Barbara starr youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up with warnings that the u. S. Says this is going to slosh it say for palestinians regional stability indonesias government is accused of not acting fast enough to deal with an outbreak of measles and malnutrition in the remote province are to over diplomacy a day before a man who had mccrone meets to reason made france announces it will lend the britain the tapestry and archaeologists in mexico to discover whats believed to be the largest flooded cave in the world. Marching under one flag and playing together in a joint womens Ice Hockey Team north and south korea have announced the Historic Partnership for this years Winter Olympics delegates from both countries announced the city after a third round of talks in the border village of john the north will also send a two hundred thirty member strong. South koreas president has voiced his support for bringing players together saying it would move the hearts of people around the world however its angered south korean athletes and the public more than one hundred petitions have been launched opposing the. Well the olympic meetings may have relations officially between north and south korea but theyve had an icy reception from japans foreign minister taro kono has warned delegates of a meeting at a meeting in canada to be fooled by government and to consider its true intentions at the summit twenty countries agreed to stop ship to ship transfers of outlawed goods to north korea in response to its Nuclear WeaponsProgram Allies russia and china did not attend the meeting. Has more now from the south korean capital seoul. This is a significant agreement between the two koreas especially considering that before high level talks last week there had been no official communication between the countries in more than two years now they have agreed to march together at the Opening Ceremony under a Korean Peninsula flag theyve agreed to form a joint womens Ice Hockey Team and interesting lee theyre planning to stage events inside north korea theyve agreed to hold training events out of a ski resort that is a pet project of the leader kim jong un theyre also planning to hold a joint cultural event at Mount Kumgang now south korean tourists have not visited there since a south korean was shot by a Security Guard ten years ago and north korea has tried to bring up restarting that Tourism Program in the past there have been displays of unity at sporting events before for example the two koreas marched together at the Opening Ceremony of the two thousand and sydney olympics but this is agreement follows a period of heightened tensions and increasingly threatening north Korean Nuclear and missile tests south korean president says he hopes this year will mark a turning point in a stablish in peace on the Korean Peninsula but others are skeptical the Japanese Foreign minister has told the meaning of his counterparts that they should not be naive about north koreas intent nor should they be blinded by what he called its Charm Offensive saying that even now north korea continues to develop its Nuclear Weapons program. Palestinians have denounced Donald Trumps decision to hold back money needed for aid that would have helped millions of people the head of the United Nations relief and works agency also known as undera has appealed for world donations to make up the shortfall well the u. S. Says its withholding sixty five million of the one hundred twenty five million it was going to give to iraq which provides a lifeline for around five million palestinians in gaza the west bank jordan lebanon and syria the u. S. Says its biggest donor giving nearly thirty percent of its budget the e. U. U. K. Saudi arabia and germany are the other main donor countries but the u. S. Had already drastically cut its contribution from a three hundred fifty Million Dollar donation last year imran khan reports now on what the impact will be. It will be camps like these jalazone in the occupied west bank that will be affected most by the us decision to cut a refugee funding to the United Nations relief and works agency otherwise known as. There isnt a household here that doesnt rely on whether its Health Education a Waste Collection fifteen thousand refugees live here you know i dont wish that it would be a big problem with. The agency i wasnt here for just two days you would see thrashed by league up. In places like gaza residents fear they will be left destitute because of the u. S. Decision the israeli siege of gaza already creates acute shortages of food electricity and other essentials as well as causing high unemployment and infrastructure to crumble you know i think you should have mercy on the people and belittling my husband isnt his and i cant buy only eleven on syria jordan and elsewhere five million Palestinian Refugees are reliant on. The agency has a deficit and says this new cut further harms its operations we are going to be working relentlessly to extend the donor base to find other donors to come in to fill this gap because our sincere hope is that we will be able to maintain services to some of the most marginal and fragile communities Vulnerable People in the middle east we hope that Regional Security regional stability will not be threatened but that has to remain a risk in light of the u. S. Reduction politically the palestinians say the u. S. Is no longer a part of the peace. It does the heart of been the thinking over there but as the leadership and it shows that we are quite acct. It shows the reading over the political product of where the president and his administration would have come from to this issue it proves every day because of euros and because of the another one us President Donald Trump has already caused controversy internationally with the announcement that the u. S. Embassy will move from tel aviv to jerusalem and that angered a palestinian president mahmoud abbas. The sins of donald trump when he wrongly claimed that jerusalem is the capital of israel is a challenge to millions of muslims and christians this is favoritism for the sake of the Israeli Occupation for the israeli crimes for the israeli attacks on our Palestinian People this means that the us has chosen to violate International Law how can we trust has it been astray how can we trust this superpower we will never trust them again we will never accept them as mediators between us and the israelis the u. S. Cut the funding has cemented the feeling here that the u. S. Is now part of the problem and has picked the israeli side the us President Donald Trump said he was looking for the deal of the century which we need and the palestinians or palestinians say that deal is now history imran khan jealousy in refugee camp in the occupied west bank a military court has ruled that a palestinian teenager who was filmed slapping an israeli soldier must be kept in custody until her trial she was arrested in unrest following the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital a video of the incident went viral on social International Attention harish force that has more now from outside the ofer a military court in the occupied west bank. Well i had to mimi is no stranger to this prefabricated courtroom inside the office military prison she came in looking relatively relaxed exchanging messages with her father who was sitting waiting for stretching out her legs crossing at the ankles where they were cuffed together and she heard the judge in the case the military judge deny her bail pending her trial which was set for january thirty first the judge justifying that decision not so much talking about the aggravated Assault Charges related to the slapping that was caught in that video which went viral and made her such a cause celeb among palestinians a point of humiliation for many israeli nationals who saw the soldiers being confronted in this way talking more about the words that she used in that video he said that she was calling for stabbing attacks four suicide bombings and that incitement required her to remain in custody throughout the duration of her trial her lawyer said that she was very disappointed with this decision that the real meaning of those words were about the inevitability of such attacks are to the declaration by donald trump recognizing as far as United States was concerned jerusalem as the capital of israel she also said that she was disappointed that her arguments had not been listen to arguments such as israels obligations under the convention of the rights of the child and what she said was unequal treatment of settlers and palestinians living in the occupied west bank as well as that the judge reminded heads mother nary a man in custody until the start of her trial on friday the sixth. If yo pierre has released an Opposition Leader jailed more than a year ago for his part in antigovernment protests medicare good enough is one of one hundred sixteen prisoners freed from a prison in the capital addis ababa he was greeted by thousands of his supporters three hundred sixty one more prisoners were freed in the south of the country hundreds of people were killed in a two thousand and sixteen crackdown on months of protests by the countrys or more people the government has so far apart and more than five hundred of the protesters arrested the hobbit though is following the story and has the latest for us the release of the first batch of prisoners the Prime Minister promised two weeks ago will come as a relief to all those whove been dol to the words of the Prime Minister on whether the government if you pick and actually take such a bold step what many if you really excited about is the intention of the Prime Minister announced to close the mock prison in the heart of what is of above a Muslim Security prison that is housing hundreds of Political Prisoners which has been used as a torture chamber for most of the past fifty years of course the government of ethiopia is cutting all these steps at this point in time to try and ease the tensions in the only a region on the heart of region where theyve been. Going on for most of the last two years with people. Open the complaining about the government and how its been treating them the release of people like what are they good dina a man whos group a huge following you or me or many in the government feel would go a long way in these the most russians but that is another issue which is if your peers need for Foreign Investment its a poor country of one hundred Million People its akin to me is one of the most robust in africa its been growing up almost eight percent for most of. The past decade and if you are trying to position itself as the perfect environment for Foreign Companies to come and build in the particularly in the textile industry and this is part of the reforms in which it wants to create the most fair for foreign direct investment. There at least eleven people have been killed in twin suicide attacks in nigeria the bombings took place in the Northern City of might agree at least forty two people were left injured. It watching out is there still to come on the program the u. N. Puts out a call for extra funding as half of somalia struggles against a major drought and worsening conflict plus a key member of hong kongs prodemocracy Umbrella Movement is sentenced to jail for a second time. How low weve got some nasty weather pushing into the eastern med over the next couple of days at present we have got a fair amount of cloud just coming into cyprus easing over towards syria lebanon jordan we can expect to see some very heavy showers longer spells of rain coming through here and over the high ground ferro dusting of snow it was well that will make its way eastward temperatures of anything falling back behind aleppo struggling to get around nine degrees celsius hopefully by this stage though for lebanon and jordan it should turn a little drier and brighter to the east of our rain bad it should be fine and dry be connived as that heavy right even making its way across much of Northern Iraq said baghdad will see some wet weather that always brings with it the possibility of some flooding problems across the great information i find and try here over the next few days temperatures in doha getting up to the pleasant twenty four degrees celsius little bit of a brace a possibility of a little bit of dust and sand flying around here meanwhile we still got some very high and heavy rain into northern parts of mozambique not to millimeters of rain here in twenty four hours its not really going anywhere too quickly either you can see the showers the cloud that stays in place as we go on through day into friday more big downpours coming through and some heavy rain for northern parts of madagascar. A reminder of the top stories on aljazeera north and south korea are to march under the same flag and field a joint womens Ice Hockey Team at this years Winter Olympics palestinians have denounced Donald Trumps decision to hold back sixty five Million Dollars from the un agency the agency helps Palestinian Refugees in gaza and the west bank as well as in neighboring countries ethiopia has freed a leading opposition figure walked free as part of a mass release of prisoners jailed more than a year ago for their part in antigovernment protests. Indonesia has the ploy military paramedics to combat a Health Crisis in a remote part of pop what at least sixty one babies have died from malnutrition and diseases like measles over the last four months the government admits its response has been too slow and is the live thousands of packages of food and medicine that fastened reports from jakarta. Three year old three c. A b word died weighing only six kilograms less than half the healthy body weight a child her age like other malnourished and seriously ill children of the us might drive and she traveled with her mother many hours to get to a clinic trying to save her life but there are only nine doctors who are available for more than two hundred villages in this warm covered area in the south all of them are based in the districts capital hours away from their patients the outbreak of measles started in september and spread quickly because only a few children have been immunized many died because their undernourished bodies were not Strong Enough to fight the disease the government admits its response has been too late. Or. Yes what we have done is not enough but lets not focus on who is in the wrong lets focus on how to solve it because we are dealing with this reality right now we thought our colleagues in poplar could handle it but it turns out they need help and to be pushed more thats what were doing now. Since popular became part of indonesia in the one nine hundred sixty s. Pop ones have often criticised the government from a collector in the far Eastern Province a small Army Movement has been fighting for independence and many problems have died because of military violence over the years to bring peace to government autonomy and improved its infrastructure. To what is happening to be as much as it jakarta does not care enough about papa despite building roads in the development we have seen since we got more autonomy poppins dont feel their lives have been proved. The government has called the Measles Outbreak an extraordinary situation and has sent food and medical teams to the area also flying doctors and the military have been called in to help but due to the remoteness of the affected villages many fear for some help will be too late children dying of hunger and disease are a huge blow to president. Vowed to stop military fire from bringing welfare to the despite his frequent visits to this restive province this tragedy painfully shows that a lot more needs to be done to reach the traditional inhabitants of. That fossil aljazeera. At least seven people have been killed in myanmar as Rakhine State after police opened fire on hundreds of protesters angry about a festival twelve others were injured after the protests turned violent in the town of. Devastation was ransacked the government building after authorities banned celebrations marking the rule of the ancient kingdom that the protests evolved rakhine buddhists many of whom are opposed to living alongside the states persecuted muslim minority. Police in pakistan say a five Year Old Girl has been raped and strangled to death in northwest pakistan officers say her body was discovered in a field on sunday close to the city of madder than it follows outrage over the rape and murder of eight year old zeinab and sidey whose body was found last thursday the case has caused that widespread protests with authorities being accused of negligence the u. N. Says more than half of somalias population is in need of emergency aid due to a major drought and worsening conflict millions have been forced from their homes and hundreds of thousands of children have been left malnourished the u. N. Says the situation will worsen unless it receives one point six billion dollars in extra funds Bernard Smith reports. Most somalis are finding it hard just to survive day to day after more than four years of drought and the continuing war with fighters the u. N. Says it just managed to stave off famine in somalia last year but with poor rains forecast again this year more intensive aid will be needed to help the one an every two somalis who are displaced by widespread fighting. Together over the more than two million a fifth of the population were. Displaced away from their homes this is fuelling suffering it is the level of humanitarian aid and the neighborhoods are ways to survive for more than a decade fighters who are linked to al qaeda have been trying to take over somalia bombings in the capital mogadishu and conflict nationwide makes it hard for aid groups to introduce projects that will help the economy grow long term and reduce dependence on a war. Be a long term war on how. He supported the war that we are not in the. Rio responding was born in the rise of. The threat from al shabaab gunmen remained significant despite being forced from much of the territory they controlled by forces from the somali army and the African Union reduced funding means twenty one thousand a year troops are due to leave somalia by the end of twenty twenty Somali Government leaders say they dont have the resources to plug the gap those troops will leave that risks more instability and rather than a groups helping somalia become selfsufficient aid workers are struggling to keep the population from starving to death Bernard Smith aljazeera. A leading voice in hong kongs proDemocracy Movement has been sentenced to jail for a second time for his role in protests back in two thousand and fourteen joshua wall is among the fifteen other activists whove been sentenced over the socalled Umbrella Movement which called for more freedom from chinas rule the vehicle pollard reports oh no its becoming a familiar sight because of all kissy activists and foremost student leaders in court to face charges stemming from the socalled umbrella or oki pipe protests four years ago one of the best known faces of hong kongs Democracy Movement joshua one is facing more jail time this time for three months of to pleading guilty to criminal contempt then i want it but they have no i really hope that now it is different we need to face the president said its a question im going to go fight for democracy and i feel we are running low the other activists sentenced to four and a half months prison is rafael wong hes now the vice chairman for puta mark receive party thank the government is using lower as a tool against protesters and to punish activists think it will solve political problems thats a real contempt of court every day in all sixteen demonstrators were arrested in the vendor twenty fourteen for refusing to leave a protest zone being cleared by police the High Court Judge said even though joshua long had only spent ninety minutes in the protest area his involvement in obstructing the clearance operation was deep and extensive the judge said therefore the only appropriate punishment was immediate imprisonment a series of trials timing from the twenty fourteen prodemocracy demonstrations have been held in the past year and many more are scheduled this year so far about one hundred leading activists are in jail are facing the prospect of prison sentences critics say the prosecutions are an attempt to stifle hong kongs to moccasin movement the seventy nine day long demonstrate. In twenty fourteen defined fight for democracy the other fourteen activists in Court Received suspended sentences or fines only joshua one and rafael one remain politically active they are also the only two who are going to jail criminal concern is obviously a serious matter but im also surprised at the same time at the lengths that these young guys would be getting that would mean an end to their political a korean aspiration and at a time when hong kong need these young people to be in parliament to be doing political advocate see for hong kong. Known as one of hong kong first Political Prisoners hes already spent two months locked up on separate charges as he heads back to jail its a label thats not likely to go away leaving a pollen auxerre hong kong. French police have raided the headquarters of a very company lacked police over a salmonella scandal that seen dozens of babies fall sick the firm has recalled milk powder from eighty three countries after it was revealed its factories were contaminated with the tarea the companys own tests made that discovery in august but its products remained on sale for months French Foreign officials and Health Authorities are looking into what happened. But france says has held mass aim to move hours after three helicopters in a Roman Catholic church were set on fire nearby at least ten catholic churches have been fire bombed in the past week the eighty one year old stopped in kenya region is seen as the most complex of his trip because its the center of a sentrys old conflict with local indigenous groups during the mass pope francis urged the Indigenous People to reject violence in pushing their calls are latin america editor Lucien Newman has more now from to go. There are far less people here than what organizers had expected they had. Predicted some two hundred thousand would know more than one hundred fifty thousand have arrived and i spoke a short while ago to the head of the organizing committee he says that people were having a hard time getting here and he is certainly referring at least in part to the fact that some of these groups are opposed to the popes visit had Police Barricades in access roads leading up to this part of the area this is rather a very conflictive area where. A small but very very radical group of people who are demanding that incest land be returned to the indigenous my pooches have been carrying out these attacks you just mentioned and so while the majority of my approach is are peaceful there is a lot of concern here about an increasingly tense atmosphere. In catalonia a new and returning members of the Regional Parliament have met for the First Time Since snap elections in december. The room was chosen as the new speaker but uncertainty remains of a who the president will actually be separatist forces hold enough seats for a majority government and they want to reinstate the former leader carlists bush the moment who is in selfimposed exile in belgium the dread said that reinstating him would be illegal. Britains Prime Minister has welcomed the news that french president the manuel mccrum wants the lend of the by you tapestry to the u. K. Now this comes on the eve of his visit to britain where he is expected to push for more money to boost the security at the port of cali to stop mind wins the resume said it was very significant that people would be able to see that happen street in the u. K. It was made more than nine centuries ago and shows the norman invasion of england in ten sixty six the mayor of by us says it will be about five years before the tapestry can actually travel because restoration work needs to be carried out. State of conservation it remains of tools does not take the dates from sixty six so it is for a job base work that needs to be done for decades will its going to mexico now and the discovery of whats not to be the Worlds Largest underwater cave the network of flood the tunnels and chambers is around three hundred fifty kilometers long a team of archaeologists divers found human bones and pottery and are hoping to use them to gain a better understanding of the mayan civilization fulcher their g. M. Has one. Deep underneath the state of kentucky no row in eastern mexico new the sandy beaches of ken kuhn the tourist resort on the caribbean coast scuba divers explore what they say is the worlds longest and largest underwater camera on the floor with stretching for three hundred forty seven kilometers the freshwater caves are known as sea no dead dust also hosts the maze of underwater channels is not only extensive but also deep up to one hundred meters in some spots on the sea and the sea nor is muscle mean of the sea and there are about two hundred underwater caves in the a system which we thought could be connected but we were not sure of that so now we know about the collection and the flows of water wild way to sit in the mean put it away. Scientists think the kids were used as a source of fresh water during the ancient maya civilization divers began exploring the mayan aqua firs in the one nine hundred eighty s. Mayans considered the cave sacred to the portal to talk with the gods of the north down i know to me a mother yourself it gives us a wonderful perspective a new understanding of how the leaders of the ancient settlements and how the ancient mayans developed it allows us to understand more clearly the rituals and the pilgrimage sites and finally the great pretty hispanic settlements that we know of which run along this cave system. At the peak of their civilizations in the six to ten centuries mayans mastered agriculture mouths and the strong to me as well as building hospitals and sporting arenas and theyre credited with creating calendars and discovering chocolate mayans abandon their cities around one thousand years ago when spanish explorers arrived hundreds of years later they found most cities overgrown. This discovery by divers deep underwater may shed more light on what happened above so long ago. Aljazeera. Now reminder of the main headlines north and south korea have announced a Historic Partnership for this years Winter Olympics delegates from both countries announced the decision after a third round of talks in the border village of penguin june north and south korea will march into the same flag and field a joint womens Ice Hockey Team japan responded to the move with this warning. What we should have in mind is that north korea continues to advance its nuclear and missile programs even as we speak and we should not be naive about their intent nor should we be blinded by north koreas Charm Offensive in short it is not the time to pressure or to reword north career. Palestinians have denounced Donald Trumps decision to hold back money needed for aid that would have helped millions of people the u. S. Says its keeping back sixty five Million Dollars of the one hundred twenty five million it was going to give the United Nations relief and works agency or the agency provides a lifeline for some five million palestinians in gaza and the west bank jordan lebanon and syria the u. S. Is its biggest donor ethiopia has freed a leading opposition figure was one of one hundred sixteen prisoners freed from a prison in the capital addis ababa as part of a mass release of prisoners jailed more than a year ago for their part in antigovernment protests the government has so far pardon more than five hundred of the protesters arrested. At least eleven people are now known to have died and forty eight were injured by two suicide bombs in the city of my degree in Northern Nigeria official suspect the Group Boko Haram to be behind the attacks. A leading voice in hong kongs proDemocracy Movement has been sentenced to jail for a second time for his role in protests in two thousand and fourteen joshua wong has been given a three month jail term for contempt of court and has already been taken into custody where you can get much more on all those stories on our website you can see it on your screens right now the address al jazeera dot com and of course im going to have everything on those stories coming up on the aljazeera news hour thats in less than half an hour coming up next though its inside story thanks for watching. Some call it the business of death the worldwide arms trade is booming on the number of dead from wars gun battles and on gang crime is rising with thousands killed every day is it possible for governments to control powerful companies that dominate the global weapons market this is inside story