The ship would be released very soon now were told that the crew are in good health and they are still on the boat but there is a concern about the military buildup in the region the u. S. The United States is putting together a Naval Coalition to what they say is to protect the freedom of navigation in the strait of hormuz iran says that any Foreign Forces are a destabilizing factor in the region and the countries in this area of free capable of providing security and stability for all shipping 20 percent of the worlds oil passes through the strait of hormuz and there is a concern that with the increased tension there is an increased likelihood of a conflict. Still to come here and our. New baby to send a range of refugees back to me a mountain looks to have failed. Hello again to welcome back were here cross parts of japan and it has been rainy over the last few days and that is going to continue here as we go into friday as well plenty of clouds across much of the area and for tokyo on friday 28 degrees with plenty of rain there by the time we get to saturday though things begin to improve a lot of the rain makes its way towards the east were going to stay mostly cloudy across much of the area but for tokyo expect to see your temperature going up to about 29 degrees where here across the western pacific we are watching a Tropical Storm right now making its way towards the northwest towards taiwan and the storm system is probably going to be making a landfall as we go into the weekend so expect to see the winds start to increase here on friday and by the time we get to saturday more clouds more rain as well as some storm surge across the southeastern coast of taiwan thats landfall could be taking place anywhere from saturday night into sunday morning but well be watching this very very closely for parts of the philippines though and were going to be seeing some rain associate with that Tropical Storm over the next few days but the state rain could lead to some localized flooding because some of those areas of showers with the feeder bands could be quite heavy for manila seeing attempt to here of 30 on friday and by the time we get towards saturday still heavy rain in the forecast and temperatures continuing at 30. What is resistance. To. Crack people are grabbing social and political issues by the. Time a scene creativity parody and protest to challenge and change ideas. Gun a controversial witness documentary on aljazeera. To take a look at the top stories here it out as a torrent of water released from an indian worsened monsoon flooding in pakistan has left towns and villages underwater flood water has now covered hundreds of hectares in Punjab Province and their levels of rivers continue to rise. High School Students have been rallying in hong kong showing best support for political reform in the citys government students want demonstrations to continue when the School Year Begins next month turkey and the u. S. Are working out plans for a safe zone in Northern Syria after months of dispute over just how big it should be and who controls it the plan would eventually see joint patrols by turkish in us soldiers. As weve just seen. In the british Prime Minister is. Standing next to him of course the french president emanuel macro and what are they talking about no prize its bricks that mr johnson is trying to convince the president and indeed the. Yes of the e. U. To renegotiate the whole of the u. K. Withdraw deal particularly what he wants is for the provisions around the irish border to be removed lets go live to our correspondent the trash about the she is there shes listening to all of this now Boris Johnson has just arrived in paris having had meetings with Angela Merkel who gave him i dont know if its a conciliatory gesture or not but she said to him challenge him back and said youve got 30 days to come up with an alternative to the backstop which of course is the nub of the problem what sort of message is he getting from the french president. When on that point hes actually just answering a question about that but i cant i cant hear him so i wont go directly to that but what i will tell you is that Boris Johnson came here to paris hoping that he was going to convince the french president and therefore other e. U. Leaders to try and change their minds on the brigs negotiations to to change their position reopen the Withdrawal Agreement and scrap the backstop but what is very clear from him and all my calls response here at the least say is that well hes not going to change his mind the Withdrawal Agreement he says is not for renegotiation the backstop wont be scrapped he said the backstop was extremely important its this insurance policy if you like that will in a way stall a return to a hard border between the republic of vine and part of the European Union and Northern Ireland which is part of the u. K. And said its very important of the backstop is there because it will ensure peace in the future and that was very important hes also very adamant that the republic of ireland should be protected as a small member state within the European Union so what were seeing is 22 leaders really on 2 very different sides both sides that they are already on before this meeting and they continue to be on now the question is will there be any changes at all and it seems very unlikely on this particular point particularly. Because Boris Johnson hasnt really come up with any alternatives as you mention he did say that perhaps he might come up with some ideas in the next 30 days or at least that was the german chancellors proposal but so far theres nothing new here right and this meeting is taking place in just a couple of days before the g. 7 meets also in france in beer its president has hosted just quite recently Vladimir Putin some suggestions coming that its time for russia these suggestions it got to be said coming from president its time for russia to be readmitted to the g. 7 what kind of position does deserve president and the other members of the g 7 taken that. Well the in terms of the g 7 and russia are i mean you know its very clear that putin is no longer part of the g 7 john or trying can say what he wants her to the other g 7 leaders dont necessary agree on that but back to the issue here or gregs it and i think that this meeting between Boris Johnson and Emanuel Marco was actually quite relevant in terms of timing before that summit that youve mentioned which will take place from saturday in the south of france in paris hosted by man or macro and in a way today gives him a chance really to reaffirm publicly his commitment of course to the European Union something he feels very passionately about very strongly about he is a fierce supporter of the European Union he also knows there in a few days hell be seeing donald trump donald trump a critic of the European Union somebody whos for voiced his support for brakes it and ford johnson will actually meet johnson on the sidelines of that summit at the weekend and this is really an opportunity for him i know mark want to send out the message that the European Union wont just a u. Turn or back down on a whim. That trash about their lives at the palace thank you very much. That brazils president has accused groups of lighting fires in the amazon rain forest simply to make him look bad the number of fires now burning is at a record level its up 84 percent on the same time last year and many blame the policies of jiah balsa not a parallel is on the reports of the fires engulfing large swaths of the amazon rain forest the smoke is traveling far and wide it darkened the skies over sao paulo which is more than 2000 kilometers south of the burn area the scope of the fires is massive these satellite images from nasa show how the smoke has covered most of the northern half of brazil which is larger than the whole of europe. The amazon produces 20 percent of the worlds oxygen and is home to more than 3000000 species of plants and animals fires in the amazon are a natural occurrence often started by lightning strikes but that doesnt explain the sudden increase in fires this year which environmentalist say has been exacerbated by cattle ranchers and sorie farmers clearing forest at an increased pace enforcement of amazon burning has been scaled back under president bush the not of a long time skeptic of environmental concerns. Slashed government funding to environmental agencies and on tuesday suggested the fires were being staged by n. G. O. S to embarrass his government i am under the impression that it could have been set by the n. G. O. S because they had asked for money what was their intention to bring about problems for brazil when fires burn in the amazon the area is so large theres nothing firefighters can do to put them out when these fires finally do go away environmentalists say that damage will have been done here it is really much of a man and he wasted an innocent. Ages to recruit forest and he can never be repaid in the original way the amazon rain forest often called the lungs of planet earth now filled with smoke and fire and choking one of the worlds most diverse ecosystems gabriel isnt 0 how does either. More into the xeon soldiers have been sent to west papua to try to contain protests and riots that began there on monday demonstrators accuse the indonesian government of mistreating ethnic papuans students so high rat reports. Police reinforcements have been sent to the west papuan to control protests that have turned violent government Buildings Police cars and parts of an airport have been destroyed the police have been accused of racism after 43 when students were arrested for disrespecting the indonesians flag on independence day. There were reports one flag was settle lines outside a dormitory after being held for hours the students were released without charge. The government regrets the burning of the indonesian flag the incident is under investigation the incident was followed by negative statements which triggered violence and several areas over and west pop up provinces it is disrupting the nations unity of. The protests came after videos were shared on social media showing a school being tear gassed 6 was and the students called monkeys a derogatory term used against ethnic pop ones was. 3 years and an e. C. Has blamed indigenous pop and separatists for unrest in the west papuan region but they accuse the government of human rights abuses. During protests on tuesday 258 inmates escaped from prison in the city of sarongs after it was set on fire the citys mayor called for calm. The bubble going to. Come on lets join hand in hand together united in our hearts we were differences and maintain togetherness unity and solidarity between top one or non pop ones was denice in president joke order says hes committed to the welfare of all popcorns but its not clear if his words will be enough to calm protesters theyre now calling for a referendum on independence. And. So as sara just mentioned people there in west papua are demanding a vote on independence but it was a controversial referendum that made west papua part of indonesia in the 1st plates the region which sits on the western side of the island of new guinea was once a dutch colony they started with during the 1950 s. West papuans then wanted to have their own country but instead indonesia began to assert its claim over the province then in 1962 indonesia was appointed temporary administrator under a un backed treaty well that agreement stated that a free and fair referendum be held on independence by the year 1969 so when that vote happened only a hired full of the local population were allowed to cast their ballots and some say they were actually coerced into voting to become part of indonesia and ever since Security Forces have been accused of committing human rights abuses against the locals indonesias government denies this in says its Building Infrastructure to improve west papuans lives one protester says they have suffered racism for decades with the word monkey is always used to insult us the pup and students this is been going on for too long we dont have freedom to live here its as though were not indonesian citizens were here to study we need to create problems but people have always treated us as if were animals so theres been a new bid to repatriate thousands of refugees and it looks like its failed almost 300. 00 range of families interviewed by the un and the Bangladeshi Government all say they dont want to go back to me amar unless their safety and their citizenship are guaranteed bangladeshs repatriation will only go ahead if the families are willing Stephanie Decker has more. The 2nd time that authorities have tried to repatriate to send back some of the remainder refugees the 1st time was in november of last year no one wanted to go back then and it seems for now at least that remains the case. When you interview 295 listed families none of them expressed their willingness to go back to their country at the moment this process will continue and anyone who says they want to go back we will facilitate their return to me and more now one of the core issues is trust part of that press conference was a member of Chinas Embassy here also a member of me and more as diplomatic representatives i also them why they werent allowing journalists particularly the United Nations access to the areas where these people would be returning to because that of course is crucial even the United Nations cannot give the guarantees to people here of what they will be facing on the other side. Now to conservation where politicians a voted to dissolve parliament and that paves the way for new elections after the Prime Minister. Resigned last month just take this through the details of this political crisis from the capital prishtina. In a very short session members of course will spot them and decide to disband the parliament and country will go to a new general elections. President of the country touchy to set a date for the elections elections must be held 30 to 45 days since todays president said he will now have a very short consultations with the leaders of the Major Political parties in the country and he will set the date very fast all this is happening because the current Prime Minister i was resigned about a month ago when he was called by the special court in a hague in another land to be questioned about the role. You know war or the end of the ninetys and especially about potential crimes against ethnic serbs during and after the war he said that he was resigning because he doesnt want to hurt the image of the country to country to have a Prime Minister who is potentially accused of war crimes after that after that questioning he said he want to continue hes there all as the Prime Minister but the Major Political parties said it is not possible and country must go to a new election so we can expect a new elections major topics new elections will be unemployment which is very high in kosovo will be kaname and the fight against corruption so called into current polls no major party can count on a majority of the Upcoming Elections south korea is ending an intelligence sharing deal with japan and yet another escalation in tensions between the 2 countries south Koreas National Security Council says japans recent tightening on export controls led to this change disputes have a trade and wartime history of west and in recent. To take a look at the top stories here it is era a torrent of water released from an indian dam has left towns and villages in northeastern pakistan submerged floodwaters now cover hundreds of hectares in Punjab Province and the levels of rivers continue to rise the Pakistani Army has turned a military base into a relief camp for people whove been forced out of their homes but some are refusing to leave flooded areas because it would mean abandoning crops and livestock some a binge of aid has more from the jhelum river which flows from northern india into eastern Pakistan Pakistan has been complaining that india should have informed earlier before releasing hundreds of thousands a few sticks of water into pakistani River Systems as it usually does but as you know that the 2 countries are at the at the lowest point of their relationship in years because of the distance in here but that is something which did not happen and water is one of those issues that seems to have been weaponized yet again. High School Students are rallying in hong kong and threatening to boycott classes when the new year begins in 2 weeks theyve joined demands for political reform in the territories government and students are calling for ongoing action turkey and the us are trying to work out plans for a safe zone in Northern Syria after months of dispute over just how big it should be and who controls it the plan would eventually see joint patrols of turkish and u. S. Soldiers in the region because he ations on the scope and the implementation are ongoing representatives of both countries are due to me