germany warns it's close to its limits for coping with refugees. controls are reintroduced on the border with austria. registration improvements for refugees in greece, but there's another tragedy that claims 34 lives. hello there. i'm julia mcdonald. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. israeli police clash with palestinian youths in the al aqsa mosque compound in eastern

jerusalem. the dutch debate on assisted dying. how ill should someone be to have the right-to-die? >> the steelworker families suffering from chinese imports to south africa. hello there. a warm welcome to the program. germany's economic minister says the refugee crisis pushed its country to its limits. it's reinstated checks at the border with austria and train service has been suspended. thousands of peep arrived in munich this weekend. authorities say the city is now full to capacity. all this, of course, as the greek coast guard pulls the bodies of 34 refugees out of the sea near the island. now, at least half of the victims there were young children. we'll be live in lesbos with jonah hull shortly.

first paul brennan reports on germany close to capacity. >> very vienna station surndz afternoon. these syrian refugee families are among the last to live before rail services were suspended. there will be no more trains between germany and austria until the pressure of numbers can be reduced. at the other end of line in munich day after day they have welcomed the new arrivals with ep on arms and compassions, but the reception centers are now at full capacity. >> we have here since the 1st of august. we have 63,000 refugees who arrived in munich. >> hours after the rail services were halted, germany's interior minister made an unscheduled announcement. temporary border controls. >> translator: this debt became necessary. the great willingness to help that germany has shown in recent weeks by full-time employees and especially by the many thousands of volunteers must not be

overstrained. the measures taken are also a signal to europe. germany is taking on its humanitarian responsibility, but the burden caused by the huge numbers of refugees must be distributed with solidarity across your. >> proposals for mandatory qu a quotas to share the refugees have failed to gain traction. some eu nations threatening to veto such a scheme. france will take 1,000 refugees from munich, a gesture the mayor described as trivial in the circumstances. >> translator: i don't want to just park these people anywhere. we're still talking about human beings. i want to take care that in my city people don't have to sleep under bridges. that's why it's urgent to get solidarity from the other states and i told french tv it's a triflian offer to take 1,000 people to france. it's not my job to deal with

european partners, ands a call to chancellor merkel to use her influence in the european union. >> reporter: europe is deeply divided on the refugee issues. some accuse them of all being economic migrants. the reality is different. >> i couldn't here because i like germany. i am sad to leave my country. >> reporter: his cousin agrees. no one is happy to leave their country. when syria is rebuilt, i will return there. >> reporter: the eu president said germany's new border controls appeared to be admissible under the rules. he expressed the hope that the temporary measure would indeed be short-lived. interior ministers from the 28-nation bloc will hold an emergency meeting in brussels later on monday to discuss the next step. paul brennan, al jazeera. refugees are still heading for europe's shores in their

thousands and sometimes with traj yik consequences. jonah hull is on the greek ilan of lesbos. what more details-to-about the 34 deaths off the coastline that happened today. >> reporter: a tragic weekend it has been. 34 people killed in a single incident on sunday morning. around half of them children, four of those babies and a number of victims were told were discovered in the hull of the vessel. it was a wooden fishing boat that had capsized, and on saturday another incident, four more children lost between the ages of eight and 13. this is not the first time that there have been fatalities on the journey. the fairly short injujourney wi unfortunately not be the last as people continue undeterred to make these journeys in unseaworthy boat with no experience on the sea even on windy nights and days like this one. there is a glimmer of hope, and that is that on this island of

lesbos a major gait way into europe that only a week or so ago housed tens of thousands in camps. they have their act together and there are a far more humane reception for the people arriving here. here's my report. the pace of arrivals has not slowed, but something else has changed. the pace at which they're able to leave. and the pressure from the u.n.'s refugee agency and the eu police reinforcements now register up to 2,000 people a day. that's almost the same number as though landing on the island from turkey every day. the chaos and disorder of recent days has turned to calm efficiency. >> i'll just take a photocopy with it. >> reporter: do you know that two weeks ago it was very

difficult here? >> my friend was calling me. you don't have to come here because it's really pressured. it's really, really pressured. >> now it's much better? >> i am surprised by what he told me and what i see now. it's really different. >> reporter: the transformation of this camp since he was last here is extraordinary. two weeks ago this was a squall lid woeful place. thousands of people living for days on end with no assistance. now there are decent sanitation facilities, there are proper tents and medical facilities and a feeding station freely distributing food. i hate to think how this man would have coped before. he was shot through both legs in an isil attack at a university in syria.

>> reporter: in germany there are specialist to treat such conditions. >> reporter: the greek government has pushed the ferry governments to lay out more boats. people pay for their tickets, of course. >> in the early morning it was 45 and now they say it is 70. maybe one hour later it will be 80. what should we do? >> you have a long journey ahead of you and a lot of other expenses along the way. >> maybe five or six countries to go to germany. >> in just a few days more than 30,000 refugees and migrants have left lesbos, good news for this island and for them, bat news for the already crowded road ahead that will get even busier. >> jonah, germany has reintroduced the border

controls. will that make any difference? >> reporter: the news will be filtering through as we speak. most people have mobile phones. they communicate readily with people further up the chain on the journey, and, of course, people coming up behind as well. in the last half hour or so, i stood here on the port in lesbos and watched around two and a half thousand people board a ferry for athens in an orderly manner. certainly none of them were deterred. we spoke to one man in particular who came from iraq. i asked him that question. he said, what was he going to do if germany decided to close their borders? he would simply find another way in. he said he had no where else to go and no intention of turning back. i strongly suspect that that will be a feeling commonly held among these very determined people. >> jonah hull live there from lesbos. thank you.

right wing hungarian government passed laws to stop refugees entering the country and soldiers have been stationed on the border there. despite that, there are some who feel solidarity with the refugees in the country. we have the report. >> reporter: if the border gets more chaotic and more sinister by the hour. where the soldiers are as imposing as the razor wire is dangerous, and still, the refugees arrive. hungary's government couldn't have made its position any clearer. but in a church just minutes away, one sunday sermon sends a very dufrnt message. here a floshg is urged to ep on their hearts and homes to refugees. >> translator: what we feel here in ruskae is there's an enormous need for humanitarian aid. we try to help them as much as we can and show sympathy towards the refugees. >> the father says while the

amount of compassion shown has been enormous, he also knows fears are growing. >> translator: they're understandably afraid to some extent with these waves of refugees they see every day. if there's a need for help, they're all here and ready to act. >> reporter: the sentiment may sound simple, but the issue is anything but. in taking this stance, the father isn't just defying his government. he's also defying local church leadership. hungary's cardinal said the church cannot take in refugees as that would constitute human trafficking. even members of the church are conflicted. >> for hungarians here to live together with this many people who are coming. >> reporter: she and her husband are both teachers agree the refugees need help, but disagree with how they're going about seeking refuge. >> they spend a lot of money to come here, but refugees can come

in order in a normal way and not the other way they're trying. >> reporter: outside the church are other reminders to be charitable to the refugees. these signs seek donations for children. the father's faith may be strong, but that doesn't lessen his concern over how the crisis is being handled. >> translator: it's hard to see how this will end and what the solution will be, because we see no guidance from the government as to what a solution would be. >> reporter: down the road on hungary's border with serbia the tensions are rising as fast as this makeshift camp is expanding. to days ago there weren't nearly this many tents or trash piles. here, where hope has been cruelly stopped in its tracks, many barely even have a prayer to cling to.

israeli police have fought with palestinians at the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem. they entered the courtyard to arrest palestinians throwing stones, but the palestinian president has condemned the move, which he says was an attack against worshippers at the holy site. scott hidler has the story. >> reporter: they're all too familiar scenes inside the al aqsa mosque complex. people running from tear gas, the sound of stun grenades. hours before the saturday of rosh hashanah, the jewish new year, israeli police entered the compound. they cleared the area from jews throwing stones and fireworks. >> if our policy only shut down the front doors without entering the mosque whatsoever. our police do patrol the temple

mount area to make sure it's safe because it's in a close area of the western wall where hundreds pray on the other side. i'm talking about the western wall area is necessary for offices to immediately intervene. >> over the years it's become highly politicized. >> translator: there is a small part of the temple mount that it's our duty to preserve. if we need to enter the compound, then it's our religious duty to do so. >> reporter: last week the israeli defense minister banned two muslim civilian groups who patrol the compound, the defenders of islam say they're protecting islam's third holiest site from he extremists. israel accused them of provoking classes. in a statement abbas condemned what he called an attack by israel. the presidency strongly condemned the attack by the occupier's military and police against the al aqsa mosque and

aggression against the faithful there. >> the army is using the fire bombs and tear gas. it is the one that is practicing aggression. on the other hand, what israel is trying to do is impose r impose a system of racism where jewish israelis are given privileges. >> reporter: the flash point that is al aqsa is nothing new. often violence spreads out into other parts of old city with eachside blaming the other. it's a focal point of distruce and tension. still to come here on al jazeera. this arab foreign ministers meet to discuss a resolution to yemen's conflict. the humanitarian crisis. a mural program in the united states that's transforming life and public safety. we'll have all that and more when we come back from the break.

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getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target welcome back. german authorities say they have temporarily reintroduced border controls with austria in a bid to reduce the thousands of refugees trying to get into the country. the greek coast guard has pulled the bodies of 34 refugees out of the sea after a boat capsized off the islands on sunday. israeli police fought with the palestinians at the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem. the sawed sawedly-led

co-legs has a major ground offensive in yemen. it's an oil-rich area about 170 kilometers east of the capital sanaa. the troops are trying to drive out houthi rebels that control the areas along the road that lead to sanaa. the aim of the mission is to ultimately reatake the capital so the exiled president and his cabinet can return. over 4,000 people have died in the war, and as al jazeera reports, the country is in the grip of a deepening humanitarian crisis. >> reporter: survival is using any means possible. in yemen this includes the old way of doing things. for five months supplies of water and electricity have been scare. where once there was plenty, these are difficult times. >> translator: people are having a hard time finding water. we walk for 50 kilometers a day to get supplies to villages and rural areas. >> reporter: the tough

conditions vane stopped people from flocking to military camps. hundreds of people have come it to this training ground hoping to join the military. itself suffering from limited resources. >> translator: we are training people in a way that makes them able to secure the city and defend it from any possible attacks. >> reporter: the fighting with houthis ended a few weeks ago. the destructive intensity all too clear. it's a city that produced three yemeni presidents and a city with a history of armed conflict. now it's looking to its past to face the future. at least two turkish police officers have been killed in a car bombing attack near a checkpoint in the cernak province. security forces blamed fighters from the kurdistan workers party for that attack. authorities in turkey have imposed a new curfew in the

southeastern city of sisra two days after it was lifted. the curfew is in place to secure safety as fighters are arrested. earlier riot police used smoke grenades and water cannons to disperse protesters. people were angry at a curfew imposed there. after the defight of the u.k.'s assisted dying bill on friday, many supporters are looking to the netherlands where the practice is legal. as the parameters in that country widen, some begin to wonder if its getting out of hand. we have the report now from amsterdam. >> reporter: in the netherlands the debate is no longer about if assisted dying should be allowed but about whether more people should be able to end their lives this way. euthanasia has been legal in the netherlands since 2002. it accounts for 1 in 25 deaths,

and the numbers are growing. dr. burt kaiser has helped dozens of people end their lives. euthanasia can be requested on the dutch national health service, but for many doctors it's a daunting task. what do you say to them? >> usually i say for me it's been a privilege to know you. i fund you a very courageous man or woman. i'm glad that i can do this for you. >> reporter: euthanasia is only allowed under certain conditions. a person has unbearable pain and their illness is incurable and they make the decision to die in full consciousness. every year here in the netherlands the boundaries surrounding euthanasia widen even further. what began has a means to help people terminally ill extends to other people. people suffering from mental illness like depression and demeant sha opening up a new debate. she lost her husband two months

ago. he was one of holland's best-loved poets and musicians. he suffered with severe depression. he's the first high-profile dutch person with a mental illness to be allowed youth naz euthanasia. >> he was really peaceful and ready to go and he was full with love. he didn't have any fear anymore. >> reporter: since it was legalized, 40,000 dutch people have been granted euthanasia. the catholic and cal vannist churching have been opposed to it. they believe it poses vulnerable people to abuse. objections are now voiced by those who helped to shape the law, such as the dutch emphasis. >> the law was designed to be -- to be for extreme emergencies. what we see now after ten or 15 years experience in the netherlands is that euthanasia is now becoming a default option for dying.

>> most dutch people sea euthanasia as a fundamental right, a means to give dignity to the dying. after opening the doors to ut naz ya, the country is testing the boundaries and definition of unbearable suffering and when it's right to end it. lee barker, al jazeera, amsterdam. japan's prime minister has visited the area worst affected by recent flooding. shinzo abe says seeing the situation firsthand brought home the scale of the devastation and the floods in eastern japan are some of the worst in 60 years. at least three people have been killed and thousands forced to leave their homes. police say at least nine people have been killed in pakistan after an explosion on a busy road. it happened in the city of moltan when a motorcycle hit a ricksh rickshaw. they believe it was carrying an explosive material. there's no immediate claim of responsibility there.

south africa's steel industry is facing massive job cuts, more than 30,000 positions at risk and many blame cheap steel imports from china. we have the report on how the cuts are affecting families in johannesburg. >> reporter: this steelworker is spending his day off from work with his family. he's been a furnace operator for 14 years, but now there's no work. >> we got affected about the imports. the number of steel coming into the country is what we're a victim of because of the people that used to order from us, now they order from outside of the country. because of it, we don't have orders. >> reporter: he's been promised he'll be moved to another plant, but he's worried. >> i'm doing what i can at home, and everybody is depends on me. when i look at future of my kids, i don't see anything good about it. if i were to lose any job, that means the other one will suffer

more. >> reporter: south africa's steel sector employs almost 200,000 people but it's in big industry. he's one of thousands of workers that could be laid off in the next few months. the steel sector is struggle to survive in tough market conditions. with more than 70% of this community alone dependent on the industry, businesses and unions are scrambling to save joes. with a devalued currency and low manufacturing cost, chinese steel is flooding the market and threatening local jobs. steel imports have gone up by 20% in the last year. unions want government to protect the local industry by hiking tariffs and banning the exportation of scrap. >> we view this as nothing less than a national crisis. we think that in south africa for any person who has a job to support five to six extended families. also, if you allow this industry

to be destroyed, it will take more than ten years to try and rebuild it. >> reporter: there may not be a clear-cut solution. >> the thing is that if you give protection at the beginning of the pipeline, everybody down the line will suffer from it. when you protect your economies, normally you get price escalation and lower growth, et cetera. so there is a danger that if we go too far, again, to the other side with the pendulum that we will run into the same constraints. >> reporter: the union says so far the response from government appears to be positive. with talks resuming weeks from now, he faces an anxious wait. al jazeera, johannesburg. the u.s. city of fill telephone has commissioned a mural of pope francis to commemorate his visit this month. the artwork is part a new public arts program. we have the report. >> reporter: it may look like a lonely job, but for philadelphia-based artist david mcshane, making murals is all

about community. he's putting the finishing touches on this piece sell bralting of baseball team. almost like every work commissioned, the creation involved hundreds peechl from the design phase through the execution. >> if i was an artist and the audience would be relatively on the outside of the wall that's limitless. >> the city has become known for the murals supported by a combination of public funding and private donations. the subjects vary widely from black history to suicide. unlike most public art, which is reserved for prominent parks or city centers, philadelphia's murals can be found all over the city in poor neighborhoods and even in parking lots. the idea is that art is for everyone. the murals are paint odd cloth

squares before being hung outside. about two-thirds of this one honoring pope francis will be completed ahead of his visit. those that come to see him in september are invited to help with the rest. >> basically when people come, they will be produced the murals at the time when this is all here, they can point out and say, hey, i painted that. >> jane geeden started the program in the '90s to stop graffiti, but it's become so much more thanks to the work with prison inmates, school children and mentally ill. >> i believe what we're trying to do is everybody the city in the best way possible, and let's face it. the issues that philadelphia faces are issues that cities around the world are grappling with. it's often the role of ennovation and creativity that makes a difference. >> transforming public spaces and in doing so transforming

lives. kristen, al jazeera, philadelphia, pennsylvania. you can find out much more on our website. see the main story about germany imposes border controls and we have plenty of interviews on that throughout the rest of the evening at aljazeera.com. the nuclear agreement that iran signed with the united states and five other world powers is a big complicated deal that's taken years to arrive at and some people as i'm sure you've gleaned really hate it. the bottom line is if government of iran has agreed to slow down its nuclear program dramatically in exchange for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. i spent two weeks in iran as the details of this deal were being ironed out.