hungary cracks down on refugees, jail is threaten today some border offenses but the march towards germany goes on. >> reporter: could it go on? could they real get to the boarder? could they be allowed across it? these are questions that are not answered. ♪ ♪ hello there, i am barbara serra you are watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up, the saudi kings holds his first meeting with the u.s. president. the united arab emirates blames the houthis for a missile attack that has killed 22 of its troops in ge yemen and the former

president in court gout mought s leader continues to defend himself against corruption allegations. up gary's parliament has pass aid series ofs that could see refugees and and migrants jailed. it could make it a criminal afternoons to cross or damage the fence along the board we are sear bee actual the maximum sentence is three years in prison. many while, they have broken down barrierses and crashed with riot police, hungary has closed its boarder after several minute people broke out of the camp. the prime minute officer says he was prepared to lows the border with croatia should large numbers of refugees started coming from there as well. thousands of refugees and migrants are trying to pass through hungary with most attempting to reach germany.

thousands more remain stranded at the main train station and also at a station in bicske which is northwest of the capital. several hundred have given up trying to get to germany by train and now they are trying to make the journal on foot. the distance is significant it's 640-kilometers through austria to reach the city of munich. al jazeera's mope ham he had jamjoon sent this report from bicske. >> reporter: the dread and despair only grew throughout the day. we want to leave screamed this syrian mother, please let us leave. she and her daughter just two that escaped death and did he instruction. i have a two-month old baby aboard screamed this iraqi as tears streamed down his face, my family needs hem, we need for get out of here. 24 hours after the standoff began, these refugees still

refuse today leave the train that had stopped in bicske, hungary. when i asked them where they wanted to go, the answer was clear. where is humanity. they begged authorities to let them continue their journey. while hungarian riot police prevented journalists from getting too close to the train, one woman sent me photos from inside asking that i share their stories. here you see not just hungry babies clinging to their parents, but girls shattered by journey without end. and boys exhausted by the life of a refugees. water was eventually distributed but refugees said they needed much more. when an empty cargo train pulled our view was obscured and

communication became must harder, fears grew and hundreds fled. a short distance away, we came upon this. medic attempt tick to resuscitate a pakistani refugees who had collapsed after leaving the train with his brother. the medic says have given up trying to resuscitate that refugees. we found out that he was from pakistan, his brother is here as well. it's a terribly sad situation. we are just about a kilometer away from the train that the refugees had been on. a few hundred have since left. and from what we have been told, they are scattered all around right now. and the police are looking for them. back at the platform tensions rows as they were rough uppedded up. taken off the train they believed would deliver them from freedom. taken off the bus to his a destination unknown if a future full of sun certainty. know am he had jamjoon, al jazeera, bicske, hungary. let's get the latest now on those refugees who have been

marching in hungary from from budapest towards the austrian border, our andrew simmons there. andrew, what i think i saw you earlier there was just a flow of people marching behind you, tell us about where you are now and what has happened to all of these people making simp an up credibly long journey. >> reporter: well, the -- believe me they are he should softed but intent to carrying on. we are with them four-kilometers back when they were all resting up and want to go stay there the night. but others are are really concerned about bicske, the refugees camp there about whether or not the police may do to them here what they did to those on the train in bicske. they are very concerned about that. but an extraordinary spirit. you are talking about well over

a thousand refugees now, it is a colossal march. people are already talking about it being historic. now, it may seem far fetched to think they could do them but when you actually work it out, the pace they are going at right now, and you have men, well, and children, even disabled people with them, the pace they are going through, they could do it within four days. that's what they are saying. so what we are also finding is that hungarian people are rallying to support them. getting food to them. getting water to them. not a great deal, but very large amount of water. and they are all basically, in fact you can see them now. i'm see the silhouettes now of the first part of the march coming towards us. i could stand here now for the best part of 40 minutes before all of the refugees pass me by. it is really, really extraordinary. and not only that, barbara, but

just coming back to the route, yes, it's a long way to vienna, but it's get to this border, it is, in fact, exactly 176-kilometers on the gps that they are using all of them. the apps they are using. 176-kilometers. they have done more than 30 today. they want to sort of end up having done more than 40. working that out, they could do it in four to five days. and look at them here, the first ones. on a day that has seen draconian legislation pass ed in parliament, it's also seen the tragedy in bicske. to have this sort of positive mood is rather remarkable. these people, you wouldn't think that they are escaping from war, con nibble, suffering, you almost think it's some sort of sports marathon, but they are

exhausted look at them. some of them. and further back, are are the women and chirp who are still carry on the ground, they are intents on sticking together by barbara, they are don't want to separate that's why there is a debate about where they are going to stop. where they are going to rest up. look at this trail. unlike any other trail, not one of human misery, one of hope. and the police have been completely caught out by this. they didn't expect it to be so big. they are breaking every regulation you could expect, in fact traffic law on this motorway and the police have been assisting them all the way. even with polight motorcycle out riders. the worry is, though, whim it change, will it be as in so many case as so many parts in this extraordinary crisis, will there be a twist, a problem further down the line. look at them.

look at this cart full of surprise. some people are bringing sort of rubber rolls, look at that child there if you can just see in the little baby in the buggy. fast asleep. i think you might have missed that. but look at the backs they are taking. the baby there fast asleep. >> yeah. >> reporter: oh, see, how are they keeping up pace, these children. how are they keeping a pace? it is -- look at this little boy here. there. whoops. how are you -- anybody speak english here? anybody. even if they do, they are probably too tired to talk right now. >> especially -- andrew, when we -- >> reporter: anyone speak english here at ale? how are you all feeling? oh, yes, they are very tired. when we shouted those questions previously, you get quite a response normally. even though -- look at this

gentlemen over here, look, he's got crutches and he's on a -- he's in a buggy, a child's buggy. well, barbara it's just extraordinary sunday it. >> it's heartbreaking when you think of the journal that i a lot of those people will have had to make to get to that plates. you mentioned 40-kilometers a day is what they are hoping to walk i'll carry on talking. >> reporter: i think i have a communication problem. studio sound but if you are still with me, look at this. we saw earlier a card with four children on it. it was an improvised card. some families up to six families with six people walking along, and amongst all of these crowds, there is, in fact, a unhcr. the united nations, humanitarian

refugees commission representative walking. he's towards the back. he's finding it quite hard going actually. but we interviewed him earlier on and you will be hearing from hills later on the 21g news hour. but he was saying that he felt this was historic. that while some people were thinking maybe never will they -- they will never actually complete the whole walk, that maybe they could do it. and certainly with assistance from volunteers, sort of assistance they are getting think barbara, i think i can hear you again now, i have had a bleep in my ear if you want to ask me a question. >> yes, andrew. you refer to as a march of hope. because all of these people exhausted as though they are -- be. >> reporter: i am sorry, i can't hear you, i am assuming you are still going with this. but i am going to let you talk and wait for an indication from somebody who can communicate

with me as to what you are -- what you ask me if you ask me anything at all but i have no communication with you at all. >> okay, andruzzi think we'll leave it there for a moment. that was andrew simmons there in hungary and you can see behind him he's just with all of those people, thousands of people marching. they have left budapest and are now marching towards the boarder with austria. now that's a total of 176-kilometers and you can see from the picks there are all sorts of people, well, children, people on crutches. elderly, so obviously an incredible challenge. andrew simmons referred to it as a march of home. we don't yet know if that hope is justified on behalf of the refugees. we don't know what is awaiting for them at the border or if the hungarian police, authorities stopped those trains leaving from budapest to all industry are germany whether hungarian police will actually act on anything.

but for the moment, we see those thousands of people marching towards the border out of hundred gare. four charges for the detective of the toddler on the turkish beach. the three-year-ol three-year-ols five-year-old brother and month never all drowned when their boat capsized shortly after embarking for the greek island of kos. they were laid to lef rest on fy in their home city of cobane. the boys' father who survived once again spoke about their ordeal. >> 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. over 12 people on board and the captain. he convinced me the boat was in good condition.

the captain jumped overboard and i tried to take over, then another wave hit and we capsized. i tried to catch my wife and boys and resuscitate them but i couldn't. they were dead. meanwhile, a fast track processing center for refugees is to be set up at greece's main port of pair as i in athens. a thoroughfare for those want to go travel onto western and northern europe. the center will determine who is a refugees fleeing persecution or war and therefore it's entitled to asylum in europe. anyone considered a economic pry miami grant will be september home. the u.n. says they must crack down on trafficers and protect the victims of people smuggle, he calls at crisis a defining moment for europe. >> my appeal is for the european states to recognize that these

are exceptional moments, that this required exceptional measures. that europe as a whole, has to respond in solidarity. and that this is also a battle for values in which europe cannot fail. the u.s. president is expected to raise concerns about the death toll in yemen with king of saudi arabia, king salman. barack obama is hosting the king for the first time since the latter ascended to the thrown in january. the u.s. supports the saudi-led intervention against rebel groups opposed to exiled yemeni president hadi. but while presiden president obs the u.s. shares saudi arabia's desire for an inclusive government in yemen, the white house is worry about the humanitarian i didn't know crisis in the country. the iran nuclear deal, syria's

war and energy markets are also expected to be discussed in the meeting. al jazeera's white house correspondent patty culhane has this update for us from washington dc. >> reporter: it's clear that the white house and the saudi arabian officials here are trying to send the message that the relationship is back on track. we saw president obama come out to the front door to meet edge g salman to walk him back in to the meetings. is saudi arabia wants know what military hardware they could buy. some reports are it's up to a billion dollars and went to know that they can be sure to counter iran's influence independent region, president obama first talked about yemen he wants to see more humanitarian ada loud in. he wants to see more emphasis on a political solution, on syria, they talked about a need for a political solution there, but the senior aid to the present told reporters what the ask is for the saudis to stop funding what they called the most extreme members of the

opposition. so a very full agenda. the united arab emirates says 45 of its joels were killed fighting in yemen. it blames it on a rebel missile on a depot. omar reports. f. >> reporter: it is the uae's biggest single loss it decades, using social media at the say it was attacked by a surface to surface missile. shia houthi fight scores forces loyal to deposed president saleh say they fired the plastic missile at the military base until ears yemen killing dozens of emirati soldiers. also the soldiers are singing yemen's national anthem and the pledge of loyalty to the new army. the deposed president saleh and

his houthi allies have no friends here, this brigade is part of the republican guards a force created and led by saleh's son, where this is the new army whose loyalty is to yemen's government in exile. it's a new chief of staff says victory over the houthi fight experts their allies is not far way. >> translator: victory is near. we are in the process of building new arms force that his serve the whole country. >> reporter: commanders and & security officials are also discussing future plans. >> translator: you are the yemenis armed, you are the security forces and popular resistence that restored the state and its pride. >> reporter: over the last weeks, the saudi-led coalition has sent thousands of newly trained yemeni fighters and weaponry to the national arm irrelevant and fighters loyal to the president who is exile in sued saudi arabia.

only two towns in th the provine are under houthi control. that's why the fight to control them could be swift. many predict the next target could be the capital sanaa and the houthi strong sold. despite military losses the houthi ands their allies continue to put up a tough fight. the battle for yemen is far from over. al jazeera. more to come here a al jazeera. >> reporter: i am andrew thomas in australia, along a coastline that is developing a reputation as the shark attack capital of the world. some here are calling for a cull. but would that be ethical?

♪ remindser of the top tories here on al jazeera. refugees in a camp have broken down barriers and crashed with riot police, earlier hungary's parliament passed a series of laws that could see refugees and migrants jailed. hundreds of refugees unable to complete train trips started walking from the budapest's main railway station, many headed for germany, a journey of more than 600-kilometers. saudi arabia's king salman just arrived to the white now a long-awaited visit to u.s. press barack obama. the meeting is being held behind closed doors and expect today focus the wards in syria and yemen. guatemala's former president

otto perez molina has appeared in court against, he's being investigation today alleged lick taking bribes if a cut. s scam but he denies the charges the investigation come daze address of the election on his sunday. let's get more from david who is there for us. it's a second day court hearing underway, what can you tell us about it? >> reporter: that's right, today for the first time former president otto perez molina addressed the court. he spoke for about 40 minutes. as you said he rejected the charges against him and said he had no involvement in the criminal network loan as the line which is responsible for did he frauding the government of 10s of millions of dollars being said he did not benefit financially in any way from the ring of course he also said hard proof needs to be brought against him and the evidence so far violates his right -- presumption of innocence i should say. he also talked about his long

military career. sent in bad. the 36 year civil war and his role in the signing of the peace accord back in 1996. he talks about the personal sacrifice he has made to the country. this is a very difficult otto perez molina speaking today. yesterday while he was listening to taped telephone conversations between himself and people implicated. public officials implicate third degree this rings he looked very nervous, today much more comfortable. much more confident otto perez molina. barbara. >> what about the people in gout mall there can daistled. we were seeing so many political changes, an election in a matter of days, the president, the former president is in court, what reaction there, both from media and ther on the people? >> reporter: there is excitement among the people here, this political change follows four months of protest by people

calling for the resignation of otto perez molina and for the end of corruption, the new president has also said now, he's a career politician, and a former manage trait with the constitutional court. he has called on guatemalans to continue putting pressure public official says, he has said the work of the people of guatemala is far from done. says if any change is to continue on in to the future, any sustainable change, then it needs to come from the people. so this is a very new statement calling on people to continue the kind of protest that has brought this kind of political change about in the first place. barbara. >> david mercer with the latest from guatemala city, david, thank you. thai police say that neither of the two men that they've detained in connection with the bangkok bombing is the lead suspect. this man was arrested six days ago in a bangkok suburb with what police say was bomb-making equipment. his dna and that of another

suspect do not match samples from the person the police think is the bomber. an unprecedented number of shark attacks off australia's east coast have reignited a debate over whether culling is the only way to make waters safe for swimmers. the new south wales say government is reviewing new control measures after 14 attacks between sydney and brisbane over the past year. in the latest incidents a man was knocked off his surfboard by a shark and then mauled. andrew thomas reports now from new south wales. >> reporter: on the morning of july 31st, just 20 meters from shore former boxer case was mauled by a great white shark. sat on his surfboard with the shark trying to rip off his leg, he imagined to fight back. >> i went who can, who can, who can, four files. >> reporter: and it worked. >> it worked. >> reporter: but pen seconds you reckon he was latched on. >> i reckon the whole wing was

10 seconds, yeah. >> reporter: he lost so much blood he almost died. he spend all of august in hospital, full recovery could take years. as for get back in the ocean. >> i wouldn't no way, you continues pay me $10 million i wouldn't go in. i am not going in there until i believe it's safe. >> reporter: there is fear a lodge this coast of australia. over the past 12 months, a short stretch north of sydney has seen 14 people attack by sharks. two died. >> life is imitating art it's a little bit like jaws, there is a lot of fear. i know servicer reluctant to go in the water on. >> reporter: so many why attacks it could being el need owe changing water temperatures bringing sharks closer to shore or that heavier rain has washed nutrients in the see tracting small fish sharks feed o another theory is that after a ban on shark hunting introduced in 1999, more sharks are reaching that uir at this than before. what can be done to protect swimmers and surfers? along this coast that question

has provoked fierce debate. in say nothing, the ocean is the shark's territory, people have to accept a degree of risk. >> i have enjoyed fact that the crowds have come down and getting like days where you can just surf with only a couple of your mates our here that would be unheard of once upon a time. >> reporter: but many want firm ago, even a cull through shooting sharks or shark netting which traps and kills them. >> we can ice lay the seven sharks that have been around for a while when you take out one or two of them, you know, they do it in other parts of the world as well. >> reporter: but culls are controversial. when one began in the west of australia hundreds protested. great white numbers have grown but they are much lower than they once were.

>> i don't like the idea of a cull of an animal that's already been lowered to what are considered threatened levels of the population size. >> reporter: craig says he wouldn't want the particular shark that attacked him killed. he feels it game half gave hima chance but wants action, people he thinks deserve more protection than sharks, andrew thomas, al jazeera, australia. a u.s. soldier who stopped a gunman on a train heading to paris has been welcomed home as a hero. spencer stone has stepped off the flight in california to cheers from about 200 people who had gathered to greet him among a group of passengers month particular go ahead the hemly arm go ahead man last month. they were all given france's highest brave ray ward. >> he put his life on the line and, you know, took this guy down and saved many lives i am pretty sure of. not too many people would do that.

>> basically just showing my support for, you know, one of my fellow airmen who just happens to be a hero. remember you can get more on that story and everything else that we have been covering our website the address on screen right now aljazeera.com. >> june 2010, fighting erupts between the uzbek and kyrgyz communities of southern kyrgyzstan. the violence spreads from osh to nearby towns. >> they came and started looting houses, killing people. systematic theft, destruction, and brutal mob violence.