♪ dozens of refugees are killed after a boat sinks off the coast of libya. ♪ hello there you are watching al jazeera, i'm laura kyle at the headquarters in doha and also coming up, call for guatemala president to step down and boko haram and we meet the children of nigeria after their lives are scarred by the armed group.

plus, the art installation that is too beautiful to deflate. ♪ we begin with the refugee crisis sweeping across europe and dozens of asylum seekers are dead after their boat sank and many were trapped in the hulls when the boat went down and we have the details. >> reporter: the mediterranean sea is a dark reminder of people's desperation for people to escape poverty and people have been killed crossing north africa to europe this year n the latest tragedy another boat sunk shortly after leaving libya. >> translator: we are migrating, our boat sank, it was in a bad condition, people died, the libyans saved us, may god bless them and they are forced into the route, the route of

death of the mediterranean see. >> reporter: it's a main transit route for people fleeing poverty to make it to europe and international smugglers take advantage of the lawlessness and chaos and libya is struggling to cope and putting those that are rescued into over crowded facilities and forced to live in poor facilities and lack basic care. in an incident a vessel docked here after rescuing hundreds of people in their boat drifting at sea but dozens of others were not so lucky, their bodies found in the hull of the boat. >> this is one of the tragedies we have seen a lot in the mediterranean, it's the first time for the swedish crew and the swedish ship but unfortunately it's one of many in total. >> reporter: the u.n. estimates that more than 2400 people have died trying to cross the

mediterranean sea so far this year. hundreds of thousands have made the crossing into europe so far this year in a desperate attempt to improving that live, many are families traveling with children and they are trying desperately to find and establish a coordinated strategy to resolve this latest crisis. in the meantime the people keep coming. al jazeera, rome. well, meanwhile austra say 70 dead find on the side of the motor way on thursday, highway patrols discovered the refrigerated vehicle on the border and a exan exact amount be discovered on friday and they talked about the refugee crisis. >> translator: we are all very shaken by the news up to 50 people lost their lives in a situation where criminals

facilitating a legal border crossing did not care about them even though they were on their way to places they thought they would be safe. south korea red cross asked north korea to consider family reunions in september and they want them to take place at the border village and the issue was discussed last week during efforts to deescalate tensions between seoul and pangyong and the last one occurred in korea in 2014. south korea and the u.s. wrapped up their biggest joint military drill and 2000 exercised a live fire exercise and we are there where the drill took place. >> this south korean drill is the largest live fire exercised carried out by the south korean military and in the same week that north and south korea had a deal settling for now which was

the most serious amount of tensions in years and included an exchange of artillery across the border. with sheer size this exercise is interesting in terms of the types of scenarios that are being rehearsed there. there is a war time scenario and a peace time one and includes them responding to a provocation and going to provocation and supporting them and the command post responsible for it and that is a physical response to policy of any kind of north korean provocation and watching on as this exercise is carried out fresh from what people see as a vindication of her government's hard line stance in terms of a negotiated stance and looking to maintain their twin attack approach for nuclear testing be open to cultural exchanges and family reunions between families

divided between north and south and ended in 1953 and also plans for more regular meetings between northern and southern negotiators however in october there is the 70th anniversary of north korean anniversary party and could be marked by a rocket launch and test and it could be warmer relations between north and south in the last few days will find themselves tested pretty soon. turkish prime minister is formingly an interim cabinet to over see new elections and presented lists are later on friday and hdp party says they will take part but two others refused to do so, parliamentary elections are scheduled november first after an inconclusive vote in june. anticorruption protests in guatemala are keeping up the pressure on the president molina to step down, he is becoming increasingly isolated in days after the cabinet resigned last

weekend, from guatemala city david mercer reports. >> reporter: tens of thousands of people packed in guatemala city's central park and want an end to government corruption and harsh punishment for those involved. there is widespread anger and frustration at a political system people say has failed them with calls louder than ever for president molina to step down. >> translator: we are tired but we know now is the time to rise up. guatemala has never been poor, the government has stolen from us, we need to rise up because we want to show the world that the people united can achieve change. >> reporter: the president televised on sunday of any involvement in a multi million dollar scandal over serve to bring more people to the streets. many schools and businesses were shocked to allow students and staff to take part. they were joined by groups from rural guatemala who have been

blocking roads around the country for days. guatemala they be a country with poor and urban and rural together and that is what makes this protest so unique and people from across the country and different social backgrounds uniting forces for a common goal. >> reporter: the president watched demonstrations on security cameras from the safety of a government office. just days ago a judge indicted the former vice president for fraud, bribery and elicit association and congress has taken the first step in a process that could impeach the president for involvement in the same scam. analysts says the president has few choices available to him. >> translator: guatemala might be a country with sharp divisions with rich and poor and rural and urban seldom coming together and people from across the country and different social

backgrounds uniting forces for a common goal. >> reporter: guatemala will have a chance to vote for a new president in just over a week. but with the leading candidates all dogged by controversy they say the fight is far from over, david mercer, al jazeera, guatemala city. thousands of people marched in the capital of santiago for plans of a free education and we report from santiago. >> reporter: student marches are a regular part of the landscape demanding fundamental change to an education system, they say the system is unfair and should be free to all. the wealthy are able to pay to send their children to schools and universities or the less wealthy having to send their children to public schools for which they still have to pay and say they are under funded wil facilities and several people

are in positions who were appointed during dictator ship from 1973 on wards. these marches often result in clashes between police and protesters and this one was no exception with tear gas and water canons being used and throwing stones. with commodity prices falling it doesn't have the kind of money to implement the kind of fundamental changes that these students are asking for. it does seem that with negotiations moving very, very slowly these marches are likely to continue for some time to come. plenty more still to come here on al jazeera. >> that is not a finished job. that is not a full recovery. >> reporter: president barack obama returns to new orleans to mark strides and setbacks ten years after hurricane katrina. plus the dead sea is dying, the famed bible body of water is

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hello again, and many thanks for being with us and reminder of the top stories, dozens of refugees have died after the boat they were on sank off the libyan coast sent off from the west. officials there say i was overcrowded with around 400 people on board. interior ministry says more than 70 dead refugees have been found in abandon track on the side

near the hungry border. arrived in guatemala waiting for the president to step down and accused of involvement in a multi millions customs fraud which caused one to resign earlier this year. it's been ten years since hurricane katrina devastated new orleans and large parts of the gulf coast and president barack obama visited the city and met some residents who were able to return but for many others that has not been possible as andy gallagher reports. >> reporter: this isn't president obama's first time in new orleans and marked university of hurricane katrina before but unlike previous visits he talked about the city's rising poverty particularly among the african/american population and talking about the lower ninth ward he tackled the issue head on. >> our work here won't be done

when 40% of children still live in poverty in the city. that is not a finished job. that's not a full recovery. >> reporter: outside the neighborhood's new $20 million community center residents waited to catch a glimpse of the president and remains popular in this community but many here have complaints of what they see as the city's uneven recovery. >> they didn't because the majority of these people were black and they were poor. >> to rent a home now, one bedroom is at least $900 so the rental issue for housing, the market just is sky rocketing. >> reporter: to compound all that the lower ninth ward has highly visible scars of a storm that for many changed everything. to witness firsthand. live to austria where they are holding a press conference after the discovery of a large number of refugees found dead in

a truck on the side of the road. >> translator: at the press conference we told you that we in the area here that we found in that area lots of dead parties there that we said that there might be 20-50 people in there who have died there and we have to tell you today that the truck and we had viewed the whole truck and we have to tell you that there are 71 people who died in that tragic event. the 71, 59 men, 8 women and 4 children and one of them one to

two-year-old little child, a baby, a girl and ten-year-old boy. and the first investigations we found some travel document that we now -- that we know that it's refugees but concretely that it's a syrian group of refugees also because that is the look of them and that it's an african gro group. parallel to those investigations we start upper investigations with our hungarian colleagues and i can tell you that at the

moment three people have been arrested in the hungry and we think that is the trace that will lead us to the perpetrators. one perpetrator is a bulgarian citizen. and is the actual owner of the vehicle. the other two are also one bulgarian, one hungarian identity card. and those other two are most likely the ones who have driven that vehicle and i want to say as well here in the last evening

there were some demands and e-mails and requests after people who are looked for, where people are missing and requests if it could be family members. i want to say and i want to give you am telephone line that you can ring if you look for somebody who you might have lost while you were fleeing. we are very happy to talk to you. and also that is a very important point, that at the end of that, that you want to identify all the people and inform their families. it's a number of the county

police and 094 and three times three, it's a hotline, 24 hours and please do ring. that is my first information. and i want to say dear ladies and gentlemen, i want to welcome you to this press conference. i want to thank you and secondly i would ask you for and to show respect when you do your

journalist work with this horrible trauma. it's not so easy for me to be professional, to go to the professional agenda and how the forces of the police and the forensics have emptied this truck and very carefully and tried to find to analyze and secure the first information. the background of that, of the arrests were based on the investigations of the police department in hungry and it was

incredible work in the night. there were european arrests for three people and those european warrants are the basis for and that in hungry several people have been arrested. the arrested people will and depends if they were sent to austria, depends on the hungarian police and how far the hungry is involved with that as well. we don't know when those people will be in there. it is important for me to say

because it's not -- i want to thank the police, to thank the police and for all of what they have done, incredible work. and it's not necessarily normal there were such results. dear ladies and gentlemen, yesterday was for all of us. a day of emotion, of grief. yesterday had shown through this

tragedy that those traffickers are criminals and not people who help to flee. and this day it not only makes us sad but it should be also show us that we have to find european solution for that. the next point, first of all, it's important from the crisis and war regions that the people can come to europe. secondly, it is important to find the basis, the causes of those wars in the regions and that they can come back to their region. thirdly, with all or zero

tolerance and with all hands we have to fight against the traffickers especially the fight against them and the police is important nationally but also internationally. this unspeakable tragedy makes us feel all bad. our empathy we feel for the family and victims but only feeling grief and empathy we have to do something, we have to act. the police, from the first moment on has acted. within one day it was possible to find arrest some of the perpetrators and if this is true, if they got the right people it's a big success.

yesterday, yesterday i was here and also where at the moment where everyday refugees arrive and from cared for by the police and the red cross. and there we got this horrible information. i was here, i witnessed from the first moment how professional and was so competent they worked. first there was a crisis from it but in the interior ministry. immediately the cooperation. >> reporter: listening to the interior minister and with the

gruesome discovery of refugees dead in an abandon truck on thursday and the actual was 70 and eight of them women and four of them children and we will go to barnabie phillips and this was really felt at this press conference. >> reporter: it was very evident. you could hear the emotion in the voices of the police officials and of the interior ministry. i think people in austria as indeed all over the world are very shaken by this. the nature of the horrible death for these poor people including as you were saying children, a little girl, aged only one-year-old, it's almost beyond imagination that people could have been treated so callusly and they could have died such an agonizing and cruel way and i think people are very shaken by this. >> also it has spurred at least from the interior minister the

resolution that something must be done about this, what have you been hearing there in the past few days from leaders who have been gathering in vienna? >> well, i think the austrian government in fairness has come out fairly strongly and is aligns to the german position and i suppose you are beginning to see divisions within european countries and it is perhaps fair to talk about the german stroke austrian position as being at the more progressive or the more proactive end of the european spectrum if you like. both countries arguing very strongly for quotas which they believe that european union countries should adopt, an obligation to take in certain numbers of refugees. but as the interior minister was saying things have to be coordinated, there has to be a

common european solution. it's very difficult if countries take autonomous or unilateral decisions and she knows that austria is in a tough position expecting 80,000 a asylum applicants and it's up from the years and there has been a dramatic escalation. >> what is stopping this unified eu response? there are certain countries that are against this system. >> politics, internal politics across europe. there are clear signs including here in austria that substantial parts of the electorate are alarmed by the pace of immigration, the cultural change, indeed the religious change that can come with it. and politicians of course are answerable to their own elaborates ultimately and very aware of that. so you have that tension if you

like between international obligations, between humanitarian instincts and politicians needs to serve their own democratic elaborates and indeed to stay in office. >> and so that will go on for the moment, barnabie thanks so much and stay with us for the headlines. past years. is the criminal justice system warehousing people or helping to rebuild them. some are using the time to earn high school diplomas and college degrees, does it work. classes for convicts. it's "inside story".