america's popular sport - now now if eu moves forward with its plan o help refugees and countries struggling to cope. hello i'm darren jordan in doha with the world news from doha. jimmy morales is on his way to winning the election in guatemala. >> the syrian president session he's open to solutions to the political war in syria. plus. >> it was exactly 30 years ago that this awfnl australian landk

was turned back over to its owners. and i'll look at the practical effect that handover has had. >> after a contentious emergency summit eu and balkans leaders have finally agreed on new measures to help deal with europe's refugee chris. moving along the western balkans route. the capacity of reception centers in greece will be increased and those without legitimate rights will be repatriated. more bother measures will be put in place to reduce the flow of people. slovenia will be helped to cope with the flux of refugees. david chater reports from that summit in brussels. >> we will see families in the

chilling regions of the balkans perish miserably. a 17 point action plan was approved first and foremost the delivery of humanitarian aid. sanctuary inside the european union. the summit also agreed to speed up the protesting and registration for genuine refugees, will no longer be waved on for the next country to deal with. slovenia's prime minister described the situation in his country as unbearable and had a staff warning to his counterparts. >> if we do not deliver some immediate and concrete actions on the ground, in the next few days and weeks, i do believe that european union and europe as a whole will start to falling partfallingapart.

>> to restore the image of the eu as a beacon of humanitarian values and eliminate the use of any more razor wire in europe. >> translator: we have all signed the geneva convention and this does not live up to what we signed up to. >> the immediate shelter and humanitarian manner treatment it cannot be in european union of 2015 people are left to sleep for themselves, sleeping in fields, waiting through chest deep waters in freezing temperatures. >> angela merkel is now trying to guide the european union through an even bigger test. tens of thousands of lives are still at stake. it's a test she has determined

she will not fail. david chater, al jazeera, brussels. >> one refugee camp on slovenia's border last been overwhelmed. robin forrester-walker has the story. >> there is little in the way of warm clothing or decent food they have here. they have burned whatever they can find, rubber or plastic in order to keep themselves warm. it is a very acrid smell. the night has fallen and it's going to be another cold night for those who have entered here. about a thousand at a time and they must wait here for up to ten hours we've been hearing from some reports of volunteers who have been working inside before they can be moved on to processing camps. now, that is the humanitarian

aspect that needs to be improved. many people are telling us, with regards not to just here but also the other camps in slovenia. and eventually, if these countries can all agree on a coordination system, things will start moving. so that we don't have backlogs and the people like the refugees in this camp don't have to wait so long in the cold before they can move forward. they can't move forward until the next camp is cleared of its group of refugees. and the next camp, let's say closer to the austrian border they are also unable to take on the continuous flow without closer coordination between countries involved in this transit from western balkans into the european union. >> meanwhile the bodies of at least 14 people thought to be refugees is been washed ashore in libya. libyan red crescent team said the bodies were found east of the capital of tripoli.

they drown trying to cross to northeast from turkey. two fishermen who captured an 18 month old infant, in the mediterranean sea. they realized he was still alive and began to revive him. the boy's mother said they have given them a second try at life. >> syrian president bashar al-assad says any agreement will depend on eliminating what he calls terrorist organizations. mohammed jamjoom reports. >> throughout last week in stateroom after stateroom diplomats discussed and debated a war as bloody as any in recent memory, one that refugees are

desperately trying to flee no matter what the cause. just a day after declared he's willing to take part in new polls. if the syrian people supported the idea. in capital after capital, talks turned against to transition. even though at times, it has sounded as though diplomacy as deadlocked as ever. in cairo after a meeting with his egyptian counterpart, saudi foreign minister declared assad has no role at all to play in syria's future. >> egypt's stand on syria is similar to that of saudi arabia. we both wish a transition to take place in syria, civil military and governmental traditions observed.

>> syria saythe sprob it's not t about dialogue. is he a criminal or alleged criminal because of the destruction he has brought to the country. i don't think a foreign power would have made as destruction as he has done in syria so there's no possibility for syrians to solve the one who killed their kids and destroyed their cities. >> reporter: on the ground in syria, the situation deteriorates more by the day. many of the families who managed to escape the fighting haven't yet been able to escape hostility. as syrian children too young to understand the war they fled have become far too accustomed to both injury and humiliation. while aid groups haven't stopped warning about the perils of a lost generation, a generation now devoid of hope faces fences

that won't let them pass and governments that don't want them in. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera. >> guatemala's former first lady has conceded defeat in the country's presidential election. that clears the way for comedian turned politician jimmy morales to be the leader. more omorales has just over 68%. david mercer joins us live from guatemala city jimmy moirl moras already claimed victory. >> that's right. jimmy morales was speaking to my right just about an hour ago. he was giving his victory speech and thanking folks for their support. local media, now to his party headquarters where certainly there will be celebrations underway outside in the street

and inside the party headquarters and he will be making a more thorough victory speech at that time. certainly thanks go around. he came into this race as the political underdog. no political experience whatsoever which you might think would count against him in a field that included people with a lot of experience including the former first lady, sandra torrez who as you said just conceded defeat. but in fact his lack of political experience is exactly what enamored him to many voters here. he is seen as being not from a political elite, largely corrupt. he is seen as fresh face with fresh ideas for guatemala which is a country that needs some fresh ideas at this point in time. darren. >> what has the issue been for ordinary guatemalans, what

changes do they want to see? >> jimmy morales campaign slogan, not corrupt nor a thief. corruption has been the big issue here. there are other things people are concerned about but corruption tops the list. this country last gone through enormous political turmoil starting in april with the realization of a multimillion dollar corruption scheme, which brought down both the president and vice president, they are both in jail awaiting corruption charges, that led to a whole wave of protest on the streets, tens of thousands much of people taking to the central park in guatemala city and it's that sort of public hostility towards political figures which allowed jimmy morales to really gain a foothold and has seen him take this landslide victory essentially coming out with nearly 70% of the vote. it was predicted leading up to

this second round of elections that he was going to take presidency with similar numbers as what we've seen today. despite a low turnout we now see him probably being -- taking the presidency in january, taking office in january. now it's not going to be an easy ride for him by any means. he's going to have a huge amount of pleasure on him, to put on campaigns, to gain back public trust and try osteer guatemala on a better course, darren. >> david mercer in guatemala city, david thank you. and argentina is headed for a run offer election. daniel scioli ahead of macry has

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>> welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera. an emergency summit in brussels has set identity measures to deal with europe's refugee

crisis. temporary aid will be presented to refugees as winter approaches. and to oversee border controls. jimmy morales is leading in the guatemala election. bashar al-assad says any agreement will depend on eliminating what he called terrorist organizations. an israeli man has been stabbed in the occupied west bank and earlier a 16-year-old palestinian girl was shot dead by security forces in the west bank city of hebron. recent spate has been sparked by disagreements over the access to al-aqsa mosque. stefanie dekker is there.

>> it's difficult to confirm, we don't see footage, we're not there, hearing two different accounts, certainly the place she if there's more pressure on the israelis, 16-year-old girl was not armed that they could perhaps release some of that footage to actually release some of this event, release some calm. palestinians are being shot left right and center because of the tensions we're seeing. what's interesting is this started this wave in occupied east 800 number really now come to the west bank. it's come, again very difficult to control, very difficult for the israeli police and army to predict for anyone to try and calm down because there are individuals going out and carrying out these attacks and

sometimes there are no attacks but people get shot get killed. so it's a sensitive complicated situation on the ground that seems very hard to appease at the moment. >> aid workers in the yemeni city of ta'izz says it's hard to reach people in need. heavy fighting between government forces and houthi rebels continues. emma kay molu reports. >> saudi led air raids are meant to back these progovernment fighters. a mix of professional soldiers and tribes men. they're having a hard time dislodging the houthis. >> translator: a message to the houthis is that ta'izz, by the support of its men women and youths is steadfast and will not be defeated. >> convincing the people of ta'izz is another matter.

they remain under siege. houthi fighters have encircled the city. basic necessities, fresh food and water can't get in. what's left is very expensive. there are just six barely functioning hospitals left in a city of 600,000. doctors are short of nearly everything including oxygen supplies anesthetics and antibiotics. and the injured keep coming. al jazeera spoke to some of the local people. >> translator: now country is fully destroyed, who are we supposed to have a dialogue with? all sides should be put on trial. they keep shelling our neighborhoods. we don't see the point of talks. the government should come to ta'izz and see the suffering of people. >> the houthis keep killing yemenis. there is a dialogue and staged a coup. >> the rebels say it staged a coup last year to create a

fairer distribution of the country's wealth. in ta'izz and elsewhere the only thing that's being he created is more poverty. imoku molu, al jazeera. heavy rain has washed it into the streets, paul tradergian shorts. reports. >> 9now residents of beirut have to tread carefully. >> we were swimming amid the rubbish. this is how our government works. >> garbage has been piling up in the city since the summer. residents have no choice but to dump their trash on the streets. many view the unsanitary conditions will lead to illness and diseases spread by insects. since lebanon's largest landfill

reached capacity in july the gridlocked government has not been able to identify another site. now, heavy rainfall has spread the litter all over the city. volunteers from the you stink campaign have pen trying to help. the hashtag you stink has been the rebel call. volunteers gathered on the bank of the beirut rive river to picp what they could. >> because of the rain we were obliged to toss the trash into the river. the river has been changed into a dump instead of a river and the health situation has become very dangerous. >> reporter: the garbage crisis has ignited mass protest against the government. angry residents took to the streets four weeks ago. they demanded parliament take action or resign.

antigovernment protesters are accusing lawmakers of cription. corruption. they say parliament is busy lining their own pockets. they are demanding the government provide basic services. >> all 24 ministers have a veto power and they are debating their share of everything in power and basically crippling the entire government which has not met for the past six weengss in any meetings. the country is totally crippled and left without any leadership. >> on the agenda is the latest crisis plaguing a city once considered the paris of the middle east. paul tradergian, al jazeera. >> rob mcbride has the

details. >> it may seem out of place a vestige of early communism but this comes at an important time in china's development. what does china set as its gdp targets for the next five years. with the economic outlook slowing, transitions away from an economy focused on manufacturing and online consumerism. a focus is how do people have a greater share in the nation's wealth? >> translator: i don't think the policy is going to change my life. >> translator: i think some industries might do better. like my business, real estate. >> translator: of course, if we have more money, we will spend more.

>> reporter: apart from the economic targets are the important social goals of the five year plan such as greater welfare help for some of the 17 million people in china who are officially below the poverty line here. and also, possibly further relaxations of the one child policy with the country facing all the problems of a graying population. in a society where sometimes the decision making is not very transparent or even opaque, the five year plan gives one of the clearest indicators of just the kind of society china wants to see itself become in the future. >> mexican president enrique pena nieto has traveled to the mexican pacific coast to assess the damage of hurricaning patricia. the government has been praised for a successful emergency response. a rescue operation is underway off the coast of canada after a whale watching boat

carrying 27 people capsized. the incident happened close to the city of victoria in the province of british columbia. at least three people are confirmed dead. a giant rock formation is a famous australian tourist attraction and sacred to an ridge knees. aborigines. >> geologists think that, the rock has extended for hundreds of millions of years. for tense of thousands of years indigenous aboriginal people made it part of their belief. ayers rock cleared aboriginal people from the area. in 1999, amoun amount ooloru wa.

>> i now place in the land trust the title deed. >> back then the handover was controversial. a light plane was flown over the ceremony towing the slogan of the people. >> it was obig scene handing back a major icon for all australians. when you are handing it to one group of paim people tha peoplet awkward for australians to come to deal with. >> reporter: now the handover is a point of reconciliation between first australians and be a generation of colonialists. >> we realized we had our land back, it was here it was ours

and we could work. >> first on celebrations and commemorations, not just for hand-back of the rock itself but the symbol in australia more broadly. hopes the handover would deal a major change in fochtsz have fo. >> we're fighting for most basic huge rights. >> that's basic for community at the base ever the rock. it has a new swimming pool but is a very poor place. even though there was a national apology in 2008, the constitution doesn't recognize that australia was even inhabited before white settlers arrived. there is a referendum too change that however. packed with symbolism 30 years on it's been celebrated but

still marginalized. indigenous australians know they have more big battles ahead. mike thomas, al jazeera, australia. >> wallabes beat twickenham. >> team full of flair. victory in the semi final would take them further in the world cup than ever before. expecting a better performance and a win that would set up a final showdown with new zealand. the opposite was to happen. a gift presented to rob simmons and nobody was going to stop the australian forward-scoring with just 67 seconds gone. within ten minutes, australia had another try, a score that

was too easy for a world cup semi final. argentina's problems were mounting. they lost star player and can't to injury, while argentina were down to 14 men though, australia exploited the opportunity with a second score and a 19-9 half of the lead. nicholas sanchez was giving his team hope. but finally, australia broke the resistance for good. drew mitchell performing to hold on and hold on. and finally, it reached ashley cooper, a hat-trick to him. >> australia knew they had to raise their game after that narrow escape against scotland. now they can look forward to trying topple the all blacks on

friday. the winner of that one will list the world cup trophy for a are third time. lee wellings, at twickenham stadium, london. >> there, the address where you can get news any time, aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. >> we've arrived in puerto rico, a us island territory, more than $70 billion in debt. residents are american citizens, but the poverty rate here is 3 times the national average. now, with the economy facing collapse, record numbers are using their american passports to get out. >> i have never en