>> refugees arriving in germany as europe's politicians search for solutions to the crisis. >> more people make the journey in search of safety. >> putting aside religious differences in the fight against isil. guatemala's presidential election is overshadowed by allegations of corruption against the former leader. and japanese manga comics

have been given their own library in the most unlikely places. hello, austria and germany say that they're dealing with an emergency situation as thousands of refugee head into the country. police say they expect up to 10,000 people in the coming hours. they will not use force to stop thousands of refugees coming in. about 34,000 have arrived so far. further east in macedonia, more refugees are making the same journey walking along real way lines hoping to reach safety and a chance for a better life. in greece boats continue to arrive. 15,000 refugees are on the island of lesbos. mohammed joins us now from the border town. mohammed thank you very much for

being with us again. you've had quite a day there. tell us about what is going on and what the latest is from where you are. >> it's become quite cold and there are still hundreds here. many now in tents. some of them in sleeping bags on the road here essentially trying to stay warm. there are also many dozen refugees behind me that are trying to get on to buses. we've been told by officials that it is believed that these refugees will get onto these buses and spend the night on these buses so that they can have shelter from the cold, the wind and rain. it's been raining intermittent intermittently. many have been syrian. they've told me harrowing tales of escape from death and destruction.

one woman tells me that she is from homs, where she was an english teacher. >> the road has been longer and more dangerous than she ever could have imagined. >> terrible, terrible. a bad situation. >> neverorse for the english teacher from homs, syria, than when she and husband and three children found themselves on a boat that started to sink after they set off from turkey, but before they had reached greece. >> when we were in the boat in the sea, i was standing on one leg and raising my son on the other one in order to get him up from the water. the water was still here. the surface of the sea was up to hear. >> rescued by the greek coast guard, the family set off again. a few days back they wound up in hungary. >> they took us to one of the

camps. it is as if we're in a prison. >> but every set back has made her more determined to reach germany. >> yes, i will try and i'll do it. we tried three times in hungary to get to germany, and we were topped. >> he wants to live in peace. we don't want to take anyone's money, house, or job, not at all. >> having made it this far, morale among these traffic champion travel companions are growing. >> they're telling me that they're hoping that they have now come close to the end of their desperate journey. >> nuns austria they were all greeted by a welcoming aid worker. >> does anyone speak english?

>> yes. >> but it brings a catharsis more complicated than she anticipated. >> i'm happy. it was a terrible journey, but also i'm also said and sorry for my family. they're still in homs. i wish they would be safe. i wish they would be safe from the war. >> i hope so. >> i hope so, too. >> homs is just one of dozens of--they have faced so much misery after fleeing death and destruction back home. one man i spoke to in budapest told me that he had escaped barrel bombings in syria, in idlib, and he told me if he had

known what he would have faced in europe, especially in hungary once he had left, that he probably wouldn't have left syria to begin with. >> thank you very much, indeed. mohammed reporting live. >> many of those refugees in mohammed's report will be heading to germany. rob reynolds is live for us in munich. >> it's rather dark now, but i can see many of the people are families with children.

they're registering with journal officials. many are going to medical tents for a quick checkup, and they're taken to refugee shelter points. there is a large crowd of children. children toys are being handed out, chocolate and things like that. people are holding up signs saying refugees welcome. it's really been a warm welcome, and i'm sure that that is something that is very much appreciated. after the thousands much kilometers and dangers that these refugees have faced to get here.

at least, germany. >> is this a fast tracking of the procedures of what would normally happen. >> the governing coalition of chancellor merkel's government are meeting sunday. they're going to discuss some changes in the rules to streamline and speed up the asylum application process and also to provide more money for shelters and to help local towns and regions that are also grappling with an influx of refugees. to your questions for other people. these are people from safe countries that include serbia,

macedonia, kosovo. those people are not eligible for asylum, according to the german rule. the german government said that they will send those people who they consider purely economic migrants rather than political or war refugees back to their countries of origin and would discourage them from trying to enter the european union again. >> reporting live from munich. thank you very much. european politicians have met to discuss the crisis in lex amburg. it remains deeply divided on the issue of set quotas for refugee resettlement. the meeting of foreign ministers come ahead of a revised resettlement plan that would be presented by the european commission next geek. they would use the platform to deliver a stern warning. >> this is not an emergency. it someone an urgency that we're facing. it is not something that starts that day and finishes that day. it is here to stay. the sooner we accept it, accept

it psychologically and politically, the sooner we will be able to respond in an effective way, and to manage in an effective way. >> one of the main pressure points set for the crisis is the greek island of lesbos where it is thought that there are 15,000 refugees at the moment. >> hundreds, sometimes thousands of refugees land on the shores of lesbos arrive every day. they arrive in over-crowded boats. often entire families are on the move. distressed and tired. >> i didn't want to leave, but these are my children. they stopped going to school in university. there is no more life. only fear. we had no choice. >> a few meters away another boat on the horror lie done. and then another.

we could hear them scream and shout for help. it's the current that brought them to the coast. for a moment there is an outburst of joy. but there is also so much anxiety. in a faint voice this woman says, i'm scared. no one cares about us. >> we have no value any more. we have become a commodity, and people make money off our back. we're a trading commodity. >> the entire northeast coast of this island looks like this now. pile after pile of life jackets discarded by refugees as soon as they touch land. an it goes for kilometers on end. there are personal belongings. a tiny little life jacket. one can just imagine the baby on board. and then here is the rubber dinghy they came across with, the first thing the refugees do is they puncture it because they're afraid to be sent back to turkey when actually there is

absolutely no one here to address the system. they walk and walk. the closest camp and registration center is 40 kilometers away. >> i was expecting the police to help us out at least for the first night. we don't have food or water. i never thought my life would turn out this way. there is no way to reach europe but smuggling. >> it's too exhausting for these brothers. they fled idlib because their parents could not guarantee their safety. >> i tell them we're traveling to have a better life, but i never thought that it would be so hard. had i known i would have stayed in syria under the bombs. it's less humiliating, but now it's too late. >> no one knows how many refugees are in lesbos. the mayor's estimate is 25,000 people. the island cannot cope any more and have been asking for emergency funding.

there is a backlog of people waiting at the port. there is a long process. tensions often flair. and the only option is to wait their turn before continuing their journey across europe. al jazeera, lesbos island. >> still to come on al jazeera, the growing force of conservative politics in morocco.

>> top stories here on al jazeera. the first train carrying more than a thousand refugees from

hungary has arrived in the german city of munich. they're expecting thousand more in the coming hours. there is thought to be 25,000 refugees on the island of lesbos. the e.u. remains deeply divided on the issue of set quotas for refugee resettlements. united arab emirates has required three days of mourning for 45 soldiers killed on friday. they died during saudi-led operations against houthi rebels when a rocket hit a base storing ammunition. it's the biggest lost of life for gulf countries in decades.

the unrest broke out after a double car bombing killed 36 people on friday. prominent leaders was among the dead. the syrian government denies any involvement in the druze leader's killing. john kerry spoke to his russian counterpart on phone. >> the secretary of state did express the united states' concern with what the state department is calling russia's enhanced military build up that has been taking place in recent days. the concern expressed by the state department is, in fact, if these reports are true, this is troublesome in that it would escalate the conflict in view of the united states. it would lead to further loss of life and increase the refugee flows, a concern expressed by the united states.

now we do know that, in fact, the secretary of state has articulated it is his wish that there could be a further discussion about this at the united states general assembly taking place later this month in new york at the united states report, an annual beating. there are always bilateral conversations that take place. john kerry expressed his concern about all of this and said that this would be something that he could discuss with his current part in new york later this month. >> morocco's ruling party, the pjd a has made big gains in the country's regional elections. >> he's at the height of his political career. the leader of a conservative pjd. now it's up of the country's

most popular and well run. now we lead the best. we were honest with the people. we told them of the problems that we faced. this is why the process has been good. >> but for opponents the results have been a disaster. his party was built a humiliat humiliating defeat. he said the vote was rigged, accusationed dismissed by the pjd. >> our rival is widely known for rigging votes. we have always been victims. our rivals should have a sense of responsibility. >> the pjd's main rivals may have no other options but to reinvent themselves in order to win the trust of the general electorate. >> pjd has what i would call a symbolic capital. it is relatively recent party.

people do see it as an alternative, and there is symbolic capital in the pjd in the sense that leaders are seen as close to the moroccan population, the popular classes. >> the pjd said that it was willing to team up with allies to solve morocco's pressing problems: youth unemployment, poverty and corruption. >> for the time being moroccans will wait and see if they can deliver on their promises. clamping down on corruption and improving people's lives. the pjd have achieved what many parties have failed to achieve in the past. it's in the government.

it's main goal is to win a majority of the parliament next year. if that happens the pjd will become morocco's biggest political block. >> at least 13 iraqi soldiers have been killed in separate attacks by isil fighters. the all the happened at military position it's north and south of the city of ramadi. military forces say that 40 other iraqi soldiers were injured. in iraq sunni tribes are cooperating with the shia militias in the fight against isil. but it's less about unity and more about fighting a common enemy. >> for search months the area was besieged by isil fighters. it was the only town in the province that the armed group was not able to capture. isil faced fierce resistence. from men like dara ali abdullah.

his tribe was the only one who stood up against isil in this corner of iraq. >> if we supported isil, hen the government would take revenge against us. >> months laird the tribe has become an army. they got official status after they signed up to become an armed group. >> the sunni do not speak in one voice. some pledge allegiance to isil. others don't trust the government in baghdad because of its sectarian policies. and then there are those who don't like to be government supporters, but at the same time they say they're not enemies of the state. >> for now the tribe has agreed to partner with the government.

their unit, like other tribal forces, will secure their own areas once the national guard is created, but the plan is opposed by many shia military. there are some already a weak state. >> the national guard is a good project but there needs to be a centralized authority. >> it seems that it is working here but beyond this town's borders there is an evaluate that some fear. >> we need a civil state. not a religious state, and not a tribal state. we should build a proper army. now each area has an army, and this is the first stone to divide iraq. >> the mistrust of the people in the government is still deep. many are members of the saddam hue taken's army and who were not given a police in the new iraq and blame the government for pursuing a sectarian agenda.

>> we lost faith in the government. many of us who living in iraq are sunnies. when we needed support to fight isil, the government stepped in too late. >> he would fight isil for the government. it has an interest of government with its al-qaeda and iraq. a common enemy brought them ought, but apart from hope there is little to suggest that this up to will become a model for co-test expense and national unity. >> some days election in guatemala is being overshadowed by allegations. accused of being part of a scam, in which they played describes to avoid customs duties.

>> when you woke up. >> the truth is the president has told me about his intention to resign before going before the court. it was only a question of hours. i only agreed to be vice president to smooth the constitutional transition. it was a challenge i had to ta take. >> you've got 133 days in office. what will you do in that time before you have to leave the office in january. >> many, many things. because we have a task motivating the country to restore confidence in the institutions. i have a task of choosing a government made up of tried and trusted mature people who believe in institutions. but i also want to incorporate youngsters, social activists to

give those generations an opportunity to build the future. >> how can you be sure that the people, the new people that you choose will be clean, free of corruption? >> i believe that the risk of corruption returning unlikely because the collapse we just suffered are so deep. >> what role do the guatemalan people have to play in building the further? >> we have electricities in a few hours time. this is an opportunity. as i said they cannot rest. they must keep the pressure on the politicians. the people must accompany them. if i go back to sleep the corruption will return, and the plague will up effect everything. >> peter greste peter, one of three al jazeera journalists sensed to court, but he said he does not blame egypt for what has happened. mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed has been ordered to serve three years behind bars.

peter greste was sunsed after being we torted in february. >> i'm notville of all oi'm not blaming all the egypt for this. this ring reminds me that egypt didn't do. it's the judges that did it, the institution did it. i do these forums to remind egypt why it matters. >> the japanese comic books known as manga have become part of the pulling industry. now their popularity is spreading to some of the most unlikely places. we have reports from a library in dakar, senegal. >> the 11-year-old girl is hooked on this japanese manga

series. it depicts the adventures of a japanese girl living in hiroshima in the 1930s befor before atomic bomb was dropped. >> i really like this book because of the adventure and the drawing, and sometimes i see myself in the character. it's just fun. >> finding manga in africa let alone senegal is near impossible. >> i put a message up on facebook saying that people could come and borrow books. there was a sudden wave of inquiry and the interest in reading continues to grow. >> they come after school, on weekends. some have them home delivered.

there is plenty of japanese mangas belgium and american comic books here. but there is one thing lacking. african stories made by africa africans. >> tired of telling the stories of other people's cultures, malik moved back to senegal after working in india's animation industry. now he's trying to make african magna animations. here they're working on the story of a young seasonga lease girl. she's in trouble for hanging out with street musicians in her neighborhood. turns out they're not so bad after all. the moral of the story? do not judge a book by its cov cover. >> it's not a fairy tale. it's just how to behave in this society. >> manga characters are usually shy and have you neryible, but

they almost always rise to the occasion. it continues to feed children's imaginations no matter where they're from. >> a lot more stories any time on our website. the address for that is www.aljazeera.com. you can watch us on the watch us now icon. the slaughter is being fueled by demand from asia. ...where rhino horn is a statu