♪ france and germany agree to take in tens of thousands of refugees that seek a unified european response to the crisis. ♪ hello and welcome to al jazeera, live from our headquarters in doha, i'm marteen dennis, a comedian with no experience tops guatemala presidential poll and doesn't get enough votes to avoid a runoff. the scene live in brussels, protesting dairy farmers as the eu say they are not able to milk prices for all they are worth

plus. i'm in ghanna and i'll be reporting on the problems of defore deforeststation and illegal logging and what is being done about it ♪ france and germany have decided to take in tens of thousands of refugees, president francois hollande said in an address to the nation france will accommodate 24,000 people. he also said paris will send people to syria starting on tuesday. >> translator: we propose an international conference for the refugees and we are ready to hold it in paris. i'm going to come back to that which we have to do in your europe. france and germany and respected foreign ministries working on a long ranging plan and put to the eu ministers on the 14th of september. >> but hungry rejected taking in asylum seekers, rejecting the

quotas that have been imposed by the european commission. prime minister viktor said the eu should set up a fund to help countries like turkey to cope with the mass migration and eu should help his country protect its borders and austria tightening controls and end emergency measures that allowed in thousands of refugees stranded there and angela merkel say they will have to get it back and made $3 billion to cope with refugee crisis which merkel says will change the country forever and called on eu countries to help address this crisis. >> translator: we have to do lots of things to manage this challenge but we need the help of the eu. it's only with european solidarity that we will manage

that. europe wants to show its face in a good light and internationally with all the states combined we have to fight the reasons for the influx of refugees. the civil wars, the terrorism, we have to work against it together. >> reporter: well, our correspondent andrew simmons is on hungry border with serbia to check on conditions there. >> reporter: up to 3,000 a day will be coming in here. and get the camera the other way around you can see the problem that is getting worse. it may be relief for so many refugees getting to austria and germany but refugees here are facing appalling conditions. now what is happening here is the hungarian police are segregating the syrians or arab-speaking people from other refugees. most of the people you see here are afghans. they are only supposed to be at assembly point as it's described for a few hours but these people

have been here for three days and the calls overnight, this is on sunday night, for people, for humanitarian workers and volunteers to come down here and try to help these people because they were freezing cold. as you can see they are in summer clothes. the weather changed her now and it's a lot colder at night. look at these conditions they are absolutely appalling and what we are actually seeing is that there is now a big divide between the syrians and other groups of refugees and these people are in a really bad situation and this gentleman i met earlier on, you're from afghanistan, aren't you? come around here and let's have a quick world how long have you been here? >> three days we are here but you received a grant and during the night it is very cold. all the family and all the children are sick. if you stay here two days they

will die. >> that was the situation on the hungarian border with serbia. meanwhile thousands of people have been crossing austria in hope of getting into germany and we have in report. >> reporter: having suffered so much, the welcome was unexcepted, the hospitality almost shocking. >> no, i'm feeling like i get my freedom. >> reporter: just two days ago he was among hundreds of refugees locked in a tense standoff with riot police at the train station in hungry. despite their demands the refugees were ultimately rounded up and taken to a holding facility. released the next day he and his cousins walked 11 hours to make it to austria. now the man who fled his war-ravaged home a month ago is overwhelmed by the generosity on

display. >> we get treatment and we get food, we get water. actually i like it that people, i like the country. if my family is not front i swear i will stay here from the last but my family is in holland that is why i'm going. >> reporter: as medics provided care volunteers distributed clothes to the cold and toys to the children. all these dozens of refugees here are waiting to get on this next train to vein that and everybody we have spoken with here says their treatment in austria has been exceptional and so much better than the way they were treated in hungry. in fact, before they get on the train there is another place they can get water. >> i tried to help people. >> reporter: the lawyer explained why he had to come here, telling me not just about how proud he is but also how sad he feels.

>> it's a great experience and sometimes i feel very small especially when you see little babies, and i cannot understand that people are angry with little babies who freeze and stay at night in the cold and in rain. this goes over my understanding. >> reporter: on a day like today kindness trumped hostility. officers were there to protect, not persecute. as refugees were led on to trains instead of being forced off. desperation for at least a few merciful hours was left behind. mohamed, al jazeera, nickelsdorf austria. 7.4 to 7.3 with concerns of the world's second largest economy and the growth is 7th%

and the slowest pace for 25 years and worries about the shrinking economy wiped hundreds of billions off the stock market last month and investors are concerned because the china is the biggest buyer of commodities like iron ore and cole and the sliding dairy prices is partly blamed on the chinese and with china there is low demand for imports from the middle east and north africa and milk prices are at an eight-twreer year low according to fao with the u.n. and it's so bad farmers are marching through brussels to highlight the issue and european ministers are in emergency session and let's go live to the situation in brussels which as you can see has deteriorated. i was going to say progress but as you can see there are five here and a lot of smoke and in the midst of this is jackie r

oh, land and farmers showing their anger in no uncertain terms. >> yes, they are and have set fire to tires and straw in that square in front of the european commission. if you are wondering what all these things are landing on me they are bits of burnt tire and burnt straw because farmers brought huge bails of straw in center of town and took turns the european carter into a farm out there with a thousand trackers and bails of hail and plastic model cows. the point they are making or trying to make in their view the price of milk now is so low that the dairy industry is unsustainable and costs more to produce a gallon of milk than what they can sell it for on the marketplace and they want new price controls and believes a fair price for that liter of milk is more than half a dollar

and they also think that quotas should be reintroduced to control the amount of milk that europe as a whole is producing. the reason they are demonstrating today is because it's a monthly meeting of agricultural ministers and say this is the best message of the people who can make the decisions. >> and food and food security is obviously immense priority not just for europe. >> it is indeed. when you think about farmers and farming industry this is really a key industry in terms of food is an absolutely essential substance. it's as sensitive as producing fuel and it's something everyone needs and there are imports but the point they are making is european people and european consumers need produce and need to know there is a reliable

supply of this produce. they are saying at the moment that they can't carry on producing milk at this rate because it cost them more than they are getting and it's not viable for them any more and what they want is price controls and want quotas to be introduced. the other thing they are very concerned about at the moment is the row between the eu and russia because the russians have imposed this embargo on european food stuffs costing them about $13 billion a year, that is obviously making a huge impact on the european farming industry and that is another thing that they are trying to highlight here outside the european commission building in brussels. >> thank you for that, jackie roland our correspondent is there in the middle of the malay and as you can see from the live shot of the situation and the reason why jackie is covered in

smoke is because of the burning stacks of hay and tires that farmers so angry of to get the attention of commissioners who are meeting to speak of agricultural policy and that is live today. guatemala where a clear leader emerged from presidential elections there and comedian jimmy morales will contest the second round in october but not clear who will join him and tores are neck and neck and we report from the capitol guatemala city. >> reporter: the political landscape but not much, some call him the antipolitics politician and the comedian jimmy morales untainted by political scandals and finished ahead but not with 50% needed to

avoid a runoff and will have a second round on october 25 against the person who lost 2012 election or former first lady sandra tores and the people have chosen but have they chosen wisely? >> it's going to be a lot wiser than our last elections to votes and hopefully better politicians in the next four years. >> reporter: the man they elected as the last president molina resigned last week and reappears in court only tuesday to hear whether he will be tried for involvement in a massive corruption scandal, a scandal that left the guatemala people dissolutioned with their politics and politicians. >> translator: i'm voting but do not agree with the candidates but people have spoke end and a clear idea of what democracy is.

>> translator: the only thing my family asked is that the new president is not as bad as the last one and he damaged us and i don't want that for my children or grandchildren. >> reporter: the new president will not take office until january. in the meantime the country is led by the interim leader. later on monday he will appoint a new government tasked with guiding guatemala out of the turmoil of resent months. got mall -- got this and moving forward. the result is toward greater stability but guatemala remains full of surprises and uncertainty. daniel in guatemala city. coming up, at al jazeera, cramped and chaotic we will show you the living conditions for

refugees that are stuck on the greek island. and a long walk for justice, we meet the women who say chad's former dictator ordered them to be raped and families tortured. ♪

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and warned without it the agreement will collapse. the comedian jimmy morales emerged as a clear leader in the presidential elections but with less than 50% of the vote it's still not known who will join him in the runoff vote in october thousands of farmers marching through brussels protesting about falling dairy and meat prices and this is live as they burn tires and hay stacks as they are holding an emergency meeting to discuss the falling prices. major story of course of the day, of the week indeed is the refugee crisis that is gripping much of europe. for many of the people coming to greece, the first point of arrival is an island close to turkey and they are struggling to cope with growing numbers and led to frustration among stranded refugees as we report.

>> reporter: the same daily chaos at the port, thousands of refugees trying desperately to register, without it they cannot leave the island. the process is extremely slow. the wait is long. the sun is baking. and emotions boil over. some collapse to the ground, nearly losing consciousness. authorities appear unable to take control. there are not enough resources to speed up the process and refugees are left by and large to their own devices strandled sometimes for weeks and growing more vulnerable by the day desperately trying to find answe answers. >> it's just like this all the time. >> please. >> people come up to you and don't know where to go arwhat to do and how long this will last and ask you to help them give them a piece of information and most of the time we don't know as much as they don't know. >> i give you his number.

you are asking. >> he can currently walk a couple meters and others come up to us begging to find a solut n solution. afghan initials complaint they are made to wait even longer and many say they have run out of money. >> whenever we talk to the responsible they ignore us. >> reporter: it's especially hard for parents, this syrian kurd who escaped kobane is worried about his children. >> translator: what should we do, we left to save our children for more and do not have food and milk with them, what do we do with them now, what is the solution? >> reporter: without the registration document they cannot check in a hotel even if they had the cash. so many set up shop wherever they can, in the port or on any sidewalk around town. lately serbia families were taken to a transit camp and it's

congested and poor and no running water or sanitation. >> translator: in syria we were hit by barrel bombs and here we are dying everyday with three children and are sick now, how long is this going to last, we escaped war and this is worse, why are they doing this to us? >> reporter: frustration on the streets but no matter how loud they shout the anguish is far from over. al jazeera. the former chad president is saying they are appearing before an african union tribunal for the second time on crimes against humanity accused of atoses the tys in the rule in 1980s and nicholas hawk reports. >> reporter: she was gang raped and she watched her father being tortured and killed by chad security forces. she was 19 years old. however, she says she was abducted and used as a sex slave

for chad soldiers, she was 13. along with he and other victims they want to tell their stories, stories of murder, torture, starvation and imprisonment. 25 years and walking into in the extraordinary african chambers and tribunal say the african union in sinagal to try crimes against humanity and the president is expected in court again on monday and they say he is responsible for the atrocities committed against them. >> translator: it's important for me to see him and listens to what we have to say and what the men have done to us. >> reporter: the trial started in july but it was suddenly adjourned on the second day. he was escorted out of the tribunal calling it a masquerade. he refused to recognize the

court or the lawyers appointed to him. and supporters and his wife believe he is not getting a fair trial. >> translator: when there is such political pressure to discredit him there is no justice, this trial is completely fabricated. >> reporter: when he was in power he had support of france and united states and 40,000 people and 200 tortured before he fled to sinagal and lived in exile for 25 years. this is the first time an african is being judged by africans for crimes committed in africa, away from the internation international tribunal at the hague and this will set a precedent making universal justice accessible to all and giving a voice to voiceless it may bring an end for crimes on the continent that too often remain unpunishled. at a conference before the trial three say they speak for the

dead and those alive but who are too scared to revisit the past. haunted by unspeakable acts. >> translator: they want their pain and loss recognized as crimes against humanity so that perhaps others whether in chad or anywhere else must do the courage to speak out and seek justice. nicholas hawk, al jazeera. the indian army has upheld a life in prisonment sentence for two officers and soldiers and court marshalled for killing three unemployed men in indian kashmir in 2010 and said they were afghan any fighters and triggered problems across the region. moldova put up tents and demanding to know what happened to more than a billion dollars missing from three banks, the former soviet republic is one of

the poorest nations in eastern europe and we report. [chanting] foot the bill for the missing cash and now they want the million dollars back. >> corruption, corruption is the main thing, we want to get rid of the mafia. >> translator: people should return the money to the savings bank. >> reporter: they accuse members of the government, judiciary and influential people the latter playing a large role in state affairs and close to a billion and a half dollars appear to be embezzled through bank loans and the value of the national currency the lou has gone down and prices of basic goods up. public money being used to bail out the three banks involved and imf and world bank say they want lend any more money to this poor nation until the mystery is

solved. but for protesters there is no mystery, only indemeanoric corruption. >> translator: judicial system is a cancer of the country that sucks the life out of people and innocent people are in frizz because they didn't have enough money to bribe prosecutors and judges, how long do we put up with it. >> reporter: rally peaceful and the government promised to trace the money 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 and demand this and snap parliamentary elections. >> reporter: organizers threatened to continue the rallies until those 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. the world's forests are disappearing faster than they are regenerating and at the current rate there will be no

rain forests in 100 years and leaders at the world forestry congress in south africa hoping to stop the decline and we are if ghanna a west africa nation which they predict could lose most of the forest cover in 25 years. most of this wood is illegally acquired. this is a sawmill on the edge of one of ghanna's forest reserves in the region. we have to film secretly because these workers don't want their activities exposed and received wood from chain saw operators and are organized and armed groups who go in the forests to cut down trees illegally, according to the commission 80% of timber sold within ghanna is from illegal sources. owner of the sawmill agreed to talk to us if we hide his face. >> very risky to any place and

anybody can take money from you, people who want to get out of the business but it's very, very difficult to get out. >> reporter: we went deep in the forest with rangers to see the damage ourselves and they are prepared to go where it takes to chop down trees and this is known as a high-value tree and more than 200 years old and a tree of this size will sell for around $375 u.s. dollars. in another forest reserve in the western region farmers are burning the forest to plant cocoa tree shoots and these were cut down as a warning to others, this entire area used to be forest. officials admit that progress on tackling these issues has been slow. >> so what we are trying to do is more of this for the states and motivating them or giving

them incentives or livelihoods and also enforcement by using some of the team life, rapid response teams. but the big part of the solution is looking at it from government and coordination. >> reporter: the commission is also replanting on degraded land. this is a tweak tree plantation. environmentalists says ghana has one of the best pieces of forestry legislation but political commitment is lacking. >> the officials are not being the given the free hunt to manage the district and there is too much political interference because if you dwelve deeper you realize that the farms are politicians are behind. we must be very bold to talk about it. >> reporter: it's a complex

situation and environmentalists fear forests will disappear unless the government takes more and immediate action, al jazeera, in the region of ghanna. don't forget keep up to date with the day's top stories on the al jazeera website. >> refugees board trains bound for germany as the u.k. and france pledge to open their doors to more desperate migrants. hungary says no more can cross. >> collin powell comes out in support of the iran nuclear deal, but will it be enough to convince fellow republicans to let the deal stand. >> the hunter of cecil the lion defends the