammed bin

solomon promoting a more modern kingdom globally well neutering challenges at home bellus al jazeera opposition supporters in the democratic republic of congo have declared their backing and worries a khatami exiled opposition leader seen as the main rival to president joseph kabila his seventeen years in power could end in the presidential election in december and tomorrow and of course. thousands gathered to hear the man they believe is the democratic republic of congo's best hope for change but moyes khatami hasn't set foot in the country for more than two years in this video message sent from exile he promised to unite the opposition and bring an end to the rule of longtime leader joseph. is that i believe that this was a demonstration to everyone showing that moyes is alive and he's preoccupied with the situation of all congolese and also to say that we have

a project which can properly resolve all these problems we want to transform the congo and restore was quite nice but also we want to unify the congolese people the support today about people is showing that we will overcome. the flip the d r c in two thousand and sixteen when prosecutors accused him of hiring foreign mercenaries one month later he was sentenced to three years in prison for real estate fraud he denies all the charges against him as promising to return for a presidential run. president joseph kabila has ruled that the r.c. for seventeen years his term in office officially ended in december twenty sixth dean but elections have been repeatedly delayed was brought in the protesters are accusing him of trying to hang on to power the constitution bars him from seeking a third term but could be still hasn't confirmed that he won't run again elections are now separate december but whoever emerges as leader will have major challenges

to deal with more than a million people have been forced from their homes in eastern province as the military battles armed groups the chaos has left nearly eight million people on the verge of starvation. the opposition are optimistic but there's still a great deal of uncertainty. the risk arrest to be returned home it's also still unknown it could be low will seek to hold on to power or if the election will be delayed once again. al-jazeera environmentalist's in a australia state of victoria are asking its government to reconsider its bailout of the logging industry it always will the thirty million dollars of taxpayers' money as ira thomas reports from victoria's central highlands now as are accused of destroying forest habitats of endangered wildlife the often of the looks brutal in fact burning low ground helps regeneration those in the industry say they're committed to responsible we have

a rise in that i'm still balance the needs of conservation and the industry and rachel economies in it and communities but conservationists say the industry and the government that in part owns it has got the balance wrong propping up a declining industry prioritising job save the trees. well the owners of this mill said cuts to its wood supply would force it out of business the state government paid tens of millions of dollars to keep it going you can look at it as bailing after you can look at investing in a strong industry and a community that's had a rich heritage in supply in the till but timber that has built our towns. it's a heritage though that's been at the cost of forests and the creatures that rely on them in the two hundred years since european colonization most of southeastern australia as old as trees have been lost in victoria central highlands only about one percent of the mountain ash trees are more than

a century old that matters because the oldest trees and the stumps of big dead ones developed hollow areas that animals like the now critically endangered leadbeater possums live in conservationists with night vision equipment look for them in areas about to be logged every sighting of their biggest possum that we get there's a two hundred made a protection buffer against logging all the old astri's and big dead ones are supposed to be off limits to this is an example of what's called a dead hollow bearing tree that has been protected all the younger living trees that would have stood all around it have been felled but it's been left alone environmentalist though don't think anything like enough trees have been in this entire log area it's the only one that's been left standing there are completely burnt out stumps of similar trees nearby but researches say exclusion zones around individual animals and preserving just the very oldest trees does not go far enough

they want large scale protection of middle age seventy or eighty year old trees too that is their next old growth forest i've got another fifty years before they start becoming a whole logically mature we need some of those trees to be very or growth forest that would mean excluding much bigger areas from logging economically and politically that could hurt andrew thomas al-jazeera in australia as victoria's central highlands. a minute top stories around syria the leaders of the u.s. and north korea have arrived in singapore for tuesday's historic summit president donald trump touched down just a few hours ago kim jong owner arrived earlier on sunday before being whisked away to a heavily guarded hotel trump hopes to win

a deal with the north to give up their nuclear weapons both working and focusing towards that meeting on tuesday at the capella hotel and said tozer island about five kilometers from where i'm standing and i can tell you it's not just the diplomatic aides it's not just the audiences around the world but even ordinary singaporeans that are feeling particularly special that history could be made right here on their soil nuclear peace was also at the top of the agenda at the summit of the shanghai cooperation organization in china the iranian president hassan rouhani used the meeting to criticize the u.s. for withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal saying it's you know national policies are a threat to all twenty fifteen agreement between iran and world powers lifted international sanctions on tehran in return for restrictions on its nuclear activities russia's president vladimir putin told the summit he wants consistent and unconditional implementation of the deal. another flow of modern and ashley schrager volcano in

guatemala has forced emergency teams to abandon their search for survivors they say there's little hope of finding anyone else alive after last sunday's eruption killed at least one hundred ten people only two hundred missing and thousands of homes have been destroyed it. the battle for control of a besieged city in eastern libya is intensifying down is the last eastern city not held by forces loyal to renegade general kelly for have to his troops coastal city from the east and west using machine guns and heavy artillery. as it's worried about the safety of an estimated one hundred fifty thousand civilians living there . far as engulfed a warehouse in baghdad with thousands of papers from last month's general election stored the cause of the blaze is not yet known countries preparing for a manual recount of around ten million votes for an allegations of electoral fraud

but your top stories when i was east is up next after i finish. in war torn afghanistan. simply going to school can be a privilege. especially if you're a girl. and. two out of three girls don't attend school this is by billions of dollars in aid spent on education over the last two decades

. i'm steve on this episode of what i want to use to reinvestigate why so many of afghanistan's girls are kept outside of the classroom. into the dawn of a new school day across afghanistan and girls from the dash district or neighborhood in west kabul begin making their way to class. pushed a trickle. and soon a steady stream. by six am the outpouring from the gates. there steve from norwich maybe. it's six am seems too early for school. that's because this is the first of three

ships here. it's the only way to accommodate the more than fourteen thousand students from the screen. split almost evenly between fools and. over the next week we've been given extremely rare access inside the cia the shahadah school to try to understand what life is like for a girl for him to school in afghanistan. in the car business are hard for girls in their account for a. problem. or problems. sixteen year old man. has been a student at seattle shahada since grade one over that time she and principal akila tasha cooley have seen the numbers of girls at your school more than ok melissa yes and so a stroll and though we have. a few buildings here and there. was

a student here they get this seven thousand just was just curious i wonder how long . the huge increase in the numbers of feel studying it. is a welcome sign of progress compared to the days when the taliban were in power and girls were forbidden from going to school. but the school's enormous growth has a major consequence too many students and not enough classrooms so we have a few buildings here yeah which ones are for girls one is simple this. time of movement is saying that that building is from the vice building room for the from the five buildings and from the by the we are seeing the buildings these are all the by all the building all of the boys are the mice yes. one of the girls that's there is full of the yes.

we don't have classroom. we don't have buildings and that's just for our parents and all of them is the buildings are going to buy if we don't have any building. how many classes in three times we are more than four feet what it cost us four to come in times a day she time with a. really good is ok just go hard to be on the bus along with you. you're. getting. some time off. there is only one high school in this neighborhood which is why the girls come from far away from all the population is growing and day by day the girls come knocking on our door to be enrolled and we cannot tell them no joint. we have to

accept them but we don't have enough space that's why we have problems. the. lack of infrastructure is only one of many reasons why so many afghan girls are out of school. in fact no one actually knows how many girls are in school not even the afghan government the ministry of education is not sure how many students are there is it eleven million or is it seven point two million is it eight million nobody knows exactly how many students are there. or bulk of that overtop that's just one of several findings of a recent independent review on corruption within the ministry of education released late last year the results made headlines across the country it found widespread corruption throughout the education system ministry. of bashar is the former

director of afghanistan's anti corruption watchdog and author of the report after spending billions and billions of dollars in the last sixteen years. we have not been able actually to have any kind of building for most of the schools our finding shows that. the treaty money was taken in cash to remote parts of afghanistan by the trustees and we had information that the money did not make the right people. had siad all shahada there aren't even enough classrooms for the boys. many classes are held in the hallways or in stairwells wherever a teacher came from space. the only place you won't find boys attending classes is in a tent or out in the open with the girls in the past living area where together by

some girls we didn't first through lack of that class is ok we had enough classes here but right now we have too much people we have too much a student here because of this there is no play is. recognizing the desperate need at the school japanese donors built to need buildings five years ago so girls would have their own classrooms. at the school shura the community leaders decided to give those buildings to the people. in this school is a blank stare as to girls because when a freelancer coming we were under the sun we were under the radar and therefore in ours next one did the school's frazz but right now is this by says i don't know why you feel angry about. the angry yes because in the past the three are when they are coming so they will think about us as about about the gears ok but right now it's

the my school i don't know why and it's right makes me really angry that's why i always the right of the girls are like. improving education especially for girls is a well known objective for international donors principal akila says the local community gave the buildings to the boys thinking. that donors would come back to build more classrooms for the girls. but honey. what if. people think n.g.o.s come here to work only for girls so the community decided the bolling's should be for the boys. i don't know if the school's management or others interview these issues are always decided by the males in the school management. did the donors ever come back after they built the building. they came once to visit then went back to the raffle. the security

situation continues to deteriorate in afghanistan as a result there we feel international donors are able to visit the projects they support so many rely on third party monitors to do that work which according to the anti corruption committee opens yet another avenue for corruption we've found that the school monitors and instead of doing proper monitoring off the quality of education. they have been working for themselves you know to go to some of the school to kind of harass the teachers in the school administration get money from them and then do their evaluation once they were happy we had an example. a school that we were working with them but actually on which has a thousand kids on the register actually when we went in there there were twelve kids coming to school. in kaplan is

a researcher who contributed to the anticorruption report as an education specialist he works with the norwegian and geo providing support for schools throughout afghanistan including this school for the deaf and car. sign language which. kaplan says he's fortunate to be able to visit the projects and g.m. supports it's often kind of difficult for donors to be able to do that because of security concerns but also sometimes there's not always the interest to go out and follow up on these things and to go out and visit so it doesn't happen very often i think i mean you get a feeling for something in a way that you don't if you're sitting behind a desk you know you see people and you see them engaging in learning and i mean for me that's the reason to be here but without that i would just lose the feeling for it i think altogether but he says lack of donor access and oversight is only one of the issues affecting girls' education in afghanistan while girls of lacking so much

more than boys when it comes to education well i think you know at least in the past there'd been just much more of a focus on just getting anyone in the school first and then it was easier to get boys into school and. you know and also just because of gender norms you know that the more attention has been focused on boys than girls generally see india as a country that's leaving all this like saying that they are not that there's all this saying that this. is top the. levels of the afghan government and the international community deal with the findings of the anti corruption report the staff and the girls that say it will shahada face more immediate issues. the first shift of the school day from six am to ten am is almost over and while four hours might seem a little light on school times it may be a blessing in disguise because any longer and the girls may happen to toy with.

the new car bomb we have seven thousand go but both male and female students have to use the same time i'm sorry. we tell them during assembly do it before coming to school. have you ever gone to the toilet in your school yes i was seven years old. or when to call and. it's a will but situation here. the biggest car would you. go to the bar. with this. poor working conditions in most schools make it more difficult to attract female teachers yet they're desperate.