teligent should go back to school president. for two years this is a president who is mostly gone unchallenged rise cabinet by his party in congress but that seems to be changing now declining al-jazeera washington at least nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the us and some parts of the midwest and northeast and states the deep freeze as promised at minus thirty degrees celsius is the coldest new generation as it was john hendren has more now from willis in the state of michigan. in arctic freezing envelops the american midwest bringing dangerous cold in record low temperatures this is an event unlike any we've seen in a generation i think it's really important that we protect people the arctic air of the polar vortex is sweeping the region driving temperatures down to thirty below zero celsius which a god goes o'hare airport with wind chills in the suburbs making it feel like minus forty eight the predicted low of minus thirty three at o'hare on thursday would be

chicago's lowest temperature in recorded history the weather system stretches across a huge swath from the dakotas in the north that minus thirty degrees celsius to maine in the east and as far south as alabama to prevent freezing chicago sets the train tracks on fire schools post offices and businesses are closed even a few minutes exposure to temperatures this low can cause frostbite one local forecaster is warning if you shut your eyes for too long they can freeze closed it's that kind of cold. the frigid air that forms the polar vortex once spun around the stratosphere over the north pole but it's current now disrupted is pushing down into the u.s. the arctic blast leaves a mess of crash cars and broken pipes with days to go before the cleanup begins john hendren al-jazeera willis michigan for a time for a short break here and i'll just say about when we come back we know that the

investigation that accuses the united arab emirates of using spyware to hotly i phones and its rival foreign leaders. and we'll tell you why thousands of pitot indian soldiers accuse the pot minister of not keeping his promises on the stay with us. how i want to not just of america failing some rather wintry weather we've also got a fair bit of snow into parts of europe as well not so bad i would say was c.s. but the further west systems continue to roll their way in from the atlantic this next one will bring some a rather lively weather in across parts of the british isles west of there was a france and maybe even down to move there to spain and portugal over the next day or two say some very heavy snow across that western side of germany this is the

situation there botton. big dumping of snow coming through here that of that snow making its way out of southern parts of england and wales down across the low countries through eastern france and into that western side of jamey things quieten down as we go on through thursday pockets of snow over towards the east towards rumania ukraine western russia then the next system makes its way through for thursday there will be some snow in that you see some snow that just making its way across and it will turn to snow quite readily across into the well through thursday into friday clearing on as we go on into friday afternoon three cells is the top temperature in london but much colder than that in moscow temps to fall away here to around minus two degrees to be some snow across the alps this rain across italy . whether sponsored by cattle. whether online. for them. or if you join us on saturday

all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion based is a diana react talking about a legal front you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including the phone and some people are seeking it out everyone has a voice from the boss here twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation on mt is iraq. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader won why door says he's held secret meetings with members of the military and security forces he wants army chiefs to withdraw support the president

nicolas maduro. u.s. senators have launched a new bid to end support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition and yemen. resubmit the draft resolution that passed the senate last december but was blocked in the house of representatives. on these nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the us in some parts of the midwest in northeastern states the deep freeze has plans to minus thirty degrees celsius. the u.a.e. has used spying software to hack the i phones of rival foreign leaders diplomats and activists that's according to the reuters news agency was investigation found the u.a.e. use the tool known as karma to monitor hundreds of people in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen among the targets qatar's amir a senior turkish official and human rights activists who has been awarded the nobel peace prize. well two of the reuters journalists involved in the probe christopher being shechtman i've spoken to al jazeera they gave more details on how the hacking took place and the tools that allow the u.a.e.

to spy. what you finding was the existence of project raven which is a cyber mercenary unit in the united arab emirates that was largely staffed by former us intelligence operatives country hired these people over to a contractor to essentially run their own office of cyber program so this included surveillance of dissidents journalists rivals in the region and as we found out in our story it also eventually included the law americans karma was a was a cyber weapon that was used by project rave in to infiltrate and to hack into the i phones of opponents are enemies of the u.a.e. and what made it really unusual was that like with most of these types of exploits or hacking tools you know it will send somebody an e-mail or send somebody a text message and they have to kind of trick them into clicking on that link right and that's usually the trick here what was really unusual is that all you needed was the person's phone number or email address and it would automatically send

a text message to that person they'd have to click on that they need to interact with it all he would just automatically begin to infiltrate the person's i phone all they need to do is receive the message and then from there are they the tool could begin to just download all the person's photographs all of their e-mails all their location data. and you know all their i messages there is a great interesting to tar obviously because that is a kind of a regional rival of the u.a.e. specifically they went after a lot of members of the royal family including the emir of qatar himself they were able to hack into his i phone and or at least an i phone at least we know it to be an i phone that was used by him and the i phones of many of his family members and you know people associated with the royal court the taliban says it's not seeking a monopoly on power in a future administration in afghanistan the group says it's looking for ways to co-exist with others earlier this week the u.s.

envoy said there'd been agreements in principle towards a framework for peace with the taliban but that from what was drawn up without input from the afghan government was the town about the gods as illegitimate. but a report on u.s. operations in afghanistan shows that government's influence has declined controls around sixty three percent that's down almost two percent from previous quarter whereas the taliban has slightly increased its influence controlling nearly eleven percent well the report also reveals the u.s. dropped five times more munitions in afghanistan last year compared to twenty sixteen drug trafficking remains a widespread problem the report says senior afghan security forces are often in control of narcotics rings in northern and western regions last year more than seven hundred fifty thousand undocumented afghans returned from iraq and most of them are unskilled men under thirty and the report says they're vulnerable to being recruited into extremist groups on top of that afghanistan's experiencing

a major crisis due to a prolonged drought. car makers in the u.k. are blaming bragg's it for a slowdown in business foreign investment in the british car sector almost hard last year and production swords biggest drop in almost ten years it's emerged as britain's prime minister to resign may and opposition leader jeremy corbin held talks in an attempt to find common ground on a divorce deal that in baba reports. westminster one day closer to break sit down and whisper it signs of cross party efforts to find a way forward jeremy corbett leader of the opposition labor party finally held direct talks with prime minister to resume a he previously refused until she ruled out a no deal breaks it was very pleased that the house voted yesterday to take no deal off the table and the house of promise assurance that we were not back into the territory of threatening no deal as a way of getting support failed deal which is obviously got very limited support in

parliament the prime minister the parliament also voted to pass to reserve raise bricks that deal if she can negotiate changes to the so-called irish backstop the house did vote to reject no deal but that cannot be the end of the story the only way the rights of the general said. i think i think that's the first trying is actually that you can't just vote to reject no deal you have to vote for a deal was. well that prospect may be looming large or at least that's what the head of the european commission told the parliament in brussels from time to time i have. some hope that at twenty six other countries should be burned. at the last minute but this is not a game the e.u. chief negotiator was also resolute calling the withdrawal agreements the best and only means of avoiding a hard irish border that could threaten the historic good friday agreement.

the backstop is not being dogmatic it is a realistic solution throughout the negotiations under your control we sought solutions to the problems created by brics itself in particular but not only in ireland and while islands clearly worried about a new deal brics it dublin says some considerations trump economic interests we need a backstop or insurance mechanism based on legal certainty. and not just wishful thinking for now we're left with mixed messages from the politicians here and peace have said no to no deal without any clarity or consensus on how to stop it just a green light for it's a reason may to try once again to tweak that deal that she reached with brussels well she's now said she realizes it won't be a breeze that could well be an understatement. al-jazeera london. thousands of former soldiers marched in india's capital demanding money

a promise to them through a scheme called one rank one pension moranis a plan to call for equal benefits for todd office as well as more. demonstrators in new delhi former indian army officials gathered to express their mounting frustration ahead of elections in the coming months i mean men are very angry. because they're not fulfilling the promise with demi that are the sole you know whenever he makes a promise even if he has to sacrifice in the way he's ready to do that they don't thinking what will happen to his family what will happen to student and everyone i know. that unfulfilled promise is a scheme known as the one ring one pension the program was supposed to provide an equal amount of attention paid to defense personnel retiring in the same rank and with the same length of service regardless of their date of retirement over two

million x. servicemen and hundreds of thousands of war widows stand to be the immediate beneficiaries. we're not asking for drools really not asking for the. it is a little late which this should not have been a does photos d.z. is this gathering marks the beginning of nine days of planned protests near parliament to highlight what participants say is the worsening socio economic conditions under the government of prime minister narendra modi who came to power in two thousand and fourteen at the time when. the main promises he made was to implement the equal pension plan demonstrators say it still hasn't happened. maybe he had promised the man one rank one pension in his twenty's election rally if they supported him in the twenty fourteen elections men fulfilled their promise and supported and helped him become the pm but he has forgotten his promise to government officials say they've begun implementing the policy but these demonstrators say that's not the case now in the run up to this year's general

election many will continue to ask when or if this long standing demand of the indian armed forces and veterans will be met. as. two boats carrying migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of djibouti at least fifty two people are confirmed dead and many more are missing the boats were carrying about one hundred thirty people thousands from east africa often attempt to cross the red sea in the hope of finding work and gulf states. now the alternations is warning that refugees and migrants crossing the mediterranean are dying at an alarming rate new figures released by the un's refugee agency show six people died on average every day last year estimates more than two thousand two hundred people drowned or went missing while attempting the crossing the route was particularly fatal for boats leaving from libya where one person died at sea for every fourteen who arrived in europe despite a major drop in the number of refugees reaching europe one hundred thirty nine

thousand arrived in twenty eighteen the lowest number in five years which only actually is a spokesperson for the un refugee agency he says the number of migrant deaths in twenty one thousand is concerning. the number of people arriving on european shores by mediterranean routes is down substantially compared to previous years we're back now to levels that we were typically seeing throughout the two thousands but what is deeply concerning is that for the fifth year in a row more than two thousand people lost their lives and this is happening particularly on the central mediterranean where on the route from libya to europe a combination of smugglers and traffic is attempting ever more dangerous journeys figure of more than two thousand dead could in fact be quite far higher these are only the ones we know about and there remains a lack of n.g.o.s operating search and rescue operations because of restrictions

that have been imposed on them by states and we're seeing that deadly consequences of that now many of these people who are in need of humanitarian assistance many of these people are in need of international protection and this is having a deterrent effect on boats who may wish to conduct search and rescue operations one of the things you and a.c.r. was really concerned about is that if this situation continues we may have vessels particularly commercial ships waiver or even ignore distress signals for fear of being stranded at sea for days on end. about a dozen asylum seekers have been sent back to mexico by the u.s. as part of the trumpet ministrations new policy on illegal immigration refugees and migrants have traditionally been allowed to remain in america while their claims are processed through the course but the partial government shutdown creates a backlog of cases the u.s. is expected to send back up to twenty migrants

a day despite many of them not being from mexico. donald trump has become known for using language against opponents that no president has ever uttered at least publicly trump's accusing rival democrats of wanting to let murderers and drug dealers flood into the country and it's creating concern that he's permanently attending american politics and provoking violence ellen fisher reports. and the radical democrats president donald trump thinks nothing of attacking opponents using claims and nicknames to win political advantage as angry as presidents get congress and the bureaucracy and reporters and their news organizations other presidents have not tried to deal agenda minus them and so i think that's an important difference because he wants to degrade them as institutions in october last year a number of pipe bombs were sent to a points of president trump a florida man a trump supporter has been charged with sending thirteen devices one target says

the president isn't blameless in all of this his rhetoric too frequently i think fuels these feelings and sentiments that well or bleeding over into potentially acts of violence though trumps most recent target speaker of the house democrat nancy pelosi it's too bad with their she policy which is that it's radical democrats they've become a radical as part of they really have they've become a radicalized party. i actually think they've become a very dangerous party for this country but he's not the first president to speak frankly or attack opponents lyndon b. johnson frequently used profanity to push politicians to support him richard nixon despite his black people and jews in oval office recordings released after his death and how to truman called a political opponent the equivalent of hitler the difference no according to one political expert is modern media creates a stronger connection with the audience what makes it so extraordinary is not

really the language but the presentation of the language the fact that we see it in real time the fact that we are all able to hear about it through social media or the mainstream media that is really what's new there was a social media storm after a new democratic. congresswoman use trump like language to describe the president bully don't play and baby get out because we're going to go in there we're going to . the strong language on both sides highlights the polarization of american politics makes it harder to reach a middle ground it's perhaps reflective of where society is and with the presidential election season about to get underway the same post to where we're headed alan fischer al-jazeera washington. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com.

our top the quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader one quite door says he's held secret meetings with members of the security forces he wants for the chiefs to withdraw their support for president nicolas maduro the united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen struck ten who think training camps outside had data on wednesday as been more fighting around the port city of the past few days threatening a cease fire deal reached last month and the us republican and democratic senators have launched a new bid to end washington support for the sat in that coalition in yemen. when yemenis see made in usa on the bombs that are killing them it tells them that the united states of america is responsible for this war this is not a message the united states should be sending to the world the united states should

not be supporting a catastrophic war led by a despotic saudi regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy. donald trump has lashed out at his own intelligence chiefs calling them naive and wrong over the threat posed by iran the us president suggested they go back to school in a sponsor to officials who contradicted his claims on key national security issues at least nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the us in some parts of the midwest in northeastern states the deep freeze has plunged to minus thirty degrees celsius. it's been revealed that the united arab emirates took advantage of spying software to hack the i phones of activists diplomats and rival foreign leaders reuters news agency investigation found the u.a.e. use the tool known as karma to monitor hundreds of people in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen among the targets qatar's emir a senior turkish official and human rights activists hackers stole photos emails

text messages location information and passwords. about a dozen asylum seekers have been sent back to mexico by the us refugees migrants have traditionally been allowed to remain in america while their claims are processed through the courts but the partial government shutdown created a backlog of cases well those were the headlines that is continues here not as era after the street statement after watching. it is a very important source of information for many people around the world. i'm still here go into areas. and bring that story to the forefront.

in the stream today why are so many u.s. college students. and advocates about what is being done to address the problem and of course we want to hear your thoughts. stream or leave your comments in our lives and you too could be in the stream. and. i was very. for many people college is the door to a better opportunity but that opportunity doesn't always come with a roof and four walls according to the u.s. department of education and twenty seventeen there were an estimated thirty two thousand homeless call the students in the united states so what is being done if anything to address the issue or here in our studio to discuss this day she's a recent graduate of the university of maryland eastern shore sarah gold for

a grab she's a professor of higher education policy at temple university and founder of the hopes and for college community and justice barbara duffield she is the executive director for schoolhouse connection a leading nonprofit working to eradicate student homelessness and joining via skype from chicago illinois cornell a student at the paul university welcome everyone to the stream is really good to have you i'm going to start on dom's instagram account i have checked ahead of time so i won't embarrass a i'm just going to scroll down here so we can have a look. smiley smiley beautiful locations very nice you would not know from your instagram account from your social platforms without looking a little bit closer than your student studying and you don't have a definite home to go home today. can you explain your deliberate mall for us. yeah i think a big part of that for me is understanding that the perception and i guess the

dominant narrative around hopelessness is is that homeless people are smart homeless people are or dirty or or not capable of achieving. or contributing to society and i really you know now i'm being more vocal about my experiences but i think for me there was always that underlying sense of shame and you know a little meanness it can be kind of lonely so i didn't want anyone to look at me different and i want to show people by what i'm capable of achieving in the content of my character then i'm more than just my experiences and more than just a homeless person and i'm so much more than that. was there at a time when you had to just come out and say i don't have any way to stay tonight and you were studying. absolutely. i've

dealt with homelessness my entire life. losing my parents at a young age my mother to addiction my father to incarceration you know i say that i was totally orphaned by the war on drugs which is the story of many folks around the world is the same story of black and brown it in the south side of chicago it's. we're going to reconnect with dom he's frozen literally because he's in chicago illinois and it's very cold out. get back to you in just a moment exactly but picking up on that story i wanted to share this one from race a former member of the stream team and she writes in a close friend of mine lived in her car for some time in college she did great in school she was super outgoing and involved and so it was hard to notice that she was struggling she later told us after she found a place to live but they had the idea that someone could be struggling and still

have a full social life on college and no one else know that they're struggling how does that. basically to have me. have a prize the only thing that i had to look towards too and only then i can have my name is my degree i earned it. only that only a close member of friends knew about it in a dry to help me the best way it's possible try picking up jobs and everything but when i got home. and went straight to promise place and they held a spot for me every time so i didn't really house hop from place to place but it was resign and showed her in to graduate promised please tell us about that promise place is a new shelter and capitol heights maryland so basically it houses about ten boys and ten girls ages fourteen to twenty five. so. help.

in. trying to get you on the right track but you have to work hard to get where you need to go home so this take you down. so how do you even know that a student who's going to classes turning up for school is actually struck me with some way to live you know the only way that you know is ask them i mean that's the truth and i think the reason that most people don't know about this problem is they're not asking the questions we ask students how they spend their time working and we ask if they're studying but we don't check on them to make sure they have a roof over their heads and you'd be surprised how many times a student who looks is kind of fronting like they have it together did you see did see dome's instagram see how they live in his best life on instagram he absolutely is and he's doing it as he said because there are consequences to him not doing that he will be perceived as not a serious student if he does not present that front but behind the scenes the struggle that's going on is undermining their academic performance over. yeah i was

thinking you know t.j. what you said about keeping your eye on the prize i think a lot of people think that because a student a person is homeless education will be less important but in fact the truth is it makes it more important because it's the way out. i'm so glad that you're back with us your skype froze for a minute but i wanted to give you this tweet we got from nestle hahn who says this is not surprising when we hear about public housing places with no hot water or heating especially in the u.s. eighty thousand people in chicago are sleeping on the streets this winter let's examine the causes behind homelessness in the u.s. students aren't any different from the rest and so just to give our audience an idea of what people in chicago are facing right now i wanted to show this headline from the chicago tribune dangerous deep freeze a weather alert a running list of everything that's closed in the city of chicago which is facing record breaking low temperatures. and talk to us about what it's like to be a student without a dedicated place to go in

a place like that yeah it is in a place that is so cold place that when i say cool but don't just mean temperature . chicago where there are always people around every corner and i think we're so desensitized to that fact that we sort of just how bond over them and you know go on to our jobs but they're just like us and the reality is that a majority of americans can't afford a five hundred dollar emergency so we're all close to two to homelessness and for me personally having slept in shelters and colors and parks my whole life. it's chilly there pun intended but it's. you know it's. sometimes you just have to do things to survive and you have to keep going you have

to keep getting that degree because you know it's your only way out. and not everyone has the opportunity to go to school so we need to make education a right for all regardless of income they see how you juggling getting your education and then also just making sure that you know you'll surviving because if you don't have a regular place to stay or so there's food issues as well just getting the next meal but when i come back home on the washington d.c. have a job waiting is that was that since high school basically when i come home from school one day held my position so a little bit of change to get food in the necessities need it. so my situation is kind of different kind of head a little tiny bit of the money yeah so this is really important because the fact that you were able to have a job provided some help i think

a lot of people assume that homeless college students are homeless because they're not working and our evidence collected over years and years shows they are they are getting financial aid and they are working but the fact is that financial aid pays far less than it used to work pays far less than it used to and so it's possible to be using all these forms of support and still not making ends meet i want to pick up on the idea of food because some college students are facing so much and food insecurity is a part of that so i want to show you this this is from the chronicle of higher education and this is frankie frank he is a student and he also represents two year and technical college students in minnesota and he talked to the stream about the issue he sees as the problem. money was for you to zero in the reason that we are facing home in food insecurity on our campus is because of the high cost of tuition often soon have to make

a choice whether they're going to classical greek where they're going to work to pay off their student loans and the students who are discuss should come with in the classroom and right now are students are being graded on how well they can and homelessness food insecurity in being do basic needs so there he talks about of course the high cost of tuition and barbara how do you go about addressing a vat because that doesn't seem like it's changing anytime soon and there are there are macro issues and there are micro issues and one of the biggest challenges that we see is yes or the higher cost the financial aid doesn't pay for all of the costs the cost of attendance etc but also for students who are experiencing homelessness particularly under aged twenty four. but just getting financial aid is a challenge so we see over and over and over again calls from youth who can't document their homelessness who are being told to go stay in a shelter if one exists to find evidence of a primal death certificate or some other.