♪ hungry police arrest four people after 71 bodies were found in a truck in austria and 105 people died, 100 still missing with a boat cap sizes off the coast of libya. ♪ good to have you along i'm david foster and you are watching al jazeera live from london and also coming up, tight security with anticorruption protests in baghdad. we have the latest from the iraqi capitol. also on the program the government's new finding force in yemen looking to recapture

territory from the houthis. president obama tries to seal the iran nuclear deal with a win cast for the u.s. jewish community. ♪ our latest events in europe and the borders and high growing refugee crisis on the continent, four people have been arrested and among them the owner of a truck which the bodies of 71 refugees were found in an austia died and 50 are missing after a boat sank in libya and chaotic scenes in belgrade for fights for food and water in particular. as the refugees continue flooding over the border from serbia, hungarian police arrested 21 suspected human

traffickers in budapest and we begin with this report from barnabie phillips. >> reporter: they are taken for autopsy and 71 people crammed in the back of a truck must have suffered an agonizing death by suffocation and police can look for scraps of evidence as to who they were. >> translator: of course we are sure that these people were refugees. and more precisely were probably a group of syrian refugees. >> reporter: austira is a transit place for people reaching germany and number of asylum seekers is more than 2013 and this is outside vienna the refugee reception center is overflowing and the streets are full of people from the middle east and africa, somalia, nigeria, iraq, afghanistan and

of course syria. he is here with his wife and five children fled from dara. >> we find here nice people, good people, look always give us food, medicine and very nice people here, yes. >> reporter: this extraordinary wave of new arrivals has provoked sharp division in austria society and freedom party which has a tough immigrant message is expected to do well in elections later this year and we also met austrians who have come here to help people in need. like katie who has come with her boyfriend and mother to hand out clothes, toys, books to whoever wants them. >> i think it's the least we can do because these people have been through things that we can't imagine and they have been through hardships and so the least we can do is try to make

it easier for them to be integrated and make a new life. >> reporter: the government says there must be a coordinated european response to treat these people humanely, to determine who should have the right to stay. and to prevent more tragedies at the hands of human traffickers. >> reporter: we are live in budapest and look at the background, andrew, i think that is some kind of reception center at a rail way station and you will tell us about that i'm sure but we are seeing a country here reacting to what has happened over its border in uaustria and what has that reaction been? >> well, the reaction here, we have hundreds of refugees and migrants hoping to get into more prosperous country and it's a

surreal atmosphere here because some normality of the children playing but only an hour ago just up there the main station entrance there was a memorial to those dead in austria who could have come from this station because this is the main course now for refugees and so you will have seen here pictures of so many people crowding around to light candles and say prayers and there was a minute violence for those dead. those people who could have come from here because if you look at this display of people, right across what is a public walkway to a major rail station, so many of these people can't get on board the trains and they have the papers, they think, but then the police turn them around. so many of them are resorting to people traffickers and they are active in this area. there were arrests, 21 arrests

by the hungarian police on wednesday and there is breakthrough with four arrests of suspects who accused of mounting the operation to take all of those people into austria who ended up dying of suffocation. three of those people are bulgarian and the hungarian police say the other was afghan and one of them apparently owned the van. the public prosecutor has said that these people appear the suspects appear to be part of a hungarian, bulgarian smuggling ring and trying to make the best of a situation but it's very grim. >> the sheer awfulness of what we heard from barnabie that happened in austria is hard to

comprehend but refugees moving across europe, there are horrible scenes. on your journey i know you have seen things that are difficult to comprehend. >> well, you know, you are absolutely right, david. i have been traveling a thousand kilometers from the greek border with macedonia, along there a fast pace and people were transferred by train and up into serbia where they have to go through the whole ordeal of registering, being given some time and dealing in foreign languages and the incredible heat all across serbia and making this crossing into an eu state and reservoir with a high fence around but there normally is a big gap in this fence, a rail way line goes through and that is the main entrance.for all the refugees and i was there early friday morning where we

saw so many people traveling, walking along 50 kilometers in 32 degrees centigrade, that is incredibly hot, no solace of clouds, and little water and people dehydrated and children being carried on the shoulders of their mothers and fathers trying to get through, asking for advice on the way and then crossing into the eu. a very sort of messy affair, a dirty place with a couple of border paths, walking on from there and staggering to what is effectively just a rubbish ground of a few covered tents and police everywhere, every one just happily going in the hands of the police and waiting for buses. one man i spoke to from syria had been waiting hours for not only for water but for some form of transport out of there to a

reception center. protests being made at the slow speed of this reception area where people get registered and it got slower and slower because of the massive volume of numbers coming through, so many thousands each day going through and then ending up here in something of a bottleneck or people just getting away, doing their own thing, smugglers or taking chances in vehicles, trying to get out of hungry and out into places like germany and austria and the volume is so colossal and it's not getting any easier. >> and it isn't and andrew in budapest and it is all over the continent and coming from north africa, an awful lot of the trafficking and at least another 105 people have died, their boat cap sizing off the coast of

libya on thursday and still looking for dozens of missing people in the western town there. and we have the details of that. >> reporter: the sea is a place to esskate desperation and poverty and dozens killed crossing north africa to europe so far this year. in the latest tragedy another crowded boat sunk short after leaving libya. >> translator: we are migrating, our boat sank. it was in bad condition. people died. the libyans saved us, may god blessed them and we have been forced on the route and it's called the death route on the mediterranean see. >> reporter: people fleeing conflict and poverty to make it to europe and international smugglers take advantage of the lawlessness and libya is struggling to cope. putting those that are rescued into over crowded detention facilities. and are forced to live in poor

conditions and lack basic medical care. and in another tragic incident a swedish vessel after rescuing hundreds of people from their boat drifting at sea but dozens of others weren't so lucky, their bodies found in the hold 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. 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 the desperate attempt to improve their lives. many are families traveling with children. the european union is still trying desperately to find, to establish a coordinated strategy to resolve this latest crisis. in the meantime the people keep

coming. al jazeera, rome. still to come on this program, the environmentalist with a sinking feeling and human consumption are pushing the dead sea to an ecological death. hope for children in nigeria and some of them by the violence of boko haram. ♪ one note at a time. >> and overcome hard times in the big easy. >> we are bigger, we're better, we're stronger.

moments ago you heard former president jimmy carter speaking out for the first time this hour ♪ these are the global headlines this hour, hungarian police say they arrested four people over

the discovery of the bodies of 71 refugees inside an lori in austria and the victims included eight women and four children. off the coast of africa 105 died and hundreds are still missing. a ship going down off the libyan coast and rescued are from syria and sub sahara and african counties. fighting for food and water for a unified european strategy in dealing with the refugee crisis. news out of iraq demanding an end of corruption and the country's top shia and the prime minister abadi allows greater access for civilians to the heavily fortified green zone and

dana sent us this from the iraqi capitol baghdad. >> reporter: momentum of the protest movement is only growing and so are the numbers of people and we were in the square and it was a large crowd, a much larger really than what we have seen on previous fridays over the past few weeks especially since very influential political party has thrown its weight behind the protest movement and has millions of supporters just in baghdad called on them to join this rally and he is throwing his weight behind the prime minister abadi who promised reforms but he faces a lot of challenges. now, the people we spoke to on the ground are going and frustrated and not just demanding better services but officials leave power and demanding that the post war, the post 2003 iraqi political system was reformed and that system is based on a power sharing between

sex and ethnic groups and power distributed among them but people feel appointments are not being made on merit and appointments are being made on sectarian party loyalties so if people have vowed to continue the movement but abadi faces powerful opponents in the government, these people will not accept losing power or privileges without the fight. and this whole protest movement really, you see the people, they carry the iraqi flag and they are showing unity in such a divided country but what this protest movement has brought into the open and brought out into the open is the divide among rival shia factions and, yes, they are ruling the country and they are a division among them, there is a power struggle among them and some of the political and security factions within the shia community have grown stronger than the state and that is where the challenges

lie for abadi and the protest movement is only gaining momentum and it's not just in baghdad, protests have been held in other southern provinces as well. dublin forces in yemen say the country will eventually have a new professional army. opposition houthi fighters and army units loyal to the press salah will be disbanded and civilians with tribesmen who fought with government troop will be entitled to join a future fighting force. this is the story. >> reporter: there were mostly malitia men or civilians who took up arms against the houthis in the south. now, they have been recruited to join yemen's new army. the country's known for being divided on tribal and sectarian lines. some of these trainees were forced to retire under former president saleh. under his administration there was inherent miss trust of

people from southern yemen. they fear they might form a break away state. >> translator: we formed this battalion a few weeks ago after we defeated the houthi fighters and pushed them out of the city and there are about 4800 offices in the batallion. and there are signs for hadi but his return to power depends on an army that is loyal to him. this is a gathering of tribal leaders, a province on yemens border with saudi arabia, some of these tribal leaders had linked with the houthis, now they are switching sides. they are joining with government forces to recapture the province of sada. >> we are making plans to liberate the province and we regret not taking up arms with

rebels in the past and we will hunt them and defeat them and have the stronghold on sada province. >> reporter: the new army has a long way to go, lacking training and resources, it remains outnumbered and outgunned by forces aligned with the houthis and some of these fighters are more loyal to their tribal leaders than the army. in the past few months many military units defacted and joined the rebels. for now there are two armies fighting for control. the one in the north is mainly shia and the one in the south is mainly sunni. leaving an uncertain future. al jazeera. u.s. president is trying to win support from the country's powerful jewish community for the iranian nuclear deal and jewish people sponsored a webcast where president obama tried to seal the deal and rebuffed criticism and they are

anxious about the agreement that will eventually see the conventional arms embargo against iran lifted and the u.s. president trying to sell the deal and needs approval by u.s. congress to ease the sanctions. >> we don't trust iran. iran is antagonistic to the united states and antisematic and holocaust and israel and it's an unsavory regime but this deal doesn't rely on trust, it relies on verification and our capacity to catch them when they cheat. and the money that they are obtaining is money that has been frozen under sanctions. they will get about $56 billion back but they are going to have to spend that to prop up an economy that has been crushed by our sanctions. >> we are joined in washington d.c., kimberly this appears to

be such a polarized debate, you are either for it or against it, does the president sincerely believe by going on a show such as this he is going to sway enough people to put pressure on enough members of congress to get this through? >> i think there is a feeling at the white house that if they do the work it will pay off and we do see that reflected, david, in some of the poll numbers and resent polls certainly do indicate that most jewish americans whether are still very deep divisions seem to be siding in the majority with the president, the latest numbers we are looking at about 46% in support of that deal. 31% oppose it. and so i think that there is a feeling in the white house look there is some work to do especially with those who are undecide so we are going to go to the medium that works and has worked for barack obama and that is the int internet.

and there were thousands of questions that were submitted to the president but it's not the jewish-american commutety, it's the whole the president has to win over at the end of the day. it's those members of congress as you point out who will be weighing in on this deal, the debate starting in september and i can tell you that the members of congress who identify as jewish americans are particularly under pressure. there are 28 of them that identify and 11 say they are in favor of the deal and 7 that are opposed and the rest are undecided and they all have constituents watching heavily and closely to see how they will vote and i can tell you there is an enormous amount of pressure. one member of congress a democrat from new york came out in support of barack obama and has been really villified and criticism for his decision and for those members of congress the president is reaching out. >> thank you very much indeed for giving it context and kimberly there in washington

d.c. hundreds of children who were left orphaned by boko haram's violence in the north of nigeria have been given the chance of a new start. one school is helping them gradually to deal with the trauma they have experienced. and we report now from caana. >> reporter: this is what boko haram doesn't want them to have, a educatin education. these children are orphans and parents are thousands of killed by the armed group in northern nigeria and the school now offers a new start but the transition has not been easy. >> we are trying gradually to bring them out of the bad historian and let them forget about some of the bad historians and you can see it's a drastic process and known as a gradual process and coming out gradually from the bad situation.

>> reporter: it's been six months they have been here trying to adjust. the children here maybe making progress, trying to be kids again but most of them will live with the trauma they experienced for the rest of their lives. some of them have seen what no child should ever see. many are still in shock. this young boy was particularly sad. boko haram fighters decapitated his father in front of him. the traumatized boy says very little and is detached from the rest. he tells me he wants to be a doctor to help people in pain. his adjustment to life has been particularly hard. the impact of boko haram here are physical and psychological. he was shot in the face and the four-year-old is having nightmare and behaves abnormally. the school run by the government has 100 children and more are expected. >> it's not a big deal for us to

take care of this, these children at school. we believe it's a matter of will and determination and we have determination and not allow the children to be disadvantaged because of their normal growth as individuals. >> reporter: back at the school, it's play time. at least to help take their minds off what they have been through and the teachers say they keep asking when their parents will come for them and when they are going home. mohamed devries, al jazeera, nigeria. the u.n. envoy to libya says peace talks must be completed in two weeks before a mandate runs out. a new round of talks form a unity government underway in morocco now and libya has two rival parliaments based one in tabrook and one in tripoli and didn't go to the meeting because

the chief member of the negotiating team resigned. vatican official charged with sex abuse died before he could go on trial. joseph was a former ambassador to the dominican republic and charged with sexually abusing boys and appears the vatican died of natural causes. venezuela recalled the ambassador with a border dispute when they closed a major crossing and declared a state of emergency. the most famous lake is at risk of drying up, more than a third of the surface area of the dead sea has disappeared over the last 50 years. environmental experts warn the dropping water levels could cause an ecological disaster and we report. >> reporter: it's one of the most popular tourist destinations in the region, but environmentalists say the dead sea which borders israel and the occupied west bank and jordan is

shrinking rapidly. the ancient salt lake famous for the saltwater and rich mud has been losing a meter of its waters every year and an israeli tour guide said the decline of the dead sea and difference of neighboring governments has been shocking. >> i see the dead sea as an international property. it's really one of a kind in the world. and it should be an international world heritage and instead of we are destroying it and it's being degraded from day-to-day. >> reporter: the dead sea is shrinking because 70% of its natural water sources are being diverted mainly by israel but also jordan and to a lesser degree syria for farming and drinking water, the remaining 30% of the deterioration is caused by israeli and jordan pot ash operations and while it's worrying environmentalists they are concerned about the hundreds

of sinkholes that have opened up around it since the 1980s and some are as wide as fields and deep as a two story building and swallowing roads and closing of beaches and businesses. >> the basic reason for the sinkhole development is the drop in the level of the dead sea and the associated with that drop is the drop in the groundwater level and that causes areas that were previously within salty water to be flushed by sweet and freshwater. >> reporter: some projects have been launched to try and save the dead sea but environmentalists warn it could take decades to repair the ecological damage and that until neighboring countries stop diverting waters through the ancient lake or put an end to their mining, practices, it's all but certain to dry up.

al jazeera, at the dead sea. on our website the lead story the arrests of a number of people after the bodies found in the back of that truck, al jazeera.com for that and the rest of the news. in pakistan, it's cheaper to buy a hit of heroin than food. the country is infamous as a major transit point for heroin and cannabis from neighboring afghanistan to the rest of the world. but its also fighting it's own battle with addiction. i'm steve chao. on this edition of 101 east, we ask if pakistan can kick it's drug habit. karishma vyas reports.