several human rights organizations and the un have criticized the demolition of pakistan as not. just a few moments ago the prayers here in what a whole most ended and the violence began it started when a group of palestinian protesters who'd also been holding prayers further up the hill started to make their way down carrying palestinian flags the group on this side of the fence which is the occupied east jerusalem side of the fence started to make their way towards the fence as well in order to try to meet the opposing group in the middle as the security forces came down in atlanta to stop the 3 protesters from throwing rocks and stones into the road a number of rocks began to increase we saw some tear gas being fired further up the hill the whole process of this the demolitions has been provocative since monday since the houses here in wa the homes were destroyed by the israeli military and there has been

a tremendous concern that what have up until now being peaceful protests against these demolitions is going to turn into a situation like this. the hot air that smashed temperature records in europe this week appears to be more moving towards greenland where it could cause record levels of melting greenland's ice sheet covers 80 percent of the island's territory and is the 2nd largest in the world but it's been losing ice at an accelerating pace since the turn of the century the ice loss in 2012 was 4 times the rate in 2003 and there are fears that this summer's heat could break that record the extent of the melt in june has been 4 times the average between 10812010 in this month alone greenland has already lost 160000000000 tons of ice through surface melting that is roughly $64000000.00

a lympics size swimming pools so why should we worry well the total volume of the ice sheet is 2900000 cubic kilometers if all of that eventually melts will raise global sea levels by 7 meters devastating most of the world's coastal cities were thought from is a climate scientist and glaciologist she says a clear link can be drawn between climate change and the increasing rates of ice melts in the arctic. we know that the arctic is warming so much more than the rest of the world we have processes called out to counter the patient so that climate change is felt much more strongly in the arctic than it is here even in europe right now and so when we get these big melting events happening they tend to be more extreme than they were in the past at the moment we're not where very close to our report melt year 2012 we're getting very close to matching that right now we won't really know till the end of this month or even mid august which one has been

the highest amount but that's what we're looking at right now it's probably fair to say that we will not know until we've passed it if it's irreversible or not. there have been a lot of studies looking at how much climate change we have and and still keep the ice sheet and it's important to remember that the ice sheet will still take hundreds if not thousands of years to melt completely doesn't go overnight. but there is a lot of work now indicating that one and a half or 2 degrees might be the temperature global temperature threshold beyond which we cannot keep greenland ice sheet frozen. or i still ahead so on the program a dire warning about the world's largest rain forest experts say brazil's amazon has been cleared so fast it may never recover. and thousands of south african gold miners who can try to potentially fatal lung diseases sour wanted $350000000.00 sitting compensation.

and over the weekend promises to bring some much cooler weather across central and western areas of europe and also as most u.k. skies across eastern sections it's out across the west the cloud has been heading in and bringing with it the rain but of course also bring. that much cold as hotel which is a lot lower in fact the london and in paris a little bit below the average for this time of year meanwhile a warm day despite the rain $26.00 degrees in iceland ridge $28.00 in about 10 degrees below what we have same for the last several days and those ahead into sunday what you will notice is temperatures across eastern areas actually beginning to warm up so walsall for example your high there of $34.00 degrees as about 9 degrees above the average for this time of year 30 celsius in kiev and that rain pushing at us is steadily further tools the east and in fact

a slight improvement on those temperatures on sunday in london and paris both as you can see up to 23 degrees and i'm afraid it will mean that with a high of 30 degrees celsius northern africa it is dry no sign of any rain here and if it touches again typical for this time of year but it's sunny a warm day suffering car with a high of 3631 in some breezes in robot with a high of 23 head on into sunday not a great deal of change 24 there and 34 in tunis. it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the ocean $21.00 geologists are secretly plotting you. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful

scientists speak out. oceans manakin jazzier. again undermined at the top stories on al-jazeera an increasing number of children are being killed syrian and russian warplanes bomb 33 children have died in the rebel help province this month alone that is more than all of 2080. libya's coast guard says it's recovered the bodies of dozens of refugees and migrants who died in what the u.n. has described as the worst mediterranean tragedy this year around $120.00 others

including women and children are missing and feared debt. and the horse hair that smashed temperature records in europe this week appears to be moving towards greenland where it could cause record levels of melting climate change has been linked to the increase in ice last which could cause sea levels to rise even further. more than 3 football fields a minute that is the race of deforestation that is now facing the brazilian armisen the world's largest rain forest is being destroyed at a pace from which it may never recover 1345 square kilometers of forest have been cleared so far this month mostly for farmland that is nearly the size of london a 3rd of all pristine rainforest in brazil has been cut down or burnt and that includes places where tribes of people have cared for the land for centuries scientists say the amazon could now become a savannah brazil's president has moved fast to dismantle environmental regulations

cutting budgets and giving more power to miners and the agricultural industry about all this could also affect brazil's biggest ever trade deal which is with the european union it's not yet been ratified and it commits both sides to slowing deforestation. mouat is a campaign coordinator for further knots in environmental and social justice organization she says some positive steps are being taken to protect the allison. this week on tuesday the e.u. publish an action plan which sees the e.u. for the 1st time opening the door to regulator measures that would set standards on the goods that the imports to ensure they're not associated with deforestation are 1st sacred asian. it wants this to be a partnership approach so the e.u. is not going to impose its standards on other countries but the e.u. does have a duty to respond to the increasing concern among you can see as about the impact that their consumption is having on forests on the people who depend on those

forests and with this communication with this action plan that it published this week it shows that the e.u. is for the 1st time willing to bring in new options that could be regulates or that would ensure that products that are being placed on the market from countries such as brazil would not be linked to human rights abuses. or different station at least 2 people have been killed by boko haram fighters in northeast nigeria the gunman attacks one of the region's biggest camps internally displaced people here my degree on thursday a shot at soldiers out a nearby military base and to the camp set fire to tense food supplies about 50000 people are living in the camp many dress has more from a paycheck. they're talking to a lorry. continuing efforts by regional military some charge nigeria and cameroon as they've stepped up their operations against boko haram especially the

book on a question affiliated with ice where all the state in west africa problems. such daring attacks becoming so rare over the past 6 months or so across the northeast of nigeria however boko haram has never completely disappeared they have continued their operations of abductions but abductions also have been the tool of trade of book or around for a very long time long before the trouble goes were taken from the school in 2000. and 14 goals were taken from several schools in borno state and in towns and cities across the state as well as neighboring states so virtually is still active in parts of north east nigeria despite the claims by the nigerian presidency that they have been defeated and we will expect to see more of such desperate attacks by a book or arm in the coming months or so as the military stepped up its operations against it one thing that came out of the attack on down already come on 1st and i

heard was that they raided the camp and took away food items meant for internally displaced persons which will or which signifies that the operations to cocktail supply of food items and other logistics to boredom may be walking forcing them to take such very actions of raiding places that are considered too dangerous for them for food and other materials hundreds of activists took over the main terminal of hong kong's airport on friday as they continued their call for greater democracy. chanting against hong kong's leader crowds gathered in the main arrivals area to show their message to international visitors the angry and what they say is china's growing influence on hong kong affairs and the government's response to weeks of mass protests that administrations began in march a that planned extradition law which has since been canceled greece's bond imports

of pork from its northern neighbor belgariad due to outbreaks of african swine fever more than 20 cases were detected in pigs on industrial farms in vulgar areas north $50000.00 animals there have been cults outbreaks of also being reported in countries across asia including china north korea and cambodia african swine fever is a highly contagious disease that affects pigs and wild boar it does not affect humans . thousands of south africa minus who are suffering from potentially deadly diseases have reached a historic legal settlements where $350000000.00 in a class action lawsuit mineworkers sued 10 major companies the compensation many have been afflicted by lung disease or other illnesses as a result of their work 6 of the company's accepted a day off which has now been approved by a course in johannesburg or just for as a human rights lawyer who's been working on the case for many is he says the

court's decision is a landmark in the history of minus rights in south africa. well the president was sitting few years ago in the constitutional court for the 1st time affirmed the right of mineworkers suffering from occupational lung diseases to take civil actions to institute proceedings against the employers before the there was no such rot in south africa and there was no civil accountability on the part of employers towards workmen who suffered from occupational diseases so that was the big breakthrough treaty 11. but the last 78 years of in spain litigating against the mining companies and the last several years in parallel with at a geisha proces. set of negotiations that culminated in the settlement that was approved today the us government is investigating the rising

costs of prescription drugs high prices for essential medication have become a rare bipartisan a ship with my thumb across and republicans demanding changes white house correspondent kimberly how good has more from friday's congressional hearing. lawmakers on capitol hill debating how to combat the rising drug prices crisis that exists in the united states well all agree that this is becoming an escalating crisis for ordinary americans one that often comes down to life and death the difference in opinion is how to resolve it the democrats say the answer is socialized medicine where there are negotiations with drug companies to keep prices low conservatives republicans say that that is not the answer with need is to reform the patent system in essence preserving what they see as important for research and scientific development and that is competition patients say if they spoke on capitol hill that they don't care what the solution is they just want to

see one as soon as possible for many including david mitchell a cancer patient it is literally an issue of life and death every 2 weeks i spend a half a day at a clinic getting an infusion of drugs that are currently prairie strenuously at $650000.00 i relapsed twice and unfortunately i'm feeling on this current drug regime eventually i'm going to run out about it so the importance of innovation is not theoretical for me it's literally life and death but my experience as a patient taught me one year refutable fact and that is drugs don't work if people can't afford them so expect that this will be something that will be debated hotly on the campaign trail not just by the democratic presidential candidates but also by donald trump as they approach the election for the president for 2020. well the increasing cost of prescription drugs has seen many diabetics and others needing

long term treatment crossing it's a calorie medication it is cheap those traveling in the so-called insulin caravans are hoping to draw attention to the financial burden correspondent daniel followed one of the groups across the border. activist quinn nystrom shares the good news with fellow u.s. diabetics a drug that they need to survive is available at the local wal-mart store for less than a 10th of what they pay in the united states there caravan crossed 3 u.s. states to make a purchase i decided to bring this today because this kind of shows what my everyday life that diabetes looks sight this is kind of basically one or 2 months like survival for me also along for the ride nicole smith told who doesn't have the disease but she's here for a very special and personal reason i am part of the caravan in memory of my son alex smith who passed away on june 27th of 2017 from diabetic ketoacidosis as

a result of rationing because he cannot afford it. the group came to canada to buy cheaper insulin but mostly this is a gesture aimed at u.s. political leaders in the pharmaceutical industry insulin prices are so high that one in 4 diabetics in the u.s. has to ration the insulin they can afford putting their lives in danger. we need a long term solution to this this isn't isn't the solution this isn't the fix you what's going on in america but if it's temporary prices for life saving drugs in canada are regulated by a government appointed body organizers of the caravan say that should happen in the us too we are from a developed country. we are from a great country but we are not taking care of our citizens after buying their lifesaving drugs the diabetics from the united states will come to the home of frederick banting 1920 came up with the idea that led to man made insulin. banting

sold the patent for insulin for a dollar intending it never be used to earn a profit but that hasn't happened and diabetics from the united states say it's time to honor the wishes of the man who helped make sure they could survive a disease that used to be a death sentence daniel lak al-jazeera london ontario. and a quick reminder you can find out much more about many of the stories we are covering by going to our website usually dresses out to sara dot com al jazeera dot com. and reminder the top stories on al-jazeera more than 100 civilians have been killed in syria in the past 10 days including 27 children they are increasingly becoming the victims of a government and russian assault on the 33 children have died in the rebel held province this month that is more than all of 2018 more than 400000 people have been

displaced from the region. libya's coast guard says it's recovered the bodies of dozens of refugees and migrants who died in what the u.n. has described as the worst mediterranean tragedy they see here as many as 350 migrants were on board the boats that capsized off the town of homs east of tripoli on thursday around $120.00 people including women and children are missing and feared dead. the secretary general is deeply saddened by the news that some 150 refugees and migrants lost their lives after the boat they were in capsized off the coast of libya on the 25th of july children and pregnant women are among the missing is also concerned by reports that many of the survivors rescued by the libyan coast guard were placed in that the jury a migrant detention center which is close to a military facility and was hit by an airstrike on the 2nd of july that resulted in more than 50 deaths the secretary general reiterates that libya is not a city of country of asylum and that refugees must be treated with dignity and

respect and in accordance with international law north korea's economy shrank in 2018 for the 2nd straight year as it was battered by sanctions and droughts the contraction of 4 point one percent is the worst in more than 2 decades according to figures compiled by south korea's central bank the north's international trade was carse was almost cut in half last year a sanctions reduced exports by close to 90 percent and the hot air that smashed temperature records in europe this week appears to be moving towards greenland where it could cause record levels of melting this month alone it's already lost $160000000000.00 tons of ice through surface melting climate change has been linked to the increase in ice loss which could cause sea levels to rise even further and those are the nations headlines coming up next the school in london that's revolutionizing the way students learn but education is next stay with us.

education matters the universal rights to expand arise and offer better prospects the passport to a better life yet around the globe schools an institution at breaking point systems been deemed to be no longer valid. linking one school of all and how they want identifying the sale of the knowledge needed in the 21st century now a new wave of rebel education is sweeping. educate a radically changing the way people live to challenge the order and walk the earth

of creating opportunities which will impact in the benchmark and then tie a community. i know. being out on the water with a nautical school like this is a pretty great experience and i love being out here this is a friday period 3 and look where we're on the road victoria dark so that in itself makes the school a great place to be and i think it also inspires us as disco to do things in different and unique ways we're not bounded by what you would expect which is

a great thing. when i 1st came to the u.k. one thing that did strike me was the amount to which the system for education focuses on exam outcomes there's a lot of punishment associated with doing badly in exams it seems it's often leads to really conservative approaches in the classroom and schools there's a risk averse process i think there's much more that we should be doing in classrooms then simply getting ready for exams.

sit down right listen up please there's not words i told you yesterday that we were going to do going to continue to learn about a movement in america at the minute and actually does they have starting in london to call black when people come to the streets in large numbers that's normally called protest ok and interesting thing about protest is protest and symbols ok you can tell me what a symbol is yes exactly that tell us something good so actually what you see the rectally can often be different to what you think of right this is my 1st year as a qualified teacher so this is all i've ever done and i think it would be difficult for me now to return. to i mean for lack of

a better mainstream education the good thing about the autonomy here is the fact that you can i can push certain things i can push the issue of representation they give me a framework to do that is a picture of who. i. don't know who is the most famous person that. is beyond say right and what i want you to do is only talk to i want you to tell your partner and i want you to ask them why do you think beyonce has put all of these names oh behind talk to the person next to go. on the national curriculum says that teachers are allowed to teach pretty much anything they want according to the official document of the government out we have autonomy to do that it's just the case that often as the departments don't put in systems in place in which teachers can. choose their own text what is trayvon martin's name stand for in all of the list of these other names i hope that the kids feel that english is for them

english is is about learning about the world it's about critiquing things in society and it's about how you can stand up to injustice and that's why i hope the kids feel and that's why i became an english teacher and that's why i try and implement on a on a day to day basis when she. knows . this is the time when you get to choose your english teacher is for the next 2 years we have a set of beliefs and their english department here about you. the 1st thing we believe is that you can be trusted that you are the perfect person to decide where

and how and with whom you learn you decide how hard the program of learning that you think is suitable for you should be you decide the topic you decide the style of learning and then you get on and succeed we do not want to break you and say groups who we think will achieve and groups who we think want that is none of our business at the end of it all you will all say the same g.c.s.e. examinations and you will all have the same chance of succeeding but the path you will follow to get there will be very different i'd like to invite you to come forward. mr winnick has a new teacher. as well as teaching english the boys talk drama media alongside lots of bring in those different aspects to. begin to look at that perspective different people's perspective my take my cool about. what freedom is

free to me i'm interested in the opinions that you bring to these tax because that's what makes it interesting if you like exploring social issues if you like talking about what we might call big issues such as race and of course poverty and gender then perhaps my course will be for newt will be a long time for me to view and you'll be expected to be quite often. texts that i have selected. and you're going to have to be willing to do some hard work if you want to be in the school i want you to develop the skill with which you speak i want you to be comfortable speech 3 plus i want you to. write and your reading so that you understand you so much great stuff out for you to understand your joy that you so much write stuff. i think about big mr bright i would teaches you soon backing. down to a level. you can understand he understands us more it makes you feel like

a grown up because it makes you have your own choice your independence to be honest i really don't know you it's a pity because they're all very good with all their individual ideas and everything . we've invited you to have a conversation with us about the way that we work in english department. we need to know exactly what it is that you want to say from the teachers and what we can offer you next year we. would not be better if it was a choice street where as. the teacher could also see in this scene where we don't think it's our position to choose just you one of the things that has been proven in research that's going to make the most difference to him is learning is

the teacher we feel like it's appropriate for you to have the choice on. your. own. right. every 3 jazz block for each class so you can look at the work of that rubens being provided with and each student as a block so you can look at your son's work where you can look at the work where other students are next class if you're interested in seeing what others are doing you can also go on to that same site and find all the information about all the possible badges he could ever want to achieve any concerns or. problems with the idea of us publishing all of this material i don't know how to think that very . out and maybe that's all. i don't mind getting the thought of a son in that you need to check yeah you should look he's vulnerable yeah yeah we

think as a school and as educators it's our job to also inform them about how to be online and by providing them with a publishing mechanism that is under control. they we can then moderate the choices they're making and be and be with them in their online world we're concerned. for. the. i mean. it's important for us if we have or are inclined to do these things to go on to give us because what we do doesn't just come from one person it's actually about all of us it's the student and the teacher is for sharing our experiences of what

we've created to get. the thing is a conference for 2 trees so the only people there except for you will be to cook because we grow things so i'm usually very interested to see how that actually works in a school and one of the things we did we agreed was that it's actually more real. for students to. get your point of view then we just say students really like it talk about what you want to talk about. what the people want to reach of you that might be a different thing i'm not sure. because you can gauge scream it simply with achievement come out on your own badges and things like that it might be that you're in a position to talk about that also all of us here all english class is different is that it's not is it even though we use our basic skills i was lucky i use it to do you know want to toss things we're doing right now if you don't know me to get to

have that conversation normally you'll go into a classroom and another school and they will tell you what your program going is going to be and that's what you do to. write. a book along some people from my team and order to validate and there are some of the things we're saying. to talk to you about whole new system of working that courage is teachers and students to take responsibility for themselves ask. ordinary school. deal what and upload it to your blog and in your teachers can see it.

it's really good. because. you can. only. know if their own english teacher and i fink that in no way. and. it makes me so yeah i'm a bit of his but. it makes me more. like yourself and. i think i picked on with the quote i thought his course and i think i could relate to it live and you'll have to believe me when i say this i haven't said to for you and say those things right and so. i think that mr bryan this course is good for me because it's about in a city and we talk about social issues well i mean i think that if i was in school when i was in school i would have liked to have said that about my teacher and i

feel like the fact that we study writers of color. and you can read about those writers of color and he can see himself in those books is very important because if we don't we often talk about the verse in schools right but if we don't have diversity in terms of the things that we study in english how we have a have diverse english teacher says we really invite you to love to hear what you have to say the way to my way of cites for everything. to. when i 1st saw the students were here my i thought is that it's not going to be quite a stick or smooth or some in the i'm going to get i'm going to really get anything out of but i was so moved about you know how it was so genuine and honest that it got me to thinking about how possibly it's socks or make it from my own school that came across that they hadn't handpicked the students the students and put themselves forward and it gave me a feeling of genuine that. made it easier for me to sort of take that and see that

it worked. i think i wouldn't have any problem having students choose my classes i can specifically think of 2 or 3 members of my department where students wouldn't pick it and i'd worry as well that those members of staff. would be affected by the fact that they were picked we get a very favorable response to our ideas when we share them with people and at the same time they generally say one universal thing and that is we love this but we could never do this we say why not i want to take away. all. what we do in the english department as a whole is certainly.

this is not being easy within a state school institution. people dislike change their risk averse and within the scope i have had to battle with people in order to get them to agree for us to go ahead with these programs and processes state challenge the very fundamental nature of how schools work giving students parents choice is terrifying for a lot of people in education you've recorded yourselves speaking and you've transcribed those conversations all i want to do now is start to identify as many as possible of these modifications to standard english that you've made in your conversations to the right. you know oh yeah well you know why do you think often you know when you use that word we want to tell you that it was called out when you're basically

telling a story in one moment and what did you just say since we have such high stakes accountability in this country if you are going to do something that is different from the norm school leaders. it's always going to find it quiets quite threatening and sickly when the school leaders there were countable for the course of your work . what. i experienced initially of christie's performance when being observed and also this but i was quite negative enough not to conference quite a bit if you go on all students but it's occurring in syria and they will make judgments and those just ones kind of factual create the inspector came and looked at my teaching and defined my practice as an adequate. i guess there is the sense that a good listener is

a listen westerns are sitting behind desks they are quiet and they are studiously engaged in some kind of individual inquiry my view is that they they learn a lot in collaboration with each other what are the key people might call chaos i would often just call active engagement. over the years as the results that we have achieved have come through the system and revealed themselves the inspectors are much more amenable to the work we do to the extent that the most recent visit from else did ultimately gave us a very good. rating we had to prove ourselves before we would be taken seriously and i do think that if we're going to create change in the way that we have in a system like this you have to have the courage to be willing to fail or to be seen to fail by others. and it's not just externalities that we have scoop and so cool scruples are both invisible the 1st is within the school lot of questions that

really they don't necessarily know the smoothest looking you need is it's not a model of if you want wants to adopt because it is a lot of work and it is a very different way of looking. at the way that money to students which is a long time used to. say. you've got something of a choice about what you do today the way that you've been planning for the data it's. planning your method i'm getting ready to actually do your experiments i'm about to take a bath as head of science at a nice and i've been spending a lot of time working with the english department on the ideas that i have. i have already started to try that. the result was really from thursday even is that i get

to try and prove that there are 4 yeah exactly you've made it refutable because you started your sources. in the requested that it has yours again so they all of us 789 and 11 to about the age of 15 are going to be choosing. the. women. every teacher in my department teaches differently. we each have different approaches and different classroom philosophies from today you have been given the chance to make a decision that is incredibly important to your success. the kids have been through this before they've done it so many times they know exactly what's right specs and my tame of the people standing there for the 1st time selling themselves which is

something that's not really asked of you very much in teaching way used to being the ones that are very much in control and i agree but if you're more than that what you'll be back last year i didn't really want to make that we talked about issues that are going on in the world right now that even a little more relevant there is no group i know. you to. be treated. to work on my team in a science department almost entirely name more than half of my department has never told before the time stuff in science departments in the u.k. at the moment is generally quite high and the reason for that is there's a real shortage of science teachers there students that without this morning. you know seen a few teachers come and go at this stage and a couple of them have said you know what's the point in choosing your teacher if they're going to be leaving soon anyway it sometimes may actually that they have

come to believe that that we might disappear on them and not be around to see the of course 3. 0. 00000. 0 let. me. tell you it's like you. know i woke up this morning petrified actually because i mean the same feeling as many people in the country. my age you know so we're going to get i mean this piece of paper with it controls our lives with oh. 000-0000. oh. 000-000-0000 extension 000 it's pretty exciting to be able to say that the results from this year is english program at g.c.s.e. of the best where the head. the students that we teach fits into some of the categories nationally that are regarded as some of the least likely to achieve we

have students who come from backgrounds of poverty we have students who come from backgrounds of where their parents are migrants students that come from difficult circumstances and given that that's the case and yet they come into this go and through their time here succeed at a level that is comparable and better than many other students with much greater privilege in the country is something we well it's what gets us up in the morning. i don't very well possible issues to be using english to share and language and i'll be studying in next year i've highly highly recommend we celebrate he's one of the best you see i've ever had is the one report for us i was trained in english and he was one who got me to who got me to do this when they freed their personality and their own force into their lessons busy that's when the lesson comes. in a in literature and the language. is able to. sort. of what discovery exploration of the language or the text that we're studying in

our teachers the students to develop their. ideas that's probably why it is so good that. alice has done fantastically well in english and they're really really proud of him because i am to being an english and not only that easy it's also got a slight hurdle with firm dyslexia and the fact that it's got such amazing results is a credit thing which to. the great thing about mr ward is he spends toying with me and yet she lets him know that as of what your child needs. to know the when i said i go back there again many examples over the years where i felt frustrated because i don't think that the school supported me in the way that i'd like to just typical for someone who's trying to be something different i think. but at the same time. ending in what we've got to show for what we have done speaks for itself.

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for the producers and actors alike as they struggle to portray in fiction the madly face of reality sell books mexico every day mafia on a disease. how that i'm going to stay in london with the top stories on al-jazeera the un's human rights chief has condemned what she calls in some national indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held it led province michelle says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes well 100 civilians have been killed in syria in the past 10 days including 27 children said holder has more now and a warning the u.s. may find some images in her reports disturbing. they are images that have shocked

many a tragedies like this are happening nearly every day in northwest syria where the government's assault is its storage box. was a loved on law desperately trying to save his daughters as they dangled from the edge of a building destroyed in a syrian or russian airstrike the 5 year old we have held on to our 3 year old sister drove one for as long as she could. but then they fell to the ground i died. well when struggled for life but later passed away in hospital. the high number of people killed and injured here particularly children reflects the scale of the humanitarian situation war monitors say there have been at least 800 civilian deaths 200 of them children since the russian backed syrian government offensive began in april in the past months at least 33 children were killed according to save the children that's more than in the whole

of 2018. they only problem and most of the places they live in that are being hit marketplaces hospitals like the facility is schools no one and nothing is safe and the more it is needed. these scenes have become all too familiar and rescue workers at times dig for hours to find survivors and remove the dead civilian infrastructure schools hospitals. and help the syrians are protected under international humanitarian law they're meant to be spared and yet they're being impacted more than anything else so there has to be outrage. the latest offensive is no different from previous ones during the 8 year war they are carried out with impunity and little accountability . the pope sent a letter to syria's president bashar assad asking him to protect the lives of

civilians the european union says attacks on critical civilian infrastructure must stop the united states and the u.k. renewed calls for a cease fire an adlib but the international community statements have not been backed with action. the bombardment hasn't stopped it's intensifying the u.n. describes what is unfolding in islam as a worsening nightmare for the civilians they are not players in this conflict but international humanitarian rights organizations say they are being targeted. istanbul. libya's coast guard says it's recovered the bodies of dozens of refugees and migrants who died in what the u.n. has described as the worst mediterranean tragedy this year as many as $350.00 migrants were on board the boats that capsized off the town of homs east of tripoli on thursday about $145.00 of them were rescued by the libyan coast guard around $120.00 others including women and children are missing and feared dead north

korea's economy shrank in 2018 for the 2nd straight year as it was battered by sanctions and drought the contraction of 4 point one percent is the worst in more than 2 decades according to figures compiled by south korea's central bank but also international trade was almost cut in half last year as sanctions reduced exports by close to 90 percent the sanctions were meant to stop north korea's nuclear program the hot air that smashed temperature records in europe this week appears to be moving towards greenland where it could cause record levels of melting this month alone it's already lost $160000000000.00 tons of ice through surface melting that is roughly 64000000 olympic size swimming pools climate change has been linked to the increase in i saw which could cause sea levels to rise even further those are the headlines coming up the battle for resources under the sea ocean's monopoly is next on back with the headlines in 25 minutes see that.

for millenia the oceans lay outside the dominion of. the state's influence extended only 3 nautical miles from the coast a little further than a cannonball could travel. but then humans discovered the ocean floor. and the largest land grab in world history be kept.

on tom a fly and i'm in the bedroom of rodeo should in the north atlantic twice i've sold it twice in small yards and also crossed in a bottle bug in. a wood and i lived on rock or in this some people call a survival capsule i 1 call it a wooden box it's a house like this is my house this is a one man house i lived with a 40 days it did the job. it kept the wind off me i was warm and dry but don't

forget i'm right at the top of the cliff it's just straight down to the city. hall mclean is one of the u.k.'s greatest adventure has he crossed the atlantic 5 times the 1st time in a globe once in a vessel shaped like a beer bottle for his latest trip he sailed from newfoundland into smallest sailboat ever to cross the atlantic. and. soon mclean traveled to new york in a boat built to resemble a whale. but it was more than an adventure it. was a mission a mission done in service to mother england. somebody said oh well what about

killed and i'll go in there but so the rock or rock was right there in the middle of the atlantic and there seems to be a dispute who owns it and i thought why if i be your 1st civilian to reside on rock call that would help the case it wasn't quite so good the wind carried their safety line. they closed in without it. it is very dangerous there now you can see how lumpy is quite dangerous. they were far from ok after that momentary triumph then don't whack the big the way down i go down there was 54 straight down into the foam flies helplessly into. the landing in 1985. told him to clean his knife. but he eventually made it to safety and flew in london. getting to the top was only the

beginning however great britain we wanted to claim the lockers and i learned but for that to happen international law stipulated that tom must remain there for $21.00 days or more when the turn to go home and leave me for the 1st time. i was glad to see them go i was on my adventure i'm here with iraq and the birds i'm happy to be here of the chiefs are making history. and those who may challenge it brittania ruled these waves. for the u.k. it was about more than just claiming a lump of granite in the ocean the real objective was to secure the resource which a oh yeah oh around local the islet was to play a key lonely in british territorial claims.

the main players in british maritime claims work in an office on the south coast of india and. it's a fascinating area of work to do it there's not often somebody working in oceans signs that you do get the opportunity to mix both the legal on the technical aspects and see how they work together almost in order to develop something on behalf of the state. but we have the united kingdom to the east and as we further west we passed the rock all rock itself onto the lot. the land area of great britain and 240000 square kilometers the area that the u.k. have submitted for the heartening rockall area is a 163000 square kilometers. to.

my main reason to go to rockall was to inhabit it and if i stayed in international law less than 21 days i'm only visited i had to stay more than 21 days and by staying there more than 21 days that in fact 40 days it wasn't iraq it's an oil and i made it or not and. local. for the u.k. to claim the territorial sea overwhelmed along it had to prove that it was inhabitable yet the eyelids could be easily confused with any walk and tom stay was controversial so controversial that the u.k. had to put another territory into the mix st kilda the archipelago increased the british crowns claimed by 160000 square kilometers st kilda has been deserted ever since its 36 remaining inhabitants left almost

a century ago but humans lived there once and they could live there again at least theoretically. what does the u.k. want with all this water. what do you mean by opening a piece of the ocean. the idea of the ocean has changed over time. most from. the pun was to show how the leaders and their cult talk of his mum saw the world's back and what they flew to an ocean is very much sure what was important to them and also. before 1492 before columbus's journey to the americas the ocean as a broad.