the number of yemenis arriving there to seek asylum more than five hundred yemenis have flown to jeju island since december on friday the government held an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis craig loosened travel to jeju to meet the refugees. a kitchen is the last place adnan imagined himself working. didn't choose this job but i'm in the immigration and they own of this place because me and it turned out that it was a restaurant so. a qualified health and safety officer he worked for a petroleum company in yemen but was forced to flee the war after he was threatened and tortured by sympathizers of the rebels. and then fled to malaysia on a tourist visa but soon ran out of money. in december it opened a new route to jeju island offering adnan and other yemenis the chance to into south korea through the island's visa free status the sudden influx of yemenis has overwhelmed the local community and the government is acting to stem the flow. in april south korea's justice ministry banned yemenis and j.g. from traveling to other parts of the country and earlier this month excluded yemen f

arriving to seek asylum more than five hundred refugees from the war torn country have flown to jeju island since december craig nice and travel to jeju to meet some of the refugees. the kitchen is the last place adnan imagines himself working. choose this job but i'm in an immigration and there are enough this place picked me and it turned out that it was a restaurant so. a qualified health and safety officer he worked for a patrolling company in yemen but was forced to flee the war after he was threatened and tortured by sympathizers of the rebels. adnan fled to malaysia on a tourist visa but soon ran out of money. in december opened a new route to jeju island offering adnan and other yemenis the chance to into south korea through the island's visa free status the sudden influx of yemenis has overwhelmed the local community and the government is acting to stem the flow in april south korea's justice ministry banned yemenis and j.g. from traveling to other parts of the country and earlier this month excluded yemen from the island's visa waiver program the more than four hundred eighty yeme

in december opened a new route to jeju island offering adnan and other yemenis the chance to into south korea through the islands visa free status the sudden influx of yemenis has overwhelmed the local community and the government is acting to stem the flow. in april south korea's justice ministry banned yemenis and j.g. from traveling to other parts of the country and earlier this month excluded yemen from the island's visa waiver program the more than four hundred eighty yemenis still here and they are stuck until the government decides what to do with them the percentage of successful asylum seekers in south korea is around just four st could . take the time to board if you look at just twenty seventeen it's just one percent so the number of applicants are rising with the rate of acceptance is dropping. many refugees now live in cramped conditions up to twenty min in this under grandchild charity and aid a largely grassroots. there is a negative sentiment towards islam and public opinion so that's something that we need to consider in the long term. more than half a million people ha

in december asia opened a new route to jeju island offering adnan and the yemenis the chance to into south korea through the island's visa free status the sudden influx of yemenis has overwhelmed the local community and the government is acting to stem the flow. in april south korea's justice ministry banned yemenis and j.g. from traveling to other parts of the country and earlier this month excluded yemen from the island's visa waiver program the more than four hundred eighty yemenis still here and they are stuck until the government decides what to do with them the percentage of successful asylum seekers in south korea is around just four st could . take the time to board if you look at just twenty seventeen it's just one percent so the number of applicants are rising with the rate of acceptance is dropping. many refugees now live in cramped conditions up to twenty min in this under grandchild charity and aid a largely grassroots. there is a negative sentiment towards islam and public opinion so that's something that we need to consider in the long term. more than half a million peo

since the start of this year a relative handful around five hundred arrived on the south korean island of jeju seeking asylum the government says they've flown via kuala lumpur on flights that began from malaysia's capital last december responding to south korean anger the government says it will tighten laws governing the arrival of refugees is already on jade you have also been blocked from leaving the island and yemenis will now need a visa before travelling to south korea protesters believe the yemenis have come for economic advantage rather than protection or one of the asylum seekers because he said he had few options on jeju island. you ireland was the only country you have a level for us to go to without a visa and claim asylum because we can go into a few countries in the world with us of these but they don't accept refugees or they didn't sign the. united nations convention they cream and to accept refugees and stuff. bites of south korea but it's i mean we can't go to south korea we can go to. and install the country now while we can go to. claim asylum because obviously if we go to

rapid rise of yemenis seeking asylum there more than five hundred people from yemen have flown to jeju island since december about half a million people have signed a petition urging the government to revise its refugee legislation the government held an emergency meeting on friday to deal with the crisis craig leeson has more from so. the south koreans are protesting against what they see is a refugee crisis here in the country this is because more than five hundred yemenis have access to countries through a whole day island called j g u r l and then are stuck there because the government has moved to heal them in coming to the mainland there's only about three hundred people here right now but they representing about half a million people who signed a petition urging the government to revise its legislation to get more refugees for a lot of these protests is taking place more is another protest one hundred meters away in support of the refugee but none of this is hoping for yemenis who so far as do a start on jade you are out of fighting in yemen has forced more than two million people from

in december it opened a new route to jeju island offering adnan and all the yemenis the chance to into south korea through the islands visa free status the sudden influx of yemenis has overwhelmed the local community and the government is acting to stem the flow in april south korea's justice ministry banned yemenis on j.g. from traveling to other parts of the country and earlier this month excluded yemen from the island's visa waiver program the more than four hundred eighty yemenis still here and they are stuck until the government decides what to do with them. the percentage of successful asylum seekers in south korea is around just four st could. take the time to board if you look at just twenty seventeen it's just one percent so the number of applicants are rising with the rate of acceptance is dropping. many refugees now live in cramped conditions up to twenty min in this under grandchild charity and aid a largely grassroots. there is a negative sentiment towards islam and public opinion so that's something that we need to consider in the long term. more than half a million peopl

issues discussed in beijing mathis's next stop is south korea craigslist and follow this report from jeju island where matters will meet with a south korean counterpart. this will be the third meeting between the defense secretaries this year and on the agenda the main topic of course will be the alliance between the united states and south korea and moving forward following the announcement that the alliance will be suspending these military exercises off the korean coast which have so angered north korea in the past freedom guardian the biggest of those military exercises involving some seventeen and a half thousand u.s. soldiers has been suspended and more recently the announcement that they will suspend two other exercises the careen korean marine exchange program drills of course this has been woken by the north koreans who saw these as provocative mr trump himself admitted they were provocative but also said they were expensive which may be one of the reasons that they've decided to act on this suspension certainly the issue of how that will be played out going forward and what that means

mistreatment and drowning at an albuquerque we saw in craig's report that joins us now on skype from jeju island in south korea thanks very much for speaking to us first of all why did you choose to seek asylum in south korea. basically he. was the only country a bailable for us to go to without a visa and claim asylum because we can go to a few countries in the world without these but they don't accept refugees or they didn't sign the. united nations convention or remittance to accept refugees and stuff. we have but it's i mean we can't go to south korea. and it's all the country in the world we can go to without a visa. claim asylum because obviously if we go to another country and stay there. if our visa expires and we will be stuck in jail or debilitation censored because in order to be deported back to you because you visa expired or something you have to go through a neighboring country because it is and it was it is not there is a place we can go to. we can go back you know because of the war anyway but it might let's say you want to go back in jail because you need to get a visa to go to

number of yemenis arriving there to seek asylum more than five hundred yemenis of the south koreans jeju island since december. divers have managed to go several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand looking for twelve young footballers on that coach they've been missing for a week ago rescue crews have been joined by british divers and u.s. military personnel and you opening to the underground complex was discovered on friday over and hope the boys may still be found alive as god hide the reports relatives remain positive despite some. so many questions and few ounces. a week after the boys in their coach pass through this entrance into the tom long cave a line of ambulances and hundreds of workers carry out a drill for their rescue. non-home is the mother of one of those boys she tells us thirteen year old among them loved all sports but football was his favorite mother and son are very close uncharacteristically he did not ask for permission to go to the cave often take them he's a good boy he liked to play football since he was small i always support him i never thought and if the ligh

the number of yemenis arriving there to seek asylum more than five hundred yemenis have flown to jeju island since december friday the government held an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis craig leeson travel to jeju to meet the refugees. a kitchen is the last place adnan imagined himself working. didn't choose this job but i'm in an immigration and they own of this place because me and it turned out that it was a restaurant so. a qualified health and safety officer he worked for a petroleum company in yemen but was forced to flee the war after he was threatened and tortured by sympathizers of the rebels. and then fled to malaysia on a tourist visa but soon ran out of money. in december opened a new route to j.g. island offering adnan and other yemenis the chance to into south korea through the island's visa free status the sudden influx of yemenis has overwhelmed the local community and the government is acting to stem the flow. in april south korea's justice ministry banned yemenis and j.g. from traveling to other parts of the country and earlier this month excluded yemen from the i

there more than five hundred people from yemen have flown to jeju island since december about half a million people have signed a petition urging the government to revise its refugee legislation the government held an emergency meeting on friday to deal with the crisis craig leeson has more from so. the south koreans are protesting against what they see as a refugee crisis here in the country this is because more than five hundred yemenis have accessed the country through our holiday island called j g u r l and then are stuck here because the government has moved to heal them in coming to the mainland there's only about three hundred people here right now but they representing about half a million people who signed a petition urging the government to revise its legislation to get more refugees for a lot of these protests is taking place more is another protest one hundred meters away in support of the refugee none of this is hoping for yemenis who so far as do a start going on jade you are a lot of fighting in yemen has forced more than two million people from their homes most remain

in december asia opened a new route to jeju island offering adnan and all the yemenis the chance to into south korea through the islands visa free status the sudden influx of yemenis has overwhelmed the local community and the government is acting to stem the flow in april south korea's justice ministry banned yemenis on j.g. from traveling to other parts of the country and earlier this month excluded yemen from the island's visa waiver program the more than four hundred eighty yemenis still here and they are stuck until the government decides what to do with them. the percentage of successful asylum seekers in south korea is around just for st could. take the time to board if you look at just twenty seventeen it's just one percent so the number of applicants are rising with the rate of acceptance is dropping. many refugees now live in cramped conditions up to twenty min in this under grandchild charity and aid a largely grassroots. there is a negative sentiment towards islam and public opinion so that's something that we need to consider in the long term. more than half a million people

hundred yemenis have flown to judge you island since december friday the government held an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis craig leeson travel to jeju to meet the refugees. a kitchen is the last place adnan imagined himself working. didn't choose this job but i'm in the immigration and they all know of this place picked me and it turned out that it was a restaurant so. a qualified health and safety officer he worked for a patrolling company in yemen but was forced to flee the war after he was.