we have to accept these people on the european territory. >> the european commission president proposes a mandatory system for 160,000 refugees. ♪ you are watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also coming up, an exclusive report, al jazeera spends a night on turkey's southeastern coast with refugees risking their lives trying to reach europe. rebels in syria seize an air base from the government after a two-year battle.

>> it's so amazing, and so beautiful, but it's also so tough. >> from island to island from dawn to dusk, more people are joining a new sport. ♪ let's begin with the latest on europe's staggering refugee crisis. there is a proposal that 160,000 asylum seekers will be described among e.u. member countries. the number to be resettled depends on that nation's wealth, unemployment rate, and the number of asylums already processed.

germany has already backed the deal, saying it expects to deal with more than 800,000 this year alone. sweden is also in favor. it has taken the highest number of refugees, but the czech republic, slovakia, and romania has opposed the idea. so has hungary who is building a fence to keep people out. let's listen to what the european commission president has said earlier. >> it's 160,000. that's the number europeans have to take in charge and have to take in their house, and i really hope that this time everyone will be on board. no rhetorics. action is what is needed for the time being. [ applause ]

>> jacky rowland says the refugee crisis is the responsibility of the arab league. >> it starts at 40,000 and then it has gone up to 160,000. we know at the moment we have 500,000 immigrants on the borders. how many are we expected to take? the report said actually africa is poised with 1 to 2 million people coming. it undermines our identity and culture. it has to be sorted out within the arab states. i think the arab states and league should be stepping up. >> reporter: lebanon, 25% of the population now of lebanon are syrian refugees. jordan, turkey, egypt, they are taking their share, aren't they? >> absolutely. but the uae hasn't, kuwait

qatar, why are they kn not. the situation in syria, you have the factions fighting, you have the arab spring, and in this place they talk about getting people around the table. there has been a 1400's war. how do they think they can get around the table and sort this out? we can't. and that's why the arab league and the nations have to step up and take responsibility. >> reporter: we heard from marine le pen saying, in fact, acknowledging that france and other nato countries have a big responsibility to pay, baring in

mind their action in libya, and maybe their inaction in syria. >> we should provide camps and humanitarian relief actually in the arab states in those countries in the edge and then get the people around the table. we no what sar cosey and blare did. and we're feeling that terrorism in our own country. thousands are still making the crossing to the greek islands. bernard smith spent a night on the coast and met some of those preparing to make that attempt. >> reporter: it a deeply affecting sight, a family preparing to risk everything to make it to europe. children far too young to be doing something like this. a baby who will never remember this night, if he or she makes

it. we counted 17 people from one afghan family, all to be squeezed into the dingy. they are on turkey's aegean coast, about 12 kilometers from the greek island of kos. we're afraid of dying, of course. some died recently but dying is much better than starving here. but there's a problem, their outboard motor won't start. they begin packing up. the family tells us they are a minority targeted by afghanistan's taliban. they have tried making a life in turkey for the last three years, they say. but apart from syrians, turkey does not accept refugees. there is no way for them to settle legally here. >> translator: even if i'm in the usa, or england, or

elsewhere, i will go back to my country if there is no war. i promise you. my daughter is student. in europe they know about humanity. they will help us. so we'll try again and again. if they catch us a hundred times, we will try a hundred times. >> reporter: the family is desperate to leave and decides to try to fix the engine. they are making their own way to kos, to avoid being ripped off by smugglers. but the engine won't start. the family will sleep here tonight. then a few minute's drive along the coast, we find another group. they are wet. clearly the trip hasn't gone well, and they are frustrated to be back in turkey. they are syrians. they salvaged their life vests, but their boat is left to drift off. to see what these people go

through to try to make it to kos, well, it's impossible not to be moved really, and you know that now that they have been forced to come back to turkey, because they didn't make it this time, they will risk it again. they will risk their lives again to try to make it to europe. with dawn, we see another boat. it's packed and low in the water. it's passengers are paddling furiously. some are bailing out water with shoes. kos is in the distance. maybe these people will make it. but then the turkish coast guard appears, and the refugees are taken on board. their dreams of a new life in europe are frustrated for now. bernard smith, al jazeera, on turkey's aegean coast. the leader of turkey's prokurdish people's democratic

party says it has become impossible to hold elections in november. there is a scene of constant fighting since the ceasefire collapsed in july. the marks follow a turkish attack on the party's headquarters. they were protesting on recent attacks on security forces by the pkk. demonstrators accuse the party of being the political wing of the pkk. [ inaudible ] is the hdp spokesman. he is joining us on the line. thanks for being with us on al jazeera. surely all of this escalation must be very disappointing. >> hello. >> can you tell me your opinion on this latest escalation of represents that is happening?

>> actually those attacks in the last two days is the result of turkish [ inaudible ] and turkish president continues the [ inaudible ] of the turkey's [ inaudible ] holding our party responsible for the ongoing clashes in the [ inaudible ] pkk, and the turkey security forces. however, our party has for years been standing up to bring the war to an end. we have already declared that we are [ inaudible ] and we have no effect on what the pkk does, the

reshufrp shun of the armed fighting. >> i do apologize, but i'll have to ask you to stop, because i'm afraid the audio is not very clear on that line from turkey. but thank you for joining us on al jazeera. let's tell you what is going on in nepal, because five people have been shot dead by police has a fresh protests broke out over the constitution. police fired shots and tear gas to disperse the crowd. our correspondent joins us on the telephone from kathmandu to tell us what more is going on there. >> reporter: the entire area has been protesting. in the past 34 days across nepal, 34 people have died in the past 33 days. that's more than one person per

day. that's the death rate. police have been accused of using excessive force, and today some activists have [ inaudible ] and the supreme court has issued a show of cause notice to [ inaudible ] on -- on the issue of using excessive force against civilians. >> and as for the draft constitution, why does it stand now, and why are protesters angry about it? >> reporter: well, the political leaders have been trying to push a fast track draft constitution. people are angry, especially the marginalized groups and the women are angry. that's because especially the

marginallized groups feel many of the agreements that have been made have not been met, but people in the communities and areas where the demands have been made haven't been met. so that has been the anger for a while. >> okay. sabina to thank you for that. earlier women hit the streets of kathmandu to protest citizenship rights. and sabina filed this report. >> reporter: these women are singing about why they are not giving citizenship rights to single women. thousand of people have gathered to demand that women be treated as equal citizens of this country. the fight has been going on for many years, the provision was

nepali men or women could pass on citizenship to their children, but recent amendments to the constitution, means that only men will be able to pass the citizenship to their children, but not the same for nepali women. >> translator: i have been fighting for our daughter's citizenship for years. every time i go to the authorities they insult me. they ask me where my husband is. they focus on the 20 minutes it took me to conceive the baby, but ignore the 20 years i have been raising my daughter. >> reporter: it is impossible -- earlier we talked to an advocate. >> we want a provision that allows women to be able to live in the country despite getting married to a foreign national. the same applies to [ inaudible ] foreign national. the children get nepal

citizenship, but in the case of women, if they get married to a foreign national, then they can't stay in the country, because the foreign national is not aloud citizenship in nepal, and they are exiled from the country itself. >> reporter: nepal already has more than 4 million people who do not have citizenship, and are effectively stateless. with this provision, activists say the numbers could be projected to as high as 8 million. and the women say they feel nothing but betrayed by this government. police in india are investigating claims that two nepali maids were raped by a saudi diplomat. the saudi arabia embassy says the charges are false. it's unclear whether the official has diplomatic immunity. you are with al jazeera,

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>> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. the top stories on al jazeera. the president has announced a mandatory plan to resettle 160,000 refugees. this comes as police in hungary continue to struggle with the high number of refugees.

in nepal, live people have been shot dead by police as fresh protests broke out over a new draft constitution. an air base in syria has fallen to rebels. it cappertured the base after a two-year battle. al-qaeda's syrian affiliate has already captured most of the province. a former u.s. department of defense analyst says the loss of this air base is a major blow to the assad regime. >> the rebel strategy seems to be to force assad's forces to withdraw. one the provincial capitol was lost, you saw a -- a push, a

renewed push by the rebel forces to enter the gateway of -- of the coastal heartland where a significant portion of the assad regimes constituents lie. so this is a political and strat strategically embarrassing loss. this is a wide spectrum of rebel forces. now that being said, these are the same groups, the same rebel groups are also fighting isil, also known as daesh in northern syria. specifically in the aleppo countryside. we saw a injuries of air strikes in an area where the rebel forces are fighting isil. when you talk to rebels they will tell you that they are squeezed between isis on one hand and the assad regime on

another flank. so certainly relieving that pressure allows them to concentra concentrate more of their resources. >> protesters in lebanon are demonstrating outside of parliament, the country's mp's are meeting to try to address the issues that have lead to a protest movement called you stink. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: like thousands of young lebanese, this man blames the government accusing officials of trying to get rich rather than serve the people. he is one of several activists who started a hunger strike last wednesday. they are part of a larger protest movement that has been demanding the resignation of the minister, initially over the rubbish crisis, but now with wider themes of corruption and

incompetence. six days into the hunger strike, he fainted and was taken to hospital. there the police paid him a visit. >> translator: i lost consciousness, when i got to the hospital, they put me on a drip. the police came and started questioning me, asking me why am i on strike, telling me i should end it, because it's a waste of time. >> reporter: this was the first hunger striker. he has one basic demand. >> i want the minister to resign, because i want to start the principle of accountability. i don't have any plan b, when my voice becomes loader physically, maybe it will become louder. >> reporter: lebanon has been caught in a political paralysis, the country has been without a president for over a year, that and the failure of the government to provide basic services is what has pushed so many people to take to the

streets. on wednesday the speaker of parliament will try to re - re -- resolve only of these issues, but it's unlikely things are change. >> they have no solution, and the primary reason is because there's no accountability in the system. every time they get together they collude against the citizens. so what we need is a third force that could break this and hold them accountable. >> reporter: at the prime minister's office what has now become a daily event, people bringing their rubbish bags and dumping them on the prime minister's doorsteps. as we have been explaining, it's not just the rubbish crisis, here power cuts can last for up to 12 hours a day, and more and more people it seem have had enough of the political system and it's failure to provide for them. back at the hunger striker's

camp, josef tries to keep his comrades entertains. he raps and free styles hoping his words and gestures send a clear message. rwanda's supreme court says it will hear a case that challenges plans to allow the president to run for a third term. parliament has voted to change the constitution, but there's stiff opposition to the movement. catherine soi reports. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine rwanda without this president. he seems to have brought stability and development in a country that was in turmoil following a genocide. he is winding up what is meant to be his last term in office. the election was in 2017, but the debate to have him stay is already dominating politics. >> translator: we respect the

constitution, but if it's changed to allow him to run again, we'll agree with that. >> translator: it's for us to decide, and we are happy to change it. >> translator: i don't see why the constitution needs to be changed. >> reporter: parliament is not in session now, but it has started a process that could see a section of the constitution that limits a presidential mandate to two terms. members of parliament say the 3.8 million rwandans signed a petition asking for this change. parliament is just the start of a long process. there's going to be a commission set up to look into parts of the constitution that deal with presidential term limits and eventually there will be a referendum where rwanda's get to choose for themselves critics say he is trying to hold on to power using parliament. the president himself has not

publicly declared his intention. >> elsewhere we get the pressure to remove you. for him -- there is pressure for him to stay. so he would have to measure the pressures of the international community with what his people want. >> reporter: but some don't agree. the opposition party has asked the supreme court to block the process that has been started by parliament. the petition reads that the constitution only allows a referendum to change the duration of a presidential term, not the number of terms. >> if it was [ inaudible ] by the people, we would not have a process. but the process is clear evidence it was started by the people within the government. people within the cabinet, even from the parliament and senate. they are the ones who have been behind this move. >> reporter: the move is not openly or widely supported here, and chances of a victory are slim, but they say they won't

give up. passengers on board a british airways jet liner have had a lucky escape after the engine caught fire in las vegas. the plane was leaving for london when smoke and flames engulfed the cockpit. all passenger and crew evacuated using emergency slides. british airways say the plane suffered technical difficulty. when we hear of endurance sports, there is a new discipline in sweden that is gaining a reputation as one of the toughest in the world. it's called swim run. paul rees explains. >> reporter: crossing this finish could soon become one of the biggest prizes in endurance racing. swedish for island to island is the world championships for the new sport of swim one. teams swim and run over 26

islands, a total of 75 kilometers. in just its tenth year the sport is rapidly becoming a craze. >> it's so amazing and so beautiful, but it's also so tough. >> it's love hate. >> yeah. >> i mean that swimming today was just so brutal. the water got so cold and it was so wavy and it just never ended. >> reporter: swim runners reckon this to be much tougher than the likes of an ironman or ultra marathon. now just the running part of this race is 65 kilometers. that's 1.5 marathons in a wetsuit over slippery rocks. you can see why this is considered one of the most extreme races in the world. the first in 2006 had just nine teams, now there are 240 people competing with a waiting list of

more than a thousand. final preparations are just before dawn so the athletes have a chance to reach the finish line before nightfall even if some of the 26 nationalities aren't used to the conditions. >> i'm really happy just to finish. >> yeah. >> people are training back home, hopping from one lagoon to another island. people just -- the fisherman just say what are these guys doing swimming in their shoes and running in a wetsuit. >> reporter: swim run began as a drunken debt between four sweden friends. a decade or so later, more and more people are jumping on board. >> we have seen a big change within the last three years, where it became a sport in the last three years. before that it was just a race. >> reporter: the new swedish canadian world champions completing their island hopping in just shy of eight hours.

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