leader kim jong un two potential development science has led to speculation the tough to so many false starts this whole border area north and south is about to take off but last broad al-jazeera. the trump administration has reversed an obama era policy that promoted diversity in universities known as affirmative action the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions revoked twenty four guidance documents many involving race in schools it comes as harvard university faces a discrimination lawsuit alleging it limits admissions for asian americans the federal guidance that had been issued during the obama era was an important tool for colleges and universities that were trying to do the right thing and were trying to revise modify and institute admissions policies that. were mindful of the supreme court's ruling in fisher and at the end of the day

helped to achieve diversity on their campus it sends the message that the federal government doesn't believe in racial diversity and we run the risk that we may see school officials going back to the drawing board revising their policies and changing their approach in ways that can be really harmful to us is a country where the unions in the us are expecting their income to go down drastically as a result of a u.s. supreme court decision it's ruled that public sector unions can no longer collect fees from workers who choose not to join but the country's largest teachers' union says this won't stop them from political advocacy john hendren reports from minneapolis. the largest teachers' union in the united states says it has a secret weapon in its campaign to boost school funding 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. unhappy with

political leaders on capitol hill and in state houses across the u.s. national education association president lilly is skills and garcia says the union is turning teachers into legislators we had over one hundred. educators just at this last go around on the ballot in the primaries seventy percent of them are successful and they will be on the ballot in november the move was planned ahead of a u.s. supreme court decision last week that found public unions like the n.e.a. can no longer charge fees to nonunion members who are covered by union agreements the n.e.a. says that ruling is likely to cut its income from dues by fourteen percent over the next two years it has silenced my voice and has really. taken away my ability to have some collective power on behalf of my students and my colleagues in my profession unions are the last line of defense that's what this was about the

move was praised by republicans including president donald trump who called it a big loss for the coffers of the democrats supreme court who said that they were asians can make unlimited political contributions but the court has limited the sources of union contributions nevertheless these teachers seem enthusiastic determined to make a difference. the high court ruling will not affect states like florida with so-called right to work laws that already bar nonunion workers from paying dues but it does affect public union workers and twenty two other states that don't it is going to make us be more strategic and how in what races we can go after a waste. races we can't the union's president says republican backers will not stop them from moving ahead what they've used the supreme court decision to do is to encourage members to drop your membership knowing that if enough members drop their

membership that our union to secure that is not. union teachers say that even with less money they plan to forge ahead with more protests that began in west virginia this year and spread across the u.s. winning teachers' pay raises in budget increases john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis minnesota. mexico's president elect has met the current president and they to keep him in the outer to discuss the transition to office in december and there is money well lopez obrador won around half of the vote in sunday's election he says he'll hold a referendum in three years hof way through his presidency to let focuses decide if he should stay in power to home and has more from mexico city. this was really a symbol of a sea change in mix kampala ticks at the current mess can president riek opinion yet from the governing pre party meeting president elect lopez obrador now the pre party has really been seen as

a central column of mexican governance for almost one hundred years now president elect lopez obrador a leftist populist party is only four years old it's really been formed around him it's called morena. past and its future at least for the next six years coming into contact what did they talk about one of the issues was not the free trade alliance that links mexico the united states and canada it's being renegotiated at the moment on the insistence of president trump of the united states lopez obrador has indicated that he wants me to stay in that part but only if it's for the benefit of the country also. so on the ocean was a new pool for the capital of the country that's costing thirteen billion dollars it's currently under construction and lopez obrador had indicated previously that he would scrap that plan so some things to be resolved at the new president elect

was careful in a press conference that he gave a loan off to the meeting to try and reassure the markets a lot of the markets and business leaders as well in the country are worried about this leader coming to coming into power he said they would respect the autonomy of the central bank so he has a lot of other problems that he has to deal with record levels of violence in the country fifty three million mexicans under the poverty line and also widespread corruption he now has a five month transition period to start coming up with solutions to those problems before he's sworn in. so i had on al jazeera the fallout from. all of the world cup qualifier in the philippines house coming up later in sports.

ok back now at least nine people have died in dozens are injured after a bus and truck collided in kenya the incident happened in the town of a mile northeast of nairobi after the collision of firing gulf both vehicles the u.n. seeking access to yemeni prisons run by the united arab emirates where it says the number of prisoners have been tortured and sexually abused by soldiers witnesses provided the associated press news agency with drawings smuggled out of the prisons last month they describe the threats and beatings brought him out of years a yemen based analyst in new york he says there's plenty of evidence around of

torture being systematically used in amorality run prisons in yemen. the torture by the us united arab emirates forces in yemen and their kidnapping of detainees and sexual abuse has been well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there were there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not only that i think there is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government there is a moral legal and ethical obligation application that the yemeni government should

and the bresson's of the united arab emirates and yemen given the this kind of crime a lot of violations are committed by these forces in yemen so it is time to end their bread and yemen some yemenis fleeing the war are starting new lives in ethiopia officially fifteen hundred have moved there the number could be as high as four thousand one hundred out of some of them in the capital addis ababa. this is sort of bucks to to participate is a popular meeting point for human lives yes well some have been here from the onset of the three years ago just arrived. eighteen year old abdul hamid arrived just six days ago he told me about the long and difficult escape from the yemeni city. and then. he would see. that there are. i first came to aid in the travel by boat to djibouti before boarding

a vehicle for the ethiopian border officials at the border who are respectful they feel government has an open door policy for yemeni refugees like refugees of other nationalities here they've been allowed to the. us but access to jobs remains a challenge for them as this country of one hundred million people has a huge unemployment problem. but is chairman of the yemeni refugee community and if you're here. and. we thank the ethiopian people in government for the way they welcomed us we live here like it's our own country this is because of the huge performance dating back thousands of years between ethiopia and yemen once they cross the border into ethiopia yemeni refugees pass through security and nationality screening procedures before they are just without that they can get assistance from the un refugee agency. delays over settlement programs to a third country to their hardship plan and send their prices about seventy dollars

a month per person it's not enough to live on that rent and the cost of living high yet many here have little hope of a quick return. and into the conflict is a long way of our country is the setting of a proxy war between regional and international powers. but few places in yemen are these safe a so for the refugees this is home for. a does of a play theo.

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one of the biggest problems facing our oceans is the loss of seagrass that i was watching real for roughly fifteen percent of the ocean's total carbon storage perhaps or they hope to wife as much carbon dioxide as rain forest and they're also question marine habitats for many endangered ocean species. but here on elkhorn slew in central california the tide could be turning for seagrass thanks to some unexpected allies. during a free air. this

nine hundred hectare as she wary is where rivers throughout this region meet the pacific ocean this is the agricultural powerhouse of the united states and fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers. so close to the ocean on one what impact does that have on the water quality well i mean were you coastal environments close to urban centers coast or were as close cultural centers. like. it grows with the rocks there mentioning starts the composer over half of the world's sea grass meadows are in decline but here in al corn slew they're making a surprising comeback. oh wow.

at one time there were thousands of sea otters in california but in the eighteen hundreds they were hunted to near extinction for their soft fur pelts. there are now more than one hundred in this as consuming a staggering one hundred thousand crabs per year. this federation's appetite has helped restore the balance of this ecosystem by triggering a chain reaction known as a trophic cascade. sea otters the crabs lower crop numbers allows smaller invertebrates like sea slugs to thrive and these creatures are crucial for the health of seagrass eating build up on the leaves they allow sunlight to reach the plants. because the otters are so crucial to the ecosystem scientists are carefully monitoring their slow and steady come back. they capture them and tag them with radio devices. firing their

work really well. it's a crime was probably very close. what's the purpose of proper we go out seven days a week is to go out and find individuals see where they are what they're doing. the other part of it is this just so we can understand the distribution of otters in this area what are they eating and how are they doing health wise there's one right there that's three four nine six so that beeping is an arm that beeping is from the radio transmitter that's we surgically implanted in her and that helps a smoker. why don't you take a look at that you're out in there. and. along the west coast of north america researchers have noticed that the return of top level predators is having an impact on restoring all kinds of underwater life

and the entire ocean system. what the sea otters do it's kind of it turns the tables against. groupings of facts of sea otters eating crabs and sensually the seen grass an advantage again so if we introduce top predators like sea otters to ecosystems around the world will it have a knock on effect it's actually in the prediction is yes so if you re store food webs which means a lot of times bringing back a top predator to a system that we wiped out we have the great potential for restoring the health of that system.

the colonel. was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack

around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say. the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government the fail. so this did since we deserve to have the whole we deserve to have no one that is different of our freedom and we deserve to have a college. we want to do for dual system and. he's not going to get them like that cute little boy oh no the guy jumps on the truck. full of the police the one today eighteen on just zero.

russia and jordan hold talks in moscow over the conflict in syria and the fate of thousands of people displaced by the war. a lot as i'm speaking this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. rescue crews are taking no chances and it could be days maybe months before the boys found trapped in a flooded cave in thailand will be brought to the surface. malaysia's former prime minister appears in court and denies he stole millions of dollars in public money magic resurrect faces up to eighteen years in prison if convicted of corruption charges plus senior judges forced out of their posts on the supreme court in poland show up regardless.

of the russian and jordanian foreign ministers have been meeting in moscow to discuss the situation in their hour so a lover of and ayman serfaty both admitted there is cause for serious concern the jordanian minister says a ceasefire is needed as soon as possible to avoid what he calls a humanitarian catastrophe an offensive by the russian backed syrian military to retake areas of the province that's forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes in recent days let's cross live now to bernard smith at the job at a crossing on the jordan syria border so bernard what is the latest there on the status of refugees. well the u.n. has said today the u.n. coordinator jordan he said there's about two hundred seventy thousand people displaced in syria in the south southwestern part of syria because of the

bombardment since june eighth seen in those two hundred seventy thousand. and people make that the quickest largest displacement of people in this part of syria since the start of the conflict it's happened so quickly that it's been very very difficult to get the amount of aid in that these people need the u.n. says it is getting some and it's getting water it's getting food and tents and some medical supplies in but the volume of people that is coming and the fear that that could be many more is what is really concerning the relief agencies from this border where i am we've seen some locally donated a go through but that really is just sort of. blankets and pillows and water donated by people living in the area clearly there's a greater provision of the challenge of being able to provide it had it's wired to order. so involved in these talks with russia to try and get some sort of long term

cease fire agreement to stop the flow of refugees to it's cool. bar i burn a smith a lifeless on the jordan syrian border. let's get the view now from israel from the israel syria border just rafa is in the israeli occupied golan heights so charles just bring us up to date on what's been happening there. what you can see behind me on the horizon there is one of a number of makeshift camps that have a arrived that have appeared in this area since that offensive started a couple of weeks ago some of the respondents said estimated two hundred seventy thousand people that are fleeing that offensive we understand that the conditions are bad in those camps not enough water not enough food and clothing and as i say their makeshift camps so there's not enough tents and protection against the elements for the many people living in them so in terms of israel they have a serious crisis on their hands here this is the first time that these that there

has been this influx of people into this area israel the israeli government has said that it will continue assistance with humanitarian aid where necessary but it has refused to open its borders to these refugees of chief concern i think for israel at the moment is a security threat was interesting in may we saw all those israeli air strikes against iranian military positions in cite syria that is the chief concern here full the israeli government because we know that there are iranian full says obviously working with this syrian allies in their up. had that up to to supply in this offensive certainly the smalling we heard loud booms we presume that they were as strikes coming from that direction the jordanian border is only about twenty kilometers in that direction. could nature is also very close. so we have a serious concern here on the israeli government they of course have been treating

occasionally civilians throughout this conflict that have come to them for medical assistance we understand around sri thousand since this war started and as i say there has been a little bit of humanitarian aid that israel has supplied and is trying to coordinate to try and get across this very sensitive border that was occupied by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven but you can imagine a real logistical challenge fooldom and the longer they spiting goes on i think it's fairly safe to say that we can expect to be more people to see more people arriving in these camps in the in the weeks the ahead. the occupied golan heights. new video has been released showing a junior high football team in good health despite the eleven day ordeal below ground food and medical supplies of twelve boys and their coach but a scot hiding reports now from chiang rai just how and when the group will get out

is not clear new video of the stranded thirteen shows a tiny baby seal emblem drawn on the cave ledge where the teenagers sought safety eleven days ago the words say thirteen lives referring to the name of their youth football club meaning wild boar personnel from the navy seals are staying with the boys at all times reported to be in good health after treatment for minor injuries rescuers are under intense pressure to get the twelve boys and their coach out quickly there has been a pause in the monsoon season rain but it's expected to start falling again in the next few days keeping water levels in the cave system down is critical for the rescue one option is to train them on the basics of scuba diving. something one diving expert at the cave thinks will work if they use a full face mask. and it won't take long it is basically just a cave fix a saw as you do it them sit. on the sand you put the mosque on they get a feel for it they get an understanding. use

a through water column so they understand that they have a communication they can talk to the diver who guides and if there is any problem they can calm him down the governor of chiang rai province says that the trapped thirteen might not all come out at the same time they were evaluate each one and bring them out only when they're ready the u.s. is one of at least six countries assisting the rescue will getting them out is the goal providing food and supplies is critical the assistance portion and the resupply and able to provide supplies the shoulder and you know it's very very relevant to the operations that are being conducted and how we're able to support our thai partners in anticipation of that moment everyone at the cave entrance is waiting for rehearsals are being held and when it's not a thai soldier playing a role it's a member of the teenagers move paul football club it's got harder al-jazeera chiang rai a malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges over the disappearance of billions of dollars from

a state fund while he was in office and he was facing three counts of criminal breach of trust and one of using his position for personal gain he was arrested on tuesday and was earlier granted bail he denies the charges saying the case against him is politically motivated. louis has some call in the. form of prime minister has been charged with corruption and three counts of criminal breach of trust involving in total ten million dollars alleged to have been deposited into his personal bank account between december two thousand and fourteen and february two thousand and fifteen these monies allegedly came from a company known as s r c international a form a subsidiary of one m d b the state investment fund that was set up by notch it off that he became prime minister in two thousand and nine and the sum of about ten million dollars is a small amount compared to the four and a half billion dollars that knowledge of and his associates alleged to have

embezzled from one m. d. this is an investigation but it's been several years in the making not just with first questioned by anti corruption officials several years ago when he was still prime minister and finance minister of this country but that investigation was blocked and corruption officials allege they were threatened and told to stop the investigation and the then attorney general had said he had found no evidence of wrongdoing but since a new government came into power following the general election in may this new government has made it its top priority to prosecute people involved in the white collar crimes involving one m. d. as well as recovering the stolen funds so far police have questioned other politicians as well as not tips wife. and his stepson reside. german chancellor angela merkel has urged parliament to get behind her new migration policy in her last address to m.p.'s before summer break but after a compromise deal with her main conservative allies the christian social union to

limit the number of asylum seekers arriving in germany merkel needs the backing of our coalition partners along with e.u. member states if the deal is to succeed. it is my firm conviction and the firm conviction of many others that the handling of this migration issue will decide whether europe will endure because it's such a moving issue it's important that we come to this agreement. alive to dominic a now so dominic first off what is the situation regarding migration right now. basically there is an element of confusion about what policy is going to be enforced implemented by the german government because we know as you were alluding to the house and that medical has agreed a sort of compromise deal with her main conservative allies the allies from bavaria

but she doesn't have that agreement yet with the main coalition partner that's the social democrats indeed the social democrat group leader in parliament today reiterated her opposition to the idea of transit centers on the borders of germany and austria which would be like detention centers where the people inside them would not be able to move around openly as in to leave them if they wanted to give you a sense of perspective there but for all the the relief on the conservative side of politics in germany that the two main conservative parties aren't going to split apart problem is that they have to get agreement from the center left partners and so far at least those people that party the social democrats are saying they have a lot of questions which need to be answered. and as far as the merkel has self how much pressure how much pressure is she under in all of this.

well the reality is that if there isn't agreement between the conservative side of the coalition and the center left side of a coalition of social democrats very unlikely that this this policy will never be implemented because well that with the government as it were divided it's unlikely that any proposal would get enough support to be implemented and what then that means is that this problem doesn't go away this idea that the varian conservative allies of merkel really want to have a border that they share with austria to have migration controls enforced much more rigorously i was there myself last week at one of the border crossings there are three main border crossings where highways motorways are used by people to come to and fro and the police there say that they reckon through history extrapolate from each place for a position of what's happened over the past six months perhaps four and a half thousand people illegal immigrants here that their words not mine have been

detected so that's the sort of numbers we're talking about here the numbers are not particularly high but the tension between the parties really is and tomorrow they'll be a meeting at which it is likely that this issue will be described discussed the.