anchor: we start in hungary, where there have been chaotic scenes outside of the budapest keleti train station. hundreds of migrants protesting after being shut out by police, after an initial wave was able to board planes -- trains to austria and germany yesterday. hungary said they will send all economic migrants back to the country they came from in the first place.

go?here are you germany! reporter: outside budapest, migrants voiced frustration. they want to leave for germany and austria, but they were prevented from boarding trains. -- we can make our solution. please find a solution. i have nowhere. i have to speak. [shouting] reporter: he appeared to convey the moods of the hundreds around him. inside the station, groups of migrants were turned away, despite having bought valid train tickets. >> the budapest railway station will be shut down -- reporter: hungary has insisted eu rules prohibit them from letting migrants with no visas

travel west. yet another group in serbia was boarding a bus to budapest. only the first stop on the way to western europe. these migrants are heading into the unknown, and they say they have no choice. >> i worked hard. but to stem the flow of migrants heading into serbia. august, 2000 men, women, and children have been arriving every day in hungary. anchor: france 24 correspondents migrants who have

been arriving from syria. initially, they arrived in greece. now, thousands are heading into neighboring macedonia, where the government has put them on west -- trains heading west. the country has called an emergency state due to the numbers heading over. a few months ago, they were banned from taking public transport at all and forced to cycle or walk across the country. the journey can take up to eight days. the train ride takes just four hours, and our team was on board with some migrants. reporter: 10 euros. that's what it costs to travel from macedonia, for those who can afford it. only one stop is on this train, the next border, serbia. on board, people from afghanistan and iraq, by the majority are from syria. they don't know where they are going. some think they are heading to germany. others have no idea. families, men traveling alone, old, young -- we are meeting more and more middle-class syrians. -- engineernergy from aleppo who left her comfortable home with a pool and garden two weeks ago to say for

children from the war in syria. she's embarrassed to travel this way, and says she will do anything to find a job in germany. >> if i wasn't strong, i would not be able to overcome all the difficulties. i belong to a new generation. tocated, with access technology, science, knowledge, development. we were living in peace, and suddenly the war came. in the face of war, we try to continue with our lives, right until the last second. reporter: but it's not that way for everyone. employee forrnment he was thrown in jail and tortured, and left the country without any money or idea where he's going to go. >> i spent 1500 euros, and i have only 300 left for the rest of the journey. i am counting on people being generous. look, somebody give me a

sandwich. my destiny is in the hands of god. reporter: a trip to europe can cost up to 5000 euros. most transferred the money while still in syria to avoid being robbed on the way. anchor: thousands have reached the serbian capital of belgrade. what happens to some of those people we saw, once they reach serbia? reporter: so, as soon as they aid agencies were there to offer water and food. they started immediately walking across the serbian border, and then they have to go and register themselves. you cannot go to syria -- ser crucial piece of paper you need, to get on other transport, take a train or a bus or check into a hotel, which many people are doing. were this morning at

a registration center on the border, where they first go. it is chaos. in an old tobacco factory. it's not built for these numbers. they are adding facilities. the sheer amount of people, it's not built for that, so many have to wait outside. there is a sort of campsite, people pitching tents, waiting to get a piece of paper to continue the journey. anchor: things don't get any easier for these people afterwards, as they go to western europe. reporter: no, it's not. we checked and hotels -- into hotels. this is the beginning of a journey into the shengen area, from greece. the government has facilitated it. no one is trying to stop them. the next step is much more difficult, the border with hungary. this is where they will beginning back in touch with smugglers. they used smugglers to get from turkey to greece, and now they

want to go to germany, meaning crossing austria and hungary. for that, smugglers come back into the picture, so this is a time to regroup and find people who can help them get to where they want to go. anchor: thanks very much. you can catch up with all the reports. they have been filing them as a follow the refugees along the trail, at france24.com, click on the europe section there. also follow on twitter, as you can see. moving on. lebanese police forcibly removed activists occupying the environment ministry in beirut, after a series of protests against -- which has turned into kind of a revolt against the entire political system. reporter: a rally in the streets of beirut. this time, they have chones to

protest -- chosen to protest right in the middle of the heart of the ministry. 30 protesters stormed into the building as part of the "you stink" campaign. >> we are here because the lebanese have been living in the middle of trash for two months, and we, the minister in charge has assigned response ability to another minister. they have not understood that the lebanese have finally opened their eyes. reporter: the campaigners sat crosslegged outside the office of the environment minister in question. mohammed machnouk withdrew from the committee on monday instead of dealing with the trash crisis. his resignation is one of key demands, along with new parliamentary collections -- elections, the development of trash collection to municipalities, and grievances. thousands have taken to the streets, demanding authorities

remove the trash rotting on the streets of beirut. the movement slowly turned into a wider protest against politicians, with crowds expressing anger and their inability to fulfill duties, and for the state to provide basic of its services. anchor: satellite images confirm that islamic state has destroyed two temples in the syrian city of palmyra. the latest assault on the region's heritage since declaring their caliphate last year. reporter: the satellite images palmyra's temple of bel this monday. the 2000-year-old temple has been razed to the ground by the islamic state organization, who has occupied the ancient city of, ira -- palmyra since may. wasay, a huge explosion

heard at the temple, but for safety reasons witnesses were unable to get close to the unesco site, and conflict in reports emerged. analysts confirmed the satellite image shows the destruction of the temple's main building, and itsw of columns in immediate facility. anger from unesco in paris, who branded the destruction a crime against civilization. >> it makes me more than angry. we at unesco are devastated by this loss. we are not alone in this. we think this is a loss for all of us, because this represents the history of every one of us here on earth. reporter: a week earlier, the i.s. group destroyed the smaller nearby temple of baalshamin, posting images of the act online. in august, militants beheaded an 81-year-old man, palmyra's

former antiquities chief. the islamic state group called it a campaign of cultural cleansing. the group has already blown up several unesco sites across its self-declared caliphate in syria and iraq. militants can be seen hacking apart antiquities with sledgehammers in online videos. they also collected -- looted relics to so on the black market -- cell on the black market. anchor: police in thailand have a suspect, who is on the same network, they say, from a suspect apprehended over the weekend. >> this could be thailand'ss number one suspect. . authorities interested the individual on the thai side of the border with cambodia. it's believed he had been trying to escape. -- thaiprime minister prime minister has refused to confirm if he is the man seen leaving a bag of the sacred

hindu site moments before a deadly class on august 17. >> this man looks similar to the one police are looking for. we still have to do a lot, like the difference and dna. reporter: thai police say the suspect is linked to the first man arrested over the weekend. it's thought the latest individual was involved in a second, smaller explosion in bangkok on august 18. >> at this early stage, all evidence confirms he is the main suspect in the same gang as the suspect we arrested earlier. one of the people who brought the bomb. haveter: arrest warrants been issued for three more foreign male suspects, coming after police say they were seeking the arrest of an unnamed foreign male and a 26-year-old thai woman. she is believed to be in turkey. police raided two apartments in bangkok and found bomb making

materials in both. no group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, the worst attack on thai soil. anchor: barack obama is in alaska, becoming the first sitting president to visit the u.s. arctic. he is warning of catastrophic consequences unless the world follows america's lead and takes sweeping cuts to greenhouse gases. at the same time, he is pushing for the government to buy a new heavy icebreaker amid worries they are losing to russia for shipping and mining and drilling in the region. i am joined by a managing partner in critical risk, the consulting group polar risk. let's talk more about what is at stake in terms of melting ice, trade routes, etc.. >> of course, you have openings in the arctic. the northern passage. but you have the transpolar routes that could become used in

the next 40 years. and a lot of mining, underground resources, hydrocarbon resources as well. another thing, links to geopolitics, you need to, you have a rivalry as to who owns the north pole. the u.s. does not claim the north. russia does, canada, and denmark. technically, there is a huge battle as to who can win the north pole. in terms of political symbolism, it means a lot. anchor: the u.s. is concerned russia is ahead? >> to give you a very short example here, russia basically has 41 icebreakers. 2, and only one that can be brought to the arctic full time. so you can see, this figure, the u.s. is not losing per se to russia in the arctic,, but they are not winning that's for sure. anchor: obama is picking up his

environmental credentials, saying more is being done on greenhouse gases. the more the arctic opens up, the worse it is for the environment. mr. obama is doing these two things at once? >> he has to. on the one hand, it's about his legacy, of course. you want a good legacy when it comes to the environmental record. he wants to be the green president on record. that's very important for the democratic party as the campaign goes long. that's the first thing. the other thing, you can't just say to alaskans, we don't want you to develop your own resources, and we will just come in and tell you what to do, what not to do. so that's why he's saying, we need to have icebreakers. we need to have drilling. but in the same time, he wants to tame the discussion a little bit in regards to the arctic. if the discussion is too anti-development, you lose out,

and it becomes a benefactor for the u.s. -- bad factor for the u.s. anchor: the transfer window for european football has closed. teams across the continent splashed millions of euros on new signings, but one is above the next -- rest. , brokelish premier clubs records spending 1.4 billion euros. details -- reporter: a new season and a new transfer record in waiting for the world's most lucrative football league. whether it's 55 million pounds for a belgian fielder, 22 million pounds for a korean forward, they seem to be no limits to enlist premier league spending. after splashing out 835 million pounds last summer, the clubs combined total could now break the one billion pound barrier for the first time in history,

around 1.4 billion euros. that spending is funded by booming television contracts, which account for over half of most clubs' revenue. the bigger names can also count on sponsorship and marketing deals, as well as the individual wealth of certain owners. between them, chelsea's ruben the owner ofd manchester are worth 25 billion pounds. their financial power will only increase next season, when a 5.1 billion pound tv deal kicks in, almost triple what the german bundesliga, the closest financial competitor, receives. the premier league already draws -- dwarfs european rivals in overall revenue, leading some to warn against a potential talent vacuum, with top players eyeing a move to england. only a third of players currently in the premier league are english. anchor: a quick reminder of headlines.

angry scenes in budapest as police bar refugees from entering a train station. they plan to send economic migrants back to the state from which they entered the country in the first place. kicking up a stink in the halls of power. police evicted lebanese protesters who stormed the environmental ministry. barack obama urges worldwide action to tackle global warming as he visits the arctic, but also has one eye on a resources race against russia. time for business news. let's say hello to our business editor. starting off with market reaction to the situation in china. reporter: we were talking a lot about concerns the chinese economy was slowing down last week, and we are kind of seeing those concerns play out once again, an instant rerun of those concerns in global stock markets this tuesday. this is the picture in the

united states, with 40 minutes or so to go of trading. the nasdaq is down more than 2.5%. similar picture for the other main indices on wall street. the dow jones and nasdaq are in correction territory, which means they have dropped more than 10% since recent highs. we are seeing wall street indices at session lows as well. europe, whereu to we set the three main indices in negative territory. ftse in london launched its first -- worst one-day fall in a week. we saw a lot of swings last week, and some wild swings, rather, on concern about china. markets are reacting after fresh figures confirmed an ongoing chinese slowdown is taking place. a closely-watched gauge of factory activity dropped to its lowest level in three years in august. the official purchasing managers

index dropped from 50 in july to 49.7 last month. it is below the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction. as stocks are under pressure, we see oil prices extending a recent roller coaster ride. prices spiked by a quarter at the feeney till of last week, then tumbled more than 6%, with a barrel of brent crude between $50 and $51. for more, i spoke to alastair ondon.e at ig l >> is a number of triggers and catalysts. at the tail end, we heard commentary venezuela would be looking for an emergency meeting of opec nations to discuss the oversupply of oil to the market. the strategy the saudi oil ministry has gone with, seeing effects as far as supply is concerned from fracking nations. that triggered a climb in

prices. fiscal cost to the saudi government was penciled in at around $20 billion for keeping the oil prices at these low levels. interesting to see how long that can continue. we heard from the iranian oil ministry today, and the increased supply of oil they are likely to bring to the table. pricesd seen oil fluctuate aggressively over the last eight trading days. reporter: you say that we have seen aggressive fluctuations. do we have to be used to the swings? >> look, you have got to feel oil prices are being forcibly kept to low levels due to the oversupply in the market. as much as saudi arabia has deep pockets, enabling them to carry out the policy going forward, you have to speculate the number of other opec nations will struggle to maintain this decrease to annual gdp.

it's worth noting that today is the 50th anniversary for opec nations, and the nations are putting a strain on that relationship. reporter: we will return to growth concerns in china. you better get used to it -- that's the nation -- message from respected economist joseph stiglitz. he spoke to us here at france 24, saying slower growth in china is to be expected. ofchina has been inthe engine global growth basically since the 2008 crisis. not only the direct effect, but indirectly through latin america, through africa, where they demand a lot of commodities, natural resources. we all expected china's growth to slow down. it was moving from the quantity to quality, needed to reform its

growth model as they go to domestic demand hasn't driven growth. -- domestic demand-driven growth. reporter: you can see more of that interview at 16:45 on wednesday, 14:45 gmt. next, a deal has been struck to end a long-running strike in the french port of calais, which hit headlines when sailors blocked cross channel services. their employer leases fairies ferries from eurotunnel. reporter: employees fought for months to keep their jobs, by sea or by land. on monday, a breakthrough. eurotunnel will sell two ferries 487fds, downsizing from the people provided by the

cooperative seafrance. they will create 400 jobs, 200 dfds,urotunnel and 200 by the idea being to rehire seafrance employees. those unemployed by the start of the year will receive 20,000 euros in severance pay. >> we could have demanded more money, but that was not our goal. we wanted to preserve as many jobs as we could. reporter: some workers feel their futures are far from certain. >> no one is being rehired. >> you have no guarantees? >> none at all. reporter: since june, workers went on strike and occupied ferries, costing the economy millions of euros. >> i don't see why it had to take this long. disrupting the ports. business was down 30% for hotels, restaurants, and shopkeepers. investedany employees

their own time and money in hoping to save every job. while a deal may have been reached for at least 85 people, perhaps many more, it's far from smooth sailing. anchor: let's talk you through a few other stories we are watching for you. europe's recovery is filtering through to the jobs market. fresh figures show unemployment in the 19 countries using the single currency fell in july. the jobless rate dropped to 10.9%, from 11.1% in june. there were improvements in italy, spain, and portugal, but the french unemployment rate was increased, -- actually increased from 10.3% to 10.4%. has recruitedvmh an exhibitor from apple to boost sales online. ian rogers will serve as chief digital officer, and he's being brought over to boost the digital ecosystem of lvmh.

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