and online. this is you know we news live from berlin hong kong's leader kerry land says the territory's controversial extradition bill is dead the island's chief executive called the announcement would be enough to end the mass protests but activists are unconvinced and vowed to fight on getting ready to return to the streets also on the show the italian island of lampedusa has become the frontline in europe standoff over migration and the role of rescue ships in the mediterranean the good news has been to hear both sides of the argument and the radio is on the wall world

leaders looks at the next target cerise global education standards we visit a school in ethiopia to find out about the challenges the students they're facing trying to access quality education even when the going to spend the morning. thank you so much for your company everyone. protesters in hong kong have vowed to take to the streets again despite the territory's leader declaring her controversial extradition bill dead are protesters fear that the bill which would allow us additions to mainland china would erode hong kong's judicial independence while chief executive carrie lamb has offered some concessions but demonstrators want the legislation to be redrawn for good. a further step in the climb down by hong kong's chief executive until june currie lamb had vowed to press ahead with

the legislation then she delayed indefinitely now this. but there are still lingering doubts about the government's sincerity or wary of whether the government will restart the process in a legislative council. so i reiterate here. there is no such plan the bill is dead. that bill to allow the extradition of suspects in criminal cases to face prosecution in mainland china triggered a series of massive protests that began in march with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets and some serious clashes with police this rally was on sunday. before the protestors carry lambs latest announcement is simply not enough they don't believe her statement that the bill is dead as a prominent activist told d.w. that's ridiculous like especially now the extradition bill is in the legislative

program and passed a fact and be it will still continue to exist in the poll graham until next year july so the frats will continue in the next trial months before the protest as more is at stake than the fate of this bill they say the probe aging city government is seeking to cut tail freedoms guaranteed under the treaty that saw the united kingdom return its colony to china in 1907 a pro-democracy movement has formed but sees very different groups in hong kong come together students lawyers and bankers united at least for now. all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world. china has demanded that the u.s. immediately cancel a proposed sale of more than $2000000000.00 worth of arms to taiwan all the deal includes battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles it would be the 1st big ticket u.s. military sale to an island in decades and it considers taiwan to be part of its territory

. in northern spain at least one person is dead after floods swept through several towns overnight the downpours cost $2.00 local rivers to burst their banks the government in the vera province is warning people near the flood zone to stay home as heavy rains continue. the u.s. president gul trump has said he will no longer deal with the british ambassador to the united states came down that is. it comes after a leak of memos by the ambassador describing trump's administration as dysfunctional and inept in a series of tweets are trying to set the ambassador was whacking and a very stupid guy. now it's been 4 years since the u.n. adopted it sustainable development goals aimed at improving the lives of billions of people by the year 2030 but

a review now has found that the world is likely to fail to meet its commitments for education while under the goals all children should be in school by 2030 but at present rates of progress 14 percent will still not have access to quality education by then on literacy all young people should be able to read and write by the year 2030 but it's fear that 20 percent or still be illiterate and ethiopia is so one country that has made big strides when it comes to education for its use but it still faces many challenges especially in rural areas. it's a special day in this rule school close to address about the distribution of report cards marks the beginning of the summer holidays parents were invited to participate in the yearly ceremony as a way to involve them in their children's education that i generally managed to get out because we don't have much education we have

a low status in life the school is good it's a place where our children develop a vision for the future so that they become independent they will help themselves and also help us and going to. in ethiopia improving education is a priority the country has the world's 2nd highest percentage of the national budget dedicated to education over 80 percent of the population lives in rural areas and significant efforts have been made to build schools in the countryside but the mindset of parents is one of the remaining challenges for keeping children in school. not little or no good and one big issue is to find a solution with parents the aim should not only be to send their children to school they have to get involved and pay attention to their children studies you must not even at a very young age household chores often get in the way of education girls are especially at risk with a 19 percent dropout rate during the school year after 2 minutes of not be so they have to help their parents are trying so they fetch the water after the cattle plow

the land and the girls also have to cook shermanesque continued of the. teachers trying to sensitize parents to their children success. red yet is one of the pupils honored for outstanding performance. and the 2nd in my class of the i'd like to become a top tests. improving infrastructure is also crucial to ensure children stay healthy and make the most of their education classrooms are still very basic with no electricity less than 40 percent of schools have access to water with the support of then geo this primary school now has new bathrooms as well as a library but this remains a luxury. home and mold in the u.k. providing schools for children used to be difficult but nowadays the main problem is the lack of libraries libraries are very important in schools because students need access to general knowledge not just textbooks that will help them develop

a culture of reading. and. in addition education specialists warn about the importance of proper teacher training. for. this inequality the most difficult or most 70 percent of. my sleep by. the government is that. even if he created the current the but the government. and university. well improvements have been made in primary schools improving access to secondary schools and addressing the persistent gender gap i needed to ensure that children like radiate have a chance to become doctors and much more. now madison said no he said joins us now he is the director of the global education monitoring reports and he is in new york

a very good day sir now what we find so perplexing is that of course the issue of getting children into school and raising an educated workforce of course is an ambition that mostly everyone can get behind so why are they not able to deliver on that. with money and thank you for having me on your show this through the today the by the special day it's the 1st time since the global leaders agreed in 2015 on these new very ambitious education targets and we're here in new york today to bust the news that actually were lagging behind very much behind what was originally agreed and one of those targets was to ensure that all you know young people complete secondary school by the had 2030 as we speak there are still about 3 or 4 percent of children who never go to school. and the best estimate we have is that by 2030 there will be only 60 percent who complete secondary school around the world there are many reasons for that the 1st obvious reason is financing still one

in 4 countries does not spend enough on like ethiopia that has made a huge effort there are so many countries around the world that do not spend enough on education and there are also countries that make this count when it comes to quality the quality of the african teacher has been declining for now almost 20 is right so the challenges seem to be insurmountable however the other stumbling block are social attitudes and specifically those of parents that may need to change what i'm wondering is what can be done to convince elders and parents to become advocates for their children and allow them to go to school. it's true that parental participation an engagement really key factors that in the past have been neglected i think what is the o.p.'s done is to be important and it's important for other countries to take note and there were aspects that were not

mention in your report 1st of all they are really decentralized properly they try to bring power to the local level so that people do feel more engaged and also a very critical reform they introduced mother tongue education like many countries in africa have a lot of languages and unfortunately many children are forced to learn in a language they don't understand but if you will be invested very heavily to make sure that children learn in the language they speak at home and that makes parents feel more engaged because they understand that the quality of education is improving this is the kind of reform that we want to see around the world exactly they can get of course involved and help their children at school as well now do you think that there is a realistic chance of achieving those very ambitious goals by the year 2030. yes we would not have said this star gets we do believe it's possible yes historically education expands with a certain base but there are always examples of countries that invested heavily and

consistently and efficiently to achieve the progress in the very same generation ethiopia is a very good example it started from a very very low point and it's moving rapidly of course it would not achieve exactly targets but it would really pull the whole african continent closer to the objective said it's a matter of commitment and this is the purpose of the meeting we have this week and next week in new york to also alert global leaders to increase their commitment because unfortunately international solidarity for the countries of a further 3 way from the goal has actually spent needed since 2010 and that is the methods that we need to bust very very strongly this week all right. he said director of the global education monitoring report good luck with your work. very much next the german rescue ship the allen critique has picked up another 44 migrants from the mediterranean sea it sickens rescue operation in 2 days where

the charity c.i. which operates the vessel says it has been working with malta to get the migrants are i'm sure after the 1st rescue they were denied entry to the italian ports lampedusa the front line in europe struggle to deal with the migrant crisis. sent us this report. lampedusa island of recreation island of breath which. has the closest european shore to the coast of libya lampedusa takes in several 100 asylum seekers in an average month those who survived the treacherous journey across the mediterranean. no see claims as many lives as this. helps coordinate rescue missions for the german n.g.o.s see watch he was on my produce when the italian government attempted to block their ship from bringing 53 rescued migrants ashore. sea watch

was kept and all of our kids up defied the italian coast guard and forced her way into the harbor she was arrested for act. what we're seeing is that the criminalization of sea rescue missions isn't stopping people from coming from libya more people are dying and the routes are becoming more dangerous as once migrants arrive on the island most are taken to this immigration center where they are registered in a 1st step toward applying for asylum after being registered the residents are free to leave. at the church in the center of town i meet mahmoud. it early there is. a freak out and leave you and so there these. t.v. these were left leaving. as i'm leaving the church square a man begins shouting. i've known are shit out that if it wasn't for the migrants

the media wouldn't come to lampedusa. no one cares about us lampedusa it's my producer's mayor tells me he welcomes those rescued at sea. my father was a fisherman. i am a fisherman. but scuttled if and when a fisherman rescues a person at sea we apply one loan. not the french uptick not the german or anyone else's law actually they scuffled chasing a pig. they don't have to be dying so you don't have to document them insecure that you just saved them on saturday evening another standoff between the rescue boat defies the government's order to stay away it enters the port carrying 41 migrants the vessel is called alex operated by italian angio meditate and then. there's a commotion at the dock where locals have gathered to watch

a representative from italy's right wing leg a party is here too she wants to send a message to the new arrivals as well as the boat's crew example but get the damn i'm here because we have to fight against those who traffic human beings these people are not save us they are people who traffic human beings on the boat is taken into police custody on the other side of the bay. the exhausted passengers wait another 7 hours before they are let off the boat as the mayor of lampedusa told me immigration to this island is nothing new. he believes the current standoff can only be resolved by european solution. and that was a civil porting from lampedusa he has in the meantime now arrived on the island of sicily and is outside the gates of the closed mineo refugee center center that used to be europe's biggest reception point for migrants a good to see i mean why have authorities decided to close that a refugee center right behind you. well it is

unclear why they closed it in fact there was conflicting opinions of course on the one hand it had been underfunded for a long time and it was it became a place of criminality and there was drug busts and prostitution here now that wasn't everything though at one point at its height there was classes of people to take classes in different topics so it was on the one hand a place of criminality but on the other hand it could have been an example of how refugee centers could have been run if you can see here the houses were built for american troops and it was a place for american troops families until 2010 so it had a lot of resources so activists say that cell beanie wanted to close it as a symbol to send to the public that he's taking a hardline stance against immigration now what's so striking about the closure is that when it was announced there was a lot of opposition to the closing of the refugee

a center even from some locals can you explain the back story on that well there were 2 conflicting protests here actually there was the activists who came from outside the area the activists who wanted this closed because they felt that the refugees needed to be integrated into society but they also defended this as i said as an example of how a refugee center could be run because of the classes because of the resources but on the other hand there was a separate protest of the people who worked at the center there locals misapplied 400 jobs to the area so people who may have been salvia supporters people who see selby as a populist giving people jobs they were against the closure of this facility saying that he didn't care about their jobs he wanted to close it as a symbol because he's more concerned about immigration than actual italians very interesting there on the on next of course all of this is how in the backdrop you've got to rescue ships that are continued to be turned away by at least do you

expect that more rescue boats hoping to dock in italy will be turned away. i think it's clear he has made it very clear that his primary goal at this point to stop immigration into italy and stopping closing the ports at lampedusa is the primary way to do that he gave a decree a little over 3 weeks ago saying that n.g.o.s ships these are the private ships that go to north africa and pick up people who are truly trying by boat to get to italy they pick them up and take him to lampedusa which is the closest european port he said he wants to stop them and he just recently after 2 boats successfully made it into lampedusa defying his order he made it he wants to make it even harder so the fine will now be a 1000000 euros instead of 50000 and he's even considering putting warships out there to physically block the boats from coming in but again there's been many deaths out at sea over a 1000 year 1000 people this year so the people from n.g.o.s that i've talked to

see it as a matter of life and death and i'm sure we'll see more standoffs as they try to save lives on the mediterranean. sea for porting from sicily italy thank you. all right now to qatar where representatives of afghan civil society and the taliban have agreed on what they're calling a road map for peace after almost 2 decades of conflict in the country the taliban refused to speak with the government but officials attended the talks in doha as private citizens a joint statement issued by the participants said a post-war afghanistan would have an islamic legal system protect women's rights and ensure equality for all ethnic groups. all right and for more on that i'm now joined by our very own son her peers man who has reported from of gonna stand for many many many years and is closely following

these talks you know we don't want to take away from any diplomatic effort that wants to bring peace to this very war torn country but i'm just wondering days ago the taleban launched an attack on civilians 150 casualties and almost 50 children were killed and now they're at the peace table how serious is this and how big of a breakthrough is just. the war is continuing despite negotiations that's just how it is in afghanistan even last night when we had this document issue with the so-called road map to peace we saw asterix we saw an attack on a hospital and this time it was from the government side so you know what has been negotiated they are still has to transpire on to the battlefields and what we also don't know is if those people negotiating for the taliban in doha are truly representative of those commandos on the ground to might have different ideas we

still don't know you know how close the connection is between the political office of the taliban and doha and those winds really fighting on the ground and the foot soldiers so would you make of these talks happening now in doha i mean this has been a 1st a 1st time that. meant representatives though in a private capacity and taliban were sitting at one table exchanging stories of grief accusing each other listening to each other sometimes it was really really heated tears were shed we were told by those once where they are so this is all a 1st but we must remember that we are at the very very beginning the u.s. had 2 decades of conflict yes that is if we count the international intervention us left only starting off to september 11th attacks but in the whole we have to look at 4 decades of conflict and what we haven't seen yet is top afghan officials meaning the president the c.e.o. of the government and the top taliban official it's negotiating and this is where

we have to get so if i understand your analysis correctly this is more of a confidence building exercise that we're seeing taking place in doha right now to quote the german special envoy who was kind of brokering this whole thing mockers part so he called it an ice breaker and i think that is precisely what it was the document that came out at the end is legally not binding but again we have words on paper or words that one can refer to and now we have back to the americans you know negotiating with the taliban because these 2 days led to a pause of those talks that was a confidence building measure and now we really have to look at what do the americans and the taliban negotiate because that is the precondition for where we really need to be for the afghans to discuss and debate with afghans and really on solid terms what we have right now is the frame of the jigsaw puzzle what we don't have is a clear picture what about the women of afghanistan. well 11 of them were they are

all part of the delegation that flew in from kabul on a chartered plane we had no women on the taliban side i think that already gives you an idea and what we have in the document is yes we do want to protect women's rights and yes they will be able to study and to work and to learn to go to school but within the legal framework it's lennox framework and now what this would mean exactly who these kinds that who defines the islamic framework and that again it's the devil in the details we haven't even touched upon these details which are so important basically telling us are we going to have an islamic emirate or are we following through on the road to democracy but it's hopefully bringing peace to this very war torn country son of peter's and thank you so very much as always thank you. and a complete different story now some sports in a massive law enforcement bust cornered by agencies around the world has led to the seizure of tons of illegal steroid powered or well millions of counterfeit drugs

and the closure of underground laboratories that produce performance enhancing drugs for athletes the security agency europol is calling it the largest series of raids of its kind. the united states women's national football team has arrived back home with the world cup trophy in their hand well after beating the netherlands in the final the chance a world welcomed in new york they were happy to pose again with their prize and sang what else we are the champions a ticker tape parade is planned through new york's financial district on wednesday the spite the victory team usa appears to have been snubbed by president trump the white house usually receives teams who have reached the peak of their sports but the u.s. team's co-captain says it hasn't bothered her teammates most of the team if not everybody i think everybody is with me we don't want to go to the white house so i

figure that's why the invitation hasn't hasn't come in the sense of my mail and it's just sort of slowly to get here but i doubt it but i think we will at some point be going to washington we've had so much support from so many politicians from so many people they're making our rypien the u.s. teams that kept on staying with football the world's most expensive player neymar could be in trouble he didn't show up for the 1st day of training with back essential mounts on the march seen here earlier this year joined from barcelona 2 years ago has recently been linked with a return to spain the p s she has issued a statement saying that name art was not authorized to miss training and that it would take what it called appropriate action on. your washington we news up next kick off looks back at a dramatic women's world cup that set in just

a moment on little rock n roll and on behalf of the entire team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us i'll see you at the top of the hour.

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