keeping us up-to-date from belgrade, thank you.you can followt her progress on our website, france24.com, or on twitter. change of pace now. time for a look at the business news. marcus joins me in the studio. we are starting with a giant strike in india today. : labor unions across india observed a one-day strike this wednesday. 150 million people walked off the job against the government plan to reform labor laws. it is seen as the biggest show of strength yet since prime minister narendra modi took office. there are reports of clashes in several places in india. this video is from jennie garth in the indian--- is from tri nigar in the indian-controlled area of kashmir. they are trying -- they say they are tried to make life easier for indian businesses. hildebrand has been taking a closer look. how big was india's national strike, 150 million people did not go to work, figure equivalent of the night biggest country in the world. 10 out of the 12 major labor unions organized from affecting most sectors. the strike is believed to

including the musician's family we bough in the belgrade park in serbia.ustration turns to anger. demonstrations erupt. >> we have been here five days. no food, no sleep. no place to sleep. no anything. police block the entrance to the station, urging people to leave. desperate and defiant, they decide to take matters into their own hands, no longer willing to be left at the mercy of governments and political decisions. we are on the highway that connects budapest to yenna and there are thousands of people, most of them refugees of the war in iraq and syria, who have decided to walk. it's 175 kilometers or 100 miles to the austrian border. they say they'll walk if they have to, all the way to germany. along the way, surprising and heartwarming acts of kindness. hungarian citizens handing out supplies, in stark contrast to the response by their government. >> i'm very sorry for the people with little children and i would like to help. night falls and more volunteers appear, with hot food, clothing, and supplies. mustafa's leg was blown off by a barrel bomb

and they are angry that belgrade doesn't stop them.arcus on the serbian side of the border. >> seven days ago, refugees started entering from serbia, to croatia, some croatia says some 50,000 refugees since last week entered croatia said that serbia is doing that permanently. that they are sending all refugees to croatia. they are told belgrade's government that they are acting irresponsibly, and asked them to move refugees not just to croatia, but also to hungary, and they said, if they don't do that, then the borders will stay closed, and they said they can't handle all the refugees that are p cooing from serbia. they say 9,000 of them are coming every day, and that's too much for them, and asking belgrade to move some of the refugees to hungary or romania. and they are saying that they won't give up from their measures imposed to serbia. >> earlier said a deal to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers was nowhere near what is needed to resolve the continent's biggest crisis since world war ii. e.u. members have agreed to give more than $1

this is belgrade. capital city of serbia. less than two miles from the city center, serbia's largest and most infamous prison. centraini zatvor. known locally as cz. >> my parents are from belgrade so there was a bit more emotion going to a prison in serbia than say other prisons around the world. cz has an ominous reputation for serbs. it's where inmates went in, and then you'd never see them again. >> cz opened its doors in 1950 and has housed countless political prisoners, including opponents of the late serbian president slobodan milosevic. many were still there when milosevic himself was incarcerated here in 2001, while awaiting trial for corruption and war crimes. today it houses some of the nation's most dangerous criminals. including the assassin of a former serbian prime minister. >> translator: they have committed all kinds of criminal offenses. basically every criminal offense on the books. these include organized crimes, war crime and other serious criminal offenses such as homicide. >> like american prisons, cz f

bus for belgrade, their last stop before that most unwelcoming of borders, hungary it's been 13 longays since they left turkey and everybody's now worried about this next leg. >> i heard a lot of people saying different things. like the police will kill you, and you must escape from them. but i'm going to go see. >> reporter: en route, ali is glued to social media. his is a thoroughly modern migration. >> there's like a lot of paged on facebook. they can help us. >> so this is like being a refugee in the social media age? >> yeah. >> reporter: first they have to get to hungary. after leaving them at the border, we find them again hiring a smuggler to take them north to budapest. they make it safely from the border to the capital city which brings us to this afternoon. when the group boards a train for austria. >> i feel good right now. >> why do you feel good now? >> the dangerous things are finished. >> reporter: as these young syrians near their final destinations, there are raging debates happening in european capitals about how many refugees to accept. today, president obama said

now they're paying 150 euros from belgrade, and that is 120 kilometers. there were some trains leaving from macedonia to belgrade, but until now we didn't get information that all those trains will also be transferred here because there is also train station here connecting serbia and croatia. >> marcus live there on the serbian croatian border. thank you very much, indeed. just to take you back to live pictures that are coming to us from the crossing. that is on serbia's border with ungary. you can see some of the refugees still standing around, wondering what is going on for the moment. an hour ago there were scenes of violence. we're told by the hungarian authorities that some of the refugees tried to push through the barrier to get into hungary. the police responded they nee need--used water canons and tear gas, and we saw the refugees pouring back towards the serbian side. they had streaming eyes. there were some who had been hit on the head by batons. there were crying children. very distressing scenes. but now it's calm at the moment. we're back wi

they told belgrade government that they are actinger responsibly, and asks them to move refugees not but also to hungary, and they said if they don't do that, then the border will stay closed, and they said they can't handle all of the refugees that are coming from serbia. they are saying 9,000 are coming every day, and that's too much for them, and asking belgrade to move some of the refugees to hungary or romania, and they are saying that they won't give up from their measures imposed to serbia. >>> a european union to resettle refugees is raising tensions. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: it might not seem like it, but in little places like this in southern hungry, the european union plan to deal with the refugee crisis is a nightmare come true. the government is investigating whether to set up a semipermanent camp cheer for refugees. but it's basically a bog. for the mayor the idea that hundreds of men from the middle east might be dumped here is a more immediate concern. >> translator: the vast majority are young strong men on their journey they have some natural needs th

we thought--you asked the colleagues of the refugees and the refugee organizations in belgrade tell us that more than 65% of the refugees are of syrian o origin. we can see them living in the streets who were families. there were some single people, young people as well, but over the majority of them were families. lots of young children and some elderly as well. >> most syrian families have been told if you're syrian you will be able to have asylum in germany. that's the reason why they're heading mostly from greece traveling up and through these central european countries to try to get to germany. because as far as they're concerned that's where they will be safe. >> that's right. it is because germany has offered them--that is why they want to go to germany. i just can't understand, earlier we spoke about hungary. i think it's going too far in the way that it is dealing with matters. the people, they're experiencing hungary has not been very good. we witnessed a lot of obstacles that are unnecessarily placed in people's path. >> do you think that europe now will for want of a better

in belgrade i asked him what the serbian government was planning to do and how much assistance from the european union good >. >> at the moment in the form of donation in order to meet the basic humanitarian needs of the refugees. but this is not enough. serbia has 2 temporary makeshift camps of the moment that are ill-equipped and this must change, especially as the bad weather is coming. an interesting move to spot is that the buses carrying the refugees inside serbia are not ordered to drive to the croatian border instead of the hungarian border. reporters are stopping a number of classes -- buses going to the border of croatia. croatia is part of the european union but not part of the agreement. it suggests at least that part of the refugees could be directed to croatia. laura: the eu remains divided over how to handle the migrant crisis. france, germany, and eu officials one member states to people.,000 east european states remain staunchly against the plan. there will be another attempt at finding a compromise next tuesday. >> this is the responsibility of the entire european unio

is ingional correspondent belgrade and has more there on the intense situation at the border. the crisis started four days ago when croatia was overwhelmed with the crisis. it decided to close its border to trucks coming from serbia, and this, of course, created problems at the entrance points of the country. that nothing happened. this is why serbia decided to close its border to croatian .u and the entry of his country is being banned for all vehicles with serbian plates. course, this country 20 years ago, the memories are often fresh. this is not helping to find a peaceful solution to that crisis, which will have a huge impact for the moment. about 20 million euro were already lost. rise.gures likely to >> many migrants entering europe are fleeing the war in syria. homeowners from angela merkel suggesting a change of approach on the syrian conflict. she said that president bashar al-assad should be involved in peace talks.ies >> angela merkel and her allies have not budge on the bottom line. bashar al-assad must leave power. the german chancellor first demanded that he must

. >> to belgrade? >> yeah. >> thousands of migrants sleep in the serbian capital.he has found a secret place to stay. eve of her attempt to get into hungary. if she makes it she will be inside the eu's single border area. >> than test it. >> hungary is the big test? >> yeah. desk, we watch refugees walk across the border into hungary where they will be met by the hungarian police. she and her group do not want to be spotted. late at night, they get dropped off 10 miles from the hungary border. is this the most important crossing? >> if we get there we are safe. we are safe, yeah. >> they had off in search of a way through. they film these pictures of their crossing. after several hours walking, they make it into hungary and what should be the safety of the eu's border free zone. and a trainudapest station full of refugees rings a new scare. in this city, her group hides in another apartment. the police find them and demand a 50 euro bribe not to take the men. .- take them in days later, from vienna, she takes the train toward her final stop. sweden. relax when she

the foreign minister is due in belgrade on friday amid angry recriminations over the scenes yesterday. thousands of people have since been leaving the border crossing from hungary and moved on to serbia's border with croatia. what started as a trickle on wednesday became a flood. 24 hours later. ,hese migrants are in croatia there is a rumor that a train is coming to take them to the capital. right police hold -- riot police hold some 200 people back until they are overtaken. a train has arrived. there is a scramble for the door. the rush came after hours of waiting in the fields or on tracks. now that the passage to northern europe is barred by hungary, migrants are grateful for croatia's decision to let them pass. >> we are happy because of the croatian -- especially after the announcement by the croatian prime minister about the refugees and allowing them to cross croatia. reporter: emergency teams say the situation could change drastically overnight. i day after croatian authorities spoke of corridor's for migrants, the interior minister told reporters that the country would not b

belgrade is improving but the eastern portions of the peninsula will be affected by heavy rain and thunderstorms into the weekend. temperatures are going to be as follows and i'm going to leave you now with your extended forecast. >>> and that wraps up this hour's "newsline." i'm james tengan in tokyo. thanks for watching. >> welcome to the "france 24."9ç i'm molly hall. here of the top stories this hour. germany calls for european solidarity over the mounting migrant crisis, but eastern states are refusing to accept quota plans. we cross to our correspondent for an update. residents in flood-hit japan assess the damage after someone hundred thousand people are forced to flee the powerful floods. search -- after some

the world's number one dropped by a childcare center in capital belgrade to draw attention to the needs of children during their grueling journey. >> djokovic visited a center which offers 50 kids at a time a chance to have fun, a distraction perhaps from their ordeal. >> seeing children that don't know if they will have a roof above their head, if they will have food on their table, water to drink. they don't know where they are going, where they are heading, what tomorrow brings. it's hurting me very much personally. >> the kids get a chance to play in a safe space. while they do, their parents get a few hours of much-needed childcare. officials say nearly 1100 children have had the chance to play in one of two centers in the country. brett: that's going to wrap it up for us in berlin. we will see you next time. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] óxñx >>> this week on "wealthtrack," investor charles dreifus is calmly sailing through market storms with portfolios loaded with undervalue

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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 she

thousands of refugees have been crossing the croatian border over the past week, they are angry that belgradetop them. >>> the controversial european union plan to resettle refugees is raising tensions further. lawrence lee reports from hungary. >> reporter: it might not seem like it, but in little places like this in southern hungry, the european vision of unity in dealing with the refugee crisis looks like a nightmare come true. you can see the village from this piece of land. the government has been investigating whether to set up a semipermanent camp here for a thousand refugees, but it's basically a bog and even providing water would cost a fortune. for the mayor, the idea that hundreds of men from the middle east might be dumped here is a more immediate concern. >> translator: the vast majority are young strong men. on their journey they have some natural needs they haven't been able to satisfy, and there is a strong possibility that they will satisfy their needs in hungary or europe, but not in a european way. >>> there are hundreds of little places like this across hungary and other e

indeed the serbias are on buses with macedonia and capitol belgrade and hungarian border and suddenly or more had crossed this border and unremarkable spot marked only by a couple of rocks. but it was the european union and whole families passed by and some didn't know which country they were in. >> do you know where you are right now? >> i don't know. >> no? >> so this is croatia and inside the european union. >> okay. >> reporter: croatia saying it would let everyone in and through suddenly appeared wrong footed by the numbers and having got this far the refugees were again frustrated at having to wait, the riot police here didn't have the same aggression as those on the border with hungary but all the same it looks like yet another flash point in the making. >> doesn't allow through the village. he stay here. he tell us and tell us to stay here and the train is coming but the train will be not coming. >> reporter: think back to the standoff at the rail station in budapest and hungry southern border and now this held yet again by law enforcements at croatia's southern edge, apart fr

the tennis start visited a child-friendly space in belgrade.a is part of the route of refugees trying to get no those richer western european countries. almost 130,000 people have applied for asylum in serbia. this year alone. >> seeing children that don't know if, you know, if they will have the roof above their head, if they will have the food on their table, have their water to drink, they don't know where they are going, where they are heading, what tomorrow brings, it is hurting me very much personally. >> still ahead on the program, police in indonesia get ready to clamp down on uber, the latest move against the high-tech taxi service that's causing practice zests arounprotestsaround the w. >> reporter: i am in lacia a country experiencing it's worst ever out bang of deny. great time for a shiny floor wax, no? not if you just put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece. timing's important. comcast business knows that. that's why you can schedule an installation at a time that works for you. even late at night, or on the weekend,

. >>> meanwhile, croatia said that it will lift border restrictions are serbia as belgrade begins to send migrants to hungary. they've banned most trucks from entering serbia and shut seven of eight border crossings. they're angry that serbia have been sending roams to croatia rather than hungary. >>> well, coming up on this news hour from london, ending colombia's long-running civil war, the president and rebels meet in cuba for peace talks. we'll be live in havana shortly. let's why burkina faso's interim president said he's returning to power days after being deposed in a coup. >>> and in sport we'll here from namibia's rugby team as they try to catch the world champions off guard. >> hope francis is on his firs first-ever official trip to the united states. the head of the catholic church is spending day one of the six-day visit in the capital of washington, d.c. where he has been speaking with president barack obama. later in the week he'll dress both the u.s. congress and the united nations. patty culhane is following his historic visit. >> it is clear that pope francis is goin

serbians on the buses from macedonia and the capital of belgrade and the hungarian border.ddenly 7,000 or more have crossed this border, a remarkable spot marked only by a couple of rocks. whole families passed by, some didn't even know which country they were. >>> you know where you are right now. do you know where you are right now? >> i don't know. >> this is croatia, this is inside of the european union. >> okay. >> yeah. >> croatia said that it would let everyone in and through appeared overwhelmed by the numbers. having gotten this far, the refugees were again frustrated having to wait. they didn't have the aggression of those on the border with hungary, but it looks like another flashpoint in the making. >> we need to allow through the village, and he tell us. us, the bus come, the train coming, but the bus coming and the train last name be coming. >> think back to the stand off at the rail station in budapest, to hungary's sudden border, and this yet again by law enforcement at the croatia southern en. apart from the implications, this is the european union. aljazee

we crossed the border and go to a bus station, and we took a bus to belgrade, the capital of serbia.he took another bus border of hungary and serbia. serbia to inside cross. tobribe the police there let us enter the border. we bribe him. then we walked for about six a razor wireh fence. under the razor wire fence always go andes see if there are refugees to orch them, to arrest them, have them fingerprinted in hungary. but the plane could not see us, so we crossed the border and go to somebody who has -- a taxi driver. we took a taxi and we paid for him about 300 for each person to reach, to go -- to reach us to budapest. after that, after we reached budapest, we stayed there for about three days. -- there is a taxi driver could reach us to vienna. we talked to him and we agreed that he would take us to vienna, but there is -- there was a lot of police and he let us on the border of austria and hungary. and we keep swimming -- sorry, reach thelking to first village in austria. we keep walking for about six hours until we find this village , and some beetle does that we have to go to

they came with tax sees grom belgrade and pay the 170 euros just to come to this place. local volunteers direct them to the alternative border crossings, and but from here, we can see some police vehicles are positioned 500 meters from each other on that borderline and they welcomed those refugees. they put them in buses or other vehicles, and lead them to the camps in croatia, but croatian officials told us that they will have official press conference later today to say their estimations about how many refugees will cross croatia. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is due to visit russia next week, holding talks with president putin on the expanding russian military presence in syria. peter sharp is live for us now in moscow. what sort of tone do we expect this meeting to take then with mr. netanyahu and mr. putin? >> well, russia has dramatically upped its coverage and involvement in the syrian crise over the last 6 six weeks. there is a growing concerns to israelis. the amount of weapons now, the tap has been turned on and amount of weapons substantially in

and i think the problem is that serbia has basically organized buss from the capitol belgrade, and from hungarian border to bring them here, and they can get across the border to croatia, it's just that croatia doesn't know what to do with them because there are so many of them. but while the border is still open, they are making a run for it. >> so croatia has declared itself full. we think they might have taken just over 6,000, there are many more thousands of people either in serbia or still in hungary, what on earth is going to become of them? >> reporter: that's the question. we heard from the serbian government this morning that there were another 2,000 people they were picking up from the macedonian border, and they are clearly still on the way. and they haven't come here yet. and the problem clearly is even if they get into croatia, whatever the croatian authorities have for them there, then they have to go through the slovenia border, and then into austria and germany. clearly the violence and the contempt the hungarians has showned towards the refugees had managed to open a ne

rumors of trouble on the hungarian front have been passed down the lines to belgrade and south to the donian border. by social media and word of mouth a grand diversion was agreed upon. a new overland route bypassing water cannon and razor wire. the the lone marchers set a brisk pace to the northwestern serbian corn fields towards croatia, the e.u.'s newest member. the finish line still somewhat off, ahead the e.u.'s new front line. this dusty farm track is the serb-croac border. croation please were there. they warned refugees from distant conflict and wandering through unmatched mine fields from the balkan wars 20 years ago when last time hundreds of thousands trudged through the region towards western europe. we entered croatia by a more formal route and found a refugee crisis center in a nearby town. a croatian government minister was watching. is croatia prepared for what's about to happen? >> we have been following what's happening in croatia and hungry for the past month, we've prepared protocols and want to be a good host for people transiting through croatia and into the euro

in serbia, hundreds of people attending a heavily guarded lgbt pride event in the capital belgrade over the weekend called for solidarity with the refugees and migrants passing through the country. meanwhile, at least 13 people, including four children, died when their dinghy collided with a ferry off the coast of turkey. another 26 people are missing in a separate incident after their boat sank off the coast of the greek island of lesbos. the united states has vowed to take in more refugees from around the world. secretary of state john kerry said the united states would take in a total of 100,000 refugees in 2017. announce thatd to today the united states will significantly increase our numbers for refugee resettlement in the course of this next year and the year after. last year, i think we're at 70000 and we're going to go up to 85,000 with at least, and underscore the at least, it is not a ceiling, a floor, of 10,000 over the next year from syria specifically, even as we also receive more refugees from other areas. and in the next fiscal year, we are -- we will target amy: 100,000.

river could very well see a half-inch of rain fall in the mountains with a core and in the val in belgradein for firefighters they could use the assistance and try to stamp out some of its hot spots with that of the range tomorrow to talk about what's happening right now we're looking a relatively clear conditions and terms of visibility at sea level there clouds overhead and all to show you really quickly whatever the like 57 san francisco and oakland a slew of 61 for san jose concord in livermore were often very mild star and it will be a mild afternoon look at the illinois highs of the east of valley's only to low to mid '70's for most of the communities on the chart 79 for brand what is the one spot on the map today a very mellow to our talk about that range in tub with us through the day as the run-up to work with the clouds the now and temperatures begin to warm. >>james: very nice summer long we can with temperatures in the low 90s to the inland valleys. >>george: watching a pretty good to me on fall so far this morning that does not mean we do not have so traffic will certainly do

we'll see you how it shaped up in belgrade and bucharest, temperatures in the mid-90s fahrenheit.the cool air begins filtering in in the next three to four days and the coolest weather since the first week of june. in london temps 19 to 17 celsius, mid-60s fahrenheit and in the upper 40s for the cold temperatures. we had a nice trend in the eastern united states. autumn temperatures were there but the summer like temperatures are back. in washington, d.c. at this hour it is 80 degrees in the early morning hours about 2:45 in the morning. warmer than panama city, florida. impressive spell of muggy weather in place. last week, chicago high temperature, 67 fahrenheit. they skyrocketed into what is the warmest start to september since 1985 for chicago. typically middle of july, early august when you expect the peak summer temperatures and you begin to see a downward trend. wednesday, no such thing the temperatures will feel like the 90s in places like detroit when last week temperatures in parts of michigan were 53 degrees fahrenheit, 90 degrees now in the first week of september. >>