clause that allow us to completely cut off funding to any u.n. agency that excess house times all member obama tried and it was a reverse that restriction and then the u.s. lost its vote in two thousand and thirteen and unesco analysts say it's just yet another escalation by the u.s. and its criticism of human bodies another way for u.s. president trump to make a statement only international stage what do you vishal lines goes anti israel and so this declaration is also another way for the u.s. to double down on its pro israel policies and rhetoric now jake this all begs the question and you've already alluded to it the u.s. hasn't been paying its due since two thousand and eleven so really how big of a blow is this move to unesco because were they really still counting on that money . right well the u.s. currently has about five hundred fifty million dollars in finance it and the state department spokesman says look first if you said it's also about whether the u.s. wants to pay that drunken spoken a lot about cutting government costs while back in two

u.n. refugee agency says more than five hundred thousand revenge refugees have fled persecution in myanmar in the last five weeks or they're calling the crackdown ethnic cleansing in a moment we'll speak to a journalist in myanmar but first this report the humanitarian crisis unfolds thousands of range of muslims fleeing persecution trying to get to bangladesh by whatever means possible. meanwhile five hundred kilometers away in my own capital nappy door the united nations political affairs chief jeffrey feltman met with aung san suu kyi to try to halt the military operations and violence in northern iraq on state he's also demanding unlimited access for humanitarian support for the ranger but the toll of the exodus is rising around one hundred eighty rangers have drowned while trying to reach bangladesh on monday twelve more including six children drowned when an overcrowded boat capsized in the bay of bengal. dozens are still missing. when our homes were burned there was no place to live then we started walking towards the west there were no boats and we had to wait for more than ten day

u.n. agencies and ngos from reaching affected areas. we're also pressing for unfettered media access so we can all learn in greater detail what is happening. president trump has discussed the situation with leaders from southeast asia. secretary of state tillerson called on soon chi. u.s. ambassador haley called the security council for an international role. this crises has implications far beyond ra keen state. burma's democracy is at a turning point and a heavy handing response invites challenges for other neighbors. we are thus engaging to address humanitarian needs and actions to stop the violence. i was in burma myself two weeks ago. our ambassador and i met with top government and military officials. authorities committed to protect civilians pursue accountability and cooperate with the international community. the situation on the ground nonetheless remains grim. we must pursue all efforts to see full implementation of these commitments. i also visited ra keen state and met with members of the displaced rohingya community. they

u.n. agencies. and for conditions to be put in place when they want to, when it's safe to do so, on a voluntary basis for the rohingya refugees to be able to go home. thank you. >> james keaton from associated press. >> thank you. >> you mentioned 340 million. can we specify that? we were at over that coming into that -- can you specific what you've raised today and could you mention -- you also mentioned you're expecting more money to come in. you mean in today's session? because we heard canada say they're going to give money later in the week possibly. so are we at the set figure for the day or do you expect more to come in for the day? >> we'll have the entire break down for you later in the day and the number reflect some things we know are coming through. not all of which you heard during the course of the morning. so it's our best estimate of the pledges. you've given me the chance to say that -- of course the pledges are one thing. it's really important to us that they're translated as soon

u.n. cultural agency in esco washington says the organization is anti israel and has not made much needed reforms. and president trump is set to torpedo the iran nuclear agreement he's expected to decertify what he's calling the worst deal ever germany says the move could undermine berlin's relationship with washington. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show thirty one people are now confirmed dead and wildfires raging across northern california making them the deadliest in that state's history and the death toll is expected to rise further with hundreds of people still missing the blazes have been burning since sunday and wine country north of san francisco firefighters have not succeeded in bringing the worst of them under control dry conditions and fierce winds have been hampering their efforts and now new evacuation orders have been issued conditions are forecast to get even worse over the weekend. let's go now to a sonoma county where the fires have hit especially hard we're joined by mike the waldo on the line he's a journalist with k.s. r.-o. radio a mike you've been taking a tour in

the united states have been impeding their work as you know just as that impede the work of other u.n. agency which they see soleus vehicles to push israel's of the u.s. agenda so it is of course symbolic. of israel's desire to push its agenda colored by sation an occupation but i think a lot of people in the world will say good riddance to the united states and good riddance to israel and would like to see israel withdraw from more u.n. agencies rather than using them as vehicles to try to push its illegal gender its occupation of colonization of palestinian land so i sigh well israel's announcement that it will pull out and encourage israel to go further and pull out of the united nations altogether on friday u.s. president donald trump's expected to finally announce whether he will uphold the iran nuclear deal under the landmark agreement sanctions against iran will ease next change for the islamic republic curbing its nuclear program michaela reports from the united nations. repudiation of the iran deal was a central promise of the trump electoral campaign and i'm disgusted i've never see

u.n. agencies to push their own agendas. israel and the united states have been impeding their work as you know just as they impede the work of other u.n. agency which they see soleus vehicles to push israel's of the us agenda so it is of course symbolic. of israel's desire to push gender colonise ation an occupation but i think a lot of people in the well will say good riddance to the united states and good riddance to israel and would like to see israel withdraw from more you and agencies rather than using them as vehicles to try to push its legal gender its occupation of colonization of palestinian land so i sigh well israel's announcement that it will pull out and encourage israel to go farther and pull out of the united nations altogether the trump administration is scrapping subsidies to health insurance companies in the latest aggressive move against obamacare comes off in the us president took another step to undo his predecessor as signature health care law signed an executive order that let small businesses band to

u.n. agencies to push their own agendas. israel and the united states have been impeding their work as you know just as they impede the work of other u.n. agency which they see soleus vehicles to push israel's of the us agenda so it is of course symbolic. of israel's desire to push gender colored isolation an occupation but i think a lot of people of the well will say good riddance to the united states a good riddance to israel and would like to see israel withdraw from more you and agencies rather than using them as vehicles to try to push its legal gender its occupation of colonization of palestinian land so i sigh well israel's announcement that it will pull out and israel to go further and pull out of the united nations altogether but california wildfires are now the deadliest in the state's history with at least thirty one people now confirmed dead thousands of firefighters are working around the clock but many of the largest blazes are burning with little containment the flames of ravage northern california's wine coun

u.n. agencies to have access to northern rakhine state. worse, i would point out, that early in this crisis military figures suggested somehow that u.n. agencies were aiding and abetting militant attackers. that was false. we called them out on that. that's since been created. but it created damage and increased tensions locally. we have told them they can't do this alone. they need the help of agencies to scale up the kind of assistance that's needed. the u.n. agencies have experience in this part of the country, are on the ground and poised to operate. aung san suu kyi did agree publicly to call for international help and assistance, we are urging they take advantage of that. mr. royce: so to clarify, though you had these discussions, the reality is that unless you personally lead these n.g.o.'s back in there and the u.n. back in there, i mean, they're twg -- they're willing to tell us that yes, this is what they're going to do, but those are just words. you actually cannot get up there into rakhine state to see these villages, we can't

u.n. cultural agency says america's decision to end its. the ship is a loss to the u.n. family and multilateralism and the u.s. state department says washington is concerned with mounting costs lack of reforms that has accused the organization of anti israel bias the paris based cultural scientific and educational organization was established after world war two for more on this let's go straight over to mike hanna who's in new york how much of a blow is this to your nest go and do the united states really care about it. well on one level here what we've got is a formality to the u.s. membership of unesco was suspended it has not paid any dues or any membership fees since two thousand and eleven when the a freeze was imposed by the obama administration on the funding of the u.s. go so in a way it is a formality the u.s. had not effectively been part of the organization but on another level there as we heard from the director general unesco irina bokova this is very much a blow to multilateralism it's being perceived within the u.n. as just yet another step in the us unde

it the go ahead for it to resume operations to roll hinge of muslims in northern iraq and state u.n. agency suspended its work in august after myanmar security forces began targeting a muslim minority group hundreds of thousands have since fled into neighboring bangladesh. ballot counting continues in kenya from the country's presidential election the cost of the divisive vote is becoming more apparent one person was killed in clashes between protesters and police today bringing the overall death toll to at least five kenya's been locked in political uncertainty ever since the supreme court an old the original presidential elections that were held back in august. the streets of kenya's capital nairobi are unusually quiet worried about the prospect of violence many are staying indoors those few who have ventured out have had enough after months of political tension. i would like politics to quieten down so we can continue with our work we don't want people to fight or kill each other we want kenya to be peaceful. we want life to continue as normal. our incomes are being hurt and we are strug

better coordination lot of the u.n. agency heads are on the ground personally monitoring things however the threat of infectious diseases still there because the sanitation and sort of system within the camps are still in condition unless those. there is a clear danger of infectious disease spreading into the camps as well as within the local community many things still need to be resolved and the crisis is far from over refugees are still coming in not in great numbers but within fifty and hundreds almost every other day or every day. two men in berlin have become the first couple to tie the knot after germany's new laws on same sex marriage came into force town halls opened on sunday to allow couples to celebrate the law change same sex partners have been able to register their partnerships since two thousand and one but they now have the same tax advantages and adoption rights as heterosexual couples germany's parliament agreed to change the law in june. good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories

car after repeated criticism of several resolutions by this u.n. agency that the trauma ministrations sees as anti easer oh but i actually feel and this is very important to stress these are not only critics it was a the obama administration that said it had to cut funds because u.s. law from the ninety's does not allow the u.s. funding for any u.s. agencies recognizing palestine as a state and that is why six years ago the united states cut off more than eighty million u.s. dollars a year this is a lot of money for this organization we're talking about twenty two percent of its entire budget but it is also quite important to stress that even though the u.s. stopped funding the unesco they still owe the agency around a five hundred million dollars and that is probably also one of the main reasons for secretary of state rex tillerson who wants to stop these payments. you know what we have had the reaction from the unesco director general irina bokova she has expressed profound regrets of the decision after receiving official notification she says by the un

loss but i think also the loss of a big player for the agency the united states is withdrawing u.n. agency and this is a loss of an international heavyweight for the unesco and a clear symbol i would say to multilateralism let's have the unesco such let's hear from us because director general in the book of. well it is a shame they've unesco these so last two years has taken the toll on the organisation in my responsibility as i have seen it i'm speaking as the wreckage and then we're going to school of course the member states have their own sovereign right to adopt decisions but my responsibility in this moment in this period was to . process and may see chips rather of uniting us around a certain cause of looking at the community the problem at all that was one of the united states complaints was it politicize ation of unesco and this isn't the first time that accusation has been levelled out that no it isn't it was back in the really reagan era back in ninety ninety four the us actually left unesco again well again for the first time if you like because of what they called their prose

u.n. agencies. thank you, president. we welcome the response to date from the federal government, but can you explain the steps the government will take to assist the people who have been displaced? and do you believe australia has a leadership role to play? >> attorney general. the conversation i referred to was a conversation between the prime minister and president would odo. i have outlined with the us trillion response is to this crisis. has beenssistance provided by a still you sense 2012. up to $50 million. that is a generous response. as chilean has been one of the leading regional participants. it is the response of the government proposes to make. the letteryou to written to the prime minister ofling for the assistance 20,000 refugees. could you advise whether the government will consider this request in good faith? situationency of the demands urgent response. governor is not presently minded for increasesls in the humanitarian intake. most generousa humanitarian refugee program. continuing battle. australia i

pedophile and that manmade dike just doesn't make sense that coming under critical review by the u.n. agency and other international aid agencies that why are still kept we are on the border got off that wire end up taking to shelters and said we need a coordinated approach before we take them in that are incredible on area still the idea this people lost is a major question what is behind the motive of the government to keep them here still in a very badly expose weather condition. portugal's interior minister has resigned after wildfires killed at least forty one people over the weekend the government is being accused of inadequate preparations to deal with the fires most of which have now been extinguished it's the second spate of wildfires in four months in june sixty four people were killed prompting criticism of portugal's state of readiness for such emergencies spain's prime minister has appealed to the catalan leader asking him to quote act sensibly as the deadline approaches for catalonia to renounce its assess and beds prime minister mariano to hoist urged cardus peers or to put th

the pedophile and manmade dike just doesn't make sense that coming under critical review by the u.n. agency and other international aid agencies that why are still kept you know we are on the border guard officer that we're undertaking the shelters and said we need a coordinated approach before we take them in that. area still the idea this people are still here is a major question what is behind the motive of the government to keep them here still in a very badly expose weather condition. opposition supporters and target who are defying government battle protests by taking to the streets to demand the president's resignation demonstrators are calling for constitutional reforms including a two term limit for presidents the government has agreed to introduce the change but the opposition to be skeptical about whether it will be applied to they'd come but president ford i guess a big. alabaster day reports. is a hairdresser in togo's capital. he says police often crackdown on opposition supporters in bay neighborhood where he lives breaking into their homes and beating them and danny along wi

u.n. agencies. >> thank you. supplementary questions? >> yes. thank you, present.esponse to-date from the historian government but could you explain please what steps the historian government intends to take to resettle or attempt to resettle the rohingya and people they displaced? a greater capacity to assist the rohingya in people than other countries in the world. >> before i respond i would like to direct something i said in answer. the conversation i referred to was a conversation between the prime minister and president. i think i said the president. i have outlined the response to this humanitarian crisis. it is an aspect of the broader assistance of a story has divided since 2012 since i said n affectedhingya i communities. that has been a generous response. that is the response the government intends to make. >> thank you. >> thank you. i refer you to a letter written with the prime minister over the weekend calling for assistance of 20,000 refugees. over and above our current humanitarian intake. could you advise whether the government will consider this

better coordination lot of the u.n. agency heads are on the ground personally monitoring things however the threat of infectious diseases still there because the sanitation and sort of system within the camps are still in condition unless those. there is a clear danger of infectious disease spreading into the camps as well as within the local community many things still need to be resolved and the crisis is far from over refugees are still coming in not in great numbers but within fifty and hundreds almost every other day or every day. a sri lankan refugee held in australia's offshore prison on minors island has committed suicide the man's body was found in the grounds of the longer hospital where he'd been receiving treatment for a mental illness he'd been placed in the health care center after harming himself earlier in the week in argentina thousands of people have marched to the presidential palace and one assad is over the disappearance of a young protester santiago maldonado went missing in august opposition and human ri

u.n. agencies but to push using the agencies to push their own agendas. israel and the united states have been impeding their work as you know just as they impede their work or other u.n. agency which they see soleus vehicles to push israel's of the u.s. agenda so it is of course symbolic. as israel's desire to push gender colonise ation occupation but i think a lot of people of the well will say good riddance to the united states a good riddance to israel and would like to see israel withdraw from more you and agencies rather than using them as vehicles to try to push it's illegal. it's occupation of colonization of palestinian land so i said i welcome israel's announcement that it will pull out i mean courage in israel to go further and pull out of the united nations altogether other parents have a canadian man frayed in pakistan have spoken of their joy of his release joshua boyle and his american wife for health for five years by the haqqani network a group linked to the taliban they were released but their three children after a tip off from the u.s.

management thinks looks far better on the ground right now we have also seen presence of very high up u.n. agency people as well as international donor agency people taking part in distributing relief coordinating on the ground talking to put fold monitoring things i spoke to the executive director of the world food program david bisley i oxon to share his experience on the ground he went to went to narrate to say what the refugees told him on the ground something like women and children crossing into bangladesh how they were shot at by me and my security force is. what is most needed right now in bangladesh he said thing needs to be ramped up more food aid is needed unless that's not done he expect more people thousands more on him just to cross over into bangladesh shortly and the international community to really speed up the aid process into this camp. still to come demonstrators in hong kong march against what they say it's political persecution by china. and a ceasefire with colombia's last remaining rebel group comes into force but talks about a permanent deal still going on. hello and wel

management thinks looks far better on the ground right now we have also seen presence of very high u.n. agency people as well as international donor agency people taking part in distributing relief coordinating on the ground talking to monitor and things i spoke to the executive director of the world food program david bisley to share his experience on the ground he went to narrate to say what the refugees told him on the ground something like women and children crossing into bangladesh how they were shot at by me and my security forces. what is most needed right now in bangor that he said to be ram more food aid is needed unless that's not done he expect more people thousands more going just to cross over into bangladesh shortly and the international community to really speed up the aid process into this camp. the u.s. president has lashed out at critics of his response to a disaster hit puerto rico as quote politically motivated ingrates power is still down goods are running low and some families remain split up nearly two weeks after hurricane maria hit traceable followed two sisters on the

u.n. agencies and delivering humanitarian assistance will be part of that its operations supposedly began today and that was constructing homes for villages effected by the crisis but actually not revenge these were just from another ethnic minority who were affected so. that she is is saying that humanitarian assistance is beginning but it's not what the u.n. and all of this you had perhaps imagined now much of the outside world is looking at pictures from bangladesh seeing these streams of refugees pouring over the border and wondering about this crisis very concerned what about the people in myanmar are they aware of what's going on and what do they think about it. well it's definitely being seen very differently here than it's being seen outside many people m.m.r. are not sympathetic to their injuries they see them as illegal immigrants from bangladesh and they call them bangali rather than ranger. and now many people see them as terrorists extremists that's what the government and military propaganda has been painting than that because this crisis began in august when ranger insurgen

the pedophile in a manmade dike just doesn't make sense are coming under critical review by the u.n. agency and other international aid agency that why are still kept we are on the border guard officer there were in the play going to shelters and could have prolonged and said we need a coordinated approach before we take them in that shelter in good appalling area still the idea this people are still here is a major question what is behind the motive of the government to keep them here still in a very badly expose weather condition. spain is one that it will take the president and step of seeking to suspend catalonia autonomy if the region's leader does not abandon his bid for a session separatist leader. has until thursday morning to tell the central government in madrid whether or not he's declaring a split from the rest of the country if he does declare independence madrid says it will trigger article one five five of spain's constitution a measure never used before that would allow it to take direct control of catalonia it would allow madrid to suspend pushed in once regional government

u.n. agencies and other international aid agencies that why are still kept yet we are one of the broader got off that we're undertaking to shelters and could have said we need a coordinated approach before we take them in that shelter in quite appalling area still the idea this people are still here is a major question what is behind the motive of the government to keep them here still in a very badly expose weather condition. the chairman of kenya's electoral commission has admitted that next week's election rerun will not be free and fair while fuller travel carty said there'd been political interference in his commissions operations and a senior commission commissioner has resigned and she's fled to the united states saying she fears for her life for me to miller has more from the kenyan capital nairobi it looks as if things are falling apart or kenya's electoral commission headquarters rather than a calm there one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says threats have been made on the lives of staff members including our own commissioners are serving po

u.n. agencies they've said that they hope that in the next few weeks other countries will be pledging money but this is a privately disappointing for them it's worrying the fact that these aid workers the aid agencies humanitarian groups have been screaming from the rafters they've been sounding the alarm bells as much as they can and still they have not been able to meet that amount that they need to meet that they needed to meet today ok so let's talk about what you saw what we put it this way we saw your pictures and the stories you sent there and they were quite extraordinary but i wonder. do you think they told the real story is it is it just that much more intense when you're there look i can tell you that if he had been there was a senior camera man with this network and i what we wanted to do is we wanted to showcase what was going on there by allowing people that experience such horrific atrocities to express themselves so that our viewers through to hear what has been going on in myanmar in the voices of these people who have suffered so much have been traumatized so much. what we

better coordination lot of the u.n. agency heads are on the ground personally monitoring things. still there because the sanitation and sort of system within the camps are still in condition unless those are. there is a clear danger of infectious disease spreading into the camps as well as within the local community many things still need to be resolved and the crisis is far from over refugees are still coming in not in great numbers but within fifty and hundreds almost every other day or every day. a truce between colombia's government and the country's last standing rebel group has begun the national liberation army all the land agreed to the terms after negotiations failed several times it's hoped the agreement will stand while talks for a longer term deal continue in ecuador. it's the first ever cease fire declared by the national liberation army or. the last active rebel group in colombia and the first concrete step after seven months of peace talks to end its five decades of conflict with the state a historic truce but one that stamper at least for now. this doesn't complet

u.n. investigation has revealed that the egyptian government break an international. trade in weapons with north korea a north korean ship flying the cambodian flag was intercepted by u.s. intelligence agencies very close to egypt hidden deep inside the vessel with thirty thousand rocket propelled grenades that egypt initially denied it had anything to do with the seas but a panel of u.n. investigators says the grenade rock is destined for the egyptian army. the u.s. president has called critics of his response to disaster for the ricoh quote politically motivated in grades power is still down on the island goods are running low and some families are still separated almost two weeks after hurricane maria devastated the u.s. territory to raise a boat has followed two sisters on a journey to find their missing father. gerry and try to help failed have not heard from their father for more than ten days he lives in the central mountains in an area that was among the hardest hit by the hurricane gas is difficult to find these days that's why when neighbors gave them some they decided to go and find him . before they go. their ways to get their work. and now we are trying to go there and find them

because iran remains compliant with its obligations under the deal as it has been verified by the u.n. agency in charge of monitoring iran's implementation of the deal even by president trump's own state department. so what is going to happen is that congress is likely going to change the iran nuclear agreement review act and add new conditions to it so it would take away the certification and it would probably attach the snap back of sanctions to conditions that are not in the nuclear deal for example it would say if after ten years iran starts ramping up its nuclear program as it has been allowed by the nuclear deal then congress will snap back sanctions or or if iran moves to develop its ballistic missile program further and moves towards a longer range missiles intercontinental ballistic missiles then same. as was snapped back automatically now the problem with this is that this is a unilateral alteration of a multilateral deal that has been enshrined by a un security council and this is in fact blackmailing and twisting the arms of u.s. allies to come join it in violating the agreement a

given the go ahead to resume aid operations to roll hinge of muslims in northern ca kind state the u.n. agency suspended its work in august after myanmar security forces began targeting the muslim minority group hundreds of thousands of for him to have now fled into neighboring bangladesh. was kenyan election officials continue to count ballots in the country's presidential election rerun the cost of this divisive vote is becoming ever more apparent one person was killed in clashes between protesters and police today bringing the overall death toll to at least five kenya's been walked in political uncertainty ever since the supreme court an old presidential elections that were held back in august fears of further bloodshed and now it authorities to once again postpone voting that had been planned for saturday in some opposition strongholds. the streets of kenya's capital nairobi are unusually quiet worried about the prospect of violence many are staying indoors those few who have ventured out have had enough after months of political tension. i would like politics to quieten down so we can con

u.n. agencies. >> thank you, attorney general. senator mckin, supplementary question. >> yes, thank you, president. i would just like for the attorney to resume his seat. we welcome the response to date from the australian government. but could you explain, please, what steps the government intends to take to resettle or assist in resettling the ruhinga people who have been displaced and do you agree that australia has a leadership role to play in our region and a much greater capacity to assist the ruhingen people than most other countries in the world? >> the attorney general. >> before i respond, can i just correct something i said in answer to your primary question? so the conversation which i referred was a conversation between the prime minister and the president, i think i said the foreign minister and the president. senator, i have outlined what the australian government's response is to this humanitarian crisis. and it is an aspect of the broader assistance that australia has provided since 2012, as i said, for the ruhing

u.n. agencies official mission is providing education coaching human rights that includes keeping a list of world heritage sites but the u.s. government says unesco is too political we'd like to see the politics kept out of it and we see with this anti israel bias that's long documented on the part of you know asco that that needs to come to an end to the united states made the decision after a long deliberative process to pull out the u.s. is angry because u.s. can recognize her bronze old city as a palestinian side even though the city's team of the patriarchs also an important jewish holy land mosque it's also angry that syria was kept on the unesco human rights committee in spite of the country's ongoing civil war. the u.s. already i.c.'s go hundreds of millions of dollars now it's laving you know scott says by doing so it's betraying american values. united states is a founding member of the whole idea that you can build peace through education science a culture communication. is basically an american idea it's not the first time the u.s. has pulled out of unesco it quit in the one tho

u.n. agencies stand by and are ready to provide that support but cannot do so. in central rakhine state there's more ability to provide access and help but it's also severely limited. we've recently been able to restore some of the service but only operating at 50%. the question about the role of the burmese government is that the burmese government authorities are the ones that provide permits necessary to access these areas and they have not given it. another complicating factor, is that even when there are travel permits, there's excessive layers of bureaucracy and high levels of ethnic tension in those areas that make it difficult to deliver that aid. and one more thing on the importance of access for journalists and media. this gets to the question of accountability. unless we're actually able to see and document what's happening, that makes accountability in the future more important. that's why we continue to call for and appreciate your support. >> i got 30 seconds left. i want to commend the administration. the administration has generally spoken forcef

few weeks what we have seen there is a better relieved there is better coordination a lot of the u.n. agency heads are on the ground personally monitoring things however the threat of infectious diseases still there because the sanitation and sort of system within the camps are still in condition unless those are. there is a clear danger of infectious disease spreading into the camps as well as within the local community many things still need to be resolved and the crisis is far from over refugees are still coming in not in great numbers but within fifty and hundreds almost every other day or if not every day now more than half of girls in south sudan drop out of school before the age of eighteen many of them come under pressure from their family to do so but teachers in one school in a rural town of rome back working with the community to change that and to help girls finish their education he will move them with. she's not just preparing for classes as she packs her books for. every day she stays in school is a win in the battle between the relatives who want her out of school. i don't. n

u.n. agencies to push their own agendas. israel and the united states have been impeding the work as you know just as they impede their work because of the un agency which they see soleus vehicles to push israel's and the us agenda so it is of course symbolic is as israel's desire to push its agenda of colonize ation and occupation but i think a lot of people of the well will say good riddance to the united states a good riddance to israel and would like to see israel withdraw from more you and agencies rather than using them as vehicles to try to push its legal gender its occupation of colonization of palestinian land so i say i welcome israel's announcement that will pull out and courage israel to go further and pull out of the united nations altogether pakistan's army has rescued a family held captive by the haqqani network an organization ally into the afghan taliban and the army says canadian joshua boyle his american wife and coleman and their three children are afraid and a tribal district along the pakistan afghanista

u.n. agencies and instead will provide direct assistance to persecuting christians in the middle east as we report on how violence still plagues the southern philippines despite a clamp down on illegal weapons. with. from flowing on and when it's too enchanting that's it brings. hello there the weather is quite unsettled across europe at the moment with two main weather systems one down in the southeast corner of your the other one galloping down from the north and behind that it's going to turn a lot colder for some of us over the next three days this first system though this is already giving us lots of thunder and lightning as it works its way across greece bogus area remain and now it's working its way into turkey behind that only a small break before the next weather system is pushing its way down and this one is the one that is bringing us all cold air so that's going to be screaming down from the north over the next few days a many of us will see the temperatures dropping for struck home on sunday will only get to four degrees here there will be a fair amount of cloud around maybe th

u.n. agencies isn't currently up to the task of keeping these people alive and safe. the libyan coast guard has rescued seventy five microns have a stranded on a rubber boat minding woman and four children were among the survivors as they were going to shore to a center and tripoli and a by town of subrata is considered one of the largest human trafficking point on the mediterranean coast. at least twenty one people have been killed and hundreds of missing and wildfires in the u.s. state of california thousands of firefighters are battling twenty two blazes in the northern part of the state there are concerns that several of the fires could merge into one huge front more than thirty five hundred homes and businesses have been destroyed jake a board has more from santa rosa california. this is the journey's end mobile home park and in a scene like this it seems as if the worst might be behind us the flames have died down and it's just down to to counting the cost of the ruins of a place like this unfortunately because of the great chaos of a fire like this and the fact

u.n. agencies isn't currently up to the task of keeping these people alive and safe so they are flooding in vietnam has killed at least thirty seven paid for the left fourteen missing brain his last several provinces in central and northern vietnam this way triggering flash flooding and landslides the disaster management authority says more than eight hundred thousand homes have been submerged or damaged. the mollifies banning in the u.s. state of california have killed twenty three people with hundreds still missing a thousand firefighters have been deployed more than thirty five hundred homes and businesses have been destroyed fast on to say some of the damage could have been prevented rob reynolds reports from the sound to me. high winds low humidity and dry brush the ingredients of california's fire disaster are simple all they need is a spark if you get that ignition and you don't get that if you don't get that ignition put out right away then those are the conditions that allow a wildfire to spread really uncontrollably hot winds from the desert eastward every october just as the fore

u.n. agencies and these people were called and brought to law. but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to where home village kind of visits her mother in the camp. and. hannah says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. for now let's bring in john philip schultz he's one of the t.w. journalists behind that report from south sudan and joins us now on the line from lagos nigeria a young fellow first of all give us an overview if you can of the scale of the disaster in south sudan. and it's quite. valid six million people need surgeons have this is the majority of those who don't need and in many parts of the country especially in the northern regions where there's direct i think between the government troops and the rebel forc

in a new report, the u.n. agency said government forces and buddhist extremists have executed a "well organized, coordinated and systematic" campaign of human rights violations against the muslim rohingya in myanmar's rakhine state. an estimated 520,000 have fled their homes for neighboring bangladesh. myanmar's defacto leader, the nobel peace laureate aung san suu kyi, called for national unity today and said she had created a committee that will oversee all international and local assistance. we turn now to eric schwartz. he was assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration, and is now president of refugees international. he recently returned from bangladesh. and daniel russel was a career foreign service officer and served as assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. he's now a senior fellow at the asia society. and we thank you both for being with us. eric schwartz, to you first. you just did return from bangladesh a few weeks ago. what was your main takeaway? >> my m

the pedophile in a manmade dike just doesn't make sense are coming under critical review by the u.n. agency and other international aid agency that why are still kept and we are on the border guard officer there were undertaking to shelters and could have prolonged this said we need a coordinated approach before we take them in that are incredible an area still the idea this people are still here is a major question what is behind the motive of the government to keep them here still in a very badly expose weather condition one of the stories we're following closely israeli authorities have approved another large set of plans for illegal settlement homes in the occupied west bank some one thousand three hundred twenty three settlement housing units have just been given the green light taking the total this week to two thousand six hundred forty six it's all part of an israeli government push to expand west bank settlement construction which is illegal under international law the e.u. has condemned the latest decision saying they are detrimental to peace efforts in other developments the isra