>> hello, welcome to the news hour from doha with the world's top news stories. here's what's coming up in the next 60 minutes: >> find your way out of this is not satisfactory. >> the u.n. stresses the need for countries taking in refugees and not just pledging financial help. >> a bomb in turkey kills 12 police officers a day after the government pledges to wipe out p.k.k. fighters.

>> the alarming number of starving children in yemen. >> the abandoned gold mine in africa that's choking a community. >> we begin in europe, and their in tractable refugee crisis, tens of thousands making their way into the continent every day. europe is criticized for not working together on a cohesive response to deal with the flow of refugees. peter sutherland said it's unacceptable that some countries are taking in more than others. >> we should have a european response as part of a global response, and if we aren't joined up in this, it will fail to ameliorate a position which

is not going away, which everyone knows, but which can be greatly improved. we need structures. how is for example at the moment that the assessment of whether a person is or is not a refugee conducted at national level has widely different results in different countries? >> a record 7,000 syrian refugees arrived in the former republic of macedonia. the government has organized trains twice a day to the north of the country where refugees cross into serbia. germ newspaper says more than 800,000 refugees will arrive in the country this year and previous estimates will need to be revised upwards. more than 20,000 people have already arrived over the last weekend. more ships carrying refugees arrived on the greek mainland on

tuesday. the u.n. h.c.r. is saying 30,000 people are stranded on the island, including 20,000 on lesbos alone. that is where we have a report. tell us about the refugees that are seemingly very frustrated at the slow pace of registration once they arrive on to lesbos. >> yes, they are frustrated, but i have to say that now that frustration has eased up a bit. that's simply because over the last, i would say, since yesterday afternoon, mainly, that there is a system that's now in place. the rental station process has increased dramatically. the unhcr and aid agencies have moved everything to a stage which is a bit on the edge of the town here, so thousands of people have been able to register. i've met some people this morning who told me that they had arrived yesterday and had

registered. they need tickets to get on the ferry, so they are, wherever you go around town, you see huge queues of people trying to buy tickets. they do stand for hours trying to buy that ticket, but the frustration is less. you don't have anymore people coming up to you, asking you what are we going to do, how long is this going to last. we haven't seen any marches today. since last night, several ferries have gone, have left here, each more or less with 2,000 to 2500 people onboard. so far, 8,000 people have already left. this ferry will leave shortly. what they do typically is they wait for 2,500 people to be here with their tickets and registration papers and they leave. basically by day's end of 10,000

people and all of those will held to the border in macedonia. that will be the next stumbling block where they're going to have to sit and wait and where frustrations are going to increase again. >> for the greek authorities, as well as the locals in lesbos, what are they saying about this situation? how are they planning on dealing with it and perhaps finding more of a permanent solution? >> that's the question every greek resident of this island asks you about, they say for how long is this going to go, this is a transit point, they do understand that, but they have also been complaining as much as the refugees that there was no system whatsoever here, that the greek authorities seem to have been turning a blind eye. one woman specifically told me this problem has been here for the past two months. it's not something new, and no one has come to do anything, and

she said at the beginning, i used to feel for these refugees. she lives just in front of the port, so everybody was stranded in front of her balcony, and she said i used to help them. i used to bring in families in my garden to feed them. my friends used to do the same thing, now it's too much. she did say i'm very worried, because i have mixed feelings and sometimes i'm beginning to lose my humanity and i don't have anymore compassion towards those people. this is something i heard from many residents of those islands. you see behind me, slightly cleaner, but there's litter everywhere here. there are no son takes whatsoever. we have seen kids really having a private moment just here by the sidewalk, so it is a very desperate situation and the greek islanders are getting very angry about that. >> thank you very much for that update from lesbos. >> refugees in a hungarian camp on the serbian border have

forced their way through police lines. hundreds of people managed to get past them and ran across the feeds. they are trying to get to the capital, budapest. andrew simmons has more. >> families following in the weary footsteps of thousands are coming across the border from serbia into hungary. with any hope, there will be another refugee exodus into germany. >> nothing changes here. it's getting worse. hundreds of refugees have spent three days in this field, guarded by police. waiting for buses to take them to a camp to be registered. there is real anger here not just amongst the men, but among the morlings. the children have been here three days and it's really cold at night.

this man brought his family from afghanistan. they are lined up, waiting to board a bus. then this. >> move back! >> excuse me. >> draw back! >> draw back! >> what do you make of this? >> they are not a good people. they are not acting as a human. they are just doing like animal. this is not a human being. >> go! go! come on! >> nearby, syrians are gathered, this man complains that he has been stuck here for two days. >> they should make faster going administration and take the people to another village, another camp. >> scuffles break out 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 figure of a 5-year-old. he had passed out either with heat exhaustion or fever. he's five years old and his mother fears the worst, yet the boy was revived, first by a 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 were chased by police. there will be more scenes like this and hungary's government will soon be introducing new laws to clamp down harder on what it calls illegal migration.

andrew simmons, al jazeera, hungary. >> hungary is among the european government at adds with germany over just how to deal with the hundreds of thousands of refugees who arrived this year. berlin can cope with 500,000 annually for several years, but german chancellor angela merkel warned there should be a fair distribution across the e.u. >> neither greece nor italy can accommodate the refugees arriving on their borders. switzerland agree we need mandatory quotas. we must ensure they are distributed fairly across the e.u. we are far from that goal. >> let's go to the train station in the austrian capital vienna, where many refugees have arrived from hungary.

>> everybody we've spoken with today say they've really been taken care of. the volunteers that started coming here in the last few days are still here. the medics are still here. let me describe what you are seeing behind me. there is dozens of refugees behind me. the corridor that's created in the distance is for the newly arrived refugees. they are taken over there, medics check them out, aid workers give them clothes, water, they give them blankets, food, anything they need, even toys for the children. today, as it was yesterday, the refugees that i've been speaking with very gratified to the government in austria.

as hard as it's been for them, they put up signs thanking the austrian government and austrian people for taking care of them. yesterday, we spent several hours with refugees that were making their way from this countries border with hungary on a train heading to vienna. here's our report. >> looking back on all they've survived, 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 in need of as much comfort and compassion as their sons and daughters. >> i took my family out of iraq, because isil was getting closer, he tells me. i wanted to protect them. how could i have known we would be treated the way we were in hungary? >> as they depart resilience slips away and reflection sets

in. >> we were in hell and now we're in heaven, he tells me. it's the arab countries that are to blame. they slammed the door in our faces. they slammed their faces in the door of all the syrians. he fled war ravaged syria last month, explains how he's never been treated worse than he was this past week. >> i swear to god, hungary humiliated us, he says. the refugees aboard this train, while relieved are also thoroughly exhausted. all of the ones i've spoken with have said they never would have believed that 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. >> i didn't believe it at first when they told me we'd finally get on taint, he tells me.

i didn't believe it would happen, but it did. my knees here said it's the first time she's seen me smile in 15 days. >> she echos her uncle, telling me just how happy she is. the refugees now that true healing has yet to begin, but this is as good a start as any. today, they may have reached their destination unobstructed, but this journey is for from over. >> austria had previously said it would end its emergency measures and now when the u.n. is calling for more collective response, collective e.u. response to the crisis, have austrian authorities responded to that call? >> earlier today, i spoke with the spokesperson for the interior ministry here in

vienna. he explained to me that one of the problems they're having here is a lack of communication from their neighboring state hungary. he is saying that they have effectively stopped communicating with austria as far as what they will do in this refugee crisis. that's really affecting the logistics that the austrian government are trying to plan for the days to come. now, there's been a lot of concern amongst the refugees i've spoken with about that very statement that you just mentioned, the chancellor of austria came out the other day, saying that there must be a return to normalcy at some point, these extraordinary measures were going to have to cease at some point, but it wasn't clear when that would be. all the austrian officials said look, the border is not going to close, but there will be increased spot checks because they are concerned about the flow of human trafficking and they want to stop any human traffickers trying to get into the country. all that being said, though, one of the things really of most

concern for the refugees i've spoken with in the past days including today is when they will reunite with family members still in serbia or hungary. they are very worried that the hungarians will not let anymore refugees into hungary or out of hungary and they are very worried about when they will see their loved ones next. >> thank you. >> for more information, you can visit our refugee spotlight page with hours and opinion pieces, photo galleries and much more, all on our website, aljazeera.com. >> iraq's deputy justice minister has been kidnapped near baghdad. security fores say he was captured when the car that he was traveling in was ambushed. we have more from baghdad. tell us what police are saying about this kidnapping. >> nobody's claimed responsibility for the kidnapping as yet and the police have released very little details.

in fact what you have just said is really all that we know. this will be really embarrassing for the government. he was a very important person. he was traveling with security as v.i.p.'s do around baghdad and like you say, this took place in broad daylight in the capital. it comes after a spate of kidnappings. last wednesday, 18 turkish workers were kidnapped and two days after, two sheik's kidnapped. the prime minister al abadi is under tremendous pressure from protestors. there have been protests for the past six weeks and across the country. one demand is to try and reform the judicial system. cleanly the deputy minister of the judiciary is a key part of that. whether this was protestors or somebody linked to the protestors trying to put pressure on prime minister al abadi is unknown at the moment. this is highly embarrassing and seems to show there is a rise in

the kidnappings of very important v.i.p. people here in baghdad. >> thank you for that update from baghdad. >> you're with the al jazeera news hour. still ahead: >> if we're coming here, i've completely lost hope. doctors in iraq said there is no treatment for me. >> a charity hospital in jordan is helping victims recover from severe injuries. >> it's a shoppers paradise, but some luxury brands have been forced to close businesses in hong kong. we'll tell you why. >> in turkey, at least 12 police officers have been killed in a bomb attack on a mini bus. that explosion happened in the eastern province. the government was blaming the kurdistan worker says party or p.k.k. for the attack.

this i also just the latest in a string of deadly attacks against turkish security forces. on monday, the turkish prime minister vowed to wipe out the p.k.k. >> whatever it takes, they will be cleared. our nation should trust its government, its state. i ask your support for the struggle we are engaged in in a calm manager. on a checkpoint with the border with or mean i can't, this is the second very serious, large-scale attack on the security forces in the last days. on the weekend, 16 soldiers were killed in another roadside bomb attack, the kurdistan workers party claims responsibility for

that. the turkish military launched airstrikes, 20 targets hitting more than 35p.k.k. fighters killed, according to the turkish military. after that attack, the turkey prime minister promised to wipe out the p.k.k. the security situation has been deteriorating in turkey's eastern provinces, really since the elections, the national elections in turkey in june. in the run up to those elections, there have been increased violence from the p.k.k. targeting security forces. after the elections, turkey at the same time it launched new assaults on isil targets, it also launched assaults, air assaults on p.k.k. positions. as that happened, the p.k.k. stepped up its number of assaults on the turkish military turkish security forces, at least 90 members of the security

forces have been killed now since june and many hundreds of p.k.k. fighters killed at the same time. all of this, the deteriorating security situation comes as turkey prepares for a second national election on the first of november after the elections in june failed to return a majority government and after the ruling ak party was unable to form a coalition out of that election result. >> the u.n. children's agency says it's alarmed by the levels of child hunger in yemen after six months of heavy fighting. unicef saying 96,000 children are staffing or close to death in the port city. it estimates nearly 8,000 children will suffer severe malnutrition in aden in the next year. already, almost 2 million children across the country don't have enough food nor water. fighting is escalating in sanna as the saudi-led coalition steps up its bombardment.

>> another powerful blast rocks sanna, as saudi-led coalition forces intensify strikes on the city. they are targeting houthi rebels and their allies in a struggle for control of yemen. all too often, civilians are caught up in the crossfire. this suburb has been hit, people hurt and livelihoods destroyed. homes and communities reduced to rubble. one of the places people relied on for help has been shot down. the hospital is on the road to the presidential palace and opposite, a special forces camp controlled by the houthis. once having security forces nearby would have he assured safety, now it puts it in the line of fire. >> some people died here during the rocket bombardment. children were killed. we are next door to the special forces, but it is against international law to bomb somewhere near a hospital. >> all the patients have been

moved elsewhere, but those hospitals and clinics were already under pressure, overwhelmed by the never-ending stream of the sick and injured. unicef says the escalating violence and impact on health services means thousands of children are desperately hungry. millions don't have water, almost the entire population. >> the recent results, what we've seen is a double or in some cases tripling of malnutrition levels for children under five, which help the next generation. we have 96,000 children at risk of severe death. >> yemen was already one of the poorest countries in the world before the war broke out. the exiled government has vowed to recapture sanna. the people here just pray for the fighting to be over. al jazeera. >> three people have died in lebanon from an unseasonal sand storm that has engulfed the entire country. there are over 750 reported cases of shortness of breath.

that's as the thick yellow dust cloud moves across the region. many as m asthma sufferer have n taken to hospital. >> it picked up yesterday, still early in the season, called unpresprecedented by the lebanee office. it's because the wind picked up very fine dust from iraq, took it across syria, opposed by a breeze out of the eastern side of the mediterranean. if you like, the dust is quite happily being lifted and thrown around to lot. it is widespread. it was noticed first in the back, these are picture from yesterday and today. it went across in this easterly breeze to the capital, down to beirut. beyond that, it's gone as far as cypress, so conditions there

aren't good, either. obviously jerusalem was involved. it's gone down. this is a satellite picture overlaid. not exactly the same scale, but this is skype press here and there's the coast. this is all sand, all picked up all the way down as far as the northeast of egypt. while in the sky, was, it's blowing around. the wind will be strong tomorrow. until we get fresher air in, it won't clear up. it could well be there throughout wednesday. i suspect by thursday, the breeze would have settled things down a little bit, but nasty and early as you said. >> abandoned mines around south africa's largest city of johannesburg are making people sick. toxic waste has been left to pile up near residential areas for years. one community is just meters from a dump site.

>> ross lynn says her lungs are failing her. she relies on a machine for oxygen for 16 hours a day to keep her alive. >> it's very difficult, because you can't go anywhere at all. anywhere that 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 this machine. sometimes i can't even get up out of bed. >> she said the dust from these mines has made her and others in her community sick. decades of gold mining has created the largest goal and uranium mining basin in the world, now flooded by acid mine drainage. it's close to 300 mine residue deposits containing uranium, tockic and radioactive. >> it's like they're killing us. we just hope somebody can do something for us, because we haven't got a mouth to speak for ourselves. we haven't got anybody to represent us. >> this is a poor community with

a high number of unemployed people and limited medical care. >> the community is surrounded by mine dumps, the closest just meters away from her home. many like her here, have nowhere else to go. >> alan thompson's been living at a local retirement village for eight years. strong winds are a reminder of the potential ha hazards. >> you can carry on sweeping and wiping, whatever, this is the dust you see, but the air is full of dust. >> federation for a sustainable environment says 1.6 million people in johannesburg live near or on top of mine residue deposits. >> it is widely accepted. they are exposed as the ingestion of radioactive and toxic dust fall out. >> studies are not completed on the risk of the exposure to the

dust. some action has been taken. >> there are companies which actually reclaim minerals from the dust. i think that's the best way for it, because then, it means the dumps are gone forever. should those dumps not be removed, you try to minimize exposure. >> until those plans are completed and the environment improves, rosalyn worries that many more from her community could get sick. al jazeera, johannesburg. >> still ahead on the al jazeera news hour, the mexican community that's fought back against organized crime to bring new life to its forest. >> the bodies of crimean migrant workers who drowned off malaysia are returned to loved ones. >> tony parker makes history at the european basketball championships. we'll have all the details in sport.

>> a reminder of the headlines on the al jazeera news hour, refugees in a hungarian camp on the serbian border forced their way through police lines. hundreds managed to get past them and ran across the fields. they are trying to get to the capital, budapest. >> iraq's deputy justice minister has been kidnapped near baghdad. he was captured from the car he was traveling in being ambushed. >> in turkey, 12 police officers have been killed in a bomb attack on a mini bus.

the explosion happened in an eastern province. the government blames the kurdistan workers party, p.k.k. for the attack. let's speak to ryan evans, editor in chief of war on iraq, an on line magazine. when the pro kurdish people department party warns that turkey is swiftly heading toward a disaster, does it have a point? >> yeah, unfortunately, a perfect storm in turkey right now. you have kurdish militant groups on turkey's border in syria wanting to proclaim -- maintain some sort of autonomy. you have kurds in turkey wanting greater rights and kurdish you a to know plea and the end of the truce between the p.k.k. and government and this massive try lens in turkey, syria and iraq.

>> there seems to be a daily attack. how concerning i guess it that violence could spiral out of control. >> i don't think president erdogan understood the extent to which the p.k.k. could make the turkish armed forces and police hurt we have decided to go after the p.k.k. in northern iraq and the y.p.g. across the border in syria. this could be a return to the battle days of the 1980's with low grade civil war between kurdish groups and government. >> do you see a change of strategy when it comes to the p.k.k. specifically after that ceasefire was broken? >> you've seen the turkish armed forces going after the p.k.k. in southeastern iraq and turkey. at the same time, you have turkey's elections looming on the first of november, which con sprints critical can go clause and creates incentives to go after the p.k.k. more strongly than they might otherwise. >> doesn't sound like you have much hope for the prospect of an

immediate ceasefire or one in the short term future. >> this is definitely going to get worse before it gets better. >> thank you very much for joining us from washington. >> thank you. >> the aid group doctors without borders opens a new reconstructive surgery hospital in jordan serving war victims from the region free of charge. reconstructive or plastic surgery is expensive, so the hospital offers hope to patients. we have this report. >> there are more victims of conflict in the middle east that badly need treatment than ever. this is why the international charity doctors without borders has set up its own specialized reconstruction surgery hospital. a 24-year-old is living with a terrible face injury caused by a mortar shell while isil and iraqi government forces were fighting in anbar.

>> they will reconstruct my jaw. my next operation will be a bone transplant for a new nose and a third for teeth. i had completely lost hope because doctors in iraq said there was no treatment for me. i never expected to improve. >> doctors without borders has been treating him for years. he's had operations for injuries he sustained during the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003. >> most of the 150 beds are occupied. the region's continues conflict means a need for hospitals that can treat war injuries is immense. in syria, more than 100 million people have been hurt since the conflict started in cock 11, according to the united nations. >> this old woman was raqqa was injured. she couldn't get proper treatment until foul. she's had two operations here and has one more in three weeks. >> the mortar shell hit our home

and the wall crumbled on me. two surgeries in syria failed and i stayed without treatment for a year and a half before coming here. >> then there's the woman from gaza, whose legs were badly injured in an israeli air strike last year. >> i didn't expect to stay alive. everyone around me died in the attack. people perished and homes were leveled. i'm lucky to be alive. >> doctors without borders says it aims to prevent permanent damage to patients and allow them to recover some functionality of their limbs. the probable is here to stay. >> there are so many wounded people now in syria and iraq and yemen, that they will need in long term this kind of reconstruction of treatment. we expect this project to last, even if the war stops. >> although the hospital is a blessing for many of the region's war wounded, it is also a heartbreaking testimony to the huge tom the region's conflicts

are having on innocent civilians. al jazeera, amman. >> chinese exports and imports contracted in august, the latest sign of weakness for the world's second largest economy, leading to a steep decline in chinese spending power. hong kong is feeling the effects. we have this report. >> along the waterfront is a good prom at her of how much mainland visitors are spending. the news is not good. this man's business is down by more than half. >> we are facing a hard time. the mainland chinese are not spending as easily as before. visitors have less money to spend. hit hardest are the luxury brands with some flagship stores

closing. >> what we're hearing i guess that the high end, july and august performance widening with the decline from 20% to over 30%. >> all shops are suffering. accounting for 95% of its customers, this book shop is totally reliant on mainland visitors. it specializes in titles banned by the chinese government. business is down by 50%, making it harder to pay the rent. >> all the other shop owners are asking for decrease, decrease, cut down the rent and then we are on the same side. >> it is located in one of the stiff's most expensive shopping districts, now seeing big cuts in rents, as landlords struggle, as well. >> this used to be the world's most expensive retail space, but the downturn has pushed hong kong into second place, after new york's fifth avenue. despite the demotion, rents here

are still inflated thanks to china's spending spree and have a lot further to fall. >> a growing number of businesses are banking on their rent coming down before their shutters do. rob mcbride, al jazeera, hong kong. >> thai police have taken a suspect in last months bangkok bombing as part of their investigation. police say he admitted to a charge of possessing explosives, but is not thought to have planted the bomb that killed 20 people last month. we have more. >> this is a common event for the thai police. they like to bring suspects back to the scene of the crime. on this occasion, obviously it is very high profile situation, so very high security and a large media contingent here, too. 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 pat port perfect he was arrested in connection with the bombing. 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. the police don't think that he was the man who actually placed it inside the grounds of the shrine. they have brought him to this apartment block on the outskirts of the capital city, because they say they have forensic evidence has links him 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. as well as the two fortune errs arrested, police are looking for at least 10 more suspects. >> the bodies of crimean migrant workers who drowned off malaysia last week are being returned home. their boat sank in rough seas.

>> they had worked for over a decade in malaysia, earning money also maids to improve the lives of their families back home. both were mothers of four. as her son waited for hours on the beach for his mother's arrival, are knew the illegal crossing was dangerous. >> my mother called me before and the one thing that keeps repeating in my head is that she asked me to pray for her. please pray for me. that was her wish, because she was afraid. i never got a chance to repay all the things she has done for all of us. >> the woman said they had no choice but to face smugglers because their worker permits expired. their bodies were found not far from the malaysian coast. >> they were 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. >> working as a maid, she has earned enough money to build a house, the dream of most migrant workers. millions choose to work abroad because of better pay. many of them are illegal, due to lengthy and costly procedures to obtain working permits. she was four months pregnant when she took the same boat journey home. she spent 12 hours at sea, hiding below deck. >> they called us one by one and 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 we had to keep our heads down. when i took the journey, there were many other pregnant women, one was even seven months pregnant. many were throwing up. we were all scared. >> she was lucky enough to

survive. >> she wanted to travel home to celebrate the circumcision of her youngest son. he hadn't seen his mother for four years. now they are separated forever. >> instead of a long awaited reunion, the families had to bury the women who had worked so hard to help them. they pray malaysia will ease regulations so others won't ever be forced again to take the dangerous, illegal route back home. al jazeera, sumatra. >> north and south korea have agreed to reunite families separated during the korean war in the 1950's. red cross representatives from both countries met monday to negotiate arrangements. 100 people will be selected by each side to take part in the week long event in october. nearly 130,000 south koreans are still looking for family members in the north since the division.

>> colombia's president is willing to meet his venezuelan counterpart over the border crise. it comes when president maduro is cracking down on drug smuggling. he's ordered the closing of a crossing and sent an additional 3,000 troops there. >> while bottom bean and mexican police seized cocaine at airport, sniffer dogs found the drugs which had been died black and registered as ingredients for print cartridges and photo copier toner. it was bound for the mexican state of 16 low i can't. >> authorities in bolivia confiscated one and a half tons of marijuana bound for chile and argentina, found in a trailer truck in the south of the country. four bolivians have been arrested in connection with that

find. >> mexico has been plagued by organized crime gangs. residents are taking matters into their own hands. >> taking it back tree by tree, the people in southwest mexico are attempting to repair the damage to their forest caused by illegal loggers. shifts of 200 people plant trees supplied by the federal government. a few years ago, if they even entered the forest, gangs who protected the loggers would be waiting. >> a man who survived an ambush in which two of his friends were shot dead spoke to us. >> their death made is continue to fight for our territory, to stop the armed groups taking away what belongs to us. >> for years ago, the people of the area took matters into their

own hands. they attacked the loggers' trucks, forced out the gunman and local officials they accused of protecting them. the sound of chain saws echoed across this forest until people wrestled back control of the groups illegally logging here. they've reforested 1,000 hectares, but there's a long way to go to repairing all the damage. the town has squads of forest guards to keep away locallers who destroyed half of the forest over the years. >> this has all been destroyed. they cut down these trees three months ago. >> some of the trucks captured from the loggers have been turned into sculptures strung up in the woods, a clear sign of the community resolve and stern warning. >> these trucks destroyed the

forest and we put them here so the forest can destroy them and so our children understand the forest will live again. >> it's early in the fight to save this forest. the warehouses are full of baby trees, each one representing hope for a community taking on the future on its own terms. john hohman, al jazeera, mexico. >> here's what's coming up on the al jazeera news hour, myanmar's traditional martial arts is gaining popularity. we meet enthusiasts. >> in sport, action from the u.s. open, as number three seed crashes out in the fourth round.

>> you may have heard of thai kick boxing ma. kara: thai, but this is less well known. travel restrictions meant the sport kept a low international profile. that seems to be slowly changing. we have this report.

>> it was once considered the martial arts of hooligans, but the traditional self defense form has cleaned up its act. no longer considered the preserve of village folk, it's embraced in towns and cities, too. a former fighter and founder of a boxing club that not only trains professionals, also offers classes to enthusiasts. the sport is compared to thai kick boxing, but there's more raw in it. opponents can use all body parts and head butts are allowed. >> what is the difference between kick boxing? the difference not only the tactics, but the way we fight. >> the front compound of his home is used as the training zone. there's no air conditioning, no fancy machines. much like the sport itself, it's down to earth. >> if this boxing gym can be used and it's growing by leaps and bounds, from just one student and it offering recreational classes five years ago, it now has an average of 30 students for the weekend. >> one of the regulars has been taking lessons for more than a year. >> it relieves my stress when i punch. it's a kind of relieving my stress as well as make me strong.

>> in recent years, the sport has been making a name for itself in the international arena. its fame coinciding with myanmar's emergence and transition from military dictatorship. one year ago, an organization included a match at an event held. the sport is still some way from achieving global recognition. part of the reason may be because this bare-knuckled boxing style is considerably more robust, but proponents say the traditional form of fighting without gloves should be preserved. >> it was a national art, which was developed 1,000 years ago. it's a historical legacy for myanmar people. >> he does his best, promoting it, but making sure the sport stays true to its roots. al jazeera. >> we have all the other day's

sports stories. >> thank you very much. serena williams will continue her attempt at a calendar grand slam when she takes on sister, venus. the big news monday was the defeat of andy murray, beaten in four sets by a south african in the fourth round. it started in the first two sets. murray pulled a setback on a tie break. anderson held his nerves to take it once again on a tie break to reach his third grand finals. for murray, it's the first time he reached a grand slam since 2010. >> it's a tough match. the course is a lot quicker than ash and i felt like i was on the back foot quite a lot, wasn't able to play that offensively,

but, you know, when you play against someone that's playing and has the game style that he does, you're always going to have to do a fair bit of defending, especially if he serves well. >> anderson will face the number five seed next. the current french open champion saw the challenge in four sets, the last in new york for the third set. >> roger federer is through, the american taking federer after two tie breaks went down in straight sets, a result that guarantees federer a spot in the world tour finals. next up for the second seed is the french player in the quarter finals. >> the romanian lost the first set to the german and needed

medical attention on a thigh problem, but managed to battle back to win in three sets in a match that lasted more than two and a half hours. >> to football, it's a busy day of international football with nine qualifiers for euro 2016 opinion in asia, there are 16 world cup qualifiers. palestinian will kick off against the u.a.e. the match is being played at the stadium in the west bank. it's the first time palestinian has hosted a world cup qualifier. opponents were easily trained at the stadium monday, curveball lead group a with six points, palestinian a third with three points. >> first i welcome our brothers to emirates team to palestinian. i hope we will have a big celebration, because the palestinians need to celebrate. for the game, we have prepared ourselves well with it. in our group, we have five teams who will play and only two teams qualify for the finals and i hope we will reach the finals of

the world cup. >> here's a a quick look at other qualifiers. the nation of guam held to a draw. >> winning the open in boston, the american took advantage of a mistake strom 17 son. the swede had been leading, but on the 16th hole hit his tee shot into the water and ended up with a double bogey. eventually he won his third event of the year by one stroke. it is the second of the four tournament series that will decide the winner of the fedex cup and a possible $10 million payday. >> nba's tony parker became european basketball's highest scorer. he netted points against poland,

setting his tally for 1,032 in over 60 games throughout eight tournaments. the san antonio spurs star went on to score 16 points helping france win 69-66. >> it's a year until the start of the positive are a olympics in rei don't with power lifting set to make a big impact. the sport faces an ongoing challenge. it's a fight organizers believe that they are winning. >> raising the bar to reach rio, some of the world's best power lifters are trying to put their place at next year's paralympics. the championships provide many highs and lows. the same could be set about the sport itself. many athletes continue to be caught for doping. >> there's an argument from my side that say we do 35% testing and people say it is a dirty

sport. there are athletes who decide to go on the wrong side of the line. we'll catch them. >> to help clean the sport, the international paralympic committee launched two educational programs for athletes, and raise the bar. >> for athletes, it's a chance for them to engage more with the paralympic movement amounted values and also engage with each other. >> we teach them about the values. >> on the bench, the clean athletes can continue to focus on rio. >> one of the most successful nations in iran. it won 25 paralympic medals, including four gold at london, 2012. >> we have very good coaches and

well organized training camps, preparing the team to win good titles. >> world and paralympic champion is iran's star power lifter. he broke his own world record twice and has now done it eight times in the last year and a half. he now stands at 295 kilograms and there's a feeling he can lift even heavier. >> that's a secret, but i think i will talk about 300-kilos at the paralympic game. >> his countryman took the silver, so don't be surprised to see the iran flag being raised again next year in rio. al jazeera. >> that is all the sport for now, more later. >> we'll see you later on. do stay with us right here on al jazeera. we're back in just a moment with a full bulletin of news coming your way on all the day's top stories. stay tuned.

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