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thailand's prime minister says the main suspect in the bangkok bombing has been arrested. and i'll have all the sports including the latest from the u.s. open plus transferred deadline doubts and the move from manchester united to madrid hangs in the balance. ♪ let's start in hungry where hundreds of refugees and migrants are being barred from the capitol's main train station and want to get on trains to take them to austria and germany. [chanting] more than a thousand people are now gathered outside the station with security guards blocking the entrances. hungry has been criticized by other european governments for

its treatment of refugees and building a fence along the border with serbia to stop people from crossing over. okay, that is the scene live outside budapest's main train station. our correspondent is there as well, among them and he has been telling us that there are perhaps 3,000 people. the mood has been pretty calm. but people from time to time are joining together and chanting. they want out, they want to be allowed into germany. there are security agents around, keeping the situation reasonably calm. this also is the scene where these thousands of people bed down for the night. it's kind of a tent city at night and our correspondent andrew simmons can join us and andrew describe what is around you. we are seeing the numbers seeming to grow. >> reporter: yes, they are growing but to look around you

would think they were actually diminishing because it's so incredibly hot at the moment that people are trying to seek shade so they are around the rail way stations, still in the front of the station there are police in two rows pinning in those who are sitting down and then forming a line, stopping any refugees from entering the station. tourists, however, normal travelers, travelers who are booked on trains ahead of time, are traveling through then transcript and the trains we understand are running again with massive disruption. there was no explanation for closing the station. early on tuesday morning police came in and the refugees were cleared from the station concourse. there have been hectic scenes on monday night with the last train of the day took off for germany and people were pushed away because each of the trains were completely over crowded and had

standing room only on all of the trains and sometimes there were two seats with about six, seven people all crammed around these seats. what happened repeatedly on monday was that the austrian police, the austrian rail way were refusing to let the trains pass into their country because of the large numbers on board. what we have now is a situation where people in an incredibly deflated state, many of them who bought tickets and have sent some families, large families up to 1,000 euro for tickets that might never be used and may not get refunds. this happened a lot in the past. they are sitting around the rail way station hoping there will be a change of heart of the government because it's the government that stops this although we don't have an official statement yet. >> andrew from time to time we are getting information about the registration process and we

keep being told that the thousands of people that have now congregated there they don't want to be processed in hungry, they want to be allowed to move on to germany where they can start the asylum-seeking process. do we know whether the hungarians are trying to get people to register, do we know what the plan is as far as the hungarians are concerned? >> as far as the hungarians are concerned, yes, they do have to process. the advice given by all parties involved in asylum law is they should be registered and they should be fingerprinted. many refugees are scared of this and think that by fingerprinting they will not be able to travel anywhere else in europe. however, that is not necessarily the case. it's a complex situation and what the hungarians are doing is clamping down with tougher asylum law and will criminalize the whole process of anyone traveling into hungry, getting through their border without a

visa, criminalizing it, turning people around, changing the asylum law so there is a very short process, making it virtually impossible according to most human rights groups, virtually impossible to get asylum here if they come from serbia because serbia is being made like the eu hungry is declaring serbia as a safe third country in the process and they can send them back. now, that is causing a lot of concern among many people but what the situation here now is that we really have a confused picture with people determined to wait holding on to their tickets in a completely gazed state some of them, large families just waiting on the pavements, hoping that the policy will be reversed. there is no explanation for what really happened on monday apart from the fact the numbers were getting very high. however, it's hardly a

coincidence many people feel that the germans were in contact with hungry early on monday among and at the same time chancellor angela merkel was putting out the message that there should be more compassion, firmness but compassion with refugees. and then coincidentally suddenly we get trains hurdling to austria with hundreds of refugees on board and very little control and no checking whatsoever on visas or anything and very little control on the numbers on the trains going across to austria and on to germany. >> all right andrew for now thank you very much, andrew simmons among thousands of people basically stranded in budapest and andrew mentioned that yesterday, monday, was a slightly different pictures because hundreds of refugees got on trains from budapest going on to austria and eventually to germany, and some were actually

welcomed in munich. the authorities said that they would be transported on by bus to registration centers and germany has taken on more asylum seekers and expects 800,000 in year alone and refugees from syria are welcome given the state of war this their country. >> translator: it's been said that those arriving in germany are most likely to receive asylum or the status of a refugee from a civil war country. that is no surprise given the situation in syria and they should be seen in all other eu countries. of course we observe applicable law but we see in everyday situations that applicable law is not applied. >> reporter: well, around 20,000 people have taken part in a rally in vienna calling for

the third treatment of refugees across europe. the protesters were encouraging eu leaders to give their refugees asylum. well, this refugee crisis is not exclusively a european problem. australia's treatment of asylum seekers has been criticized by apparel -- a parliamentary report calling for children to be removed from the prison the island of malu where asylum seekers are and this is a part of the government pays for and allowing refugees on its soil and andrew thomas has more. >> reporter: three years ago al jazeera filmed what would be the detention center as australia's army built it. but since detainees have been held of what has become in effect a prison the media has not been allowed in, that secrecy is one thing the report and conditions on maru should change because where there is

secrecy there can be abuse. the report details some of what is alleged, self harm by traumatized children, sexual abuse of detainees by guards and even water boarding and the credibility of the former guard making that acquisition was questioned of the inquiry. >> no, i have not personally witnessed the actual event but i have witnessed what i firmly believe to be the actions after. >> so you have seen people with water on them come from a building? >> water coming out of their mouth, coughing up water. >> reporter: the report says conditions at the prison are not adequate, appropriate or safe. it calls for a full order to the allegations of abuse. >> there are 67 allegations of both physical and sexual abuse against children and that includes 30 concerning detention center staff. >> reporter: report recommendations include faster

processing of refugee claims and removal of children from the prison. >> the minister has acknowledged this morning for the first time that things are not okay inside the maru detention camp but talk is chief and they need to act. >> reporter: the government accepts sending its refugees to camps in other countries is tough but as a deterrent it works and boats of asylum seekers like these stopped coming to australia and it's attracting international criticism. >> they said what is going on here is tantamount to torture in some cases. >> brutal stuff, no question about it but seen as a deterrence and a lot of european governments are actually looking to the australian model. >> reporter: australia government made it clear they have no plans to close the camp, the company running it on monday was given a five-year contract to continue doing so. this is tiny, in the pacific, the millions what is given to host what is in effect an

australian prison is a sizable part of the economy. but it is kept hidden just for a visit here journalists pay $6,000 with no guaranty of getting one and no access to the detention center even if they do. what this report makes clear is that in such a dark place dark things are happening. andrew thomas, al jazeera, sidney. now, we at al jazeera have been asking the australian government for an interview but we have been told the minister responsible was not available. however, we can talk to david mann who is the executive director of the refugee and immigration legal center and joins us on skype from melbourne and thank you for talking to us, can you give us an indication as to how legal, what is the legal status of housing asylum seekers off shore out sourcing effectively what is a domestic issue? >> well, what is quite clear with the legal opinion is that

while australia may see asylum seekers from here it cannot transfer its legal responsibility for those so ultimately the latent responsibility for asylum seekers cents from australia to naru is retained by australia and so too is the moral and practical obligation in relation to those people's states. >> and given that there is this raft of criticism with regard to the way this prison is being run and the kinds of abuses that have been metered out it seems on a fairly regular basis to these asylum seekers where exactly is the worst crime if you like involved in terms of the running of this facility? >> what we are looking at here is the incarceration of a large mass of very vulnerable people who have sought asylum in

australia and fearing persecution in their countries and people from places like afghanistan and includes women, children and families essentially being incarcerated here indefinitely, having sought asylum in australia. now, the allegations that have come out of the resent inquiry are consistent with repeated allegations of humanity such as physical abuse, sexual abuse including of children and including of women and also other forms of potentially criminal conduct and one of the key findings of this report are these allegations don't have any serious but they are also part of a patent, part of a patent of abuse going on in this detention center which is essentially a detention center which is both funded and controlled by australia who has sent people to

that detention center. >> this has evolved, hasn't it, as the australian model of dealing with the phenomenon of people leaving one country and then coming to seek asylum in another. many people we are led to believe are looking to the australia model as a possible solution to their own refugee crisis and given what we are witnessing in europe at the moment what sort of advice would you be giving to european leaders right now especially those looking towards australia? >> reporter: well, the first bit of advice is we must always put humanity before politics and protection of people before protection of borders and what we see when we don't do this is the policies that are unfolding with human tragedy in australia and in our region. policies based on deterrence that is basically blocking people from accessing

protection, people fleeing from desperate and dangerous circumstances designed to push people away and construct an fortress and what we know from the policies is likely to harm people fleeing from harm and also likely to violate obligations the countries have signed up to and reached national human rights treaties and the refugees convention and at their heart they do nothing to address the global problem which requires a global effort. they essentially have the policies which are based on domestic political instead of going together with genuine partnerships on the spirit of cooperation in a world where we see a global crisis with so many people needing to flee from

persecution. >> david mann, executive director from the refugee and immigration legal center live from melbourne, thank you very much. >> thank you. we've got a lot more to come on the al jazeera news hour including doctors warning of devastating consequences for the most vulnerable as fighting continues in yemen. [chanting] we look at what is at stake in iraq as politicians play the blame game with the crumbling infrastructure and in sports serena williams first round match at the u.s. open is shorter than expected and find out why, coming up, in just a little while. ♪ now al jazeera has been given exclusive video showing new pictures of the late taliban leader umar who died in 2013 but his death was only confirmed a few weeks ago.

the pictures also show the group's new leader mansur. and we can go live to our correspondent in the pakistan capitol islamabad, kamal and what do these pictures tell us? >> reporter: well first of all everyone knows he was a reclue leader of the taliban and it was on several networks when reports first emerged that he had died but this one particular photo which has emerged in that taliban video shows a rare picture of him sitting behind the steering wheel of a toyota pickup truck. the message from the taliban is also that key commanders on the battleground are united behind a new leader. also in that video is an audio message from the deputy of the taliban also saying that it

stood behind the new leader monsur and a message from the al-qaeda leader that is a doctor and indeed a very important message from the taliban and dispelling any rumors there are splinter groups within the taliban saying this is going to be a decisive year as part of their fighting season was concerned. >> kamal, i suppose that would then explain the timing as to why this fresh material was released to al jazeera now. >> reporter: absolutely. because there has been a lot of pressure on pakistan to do more against the network, the pakistani military moves to north wazirstan and they said that the network is fully entrenched and capable of being in afghanistan. in the video we see the trainers in military fatigues showing new

tactics emerging, dozens of people captured which appear to be from afghan security forces show off a message from the taliban trying to dispel any talk that they have splits or divisions within their ranks. >> kamal live from islamabad thank you very much. now to thailand where the prime minister says the main suspect in last month's bombing in bangkok has been arrested. this is the second confirmed arrest over the attack which happened on august the 17th. the foreign man was de-i tainted at a check point near the cambodian border and people were killed when it went through in the shrine in central bangkok and wayne hey is from kuala lumpur and they seem to be acting quickly. >> yes, they certainly are now. there was a lot of criticism of the thai police and the thai

government, therefore the thai military in immediate days following the blast on the 17th of august and moved in the area and cleaned it up very quickly when human remains and shrapnal were found after they opened the shine up and criticism there and criticism about the mixed messages coming out about who the suspect might be, how many people were involved in the attack, what the motive might be, mixed messages coming from various government agencies and are very keen in the wake of that criticism to get moving and get results and appears they are making good progress now. >> live in kuala lumpur. thanks. the u.n. has confirmed i.s.i.l.'s destruction of the temple in palmyra and here is a picture of the ancient structure in syria before the destruction

and here you see satellite images taken on monday of what is left, i.s.i.l. bombed the temple on sunday with over 30 tons of explosives. israel has demolished the home of senior commander of islamic jihad and there was a shootout between israeli forces and the armed group after dozens of army vehicles turned up at his house in the occupied west bank. several fighters were arrested and dozens of others injured and the area has been put under military siege with firefighters refused access. doctors in yemen warning of the devastating consequences the war is having on children. they estimate up to 60% of children in the country are now malnourished and victoria gatenbee reports. >> reporter: a father places his baby on scales at this medical center in yemen's capitol sanaa. doctors are running a screening

program to monitor malnourished children. before the war yemen had one of the highest child malnutrition rates in the world, now more children are in poor health because they can't get enough nutritious food to eat. >> malnutrition was widespread in yemen but because of the siege there has been a big increase and around 30% of children used to be malnourished and now it's 50 or 60%. >> reporter: the children at this clinic are prescribed vitamin supplements but doctors say their supplies are low. they received some aid from charities but say they need more to meet patient demand. >> translator: our children are facing famine and we cannot sit back and do nothing. we call on the united nations to look at the children who are innocent and shouldn't be experiencing malnutrition like this. look at the children's fear and the anxiety we are all facing. >> reporter: people in yemen are suffering from severe food

and water shortage and relative calm returned to aiden where forces loyal to hadi pushed out rebels last month but in sanaa the houthi stronghold the fighting continues and until it stops the healthcare system won't likely recover from months of war. victoria gatenbee, al jazeera. time for us to have a look at the weather and rob is here and the stormy skies of western europe at least. >> it looks like it wants to change season from what is a hot summer to a much cooler thing, what you might call autumn and remember yesterday this picture here over madrid tree damage brought down by a thunderstorm and now a couple days ago actually but the storms reformed and you can see the rebuilding, this was yesterday again and getting quite a lot of rain and thunder and got 62 millimeters but the worst of it was probably in france. all the way up the western side to about the same sort of figure but much more violent storms

such that you had gusts of 150 kilometers per hour and trees were brought down and two people were actually killed and tens of thousands without power. those storms eventually died down but they started reforming further north, northern france and into germany as well and arguably perhaps some beautiful value to them, that is a picture over central germany. now the reason for this big change is a front and effectively air coming from the atlantic against pretty hot conditions still in central europe. the difference is 10-12 degrees. well, when you have that big difference in temperature you have energy to go in the sky and these thunderstorms will carry on moving through central europe with flooding in the alps and italy is great on wednesday and the heat is still there in budapest and boocarest and stay there a couple days more. thank you very much. u.s. president barack obama says climate change is a problem that needs to be addressed now.

he made these comments at the start of a three-day visit to alaska and patty has the details. >> reporter: u.s. president barack obama is dragging the national spotlight to a place it rarely goes, the far northern state of alaska. >> over the past 60 years alaska warmed twice as fast as the rest of the united states. last year was alaska's warmest year on record. just as it was for the rest of the world. and the impacts here are very real. >> reporter: he will tour melting glasers and dealing with climate change and reaching a third of americans with pollsters who do not believe climate change is real and activists are calling the president a hypocrite because he recently approved drilling for oil in the very place he is touring. the administration says they

couldn't stop it because president george bush first approved it while in office but environmentalists say that is not true. >> president obama never shied away from executive action and has been on the defensive the last couple of weeks saying they are bush era leases to drill in the arctic but really it has been his decision and if he cares at all about protecting the progressive legacy he can cancel this lease, it's not too late. >> reporter: president obama made climate change a central part of legacy and often talks about green energy and made it a priority in his budget but at the same time he is pushing for more drilling. when he took office the u.s. produced over 5 million of crude each day, in 2014 that number jumped to around 8.7 million. that is a 39% increase. the president defends that saying it will take time to get more green energy. >> our economy still has to rely on oil and gas and as long as that is the case i believe we should rely more on domestic

production than foreign imports and should demand the highest safety standards in the industry, our own. >> reporter: the president's mission in alaska to focus the country on the impact climate change is having on land and not highlighting the cause of it just off the same coast, patty, al jazeera, washington. coming up, in just a little while we are looking at the fight against pollution in france. i'm simon mc-greger wood, paris, a city struggling to control its pollution crisis with the introduction of tough, new measures. ♪ and find out about the music gambia's government doesn't want its people to hear. bad boys of pakistan cricket are back and we will have all the details in sport. ♪

hello again, let's have a look at the top stories at al jazeera. hundreds of refugees and migrants being barred from budapest's main train station as they try to get on trains to austria and germany and criticized for the treatment of refugees. australia's government is being urged to remove children from a prison holding asylum seekers on the pacific island of malu, that parliamentary report says the camp is unsafe and inadequate.

thailand's prime minister says the suspect in last month's deadly bangkok bombing has been arrested and foreign man detained at a check point on the cambodian border. a second ukrainian policeman died from injuries he suffered during fighting outside parliament on monday. now these pictures appear to show a suspect hail agree grenade which killed a man. at least 90 others were hurt. and the violence all began when lawmakers began to vote to give more autonomy to rebel-held areas in the eastern part of the country. ukrainian president porto-shenko condemned violence and defending the constitutional reforms. >> translator: what would happen if the parliament did not

vote for constitution amendments? the fate of the coalition would be significantly underminded and potential extension of economic extension to hurt the aggressor would not be on the table and against the aggressor alone would be a real threat. >> reporter: director of the institute of political services in moscow and joins us live from there. now, the reforms that were -- that went through parliament which were the trigger for this kind of violence have gone through but you have a deeply divided country that is be set by violence, is that what moscow want wants? >> no. of course ukrainian is a brother and nation of russians and we don't like ukrainians killed but also told they will use radicals

for the purpose of the military operation against dambas. at the same time this is the revolution and it's more sure by president of ukraine in legal prison of ukraine and porteshenko with putin to approve the agreement but this is not true because according to the agreements kiev should give special status of tournament to them after consultation with the representative. nothing written as such. and they make this small, small to constitutions itself without any consultation and as a result

kiev violated minsk agreement. >> can i just clarify with you? so you are suggesting then that president poroshenko has not proceeded correctly and the process has not been right and he has not consulted with the people of eastern ukraine sufficiently, is that what you're saying? >> absolutely right. you are absolutely right. according to the minsk such issues have been given to them after consultation and poroshenko warned not to form the agreement but take control over the border between east ukraine and russia. >> are you still confident that minsk two is the agreement that is going to lead to a peaceful settlement where there is more autonomy for the eastern regions and donbas you call them to i'm

kate kiev? >> the minsk agreement should be continued and it's still alive and we have very positive things during this in ukraine where in we see that kiev stop it terrorizing night after porteshenko's neighborhoods so in there and it's very good. and when school open and people here will visit the place without terrorizing others and we still believe that both sides and should philosophy minsk agreement and kiev after

consultation should give special status and then kiev should agree special law on the local elections for the eastern ukraine and then dunbar should have local elections according to this law. but kiev denies to prove special war on local elections. >> okay, thank you very much, live from moscow, thank you. to iraq where people say little has changed since the prime minister announced sweeping changes that was last month and came after massive protests over government corruption and lack of infrastructure, now alabadi is facing problems in parliament. >> reporter: this is why people began to take to the streets, shortage of electricity and the

extreme heat was the breaking point for my rackys and the sector has been warn down by years of war but blame authorities for miss management and corruption and the prime minister of abaddi promised to take action and he was questioned in parliament and blamed former ministers for not investing enough for the distribution and they were satisfied with answers but it caused more anger on the streets. >> translator: it seems parliament is not taking people seriously and underestimates our will and making people angrier. >> reporter: part of parliament were from the block in parliament and the shia alliance is headed by former prime minister malaki who has been accused of corruption and leads the biggest block in parliament. >> translator: the state of law is not united. there is a body wing and malaki wing and they are against each

other and he was relying on the block and cheer leaders but they are all standing against him. he is fighting for reforms alone with a backing of the street and the highest shia religious authority. >> reporter: the protesters have so far not chanted slogans against abaddi and protesting every friday for weeks now to give support to bring about change. at first they demanded better services and now my rackys are demanding for corrupt officials to be held accountable and independent judiciary and want to reform a political system where appointments were made according to party loyalties and power distributed among sex. it is basically a call to ensectarian politics but little has changed for the people weeks after abaddi announced reforms and to meet demands they need support of the local establishment but the same politicians who publically back the people seem to be standing

in his way. >> translator: parliament members are covering up for each other and are afraid of one minister is fired then others will also be dismissed and means parties will lose their power. >> reporter: this crisis is testing abaddi's career could be at stake and if he goes there are popular shia and political wings that are ready to step in, baghdad. let's take you live now to pictures that are coming to us from lebanon, lebanese t.v., the scene in the ministry of environment and protesters have taken to the streets over resent weeks incensed to have a step further it would appear and have stormed the ministry of environment. that is the scene that is being played out in beirut and our correspondent is there also,

jamal is watching these pictures as well and jamal so a protest that normally was about the failure of the authorities to collect household rubbish has really escalated. do we have jam a l? >> yes, they have been leading the anti-government demonstrations that have been taking place over the past couple of weeks, did three days ago said they were issued ultimatum to the government that if demands were not met and they would escalate the opposition and one of the demands was the resignation of the environmental minister for his failure to deal with the rubbish crisis and they are now enacting that threat by storming the environment ministry and holding some sort of sit in there and not sure how long they plan on staying there,

however, it is definitely a shift in the protests that have taken place that thus far have been concentrated on the center of town or outside the prime minister's headquarters where people have been gathering now and other kinds of civil disobedience and that 72-hour ul may tum ultimatum runs out in a few hours time and if it's a sort of warning of things to come or some sort of shift in how they plan on protestering against the government we will see but it is definitely a new development in this political standoff. >> and central to how this will play out i guess is how the security forces are responding and will respond, what is the situation with regard to them at the moment? >> indeed, so far there hasn't been any so called forcibly

removing the people, we will head down there to figure out whether more protesters will join them, that would also be an indication as to how the services will deal with this. it's important to know that the government did attempt to maybe attempt to appease them ta few days ago and minister relieved from sitting on a committee that was overlooking the garbage process but didn't go far enough because protesters wanted him to resign and maybe not just to lessen his workload and had been accused of heavy handedness a few days ago when there was tear gas fired and other forms of protesters doing things but it was a lot more calm and maybe they would view some sort of restraint with helping to ensure the situation is not escalated.

>> for now jamal we won't hold you up any longer, our correspondent who is going to investigate more about that ongoing protest in beirut. now, the lawyer for the jailed al jazeera journalists mohamed fahmy has called for canada's prime minister to intervene and he was given a three-year jail term and human rights lawyer said she has had support from canadians on the ground but believes the government can do more to help. >> this is the time when it's no longer in the hands of the courts. it is in the hands of the executive branch and the government has previously said we will pardon, we will depart into the canadian ambassador and i are attending meetings to say please follow through, now is the time to act. two british journalist and iraqi producer working for the news charged by a turkish judge

with being members of i.s.i.l. and phillip and mohamed were arrested on august the 29th and have been filming fighting between security forces and youth members of the pro-kurdish pkk and all three will stand trial and will be kept in jail until then. human rights including the freedom of expression are under attack in gambia and amnesty international says it's getting worth after resolution by the u.n. in march and we have the story from neighboring sinagal. >> reporter: it's a song gambia radios won't put on air. and yet it's going viral, spreading online throughout the country. the lyrics deknownounces freedo speech and rampant corruption.

>> after being set up and see my people be quiet and not being able to speak out against police brutality and not being able to speak out against corruption and not being able to speak out about people going missing for no reason and not speaking out about the hardship as an artist and as a rapper and have a responsibility on me to actually speak out about what is going on. >> reporter: behind these lyrics is wrong rapper ace who grew up in harlem, new york and after being involved in gang violence he was sent back to gambia and he says he saw the biggest gangster of them all, human rights organizations have accused him of being a ruthless dictator and hit the headlines when he threatened to slit the throats of all homosexuals and to celebrate 21 years in follow following a cue he freed hundreds from prison and this is

when ace released his song, although the song wasn't officially banned his family started getting threats. with his wife, daughter and manager he fled the country by road to sinagal. >> looking at what happened to other people such as journalists and taliban nobody knows where they are at for a long time, get tortured and considering that my song is probably bigger than what anybody else ever did i believe my situation would have been worse because they would have used me as an example for any other artist or anybody else who try to dare do what i did. >> reporter: they still fear the gambian security forces and we spoke to artists and journalists and activists and none would speak to us on camera because of repercussions back home and still has not given al jazeera to report inside the country. tourists though are welcome to visit.

the country nicknamed the smiling coast received 60,000 british nationals on holiday last year. >> i think what is happening in gambia is invisible and people don't know about this sense of fear. you can feel it, you can touch it when you are in gambia and people are scared about talking and thinking different than what the government is saying. it's this kind of fear that is everywhere. >> reporter: a way from gambia and no longer afraid, rapper ace is looking for a safe place to express himself and refused a visa entry into the united states and hiding in sinagal ace has not lost hope and determined more than ever to make his music heard. nicholas hawk, sinagal. the mayor of paris is introducing new measures to control air pollution. large trucks registered before 2001 will be banned from the center of the french capitol on that is just the start.

simon mc-greger wood now explains. >> reporter: many market trader trucks about to be ban from the center of paris, according to the mayor they are too old and too polluting and drivers will be fined $40 each time they are caught and they are not happy. >> translator: it's going to affect us of course, three quarter of the market traders here do not have new trucks, we will end up paying. >> reporter: paris has a problem and they like to drive especially cheap to run diesel engines which pour millions of tiny partibles in the air. back in march the city briefly had the worst air quality in the world. critics of the plan say this is more about the city of paris trying to avoid a huge fine being imposed by the european union and also trying to get its house in order before it hosts the world's climate change conference later this year. the city says it will encourage drivers to buy newer vehicles with cheap loans and

restrictions will cover more and more vehicles in the years leading up to 2020. >> translator: air pollution costs france $110 billion a year, a travesty for our health and an economic travesty. we have to improve air quality so it doesn't harm our health. >> 500 vehicles nationwide are taking steps to meet the new rules and this vehicle runs on ethanol, this one is a hybrid and all regularly serviced but it costs a lot of money. >> i should say this is a pr exercise, yes, but it's also a symbol, and important to tell to the people the professional and the people of paris to understand they have to do something now. >> reporter: it's not clear how aggressively the new rule also be policed but the first steps

in clearing the air in paris will be taken by the small operators. and it's not clear they can afford it. simon mc-greger wood, al jazeera, paris. still to come on the al jazeera news hour, kenya welcomes home its champions after their heroics after the world championships in beijing. ♪

time for the sports news here. >> thank you so much, the u.s.

open is underway at flushing meadows in new york and first round victories for serena williams and yanukovich and nadal and surprise exits on monday as richard par reports. >> reporter: serena williams resumed the quest for the first to complete a calendar grand slam since 1988 at the u.s. open, her first round match only lasted half an hour while number 86 retired with an ankle injury with williams leading 6-0, 2-0, it's her 22 victory in a row at flushing meadows. >> it's great to be here in the stadium and just to be american and then to be on this journey in my life, i never, you know, it's kind of awesome this is the last grand slam of the year. >> reporter: 7th seed and yanukovich is out, the former (ch open champion lost in three

se sets. yanukovich says he made a statement with his first round win and world one took 73 minutes to beat them 6-1, 6-1, 6-1. >> with a dominant win it adds to your confidence and also making a statement for everybody that is out there watching and we are all watching each other's matches and seeing how we progress so it's important that you are out on the court with the right intensity and sending a good message out there. >> reporter: raphael nadal lost the previous meeting with 18-year-old but the 14 time champion won this match in the fourth set against the former u.s. open junior champion world number 8 nadal has not got past a major quarter final in 14 months and began defense of his title with a straight set victory over argentina qualifier

on the louis-armstrong court and french may have lost his grip on his racket but he still managed to knock out last year's finalists and japanese losing in five sets, richard par, al jazeera. football now and transfer deadline date for english permi league clubs and closed for major leagues on monday and complicated manchester united to madrid and goal keeper may stay in england after all and they agreed terms for a $45 million deal but there is a dispute as to whether the required paperwork was submitted in time. there has never been a case where spanish clubs were granted additional time to complete a transfer but rael may go for appeal and he was to move.

world cup winner julian left to wilsburg for $39 million and it will make it the second biggest transfer in the league following mario to munick for 41.5 million two years ago. and beaten sri lanka to steal away series win since 2011 and after a host a target of 386 sri lanka showed a fight with a century and india had 268 to win by 117 runs. former pakistan captain are free to return to cricket this week following a five-year spot fixing ban and the pair will join the fast baller who has his band relaxed by the cricket counsel six months ago and he was 23 and both in their mid 30s may struggle to regain their previous form. the three were suspended in 2010

for arranging no balls during a test match in england. kenya athletes returned home from athletic championships in beijing and topped the table with 7 gold, six silver and three bronze and catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. >> reporter: this is where everybody is talking about this, 16 metals and every kenya proud to be in association. this is a feit that never has been achieved in kenya and here is another first they brought kenya the first gold metal in the non-track event, javalin. >> and it's struggling to win the world championship and now i'm the world champion now and my family is the champion. >> kenya has been in the

spotlight for doping allegations, two athletes failed a drug test in beijing and set the positive for doping in the last two years and some have been band from racing. government sporting agencies including athletics kenya are aware of doping claims. >> we must fight or we will not make it, thank you very much. [chanting] doping aside though kenya is basquing in the glory of being on top of the world for the olympics to be held in rio next year, nairobi kenya. that is the sport and more later. >> do stay with us at al jazeera, we will have full coverage of that on going demonstration taking place in beirut as protesters storm the ministry and stay with us here at al jazeera. ♪

♪ frustration and anger in hungry as the capitol main station is closed to refugees trying to reach sanctuary in western europe. ♪ hello, i'm live from al jazeera headquarters in doha and also to come on the program protests storm the environment ministry in beirut demanding the minister resign over a growing garbage crisis. calls for australia to remove children from a prison holding asylum