al-jazeera. a humanitarian crisis in southern syria jordan and israel refused to open their borders to tens of thousands of refugees despite a plea from the united nations. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up in the program found alive but still trapped deep inside a cave in thailand why it could take weeks to get twelve boys. out safely. the dramatic fall from grace and many former prime minister najib razak is arrested by anti corruption investigate. and america's unhappy teaches thousands protests across the united states over

a school system they say is chronically underfunded. so jordan and israel are refusing to open their borders to thousands of refugees who fled a government offensive in southern syria the u.n. now says as many as three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced from their homes because of the assault on their a province jordan says it's worried about the presence of quote infiltrators with weapons among the displaced it's sending food and water across but insists the border will remain shut then holder is following developments from beirut. jordan israel. and their towns are battlegrounds these people are trapped in the syrian government's offensive and province now into its third week has displaced more than a quarter of a million people according to the united nations some are living in makeshift tents

many others out in the open they have little food water or medicine or protection from the heat. there is a humanitarian crisis and the united nations is calling on jordan and neighboring countries to open their borders to allow refugees in we recognize that jordan lebanon and turkey have long hosted a large number of refugees particularly from syria since the beginning of the syrian conflict it's been heartening to see many people in these countries doing what they can. to call on their governments to keep the border open and to gather food and water for syrian refugees we call on the jordanian government keep its borders open for other countries in the region to step up and receive the fleeing civilians jordan's leaders say they can't cope with more refugees instead they say aid is being delivered to them across the border in syria and they say it's up to the u.n. to obtain approval from government leaders into masochists to allow in supplies to

reach our province jordan foreign minister says the focus should be on preventing more devastation i'll be meeting with the russian foreign minister lover of her for a discussion on how we can work towards a ceasefire and create conditions for the ground there which people would feel safe and also a discuss the facilitation of their provision of supplies to syria and their country on their land indeed our syrian government troops are advancing with the help of russian airstrikes troops have seized towns and villages under rebel control and through so-called reconciliation deals that involve a return of president bashar assad's rule sixty percent of daraa is now under government control and the offensive is continuing to pressure the remaining rebel held areas to surrender. russia has been negotiating on behalf of the syrian government with rebel factions the opposition says russia is only offering one option they're describing it as a humiliating demand to surrender it involves rebels handing over their weapons and

accepting state control opposition activists have told us russia is not offering them the possibility to move to the rebel controlled province of idlib. several rebel commanders fighters and opposition leaders are refusing to reconcile with the state and live under assad's rule. they also refused to stay without international security guarantees rebels are hoping for a deal that would make jordan a guarantor of the safety of the civilians negotiations are difficult set of other houses into beirut. well but it's clear that the job across the on the syrian border he's been talking to syrians who are desperate for the border to open so they can reach their families will have more from bernard in just a moment but first one mother explains her situation it really is sort of the caliber of the mothers out as my son was once a refugee here in jordan but he went back to syria with many others the recent

bombardment targeted the area where he was sorry he was forced out and now he's trying to come back to jordan i hope he could reach us but i'm not able to communicate with him i appeal to the king of jordan to open the border and allow the displaced syrians and they're trapped between two evils either to be killed by the shelling or die out of thirst and starvation we appealed to the king to allow the borders to be our band and allow our fellow syrians thrower. the aid has been getting through the jordanian military where you can see behind me is the sort of military checkpoint stow is staging area before anything is taken across the border colleagues of mine have been a go over there today and that aid has been getting through is nothing like as much as they need of course there is nothing on the other side no tents no sanitation no water no food and it's getting hot and it's getting hotter and they really are in desperate need over that so far the jordanian government is sticking firm it is saying that he's not going to allow anybody else into jordan it says he hopes to

already six hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees and the big concerns about how that number of syrians already has affected the stability of jordan so jordan in no mood to let anybody through it would have to be offered enormous amounts of money i think to consider taking in those syrian refugees of syrians for them for the time being as with the israelis as well it would rather it wants to keep them on the other side of the border so the jordanians really wanting to get involved in the negotiations with the russians to try and bring a halt to the bombardment of this area so that we can hear actually fighter jets go overhead at the moment they want to bring an end to these bombardments so that the people can be taken to safety without them having to be brought into jordan jordan just does not want that to happen.

the rescues in thailand are working out how to extract the young football team and their coach who are trapped deep inside a cave the thirteen strong group of being inside the cave for ten days now and while they're in relatively good health heavy rain is forecast and that could worsen the flooding situation inside the cave so heidi there is at the site in chiang rai. i know. at first glance the crowded in busy center for the rescue effort looks like it has for more than a week the good news that the boys were found by two british divers on monday night means only half of the job here is done. or. that second half of the job will be very difficult getting them all out safely but family members are

already thinking of what they'll do once they are out when he won't see joan heard the good news all she wanted to do was hug her nephew but oh my god i hope all of them come out safely no tenney my nephew everyone who's stuck in the cave divers and doctors are now going back and forth to the boys and the football coach who found refuge on a ledge when the cave flooded following to rancho rain the divers are checking on the house and taking them food and water they're said to be in good health with only slight injuries but there may sit in the group is four hundred meters further into the cave system than the so-called potty a beach section where rescuers originally thought they might be getting them out isn't expected to be easy reaching them requires a technically difficult and dangerous dive through narrow passages and low visibility and the trapped teenagers will have to be quickly trained to use scuba equipment so they can swim out a day after the boys and their coats were found all eyes are focused here and that's for two reasons this is where the dive teams are headquartered but also this

is most likely where the thirteen will exit the cave and be loaded into ambulances when they will see daylight for the first time is difficult to predict rescue teams are pumping water out of the cave and continue their search for another escape route. because of the difficult conditions for rescuers both in and outside the cave like the search operation the rescue is expected to be slow going scott harbor al jazeera chairing right well let's get the very latest now from wayne hay who's at the scene as well as way no way any clearer when the thirteen might be brought out. the short answer is no we're not what the authorities saying is that they would like this operation to begin as soon as possible that could mean immediately they say it could be in a week it could be in a month's time they simply don't know at the moment they're saying this is a changeable situation and while they say that they could start it immediately and they want them as soon as possible they are saying they will not stop the operation

to bring the thirteen out of the cave until they can guarantee everybody's safety everyone who will be ultimately involved in that operation and that means of course the divers the rescue personnel who be involved and also the scene themselves and they're also saying that they will not stop their operation until they can guarantee that the people they'll be bringing out the thirteen who have been in that cave for so long that's enough a strong enough to make that journey that will still be a very dangerous journey as it stands will still be some diving involved so as you heard from scott they will try to give them some basic scuba training but it's going to be a very dangerous a very long journey out so while they want it done quickly and as soon as possible they saying that they will not do it until they can guarantee everyone safety what you can see of the children through the the torchlight that they look pretty fit and then they do we know anything more about their well being how they actually are . it was slowly but surely we have been getting some updates from the

teams that are in there now with them being accompanied now around the clock by navy seals of particular there's a team of seven to ten navy seal divers in there with them including two medical staff a doctor among those two and they are of course assessing them constantly giving them any medical treatment that they may need and what the initial reports suggest is that they are in remarkably good health the rossum mine that concerns around a couple of them but given the ordeal that they have been through given their isolation given the ordeal that they continue to go through the reports that they health is pretty good and they're also in fairly good spirits being given some some fairly basic food supplies as well to try to get that energy up so that rescue operation can begin but they can't give them anything too substantial because they really didn't eat anything for the best part of nine and a half day so they've been giving clean drinking water of course also some energy

gels again to try and get that energy up as quickly as possible so they can start to get them out of there emotionally we're expecting this spirits to be lifted in the next few hours we're told that trying to lay a communications cable into the cave into the very area where the thirteen hour a telephone cable essentially so they'll be able to talk with family members on the outside or away we'll leave it there for now reporting from. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has issued an apology after being arrested by anti corruption investigators they've been building a case against him over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state fund when he was in palm fronds louis has the details from quantum. this is where former prime minister najib razak will be spending the night at the headquarters of the anti corruption agency before he's expected to be charged in court on wednesday

and he corruption agents questioned not just in may in connection with ten million dollars allegedly deposited into his personal bank account from a state company known as s r c international which was part of the state investment fund one and. the seizure of designer handbags and millions of dollars in cash from properties linked to him and his family was part of a wider investigation into stealing from one m. d. the fund started by not jip soon after he became prime minister in two thousand and nine and his associates to have embezzled four and a half a billion dollars from one and. not just has repeatedly denied committing any crime describing the investigation as a witch hunt the scandal is seen as partly to blame for his party's defeat in the general election in may on seating a political alliance that has ruled malaysia since independence sixty one years ago news of not arrest has been greeted with delight by some five the latest few being

the population that had to finally hear me and we can find french youngs on the court up a corrupt government that uses bribes partizan when cronyism nobbut the leaders have finally been caught it is an achievement these leaders must be brought to justice and be charged for their wrongdoing. a small group of not just supporters turned up outside the anti corruption headquarters to protest his innocence and demand his release they believe not jobs assertions that the money in his bank account was a donation despite not tips arrest the investigation into one and continues his successor mahathir mohamad has said police have an almost perfect case against not and his allies anticorruption officers have questioned stepson. his alleged just spent some of the misappropriated one m.t.b. funds to produce a hollywood film more arrests could take place florence al jazeera.

well you want to know it's your life and on that coming up on the program an uphill battle the warning is that humanitarian help alone will not solve the crisis one group calls for a political solution. and it will come up with the final laws sixteen much gets underway in less than an hour as england face colombia. hello there the weather is generally quite quiet across many parts of the middle east at the moment quiet but very hot particularly in the western parts of i'm up baghdad about forty seven degrees before the east you can see a keen wind working down from the north that's picking up a little bit of haze at times it's not quite as hot here is it might be and then you can see some showers still over the northeastern parts of our stretching out into kazakstan and those showers are likely to stick around as we head through the

next few days before the south of of the arabian peninsula plenty of sunshine as you might expect but a little bit more cloud now some cloud over parts of saudi arabia and also a few bits and pieces over yemen as well probably not bringing us any wet weather but just hiding that very hot sunshine for us here in doha our temperatures are expected to get to around forty one forty two degrees over the next few days and here it will also be a bit more humid now as we head down to was the southern parts of africa you saw that area of cloud that made its way towards the east it didn't bring us rain though for many of us it brought us an awful lot of snow so plenty of wintery weather these pictures from cherry farm in serres showing just how much snow we saw there a good amount of snow szeged blanket of it looks like that for a lot of it the temperature in cape town back up to sixteen degrees sixty one in fahrenheit and plenty of sunshine.

and again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and israel are refusing to open their borders to thousands of refugees who fled

a government offensive in syria's darragh province the u.n. says as many as three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced from their homes because of all the fighting. rescues in thailand working out how to extract a young football team and their coach to a truck deep inside a cave the thirteen strong group was found alive on monday they've now been inside the cave for ten days. malaysia's former prime minister has been arrested by anti corruption agents. is expected to be charged on wednesday over his alleged involvement in present and money laundering of the country's multi-billion dollar investment fund. teachers in the united states are fighting for a better pay conditions and funding. this week to discuss a spending crisis many think is impacting the nation's children organizers are considering their next moves ahead of mid-term elections in november john hendren reports now from minneapolis.

the largest teachers' union in the united states is talking love and revolution a while i know i call it a trend hopefully it will continue become a revolution we've seen really two decades of cuts the public education and not for the betterment of our students. it began in west virginia arizona and colorado teacher protests across the united states seeking better pay conditions in funding for children's education. factor ah many u.s. public school teachers say they now cope with more than ever buying supplies out of their own pockets feeding undernourished children in defending kids from a growing spate of school shootings at places like parkland florida. it's hard for me to fathom. the tragic deaths. of students of our colleagues. to gun violence in school after school

after school the national education association says teachers have lost personal income to inflation and public income for their schools to the private charter schools favored by the trumpet ministration in many states teachers in america are fired up they feel like they've made progress in recent months and they want to make more progress in negotiations on the ballot but. the strategy for the teachers union is twofold there's the short term what we've seen in some states where they've done have worked. activism whether it's strikes or walkouts or slow downs that's a short term fix then there's a long term strategy a strategy is vote politicians need to realize that when we decide to vote you know we can basically put in any candidate that one want so if you're on our side and have our support and you can elect you know if you're not mean well we're coming after you in november two main targets president donald trump and his appointee

education secretary betsy to vos who have overseen major proposed cuts to the u.s. education budget we had to make choices around programs that were duplicative or spread than lay or show not to be effective the teachers first test will come in november when they vow to come out in force to grade members of congress in midterm elections. well let's me now live to join hundred he joins us from minneapolis and john said the teacher the pretty fired up with all this what's your sense of what's happening with this whole movement. when they get it looks like they are going to continue those kinds of actions that have been successful for them from one state to another across the u.s. they've been having protests walkouts strikes and they really feel like that it's been beneficial in some states they've gotten pay raises and other states say they've gotten increased budgets and those are the kinds of things they're looking for but that's not all they're looking for they're also looking to curb the growth

of charter schools those are private schools paid with public money that operate on a different set of rules and they want to end the cuts in education funding now being proposed by the trumpet ministration i had an interview with the head of the national education association who you saw in that story just this morning and i asked her what they were going to do now this is what she had to say. a lot of our own teachers a lot of educators have said we've spent so much time trying to convince politicians to do the right thing maybe we should be the politicians maybe we should run for public office maybe we should run for school board state legislature you know a con congressional seat and so n.e.a. has been training our members to do just that how to put together a campaign how to use volunteers how to raise money for your campaign we had over

one hundred. educators just at this last go round on the ballot in the primaries seventy percent of them are successful and they will be on the ballot in november there's a new ruling from the supremes called isn't joy no tell us about that and how it may or may not affect the teaches me. as rye that ruling it was devastating not just for teachers' unions but for unions written large in this case there were people who were not members of the union who nevertheless had to pay what they called a fair share and that was to pay the union something for negotiating on their behalf when it comes to salaries and that sort of thing this supreme court said no you cannot do that anymore now for some states like florida which are so-called right to work states that already and those laws in place there won't be any difference at all but overall the national education association says it will probably lose about eight percent of its dues in the first year fourteen percent in

his second year and that means they've got less money to give to the political candidates they like so they're going to have to be more targeted but you heard the n.e.a. president there say that one of the things are going to do is run teachers and they say they've had some success in the primaries here in the u.s. this is an administration they simply say they cannot work with the head of the ending i was telling me this morning said betsy to vos the u.s. education secretary her words is the worst secretary in history that they don't like to trumpet ministration because the drug administration is just pushed through a massive tax cut that largely benefits the wealthy and yet for the next year's budget they're looking at cutting nine billion dollars from the u.s. education fund so this is really a battle in which educators are going to have less money to operate as they say they are fired up and they're going to try to do morning right john thanks very much indeed that's a picture from minneapolis to one hundred forty. the international red cross says

will not humanitarian help alone will not sell not sold the refugee crisis the aid agency says political solutions are needed to help hundreds of thousands ridden joe who fled to bangladesh for meanwhile meanwhile the u.n. secretary general and turn your good terrorists has visited ringette camps and coaxes bazaar is cooled folk more international pressure it's a create conditions for the safety. return. five hundred million dollars to help bangladesh provide aid to the refugees. or the head of the u.n. refugee agency. says that money will help those in need but. they're very important package because it will allow us to go beyond this same urgency phase and look at education big need for the people here look at help look at the infrastructure also for the local community there tremendously active one million people in a small difficult land but meanwhile because this is going to take some time we

desperately need humanitarian funds to feed people to give them water. to reinforce the shelter in this monsoon season we have an appeal of about nine hundred million dollars issued in january. for these refugees twenty five percent funded.

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