the back. this is the w. news coming to you live from berlin and the united nations are just hong kong apologies of deescalate a university standoff but protest says some of the students barricaded inside a university campus begin handing themselves into police as the u.n. says a humanitarian situation inside is deteriorating also the program. established but the israeli civilian settlements in the west bank is not per se inconsistent with international law. the us breaks for decades of middle east policy saying is really

settlers in the occupied territory i'm not even going to. and this refugee camp was meant to house 3000 people but now it's home to over 13 towns and why greece is finally moving refugees out of the more your camp on less fuss either and. class the south african teacher who's moving with the types. that. the 2 that's taking a different approach to learning. how to live a warm welcome to you on the. parents of some of the students trapped inside the besieged hong kong campus appealing to authorities to take a softer line towards their children most protesters. heard left the building early

on tuesday of the bill's remaining have been labeled rioters by the authorities a term that comes with a 10 year jail sentence during the 3 days standoff the polytechnic has become the focus of the pro-democracy movement opposing the growing influence of beijing on the territory. after days under siege the last protesters are running out of supplies. still determined in pursuit of their demands exhaustion has set in nonetheless. some need medical attention and awaiting to be evacuated. but watching scenes like this playing out beyond the campus walls many a terrified to give themselves up to police they fear lengthy jail sentences if they were arrested on charges of rioting just now all's quite desperate because our only way to serve and they're. really afraid of being being

charged and then. we we're been trying to excavate since yesterday morning but then couldn't find a way out. some managed daring escapes overnight on monday shimmying dined ropes on to waiting motorbikes though it was unclear if they avoided arrest others tried to flee through the sewers but were unsuccessful. the last determined protesters continue to collapse with police surrounding the university. but by tuesday morning the scene was all ministry quiet. outside desperate families gathered to beg the or thora cheese to show compassion. they just want to shift. parties fought it out and just don't come back but. that's

a lot of the power. to get you. caught the biggest slowly and slowly that's what you call. hong kong's in battle leader said she had told police to handle the situation humanely but she did not rule out the possibility they would resort to violence the reason i cannot give you an absolute guarantee is because the situation is changing for argument's sake if we were suddenly seeing some very major life threatening. incidents on the campus. as i search the police on the reactive side the police have to take the necessary action . more protesters surrendered on tuesday but for those left inside there is a very real fear this standoff will end in bloodshed. a correspondent shot a chance and put in hong kong and began by asking what is known about the students

who already surrendered. and rita gradually we are seeing more and more students emerging from the university campus just a short time ago about a dozen walks past us here where the press is standing on one another's shoulders some of them appeared to be from the church affiliated group protect the children prior to that we've seen people coming out in in ones and twos one of them shouting out his parents' name urging people who were standing and watching the people leaving to call his parents now we know that as of this morning 100 protesters were still left inside the building chief executive kerry said 600 had left 200 of those are under 18 now they have been allowed by authorities to leave to go home but they did have supervised their names and details and the police do reserve the right to arrest them and potentially charge them at a later date now that the other 400 who have left those that have been arrested

they do face charges of rioting potentially which answer you mentioned previously does carry up to 10 years in prison the shot the university campus seems to have become a flashpoint in the standoff between police and protesters what are conditions like inside. but it's believed that one of the reasons that these protesters are now leaving is that their resources have been dwindling this is now the 3rd day of this standoff food has been unable to get into that campus to sustain these protesters now then are said to be running very low a number of people as well said to have been injured inside the university campus so people are now slowly starting to emerge the mood of course will be very dark inside the university among those protesters they know that if they do you manage to leave that they will face arrest by the police officers who are still surrounding the area prepared to take them in assoon as they emerge some know have

managed to escape so perhaps those remaining inside the university are still hoping that there's a chance that we saw some very daring images emerging last night of protesters scaling down a drain pipes and being picked up by people waiting on motorbikes below we also have reports of people trying to escape through a drainage systems so the hope potentially among those who are still left inside the campus is of an escape but the reality is that there are so many police waiting outside that arrest is almost inevitable the shot as we cut not report family members have been gathering outside the besieged campus what are their concerns what are they saying. that's right parents have been out scientists campus waiting for any news of their loved ones of their children some have been holding vigil today now a number of the parents that we have spoken to over the last 24 hours have

expressed a real fear that police could move and they say it's very uncertain what would happen if that does occur particularly given this warning from police on sunday night that they would be prepared to use live ammunition of protesters didn't drop their weapons one father told us that he just wanted his son to emerge safely. in hong kong thank you very much. in a major policy reversal the u.s. has said it no longer views israel's settlements in the occupied west bank as violating international law the settlements have long been a major obstacle in peace negotiations the us decision refers to israeli communities established on the occupied land in the west bank and east jerusalem more than 600000 israeli settlers live in the area which along with the gaza strip and the golan heights makes up the palestinian territory palestinians have condemned the u.s. policy change saying the country is choosing the law of the jungle over

international the us gives up a decades long position on israeli settlements. establishment of israeli civilian settlements in the west bank is not per se inconsistent with international law israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law because they are built on land occupied by israel during the 1967 middle east war the settlements are one of the main impediments to peace with the palestinians. acting prime minister benjamin netanyahu who's in serious legal and political turmoil welcome the new stance. this is a historic day another great policy achievement after president trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel recognize our sovereignty over the golan heights the u.s. administration have now put an end to the lie that settlements are illegal. the palestinian authority is outraged israeli settlements and occupied palestinian

territories including his jerusalem. not only illegal under international law they are war crimes and the statement of mr secretary of state of the united states is absolutely. rejected and in response to pompei or the european union's foreign policy chief federica more greeny said the e.u.'s position on israeli settlements had remained unchanged the e.u. considers them illegal. the israel palestine peace process has been stalled for gears now and washington's latest move could jeopardize future negotiations. if we now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wind the lebanese parliament has postponed the session she did for today after the test as in beirut attack cars carrying m.p.'s and blocked roads the purchased it this despite heavy security demonstrators say the session was unconstitutional and

curtis erupted in mid to toe but amid an economic and political crisis. the u.n. says it has reports. indicate dozens have been killed in iran during days of rioting sparked by increased fuel prices it's condemned iranian security forces use of live ammunition against demonstrators and urged restraint the government insists the prize arrises are necessary to fund social welfare programs. the ailing former prime minister of pakistan nearby sharif has left the country heading for london after a court ruled he would seek to seek treatment for chronic ill health should be 1st prime minister for 3 terms a 7 year jail term for corruption he denies any wrongdoing. thousands of supporters of bolivia president evo morales have taken to the streets of the political capital. they're demanding the resignation of self-proclaimed interim

president xi need and he has bolivia's catholic church has called for a national dialogue to end more than a month of violent protests. german chancellor angela merkel is hosting numerous heads of state from africa at a high level investment conference here in berlin the conference brings together european business leaders and african policymakers it comes just ahead of a summit on the compact with africa initiative launched 2 years ago under germany's g 20 presidency the initiative aims to promote private investment and job opportunities on the continent in return for economic reforms that chancellor merkel opened this morning scott in france with the keynote address she stressed the need for efforts to fight corruption. you know we believe and i've that i'm thoroughly convinced that more transparency will bring more investors to these countries because it is important to germans and to other g 20 investors and for

mid-sized companies it is very very important to have trust and transparency and they want to know where the investment is going and under what conditions would in this year they should be given fin the. political correspondent joins me for more on this story hans welcome it sounds like investments in africa on not going as well as chancellor merkel had hoped you know i think you have to concede that this initiative is in all 3 years old and we don't in fact have many figures on what kind of investment has been spurred by this initiative it doesn't appear to have been particularly significant so far one has to say that they all obviously many german and the european and international companies that are engaged in africa already that have had investments there for decades but this new initiative seems to have been taking a long time to really get going partly because there are

a lot of preconditions that have to be fulfilled on the part of the countries they are 12 countries that are part of this compact with africa they have to for instance reform the banking sectors have to see to the transparency that michael was referring to and to make sure that things such as investment guarantees and so on are in place one of us has taken time and so the reluctance especially on the part of german companies has been fairly significant so what then are the challenges for the compact for the africa initiative hons. well apart from these apart from these preconditions the. provision in the compact itself what's in fact happening is that there are other countries that are also in a sense competing for influence in africa and we think here especially over russia and especially of china china has been investing billions and billions of dollars

in africa for quite a long time one knows about the major infrastructure projects in africa that have been financed by china and against this competitive background it is quite difficult i think for this compact of africa compact with africa actually to gain a foothold in the on the african continent because african countries have other alternatives to who to gain money to gain created for their investments altimeters that are a lot easier to get so what's really in it for germany and the g 20 countries who promise to invest. well one has to look also at the political background to all of this obviously there is a lot of migration from africa going going towards europe the migration crisis in recent years is an example of that and a lot of these people a lot of people are coming from west africa and north africa and especially these countries are participating in this compact with africa so if one could find

investments that created jobs in those countries and so the need for young people to leave those countries and to make their way to europe would to be reduced then that would also be of large political benefit to germany and the countries in europe hans dawned at up on i'm interested just thank you very much. he watching the news coming up ahead the cape town teacher using unconventional methods to connect with the students and become a vibrant hit. on its plans to transfer some 20000 asylum seekers from the edgy and islands to the mainland over the coming weeks and they include many on the on and of less toss the sides of the overcrowded morea can these i'm in s.f. and max sunda have this reporter on the island that's become home for thousands of

refugees desperate to leave their. friends bid farewell to the buses which. more than $100.00 asylum seekers are leaving maurya camp for some after a year if waiting. the joy is palpable but so is the pain in the uncertainty the fighting once again into the unknown how do you feel now that you can get on the bus and leave and leave very happy but i have lots of friends here i haven't missed for everybody just. in the morning i cried still to know my friends came to see me just. has lived with her daughter for a year in morea a camp she describes as the worst on earth she was notified yesterday and given only hours to pack on things and leave. i mean is one of thousands of asylum seekers greece plans to move from the north e.g. islands to the mainland before winter comes. and the deputy governor of the

north island says this rush to transfer asylum seekers is not a permanent solution but he says it will with the island's breathe they can. eat them our basic goal is for the islands to be decongestant for there to be a better distribution of people all over green. it's insupportable that we have a ratio of one migrant to 5 locals here and they're not this in a bed in the rest of greece it's much lower. than they like to see the refugee reception center lesbos is not just overcrowded it's often described as the worst humanitarian crisis in europe. more a camp was built for 3000 but more than 4 times that many people live here thousands of them outside the fence right down here we meet not to belittle it from afghanistan but it shows us where he lives with his family

a single mylan tent for 5 people with winter on its way finland man had to only been i've lost all hope. only god can help us again are the chances i pray we will be rescued from this hellish plans and with what i'm good but i am at its northern edge morea is expanding a group of men are breaking ground for a family who will spend their 1st night here. no one we talked to here expects the population to shrink anytime soon. in the middle of the night yet another arrival a frantic spot carrying migrants rescued off the coast of last boss this time 33 of them including women and children. everyone gets a bottle of water a snack and a blanket they're relieved as they are registered on european soil but few know about moria their next home. this is

a pile of discarded life jackets that were worn by those who made the dangerous crossing to less boss but the risks and the conditions of moriah camp won't keep more people from coming. for the past 3 months numbers of arrivals have far outpaced the numbers of departures but if the government's transfer program succeeds the island of lesbos once again could become what it used to be a brief stopover on the way to europe. rawya marie is on the last bus to arrive at the landing she collects her bags as the ferry to athens holds its cargo. just i don't worry about this because i have lots of stuff here but i am. this accords. i hope. i was right. and she holds her bags onto the ship she doesn't know where she will live next but she is certain that she will never go

back to more. man as if it's just written from les false and he joins me now welcome i mean do we know where. the woman basically a ripple because she is now we have kept in touch with her and she told us she's not at all where she expected to be now a lot of people in the camp when they got on these buses and went to the port they thought they were going to athens because the ferry of course did go to athens but because of greece's policy to distribute migrants around greece they don't all end up in athens they are just taking them from the ports in athens to other places around greece she ended up in northern greece near. in a migrant camp and then i saw a box another shipping container and she said she was crying all day because she was looking out her window and all she could see was woods and she thought at this point after leaving moria that she would finally have something that she would compare to freedom but of course she's still in the asylum process now while all

these thousands of refugees stuck on the list goes on and why didn't the greek authorities move them out to within greece all outside but this is a direct result of the 2016 deal between the european union and turkey so the e.u. gave turkey money in order that turkey would accept all the failed asylum applications back from greece in other words a lot of these migrants are passing through turkey to get to greece and if they failed asylum application then that greece could just ship them right back to turkey but there's one stipulation and that's their only taking p. . from the islands so these islands have become kind of reception centers for people who are waiting to see if they get sent to mainland greece or if they go directly back to turkey and of course this process takes over a year sometimes and it's become really crowded on the greek islands so why has greece decided to transfer some of the refugees now and is this operation blocking a few things came together this autumn and that's why greece has stepped up the

transfer is one of them was because of the conditions in the camps have been deteriorating there was a fire in september that killed somebody also it's becoming winter when we were there we could see our breath so this is a situation where you would want to sleep outside in a tent another reason is because of turkey's incursion into syria and greece rightly so predicted that a lot more people would be coming to the greek islands so they stepped up these transfers and it seems to be apparent i mean the transfers are happening almost daily when we're on the i mean this if thank you very much for your reporting as well as your insights. to south africa now in an area outside of cape town known as cape flats is often associated with crime and violence and the increase rent there to find out about a local teacher whose unconventional approach is inspiring students and helping them overcome the challenges they face lift.

break down the dominance of all teacher and if you sit down to listen to the speech i'm going to have some sort of the way with politics in my lasix to teach me i keep my peers on the ground i look at what tutors what fascinates them and then i try to get onto them a scuffle with particular topics and then i go do research on 2 things that all in line with the content and it can spy of the. first time. in the news more to. the side of the sound is discussed about being the wall the sound of my voice to discuss the both mean anything woman not. being counting them

in t.v. . they do face a lot of challenges in their households we talk about poverty we talk but gangsterism and all other social ills within the community but i've seen a different type of child that has been stigmatized for what people see this as and for and i always tell them i'm more than what i'm being seen. within the society itself. he's very nice and innovative and supports us a lot and helps us when we are going to difficult times the system has been pulled and so. it's killed the creativity of the children still be there missing mulan is city any holding something good sat night dancing in the school seems to. come. through for.

play down please. i was that of the radio one morning and this song came from a song your 1st of being from boy to some points you can be seen with confidence and in the project so the net for. this can actually be. quite powerful thing to inspire that miss having to fit my list and posted it on the facebook video when. i think the most thing that i like about my job is the fact that i can influence someone positively i know what these children are going through i'm not immune to the challenges and i feel somehow i q contribution to a positive change you know country. i i.

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