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china pledges to cut the army by 300,000 as it commemorates the end of the second world war. i have the sport including serena williams takes a step closer to making grand slam history at the u.s. open. [cheers] ♪ just before 9:00 this morning local time hungarian police went through the gates of budapest main rail way station and a moment of hope for thousands of refugees who crowded on to trains they hoped would take them to austria or germany, instead the train was stopped by riot police at the town of bishca an hour from budapest and they were ordered to get off. that is where one of hungry's main refugee camps is located

and some refused to do so. they held up signs saying no camp. one family, a man, his wife and their child lay on the tracks. andrew simmons is in bisca for us now and sounds like it has been a very chaotic situation this morning. describe what is happening now. >> raw emotion, angry scenes and some injuries, minor also some arrests. the train over here stopped and obviously wasn't a scheduled stop, this is bishka and 40 kilometers outside the capitol and there was confusion and people were panicking on board and convinced all of the sudden this was some sort of trap that they have been talking about earlier and they were worried this might happen. but they had been convinced by a lot of people at the station in budapest this was a way out, a way to the border, they may not

necessarily travel rite -- right across the border because of the international train but were on their way and a stop and removed from the train by the police and then it wruz -- was an amazing situation because people started laying on the railroad tracks and refusing to go any further, and a family, a man, wife and toddler were laying across the track and refusing to move. it took a whole large group of riot police to remove them in the end and at that point they were this a riot situation and they started forcing their way back on to the train. the police eventually allowed that to happen. the standoff then took place. it seemed even calm at one point. the people refusing to move from the train and intent on staying. we were on that platform and a short time ago only a matter of ten minutes were we forcibly removed by the police.

we tried to stay with a lot of the media and i tried to board the train with my cameraman and was refused by the police. it couldn't happen. we were then backed, pushed back, pushed back, stage by stage, attempting all the time to get back towards the train, attempting to interview the people, attempting to get some further coverage, attempting to witness what was going on, at close quarters we were refused and we were told the chief of police made this a police area. we put ourselves on this platform, how long we can stay here is anybody's guess but the train is staying there and there is a group of riot police and senior police commanders in front of the train right now. no one knows exactly what is going to happen next, laura. >> indeed and you can easily understand the frustration and the desperation of these people and they have been held up for two days at budapest's main rail way station and all they want to

do is leave hungry so why won't the authorities let them? >> well, there is the central question. the reason according to viktor alban when he spoke at a very icy news conference after meeting eu leaders he said that the reason they had to stay here is they don't have registration but many of these people are registered and the government four days ago was saying that they had to have visas stamped in their valid passports. that wasn't mentioned at all when viktor was speaking at the news conference, really, really criticized the eu leadership and insisting that by september the 15th there will be zero, zero numbers in terms of migrants that he describes them crossing hungry's border from serbia. so we have a situation that really people have been trying

desperately to avoid registration because they think that by being fingerprinted there as per eu rules they will stay in the port of entry. but very few people have actually been staying in hungry in terms of asylum. they have been moving on and hungry allowed it to happen off and on over several months but,000 it intends to close the gate. it seems that viktor is taking a one-man mission to stop migration here and he addressed the whole of europe and addressed the whole world and said that they should stay back in turkey. he wrote a piece in a german newspaper to set the atmosphere really suggesting that europe was a christian place which was being challengeded challenged by an influx of muslim refugees and it's an ugly situation and this also appears to be ugly and we don't know what is going to

happen next, laura. >> do stay with us if you can, and there are a lot of police going past you but stay put for a moment if possible because we will hear now from the hungarian prime minister what he had to say just a little earlier in brussels. >> please don't come. why you have to go from turkey to europe? turkey is a safe country. stay there. it's risky to come. we can't guaranty you will be accepted here so morally and from human point of view we will be on the border and regulations to represent a human moral point also because we would not like to falsify the dreams of the people. please don't come. turkey is a safe country. serbia is a safe country. many countries are safe between europe and the four regions so definitely it's better for your family, for the kids, for yourself to stay. >> andrew when we listen to the hungarian prime minister he

really does seem at odds when we see the scenes of the policeman handling refugees on-and-off trains it does seem at odds with europe's policy towards asylum seekers and particularly germany here who was saying it's going to take 800,000 this year alone. >> that's right, laura, however don't rule out completely the possibility that there could be some sort of deal whereby you get numbers crossing into austria and sources were suggesting that was taking place 24 hours ago. whether viktor is actually really just having the last word on this, trying to have the last word is a possibility. but it is so haphazard apparently how this worked, one minute we had riot police pushing against demonstrators in budapest, at the main rail station, the next minute they are gone. the next minute the doors open and everyone rushes in and then

of course we hear international trains have been suspended. it's no surprise that many of these refugees feel they have been duped. they have been duped into getting into a situation where they are stuck on a train which is absolutely, it's gastly and so hot on no ventilation and water delivered by the police and medical staff has been giving first aid for people who have some illness and also a man with an injury. i'm not sure. i can't categorically say whether or not that was sustained in the big effectively a fight with the police earlier on. but you have a situation in hungry whereby september the 15th everything will change. there will be a much tougher resolute policy and people will be turned back and economic migrants as the government calls them will be turned back and it

will be virtually impossible to get asylum here. >> reporting for us from hungry to distressing scenes there this morning at the train station, thanks very much, andrew. not the only distressing scenes we have been seeing. we've had shocking images of a small boy washed up on a beach that has come to symbolize the plight of refugees. now, that harrowing story is the product of several cartoons like this, the first is an angel cradling the body of little three-year-old ilan and carries the words i hope humanity findss a cure for visas. another powerful cartoon which has been created shows the boy's lifeless body on the beach with a bunch of black balloons tied around his wrist. and then we have this, three-year-old in a safe, warm bed. kaitlyn mcgee has the island

story. >> reporter: it has become a symbol of the desperation for thousands and the crisis unfolding on european shores and this body washed up on turkey and he and his five-year-old brother were among a group of syrians trying to make the short but dangerous island and the image triggered an outcry on social media in the first few hours after the accident it had been retweeted thousands of times. and pressure is mounding on european politicians to do more and not only is it a policy crisis but also a moral one. >> we had to deploy a team to greece, lesbos and three neighboring islands where about two thirds of the refugees from the -- that arrived in europe this year landed and they are telling me horrifying stories of people who are losing brothers, husbands in war and then having children abused on the passage

to europe and then in the worst cases seeing people that they are with on boats across the mediterranean drown on the way to the showers of europe. >> reporter: in the last week turkey's coast guard rescued more than 2000 people in the sea and stories of survival and increasingly death and despair, kaitlyn with al jazeera. nearly half of syria's population forced from their homes leaving behind loved ones trapped by infen fenceinfence - fighting and the u.n. are saying what they are fleeing from and have been the victims of war crimes and as armed fighters from i.s.i.l. and al-nusra and opposition battle to seize territory civilians are being swept up in the brutality of violence and the government is accused of bombarding residential areas and include

aleppo and idlib and damascus and syrian men of fighting age are targeted by all sides, many are killed because they are seen as a potential enemy. many more are jailed without charge. women and girls are being seized by armed groups or government and then they can be attacked or raped and unhcr says this is to humiliate them or force them to surrender and executed by rebels and died in government air attacks and some as young as six have been trained to fight. let's talk a little bit more about this report and the situation in syria that is causing all these people to flee is our senior political analyst, great to have you on the set with us. when you hear about this break down of the situation in syria it's very easy, isn't it, to see why we have this influx of refugees who just want to get as

far away from syria as possible. >> that is right and the bad news is it's going to continue and the situation is not getting any better. some people think when things hit the bottom it will come up again, no. in civil war is things go from one bottom to another bottom and what we are having is a worsening situation where the tensions are rising, hatred is deepening and revenge, irrationality and so on and so forth are taking over the country and it's not a war about anything, ask a group what are you fighting for? it's not clear any more. where the goals of this thing that happened in 2000 including repression of the regime is not clear because regime itself lost most of the country so what it is fighting for? >> there is a problem in syria with a civil war is becoming ever bloodier and more violent and unless someone gets this there and intervenes diplomatically or otherwise it's

going to get worse. >> we see these interventions and we see this attempt at diplomacy and it just falls flat every time, why? >> because there is no real political backing for it. mistura's proposals for me and from a an analytical point of vw is for the united states to do something and the charming offensive and mistura about the issue will not lead to serious change. in terms of refugee questions. >> just a moment, before we go to refugees just point out for us what this roadmap is that mistura laid out because i had a brief look at it and couldn't pull anything tangible from what he is saying. >> that is exactly the points, there is so much ambiguity and it's not actionable. even if we resolve ambiguities for example there is something of a ruling council that will take over but then the

presidency will keep some sort of rights and privileges but then the army is under whose command. now once this thing has all been worked out who is going to implement it and syria is divided into three major groupings and one is dash and the third is the regime. these three groups are not reconciling and certainly not reconciling until the question of this is settled and not reconciling unless there is a regional order for an intervention in there and there is not so the turks have tried to create some kind of safe zone but they would not give it the go ahead and if they are not going to help turkey create a no fly zone or a zone of some sort people will look for refuge elsewhere for safety. >> absolutely. regardless of what the hungarian prime minister said they will keep going to europe and thanks for joining us here on the set. still to come here on this al jazeera news hour, bringing the

country to town, we will tell you why more than a thousand tractors are clogging the streets of paris. and guatemala's president resigns in the face of a corruption scandal. plus in sport the gift the syrian team hope to give to the people enduring the conflict back home. china's president pledged to cut the size of the military by 300,000 soldiers and made the announcement at a ceremony in beijing to mark 70 years since they surrendered in world war ii and up grading the navel and airforces and we report from beijing. ♪ a nation's pride and military might in display in the square, a historic opportunity for chinese to remember the many

millions who died during world war ii fighting japanese aggression. they have not seen this sort of parade since 2009, it's only the fourth since 1960. 12000 military personnel past and present representing all the chinese armed services marched to precision timing and 80% of the military hardware on display was there for the first time and tanks and drones and artillery and dozens of aircraft and detained large crowds. a huge security operation surrounds the event happening a few kilometers down the road and not everybody wants to watch it from home and many people have come to vantage points like this to see the parade and not necessarily passing them on the road but up in the sky. >> translator: i have watched past several parades on t.v. and feel this is the most spectacular one and the biggest in terms of the size. this is a historical moment for

china. >> many waited for a much anticipated speech from chinese president including especially invited heads of state and delegations for more than 100 countries. >> translator: people in the liberation army of china is the people's army and duty is to protect the nation security and people's well-being and carry out the noble mission of upholding world peace. here i announce that china will cut the number of its troops by 300,000. >> reporter: despite the significant statement many leaders from western nations and the prime minister of japan did not attend. they see china flexing its muscle, sending a muscle that it can and will defend itself and any disputed territory it aims to claim. china was on the winning side during world war ii. military personnel from ten

nations including central asia republicans and russia and the close partner pakistan joined the war-time ally in the parade. national display it may have been and 70 years on like many other global nations china needed to remember the fallen heros and pay tribute to sacrifice and there is a clear message too of the new military might, a global super power that never wants to see another world at war again. al jazeera, beijing. at least 14 people have drown off the coast of malaysia, over crowded boat capsized on the strait and believe those on board were from indonesia and working illegally in malaysia and this is in the town where the survivors are being taken and what can you tell us about what is happening there? >> well, a short while ago i spoke with a maritime official

and says around 20 people have been rescued and 15 bodies have been recovered, many of them unfortunately are women and i'm standing outside the police station here and this is where many of the or those rescued are being held and officials say they have launched investigation into the incident and they are particularly interested in who is running this ferry service, whether it was being run legally, whether it was being run safely, they are also interested in the nationalitys of the passengers. so far they say they are confident all the passengers for indonesia, the survivors officials have a chance to speak to did not have passports or documents on them but were speaking on behalf of indonesia language. now the maritime official told me if it is found that these passengers, the survivors were, in fact, illegal workers, then they may face charges.

however, they reenforce right now the focus very much is on search and rescue, large vessels are still out at sea looking for survivors. the aircraft surveillance will resume in the morning, however, the more time that goes by the less chance there is of finding people alive. >> indeed, okay, we will leave it there and thanks for the update from malaysia. let's get all the latest weather with everton and you can take us to north america. >> that is right, laura, a heat wave in north america and it's great for tennis weather in new york and look at the satellite picture and you can see a rash of showers around the lakes there and showers further south as well. and even a few welcomed showers in the southwest corner and have seen real heat up to the northwest and it's on the cool side, temperatures are just below average and see where the heat is coming through the central planes and up into or central parts of canada and

winnipeg 31 degrees and the heat to the east coast and 28 celsius for tennis and falling back a touch in saturday and it's sliding a little across the eastern side of the states but plenty of warm driving up across the central plains with the key southeasterly wind coming on, going into sunday you can see very little change in conditions. we have some sharp showers with a boundary between cooler air and the much warmer air and nine celsius and wetter weather coming in here. you will see a little showers and saturday more extensive across the canadian border into central parts of canada and cooler in winnipeg and showers to the southeast and fine and dry for the tennis in new york, laura. >> everton thanks very much. now french farmers have driven a

thousand trackers into protest to talk about falling prices for products and calling for more financial support from the government and the european union and complaining about high taxes. jackie roland has more from paris. >> reporter: traffic jams as you can imagine are not uncommon in the streets of paris but a tractor jam is something quite unusual and farmers have come from all over france and blacking the therero fair to the east of the city with a thousand tractors and the message they are delivering is they are finding it increasingly difficult to earn a living as farmers in france. some of their problems are global ones, the tact fact for their produce or meat or cereals are falling but some of the problems they say are specific to france. they complain that the french government is particularly heavy handed in posing taxes and rules and regulations and bureaucracy all of which make it difficult

for french farmers to compete with other farmers like poland or germany where they say the rules and regulations are not as heavy. that is demand from the farmers and want the french government to help them make french produce more competitive on european markets and they will be taking the message as well to brussels next week. two british journalists have been released by turkish authorities and detained last week in the kurdish city while filming clashes between security forces and fighters and iraqi producer is still being held. norway has run out of room to house its prisoners so it started sending convicts to a jail it is leasing in the netherlands and we went to the village and filed this report. >> reporter: this is the jail in the north of the netherlands. >> on this block it's the same

utilities and refrigerator. >> reporter: until recently it houses 300 dutch inmates but now it's actually part of norway's prison system. on wednesday dutch officials symbolically handed over control of the site to a staff who has been getting special training for several months. >> it's a nor norwegian and had to school them in the law and customs and if there are issues in the prison it will be dealt with by the norwegians under the law. >> reporter: turned to the netherlands because of shortage of cells and people from belgium have been held for five years and that is widely seen as a success. norway's justice minister accepts lit be much harder for families of norwegian inmates to visit them but the distance is prohibited.

>> if you look at the map and some facilities you will have to travel shorter than to some of say the sights in norway so i don't think that will be a very big issue actually. >> reporter: norway is building more jails but in the meantime it has already flown its first group of prisoners there. and do they get to do everything like grow their own vegetables in a garden here and get to use the regular services like this gym but still not everyone is happy about them being transferred here. in the dutch senate which approved the deal this summer one opposition politician told me the scheme reaches basic prisoner rights. >> prisoners are no good and not animals you can transport wherever you want. they have rights too. they might have contacted friends and family who they want to contact and are going to meet their lawyers. >> most but not all of the future inmates here volunteer to

be transferred to the netherlands and all get to finish their jail sentences in norway so both governments say it's a project that works for everyone involved. al jazeera, the netherlands. still to come here on al jazeera, united nations warns of a lost generation, the millions of children from conflict zones who are getting an education. and if you ever wondered how many trees there are on planet er, keep watching and we will tell you. he is the u.s. open and details coming up, with joe in sport. ♪ the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity.

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♪ hello again and welcome back, here are our top stories this hour on al jazeera, a budapest train station is stopped by riot police and chaotic scenes with families lying on the tracks fearing they would be taken to camps and they were hoping to go to austria. thailand president announced he will cut the army by 300,000 soldiers and made the announce pt ment -- announcement of world war ii parade. and let's get you more on the top story and talk to mohamed in budapest, he is at that main

train station from where that train earlier deported from. mohamed, there is still a member of refugees there at that train station, i'm sure by now they have heard that the trains are being stopped before they are reaching austria so what is their plan next? >> yeah, laura, that is exactly right and most refugees i have spoken with in the past hour tell me they are aware the train was leaving this morning but they were too afraid to get on because they were worried they were being tricked and that it was go nt -- was not going to another country but to a camp and i have spoken to ten people in the past hour and told me they don't know what the next move is going to be and don't understand the stance the hungarian er is saying we just

want to get out and if you don't want us here and we are here at the train station why don't you let us leave and go to another country and calling once again on the eu to do as much as they can to let them people resettle. all the refugees i have spoken with this past hour are syrian from places like idlib and aleppo with their children with them. in the past hour i saw a man pulling his daughter along on a makeshift toy and put a built on it and he was pulling her around to give her some enjoyment. the kids are a lost generation and don't know what is going to happen to them if we are not allowed to resettle and trying to shield them from the misery that is surrounding them but there doesn't seem to be any pause to it. so there is a real amount of worry right now by refugees and many are syrian who are still at this station. they don't believe they are going to be given safe passage, many of them too afraid to get on a train even if one was made available to them and don't know what is going to happen next.

>> live in budapest and thanks very much and talking more about the lost generation that mohamed mentioned there. talking about how millions of children are missing out on their education and a little later in the program. first though -- beg your pardon going to guatemala where the president has resigned just three days before elections to replace him and she being investigated for his alleged role in a massive corruption scandal and denies any wrongdoing and daniel is in the capitol guatemala city. >> reporter: the scandal has been dubbed the line or direct communication that went to the very top. investigators allege the president molina and his vice president set up the scam in which businesses handed over huge bribes to avoid paying the full duty on imports passing through guatemala customs and vice president is already under

arrest and six members of the candidate resigned over roles in the scandal and others arrested or on the run. a new vice president has been chosen to serve until january and who wins the elections on sunday is due to take office. earlier this week congress lifted the president's immunity from prosecution followed by the attorney general followed by arrest. and guatemala is no stranger to corruption and what is different is they are being investigated and who is implemented at very top are resigning and expected to answer the accusations against them. although the country is in turmoil some find that very refreshing. elections days away guatemala voters have increasingly taken to the streets, angry and dissolutioned with politics and politicians in general and he says he is innocent of charges and he is now free to fight them. daniel with al jazeera, guatemala city.

columbia's president is at the border with venezuela after it closed two crossings and deported thousands of colombians and he says venezuela president madura is using the route to distract attention from his country's economic problems. >> translator: the entire world knows perfectly well the shortage of goods in venezuela is the result of an economic policy that has failed resoundingly, something neither columbia nor any colombians have anything to do with, those are problems made in venezuela. >> reporter: and as we report now from the border town where the colombians are forced out of venezuela have to find refuge in special camps. >> reporter: lunchtime in one of the 12 borders set up where hundreds of colombians that recently returned or have been deported from venezuela get in line for their meal. and she is one of them after 23

happy years in neighboring country she says the climate there for colombians has chained so much she took her entire family and ran. >> translator: they are saying colombians are smugglers, thieves, para military and i'm sure some are but we are not all criminals. they wouldn't even sell us food any more and chavez did not humiliate, he supported us and gave us a home. >> reporter: hundreds crossed the border fleeing poverty and the county's internal conflict and venezuela blaming them for taking goods and the country's chronic shortages. since venezuela closed the order they have been deported and 5,000 more have crossed back with anything they could take. they stopped deporting people six days ago and columbia families continued to cross the border and authorities here are having a hard time managing the

flow. . >> translator: we are setting up housing and work for all of them here or other parts of the country. we are hoping this will be temporary and maybe another eight or 15 days and foreign ministry says they will give citizenship to the venezuela relatives. >> the long border between the two countries is porous and always has been a steady flow of people both ways. and made a living smuggling cheap venezuela goods and selling them here for a profit but says it's people like here who should be blamed for venezuela woes. >> translator: not our fault, we are small time smugglers with no resources just making a meager living, instead they should be going after the powerful cartels and economic problems and we are the ones paying for them. >> reporter: the colombian government has so far received little help from the international community to solve

the crisis and with parliamentary elections around the corner in venezuela the government there looks set on maintaining and perhaps extending the restrictions, al jazeera, columbia. still ahead in sport we will tell you why ice land is one of the hottest teams in europe right now when it comes to qualifying for the biggest tournament. ♪

♪ let's bring you more now on our story out of china and the massive military parade that is

marking 70 years since japan surrendered in world war two and many people think the war began in 1939 when germany invaded poland but for china the conflict began two years earlier when japan invaded and estimated 300,000 civilians were killed in just six weeks. a year later japan controlled much of eastern china, china's nationalist government with the support of unlikely allies the communist refused to surrender and after japan's bombing of pearl harbor china joined with eastern allies in what became a global war. japan surrendered in 1945 china endured eight years of conflict and paid a heavy price around 10 million died more than any other country in world war ii on russia and germany suffered more military losses. i'm joined by tommy to japan's

cabinet and great to have you on the show with us and thanks for being with us. today's parade we saw in beijing marked japan's surrender in world war ii and what is the indent. >> i am not yoshi, i'm a different person, you may be confused. >> i do beg your pardon. tommy, you are tommy tonaguchi. >> my name is tommy. >> yes, and i do think there is a bit of a communication problem here, i do apologize, i think there has been a bit of a communication problem. i do apologize for that.

we did have severe problems there with him, i think he thought i mentioned another name and he wasn't able to hear, it's a little bit embarrassing but we will move on to our next program which or the next story even which is unicef saying 13 million children across the middle east and africa are not able to go to school because of conflict. around 9,000 schools are not being used across the region. children and teachers are afraid of being attacked on their way to school. increasing refugee numbers are also putting a strain on education systems. there are more than 700,000 syrian refugee children in jordan, lebanon and turkey and jamal is there in lebanon. >> reporter: one of hundreds of makeshift refugee camps that are scattered across lebanon. lebanon has the third highest number of refugees in the world. in fact, it also has the highest number of refugees per capita,

those refugees are not only the huge influx of syrians who have come since the war started several years ago but thousands of palestinian refugees who have been here for decades. as you can see the children during a school day aren't at school, instead they roam around the camps because there aren't enough educational institutions or enough support services to provide an education. in fact, some of them are forced to work at a very young age. this child here is one of those. he works from 4:00 in the morning until midday and at the end of it he gets roughly around $5 u.s. or $4 u.s. dollars, that is a 12-year-old child who was telling me when he was back home in syria he was happy because he went to school and learned english there and obviously for three years now he has been stuck here and he is unable not only to pursue his education but is forced to, who. it's important to know that at

least he is working in something like that. there are hundreds of kids particularly in beirut who are forced to work the street. some of them in illegal fields like drug smuggling and even in the sex industry. so it is a very bleak picture not only for now but for the future. >> we are joined by mary joe who is director of educate a child, that is a global image launched in qatar and welcome to the program and sounds like a fantastic initiative, educate a child. i know that your goal is to get 10 million children into a school but i'm just wondering how are you going to do that? >> thank you for inviting us and it's a great initiative spearheaded by nasa and, in fact, our way of doing this is by working through partners on the ground who already know where they are out of school children and why they are out of school and have programs going on that actually enable the

children to learn. and what we do is invest to take those scales, those programs to a larger scale. >> when you're talking about places where there are refugee camps in jordan where the infrastructure is not there to educate children how do you deal with that? >> once again we work with people on the grounds. there are many alternative kinds of programs and many programs that run in concert with the government schools that allow these youngsters to get an education. in some cases they have to be accelerated programs because the kids are older and they missed some of the schooling and they learn faster. in some cases they are intense and in some cases they are in threes and we realize how much people value education and what a difference it mays makes to lives in the nurture and then and there. >> and to a child and society as a whole but when you have huge

chunks of a whole generation missing out on their education in syria and yemen but also surprisingly i saw in sudan how does that effect the society? >> well, i think it effects the society in the short and long run. the long run is in some ways easier to understand because you look at youngsters and some syrian children who have been out for four or five years and realize it would be difficult for all of them to catch up and the impact on the future is enormous and also an impact on the present because families are torn apart and we have seen that in the news even today. youngsters in many cases end up being heads of household or are taken into communities they don't know or don't understand so it's very disorienting and what we find is really a break down of the very systems that all cultures have for enabling the next generation to grow and

develop and be a part of the whole global society. >> i'm being told we have to leave it there because we have the guest back in japan and we need to give him a second chance and thank you for speaking about this important issue indeed. let's cross back to tommy and we are sure that is his name. he is a special advisor to japan's cabinet and apologies for any misunderstanding that we had between us. i wanted to get your reaction to the parade that we saw in china today because it did mark the end of japan's surrender during world war ii. >> tokyo made a number of requests to beijing to try to reduce the intensity of their anti-japan rhetoric. regrettably we have seen nothing

of that sort so that is my initial response to the parade. that being said, i should say though that there is some good news that president and guest from south korea have reportedly agreed on the need for those leaders to get together sometime within the year. so there is going to be a bilateral summit meeting due to take place during this year. i think that is good news and tokyo is willing to take that opportunity. >> okay, and tokyo was very antifor today's events and very critical of the u.n. secretary-general attending, why did it care so much because china wasn't holding the parade to villify japan.

>> i couldn't hear you well, could you state it again, please? >> why was japan so critical of the u.n. secretary-general attending this event? >> because the chinese have made this parade an exhibit of tremendous force and some of the new defense equipment including the so-called carrier df 21 d and so on have been on display and it's as if the head of the united nations is endorsing this much strengthening of chinese power and projection. >> there is certainly some concern in the region of china's military assertiveness but ban

ki-moon also did make the point it's important to recognize china's war time sacrifice and invaded china with the deaths of 10 million chinese and why don't we see another apology this time? >> he probably didn't read the entire text of the statement. >> i did and he made the point specifically that future generations should not have to keep apologizing and expressed regret but not a apolon apology. >> what is more important is the passage that followed the point that you just referred to. he mentioned that we should not ever avert our eyes from the past and he also expressed deep

repentance of what japan did during war time. so the message was very much articulate and crafted. thank you very much for joining us there from tokyo. let's get all the sport near and here is joe. >> thank you, serena williams is one step closer to competing the first sweep of four grand slams in a calendar year and to the third round of the u.s. open and win was far from straightforward and we report. >> reporter: victory is expected long before she walks on the court at any grand slam but the top seed had an early challenge and the woman was the first set tie breaker and took it in 7-6, 6-3.

and i know i can play better. >> yanukovich has no problems against the men's top seed dropped seven dancing his way in a third round for a match on court performance. it was hard to top yanukovich but nadal fought through and needed a tie break to win the first set against argentina swartsman and took it 6-3, 7-5 and says he is being written off by fans and the media. >> number 100, you know. [laughter] yeah, but i don't know. seems like i am number 200 in every press conference. [laughter] and the professional career of american ended with loss to

lopez and sparingly on the at pchl -- atp tour and withdrew from flushing meadows and subsequently treated for an anxiety disorder. >> the most fun and the one you want to go out on but this one was extra special or extra special meaning for me because of how it happened in 2012. >> reporter: three time grand slam quarter finalist will help others overcome mental health issues, al jazeera. fifa presidential candidate accused the asia football governing body of election fraud in supporting a rival and he says the afc president sent unsolicited letters to most body members seeking support for this man, european futbol chief

michelle and south korean will stand against he and other candidates to replace blatter in elections in february and believes it's time for a non-european to take over futbol's world governing body. >> translator: fifa is 111 years old and during those times it had eight presidents, all of whom came from europe and if it was healthy in the community fifa would not have been in disspare as it has been and the community would take responsibility for this, for whatever becomes the new fifa president there is more work to do for development in futbol in asia and african than europe so it's my opinion it is not necessary to have a european president. >> world cup qualifying continues on asia on thursday, syria and unable to play because of war in the country and host singapore and despite the difficulties their goal is to qualify for 2018 tournament in

russia and as they say as a gift for their people and they if they beat them in singapore they will go top, after losing a number of key players over the last couple of years because of the situation back home syria are trying to rebuild. >> trouble in the country and think to that but first of all we are here to play futbol and to make our country happy and our people especially because we -- everybody has a difficult moment. >> reporter: also in group e japan beat cambodia and south korea more convincing 8-0 the score there. group c china and hong kong held on for a goalless draw and iraq leads chinese 1-0 in the group clash. ice land closing in on the first ever spot at a major competition as they take on netherlands in qualifying for euro 2016

tournaments and top of group a after five victories from six matches so far including wins over the netherlands and turkey. they could wrap up their first qualification with two draws against the dutch and kazistan in a few days and pretty good considering the team was 131st in the world just three years ago. >> i think for a country like us that it is, yeah, it's a tough group and of course a third at the moment and still four games to go and i mean everything can happen, we can drop tomorrow third or fourth and we can finish second or first and it's still a long way to go and we have to keep doing the things we have been doing throughout the competition and hopefully we will finish in the top two places. >> third place netherlands who will keep the campaign alive and turbulent time for the dutch and takes charge of the first match after replacing last month and

brought in experienced robin as capta captain. >> translator: our focus in the match must be on our own performance and have to move the ball fast and ensure the right people get the ball at the right moment, we saw when we played them in ice land they can be dangerous. >> second in group a check and kazistan and whales traveled to cyprus and group h could change dramatically by the end of thursday and italy sits two points behind croatia and few problems getting past malta and that is the sport and more later. >> thanks much and see you a bit later and do stay with us on alg, i'll be right back a full half hour bulletin of news and live again in hungry to get the latest on the refugee crisis.

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