north korean camps are bought hours after new u.s. sanctions came into force china russia and the e.u. have all criticized the rest in. a diplomatic dispute between saudi arabia and camels over human rights is escalating with the kingdom's national carrier counseling its flights between toronto malaysia's a former prime minister najib razak is to be charged with money laundering on wednesday a luxury yacht allegedly bought with money stolen from a state fund as arrived at the country after being impounded in egypt. as we've heard the us sanctions are expected to hit iran hard it's struggling economy has already resulted in a crackdown on refugees and migrant workers in the country three million afghans live in iran but many are losing jobs and facing deportation as the trial weakens a shot of bella's reports from hair outs in western afghanistan more than two hundred thousand have already been sent back. this is the human

cost of u.s. sanctions on iran these people are not iranian or american but afghan and sixteen and her family have lived in iran for twenty five years all her children were born there they were deported this week ending up in a un transit camp and we soon afghanistan. why was it that you know i was there on monday we left behind our house our furniture i locked the doors and now i am here they were beating us they were very cruel they kept saying get lost. in the past iranian officials have said they have been proud to host an estimated three million afghans but is iran's economic situation worsens afghans one of the most vulnerable communities in iran are some of the first to feel the pinch. more than two hundred thousand have been deported since the start of the year only a few thousand have received un support because. their economy kept getting worse and everyone was shouting and screaming we kept saying we're refugees here but they

kept saying if we cannot help iranians how can we help you another two hundred thousand afghans have returned home voluntarily after they couldn't find work in iran for decades afghans in the west of send their sons across the border to work and seen money harma with the collapse of the nuclear deal in the currency in freefall those jobs have dried up remittances had propped up households across western afghanistan small tiny asli a mess of drought has devastated the region's main industry agriculture not only have the afghan people been affected by drought but they now have less ability to rely on family members who are working abroad and sending home of their paycheck in which case you know the number of people who may be forced to migrate based on a lack of resources in their own homes could rise exponentially in very short order the un needs international funding to support the returning they have nearly half a million unemployed mostly young men returning to

a war zone the swiss and italians have donated the u.s. has not shallow ballasts out his era herat. human rights watch has accused the bangladesh government of using heavy handed tactics to stop a student led protests that are swept the country the protests began last week after two school children were killed in a row that student well the rights group is also demanding the release of reporters has been detained for covering the unrest among. what started as protests in high schools has now got university students on the move in the capital dhaka and beyond police have tried to stop the protests using take gas and rubber coated bullets observers say the government of prime minister sharon is concerned the protests could become larger and he's using tactics it's used before . i just got back from bangladesh and my impression is. this government is behaving in

a way that bangladeshi governments are very used to behaving in terms of this and they just see people shelling dissent even though they're young and what they're protesting in way beyond any kind of party political issue they haven't been able to show that anything of it in the usual way or responding to this which has been a lot before. it all began ten days ago after a speeding bus killed two teenagers in late july student demonstrators took to the streets calling for tougher law enforcement of bangladeshi road traffic the government says it's going to introduce the death penalty for some road traffic accidents. human rights groups have weighed in as the government crackdown has spread to arresting journalists show hill islam a photographer who was arrested sunday after appearing on al-jazeera and criticizing the government human rights watch wants an investigation into allegations he was beaten in jail after these pictures emerged of him in court and also saying ruling party workers attacked protesters. the government's deny the

allegations that its activists were involved but in the dashes government has been accused of arresting ferals and of opposition activists in recent years there's widespread anger about that on the road deaths on social media the government has responded by restricting internet access in one car which is a. rescue teams in indonesia have yet to make it to some parts of long island where the search goes on for survivors of sunday's earthquake one person was found alive on tuesday two days after the disaster but at least one hundred five people are known to have died to vassar reports from penang on long island. behind long books pristine beaches here's the station inman sticky village not many houses are still standing after sunday's earthquake two thousand people were made homeless in an instant two children died people ran for the hills and are spending the nights on higher ground

a few men came down to collect their belongings. but there has. come to help push it we have a little bit of food we're still waiting for help from the government and praying it will arrive so badly. with the mosque severely damaged prayers are held outdoors. the time being we're trying to calm everyone down by spending the night in the hills many are still in panic and traumatised it's better for us to stay there maybe one or two weeks until help arrives. more search and rescue workers reached the island two days after the earthquake struck or did the survivors with their bare hands trying to recover the bodies. under the rubble with his wife she was taken out alive. this woman was lucky to know what and fourteen hours after the quake struck she was rescued from the debris house most of

the rescue operation has been here at this mosque where initial reports said that tons of people were buried under the rubble so far two have been found alive but no most science of life has been detected and rescue workers say that a lack of heavy equipment is seriously hampering the chances of finding anyone alive. after two days of digging and searching rescue workers have stopped the operation. we really don't really need heavy equipment like excavators i don't know why they're not here that's not our responsibility we have brought all our own equipment and. finally an excavator arrives at the not a mosque where cries for help or hurt our city quake to two days relatives had tried to get rescue teams to look for people in the rubble but help may have come too late because no one has been found alive. al-jazeera them and none.

funerals have been held for two members of hamas and killed by israeli tank fire in the gaza strip they were members of the al qassam brigades the military wing of hamas israeli army said it was retaliating after its soldiers were fired upon u.n. and egypt are trying to mediate a longer term truce between israel and hamas to end a four month upsurge of violence along the israel gaza border. at least twenty three people most of them young girls have been rescued from an alleged prostitution ring in northern india they were found in a privately run shelter in utah pradesh state after one of the girls escaped and complained to police and to thomas reports now from new delhi. these are some of the girls rescued from police say was forced prostitution their home in northern india had been a charitable shelter for children without stable families but last year its owners lost their lives since the shelter should have closed it didn't instead say police

its owners kept girls captive renting them out for six. we conducted raids at three or four places in two hours in rescue nearly twenty four girls and we're still looking for fifteen more children. police found out about what was going on when one girl escaped she ran to a nearby police station and described how the woman running the home kept children captive she used to say that they would kill us she used to threaten us she took children to the office once and told us to hit the policeman our media it became. children being forced into prostitution is relatively common in india the government's national commission for the protection of child rights says care homes often hide it about a quarter of a million children live in one of seven thousand of them of which a fish are unregistered with little official oversight when such a balance is exposed the associated criminal cases are often poorly prosecuted first of all investigations are not done in the manner that reestablish the case in

the court because of the court most of the cases i'm not able to stand and then second thing in the time in the cases so we've missed on so starting. there is no proof it is everything gets lost by the time because really comes to a final level of. nationwide protests about women's safety a growing issue of children safety is increasingly wrapped up in those place here again to show that they are exposing and ending child sexual abuse but the truth in this case is that they got lucky one girl escaped advocates for children so the authorities need to be much more active in finding and then hopefully prosecuting those who exploit children one rescue does little to address a chronic nationwide problem after thomas al-jazeera. has signed an agreement and hostilities with the overall more liberation front the group which was fighting for independence for they are only a region had previously been declared

a terrorist movement by the government how many though has more now from neighboring djibouti. doug riemann signed in else what are today's a huge boost for prime minister a b a the or a more liberal from from was set up in one thousand seven to three to fight for the rights of the all more people and also sic independence for the region from the rest of the stupid the largely cut it out of talks against government is delusions in mainly the oral more region of ethiopia prime minister be himself. and hugging a rebel group from his own community fighting his government would have been a huge setback for the raft of reforms that he has initiated in the country but there are other reasons why the well i've signed this agreement in a smarter with the government in ethiopia and the hostilities with the state they were getting most of their support from the air tran government and now that the

air tran government has normalized relations with the if european government support was not forthcoming the ethiopian government removed all liberation front from the role of terrorist organizations a distinction they were labelled by the former government just last month. the top stories here on al-jazeera iran's foreign minister has held talks with his north korean counterpart with u.s. sanctions on a name that's come into effect wow magellan's a reef met a young hole in tehran was being seen as a defiant message for the u.s. president. trumpeted that the sanctions are the most biting ever and calls and has warned businesses not to work with iran our white house correspondent kimberly how can some of them are listening. well the governments are doing one thing business is doing something very different of the last couple of hours we have news that the

french automaker peugeot citroen and even dollar all saying they will not do business with a rod so certainly the u.s. continue to wield some clout given the fact that it holds the the u.s. dollar is the world's currency the question comes though when those very punishing sanctions we've been talking about in november against oil industry what impact that could have whether the u.s. will continue to hold sway the diplomatic dispute between saudi arabia and canada over human rights is escalating with the kingdom's national carrier canceling its flights between jeddah and on monday we and for all new business with canada and that's after canada cold for the release of activists detained in saudi arabia malaysia's anti corruption agency says former prime minister najib will be charged under the money laundering act when he appears in court on wooden stake and spent coincides with the impounding of a luxury long you also allegedly bought with money stolen from the state fund that

set up back in two thousand and nine known as one and is at the center of money laundering in at least six countries rescue teams in indonesia yet to reach parts of long island where the search is continuing for survivors of sunday's earthquake the destruction of roads and bridges is making it difficult for emergency crews to access some areas he said hundred five people were killed in the magnitude six point nine quake. funerals have been held for two members of hamas killed by israeli time far in the gaza strip they were part of the qassam brigades the military wing of hamas israeli army says the deaths were in self defense. you are fully up to date those are top stories inside stories next and we'll have a full news hour in about twenty five minutes time we'll see them.

it was a simple tweet about human rights that outrage saudi arabia the government has now suspended flights and ended trade ties with canada but is international criticism enough to improve human rights in the kingdom this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. saudi arabia considers canada's comments on human rights in the kingdom to be an interference in its affairs that requires what it calls a sharp response it has expelled the canadian ambassador and recall that's on way from ottawa its state owned airline has suspended direct flights to iran and the

government says it will end trade and investment ties it all began with a tweet from canada's foreign affairs ministry stating concerns over saudi arabia's arrest of rights activists and demanding their immediate release one of those activists mentioned in that tweet is somewhat of by the week a relative of canadian citizens by the way and fellow activists and sad the were arrested last month but who is the recipient of the two thousand and twelve international women of courage award who is known for challenging saudi arabia's male guardianship system she is the sister of blogger by the way and the former wife of a lawyer with who are both serving lengthy jail terms in saudi prisons the canadian foreign minister says her country will not back.