onlyly 27 weree accepted. three of them were from syria. th number of refugees fleeing the conflict in syria has reached 4.9 million. japan has been criticized for its reluctance to accept them. meanwhile, western countries such as the u.s. and germany have taken in syrian refefugeesy the tens of thousands but last year japan placed a humanitarian aid package worth $2.8 billion for refugees and migrants over three years. it pledged to initiate a government funded program to accept 150 students over the course of five years. the study programs are an alternative way to accept syrians. right now the screening system does not recognize someone based as a refugee based on the fact that they fled conflict. they say this is a good start. >> i am encouraging the government to do more in asylums and resettlement. i appreciate this has to be done in a gradual manager. >> reporter: jar says this initiative could become a new way to bridge the new countries. these students say they'll work to bring syria and japan together. nhk world, tokyo. ♪ ♪ >>> a

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you know what's amazing not onlyly is it still mild tonight it'sits going to be mild again tomorrowrk or tie at least another record.r re we're forecasting 68-degrees for wednesday and the record high is 68 from 2015. by the way, today is the first time we've been up and over 730 since 2012.si on the day that we're talkingin about another record breakingr e high we're also going to bebe talking about winter stormrm watches especially north.no we'll get into that in a moment. temperatures 6 # in d.c. more like middle of april even at night. and this temperature is wrong, something wrong with the thermometer. i'm sure you're closer to about 62-degrees. we may still a little bit of light rain tonight. we may see some around the ge this will be very light if it does move through, but it is part of a much bigger system. look at squall line that has been moving into florida earlier today. this really devastated parts of louisiana, in particular, eastern louisiana, new orleans. we saw am very serious touchdowns of tornado there, 12 reports of tornadoes across louisiana and mississippi. but

the agency says there are onlyly targeting people who are a a risk to community safety. >> ♪♪ >>> 7:08ing today parents in and d some retired teachers plan toer gather outside of a d.c. of a d. middle school during a visit a i today by new education secretary betsy devos.de they are not calling theng the gathering a protest, though.tho what is it? fox5's bob's bb barnard is live at jeffersonffen middle school academy in southwest with what is it.. good morning. >> reporter: hey, goodep morning, allison,or yeah, yea they're calling it a vigil vigi basically even though theough washington teachers union says s it did not support betsy they want to be here top sende d her a message and this is the old jefferson junior high high school in southwest andhwesd washington, now jefferson academy. it is a d.c. public school.ch want to first show you aa picture of betsy devos whovos o was over at howard universityrd yesterday. this was on the universityversiy president's twitter account.s tw she tweeted a photo as wel.l. that is the newly confirmedonfid secretary of education making mg her first

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