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[ chanting ] the refugee crisis plays out on the streets of hungry. police stopped hundreds boarding planes to germany you're watching al jazeera. coming up in the next half hour - immunity stripped. guatemala's lawmakers clear the way for perez molina to face corruption charges. lebanese police push back
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protesters who want the environment minister to quit over a rubbish crisis. and we visit a village in alaska, facing a threat of being wiped out by climate change. >> hundreds of refugees arrive in hungary, blocked from travelling on to austria and germany. those without a valid e.u. visa were refused entry into the main railway station. the foreign minister said anyone found to be an economic migrant will be deported. andrew simmonds reports.
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>> germany may have been a place to reach on monday. no more. >> fined a place for us. >> reporter: just a contrast. police are stopping people from getting access to the station. look at the atmosphere. these people just waiting. there's no word of what might happen. many of them who have bought tickets barred from entry into the station. demonstrations, vocal but not aggressive carried on into the day. buoyed by exhausted families that bought their tickets, with no refund. they settled in the shat. it's the biggest refugee crisis since the world war ii, playing out in front of people. >> it's a shame.
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normal hungarian people don't want it. we would like to have them. i cake to see maybe i can have. >> a german politician is appalled. it's a failure of human rights in europe. massive human rights violations, people sleeping on the streets for days and days and days. hardly any water for food. >> reporter: at the border town we met a 13-year-old syrian boy. four days later. we spot him in the crowd. trying to get information. he's frustrated. >> they don't like the syrians. >> what is your message then? >> please help the syrian. they need help now.
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you say the word. we don't want to go to europe. just stop the world for syrians. >> reporter: a young boy with a simply message words that seem to carry little weight hungary's foreign minister is calling on the european union to discuss a solution to the refugee crisis. the e.u. will outline plans to ensure refugees are first across europe. it's clear policy based on mandatory quota mails. is encourages human traffickers and immigrants to come to europe. those trying to make sustains to stop the influx are facing a smear campaign rail services between brittin and france are suspended on tuesday night, hundreds
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crowding the tracks. there are attempts to break into the area by people trying to get to britain. last month security around the tunnel was stepped up guatemala's congress voted to remove perez molina's immunity from prosecution. there has been calls in which officials received bribes from businesses to avoid import taxeses. the former vice president has been gaoled and six officials resigned. >> elizabeth is a professor in latin american studies at the university of arizona. and says the vote is a turning point for the country. >> we have seen over the past few years, a capacity in guatemala to prosecute complicated cases.
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in 2013 there was the genocide case. the guatemalan ministry developed ability to track organised criminal networks and build ways against them. technical capacity has been there a few years. what has shifted is the political will to take on the cases. two years ago there was not the political will to allow the conviction to stand. now we are seeing a turning point in terms of maybe there is a political will to allow the major cases against a high level political figures to go forward. >> riot police in lebanon removed demonstrators from the environment building in beirut. they have been staging a 3-day
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sit in. demanding a resignation over garbage piling on the streets. it has expand the. the government reports from the capital. >> hours before the deadline, activists occupied the environment ministery in downtown beirut. calling for the minister to resign. for weeks now, people have been protesting the government. angered. it is an inability to deal with a rubbish crisis leaving the streets filthier than ever. activists escalated acts of civil disobedience. the stand off lasting more than nine hours. throughout that time, the ministry themselves is holed up in the office. >> skirmishes began to take place halfway through, security
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beating protesters after they sealed off entrances to the buildings. then before the sun sets. they began to remove the activists from inside the ministry. >> at least three people were carried away on stretchers. >> this 15-year-old activist described how riot police - before they kicked him up. he told me despite being detained through the protests, he'll take to the streets. as night fell, hundreds gathered outside the ministry. few remained inside.
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>> a chance against the government and security forces rang out as the crowds were angrier. >> what started off as a protest against the inability to deal. it has been transformed into a protest unit. not only against the government and the system. the more the stand offs take place, and the nor that the security forces meet the protesters with force. the protest movement is coming 12 soldiers have been killed in what the iraqi military says is a series of i.s.i.l.-launched suicide attacks. two bombers blew themselves up outside the down outside a province. there were three suicide car bomb explosions in a follow up attack. >> ukraine's president paid tribute to soldiers killed in a
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grenade explosion. two more servicemen died for their injuries in monday's attack. 140 people, were injured a day after and details of what went wrong apt the protest in front of the parliament building are emerging. a grenade and several bombs were lobbed at police by demanders, mainly from far right group. three died, more than 100 injured. the ward at this hospital is filling with injured. >> wemp surprised. we thought the most that hopped was pushing and shouting. s it was organised for sure. it happened as ukraine's parliament voted on measures to give autonomy to the east. for the president, it was
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preplanned. >> we provide the constitutional changes. in any country, unfortunately, the politics try to play the games. they have nothing to do with the interest of the country. ukraine is heading towards elections at the ind of october. >> the city has not seen violence since the ousting of former president 18 months ago. the fact that the clashes happened in front of parliament make many wonder whether the infighting inside the building will spill out on to the streets. >> many have come here to pay tribute to those that have fallen in the line of duty, bringing flowers and candles, like in maidan. some are visibly worried. >> i don't want bombs and grenades in the city. people in parliament need to know it's not us living for
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them, but them for us. our children must stop dying, whether here or in the east. this nightmare should end. >> decentralisation is a step to the full implementation of the agreement. both the separatist in the east and russia say it falls short. >> and on the ukranian side some fear it will lead to a lose of sovereignty. >> there's no confusion. it is said clearly that the competence is with the state borders and administration, and will be transferred to local councils. it is not aimed at any domino effect. existing premises say they'll have a right for special status. >> reporter: the bill has to go through a second reading. that will be postponed until after the october elections.
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>> still to come here on al jazeera. >> hundreds of toounts in south africa protest over the university's language of instruction. and a former congolese warlord known as the terminator goes on trial at the international criminal court.
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welcome back, a quick recap - hundreds of refugees
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stranded in booud apest after hungry prevented them travelling to germany. the government plans to register everyone that crossed its borders, and spend them as what they call economic migrants back to the country they came from. >> guatemala's congress voted to move president molina from occupation. there has been protests calling for impeachment. they were bribed by businesses to avoid taxes. in lebanon police forcibly removed demonstrators that occupied the environment ministery. the movement resigned over an ongoing rubbish crisis. >> south korea's president is holding talks with a chinese counterpart in beijing. the two leaders are expect to discuss north korea. park will be attending events
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parking the defeat. let's go to sole. where the correspondent is. there's a lot of taking the objection. >> i guess they center on two things. the counter relationships in the region, in terms of the history, she'll be the first south korean president to attend a chinese military parade. china fought on the side of the north korea during the korean war, and for a seen president, a show of force would have been something that would have been weighed carefully. also a close ally of south korea, and japan, it wanted the countries to cop right the rise of china. japan will not see south korea's
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presence at this big military event at all well. and so that is going to make it difficult for tokyo and seoul to restore relations which are strained at the moment. that said, we understand they have talked park geun-hye about a trilateral summit between south korea, japan and china. that is something that she wants to see, a suggestion that china is hesitant about that. the stalks have been over a one to one lunch meeting. the only such meeting that will happen in this period. that is something of a coup for the south koreans to get close attention. it's a time when south korea needs to maintain the relationship. china is south korea's biggest training partner. a quarter go to the markets, and south korean experts are in
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trouble. it's important to maintain a close relationship. is there anything particular in north korea that they are expected to discuss when it comes from this issue. >> reports coming out of beijing suggest they have spoken about north korea, and the nuclear issue. the visit comes on the same day. the powerful national defense in north korea putting out a statement about tensions between the north and south. they began with a landmine explosion in the southern side of dmz, injuring two soldiers. a deal was reached. during which north korea expressed regret. that's sold in the south by the southern side as an apology, an acknowledgment of responsibility. wednesday, as president park
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geun-hye was going to china, north korea said there was no such thing, it was an expression of regret in terms of i'm shore what you have gone through, but no expression of regret. as president is in china talking about north korea, saying how much influence can be brought to bear, given the frosty relations. we see a passengers problem in the recent better relations, at least the agreement that was reached last week between north and sierra. >> russia health a military parade. known as the southern kirra lease in russia and northern territories in japan.
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japan and russia claim a strain of relations. that's when russian forces occupied four islands in. a turkish shoulder killed and another wounded the shooting happened in the south-eastern province, the second time there was an attack. riot police used water canons to push back protesters. hundreds were angry over violence between turkish force and rebels. south africa's parliament had
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rejected an impeachment application. the sudanese president attended an african union summit in south africa in june, despite a war-enforced detention from the international criminal court. >> hundreds of university students in south africa staged a protest over a film. the university's managements has been summoned to parliament. >> protesting students filled the university central square. afrikaans was viewed as the language of the oppressor, and used to be the language of obstruction. now africans and english are supposed to be on the same
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footing. >> it's not a question of language as a tool, it's about language and the ways they connected to the institutional culture that conditions in this spirit. >> many of the men enforced it. the stolensition to multi racial has not been easy. student described incidents of race. on and off campus in a documentary. the minister of higher education was so angry when he saw it he summoned the university's management to parliament. >> there can be no institutional that leads to racism. the university takes accusations of races. they fired a member of staff. >> this is a different place in
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terms of transformation. but it's - we are on a journey. we are imperfect. we are in complete. we are resolute and steadfast. >> in april, a student movement succeeded in having a statue of cecil roads removed from the university of cape town. and they are supporting the student's protest. >> what the students represent is a generation of young south africans, tired of waiting for transformation to happen. >> the university says it will increase the number of black representatives and women from the governing body, but it may not be enough to make the students feel they belong he was once known as the terminator. now a former warlord is facing 18 counts of war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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catherine wambua-soi has more in his trial at the hague, beginning on wednesday. >> the gun fire stopped years ago. the car ran deep. in the democratic republic of congo. 150 people were killed in 248 hours, 6.5 years ago. people you talk to here know who to blame. we are sure what happened is under the control. we want the law to take its course. >> this man survived the massacre, saying a rebel group from the national congress of the defense for the people recruited young men, when they wouldn't join, they shot him. >> this is where they shot me, the bullets shattering my bone. this man showsize where a brother was killed. >> they were in the house when the shooting started.
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one of them went outside to find out what was going on. that's when the rebels found and killed him. >> this is the chief of staff of the rebel group. accused of taking charge of the
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operati operation..reputation as a brutal commander, followed here. survivors and relatives that lost their loved ones hope there'll be justice one day u.n. special repertoire on freedom of expression condemned the sentencing of three al jazeera journalists. david kay said it was inconsistent with law. mohamed fadel fahmy, peter greste and mohammed badr were sentenced to three years in prison after a retrial found them guilty of reporting false news. >> the u.s. pat president obama visited a melting glacier to
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highlight the impact of global warming. obama noted how much the glacier shrunk in the past century. the u.s. national park said exit glacier has been receding by 30 meters a year. it is his most high profile campaign on climate change yet. >> now, in parts of alaska, coastal erosion is claiming homes and distrubilitying livelihoods within the community. this is a village of 400 people that is falling into the sea. libby casey visited the small hunting region. >> make sure they don't suffer. >> eskimo larry relies on the see and hand for food and his way of life. hunting most of what he eats. it's unpredictable because of the ice. and it's not safe no more. it's scary.
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it's real scary. >> alaska may be the last front tear, the arctic coast is the front line of climate change. it's harder for hunters, but the village is in danger. >> there's no safe place to go in western alaska. those villages are not connected by a road system. so evacuations are not possible when storms come in outside of their communities. 400 people live here. more than a thirds of them schoolchildren. some of the 85 houses are in danger of falling into the sea. the army core of engineers estimates that they have about a decade until they are uninhabitable. there's a proposal to move to the mainland with a price tag of $100 million. the community is undecided. moves is a daunting and sad prospect. as the tribal chief had to figure out what to do. >> the place identifies us as a
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people. if we lose. we lose the identity. and we lose who we are. >> they can't imagine moving even a few niles away from the sea. the people may have no choice. some of the victims of climate change. change. >> [ ♪ ] on "america tonight" - don't mess with you mum. >> every won want a sandwich, get over here. >> just as mothers keep things understand control in their community sara hoy in chicago, with the women warriors, keeping trouble off their streets. >> alaska - baked.