♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello, welcome to the news hour, i'm adrian in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes, hungry, thirsty and scared a tense standoff continues between refugees and riot police near budapest. a toddler whose picture has become the symbol is buried along his brother and mother in the city. ahead from the presidential palace to a prison cell we report on the corruption scandal

that is shaking guatemala. and australia's shark debate and should killing be brought back to reduce the risk to swimmers and surfers. ♪ we begin with the refugee crisis in europe and the stand off between refugees and riot police continues in hungry, hundreds of refugees refusing to leave a station to the west of budapest. they spend the night on packed carriages thinking they were bound for austria but stopped by police and told they would be taken to a nearby refugee center and a thousand migrants stranded for days at budapest station set out for austria and will be discussed by eu foreign ministers for a meeting in luxonburg and let's go live where the train has been stopped just to the west of budapest and al jazeera is there and what is

the situation there now? >> adrian i can tell you the situation is as desperate as it was a few hours ago. i have been in touch throughout the day with many of the refugees on the train and the riot police that are here are keeping all the journalists at a distance from the train so we cannot board and go on there and see for ourselves the conditions and one syrian mother sent me images, powerful and dramatic and sad pictures from the train of children, what they are going through inside there. in the last hour we saw water being distributed by police and other aid organizations but throughout the day we have been told the kids on board are hungry, they are thirsty and need more supplies. the pictures you are seeing show the kids fear lly fatigued and clinging to their parents and see the suffering in their eyes because of the journey that is unending and fought with fear

and describe what is happening now. we are expecting a train could be coming our way any minute. there is a prevailing sentiment here for a lot of the refugees that perhaps this train is coming and perhaps it will stop in front of us so as to obscure this view behind us that so many of the journalists have been reporting on throughout the day. we have been able to communicate with the refugees throughout the day. they come outside the train. they are behind this chain linked fence and tell us these messages they have. they are imbloring the world to help them and a lot of concerns right now a train will be coming and stopping here and we will not be able to communicate as effectively as we have throughout the day, adrian? >> have authorities given an indication how long they will allow this standoff to continue? s . >> no, and i should describe we are asked to move because there is a train that is going to be coming so authorities are

imploring journalists to move further to the size and what that means for the rest of the day we don't know and this is one of the situations where minute by minute the mood has changed. there has been a lot of fear from refugees that the authorities are going to board the train and clear them out of there. they are very afraid that is going to happen. the authorities have not given comment as shaktar as how long the standoff may go on for, the refugees have no idea and many of them are saying they believe they will start walking to one of the borders within the next several hours or perhaps tomorrow. so a lot of confusion, a very dire situation and misery and sadness and a lot of confusion right now of what will happen in the minutes and hours ahead. >> adrian. >> and you say the situation is confusing and i want to put it down are refugees being held and anything preventing them setting off on foot if that is what they wanted to do? >> well, that is part of the confusion. while they certainly can leave the train, the sentiment on the train is they don't want to because they are afraid if they get off the train and start

walking they will be detained and taken forcibly to a refugee sensor here camp and they have heard horrible things from different organizations about the conditions at the camp in hungry and don't want that to happen and feel they will be trapped in a count interest itry that doesn't want them and prime minister that doesn't want them and they want to go further down the tracks to get to austria and get to germany and worried if they leave and start walking they will be detained. that having been said wondering if they should walk in the next hours and next day and try to go by foot to possibly austria within the coming hours. >> many thanks indeed, al jazeera, andrew simmons is in the capitol budapest. what is happening where you are, andrew? >> well, i'm just outside the capitol budapest. i'm actually on the main m-1 and m-7 motor way and this is --

these are hundreds of people who have marched something like ten kilometers from the center of budapest from the rail station here. they say they have no option but to do this and it may sound farfetched but their intent on marching to the border but as i speak only a matter of 30 seconds ago there has been a development and if we can just see past these people over here you will see blue flashing lights and roadblock and appears they are blocking the motor way and a bit of a changing mood because we are now seeing all the demonstrators and all the refugees here who have been in such good mood in good spirits walking in considerable heat and the police have been cooperating every step of the way. they have been effectively, you know, helping people along, controlling the traffic and actively encouraging what has

been going on, channelling them along with friendly relations but now there is a question mark whether or not there is a change of mine, it's unusual to be having this number of people walking along a motor way because we are not sure what is going to happen next. i've spoken to a number of the march leaders and they say they have no other options. they got to the stage where they had a series of meetings and the majority of the people here are syrian and they decided that they have to breakthrough, they have to make some sort of progress. you can see, is anybody speaking english? >> i am. >> what is happening? >> we have families, families, babies. >> i know, i can see that. there is a roadblock ahead,

isn't there? >> and police tell you to come, you know. father, mother, children. >> the police have been helping you to this point. >> what we are doing, families, families. >> you are live on al jazeera right now. >> what you doing, man? >> the mood has changed dramatically hasn't it, what are you going to do, try and turn aroun around? >> we will wait one hour and we don't know, anybody will come and remove it. >> but how many are here, there are hundreds here? >> hundreds, wait, wait. >> you want people to stop. what we are seeing here is really a situation, another potential standoff when it has been thought they would be this a position where they could

carry on all the way. whether they can cross the border or not is another question but it appears there is a group breaking away here now and if we move the camera around slightly to give you an idea of the confusion here. they intend to carry on. >> andrew, i don't know if you can hear me above the noise of what is going on there but you talked earlier, andrew, about the leaders of this group of refugees, who is leading it, who is deciding where that i go and where they march? >> well, there are four men syrian refugees from aleppo who are not activists, just ordinary folk who are just got so frustrated they started organizing. it wasn't a social media event, it was organization on the ground and desperate people gathered around and organized men at first and many family,

you can see here a number of women and there are children on the walk as well as you can see. and this is really a ground swell of frustration and desperation because they say they weren't going to get enough food, water and they have got themselves now you can see they have bags and they have rolls and mattresses and intent on carrying on walking, walking until they can't go any further and their intent, it may sound farfetched to cross the border, that is nearly 200 kilometers away but as i said we are looking at a roadblock up there and we don't know what is going to happen. >> given the fluid nature of this situation we will let you go and follow that crowd up as far as the roadblock and we may welcome back to you later in the news hour to find out what happened, andrew simmons many thanks just outside of budapest and foreign ministers meeting to discuss the refugee crisis and let's take you live there now and al jazeera and jackie roland

is there. >> they are not men to get in the refugee crisis until saturday but on the ground we saw vividly on the ground there where andrew simmons is the effort of the subject is already starting to dominate the agenda on friday. foreign ministers arriving here at the conference center where the meeting is taking place spoke again and again about the need to have some kind of coordinated european policy on this. this is not a crisis affecting individual country, it's a crisis affecting the whole of europe and the german foreign minister said it's not right to deal with this problem just because it arrives on their shore first, refugees are coming to travel through europe and so one of the subjects and a

suggestion put forward is maybe the creation of a european refugee agency so that refugees could be processed at a european level so asylum request could be made at a european level and better organization in terms of which countries take how many refugees. at the moment we still seem to be a very long way away from that because up until now we have seen a far more disorganized patch work, patchy sort of approach by countries and often individual natural interests have taken the precedents rather than any kind of coordinated european policy. >> on that note in particular britain's prime minister has it seems come under pressure over the last day or so to change the stance that the britain has taken towards refugees. >> well, britain is one of a number of countries where there

has been a certain amount of public feeling that britain is full and britain is over crowded and shouldn't be any more immigrants allowed and that is a similar view we have been hearing from politicians in hungry and to an extent also in poland. but of course there is increasing public pressure now, a lot of it quite emotional because of that photograph of the young child who washed up, his body washed up on that beach in turkey and so public opinion now does seem to be changing and we are seeing that, in fact, that change of public opinion reflected in comments made by the british prime minister david cameron who is now saying that britain is, in fact, ready to accept thousands more syrian refugees. >> we will continue with our approach of taking them from the refugee camps. this provides them with a more direct and safe route in the united kingdom rather than the

hazardous journey that cost so many their lives. >> he has not given a figure there yet. he is talking about several thousand and we don't know exactly how many we are talking about, apparently the exact numbers will be decided when the united kingdom authoritys discuss the matter with united nations and other agencies involved in dealing with the refugee crisis and apparently will be given the figures sometime next week. >> many thanks and want to take you back to hungry, we were talking to our correspondent there mohamed and waiting at the rail way station opposite that train of refugees that has been stopped and a standoff ensued between hungarian police and those refugees who wanted to go to the border to austria and thought they were boarding a train to western europe and further into western europe and got as far as biska and was stopped and he told us a few

moments ago he thought a train would be moved into the station and whether this is just a routine movement of rail way vehicles we don't know. the suspicion is though that train has been brought in to obscure the media's view of the train containing those refugees where that standoff is continuing, that train as you can see now just moving in as it was predicted to have done so. and we will keep across that situation and thought it was interesting and you might want to see that train being moved in. as i said we don't know if it's a routine rail way movement or whether as suspected it has been moved in to block media view of the train behind it containing those hundreds of refugees. well the syrian toddler that jackie roland was talking about symbolizes the suffering of

refugees has been buried along with his brother and mother. they were laid to rest in their home city of kobane and they drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of turkey trying to reach the greek island and the father who survived the dangerous crossing spoke of the moment he lost his family. >> translator: it was my third attempt at making the crossing with the same smuggler. i boarded a six meter boat with my sons and wife, there were 12 people on board and captain and he convinced me the boat was in good condition to make the crossing and four minutes we were in rough seas and a big wave hit the boat. the captain jumped overboard and i tried to take over and another wave hit and we capsized. i tried to catch my boys and resuscitate them but i couldn't. they were dead. >> reporter: still to come here on the news hour, the new saudi king heads to the u.s. for the

first time, at least as king, for a meeting at the white house. unable to play at home because of war we will tell you what syria's latest win means for the team and its world cup hopes. ♪ at least 22 soldiers from the united arab emirates have been killed in yemen and several died in an accidental explosion at an ammunition store in the eastern province of marib and had been serving part of the saudi-led coalition fighting houthi rebels and king solomon is in washington for a long delayed meeting with president barack obama and the meeting is set to be from theyed by the wars in syria and yemen and white house correspondent patty reports. >> reporter: when he took over

saudi arabia president barack obama paid respects in person by changing his travel schedule but when the president invited the king to attend the gcc summit it was announced he couldn't come and widely perceive zzed as a snub and will try to move past it with a visit and coming with a military wish list because of concern over the iran nuclear deal. >> certainly they are looking for new forms of military support and probably like the united states to export a bunch of new weapons to them and we have difficulty saying yes to that because of the commitment to israel in its qualitative military edge which is a longstanding policy for exports to that region. >> reporter: like this and other military hardware and additional training and negotiations for these are still ongoing. a senior administration official said not to expect any major announcements, for its part they want saudi to stop supporting what they call the more

extremist of the opposition groups in syria. and they will again urge restraint in yemen as the civilian casualty count grows and humanitarian situation worsens. the president made that request before would resolve and didn't stop the u.s. from recently providing an additional $500 million with bombs and bull limits -- bullets last month and the relationship between u.s. and saudi arabia is changing because of falling oil prices. >> from being essentially a price taker in the global oil market the u.s. is increasingly the price maker because the global swing producer now is actually u.s. shale production and therefore the u.s. strategically speaking is far less dependent on the saudi arabia or the region or opeg as a whole than it used to be. >> reporter: the two leaders have to figure out what a less dependent relationship for both sides will look like with a

changing dynamic in a changing region. patty with al jazeera in washington. sri lanka coalition cabinet sworn in columbia and the sri lanka freedom party is leading alongside prime minister from the united national party and formed a unity government after last month's election and promised a new era of clean government and political reform. french investigators made a breakthrough in the search for the missing malaysia flight mh-370 and said the debris on a remote indian ocean does belong to the aircraft and in july it washed up and the plane disappeared in march last year with 239 people on board. a hindu ceremony has been held at a shrine in the thai capitol where an explosion killed 20 people last month and statute of the temple of erdiwan in bangkok

has been restored after damaged in the blast, police say they are expecting to make further arrests. guatemala's former president otto perez molina is being held in jail while he is investigated for corruption and prosecutors said he had bribes as accustom scam but otto perez molina says he has not done anything wrong. vice president has been sworn in as interrim leader head of elections on sunday and daniel reports from guatemala city. >> reporter: this is a sight that rocked guatemala with repercussions through the region and a few days ago otto perez molina was the president of guatemala. now he is in custody in a jail cell being investigated for his alleged involvement in a massive corruption scandal. a growing social movement, regular protests want to hang out >> demanding resignation of corrupt politicians and seen the resignation of a leader of a

band of corrupt officials otto perez molina who happened to be the president of guatemala. >> reporter: this is the man who has replaced him, the new interim president with a background in the justice system and presidential elections this sunday. guatemala has never seen a week quite like it and it's not over yet. there is hope and expectation here they can put their corrupt path behind them but no clear ideas about the way forward. corruption is not new in guatemala but never before have so many heads of such senior people rolled. >> i think that is what has driven the social movement. and for me it's pretty clear is against the corruption of the system and against this system that builds up for politicians to just steal and steal and steal public money. >> reporter: these people have achieved more than they thought

possible but what do they want no now? >> a better future for what is a guatemala spring and invest in hospitals and med centers and food for patients and on education too. >> translator: we are waiting for them to return everything they stole and we are talking about a lot of money. we need hospitals. he did nothing for guatemala. >> reporter: never lived before with hope resting on sunday's elections with uncertainty about what lies beyond. daniel with al jazeera guatemala city. u.s. prosecutors wants the death penalty for the man who is accused of shooting nine people in a church because of their race and killed in a bible class in june and he has yet to enter a plea. u.s. vice president joe biden is not sure if he will run for

president in 2016 and questioning what it will have for effect only his family and he lost his son to cancer earlier this year. a u.s. soldier who stopped a gunman on a train heading to paris has been welcomed home a hero and spencer stone stepped off the plane for cheers of 200 people who gathered to welcome him home and he tackled the heavily armed man last month and all given france's highest bravery award. >> he put his life on the line and you know took this guy down and saved many lives i'm pretty sure of, not too many people would do that. >> basically just to show my support for one of my fellow airman who just happened to be a hero. >> reporter: 70 years after the end of world war ii archives are being digitized and simon mc-greger wood reports prisoners of war will soon be available to the public. >> in the army medical core it's

safe to say this is you. >> reporter: millions will be able to do what dr. bill franklin is doing looking up his prisoner of war record online. now 103 he was in prison by the japanese in singapore from 1942-1945. he became imminent pioneer in the study and treatment of allergies and 70 years on bears no grudge. >> i was having a fight with my twin brother and i said i hated him and i was told there and then you must never use the word hate and if i hated the japanese it would do me harm and it wouldn't do them any harm at all. >> reporter: from friday thanks to a massive digitization of the uk's national archive by a company called find my past anyone can trace the details of a relative held as a p.o.w. thousands were captured by the japanese and subjected to harsh treatment. similar numbers were held by the germans in europe, experiences that many veterans found difficult to relate to younger

generations. >> i think people will be able to find out the records easily and surprised what they find. a huge variety of records and will find lists of people and will confirm what you know and find diaries as photographs there and there is maps and there is drawings and a whole wealth of material. >> reporter: confirming your relative's time in a camp will be free but deeper access to the archive will cost money. find my past sent money on digitization and now has the right to exploit its copyright. family history is big business. the digitization of archives means people can do the research from their home and one of bill franklin's grandchildren, how interested will they be? >> that is one of the interesting things about grandchildren they are interest and some are interested and some are not interested at all and you cannot judge why this is, if it's i think to please me the

buns that are not really interested pretend they are interested, i don't know. >> 70 years after it ended those who experienced the war are passing away putting huge national archives detailing their experiences online helps keep their stories alive. simon mc-greger wood, al jazeera, london. the seasons they are a changing, autumn is on the way, the northern hemisphere right now something of a change weather wise happening in east europe and we have mr. fox. >> it has been hard southeast parts of here with wet weather coming through and it will feel much cooler as well and good news. there is certainly a change in the seasons and has been pretty wet as we both know in the u e united kingdom and it's going further south and 50 millimeters of rain in austria and wet weather making its way across in eastern parts of europe, good news for ukraine.

we had very, very hot weather here, the hottest august's on record here and that started quite a few wildfires in and around kiev. we have got a cool one over the next couple days and indeed wetter weather too. here is the weather system that will introduce the cooler and and to the north of that we have temperatures and it will go further southward through the next few days and see the yellows are diving to the southeast corner of europe and by the time we come to sunday, they are up in the 30s and it's cooler and kiev will see temperatures in low to mid 20s over the next couple days compared to mid 30s over the last few days. heavy rain in central part and the weather pushing further east for the middle of the week adrian. >> many thanks, midway point on this news hour and still to come russia president says change could be on the way in syria to end its four-year civil war.

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♪ hello and the news hour at al jazeera and adrian in doha, the stand off with riot police is in hungry and hundreds refusing to leave the station west of budapest to be taken to a refugee center nearby and more

than a thousand migrants who have been stranded for days in a train station in the capitol set out for austria, a syrian toddler symbolizes refugees and buried with his brother and mother and laid to rest the their home city of kobane. let's take you back to miska in hungry west of budapest and mohamed june who is there where that train containing refugees has been stopped for some while and a standoff between refugees and police and as mohamed told us earlier in the news hour a train has been brought in to block the view of the media of the train containing refugees and we suspect that is what it has been put there for and mohamed this could be routine rail way movement here, couldn't it? >> well, this is an empty cargo

train and the prevailing sentiments here especially from the refugees is it was brought to obscure them being about to speak to the media and we have been talking to them all day and they are behind this chain linked fence which is next to the train they are on they have been able to come out and talk to us and communicate with us all day. now it is very difficult to do so. a lot of moving parts of things going on here and tension has certainly risen in the last ten minutes since the train arrived and, in fact, we have seen through the cars here on the other side one of the cars of the train the refugees are on one of them, many of the people on that train left the train. we don't know where they have gone but got off the train and some remain on the train. one man man clinging to a window pane in there screaming help me and waving signs from in the train. we have not seen an indication that the riot police have actually bordered the train but refugees i have been

communicating with told me they are very worried right now the police are going to board that train and all the cars and forcibly remove them and take them to a refugee camp here. so it's a very fluid situation with a lot of chaos here right now, a lot of people just don't know what exactly is going on, the refugees i'm speaking with insisting they are going to continue to communicate us and they are continuing to imploer the european union and any aid organization to listen saying they need help and need to get out of hungry and will do a they can to get out and continue their journey and hopefully end up in germany adrian. >> thanks june there and another situation that is developing right now involving refugees just outside of budapest where hundreds of refugees are marching towards the aust rshg -- austrian border and andrew

simmons is following developments, andrew what is the latest? >> remarkable adrian because the last time i spoke to you all refugees were worried and panicking because they thought the motor way had been blocked off and they were going to be put on buses, that is the level of concern here. now there are more than a thousand, it's unbelievable "the stream" of the people on this motor way. that road black was, in fact, to help them rather than hinder them would you believe compared to the situation in bitska this is the opposite situation. the police are helping them, not hindering them and if you look at this situation now they have now got the situation under control in one single column are going on the motor way and the traffic although very well held up is being controlled by the police and it is flowing at a very slow rate but what we are finding now is that the leaders of this march are under a motor

way bridge earlier since i last talked to you allegedlied everyone around and in the shade for a while and in arabic said are you up for it and people were cheering and chanting and now moving on. the heat is very high, people are tired, but incredibly determined, women, children, taking their luggage with them, taking bedding, anything they can really get with them but their intent on crossing the border with austria and whether they get there remains to be seen and they certainly have the determination to right now and they are not being stopped. they are being helped by the police, would you believe. utterly extraordinary and look at the situation families smiling and intent on getting to the border. >> we will let you follow along with them, we will be back with you in the coming hours on al jazeera, for the moment many thanks andrew simmons there outside of budapest.

police in greece fired tear gas and stun grenades on the island and scuffles broke out with people from afghanistan who were trying to get on a government-charted ferry to athens. more than 10,000 refugees here waiting to be taken to the greek man land and the island mayor asked them to declare a state of emergency. we are getting reports that at least 30 refugees are missing off the coast of libya after another boat sinking. the international organization for migration has told the press the news agency that the rubber dinghy was carrying around 120 people when it began to deflate. iom says the italian coast guard rescued at least 90 people most of whom were from somalia, sedan and nigeria. the u.n. high commissioner for refugees says europe must crack down on human trafficiccers and

protect the people and calms the crisis a defining moment for europe. >> my appeal is for the european states to recognize that these are exceptional moments and these require exceptional measures and europe as a whole as the response in solidarity and that this is also a battle for values in which europe cannot fail. >> joining us the head of migrant and international rights at amnesty international and thanks for being with us and let's get your view of what is happening in hungry where people seem to be treated differently and the prime minister said muslim refugees are not welcome in hungry and prime minister david cameron said the uk should take on more refugees from syria. we seem to have people playing refugee politics, immigration politics at the moment while this humanitarian crisis is unfolding the question is it

legal under eu law to discriminate against certain refugee populations on the grounds of religion? >> absolutely not. under the law and international law it's very, very clear that people should be able to given what is called international protection so people in war could see human rights violations and persecution and should be given protection by countries where they arrive to without any discrimination, any distinction, whether it's to the race or religion or language or anything else. so anything that or anyone that suggests any government that suggests that i don't want to give refugee status or protect people because of religion we would be going against basics and law. >> hundreds of people who are on the move and some of them walking hundreds and hundreds of miles and sleeping rough in rail

terminals and bus stations. does the eu states have an obligation to properly provide for refugees? >> well, i mean, there is a number of european number directives and laws within the european union and also very clear obligations within international law that all european union country are bound by and legally bound to protect the rights of refugees and protect the rights of asylum seekers and migrants and for example not to defend people arbitrarily and not put them in reception centers where conditions are poor and should be able to access decent recommendation and have food and have access to healthcare. all these things are things that are within the obligation of your opinion and country. unfortunately what happens in many cases is even if the obligations are there some countries try to interpret them

in different ways but there is not the political will to do it and say we will stand up to the rights of the people who have fled war and crisis like that and the four-year war this syria and try to protect them in the system as much as we can. >> so what is happening with these refugees in bishks on the train, and we were told another train was brought in to obscure the media and refugees on the train feel they will be forcibly removed and is it able to do that, forcibly remove refugees under its obligations to care for them? >> elbow -- well, it's difficult because in the eu supposedly the country and the asylum seeker first arrives to should be the country where they apply for asylum in and in germany a few days ago decided that anyone who comes to germany from other

countries first they will not return them to the country which is how it has been happening generally within the european union. so, you know, it's possible, yes, so hungry could say, yes, we need to take them and process their cases, their applications within hungry and stop them from going to other countries possibly but how they do this and the how they treat them, why they are in hungry is the big issue. the main thing is that what we know is that there are thousands of people getting to the european union who have fled horrendous conditions in places like syria and massive human rights violations in places and the first thing the country should do is think how can we assist them and how can we not traumatize them again either be training them or treating them like criminals or by using tear gas or attacking them. so the response first has to be humanitarian and has to be

compassionate and has to be about making sure these people are not retraumatized and rights are protected. >> thanks indeed, the head of refugee and migrant rights at amnesty international thank you. i.s.i.l. has blown up three ancient tubes in palmyra and says the towers have been destroyed and it's one oof the region's most famous unesco world heritage site and bashar al-assad could hold snap elections with healthy opposition according to the president of russia. vladimir putin's comments are what moscow thinks is acceptable way out of the violence sweeping syria. >> translator: we are working with our partners in syria itself and in general there is an understanding that this uniting of efforts in fighting terrorism should go in parallel to a political process in syria

itself and the syrian president by the way agrees with that all the way down to holding early elections and parliamentary ones and establishing contacts with the so called healthy opposition, bringing them into governing. >> reporter: a political analyst and what do you make of in? >> the united states is not doing what it needs to do so russia is doing what it wants to do. >> that is what you think? it's not united states giving up and thinking that it can't solve serious problems and let's leave it to the russians while we are doing something else. >> the united states is not doing what it needs to do and hence moscow is doing what it wants to do is interfere in the question of syria and try to support president assad and regime in syria and have a say of what is going on there. it is quite amazing adrian because the last hours or couple of days we heard so much news about russians getting invovmed in the different ways and strategic military and training

and supporting as well as initiating various political, diplomatic formulas for the future of syria. now, is any of it really applicable, can you really do a snap elections in seer yeah today when it's divided among three fighting parties and it's in the midst of civil war and would the opposition that suffered the death from its side over 100,000 or 200,000 people would it really coordinate with assad forces in the coming months because putin said so? is any of this really realistic? i see a lot of it as wishful thinking or keeping up the appearance of diplomatic solutions while assad continues the war. >> similar suggestion from the envoy to syria just yesterday. >> envoy to syria suggested a bit of coordination with moscow but apparently the united states

is not having that much pressure on the envoy as it usually does in these situations because clearly the obama administration that usually says we are not going to do any stupid things that says this is not something we are resolving and we cannot resolve every problem at least made the strategic decision not to put the needed pressure in order to get the resolve. a lot of syrians are blaming the obama administration for the deterioration over the last three years because it did make certain promises and commitment that it did not fulfill. why does i.s.i.s. exist today? did it exist in 2011? no it did not. did deterioration and oppression help the rise of i.s.i.s.? yes, does that mean president obama is doing anything stupid? i'll leave that for our viewers to decide. >> as always it's great to talk to you. our senior political analyst

here on al jazeera. let's take a listen right now to british prime minister david cameron who is speaking in madrid following talks with his spanish counterpart who is speaking right now, let's listen in and he is speaking in spanish actually and we don't have an english translator for a moment, yes, we do. let's listen in. >> translator: we need to have a wide ranging cooperation plan and if span spain did in the past and will continue in the future and this needs to also go hand in hand with fighting the human trackicing rings that are working illegally to bring people into europe led by the commission hopefully and we need to have a return program like spain has with some countries in the european union. this is the number one issue. we need to avoid the deaths of many people who are being

swindled by human trafficking rings and it leads to nothing and you are fooling public opinion as well because what we are doing is we are having the countries where people are coming from, where people are going through and because they cannot have a decent lively had in their own country and we are generating the situation where people need to be able to expect a decent livly hood in their own country and at the end of the day if they want to migrate it has to be voluntary and not because they don't have another choice and it needs to be legal and never because someone is desperate and we have to effectively fight against the human trafficking mafias that are trafficking with people's lives and rights and often with their deaths. so, ladies and gentlemen, i think these are the most important issues we discussed today and once again i will give the floor to the prime minister david cameron and thank him very much. >> it's an opportunity to build on the strong relationship between britain and spain and as

to center right prime ministers we want to develop that further. two years since my last visit here and back then we discussed the tough decisions we are both taking to turn our economies around and today we are starting to see the benefit of those decisions. in the uk a job-led recovery created more than a thousand jobs a day. spain is set as you have said to grow by more than 3% this year, the fastest of any major economy in the euro zone and record high job creation and we both want to finish the job, drive economic growth that will bring financial security and peace of mind for our hardworking people and use our valuable trading relationship now worth over 45 billion pounds every year to help our businesses succeed. now we've had fruitful discussions about that today and on eu reform and on the migration crisis. first eu reform, we discussed how i want to address the concerns of the british people

about the european union. i've already set out the four areas where we want reform on competitiveness, sovereignty, social security and economic governance and reforms that can benefit people across europe and make the eu more successful. there are many areas as you said where we agree. we both want to exploit the full potential of the single market while preserving integrity for all 28 member states and we both believe that further reform is needed within the euro zone and up holding the rights of eu member states that are outside the euro and complete the single market in services and energy and agree the eu must do more to back start ups and entrepreneurs and create a genuine online single market for businesses and consumers alike and want the eu to conclude ambitious trade deals with the united states, with japan and with the south american trading block. there are areas that will require more discussion to find

the right solutions but i believe we can achieve this. i was very encouraged by what you said and eu said it can be flexible to rise to concerns and needs to do so again. turning to migration, this is clearly the biggest challenge facing countries across europe today. more than 220,000 people detected crossing the mediterranean into europe during the first since months of the world and came from different countries and circumstances and some are economic migrants in search of a better life in europe and many are fleeing conflict and as he said it is vital to distinguish between the two. in recent weeks we have seen a vast increase in numbers arriving in eastern mediterranean from turkey and 150,000 attempted the route since january and they are syrians and terrorized by assad and i.s.i.l. too and 11 million people have been driven from

their homes and britain as a responsibility to help the refugees as we have done through history and already provided sanctuary to 5,000 in syrians in britain and earlier today in lidbon we extend our approach and offer resettlement for thousands more of syrian refugees currently in u.n. camps across the region. we will work with ngo and partners on the detail of these schemes and set out further details next week but this can only ever be part of the answer. as i've said throughout and as the prime minister and i have discussed before we must pursue a comprehensive approach to issues and means using our aid budget to alleviate poverty and suffering in countries where the people are coming from, the united kingdom is the only major country in the world that kept its promise to point 1.7% of our gdp on aid. we are already the second largest bilateral donor of aid to the syrian conflict and today i can announce that we will provide a further 100 million

pounds taking our total contribution to over 1 billion pounds. that is the uk's largest ever response to a humanitarian crisis. no other european country has come close to this level of support. 60 million pounds of this additional funding to go to help syrians still in syria and go to neighboring countries and turkey and jordan and lebanon where syrian refugees are a quarter of the population. britain's aid is supporting these camps and if we were not doing that the numbers attempting the journey to europe would be far higher and means boosting our ongoing efforts to detect and disrupt the smuggling gangs we were speaking about and providing intelligence and deploying officers from the national crime agency to africa to identify what more we can do to stop people being exploited by traffickers in the first place and continuing the mediterranean and enterprise and

border force continue to patrol the area and together with this they rescued over 6,700 people so britain will act with her head and her heart for those economic migrants seeking a better life we will continue to work to break the link between getting on a boat and settlement in europe and discouraging those who don't have a genuine claim from going on the periless and lethal journeys and we will act with compassion and continue to provide sanctuary and that is what a comprehensive approach means, it means stabilizing the countries where the migrants are coming from on seeking a solution to the crisis in syria and pushing for a new unity government in libya and busting the criminal gangs and means saving lives using our aid budget and funding the refugee camps and yes it does mean offering a place of sanctuary for those who lost hope and we

will pursue the avenues and work with partners in the eu and elsewhere to deliver the comprehensive approach that is necessary to bring this crisis to an end thank you. i think we have questions and we will start with james. >> reporter: that was prime minister and spanish prime minister speaking after the meeting in madrid and prime minister david cameron describing the refugee crisis as the biggest challenge facing europe today and britain will continue to act with its head and heart and discourage economic migrants from setting off on periless journeys but act with compassion and continue to provide sanctuary for genuine refugees and said britain will be giving 100 million pounds to

syrian refugees in particular 40 million of that going to countries who are hosting syrian refugees in u.n. aid camp and 60 million in aid going to people who need it in syria. he said that britain will take thousands more syrian refugees who are currently in u.n. camps, we will have more on that a little later here on al jazeera. south africa thousands of children don't have books to read, around 80% of schools don't have libraries and many families can't afford to buy them, excuse me, tonya page repor reports. >> reporter: he is sharing his love of books. >> many options, many, many options. >> reporter: and there are plenty of them at his under ground library, two rooms at his mom's house crammed with donated books and starting to encroach on his bedroom and tidying up to make space but hard to see how

he will fit 40,000 books a business wants to give him. >> it's a good donation because we already helping people who are eager to venture with us in terms of operating at the current levels and common people. >> reporter: his concept is spreading because many south africans don't have access to books and not affordable for most people and done have libraries and the need is greater in the neighborhood because the municipal library was burned down by residents during a protest in february and demanding installation of prepaid electricity meters and an end to corruption. this is all that is left of the old library. it is ironic that in protesting for better services some residents ended up destroying some infrastructure the community was benefitting from. but he is philosophical about the fire. >> i believe also like there are worse crimes of burning books and one is not reading them and

level they are more like a zombie ghost place especially to young people and we as the under ground are trying to change that. >> reporter: this is more than just a place to borrow books. >> we are trying also to make reading first level of the culture to the youth. encouraging role playing and reading. >> to em plabracembrace. >> reporter: adding to collection by regularly walking through town collecting donations from his neighbors and he believes reading encourages people to dream. >> job well done. >> reporter: and to use their creativity in ways that benefit themselves and their community. tonya page, al jazeera, south africa. that will do it for the news hour on al jazeera, stay with us, we will be back in a few minutes to update you on those developing refugee situations in hungry.

>> hungry, thirsty, and scared. a tense standoff continues between refugees and riot police near budapest. hello. i'm adrian finegan. also ahead, the toddler whose picture has become the symbol of refugee suffering, is buried alongside his brother and mother in which the city in which they fled. 22 emiratey soldiers are kid. it's the greatest single loss of