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nowhere to go. angry sequence in hungary as the rail any station is closed to refugees i'm jutedan live from doha. also ahead - congolese rebel leader pleads not guilty at a war time-trial in the hague wars and economic blockades could make gaza uninhabitable in less than five years hundreds of students in africa protest over the
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university's language of instruction. 11 syrian refugees tied off the coast of turkey, five missing after their boat sank. three children are among the victims. they were trying to make the short but dangerous crossing to the greek island of cos. the turkish coast guard is continuing search operations in the area in austria police freed 24 afghan teenagers crammed inside a van, which had the doors weld the shut. they were discoveredly police in vena. the romanian drive arrested as he tried to run away in hungary, refugees are denied access to the railway station, police are preventing anyone without a valid e.u. visa from entering the takes.
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many stay they want to board trains to germany. andrew simmonds has the latest. >> there's a firm resolve among the people to stay and not give in. every time a train leaves for germany and austria, they gather in bigger numbers, chanting germany, germany, freedom. but it is apparent that the government doesn't want to know about moving the people in a direction to other states. there's only one thing they want to do, to stop them travelling now. and also to bring in new legislation, a raft of legislation which will criminalize the act of coming across the border, and could lead to gaol sentences. but there's going to be a big move. it could be in mid september when the laws are passed. to get them out of the country. for now, this is the situation. >> where you go? >> where are you go. >> germany may have been a destination they could reach on monday, not any more. a refugees feared that this
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would happen, and it did. >> tell us what is the solution. everyone can be hours and our situation. everyone can have it on our own. please make it the solution, find for us a solution. >> such dramatic contrast on monday. now the police, instead of letting people on board the trains are stopping them getting access to the station. look at the atmosphere. the people just waiting with no word of what might happen, so many of them already buying tickets being barred from entry into the station. >> the demonstrations vocal but not aggressive carried on through the day. perhaps the dilemma the refugees are in, is conveyed more by the site of exhausted families, who brought their tickets to be turned away. they settled in the shade, wherever they could find it, refusing to move. once again the issue of free movement in europe, and the
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biggest refugee crisis since the world war ii is playing out in front of people in a capital city. >> it's a shame. normally hungarian people don't want it. we just would like to have it. i came here to see, and maybe i can help. >> a german politician on a fact-finding tour says she's appalled. >>. >> it's a failure of human rights in europe. this is what i have to say. massive human rights violations here. people sleeping on the streets for days and days and days. hardly any water, hardly any food. >> at the border town last week we met this 13-year-old syrian boy. he escaped dara with his sister. >> four days later we spot him in the crowd here, trying to get information. but he is frustrated. >> the police don't like the syrians, serbia. in macedonia. in greece. >> what is your message then?
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>> my message - please help the syrians. syrians need help now. up just stop the war, we don't want to go to europe. >> just stop the world in syrian. just then. >> a young voicearying a simple message. but words that seem to carry little weight here. >> amongst the parliamentary vote, there's a resolution accusing brussels, e.u. of encouraging people to come to the continent. refugees coming because they are incited by politicians in europe. mentioning the states by name, but accusing the e.u. - this is an e.u. mim ber state. accusing the e.u. of enticing people to come to the con
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tinnent as a result of people dying in votes. it's right wing politicians, definitely going to the core of the issue, trying to get rid of people here. people, it describes as economic migrants will be immediately expelled from the country, and asylum applications in a very different system will be put through, and people will be decided upon in a short time frame. and sent back if they fail in their application. it will make them hard to win an application as well. this is definitely not a unified situation with the rest of the european union. it's escalating into a bigger crisis, it would seem the former congoales rebel leader pleaded not guilty to war crimes at his trial at the international criminal court. the charges against him include murder, rape and recruitment of child soldiers. barnaby phillips sent this update from the hague.
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>> reporter: it took the court 15 minutes to read out the charges, a long litany of appalling crimes. he listened calm reply throughout and then stood up calmly and in a quiet voice said he was not guilty of all 18 charges against him. then we heard more from the chief prosecutor here at the i.c.c. and she describes in sfom graphic detail the murders of civilians, young children, women, bodies disembowelled. the most appalling atrocities in remote villages in eastern congo, in the specific period 2002-2003. there's criticism of the trial that it's focussing on that period when bosco was at large as a warlord and general in the congo please army for a longer period, going up to 2013.
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but because of limited resources, the i.c.c. decided to focus on the narrow period. there was also a big debate as to whether the trial should happen in the hague or bugno or in eastern congo, so that people there can see justice being done, see the warlords wreaking havoc in that part of the world. ultimately one of the reasons the trial is here is there was considerable intimidation. it was felt for reasons of security safety, better to hold the trial here in the hague in holl onward developing news out of syria. there has been a car bomb attack in latakia. syrian state television is reporting that 10 people have been killed and 22 wounded. it's said to have happened in the city's main square. gaza could be uninhabitable
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in less than five years time. it's a warning contained in a u.n. report. trade and development says unemployment and poverty is an all-time high. it blames three wars and an 8-year israeli blockade. the report says that aid is helping, it will not be enough to stop the decline. scott heidler is in west jerusalem. there are several factors by the u.n. report that the gaza strip will be unlivable in less than five years. it's eight years. on gaza strip by israel, it's that there have been three major military. essentially. it has not been able to physically rebuild so that it can rebuild the economy. that is something that they say, if it doesn't improve, that this will currently stay on the trajectory, and that makes if urn liveable in five years. >> there's something interesting, a term that came out of the report. that says that there's something
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going wrong in the gaza strip. the develop has not just been paused because of what has been going on, but reversed. because they haven't been able to rebuild infrastructure, and the economy stymied because of this. the israeli government in the past has been critical of the united nations reports about what is going on in the gaza strip, and have yet to comment. >> the red cross says it's shocked and appalled by the killing of two workers in yemen, attacked in their car by gunmen. the red cross says the vehicle was clearly marked. they were travelling from sadr to sanaa, both controlled by houthi rebels. last week the aid agency stopped working in aden after its office was attacked at least 18 turks are among 20 workers kidnapped by masked men in baghdad, taken from a construction site in the nearby district of habibia early on wednesday. >> hoda abdel-hamid has more from baghdad. turkey has confirmed the
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kidnapping of a number of their citizens. those were construction workers, they were taken from the actual site of the construction in the early hours of the mark. we understand from the iraqi military was na marked men wearing iraqi uniforms, they were responsible for seizing the turkish workers. among them a number of iraqis well. the baghdad operations demand has launched an investigation. re do not know who was responsible for this act. and we don't know the motives. there are some who suggest that this could be a criminal act simply because kidnapping for ransom are quite common in the iraqi capital. or whether or not there were political motives behind this action. where this took place - it took place in a neighbourhood north-east of baghdad. this is in the sadr city, a place where shi'a militias are
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strong, we know that shia militias have been critical of turkey's role in the fight against i.s.i.l. some blaming and accusing turkey of buying complicit. we know the relationship between turkey and iraq has been on rocky ground. they have been allowed to export oil. these are speculations, but what is clear is that the security situation in the capital is precarious. and the rule of law, and the fact that armed groups can operate with impugn city. this has been a concern for the people in this country still ahead on al jazeera. celebrations on the streets of guatemala city, and the president stripped of immunity.
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plus... >> dt dot as china's military falls into line for world war ii commemorations, the neighbours promise a never-before scene of fire power.
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you're watching al jazeera. angry protests outside buddha pests railway station. hungarian police are preventing anyone without a valid visa from
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entering the station former rebel congolese officer pleaded not guilty. he's facing 18 charges including murder, rape and recruiting child soldiers at the international criminal court. a u.n. report warns that gaza could be uninhabitable less than five years. it blames wars and blockades for record poverty and a humanitarian crisis. guatemala's congress removed president perez's immunity from prosecution. accused of receiving bribes in exchange for lowering taxes on businesses. six cabinet ministers resigned last week. david mercer reports jubilation in the streets of guatemala city as people celebrate an historical decision in a country battling
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corruption. the president stripped of immunity by congress will face impeachment, the news guatemalans are waiting for. the decision was nearly unanimous. >> translation: the results of the vote are as follows, 132 in favour, zero against. congressman not present, 26. now, with a majority we approve they can take president molina to the courts. prosecutors accuse the president of the being a head of a multi-million corruption scandal. congress voted n an impeachment process, pushed forward, a week and a half ago. it was the second time congress met to decide the president's future. >> you can see the animosity on the street. this is an historic day.
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>> from the early morning the president's supporters formed a human train in an attempt to block entry to congress. those in favour were present. some of whom handed out white flowers and a symbol of liberty. despite pressure from across guatemala, analysts say legal obstacles mean putting him on trial could take months. >> the main objective is for the president to hold out and negotiate. with the future, miss protection, or in a way circumstance that would allow him to evade justice. >> last friday the president said he'd face up to legal change. it's closer than ever, with people determined to stay on the streets as long as necessary.
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investigators in the u.s. state of texas economic videos that appear to show police shooting a man with his hands up. protests have been sparked and increase crude iscrutiny of tacti tactics. we have this report. >> u.s. law enforcement had a bad year this latest video could be inflamenty. gilbert flores puts his hand up and is shot. we won't show the moment of his death, filmed by a passer-by in a car. what we don't see is everything that happened before that moment. two deputies attempted to arrest the individual, and he resisted. they tried to use nonlethal weapons to detain him. after a lengthy confrontation both deputies fired shots
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causing the man's death. >> the local sheriff's department has many questions to answer, but wants to stress that the officers were experienced, and were responding to reports of domestic abuse. they say they found a woman cut in the head with a knife, and flores is seen running through the yard. >> both deputies involved with the shooting have been with the sheriff's office for 10 years, and have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure. calls not to link this. one lawyer says there could be more disturbing details. >> there's ner video with a better angle. there'll we many waiting to see that video as well.
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president obama has been visiting a melting glass we are. the u.s. national park service says exit glacier mass been receding by 30 meters a year. president obama's 3-day tour is his highest profile. the glacier retreated by roughly 2km in the last two centuries. the u.n. special repertoire and freedom of expression condemned the sentencing of three al jazeera journalists. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and mohammed badr from given three years in prison. peter greste, an australian, was deported in february and tried if absentia. mohammed received an ya six months for having a used bullet casing. al jazeera says they were doing their jobs as journalists. 12,000 troops are preparing to march through beijing on
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thursd thursday. while it is an event of the past china's maybes are likely to see it as a look at the future. the government can still rely on the military to do as it is told. most of the soldiers are there for pomp and ceremony. pressed into service for the first military parade since xi jinping came to power. soldiers selected for us to interview were on message. careful to play down the tensions today with the country many chinese still regard as the enemy. >> to remember, it is not to keep passing on the hate red. it's to learn the lessons to create a better future.
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troops from 12 countries, including russia will participate. and have been rehearsing that the capital. this parade is about more than the pasts. it will show case an expanding military taking an assertive stance over the dispute waters of the south china and east china seas. the president is the commander in chief of the liberation army, a target of anticorruption campaign. the parade is timely for other reasons. >> he hasn't finished his clean-up of the military yet. there has been important adjustments in the military since she took control of the army. he needs to build his image for the military, party and people. >> in recent days china has been showing off technology featuring in the parade, including the largest drone, the rainbow five.
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tightened security will bring costly disruption. roads in the city center close, the main international airport shuts for three hours. and to ensure that it happens under pollution three sides, were re -- pollution-free skies, coal-fired power stations and around 10,000 factories have been ordered to halt or reduce production, all at a time of growing concern over china's slowing economy south korea's president park geun-hye is in the chinese capital for the anniversary commemorations and is holding talks with chinese counterpart xi jinping. north korea and its nuclear programme are topping the agenda. harry fawcett has more from the south korean capital seoul park geun-hye thanked xi
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jinping's role to reducing pensions between south and north korea. she said china and south korea communicated closely, contrasted after a deem between uponing wr and seoul. north korea had to face off against the south alone. a broad mint about the frosty nature of the relationship currently between beijing and pyongyang. north korea's national defense commission chose this day to release a statement criticizing south korea for how it had been characterising the agreement, saying that north korea had apologised, admitted responsibility for a landmine blast last month, injuring two seen sold yers on the southern side of the demilitarized zone, saying the expression of regret made clear was that. there was no apology, and they should stop saying that one had been made. as for xi jinping, the work of park geun-hye and himself led to south korea and china enjoying a
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high level of friendship. and said that both fought off the aggression and immaterialist colonization. a clear message about japan. japan concerned about park geun-hye's attendance at the military parade due for thursday in beijing, the united states as well will want japan and south korea to work closely together at a time when china is rising in power and status in this region. the decision to attend will have been taken seriously, she, though, is trying to get a trilateral summit running between china, south korea and japan in the coming months south africa's president will not be investigate for allowing sued niece president to evade arrest. politicians rejected a motion demanding an inquiry that could have led to zuma's impeachment. president bashir is accused of masterminding jen side in
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darfur. the sudanese premier attending a summit in the african union, despite a warrant for his detention. >> the south african university has been accused of racism. lecturers used the afrikaans language more than english. led to the history of apartheid, as reported from cape town, university managers have been summoned before parliament to explain. >> reporter: protesting students filled the university's central square, in the afrikaans heart land. it was viewed by many as the language of the oppressor, and the language of instruction here. now africaans and english are supposed to be an equal footing. the students say lecturers favour afrikaans. >> it's not a question of language as a teaching and learning tomb, but language and the way it was connected to institutional culture.
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and that continues in the spirit. >> reporter: many of the many that created the apartheid system went to this university, it was whites only once. the transition to being multi racial has not been easy, students describe incidents of racism on and off campus in a documentary called listen in afrikaans. the minister of higher education was to angry. >> there can be no institution showing racism... the vice-chancellor says the university takes accusations of racism seriously, firing a member of staff and suspended a student accused of using racial slurs. >> this is a place of transformation, we are on a journey.
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we are imperfect and incomplete. >> in april an student protest succeeded in having a statue of cecil rhodes removed. they are supporting the student protest. what the students represent is a generation of outstanding. the university says it will increase the number of black representatives and women on its governing body. it may not be enough to make the students feel they belong the soyuz spacecraft blasted off from its launchpad in kazakhstan, staking three astronauts from russia, kazakhstan and denmark to rendezvous with the space station. the trip will take two days.
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