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european ministers are due to hold emergy talks on refugees, as germany imposes border controls to stem the tide. hello there, you are watching al jazeera live from doha. also coming up on the program. under pressure, australian prime minister tony abbott is facing another leadership challenge by one of his senior ministers. the afghan taliban say they freed more than 400 prisoners after storming a jail. and novak djokovic wins his
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10th grand slam title after a thrilling u.s. open final. ♪ ♪ european ministers are due to meet in pressels for an emergency meet on the ground how to deal with the biggest refugees crisis since the second world war. every day thousands of refugees are arriving on european shores. and are moving north through the european union in search of haven but are facing resistence. germany which had opened its doors wide now appears to be closing them. it's reintroduced border controls and temporarily suspended train services to and from austria, saying it's struggling to cope. it says refugees cannot be allowed to choose which states where they want asylum a view
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that's shared by many in germany. >> translator: we already taken in the most refugees in europe. sure, if we have space, we should take in more, but i would south you distribute refugees fairly within the e.u. not all should come to germany. >> translator: we need to change the causes in the countries of origin so they have condition this is to make a life worth living. germany can take in even more refugees. we have the capacity. >> translator: we have massive problems with migrants, people come here can't cope because of different culturing, sooner are later there be a clash the curr tulles. >> rob reynolds joins us live outside a munich train station and austrian refugees no longer are able to take the trained from austria in to germany. why does germany seem to be changing its mind about accepting syrian refugees. >> reporter: well, ostensibly the reason is that the number of refugees who came in over the past week is simply overwhelming
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the system. germany is not set up to take in 10,000 or more refugees a day. there is no place to put them. the state of bavaria where i am now has been complaining loudly to the central government in berlin that there is no more room at the inn essentially. and there has to be a place found to put them. no refugees are allowed on board the trains. we have heard reports of several hundred refugees taken off a train in austria in salts berg g near the german border and taken instead to temporarily house ed in a parking structure, a garage of some sort. we have heard also reports of refugees from syria striking out on foot to cross the mountainous
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border between austria and bavaria and in the building we mind, this hulking railway station, shiulie, there is the reception sent, a kind of initial place for refugees to walk in, it's still full of donated flank et cetera and clothes and shoes, and a big pile of soft toys, teddy bears and things like that that had been given out to children. that's all still there, but the refugees are just not coming through. so it's a rather poignant scene real. >> i indeed. and obviously, how to deal with the refugees cries sit what ministers will be discussing in brussels rock, but we do know that 10s of thousands of refugees have his made it to munich in a short space of time. what will happen to them? >> reporter: well, some of them have already been disbursed to other places. there is a big conference center trade exhibition hall just
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outside of town where cots and beds have been set up and refugees are being housed. that's one of the primary places. some people in munich have taken refugees in to their homes and other refugees have simply struck out on their open, they want to move onto other places where they have relatives or friends and they have some sort of connection and away to start a knew life. you could look at the move by germany, this dramatic about face and u-turn from its previous open door policy to refugees. as a kind of way of dramatizing and putting political pressure on this meeting of e.u. ministers which is taking place in brussels, to try to forge some common refugees policy. that is certainly a possibility in the mind of the german government. >> rob, thanks very much indeed for that. rob reynolds in munich there.
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well, most of those seeking refuge are from war torn syria, we look at how the refugees crisis compares do the overall number of syrians in need. >> syria had a population of 22 million people in 2011. but there is a different picture now after four years of a brutal civil war. 12 million people have been forced from their homes, that's more than half the population. close to 8 million of them have sought refuge within syria of those up terminally displaced 3 1/2 million are children, the rest 4 million people have fled to neighboring countries. turkey has taken in the most close to 2 million. more than a million are in lebanon while jordan, iraq and egypt all have refugees numbering in the hundreds of thousands, compare it to the number of syrian refugees in europe or trying to get there. and italy smaller. the u.n. refugees agency says
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almost 350,000 syrians have applied for asylum in europe over the last four years, but even accounting for the thousands more trying to make it to europe every day, as a percentage europe has taken just over 3% of the 12 million syrians in urgent need of help. stefanie dekker joins us now from the syrian-turkey border. stephanie, a lot of syrians crossing over that border, just describe the scenes there for us. what's happening? >> reporter: well, we are actually seeing something of a reverse flow here at the moment. just behind me is a processing point, we -- i'll just step out of the way and we can show you geography of it. syrian refugees who have been living in turkey some tell us a year, up to two years, even longer, want to go back in syria. now, the refugees camp is right next door. this host a of people. the jointer of refugees inside
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turkey, almost 2 million people live outside these camps. and that means that they have to fend for themselves. and this is what we are being told by the people behind me who want to go back to syria today to places lying idlib, aleppo, they say it's becoming incredibly difficult to live here. the turkish government doesn't give them formal paperworks. because they will tell you that they have their own workforce that is struggling to work, unemployment is high. so they are finding it very difficult to survive in the cities, they say there is a backlash from turkish people making them feel very unkel womb. unwell come. they say they would rather die in syria than to go to the european union. one lady we spoke to who was going to aleppo to visit her family and was going come back she says i am not leaving turkey, i hear these horrible stories of people dieing on the way to europe but also syria is just across the way, we are a fuel kilometers from syria, they don't want to leave their home land very far behind remember still some hope that this war
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will end at some point. but, of course, the reality on the ground is not proving much hope any time in the near future for that extent. >> and stephanie, just briefly, clearly turkey is bearing the bankrupt of a lot of these refugees coming over and struggling financially, does turkey blame europe for not taking anymore refugees voluntarily? >> reporter: turkey has always said it can't do it alone. turkey as i said, almost 2 million refugees. they spent $6 billion dealing with this. people will tell you would when it comes to the reception they have had at the camps, there is water, electricity at this, health services, but only around 275,000 of those almost 2 million live in these camps. there is only so much the turkish government can do. they have been calling on our up to help them. now this flow of people has reached european shores in a way you can say the neighboring countries are full and only so much they can do. people can't fit them in
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anywhere else. so there is a sense here that perhaps now that europe is starting to feel what the neighboring countries have been feeling for over four years now, will that actually change anything? again, if we put it in to the bigger context. all of these refugees you speak to whether here in syria, crossing in to europe, we would are they would rather be at home. so unless it gets solved, politically and unless there is political will to really try and solve it, it will be very difficult, but this flow will continue to happen and that is what anyone will tell i. any agency, people monitoring this, this will continue to go on for years unless that crisis is solved. >> okay, steph, thanks very much indeed for that. stefanie dekker there on the syrian-turkey border. now, the british prime minister has visited a refugees camp in lebanon hosting syrians who have been escaping the war. david cameron make his first visit to lebanon met a family who were due to the flown for the u.k.
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lebanon has been struggling to cope with the scale crisis. cameron promise today speed up the process to accept 20,000 200 refugees over the next five years. raw en prime minister tony abbott is facing a challenge for the leadership of the liberal party. communications minister, malcolm turnbull resigned from the cabinet on monday and asked abbott to step aside. he says he's losing confidence in the prime minister's management of the economy think andrew thomas is following developments from sydney. so, andrew, what is tony abbott's responsible to this leadership challenge? >> reporter: we are still waiting, shiulie, he was supposed to get a press conference an hour and 15 minutes ago, that was the word from his office in response to mall company turnbull's statement over two hours ago that he was challenge the prime minister on for his job, that hasn't happened yet practice press conference, we can assume he's phoning piss m.p.s finding out if he has their
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support. that is what matters in australia. if you have the m.p.s, you stay in you don't you lose it think up until now tony abbott has had the support of the m.p.s but does he anymore. there is rampant speculation that key figures in the government no longer have con fins in the prime shipster. with them go other m.p.s as well. we are know expecting him to step up any moment in about five minutes i am just being told. so five minutes time we should hear from the prime minister as to whether he is going to fight off in his word the leadership challenge, from malcolm turn bum or whether he will resign. it could be as imminent as that. >> okay. if there is a change in leadership, what kind of policy changes could that mean? >> reporter: well, i ran quickly
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through some of the reasons why mall company turnbull said that he was challenging tony abbott. abbott is not doing well in opinion polls and on track to lose the next election. to the opposition labor party and said that tony abbott has not done a good enough job of selling his message little state of the economy is not as good it should be and tony abbott doesn't given the people confidence in the economy. the prime minister is on the right. his biggest achievement has been to stop refugees think doing to all is al jazeera in his eyes, and he he is skeptical of global warming he was caught on a microphone joke big rising sea levels and affect it might have on pacific island neighbor that didn't go down very well with them as you can imagine. malcolm turnbull the man
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challenging him is more of a sin trist figure. he would make climate change more of a priority. would change the person leading the anything management. the finance minister here and would do a better job of selling that as he'll. tony abbott has decided things unilaterally one that didn't go down well as out in australia was appointing prince philip the husband of the british queen and the australian queen a as well s a knight. a very strange thing to do in manies'ize. malcolm says it's distracting and he will get the policies right. >> hopefully we will hear from tony abbott as you say in the next five to 10 minutes, for the moment, a andrew, thank you. the african taliban says it's freed more than 430
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prisoners, it says it used gunmen and bombers to storm the prison in eastern gaffney province. four afghan police officers the killed and several others wounded. our correspondent jennifer glasse is in can bull. >> reporter: a coordinated attack on the prison on the outskirts of the city started at 2:00 mount morning the taliban detonated a car bomb and then 10 taliban attackers assaulted the prison freeze hundreds of prisoners, among them taliban commander, failed suicide bombers and other taliban fighters. security was already bad before this incident, those freed taliban, dozens of them will not improvement the situation at all and highlights how fragile security is across afghanistan that the taliban can carry out such a coordinate ahead tack on a prison, fighting in health that continues in the north in the east it's been a very, very brutal year for afghan security forces. nato puts the number of afghan police and army dead and wounded
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at 15,000 so far this year. that's an average of 22 afghan soldiers being killed a day across afghanistan. numbers that analysts here say are just unsustainable. and one of the big challenges for the new government president as it approaches the anniversary of its first year in power it knows that security say key for afghanistan if it wants to move forward and get any stability here. still to come on the program the debate on assisted dieing. how ill do you have to be to earn the right to die? stay with us.
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his response to the leadership challenge made by his former communications minister malcolm turnbull. let's go to an due thomas, there will be a ballot for the leadership and deputy leadership positions and tony abbott says i intends to win. >> reporter: well, there you go. he's fighting on. he's obviously spent the last hour or two phoning his m.m.s and obviously feels that he has a fighting chance in an election against malcolm turnbull the man who is challenging him for the top job. the ballot the prime minister said it would be in the next couple of hours, it's 6:00 sydney time. we anticipate a ballot in the next three or four hours and know whether tony abbott is prime minister or loses the job to malcolm turnbull. interesting in that statement he said we are not the labor party. that was a referencd, of course, to the tussle over the leadership of the labor party when they were in government
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between kevin who started off as leader in 2007, who lost it to his deputy julia. are in 2009 and then won it back from her in 2013 and it was a lot of that disfunctions in the labor party that effectively handed government to tony abbott's opposition party in 2013. we are not the labor party tony abbott said that is the strongest argument that he has effectively for keeping him. that's his message to his m.p.s, we should know in two or three hours time whether that message enough. >> i was going to ask you, is there a sense of which way this could go in the liberal party? are there a lot of mps who do believe that he has mishandled the economy? >> reporter: i just missed the end of your question, sorry, shiulie. >> i was asking if there was a feeling within the liberal party that tony abbott had made misjudgements over the handling of the economy and other issues?
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>> reporter: well, certainly. the economy is not going very well in australia. the minding downturn, the lack of demands from china to things liar iron or research has hit the australian economy very hard. the currency has plummeted in recent months and, more importantly, perhaps, where there are positive signs the in economy the unemployment rate is still pretty low, for example, the government isn't seen as having done a good enough job of selling that message remember a free trait agreement with china which the lib hal party the governing party feels is very, very good news is now not going down very well in some sections of the australian public. and they can't understand why. they think it should be good news and they happening tony abbott is getting distracted by silly things and not selling this central economic message. tony abbott is very much on the right of his party. he's very skeptical about climate change, makes national security a pop prore on it. he's slogan is stopping the boats of refugees coming to australia, he has stopped them
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but in very draw down vinnie ways he sells them to prisonerses to other countries. malcolm is a centrist figure, takes climate change more seriously is more companionate towards refugees. whether the m.p.s in the rib lat right center party think that tony abbott is definitely going to lose the next election, which at the. >> day is what they will decide this ballot upon, whether they think they need to go to malcolm turnbull, that will be determined probably in about two or three hours time. it's on, the prime minister ship of australia. could change very shortly. >> okay, yeah, the prime minister fighting for his position, that vote later today andrew, thank you. a description security forces say they accidentally shot at a convoy of tourists killing 12 people in' air strike the next can foreign minister says two of the victims were mechanics cans. the shooting happened during a security operation operation in the western desert.
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egypt says security forces firing from a helicopter gun ship mistook the convoy for what they called terrorist elements, those that were injured in the tack are being treat ed in hospital, the mexican president enrico peña neito condemned the tack on his twitter account describing it as a tragic defense. john hulman gave us the reaction from the mexican government. >> reporter: it's late sunday here, so there have been no government officials actually coming out to speak about this. but there have been statements especially on twitter the mexican president said that he was demanding a thorough investigation from egyptian authorities over what has happened here and he's also said that he is adding to the diplomatic sort of personnel in egypt to attend to the people that have been injured in them. of coursthis. of course he has to say those two things the reality is there isn't much of a diplomatic relationship between egypt and mexico what, there is is a positive trading in one trail
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things. so the repercussions of this, what seems to be a than i can sort of accident more than anything, don't at this stage appear to be something that's going to magnify in the coming weeks. tensions are still high around the compound after israeli forces stormed the site for the third time in 24 hours. on sunday morning, israeli police threw stun grenades in to a mosque inside the holy site in occupied east jerusalem think they the they entered to arrest 358 stun vinnies throwing stones and fireworks, palestinian president mahmoud abbas condemned it as a an attack on prisoner. opposition forces in syria have at that the point stepped up thr campaign to take a help on. troops loyal to assad still have the upper hand while areas ran by the rebels face constants shelling. >> reporter: this part of aleppo has been under rebel control for four years. but it's far from safe.
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government troops shell the area constantly. barrel bombs have destroyed entire neighborhoods. life on the ground is tough. she lost her house during an air strike, she now lives in a community building. each day she walks four miles to a charity that delivers food aid and without to the needy. there are shortages everywhere. but a school principal and music tutor wants his students not to lose hope. here he's making sure that the school girls are ready for the end of year party. >> translator: many people have left because of the government air strikes and civilians, barrel bombs detroit everything. the target -- they target residence shop are shall areas on purpose i was in a building
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that collapsed after it was hit by a missile but i am lucky i am still alive. >> reporter: this was a neighborhood bustingalling with activity. many have left. some to turkey, others to remote villages. there are also those who were forced to leave whether isil captured some rebel-held areas. >> ice and assad are the sale thing, they are destroyed the country. isil forms people to go but aim staying, floss way i will leave. i was born mere. >> reporter: aleppo is divided. the rebels have made a few gained, but each time they advance, isil steps in, taking more territory. for those that remain, this is a don flick without end. an ongoing cycle of death and destruction,.
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the governor of california has di declared a state of emergency as raining wild fires continue to spread in the north of the drought-ridden u.s. state. thousands have been forced to flee the flames driven by high winds and soaring temperatures, 12 blazes are currently burping. most notably in the californian village of middle up to, the wild fired have destroyed hundreds of homes and mobilized thousands of firefighters. one of japan's most active volcanos has begun to erupt. these are the latest pictures on the southern island. sending plumes of black smoke two-kilometers in the air. there are no reports of casualties at this state. the recently restarted nuclear plant which is around 160-kilometers away is so far unaffected by the eruption. now, swiss and u.s. prosecutors are expected to hold a press conference in zurich about the fifa corruption inquiry. in may, seven football executives were arrested as part
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i've u.s. investigate. they included fifa vice president jeffrey webb. in total 14 defendants charged with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering. novak djokovic has been the u.s. tennis champion for the second time in his career, he beat roger fed never new york, richar parr reports. >> roger federer. >> reporter: roger federer and novak djokovic took to the carter for the u.s. open final. it was djokovic's fourth grand slam final of the season, his defeat in the french open. [ inaudible ] early in this match, fortunately he only suffered from scrapes and bruises. still managed to win the opening set 6-4. it was the first time federer had dropped a set in the tournament. djokovic had beaten federer the last grand slam final wimbledon
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in four sets. while at the age of 34, federer had credited part of his lon longevity to increased sleep and he was wide a wang the in the second set as he level the match taking it 7-5. a 5-time u.s. open champion the new york crowd was firmly behind federer but it didn't stop djokovic he whop the third set 6-4. and the fourth djokovic went 5-2 up on arthur ash. and wild felderrer go got a brek back it wasn't enough. joke such claimed the set 6-4 to win his 10th grand slam title. >> it's a huge relief in the end which i saw the return going o out. i will try to enjoy this as as much as i can. >> i am disappointed. i had my chances i could never been down in the score the way i was, but novak did a great job
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of fending them off. it was a tough night. but still, still thrilling. >> reporter: this is djokovic's sixth final at flushing meadows and the second time u.s. champion. >> it's still months before college football season kicks off, but the team at northwestern university is in the middle of a 40 hour work week. >> they are traveling more than even 10 years ago, they're being asked to sacrifice more they're asked to treat their sport as a year-round endeavor. so the demands on them are so intense that it has put them in a situation where it's like a fight or die situation. >> players earn no pay other than a scholarship to attend class. their coach, pat fitzgerald, says that's compensation enough