♪ reports greeks will vote again as the prime minister calls for new elections. ♪ hello there, this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up, safe landing, a ferry carrying several thousand syrian refugees docks on the greek mainland. cross border tension north and south korea exchange fire after a dispute of loudspeakers. three firefighters killed as the fire continues to burn out of

control in the northwestern u.s. ♪ hello, greek media are reporting that prime minister will call a general election for september the 20th even though he has only been in office for seven months and the left wing party were elected after pledging to end austerity cuts and agreed for reforms for greece to receive bail out funding and they rebelled against the latest deal. with me now in the studio is dennis an associate professor of economics at the university and thanks so much for coming into the studio, one key important issue about all of this is clearly the bailout package and funding that greece has received. as far as you are concerned is that now in concerned, is the bailout program now in danger fell elections are called? >> it went through parliament

and the german government and is in safe hands but what is the problem is the physicianable stability in greece, will they have a stable government going forward and we will find out in the next couple of weeks. >> how important is it for the wider sort of european union to those creditors if you like of greece that there is stability in politics in the country? >> politics is very important and a huge battle being played out in the last couple of months and it has been very painful for greece and a really difficult political process and i think it's very important now that greece can implement the conditions they have agreed to and they have been negotiated in brussels now over the last few months. if they cannot enforce or bring through the program then it will open up this whole chapter again. >> there is a risk that the future of the greek government whoever might create that government, there is a risk, is there not, that actually they will say we are not prepared to

carry out these reforms and for example elected on the antiausterity and the wave of passion among greeks and said we had enough cuts, we don't deserve this any more, is there not a danger that the next greek government that is elected is going to say exactly the same as they did before they came into power? >> i think that risk is pretty small and remember it was he that was against the program that was coming from brussels and from the imf and european central bank and it's now he in the form of the prime minister himself that have changed their mind and last week in the bailout vote in the greek parliament they won with votes from the opposition and there is clear majority in parliament and also among the greek population for the current cause of action. i do not think that a new government would overturn that majority. >> in which case if you are saying the political passage is going to be fine for reforms, the other think their mind is whether greece can carry them

out anyway and if it's physically and financially has the ability to do that when it has this great big debt hanging over it and that is another key discussion, isn't it, for everybody in europe is what to do with greece's debt and never mind refors. >> yes, and the debt still needs to be discussed and the imf sofa is not on board and they said they will only go on board if debt relief is being discussed so this will be seen in the next couple of weeks and months and for that month itself it's important to have stability in greece now. >> all right, sir for the moment thanks for joining us and we can now show you some pictures. someone will tell me what they are actually. so that is alexis' residence within the capitol greece and i think we are awaiting the prime minister leaving his residence to go and make a statement and you can see the greek media outside to make a statement about the fact he is calling this election for september the

20th, no official confirmation at the moment but it has been widely reported there by the greek media that he is going to call an election for september the 20th and then he will formally resign and we will go back to athens as soon as we see the greek prime minister. the greek islands of course are at the forefront of europe's refugee crisis, results at this time of year. and having to cope with hundreds more on schedule to arrivals every day in a country that already has huge and well-documented financial issues. we report home to an uneasy mix of refugees, tourists and the local authorities. >> reporter: the height of the holiday season has become a refugee camp. tourists might once have lingered here for the view, they don't anymore. outside the police station

frustration rises by the day. those with more obvious claims to asylum like syrians fleeing civil war are given priority and processed fairly quickly and others fend for themselves. >> thank you, thank you. >> reporter: international agencies are trying to help speed up a process that is grindingly slow but are getting little help from the local authorities. >> we have offered to municipal authorities our support with tents and we can provide services. >> how quickly? >> we can provide it very quickly but we need to put a space to put the tents. >> so the greeks are dragging their feet? >> let's say we have not received a positive reply yet. >> reporter: this is what passes for formal accommodation, abandon hotel with meager facilities. >> diseases, infectious diseases we are facing diseases that are

coming from their countries and we have malaria cases and other cases and some typhoid and tb. >> could the authorities do more? >> they could help a little bit more. >> how long have you been here? >> 20 days or 15 days or 20 days. >> reporter: within that time had you had any help, any support? >> no, everything is bare. >> reporter: where do you want to go? >> germany. >> reporter: germany. >> yes, germany. >> reporter: it was a day when multiple nationalitys gathered around the pool and german and dutch and they come from nigeria and malli and pakistan and the hotel captain offers holidays from hell. back on the coastal strip the restaurant people complain the refugees have driven business

away. in the mayor's office there seems to be a reluctance to offer more practical assistance, the tourist meanwhile walk on. in search of a place to eat with a better view. al jazeera. many refugees arriving in greece travel north to macedonia and the government there has declared a state of emergency and called out the army to try to control the influx and that has left 1,000 people stranded in no man's land between the macedonia and greek borders and between 1500 and 2000 a day crossing into southern macedonia where there is a direct rail link to serbia and police have already been deployed to control crowds attempting to board trains at the rail way station close to the border. british police are to be deployed to the french port to strengthen security there as part of an agreement between the two countries. thousands of people are living in makeshift camps there and the closest point of mainland europe

to the united kingdom and many are refugees and others are economic migrants who want to enter the country illegally and theresa may is there to sign the agreement and says the migrant problems are part of a wider issue. >> reporter: the situation we are facing in cali is the result of a global migration challenge. and that is why our two countries will continue to work closely together, to make sure the rest of the european union and the transit and source countries from which migrants are coming are also playing their sole part in solving the problem. we must also relentlessly pursue and disrupt the criminal gangs that facilitate and profit from the smuggling of vulnerable people often with total disregard for their lives. ♪

turkey's high election board says a new parliamentary election should be held in november, just four months after the last one. in june the ruling act party lost its parliamentary majority and since then prime minister has been unable to form a coalition government. president erdiwan has until sunday to ask a party to form a government but he hinted he won't do that. britain's foreign secretary will formally reopen the uk embassy in iran capitol on sunday, nearly four years after it was first shut down and iranian embassy in london will be reopened at the same time and the agreement of the nuclear program in july saw a warming relations with western countries and british foreign secretary in nearly 12 years follows similar visits by other european diplomates. tensions are rising in the korean peninsula after the

artillery shells into north korea in response to a rocket attack and harry faucet reports. >> reporter: for 11 days south korea has been using giant speaker rays to send propaganda messages with the north and on thursday they said north korea escalated the response from propaganda to live fire twice shoots in the territory and fired back with dozens of artillery and it received a message threatening further action if the speakers were not taken down within 48 hours. >> translator: military immediately raised an alert status to the highest level and it is closely monitoring movements of north korea. we are also maintaining military readiness to respond if there is any further provocation. south korea's president was briefed at a national security council and instructed troops to maintain readiness and respond sternly to north korea provocation and it has roots in

this moment on august the 4th, a land mine blast in the south korea half of the demille shakt and lost limbs in what was an attack and restarting propaganda broadcast was phase one of the retaliation and delivering this response. >> translator: the resumption of the broadcasting is a direct action of declaring war against the dprk. >> reporter: there had been some hope this year for both countries on the 70th anniversary at the end of japanese colonial rule could provide a warming of relations and hostilities are needed. in 2010 they lost 46 sailors when a war ship went down in what was said a north korean torpedo attack and killed four on an artillery attack on an island and vows to be more robust in retaliating to such events. exchange of fire across the zone is not unprecedented. just last october north korea

attempted to shoot down balloons launched by south korean activists and south korean returned fire into north korea territory, the difference is that time tensions seemed to ramp down quickly afterwards and this time with a 48 hour deadline imposed they are ratcheted up, harry faucet in seoul. ahead the state of washington as three firefighters are killed trying to put out a wildfire. and could this castle really hold the key to hidden nazi gold? ♪

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♪ welcome back, reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. greek media reports suggest prime minister will call a general election for september the 20th. even though he only has been in office seven months. left wing party were elected after pledging to end austerity cuts and agreed to reform so greece could receive bailout funding. in southeast europe macedonia declared a state of emergency and called out the army to try to control the influx of refugees and migrants and left around 1,000 people stranded in no man's land between the macedonia and greek borders. and tensions are rising in the korean peninsula after the south fired artillery shells across the border to north korea in response to a rocket attack. four body guards have been killed in a grenade attack on the governor of the southern yemen city of aiden and it's the

first since pro-government fores reclaimed the city from houthi fighters last month and we report. >> reporter: this is the governor of aiden has survived an assassination attempt. and he was the commander of the forces that pushed the houthis out of the sea port city of aiden. a member of the sunni party and runs a divided city. the people want aiden to become the capitol of a break away southe southern republic and forces loyal to hadi want it to be the capitol of yemen and this is yemen's most organized political parties says yemen should remain united but the failed assassination attempt is a further sign of a deteriorating situation across the country. >> it sets a tone for security

in aiden. everyone is scrambling to cleanup their act in the city and establish a police force, but they have not been successful so far. >> reporter: aiden was retaken from the shia houthis and troops loyal to the deposed president saleh, this followed months of air strikes by a saudi-led coalition. these tanks provided by the united arab emirates for soldiers loyal to exiled president hadi have a crucial role of pushing houthi forces from the south. and this is where fighting is taking place. anti-houthi fighters are on the offensive in the central city of thai. they are led by this man, a tribal leader from the islam party. his fighters have recently captured many areas and security buildings in thai. the city of thai is a vital

supply route for anti-houthi fighters in their push to recapture the capitol sanaa and to achieve that goal coalition war planes continue pounding houthi positions in and around the capitol. we have also tracked rebel positions in cities like them and aid agencies say the ongoing fighting in yemen has claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians. >> translator: we were inside the buildings when we heard the sound of an explosion. there is no military or no post and 18 people were killed in the air strikes. >> reporter: houthis and allies remain defiant and they say despite losing territory they still have more weapons and fighters to repel any push to retake the capitol. al jazeera. the deputy head of the u.n. mission in central african

republic says the sexual abuse dating back to september last year after new allegations arose earlier this week. and let's go live to the united nations and speak to al jazeera gabrielle and bring us up to date of what you are learning about these allegations. >> reporter: diane corner the deputy head of mission in the central african republic held a video conference call with reporters at the u.n. and gave us a little bit more detail about these troubling allegations of sexual misconduct by u.n. peace keepers in that country. first she confirmed that there have been 13 allegations or cases of sexual misconduct by peace keepers since last september, september of 2014 when the peace keeping mission began. of those she said nine involve minors. one as young as 11 years old. she also said out of the 13 cases only one has been ruled or

thrown out because of unsubstantiated allegations. the other 12 are still being investigated and as you said the really key line out of this is so far zero, absolutely no convictions in any of these cases. this is all coming at a very troubling time. it was just last week the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon fired the head of his mission the central african public after allegations came to light that u.n. peace keepers allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl and killed two unarmed civilians and this week more allegations of three young women allegedly also raped by u.n. peace keepers as well. so this is all coming at a time here as there is increased scrutiny on the peace keeping missions in the central african republic but as ms. corner stated in her remarks to journalists a few minutes ago she said the u.n. is viewing this as a systemic wide problem and goes beyond the peace keeping mission in the central

african republic and could go to other peace keeping missions as well and i'll just wrap up by saying that the justice minister in the democratic republic of congo confirmed that it was peace keepers from his country that are being accused of one of these at least one of these rapes and the democratic republic of congo says they will investigate. it's important to note the jurisdiction primarily lies with the troop contributing country of where the alleged perpetrators are from but the u.n. has said if the true contributing countries fail to investigate the u.n. will do so on their own. gabrielle many thanks. thai police have cleared two men suspected of helping in monday's bomb attack in bangkok after one was identified as a tour guide and the other a chinese tourist. authorities have now asked interpoll to track down the main

suspect who was filmed leaving a sack at the scene. minutes before the explosion which killed at least 20 people and believe he is a foreign national and more than ten people may have been involved in planning the attack. three firefighters have been killed as they try to bring a wildfire out of control in washington and died when winds shifted unexpectedly causing flames to surround the crews in the town and 1,000 people who live in the towns were forced to leave their homes. and fast-moving blazes sore ched hectors from montana to idaho and oregon and prompted reevaluations of other towns and winds and drought is making this wildfire season particularly destructive. former u.s. president jimmy carter is to receive radiation treatment for brain cancer, the 90-year-old had a cancer second hunt of his liver removed earlier this month. the parents and to sisters died

of pancreatic cancer and carter served as the 39th president and awarded the nobel peace prize in 2002. now, in bangladesh pesticides are dangerous for the environment and farmers and do not use protective gear when spraying the chemicals and we have been with people from there who are risking their health just for their jobs. >> reporter: once a week he goes into his field to spray his crops. he uses no protective equipment, no masks, no gloves, no shoes. he steps on the poison bare foot but doesn't think it's a bad idea. >> translator: of course i don't where shoes wherever on my feet. that would ruin my crops when i stop on them. that wouldn't work at all. >> reporter: he doesn't think there are dangerous associated with the way he uses pesticides and most farmers get their information on the chemicals from pesticide traders who

rarely use protection themsel s themselves. >> translator: if you follow the rules then you won't have any side effects. you need to avoid spraying the pesticide into the wind. >> reporter: the world bank says more than half of pesticide traders in bangladesh report frequent health symptoms associated with acute pesticide poisoning. the air is much cleaner than in the cities yet many farmers end up developing breathing problems and we have this list of ten farmers just in this neighborhood who are suffering from respiratory illnesses that are possibly linked to pesticide exposure and he has been unable to walk properly because of his breathing problems for the past three years. his breathing is heavy and loud. he pauses between sentences to gulp in air. >> translator: it's because of pesticides. i used to spray a gas to kill

insects and i inhaled that a lot. >> reporter: he is so bad he had to give up work. with safety information scarce, some farmers are gambling away their future without realizing it. al jazeera, bangladesh. seven people died in a mid airplane crash, the two planes which collided were carrying par suit people rehearsing for a show and there were 38 people on board the plane and the cause of the accident is being investigated. two polish men found a train of nazi gold and will hand it over if they are promised 10% finders fee and it has been talked about the train in poland since the end of world war ii and the valuables were reportedly stolen from jews during the war and were being sent back to germany. it was once declared biologically dead but the uk is slowly coming back to life and

now around 3,000 marine mammals live there and the seals are commonly seen by the public and they are becoming increasingly easy to spot. >> the industry is fantastic with a whole host of sand bags and different levels of water which is really important for fish to spawn and breed and with the fish species and others that is bringing them in. >> reporter: the festival is the largest in the world and is in full swing once again in scotland's capitol city and it's famous for the comedy. one thing invested almost a million dollars in two circus big tops and we report this is not a circus as we know it. ♪ roll up to the big top tents here and you will find a circus revolution in full swing. gone are the lions and the

accident-prone clones, replaced by thrilling stunts and theatres to make the audience think. borders and crossings are one theme in this new circus heavy with narrative. the palestinian troup expose the concept of freedom mixing arbitrary security checks with acrobatics, with no tradition of circus in palestine territories they devised their own style. >> it's my role in society to spread awareness and raise the question to the people and not only entertain the people, it's part of my job but also through entertainment we could also go out of questions and the question in the daily life and question ourselves. >> reporter: put the plight of the refugee on stage, depicting an harrowing crossing of the

mediterranean sea and anguish of the vulnerable and it's dark and disturbing and designed to prick the conscious of the viewer. >> i'm pleased the direction the circus is taking and that is why i got into it with a fresh new art form and finding new ways to talk about hard topics. >> reporter: it's a huge financial gamble staging the shows but believe it should be a showcase for circus like it is for comedy, theatre and dance. >> this is the festival where you should push the boundaries and a festival where stuff does evolve and new things come along so it's the right home to try something like this. and so far the audiences have been incredibly receptive. >> reporter: with these shows circus is being reinvented. and still there is danger and, in fact, there have been two accidents this year cancelling shows but there are stories being told and issues being explored. ♪ with no rules performers can jump from politics to poll

vaulting. and no words makes this fresh new art form appeal to a wide ranging audience leaving them all wanting more, charlie, al jazeera. much more on our website and the address is al jazeera.com. former president jimmy carter starts radiation therapy today. he says doctors found cancer on his brain. greece is heading for a new election, with the prime minister set to announce his resignation within hours and a heavy response from police in st. louis when they square off with protesters after an armed black teenager was shot and kill killed. ♪