well military policy. well still ahead on al-jazeera. why the british government is paying a one point three million dollars penalty to a group of people in cyprus plus why trump's battle over a border wall could allow immigrants to stay in the u.s. a lot longer. probably the weather's bad now across a good part of china people on the move of course for next week's chinese new year little bit of thick cloud into those central pos could produce a few spots of rain but not too much to speak of funny dry for shanghai temperatures here eight degrees celsius going into a sad state that's temp just pick up quite nicely sixteen cells is the high of that state twenty one in hong kong over the next couple of days ferrying quite nice to

twenty one is seventy in famine high father's rights too across a good part of south asia but something cloud continues to spill out of pakistan afghanistan far north of india wanted to shower some of them wintry on this system but these are in the process of fighting away as we go on into the weekend further south by the time we come to the weekend you might just catch wanted to shout just creeping towards the fos out of india and also into that he's to sod off flank of colombo at around thirty one degrees not so much in the way of cloud across see a robin but into over the next couple of days is fine and dry here in doha twenty seven celsius temp just fall back a touch for sas day perhaps but some pieces of cloud just starting to show they had a way you see that cloud too much as spot of right nothing much to watch out for sort of thing the much just make it caught it.

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sanctions it will allow e.u. companies to do business with iran using the european payment channel and therefore for us penalties. a little position leader though is expected to speak at a university in caracas schultz says he's had secret meetings with members of the military and security forces trying to convince them to withdraw their support of president nicolas maduro. the u.a.e. is use buying software to hack the i phones of rival foreign leaders and activists investigation by reuters news agency found the targets included cultures of mia and human rights activist. sudan's president omar al bashir has announced the reopening of the border with eritrea it's been closed for a year after khartoum accused the train government of supporting rebel groups in sudan both countries deployed troops to the eastern border town of solid during the dispute. the announcement comes at

a time of growing protests demanding president bashir steps down a little bit. on this day we salute our fellow brothers in eritrea the president government and the people from this spot in qatar i announce that our border with eritrea is now open eritreans are our fellow brothers and we are on the same boat it is true that politics can tear us apart we have more than politics that brings us together our historical relations territorial proximity and blood but. one hundred val has more from khartoum president obama bashir seems to be sending two messages one of them is to the region that he has been in egypt for the last few days and immediately after that visit we see him opening the border with it we are one of the countries that have sided with egypt saudi arabia the united arab emirates and behind in the blockade against qatar internally we see that this is a very important message for the people of on the border with eritrea last year in

june when the border was closed after reports that it and egypt were organizing military exercises their populations on both sides of the board to help tremendously suffered because their livelihood depended on exchange of commerce and also on movement between the two sides between the two countries now omar bashir has been touring in term of the regions in sudan after this wave of protests trying to send messages from the government that the government is trying to help people the government is going to ease the economy of the population and this decision today comes in that context as well. at least twenty nine children and babies have died in a refugee camp in northeastern syria over the past two months hypothermia is being blamed for most of the deaths of twenty three thousand people mostly women and children scaping the fighting in neighboring areas have arrived at whole camp since the end of november the world health organization says many families made the

journey on foot in freezing conditions. immigration courts in the u.s. are struggling to catch up after the longest government shutdown in history a backlog of more than eight hundred thousand cases means some asylum seekers fay won't be known for years rob ronald's has more from los angeles. early morning downtown l.a. the u.s. immigration court building a long line of people waiting to attend a hearing on their cases victor per as was one of them his hearing was canceled because of the government shutdown his case was scaled for generally twenty four hours because of the chant down the court didn't happen so now we have to wait that a new day would be scare you know right now we don't know if that would be within the next year two years three years a father of four progress has already been waiting for three years to see whether he can stay in the u.s. or if he will be deported to mexico and it's chaos now have to wait two three four

years more i think it's too much my children are suffering with an overburdened system it's common for cases to drag on for years judge ashley tab a door is president of the national association of immigration judges it's pretty much broken it's been broken for some time but it's become unacceptable at this point and we now have well over eight hundred thousand cases that are pending on our calendars for just about four hundred judges it's not unusual for judges to have four thousand or five thousand cases on their docket she says a fundamental problem is that immigration judges are not truly independent or part of the prosecutorial system of the u.s. justice department which is geared toward removing undocumented immigrants i am constantly being pushed to hear more cases faster and that conflict that tension has made it impossible for us to be able to do this job in the effective and

efficient manner to the contrary it has created these delays and created additional backlog and it has made it very very difficult for the charges to really do their job correctly without undue pressure it's ironic that president trumps shutdown which he started to force. congress to allocate money for a border wall has resulted in more undocumented migrants remaining in the u.s. longer immigration judges and attorneys say the only way to fix this broken system is a sweeping overhaul of the immigration courts and by allocating more money to hire hundreds more immigration judges robert oulds al jazeera los angeles prosecutors in brazil are frozen two hundred nineteen million dollars belonging to the country's largest iron ore mining company in response to a collapse of a dam in friday that killed nearly one hundred people in southeastern brazil the

dam was being used to hold the mining companies iron ore waste friends money will now be used to compensate the victims over two hundred fifty people are still missing at least nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the us some parts of the midwest the northeastern states the deep freeze is plunged to minus thirty degrees celsius that's the coldest in a generation i'm just here is john hundred has more now from willis michigan. in arctic freeze 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 it 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 its 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's michigan. and to explain exactly what a poll of all takes is his al-jazeera meteorologist kevin corriveau who. well we

talk about the polar vortex we first start here across parts of the north pole this is where it is all the time it does have these little lobes that rotate around the system and it's when one of these lobes actually becomes disconnected that's when we start to see a problem take a look at what we normally see when we talk about the polar vortex this is where those lobes got to get a little bit more elongated in the area so this is what has happened over the last couple of days one of those lobes actually became disconnected and started to move towards the south here across parts of canada as well as into united states temperatures over the last few days have been very very cold actually records have been broken across many of those areas but today we're still going to sing some very cold air across much of canada across the great lakes the midwest and into the northeast so if we were to pick minus twenty six the high here over torture kaga minus sixteen even new york is going to be a very cold day minus nine so over the next few days the wind chill is still going to be a problem the snow across the great lakes is still going to prom as well overnight

we're going to be seeing those temperatures dive down again but friday we're going to start to see a little bit more of a break with those temperatures beginning to come up over here trust parts of new winnipeg no longer see minus twenty five it's going to be about minus sixteen there and about minus twelve few but still wind chills are going to be very dangerous for many. samsung has announced its first quarterly drop in two years profits slumped in the last quarter of two thousand and eighteen that's one of the worst performances ever posted by the south korean tech giant the company blames growing competition from chinese smartphone makers and the cutting orders for its memory chips the oldest and one of the largest rebel armies in me and ma wants to unite with neighboring groups to fight the government the idea came as the current national liberation army marked seventy years and says fight for greater autonomy began but attempts to reach a peaceful solution have failed when they are votes from current state. throughout decades of civil war korean refugees have poured across the river from me and ma

seeking shelter in thailand this journey was in the other direction but still in the name of the fight. this is my first time and i am very happy to come and mark revolution day it's like the car in new year. i'm not sure what the future holds but we hope that we will get freedom and happiness. they came to the jungle headquarters in eastern myanmar of the qur'an national liberation army to mark seventy years since it took up arms against the government they call it revolution day but the revolution still hasn't been realised. the fight will go on because the government won't give us freedom easily so we have to fight for that. the mainly christian organization is one of many armed ethnic groups that are fighting for greater rights and self-determination a cease fire is in place but it's broken regularly. and peace talks have made little progress one of the main problems is that the armed if the groups say when the negotiating with me i'm

a civilian government they don't get anywhere because don not the ones who are really in control it's me and miles military that run the country for almost fifty years that still has ultimate power and they say when they do talk to the me and my military there's a lack of trust and. the korean leaders have now suspended involvement in the peace process choosing instead to hold informal talks on their own terms those involved say it's a temporary setback to does the nature of the peace process not only in our country some other gun free so does sometimes still mean sometimes the magnet. over the decades the fight in korean state has splintered but this was the first time in fifteen years that all korean groups came together to mark the anniversary they now hope to reunite and join forces in battle. i want to see all korean groups fighting together for the same victory target we're trying and we hope it will happen in the future. the me and military says the rebel groups must give up ideas

of separation from the state and surrender their weapons but these fighters say it's never really been about independence it's about having control over their distant and written into their mission statement surrender is out of the question wayne hay al jazeera korean state media. malaysia has crowned a new king a month after his freedom abruptly abdicated. becomes the sixteenth and the first to be installed after a resignation no reason was given for the application of silt on humber the fifth but it came after he reportedly married a twenty five year old former russian beauty queen in november greece's defense minister has called on the british government to apologize to the victims of the so-called sign for us emergency there was an armed campaign in the one nine hundred fifty s. to in colonial rule of the island of the u.k. is already agreed to pay compensation still refuses to accept liability david chase

there has this reports arriving from athens the defense minister of greece came to pay tribute to the sacrifice this week. after his tour of the prison we asked the minister if it was now time the british government apologized for what happened here but this is clearly the answer is not simple you understand. they have to they have to but so many years have passed since then this matter has almost been exhausted. but not for this man that's also was tortured for eighteen days he said the psychological abuse was the worst a british interrogator told him you die every day in here like a pig in your own blood and. they put a wet blanket on my face to make it difficult to breathe and place the bucket over

my head my hands were tied the british soldiers started hitting me and whipping my back and feet using turn terms on my knees they would do it in shifts. evangelise public car this was the last of the freedom fighters to fall to his death from this new sin the prison and also the youngest just nineteen years old his family stood outside the prison gates as he was executed the following year i felt so much pain also the whole family the first years so much anger rage it gets softer over the years but it has never gone away. the scene is just outside nicosia and these pictures underline the fact that with the recent flare up america activated security forces can take no chances. every bridge is a potential danger and a likely place for a bomb to have been planned patrols on the side for hidden arms or suspects may

themselves run into trouble they must always be on the lookout for a mine bomb on ambush the u.k.'s minister of state for europe's alan duncan said after the out of court settlement was announced we must not forget the past indeed we must learn from it but the most important thing is to look to the future the settlement does not constitute any admission of liability and is not a precedent in respect to any potential future claims against the government standing in the mountains far above nicosia the statue of one of the freedom fighters whose nom de guerre was the eagle of the cross he fought to the death against british soldiers who surrounded his hideout in this cave they poured petrol into it and burned him alive but the land his gaze is forever fixed on is now free. david chaytor al-jazeera the trudeau's mountains.

this is outages era and these io top stories now countries plan to launch a new payment system with iran which bypasses u.s. sanctions will allow e.u. companies to do business with tehran using a european payment channel and therefore avoid u.s. penalties but as well an opposition leader one way though is expected to speak at a university in caracas shortly says he's had secret meetings with members of the military and security forces trying to convince them to withdraw their support of president nicolas maduro the u.a.e. has used spying software to hack the i phones of rival foreign leaders diplomats and activists an investigation by reuters news agency found the targets included cutter's amir and human rights activist sudan's president omar al bashir has announced the reopening of the border with eritrea it's been closed for a year after khartoum accused the eritrean government of supporting rebel groups in

sudan. the announcement comes at a time of growing protests demanding president bashir step down or learn a bit of your heart on this day we salute our fellow brothers in eritrea the president government and the people from this spot in qatar i announce that our border with eritrea is now open eritreans are our fellow brothers and we are on the same boat it is true that politics can tear us apart we have lived in politics that brings us together our historical relations territorial proximity and blood but. at least twenty nine children and babies have died in a refugee camp in northeastern syria over the past two months a report by the world health organization says hypothermia is to blame for most of the deaths more than twenty three thousand people mostly women and children escaping fighting in neighboring areas have arrived with a whole camp in the past two months at least nine people have died in extreme cold

weather in the us some parts of the midwest in northeastern states the deep freeze is plunged to minus thirty degrees celsius. as the headlines the news continues here in understeer after the stream. the latest news as it breaks the difference is that the list goes. to stick in the roots with the this time both with truth is the. coverage has already said that he's ready to take over . from around the world. doing what they can. the point the government's decision to dismiss hundreds. and you're in the stream today why are so many u.s.

college students home. with students and advocates about what is being done to address the problem and of course we want to hear your thoughts tweet us stream or leave your comments in our lives and you too could be in the stream. and. i was very. i just didn't know what to do i don't hear anyone here. for many people college is the door to a better opportunity that opportunity doesn't always come with a roof and four walls according to the u.s. department of education twenty seventeen there were an estimated thirty two thousand homeless call these students in the united states so what is being done if anything to address the issue we're 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 and i sure 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 right on the right 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 youth 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. 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 in college and no one else know that they're struggling how does

that. basically you have me. in the press 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 to best way as possible try picking up jobs and everything but when i got home. 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 was resign and showed her and to graduate promised place tell us about the promise places a new shelter in capitol heights maryland so basically it houses about ten boys and ten girls ages fourteen to twenty five. so. school is 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 struggling 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 domes instagram see how they live in his press live 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 d.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 the us leon 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 running lists of everything that's closed in the city of chicago which is facing record breaking low temperatures. talk to us about what it's like to be a student without a dedicated place to go in

a place like that. in a place that is so cold and a place that and when i say cool they don't just mean temperature i live in the city of chicago where they're holding people around every corner and i think we're so desensitized to that fact that we sort of just hop on over them and you know go on to our jobs but they're just like us and the reality is that 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 cars and parks my whole life. it's. it's too chilly over there pun intended but it's it's you know it's scary and it's sad and 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 thank you how you judge going getting you 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 that's huge issues as well just getting the next meal . when i come back home on the washington d.c. have a job at waking is that what's that head since high school basically when i come home from school and they held my position so i have a little bit of change to get food in the necessities need it so some situations kind of different but i kind of head of a little tiny bit of stability with 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 are avid. since collected over years and years shows they are they are getting financial aid and they are working but the fact is that financial aid pace 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 frankie 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 is for you to zero in the reason that we are facing homelessness and food insecurity on our campus is because of the high cost of tuition often students 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 then the students hardest this 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 are 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 as us are the higher cost the financial aid doesn't pay for all of the cost 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 documentation of their homelessness in

order to get financial aid so that's one major challenges is just even to be able to get what you have what you are entitled to by your by virtue of your income if you are experiencing homelessness if you don't have a parent and you're under age twenty four that's a hurdle right there i guess what i'm finding really interesting is how many students and then colleges are working out we need to do something i want to show you something which is the brewing shelter and this is in california and you can see what some students and the state to get together and help their students who don't know have you don't have any way to have a look. i'm sure your pastor your. church in san marcos california we are the our college the room will ensure. we're going to ruin shelters because we became very aware of the dire need at u.c.l.a. we found that there were a number of students sleeping in odd places on earth is

a place where students like people who are just like me who are just trying to get an education to really do that safely that kind of living in fear for their own seat on top of having to school. so i'm just beginning to wonder if more and more colleagues are realizing how many of their students don't know where they can't sleep i think that there is a growing awareness of colleges and that's partly because there's been more data generated to help them understand it but i do want to point out that the brewing shelter was not created by u.c.l.a. bruins shelter was created by a student and the student activists and they did it with their own money i mean the student who created that did it by not using money his parents were giving him and putting it aside for other people these are charitable solutions the student generated in the powerful but they are not systemic solutions to the problem that we're facing right i mean we didn't see u.c.l.a. decide to create more affordable housing for their students we didn't see them increase in create

a new scholarship program to cover students housing right we didn't see changes at the state policy level to make it so there were incentives for developers to create affordable housing for low income students what we saw were students taking care of each other which is great but with the numbers that we're looking at it's a band-aid. so i wanted to share one story n. a few solutions that he tweeted us this is from jose rivera perez who says i came from puerto rico to pursue education at brooklyn college my first year i was homeless for a few months i had no place to live and i often had no money to eat one entire week i was outside living in the street until someone allowed me to stay in his apartment i was grateful because at least i was able to find a place to sleep for two years on the floor because this person had no space in his apartment and he goes on to say though as a recommendation for what should happen in future a way that colleges can start is by their staff being empathetic with individuals having hardship often i shared my experience with my professors and staff but

received no empathy for my circumstance there's been a can you talk to us about the struggle in the hurdle of making sure the people on campus hear you hear your struggle and then do something about it. so basically i reached out. my pride to kind of get to me it got to me maybe like the first year but then after a while while. i found out that can go to school for free to wish a waiver so i had to reach out to the school had mentors there help me get a waiver for the house so the money for the two. that back in now was hoping me get food and everything it what changed in that year what was it about the first year to the second year that you said i'm actually going to go reach out for help. does then i want to show going anymore i just wanted to try to help other people to know that there's more people and i know some people today

went to the same stuff but we all came together kind of. every day we needed for food if we needed laundry detergent if one of those. money for laundry we hope that they can i am going to show you a graduation picture right here the world is going to see it right now when you look at that picture right there you get. what do you say i was. through for years debt free he. didn't get. so proud of the hurdle but out. it was the we are remarkable i was actually pregnant with my daughter in a picture so the. really see. my capping are going to show everybody you can any day now happen to you determine

your feet at the expert help if you need it to help you survive dhamma going to go back to instagram account i love this picture here of you with. bernie sanders here u.s. senator and coupling that some time ago. playing that picture with a tweet way he's talking about why if we can put seven hundred billion a year into the military why can't we i the lowest student debt or make public colleges and universities and free if that actually happened would we not hear stories like yours and like deja nays and many other thousands of students who are struggling just to stay in school because they don't have some way to stay and they don't have enough food to eat that would that be a game changer. oh i asked absolutely and that was a huge reason why i supported bernie sanders and why now i support alexandra.

critelli and the shoes and plan to tax the wealthiest in our country to ensure that all people who want to have a higher education or to learn a trade have the right to do so and it's not just a privilege for a wealthy few i think kids essential that we not only some spending so much in the military but also you know abolish student debt i mean we bailed out the banks in two thousand and eight when they crashed our company with their greed and recklessness i think it's time for for students and young people to get a bailout so that they don't face a death sentence their entire lives. picking up on that i want to share this comment we just got on you tube someone writes in that it's not surprising that college students end up homeless because post-secondary programs price gouge them left and right it's difficult to maintain affordable housing in a living while then keeping up with that so one more experience there but barbara i

want to go to you with a solution potentially this is jose who i read a little bit earlier he says colleges can build partnerships with social service agencies government human services businesses and community based organizations to connect students with various forms of services financial help and good paying jobs you see that happening in places we definitely do we see some network starting you know there's a pipeline into college homelessness and that is high school homelessness many students experience homelessness and high school and there is a system indicate twelve system you've got a point person a liaison who's charged with connecting all the dots between communities that has not been yet translated fully to higher education so we do see states taking taking that idea of having a designated liaison or person at institutions of higher education and they they they then become the person to connect with community services to connect with housing connect connect with food and to connect with that pipeline to college homelessness which is everything that happened before. of you talking to travel

know from the daily show people can go online and see talks about food insecurity and students and student homelessness is this issue i know you and barbara. talking about it right now is that you've been talked about and people know that students are struggling it's growing i mean i can absolutely tell you that the number of people who are in the high powered positions of leadership is absolutely growing the number of programs is growing too you know i want to highlight that the chicago housing authority has a remarkable partnership with the city colleges of chicago where they understand that the best way to support people who are current. living in public housing or using vouchers the best way to support them to really make them economically secure is to help them get through college and they're doing things for example like when a student is living in public housing and they're in the city colleges of chicago and they've lost their financial aid maybe because of their grades or because it's time doubt they're stepping up to pay their tuition i think that's remarkable and

that's a game changer and we've seen programs like that coming out of los angeles and coming out of tacoma and so we are seeing some promising practices and i think we have a long way to go but you know to even see the faculty wake up i get e-mails every day from faculty who say we want to do better by students like these but we don't know how and you have to tell us where the resources are you have to help us get trained and some of them by the way say you know i'm an adjunct and i live in my car too and so we have a big problem here right this is not going to be a one off if these wonderful students are struggling and the people who teach them are also not making a living wage the truth is that public higher education as an entire system is being starved of the resources it needs i would also say to you that you know we it's not as though the chicago tacoma albany. you know you see at long beach lots of institutions are doing something so what we're trying to do is to collect

those best practices whether it's identifying students housing students community partnerships student parents and really collecting those best practices so that's one piece that we've tried to play is really so that institutions and communities don't have to reinvent the wheel they can see what others are doing that's right and we have an active conversation both barbarous organization and my organization and others lead an active conversation online that hash tag real college where those organizations and leaders at whatever talk about the stuff that they're doing because they're actually kind of invisible too and the students come in and they say here's what i need and another program says i can do that and some entrepreneur jumps in and says i'm willing to find a solution what we do. i don't have yet to be honest though are the folks with the big money the really wealthy foundations the really powerful senators who control the committees they're not yet paying attention but i promise you they will soon they're even big money and i'll go to you with this but you mention big money and so it really begs the question that

a lot of that big money is going in other directions but still on college campuses i want to give you an example of this art here you have our motivation sarah from my humble vantage from the causes of this are rising tuition amid the warfare and stagnant levels of financial aid to name a three a few and he goes on to explain what a minute he warfare is it refers to newer dorms that have gyms cetera that have raise the costs of campus housing beyond market rates only a good deal in a few major urban markets and bad when forced to be housed on campus and other so this idea of beautiful looks serious dorms that have the state of the art equipment they have gems those are the things that some people feel they deserve on college campuses and here in the u.s. college is often seen as a privilege and not a right so there are obstacles here that you're up against how do you tackle those . i think it and everyone's kind of been talking about this it's it's really

humanizing issues and having young people or people struggling in general talking about their experiences because the fact is this is a hidden crisis and colleges at the end of the day are a business and don't really want to highlight this because the fact is homeless students can't always pay their their tuition so i think it's understanding the root causes of homelessness it's understanding that when health care is not a right in this country and that mental illness you know attributes to homelessness so much when i think about here chicago the cook county jail is that the largest mental health facility one of the largest in the country that is just unconscionable when i think about you know the how the prison industrial complex and mass incarceration attributes to the homelessness my father was incarcerated and you know that just. led to me becoming homeless and alone and that's the case for so many people it's it's really understanding that the root causes and once we

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you want the news grid to live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live it out as you are dot com and what the u.s. president labeled but worst deal ever has been given a major boost by european powers this day britain france germany they have launched a new payment system to help companies trading with iran to bypass the u.s. sanctions in defiance of donald trump the scheme aims to energize the stalls twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal the one well with donald trump pulled out of last year well powers agreed to lift tough economic sanctions on iran in return for terror and promising not to develop a nuclear bomb donald trump wasn't happy with that took the u.s. out and then iran itself threatened to quit the deal when trapped re imposed sanctions and warned the e.u. against dodging those sanctions so that's the background in a moment we will look more at the financial plan and how the e.u. is insulating itself effectively from any problems and also reaction now from our correspondents in basra the integrand first massage about the impacts. well foreign

ministers meeting in bucharest are supposed to give more details as to exactly how this transaction transaction payment channel will work it will not use dollars it is designed to contour bypass those u.s. sanctions were imposed on iran now what we understand is that it will be called in stocks it will be based in paris overseen by a german banking manager and will have a board in the united kingdom it's a joint effort and it really is aimed at trying to keep this iran nuclear deal alive in the beginning it will be used only for things like medicines medical devices some humanitarian items and food but it may be expanded but what most analysts say is that it is in line on likely to be able to persuade a big multinational companies in europe such as france's total or germany's daimler to start trading with iran again because they simply will not want to risk

being penalized by u.s. sanctions when they really rely on the very lucrative u.s. dollar market but what this payment mechanism does do is it's europe sending a message of defiance if you like to the united states on the issue of the iran deal and also a clear message to iran that it wants to support this iran deal and is trying to do something about it and this is at a time even when relations between the european union and iran have deteriorated somewhat over the past months. the delays in setting up a financial bypass to u.s. sanctions on iran have been discouraging for both iranian leaders and the people of iran but within hours of the news from europe that this financial bypassed the special purpose vehicle had been launched the deputy foreign minister abbas iraq who is in europe at the moment said that this was a positive signal from europe that shows iran that it is willing to commit to its obligations under the twenty fifty nuclear deal to help iran realize the financial

benefit that it is greed to for in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program but in the same breath he said that the only time that this will become meaningful for iran is when we see in iran european companies using the bypass to carry out some sort of trade relation with iran as a country and with iranian companies and so until we see that iranian leaders will remain optimistic but skeptical they say and she also said that now iran is assigning experts to look at how exactly this mechanism will work to iron out the details and they're also they will also be setting up some sort of of official system at their end to be able to interact with this european mechanism but looking at the circumstances now with all the details that need to be ironed out it is most likely that iranians are months away from seeing any sort of real world transactions happening by use of this mechanism so that the mechanisms and talks

about it is called instax originally set up to help iran continue selling oil to europe but with few takers for iranian oil it will now help small medium sized companies to trade with iran bit of information on it it's a multinational scheme the system registered in france however it will be managed by a german banking expert money to run the scheme comes from france germany and britain which are the main backers of the plan all twenty eight european union states will be endorsing that plan in bucharest here's what the foreign affairs chief federal mockery may have to say. the nuclear deal with iran has also an economic component that derives from the lifting of the sanctions related to nuclear activities in kenya and other sanctions in place but that is a different story and so this that france germany and the u.k. i'm going to announce a few hours is establish a special this week on this i believe the mechanism that we know. for legitimately

to continue as for seen in the new thinking it's. very pleased to have they got to see with us now an economist at the vienna institute for international economic studies. so i'm just reading here on our news wires that donald trump or at least the u.s. state department i should say really on behalf of the administration is saying that they don't believe that this system will impact their ability to put the economic squeeze on iran. that may be the case but surely it will make things more difficult between the u.s. and the e.u. with the u.s. now finding a way to actually deal with iran. well actually to be frank it is partly true that these kind of mccann is m.b. and not completely help iran to have complete trade and kind of investment relationship with the e.u. but it will definitely soon as soon as it becomes

a parisian all it will help iran trading with the e.u. is specifically that observed in the past few months that iran had difficulties in importing primary products even food to stuff even life livestock feeds but after d.s. mccann is and will become operational iran will have access to funding its own imports of these commodity products or these humanitarian products which are food medicine pharmaceuticals or even pharmaceutical devices so that will somehow help iran so that it helps to reduce its inflation on these kinds of products that somehow erupted in the past few months but according. to experts it will signal a good sig it will send a good signal to iran because building trust is somehow time consuming it takes time so that the two nations european union and iran builds trust trust so iran for

now up to now has been abiding by the deal to say and there have been several reports from the eye that iran is avoiding by the deal so it took so much time for the european union to respond to that kind of trust so at least politically it's sends a good signal and economically it all it's so i guess what i'm trying to say is is the e.u. insulated here it's all working within the parameters of the deal it's not pushing any boundaries which could get into trouble it's all i mean i just i just wonder again with the u.s. putting the kind of pressure that it is putting on that this will all be gets above board is what ends. well the pressure is still there so us will put pressure on any companies on any multinational companies that want to deal to do wrong so i think for a very longer time the nationals will have difficulties in having any relationship be to run but small medium enterprises could have traded iran could even invest in

iran and that will send a signal to the iranian market at least so iranian market in the past few months maybe six months ago it was in panic it went into panic now they will see this as a new settlement for their own businesses in iran and they can also reach out for other countries for instance if e.u. is exporting its food stuffs to iran iran can act as a transit hub to other countries to neighboring countries like afghanistan so that could somehow develop some. economy incentives in iran so that iran does not quickly go to recession and it's old enough to preserve the deal as well the deal has been shaky obviously since the united states or donald trump decided to pull the united states out the fact that you say it's not really a deal for big businesses is it still mean it's enough to hold the principles of the j c p o in place. at least it sounds as as it does because.

iran was expecting the e.u. to to do something and now e.u. did something in return and at least e.u. i mean political or european union cannot incentivized a multinational business to do trade or wrong but actually in few months when it is operation on iran can also benefit from this mechanism from other third party countries like china even even though in the past few months chinese trade media iran has reduced to a two day relations we do with the united states but other countries can use this facility these these mechanism to have traded iran so it's not only about e.u. now and not any more so that to keep iran. if other countries also use this mechanism to help iran fostering its own economy then we could see that iran going to stay abiding by its part of the deal maybe maybe maybe in the near future to further negotiations on other parts that iran has and european union has maybe they

would be fair in negotiations that not only to quit d.j. supre but also to find other nick negotiations for find other agreements video up in union they could see joining us live from vienna thank you so much for your time do appreciate that you think you let's say in iran there are preparations to mark the fortieth anniversary there of the nine hundred seventy nine revolution that will be on friday the islamic republic of iran was created after i had khomeini returned from exile in the following weeks khomeini supporters toppled the shah of iran from holland same bus or r.v. with more on that by the time i took the ruble khomeini stepped off the plane into iran the persian king he had campaigned against for years from exile had left the country. the shah of iran was gone never to return and his government back home was about to collapse.