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♪ hungry's prime minister rejects refugees and says the eu should set up a fund to cope with the crisis. ♪ hello, you are with al jazeera, i'm in doha and also to come on the program, guatemala looks set for a runoff as early results show the actor jimmy morales ahead with a slender lead. another deadly attack on soldiers. who is fighting who? we will explain why the fight against i.s.i.l. in iraq is not
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just a two-way conflict. ♪ but first hungry has rejected asylum seekers proposed by the eu as the continent copes with the worst refugee crisis since the second world war and the eu should set up a fund to help countries like turkey to help with mass migration and eu should help hiss country to protect the border and austria tight tightening controls and saying they may have to go back as the government makes $3 million available to cope with the
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crisis. >> translator: we have to do lots of things to manage this challenge but we need the help at the eu. it's only with european solidarity we will manage that. europe wants to show its face in a good light and internationally with all the states combined we have to find the reasons for the influx of refugees. the civil wars, the terrorism, we have to work against it together. >> our correspondent is on a train, you're on a train, mohamed, tell us where you are and where the train is going. >> marteen the train has not set off from the train station in austria and are told it will shortly and still may be some refugees who may board in the next few minutes. this is a train set up by the authorities and police and aid workers in order to transport refugees brought here today and
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taken to vienna and expecting to arrive there in the next hour or so. it will be a short journey, a short train ride from here. all the refugees i'm speaking with many from syria and many from iraq are so grateful to be aboard this train to be making their journey on to vienna and are concerned about reports they are hearing, the remarks from prime minister of hungry, the statement from the austrian chancellor with regard to returning to normality and what it will mean and there will not be border controls but there will be spot checks because they are trying to stem the tide of human trafficking and nonetheless all the people on the desperate journey who had such a hard time reaching austria and it has been better they are worried for family member whose may be in serbia or hungry trying to make their way and they are concerned they will
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be prevented from doing so in the days to come. >> once the train you are on and the refugees who get on board arrive in vienna do we know what awaits in there? >> we just don't know at this time. we know that there are aid workers at the next train station in vienna and medical workers to help folks that have ailments and there will be food and water distributed to them but pardon me the refugees we have been speaking with on the train they are concerned with what awaits them and so much uncertainty they are faced with and believe they will be going to salsburg and then to germany but they are not 100% sure and officials we spoke with were not sure when the train was going to come here and leave and it's a chaotic situation and it's much more under control in hungry than where we were a few days ago but people have a lot more
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questions than they have answers at this hour. >> we heard angela merkel warning those who made the journey but come from what she called secure countries will be asked to return. the people you have been speaking to for the most part, where are they from? >> most of the people i've spoken with are from sheer -- syria and many escaped dire situations and one man from idlib said he narrowly escaped with his life because of barrel bombings happening to his home close to there and when he was this hungry in budapest he said if he had known the kind of treatment he would face in hungry but officials there he would not have left syria. i also met a lot of people from iraq and they are desperate as well and they left because it's a terrible situation and they say they are afraid of i.s.i.l. taking over more territory and
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many refugees on the train including a 13-year-old from baghdad he said the situation there should be better but it is not, security situation is deteriorating and they have fled for their lives and that is the reason they are refugees and the reason they are in europe. >> for now on a train in austria, thank you. the swedish prime minister is calling on european countries to do more to help and sweden takes the most refugees with the population of any european country and thousands have been out staging rallies in support of refugees in stockholm and receiv received automatic residency. the greek island has arrived on the port close to athens. more than 25,000 people have been strand ed here and arrived on boats from turkey and thought many of them are syrian.
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now, more bodies have been recovered from a boat carrying indonesia refugees, 61 people died in the ferry tragedy so far and the vessel that sank on thursday was carrying mostly men with one toddler on board and 20 are alive and it was due to overloading and bad weather conditions. still being counted in guatemala presidential election but set for a runoff and show jimmy morales has 25% of the vote and manuel baldizon has 21% and as molina is being looked at for corruption and we are in the city and say the newcomer jimmy morales is facing two strong
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contenders. >> the question is who will he be fighting against because the other two candidates that have a chance of making it to that second round really are neck in neck and one is the man who lost the 2012 elections in the runoff, manual, a business man who he himself is being investigated for vote rigging in previous elections and less than a percent point ahead of the first lady who used to be married to a former president. she herself was involved in various controversies and interfere ed with politics without her husband and we are waiting to see with 25% of the votes still to be counted to see which of the two will emerge to fight against the t.v. comedian jimmy morales in the second round. north and south korea begun
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talks of reuniting families as a result of the korean war in the 50s and red cross from both countries are meeting and include arrangements of when and how many people will possibly be allowed to meet their relatives. >> translator: the state should not sever family ties and i came with the south korean tells the north about the family so my family can see my face in the city. >> reporter: the reunions were in the year 2000 after a historic north-south summit and began as an annual event but only one has been held in the past five years and 20,000 crohn's have taken part either in person or video link and about 66,000 south koreans, many of them in their 80s or 90s are still on the waiting list.
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harry faucet has more now from seoul. >> reporter: with talks underway north and south korea making good at least on the pledges made on the agreement which brought an end to tensions between north and south a couple weeks ago and it's questionable if they will make good on a plan to get this event arranged for the end of september which would coincide with the holiday period across the korean peninsula. however, it is very much the attention to the lead delegate they will work as quickly as possible because everybody is aware this is a fast aging and fast shrinking group of people that applied for the family reunions and hundreds applied in 1988 and nearly half have died since and half of those alive are in their 80s or older and in run ups to this people have died
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on the list to meet long separated family members. what we also know if it does happen in october as is deemed more likely that coincides with the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the workers party, the ruling party of that country. there is scheduled to be a big military parade and if there has been something in the past to commemorate events in history such as a rocket launch that could put us under, the recent warming of relations between north and south korea and could affect this planned family reunion event and people hope that wouldn't be the case. >> reporter: china says the economy grow slowest in 25 years and beijing put growth at 7.3% and worries about growth wipes hundreds of billions of dollars lasts month and worry about the slow down because it buys iron
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ore, oil and cole. turkey said they bombed kurdish fighters a day after an attack on the troop, the pkk says it killed 15 soldiers on sunday. president erdiwan warned there will be a strong response to the attack. >> translator: according to our information attack with land mines and this is very sad, i hope that in a statement of the army a new strategy would be adopted in the fight against terror and we will continue the fight for determination. the prime minister of turkey had an emergency meeting shortly after the attack and has been a surge in violence between the army and pkk after a ceasefire collapsed in july. let's get more now on the ongoing european refugee crisis, news just coming in that
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president of france has said his country will accept 24,000 refugees under the european commission's plan and 24,000 refugees will be accepted by france and earlier we had the hungarian prime minister said that hungry would take no refugees under the quota being issued by the eu and we will keep you up do date with this story as any more lines develop. but in the meantime let's look at some other news because 1,000 soldiers and 200 armored vehicles are in yemen and joining saudi-led forces against rebels and trying to regain the province under houthi control since 2011. at least 20 people were killed in what appears to be an accidental coalition air strike on sunday. residents said missiles hit a vigil being held for a man who
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was killed by houthi gunfire. the u.s. has delivered more arms and equipment to recently trained sunni tribal fighters in anbar province and expected to join the counter offensive against i.s.i.l., government troops and shia malitias are trying to make advances fighting a separate political battle as we report. >> reporter: u.s. weapons given to iraqi army are now being used by iran back malitia men on the front lines against i.s.i.l., the men operate under the government backed popular mobilization forces have been doing most of the fighting in the absence of a capable military but they are growing strength and presence especially in sunni province in anbar is raising concerns in washington. >> translator: the international coalition and regional partners are pressuring the baghdad government to reduce the number of fighters in the
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popular forces from 103,000 to 70,000 and want the number of sunni fighters to increase from 15,000 to 50,000. this has caused tensions between the leadership of the popular mobilization forces and the government. >> reporter: the u.s. has been training and e equipping sunni tribal fighters as part of strategy to defeat i.s.i.l. and weapons arrived and they are making clear these men will eventually be come part of a state military apparatus and some shia malitia leaders say it's tantamount to create a separate army on the lines. >> translator: we are working with the government for volunteers to be integrated into formal security institutionss and subjected to all military regulation. >> reporter: but on the ground the government and ally forces have made little progress. there are almost daily
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casualties advancing to ramadi and fallujah and i.s.i.l. has not only strengthened by planting roadside bombs it has also broken through offensive lines to carry out suicide bombings. i.s.i.l. tactics may have slowed the pace of operations but a political battle between the forces fighting on the ground is believed to be contributing to the lack of progress. the u.s. made clear it doesn't want shia malitias to lood the fight in shoe -- sunni areas but say they can't win the fight without them. it's the first time they joined with groups that threaten the state and they may be confident they can defeat i.s.i.l. but what comes after will determine if iraq as a country can celebrate the victory, baghdad. a lot more to come here at al jazeera including the official account of what
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♪ hello again and let's have a look at the top stories, within the last couple of minutes the french president who is currently speaking in paris has said that his country will accept 24,000 refugees over the
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next two years under the plan which is being put forth by the eu and in the meantime german chancellor angela merkel say asylum seekers will have to go back, the huge numbers of people arriving will change the country. votes are still being counted in guatemala's presidential election and it went to a second round runoff in october and comes as the former president molina is being alleged for corruption. a day after attack on troops and pkk says it killed 15 soldiers in delica on sunday, the mother of a 18-month-old baby who was burned to death in the occupied west bank died from injuries and suffered third degree burns to
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90% of her body and accused of throwing liquids in the village in july and husband died from the injury eight days after the attack and their four-year-old son is still in hospital. pakistan army used the first ever drone killing three militants close to the border and said the missile hit a compound in the valley of the tribal region. pakistan says displayed the drone in march and said it already had been successfully testing with moving targets. mexico's attorney general says she will ask for a new investigation in the case of 43 missing students. an independent report has condemned the government's inquiry in the disappearance of the students almost a year ago and we report from mexico city. >> reporter: a night mexico cannot forget, a year ago in the
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town the police with the local gang attacked bus loads of students and four hours of coordinated terror they killed some and abducted 43 others. the government had hoped to head off the following wave of mass outrage by drawing a line under thcase saying they were killed and remains dumped in this rub rubbish dump but they say it's scientifically impossible. >> translator: the group considers there is no evidence to support the hypothesis of 43 bodies were burned there and we are not saying other things couldn't have happened but that event as has been described didn't occur. >> reporter: don't know where the student are or if they are
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alive but what is clear the forces were aware and in some cases witnesses to the atrocities but did nothing to intervene. despite this mexican authorities didn't allow the investigators to talk to army witnesses, key video evidence was also destroyed. what has been revealed here is just further evidence for many mexicans the government investigation in this is deeply flawed and made little effort in getting to the bottom of this. they are speaking about lack of help to find their loved ones. >> translator: we are going to discover the truth and we will find the students, that is the biggest fear this government has because they know there have been a lot of mistakes and they hope the case will be forgotten. >> reporter: attorney general responded immediately and positively to the report. >> translator: i have different areas of this office and from now on we will give the analyzing report included in our investigations. >> reporter: if that offer is
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sincere the search to find out what happened to disappeared students is still far from over. john holman, al jazeera, mexico city. the hundreds of colombians protested in the border city to support people deporting, being deported from neighboring venezuela. the venezuela president madura shot border crossing and got hid of 1100 in resent weeks to cut down on cross border crime. to moldova and protesters want to know what happened to more than a billion dollars missing from banks and represents about 8% of the country's budget. the former soviet republic is one of the poorest countries in eastern europe and we reports this is the first time so many moldovians have come out against corruption. >> five words being chanted we
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want the billion back, as taxpayers they have footed the bill for the missing cash, now as protesters they made it clear who they think is to blame. >> translator: corruption, corruption is the main thing we want to get rid of the mafia. >> translator: those guilty people who lied should return the money, should return the money from the savings bank. >> reporter: the accused are members of the government, the judiciary as well as influential people, the latter playing a large role in state affairs. close to a billion and a half dollars appear to have been embezzled through a series of mysterious bank loans. the value of the national currency has gone down and prices of goods up. public money has been used to bail out the three banks said to have been involved in the scam and imf and world bank say they won't lend any more money to this poor nation and until this
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is solved and all there is corruption. >> translator: it's a cancer of this country that sucks the life out of people and people are in prison because they didn't have enough money to bribe prosecutors and judges, how long do we put up with it. >> reporter: the government promised to trace the money and bring it back from abroad but that may not be enough. >> translator: we have new demands, the most important of which is the resignation of the president at the moldova republic part of the criminalzation of the moldovian republic and demand snap elections. >> reporter: threatened to continue the rallies until those e demands are met and ordinary people will return to their homes and lives, worlds away from the banks and bankers they bailed out, al jazeera now, most runners would consider finishing a marathon as
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a real accomplishment but for select few 42 kilometers is not enough and known as ultra runners and we met up with ireland richard donavan who just ran the entire breath of the united states. >> reporter: in new york central park 49-year-old richard donavan may look like a runner setting out for a jog but there is was the beginning of the end for donavan of what was an epic journey in the university -- united states and he started in san francisco and went through 1 12 states and 5100 kilometers. >> it's a big challenge to run across some continent, america for me is the continent to run across and i wanted to embrace all the epic screenry america has. >> reporter: running over the rocky mountains as well as deserts and organizes extreme
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running events for a living giving him the time and flexibility needed to make the self-funded trip and he was joined with a handful of friends and family members who helped along the way including his brother who drove the support vehicle. >> there is no rule except you run every step of the way and that is what we did, start and where we finish at the end of one day we start the exact same spot the next day. >> reporter: doctors insisted he took a few breaks to give severe blisters a chance to heal. this is the very last leg of a journey that began more than three months ago, sure there were a few pauses along to way to recover from injuries, still donavan averaged 35 miles a day, that is 56 kilometers, more than a marathon a day for days on end. [cheering] he crossed the finish line with
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alvan matthews who was par licensed in a work-related fall and he used the trip to raise $25,000 on his behalf. >> i had a little bit of doubt in the first month when he had to stop for a couple days because he had really bad blisters and i asked him if he was going to still be able to finish and he couldn't believe i asked him. well of course i am. >> reporter: donavan claims ultra running is about mental strength more than physical. >> how are you feeling? >> relief i guess. >> what are you going to do next? >> i'm from ireland so the answer is obvious, i'm going to have a beer. >> reporter: he is already planning his next challenge to become the first person to run across the antarctic, kristen for al jazeera in new york. time to recap some of the lines that have been coming out regarding the refugee crisis in europe, the french president said that france will accept
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24,000 refugees over the next two years. the hungarian prime minister speaking earlier this morning saying they will accept none and rejects the quota system being imposed on it by the eu, lots more on the al jazeera website of course. i'm ali velshi. target tonight. inheriting debt from your parents, if you think it can't happen in america, think again. in the united states, health care is a multibillion dollar industry that makes a lot of money for doctors hospitals