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solution. find for us a >> desperation in hungary as police stop hundreds from boarding trains out of the country. ♪ . >> i'm lauren taylor, this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. more protests against the government, as demonstrators occupy. sexual abuse, self-harm, and even torture, the allegations being leveled at australia's refugee prison. plus. >> slip it under my collar.
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>> smile for the camera, police officers in los angeles are given body cameras in an effort to rebuild trust. >> hello, the main railway station in budapest has been closed. hungary's foreign minister says those found to be economic migrants will be sent back to the country they arrived from. hundreds of people are there and demanding that police let them board trains so they can leave. security forces have been blocking the entrance to the station this is the number trying to reach the european union continues to search. the italian navy has rescued 200. at least four people were found dead. the international organization estimated that nearly a water million people
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have landerred in greece. the record numbers are showing no sign of easing, andrew simmons reports now. >> jeremy may have been a destination they could reach on monday, but not any more. the refugees had feared this would happen, and it did. >> what is the solution? everyone can be in our situation. please, give office solution. >> such dramatickic contrast to monday, now the police instead of letting people onboard the trains are stopping them from getting access to the station, a look at the atmosphere, these people just waiting with no word of what might happen, so many of them who have already bought tickets being barred from i have into the station the demonstrations vocal but not aggressive carries on
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right through the day but perhaps the dilemma is conveyed more by the size of exhausting families that bought their tickets only to be turned away. they settles in the shade, wherever they could find it refusing to move. once again, the issue of free movement and the biggest refugee crisis since the second world war is playing out. >> it is a shame. people don't want this. i came here to see, and maybe i can help. >> a german politician on a fact finding tour says she is appalled. >it is a complete fay jury of human rights. massive human rights violations here. hardly any water, hardly any food. >> at the border town last week, we met this 13-year-old
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boy, he had escaped with his sister. four days later we spot him in the crowd here, trying to get information. but he is frustrated. >> serbia, in mas. done yeah, in agrees. >> what is your message then. >> my message, please help the syrians. the syrians feed help now. just stop the war in syria. just that a young voice carrying a similar message, but words that seem to carry little weight here. andrew simmons, al jazeera, budapest. >> one hot spot in the crisis at the border of hungary and austria. there's a heavy police presence as authorities try to smash organized people smuggling rackets.
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>> austrian police stopped cars and trucks in a major border crossing with hungary, checking for smugglers illegally transports refugees. a hung gain taxi was stopped. reporters were not allowed to speak with them. police also question the taxi driver, it is not known whether he will be charged. a senior police officer says refugee smuggling rings are large, sophisticates and adapt quickly to tactics. it is organized crime, it means there are many different people working tot, in this kind of network, and this criminal networks. for us it is a charge to find out not only to arrest the driver but to find the chiefs.
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this is the now infamous truck in which 71 refugees died last week. forensic workers are still collecting evidence, soiled clothing removes from the truck, hangs on a fence. all treian authorities say two more persons have been arrested in connection with this case, one in hungary, the other in bulgaria, they are thought to be part of a human smuggling ring, and was responsible for the deaths that occurred in it. >> most refugees want to go to germany, the european union's wealthiest country with liberal refugee laws. a record numb per of 3,500 many of them from syria, crossed into southern germany from awvee yeah since monday. quite honestly i see no responsible on their part, it's been said those arriving here are most likely to
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receive asylum or the status of a refugee from a civil war country. that's mo surprise. >> police on alert may safe some lives and may put some smugglers behind bars. but commanders admit more police won't solve the problem. >> of course it is a big challenge. no question, it is also a big challenge for austria, i think, but solutions can only come from politics. from the government of course. >> political solutions that so far haven't happened. al jazeera, austria. >> police have forcingly removed protestors who had occupied beirut's environment industry. they are demanding the
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minister resign over the on going garbage crisis. the mas. demonstrations in recent weeks over piles of rubbish that haven't been cleared. two protests are also being fueled by corruption in government, and the figure to provide basic services. >> the police have of course ad them to leave, they said they weren't going to leave until the minister resigns. that obviously hasn't happened and therefore the police starting force my removed them. we saw a at least two people being taken out on stretchers. i am going to bring in bun of the protestors. also protestor the. capain. >> nonviolence protest. demanding resignation -- the police officers came. and they asked the media to get out, and when the media refused, and then they possibly removed us, we refused to cooperate.
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so they took us out. they ripped us apart, and most of the hitting happened down on the stairs. as we were ingo down the stairs. in any case, we hold the government and the security forces responsible. the situation in the country is in a deadlock. you leave rubbish in the streets with no single solution. which is a big corruption. the garbage in lebanon is the highest in the world. this is unacceptable, we want to start a new political statement. a new political discourse in lebanon. bases on accountability, if you are a minister in the government, you have to act. >> ukraine's president has paid tribute to soldiers killed in a grenade ex-place outside parliament, as two more servicemen dies from their injuries. 140 people were taken to
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hospital the president has defended the reforms and condemned the violence, reports from kiev. >> a day after and details of what went wrong at the protest in the parliament building are still emerging. a grenade and several bombs were logged at police. mainly from far right groups. three died and more than 100 were injuries. the ward at this hospital is filled with anger. >> we were surprised. shocking this happened in a peaceful city it happened as ukraine's parliament was voting on measures giving greater awe ton my to the east. >> unfortunately, we provided
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the changes in the election, and any country it is unfortunate, the politics try to play these games. to gain additional persons to tested positive lex. they have nothing to do with the interest of the country. you crane is heading towards move nil pass elections at the end of october. >> this city hasn't seen any violence since the ousting of the former president nearly 18 months ago. the fact that the clashes happened here make many wonder whether the infighting inside the building will once again spill out on to the streets. >> many have come here to pay tribute to those who have fallen in the line of duty. bringing flowers and candles some are visibly worried. >> i don't want. bos the my city, the people that work in parliament need to know that it isn't sufficient living for them, it is them living for us our
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children must stop dying this nightmare should end. >> the centralization is a necessary step to the limitation of the agreement. but both the separatists in the east and russia, say itle families short. and on the ukrainian side some fear lit leave to a loss of southernty. >> there is no confusion, it says very clearly, that are now state bodies will be transfers to local councils and their executive bodies. it is not aimed at any domino effect, because existing prescriptions say that any city which ever arrives for special status. >> with the country underlying tensions that will be postponed. al jazeera, kiev.
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>> still to come, how the war in yes then can be leaving more than half the country's children mall now european --ed. and why tokyo's most striking hotels is closing down.
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minister.y's foreign it comes as authorities have closed the main train station in the capitol.
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some protestors have been forcibly removed by police after staging a sit in, the demonstrators from the movement are demanding the minister resign over the countries on going garbage crisis. ukraine's president has paid tribute to soldiers as two more servicemen die from their injuries. >> australia's treatment of assay lum seekers has been chriss sized by a report detailing allegations of negligence and abuse where asylum applicants are kept, andrew thomas has more. >> three years ago, al jazeera filmed what would become the detention center, as australia's army built it. but since they have been held as an effective prison the media has not been allowed in. that is one thing that the reported conditions should
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change, because where the secrecy, there can be abuse. two report details some of what is alleged. self-harm by traumatized children. the sexual abuse of detainees by guards, even water boarding. but the credibility of the former guard making that accusation was questioned at the inquiry. >> no, i have not personally witnessed the actual event, but i have witnessed what i firmly believe the action as after. >> so row so seen people with water on them come from a building. >> and water coming out of their mouth, coughing up water. >> the report says conditions at the prison are not adequate appropriate or safe. it calls for a full order to be the allegations of abuse. >> there are 67 allegations of both physical and sexual abuse against children, that includes 30 concerning detention centers staff. >> the reports
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recommendations include faster processing of refugee claims and the removal of children from the prison. >> the minister has acknowledged this morning for the first time, that things are not okay, inside the detention camp. but talk is cheap. the minister needs to act. >> the government accepts that sending it's refugees to camps in other countries is tough, but as a deterrent it works. both to the asylum seekers like these have stop coming from the australia. >> the united nations has said is tantamount to torture in some cases. >> it is brutal stuff, no question about it, but it is seen as a deterrent, and a lot of european governments are actually looking to the australian model. >> the government has made it clear it has no plan to close the camp. >> tiny, a dot in the pacific, the millions it is
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given to host what is in effect an australian prison is a sizable part of the economy. but it is kept hissen just to apply to a visa, journalists have pay $6,000 with no guarantee of getting one, and no access to the detention enter even if they do. what this report makes clear is that in such a dark place, dark things are happening. andrew thomas, alleges. >> al jazeera asked the government for the interview, but we told the minister was not available. israel has del moished the home of the senior commander. there was a shoot out between forces and the armed group after dozens of army vehicles turned up at his house in the occupied west bank. a stuckish soldier has been killed and another wounded. the shooting happened in the southeast province. as the second time a turkish soldier has been shot and
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killed along the boarder. >> 12 soldiers and militia men were killed outside the town. after a mortar assault, two suicide bombers blew themselves near troops. >> iraq's prime minister is continues to face strong opposition, as he tries to implement a new reform program. he announces the changes after massive protests over corruption, and a lack of paragraph. reports from baghdad. >> this is why well question ton that tick the streets. the shortage of electricity was the breaking point. this sector has been worn down by years of war, but people blame the authorities for mismanagement and corruption. the government promised to take action. the electricity minister was questioned in parliament, he blames former ministers for not investing enough to
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develop the distribution network. parliament was satisfied with his answers. but it caused even more anger on the streets. >> it seems parliament isn't taking people seriously. it is making people even angrier. >> some of the members of parliament, the coalition or the shia alliance is headed by former prime minister who himself has been accused of corruption. he leads the biggsest block in parliament the stated law is not united they are against each other, abadi was relying on the block and shia leaders. but they are all standing against him, he is fighting for reforms alone with the backing of the street and the highest religious authorities the protestors have not chanting slogans in fact, they have been protesting every friday for weeks now.
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to give him support to bring about change. at first, they demanded better services now many are demanding for a corrupt officials to be held accountability and an independent judiciary, they also want to reform a system where appointments were made according to party loyalties and power, distributed among sects. it is basically a call to end sectarian politics. little had changed for the people, to meet their demands the prime minister needs the support of the establishment, but the same politician who publicly backed the people, seem to be standing in his way parliament members are ever cooing up for each other, they are afraid if one minister is fires than others will also be dismissed and this means parties will lose their power this crisis is testing the credibility and his career could be at stake,
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and if he goes there are powerful militia whose are ready to step in. doctors in yemen are warning of the devastating impact that the war is having on children. they estimate up to 60% are malnourished. >> a father places his baby on scales at this medical center. doctors are running a screening program to monitor malnourished children. before the war, yemen had one of the highest malnourished rates in the world. malnutrition is widespread. but because of the air strikes there's been a big increase, around 30% of children used to be malnourished now it is more than 60%. >> the children are prescribed vitamin supplements but they say the supplies are low.
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they have receive ised some aid but say they need more to meet demand. >> our children are facing famine, we can't 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. people are suffering from severe food and water shortages. relative calm has returned where forces loyal to the compiled president pushed out houthis rebels last month, but a houthis strong hold, the fighting continues. and until it stops the healthcare system won't likely recover from months of war. al jazeera. >> united nations special on freedom of expression is calling the ever the immediate release of two of the three journalists jailed by an emjigs court.
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they were jailed on saturday. los angeles has become the largest city in the united states to give police officers body cameras as part of an initiative to rebuild trust, police brutality has been in the headlines in recent months. slip it under my collar. >> the mission hub neighborhood called this the new normal, on monday more than 80 officers took to and streets wearing body cameras. we are emplacing the idea and the con can september, i think lit give a new perspective. >> and first cameras will be deployed other the l. a.p.d., eventually 7,000 will be
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issued making this the largest city to use these devices on a wide scale. officers say body cameras will give the full story. urn like the death in ferguson missouri or baltimore that were not captured on camera. >> this ors has nothing to hide. >> but peter with the a. c.l. u. disagrees. he notes that officers will by allowed to review the footage before filing the reports. the department currently has no plans to let the public see any of the video reported. one thing that they promise to do is increase public trust picture helping provide the public some assurance. that officer officers will be d accountability, but giving a special advantage of given the video before making a statement, just portrays that. >> i think it protects me more than it protects the public.
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>> in 2012, the small city east of los angeles became the first u.s. police department to deploy the devices. use of force there dropped picture more than 50% after they started using the cameras. >> but footage has also been used against officers. this video show as routine traffic stop escalate into a shooting. the white officer who shot and killed the black driver is now charged with murder. >> al jazeera, los angeles. >> one of tokyo's most famous hotels has closed it's doors p ever the last time. and played host to politicians and even james bond. it is now being torn down to make way for a modern sky scraper. for more than half a century the hotel has welcomed guests from the
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across japan. but this time they weren't coming to stay, rather to say goodbye. >> there is something unchanging about this hotel. we feel as though we have come home, by going home to your parents and grandparents as they always welcome you. >> it was loved by it's regulars who included presidents and film stars for it's stylish preservation of the lend of 196 figure's modernism, and traditional carts manship, when ian fleming this was the obvious hotel for james bond. >> more than a time capsule, for many it had become ab important piece of the culture history. >> there's so much amazing craftmanship, it moves me just by looking at it. i am sad will it be lost, but i hope the new hotel will have a lobby like this. >> the lobby was the star from the beginning with it's lights and flower shape tables and chairs an afternoonment preserves virtually unchanged for more than 50 years.
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>> no one would say anything no matter how long you spent sitting there by yourself. please do make yourself at home. in such a spectacular space. the campaigners trying to preserve the arc deck tour, what is happening is also japanese. it is to be replaced by a 38 story sky scrapper in time for the 2020 olympics. >> throughout tokyo there are examples of history being unsympathetically dwarfed preserved in oddly artificial ways, or just consumed by anonymous concrete towers. >> not as markers of state of civilization at any given point in this society. >> the owner say 53 year is too old for a first class hotel. the standards aren't up to
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