10s of thousands of people across europe rally in support of refugees coming to the e.u. ♪ ♪ hello. and welcome to al jazeera. live from our headquarters in doha. i am he liz beg. also ahead. we have a report from the turkish city where there is grief and anger after nine days of government bombardment. six months after cyclone pam we'll look at the efforts to rebuild vanauta. plus. >> i am therefore did delighted to declare jeremy colvin elected

as leader of the labor party. >> britain's opposition labor party has a controversial new leader. ♪ ♪ the top u.n. official says 1 million more syrians could be displaced by the end of this year. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for syria, says something must be done to resolve the war on the exodus will continue. on saturday 10s of thousands of people rallied in support of the refugees arriving on the european continent. they gathered in cities from stockholm to budapest and athens to his madrid. barnaby phillips takes us to the largest gathering in london. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it's sample, heartfelt message, that refugees are welcome in britain. the mood was festive being the crowd optimistic, that by come

out in large numbers, they can shame their government in to taking in more refugees. and in particular, syrians fleeing conflict. >> germany and sweden have take then more than their fair sherry believe as a country our size and wealth we should take in the same number. >> basically i put myself in their position and i want want people to treat me well if i happened to have to flee england, that's why i am here real i remember this wa piccadin central london it, took one hour for the crowd to march past op i opposition. the british government it says gives far more in aid than any other country in usual. the thousands of people who have come on the today are saying that's not enough. and that britain should be doing more. but an impressive turn out doesn't mean this crowd is necessarily representative of britain as a whole. many british people feel this

country has taken in too many immigrants in recent years. prime minister david cameron will want to be in step with public opinion on the refugees crisis. for all of the passion on london's streets, he may feel he's done enough to placate his critics. barnaby phillips, al jazeera, in central london. >> more refugees are now arriving at munich's main train station every day. ed to have reached the most welcoming country in europe. germany expecting the most refugees of any european nation this year. it anticipates 40,00 40,000 arrs in weekend alone. 4,000 german soldiers are on stand by to help deal with the unprecedented number of arrivals. while europe is struggling to respond to the influx of refugees, most syrians escaping of conflict are seeking asylum in countries closer to home. turk has the largest number of refugees by far hosting close to 2 million, more than a million

in lebanon where a quarter of population is now a refugees. many in crowded camps near the the border joran iraq and egypt are also hosting ups of thousands of syrians. jordan half received sen thousand people since the start of the year, -- 10,000 people. as nisreen reports, the displaced face an uncertain few herb even after they make it to safety. >> reporter: they came carrying only a few belongings, many said that they had to run for irrelevant for their lives, the latest syrian refugees to his arrive from jordan. all were exhausted. >> translator: life is destroyed in a help open. our homes were demolished. we have nothing left but god's mercy. we left only with the cloth we were wearing. >> reporter: the refugees had to walk several kilometers through the ruck he had know man's land between syria and jordan to get here. their journey inside syria was even more agonizing, they traveled from north to south fleeing it from isil controlled

territory close to turkey. >> translator: syria is miserable. we were escaping air strikes, barrel bombs and isil. we are tired. >> reporter: many also say they left syria because they had no food. >> translator: we ran way from hunger, fatigue and bombard think. >> translator: we came for our brothers in jordan because we could no longer find anything to eat. >> reporter: the jordanian army runs the humanitarian operation at the border it says it has spent more than $700 million on feeding, treating and, transporting refugees beforehanding them over to humanitarian agencies. since the emergence of isil and al-nusra front has become harder for syrian refugees to his make the long and demanding journey to jordan that's because the army has reduced the number of areas where they can get in to jordan from 45 since the start of the conflict to only six now. the army says it has had to prioritize security over humanitarian gestures to prevents what it describes as

terrorists from entering jordan by hiding among the refugees. >> translator: refugees use today come from southern syria, now jefes are coming from areas in the fourth near the turkey border, why won't tuck i open their border, why is only jordan asked to do so. >> reporter: their journal is a far from over. they will be take to secure toy to have background checks run then taken to a refugees camp after they are cleared. many will will stay for years after four years they say they feel violated, humiliate humilid destituted. they have nothing left. al jazeera, on the jordan-syria border. let's move other news now. saudi's king salmon has vowed to find out what caused a crane to collapse killing 107 people on friday. he's toured the damaged grand mosque in mecca to over the investigate in to the accidents.

it happened gaze before millions from around the world visit the holy site. at least 89 killed after two explores in the india state, first a gas cylinder blew up at a crowded restaurant where people were having breakfast. it cause aid second explosion at a nearby building where might detonators were score stored. the restaurant and the building next door were flat end. the. the turkish government has lifted a 9-day curfew. it said it was needed as part of an operation against kurdish fighters many residents say they were fire identified, unavailable to leave homes and run out of food and water think at gerald tan reports the damage caused is only now being revealed. >> reporter: stuck indoors no nine days, the people were finally allowed out. with a government curfew lifted they were able to inspect what was left of the neighborhoods,

many could express only anger and grief. >> translator: armored vehicle would stop in front of our house and start firing randomly and continuously at us. we felt like prisoners. >> reporter: all my children were awake. we ran to the backyard being but they opened fire out. >> translator: we were terrified. we didn't have electricity. we were starving to together. we didn't live. what on earth do br* we do to deserve this? >> reporter: this is a mainly during dish city with a population of more than 100,000, it was sealed off at the turkish military lane offed a bombardment campaign guns fighters from the workers party or p.k.k. fighting has surged after 2-f-year ceasefire collapse ed in july. with the p.k.k. behind a string of attacks one killing 14 police officers in a bomb blast. speaking at the ruling party

congress, the prime minister pledged to continue the fight against the p.k.k. >> translator: we will give severe punishment to his those who attempt to destroy the piece and disturb our citizens by trying to grab turk any to chaos, their head quarters in northern iraq and every place they are gathering in turkey are being wiped out with the operations by the forces of the turkish republic and the turkish army. >> reporter: but there are concerns that silva vinnies are paying too high of a price in these operations. the council of europe is demanding immediate access for observers to object set the impact of the curfew. activists say people were deprived of food, power, and medical care. and subjected to disproportionate use of force. gerald tan, al jazeera. now exactly six months ago a category five cyclone hit the pacific island nation of vanauta, the damage was extensive. al jazeera's andrew thomas was one of the first journalists to

arrive after the cyclone hit. he returned and filed this report. >> reporter: in a couple of days pam will be six months old. she was named after march's storm. baby pam doesn't know any different. for everyone else, the impact of cyclone pam is still obvious. although scarred for van ca iowa true recovery is underway, many houses damaged in march have been put back up. schools have been repaired. temporary classrooms establish established. and in remote communities, there have been celebration songs as health clinics are rebuilt. getting to this point, though, wasn't ease e vanauta is a sparsely populated place, bringing surprise in to the country was only half the battle. >> we had planes that arrived that by regulation can't land on grass, 90% of our airports are grass. and so that made it difficult for relief amounts is a to his say we have this stuff.

we want to deliver it. but we can't. >> reporter: on the island of it took two weeks to arrive. vital surprise are still arriving now. >> reporter: food and water are no longer necessary, butt storm took way livelihoods too. this used to be fence elses all over the island mean being the pigs could be farmed selling them to the capital was the island's second biggest income earner but the cyclone brought the fence down now the pigs are running wild. so new fencing is being brought in, a basic repair to the economy. elsewhere, trucks drive ago cross the ash plain after an will go shouldering volcano brings surprise of seeds and tools them year's el nino weather pat were means less lane potentially a drought and water tank are damaged. >> the time being couldn't be worse, people are directing seeds and it's planting season. >> reporter: people are being encourage today you plant vegetables near their homes so wastewater with be used on them. it's affordable building

materials still needed most, though, we met jimmy in march pulling wood from the ruins of his house. since months on his family lives in a temporary one room shack. >> the problem is money. suddenly i have not enough mony to rebuild my house. >> reporter: foreign governments and individuals donated 10s of millions of dollars in march. but the six month emergency grant, most of that went in to are about to run out. there is, though, plenty of recovery work to do. and the next cyclone season is just two months away. andrew thomas, al jazeera. vanauta. coming up on the bullpen, the search for the missing is called off in china. after last month's massive explosive. plus. >> reporter: i am that arely's los angeles at the venice film festival where juries have astounded critic ed by awarding the prestigious golden lion prize to a first time venezuelan director. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,

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we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. ♪ ♪ good to have you with us, i am elizabeth in doha. these are the top stories on al jazeera. 10s of thousands of people have rallied across europe, calling on their government to his help the refugees arriving on the continent. turkish government has lifted a nine-day curfew. the government says it was needed as part of an operation against kurdish fighters. and vanauta is struggling to rebuild six months after cyclone

pam hit the pacific sigh land nation, some 200,000 people were affected by the deadly tropical storm. hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed. let's return to our top story now. the refugees crisis. five families syrian refugees who wanted asylum in uruguay now say they want to go home. teresa met tell. >> reporter: they came from lebanon last year. five syrian families escaping war. the uruguayan government game them asylum. but now some say they want to leave. a widow with five children, her husband died in the sear generally city of aleppo. she says life in uruguay is not what they were expecting. >> translator: they promised you want everything but there was no future here for me or my children. everything is expensive here. i work, but it's not enough. >> reporter: uruguay received 42 people from syria and the

government. they were given financial assistance for two years. a home, and a promise of a better life. but these people say, that life in uruguay is not what they expected. even though the government has given this refugees a home, they have been spending time in this warehouse, they say they want to go there here for the airport. because here in uruguay their children do not have a future. the government has provided them with uruguayan i.d.s and travel documents. but not all countries recognize them and they denied them entry. maria was a farmer in aleppo. he says he wants thankful for what he was given. but he is afraid of what will happen once the government's help end. >> translator: i ask all the country to his help me give a good living to my kids. uruguay is very expensive. life is expensive. i can't live here. >> reporter: but the human rights secretary here says those

uncertainties are pictured during the adaptation process. >> translator: we believe that after two years people are ready to fly on their own, that's why the state stops supporting them. after that, they can get everything a uruguayan citizen gets. healthcare, education and a house, but we can't give them more privileges than other people because that what generates a problem in their own integration. >> reporter: uruguay is getting ready to receive 72 more syrian refugees. but what is happening with the families already here has raised some concerns. another example that escape conflict is only the beginning of a difficult and long journey ahead. al jazeera. the u.n. special envoy to syria is due to submit his peace plan to the arab look, stephan has spend the past year meeting 2keu6bg9 sides imeetdifferent sk click anconflict.he said there l

agreement that political solution is the only way. but al jazeera has obtain aid leak draft of the plan. it calls for a gradual ceasefire. negotiations will start without a formal pause, but all sides are to commit to not using peril bombs or chemical weapons. the aim would be to reach a permanent seize fire later. the government will then be given a partial corolla how long president bashar al-assad to continue with some function is it also recommends a longer transition the phase leading up to u.n. supervision an interim governing body would run the country. arab foreign ministers will snit a draft resolution on yemen at searched's meeting in cairo, it pushes for dialogue but the exiled government has pulled out of talks, it says it won't negotiate with houthi rebels unless they withdraw from captured territory. the government is backed by saudi-led force on his who want to bomb board the capital.

the strike -- this strike is respect to have harespected to a residence shop area. now, it's been a month since china's worst ever industrial accident which killed 173 people. a series of explosions occurred in a warehouse storing dangerous chemicals in the port in north east china. chinese authorities have end the the search for the eight people still missing after the blast. more than 200 others remain in hospital. adrien brown reports. >> reporter: the epicenter. one month on. the explosions leveled part of the port incinerating vehicles, buildings, shipping containers, and people. smoke was again rising over the disaster zone on thursday afternoon. another unexplained explosion. nearby, we have found specialists testing the air quality. is the air safe today? they left as soon as we started

asking questions saying they had no information about the latest explosion. despite the danger, those forced to evacuate their homes are returning to collect possessions. under the supervision of military police. those possession million dollars many cases now unfit for use. >> i can never use again. >> reporter: you have throw it way? >> throw it for ru rubbishing. >> reporter: because it's contaminated? >> yes. >> reporter: emotions are still raw. >> translator: i feel so sad, my mother is still in the hospital. if my tears could solve all my problems i would cry for a year. >> reporter: the area had been a thriving economic zone. this was the exhibition center, now a showcase for china's worst industrial accident. no one knows for sure, of course, how long the clean up operation will go on for, but it's fair to is assume it could

last for months, no in the years. the air here at the end center has a sort of sweet metallic chemical taste and people nearby that i say they don't know whether the a even outside the exclusion zone is safe to breathe right now. environmental groups say this was a man-made disaster. the result of rapid economic development that put profit ahead of safety. >> i would say it's the negligence of the government to handle this chemical. we have seen that there are a lot of loopholes and shortcomings of how it's managed for now. >> reporter: the government, though, has moved swiftly on the issue of compensation. offering around $400,000 to each of the families of the more than 100 firefighters who perished. a majority of the sick thousand families made homeless have agreed compensation materials. but it's not clear, though, what will happen to the homes they abandoned. we met no one who believed it will ever be safe to return.

adrian brown, al jazeera, in china. foreign ministers from minim germany, russia, france and the kiev government say they have made progress in ukraine peace talks, they held talk in perlin on saturday to prepare for a planned summit in paris on the secretary of october of the german minister said it was less confrontation the and all sides were close to an agreement. >> translator: we hope you craig and russia will stabilize the ceasefire long-term. we would like to talk about details of withdrawing heavy weapons and also like weapons of calibers less than 100 millimeters but also about the question of better access for o.s.c. servers. veteran left winger jeremy corbin is the new leader of britain's opposition labor party. corbin gained 60% of party members' votes in a land slide election that as laurence lee reports he has a tough job

uniting a divided labor party. >> 251! >> reporter: this was the moment british politics became interesting again. a man divided as an out of date left wing dinosaur comprehensively winning the fight to lead the labor party. his opponents who had cast him as a relic surely have to ask themselves in jeremy corbin is such an old fool. how did he manage to win 60% of the vote. corbin himself offered an answer to that question. >> as the media maybe many of us simply didn't understand the views of many young people within our society. they had been written off as a nonpolitical generation who were simply not interested, hence the relatively low turn out and low level of registration of young people in the last generally election. they weren't. they are a very political generation, that were turned off by the a in which politics was

being conducted and not attracted or not interested in it. >> reporter: in an link left-hand what seems entrenched right wing politics corbin is as par for the left as any political leader in ube up. he's against british weapons. he wants a peace conference on syria rather than the government's proposed bombing payment campaign, he's a staunch opponent of the controversial trans at lake tick trade talk. and he demands that big corporations in london stop avoiding tack, he wants the re redistribution of the wealth to the poor. this victory ray was like an oasis of hope in the dirts the brand, core prop program ticked. >> it's a socialist leading lake or party for the first time in third years, what's not yet to like. >> reporter: for the architect of tony players modern party it was a total disaster. >> i think it's almost unconceivable that jeremy corbin

can let load the party to victory in the 2020 election, but are but a huge number of people disagree, they voted for him today. he is the leader the party so he has the right to try to prove people like me wrong. >> reporter: jeremy corbin sporters knows he faces months if not years of open political warfare from many inside even his own party and the corporate media here which by and large despises everything that he stands for. his vision is of a popular movement here taking on entrenched corporate interests from the bottom up. that either means a road back to relevance for the labor party, or potentially the beginning of the funeral procession. corbin himself fresh from victory was on the road immediately with the thousands demanding the u.k. take in more refugees and show the world a companionate face. the westminster machine is not used to anything like this. the question is whether the public so disillusioned with politics, see corbin as the man to fight their corner. laurence lee, al jazeera,

london. now, the golden lion award at the venice film festival has been awarded charlie angela look at the winners and the themes that dominate third degree year's festival. >> reporter: a surprise win for a first-time venezuela director with a film depicting a slow bloom blossom being relation slim between a middle age loaner and a young street kid until now he was unknown. but he will cat butt director lorenzo in to a dick league and give him a huge voice. >> you are having some problems, but we are very positive we are an amazing nation, and we are going to start talking to each other more and we'll go through

i am sure about it. because it's in spanish it will give it much needed international exposure. >> it's too en i go natural i can, a controlled film. i can see why they went for it. it's very strong in what it wants to say. however it's also quite mysterious and a difficult firm if i thinfilmfor people to embrs why i am glad it got this award. the best director went to pablo one were many films based on a true story about a famous kidnapping family and their 19801980s reign of terror dark d brooding. but the biggest applause is for

ghanaian abraham who won best young actor playing a nine-year-old child soldier in the beatthe beasts of no nation. it was his first role but he played an orphaned child forced to kill for an african warlord. bringing to life the he amount end dured by children in uganda and liberia. contrasting with the glamor of the red carpet the films engaged with issues people are very continued concerned about. the screens exploded images of war, conflict, and a vast migration bringing hundreds of thousands of refugees to the shores of europe. and so it should. because film is a universal language and where it can it should shine a spotlight on the is offering of millions. finally there is a bulletin the portuguese city near lisbon has been lit up for the light festival. there are 26 pieces of art a long the so-called path of

light. about 400,000 people are expected to visit the exhibition that is double the city's population. just a remind are now that you can always keep up-to-date with all of the news on our website at aljazeera.com. she sits atop u.s. tennis as chairman of the board, ceo, and president of the united states tennis association. >> it's been 133 years since we were founded, so it is an honor to be the first... i don't think i have to fight for it, uh...i was just being me. >> adams' climb to the top took a decade, and now the first african american and former professional player to lead the national governing body, is busy setting the agenda for her