so ways are used by people to come to and fro and the police there say that they reckon through history 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 there will be a meeting at which it is likely that this issue will be described discussed the question will be whether they can thrash out a compromise between right and left inside this coalition dominic cain live for us there in. also ahead on al-jazeera when we come back the largest teachers' union in the u.s. says it will keep up the fight against a court ruling that hit its funding plus handover of power mexico's incoming president president his changes he prepares to take charge.

welcome back let's start by looking at weather conditions across northeastern parts of asia and we still have our tropical storm preppie room which is giving very heavy rain across this region we've seen huge amounts run being reported across south korea and the cross honshu in particular and further heavy rain is likely during the course of thursday by friday really much of japan still wet although. some drier weather by then so a better day in sapporo lottery draw across the korean peninsula should be dry in beijing for the south there would likely be seen some pretty heavy rain affecting shanghai and that line of rain extends along the river valley towards who and southwest words towards change to further towards the south one or two showers for hong kong very hot and humid for her noir once again but generally fine conditions

across much of vietnam and laos but for me in march likely will be further heavy showers coming in off the bay of bengal and that continues heading through friday heavy showers again not likely moving down southeastern parts of asia we've got scattered showers across the philippines some of those could be quite heavy it looks wet across much of borneo but for java and bali weather conditions no looking dry and fine thirty two degrees in jakarta and it should be largely fine in both singapore and kuala lumpur. the story of a friendship between a filmmaker and a seven year old girl would mean. giving who are made into a refugee family being the syrian war. in the face of deep rooted tension between the lebanese and the refugees. my syrian

friends last. an al-jazeera. and i again you're watching al-jazeera minder of our top stories this hour the russian and jordanian foreign ministers have been meeting in moscow to talk about the situation in their ass in southern syria say rather name and serfaty both say they this is a cause for serious concern area in their eyes part of a so-called deescalation zone which is supposed to prevent fighting in the three jordan and israel border meanwhile both countries are refusing to open their borders to help refugees fleeing southern syria the un now says as many as two

hundred seventy thousand been forced from their homes by the fighting to recapture . malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges that's over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state fund while he was in office legit was facing three counts of criminal breach of trust and one of using his position for personal gain. the un is looking for access to yemeni prisons run by the united arab emirates where it says a number of prisoners have been tortured and sexually abused by soldiers witnesses gave the associated press news agency drawings smuggled out of the prisons last month they show threats and beatings poland's prime minister has defended the judicial reforms in his country saying the government has the right to make the changes earlier the top supreme court judge turned up for work despite being forced

out of her post by the new retirement little chief justice and dozens of other senior judges were told to step down on tuesday the european union has launched legal action accusing the polish government of undermining judicial independence and speaking out to david chaytor whose life was in warsaw so things really coming to a head now david what expect what developments are we expecting today. well as you saw earlier the pictures showed several thousand demonstrators surrounding the supreme court early this morning when the twenty seven justices who retired early as from today picked up their posts again and went into the supreme court behind me and went into their offices so as far as they're concerned the chief justice and the rest of the judges who have been effectively retired early said that they were there to protect the constitutional law because that constitution

protects their jobs until at least twenty twenty all of them have a six year term and the retirement age being switched from seventy to sixty five has left them stranded but the government doesn't seem to be particularly worried about that they as far as they're concerned this all seems to be over i was speaking earlier to the vice justice minister he said look those justices can go into their offices they can sit there they can do what they want but they're going there as ordinary citizens they don't have the power of those offices any longer and of course the judges say that the law and justice party have launched a purge of the supreme court to make sure that it's filled with compliant judges who will bend to the will of the government and that is the situation of the moment more protests are expected here in warsaw some time later this afternoon and the solidarity leader elect for when who was so crucial in the downfall of the

communist regime here in poland in one thousand nine hundred nine is said that he might attend to support the cause of the protesters around the supreme court david chaytor life there in warsaw thanks very much. and the u.k. two people have been exposed to an unknown substance in a town close to where a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned police say a man and a woman are in critical condition after being found in amesbury thirteen kilometers from salzburg that's where the that's where surrogate and yulia script for were attacked with a nerve agent in march the latest case has been declared a major incident but there is not believed to be a wider risk as north korea improves relations with the u.s. an area of china their borders north korea is seeing a property boom future investors are hopeful of a complete lifting of sanctions on the north in the hopes that there was this will help the dandong region bride reports from there. carrying much of the trade that

keeps north korea going the friendship bridge is a good barometer of the state of relations with china and the bridge remains busy despite sanctions there is speculation china is now more relaxed about imposing them given the easing of tensions. and another indicator of business picking up north korean restaurants in dung dong which closed only a few months ago have reopened. i think people are optimistic that once the sanctions are dropped they want to be really well rooted in india and our michael spader is a business consultant who has just made dandong his base he's an intermediary helping people do business in north korea we've got a lot more interest from chambers of commerce from investment groups to look at the situation and to introduce people there's also a lot of interest on the north korean side we're receiving faxes and mails the

north koreans are looking for new business partners here as well so the mood is very optimistic right now right across from his apartment is a new luxury development despite its prime location when we visited it last year property sales weren't booming now most of the apartments have apparently been sold for twice as much as the original asking price property prices have gone up and down as the korean peninsula has veered between the prospects of war and peace and right now prices are surging so much so the local government has imposed restrictions to try to cool the markets. commercial property sales are also booming eighty percent of units have already been sold in this new development that could be home to traders from both sides of the border if sanctions are lifted from . is in the best position to become

a trade hub for north east asia instead of being isolated. while there's been extensive development on the chinese side of the river the north korean side remains largely undeveloped but a recent visit by north korean leader kim jong un to potential development sites has led to speculation the tough to so many false starts this whole border area north and south is about to take off at last robert bright al-jazeera. in the us the trumpet ministration has reversed and obama era policy the promoted diversity in universities known as affirmative action the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions of twenty four guidance documents many involving race in schools and i comes as harvard university is facing 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 institue 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. many unions in the u.s. are expecting their income to go down drastically as a result of the u.s. supreme court decision it ruled the public sector unions can no longer collect fees from workers who choose not to join but the country's largest teachers' union say 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 the 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 and 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 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 will disappear that is. 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 zero minneapolis minnesota. a mexico's president elect has met the current president enrique pena nieto to talk about his transition to office in december and this man lopez obrador want to round hof the vote in sunday's election he says he'll hold a referendum in three years half way through his presidency to let voters decide if he should stay in power john heilemann has more from mexico city. this was really

a symbol of a sea change in mix kampala tix at the current mexican president rica pena nieto 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 marina. cost and its future at least for the next six years coming into contact what did they talk about one of the issues was nothing 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 mexico to stay in that part but only if it's for the

benefit of the country also understood scotian was a new airport 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 there the new president elect was careful in a press conference that he gave alone after the meeting to try and reassure the markets a lot of the markets and business leaders as well in the country who are worried about this leftist leader coming to coming into power he said they would respect the autonomy of mexico's central bank so he has a lot of other problems that he also 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. on the pakistani city of lahore has seen its heaviest rain in

thirty eight years. six people have died including four who were buried under a building when it collapsed two others way electrocuted in rain related incidents heavy monsoon rain is expected to continue this month. and as always as always there is lots more on our website al-jazeera dot com get the latest on all the stories we're following al-jazeera. is going to look at the headlines now these are the top stories the jordanian foreign minister says dozens of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are waiting for the go ahead to pass into syria the russian and jordanian foreign ministers have been meeting in moscow to discuss the conflict in doubt he says a cease fire 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 has forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee

their homes in recent days a new videos been released showing a junior thai football team in good health despite their eleven day ordeal below ground food and medical supplies and reach the twelve boys in their coach phone lines are now being set up so they can talk to their parents it's not yet known how the group will be brought out and heavy rain is expected to hamper the cave rescue . malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges in connection with the disappearance of billions of dollars from a government investment fund i did denies three counts of criminal breach of trust and one of using his position for personal gain he'd been granted bail following his arrest on tuesday outside court he again accused his opponents of being politically motivated. opponents prime minister has defended judicial reforms saying his government has the right to make the changes the top supreme court judge

showed up for work despite being forced out of her post by the new retirement law chief justice and dozens of other senior judges were told to step down on tuesday the european union has launched legal action accusing the polish government of undermining judicial independence the polish prime minister explained his position to the european parliament. each e.u. state has the right to shape their legal system according to their own traditions of the pakistani city of lahore has seen its heaviest rain in thirty eight years six people have died including four who were buried under a building when it collapsed two others were let a q-tip in rain related deaths every month.