>> welcome to the news hour. live from our headquarters in doha. >> disarm or risk being attacked, a deadline for coo leaders in burkina faso to surrender have come and gone. >> we'll have the latest from brussels on the refugees. >> this hour, chinese president flies to the u.s. to immediate with tech executives and then on to the white house. >> a story of defection, we'll

take you to a film festival focusing on what units and divides north and south korea. >> the deadline to disarm or face attack by the arm in burkina faso passed hours ago. the emwho led the takeover wants to find a solution to avoid confrontations with the army. troops moved into the capitol early tuesday to disarm coup leaders. people welcomed the army. 12 people have died and hundreds have been injured since last week's coup. >> lets bring in nicholas who joins us on the line from burkina faso's capital. it's been three hours since the deadline passed. what's the situation right now?

have the coup leaders disarmed? >> if i understand you correctly, the coup leaders, the presidential guard hasn't

released -- let's go to the nigerian capital where leaders are meeting to discuss the crisis. what's been the reaction there to the events in burkina faso and what are they are discussing, what are they trying to find a solution to? >> it's not clear whether the leaders of west african states are in this meeting just behind me, including nigeria's president buhari, of ghana where events are moving on the ground. what is discussed here is what should hatch to the presidential guard, whether it should be part of any transitional part going forward, part of any democratic process going forward. what isn't explained to us is in the run up to the elections were which slated for the 11 of

october, there were long and lengthy discussion about what role those who were involved in the previous regime, the president, ex-president should play, whether they should have a role. now, what we're told here is that the leaders here are going to push for, but of course, this is not very clear yet, because the meet is on going, that they should have a role and that the presidential guard should be given amnesty. what we understand is that many people on the ground in burkina faso are resistant to it. >> people don't want supporters and those related to the former president of course to be part of any future administration there. what's the likelihood that the leaders there will find a solution that is satisfactory to all parties in this crisis? ma we understand, again, speaking to some of the leaders who have been kind of milling

around here is that the plan that will be announced is what burkina faso needs to enter a period of stability and to stabilize its deposition exhibit is an all inclusive way forward. what they will push for is that those who were involved with the previous regime to be included in the democratic process going forward, they say that this, what is causing the tension in burkina faso is the fact that as part of the transition period, there were agreements that basically excluded those associated with the former president and the former ruling party, the old ruling party, and the feeling here is that any democratic process taking place in order to unify the country and avert any potential future political crise, everybody,

including those associated with the old party, should be allowed to take part in any future democratic process. that's the kind of agreement we're expecting to be announced in the next few hours. >> thank you very much. of course we'll come back to you once those leaders there make any announcements about the crisis. >> in other world news, the number of people killed by a series of bombings in northeastern nigeria on sunday evening has ricin to 80. three explosions injured about 150. no one has claimed responsibility, but boko haram fighters have been blamed. the armed group has been fighting to establish a state in northeastern nigeria for the last six years. >> the european union is holding another meeting in brussels to try and find a solution to the refugee crisis. interior ministers are discussing how to relocate 120,000 refugees. this is just a day ahead of an emergency meeting of european

leaders. eastern european countries are imposing quotas that would force them to accept refugees. more than a quarter million refugees arrived in europe in july and august. germany alone expects to host up to 1 million people this year. we are live from brussels. another day, another meeting, will the e.u. interior ministers agree in that meeting? >> bearing in mind the track records of e.u. leaders up until now, meetings here and in strasburg and luxembourg, it's fair to say that the european union is behind the curve on this crisis. the u.n. agency has said it's really their last chance to form a co he's i have policy. they've agreed to share up only

40,000 refugees. you mentioned yourself, looking at it in total, there are nearly 500,000 that entered this year. it seems that the european union leaders are kind of cycling in the fire lines while the crisis in very real and growing. >> there is a meeting on wednesday. what are we expecting? what is on the agenda there? >> >> the agenda is still an attempt to get an agreement on mandatory quotas. it is thought the only way ahead is a system that works.

at the moment, the signs of not good. certainly countries of the east of europe are saying we're not willing to be bound by mandatory quotas. the czech republic is questioning whether it's legal at all and there is a threat to take brussels to the european court. this doesn't seem to be a very promising environment against which the leaders are hoping to reach agreement on sharing out 120,000 refugees, but still, it is only a small fraction of the total number of refugees who have arrived in europe this year alone. >> thank you very much for the moment. live for us in brussels. >> africans are among the hundreds of thousands of people arriving in europe in search of a better life. we report on their journey to libya. >> this is the border between guinea and mali, a transit point

for africans starting to new life in europe. some of them don't make it. according to the international organization for migration, more than 2700 people died in the mediterranean sea this year. this man's brother was one of them. >> when he left for europe, everybody was crying. you wouldn't want to see your family member dying like that at sea. >> the prospect of danger and poverty back home is enough for people to keep pushing ahead. >> i left because of persecution. i've been percent cute politically. >> this is the second time he's trying to get to europe. >> when i went, i was unfortunate when i met this as lambic attack. they took over the border area, so i decided to return back, to return back, so that i won't be falling in the ambush. >> he and others are traveling

from western african countries, including sierra leone and liberia, moving northeast to the border between guinea and mali, trekking across the sahara desert and north to libya where they hope to safely cross the mediterranean and land in europe. just as there are open borders among members of the european union, there's a similar kind of block in west africa. it's called the economic community of west african states. since 1975, 15 countries have been part of a borderless region where people move freely. the goal is to increase economic cooperation, but it has made it easier for people determined to build a life in europe. >> when we receive people passing through, they have the national cars and their passports, they say we want to go to mali. how can we know whether they want to go to mali or spain or surroundings further on? >> border police check for proper documentation.

those who don't have it face deportation. despite the open borders in this region, amnesty international says people are also facing the same kind of racism and scene phobia. refugees are complaining about it in europe. this woman says the risk isn't worth it. >> children are dying. >> disapproval, danger and worries of family don't appear to be enough to squash the dreams off many africans heading north. al jazeera. >> >> coming up, pope francis wraps up his visit to cuba by celebrating mass in the second largest city. we will be live from santiago to cuba. >> plus, israeli police round up children in their latest wave of arrests in the occupied territories. >> in sport, after their shock

world cup win over south africa, japan prepares to face very specific goals. >> 38 isil fighters have been killed with airstrikes in palmyra. the syrian air force has been stepping up attacks against isil in recent days. >> iran said it will work with russia to help end the syrian conflict. the comments were made in mass co. he added while both countries want a political solution. president bashar al assad must be part of any political solution. >> moscow intends to use potential with syria to help it come out of this crise. iran and russia will continue

contacts with the syrian option and we believe members of the opposition who want a political solution will be a part of this resolution. >> it's now a year since the u.s. led coalition entered syria's war. through airstrikes, its same was to destroy isil. the coalition includes turkey, gulf nations, australia and canada. france is expected to launch airstrikes in the coming week. syrian forces with russian backing have been conducting airstrikes on isil targets. isil is dealing with a barrage of bombs and fighting rebel groups, al-nusra front, kurdish fighters and syrian government forces. we have this update from turkey. >> for the last month or so, the u.s. military and its coalition allies have been able to launch airstrikes on isil targets in air i can't from this air base behind me in southeastern turkey. it's been a game changer for the

u.s. military means that the border with syria is just 120 kilometers from here, a much shorter flight than the four hour flight they have to make from the goal before the turkish authorities allowed it to be used for those airstrikes. for those airstrikes to be as effective as possible, the u.s. military relies on intelligence on the ground. it's worked with kurdish forces before, but there are now suggestions that u.s. military is thinking of training up more fighters, trained by the u.s. military who will then enter syria and work alongside the different rebel groups, the different fighting groups in syria and working with those groups, those fighters, specially trained by the u.s. military will target, i will identify targets for those airstrikes that will then be called in by the u.s. military. that way, the u.s. hopes airstrikes will be much more effective. it said all right 17,000 square

kilometers of territory in syria has been cleared of isil. the whole operation just relying on airstrikes, not using u.s. ground forces or turkish ground forces or ground forces from any other coalition means this is a very expensive operation to maintain. >> >> some breaking news to tell you about. yemen's president adou rabbo mansour hadi had arrived in aden after nearly six months in exile in saudi arabia. this is according to air force sources there, coming a few days after the prime minister of yemen and his cab cabinet returned to aden also after nearly six months in exile. this comes of course after over a year since the houthi takeover of yemen. >> the united nation proposed a deal to end the political crisis in libya. the u.n. envoy to the country has told rival factions they

must take the deal or leave it. we have this report. >> the united nations has been trying to bring the warring parties in libya together for more than one year. >> we have now a text that it's a time text, so our part of the process is now finished. >> j envoy says the framework deal worked out in morocco is the way forward to end the conflict in libya, but it's not a deal yet. >> in this situation in libya, it's such strong confrontation, killings, humanitarian crisis, so many problems, they must expect that if there is a solution, this proposal is the solution. >> libya has been in a state of civil war and crisis since the revolution in 2011. among those struggling to fill the power vacuum are two rival

governments, a renegade general and dozens of militia groups. >> these negotiations almost about trying to create a two dimensional government, at best having two sides that come to one table, but ultimately both sides have their elements, proxies, private armies and use the terminology of international war, but ultimately both sides want to annihilate each other. >> leone is calling for an immediately ceasefire between these factions. >> they have to be positive. they have to see what this process is going to bring for the country and not to be concerned about what they could have liked to see in the text or to see as outcome of this process and will not be there. this is not the question today.

the question today is to get libya back to track to build peace, development, prosperity in the country. >> leone was given a deadline to get a unity government in place. that's the 20th anniversary of the capture and death of muammar gaddafi. al jazeera. >> pope francis is saying goodbye to cuba before flying to the united states. the head of the roman catholic church is celebrating mass in the second largest city, santiago, cuba. we have live there. the pope finished addressing the people. what did he have to say? >> he hasn't finished quite yet.

he did speak at the shrine, and there for the first time, he praised the catholics of cuba for having maintained the faith during difficult times, this is a very office reference to the days when catholicism was frowned on by cuba's communist leaders, proclaimedding an atheist state. the pope said that it was the grand mothers of cuba who had kept that faith going. while he spoke, president raul castro was in the front seat, listening to him. raul castro was raised and went to school as a jesuit, a catholic. he has very much reconciled himself at least with this pope, saying he would return to praying, that he might return to he praying and to the church because he was so impressed with pope francis. we don't know whether he has decided to do that or not, but his very last address or

appearance will be here behind me in the main square in santiago where the cuban revolution was launched. >> the pope is still speaking at the moment. of course all the talk right now is about cuban-american reconciliation. with him the pope be taking that message when he flies to the united states? >> that's a very good question. many cubans would like him to do so. they say he was responsible for what they calm the first miracle, the renewal of u.s. cuba relations in which he played a role facilitating those negotiations. the pope is down playing his role. his spokesman said last night that the pope does not want to exaggerate his responsibility and further that process along, particularly the lifting of the u.s. embargo of this country.

>> thank you. >> human rights watch says the egyptian military's campaign against isil in northern sinai is harming thousands of civilians. the rights into that said the government revictimmed thousands of families and raised thousands of homes. cairo is trying to create a buffer zone with the gaza strip and wants to destroy cross border tunnels. let's speak to the deputy director for the middle east in north africa at human rights watch. >> we rely mainly on three methods, we reviewed more than

50 satellite imagery of northern sinai for the last two years. this is the largest effort, and we spoke to some journalists and activists familiar with the situation on the ground. we were not granted access to sinai. the egyptian government denies entry to journalists and human rights activist to say that part of northern sinai. >> the egyptian government claims the insurgents want to create a buffer zone on the gas border to destroy the smuggling tunnels, saying insurgents are receiving military support from gaza. is there any evidence of this? >> the egyptian government has not put forward the evidence. human rights watch recognizes the egyptian milary is facing an armed insurgency in northern

sinai. what the report argues is that it is not enough to justify such a broad and indiscriminate destruction of property. even if there may be legitimate military objectives in parts of northern sinai, they can't do so with such an impact on civilians. we need to target these tunnels and secondly, need to adequately compensate civilians, provide them, you know, with due process, allow them to challenge demolition orders and not simply declare a buffer zone that's going to affect thousands and thousands of families. >> tell us more about the impact on the civilians in northern sinai and also do you believe then that the government is deliberately targeting these civilians? you think they would use technology to detect and destroy these so-called tunnels they believe are used by isil instead of wiping off entire neighborhoods. >> what's clear is that the egyptian military two years ago

just decided to declare a buffer zone and this buffer zone happens to cover most of the town of rafah, a relatively large town. they have not made effort to extinguish between homes where tunnels may exist versus other homes that are not being used at all for any military purpose. it was to break and destroy the entire area and forcibly evict people. most people had very little notice, some families had only 48 hours to move out of their homes. compensations were inadequate. many told us that the compensation was below market levels. more importantly, there was no compensation for farmland, an activity that many residents of rafah in northern sinai rely on. there was no alternative housing

provided. many kicked out in the middle of the year had to try to find school for their children, not always with success. really, a high impact, big loss for civilians and there is no way this was militarily justified. >> time for an update of world weather with richard. there's flooding in new zealand. >> it's been looking nice over the last few days. you look at the satellite imagery, you can see this area of clouds. this has been spiraling around. it's in parts of the south, too, but north island primarily, so big area of low pressure there. we've got this high area of pressure, the two coming together to produce pretty stiff winds and a southerly feed across much of australia. this low has produced vast amounts of rain, more than 40 millimeters in some areas.

114 millimeters of rain in 24 hours. the average of the whole month of september is eight-day forecast seven. >> the situation seems to be one of slow improvement, still heavy rain falling down and heavy rain in the forecast, but it will seize with time in that there's what we're expecting through wednesday, still rain in affect area, you move the forecast, it just begins to die away. >> still ahead, as europe tries to accommodate thousands of refugees, we'll look at one country that managed to find order amid the chaos.

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>> welcome back. you're watching the al jazeera news hour. al jazeera has been told that yemen's exiled president adou rabbo mansour hadi has arrived in the port city of aden.

he spent six months in exile in saudi arabia. his return follows that of the foreign minister last week. >> the deadline for coup leaders in burkina faso to disarm or face attack by the army passed hours ago. the west african regional block is holding more talks to end the crisis. >> the european union is holding another meeting in brussels to find a solution to the refugee crisis. on monday, eastern european nation failed to reach an agreement on the emergency relocation of refugees. >> while border crossings in the balkan countries that have been crowded with people are gradually emptying as the refugees are bussed toward slovenia and austria. we have a report. >> as chaotic as this summer's been, it's clear the refugees might hope that their journeys will be quicker, a little less painful.

this reception center in the northern town, they're on the move closer to austria and germany and are they happy about it. >> yes. >> when will you go to austria? >> maybe today after lunch. >> on the train. >> yes, on the train. >> like its neighbors to the southeast, voluntary vain i can't is showing an awareness and waiting for the next lot to show up. they recognize the movement of the people from serbia is getting faster. it appears on the most basic level that europe is finally showing a bit more organization. >> it's true, we have 250 beds available here. the refugees change every day. as soon as 250 leave, the next people arrive. >> so the next bus turns up, off they come and they're asked to go in.

the reason slow vane i can't can cope in what are relatively small reception centers is because the turn around of people is so fast. refugees only spend about 12 hours here, have a rest, get changed and move on to the train station. that in turn frees up bed space for the next wave to come. >> even staying just a few hours was too much for this group. they refused to go in and said they just wanted to go to the railway station. after weeks of being herded around by various police forces, their patience had run out. >> take us for train station. thank you very much. thank you, slovenia, take us to train station or bus station. that's it. >> they walked in two lines, a few hundred meters up the road and into the train station. the $18 tickets would take them to the other side of the austrian border. what they didn't know was that you could get a train from here straight to the netherlands. they must go through another

system in austria. it does demonstrate that something is working now, country is have given up from trying to keep people from going where they want to. >> a palestinian woman is in a critical condition after shot by an israeli soldier. witnesses deny israeli allegations that she attempted to stab the soldier. the shooting happened at a checkpoint in hebron in the occupied west bank. our correspondent is in west jerusalem and has more on the tension. >> two bloody incidents within a 12 our period in hebron in the occupied west bank. monday evening, a palestinian man was killed with what i also really security forces say was an improvised explosive device he was going to use against them. it detonate prematurely, they say killing him. >> an 18-year-old palestinian woman was shot in the legs, saying that she was trying to stab one of the soldiers. palestinian witnesses, sources telling us that that wasn't the

case. she is in critical condition in a jerusalem hospital. >> what this is, is kind of a continuation of tension that's been going on in the occupied territories, as well as here in jerusalem, occupied east jerusalem and then particularly the al aqsa mosque compound over the last several weeks. there have been clashes, tension, elevated because of the holidays. >>ish holidays and now also a muslim holiday at the end of the week. there's been a lot of tension and the israel security forces have reacted to that tension, adding thousands of more security forces here in jerusalem and around the west bank over these next coming days. >> al jazeera just learned that the woman who was shot by that israel soldier, the palestinian woman has now died. >> the israeli army is under fire for continuing to arrest palestinian children. 25 have been detained over the past do you days. the latest are four school children. we have this report.

>> israeli soldiers round up a group of palestinian school children in occupied east jerusalem. the tact ice used by the israeli army aren't new, but the impact on the children involved is clear to see. muhammed and his three friends were on their way home from school when they were arrested by israel soldiers. they accused the boys of throwing stones and took them to an israeli army detention center for interrogation. >> rights groups say approximately 700 palestinians under 18 years old in the occupied west bank are prosecuted every year through israeli military courts. the most common charge against children is throwing stones, a crime punishable under military law by up to 20 years in prison. the families are other children describe what it's like when the israeli army arrive at their homes to arrest their children.

>> 15-17 soldiers came together with their intelligence official at around 2:30 in the morning. they were hidden in a car. they entered the house and took my children. they kept me outside the house. they shackled my children. after about 20 minutes, i knew that they would take my son. >> picture of an israeli soldier trying to arrest an 11-year-old palestinian boy with a broken arm in the west bank went viral on social media last month. 25 palestinian children have been arrested and held in israeli detention centers. israel has deployed thousands of officers in jerusalem in a security crackdown before yom kippur, the holiest day in the jewish calendar and holiday which begins this week. >> of course, you know what it

means to a mother when someone takes three members of her family, and you are expecting they're release soon. we all rise above such pains. >> these school children have now been reds, but the families of many other detained children have no idea when their loved ones will be freed. >> iran's education ministry postponed the start of the elementary school year due to a cholera outbreak. parts of the country have been battling to contain the spread of the disease. classes were meant to begin tuesday, but that's been pushed to next month. water and suh systems are outdated and years of war and neglect have prevented any upgrade. >> the chinese president is on the way to the united states. the first stop is in a few hours to meet company executives.

apple is the latest u.s. country tackling a security breach in china. >> apple prides itself on safety guards for iphones and mobile devices. >> it's why we've used all the technology at our disposal to create the most secure devices and the most secure systems that we can. >> particularly in china, many iphone users have taken to bypassing apple by downloading apps through a counterfeit app program. that preach has in effected hundreds of legitimate apps like we chat, making it capable of sending fake alerts that steal data from phone users. apple said the infected and that is have been removed from its store and is working with the developers to make sure they are using the proper version of x

code to build their apps. the chinese president this week makes his first visit to washington with cyber security under discussion. earlier this year, u.s. authorities filed criminal indictments against five alleged chinese military hackers. they were charged with stealing from american businesses. the chinese denied the accusations and countered by suspending a bilateral dialogue on cyber security. obama signaled he's entered in a truce with the chinese. >> ultimately, the goal should be to have some basic international framework that won't be perfect, because there's still going to be a lot of non-state actors that, and hackers who are very good and we're still going to have to have good defense. >> chinese officials say they are interested in an international code of conduct for cyber information sharing, but haven't spelled out particulars. since the latest malware episode

that affected its own citizens as well, the incentive for cooperation may be more tempting than ever. tom ackermann, al jazeera, washington. >> 11 million cars were if id with devices designed to cheat emission results. the growing scandal that caused volkswagen billions of dollars. the worlds largest selling carmaker is facing $18 billion worth of fines in the u.s. >> volkswagen's pollution cheating scandal spread as europe's leading carmaker planned an emergency meeting of top executives. volkswagen is facing billions of dollars in fines and a huge recall of its vehicles after the u.s. government found it planted software in its diesel cars meant to falsify results in emissions tests.

the company issued a statement saying 11 million vehicles are affected. it set aside 6.5 billion euros for recalls and services and said volkswagen does not tolerate violation of laws and will make regaining consumer trust as priority. >> we total screwed up. we must fix those cars, thank you, we must fix those cars and prevent this ever happening again and we have to make things right with the government, the public, our customers, our employees, and very important, our dealers. >> german officials have announced they will investigate. >> i think of it's right to the german minister together with car registration agency are conducting the necessary discussions. this is the only way to achieve transparency. all necessary measures have been set in motion. >> france's finance minister called for a europe-wide probe

to include other automakers. >> while it is being done on volkswagen, i think that in order to reassure people, we need to do it for the trench manufacturers. we have no reason to think the french manufacturers have conducted themselves the way volkswagen did. >> south korea said they would conduct an investigation. germ newspaper's economy is highly dependent on the car industry. they are worried that the excellent reputation of the german car industry will suffer. >> so seriously is the scandal taken here as a poor reflection on germany's worldwide brand that the foreign minister felt aobliged to address it abroad. >> i hope that there will be a clarification soon as to what extent data has been influenced by technical equipment and more importantly, who is responsible for this. this has to be in the interest

of volkswagen and as a second step, talking about the furtherrable of this between the companies and relevant authorities in the sounds. >> >> a commit key of board members and major shareholders will hold an emergency meeting at headquarters. a board member expects senior company heads will roll. >> al jazeera, berlin. >> the big industries in the world are under threat from a long drought. four hot and dry years in california are endangering giant sequoia trees. jacob ward has been seeing the stress. >> giant sequoias like this are very, very special. they are the largest organisms on earth and are ancient. after four years of drought and climate change, researchers are worried about their future.

>> they were losing their older needles, older leaves in amounts that were -- i had never seen before. >> it's more than 240 feet tall. scientists are going to go up in it today to take samples and god help me, i'm going to follow them. >> anthony leads a team from berkeley. he climbs to the very top of these trees to test them for signs of stress. he's been doing this kind of thing for 20 years. this is my first time. >> i understand hear somebody playing house music in the parking lot and i just realized that that's my heart. >> it taught me a new respect for the scientists, and the tree

itself. the team points out drought and rising temperatures is unprecedented. >> now in the fourth year of this severe drought, they still seem to be holding up pretty well. if we had another year as severe as this one, i'd say all bets are off. >> this tree was a seed ling during the roman empire, an adolescent when muhammed was alive. the history of the united states is a tiny fraction of its past. the question is whether it and its kind can survive here in the future. jacob ward, al jazeera, sierra national park, california. >> more than 2 million muslims are expected in mecca or the annual hajj in saudi arabia. the hajj is associated with the life of the prophet muhammed. for one man, it is a life he feels is misunderstood by the outside world, so he decided to create something to change that

view. >> the idea of the project started when i wanted to write a book to change the stereotypes. many think it's about wars and battles. in reality, war has only represented 5% of his life. the rest was about his morals, behavior, practices, forgiveness, love of humidity, mercy, environmental and human animal rights. here's a map of mecca showing the prophet's time. this is the house of his first wife. it is here in this cave that his prophecy started. here is medina after he left mecca. this is the mosque, his house, the trenches to protect the

medina. this diagram shows the structure of the state. it's fully organized. it had the prophet's personal affairs, education, special needs, ministers of interior and foreign affairs. we relied on new technology to present islam in a fewerred. simple way, using lead to touch veins. this screen represents the work. anything you want to know can come up here with a single touch of the screen. >> this museum is more like an educational means to r the prophet's life. we decided to make new represently kass for everything that the prophet used, for example, body armor, sword and other personal items.

the muir seem is open to the public and it's free. thousands of people come from across the world to visit this museum. i financed this project with my own money. we registered it as an endowment. this project will have projects abroad. it was nag rated here in saudi arabia where the muslim faith started. >> still ahead on al jazeera: >> i'm in the occupied west bank where the palestinian --

>> the red carpet is being rolled out on one of the world's most heavily fortified borders. the film festival is showcasing documentaries from around the world. we have a report from south korea. >> it isn't quite the demilitarized zone, but for the first night of a film festival, it's as close as you can get. it's an abandoned military base inside the buffer scene. the festival gets underway. to lead off, a film directly addresses the division on the korean peninsula, telling the story of a north korean defector who makes critical works as an independent artist in the south. with his identity hidden, the

film charts his increasing anxiety as plans for his first solo show begin to attract the attention of north korean officials. >> he is very poetic, but he's also very honest, and he has a unique story. he's a defector, who still really loves his homeland. he does not love a lot of things about his homeland, but his heart is -- he says he has a divided heart. >> for the organizers making this is something a statement of in tent, as they shift the focus more closely on to korean issues. >> it's always been a festival not dealing just with the issues. we certainly never promoted it that way. this year, we have brought in a special d.m.z. session because of feeling it hasn't received enough attention in the past. >> the goal is to make a small festival into a significant pan asian documentary film event.

>> in terms of scale, this festival can't compete with the biggest international film festival coming in in a couple of weeks time. but it has a particular focus on themes of peace. >> more than 100 films are due to be shown, most united by that theme of peace just a short distance from the world's most heavily fortified border. al jazeera, south korea. >> time for sport now. >> thank you so much. after beating south africa and shocking rugby fans around the word with arguably the biggest upset in world cup history, japan wanted to keep momentum facing scotland on wednesday. they have a short turn around before the match. they said they targeted the game as one they could reach to help reach specific goals.

we had to targeting, one to make the quarter finals and to win in the tournament. >> scotland are also targeting this game as one they must win to advance to the knockout phase in the tournament. despite winning their last five encounters with japan, they say they weren't surprised by their win over south africa. >> they are well coached, well conditioned, and it was a great result for them, so i think the thing that from their point of view that we knew they were away good side and they showed that on the weekend. >> ireland are the final team to be officially welcomed to the 2000 fib rugby world cup. the whac back-to-back face romaa

next on sunday. >> in major league baseball, the toronto blue jays beat the new york yankees to increase their lead at the top of their division. toronto's david price pitched seven shutout innings as they hosted division rivals on monday. bautista started off, managing three runs in the first inning. toronto winning 4-2 to move three and a half games clear the yankees after the first of this three-game series. the houston astros beat the l.a. angels to tighten their grip on the american league west division with a 6-3 win. >> the first professional

palestinian basketball player has set his sights on the nba. he grew up in the occupied west bank city of ramallah. for three seasons, he's played in china but hopes to make it to the best league in the world. >> basketball isn't just a game for him, it's a way of life. he started playing as a child on the streets of the occupied west bank city of ramallah and is now the first palestinian to play professional basketball. >> i love the game, so i put in my head i want to do this, i want to be a professional basketball player. >> at 26 years old, he has already played three seasons for a chinese team in asia's biggest lead, but that's not enough for the two-liter tall center. he wants to become the first palestinian to play for the u.s. national basketball association, or n.b.a. on a recent tour have the united states, he impressed american and european scouts. he tells me he now plans to try

out for the nba summer league in the hopes of being picked up by a major team. >> i'm going to show the people that palestinian have a big message to show that we can do whatever under occupation, without occupation, whatever, we can live life. >> he is popular with young palestinians and often of its them to his training sessions. >> with his dream of playing for the nba, closer to becoming a reality than ever before, he hopes that his journey as a professional basketball player will inspire a generation of future palestinians to pursue a career in sports. >> basketball isn't widely played across the territories. open spaces difficult to find and players who join leagues find it difficult to attend games in other cities because of israeli restrictions. still, these young people want to play professional basketball.

a goal he also shares and one he and everyone here is confident he will achieve. al jazeera, ramallah in the occupied west bank. >> there's much more sport on our website. for all the latest check out kouachi.com/sport. we've got blogs and video clips from our correspondents around the world. the address again, aljazeera.com/sport. >> that's all your sports for how. >> thank you very much. we'll of plenty more world news coming up for you here on al jazeera, including the latest in our breaking news story out of yemen where president adou rabbo mansour hadi has returned to the port city of aden after six months of exile in saudi arabia. do stay with us on al jazeera. we're back after this very short break.

e.u. ministers are meeting to decide on a relocation plan for more than a hundred thousand refugees, we'll have the very latest from brussels. ♪ hello, you are watching al jazeera live from doha. a deadline for coup leaders in burkina faso to surrender has come and gone. israeli police round up children in their latest wave of arrests in the occupied territories. and as