-- lethal land mines. >> mozambique declares itself free of land mines around the world we're joined by antiland mine campaigner cindy mccaine. good evening. this is al jazeera america. we begin in croatia, the latest european country overwhelmed by the surge of refugees. it's struggling to cope with

them flowing in from serbia. >> thousands of refugees are still stranded at a rail station in croatia after escaping the violence in hungary. they're hoping to continue their journey west. here's this report from croatia. >>reporter: he thought fences were a thing of the past.

that croatia would be a route to slovenia. instead he feels trapped again. >> i don't know why. >>reporter: this delay is a complete surprise i'm told and that many here would have paid a smuggler to help them on their way if they only had the money to do so. >> the hundreds here came from serbia. many met with force by riot police when they tried to enter hungary the previous day. children in those clashes who are injured are easy to spot. tensions are raising. most refugees say they'd expected to already be in slovenia right now. meanwhile, more tents are being made up and preparations for more people and most i spoke to say they don't know when they're able to leave. one refugee is enraged at the

conditions he says he and his family have experienced. >> we've been treated like animals. animals are actually treated better than us. we're human beings. >> he tells us he's gone four days out a proper shower and things have even gotten worse today. >> i wanted to go to the toilet for ten hours and have not been able to. women and children are with us. what am i supposed to do? i'm embarrassed to go in front of them. there's no cleanliness, hygiene, nothing. croatia says they don't have the resources. even this facility seems stretched beyond capacity. >> some begin sitting outside the make shift camp. others go searches for solutions looking for taxis, buses, even similar cards. something, anything that will help them figure out their next

move. refugees are finding it's tough to leave croatia and some who did leave are being returned by police in slovenia. that's what happened to many on a train. people climbed out of windows after being locked on the train for hours but police escorted them on board with slovenia saying they cannot pass through but can seek asylum. in france, two refugee camps in paris were cleared out today a day after law makers debated the eu's proposal to house them. officials say they're being moved to temporary shelters and being offered assistance on applying for asylum. human rights groups are criticizing the new housing conditions as not liveable despite tighter border controls, hundreds arrive in greece every day and many lured

by postings from social media sites by something smugglers. anyone who think theas the cloy schur of european borders will deter this hew man waves. the boats came in as we watched from lesbos. >> you've they wered there are problems but there this stop you? >> you keep going. >> carefully wrapped in make shift water proofing, smart phones are vital tools serving as both road map and guide. photographs and video on social media feed their expectations. this is a smuggler's facebook

page. happy faces on calm seas, safe for all ages of around $1,000 a head. there's even a fancy yacht for hire but that costs much more. the promise

everyone in syria needs help. thank you. >> he was captured on video last week being tripped by a camera woman from hungary as he was running with his young son by authorities. he ended up in authority. sunday night we have a special report desperate

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welcome back. coming up in this half hour of international news, for the three americans who stopped the gunman in the train on france, the stories making headlines across u.s., firefighters in california have found two more bodies at the site of the so-called valley fire north of san francisco. the federal reserve today left interest rates unchanged keeping them near zero levels where they've stood since 2008. the chairperson said global and financial market volatility as well as very low inflation at home all factored into the

decision. the fed left open the possibility of a rate hike earlier this year >> american airlines says it has resolved the issue that forced the airline to ground flights earlier today. nearly 300 flights were delayed due to computer problems. the company is working to determine what caused the system to fail. it does not believe the issue was caused by hackers. authorities in mexico are reporting a break in the case of 43 missing students believed to have been abducted and killed last year. police say drug cartel boss lopez also known as el hill was arrested wednesday in pasco south of mexico city and he was one of the master minds behind the massacre. we're joined in mexico city with the latest on the arrest. why is lopez regarded as a key player in this case? >>reporter: well, hildaldo lopez played a key part of this because on the night the

students went missing almost a year ago, he was allegedly there and what is meant who have happened is that police abducted those students and then handed them over to a local gang and lopez was part of that gang and his accomplices, apparent accomplices now that night and his former boss now in prison testified that he directly gave the order to kill the students and burn their bodies in a municipal rubbish dump. that's the official story of what happened but just over a week ago, a group of very well respected independent experts released a report and one of their key findings was that they said it was scientific impossible for the students' remains to have been burnt almost to the state where they were unidentifiable in that dump. the temperatures would just not have reached that high so now lopez who apparently

ordered that to have been done is now in custody and will have to give his testimony and will be questioned. it will be interesting to see what he has to say and maybe if it throws light on what happened to those student >> what happened to them? there's always been the talk of the drug cartel involvement but also a lot of distrust of what the government's involvement was. >> and that's what's added to this mystery. you have to remember that first of all, the municipal police force actually abdid you telled them and handed them over to the gang but since then the government has been seemed to be unwilling to take action especially when this began. it took three months before the president actually visited the state where this happened and even then he did not visit the town where the tragedy took place so after that slow

reaction, the governme then seemed to be quite eager to put this to bed. it announced its official version of what happened that was based largely on testimonies and that's been questioned not just by the parents and these independent investigators but also by journalists to this and investigators from the national university here. there's been a lot of doubt about the government's version of this and also because impugnty is above 90% in mexico, there's 25,000 missing people and the government's made headway on have you few of those cases so it's really a tale in which this really was the final point for people to sort of not be taking this government seriously in their efforts to resolve this. >> thank you. a tsunami warning for chili has been lifted. they only experienced minor

tidal waves after an earthquake just off the coast last night killing at least ten people. and to do it without major difficulties implies that corne

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that anyone who criticizes him will be detained again and again. tonight wayne hague reports. >> after a brief stay in military detention, this yours truly spoken journalist is

speaking his mind >> i am very cautious and alarmed but at the same time, i think we need to inform the world and the public as to what is going on. >> through his newspaper columns and on social media, he has condemned the army's addition decision to overthrow a democratically elected government last year. it was the second time he's been taken for so-called attitude adjustment and that the criticism continues, he could be charged with sedition. >> i think they are aiming at creating a climate of fear where people will just cooperate. >> freedom of speech have been curtailed since the coup. that prompted allegations that the government for peace and order was deliberately trying to

delay elections which now won't happen until the middle of 2017 miening the prime minister will be the longest serving military leader since the 1970s. >> some people try to discourt information by saying our party influenced the vote against the draft charter. this is baseless and not true. >> the government has also detained academics and politicians some of whom have had their passports confiscated and bank accounts frozen. but more alarming is the big spike in the number of charges and convictions under the harsh laws for criticizing the monarchky. at the moment political gatherings are banned. >> they have been -- since the coux, supporters have shown discipline. all parties need to be care that they don't run out of patience.

the army says it seized power to return happiness to the people. many are wondering when if ever democracy will be returned. outrage in india today after news that a saudi arabiaen diplomat accused of rape has left the country using his dmro mattic immunity. two women who worked in his home alleged he imprisoned them for months and repeatedly enthused them. activists are asking the u.n. to pressure the saudi government to take action. the saudi embassy says the allegations are false. another high ranking former fifa official will soon face charges in the u.s. swiss authorities approved extradition of the former vice president of soccer's governing body. he has 30 days to appeal the

decision the other side of the space race of the 1960s. an exhibit of early space successes goes on tour for the first time. undercover in china where black market dealers often help smuggle illegal ivory from aftera. africa.

cuba is getting ready for the pope's visit. one of the biggest events will be his outdoor mass beginning saturday. he'll spend four days traveling through cuba before heading to

the u.s. before he makes a historic address before congress and speak before the u.n. in new york. the poaching problem in africa is worse than in decades. despite laws and efforts against it, the trafficking business is booming. china bears a will the of the responsibility. >>reporter: in tanzanier, a herd of wild elegants move through the land but their numbers are dropping by the day. slaughtered by poachers for their ivory tusks. >> they use the gun to shoot and after it dies, they take the ax encut and cut and cut. >> this job is very dangerous if you're caught you're shot. the illegal trade is being

fuelled by a growing demand from china where ivory remains a highly prized status symbol. between 2000 and 2014, custom officials seized some 33 tons of ivory right here. >> they're checking 1% of the cargo. that's how much was not seized and how much was seized. >> we are determined to end illegal poaching and trade in elephant ivory. >>reporter: undercover we meet dealers willing to help us smuggle ivory. >> we want to cothis no matter what. >> it's possible to do it illegally. >>reporter: and we find buyers experienced in the trade. >> we can pay cash on delivery and do the deal at my company. right now we only want african ivory. we only want african ivory. with the smuggling and selling,

despite global efforts to ban the trade, there is little to stop africa's wild elephants from disappearing in just a few decades. now our global view segment. a look at global news network as cross the world. the guardian writes support for a deal in the paris climate change summit is strong. outlook fair, storms still possible and the paper suggests that the imf and world bank meet to assess the progress in raising money for the measures in october necessary to control climate change will show if there are changes or not the u.n. is being pushed to change the security council. and that india, germany, japan, and brazil should push for change at the u.n.

and canada's globe and mail offers this critique of hungary's new border fence showing muskateers saluting a flag saying one for all all for one. neil armstrong is viewed as the benchmark of u.s. dominance over the soviet union in the space race. as immediate barker reports, a new exhibition shows the story of how it eventually brought the two giant foes together. >>reporter: reunited with her capsule, the first woman in space. it's now a museum piece. but when she took off in 1963, this journey could quite easily have been a one-way trip. i asked if she was ever scared. >> it was work she tells me.

if you were afraid, you would never be allow intoed space. this capsule is like a close friend only made from space technology. >> she returned a hero of the soviet union and remains to this day the only woman to fly a solo mission into space. several years earlier, the soviets kick started the space age with a series of pioneering firsts. . sputnik and then the first man in space. and then the first space walk and summer sault. many of these artifacts never left russia. some needed to be declassified before they could challenge. the u.s. president eventually beat moscow in putting a man on the moon. >> it may be a legacy of cold war tensions. these major achievements are

sometimes eclipsed by nasa's later moon landings but in the space race, there's one clear winner, the soviet union. russia one. they're just as important as the lunar landing but all these other things are just as important scientifically. >> with the space race long over, tensions have been replaced by corporation and joint missions. after the u.s. granted its shuttle fleet in 2011, it now pays $63 million per astronaut per trip to russia. this charts man's early cosmic experiences. that's it for they addition

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