it's the first stop on a vintage train ride that also takes in an arboretum and a pleasant ice cream shop the train line and the stadium were built say anticorruption activists using public money with construction contracts awarded to well connected businessmen part of an elite that's grown rich through its proximity to power the beneficiaries of contractors who are actually carried out these this work and all those were people of course to use that or by the government. on the day we visit a local tour group arrives to board what's been dubbed the train to nowhere. but here you get a pretty good idea of how a lot of money was spent on not very much if anybody did do well out of this project i'm pretty sure it was in the hunger area public. it's estimated that over eighty percent of public investment in hungary comes from the european union's so-called cushioning from its intended to help poorer members catch up with hungary

increasingly in conflict with the e.u. over corruption and migration policies brussels plans to cut those funds by a quarter in its next budget is the government apparently not much we've seen that part of the blackmailing horizon for the past couple of years in order to have a budget iraq and budget you have to have the costs of all member states. and there's not going to become censors which is very likely to happen for the criteria of if south is going to remain and then there's not going to be a budget so confident as mr all burn in fact that he's begun exporting his influence supporting like minded politicians in slovenia slovakia poland and the czech republic. was very successful in hungary and there nothing really happened which was really backfired you know and

all thanks south you know anything it was a very. easy thing far far from best. comparisons are often made between all bands hungary and bloody me of putin's russia state control of the media a squeeze on civil society the hallmarks are certainly there. and they may well be for a long time to come and join a whole al-jazeera in hungary willing to argue a paramilitary supporters of the government and stormed a stronghold of opposition protesters at least two people were killed and dozens injured in the besieged city of the say three months of anti-government protests have killed at least two hundred seventy five people president daniel ortega is accused of overseeing widespread human rights abuses but we are such as more from the capital than i what. well since the early hours of tuesday the city of messiah was under siege by paramilitary forces close the entrance to the city which is south east of the capital people have been calling throughout the day early in the

morning and into the afternoon people have been calling desperately television stations radio stations asking for help they said that there was a lot of shooting around at these paramilitary forces were in caravans going around now the chief of police of messiah said in a press conference that the order to clean up the road blocks it's a cleansing operation strictly ordered by president and his wife vice president he said that the order was to clean up whatever the cost the u.n. secretary general. has said that the number of deaths in the nearly three months of protest are shocking and that the use of force on behalf of the state is not acceptable for human rights organizations say that the police and the paramilitary are doing these joint operations and that the little use of force is being directed

towards the unarmed population acquire to be fired by the international humanitarian law the government here has not condemned these actions has not arrested any of these individuals and instead the police chief. has said the government here is directing them well thousands of children are being denied the right to education by the european union's migration agreement with turkey that's the finding of a report by human rights watch which has looked at the schooling of asylum seekers greece's gene orleans. is a senior researcher for children's rights at human rights watch he says the children all supposed to be in terms for a short time but that isn't the reality. we met kids who've been. in those camps for eleven months and they had no access to education this is appalling particularly given the scale of the amount of money that has gone into the humanitarian response to the so-called refugee migration crisis in greece this is

the most expensive per capita humanitarian response ever funded by the european union more than fourteen thousand dollars per asylum seeker in greece and yet these children are being denied education on the islands what needs to happen is that these kids should be allowed to move from the islands to the mainland where they can get into school and the result now is that you know these kids are coming from traumatic situations that fled from war that had terrible experiences on the way to greece then they're stuck in these camps where conditions are truly bad i met a young boy who'd just seen a man commit suicide in the morea camp on the island of lesbos if you were able to go to school if you have a regular safe routine back and help you recover from trauma as a child that can help get your mental health back in shape and that's not what's being offered to these kids they're stuck in those camps day in day out with no education and no hope for the future a film festival in south korea is getting

a red a glimpse of life north of the border organized as a ploy special permit to screen korean movies. welcome to the international fantastic film festival lots of glamour lots of star power the event is into its twenty second year and this time it's featuring nearly three hundred films from more than fifty countries but what makes this year's event stand out is the fact that for the first time as many as nine north korean films are being shown to the public without restrictions. because north korean movies are classified as special data which means to screen those films a south korean cinema would need to pry approval from the government. in line with the recent deaths in expectations of into korean relationships and mutual exchange we suggested to the ministry of culture sports and tourism new way of screening to allow our audience to watch north korea movies without any difficulties that lead

to what you could call a free release. one of the films being shown is an animation made in two thousand and eight to educate people about traffic rules the organizers chose it because they thought it depicted city life n.p.r. the north korean capital the other is about three young orphaned siblings who overcome odds to stay together an award winning film with a strong focus on the universal theme of family. as a north korean japanese film director has traveled to north korea several times to make movies yes. good actors a jumpstart to resolving conflicts so in that sense if we strengthen mutual exchange for example collaboration or exchange of technology we can extend this opportunity to achieving peace and independence relations have improved since north korea sent a delegation to take part in the winter olympics in february muvico us at the

festival hope the screenings will contribute to that effort. my photo was from home here in north korea but he's passed away so this is a very special moment i feel great try watching a movie made in the north regardless of what kind of movie is the shown or i want to know their standard of living compared to where i think we may be allowed to visit north korea in the near future so i want to take a peek into their culture there's room for more of such exchanges in the future the korean film council has set up a committee to look into this and it said to be exploring the idea of filming on location in north korea florence li al jazeera. south korea will have to buy.

well the backstop sport has checked the hill thank you well we're halfway through the major league baseball season and that means the traditional all-star game a record ten home runs were hit as the american league took the spoils against the national league play to stem it reports. nationals park in washington d.c. the thing for the eighty ninth all-star game a game that was under threat just hours before the first ball was pitched heavy rain in the u.s. capitol thankfully subsided in time for the start of the game there was a rousing welcome for bryce harper the winner of the home run derby the day before and a washington nationals player aaron judge of the new york yankees with the first homerun

of the game i. i won nothing to the american league. at the top of the eighth inning triple story of the colorado rockies leveled the school at two two. then the game swung in favor of the american league team they moved into a five two lead could see of this three run home run by john so guru of the seattle mariners. but they were not allowed to get away. from the national league tie big game at five five when scoot again it's of the cincinnati reds hit this two run homer the reigning world series champions of the euston astro's several splitting then an expressman would hit a solo home run to send the american league back into believing. and then george spring no also of the astros' did the same seventy five to the american league and

they would not look back from their final score eighty six and the american league team of the twenty eighteen all-star game winners featuring the record home runs freedman was named most valuable player i don't know i think i think it's fun like competing going to the. best man wins i mean they can empty your tank and hit homers tonight. at this event is probably the best thing imaginable just to have that kind of emotion that comes with a homerun especially when the big boys hit men especially when the astros hear now that the midseason fun is over the regular season will resume and tuesday when the st louis cardinals already the chicago cubs peter stammered al-jazeera. the mother of her brazilian footballer who competed at the world cup has been freed after being kidnapped outside her home last angela friday is the mother of taste son who was in the brazilian squad in russia security cameras caught the moment she was lured to her gates by a man who was delivering flowers and then bundled into

a car brazilian place located the gang's hideout within hours and made four arrests . oldest major tournament the open gets underway in scotland on thursday in or as a show to be on three time champion tiger woods as he makes his return to the tournament of a former well no one is set to place first open championship since two thousand and fifteen after recovering from his latest round of back surgery woods made his return to major goal for the masters in april finishing tied for thirty seconds before missing the cut at the u.s. open in june but the american believes the coniston course could be way he has his best chance of adding his fourteen major titles it's great seeing it on t.v. but it's even better in person i remember how it feels to come down lost all of the chance to win it and knowing that i'm. i may never have that opportunity again. there were some sometimes in there where it just didn't feel very good. but now i

had opted to come back to carnoustie to play here in scotland again. it's i've said this before and throughout this year it's been a blessing. there were some times where i didn't think i would ever build a do this again and lo and behold here i am playing my third major of the year. jordan spaeth was the winner of the current job at royal birkdale twelve months ago was the americans third major title and saw him become just the second player off to jack nicklaus to capture three of the four may just before the age of twenty four it was almost disbelief certainly date times during that day that i had disbelief that that would be a reality but. i remember kind of feeling it in not recognizing how much detail has gone into this trophy and then it kind of hit me that this is the greatest trophy in our sport and saw that that moment on the eighteenth green there was very special the time ping pong diplomacy was first used in the one nine hundred seventy s. when the usa and china built a diplomatic relationship off the back of

a successful table tennis tournament now the premise is being used again to bring north and south korea closer together compasses from the north of travel to the south to compete in an international competition they've been tamed up in the mixed doubles to form a unified squad on tuesday north korea's and south korea's new young beat a team from spain of relations between the two countries have warmed since north korea sent its athletes to the winter olympics in plum chang in february. and that is the u.s. but for now i have more feel like to say oh thanks very much chad the news that would mean so robin the teams of next with another full hour of news until i'd like for your time and your company.

in iran waste inefficiencies in a growing population have led to do and living water supplies. yet been determined to extract water from any source asa will this is what you see as a result now of the country's future at stake. attitude to change and innovative solutions are being father to people in power investigates iran's water crisis on al-jazeera. the sams in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in bible most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to

emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. and language he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life it's culture. a remarkable portrait of a remove japanese the latest in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seventy years later how has the community of me akhil been able to move on and rebuild their lives. to prime to mouth of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. out

of hospital and going home the teenage tri footballers are about to recount their flooded cave ordeal for the first time. hello welcome george is there a line from scene that is also coming out. between the war and the border syrian civilians trying to escape to the occupied golan heights but will israel let them in. taking off to a new start ethiopia and eritrea resume flights for the first time in twenty years and. remembering the ramana of russia marks a hundred years since the murder of song nicholas the poster thinks. the thai football team this went eighteen days underground and just about to make

their first public appearance at a press conference the twelve teenagers and their coach of just being discharged from hospital after more than a week of assessments by doctors family members and psychologists are also in attendance as the team of questions about their dramatical deal they were trapped inside a flooded underground cave on june the twenty third until they were rescued last week live for us chiang rai is that vast in that correspondent and step you're actually at the event has it got under way yet of the boy started talking. well it will go under way any minute now or martine we're waiting for the twelve boys the young footballers and their coach to add to this room out anymore. meant to start a very controlled and orchestrated the press event it's basically a talk show on tide television state television network which will be aired around

the country life on all t.v. channels and radio it's of course the very first time we will actually see the boys and here are the boys mainly because we all of course are very curious to know how they are doing and how it was like to survive in a cave for eighteen days and even the first ten days not without any help had arrived they didn't even know they were actually going to be rescued so there's a lot of questions of course but the this whole event is carefully orchestrated psychologists have been screening the questions so we could put in some questions but we're not very sure what will actually be asked of them here it's also set up as a little football pitch actually they will be wearing their their football outfit there some balls here so they will kick a few balls as well so it's all a whole big talk show also a very interesting publicist event for the thai government at the moment indeed it is quite extraordinary isn't it how quickly the boys seem to have recovered from

their ordeal but bit by bit step we've been getting more and more detail have we about the individuals and the tickly about the three boys and indeed that. have got this rather peculiar status a state of being stateless. exactly we hear the music now playing i think they will come in here any minute but this is of course an event that the government is using for their publicity it's a program called thailand moving forward the daily show that the government is using also to send their messages to the public so the voice will appear on this at this channel today everywhere around the country but sadly four of them have not even the time actually ality the coach and three players are stateless you have to understand this is a border region so all. people from myanmar crossing into thailand so did the coach when he was lost his parents as an orphan he crossed the border trying to get

better education here as also one of the other boys so basically they have the right to education on this side of the border but not many other rights and of course this whole ordeal their whole story her book just the spotlight on. the situation of these dateless people here in thailand nearly five hundred thousand of them are stateless and the government is now saying they might help and might speed up the process to give them their passports and their nationalities but of course so many are asking when when is it going to be our turn. step vasant thank you very much indeed and we'll of course go back to chiang rai as soon as the boys appear and get a sample of what they have to say. thousands of people are being bussed out of to northwestern syrian towns besieged by opposition fighters for more than four years the evacuation of the towns of four for the friar is part of a deal between the rebel groups and it raney of fighters who are backing the

government around one hundred buses are taking pro-government fighters and their families to areas under the army's control and in exchange the government set to release hundreds of detainees meanwhile in the southern province of the rob residents say it's like doomsday after coming under attack by government forces have been dozens of air strikes and shelling overnight targeting the city of noah a hospital is among the buildings hit now is the largest urban center of the still under rebel control in the south the province of daraa. and thousands of displaced civilians are now trapped between that intensive government offensive and a closed border fence with israel hundreds of them and taking shelter along these really occupied golan heights known to say displaced families approached this border fence seeking sanctuary seventy dekker is our correspondent and she is in the israeli occupied golan heights you can see that airstrike in the distance and

just how close it is to the tents of the i.d.p.'s which are right close to the fence. israeli occupied golan heights it gives an indication of how terrified these people are we've been watching the bachelor unfold here in the last couple of hours of strikes artillery and of course the people here these ten start doctors along the east entire border fence in this location they have nowhere to go because the border remains closed the israeli authorities have made it very clear that they will not be allowing any syrian internally displaced and we saw a group of them get close to the border fence on tuesday waving makeshift white flags but again they were urged to move back the army has been giving some aid giving some tents to help them out but it is a desperate situation and this really is seven years into this war now all the

borders remain closed whether it's israel whether it's jordan whether it's turkey whether it's lebanon or whether it is iraq it is a desperate situation for the syrian people and now certainly has the syrian government is intensifying its campaign to take back this this park at the southern pocket from the rebels the people here are terrified and really don't have anywhere to go. all right let's go back to chiang rai and there you see the smiling faces of the thai football team the boys and their football coach who i can't make out at the moment but these are the boys making their first press periods and they are usually in a panel hundred four take questions from media this is being broadcast live on tide television and as you can see they all look pretty world pretty happy indeed. correspondent vassal is there she's watching events forces well

and said i'm not sure if you're aware of this but as to the boys are filing in they look exceedingly well they look exceedingly healthy and more than that they look at him rather pleased with themselves each of them carrying a football and wearing what i assume to be their football strip. yeah you can imagine how happy these boys must be of course after they all they went through eighteen days locked up in a cave and now they came out realizing only dan that the whole world was watching them that everyone was following their ordeal day by day minute by minute so of course it's totally overwhelming for these boys the youngest is eleven year old this is seventeen years old it was actually his birthday that was a reason for the boys to go into the cave in the first place they were planning to stay only one hour but then it turned out to be eighteen days because of heavy flooding they couldn't leave the cave anymore so now they hear the percent of what

a very first time to the world because everyone of course wants to hear from them they want to see how they are doing they want to hear about their ordeal how did they survive for such a long time in such a difficult situation of course we have been hearing some more details in the past days for example one of the reasons they've been surviving so well. is that they were totally relying on the coach to twenty five year old the coach called back up or he has been a monk a buddhist monk in the passion he trained these boys basically to mattie tate so they could save her and she so they wouldn't need much water not enough not much food so basically they were saving their energy by meditating they also still had some lights they had some lights on their phone some lights on their watches so that basically took them for quite a while before that everything was dark around but after a spoken to one of the fire he said you know of course my boy was very scared he

was very very scared but he left it all up to the coach to listen to the coach very well because just like a father figure to them and now of course they're a very very compact and very close steve it's like the family of each other now they're like siblings and coaches sort of like a father figure to them so it's an amazing fan now that we could finally hear from them directly and and said it's it's interesting isn't it that this event has been very heavily orchestrated by the authorities and understandably perhaps have got psychologists with them as well because presumably i suppose there are some fears as is the mental health even though physically they might be. absolutely fine. exactly the government has been very very protective they've been in the hospital and nobody of course was allowed to to even get near them not not one of the journalists could get near them and of course there's

a reason for that it's not only because the government of course it's going to is using this of course for publicity for themselves as well but.