>> north and south korea say they've reached a deal to lower border tensions. we'll have the latest live. hello there i'm felicity barr and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up: a desperate journey into europe as thousands of refugees leave macedonia in search of a new life. stock markets fall as fears mount over the chinese slow down and falling commodity prices. plus. >> i'm in northern argentina where farmers protesting here

state that the government policies are making it impossible for them to grow their crops. >> hello, marathon talks between north and south korea have ended in agreement defusing a crisis that pushed them to the brink of armed conflict. earlier police broke up protests in the border area where negotiations have been taking place. a south korean news agency reported that the north expressed regret over a land mine incident that wounded two south korean soldiers this month. both countries' militaries have been on alert after a brief exchange of fire at the border on thursday. live now to seoul and our correspondent harry fawcett. harry tell us more about this agreement. what more do you know? >> reporter: well i.t. was about two hours ago that the chief national security advisory to the president here, park

geun-hye he was the person who came before reporters and said that an agreement had been reached and as far as he was concerned it was an indication of south korea's tough negotiating line. he said that north korea had made an expression of regret for the injuries sustained by those two south korean soldiers who were caught up in that land mine blast on august the 4th in the southern side of the demilitarized zone. in response to that south korea would stop its loudspeaker broadcasting, it's propaganda broadcasting, and so upset that the 48 hour deadline threatened by north korea. we have these talks instead. the president park geun-hye said she had clearly wanted an

apology from north korea. the text doesn't suggest that that's quite what's been said put that's certainly how it's been sold here in the area. >> translator: the north has expressed its regret over south korean soldiers being injured in the land mine incident in the southern part of the demilitarized zone. the south will agree to stop its broadcasting. it is highly significant that through these talks north korea apologized and propositioned to make efforts against any resumption of incidents. >> harry just explain how serious the situation actually got? >> well, it was pretty serious. obviously it's relatively easy to say, look the talks were going on and we now have an

agreement and therefore you can talk about a lot of bluster having gone on beforehand. but obviously there was an exchange of fire going on thursday, at least that's what north korea says it did not fire, south korea returning fire with 30 rounds. and north korea's 50 of its submarines, that does suggest along with this 48 hour deadline, in easing tensions as they regularly crop up but does suggest a serious situation. it is somewhat different than what happened in the first part of 2015, the kind of rhetoric that was going back and forth was even more heightened. flea talk about nuclear strikes and about the whole nation being put on a war footing which

didn't happen at this time. the joint industrial complex just inside north korean territory, that continued on operation pretty much unprecedented. there were various things on the positive side of the ledger, perhaps the most importantly once, these talks went on for hours, the last going on for more than 33 hours. it did suggest that both sides were determined not to engage in any further military conflict. >> harry fawcett, thank you. migrants are proceeding on by foot before jumping on buses or trains. calling a humanitarian disaster, let's take you through main developments. hundreds of mainly african

migrants are angry at the red cross center where they are currently being housed. more refugees arrived at the city of messina. operations on the mediterranean this weekend alone. the exodus continues over land as well. the u.n. says 7,000 refugees have streamed into serbia from macedonia since saturday. they've they've begun their european journey in greece where it's estimated 1,000 refugees are arriving every day. this report from southern serbia. >> in just ten days, 2,000 migrants arrived here. are this was another tranquil village in one of the poorest areas of certain ya. now it's become an important point of entry for refugees trying to get to the european union. every day thousands of hungry

thirst city and exhausted people arrive here. >> i'm expecting just to cross. i just want to cross. to continue my journey. just want to cross. >> we don't have a toilet. the woman here who have an allergic from the sun. to go outside from here you know? >> many say they want to go to germany. europe's strongest economy. and they are ready to endure all the hardships on the way to a better life. and this is just another step for refugees and migrants in the certainan town just 5 kilometers north of the border with macedonia. here they are offered some medical help food and water. the picture is different here than the situation at macedonia's border with greece. mostly 5,000 went through this

registration point in the last three days. after these people being registered here, catching buses and trains to belgrade where it's a step further to their final destination, hungary and the eu. >> doctors without borders called it an exodus. inability to cope with the large number of people transiting through here. southern serbia. >> on the macedonian side of that border, refugees continue to arriving but how to deal with the crew crisis? andrew simmons reports. >> the border play be open

again, the only problem, an occasional struggle. macedonia's interior minister came to defend the decision to close the border last week. here too austria's foreign minister talking about what the european union was or rather wasn't doing about the situation right now. in the brief time they spent with refugees, amanwanted to ged to say something. >> why do they make a safe zone in syria? >> macedonia's interior minister blamed grease saying it had to control or security. >> our intention was not to close the border but to protect it. >> this was confrontation with

refugees. in humanitarian terms surely it was a disaster. >> our efforts were motivated by the humanitarian situation. in it's also the fault of grease pap if there is no support for the refugees there. >> what are you going to do apart from meeting with greece? >> with germany and some commissioner is from the european union. >> those words have been heard before and the fact is that little changes for these people apart from the of boarding trains like this one, away from the cities and towns of macedonia. and so does the political talking going on, the reality here is after the violence on this border there is a milk, more coming on this route. moving the humanitarian crisis further up the line to another country.

andrew simmons, al jazeera. markets across the world have seen big losses as china's economy continues to slow down. the dow jones industrial average has dropped a thousand points but has recovered. the shanghai service market has closed down 3%. the hang high composite whereas on the, line. trying to correct this by allowing a state owned pension fund invested in billions of dollars of stocks, but it didn't work. slow down is continuing to the continuing fall in commodities

like oil, gold and copper. those prices are now at their lowest levels in seven years. and two major mining firms announced they would ax 12,000 jobs half of them in south africa. al jazeera's adrian brown send this report. >> falling, at one point by 9%, recovering only slightly. some of china's biggest countries which marines some of the world's biggest are lifted here. new and risky gamble to prop up the market, using funds from the state pension funds but it failed to help the slide. >> how account markets drop every day like this, one two three four five, the market drops for five days and never rose back. >> now are being forced to sell

back those shares to pay back loans. >> translator: the chinese market aims to eliminate the middle class. after eliminating the middle class the middle class will have no purchasing power and the market won't be shrinking. >> the value could be at risk if the market's value continues. >> i think the government can stop this problem properly. the government won't spend all the pension money on the stock mark. >> the everything it has tried has failed. since june the shanghai index has lost more than 30% of its value and analysts predict the decline is likely to continue. >> once again, stock prices down across the asia pacific region,

the hong kong index followed the mainland's sharp decline, and the biggest stock market tokyo ended the day almost 75 points closer as well. australia suffered its biggest one day fall in four years down by more than 4%. what all these markets desperately need but don't have is investor confidence. adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. >> still to come. violence in nepal, several have been demanding. cooling off a major rally after a night of violence. violence. .

>> hello again, a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. talks between north and south korea have ended in agreement. north korea has expressed regret while seoul will stop propaganda broadcasts. thousands of refugees have streamed from macedonia to serbia since sunday. stock market drop as investors express concerns about the chinese economy. eight people have died as protesters clashed with police in nepal, 400 kilometers west of kathmandu.

the protesters from the ethnic group wants a separate area in the cootion. intoibs is in kathmandu. at least eight people died and 40 injured in the southwestern district. in ticapu, large number of protesters carrying household instruments. residents say they were attacked by police and police say they were fired upon. people in the far western district especially the tarus who are an indigenous group who are marginalized there, saying that a separate state should be

there for them. and other groups are scaig that the far western region should not be broken. in the past few weeks have there have been small clashes but this latest has been absolutely your honor precedented. >> three policemen also killed in a separate attack three car bombs targded a convoy of iraqi soldiers killing 18 people. iraqi forces have been facing strong resistance from i.s.i.l. in the battle for ramadi. sunni volunteers have been leading that fight but shia inviters have been kept back from that line. zeina khodr has the report. >> a large force containing sunni forces, dozens of haider

al-abadi's men has been killed in ambushes over recent days. it is proving to be a difficult fight, this battle is important for the government whose army and police units were abandoned after i.s.i.l. invaded anbar province. to avoid worsening sectarian tensions, those militias were immediately deployed to anbar when ramadi fell. it watts a request by the government whose army wasn't able to stop its advances. >> some western embassies should review their positions. we won't let anyone interfere in

our are business, this is a red line. >> amery belongs to a political party that has a great position in parliament. >> amerie is the number 1 man, the force has become a military institution and the u.s. ask worried about its strength especially in the i.s.i.l. phase. he wants to increase his numbers. number around 100,000 men. they were given official status by the government which pays some of their salaries. they have largely replates placed the army in the place of deediyalla and, the government

continues to rely on shia forces along another i.s.i.l. stronghold, the city of fallujah. along supply routes. it's expected to be a long fight. not just on ramadi. zeina khodr, baghdad. one of the most important world historical sites has been under attack from i.s.i.l. built around 2,000 years ago, the temple was blown up on sunday. al jazeera was told, the death toll is likely to rise, syria didn't fact it will not

continue. aim is to santa saada, the main northern stronghold of the houthis. bomb blast, when a bus was struck, north of cairo. egypt has been battling a growing insurgency since the 2013 ousting of presiden mohamm. >> reporting from beirut. >> outside the prime minister's office in beirut. they want to protect the building after violence the night before. antigovernment protesters have been taking place here for weeks now, triggered after a rubbish

crisis april the capital's main office was closed. lebanon has been in political limbo for over two years now as a result of the sectarian divide here. that along with widespread corruption has meant that basic services like water and electricity are not being delivered. and the way security forces have been dealing with the protesters has further angered people. on monday a demonstration was held outside the justice ministry demanding the accountability of one person killed and dozens injured, as a result of blast the. the hashta alternative to the pl status quo. >> we are on the grass roots of

the people. we are actually dragging the people from the political movement because they have been there for decades doing nothing for them. i think it's totally positive. it is true we're not that strong enough but i think if we actually stay on the same message we're using we might have more people joining us. >> analysts including dr. ayn everemed, agree that to t way it's political system is set up. >> the lebanese scenery right now contexted it, to where it's not able to come up with issues that the lebanese tin require. even simpl simple thing as collg

garbage from the street, which is supposed to be a normal thing. but anything else is becoming a issue of sectaria second tear c. >> tbaifd on regional and international interests, whether that system will be changed any time soon is hard to see. jamal al shayal, are al jazeera. >> french president francois hollande, chris norman anthony, alex and spencer were honored

for stopping a terrorist attack on a train acknowledge on thirst. is. several residents were injured and 80 people were evicting from that i homes. typhoon bown every when it passed over the controversial export tax. they say they simply can not afford to keep growing their crops unless the government does something to help them. al jazeera's teresa bowe ofe reports the anger is starting to spill out online the streets. >> back on the roads, these farmers in the northern province, their demands have gone unheight it for years. >> we're here because our

northern part of aivelgt has a terminal dice. $this year there won't be any crops in this part of the country. >> jose has been a farmer here for decades. he took us to hi husband ranch. he says the situation is so difficult that many are thinking of selling tear laboratories. >> this is occasional not to have the costs,. >> the exchange rate with the u.s. dollar in argentina there's an emotional rate and a us rate. >> in the case of the soybean we have to have a 35% export tax. of that value we get a dollar fake and worth 35 to 65. >> and that's why they put up

roadblocks here for a third we week. the local government has granted some tax exemptions. farmers say what makes the situation worse for them is the closest port is 300 mimes away, the fliet is so expensive they can inner would it it. since the government imposed and export are price of crops, the soybean has fallen precipitously. >> the former not, nest horvetionr kirsh any were. >> farmers think differently and say that they will block the

roads until at least some of their demands are met. teresa wol, al jazeera, argentina. >> as a quick reminder, you can find the latest stories, on aljazeera.com. hello, i'm richard gizbert, and you are at "the listening post". here are some of the media stories, another country paces an anti-terrorism law that has implications for journalism.