story of the. post. fighting in southern syria forces. just a few days in a province. and jordan is coming under increasing pressure syria's neighbor is already overwhelmed by the refugee crisis also on the british. voter is frustrated with. the drugs.

or says he will seek talks. with the united states and. education teachers across the u.s. are demanding. funding for schools. to. call on the un saying days of fighting in syria southwest has displaced more than a quarter of a million people that is one hundred thousand more people than the estimated figures just last week. week they have nowhere to go but further south and

southwest that's close to the border with jordan which is already hosting more than six hundred thousand syrian refugees there's been nearly two weeks of fair strikes by the government with the help of russia to retake the southern province of that offer rebels and fighters government forces have gained back nearly sixty percent of the territory one of the main groups has already surrendered their weapons to the russians in a flood of reports from neighboring beirut. syrians plea as front lines continue to shift in that our province the united nations says two hundred seventy thousand people have already been uprooted during the syrian government's military offensive now in its third week there remain in towns under opposition control are being battered by airstrikes and shelling and the fear is an escalated military campaign now that talks collapse was going on in there is

a military escalation to pressure the rebel factions to accept the russian military is conditions to on the assault those conditions are he relating for the opposition they just want them to give up everything after years of sacrifices they can't accept that. the opposition delegation involved in talks with the russian military which were mediated by jordan formally pulled out of negotiations it's not clear at all rebel commanders support that decision but those who have made separate deals are being called traitors. to the representatives of a handful of towns have been signing so-called reconciliation deals with the government or what amounts to a surrender syrian state television is showing people celebrating the return of government rule more often than not there is little choice such deals stave off further military action and prevent more suffering but anyone wanted by the state such as rebel fighters and those involved in opposition activities or who worked in

rebel run administrations leave. rebel areas are shrinking more than sixty percent of that is now under the control of president bashar al assad's forces rebels still hold parts of the provincial capital that are city and areas along the borders of the occupied golan heights and jordan including then a sea crossing the opposition is in a weak position it has been abandoned by its allies the united states told them not to expect to be back to militarily jordan closed its borders to weapons shipments and refugees instead it says it wants to focus on mediating a ceasefire but a ceasefire is not what the procedure and government camp wants. it is pushing for a military victory a win in the southern corner of syria would follow significant gains close to the capital in recent months then like now it is the civilians who pay the heaviest price. valid move could she see let me ask every person with a conscience to help stop the shelling and why are they shelling areas where there

are children helpless elderly and sick people the children are hungry and without food we only brought tea and sugar with us please for us this criminal and the shelling. that is unlikely to happen that this isn't by some of the opposition not to sit at the negotiating table means a stepped up military campaign especially since the government stated goal is to recapture southern syria. beirut or to get an idea of where that are provinces and who controls what across syria at this point of the war you can head to al jazeera dot com and check out the smart. and if you have any comments or questions to send through to us here on the newsgroup we're on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera we're also on twitter our handle is at aging gliss you can use the hash tag a.j. news grid and you can send us a whatsapp or telegram plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine

we'll cross over to london now for more of the international news with lauren taylor thanks to remove begin in germany where the parties that make up the ruling coalition are holding meetings to try to resolve the political crisis over migration on sunday interior minister horsy who has offered his resignation saying the deal chancellor i'm going to mco struck with the e.u. aimed at curbing arrivals wasn't good enough so who wants to turn migrants away from the border if they've already applied for asylum in another european country but in human odds with the chance to. start to see by that i said that i would offer to resign from both posts and that i will pull this through in the next three deaths and that we will have another talk or an understanding of the americans christian democratic union. when i speak to dominic cain in berlin germany if they can't resolve their differences what are the possible outcomes. well this is the

big issue isn't it will they be able to reconcile the differences just to say lauren that they had an impromptu as it were meeting in the german parliament today under the aegis of the part the president of the parliament is the scheuer the long time finance minister and till the coalition agreement was arrived at that has this government in place right now he's seen as the elder statesman of conservatism in this country so unsure jeweled meeting parliament right now they're meeting at the headquarters of the c.d.u. merkel's party headquarters to see if there is some last gasp compromise that can be made the reality is if they can't well the options are several first of all mr hoffa and his party could fall into line with what angle americal brought back from the e.u. summit in brussels effectively to stand down as it were and accept the provisions of that deal and in that instance things would go on pretty much as normal almost

as they hoped for could say no we are not going to fall into line we stick with what we said we would do which is unilaterally impose border controls using mr hoffa's power as ministry of the minister of the interior to do that if that were to happen then the some minds is that america would have to see him out of his position because that's not something that she agrees with and in truth there isn't really a majority in parliament that supports that point of view and if that doesn't happen well this resignation suggestion the question would be if you resigned will he go but some other c.s.u. minister take on the interior ministry with perhaps a different approach lots of imponderables there really larn the only people who really know what's going to happen are talking to each other right now and it's a lot at stake in the c.d.u. c.s.u. alliance has been kind of going for ages how difficult is it for these two parties to be at odds with each other in this way. well strictly speaking this is only the

second time in the best part of forty years that these two parties have ever come to this this as it were this log or heads as it were this logjam between each other the reality is that they have been in government together for a very long time they put forward the same chance for their candidates at every general election and for the last several it's been i'm going to merkel that's the point here that they are the two people meeting today. are effectively the leaders of their parties and they should be basically pitching in the same direction for the past thirteen years they've been part of the government c.s.u. the c.d.u. they are what they used to be inseparable and yet over the past few years the tendency for i'm going to merkel's side of conservatism to go to the center on necessarily the center right the center as really aggravated to some some people in the c.s.u. who see themselves more center right or on the right that is one of the other issues at play here point also to make is that angered america is much more popular

than hoffa in that sense her policies on immigration aren't particularly popular in germany and yet she is by far the most popular politician and one final thought the c.s. use popularity in opinion polls in bavaria their base where there is a state election in october has been falling as a consequence of this political storm john mccain thank you very much indeed. libya's national oil corporation is suspending exports in the country's east and the cut follows the capture of two oil terminals last month by forces loyal to warlord highly for have to its forces have prevented oil shipments from being loaded at several oil ports in the so-called oil crescent libya's u.n. backed government has warned international companies against dealing with have to. the mayor of a city in the philippines has been shot dead by a sniper during an official ceremony.

where antonio holy was taking part in the weekly flag raising in turn our own city video of his assassination has been posted on social media and he led a controversial walk of shame campaign where suspected drug dealers were paraded around the streets but he's in the indian capital new delhi investigating the mysterious deaths of eleven family members discovered inside a house ten of the victims were blindfolded and hanging from the roof with another found on the floor they were discovered by a neighbor on sunday police are trying to find out whether the family was murdered or died in a mass suicide. palestinians been protesting in the occupied west bank against the u.s. peace plan for the middle east trumpet ministrations says it will unveil the so-called deal of the century soon but the palestinian leadership says the u.s. has no authority in a peace process or a force it is among protesters in ramallah. usually several hundred protesters on the street in the sense of

a lot of this protest has been caused by the leadership but i did see the movie yellow taxi very much a fatah faction or a protest called by the leadership really to expound its position on the u.s. attempt to restart the middle east peace process between israelis and the palestinians they say that the deal of the century is donald trump is trying to sell it is dead and that they will not accept it i think the leadership was very much stung by two interventions from the u.s. envoy jason green and on from son or jared cushnie when they were in the region i just a few days ago each talking to the media here and be more critical of the p.a. leadership the president mahmoud abbas and the p.l.o. second general erekat they were complaining of an attempt to sort of bypass or even overthrow the p.a. leadership as the u.s. tries to drive this through appealing to the palestinians on grounds of economic

opportunity that might be available to them if the u.s. peace plan were adopted they say the palestinian authority continues to say that the u.s. declaration on jerusalem recognizing it as israel's capital disqualifies united states a speech of much of what about his words just read out over the last twenty four hours again says that the united states is morally and politically unfit to take part in the peace process they are keen to show that their supporters a very much behind them in that message. that's it for me in london a moment now to during and. loren thank you let's return to our top story on the fighting in southwestern syria and the increasing number of displaced people there is the director of policy analysis of the dog institute joining us here in the studio good to speak with you again on the news grid so we're hearing from the jordanian foreign minister that he is said to be holding talks with russia over a cease fire in southwestern syria but what incentive is there for russia to negotiate some sort of cease fire now as we're seeing what's happening on the

ground with some of the rebels are already surrendering and giving up their weapons there isn't much incentive to be to be frank about the russian opposition because the russians they we believe they have already reached an agreement with the israelis conserve new military offensive by the. province and we believe that deal actually included the they would allow the syrian regime to take control of this area this help opposition held area in exchange for keeping the iranians away from the borders like if you could meters away from the borders and the russians in my opinion now are what they are trying to do is instead of having a military showdown with the opposition and this is something that they might be thinking about considering jordan because if this can if this but if the opposition continues that means as we said we're going to have an influx of refugees going or trying actually to go inside jordan which already has more than one point five

million syrian refugees so what the jordanians the russians are trying to do is to convince the opposition to sit under. and actually give what the that the regime has been demanding them to give over the past couple of these in exchange for stopping the offensive but is there any reason for you to believe that this offensive will be stopped after all that i province is very key for the government it is key for the government and the government is intent especially after the deed that we have talked about between that is about it is under russians that he now believes that there is a green light to go and take the profits from the opposition. but on the other hand i think everybody needs this operation to take place with the minimum cost of civilian lives and with all saw taking the concerns of the jordanians into account because the jordanians would like the syrian regime also to take control of the borders and the border crossing the border crossing it's very important for jordan for economic reasons then you know would actually love to have it be operant and

with thoughtful control of the syrian government because they want this agricultural exports from jordan to see and then to europe to to come again so there is this these different parties now that are going to have this negotiation an order to serve their interests then jordan of russia of the syrian regime but that will be in my opinion on the expense of the syrian opposition the weakest link in this whole confrontation and at the expense of civilians as are saying there have been more than two hundred seventy thousand so far that have been absolutely let's let's let's not forget that the russians they have been using civilians from the very beginning of this conflict as a tool as a leverage on the opposition on one hand because those people at the end of the day are families of the opposition and also on the international community putting this pressure on europe and the hottest years on the jordanians and were in order to put pressure on the opposition on order to get them to stand up this is what the russians have been doing for the past three four use actually and this is what they are doing right now in. iraq about and thank you for speaking to us on the

newsgroup thank you. now the u.n. secretary general says he's heard an imaginable accounts of killing and rape from refugees who fled from me and more to bangladesh and so on you've got terrorists has been visiting overcrowded camps in bangladesh is cox's bazaar district where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering he says refugees are living in terrible conditions there because of massive human human rights violations in mean maher. all these people who live in these tragic circumstances and these if we had no responsibilities for them is not acceptable we need to push and we will be pushing in the right direction and fully in line with the principles that have always been the principles of the united nations in the ocean to. the needs for every citizen to have a country that they can call their. home has more from the camps and cox is bizarre

. united nations secretary general antonio good terrorists has come and gone life here a coup to prolong the world's largest refugee camp goes on we're here in one of the older sections of the camp this is one of the main trading areas a lot of room for refugees have set up stalls and this is where they trade with each other now i want to give you some example of what it's like here the conditions on a day like today today there were two original downpours for short amounts of time so it was an extended rain but there was rainfall throughout the day take a look at what we're walking through here again this is one of the main thoroughfares in the old part of the camp and this really just goes to show you how dire the circumstances are here for the nearly one million for him to refugees who live here and in the surrounding areas in the sprawling makeshift very very large

camp now a lot of the refugees we spoke with today they were happy that the u.n. secretary general came here they were glad that he was bringing the world's attention to this continuing very dire crisis but there was a lot of concern we heard from him the refugees as well many of them said that they didn't believe that the u.n. was doing enough to ensure that if and when they do go back to me and more that they will be able to get citizenship so it's not just right of return it's also the issue of citizenship that really concerns them now many of them are also quite happy about the fact that the world bank has said that they are going to contribute almost half of a billion dollars to the government of bangladesh which will be earmarked specifically to help or hinder refugees but again they say that right now they are in crisis the aid workers we've been speaking with to the last two days of said that what's going on here is an emergency within an emergency. it's underfunded the

aid agencies don't have enough money these people simply don't have enough help. so as we're hearing thousands of for him joe were forced to flee their homes last year and recently me and maher had agreed to start letting them back into the country but the chief of the international committee of the red cross says he doubts that commitment after a visit to rakhine states elizabeth piron and her guests debates if the revenge will ever be able to return on this episode of inside story you'll find on our website al-jazeera dot com. now mexican voters have delivered a landslide presidential election victory to leftists and dress money while lopez obrador whose fiery campaign hinged on promises to clean up corruption and put an end to ramp violence so he's expected to end up with about fifty three percent of the vote a remarkable margin that's not seen in three decades lopez obrador is already

reaching out to the u.s. and canada as all three countries try to renegotiate the north america free trade agreement or enough john homan has been covering the elections for us joining us from mexico city we keep saying this john it really was a historic election just put the results in context for us. exactly that and you said a little bit about it already but to give you a few other details this would be the first leftist populist president for four decades in mexico and also this is going to be the first president that's not from the pre or the pan to oldest parties in eighty nine years so that's quite something on the other side of that of course there are those two parties especially the pretty party this is seen as really a central column of governance in mexico they govern for seventy years they currently back in power and now as

a result of this election in congress they're behind the marxist workers' party and they're behind doing so previously obscure evangelical conservative party so it's been a real food from grace and what's happened here is that voters are really punishing them for corruption from so interest also the perm party has lost a lot of its representation in congress so this is really been seen as a vote on a political process but i haven't sold mexico's central problems corruption crime and poverty and they said we need to change a lot of people here who voted in low prison for a door of doing so one. doing exactly what they're going to get his policies haven't been exactly set in stone they've been since they've been fairly bake some of them but they say we need something different so what's next and what are the next steps for the president elect. well this morning he's going to meet with the current president enrique pena nieto and

they're going to speak about nafta that's a free trade agreement between canada mexico and the united states is taking a fair bit of bashing over the last years especially over the last year especially from president trump of the united states he said we need to update it i'm going to cancel it to the three countries are doing that now and now president will presumably do it is going to take their own way he said in speeches if he wants mexico to stay part of that free trade agreement although he's quite protectionist in nature but he also can't slip if it's not in mexico's best interest he's also going to be meeting with the united nations with the civil society groups with the church he said to try and work out how he can bring peace to mexico this is a country that in two thousand and seventeen had its most violent year record two thousand and eighteen look set to surpass but he needs to find a solution so far he's been fairly on how he's going to do that he has got a couple of easy wins in his pocket as he tries to come up with policies to deal

with mitt's cause problems he said he's going to get rid of the presidential plane he's also going to get rid to stop living in the president's residence at the moment and just live in his own house so that might give him a bit of leeway some sort of honeymoon period with the voters but then as i said he's got to really work on developing policies that will go with his quite ambitious promises john another major event going on right now which i must ask you about mexico playing brazil at the world cup i'm just looking at the score it's brazil one mexico zero what would that mean for mexico if they were to. advance to the next round. i would mean a great deal because it would break premier who do in this country for the last six world cups they've got to the second round and they have a go any further so they're trying to break that but unfortunately they we seem to come up against a team like brazil one of the one of the world cup teams in which they play really

well they're going to and then wind up losing so we may not see a break in the park and you might be able to hear it behind me there is a big screen it makes cars in front of the story there's a big screen in front of mexico's most famous monument game to some people watching them i think a lot of glum faces at the moment i should just make sure one thing before i go in mexico city the capital of the country we're about a quarter of the population lives we're going to have a female mayor it looks like for the first time in history so swings and roundabouts here ok john coleman giving us the update from mexico city john thank you now to a story we've been monitoring over the past few days out of iran in fact where there been protests over water scarcity and ship problems or social media producer here to give us an update on that andrew thanks turion well ninety seven percent of iran is facing some form of drought and that's according to iranian government figures and many iranians are blaming the government for mismanagement of water

resources now this isn't a recent problem but over the last decade iran has experienced its most prolongs extensive and severe drought in more than thirty years some communities aren't only facing water shortages at this point they have salty or muddy water coming out of their taps that's one of the reasons we've seen protests over the last few days especially in cities where residents musk you for drinking water in the heat and these are some of the videos that are being shared on opposition telegram channels showing demonstrators with empty cartons in hand the water crisis is of course compounding the worsening economic situation in the country which supreme leader ali khamenei has blamed on the united states and gulf countries which he says are trying to destabilize the arabian government. those protests turned violent in the southern city of course on saturday where gunfire could be heard echoing down the streets of syria cannot independently verify these images but anti-government voices on telegram and other platforms have featured this video over the past few

days to call for greater economic pressure from the united states and claimed that the government fired on the crowd but the footage you might be able to see appears to show an unidentified demonstrator armed with a rifle so the iranian government says most of those injured were police officers and the interior the interior minister rather says that these videos are being used for and i'll tear your motive. to those loans that deals with as though such protests are directed by the propaganda as an opportunity for places and people that are recognized by us as foes you observe how they are fueling such incidents in the foreign media and in cyberspace and these days so keep in mind there is an influential iranian opposition group known as the mujahideen corps and the k that is working to capitalize on these demonstrations the sanctions will become greater and greater and greater this president does not intend to turn his back on freedom

fighters. that is of course president trumps personal attorney rudy giuliani addressing an antique a rally in the suburbs of paris over the weekend calling for regime change in iran the state department has previously stated that giuliani does not speak for the u.s. government or even president trump on matters of foreign policy when he makes such remarks but several members of trump's inner circle have supported this group for years especially after it was dropped from the u.s. terrorism list and twenty twelve many k. is widely hated in iran for its use of violence and the fact that it sided with saddam hussein in the iran iraq war in the one nine hundred eighty s. that were left up to a million people dead they're also widely believed to have links to israeli intelligence services that's according to both israeli and iranian media so because of social media this rally has. taken on a different direction online because half of the attendees consisted of bored looking poles czechs slovakians germans and syrians according to the guardian write up so many attendees responded to flyers which had been posted around dormitories

in a facebook campaign which was promising travel food and accommodation to paris from germany for twenty five euros so some of the refugees were bussed in included double refugees that's palestinian refugees from syria iran says that this is a sad irony that the any k. would bust in palestinians for p.r. reasons while also working for their dispossess or so let us know what you think of the economic and water protests in iran especially if you're living there you can tweet me your views using the hashtag age or newsgroup or message me directly at pelle or if your telegram just messages there and you thank you for that while you're watching the news grid and if you're watching us on facebook live we've got a story for you about an eleven year old boy who makes incredible life like art you'll see that in a moment then coming up later more than forty african leaders have gathered in mauritania to discuss ways to fight corruption and extremism we'll get an update

coming up right after the break. welcome back looking at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia aside from a few showers in the far east is jury looking fine woman in tehran there at thirty eight degrees baghdad forty seven degrees some are really setting in there fine conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean that includes the whole of turkey as well as last the showers here so we're looking at pretty hot weather across much of syria beirut coming in at twenty eight degrees and no significant change expect is ahead on through into wednesday so what about the arabian peninsula well on the western side it's looking pretty hot we've got to forty six the greens there in medina for a dry heat on the other side the potential though it is still very humid forty one degrees in doha but it is quite uncomfortable with that very high humidity and the

temperatures forty two degrees as move through twenty day moving into southern portions of africa we have seen a weather front just moving through south africa bringing some welcome rain very close to cape town that system though should be moving away so we'll see a brighter weather chance want to cher's maybe for mozambique and continues through into wednesday but otherwise most areas looking dry and fine should be plenty of sunshine across. fine weather across namibia with highs of eighteen degrees in winter. captaining a leading youth team at sixteen years old takes determination. to the staying on top of your game at school. the whole family bands together and shares a sacrifice is necessary for a son to have a shocked at becoming a professional footballer. my tunisia home game on

a just. and monday put it well on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the war.

on the home page of al jazeera dot com you'll find the most trending articles there . they are on your screen in talks for the mayor's assassination caught on video so he was shot dead while attending a weekly raising ceremony and in the second spot al-jazeera. has written an editorial on what's called the deal of the century that is the administration's plan for

a peace deal between the israelis and palestinians so you can read more about that on al-jazeera dot com. well it's the final day of the african union summit where more than forty leaders have been focusing on issues like free trade corruption and terrorism they you has also called for action on south sudan's civil war is this week's attempt at a ceasefire collapsed and the french president in money when my cause making an appearance to discuss the french backed security unit known as the g five and force members of that unit were targeted in a suicide bombing on friday at their headquarters in mali. joining us from mauritania is capital and walks out to tell us what was accomplished today at the e.u. summit has some. during the wide range of issues and the african leaders say that they would like to tackle them at once solve them go forward remains to be seen whether they would be able to do that first of all the president in many ways mccrone is still meeting with members of the g y which

are. charged and working up are so these are lies of the french troops fighting groups. then either now the americans or the french have tried everything drone attacks intelligence gathering major major operations but these armed groups are still active and operating across the sahara and we are looking for different ways to try to defeat them there are other issues now which are of major concern for the international community the migrant smuggling networks active in libya and the sad region the europeans would like to see the african leaders take tough measures to counter the networks but you know with instability in libya with lawlessness in many african countries invade to be seen what kind of measures these countries should take to be able to put an end to the fighting today the african union issued a wooton down report about western sahara asking the opportunity to play a crucial role in solving the crisis the un manage successfully to implement

a cease fire in one thousand nine hundred one but ever since that both the police are you a moroccan never quit on how to move forward and quite a permanent solution to the quizes finally african leaders say that they are determined this time to tackle corruption but they never said how they're going to do that this explains why african union has always been criticized for being one of the most inefficient organizations in the world making many processes promises but never delivering on those promises ok has made about giving us the update for more it's a thank you. if you had to al-jazeera dot com and you click on the news tab on our home page and then select africa the find this page straight there everything you need to know from right across the country on the continent it's on al-jazeera dot com. teachers from the united states and across the united states in fact are in

minneapolis to demand better salaries and working conditions thousands have been taking part in state wide strikes over the last six months calling for more funding for schools and a reduction in class sizes in june the u.s. supreme court dealt a potential blow to the collective bargaining power of unions ruling that government workers can no longer be required to pay dues in a moment we'll be speaking to john hendren who is live at a teacher's conference in minneapolis but first our social media team takes a closer look at why the teachers are fed up. no not everything. is going to. work they're almost unbearable for a lot of teachers and those in the morning so you're going home at the end of the

building and. the teachers the first doing. the work were absolutely brilliant as. you really know that is. yours only we had at least one generation. whose entire academic has been thrown away we have a new generation and i am in your own way. credibly thinking my students are better than last. year when the the times that are hit hardest by this are the ones that. the source is. and is credibly frustrating. at these credible young.

ladies. so that's a little bit of context john hendren joining us from minneapolis your app the convention john what's going on there. there are about ten thousand people here from a cheater is a group the national education association that is three million members and they're fired up they've had protests across the nation state by state some of them have made significant progress. yes in terms of increasing pay having better working conditions but also just getting the whittling they need the things that they need in the classroom to get things done and i can give you a first person perspective here with me is david freeland he is a math teacher a high school math teacher in st lucie florida and he's also president of the classroom teachers association in that area so let me ask you first of all just

a broad question. our teachers are treated in the u.s. compared to the importance of their job. they're treated well i say below where they should be treated for the importance of the job that they do and that's not just play which is sort of the thing about hawks well that's also how the professions respect. our voice and how the session is run and what we do in the classroom. the anger comes again not just from say but it's easy it's easy to be paid less than you will probably be making if at least the work you do is respected that's not respected here. i don't think a lot of people don't understand around the world but there's a lot of teachers like you here in the u.s. at public schools supplies some of the school equipment out of their own funds we here in florida we get classroom teachers get a small stipend from the state every year they don't come over here covering the expenses that most teachers spend a class for can be several thousand dollars in some cases even just basic supplies

like pencils and that's money out of your pocket money and are a lot of papers whatever threat that's money out of our pockets and as we've been talking about teachers taking action across the nation is striking but in florida it's a state where you can't strike right that's correct we can't strike it's both in our constitution and it's in legislation and i'm going to be responsible actually for the union leaders to suggest the strike our members would lose their pension nesa first then they would lose their certificates can be sanctioned they can be fired making it very seriously in florida and has been happening. across the u.s. in state after state we've seen teachers protest chic greater salaries what do you see happening is this is this a trend is it a revolution what is this oh i'm a well i know i call it a trend hopefully it will continue become a revolution we've seen really two decades of cuts to public education and not for the betterment of our students which is really why teachers are upset

because it always boils down to students and what's good for our students and that's not what's happening across that in most places in the nation right now which is have made some progress when it comes to pay there have been increases in some states but by and large they're not keeping up with the rate of inflation. what happens now after this meeting obviously this meeting is here to decide where teachers go from here and what strategy they use but what do you see happening well it's interesting first on united states again it really depends on the laws in each state there are states where you can strike states where like florida where you can't and so the local strategies there are different. so for instance our strategy is you know short term we're trying to generate more members more activism the long term goal to replace legislators with legislators who are education friendly and understand the importance of unions to working people all right thank you and free from st lucie florida he's a math teacher and you heard him there say that one of the things they're looking

to do long term is to replace the legislature legislators statewide and i'm guessing nationally as well who make the decisions about teachers will hear more about that as the day wears on our eyes our indra and with an update from minneapolis thank you and now we'll take you to thailand because we have an update on a story you may have been following over the past week twelve boys and their soccer coach have been missing for more than a week in thailand and now we understand they have been found or rescued when hey joining us on the line from chiang rai any more clarity on what's going on there wayne. yes well this news just breaking literally him in the last few minutes with confirmation coming from the government of chang rive problems with the tumbling cave located he has announced that they have found will all the missing boys and it will coach inside the cave and they'll all alive so that news just coming through the last few months they have not been refuted extracted from that.

cave men yet but they have found them alive and this comes after a period of a few days really where we had a lot less rain for dinner seeing previously and maybe it would be with you james particularly the thai maybe divers to push for the two that take system and it seems that they have found those people in a dry pot all the cave so we do not know the condition that the boys and the football coach coach are in but this has been almost ten days now the baby is inside that cave so remarkable news coming out from the governor general problems concerning that have been found alive all right wayne thank you for giving us that update from chang ryan thailand. now let's go to the democratic republic of congo that's where there is outrage over

a proposal to export rare animals to china not the first time the government has been hit with wildlife scandals as andrew will tell us more about that's right there's been a string of wildlife controversies as you said and the latest is because of a letter from the sea environment minister to a chinese company discussing a possible transfer of rare species to chinese zoos including gorillas chimpanzees manatees and copies so wildlife groups caught wind of this letter after it leaked on twitter and demanded immediate action now born free and fifteen other civil society groups say that removing these animals especially the great apes in particular from the wild would be illegal under international law so there was a comp a petition that was launched and adams who is the founder of the organization conserve congo he launched it trying to get as many people as possible to sign it to prevent

these animals from being exploited here's what. position is that we stand firmly against the idea of ever sending our wildlife to china for reasons number one china is not involved in any close of russian war to my country we do not have any and dimly chinese want lushly knowledge and we do not just want to creates a climate where our grandchildren will have to travel to china to see these animals jake is moreover we know about the union face of oh wait chinese burning torture animals it doesn't show respect and therefore we are totally against it we have basically making a million signatures online so we can submit them to site see you know to ban completely our wildlife ever to be sent to china so this proposed transfer was between chinese zoos and the institutes in congo for the conservation of nature which has issued a statement distancing itself from the proposal and also urged the government of the d r c to respect the convention on international trade in endangered species

species rather of wild fun and flora they also asked not to threats and their survival so the government says it's still evaluating the situation over concerns that wildlife would lose out in order to obtain chinese investment and then that's not the only recent controversy this week the government decided to allow oil exploration and super types of wildlife parks and is that a move that's strongly been opposed by environmental activists and but the government says it has a right to authorize drilling anywhere in the country and says it will continue to protect animals and plants in the two parks so on the story we want to hear from you you can tweet me direct leon that's anderson tell or just use the hash tag it is good and you thank you all once again for our facebook live viewer as you're about to see a story about a few women who form india first of all female motor racing team and they're hoping to change stereotypes about you know driver is coming up in sports right after the break we'll brazil become the latest world cup casualty or nazi joe we'll have the

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