>> slovenia begins erecting a wall to keep refugees out as leaders meet to discuss how to deal with the crise. you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also coming up on the program: >> anger on the streets of afghanistan's capital after the killings of members of an ethnic minority. >> today we swear in new ministers of the government. >> nigeria's new cabinet is sworn in after a five month

delay. >> fifa's suspended president seth blatter is hospitalized with stress. we'll have the latest. >> slovenia is building a fence object its border with croatia in order to stem the flow of refugees and migrants. prime ministers there who once criticized barriers said it would be used to direct refugee flow rather than stop it. he said the border crossings would still remain open. nearly 170,000 migrants classed into slovenia since mid october when hungary sealed its southern border. we are at the slovenia-croatia border with this report. >> early in the morning, slovenia army started erecting the fence in two locations. one of the locations is this

place, with that the refugees crossed water last month to get to slovenia. slovenia call this a be technical barrier, not a barbed wire fence. instead of barbs, it has raisers. slovenia wants to close off the green border. the point is to control the in flux. slovenia prime minister said yesterday they are worried about refugees coming to slovenia in the next few days following last week. >> that the e.u. is holding another meeting to discuss the inpluck of refugees, african leaders attending the summit taking place in malta. leaders have been unable to agree on how to deal with the thousands coming into europe. lawrence lee joins us from the capital of malta. what is the e.u. trying to get

agreements on at this meeting? >> ostensibly you could say they're trying to present it as a way of turning a crise into an opportunity. that's the way it's being spun, the crisis being the numbers of people who have died in the mediterranean from the african crossing. remember, this meeting was called after 800 died in april in a single incident near lampedusa, the opportunity of making average can he be countries more livable, providing opportunities for the poorest and not making the crossing in the first place. knew that 2 billion euros is planned in aid and development money and these sorts of things. that's in some ways, the very optimistic way of looking at it. the fact that this summit is being head ape fortress gives

you an idea that underneath all that, there is talking about increasing border security inside internal borders inside africa to stop people getting to the sea in the first place. the details are much less specific, a lot of talk about the eu border agency going into africa trying to process asylum claims there and sending people back in country who don't fit the criteria. human rights groups are concerned about the potential for bilateral agreements between countries and dodgy african countries with terrible human rights records, countries like eritrea. they say the idea that the european union might provide funding to these countries to keep them in, and stop them legitimately claiming asylum really undermines the european union's stated values are being a protector of human rights, so it's controversial in that way.

>> you've been talking about the african countries, but what are they going to get out of this meeting held in malta? >> the options clearly for them is money, because that's what the e.u. is offering, is ways of giving them money to vesicalment, there's talk of entrepreneurship. there is discussion about remittances, africans who already live in europe being better able to serve money back. they're talking about things like more university places, wealthier, better educated africans can come to study in a more managed way of migration and coming back to help. the main issue is stopping people from get to go europe in the first place. >> lawrence, thank you very much for that update.

>> afghanistan's president ashraf ghani promised to find who is responsible for the brutal killings of seven members of the minority community. we have this report from kabul. >> thousands of afghans marched through kabul in the largest demonstration seen in recent times. people say it doesn't matter who did it, they blame the government for not providing security. >> the irresponsible acts of the government, that's the reason for the blood shed of our matters. the people of afghanistan are here in away united front to demand justice for the bloodshed of these matters.

>> a girl was beheaded like the others. >> there is no government. we want people to stand up for their rights. we want justice for the blood of the girl. >> how much longer will the blood be spilled? how much longer will the government ignore us? the government has to act on our demands today otherwise the demonstrations will continue. >> calling fortress i go nation of president ashraf ghani and his chief executive, abdullah abdullah. >> we want justice and security. this government destroyed the system. want country is asleep. there is no work. all you can see is crime and killing. there is nothing else going on here. >> the government has declared an official day of mourning, and has promised to launch an investigation as to why afghan

forces failed to increase skew the victims. >> when protestors tried to climb the wall into the presidential compound, fires were shot in the air to stop them. the scale of this demonstration may send a message to the government that the people are frustrated by the lack of security and the weak economy and want their leaders to do something about it. al jazeera, kabul. syrian opposition figures have reject a russian draft proposal aimed at solving the nearly five year war. the document proposes a congressional reform pros and presidential elections. they say it's aimed at keeping president bashar al assad in power. inside syria, government forces have broken a long siege of strategic air base in the north. we have this report. >> this is a significant breakthrough and a strategic gain. the siege of the military airport has now been broken. isil has been pushed back. the syrian government and its allies now have an air base in the north of the country, after

losing control of others over the years. if the military is able to hold ground, it gives it a better position to support a planned offensive in and around aleppo city against opposition forces. they have won this battle, but the war has many fronts and the government and allies mounted multiple offenses across northern syria, mainly against the rebels and not isil. until now, there has been little success. there has been little success on the diplomatic front. there is a momentum that shouldn't be missed. world and regional leaders who met in vienna will hold talks on saturday, but even before a u.n. led peace process can begin, the players need to agree on a list of opposition representatives who will take part in proposed negotiations. the sir you know government has long called its opponents terrorists. now, it has to recognize on opposition. moscow presented candidates it talks to and unlike the past is

not just those friendly with russia, but finding common ground won't be easy. >> it will be very difficult for different parties to agree on representatives of the syrian conflict. another challenge is to find really someone or a party that could represent all the different oppositions within the syrian opposition. >> russia has denied that it prepared a special document for syria but says it has ideas for further discussion. one of those reportedly involves an 18 month constitutional reform pros, which won't be chaired by president bashar al assad. >> it's not clear with iran is onboard, but the proposal could be seen as compromise. the proposal also says that the president can take part in future elections, and that is unacceptable to the opposition, who wants a specific time frame

for his departure. >> another point of contention is an agreement on who should be considered a terrorist in syria. for the first time, the u.s., russia, saudi arabia and iran, main backers of the warring sides are sitting on the same tail. clearly this is progress, but the hard bargaining has yet to start. al jazeera, beirut. >> suspended fifa president seth blatter has been hospitalized after placed under medical observation for stress. he has vowed to continue with his fight against a fifa ethics committee which suspended him for 90 days. our correspondent is standing by with the latest from london, first an update about blatter's health. >> well, seth blatter is in hospital and is likely as things stand to be there until tuesday. he is suffering what's called a small breakdown, also been described as a nervous shock. we were aware that he had been to hospital suffering from

stress, the stress you can imagine he'd be suffering with as a 79-year-old man who has been under the most intense pressure over the last few weeks, particularly of course, he is suspended for 90 days from his role as fifa president that he's held for 17 years. this is something that he was desperately trying to hang on to and has been a large part of his stress. he didn't want to go anywhere. he was led effectively kicking and screaming from the building after the decision by the ethics committee. now, i think the main thing that has been coming out from the hospital in switzerland was the main need for him to rest, but he will be treated until tuesday as things stand and then he is determined i'm told to carry on his work, if not official work for fifa, but his work is to try and still clear his name. >> thank you for that update from london. >> here's what's coming up after the break. u.s. presidential hope was scare off in their fourth debate.

we'll tell you about the world's biggest on line sales bonanza. that's coming up in a moment.

>> the only live national news show at 11:00 eastern. >> we start with breaking news. >> let's take a closer look. >> the top stories on al jazeera, slovenia building a fence on its border with croatia in an attempt to stem the flow of refugees and migrants. the e.u. is holding another meeting to figure out how to you deal with the refugee in flux. >> afghan president ashraf ghani

is setting up an inquire rye. thoses of demonstrators were outside the presidential palace. >> seth blatter has been hospitalized after an undisclosed stress related incident. the 79-year-old has vowed to fight allegations of corruption in fifa. >> eight police officers sentenced to 15 years in prison were convicted of killing a taxi driver from mozambique. tanya page is in pretoria. >> the judge wanted to send a message that police brutality would not be tolerated. he said it was inaccusable that the man was stopped, handcuffed to a vehicle and dragged through the streets and beaten. he said it was barbaric and that the officers had totally lost control. the family welcome would the

sentences, 15 years for each of the eight police officers found guilty of murdering their loved one, however are seeking compensation and are now in talks because they say his dependency, children and wife have been left destitute. police brutality a charge problem in this country, this is one of many highlighting the issue over the last years. in fact, only two weeks ago, a man b was shot dead by police. he had fired at police officers, but those police officers, four have them were charged with murder will be in court on friday. the judge in his summing up and delivering his sentence was animate that these officers, the eight accused needed to be made an example of. he said police broughtty has to stop and hopes 15 years in prison will curb police broughtty in south africa.

>> nigeria has a new cabinet after six months have waiting. the president mus buhari has appointed himself at oil minister. not only has he been criticized for the delay, but he's also criticized for the composition that have new cabinet. what do we know about it? >> that's right. many have pointed to the fact, critics of the president have pointed to the fact that when the short list of ministers were reds some weeks ago, because we knew who would become ministers some weeks ago that there was a for representation of women, of the 36 ministers sworn in today, only four are women. over 50 percent of the population is made up of

females. there's criticism of the average age of the minute officers, 57. people say tens of millions who went out to vote were between 18-30 and that ought to have been reflected. some critics of the president say that the people's democratic party of the ex-president good luck jonathan, some say should have a clean break, nobody from the party should have been part of this cabinet. at the ceremony, it also became clear that muhammed buhari as promised during the election period wants to reduce and has reduced the size and scale of the federal government. 36 ministers were named, normally they would head 36 different might be industries. today we understand that the number of ministries have been reduced from 36 to 25 because the country is under immense

pressure to cut spending. the price of oil has fallen drastically, the country release on the export of oil. also what we saw in relation to this is some ministries being merged, power, housing were once separate ministries and now are under one ministry. it's not about waiting six months. these women are all competent and capable. >> economy clearly an important issue for nine. what other issues will this new cabinet have to deal with immediately? >> the fight against corruption. muhammed buhari was elected on a ticket of reducing the level of corruption here and we saw in today's announcement the confirmation that he had appointed himself as minister of

petroleum because over the last few years, under at least the former government and former ruling party, billions of dollars have been lost -- >> all right, that was reporting from nigeria. >> donald trumps plan to deport immigrants came under attack from rivals in the republican presidential candidate debate. >> in the debate hall, one dominant subject, the economy. would the candidate support raising the minimum wage to $15. >> if you raise the minimum wage, you are going to make people more expensive than a machine. all this automation replacing

jobs and people right now is going to be separated. make america the best place in the world to start a business or expand an existing business. tax reform and regulatory reform. bring our debt under control, fully utilize energy resource to say reinvigorate manufacturing. >> when it came to cutting america's debt, each candidate praised their own tax plan. ohio governor john kasich, a demand to be realistic. >> we hear a lot of promises in this debate, a lot of promises about these tax cuts or tax schemes sometimes that i call them. hillary and the democrats promise everything on the spending side. we've got to be responsible what we propose on the tax side, lower taxes, lower spending. >> one of the hottest exchanges came discussing immigration. donald trump wants to deport 11 million undocumented migrants. jeb bush says even having the discussion sends the wrong message. >> even having this conversation sends a powerful signal.

they're doing high fives in the clinton campaign now when they hear this. that's the problem. we have to win the presidency. the way you win the presidency is that practical plans, lay them out there, what we need to do is allow people to earn legal status where they pay a fine, where they work, where they don't commit crimes, learn english and over an extended period of time learn. >> almost everyone on stage attacked hillary clinton. this was a more substantive debate where strength were highlighted and weak insists exposed. this was the night we changed the republican presidential race. >> thousands took to the streets and cities across the u.s. to

demand an increase in the minimum wage. many chanted slogans in that they want to be paid $15 an hour. protestors hope to rally support ahead of next year's presidential elections. >> in myanmar be a aung san suu kyi called for talks follow suns historic election. >> the national league for democracy continues its march towards parliament, continues towards you a very big win in this election. one of the latest results to be announced by the union election commission not surprisingly that of the party leader aung san suu kyi, who comfortably won her seat in the township to the south of the largest city. she was an incumbent m.p. in that seat, she won that seat in the election three years ago. very much the nld on track to win more than two thirds of the seats in both the upper and

lower houses of parliament. that's what it needs to do to be able to form the next government on its own, remembering that the military is still guaranteed a quarter of all seats in parliament. so far, as those results filter out from the election commission, there seems to be an overwhelming statement from the people of aung san su myanmar. >> heavy smog has brought road and air traffic to northeastern china. the increased air pollution has been worsened by coal burning during the winter months. >> the world's biggest on line sales bow nancy is a is underway. alibaba broke its own record with more than a billion dollars worth of goods sold in eight minutes. >> she has been counting down the days to this moment. she's part of china's growing

middle class. >> i want to buy a couch. i want to buy storage box. i want to buy some clothes for my daughter and a new handbag. >> the only time she goes out to shop is for fruit and vegetables. everything else is ordered on line, especially today. >> they will give people discounts. some maybe 50%. >> she is a customer of alibaba, the world's biggest on line retailer which organized this shopping festival. shining a spotlight on this gala, reports in china's official media that up to 40% of goods sold on line here last year were fakes or badly made. >> they have to crack down on fakes. alibaba is listed on the u.s. stock exchange. they don't want to appear on the notorious list which would directly affect the site. >> sham goods are easy to spot. a bag for $150, prices for the real thing begin at around

$3,000. even cheaper, this bag selling for just $15. alibaba is owned by the chinese entrepreneur jack maar, now being sued in the united states. alibaba says more than a billion and a half dollars were spent within the first 12 minutes of this on line festival. china's economy may be slowing, but consumption on wednesday at least appeared robust. on line retail sales are up 40% on a year ago. that jump in business appears to be at the expense of traditional retailers. >> this was once a pretty busy shopping mall that specializes in electrical goods. today, there appear to be more staff than shoppers. the reason for that, say some of the retailers we've spoken to is the growing threat from on line shopping. >> for an economy losing speed,

any growth is good right now, the question is whether that rise in consumer spending is happening fast enough. al jazeera, beijing. >> an asia analyst said despite china's economic slow down, the retail market is healthy. >> china's economy is holding up well. incomes are rising, driving chinese consumption at the moment. today is a reflection of that. >> chinese taking on line seriously is an important part of the retail market here. alibaba has had an impact on the market as it's going forward. we see that with the main retail chain priors operating in the consumer goods space have been struggling as a result of that.

there has been a response in the market. companies are beefing on line operations. >> venezuelan president is in the saudi arabia capitol. prices of declined causing serious difficulties for south american exporters. >> commemorations of taken place across europe to mark armistice day. ♪ >> in london, a two minute silence was held at 11:00 local time to remember the fallen in both world wars and other conflicts. across the channel in france, president hollande led tributes there in paris to honor the nation's war dead. similar services also head by forces stationed in afghanistan.

soldiers from several countries under nato's command held a ceremony in kabul. much more on that and the day's other stories on our website, aljazeera.com. >> police say they've arrested a suspect accused of making on line threats at the university of missouri. >> a white house, severe weather rolls across the rockies, leading to blizzard warnings for millions of people. >> if i did not end up in that program, i would either be dead or in prison right now. >> helping america's veterans, how one judge in florida is helping those who served stay clean and sober.