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♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the al jazeera news hour, i'm in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes the u.n. calls for a guaranteed system to relocate refugees in europe, at least 30,000 people are still waiting to be registered in greece. a bomb attack kills at least ten police officers in turkey, a day after the prime minister threatens to wipe out the separatist fighters. >> translator: before coming here i completely lost hope
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because doctors in iraq said there is no treatment for me. >> reporter: the charity hospital in jordan that is helping war victims recover from severe injuries. i'll have all your sport including number three seed andy murray crashes out of the u.s. open and fails to meet a grand slam quarter final for the first time in five years. ♪ now the u.n. is saying an urgent system is required to relocate refugees to ease the worsening crisis in europe. the u.n. unhcr say there are 30,000 refugees on greek islands with 20,000 on the island of lesbo alone and 11,000 syrians have arrived in neighboring
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macedonia on monday. ahead of germany's biggest state northwest falia says the number of refugees arriving in the country this year will be well above the earlier estimate of 800,000. hundreds of asylum seekers have broken through police lines in hungry's southern border close to the border with serbia and more people are stranded within hungry at a camp that is just across the border from serbia and they of course are hoping to reach germany like so many are. as andrew simmons reports they are becoming increasingly frustrated. >> reporter: families following in the wary footsteps of thousands and coming across the border from serbia into hungry and with hope there will be another refugee exodus into austria or germany like the weekend are diminishing. nothing changes here. it's getting worse. hundreds of refugees have spent three days in this field guarded
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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 this. >> stand back, go back. >> excuse me i believe that is 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 animal. this is not a human being. >> go, go, come on.
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>> reporter: nearby syrians are gathered. this man complaining that he has been stuck here for two days. should make faster with administration to take the people to another village, 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 has run along the rail track shouting for help. the limp figure of a five-year-old who passed out either with heat exhaustion or fever. he is five years old and his mother fears the worst yet the boy was revived first by a
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doctor and then paramedics put up a drip before taking him to 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. so many people still within the borders of hungry but there are others out there, mohamed our correspondent who is in the austria capitol and in the border with vienna but signs they are changing their approach to the whole crisis we have been witnessing over resent weeks and saying the emergency situation is now over so what does that mean for refugees arriving in
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austria now? >> reporter: marteen this is really the question that all the refugees are trying to get the answer to here. it's very clear that even the austria government at this point doesn't really have a clearcut path ahead. we spoke last hour with a spokesperson for the interior ministry here and very clearly the government is struggling to kind of come up with a coherent policy to stay within eu rules and to also deal with this influx. now even,000 the austria chancellor says it needs to go to normality the border remains opened here and refugees are here and going on ward in their journey to germany and causing a lot of relief to refugees we have been speaking to especially at this train station but still a lot of refugees in serbia and hungry that are related to some refugees we have spoken with and
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they are quite worried about when they will be reunited with them. yesterday we were on a train with hundreds of refugees that came from border with hungry and arrived in vienna and got a warm welcome when they arrived here but they were very fatigued. it's clear the trauma won't be easy to overcome. parents may have been the ones cradling their children but the fathers and mothers here are obviously are in need of as much comfort and compassion and sons and daughters. >> translator: i took my family out of iraq because i.s.i.l. was getting closer and wanted to protect them. how could i have known we would be treated the way we were in hungry? >> reporter: as they depart on austria's border with hungry resilience slips away and reflection sets in. >> translator: we were in hell and now we are in heaven he tells me.
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>> reporter: but it's the arab countries that are to blame. >> translator: they slammed the door in our faces. they slammed their doors in the faces of all the syrians. >> reporter: he fled war ravaged syria last month explains he was never treated worse than he was this past w k week. >> translator: i swear to god hungry humiliated us. >> reporter: refugees on the train to vienna relieved are also 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 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 and didn't believe it would happen but it did. my niece here said it's the first time she has seen my smile
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in 15 days. she echoes her uncle telling me just how happy she is. life got better for us she tells me. arriving in vienna refugees know true healing has yet to begin but this is as good of start as any. today they may have reached their destination unobstructed but this journey is far from over. >> so people then enjoying a very different kind of reception once they enter austria than they experienced in hungry but not many people seem keen on staying in austria. >> reporter: that is absolutely right, marteen and people we spoke with the past two days said if they could they would stay because of the reception they received but most have
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family members. >> i'm afraid we have lost the sound to mohamed, our correspondent in vienna but got the gist of what the situation is there today but now we can talk to melissa fleming from the united nations high commission for refugees and joins us live now from geneva and looking at the mandate for your organization and your mandate is to provide international and for refugees and say it's conspicuous but its absence in the crisis. >> i would not say we are absent in the crisis, primarily we work in developing countries where 86% of the world refugees are housed. refugees are now coming to a wealthy continent and we are advising europe how to manage it and believe the numbers are manageable. we are actually and have rolled
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out operationally in greece and in the republic of macedonia and serbia to a certain extent in hungry and cannot impose our health where our governments are supposed to be there. >> clearly european countries are not handling it, are they, because we see so many scenes of distress and despair and some of down right cruelty, so what are you urging european countries to do precisely? >> well, absolutely. first of all to support the country's receiving so many refugees. we have 30,000 refugees just on the islands alone in greece. unhcr is there and doing our best but obviously greece needs to be supported. we propose there will be european union led mega reception and registration centers established in greece. we would support that, established also in italy and
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also in hungry whereby the people arriving there could go to these centers, be received in decent humane conditions, they could apply for asylum there but this would only be, only work if european countries come together and agree on a relocation plan if it would be mandatory they would be relocated then once established that they are refugees to participating countries in the european union. >> i understand that and the problem is it's quite evident there is a split between east and west europe. eastern europe doesn't want anything to do with refugees, western europe to varying degrees to take a certain number how will unhcr going to drive the process as i said in the beginning this is your mandate, this is your crisis? >> yeah, it is our mandate, our crisis, but to be honest i just
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went to a press briefing this morning to tell the world we are acutely under funded in syria, in the neighboring countries of syria. only 37% of what we appealed for to help the refugees, the vast majority who are in these countries and this is where much of our work takes place. generally unhcr is not working in the richer countries of the world in shelter and in protection, we are there for advocacy purposes and we have now stepped up operations and it's very obvious greece needs help and macedonia needs help and believe also this is a european, solvable problem that was what the european union was established for and the wealthy countries of europe could help the other countries in need. what was no one prepared for was that the asylum system in the european union as a whole is dysfunctional, that the countries on the shores of
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europe are being vastly over burdened and these are countries, particularly greece, that has its own struggles and need urgent help with this and we are helping and we have a plan, we just need the countries of europe to come together to agree to resolving it. >> thank you for taking the time to talk to us at al jazeera, thank you, if you want to get more information on the entire crisis that we are documenting, not just here on television but also online, you can go to our refugee spotlight page in particular and there you find articles of opinion pieces and there are beautiful photo galleries as well, al jazeera.com is where you will find a lot more on the crisis that is gripping so much of the world today. now to turkey where at least 12 officers have been killed in a bomb attack on a police mini bus. explosion happened in the eastern province here and government is blaming the kurdistan workers on pkk for the
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attack and bernard smith is our correspondent and joins us and so this seems very much as though it's an attack again on the turkey security forces. there have been numerous attacks on turkish establishment, hasn't there, over the past four weeks. >> yes, marteen, this happened as the bus was carrying officers to accustoms post right up on turkey's eastern border up there with armenia and seems a bomb was detonated as the bus went past. no claim of responsibility from this but all attention focused on the separatist and kurdistan workers party, the pkk and they claim responsibility for an attack on the weekend at which 16 turkish soldiers were killed in a different attack and after
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that attack turkish prime minister promised to wipe out the pkk. >> translator: they will be cleared of the terrorists, whatever it takes they will be cleared and our nation should trust the government and state and i ask for your support for the struggle we are engaged in a calm manner. >> reporter: and bernard going back to that attack on the town, mainly kurdish town in the south of the country that triggered this instability in turkey it was after that the turkish government promised to launch a joint program, one of attacking i.s.i.l. in syria as well as dealing with what they consider to be pkk terrorists but they seem to be lacking on one front but rather overactive on the other. >> well, in response to this latest attack the turkish military said it launched a series of air assault on pkk
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targets in northern iraq and the security situation in that part of turkey, eastern part of turkey has got much worse since the elections in june. in the months running up to the elections there was a steady low-level sort of stream of pkk attacks on the turkish military forces where police officers and members of the military had been killed and then after the elections in june the turkish military stepped up its air assault, air attacks on the pkk while also attacking some i.s.i.l. targets as well but most assaults were on pkk targets and at the same time the pkk stepped up its number of attacks on the turkish military and the security forces effectively ending what had been a 2 1/2 year long peace process that had brought calm to that part of turkey and now a much more dangerous situation evolving there and in run up and in the run up to the second set
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of elections this country is having in the beginning of november after those inconclusive results in mid june. >> okay, bernard smith or correspondent in turkey, thank you very much. still to come on this al jazeera news hour the bodies of indonesia migrant workers who drown off malaysia are returned to their families. two british i.s.i.l. fighters killed in the uk's first drone strike against its own nationals. >> i'm richard and going to the rio para olympics. ♪ the saudi-led coalition has carried out a series of air strikes against rebels in the yemeni capitol sanaa. [gunfire] targeted an airforce base
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controlled by troops who are loyal to the former president saleh, the strikes also damaged homes nearby. a t.v. channel meanwhile controlled by the houthi rebels say 12 people were killed in strikes in the central province of id and a residential building was hit in an assault in military base and weapon store. the u.n. children's agency unicef is alarmed by child hunger in yemen and one of the poorest countries in the world before the war even started in march and now months of heavy fighting is really taking its toll on the most volatile and unicef says 96,000 are starving and close to death in the port city and sought nearly 8,000 children will suffer from severe malnutrition in aiden in the next year. and almost 2 million children across the country don't have
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enough food nor water. we can now talk to jeremy hopkins who is the unicef chief in sanaa and the problems sound immense and fairly extensive not just for this generation of course but for the generation to come because malnutrition doesn't go away with one meal, does it? >> no, it doesn't. and as you just outlined the resent results, what we have seen is a doubling or in some cases tripling of malnutrition levels of children under five and represent the next generation and we have 96,000 children who are at severe risk of death and the 8,000 you mentioned in aiden and that is just two governments where we managed to conduct these nutrition surveys in resent weeks and compare with precrisis levels very badly in the sense they doubled or tripled and the most resent time we had levels like this was in the 2011 crisis
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and we are seeing a return of the malnutrition curse on yemen and requires an urgent response. >> that urgent response should be what? >> well, we had a nutrition program part of the crisis. what we are trying to do now is attack the nutrition crisis on a number of fronts. when there is a malnutrition crisis it's indicative of a failure across several factors so the health sector obviously, the water sector because dirty water causes diarrhea and causes malnutrition and education sector in the fact that mothers and parents and older siblings need to know how to look under five children to make sure they stay clean and eat the right food and we are working on all fronts but with the ministry structures and the health clinics across the country we are trying to treat those severe and accusely mall malnutrition children and attacking it with
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peanut base and it's a simple administration and simple to administer, if a child can get the plumpy nut they can be cured of malnutrition. >> good effect in other parts of the world, are you taken aback by the speed with which yemen has found itself in position, it was only in march that the war started. we are now in september and yemen as we pointed out was not rich to begin with but the level of devastation and the deterioration of the health of the population is quite staggering. >> it is, it is. i mean with under five children the cycle, the health cycle in which it moves is much faster than it does for adults and acute malnutrition is different than stunting which is another form and can set in quickly. if a child has diarrhea for a few days he or she will start to lose weight and soon will be
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no moderately malnourished then severe malnourished and can simply die of disease or diarrhea if you like. we had the levels in 2011. we worked very hard with our partners in the ministry of health and other ngos to reduce the levels of malnutrition and succeeded to some extent and doesn't come as a surprise at all that, in fact, sadly in six months we are back down at the levels we had before. >> jeremy of unicef thank you very much indeed. iraqi army shelling has reportedly killed at least 11 civilians in the city of fallujah and four children and five women are among the dead and iraqi forces backed by sh malitia and the group has been in control of fallujah since last year and time to look at
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the weather now and rob is here and following to tropical storms off the japanese coast. >> active typhoon season and is quieting down and we have two storms and one was born not far away, a tropical storm and this cloud doesn't look very much doesn't it and run you 24 hours of satellite picture and develops into a circulation without much of an eyeball, it's not a typhoon but a tropical storm and this is kilo and that storm started as a hurricane and came across the dateline and born in the pacific. however, it is a tropical storm on the way through at the moment. we won't worry about kilo though it's a typhoon, this is a slow and massive moving cloud and does go across and then flat and we saw that a couple weeks ago.
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the current statement and there is already a fairly heavy rain in this part, 228 millimeters in 24 hours and that is not from the heart of this storm so you can repeat that very easily. wednesday is going to be a wet day. the circulation is very obvious and the winds are not a problem, a windy storm and a wet one. evacuations ordered in this part and is no surprise and it will take a day to go across and it had to cross the sea of japan. >> rob, the thai police have taken a suspect in last month's bangkok bombing to four sites as part of their investigation. admitted to a charge of possessing ex cloe explosives but did not plant the bomb that killed 20 people last month and our correspondent is wayne hey in bangkok. >> reporter: common event for thai police and like to bring suspects back to the scene of the crime, on this occasion a
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high profile situation and very high security and a large media contingent here too because the person they brought back to this apartment building is a foreign man picked up on the thai-cambodia border last week reportedly in possession of a chinese passport and he was arrested in connection with the bombing at the shrine in the heart of the city. since then he has according to police confessed to being in possession of illegal explosives and also to actually constructing the bomb that was left at the shrine but the police don't think he was the man who actually placed it inside the grounds of the shrine. so they have brought them here to this apartment block on the outskirts of the capitol city because they say they have forensic evidence that links them to an apartment here that had earlier been raided by the police and another foreign man was arrested. there was also bomb making equipment inside there.
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so as well as the two foreigners who have been arrested police say they are looking for at least ten more suspects. now the uk says it killed two british citizens fighting for i.s.i.l. in syria. this is the first targeted drone strike against its own nationals. the government says the strike was an act of self-defense under international law and emma hayward has more. >> reporter: when i.s.i.l. released a recruiting video last year he appeared calm and spoke calmly. >> this is a message to the brothers who stayed behind. what prevents you from coming to the land. >> reporter: in clear english he appeals for others to join him in syria. kann a 21-year-old along with another man is now dead, killed in a drone strike in syria carried out by the british military. >> today i can inform the house that in an act of self-defense and after meticulous planning
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kann was killed in a precision air strike carried out on the 21st of august by an raf remotely piloted aircraft while he was travelling in a vehicle in the area of raqqa in syria and in addition to the target of the strike two i.s.i.l. associates were also killed and one was a mshmin identified as national. >> reporter: the strike approved by the attorney general, the main legal advisor to the uk in this first acknowledged strike on syrian soil by the british. over the past year britain has 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. >> 272, nos to the left 285.
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[cheering] since then no i.s.i.l. hold in iraq and syria has expanded so too have the number of britains traveling to fight with the group. the strike on kann will be seen as controversial not least because of the gray area surrounding the legality of crossing the border and carrying out a strike in syria, emma hayward al jazeera. >> more to come including the mexican community that fought back against organized crime to bring new life to its forest and the toxic effect of abandon gold mine in south africa that is totaling a community. and makes history at the european championships and we will have the details coming up, later in sport. ♪
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♪ hello again, let's have a look at the top stories at al jazeera, the u.n. special envoy for migration demanded an urgent and immediate response to europe's worst refugee crisis since the second world war and criticized europe for not working together on a cohesive response. number of refugees arriving in the country this year will be well above the current estimate of 800,000 and says arrival numbers will need to be revised up ward. in turkey at least 12 officers are dead in a bomb attack on a police mini bus. the explosion happened in the eastern province of igdir and
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government officials blaming pkk or kurdistan workers party for the attack. armed conflict between turkey and pkk lasted for 30 years until a peace deal was struck to years ago. in march 2013 the jailed leader of pkk announced a ceasefire as part of peace negotiations and in april of that year the pkk said fighters would begin to withdraw from turkey to their bases in northern iraq. in july 2015 a suicide bombing blamed on i.s.i.l. killed 32 people in the kurdish town just inside turkey's border and kurdish groups said the turkish government wasn't doing enough to stop i.s.i.l. operations but days after the bombing the pkk had responsibility for killing two policemen in the city. turkey then launched air strikes against pkk and iraq at the same time as hitting i.s.i.l. in syria. pkk said the strikes spelled the
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end of the peace process. we can speak to a turkish military and security analyst and is live from the turkish capitol and thank you for taking to us, do you agree then that the rather fragile truce that was declared between the pkk and the turkish government has now unravelled to the point to which it cannot be repaired? >> that's right. thank you for having me first. let me say this, i mean, just to start initiation of violence, we started in late july with the bomb and execution of two turkish men by pkk and we see this very sharp escalation of violence and repetition and when you look at the facts on the ground this conflict has been getting much more greener and
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bloodier. >> is it beyond the point of no return, can a peace process of any sort be found at this current moment or is this the end of peace with the pkk? >> that's right. this is the critical question. the people in turkey have been asking, you know, very passionate is this peace process that or can it be a goal and turn back the peace process. i think these questions are extremely relevant with the two other questions. the first one is a question about turkish government. i mean turkish people still trying to look for an answer for this question, why the turkish government has decided so quickly to renounce the peace process and go for sort of a mid rise version of, you know, the story. why turkish government has been so eager to go for armed violence and the other question
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turkey and people trying to answer is that pkk has been so eager to, you know, go with armed violence despite the fact that htp the political wing has been getting well with us in turkey and providing extremely relevant questions and still not answered by our political needs and by the pkk decision makers. so there is sort of a strategy confusion in the turkish society right now. >> i understand that, very interesting point because you cannot it seems look at the situation with regard to the kurdish minority and the armed groups that claim to represent them and you cannot divorce them from the mainstream politics of turkey. >> that is right, that is right and i think i mean i'm an ex military man and i'm saying this htp is a critical instrument, critical actor in turkish
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politics and all these men so i really care about htp experience and i want to say this there is a sort of debate, we need a debate in kurdish politics and high time to discuss the relations in turkey, you know. the civilian needs, the kurdish civilian needs should have sort of an upper hand and democratic and civilian controlled of the armed wing of pkk i think is the key mechanism or factor that we should gain to, you know, at least get things done proper in turkey so it's the debate of the relations in turkey. >> thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us here on al jazeera, thank you. >> thank you, ma'am, thank you. now the bodies of some of the indonesia migrant workers who drown off the coast malaysia are returning home when their
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overloaded boat sank in rough seas and we report in the north. >> reporter: had worked for over a decade in malaysia earning enough money to improve the lives of their families back home. both were models. and waited for hours on the beach for his mother's arrival. she new the illegal crossing was dangero dangerous. >> translator: my mother called me and the one thing that keeps everything in my head is that she asked me to pray for her, please pray for me was her wish because she was afraid. i never got a chance to reply all the things she had done for all of us. >> reporter: the two women said they had no choice but to pay smugglers because their working permits had expired and were afraid of being arrested. their bodies were found by rescuers not far from the malaysia coast.
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>> translator: forced to take this journey because they wanted to return to malaysia to work. they both had a lot of children to take care of. that's why they had the courage to take this barge. >> reporter: working as a mate has managed to earn enough money to build a house, the dream of most migrant workers. millions of people from indonesia choose to work abroad because of better pay and many are illegal due to lengthy and costly procedures to obtain permits. she was four months pregnant when she took the same boat journey home and spent 12 hours at sea hiding below deck. >> translator: they called us one by one and they asked us to sit at the lower part of the boat. we were not allowed to talk and we couldn't move. we sat really cramped and had to keep our heads down. when i took the journey there were many other pregnant women. one was even seven months pregnant and many were throwing
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up. we were all scared. >> reporter: she was lucky enough to survive. she wanted to travel home to celebration the circumcision of her younger son and had not seen her son in four years and now they are separated forever. instead of a long awaited reunion their family had to bury the women who worked so hard to have them. they prayed malaysia will ease regulation for migrant workers so others won't ever be forced again to take the dangerous, illegal route back home. al jazeera. north and south korea agreed to reunite families separated during the korean war in the 1950s and red cross representatives from both countries met on monday to negotiate the arrangement. a hundred people selected by each side to take part in the week-long event in october.
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almost 130,000 south koreans are still looking for family members in the north since the division of the peninsula. now, myanmar's opposition leader has called on politicians in their country to ensure that november's elections are free and fair and says the poll will be the first chance in decades for people to bring about real change in myanmar. she has also asked the international community to guaranty a smooth transition after the vote. more community and mexico is taking on illegal loggers to protect their treesith one of the highest deforest rates in the world and mexico has been plagued by organized crime gangs and john holdman sent this report where they have taken matters into their own hands. >> reporter: taking back what is theirs, tree by tree. the people here in southwest mexico are attempting to repair the damage to their forest caused by illegal loggers.
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ships of 200 people plant trees supplied by the federal government, it's a big change. a few years ago if they even entered the forest the armed gangs who protect the loggers will be waiting. >> translator: survived an ambush which two of his friends were shot dead. >> translator: their death made us continue to fight for our territory. to stop the armed groups taking away what belongs to us. >> reporter: four years ago the people here took matters into their own hands. they attacked the loggers' trucks, forced out the gunmen and local government officials there accused of protecting them. the sound of chain saws echoed across the forest until the people wrestled control from the groups illegally logging here and since then they reforested 100 hectors but a long way to go to repairing all the damage. the town has formed squads of
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forest guards to keep away loggers who destroyed more than half the community's forest over the years. >> translator: this is all destroyed and cut down these trees three months ago. >> reporter: some of the trucks captured from the loggers have been turned into sculptures strung up in the woods, a clear sign of the community's resolve and the unique warning. >> translator: these trucks destroyed the forest and we put them here so the forest can destroy them so our children understand that sooner or later the forest will live again. >> reporter: it's still early days in the fight to save this mexican forest. and the greenhouses are full of more than a million baby trees and each one representing hope for a community taking on the future on its own terms. john holman, al jazeera, mexico. to south africa where
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abandon mines around the largest city the town johanesburg are making people sick and we report from one community that is just meters from a dump site. >> reporter: she says her lungs are failing her. she relies on a machine for oxygen for 16 hours a day to keep her alive. >> very difficult because we can't go anywhere at all. anywhere you have to go you have to take the machine with. this is my life for the rest of my life i have to deal with the machine and sometimes i cannot get out of bed. >> reporter: the dust from neighboring mine dumps in johanesburg made her and others sick and created the largest gold and uranium basin in the world flooded by acid mine drainage and created 300 residue governments containing uranium
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which is toxic and radioactive. >> they are killing us with the scent and we are uncomfortable and hoping somebody can do something for us because we have not got a mouth to speak for ourselves and nobody to represent us. >> reporter: this is a poor community with a high number of unemployed people and limited medical care. the community is surrounded by mine dumps and the closest one is just meters away from roslyn's home and people like here have no where else to go. allen thompson living at a local retirement village and strong winds are a reminder of potential hazards. >> and you can continue sweeping and wiping, whatever, this is a dusty sea and the air is full of dust. >> reporter: federation for a sustainable environment says 1.6 million people here live near or on top of mine residue deposits.
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>> it's widely accepted it goes to lung cancer and exposed to the toxic gas falling out. >> reporter: they have not completed studies on the risk of exposure to the dust but some action has been taken. >> there are companies which actually reclaim minerals from the dust and i think that is the best way forward because it means the dumps are gone forever but should those dumps not be removed and you try to minimize the exposure. >> reporter: until those plans are completed and the environment improves, roslyn is worried that many more from her community could get sick. al jazeera, johanesburg. the age group doctors without borders opened a new reconstructive hospital in jordan and serves war victims from the region completely free of charge and plastic surgery is
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expensive so the hospital is offering hope to its patients and we report. >> there are more victims of conflict in the middle east that need more treatment than ever and why the international charity doctors without borders set up its own specialized reconstruction hospital and from iraq is 24 and living with a terrible face injury caused by a mortar shell while iraqi and government forces were fighting in anbar. >> translator: they removed some bone from my pelvis in order to reconstruct my jaw. my next operation will be a bone transplant for a new nose and a third will give me teeth. before coming here i completely lost hope because doctors in iraq said there is no treatment for me. i never expected to improve. doctors without borders has also been treating mohamed for years. he has had tens of operations for injuries he sustained during the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003. most of the 150 beds are
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occupied and 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 united nations. this old woman was injured at the start of conflict in syria and couldn't get proper treatment until now and she had two operations here and has one more in three weeks. >> translator: the mortar shell hit our home and the whole wall crumbled on me while i was sweeping the floor and two surgeries fade and i stayed without treatment for a year and a half before coming here. >> reporter: from gaza and legs badly injured in an israeli air strike last year. >> translator: i did not expect to stay alive, every one around me died in the attack, people perished and homes were levelled and i'm lucky to be alive. >> reporter: doctors without borders aims to prevent
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permanent damage to patients and allow them to recover some functionality of limbs and the project is here to stay. >> so many wounded people now in syria and iraq and yemen they will need in long-term these kind 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 region's war wounded it's also a heartbreaking testimony to the huge toll the region conflicts are having on innocent civilians, al jazeera. still to come we have the sport news including he has won the georgia championship of $1.5 million and now ricky wants more, details coming up, in sport. ♪
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♪ it's time for the sport news. >> thank you very much. we begin with tennis and andy murray knocked out of the u.s. open and the 2012 champion was beaten in four sets by south africa anderson and started well winning 7-6, 6-3 and murray pulled a setback and winning on a tie break. but anderson held it to take the fourth set on a tie break to beat the first grand slam quarter final and murray the first time he failed to reach this since 2010. >> it was a tough match and the
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court is a lot quicker than ash and i felt like you know i was on the back foot quite a lot and wasn't able to play offensively but, you know, when you play against someone who has a game style that he does you are always going to have to do, you know, a fair bit of defending especially if he serves well. >> reporter: face five seed the current french open champion and young in four sets and the swiss reefing the last eight in new york for the third successive year. roger federer is through and beat the american taking it to two tie breaks and down in 7-6, 7-6, 7-5 and second seed will be in the quarter finals.
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>> not sure i have seen him play as well as he has right now and i really like the way he played in wimbledon and also here i have not seen that much but he played against stan and novak and wimbledon was impressive with good attitude and fighting and good shot selection, i don't know, it was nice. >> serena williams continues her attempt at a grand slam later on tuesday when she takes on sister venus and set up a clash with the former world one and remaining got there and lost the first set to german and needed medical attention on a thigh problem but went in a match that lasted more than 2 1/2 hours. to futbol germany on course for automatic calcification to next year's championships but they were made to work hard for a win
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against scotland and thomas miller put them ahead and twice scotland drew level and scored the game's decisive goal and germany won, 3-2 and top of the group and germany's next game is against ireland. >> translator: we can almost say we are through in 19 points with poland on 17 and ireland on 15, the draw would be sufficient in dublin but that is not german style and we don't play for a draw and don't think we can do that. >> reporter: portugal had 1-0 win in albania and stoppage time and northern ireland never made it to the euro finals and needed late equalizer and romania third. and in golf ricky won this boston and the american took advantage from henry, the sweed
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had been leading but 16th hole hit his tee shot in the water and ended up with a double bogie and winning the third events of the year by one stroke and the georgia bank open is one that will decide the winner of fedex cup playoffs and possible $10 million pay day. >> what would be awesome is to get a good week off and get practice and rested up and get work in the gym and make sure everything is ready to go for the two last events of the playoffs and be great to continue to play well, play well at the farms and ultimately put myself in a position at east lake to win and then have a chance to win the fedexcup playoffs. >> reporter: tony parker made history on monday becoming the highest european basketball championships high scorer and netted france first points against poland and taking the tally to 1032 and managed it in over 60 games and 8 tournaments
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and the san antonio spurs scored 16 points helping france win 69 points to 66. now to a year to the start of para olympics in rio with power lifting to make a big impact and faces an ongoing challenge to catch drug cheats and as we report from kazistan it's a fight that organizers believe they are winning. >> reporter: raising the bartow reach rio, some of the world's best power lifters transport their place to the para olympics and championships here providing many highs and lows. the same could be said about the sport itself. many athletes continue to be caught for doping. >> there is an argument from my said that say they are actually clean because we do 35% testing and people say it's a dirty sport. there are athletes that decide to go on the wrong side of the line and cheat. we don't want them in the sport.
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we don't like them in the sport and we catch them. >> reporter: to help cleanup the sport the international para olympic committee launched two educational committees to raise the bar. >> for athletes it's to engage more with para olympic values and also engage with each other. >> we also have a competition with the program and teach them about the values of doping and check history and the best information about antidoping. >> reporter: on the bench the clean athletes can continue to focus on rio. one of the most successful nations in power lifting is iran and won 25 para olympic metals in london 2012. >> translator: we have very good coaches and well organized training camps in iran and factors in preparing the team to
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win good titles. >> reporter: world and para olympic is iran's star power lifter and he broke his own world record twice and has now done it eight times in the last year and a half and now stands at 295 kilograms and it's a feeling he can lift even heavier. >> translator: that is the secret, i think i will take about 300 kilos at the games. >> reporter: took the silver metal in kazistan and do not be surprised to see the iran flag being raised again next year in rio, al jazeera. let's more sport on the website and for the latest check out al jazeera.com/sport and video clips from correspondents around the world and that is the sport and i will have more later. >> thank you very much indeed and stay with us on al jazeera, i'll be back in just a minute so don't go away. ♪
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♪ the u.n. calls for a guaranteed system to relocate refugees in europe, at least 30,000 people are waiting to be registered in greece. ♪ hello, i'm marteen and live from do what and also coming up, in the program, a bomb attack kills at least ten police officers in turkey a day after the prime minister threatens to wipe out the pkk separatists and toxic effect and abandon gold mine in south africa people
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