A communication hotline with south korea after nearly two years after days of unrest tens of thousands of iranians rally in support of the government passed a New York School thats providing more than just education for vulnerable children. The u. S. President is threatening to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority in a tweet donald trump asked why the u. S. Should make any future a payments to palestinians they no longer want to talk peace or show the u. S. Respect trump angered palestinians last month by recognizing jerusalem as israels capital in the same tweet he now says jerusalem status is off the negotiating table palestinians insist occupied East Jerusalem should be the capital of their future state. In a series of tweets the Palestine Liberation Organization has responded to trumps threat saying the Palestinian People will not be blackmailed trump has sabotage the Peace Process blaming the palestinians for the consequences of his own irresponsible actions washington is also threatening to cut off funding to the Un Agency Helping Palestinian Refugees according to the United Nations relief and works agency more than one Million People live in fifty eight recognized Palestinian Refugee camps in jordan lebanon and the west Bank Including occupied East Jerusalem with the us is one of the main contributors to relief agencies for Palestinian Refugees that goes towards Education Health and social programs washington donated just under three hundred seventy Million Dollars to the United Nations relief and works agency in two thousand and sixteen one hundred germ june joins us now from ramallah so already quoted there mohammed the reaction from the p. L. O. What Palestinian Authority officials been saying. Well sammy thats really along the lines of what weve been hearing im going to give you a little bit more of the reaction we heard from p. L. O. Executive Committee Member when i should we who said palestinian rights are not for sale by recognizing occupy jerusalem as israels capital donald trump has not only violated International Law but he has also single handedly destroyed the very foundations of peace and condoned israels illegal an extension of the city we will not be blackmailed the president trying to sabotage our search for peace freedom and justice now we also got reaction from mahmoud this money and hes another p. L. O. Executive Committee Member he said that this is not the first threat and will not be the last one and he stressed the readiness of the leadership to go to negotiations immediately providing that it has a timeframe clear basis and accepting the two state solution now one more thing to add another reaction weve heard is from the spokesman for thats the u. N. Agency for the aid relief of Palestinian Refugees he told us that has not been informed by the u. S. Administration of any changes in u. S. Funding to the agencies these are two potentially really controversial explosive statements cutting funding to the palestinians is one but also that jerusalem is not on the negotiating table and what would the consequences or implications of that be for the Peace Process and for peoples lives that. Well look i mean theres no way to understate that this would be extremely significant and would really inflame tensions here i mean lets also talk about the run up to things that happened in jerusalem this week to President Trumps tweet i mean just two days ago you had a vote by the Israeli Knesset the parliament in which it made it now a super majority of votes eighty of one hundred twenty knesset members that would have to approve any future legislation that would give away any part of jerusalem to the palestinians now thats significant because it makes it much harder to do so when it come to the peace negotiations up until now it was only sixty one votes of one hundred twenty members of the knesset meaning a simple majority of votes that would need to do so by doing this this effectively also takes jerusalem off the negotiating table in any future peace talks so you have that then you have this tweet by President Trump you have the remarks by the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley the palestinian authorities here growing very concern and growing angry because they feel as though they are being boxed in they are saying drusilla has been taken off the table they want that to be the capital of any future palestinian state you have the israelis who are insisting that the issue basically is resolved now in that jerusalem is the capital Going Forward of israel so its very messy its very complicated its go only going to lead to more confusion and the fact of the matter is that you know today even though some palestinian officials are saying that you know these kinds of threats have been made before when it comes to the Palestinian Authority cutting funding and even though the u. S. Has cut funding in the last few years the fact of the matter is that when it comes to if the funding is cut for if youre talking about three hundred Million Dollars just last year alone that was given in the u. S. Being the being the biggest governmental donor to honor these are refugees that have immense needs and those needs are only growing and are only going to continue to grow so that really. A lot of concern at a time when there is already so much concern about whats going to happen Going Forward. All right well leave it there for now thanks so much mohamed. North korea has reopened communication inside the Demilitarized Zone with south korea for the first time in almost two years it took place ahead of talks between the two governments scheduled for tuesday. North koreas leader kim jong un has given an order to open the panmunjom hotline between the north and south from three pm on january third to contact south korea regarding the right time for talks and sending a delegation to the peeling chuang Winter Olympics. In south koreas government welcomes north koreas response to yesterdays offer to restore the public communication channel would discuss practical affairs regarding yesterdays offer to hold south and north korea talks. Or graham on web is a Research Fellow at the institute for defense and strategic studies in singapore he says expectations for any positive outcome shouldnt be high. I think theres a lot of hope and the the new found hope is a warranted one because we have had a very difficult year in twenty seventy with you know regulus not being from the north koreans of any offering of figleaves olive branches sorry towards the other side and now weve seen a letting up and so things have happened very quickly and clearly boresight are trying to capitalize on europe on the opportunity to try and set up the best possible stage in order for them to talk to each other i think we need to have a very modest expectation or whats in store for the upcoming dialogue next week its going to be very focused very narrow and very mediocre so to speak centered around north koreas intention to send an athletic delegation to the twenty eighteen winter games in february and i think that is one modest yet law hanging fruit that both sides should be true on right now if they can get that right im quite certain that they can get the bigger things right along the way so this is really a moment to sort of secure this foothold talking to each other agreeing on something and getting something tangible done which is has dividends on and on cultural on a cultural social level between will science than trump has responded to north Korean Leader kim jong uns claim that he has a launch button on his desk for Nuclear Weapons capable of reaching the u. S. In a tweet trump wrote i too have a Nuclear Button and its much bigger more powerful one than his a my boss and works. Norway is banning weapons exports to the United Arab Emirates over its participation in the war in yemen the u. A. E. Is a key member of the Saudi Led Coalition fighting hooty rebels in the country because aleutian has imposed a blockade on the yemen leading to widespread Food Shortages and a Major Health Crisis the u. N. Estimates more than five thousand civilians have been killed since the conflict began in two thousand and fifteen tens of thousands of government supporters are rallying across iran its the first major show of support after six days of demonstrations against the government there gathering in at least four cities to condemn the recent unrest twenty one people have been killed in the protests meanwhile the u. S. Has called for an emergency session of the u. N. Security council to discuss the process in iran the iranian Supreme Leader is blaming what he calls external enemies for six days of violence mike hanna has the latest from u. N. Headquarters in new york. Ambassador nikki haley called a briefing to outline u. S. Priorities at the United Nations in this new year and top of her list the situation in iran if the iranian dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the un must speak out in the days ahead we will be calling for an emergency session both here in new york and at the Human Rights Council in geneva we must not be silent the people of iran are crying out for freedom all freedom loving people must stand with their cause this echoing sentiments expressed by President Trump earlier who said in a tweet the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt or a new regime all of the money that president obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets the people have little food big inflation and no human rights the u. S. Is watching. This little evidence in the streets of tehran of the turmoil evident in some other parts of the country but there are deep concerns expressed about the rise in food prices and drop in employment i mean john the car im working but in this society im always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihood ammonia dance that there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult we have tenants i have a daughter and son both at school the high prices really put me under pressure at home irans Supreme Leader has broken his silence on the protests accusing irans enemies of responsibility montazeri a force that the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack three which it can infiltrate because the recent events. All those who are at odds with the Islamic Republic have used various means including money weapons politics and intelligence apparatus to create problems for the islamic system the Islamic Republic and the islamic revolution. Newsagency portage reveals ongoing protest in a number of regions hundreds are reported to be in arrested and demonstrators continue to defy an attempted government blackout of social media back at the United Nations the new president of the Security Council has confirmed the u. S. Has been in contact and discussions are ongoing but its not clear at this stage whether the u. S. Appetite for a formal meeting is shared by the wrist of Security Council members some may be reluctant to intervene in what they would regard as an internal domestic dispute my kind of syria United Nations now the u. S. State department is considering further action against iran we dont get ahead of sanctions but that is one tool kit a couple things that we have in a very bright and wide toolkits there are a range of options that we certainly have Going Forward and thats why i say we are watching reports very carefully of any potential human rights abuses of these protesters who are protesting peacefully irans foreign minister has hit back at President Trumps remarks telling the u. S. To stay out of his countrys affairs divides out of tweeted Iran Security and stability depends on its own people who are unlike the peoples of trans regional be f. F. Saw best friends forever have the right to vote and protest these hard earned rights will be protected and infiltrators will not be allowed to sabotage them through violence and destruction. Still ahead on al jazeera closing the door on open borders countries in europe refuse to give up possible checks plus hundreds of boko haram hostages escape in nigeria we need to form a captive of the armed groups. However we have now got signs of some quieter weather pushing into southern parts of the philippines because that tropical system to become a tropical depression that is now making its way towards central and southern areas of vietnam say some real heavy rain coming in here but the winds in the process of easing down and not just simply risk eyes for central and southern areas of the philippines its been pretty wet recently into malaysia more heavy downpours a hundred seventy two millimeters of for a space of twenty four hours underneath this massive cloud it stays very disturbed here as we go on through thursday further heavy downpours coming in heavy downpours back in there across parts of vietnam then you can see that whats the weather will make you sweat will lose all manila sinks and break down poles but for central and southern areas of the philippines it does look a tad dry over the next few days but the showers never really too far away right across Southeast Asia right down into indonesia wavin java seeing some heavy downpours and they join up with the heavy showers we have across the far north of australia does look a little disturbed here elsewhere you can see clear skies High Pressure starting to quieten things down settling down nicely looking good for the cricket for the final test in sydney getting up seven twenty five celsius there on thursday could touch twenty nine by friday and by that stage we want to see showers into eastern parts of queensland. In the most unlikely. Wonder the signal to challenge perceptions of africa. And bring photography to his community. A story of hope and beauty in the face of adversity. The new african photography. Congolese dream at this time aljazeera. Watching aljazeera mine and out of our top stories this hour the u. S. President is threatening to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority. Asked why the u. S. Should pay palestinians when they dont want to talk peace or show the u. S. Respect they also tweeted theyd taken jerusalem off the negotiating table. The first time in almost two years north korea has reopened communication inside the Demilitarized Zone with south korea this took place ahead of talks between the two governments scheduled for tuesday. Norway is banning weapons exports to the United Arab Emirates over its participation in the war in yemen the u. A. E. Is a key member of the Saudi Led Coalition fighting hooty rebels in the country. Now the u. S. Says it intends to withhold more than two hundred fifty Million Dollars of aid to pakistan to the decision comes after President Trump again accused the country of being a safe haven for he called terrorists rosen jordan has more from washington d. C. The u. S. President doll tromped used his first tweet of two thousand and eighteen to attack the pakistani government trying to accuse the pakistanis of not doing enough to crack down on groups such as the hunt khan the network or the talabani say these groups are destabilizing not just pockets but also afghanistan to the west on tuesday the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley made it plain that the u. S. President simply wasnt tweeting elder to her in her words nikki haley said there are real concerns with what is a lot of bodies doing to fight but the u. S. Calls terrorism pakistan had played a double game for years they work with us at times and they also harbor the terrorist attack our troops in afghanistan that game is not acceptable to this administration we expect far more cooperation from pakistan in the fight against terrorism in addition the state Department SpokespersonHeather Nauert told reporters on tuesday that pakistan knows what it needs to do in order to make the region safer and she said without going into too many details that it definitely means trying to crack down on these groups that are doing stabilizing the region and she said that islam abides complaints simply arent going anywhere. Pakistan has rejected the u. S. Allegations its envoy to the United Nations tells aljazeera we have contributed and sacrificed the most in fighting International Terrorism and carried out the largest counterterrorism operation anywhere in the world us spokespersons should not shift the blame for their own mistakes and failures onto others they went on to say pakistans cooperation is not based on any consideration of aid but on our National Interests and principles zafir just as an analyst on pakistan a professor of International Relations at the high the Azam University he says a move like this should not have been a major surprise to policymakers in pakistan. The americans are not asking about the hospice practically they are asking about the how can the network which pakistan is denying that it did karli network i mean there from the taliban fighting all good that it does not possess any see if have been in pakistan because since yesterday or before yesterday if you see pakistan has once again to be created is that there is no see if i have been part of one taliban or anyone else in pakistan let me have submitted that since one year buck standard americans perception on the mortality zone of understand have been. Americans have been alleging or they were asking about. The game for fifty dollars you can see it starts things you have to not forget here not only of the start of our carlene that there are because if you call it the alignment in the International Falls things and pakistan is drifting towards euro ition alliances like china and that is not acceptable to the american if you told the same to National Security strategy which was released by the drop in a speech on the age of december two thousand same thing that indicates ballast that indicates. As appeared all skewed to complete it to wit as pakistan is against trenton i think that since one year pakistan has been preparing to respond or to bid this kind of a burden thats why in pakistan if you see public uproar it is one side but on the other side of the government the armed forces are under pressure because no one is here opposition the government is desiring to appease america. Israel has given undocumented african immigrants three months to leave the country or face imprisonment those who leave during that period will be given plane tickets and three and a half thousand dollars Rights Groups have condemned the decision saying it puts peoples lives in danger. Parts of indias financial by of being shut down by protesting dallas a community traditionally discriminated against in the countrys society the demonstrations are in response to attacks by rightwing hindus on monday say the police didnt take any action against those who attacked them theyve been celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of a battle way down its aligned with British Colonial forces defeating an opp of cost ruler for the czechs within europes passport free shang again zone are continuing despite rules allowing certain restrictions to come to an end its two years since the peak of the refugee crisis some countries say security remains an issue poor east reports from one of the busiest crossing points between denmark and sweden. From an open border for refugees to a closed border for anyone not carrying a passport or a swedish Identity Card swedens policy on opening its gates to Asylum Seekers during the crisis of twenty fifteen is long gone. But Police Checks on the train from denmark dont seem to be going anywhere soon the bridge between copenhagen. Was the main entry point for more than eight hundred sixty thousand people who applied for asylum in sweden in twenty fifteen that flow has now dried up the law allowing restrictions has expired but sweden is one of the countries citing security as a reason for the controls to continue. The closure of the balkan routes has led to a huge drop in the number of refugees arriving in europe yet sweden france germany austria norway and denmark have all continued to impose controls on their front tiers. Those restrictions legally expired on november the twelfth under article twenty nine of the schengen borders code. But article twenty five allows the countries to extend them for six months if they claim serious threats to public order or internal security. Danes and swedes had previously been encouraged to see a newly branded region as a place in which they could freely commute between the countries they say the increases in their journey times are unjustified this is mainly. For show internal politics their words citizens are worried here in sweden about the mass influx of immigrants trying to show that theyre doing something and reality theres nothing happens here this is. Almost a circus a waste of time journeys of thousands of kilometers from the middle east and africa how finally ended here in recent is the question of whether Free Movement in the schengen zone can ever begin again is still in the. Whole race aljazeera. Armed Group Boko Haram still hold many people hostage in northeastern nigeria where nearly seven hundred of them escaped captivity earlier this week Catherine Sawyer has been to my dad really in that area shes been meeting the families of people once held by finances. This mothers in my golly a desperate for news of their teenage daughters who were kidnapped by boko haram almost three years ago that tag of also killed men in the village in northeast nigeria. He was seventeen years old at the moment. Only god knows where she is ive been praying to him to bring her back well keep a saying maybe you can help us find her several other girls from this area have returned home after fleeing the boko haram a cop his which gives this mothers hope thousands of people mostly women and children have been abducted by boko haram also managed to escape like sign a p. S. A. They were forced to become wives signed up how was life with her. We suffered a lot my husband beat me but i made good friendships with other women who had also been abducted. And how did you manage to escape. One day my husband left in a hurry he didnt tell me where he was going then i heard nigerian soldiers were coming so i just started walking in twenty fourteen more than two hundred girls were kidnapped from the secondary school in chibok some escaped. Of the negotiations between the government and. One in a hundred three main prison as. The Catholic Church is taking. Risk being kidnapped if they return. Anybody any clues contact with and stayed with them for. Two months when they. Pull back to. Spies men and boys. Many have been taken and. When they escape they have to face tough screening to make sure theyre not active members of the group the screening process needs to be more transparent people who know what happened once you surrender yourself to the military and if you are in a sense like most of the people are then whats going to happen to you what are they what is the process youre going to go through because once they know thats theyre going to be able to come back more back in my galley zainab says she was seven months pregnant when she returned now she just wants to take care of her child and prays often for the imprisoned women she forged relationships with back in the forest. But the galley northeast nigeria. Ugandas president has signed a bill removing the president ial age limit from the constitution the new law allows seventy three year old you wearing most of you need to run for election again in two thousand and twenty one hes been in office nine hundred eighty six the opposition in honduras is calling for a month of protests ahead of the president s inauguration on january the twenty seventh in december one Orlando Hernandez was declared the winner after a tight Runoff Election but opposition candidate salvador nasrallah says he won the organization of american states says the word irregularities its calling for a new vote. But im sure of Homeless People in the u. S. Is rising in new york one in ten schoolchildren spent at least part of last year without a home to call the road kristen salumi went to one school thats trying to deal with the challenges. When the Island School in Lower Manhattan opens its doors in the morning principal swanny ramos is there to greet the children. And make sure they get a hot breakfast at this school where nearly half of the students are homeless late stragglers are common as are students dealing with many distractions from their school work we provide three meals hot meals so we provide breakfast lunch and hot supper at the end of the day leo recently moved from a homeless shelter into a subsidized apartment with her two children. She decided to keep them in the school for continuity even though it takes for more than an hour to get there on the subway. Now the need. The school has a laundry room paid for with grant money so families struggling with the high cost of housing in new york have a place to wash School Uniforms the number of homeless students in new york city has been rising along with the general Homeless Population in the last year one in ten students spent time either in the citys shelter or living with relatives this presents a unique set of challenges not only for the families but also for the schools that serve them. Because homeless students have higher rates of absenteeism and lower test scores advocates for children say the city needs more social workers for the one hundred schools where more than ten percent of the population is homeless we saw in new york city that more than half of students living in shelters were absent for twenty or more school days over the course of a year that means that they miss about the equivalent of a month of school. Principal ramos leaves her school open until seven in the evening providing as long as possible a safe and loving environment for students may lack the stability of a home when they leave christian salumi aljazeera new york. This is our decision and these are the top stories now the u. S. President is threatening to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority in a tweet to donald trump asked why the u. S. Should pay palestinians when they dont want to talk peace shows us respect also tweeted that he taken jerusalem off the negotiating table last month he angered palestinians by recognizing jerusalem as israels capital washington is also threatening to cut off funding to the Un Agency Helping Palestinian Refugees the u. S. Gave just under three hundred seventy million to the United Nations relief and works agency in two thousand and sixteen making it the largest donor for the first time in almost two years north korea has reopened communication inside the Demilitarized Zone with south korea this took place ahead of talks between the two governments scheduled for tuesday. North koreas leader kim jong un has given an order to open the panmunjom hotline between the north and south from three pm on january third to contact south korea regarding the right time for talks and sending a delegation to the peeling chang Winter Olympics or do we need to keep poking south koreas government welcomes north koreas response to yesterdays offer to restore the public communication channel who would discuss practical affairs regarding yesterdays offer to hold south and north korea talks. No way stopping weapons exports the United Arab Emirates over its participation in the war in yemen the u. A. E. Is a key member of the Saudi Led Coalition fighting hurt the rebels in the Country Coalition has imposed a blockade on the yemen leading to Food Shortages in what the u. N. Has called the worlds worst humanitarian crisis. Tens of thousands of government supporters are rallying across iran the first major show of support of the six days of demonstrations against the regime a gathering of at least four cities to condemn the recent unrest in which at least twenty one people were killed those are your headlines and news continues here on aljazeera. Stay with us. Here is a very important force of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone im still here to go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. Twenty First Century africa a continent undergoing great change and finally seizing control of it. 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