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>> translation: we have the right to not want to live together with populist muslim communities, this is our policy. >> reporter: hungary's prime minister tells muslim refugees to stop coming to europe as thousands are barred going further towards germany welcome to al jazeera, life from our doha headquarters. coming up in the next half hour - their deaths brought a new awareness to the flight of refugees. now the body of a family drowned off the coast of turkey are being sent home. >> president one day, prisoner
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the next. guatemala's former leader spending the night in gaol after resigning over a corruption scandal. plus... ..i'm on the ottawa river, and i'm dressed to get wet. this is the world freestyle kayaking championships. they are going through the white water down there. later, so will i. european foreign ministers will meet later on friday with the region's refugee crisis likely to overshadow the agenda. division is apparent in hungary, where thousands have been stopped from making their way from germany to austria. many an hour outside of budapest. they are sleeping rough on a train. thousands of others stopped from boarding trains in budapest. the hungary prime minister says
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his country does not welcome muslim refugees. >> we believe that all countries have the right to decide if they want to live together with populist muslim communities. it's a right to decide. if the decision is they don't want that, they will not want that. we have the right to live with popular communities. this is the policy. >> the refugee crisis - officials barred thousands entering the main train station. thursday, they were allowed to board trains. as andrew simmonds reports, the ride did not go as expected. >> it was a day that started with elation, refugees running through doors unexpectedly open. they thought they'd be bound for austria and germany, most with international tickets.
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cramming into carriages. the train travelled for no more than an hour, and an unscheduled stop at this station. where do you think you're going? >> they stop us here. >> refugees were convinced they'd been duped and the police would take them to a nearby refugee camp. some jumped down onto the railway line. police moved in. this father and wife and child resisted, with all the force they could muster. they were pulled away. the family taken away. it enraged others. the situation turned from anger to subdued anxiety. there was a long stand off. refugees posting photos at windows, chanting occasionally "no police or camps." . >> go on the train, you'll go to the camp. they bring us here. we don't know why it come. we don't need to stay in the camp. we don't need to stay in
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hungary. >> not for the first time, there was confusion, stress and sheer exhaustion. the police moved again. the people have been here for a stand off for more than 2 hours. now it appears to be ending. we are being forcibly ejected from the platform. we tried to stay here and board the train. the people are calling for us to get on the train or stay. as you can see, there's nowhere we can stay here, because we are being forcibly removed from the platform. the standoff has not ended. police ensured the media were being kept away. away from the refugees, but within the station. eight hours after it started, 30 agreed to leave the train. guarded all the way by police. >> sit down, sit down. everybody. >> reporter: as they feared, the destination now is understood to be the nearby refugee camp, but
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the vast majority remain in stuffy carriages, defiant but powerless. it's an image putting a stark cost on the refugee crisis, the body of 3-year-old washing ashore on the coast. he is one of two brother that died. europeans are demanding the government do more to help refugees fleeing the conflict. barnaby phillips reports. >> reporter: at the mortuary in southern turkey, a journey's end for two brothers and a mother trying to make it to greece. the father survived. the 3-year-old's body rushing up on the beach.
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his 5-year-old brother and mother drowned, along with 15 others from two boats. >> we went into the sea for four minutes, and the captain saw that the waves were to high. he panicked and died into the sea. things were so high. the boat flipped. my wife and kids, i took them in my arms. i realized they were dead. for thousands of refugees that went through turkey, they know the risks. here, men, women and children in syria, pakistan, afghanistan and elsewhere wait for a chance to sail to europe. turkey gives syrians the rights to work if they want it, but they may feel europe offers better opportunities. this personal paid $1200 to be smuggled from here to a greek island. >> there's no work.
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we don't have enough money, we plan to go to germany. there's work and a life there. i couldn't find work here. four house rental they ask $350 to $700. >> greece's aegean islands in are within reach, a dozen kilometres from turkey. refugees risk landing here, the land borders with greece and bulgaria are heavily fortified. this person and others that decided would likely be alive had they been able to cross by land to the european union overland. >> the bodies of the boys and their mother are being taken back to kobane for burial. they are the latest victims of that country's war the aunt of the drowned toddlers has been speaking to the media about the family
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plight. >> abdullah, i said to him "mohammed is there now. before the syrian went. i said do you want to do the same thing with mohammed. i'll support with you money. to be honest. i regret that. he did not have the money. if i didn't give him the money, he would not have gone. anyway, he said to me i want to go. to start with the he was only by himself. he want to go. she said "i don't want to go, i don't know how to swim, i'm
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scared." more refugees arrived on greece's island. 2,000 brought ashore on thursday. greece, which is struggling with its own economic problems heest hosted a record number of refugees. that's what we need. we don't want money. it's not about money. it's about having a good study and education. >> we are working in the island for four or five days. waiting to take our papers. people are sleeping in their lines, you know, for two or four days. but finally, we take it first, and we wish it is coming. >> a judge in guatemala ordered the former president to be held in gaol during his hearing over corruption scandal. prosecutors say it was part of a
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scam which importers used bribes to avoid paying duties. molina denied wrongdoing. the vice president has been sworn in as interim leader on sunday. daniel schweimler has more from guatemalan city. >> this is a case of how fast and how far otto perez molina put in a short time. tuesday morning he was president of guatemala. that was days that the immunity was lifted. the following day an order for arrest was issued, a few hours later he resigned. preliminary hearings on the corruption charges brought down members of the government. a few hours later the judge ordered him to be remanded in custody, fearing that he may flee the country, he may spend thursday night in prison. here things have been moving quickly. the vice president has been sworn in as the interim
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president, and will serve until january. there'll be elections sunday, with him presented with an array of candidates. many of them satisfied by allegations of corruption, or their association with corrupt politicians. a great deal of uncertainty leading up to the elections. watching or waiting with trepidation to see how things emerged. in the meantime people have been celebrating on the streets of guatemala. they have been asking for his resignation because of corruption allegations. >> a great deal of unsirnt yes leading up -- uncertainty leading up to the allegations. the people here have some doubts about the candidates that have been put before them. but the electoral process goes forward, democracy is healthy in guatemala, we wait and see what happens after the elections on sunday. >> more coming up on al jazeera.
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break. irwatching al jazeera -- you're watching al jazeera, these are the top stories - chaotic scenes in hungary, as refugees board a train heading
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to the border. the prime minister says refugees are not welcome in hungary bodies of two syrian brothers found dead on a beech have been sent home to syria to be buried. the image of one of the bodies sparked an international outcry. guatemala's former president is spending the night in gaol after resigning over a corruption scandal. prosecutors allege he's was part of a scheme in which a bribe as used to avoid paying customs duties. a long delayed meeting with president obama on friday. both leadsers are expected to discuss the war in syria and lebanon. patty culhane reports. when the king took over saudi arabia, u.s. president obama showed the courtesy of showing respects in person, changing his travel schedule. when the president invited him
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to fand the summit. it was announced he couldn't come. it was perceived as a small. the saudis are widely seen as coming with a military wishlist, in large part because of concern over the iran nuclear deal. they like the united states to export a punch of weapons to them. we have difficulty saying yes to that, because of the commitment to israel and the military edge which is a long-standing policy. >> they are in talks for navery frigates like this one. negotiations for these are sill ongoing. a senior administration official says not to expect major announcements. it wants saudis to store the extremist of the opposition groups, and urge restraint in yemen, as civilian casualtiesy
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group grows, and the humanitarian situation worsens. the president came before, without resolve, and didn't stop the u.s. providing $500 million, to replenish saudi arabia arsenal last month. analysts say the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia is changing, because of falling oil prices. >> it's a price taker in the global oil market. the u.s. is increasingly the price maker. the global producer now is as well shale production. therefore, the u.s. strategically speaking is less depend on the saudi arabia or the region as a whole than it used to be. >> the two leaders have to figure out what a less dependent relationship for both sides looks like, in in a changing dynamic, in a changing region.
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>> turkey's parliament voted to continue military operations in syria and iraq. for another year the turkish military has been carrying out air tricks against i.s.i.l. in syria. foreign soldiers are allowed to be based on turkish soil. >> edward snowden has weighed in on the controversy over hillary clinton's emails. the former secretary of state and presidential candidate has been accused of mishandling classified data on a private email server. >> anyone that has clearances that the secretary has. how classified information should be handled. it is sending details. they'd not only lose their job in clearance, but face prosecution for it. >> and you can watch edward snowden's full interview on a
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week by programme called "up front", launched 1930 g.m.t. at here on al jazeera former rebel leader bosco told the international criminal court that he has never killed a civilian, he's on trial for wore crimes committed in the democratic republic of congo, between 2002 and 2003. barnaby phillips has been listening at the hague in netherlands. >> we heard from lawyers for the witnesses appearing later in the trial, and they painted a chilling picture of what bosco's militia was doing in 2002 to 2003. they spoke about the widespread rape of young girls in their teens, and how some were forced to dig their own graves before being buried alive, while distraught family members looked
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on. >> later we heard from bosco himself, speaking calmly for about 20 minutes in swahili. he did not recognise the picture of him, which the prosecution was putting forward, that he was a ruthless killer. far from it. he said he was a disciplined soldiers, and that he led men under strict command in the province. this is what he had to say. >> translation: as an officer i have always fought with people in uniform. vi never attacked civilians. i have calls protected them. >> so what happens now in the trial? well, the court has adjourned until september the 15th, when we expect the first witnesses to appear. the experts here warn that this trial could go on for years.
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>> the philippines claim crime rates in some cities has fallen. human rights groups say many violent crimes are unreported because they are carried out by death squads. we have this story. >> reporter: they claim to be the safest cities in the philippines. many claim that the crimes go unreported. in local churches, critics condemned the large number of unsolved killings, activists pledged over the last few years, one to two people are executed every week, out in the open like gunmen and motorbikes who hide their faces. they say that none of the cases have been prosecuted. the trial court judge in the neighbouring town said he tried to file a complaint. his brother was shot dead in his car a year ago, in front of the capital building. witnesses were too scared to go
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on record. >> we have the gaffes, the boldness. it's as if they say nobody cares. >> there are 100 cops in a city of 130,000. people say they are slow to respond, operating like a private army with a set of rules and masters. >> dozens of civilians said to be armed and paid by the local government to act. people here talk about the fear. radio commentator is known for speaking out against what he sees as state-sponsored immunity, and says the work place and home have been checked several times. >> why are the victims of these killings only those opposed to
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the mayor. it's as if there's a conspiracy. >> the full court mayor whose husband is a governor denies the allegations and says the only conspiracy is made up by the rival. >> the main ones have been dragged through this one. it has never been. there's no proof on that. >> there is still no official investigation to get to the truth. either way, many are concerned. lawlessness is common, and they say they don't know where to turn for justice. in nepal, a man's desperate campaign to show corruption in the medical system is gaining ground. a doctor has been on hunger
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strike. >> reporter: this is around a teaching hospitals. doctors are striking. unless it's an emergency, patients have been told they'll have to come back another day. this man came from almost 500km away. >> i came to do tests, but am told that the hospital is closed. i came here but i can't get service. it cost me $16 to travel from my home. what kind of country is this? >> reporter: government hospitals halted outpatient services to support the doctor. he is a senior orthopaedic surgeon who has been on hunger strike for 11 days, which he says is a fight for quality medication and a protest against political interference and corruption. one of the cases has been prosecution of medical colleges that are found to forge student and teachers, as well as that of hospital facilities.
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doctors say that the practice is so rampant in some colleges, that it contributes to a decline in standards. nepal has 20 medical colleges, and the government runs three. each produces between 100 to 130 doctors each year, and students pay around 50,000 to become a doctor. the annual profit for a school here is a minimum of $5 million. >> the problem here is in terms of accountability. what is in the money interested in medical. it has been used for the wrong purpose. this is a sixth time the doctor has been on hunger strike. each time the government agreed to the demand. but so far none of the agreements have been kept. after the last protest. and the pressure, the government established a fact-finding commission, which concluded that
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normal licences should be given to new colleges. wednesday the government agreed to process the pending licences of four medical colleges, all of which failed the government's own criteria. dr casey, whose immunity is weak after 11 days of not eating says he's not tweeted. >> i will not eat unless it's implemented. we are not ending this programme dr casey's health weakens, doctors hope the government will make decisions to improve the health care system there are three trillion trees on earth. seven times more than scientists previously thought. a team from yale university in the u.s. used 47,000,000 measurements and satellite data and computer models to get the fm.
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they found that 6 million trees have been cut, and 5 billion are planted. at this rate the earth's trees will disappear within 300 years free-style kayaking is not just for the brave. it's a mix of white water rafting, figure skating and sheer daredevil exuberance. athletes from 20 countries participate in the world freestyle kayaking championships. >> reporter: freestyle kayakers give names to the waves they ride. the curling wide wet monst monster - it's the garden ranger. these are the world championships, and the judges are high and dry, knowing what precise manoeuvres they want to see on water. >> flip, turns... >> occasionally it does not go
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well. >> the tricks are demand of course, you need to be at the right anning the. right speed and place and to zero in on those points. >> canada's considers these these are down the road. what does it take to have a white water kayaker. it's simple. almost anyone can do as it says. >> you don't have to be the hulk. it's not a requirement. all you need to do is have fun. couple of key techniques and you can learn to do this. >> this is a fantastic spectating sport. there's only one way to experience it. do it yourself. they have enlisted expert help.
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are we going to tip? >> i cannot comment on that. >> let's try. we managed to. freestyle kayaking is truly international. 29 countries are represented. visa challenges kept the only one at home. we don't have enough money to funds everyone on the team. >> they came up and collected enough money. it wasn't easy for spectators to
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