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♪ ♪ hello, this is al jazerra live from doha. also on the program. >> we are human beings. >> okay, that's enough. as europe's refugees crisis escalates, germany and france discuss options. pressure mounts a guyed mall a's president to resign over corruption allegations but otto perez says he's not going anywhere.
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the people want the fall of the regime. protests sweep the lebanese capital beirut for a second day. ♪ ♪ hello, it is the start of a new week but on the world's financial markets it looks like the same story. fears of a slow down in the world's second biggest economy are continuing to spook markets across asia after last week's big drop. and that's created panic among traitors and investors triggering a global silfverberg sell off a slide in commodity prices and currency. the shanghaied composite wiped out its entire gains for the year dropping more than eight% on -- 8% on monday and that had a ripple across the asian markets that saw its biggest fall since 2011. emerging economies like vietnam have all taken a homering. more than $5 trillion have been wiped off the market since china
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devalued its currency earlier this month. oil prices have fallen below $40 a barrel. and the currencies of countries like india, malaysia and indonesia are badly hit. as mentioned, the free falling chinese stocks have led the asia stock market to plunge, australia stock market lost billion dollars in value within an hour of opening. andrew thomas has this update from sydney. >> reporter: australia's stock market index was already down 2% first thing on monday a delayed response to falls in the united states on friday. but when china's stock market opened australia followed suit by falling even lower down about 2%, about 4% on the day overall. the worst one-day fall in four years. august overall shaping up to be a horror month for the stock market here, the worst since october 2008. and the currency is under pressure as well. about 1% down on the u.s.
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dollar. all this because australia's economy is so closely tied to china's. china is the main customer for australian exports like coal and iron or research. the prices of those have been tumbling in the last few months and the fall in china may not be done falling. it may hit australian exports everybody more. >> adrian brown is live for us in beijing. so aid returning the market have just closed there and it's been another tough day for investors. despite the government's efforts. >> reporter: that's right. shanghai stock market remains a very, very scary place. within minutes of the market opening today, it plunged. the index was down at one stage by 9%. it closed just a short time ago at 8.46%. that is a very bad loss, a very serious drop. and, you know, most analysts
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seem to suggest that the turbulence is going to continue for days to come. we haven't reached the bottom of this market yet. now, what is driving down the markets in seoul, tokyo, hong kong and si sydney? it's believed china's economy is slowing at a rate faster than the government has let off. the government has tried a number of stimulus measures a number of ways to try to prop up the market. bits be buys billions of shares that hasn't worked. on sunday the state council announced that basically the government would use billions of dollars from the state pension pot to try to rescue the market. this is money set aside from the country's pensioners and they have to hope, i guess, that the government knows what it's doing. but speak to ordinary people out there and they don't have a great deal of faith in the government's approach right now. >> so is there anything more that the government has in its
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arsenal at this points, adrian, that they can do to prop up the market? >> reporter: well, it has to be pointed out that actual lit size of that pension fund is huge. 547 billion u.s. dollars, they have a lot of money in the war chest. the question is this, how much longer can china continue propping up this problem by simply throwing money at it? there is a deeper problem here that has to be addressed and this is what reoccupies government leaders right now. the fear that if economic growth drop to his say 5, 4%, we could really be in a very, very dark place. >> indeed. just put this in some perspective for us as to why china matters so much. we are talking of course about the second biggest economy in the world, but there is so much trade that that region does with china as well, and that's why they take their cue from beijing. >> reporter: well, it's always
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been called, of course, the engine for world growth. and certainly during the past few years that has certainly been the characters the world has defended on china for growth. because it's been the only economy that's been growing. what china is saying to the world, look, i am afraid those days are over. the period of double-double he had growth has ended. we are trying to create an economy that is consumption led as opposed to manufacturing led. they call this the new normal. but today i have to say, china's economy feels anything but normal. >> adrian brown live for us there in beijing on the asian stock slide. now, about a thousand refugees have arrived in italy aboard a norwegian rescue vessel, they were picked off the coast of libya on saturday. the leaders of germany and france are meeting in the coming hours to work out how to respond to the unprecedented influx of people. about 45,000 migrants have crossed through macedonia over
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the past two months. on their way to the european union. andrew simons has more from macedonia's border with greece. >> reporter: there is no end it seems to the suffering, the exhaustion. it's a different place, a rail play platform. waiting for another journey. at one stage police and soldiers had been blocking the border with force. now they are organizing transit for these people to pass through macedonia and then onto serbia. in the crush, there is tension. a train has arrived. there is no way everyone can get on board. that doesn't seem to be any -- there doesn't seem to be any system telling these people whether they have a right to board this train or not. it's his and miss. people are plead to go soldier to his let them on board. they begin to let people through in orderly lines. the anxiety turning in to smiles
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of relief. some of the security forces here are helpful and considerate. but any resistence to their orders is seen as provocation. one officer was heard telling a refugees if you don't like this, then you should go back to syria. and this man was saying that even though he had the right papers, he wasn't being allowed on the train. >> i am a human being. we are -- >> that's enough. it's enough. it's enough. that's enough. that's enough. yeah, okay, that is enough. >> reporter: this woman from afghanistan is trying to guide an extended family of 12 through all of this. she says she's been separated from some of them. >> i have family there, my grandfather, very, very old. children.
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my uncle, my uncle's children there. my family there but we don't going. >> reporter: some people have gone to extraordinary length to his get this far, partin partinh their children on the border so they would be allowed? >> they would put their children undeunderneath the razor wild ad then go and extract the family and come to the train station, this act of desperation should not be happening anywhere to anybody. >> reporter: as many more people head from greece to the border the latest political moves like so many others right across europe have failed these people. andrew simmons, al jazerra, in macedonia. as the refugees travel north in to serbia, thousands more are arriving in greece every day. and move towards the town on the greek border with macedonia, jonah hull is there. >> reporter: what a difference a day makes. on saturday afternoon refugees in their hundreds were blockaded
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here at this points, pressed up against razor wire in front of the macedonian police when they broke from here, evaded the police lines, sprinted off across the fields with screaming children and stun grenades exploding all around them. well, now this point is open again. they are allowing people to walk down along these railway lines towards the train station inside macedonia. they are allowing them through in small, controlled and ordered groups. so that the blockade here has been lifted and now groups of people who arrive take time to take shelter in the shade. there are aid organizations at work here now. there is food being distributed. clothing. there are doctors here as well offering medical attention. when people need it. it is a far more humane and far more ordered situation that these people find when they arrive. make no mistake, people are arriving all the time because down these railway tracks in the other direction, of course, we are looking down in to greece,
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we are looking all the way down to the islands in the south where people are crossing the he guillain sea from turkey, get on the ground to small boats, being ferried, shuttled daily from those islands to the port, 200500 people arrived this morning alone and they are coming every day and making their way up here to this point. so that they can continue their journey deeper in to the european union. gall malguatemala's presides told the people he will not step down over allegations involved in customs fraud. >> translator: with the same strength and character with which i deny my involvement i cannot help but recognize this has happened in my government and by close government officials or those he designated that obliges me for ask for public forgiveness and say what comes from my heart to ask that the gout mall an people forgive
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me. i reaffirm that i will not resign and will fully submit myself to the legal processes. good night and may god bless you. >> david mercer has more from gout mall a. >> everybody today was expecting something possibly different from the president, there was all sorts of rumors i can lated that, in fact, he was going to renounce the presidency today. and instead of bowing to that pressure an awful lot of publish pressure he did the exact opposite. he came out resolutely, strongly placing the blame actually on foreign intervention, on foreign groups, placing the blame on other politicians. placing the blame also on the powerful business community here, the business elite saying they weren't paying their share of the taxes and so he came out resolutely and said he would stay in power until the end.
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his term is up in january, elections are two weeks away and there is not much solace for guatemalans with those elections either. the leading opposition party, the vice presidential candidate has had accusations of money laundering leveled at him as well. which he has denied. and meanwhile, people say that they are going to continue the practice tests on the streets, these are massive street demonstrations country has seen over the past four months with people calling on the president to resign. he says he's not going anywhere. but the people say this they are going to stay on the street and they are going to stay protesting against him until, in fact, he does step down. take quick break now, but still ahead on the program, the trial of the men accused of publically lynching a disabled bangladesh i boy is due to begin. plus. >> reporter: i am charlie angela at the world's largest arts festival where we are finding out if comedy can travel.
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>> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the sound bites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. hello again, you are watching al jazerra. the top stories, the falling chinese stocks continue as the shanghai exchange closes down 8%. panic among traders and investors has triggered a global sale out and a slide in commodities and currency. asian markets are all in red. the leaders of germany and france are leadin meeting in thg hours as to how to take care of the refugees fleeing conflicts
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in the middle east and africa. about 45,000 people have crossed through macedonia in the past two months on their way to the e.u. guatemala's president otto perez molina has said he will not step down. he has been under pressure to leave office over allegations of involvement in customs fraud. the lebanese army has been deployed to confront growing anti government protest. one protest is has been killed in a second night of violence, dozens were injured including police, frustration and anger over piles of uncollected trash sparked the protests a month ago, now it's led to bigger issue. >> reporter: the demands to topple the government. thousands of lebanese make their voices heard in downtown beirut. there is a growing protest movement here the people are very angry. these demonstrations were triggered after rubbish began
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piling up on the streets of the capital following the closure of the mainland fill. young people formed a movement called you stink. but that very quickly transformed in to an anti government movement to protest many of the underlying problems that the country faces. >> the corruption in it country is quite literally killing us slowly. ing people think this is about trash. it's not about trash, the trash crisis is what -- the straw that broke the camel's back. we have major power outages, we have major water shortages. >> reporter: these protests cross the political divide. the protesters chance and placard demonstrate their rejection of party politics. they say the currencies testimony is controlled by business men and the country's political elite. therelite. >> there is no scenario where all these people that are still in the parliament right now, there is no scenario where they stay and it's good. it's not going to happen. all of these guys in the
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parliament in the ministry all these people they need to resign. the time for change is now. >> reporter: sunday's protest started off peacefully, however protest organizers claim that far, infiltrated the crowd forcing them to and people to leave and return on monday. if qloosheclashes probe out bete that remained. tear gas and water cannons were fired. bottles and projectiles thrown at the police and signs of shots fired. despite the violence, anti-government activists say they will continue their protests and called for more to garth ore monday evening. the grassroots nature of this movement is what people believe gives it power, in terms of giving them the ability to express their genuine opposition to what they describe as widespread corruption or against
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the government and it's a policies, the question still remains whether it will be enough to allow them to create a new political reality to replace that which has governed lebanon to so many decades. jamal, al jazerra. beirut. saudi arabia has reported 51 new cases of middle east respiratory syndrome or percents over the past week, nearly all the new infections were covered? a hospital, 15 are medical staff. that's the largest number of new cases report ed in the cook come this year, since it was first discovered in 2012, saudi arabia has always been the country with the most infections. in pakistan a chinese tourist kidnapped has been freed. pakistan says the release was the result of an externals tiff intelligence operation. court proceedings are due to
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begin against 13 people accused of murdering 18 age boy to rural bangladesh. video of the disabled boy being beaten to death went viral and provoked public anger. a report on how the attackers took the law in to their own hands, a warning some viewers may find the report upsetting. >> reporter: the pictures don't haunt his father as he campaigns for justice. he says his son, who suffered from mental and physical disabilities, would never steal anything. but an angry mob thought otherwise. they killed him, then gloated about it in hd. video of the 13 year old's murder was posted on line by the culprits themselves, they bragged that they had caught a thief. >> translator: we are poor so he used to go to the market to help out our family by vealing vegetables that evening his mother called and said my boy
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hadn't come home i panicked straightaway. >> reporter: this is the roadside market where the attackers caught him and tied him up to this pillar. it was early in the morning but there was still people passing by so they took him to this garage at the back where they beat him to death. passersby did nothing to stop the assault. his murder is provoking international outrage because the video has gone viral. but bangladeshis usually ignore public lynn offings which are common here. many victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> translator: me and six of my friends were hanging out near a bridge when men with flashlights came up and said we were they were lock looking for rob,, would he tell them they were students but they beat us and all my friends died.
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>> reporter: a lack of faith in the justice system. the police say the lynchings are rare. and they are handling them. >> arrest persons to the police. [ inaudible ] ] >> reporter: such measures bring little relief to him. all he wants is to see the killers punished for taking away his cherished son. al jazerra, bangladesh. now, the five suspect in the attack on garissa university in kenya are also due in court later. al shabab gunmen stormed the college campus in april in a predawn attack that killed 148 people. the armed group spared muslim students but killed christian
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ones, al shabab has killed more than 400 people in kenya in the past two years. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon is in nigeria for a two-day visit development, human rights and tackling violence will be on agenda with he meets with the president there. the marking be four-year anniversary of the bombing that killed mean people. >> it's been more than a year since russia rush an he can the. but now there is a sign of frustrations between russia and the administration there. the kremlin is looking at this as a chance to exert its authority. roar he challands explains. >> reporter: the contempt is as sharp as the razor wire dumped in their village. occupiers they call the men who come in at night to block off public paths, pull down electricity cables, demolish garden walls and shut off water supply to houses.
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this, they are convinced is all part of an illegal land grab by corrupt local officials for the development of luxury homes along this dramatic coastline. >> translator: all of the people who have property and influence in crimea during ukrainian times, rich people, they are quickly became part of the russian system and can successfully protect their interests, they don't wants to change anything, like their plans to seize lands here. >> reporter: locals are fighting back all over crimea. using video and social media to raise the profile of their campaign. signatures are being gathered an anti corruption petition to be sent to president vladimir putin, 15,000 or so people have signed it so far. but it seems like the kremlin is already paying attention. putin's visit last week included an instruction to crimeian prime minister sergei's administration to throw out the bad apples.
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these are the faces of crimeian officials already charged by federal authorities with a list of crimes from accepting bribe to his embezzlement of federal fashion money, some were personally appointed by sergei and russia's main security agency is sending an obvious warning. >> translator: the federal authorities are seriously concerned about the way things are in crimea. for one simple reason, the fsb is a federal structure dealing with state security and the challenges we see in crimea are a challenge to russian statehood. >> reporter: the last thing the kremlin wants is for the peninsula's administration to play by its own rules butt chairman of crimea's public chamber denies there is a rift with moscow. >> translator: there are instances where crimeian elite haven't fully learned russian rules and regulations. it's pretty difficult to switch from ukrainian practices to russian ones. maybe that's has caused local, i don't want to say conflict but
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some local disputes. >> reporter: hundreds of millions of dollars annually in federal investment and subsidies are being pumped in to crimea. many crimeians hoped joining russia would put behind them the years of corruption and crumbling infrastructure but they are still waiting. rory chall challands, al jazerr, crimea. edinburgh in scotland hosts the world's largest art fest vault and carmody shows make up a large part of it. comedians from across the globe take part showing human can transcend cultural differences. >> this is the way every one sands. white chicks. it's the same thing. they sound the very same way that everybody else. i don't know what people expect. >> reporter: poking fun at preconceptions, he is a big celebrity any south africa. but in the u.k., he's just an unknown comedian charming a tiny
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audience with his observations. >> every day it's partly cloudy. [ laughter ] >> with no chance of black people. [ laughter ] >> reporter: but he believes comedy can unite people. >> but i know in south africa with 11 official languages and even more cultures, i have definitely seen it transcends. >> reporter: voted asia's best stand-up comedian, he performs all over the world but always taye ors his material. >> the first thing i do in any new country is i find out about their history, their politics, their culture, their recent scandals, my first 10 minutes are purely about them. so with that, you start with them instantly and take them beyond their boarders. >> as an indian comedian i travel different parts of the
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word depending on where i am people treat me differently. but what i found amusing is how exciting all the american comedians were, they were like oh, my god, 10 million people watch this program. i was like, dude, i come from india, if i open my bathroom window, 10 million people will show up live. >> reporter: international comedians do brilliantly well says comedy critic kate copstick because of being foreign. >> when you are outside something, you see things that people on the inside don't see anymore. you -- everything is odd and strange and interesting and quirky. and that is the cement and the bricks of comedy. >> reporter: this festival proves that comedy is universal. but audiences want is passion and sincerity, if you make it they'll find you wan you out.
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