Hello im don jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up Hong Kongs High Court has sentenced prodemocracy activist joshua walking to three months in prison. The u. N. Says a decision by the United States to cut funding to Palestinian Refugees will affect stability in the region. And another crisis for yemen as the u. N. Says the Diphtheria Outbreak is spreading fast. Welcome to the program u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has called on the world to step up pressure on north korea to end its Nuclear Program hes joined a summit in canada discussing how to tighten sanctions on iran and jordan now reports. A show of diplomatic commitment in vancouver to ending north Koreas NuclearWeapons Program but the meeting cohosted by canada and the United States yielded just one new tactic for the fight an agreement to prevent socalled ship to ship transfers about what goods to pee on yon i think we all agreed together with our partners here that the timing has turned out to be really for to attack us because we are seeing we we want to be clear headed we dont want to be in any way pollyanna about this but i think we collectively believe that the peaceful pressure is beginning to have an impact North Koreans know our channels are open and they know where to find us but a sustained cessation of north koreas threatening behavior is necessary is a necessary indicator of whether the regime is truly ready to pursue a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the Security Threat that it has created our nations must remain united on sustaining pressure until north korea takes concrete steps toward and ultimately reaches didnt. Thank russia and china were excluded from the meeting only countries that supported seoul during the korean war were invited to the gathering in moscow and beijing said this one sided event could aggravate tensions however two of north koreas neighbors said now was a good time as any to tell people yong to abandon its Nuclear Ambitions 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 no its career we stand ready to provide a Brighter Future for north korea if it makes the right choice. Analysts said the bank hoover meeting wont be a major venue for resolving the north korea question but it isnt a waste of time either if the clouds can part just a wee bit with a little bit of sunshine coming in then those countries are going to be necessary whether its to talk about verification or whether its to talk about new forms of economic assistance to north korea that could be part of the opening process the u. S. And canada have promised to brief china and russia on the discussions held here on tuesday its not clear whether this gathering will have turned out to be instrumental or simply a side bar to diplomatic efforts at the u. N. Rosalyn jordan aljazeera vancouver well we have two correspondents following this story rob mcbride is in dandong in china i will go to him in a moment first lets go to kathy novak shes in the south korean capital seoul cathy so Rex Tillerson was asked about the difference in policy between the u. S. And its allies south korea so how is seoul handling these issues cathy. Well you know the question was around the fact that the u. S. Really pushes a campaign of maximum pressure and sanctions against north korea while south korea does support that but it also pushes a campaign of engagement and dialogue and in fact the South Koreans are Holding Another Meeting with their north Korean Counterparts today to discuss logistics around the Winter Olympics and north koreas participation in those winter games and what both Rex Tillerson and the south korean secretary and south Korean Foreign minister have said is that there is no difference between the two countries policies and in fact they go hand in hand but the idea behind the campaign of sanctions is to push north korea to come to the negotiating table for talks for north koreas part though in state media has been trying to highlight the suggestions all of the division and suggestions from some of that by coming to the table for talks north korea was trying to drive a wedge between south korea and its u. S. Ally and in the same state media commentary it is said by nature the u. S. Dislikes to see the new situation on the Korean Peninsula diffused and it also made a comment about donald trump tweeting that his Nuclear Button was bigger than that of kim jong un and in state media north korea has called that a spasm of a lunatic derren uncomfy as you say the two koreas are meeting again today its a little bit more about whats on the agenda. Well they agreed to have a north north korean delegation come to south korea for the winter games when they met last tuesday and this meeting today is around the details are going into that so they need to talk about the size of the north korean delegation that will be attending transportation costs and a lot of that is around for the south korean side how to go about facilitating the North Koreans participation while not violating any u. N. Sanctions it has unilateral sanctions on its own involving sea travel between north and south korea which it may need to lift in order to facilitate the transport for the north korean delegation but those are the sorts of discussions that will be being had today and theyre also discussing the possibility of marching together in the Opening Ceremony and a joint team for womens ice hockey derren or sanction that lets cross to rome broad joins us live from dun dong rob so the chinese as we know werent invited to this conference how is beijing viewing this some of them. There has been a lot of stinging criticism of this summit here in china in state run television in newspaper commentaries daryn it is being criticized for what people here have been talking about this sort of cold war mentality really people are asking why when things seem to be improving relations with north korea. You deny the states and its allies would want to jeopardize that theres a lot of concern here just about how the use of naval forces to enforce these sanctions would actually play out to what were going to see on the high seas around the Korean Peninsula or china doesnt want extra u. S. Warships of the u. S. Navy and also its allies patrolling around the Korean Peninsula from chinas point of view it increases the chance of some sort of confrontation or small conflict that could escalate very quickly with north korean navy and then of course its whats the appeal a navy the chinese navy and also chinese freighters do when they come across any of these United States naval vessels what happens if one of the chinese freighters is intercepted for example whether the chinese navy then has to try to interject to try to stop one of these interventions so lots of questions lots of uncertainty how all of this might play out from the u. S. Point of view of course and its allies they are merely putting in place the kind of enforcement that they believe chinese officials and chinese authorities here should have been enforcing but the suspicion is that chinese officials may have been turning a blind eye and rob china is the biggest trading partner with north korea but how strictly then are the u. N. Sanctions being enforced by beijing because there are suspicions of sanctions violations. Thats absolutely right i mean china is a hugely important of korea some ninety percent of the trade is with china a lot of it comes across the friendship bridge here at dandong china says it is fully implementing all of the sanctions it points to statistics that show that there was a big drop last month for example in trade and the overall in the past year trade has contract it by around ten percent but youre right there are suspicions that people are getting around this week here in town dong some of the more conspicuous ways that north korea earns money for example through seafood or through restaurants some of those restaurants have closed some of the Trading Companies seem to have disappeared but the suspicion is that they merely change their names or change their Management Structure and that a certain amount of smuggling does continue as far as china officially is concerned there are things obviously a lot of commodities Food Supplies that it can trade with north korea and chinas position is it will not allow the north korean regime to collapse and certainly since weve been here the trade on the bridge behind us the numbers of trucks the numbers the trains would seem to suggest that the things that china can trade with north korea are certainly being traded there are a robot pride day in dandong thats on the china north korea border rob thank you. Now Hong Kongs High Court has sometimes the prodemocracy activist joe show on for a second time for his role in the protests and twenty fourteen hed been given a three month jail term one has been out on bail pending an appeal of a six month sentence for another day the public has more from hong kong. There were sixteen youre in the dark waiting to be sentenced and to jail sentences were handed down the rest were given suspended sentences or fines the two sentences are to joshua long that now quite famous student leader that led the prodemocracy protests at twenty fourteen and the other rafael one who is also well known in hong kong for being one of the student leaders spearheading those protests. These charges stemming from two thousand and fourteen when bailiffs were instructed to clear one of the protest sites this is in the main protest site theres another smaller protest site and apparently joshua was raphael wong and the others had stopped the police from clearing it or had resisted burning to the judge they were given several warnings to leave the protest site and they refused to move and therefore they are now in contempt so theyve had pleaded guilty all joshua eleven of them pleaded guilty including joshua long and rafael long that was nearly two years ago when they were first charged many skeptics are saying part of the reason could be because many of those who are in in the court right behind me were under the age of twenty one until very recently so sentencing them before they turn twenty one member they wouldnt be given jail terms under hong kong law they would be allowed to be sent to jail so there is speculation that the sentencing could be handed down now when many of them particularly joshua wong and rafael want both with very Strong Political ambitions have now turned twenty one. A military court in thailand has decided not to prosecute a historian for insulting the monarchy. Was charged after he commented on a battle that happened more than four hundred years ago the eighty five year old has been in and out of court since twenty fourteen school time has more from bangkok when the eighty five year old historian. Walked up to the courthouse here in bangkok he held up a walking cane saying that belonged to a former Prime Minister known as a democratic icon here in thailand entered the army courthouse behind me and stayed in there for only about fifteen twenty minutes then we got word that the army has said that they wont pursue this case further the trial will end now that they say because of a lack of evidence after that happened through law came out here and spoke with the media here he said that they asked him to stop criticizing the monarchy he said he stood by the facts and that he said that if he did completely stop criticizing he would die little by little he also said Something Interesting that is this is a majeste case that is about criticizing the royal family and members of the family the extended family he said that he believes the current king roma ten intervened to get this case thrown out that something he believes came after the petition to the king several weeks ago that this case be thrown out. Time for a short break here not as hero when we come back another process for yemen as a defender outbreak takes hold affecting almost seven hundred plus. Prospects versus pain and shame the child sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in chile or in the states. Through tranquil review. And if it means going to. Hell or that weve got yet more rain on its way towards turkey its not with us just yet were seeing a little bit of cloud just drift its way across us but were going to see some heavy downpours as we head through wednesday night to and into thursday so wednesday really the calm before the storm and then all of that cloud of rain and snow piles in thursday so it will be quite a wet blustery day well also see some of that rain stretch a bit further south as well so force in lebanon will say looks for all the way here as well elsewhere generally fine and dry eight degrees is the maximum there him back from ati will be getting to freezing a bit further towards the south and here in doha the winds have picked up now and theyre bringing in some slightly cooler air so you will notice it gets a little bit fresh at night now so twenty two or twenty three will be the maximum temperature during the day but at night with your feet all the way down to around thirteen degrees so certainly feeling cool for us before this was the south weve got this swirling mass of cloud head this is a storm gradually working its way towards malicious and lever union does look very very wet there over the next few days a very stormy as well but i think the major problem from that storm will be the amount of rain rather than the strength of the winds were also seeing some very heavy rain over parts of mozambique recently as well more still to come for wednesday and for thursday as well. The weather sponsored by cattle and race. You are making very pointed remarks where on line the main us response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been decriminalized or if you join us on saying no evil person just wakes up the over the morning and say i want to cover the world in darkness they say is a dialogue that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they dont actually know whats going on join the club conversation at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on aljazeera u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is calling on the world to step up pressure on north korea until it abandons its Nuclear Program and join representatives of nineteen other nations in vancouver to discuss ways of tightening sanctions on pyongyang. Hong kongs high court or sometimes prodemocracy activists joshua long for a second time for his role in the protests in twenty fourteen has been given a three month jail term one has been out on bail pending an appeal of a six month sentence for another things. On a military court in thailand has decided not to prosecute a historian for insulting the monarchy so looks of a rock so as charged after he commented on the battle that happened with him four hundred years ago. The un relief and works agency of all Palestinian Refugees as one that reduced u. S. Assistance will threaten Regional Security the trumpet ministration has announced it will withhold hoff of the Financial Aid it had allocated to the agency diplomatic editor james bays has been following the story from un headquarters in new york. After years of conflict and poverty millions of palestinians rely on they will be devastated by this announcement or an element of a they should not cut the aid people here are sick and poor and have nothing to support themselves people here can afford to buy bread so why does the u. S. Say its taking this action it has of long been a concern at this administration here under the administration about an ra and how it handles itself and how it manages its money under the un relief and works agency for Palestinian Refugees to give it its full title is one of the oldest agencies in the u. N. System founded almost seventy years ago the u. S. Has been its biggest funder providing money for among other things clinics schools and social services for palestinians beyond the borders of the territory long disputed by palestinians and israelis in neighboring countries jordan and lebanon it is not the Un Refugee Agency u. N. H. C. R. That helps palestinians living in camps news of the cuts to the agencies funding started to emerge as a News Conference by the un secretary general was underway in new york its clear antonio could terrorists was not given advance notice by washington. I mean ive been in close contact with. What you are saying now i was not yet informed so no no official and i mean at all there might be something that i do not know because i mean its impossible to accompany zings by the minute. Until i was informed there was no official notification of the position but it might have happened. There is a political as well as humanitarian dimension to this President Trump has said he hopes to get the deal of the century between the israelis and the palestinians and yet this announcement hot on the heels of his recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital has alienated one side making efforts to get the Peace Process back on track harder than ever jamesburg aljazeera at the United Nations where Christopher Gunness is the chief spokesman for he maintains the organization has always been neutral we defend to the hilt our neutral role do you really think that would have had access war zones in the battlefields of syria in places like aleppo if there was any question about our neutrality the fact is that there are standards if you shall a team which we rigorously uphold to Us Navy Officers are facing possible homicide charges of a deadly ship collisions in august both officers commanded Navy Destroyers in the Pacific Ocean one collided with a philippine container ship in june and the other struck a merchant ship near singapore in august both officers are facing Courts Martial and could be charged with negligent homicide a former u. S. Intelligence officer has been arrested and charged for allegedly holding onto a highly classified information jerry chun chung lees accused of maintaining handwritten notes including names and details about spy recruits and other cia employees in our lives and hong kong was arrested when he flew into new york on monday the u. S. Justice Department Says f. B. I. Agents searched lees hotel rooms in twenty twelve and found two books with a note. The World Health Organization is warning a Diphtheria Outbreak in yemen is spreading quickly almost seven hundred people have now been affected forty eight have died from the disease in the past four months it been hard data of the worst hit of the nineteen affected regions but theres some better news on the aid front the Saudi Led Coalition says it will allow for cranes at the port of the data to Begin Operating theyll be used to offload food and medicines and as muhammad reports the aid cant come quick enough amid the worst humanitarian crisis in the world what could be a sliver of hope these four to danno cranes which have just arrived at her data port in yemen funded by the United States agency for International Development will significantly increase the offloading capacity here at the border to ease congestion and improve ultimately improve delivery of humanitarian and other supplies to the people who desperately need it across yemen the Saudi Led Coalition fighting who the rebels in northern yemen is promising to allow the cranes to begin offloading food medicine and other basic necessities. There have been guarantees before but aid hasnt always flowed it cant come soon enough this is very welcome news and even by far the left yemen they want the best not to use what used to come and you know as i look into the matter. The International Committee of the red cross stresses however that while aid is arriving in yemen its not coming quick enough. In the city of tire is dozens of protesters demonstrated against what they said is government negligence government leaders are accused of failing to control the collapse of the National Currency or protect yemenis from rising food prices the companies that you mentioned you need is not enough this is a country of twenty seven even so many different agencies and no ring and hoot and menacing for the whole country what we need is for collusion. And the less we dont those inside insufficient. The poorest country in the middle east is facing multiple crises the worst cholera epidemic ever recorded and a diptheria outbreak that is spreading quickly in a country with some of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world and where more than eight Million People are on the brink of famine. A new report by unicef details how children have been scarred by war and says that since the escalation of the conflict in march two thousand and fifteen three million children have been born in yemen thats approximately three thousand every day unicef says more than eleven million yemeni children need humanitarian assistance just one of the many reasons why few believe the suffering of the yemeni people will end any time soon. Kurdish civilians fear they will become targets of turkey follows through on its threat to move against y. P. G. Fighters in syria turkey is repairing a strike against the fighters which it calls terrorists the y. P. G. Forms part of the us backed Syrian Democratic forces and any attack is likely to center on the city of a friend. Reports for turkey syria border. Is one of many kurds whose grandparents left Northern Syria years ago but he still has family in africa which is close by on the syrian side of the border to maine and his relatives there are growing increasingly worried as turkey prepares for a minute through operation against you aspect kurdish why preview fighters. Im no friend of the why they recruit young boys and girls thats why my brother in laws fled after and moved to stumble four years ago the weapons provided to those find his body u. S. Scares me my village is the closest to offer and we dont feel at peace while our people have their. The wife is in control of the land just beyond us will the us reckons its fighters are key to wiping out i saw in syria thats infuriated turkey which considers the y. P. G. To be an extension of the p. K. K. A Kurdish Group which turkey the us the European Union deemed a terrorist organization. Have never been for turkey six years ago after the syrian war. My freedom Football Association policy we cant go back to syria we came here and worked in farming with other refugees from the mountain from aleppo Everyone Wants peace in syria and africa because its the civilians that gets harmed the most many kurds who are living in religious near the border avoid t. V. Cameras some have relatives and a friend where military action is planned and the villagers may also need to seek safety if the fighting that starts the Turkish Military is massed on the border and ses its ready to supply against the new border force which it sees as a direct threat at stake is the relationship of two nato countries. Aljazeera turkey syria border bangladesh plans to repatriate six hundred fifty thousand range of refugees back to neighboring min ma within two years both countries agreed to set up temporary camps as short term housing for the ranger the first refugees will start to move back to me in my next week hundreds of thousands of range of muslims of fled a military crackdown began in myanmar last august the United Nations has insisted any repatriation must be voluntary. What is it that is essential on these is to make sure that the return is voluntary its safety and dignity and that people are allowed to come back to their places of origin which means that the huge effort of investments because there is a lot of reconstruction to be done and a huge effort of reconciliation is needed to allow it to take place properly the worst would be to move these people from camps in bangor there to camps in myanmar. Keeping an artificial situation for a long time and not allowing for the for them to regain their their normal lives. In chile pope francis is express what hes called his pain and shame over the countrys Sexual Abuse Scandal its the first time hes commented on the crisis surrounding a former priest who was found guilty in twenty eleven of abusing teenage boys pope francis also met with victims of child abuse by priests in santiago from the latin america to listen human reports. Chilean catholics and immigrants from many parts of latin america spent the night here for the chance to see pope francis up the popes media never you never read them again it was worth it i love this part because he underscores the need for social justice which our Political Parties have forgotten. That this is something large this park and organizers calculated four hundred thousand people came to the popes first mass in chile less than half of the estimated one million who attended Pope John Paul the seconds mass here thirty one years ago during chiles military dictatorship but those were different times back then john pauls mass was interrupted when riot police began firing massive amounts of tear gas into the crowd to disperse those who are protesting against human rights abuses and calling for the popes support which they fought three decades on chileans are still thinking about abuses but this time those committed by the church. So pope francis wasted no time confronting the issue in his first address here at the president ial palace he asked for forgiveness for clerical sex abuses against innocent minors. Here i feel bound to express my pain and shame the irreparable damage caused to children by some ministers of the church and he said. I am one with my brother bishops for it is right to ask for forgiveness and make every effort to support the victims even as we commit ourselves to ensuring that such things do not happen again. Many will be holding him to his word because a lot of that has to be corrected forgiveness is necessary but obvious is have to be taught in private no matter what the song during the mass the pope spoke of peace before leaving to meet women prisoners on tuesday hes in the most complex stop of his trip its the epicenter of a restive territorial dispute by indigenous is a place where chileans are hoping that his message of peace and reconciliation will be heard you see in human santiago all news of course on our website there it is on your screen all the top stories are covering it on the aljazeera the address of course al jazeera dot com. Ok time for a quick recap of the top stories here an aljazeera u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is calling on the world to step up pressure on north korea until it abandons its Nuclear Program has drawn representatives of nineteen other nations to discuss ways of tightening sanctions on pyongyang we agree that the need for u. N. Member states especially china and russia to fully implemented agreed upon sanctions is essential to their success we discuss the importance of working together to counter sanctions evasion and smuggling. And we also issued a call to action to strengthen Global Maritime interdiction operations do for oil the illicit ship to ship transfers hong kong has high court to sentence prodemocracy activists joshua wang for a second time for his role in the protests in twenty fourteen hes been given a three month jail hes been out on bail pending an appeal of a six month sentence for another offense related to the umbrella revolution. A military court in thailand has decided not to prosecute a historian for insulting the monarchy. Was charged after he commented on a battle that happened more than four hundred years ago the eighty five year old has been and out of court since twenty fourteen. The un relief and works agency for Palestinian Refugees says reduced u. S. Assistance will threaten Regional Security follows an announcement by the trumpet ministration that it will withhold heart of the Financial Aid that it allocated to the un agency. Or Christopher Gunness is the chief spokesman for he says the organization has always been neutral. We defend to the hilt our neutral role do you really think that under would have had access war zones in the battlefields of syria in places like aleppo if there was any question about the new transit seat the fact is that there are standards if you shall a team which we rigorously uphold. Bangladesh has agreed to repatriate six hundred fifty thousand range of refugees back to neighboring me and within two years both countries agreed to set up temporary camps a short term housing for the hundreds of thousands of fled a military crackdown in manama state those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after the street station thats what. Facing the reality growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the socalled secret city getting to the heart of the matter the mean maher government calls you a gringo terrorist hear their story on to aljazeera at this time. Catch not with aljazeera correspondents on the story. If you have questions for us put them in the comments section. And. Justice words enough has been trending on so