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>> the u.n. calls on europe to unite. to tackle it's worst refugee crisis since the second world war. >> hello there. i'm felicity bar. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. a south african judge convicts eight policemen of murdering a mozambique taxi driver. blowing up palmyra, isil releases pictures of destructi
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destruction. >> hello, calling on europe to unite. it is to succeed in tackling its refugee crisis. in greece more refugees have arrived near athens. jonah hull was there to meet them. they're are their stories. >> this many stages of the long journey of what is yet to come, this travel to lesbos has been perhaps the most secure. they paid the ferry operator ran than a beam sugarreller. >> are you happy to be here? do you feel relieved to be here? >> yes, we're so happy here. >> thanks. >> we come to turkey, greece, and now we're going to macedonia
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to serbia. >> have you heard about the trouble on the route in the last few days? >> i worried so much. >> are you worried about that? >> yes, yes. >> this is the fifth ferry to arrive since monday. that's on the front of the lines there are 10,000 people waiting to got on to ferries like this. and that number is growing every night. the authorities in greece are utterly overwhelmed, offering little besides a simple registration document that allows the refugees to pass through the country and go. >> this is a document at th telling you that you can stay in greece for three months, and then you have to leave. >> yes. >> is that what you plan to do?
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>> yes, probably. >> they need transportation to the border, and bus companies know an opportunity when they see one. >> they need to text to another bus to thessalonica. >> yes. >> some take the metro towards the train station in athens. seven-year-old zanyi is the only speaker of english in the film. >> what did you see in syria, bad things? >> yes. >> do you feel excited about the future? >> yes. yes. >> for the young perhaps there is excitement in this movement between countries. the adults with them will hope that nothing ahead is worse than what they've left behind.
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>> well, serbia is another stopping point on the road to the european union. andrew simmons has this report. >> by the day the numbers are harder to di jesus. here is what called the one-stop center, more than 10,000 people have passed through in less than five days. further up the line more than 2,000 a day are arriving. the number registered so far this year has passed 100,000 compared with 43,000 in the hole of last year. the numbers are stackering, so, too, is the availability of the european union to come up with
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this one. they have only 72 hour visas being issued, and well, look at the numbers. they're extraordinary. it gets more complicated. germany predicts it will deal with 800,000 asylum application this is year. it wants a fairer system of quotas for member states to take in refugee. what is more, the e.u. wants a tougher policy on those they doesn't away as economic migrants. most of these people are refugees from syria. they're friedenned about what --we don't know what will happen
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in hungary. maybe they will take them to jail. >> hungary is going to become an even bigger pressure point in this crisis, and the government is criticizing the e.u. for not giving it enough money to cope with a record number of people intending to cross its border in serbia. andrew simmons, al jazeera, serbia. >> eight south african police officers have been found guilty of murdering a mozambique taxi driver in 2013. they handcuffed him to a police van and dragged him along the streets before beating him in a police critical. >> the judge called these former police officers liers and murderers, they say that he
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killed the driver. they would handcuff him to their van and drive him around. these pictures prove damning. >> what happens once the footage ends is almost worse. he was badly beaten in a police cell. he died of head injuries and internal bleeding. the judge said that the police officers died and submitted ridiculous versions ever the events in their defense. the south african police are often accused of excessive force, but they hospital messily deuce them. up family says now that it has campus. >> we need te compensation, but
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there is a sense of relief over the guilty verdict. the public has been let down before. six months before killed, the police shot dead 34 striking miners at americana. and a month after the man died, the police are caught shooting protesters in the chest with. >> police are expected to protect the community. they're expected to prevent crime. >> by the end of the verdict, the defendants had their heads bowed load. they're now in custody. the people who they're supposed to picture are now depicte
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depicteddelaware pictured. we are a spokesman for the red cross. he condemns the attack. >> we're in close contact with the authorities, and we'll review the assets. >> security officials say that the bomber used an army vehicle to approach the troops before detonating the explosives. there is no immediate claim to
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the responsibility, but they say that the attack bears the hallmarks of aisles. members of the pkk have been killed. the fighters died in airstrikes in northern iraq quake. >> storm confidence that russia will continue supporting his embattled regime. ash har quaraishi was speaking in an interview with hezbollah's television network. >> throughout his history the united states is known for playing games, selling off allies. but one official would say today would be contradicted the next day or by himself literal on. this is how the americans operate, but the russian policy was never like this. even back in the soviet era even
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nowadays. we have strong confidence with the for years now they've been sincere and transparent if their relationship with us. >> isil shows video of the destruction of an ancient temple in syria. the impel was almost 2,000 ears old. isil captured palmyra in may and began to tear down any ruins that it found pagan or sack religious. >> this temple has been reconstructed before. it was reconstructed by a french team into the 20th century. that kind of rebuilding will certainly come, but a think a place like pal my radio loses a bill bit to it.
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the loss to the people of syria is incapable. syrians have a very strong identification with the site of palmyra because they themselves have embraced in cull do yo u.s. sense oin culture. >> still to come on the program. it has given the world mariachi music and tequila, but good guadalajara also has the vision of becoming a tech hub. >> hoping to entice customers from across the world. i'm rory challands with more on
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>> hello again. a reminder of the stories here on al jazeera. described as the worst refugee crisis since world war ii. 3,000 refugees are expected to enter macedonia every day over the next few months. eight south african police officers have been found guilty of murdering a taxi driver in 2013. they handcuffed him to the back of their van and dragged him 200 meters down the road.
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and the red cross is suspended all eight operations after gunmen stormed it's offices steeling equipment, money and vehicles. china has cut its interest rate for the fifth time in ninth months. the country is steering its economy to a new normal, but now many who invested all their savings are afraid of losing everything. >> struggling to understand what is happening to china's economy. all he knows is that his shares are now worse 70% less than before. he invested $20,000, all of his savings, but he remains hopeful about a recovery. >> i already put all my savings into the stock market. what i can do now is just wait for the index to come back. i won't buy or sell at this
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stage. just keep watching it. >> his story is now being replicated in many places across china. when it comes to making investments the options for both chinese are pretty limited. property and shares. the problem now is that the prices of both are falling. a falling stock market and an economy that is slowing. the owner of this restaurant said that his takings are half than they were in june. he said that the landlord won't lower the rent so he's closing next month. >> the stock market is falling. many temperatures in this area have gone bankrupt. >> it is an anxious time, and not everyone wants to talk. many people blame foreigners for manipulating china's stock market. this trading room is popular with pensioners who were encouraged by the government to buy shares.
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>> i don't even dare to calculate how much i lost. yesterday i lost 10%. today another 10%. i don't know when this could end. >> the stock market is a sensitive issue now. officials demanded to see our pictures ordering us to dee least several images before they returned our identity cards. chi chi ping ha xi jinping has announced the china dream, which makes china richer and more powerful. >> we wilwe will achieve other goal. if not our country will go backwards. >> china has recovered before.
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and 2 has faith it will do so again. >> the security council said its ready to react immediately if south sudan does not sign a peace deal on thursday. it refused to sign a deal last wee week. he said he needed more time to consider it. venezuela is case lating its deportations. venezuela's president has ordered the closure of two borders because of violence and smugglers close to the crossings. there are calls for the disputes to be resolved aboued. there have been violent clashes between police in argentina after accusations of fraud in a recent election.
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police fired tear gas to demonstrators who claim that the bowls for the election of the governor was ricked. supporters say that the election was fair and protesters are simply unhappy with the result. the courts in guatemala has given the ahead to impeach its president. under extreme pressure after allegations of corruption. his last remaining cabinet members resigned on saturday. he has refused to resign, and now congress can vote on whether they want an impeachment. david mercer is on the phone. what can you tell us about this decision? >> let's try once more. david in guatemala, can you hear us? clearly having a few problems with that line to guatemala.
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we might try to get back with him a little later. >> thousands of refugees are return to go to somalia. two years ago an agreements with made to half that number. most of those who have return ready now living a life of hardship. >> a long time open to those displaced by conflict. recently its population has grown with refugees returning from neighboring kenya. afteafter living in camps 11 years. >> all we have is peace. nothing else.
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after no aid from anyone. >> a number of charities came together to build these makeshift shelters. no one lived here. all of these houses have been abandoned. the families who settled here moved out complaining that they were too tiny and did not offer protection against the heat. >> most have been forced to swap one refugee camp to another. officials say that there is little that they can do for them. >> it requires huge resources. they leave hospitals and medical care. there are so many services that they required that the state cannot afford. >> these young men are an exception. they've been trained to build
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boats out of fiber gas. the majority of the returning refugees have been left on their own. every morning hundreds take to the streets looking for work. living in the kenyan refugee camps for 11 years. >> i'm facing the same problems i fled from. i'm still a refugee. i thought i would be resettled properly, but here i'm a laborer. >> this is home to over 400,000 somalis. but the situation with somali, it is unlikely that many more will be coming back soon. >> now the southwestern mexican city of guadalajara has brought
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us two great it was, tequila and mariachi music. but now they're hoping to bring another. we visit some of the new start ups in guadalajara. >> the "star wars" model of this guitar, table tennis and nerf guns. this isn't silicon valley. it's guadalajara, mexico. the birthplace of tequila and mariachi is now reinventing itself as a tech company. electronics account for half of the state's exports and fighting for position in a growing start up market. >> we're looking for people that are able to work at the state of
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the art of software and advance the state of the art. we found we can get it here. >> guadalajara has long been a production line hub for international firms. now start ups around the cities like those who make computer games and films, are using what they learned from the big boys to go it alone. >> what has happened in guadalajara reflect stories like mine. first, i work in manufacturing. then i develop software, now i have a creative start up. now it is selling creative technology using what we learned from the companies who came here. >> the plans worldwide domination, the industry provides rife industries. >> i think it is a huge
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opportunity. it is from an economic point of view, there is a tremendous amount of industry here. and very little technology. you take those two together, there is just an enormous amount of what i would call low-hanging fruit. state authorities want in. they're tried to provide a high-tech home. the government is working with private investment on a $60 million plan to bring guadalajara's run down center into the tech boom. part of it is rebuilding abandoned buildings like this one to rent out to start ups or as public hubs with resources like 3d printers. guadalajara hopes that yearly exports to the u.s. will reach $4 billion. that's a long way off, but at least the city has a vision for its future. john hull man, guadalajara,
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mexico. >> showing off the might of his country's army. russia and iran are expected to sign a $1 billion deal for missiles. >> as russian jets shredded the sky above him. president vladimir putin looked satisfied with what he was watching above him. he sat side him for the king of jordan and abu dhab abu dhabi's crown prince. russia is open for aerospace industry. we will extend the unique space potential of our country to strengthen the leading positions
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and production of military aviation equipment. >> but much has changed since this biaannual event has been held. defense exports with now one of the few areas of russia industry where there is growth. depp prime minister has been tasked with showing the iranians around. it's no secret that russia is impatient to start selling weapons and technology to tehran again. >> the production needs tapcal investment. with this in mind we're building good relationships with russia and other companies. we're working with technology and other issues. one of the areas where there will be change is aviation production.
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>> defense sales are driven by modernization program, although there are signs for aviation that this is slowing down. when it comes to domestic procurement, russia is having to clip its wings somewhat. the development of a long-range bomber has been postponed. and the fifth generation warplane has been scaled back, and instead the military is going for cheaper options, trusting the older workhorses. >> as any shopkeeper knows, a good flow of customers is important. next coupe is egyptian president el-sisi, he's expected to visit, too. >> sex days after lifting of, havin--six days after lift off,
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six astronauts on board were in need of provision after the failure of three cargo rockets in the past eight months. much more on many of our stories can be found on our website. the new address is www.aljazeera.com. >> this week on "talk to al jazeera", one of the most recognizable singers of a generation - kate pierson of the b-52s. >> (singing the song "love shack"). >> the greatest thing i think a band can do is give people this joy and make them happy and make them dance or sing or just, you know, just kind of give them a joy. >> the group was once given the title "america's favorite party band" by rolling stone, but pierson said beneath the bee-hives, there was a message. >> we felt we were misunderstood and we felt like everyone's just calling us wacky, wacky, wacky