i was born mere. >> reporter: aleppo is divided.rebels have made a few gained, but each time they advance, isil steps in, taking more territory. for those that remain, this is a don flick without end. an ongoing cycle of death and destruction,. >>> the governor of california has di declared a state of emergency as raining wild fires continue to spread in the north of the drought-ridden u.s. state. thousands have been forced to flee the flames driven by high winds and soaring temperatures, 12 blazes are currently burping. most notably in the californian village of middle up to, the wild fired have destroyed hundreds of homes and mobilized thousands of firefighters. one of japan's most active volcanos has begun to erupt. these are the latest pictures on the southern island. sending plumes of black smoke two-kilometers in the air. there are no reports of casualties at this state. the recently restarted nuclear plant which is around 160-kilometers away is so far unaffected by the eruption. >>> now, swiss and u.s. prosecutors are expecte

i was born here. >> aleppo remains divided. the government has mass troops in districts it controls. the rebels have made a few gains, but each time they advance isil steps in taking mortar tore. for those who remain, this is a conflict without end. an i don't know going cycle of death and destruction. hashem ahelbarra. al jazeera. >> russia said it will continue it's military supplies to syria. moscow has come under international pressure of late and if washington and the gulf states say is a military build up of war. >> certainly there are military supplies. they're on going and they will continue. they are specialist who is helped to claim personnel how to use the weaponry. >> the afghan taliban said that it's freed more than 430 prisoners. it said that it used gunmen and bombers to storm the prison in the eastern province. four police were killed and four others were wounded. here is our report from jennifer glasse in kabul. >> the attack started at 2:00 in the morning when the taliban detonated a car bomb and then it led a

and also we met people who are living in a government-controlled part of aleppo, eastern aleppo and back there because they say their kids don't have schooling and the schools are still operating there, it's a real cross section of society but again the message is no one wants to go further from turkey and everyone we have spoken to says they don't want to go to europe and don't want to leave since we are a few kilometers away from syria and don't want to leave that because people come and go and they are still hoping the conflict will be resolved so they can go home permanently. >> thank you for that, stephanie decker on the syrian/turkey border there. well, hungary praised germany's decision to implement border controls to stem the flow of refugees but a former prime minister said the hard line on refugees is for political gain and andrew simmons reports from budapest. ♪ referring to this human crisis hungary's prime minister repeatedly said it's germany's problem but ask any of the volunteers who try to help the refugees through this chaos what they think and they can't help gett

entered aleppo from the turkish border. activists say 70 fire-fighters crossed a convoy of cars from the united states. this comes a week after the u.s. admitted that five of its trained rebels were fighting in syria. washington's programme to develop a moderate force to fight i.s.i.l. has been fraught with problems. dozens of fighters have been kidnapped or killed in attacks since july. still ahead - music with a message. performance, sierra leone comes up with creative ways to educate people about ebola. cuba's complicated relationship with catholicism comes under the spotlight as pope francis touches down in havana. >> farm workers striking in mexico... >> all that tension is about what's happening right now. >> unlivable wages... >> you can work very hard and you will remain poor. >> what's the cost of harvesting america's food? >> do you see how it will be hard to get by on their salary? >> yeah >> fault lines, al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> today they will be arrested... >> ground breaking... they're firing c

opposition forces in syria stepped up campaign to take control of the city of aleppo and troops loyalare there and face constant shelling and we report. >> reporter: this part of aleppo has been under rebel control for four years but it is far from safe. government troops shell the area constantly, barrel bombs have destroyed entire neighborhoods. life on the ground is tough. she lost her house during an air strike. she now lives in a community building. each day she walks four miles to a charity that delivers food, aid and water to the needy. there are shortages everywhere but a school principal and music tutor wants his students not to lose hope. here he is making sure the school girls are ready for the end of the year party. >> translator: many people have left because of civilians and barrel bombs destroy everything and target residential areas on purpose. i was in a building that collapsed after it was hit by a missile but i'm lucky i'm still alive. >> reporter: this was a neighborhood bustling with activity and many have left, some crossed to turkey, others went to remote villag

probably it would like to help the syrian army to protect aleppo, because aleppo is completely surrounded by -- i don't know if you want to enter in the game with the kurdish. the kurdish want to have this continuum from tigris, and to know succeed to joan kobani, and still an area between kobani and -- it's not a kurdish territory. arab sunni. the kurdish want to join all this territories, and i don't know if putin will help them to succeed because is not very agree with this strategy, but the only mean to destroy the syrian opposition -- military opposition in the north of syria, it's to close the border. you cannot successfully counterintelligence policy if the border is open so you can use the kurdish to close the border if turkey still continue to support the military opposition. so, i think that russia have two scenario in syria. one which is the syrian coast, russia protect, and offensive scenario which is offensive around aleppo. damascus is under the iran umbrella. latakia will be under russian umbrella. russian troops, i think latakia could fall or could be divided in the sunni

. >> he carries mementos from his family and friends back in aleppo, a city with multiple front lines come at any moment. mohammed and his friends will take a bus to the hungarian border, where they'll walk across. this wasn't always a demarcated border, but now a razor wire snakes its way menacingly throughout. this is hungary's attempt to control the record flow of refugees, making it even harder to evade capture, something they all dread. eu law requires asylum seekers to be fingerprinted. and if asylum is denied in their final destination, the person can be returned to the country where they were fingerprinted. in this case, hungary, where few want to stay. hundreds of migrants and refugees follow the well-worn path along the railroad tracks. the human highway trudges on under the moonlight. there's a break in the fence right here and there weren't any authorities around, so the group that we've been following just cut across and disappeared out into the fields. they're going to take their chances. for the rest, hungarian authorities are waiting. and this is what awaits. this fiel

many are producing tv drama in places such as aleppo in an independent way. a huge satire this year with this interior, huge satire of every single party involved in this conflict. like they poke fun. meanwhile they focus on the syrian free army. it's like a civil society saying hey, guys to the power. that's the fighting guide. we don't agree with any. and we want to make sure the civil society is alive and producing tv drama under such >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. >>> back to where we started. the u.s. media have been bingeing on donald trump. the billionaire sound byte machine is all over the men airwaves and he's showing well in the polls. trump is a polarizing figure. even his hair is a polarizing figure. he's one of 15 republicans in the race to the white house, there's no journalistic just everything for the amount of attention to t

elsewhere in serie-a fighter jets launched airstrikes on aleppo. but the monitoring group of the human rights said that those killed in the latest campaign were all civilians. many of them children. >> we want all muslims to see this. there are bodies scattered everywhere. >> many neighborhoods in aleppo have been reduced to rubble. it's a scene seen across the country where four and a half years of war has killed roughly a quarter million people and 11 million more have been driven from their homes. >> many refugees fleeing the violence in syria are making their way to europe. 14,000 refugees in croatia in the last few days, and it's government is saying that it can't cope. the policy has angered hungary. but croatia is not backing down. >> it has not been an agreement with hungary. >> we'll take a look at the latest. thousands of people have fled to serbia because of the route they wanted to take into hungary has been blocked by a razor-wired fence. the refugees don't want to stay in any of these countries. most are headed to germany, where they

the country's largest city, aleppo has been the hardest hit. molly crab apple is now trying to bring attention to the region. >> one of the collaborations i'm proudest of is with a young syrian writer. he sends me cellphone pictures sometimes from cities under isis rule like racca or mosul or aleppo. he sends me those photos and writes accompanying essays to my drawings. he said the hardest part is watching them reduced to nothing. when people talk about syria, it's only through the lens of the war. they see it only through isis especially. there was one with an old woman coming out of what was once on her home and there was such anguish on her hope, it felt like it was stabbing me from inside the photo. there needs to be open borders with europe right now we have a situation where people are throwings themselves into the mediterranean basically and dying on smuggler boats to try to get out of a war zone. and then you have the wealthy countries turning their backs on them essentially. i try to document it as an artist because it's a defining mo

she was only able to attend school in her hometown of aleppo for one year before the war started. >> i can write a few words, and compose a simple letter. but i want to learn to read and write properly. and i want to go to a proper school. >> instead, she sits with her mother and three siblings in a damp basement apartment in an istanbul suburb. her father works as a day laborer, earning the equivalent of around 400 euros a month. it's not enough to send khadijah to a private refugee school. >> whenever i pass a school in istanbul, i get very sad, because i can't send my children to school. in a way, they've lost four years of their lives. >> but at least turkish authorities have given refugees like the kurdiehs i.d.'s that allow them to get medical treatment for free. but there's no doctor that can help with the cold that enters through the makeshift coverings on the glass-less windows, no prescription for homesickness. >> i really miss my home, especially my neighbors in aleppo and my apartment. i have no idea what condition it's in. i'm safe here in turkey, but no country is as be

aleppo. >>reporter: this part of aleppo has been under rebel control for four years but it's far from safe. governments shell the area constantly. barrel bombs have destroyed entire neighborhoods. life on the ground is tough. oma lost her house during an air strike and now lives in a community building. each day she walks four miles to a charity that delivers food, aid, and water to the needy. there are shortages everywhere. but alass, a school principle and music tutor wants his children not to lose hope. here, he's making sure that the school girls are ready for the end of year party. >> many people have left because of life. barrel bombs destroy everything. targets are on purpose. i was in a building that collapsed after it was hit by a missile but i'm lucky i'm still alive. this was a neighborhood bustling with activity. many have left. some crossed to turkey. others went to remote villages. there were also those forced to leave when isil captured some rebel-held areas. isil and assad are

there's no way to go, i was born here. >> aleppo remains divided. the government has mass troops in districts it controls. the rebels have made a few gains. but each time they advance i.s.i.l. steps in, taking more territory. for those that remain, this is a conflict without end. an ongoing cycle of death and destruction. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> reporter: sri lanka's new government, two offices will address rights violations during the 25 year long civil war. the announcement comes just two days before the u.n. releases its report of war crimes during the conflict. the new president has announced reforms from the then president mahinda rajapaksa. >>> residual issue still threatens the renewed efforts. fishermen from both countries have been arrestfor allegedly crossing over into the other's territorial waters. but in a gesture to rejuvenate ties, sri lanka says it will release 16 indian fishermen. vanel fernandez has more. >> these fishermen say their nets come back almost empty. >> translator: it is indian trawlers, that's the problem. the

their house in aleppo was bombed. climbing under a fence, the family is confronted by another shock. the second crossing is blocked too. >> you cannot imagine what i feel. i don't know. now, i have no feeling at all. i'm surprised. i'm shocked. >> reporter: many fear their dream of reaching wealthy europe is over. suddenly cheers erupt. an opening. >> people have a hope. nothing else. they hope now they will open the gates for them. that is why everybody hopes they were not able to do nothing. >> they are not giving a lot of information. they are not giving any information. >> reporter: the police were allowing people in. just a few at a time. muhammed crams into line. pregnant safa is pressed up against a fence. temporarily separated, the family eventually makes it through. where they will end up though, is far from certain. the river of refugees runs north from syria through turkey, greece, hungary, all the way to germany and sweden. today hungary put up a partial dam. so did several other countries. tonight this na

this man is from aleppo. we heard how bad aleppo is. why wouldn't you want to leave?why wouldn't you want to leave? if you heard story about someone who lost so much. why wouldn't you want to help them? what are your sources within the community saying about your reporting here and for that matter the larger issue that this sheds lights on that we had no idea who these refugees are? >> the british foreign intelligence organization oversees investigations. they don't really talk very much. parliamentarians describe the investigation as very worrying and something we need to address urge urgently. clearly with all conflicts comes bad people. it appears that isis are using this crisis to come under cover to europe. >> you pointed out very easy to use in terms of creating a whole 92 persona. keep up the great work. appreciate you coming on with us and glad you are home safe from your reporting. >> thank you. >> all the best. >> still ahead on "america's news headquarters" the pope delivers mass but will he find the same energy here in america? we'll talk about it coming u

maria was a farmer in aleppo. he says he wants thankful for what he was given.d of what will happen once the government's help end. >> translator: i ask all the country to his help me give a good living to my kids. uruguay is very expensive. life is expensive. i can't live here. >> reporter: but the human rights secretary here says those uncertainties are pictured during the adaptation process. >> translator: we believe that after two years people are ready to fly on their own, that's why the state stops supporting them. after that, they can get everything a uruguayan citizen gets. healthcare, education and a house, but we can't give them more privileges than other people because that what generates a problem in their own integration. >> reporter: uruguay is getting ready to receive 72 more syrian refugees. but what is happening with the families already here has raised some concerns. another example that escape conflict is only the beginning of a difficult and long journey ahead. al jazeera. >>> the u.n. special envoy to syria is due to submit his peace plan to

but fighting in and around aleppo, some of the fiercest in the conflict threatened the center and its. so staff sent a shipment to the safest place they could think of, the global seed vault inside a freezing mountain in norway. professor carrie fowler is the founder. >> the international center for research in dry areas had taken precaution of duplicating seed collection and placing a duplicate copy near the north pole for safe keeping for a circumstance like this. >> reporter: the vault located above the arctic circle was built to with stand an earthquake or nuclear strike. it is designed as the ultimate archive of plant biodiversity. and this is where the syrian seeds were stored, preserved and protected. while back in syria, fighting forced the research sent our to close. there is good news, it's just reopened in neighboring lebanon. and staff have asked the vault if they can have their precious seed back. absolutely says dr. fowler. >> sending the seeds back is a -- should be a fairly easy enterprise, we'll book tickets for them on the airplane. we will track it all along the way

. >>> at least 32 civilians are reported have been killed in syria in a government air strike in aleppostrike targeted a neighborhood market that is popular with locals, first responders are still working to retrieve the bodies in syria's second city and israel prime minute certain is in moscow to discuss security on the border with syria, and russia decision to have forces to bolster assad regime raised concerns for israelis and one is the possibility of weapons reaching fighters on the border with golan heights with i that seized from syria in 1967 and concerned about the possibility of its jets accidentally trading fire with war planes operating in the area and we will go live to moscow and al jazeera's peter sharp is there and president putin says russia's actions in the middle east will always be responsible. is that going to be enough to sway prime minister netanyahu? >> well, i think you can see how serious he is regarding the russian military build up in syria with who is tagging along on this meeting. he has the israeli army chief of staff and head of military intelligence and

that crucial seed bank in the city of aleppo is apparently one of that war's casualties. so now as of today, they have formally requested to please withdraw some of the doomsday seeds from that vault in norway to make up for what has been lost in that war. the first time the doomsday vault has ever been tapped. that civil war in syria has killed a quarter million people so far. it has forced 11 million people to leave their homes, most of them fleeing for their lives. that's half the population of that country, 11 million people. so many people have been killed and forced out of various parts of syria now that it is starting to appear that whole swathes of syria are being depopulated of civilians. and those poor civilians have now become an issue for the rest of the world. the european union today made a controversial decision to try to settle 120,000 of those syrian civilians in various european countries even though some of those countries who were in on the decision really do not want to do it. and amid all of these intense headlines today, right, the moral imperative

this man was a farmer in aleppo. he said he is thankful for what he has been given but is afraid of what happens once the government help ends. >> i ask all the countries to help me give a living to my kids. uruguay is expensive, life is expensive. i can't live here. >> the human rights secretary here says those uncertainties are expected during the adaptation process. >> we believe that after two years, people are ready to fly on their own, that's why the state stops supporting them. after that, they can get everything a uruguayan citizen gets, health care and a house. we can't give them more than other people. >> they are is getting ready to receive 72 more refugees, but what is happening with the families already here has raised concerns, another example that escaping conflict is only the beginning of a difficult and long journey ahead. >> at least 16 people are still missing after severe floods in japan. 100,000 people have been displaced. the city was among the hardest-hit areas, wayne haye is there. >> moving q

warplanes in aleppo. that's fewer than usual i would point out. the same. others say the airstrikes would continue a. very muddled message from the defense secretary at the pentagon today. he says they will keep talking. he trusts the russians, and the russians, that there is an internal contradiction in the russian actions. putin is laughing right now. >> thank you so much for your brilliant reporting. let's go down in the studio. there is so much to talk to and about. where do you fall on this? what is putin really doing? >> well, if putin has said, we're having an anti-isis coalition, i got my guys lined up, iraq, iran, syria, me, we're all going in, what he is really doing is using that as an excuse to attack america's allie the moderate syrian rebels, assad's opponents. he's not attacking isis. he's really going after assad, then he has lied to us. >> what is happening today is one of the leading activisactivs saying one of their lydeie leade killed by a russian airstrike. >> ash carter was -- saying get out of our way is like a slap in our face. numbe

we've seen the utter destruction of cities like aleppo. people are fleeing often because their lives are just literally in shambles. and their loved ones killed. there is still obviously the threat of isis and of other armed groups. it's a very chaotic situation. and yet in pockets there are efforts to still maintain a life. and there are efforts to still there are efforts to still have local administration in parts of syria. and so i would add that we also need to continue and double our efforts to support those who are on the ground, who are seeking to create some sort of ongoing stable lives for their communities. >> would you like to talk about that in terms of putting an end to the barrel bombing, what that would do? as we continue with isis and others. >> there are two ways of looking at it. one is obviously on the more political side and that's something that you'll be thinking about as you contemplate your views about the ultimate resolution of the conflict. but there's no question of the position on the battlefield. it creates tra

. >> at least 53 people have been killed in rebel held areas of aleppo. 15 children are among the dead at least two of the raids are understood to have hit marketplaces in the city. elsewhere rebels say they've made significant gains on their advance in key villages in idlib province in the northeast. dozens of rebel fightsers have been killed in the offensive. jerald tan has the story. >> in the rebel held province of idlib, the fatah army launched assaults on fah and kafraeh, hoping to break the line of defense. able to take over several checkpoints. but the national defense committees of the villages see the attacks successfully repelled. people here are mostly shia and supporters of president bashar al-assad. the government has tried to negotiate for their freedom, inside the town of zabadani bit talks have repeatedly broken down. new reports also from idlib that rebels have shot dead dozens of government forces captured from an air base earlier this month. elsewhere in syria fighter jets launched air strikes on the divided city of aleppo, the bottom are bardment was aimed at areas

. >> an government airstrike in aleppo. much of aleppo has been ruined now. now voicing concerns about russian involvement in serie-a's civil war. we're going to talk to peter sharp about that. what have these two leaders agreed to do, peter. j. >> well, late this afternoon prime minister netanyahu announced to coordinate their military actions in the skies above serie-a. now that agreement would have been the product of side line meetings between the two senior israeli military figure who is accompanied the prime minister meeting with their russian opposite numbers on the sidelines. it is a situation that possibly worries both sides. you have in serie-a russia with some of the most sophisticated surface-to-air missiles systems in the world. and in the air you have israeli fighter jets, who are quite prepared who are prepared to take out convoys in the air if they believe they're receiving weapons from serie-a. that begs the obvious question, but that could be a problem here. they are trying to protect both sides from attack. >> israel's primary concern is ab

shell landed on its embassy's compound in damascus. 32 people had been killed, by an air strike in aleppo. >> israel and russia said they'd coordinate military action. to avoid trailling fire. the announcement paid by binyamin netanyahu. who is in wrusha to talk to the president vladimir putin. israel is concerned russian president could end up on the border with weapons seized from syria in 1957. more from moss cope. >> at the end of the meeting with vladimir putin, both sides agreed to coordinate the military action in syria. that came as a result and the defense sheeps. they agreed to coordinate. trying to get around a misunderstanding. it was the yourself am. >>. it caused a trade in fire. they were on the ground. some of the most advanced surface to air missiles. israeli pilots were prepared to take it on. if they feel the weapons were smuggled out to syria. it was a situation that needed attention. >> more than 2 million muslims were expected in mecca. >> authorities face a number. first they need to control the pilgrimage. more than 2 million are expected to arrive in mecca. on tue

syria itself, rockets fired by rebel fighters have killed at least 38 people in the northern city of aleppo. three government held neighborhoods were bombarded. that's according to the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights. 14 children were among the dead. 150 people wounded. >> an opposition rally in the democratic republic of congo has turned violent. more than a thousand people have been out on the streets of the country. they were protesting against what they said are plans by the president to cling to power after his constitutional man date ends next year. >>reporter: at first the opposition rally seemed to be going well. then this. people rushed to save a dangerous situation. one man tries to get away. opposition members chase after him and beat him saying he and other members of the ruling party tried to disrupt their rally. >> we're suffering. we're suffering. we might as well be dead. it's awful what's happening here. >>reporter: opposition leaders in the capital accuse the president of trying to delay next year's election so he can stay in power longer after his two-term

strikes have continued in aleppo, at least 50 have been killed in the last few days but there are somesurvivors. doctors managed to save this baby girl, her mother was wounded when she was wounded in an explosion, scalps slap personnel was removed from her head. both the mother and child are recovering well. >>> coming up in this bulletin, the african union threatens flat sanctions on leaders of a military coup in burkina faso. and heightened security in the holy city of mecca while millions are preparing to perform the hajj pilgrimage. yet we have such little of it left. >> now old-school methods meet cutting-edge science... >> we've returned this iconic mammal to illinois. >> with a much bigger long-term benefit. >> grasslands have a critical role in climate change. >> it's exciting. >> techknow's team of experts show you how the miracles of science... >> this is what innovation looks like. >> can affect and surprise us. >> i feel like we're making an impact. >> awesome! >> techknow - where technology meets humanity. >> as the global refugee crisis intensifies... >> they have travell

. >> this man from aleppo says no matter the roadblocks he won't stop trying to reach his mother in germany. >> we are going to be patient until we get to where we need to be. after all this distance we've traveled we can't go back. >> on croot croatia's border wih slovenia, volunteers hand out food and clothes are donated. kindness helps to temper desperation but still, the journey is nowhere near over. the refugees are within walking distance to another country but they have been stopped in their tracks once more. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera. >> if confirmed, eric fanning will be the first openly gay person to lead a branch of the army. currently the acting undersecretary of the army. he has been a pentagon specialist for more than 20 years. >>> the head of army has recommended that all marine general joseph dunford submitted his resignation to ray mabis, who opposes the recommendation and recommends that women be able to apply for any navy or marine job. >>> rigging half a million cars by volkswagen with software that allows them opass emissions inspections. the violations could cost vw

. >>> deposit strike in aleppo attacked targeted a popular neighborhood market. authorities still trying to reach dead and injured. >>> russia's ministry has called for action after a shell fell on its compound in damascus. , announcement was made by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is in russia for talks with president vladimir putin for security on the syrian border. russian weapons could end up reaching fighters on the golan heights. ftc al jazeera april peter sharp has the latest from moscow. >> prime minister netanyahu said both sides had agreed to coordinate their military action in syria. now that came as a result of sideline meetings between two ministers to try and get around any possible misunderstandings which was the euphemism that it could cause a trade in fire between the two sides. the situation is pretty fraught, really, because you have on the ground russian technicians with some of the most advanced surface to air missiles in the world and in the air you have israeli pilots who are prepared to take on any hezbollah convoys if they f

we are from aleppo. look what happened here. >> reporter: this man thought he woods fear and clean to cross. it was the first he felt happy in days. >> we fell when running. they kept hitting us and kicked us. i was hit in the eye here and hit here. my hands and legs are injured. >> bus rides to croatia were offered, many were too scared to venture off. >> after a day like today nothing was certain, several dared not move. under the cover of darkness, it was harder o see the wounds -- harder to see the wounds. the pain was no less. >> several of the folks we spoke to yesterday had been injured. we see them on the scene today. we have seen some of the children hit yesterday and heads bandaged, and adults injured. they are saying that they'll need a lot more medical attention for the refugees out here, because they expect more will come. even though the mood is calm at the moment, the heat is rising. temperature is rising. it's getting hotter. you can see the tempers are increasing. folks that are coming o

no be casualties there government air strikes in aleppo, attacks on a popular neighborhood market.now, israel and russia together have said that they will coordinate their military actions in syria. they want to they say accidentally trading fire. the announcement was made by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, in russia talking to vladimir putin about security on the syrian border. on the border with the golan heights which israel seized from syria in 1967. a car bomb's exploded near somalia's presidential palace killing at least seven people. in the capital mogadishu. loud blast followed by gun fire. nobody yet says they were behind it. the armed group al shabaab says it's stepped upists attacks. alexis tsipras called a vote after losing his election in the syriza party, more from barnaby phillips who is in athens. >> not the traditional religious ceremony that all his predecessors have gone through and he never wears a tie. not even at this important state event. but alexis tsipras have learned the art of compromise. in july, face wednesday the prospect of greece's ex

they blockade them from taking the larger city of aleppo. all those battles they've been fighting between assad and were the free syrian army, and now more al-qaeda-linked groups, they're fighting that to keep assad in power. that's a strategy that the u.s. does not agree with. >> okay. >> but it's still a strategy, and then they go after isil, which does not conflict with the coalition. they just have a different way of doing it. so you could say that some people would support the russian option, but then human rights record, the torture, the killing of his own people, that would sit badly for most people, but at this point the question is what choice does the world have, and what will stop the bloodshed, and how do we pick off these different groups? another thing is precision-guided munitions. not clear how many russia has. they're very expensive. there are reports of 30 people killed. that would be in homs, a down beleaguered, people living in horrible conditions. and also you cannot have two world nuclear-armed powers with their fighter

. >> translator: life is destroyed in aleppo. we left only with the clothes we were wearing. >> reporter: the refugees had to walk several kilometers through the rugged no man's land through syria to get here. they traveled from north to south fleeing from i.s.i.l. controlled territory close to turkey. >> translator: syria is miserable. we were escaping air strikes barrel bombs and i.s.i.l. we are tired. >> many left syria because they said they had no food. >> we ran away from hunger fatigue and bombardment. >> we came to our brothers in jordan because we could no longer find anything to eat. >> spent more than $700 million on feedings treating and transporting refugees beforehanding them over to humanitarian agencies. since the el new nusra front, te jordajordanian area, army says s had to prioritize security over humanitarian gestures to prevent what it describes as gestures, by entering jordan hiding among refugees. >> translator: refugees used to come from southern syria. now refugees are coming from areas north of the turki

. >> reporter: mohammed's home town aleppo lies in ruins. one sister was killed and the rest of the family scattered. >> they move the next street two streets farther, we were struggling inside the city. >> reporter: while the question asked over and over in private homes, public streets, why doesn't the u.s. or united nations do more? mohammed can tell his children now they don't have to be scared anymore. >> translator: the ghost of fear that was following us in syria does not exist anymore, thank god. >> this sunday you can watch an al jazeera special report, desperate journeys a global response, that's it, i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. us. >> tsunami warning. a powerful earthquake strikes off the coast of chile shaking residents and sending large waves crashing onto shore. >>> hamharsh tactics, hungarian riot police fire at refugees. >>> and false alarm. >> they arrested me and they told me that

. >> at least 32 people have been killed by government air strike in the syrian city of aleppo. the attack targeting a popular neighborhood market. russia's foreign ministry has called for what it called concrete action after a shell landed in its compound in damascus on saturday. russia has formed an agreement with israel to coordinate in syria so not accidentally exchange fire. benjamin netanyahu is in moscow for talks with vladimir putin. concerns that russian weapons could end up in the hands of hezbollah. >>> a criminal investigation has now been launched by the u.s. regulators found that some vw cars could manipulate certain emissions test. jonah hull reports. >> this was the international show in frankfurt. the volkswagen stand. a dark secret under the hood. volkswagen it says has been falsifying the data for years, to cover up the most prized turbodiesel tdi engine. >> it will cost vast amounts of money and there is a threat not just of fines but also collaboration lawsuit, what's also very important, volkswagen's image is severely damaged. >> the news for the makers of

. >>> air strikes killed at least 53 people in the northern city of aleppo. the area for human rights says, controlled by rebels shelling government areas in the west of leach. u.s. and russian defense minister et ceters have held tar first time in more than a year, the hour lorchg conversation lon focused on how to avoid military entanglement. rosalyn jordan reports. >> topic users and whether the russians are planning to do any military operations inside that country. the u.s. has been very concerned that if that is to be the case, it doesn't want to get in the way of the russians and vice versa, probably leading to a larger conflict within a country that's already been dealing with four years of civil war as well as with the rise of i.s.i.l. now it's not clear yet whether there are going to be more military to military contact but it is worth pointing out they had been suspended because of russia's incursion into ukraine in 2014 and 2013. that said, u.s. is trying to deal with the problem of i.s.i.l. and live the civil war and move the president bashar al-

." >> this story starts in the city of aleppo in syria at a research center for decades developing crops especially grain for dry land farming. [ gunfire ] but fighting in and around aleppo, some of the fiercest in the conflict threatened the center and its seeds. so staff sent a shipment to the safest place they could think of, the global seed vault inside a freezing mountain in norway. professor carrie fowler is the founder. >> the international center for agricultural research in dry areas had taken the precaution of duplicating seed collection and placing a duplicate copy near the north pole for safe keeping for a circumstance like this. >> reporter: the vault located above the arctic circle was built to with stand an earthquake or nuclear strike. it is designed as the ultimate archive of plant biodiversity. and this is where the syrian seeds were stored, preserved and protected. while back in syria, fighting forced the research center to close. there is good news, it's just reopened in neighboring lebanon. and staff have asked the vault if they can have their precious seeds back. ab

. >> reporter: mohammed's home town aleppo lies in ruins. one sister was killed and the rest of the family scattered. >> they move the next street two streets farther, we were struggling inside the city. >> reporter: while the question asked over and over in private homes, public streets, why doesn't the u.s. or united nations do more? mohammed can tell his children now they don't have to be scared anymore. >> translator: the ghost of fear that was following us in syria does not exist anymore, thank god. >> this sunday you can watch an al jazeera special report, desperate journeys a global response, that's it, i'm ali >> millions at stake. shady investments. limited oversight. >> super pacs are part of the wild wild west of campaign finance. >> could actor daniel craig be the latest super pac scam victim? an ali velshi, on target, special investigation. >> >>> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello, welcome to another newshour from al jazeera. coxing up up in the next 60 minutes. a coup in burkina faso. the military confirms that it contro

we are from aleppo, we came from death in syria and look at here. >> reporter: hussein from iraq thought he was finally clear to cross out of serbia. the happiest he'd felt in days. >> they kicked us, i got hit in the eye here, also got here, my hands and legs are injured. >> reporter: while bus rides to croatia were offered many were too scared to venture off after a day like today, nothing was certain and several dared not move. under the cover of darkness it was harder to see the wounds but the pain was no less severe. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera, on the serbia, hungary border. >>> justified in their response. >> migrants the serbian side armed with sticks and stones, mislaid a gate that was born away by them. there was no way acceptable what we see on the scene, these people are not innocent people. these people are in no way, in no way refugees. these are criminals at the moment and hungary. >> the people who tried to rush past the border present a real danger to his country. >>> tensions also boiled over on the greek island of lesbos today. police used shields and batons to push t