reporter: the images of aylan kurdi on the shore or broadcast around the world. to turkish and two syrian nationals denied any involvement. there arrests will likely their lead dent -- the arrests will likely barely put a dent in human trafficking. aylan kurdi's father says he hopes this will spur arab leaders to support syrian refugees trying to flee the war. brent: we are going to take a break. we will be back with more news coming quitting business news. stay tuned for that. -- more news, including business news. stay tuned for that. brent: welcome back with dw world news live from berlin, our top stories this hour. reports are coming in that hungary plans to send buses to transport migrants to the austrian border. this comes after refugees waited days for trains to bring them to western europe. the crisis is dividing european leaders and foreign ministers. the toddler who made headlines around the world with his death has been laid to rest. his father tells reporters about aylan kurdi's last moments and those of his brother and mother. monica is here now with

the image of aylan kurdi lying lifeless on the beach provoked horror and then outrage. at the funeral this mourner railed at countries in the west that have accepted so few refugees. "what do you have to say now?" she asked. "what does your conscience tell you now?" it's a tragedy unfolding daily as hundreds of thousands of people gamble with their lives to flee war and poverty. aylan's parents paid a human smuggler around $4,000 for a crossing in a rubber dinghy that quickly overturned in rough seas. the family had lived through four years of civil war in syria and wanted to escape violence and fear. but now their hopes, like their country, have been shattered. four suspected human smugglers have now reportedly been detained in relation to aylan kurdi's death. but, scott, that won't do anything to fix the real cause of this catastrophe-- syria's deadly conflict. >> pelley: holly williams on the syrian border with turkey for us tonight. holly, thank you. now, there's a big development in this crisis now. late today, austria's chancellor said that his country and germany

aylan kurdi's father returned to syria with their coffins. mark: laid to rest in the town they fled. never did abdullah think he would return to kobani to bury his wife and young sons. their death has shaken the world and at home, the tragedy is almost too much to bear. i have no future anymore, he says. my future is gone. i was trying to go to europe to give my family a future. on the beach where the body of his son washed up, there is little vestige of the horror. some came to pay their respects. almost 2 million syrians are in turkey. the sheer numbers means it is easy for turks to become desensitized to their fates. what happens here? the image of aylan kurdi's body washing up has profoundly shocked this country and highlighted once again the refugee tragedy. four men have been charged with the attempted smuggling, but the mother of one said her son was not a criminal and he had tried to leave and encouraged >> is that enough to help them? has the world done anything to help them? >> i'm sorry, no. they are popular now. now the whole worl

the little boy has a name, it is aylan kurdi. his brother and his mother were all killed.hey were trying to get to canada where they have relatives. they are among the thousands and thousands of refugees streaming out of war-torn regions, many of them headed toward europe every day getting out of conflict zones. cnn's hala gorani is live for us in berlin. germany is the site, hala, where so many people are trying to get. >> reporter: absolutely. and many of them are currently in hungary on overpacked trains hoping to make it across the border though no such luck right now. back to aylan kurdi, it is truly the one image that has spread like wildfire on social media. it is on the front pages of nearly every single newspaper in europe. we've had reaction from all over the region, including the french president who is saying this is something that europe needs to deal with because it's a matter of the conscience of the continent. the question, of course, is going to be whether that will translate into concrete action and more settlement spots will be open to syrian refugees an

but it's these images of aylan kurdi that have finally brought the tragedy home to people in europe and pricked the conscience of european leaders. abdullah kurdi will crofg back into syria tomorrow to bury his wife and two young sons. and, scott, a friend of the family told us they paid around $4,000 to be smuggled to europe but then did not have enough money to buy lifejackets. >> pelley: holly williams, thanks. today, south carolina prosecutors said they will ask for the death penalty against dylann roof. he is charged with murdering nine people who had welcomed him into their bible study at a historic black church in charleston. relatives of the victims said they forgave him, but the prosecutor says forgiveness does not eliminate the consequences. today, donald trump promised not to make a third-party run for the white house if he loses the republican nomination. support for trump is up. in the latest poll he's at 30%, up four points since august. ben carson is next at 18. that's a 13-point improvement. jeb bush has fallen out of double digit, tied with ted cruz. julianna goldman no

aylan kurdi was three and fell from an overcrowded boat with his 5-year-old brother and mother. our boats left for greece he says but we were hit by waves. the boat flipped. i tried to catch my children but it was hopeless, then i took my wife and boys in my arms and realized they all dead. they fled war-torn area hoping to reach canada where the boy's aunt said their mother was scared of the sea and couldn't swim. >> they were going for a better life. >> reporter: today over the same sea, thousands more crossed to greece. tempers are fraying and no wonder it's a matter of life and death for these refugees. this small island is simply overwhelmed by more than 20,000 people. in the past week alone. >> reporter: but not all reached this island refuge. bill neely, nbc news, greece. >>> this is richard engel in hungary. they wait at the train station desperate for their dreams to come in, trains to germany and beyond. they include another father of a baby born here four days ago. i'm afraid for my baby because conditions are so bad, so cold he said. this morning a train did pull in

aylan kurdi, his 4-year-old brother and their mother were all buried friday. the heartbreaking image of aylan that has really shocked the world. we do want to warn you, the content in this report is disturbing. >> reporter: aylan kurdi's final journey was supposed to get him to safety, away from war-torn country. instead, he ended in his funeral, the 2-year-old buried alongside his brother and mother, his broken father, abdullah kurdi, mourning the loss of his entire family. >> translator: ask there someone whose children are not valuable to them? the children enrapture you, wake you up at morning, daddy, i want to play in the water. is there anything in the world better than this? everything is gone. >> reporter: the family had been trying to reach greece by boat when it capsized. kurdi tried desperately to save his wife and two sons but was unsuccessful. the heartbreaking picture of aylan's lifeless little body washed up on a turkish beach was shared millions of times on social media. seen around the world. the image becoming a symbolof a humanitarian crisi

little aylan kurdi, 3 years old.is brother and mother have all been buried back home in syria, the very place they died trying to escape. i must warn you, this piece contains some graphic images. >> reporter: aylan kurdi's final journey was supposed to get him to safety. away from war-torn syria to a better life in europe. instead, it ended back in kobani with his funeral. the 2-year-old buried alongside his older brother and mother. his broken father, abdullah kurdi, mourning the loss of his entire family. >> translator: is there someone whose children are not valuable to them? the children enrapture you. they wake you up in the morning, daddy, i want to play in the water. is there anything better than this? everything is gone. >> reporter: the family had been trying to reach greece by boat when it capsized. kurdi tried desperately to save his wife and two sons but was unsuccessful. the heartbreaking picture of aylan's lifeless little body washed up on a turkish beach was shared millions of times on social media. se

this is 3-year-old aylan kurdi from syria.and his father tells cnn they were trying to get to europe after multiple attempts for asylum in canada were rejected. you see him with his brother. sadly his mother and his older brother also drowned. a turkish news agency is reporting police are holding four suspected traffickers for the deaths of 12 serial migrants that includes aylan kurdi and his family who drowned after their boat sank. >>> meanwhile, another setback for families stuck in hungary desperate to get to europe. trains were halted at a town about 19 miles outside of budapest. these were chaotic scenes that played out as police lined the rails and ordered passengers to get off the trains. one family actually laid down on the tracks refusing to leave the train. police forcibly removed them. cnn senior international correspondent arwa damon is on one of those trains. she has seen firsthand what is happening there. she's joining us now by phone. ar arwa, why are authorities holding up the trains? >> reporter: well, hungar

but it's these images of aylan kurdi that have finally brought the tragedy home to people in europe anded the conscience of european leaders. at the funeral today, abdullah kurdi said this was his family's fourth attempt to cross the mediterranean sea to europe. he also said he prayed to god to give him strength. anthony? >> holly williams near the border of turkey and syria, thank you. you cannot help but be affected by those pictures. >> it's pricked the conscience of european leaders and others. if this doesn't underscore that something needs to be done, i don't know what would. >> you think about the farth who left to give them a better life. if you have a little boy, you know those clothes, shoes, t-shirt. it's just tough to see him laying there. >>> better news for another syrian family. video shows their emotional reunion on a greek island. the father cries as he hugs and kisses his children. they got separated in the darkness during their desperate journey to europe. a boat carrying dozens of migrants brought them back together. >> we need to see something like that today. >>> t

illustration of a european technocrat in very much the same position as that three-year-old syrian boy aylan kurdi, whose photo went viral last week. people say it shook and woke up european leaders to the crisis and asked them to take action. what is the solution? it is incredibly tricky because you have political refugees, economic migrants. how can you tell the difference? aren't they sometimes the same? there are all sorts of conflicts that they are fleeing. you have chaos in libya, dictatorship in eritrea. some countries are grading them with open arms with welcome signs. others are setting up fences with barbed wire on top. taking a look at the complexity of the migrant crisis, it is just the beginning because it will take a long time to address the root of all evil, and that is unrest say via -- in syria and libya. it is almost mission impossible. >> the german magazine is focusing on who is actually profiting from all this. they are the human traffickers. >> they speak about the merciless human traffickers this week and their deadly business. they are making money on the distress and miser

aylan kurdi, the 2-year-old refugee whose body washed up on a turkish beach is being buried at his hometownkobani. his grief-stricken father returned to the war-torn city he tried to flee with his family. now his family is dead. aylan's picture outraged people around the world. that image of him washed up on the beach highlighting the plight of thousands of refugees streaming into europe. at this moment thousands of refugees are on a highway in budapest -- or in hungary outside of budapest. they're trying to walk to germany because they simply have no other option. they waited for days at a train station but when hungarian authorities refused to let them board without proper documents, they began this desperate journey. cnn's senior international correspondent arwa damon is walking among them right now. i'm joined by david rhode. arwa, tell us what's going on around you. >> reporter: well, take a look. this is the main highway that connects budapest to vienna. traffic is moving through. there are police that are at this stage not preventing these people, most of them refugees from the wars

all the syrian refugees know about the fate of little aylan kurdi and the photo that made the world pay attention to this crisis. >> you saw that picture? >> yeah. i saw it. it was dangerous. >> why did you make the trip? >> i feel like he's my baby. >> so why did you make this journey, why did you come? >> we are escaping. when i see my kids, my family. we are afraid. >> two of his children became sick on their journey. allowed to rest in this aid tent. >> i am a father also, i have two children. i understand you. >> i understand. >> it is very difficult when you see your, your children suffer something like so in front of your eyes. >> tonight, with a german aid volunteer jeering the troops, a makeshift steel barrier was put in place on the track leading in hungary. the question for those already here is what barriers lie ahead. >> what do you want the people in europe to know about you and your family? >> i want them to know that we are human beings. we live in homes. we had homes somewhere. and that we came not -- we are not happy to be refugees of war. we are obliged to be refugees

aylan kurdi and his brother and mother, and only his father abdullah survived. their flimsy bt couldn't make it and like thousands of others they died trying. >> this has been a complete failure of canadian policy. i hope the government changes their tactic and if this event doesn't get them to change their mind, my god, i don't know what does. >> desperately trying to leave war and destitution there are tens of thousands each week trying to make this perilous journey, families, mothers, babies suffocate in box trucks or collapse after days of walking. >> day walking, children, cold. >> but europe is struggling to cope, to provide food, water, shelter. authorities say they're overwhelmed and in hungary, thousands of refugees are stranded in train stations. >> police stop them from leaving sending them to camps instead and putting up razor wire fences and many others holding on to the tops of trucks or hopping trains all for the chance of a better life in europe. >> his father abdullah released a statement saying what happened on the boat. the captain panicked le

families so we have compiled a list to donate to including a fund set up in the memory of little aylan kurdi. it's all on our website, nbcnews.com. that's going to do it for us on this thursday night. i'm lester holt, for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. disgust that i feel cann over stated. runs :05 =janelle/vo= an emotional message from >>> the disappointment and disgust that i feel cannot be overstated. >> an emotional message from the santa clara county sheriff. three of her correctional officers under arrest for beating an inmate to death. tonight we uncover questions about training and supervision at the jail. >>> thanks for joining us. >> the sheriff calls it cowardly and heinous, the death of an inmate inside the jail. now, nbc bay area first broke this story last week. tonight these are the three correctional officers that are facing charges, including murder, after the death of this man, michael ture. the investigative unit is standing by with more on the training and supervision at the jail. we begin with michelle roberts on the disturbing accusations.

aylan kurdi, 3 years-old. his brother galip, five, died, too. their father, abdullah kurdi, survived. he spoke at a morgue today after identifying the bodies. "everything is gone," he says. they are syrian kurds from near kobane. like so many desperate refugees, they fled to terky and arranged for a boat. this is the central staging area, people wait here for a phone call from their smuggler, they get in a taxi and they go to the beach. the kurdi family came to this beach. abc was there this week when another refugee group waded through the surf, piling into the flimsy dinghy, children lifted in heading into the waves by flashlight. today, in tears, abdullah kurdi remembered how he desperately held one small son in each arm when their boat went over, keeping their heads above water. but they tired, so did his wife, and he lost them all. "my kids were the most beautiful children in the world," he says. for families who actually get to europe, this awaits -- chaos in hungary, that budapest train station, thousands of refugees fighting to board, ho

the boy, aylan kurdi was from syria, his boat sank on the way to greece, he's one of thousands of migrants from the war-torn middle east and africa who have perished in a desperate attempt to find a new life in europe. leaders are calling on the 28 eu nations to take in their fair share of migrants. >>> a colossal eye-popping show of might from a world superpower in tiananmen square. a lock-step march of 12,000 troops along with some military hardware to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. nbc's ian williams is live from beijing. and ian, vladimir putin is there, but western leaders are not. >> that's right, dara. most western leaders stayed away. now, this was a parade to mark the end of the second world war. the japanese defeat. but i think a lot of western leaders felt uneasy about n naked show of force. as something which xi jinping, china's president, wanted to use to demonstrate his strength, his confidence. that left a lot of people uneasy. especially at a time when china is flexing its muscles in the region. territorial disputes in the south china sea. a lot of ch

the image of three-year-old aylan kurdi, who drowned when his boat capsized, has woken up europe to the refugee crisis. but also frightened many other syrians planning the same dangerous journey. just 15 miles from the border, another group of refugees was surrounded by turkish police who would let them go no further. as hundreds more arrived, the police blocked the highway. but fatima ahmet lasin, who fled syria last month with her four children, told us desperation has made them determined. how long are you willing to wait here? "as long as it takes," she told us. "until they let us cross the border." we've been told that there are more syrians trying to make their way to this area tonight. scott, this is not just an attempt to cross the border into greece but a protest against europe's reluctance to accept syrian refugees. >> pelley: holly williams with the refugees in turkey tonight. holly, thank you. also today, hungary continued its crackdown on migrants with tough new immigration laws, and that left hundreds stranded at the border with serbia where we find charlie d'agata. >> rep

stunned as images of one of the youngest victims of the migrant crisis, three-year-old syrian boy aylan kurdi went viral. his body was shown to be washed up on the beach. his family was attempting to reach canada when they drowned in the mediterranean sea. amy: well, today we will spend much of the hour discussing the migrant crisis with policy makers, volunteers, and organizers. we're going first to stuttgart, germany, where we are joined via democracy now! video stream by annette groth. she is a member of the german parliament and spokeswoman for human rights for the left party. annette just returned last week from a trip to hungary, where she saw thousands of migrants stranded at the budapest train station. welcome to democracy now! can you talk about what you saw and what, annette groth, you think needs to happen? >> well, i saw a really horrible pictures. i mean, many, many families lying on the ground, babies on the ground. hardly any water, no toilet, no sanitation, no medical service. it was really appalling. and i am glad that some of the people i met there made it to germany. i am i

and there was a very dramatic photo of a little boy, aylan kurdi, whose body washed up on shore as hed to seek safety. your pictures no less powerful because of the fact you're looking at those who are so desperate that they would rather leave everything behind to start fresh, to start anew. tell us about that. >> well, you know, the thing is, we're all people at the end of the day. it doesn't matter if you're christian or muslim or buddhist, or black or white. at the end of the day, we're all people, we're all human beings. i think when we talk about news, we talk about conflicts, it's sort of a big picture thing and we really don't focus on the individuals and the people that these crises are affecting. so what i wanted to do was to go to the train station and find people, find children, find mothers and fathers and photograph them and speak with them to sort of put a face on the crisis. and let people see who these refugees are. >> well, you know what, you certainly did that. this is not a crisis that is going to end quickly, and clearly a lot of countries figuring out what their r

. >>> aylan kurdi's father paid smuggle ares $2,000 to get his family to greece.his dead wife and sons back to their hometown in northern syria where they fled which has been engulfed by fighting. our senior international correspondent nick patian walsh takes a closer look at hu syria got to this state. we warn you, this story has disturbing images. >> sir why's trauma rarely is this visible. so insent in death you can almost feel his face in the sand. smugglers an unfulfilled hope put him there. but his family was at first fleeing another morbidly visible part of syrisyria's spiral into void. to some here in sprawling camps, onward trip to gross or canada would have been a lucky and expensive close to leave behind forever the abyss after homeland. when does it end? even overlooking kabani when the world was able to watch the brutality of isis launch car bombs on the borders of nato, the coalition smart bombs came but did not bring a war to a close. in fact, each time syria's crisis deepens, it is interrupted on to our screens and the world asks, when will it end

his nay is aylan kurdi. he is 3 years old. americans look at that they say we're the united states.> it didn't have to happen. >> this is the picture. it is terrible. >> it's horrific. it did not have to happen. >> go ahead. t >> everyone always says what can we do? well, i know what we could have done. we could have not left a power vacuum in iraq. we could have called the rich av gulf state nations, uae, saudi e arabia who have not take an single refugee. we could see where are you. this is your theater. where have you been leading in this area? but you knowav what, megyn? you know what we could do right now because of the cause of this is isis. we could obliterate isis. if we allowed the military do its job and not waste resources or lives, get in and get out and take care of the situation, it wouldn't be a problem. but washington, d.c. loves to sit on its hands and then say shrug, i don't know, what areree going to do? >> it's terrible. thee pictures are just -- as thy have been out of syria from the beginning, they have been devastating. dana, great to see you. >> thank you, me

that image in parrticula after aylan kurdi, i think that wrenched the world's collective hearts, as itry trying desperately to board trains, passing children over each other to try to get on that train to carve a future for themselves. in the way that our intellectual awareness, people dying at sea did no >> do you also think it's a function of these people in refugee camps have been iting for the international community to come to them, they finally said enough is enough. we're going to get there because we feel that's where we can get help and start. >> yeah, i mean, i think that's true. i think it has to do also with the mechanics of story telling. it's hard for us as news organizations to get inside syria. we can go to refugee camps. as you know well, they are boring television. there is an incredible power in these scenes that people, you know, at these huge train stations in budapest, elsewhere. and i think those images -- there's a real narrative power there that i think is driving this. >> especially because there's so many and they have so little and they're trying to get to a

his name is aylan kurdi. two years old. the overcrowded vessel capsized in the water off turkey.he father survived. they were buried friday at home in syria. i wanted to hear from the photographer, the woman who was on the beach. here is what she said to cnn turk. quote, there was nothing to do except take his photograph and that is exactly what i did. i thought, this is the only way i can express the scream of his silent let that sink in for a moment. there was nothing she could do except share the photo. it has been shared around the world. when a picture like this so powerful and so personal comes across the wires or twitter, do we honor the victim's privacy or share it as publicly as possible. she is one of the leading experts on journalistic ethics and joins me now. there have been a lot of cases on imagery of people being killed dying or having already died. such a young person dying on the beach. what was the proper response by journalists? >> you have to publish the photo widely and let people see it. because it symbolizes so much. as soon as i saw that photo i recognized

an image of one of the children washed up on a beach, 3-year-old aylan kurdi, has galvanized a global sympathy. the burial was in the family's home town of kobani, near the border with turkey. the father said he wants to stay near them and won't try to get back to europe. in yemen, 45 soldiers from the united arab emirates and bahrain were killed today, fighting shiite rebels. officials said a missile struck a weapons depot near their post, about 75 miles east of sanaa, the capital city. the attack was the deadliest yet on the gulf arab coalition. it's being led by saudi arabia, in a kind of proxy war with iran. president obama welcomed saudi king salman for his first visit to the white house today. the president reaffirmed u.s. support for stabilizing yemen, while acknowledging the costs in human lives and suffering. >> we share concerns about yemen and the need to restore a functioning government that is inclusive and that can relieve the humanitarian situation there. >> woodruff: mr. obama also sought again to reassure the saudi king about the nuclear deal with iran. the president

aylan kurdi was one of 12 syrians who died trying to reach the greek island of kos. a turkish police officer carried his lifeless body ashore, not far from the resort town of bodrum. aylan, his five-year-old brother and their mother all died when a trafficker abandoned them in high seas. their father survived and today prepared to take their bodies back home, to kobani, syria. >> ( translated ): the man steering the boat saw that the sea is high, the wave was high. we were hit by the first wave and he escaped. he jumped into the water and escaped away. i tried to take over the steering but we were hit by another wave, the boat capsized. i grabbed my children and my wife, they died. >> woodruff: we take a closer look at how their story is being seen in europe, with steve erlanger, the london bureau chief for the "new york times." and our own pbs newshour special correspondent malcolm brabant, who has been reporting extensively on the refugee crisis for us in a number of european countries. ing and we welcome you both. pal come, you are in copenhagen. what is the reacti

three-year-old aylan kurdi, his five-year-old brother galip and their mother, rehan, drowned tuesday as the family attempted to reach greece in an eventual bid to join relatives in canada. their asylum application had been denied in canada. the boy's aunt, teema kurdim, who is a hairdresser in vancouver, told the national post -- "i was trying to sponsor them, and i have my friends and my neighbors who helped me with the bank deposits, but we couldn't get them out, and that is why they went in the boat." canada has come under intense criticism for not accepting more syrians fleeing the syrian civil war. in january, immigration minister chris alexander pledged canada would resettle 10,000 syrians over three years. but new government figures show that, as of late july, canada had only welcomed 1002 syrians. in more news on migration malaysian officials say at least , 13 people have drowned after a boat departing from indonesia capsized in the strait between the two countries. in news from the campaign trail, republican presidential candidate donald trump has criticized contender jeb bu

outside the meeting, the aunt of the 3-year-old syrian toddler aylan kurdi, whose lifeless body was photographed on a turkish shore after his boat sank in the mediterranean, demanded the european union take action to help refugees. >> please, say the refugees. do something. put hands together. find a solution. make it happen. people should open their hearts and help those refugees. amy: in california, at least one -- major wildfires continue to burn out of control despite nearly 9000 firefighters efforts. three massive fires have burned more than 250,000 acres across central and northern california. 72-year-old retired teacher barbara mclean's died over the weekend after the flames engulfed her home in middletown. authorities say several other people are unaccounted for. more than 20,000 have evacuated the region. 500 homes have burned. the fires come as a new report concludes burning all of the world's coal, oil, and natural gas deposits would cause the entire ice sheet covering antarctica to melt, raising sea levels. scientists found half the melting could happen in as few years, warning ocean

that is aylan kurdi, that's his name. he drowned along with his big brother galip and mother rehen.people died yesterday including eight children on that boat. and today we learned four syrian citizens who are responsible for that boat and suspected of human trafficking have now been taken into custody. this is 2-year-old aylan on the left in better times. his brother galip on the right. the way their family would certainly want them to be remembered. and here they are with their dad. and when you're taking a picture of little kids, they tend to smile and it's hard to get them to open their eyes, they squint, because that's what little boys do when they're happy. they hold hands with their dad. now it is the hope of so many around the world that first photo that we showed you that was so awful will, in fact, stir as much change as it does emotion because these boys represent 4 million people, 4 million who have fled syria just looking desperately for help. their father summed up his grief this way when cnn spoke with him by phone today. he said, i don't want anything else from this

of images and that image which we've seen repeatedly today and over the past week of 3-year-old aylan kurdi up on the beach like a piece of driftwood. really seemed to bring this problem into focus. >> it's amazing how most americans were sleeping till we saw that one little boy and that humanized things. the pictures of the camp. this is a perfect storm of humantory disasters where there are all sorts off contributors. one thing which has been not noted, this is a national security problem. of the first order. we stand to lose a generation after refugee kids who are not properly educated, or employ odd. and this is where our fear of terrorism redoubles on itself. on one hand, we don't want these folks coming in because we worry about potential terrorism. on the other hand, this international failing of the first order is creating a whole generation of dislocated people which could really be problematic in the ways we fear most. >> with this flood of refugees, robert, you're seeing a very troubling split inside the european union. some of the richer countries like germany have been very gen