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♪ a bomb attack in turkey kills at least ten police officers a day after the prime minister threatens to wipe out separatist pkk fighters. ♪ hello there i'm laura kyle, this is al jazeera live from doha and beginning of an exodus and refugees from war-torn countries could last for years. in front of the austrian interior in vein -- vienna and
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we will talk about how they will deal with the refugee crisis here. two british i.s.i.l. fighters killed in the first uk drone strike against its own nationals. ♪ in turkey at least ten police officers are dead in a bomb attack on a turkish police mini bus and happened in the eastern province here and the government is blaming the pkk for the attack and this is just the latest in a string of deadly attacks against security forces and on monday he vowed to wipe out the pkk. >> translator: will be cleared of the terrorists and whatever it takes they will be cleared, that is it and the nation should trust the government and state and i ask for support for what we are engaged in, in a calm
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manner. >> a military analyst and says a ceasefire for the pkk is the fastest way to reach stability. >> in the meantime there is the high possibility that if pkk declares a unilateral ceasefire, stopping responding to the turkish military attacks then they can, the pkk can spoil the gains planned by the government at this stage because the more people that are dying there is also the people may work for the ruling party condemning the people's democratic party which is the main kurdish party. if pkk declares a unilateral ceasefire as quick as possible, this will serve for turkish
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peace and stability and it will spoil and turn up side down the calculations of the government. now governments of europe are at odds over how to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people who have arrived in europe this year. eu council president tusk says people from war-torn countries could be the beginning of an exodus that could last for years, hundreds of asylum seekers went through police lines with serbia and many more are still stranded in serbia at a camp across the serbia border and are becoming increasingly frustrated. >> reporter: in the weary footsteps of thousands from serbia into hungry and with hope there will be another refugee exodus in austria and germany are diminishing.
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nothing changes here. it's getting worse. hundreds of refugees spent three days in this field guarded by police. waiting for buses to take them to a camp to be registered. the police are refusing to move but there is real anger here. not just among the men but frustration among the mothers, the children who have been here for three days and it's really cold at night. this man has brought his family from afghanistan. eventually they are lined up, preparing to board a bus, then thi this. >> go back. >> excuse me, they are this man's children. >> go back, go back. >> what do you make of this? >> the situation they are not good people. [crying] they are not acting as a human. they are just doing like an animal. this is not a human being.
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>> go, go, come on. >> reporter: nearby syrians are gathered. this man complaining he has been stuck here for two days. >> should make faster administration to take the people to another village or another camp. >> reporter: scuffles breakout after the people decide to protest, trying to break away from the assembly point. this woman says she was beaten with a baton. then a disturbing sight, a sick child in the arms of an exhausted syrian who had run along the rail track shouting for help, the limp five-year-old passed out with either heat exhaustion or fever and he is
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five years old and the mom fears the worth but the boy was revived first by a doctor and paramedics put up a drip before taking him to the hospital. not the first nor the last casualty of this crisis. with no buses the refugees are allowed to march to the registration camp. dozens ran away, some of them chased by police. there will be more scenes like this and hungry's government will soon be introducing new laws to clamp down harder on what it calls illegal migration, andrew simmons, al jazeera, hungry. millions of people who have managed to get to austria have complained about the treatment they received in hungry, and we are joined with some who traveled on trains from nickeldorf to vienna. >> reporter: looking back on what they survived the trauma is not hard to overcome and parents
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cradling the children and mothers and father's are in need of comfort and compassion as sons and daughters. >> translator: took my family out of iraq because i.s.i.l. was getting closer and wanted to protect them, how could i know we would be treated the way we were in hungry. >> reporter: and we were in hell he tells me but the arab countries are to blame. >> translator: they slammed their doors in the faces of all the syrians. >> reporter: he fled war-ravaged syria last month explains how he was never treated worse than he was treated this past week. >> translator: i swear to god hungry humiliated us.
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>> reporter: refugees on the train to vienna relieved are thoroughly exhausted, all of the ones i have spoken with said they never would have believed their journey to this point could have been so hard. for some though moving ahead allows them a moment or two to drop their guard. >> translator: i didn't believe it at first when they told me we would finally get on the train he tells me. i didn't believe it would happen but it did. my niece here said it's the first time she has seen me smile in 15 days. >> reporter: she echoes her uncle telling me just how happy she is. life got better for us she tells me. arriving in vienna refugees know that true healing has yet to begin but this is as good of start as any and they may have reached their destination
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unobstructed but this journey is far from over. >> mohamed joins us live from the train station in vienna and the scene there couldn't be any more different from what the refugees experienced in hungry. >> reporter: it really couldn't. actually laura we have moved location and in front of the interior ministry in austria because there are so many questions from the refugees we have spoken with since yesterday of what is going to happen to them now so we wanted to come and speak directly to officials here and wanted to bring in an against here if i can pan over and this is carl and he is the spokesperson for the ministry here in vienna thank you for being with us. as i mentioned so much confusion about what exactly is going on right now especially in hungry. has the stance of the hungarian government made it more difficult for you to deal with this crisis? >> we face a situation of
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emergency. we do face a serious situation in hungry and this also came up last week on monday when the hungarian authorities gave access to refugees to enter the trains to austria so in that situation last monday almost 4,000 people arrived in vienna and planning to move on to germany. the next step was last weekend, on friday night and the hungarian authorities brought people from budapest by buses to the border to austria and then those people came across the border to austria. and since then from friday night until monday morning according to the registration at the austria and by the police almost 16,000 people arrived at the centers apart from this number of thousands already was passing
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and moving on directly to germany. >> there also have been questions because of the statement that was put out by the government by the chancellor saying at some point we have to return back to normality. can you elaborate on that, what exactly does it mean? is it more difficult for people to cross over? will there be more spot checks? what exactly are we talking about with this? >> we also have to consider the legal framework and the legal framework is the agreement and means we do not have checks within the area but we have some checks along the traffic routes and we have had this before, this crisis situation and we also returned back to normality with yesterday and from yesterday on so we still do not have all the checks but we have checks on the traffic routes within the area. so after last weekend with the
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arrival of almost 20,000 people here in austria with a willingness to move on to germany of course there was no capacity for the austria authorities for these checks along the traffic route because everything has to concentrate on organization issues with regards to those 20,000 people arriving here in austria. >> as far as the refugees that have arrived here today, are they going to be processed here? are they going to be asked to seek asylum here? what is next for them? >> whoever wants to apply for asylum in austria and whoever applies the procedure will start in austria but at the same time we also have to consider that this is a very special situation, a special situation in that case is we have thousands of people in hungry and a misunderstanding with regards to communication with
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german authorities and therefore a big pressure in this group in hungry to move on to germany. this is a very special situation and therefore there are thousands of people moving from hungry to germany, those who want to apply for asylum in austria for those it's possible but it's just a very low number. >> thank you for being with us, we appreciate it. update from the interior ministry in vienna to what the austria government is doing with this refugee crisis and trying to help the thousands of refugees that have been crossing over into vienna these days and back to you laura. >> the latest there in austria. well, another ship carrying thousands of refugees has arrived in greece's port. the ship was bringing in from the island where more than 15,000 people are still stranded waiting to travel on to athens, from there they will head north
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through macedonia, serbia and hungry to seek asylum in other european countries. european countries agreed to take in more refugees despite differences over the proposed quota system and francois hollande says they will take in 24,000 people over the next four years but warns without a unified approach the agreement of free travel across european borrow borders could collapse and received 1,000 asylum seekers in the coming days. and cali seen refugees in britain and the mayor will address uk parliamentary group on tuesday, as those two countries try to reach a solution to the problem. still ahead here on the program. >> translator: before coming here i completely lost hope because doctors in iraq said there was though treatment for me.
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>> reporter: jordan helping more victims recover from severe injuries. plus myanmar martial arts getting popularity in syria. ♪
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hello again the top stories on al jazeera, in turkey ten police officers are dead in a bomb attack on a turkish police mini van and happened in the eastern province and government officials blaming the pkk for the attack. more than 800,000 refugees will arrive in germany this year, that is according to the state premier of the country's biggest state and he says arrival numbers will need to be revised upwards and more than 4,000 people arrived in munick and being put on a train where they will travel on to germany. british secretary michael falon
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could launch more drone attacks if they feel threatened and killed two i.s.i.l. people last month against their own nationals and it was self-defense under international law and we have more. >> answer the call. >> reporter: when i.s.i.l. released a recruiting video last year cann appeared calm and spoke calmly. >> this is a message to the brothers who stayed behind, ask yourselves what prevent you from coming to the land. >> reporter: in clear english he appeals for others to join him in syria and 21-year-old along with another man is now dead, killed in a drone strike in syria carried out by the british military. >> in an act of self-defense and after planning cann was killed
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in an air strike carried on 21st of august by a remote piloted aircraft when he was traveling in a vehicle in the area of rakka and the target of the strike to i.s.i.l. associates were also killed and one was amen and identified as a uk national. >> reporter: the strike approved by the attorney general, the main legal advisor to the kuchlt kuk with the first acknowledged strike on syrian soil by the british. over the past year britain carried out 288 air strikes on iraq against i.s.i.l. fighters. it has also been known to use drones before but two years ago britain's politicians narrowly voted against carrying out military action in syria. >> most of the left 285. [cheering] since then no i.s.i.l. hold in iraq and syria has expanded so
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too have the number of britains travelling to fight with the group. the strike on cann is seen as controversial because of the gray area surrounding the legality of crossing the border and carrying out a strike there, emma hayward. >> reporter: doctors without borders opened a hospital in jordan and helping people in the region and plastic surgery is expensive but offering hope to patients and we report. >> reporter: more conflict in the middle east that badly need treatment than ever and why the international charity doctors without borders set up its own specialized reconstructive hospital and he is 24 and living with a terrible face injury caused by a mortar shell while iraqi forces were fighting in
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anbar. >> translator: they removed some bone from my pelvis to reconstruct my jaw, the next operation is a new nose and the third is teeth and before coming here i lost hope because doctors said there was no treatment for me. i never expected to improve. >> reporter: doctors without borders has also been treating mohamed for years with tens of operations for injuries he sustained during the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003. most of the 150 betz here are already occupied. the region's continuing conflict means the need for hospitals that can treat war injuries is immense and in syria alone more than one million people have been hurt since the conflict started in 2011 according to the u.n. this woman was injured at the start of the conflict in syria but couldn't get proper treatment until now and had two operations and one more in three weeks. >> translator: the mortar shell
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hit our home and the wall crumbled on me while i was sweeping the floor and two surgeries failed and i stayed without treatment for a year and a half before coming here. >> reporter: then there is this person from gaza whose legs were badly injured in an israeli air strike last year. >> translator: i didn't expect to stay alive, every one around me died in the attack and people perished and homes were levelled and i'm lucky to be alive. >> reporter: aims to prevent permanent damage to patients and allow to recover some functionality of their limbs, the project is here to stay. >> there are so many wounded people in syria and yemen that they will need in long-term these kinds of reconstruction of treatment. so we expect this project to last even if the war stops. >> reporter: although the hospital is a blessing for many of the regions war wounded it's also a heartbreaking testimony
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to the huge toll the region's conflict are having on innocent civilians, al jazeera. >> the saudi-led coalition carried out a series of air strikes against rebels in the yemen capitol sanaa. targeted an airforce base controlled by troops loyal to the former president saleh and also damaged homes nearby. protests over nepal's dropped constitution are continuing. it divides the country in seven states and some minority groups feel they will not get enough political or economic power and the ongoing unrest is making it hard for many to earn a living and dana stratford reports. >> reporter: empty streets and police in riot gear is what you see in southern nepal. for more than three weeks strikes here and posed against the federal states under a new
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consultation. last week five protesters shot dead by security forces and since then the town has been under a government curfew. trucks carrying essential supplies stretched back for kilometers on the border and nepal's most important entry point for goods from india and for everyday this place is closed the government loses an estimated $5 million in revenue and the impact has been devastating for the average person. he is a street food vendor. >> without work it's difficult, i used to earn $3-$4 a day and now we cannot buy cooking oil or vegetables. >> reporter: there is not much in our small rented room where she lives with her grandchildren and daughter, outside her house we met someone who also wanted to talk to us. >> translator: it's like living in a jail here. and in a sense you have anger
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and why we are suffering the nepal takes supplies to the center right before our eyes. >> reporter: this is precisely why the violence broke out, with supplies running low people are forced to pay a high price for goods and this cost $40 and locals try to break the zone and security forces reacted, five people died when security forces fired at protesters. now, the anger is at a tipping point. >> translator: it is locals who are participating in the protests and being fueled by competition by political interest groups and to add to that the government is discriminating and also fired up peop people. the demonstrations in kathmandu or the hills the government used peaceful methods and here they use live bullets and that too above the waste. >> reporter: request for
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interviews by district were denied and bodies of five young men killed in protests taken in the district huge crowds came out the street, people from different communities and past and religions were all represented and angered at the authorities was apparent and locals are tired of strikes in turkey and also want the government to respect their aspirations and many we talked to say they hope the government reaches out to agitated parties and gain trust for a lasting solution. al jazeera. north and south korea have agreed to reunite families and join the korean war in the 1950s and they met on monday to negotiate arrangements, 100 people will be selected by each side to take part in the week-long event in october and nearly 130,000 are looking for family in the north since the
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division of the peninsula. myanmar's opposition leader has called on politicians in her country to ensure that november's elections are free and fair. she says the poll will be the first chance in decades to bring about real change in myanmar and asked the international currenty to guaranty a smooth transition after the vote. the last general election was held under military rule in 2010 and widely condemned as rigged in favor of the ruling usdp. you may have heard of thai kick boxing but the distant cousin the traditional marshal art left way is less known and sanctions on myanmar has a low profile but that is slowly changing and we report. >> reporter: once considered the marshal arts of hooligans but defense form has cleaned up its act, no longer considered
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the preserve of village folk this is being embraced in towns and cities too. he is a former left wing fighter and founder of a boxing club that not only trains professionals but to enthusiasts and it's compared to thai kick boxing but there is more rawness in left way, opponents can use all body parts and head butts are allowed. >> what is the difference between that and kick boxing? techniques and the why we fight it without gloves. >> reporter: the front compound of his home is used as the training zone, there is no air conditioning, no fancy machines, much like the sport itself it is down to earth. if this boxing gym can be used as popularity it has grown by leaps and bounds from just when it offered recreation el years ago it has 30 students on a
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weekend. one of the regulars who has been taking left way lessons for more than a year. >> it relieves my stress when i punch. it's kind of relieving my stress. >> reporter: in resent years the sport has been making a name for itself in the international arena. its fame coinciding with myanmar transition from military dictator ship four years ago and a championship a singapore mixed marshal arts including a match that it held and the sport is some way for achieving global recognition and part of the reason may because the bare knuckle boxing style is considerably more robust but less way proponents say the traditional form especially fighting without gloves should be preserved. >> it was a national art which was developed 1,000 years ago. it's a historical legacy for the
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people. >> reporter: and so he does his best promoting left way and making sure the sport stays true to its root. lawrence lee. plenty more news on our website, there it is on your screen, al jazeera.com. about the routine injuries and long-term affects of scholastic sports on young bodies. our dreams of college scholarships and professional glory pushing kids to play more, harder, younger than before. playing the game -