♪ european ministers prepare for emergency talks on refugees as germany imposes border controls leaving thousands in legal limbo. ♪ i'm julie and you are watching al jazeera live from doha and also coming up, on the program. >> i will be a candidate and i expect to win. >> reporter: australia prime minister tony abbot faces another leadership challenge and a decision is expected this hour. >> on the great wall of china, i'll be telling you why 30% of the historic monument has gone

missing and further still i'll be telling you where it has gone. >> reporter: and djokovic wins his tenth grand slam title after a thrilling u.s. open final. ♪ european union ministers are in brussels for an emergency meeting on refugee crisis. on the table a controversial plan that could impose binding quotas on member states forcings them to take in more refugees and eastern european countries are against that. everyday thousands of refugees are arriving on european shores, most of those are from war-ravaged syria. >> translator: we are struggling here just to survive, struggling to find work, it's degreating, humiliating, our home is a tiny little room. the conditions are terrible and it's still expensive. in syria i used to go to school.

here in lebanon i can't go to school. you need money. all i'm asking is for help to relocate us. it doesn't matter where, just out of here, we are not living, this is not life. >> reporter: as the refugees move north through the european union they are enduring terrible conditions and resistance and hungary and eastern european country oppose plans to take in more refugees and germany which opened its doors appears to be closing them and reintroduced border controls and temporarily suspended train services to and from austria saying it's struggling to cope and saying refugees can't choose where they want asylum and a view shared by many in germany. >> translator: we have taken the most refugees in europe and if we have space we can take more but you must distribute them fairly in the eu and not all should come to germany. >> translator: we need to

change origin to have conditions to make a life worth living and germany can take more refugee, we have the capacity. >> translator: we have massive problems with migrants and they cannot cope because of different cultures and sooner or later there will be a clash on cultures. >> reporter: and the ministers have been arriving on what most likely will be a very contentious debate. >> reporter: it is. in fact, this is one of the greatest crisis really that has faced the european union, it's extraordinary that the european union survived the euro zone crisis and greek debt crisis and yet this crisis over the tens and hundreds of thousands of refugees and other immigrants have been flooding into the euro zone the eu over the past year and actually stretched and stretching the unity of the european union to its limits.

when you think about the mood just a few weeks ago when that iconic photo emerged of the three-year-old syrian child who drown and washed up on a beach in turkey it seems that the mood is changing. his aunt is actually in brussels today visiting at a time that coincides with this important meeting of interior and justice ministers and she reminded europe of its duty to show compassion and humanity to tens of thousands of syrians who are still making that periless journey. >> it's heartbreaking and, again, it's too late to save allen who is a brother but it's not too late to save millions of them if they need that help. >> reporter: well, as i said in the europe really looking in disarray here because after all one of the key values of europe

is freedom of movement and particularly in the area, 26 nations as to which people are allowed to travel to move without actually showing any travel documents. now the fact that germany decided to reimpose those border checks on the one hand it's a logical question and clearly germany said we have been absolutely swamped, 63,000 asylum seekers arriving in september alone, that is more than the whole of 2014 but clearly it's not just a logistical measure it's also a political measure. i think germany is sending a warning to eastern europe and if you want to freely move into eastern europe and right of free movement which is really valued by polls, check, countries of eastern europe and move into western europe we insist you also take on your re responsibility of sharing

refugees and you are right it's going to be difficult fight and people are not optimistic we will get an agreement at the end of the meeting. >> thanks for that, joy jackie in brussels there and we have the secretary-general of the council of europe, the regional organization promoting human rights, democracy and rule of law in the continent and says countriey countries can contro it but ill treating people cannot be tolerated. >> it has to be met with some very solid messages put in place, reception centers where these people are arriving so that they can be revisited and so that they can be distributed further to all the countries. otherwise the countries in europe will continue to push the people back and on the shoulder and this is a very unfortunate situation and we have to keep in

mind the fact that all those who arrive on the european continent they are immediately under the protection of the european convention and human rights so all the member states they have an obligation to protect these people in the human way. that doesn't mean that everybody has a right to asylum but they have to be treated as human beings regardless of being asylum seekers or a migrant or also if you don't have a paper it doesn't mean that you have or without rights. it is not allowed to discriminate people on the ground of religion, color of the skin or where they come from and all have the same rights and someone cannot say that, okay, we take this by christian and leave out the muslims. well, there may be a security

risk but that cannot be done by selecting only the christians that come to the continent. >> reporter: well, as we mentioned many of the refugees coming to europe are from syria and their first point in the journey is through turkey and stephanie decker has the latest from the syrian turkish border. >> reporter: what people are telling us here is a very different story we are hearing from the refugees trying to get to the european union. we are at the border crossing just a few kilometers away from syria and some have been here a year, two years and want to go back to syria, this is a processing point at the border and want to go today and what they are saying is that life here is incredibly difficult and they don't get work permits and cannot work legally and also complain of the treatment. turkey is hosting almost two million syrian refugees. there is a camp just behind us that most of the people do not live in camps, they are on their own, they need to find their own way in cities and towns and

don't get assistance and cannot work legally and the message here is we would rather die in syria than go to the eu. britain appointed a minister to over see the resetselment of 20,000 refugees over 15 years and david cameron has been visiting a refugee camp in lebanon hosting syrians escaping the war and lebanon struggling to scope with the scale of the process and cameron promised the uk will speed up its resettlement process. now australian prime minister tony abbot facing a vote on the liberal party shortly and malcolm resigned from the cabinet and asked abbot to step aside and says he is losing confidence in the economy and the balance behind closed doors sell shun of party leader and deputy leader. >> ultimately the prime minister has not been capable of providing the economic leadership our nation needs, he

has not been capable of providing the economic confidence that business needs. >> the prime ministership of this country is not a prize or a play thing to be demanded. it should be something which is earned by a vote of the australia people. there will be a party room ballot for both the leadership and deputy leadership positions later this evening. i will be a candidate and i expect to win. >> reporter: and andrew thomas is in sidney and andrew tony abbot sounding confident there but could he face a bit of a rattle? >> well, there are a hundred members of the party who sit in parliament who will decide this election probably in about five minute's time and we have not beneficially told that but

networks say 9:15 in the evening and it's 9:10 and have a ballot and should have a result in 20 minutes from now and that is a very good question because this is a real time drama going on behind closed doors as they talk and in radio and going on television to persuade not just the general public by colleagues watching adjust listening to broadcasts of which way they should vote based on what they vote because everyone wants to back the winner because on television this is too close to tell, both sides say their man has the numbers, both sides of course can't be right, somebody is going to emerge with victory and somebody is not, tony abbot for the right and malcolm from the left of his party, it really is a battle for those two wins to see who is going to be prime minister in a 25 minute or so

time. >> okay, andrew and just stay there for us for a minute and let's remind our viewers about the several political leadership challenges which we have seen over the last few years, in 2010 the then prime minister kevin rudd was challenged and defeated by julia in a labor party room vote, two years later kevin rudd challenged for the leadership and lost but in 2013 rudd got enough support from his labor colleagues to unseat him and a few months later rudd lost to leader tony abbot in parliamentary electiboparliamen elections and he held on in february and now faces a fresh challenge and andrew i mean australian politics have been described in the past as being quite chaotic and seems to be rather a lot of the leadership challenges.

>> well, if the prime minister of australia changes in about 20 minutes time that will be the fifth change in what six years in what is thought of as a relatively stable democratic country, quite remarkable times and one of the ways that tony abbot has weighted them to vote over the labor party in 2013 is saying the labor government is dysfunctional because it changed leaders so many times and here is the liberal party, the governing party that tony abbot leads doing the same thing and already has been a challenge to tony abbot's leadership earlier this year but without a formal declared candidate and without a formal candidate tony abbot was only able to attract 60% of his own mp to support him so it does seem if malcolm has done his homework and believes he has now persuaded a small number of mps to do this and can get over the

line this time, supporters on television and radio here saying that they want to maintain a stable government, they are not the labor party and don't change leaders like that party did and they believe therefore tony abbot should remain prime minister and he doesn't see it like that. what will change in policy? both right wing for a right sense of government but malcolm is seen as a softer character, tony abbot hard line and former boxer at university and taken that attitude into his office of prime minister and tough on refugees sending them to prisons in other countries, very firm about national security and very convinced that i.s.i.s. poses a real and presents danger both in the middle east and also in australia and all these things malcolm will address and he is seen as much more considerate towards the environment.

tony abbot very skeptical about climate change is good for humanity and hates wind farms and that will change in the next 25 minutes or so. >> we will stand by that and thank you very much indeed for that. still to come here on al jazeera the afghan taliban say they freed hundreds of inmates after storming a prison. plus the mexican president condemns an egyptian attack on a tourist convoy that left two of its citizens dead. ♪

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♪ welcome back, let's remind you of the top stories on al jazeera, eu ministers arriving in brussels to discuss the refugee crisis. germany says it will maintain its strict new border controls for at least several weeks as it cannot cope with record number of asylum seekers and hundreds of thousands of refugees traveled through europe hoping to cross into germany and temporarily reinstate border controls with hungary and this is where refugees are waiting to board buses to vienna and prime minister tony abbot called for a vote on leadership and communications minister malcolm resigned from the cabinet and asked abbot to step aside and let's talk more tablet the europe's refugee crisis of migration and director of the global community engagement and

resilience fund and good to have you with us and do you think first of all there can be a plan all eu countries agree on because we have seen different plans how refugees should be dealt with some countries saying there would be an institutional crisis if mandatory quotas are imposed on countries who don't want them. >> thank you for inviting me and frankly i think achieving an eu wide agreement will be difficult indeed and discussed resettlement before in european context and tried to find a way to distribute them across european countries and again and again they have been reluctant and to do so and they see asylum as part of sovereignty and see it as a security issue and see it as an issue related to the economy and very reluctant to be subject to some sort of overarching method for refugees and asylum seekers across the continent. >> how does one change the opinions, do you think resent

demonstrations by people who want their policy makers to give more help to these refugees, do you think that has an impact? >> i think it does. i'm quite hopeful for the first time for many years working on asylum and refugees here in europe i think the people are beginning to show they are fed up with their politicians and policy makers for too long they have hidden behind the public vote and said we will not be open to migration and refugees in case there is a public backlash and what we see across countries in europe is the public saying enough is enough and be compassion and has a legacy for being tolerant and displacing that towards these people. realistically there cannot be an open-door policy throughout all of europe and have already seen germany backtracking on that promise somewhat because of the sheer numbers of refugees heading towards them, the u.n. says there is going to be a million more refugees by the end

of the year, i mean where are all these people going to go, what is going to happen to them? >> i agree with you. i don't think anyone is suggesting an open-door policy but i think the european consulate can take in refugees than it has in the past. i think it's a historical perspective and we in europe took in over a million people from the balkins in the mid 1990s and many more during world war ii. it's the wealthyist in the world with 500 million and can easily absorb a million people and look at turkey and jordan and lebanon far fewer and taking in 1, 2, 3 million and europe can handle this amount of people. >> good to speak with you and thank you for your thoughts and speaking live from geneva. the afghan taliban says it freed more than 430 prisoners and says it used gunmen and bombers to

storm the prison in the eastern province, four police officers were killed, self other several others wounded and jennifer glasse is in kabul. >> reporter: the attack on the city started at 2:00 in the morning when they detonated a car bomb and at least ten taliban attackers freed the prisoners and taliban commanders and failed suicide bombers and taliban fighter and it was bad before this incident and those freed taliban dozens of them will not improve the situation at all and it highlights how fragile security is across afghanistan. that they can carry out a coordinated attack on a prison. there has been fighting in the south in helman that continues in the north and in the east. it has been a very brutal year for afghan security fores and nato puts the number of police and army dead and wounded at

15,000 so far this year, that is 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 press ghani, it's the anniversary of the first year in power and knows security is key for after georgiaen stand if it afghanistan if it wants security here. forces say they accidentally shot at a convow of tourists killing 12 people in an air strike. the mexican foreign ministry says two of the victims were mexicans and the shooting happened in the area of the western desert and says security forces firing from a helicopter gun ship mistook the convow for what they called terrorist elements and mexican president condemned attack on twitter describing it as a tragic incident and john holman has more from mexico. >> reporter: it's like sunday here so there have been no

government officials actually coming out to speak about this but there have been statements on special twitter of the mexican president and he said he was demanding a thorough investigation from egyptian authorities over what has happened here and he has also said he is adding to the diplomatic personality to attend to people that have been injured in this and he has to come out and say those two things the reality is not much of the diplomatic relationship between egypt and mexico and what there is a positive trading and the repercussions of this, what seems to be a tragic accident more than anything don't at this stage appear to be something that is going to imagine fee in the coming weeks. one of the manmade wonders of the world is slowly disintegrated, 30% of the great wall of china no longer exists because of exposure to elements and tourists chipping away an

ancient souvenir and we went to northern china to see what is done to save the wall. >> reporter: a vegetable garden in her family for decades and crops protected from the naturally occurring stone available in this part of northern china yet not all of the stone comes from the query, some came from the great wall of china and ancestors took the stone to build their homes and in some cases more than 1 # 100 years ago. >> translator: happy to give back any part of the wall if asked. you have to remember we were so poor back then modern cheap bricks were not available like they are now. >> reporter: she is like hundreds of others in the area whose homes are made from the old and the new. ancient china sits comfortably alongside its modern decedent. the wall is over 2300 years old and runs over 21,000 kilometers.

while nature has eroded parts others eroded by 70,000 visitors each day. many visitors say protecting the wall is important. >> translator: the great wall isn't just china. it belongs to the whole human race and has to be protected. >> translator: it's a symbol of china and we have to look after it. >> reporter: some tourists visiting today have a photo opportunity for the local chinese. the deterioration of the wall and in part its disappearance is worrying those fighting to protect it. >> translator: it's closely connected to the origin of our culture. the disappearing of the wall is in line with lack of respect with protecting our tradition and culture. >> reporter: the authorities have not been ignoring the situation of the wall. the government's restoration and protect plan began in 1957 and

it continues to this day because the greatest enemy of the wall is not just man, it's the elements. they are doing their damage as well because part of the wall is just made in stone and made in brick and wood and prone to general wear and tear and the weather. while it's understandable why villages from the community would have used the wall for a source of free, cheap building material the wall's largest battle is being fought everyday not against man but survival against the elements. robin with al jazeera. swiss and u.s. prosecutors are expected to hold a press conference in zurich about the fifa corruption inquiry and many any7 were arrested as part of a u.s. investigation and included fifa vice president jeffrey web and 14 defendants charged with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering.

djokovic has become the u.s. open tennis champion for the second time in his career and beat federer in new york to claim his 10th grand slam title and richard par reports. >> reporter: after a three-hour rain delay they took to the courts for the u.s. open final and it was djokovic's fourth grand slam final of the season and with the french open was the only blemish and served him early in this match and fortunately he only suffered some scrapes and bruises. and he still managed to win the opening set 6-4 with the first time federer had dropped a set in the tournament. djokovic beaten federer at the last grand slam final in four sets while at the age of 34 federer credited part of his

lo longevity to increased sleep and he levelled the match by taking 7-5. as a five-time u.s. open champion the new york crowd was firmly behind federer and didn't stop djokovic winning the third set 6-4 and djokovic is 5-2 on arthur ash and while federer got a break back it wasn't enough as djokovic claimed 6-4 to win the tenth grand slam title. >> obviously it's a huge relief in the end when i saw the foreign return going out and i'm going to try to obviously nurture and enjoy this victory as much as i can. >> surely i'm very disappointed and i had my chance with my racket and never should have been down in the quarter the way i was but djokovic did a great job of fending them off and it was a tough night and still

thrilling. >> reporter: this is djokovic's sixth final at flushing meadows and the second time he has been the u.s. open champion, richard par, al jazeera. there is more on all these stories on our website. go to al jazeera.com. >> residents try to escape a deadly, for the-moving fire in northern california. it has turned hundreds of homes into ashes. >> auto workers head back to the bargaining table today, the fight to redefine detroit for a new generation. >> austria and germany take new steps to control the flow of refugees crossing borders, but will the crisis spur action to end the war in syria.