/e.u. safe harbor. the u.s./e.u. safe harbor is a regime and it basically follows the e.u. standards, the e.u. privacy principles. and if companies go and make a public problem that mission, i, company, adhere to the u.s./e.u. safe harbor, they're listed on the department of commerce's web site -- which i believe currently disabled -- but they go and make a promise, and they say i agree to adhere to these standards. the federal trade commission has the authority to investigate whether or not people have the ability to -- whether or not they are actually keeping that promise. and you have to renew that promise every year in a public statement, and the list is about 4500 companies currently have safe harbor regime. that safe harbor was considered to be an adequate legal process under the european commission. and there's been some questions, and there have been -- throughout from 2000 on there had been a lot of questions, is safe harbor sufficient, is this public promise sufficient, shouldn't

their question, if the e.u. borders tighten, what happens to the refugees on the other side. . >> we are ready to take quotas, even though we are not a part of e.u., but we need to see what we'll do with hundreds of thousands of people . >> the european union is supposed to be a beacon of humanitarian values, and the idea of open borders, that is undermined as the director of amnesty international makes clear to me earlier before the summit begins. >> as we have seen over the last days, months, years, is a tarnishing of the european union and the human rights record. who will they be, when they see this unfolding tragedy again. fresh from the greek crisis. tens of thousands of lives could be at take. it's a test she can't afford to fail. >>> as we heard, it appears to be overwhelming e.u. nations. what about the countries outside the e.u., what is said about that. >> i heard from the serbian prime minister. he's ready to take on a quota of refugees, but if you block off the entry points in the european union, th

as part of that original e.u.an that was discussed earlier in the week, there was also the request that turkey introduces greater controls of its boarders on land and on sea, and also that it works much more closely with the european union on repatriating any failed asylum seekers. we're talking about largely economic migrants as opposed to refugees. i think it's important to add early on the french had been very much against the idea of relaxing visa restrictions for turkey, but it seems under the current stresses the european union is under, this is now the only way that they can move significantly forward when it comes to reducing the number of people arriving in the european union. this has drawn a significant issue between countries in the e.u. between those who feel there is a moral obligation to help those people outside of the e.u., and those countries largely eastern and southern europe who feel that perhaps europe's doors should remain a little bit further closed. >> okay. neave barker thank you very muc

here in the e.u.have targets in the field of transport up until 2050, ambitious targets set by the commission and we have supported those ambitious targets in this parliament but the transport committee for us didn't go far enough. we talked about first step, second step, we needed three steps in succession. that's why we decided to look at 2020 and we looked at levels from 1990, co-2 emissions, wanted to cut them by 20% between them and 2020. a broad majority supported that decision. now we have, of course, new white paper and it documented, the whole thing is documented and we have once again supported his position very broadly. the testing cycles need to be revisited. they need to be more in tune with reality. there's no point in having the best values in a laboratory nvironment if that has nothing to do with what happens on the road. of course we have to gauge things according to how they pan out on the road. that's question to the commission. the commission needs to analyze this, know why -- why

it seems every time any e.u.ates some consensus it's gone in a day or two, as the realities of huge crowds of desperate people, of borders, rivalries and train stations overwhelm any careful diplomatic language. our correspondent reports from slovenia. >> reporter: 15,000 is the number understood to have come through slovenia in the last 24 hours. that is a record number that this country has had to accept. so those 400 police officers will be a welcome addition for -- as far as the slovenian authorities are concerned. places to provide good protection for the refugees from the weather, especially given that the winter is pressing in here. this camp behind me is one of three on the slovenia croatia border. eventually when space is freed up further down the line, they get moved on. but what you get is these bottlenecks. and one of the places they are being kept in a meadow, and last night conditions there were dire, and volunteers were telling us they were being restricted with providing them with warm food. event

germany's leader fast tracks e.u. membership if it helps with the refugee crisis. >> and samsung and apple given a run for their money in the giant chinese mark >>> two people are dead, several others injured after one of the boldest attacks yet in the violence gripping israel in the occupied territories. a gunman armed with a knife opened fire at a bus takes. he was killed, as was an israeli soldiers, andrew simmonds has been following developments for us from west jerusalem. >> what happened is this, the police say there was two attackers. but now they are saying there was one attacker. a soldiers was attacked and has since died. a number of others were attacked. a total of four police officers, and a number of civilians, all of them taken to hospital. none apparently with life-threatening injuries. the next stage of what happened has been subjected to conflicting reports. we are told by the police that definitely they opened fire at two people. one was the alleged attacker, and the other was eritrean nationality. t

e.u. offers turkey more than 3 billion to deal with the flow of refugees into europe. >> >> free trade under communism - we visit a unique fair on the border between china and north korea >>> a sign of improving ties between washington and havana. an iconic cuban ban rocks the white house >>> the u.s. is shifting its policy in afghanistan. president obama says the war will not end before he leaves office, and that american soldiers will stay on until at least 2017. there are currently 9,800 american troops on the ground, training and advising the military. president obama hoped to withdraw all the troops, leaving 1,000 by the end of 2016. now more than 5,000 will stay on in the country. the president says the extension is necessary because of the fragile security situation. patty culhane reports from washington. >> reporter: it was the central foreign policy issue that helped president obama stand out from a group of candidates. he was opposed to the iraq war and vowed if he was elected pr

the e.u.as a plan for the refugees, but needs turkey to agree. >>> government forces launch a major offensive in syria. >>> once common, now rare, we're in the u.s. where the mission is on to save the orchid. ♪ >>> u.s. president barack obama is due to announce in the next hour that american military presence in afghanistan will extended. his original aim was to withdraw most u.s. forces by the end of next year. jennifer glasse is in kabul. how is this going to work, jennifer? >> reporter: well, jane, the 9,800 u.s. forces that are here now are going to stay through most of 2016 and then as the -- at the end o next year, they'll make a decision on the pace of how to draw those down to 5,200 u.s. forces. the extension of forces here a reflection of the growing taliban insurgency -- or the fight against the taliban here. but also there is the fact that u.s. forces will remain in bases around the country. the original plan was to draw down to a small force of a thousand by 2016. but instead those

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the e.u. has a plan but needs turkey to agree. >> government forces launch an offensive in syria, a huge blow to opposition fighters if they win >>> also - myanmar's government agrees on peace with rebel groups. many signatures are missing >>> and suspended u.s. chief michel platini finds out if he has the support of his own organization, as they hold a crisis meeting to discuss his future. >>> e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels to try to find a solution to europe's growing refugee crisis. the summit focussing on working with countries outside europe's border. turkey is keep. the e.u. wants to make sure the refugees it's hosting stays there. turkey is hosting the largest number of syrian refugees - close to 2 million. thousands are crossing into europe, most arriving on greek shores in boats. that's a problem for europe. it's buckling under the pressure, 600,000 entering europe this year alone. neave barker is in brussels where the leaders are meeting and bernard smith in istanbul. what do e

the e.u. offers turkey more than $3 billion to help deal with the flow of refugees into europe. >> free trade - we visit a unique fair on the border between china and north korea >>> the u.s. is shifting its policy in afghanistan. president obama said soldiers will stay there until at least 2017. he hoped to withdraw the troops, but said it was necessary due to a fragile security situation. rosalind jordan has more from washington d.c. 5500 troops will be stationed around afghanistan after 2016. >> the mission will not change. our troops will focus on training afghans, and counterterrorism operations. but these bases will give us the presence and the reach our forces require to achieve their mission. >> right now there are about 98 hunt u.s. troops in afghanistan. they are training and providing battlefield advice. under the president's original plan, the number of troops would drop to 1,000 by the end of 2016. the political pressure on obama to cancel the troop draw dawn has been building for

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we report from the e.u. summit in brussels on why the e.u. thinks turkey is the key to solving this refugee crisis. >> european leaders arrived in brussels facing multiple challenges, the war in syria, conflict in ukraine and the greek bailout saga have put the block under mounting strain. it's the refugee crisis that continues to dominate european politics. more than half a million people, many of them refugees from syria have arrived in the e.u. this year, a large number traveling through turkey to europe's shores. now a preliminary agreement with turkey to help reduce the number of people attempting to make it to europe. >> we received a report very early this morning that there had been an outcome of the negotiations and we were able to reach an agreement this evening with reward to the exact shape of the joint action plan. >> under the draft plan, turkey would receive $3.4 billion in aid in return for clamping down on the numbers of people crossing its territory heading towards the european union. the money would be used on titlenning se

to the e.u.or a generation. >> when angela merkel and francis hollande address the assembly, they want to put aside difference, including the possibility of a larger budget to spur on growth, and changes to reduce the differences for the economies. as germany and france push, the limits continue to be tested >>> well, talks about refugee crisis continue in luxembourg, the e.u. interior ministers gather there, we gather from a document that was leaked, a european council document, that they may prepare plans to return, possibly hundreds of failed of asylum seekers, including economic migrants to the countries of origin, listed to the likes of mali and eritrea and niger. i have seen and it is made public. what we can take away interest that is europe is under a tremendous amount of strain in coming up with a workable solution in dealing with the arrival of as many as half a million people here to the european union. there are twin impulses between those countries that say there is a moral obligatio

visas for turkish citizens and reenergized e.u. member ship talks, that could cause a problem with some e.u. leaders, couldn't it? >> well, that's it, angela merkel is only 10 days ago said that she was opposed to turkish membership of the european union. there has to be on the visa issue a qualified majority of e.u. member union states can grant that union free actions to the zone, i understand but needs one major country to back it amongst all the other e.u. countries. it only takes a few countries to oppose the idea of visa free access and it's shelved again. none of this is clear. it's by no means certain at all that turkey will get the access to the european union it wants. you might ask how will europe work out if turkey has stopped? how will they know whether they stopped access anyway. winter's around the corner, the numbers go down naturally as the weather worse wees. the big test might go in spring and summer of next year. >> bernard, thank you. >> bernard in istanbul, there. >> turkish prime minister has said a solution

security council has endorsed this e.u. operation off the high seas -- in the high seas off libya. what i want to check from one of my colleagues, because we have live people in the chamber, is what venezuela did, because i couldn't see on the screen here, because venezuela had signals that perhaps it would abstain. >> james thank you very much. in effect we'll come back to you next hour to find out how this vote went down. but in the meantime, the u.n. security council has approved this resolution authorizing european nations to intercept and seize people trafficking vessels in the mediterranean. >>> there has been a sharp rise in the number of refugees arriving on boats in greek islands in the past week. 7,000 people have been landing every day this month. that's 2.5 thousand a day more than at the end of last month. refugees are trying to reach europe before winter sets in. >>> now in guinea, in the run up to sunday's presidential election, at least two people have been killed in fighting between supporters of rival poli

. >>> e.u.inisters discuss ways of getting tough on people fleeing to europe who don't qualify as refugees. >>> and why an orkts dweller known as the blob could be about to wipe out huge errors of global reefs. >>> but we start with some breaking news. reports of a stabbing in east jerusalem. the latest in a series of recent incidents. let's go live to mike hanna, who can update us on the details. who do we know happened, mike. well, according to the police, a 15-year-old palestinian attacked a 25-year-old student. the student has been seriously injured, say police, the palestinian was arrested and has been custody according, once again to the plus. this is the 7th stabbing attack since saturday night. however, the first three attacks were localized in and around the old city. what is of particular concern to the police is the random nature of the four attacks that we see over the past two days, they've been in different areas at different times, carried out by a different type of demographic pe

>> german chancellor angela merkel moments the turkish prime minister to push the e.u.'s plan to stem the flow of refugees. >> welcome to the show. also on the program, anger and outrage after violence in the occupied palestinian territories. three people are killed and thousands displaced as a powerful typhoon sweeps into the philippines. >> all those i remember clearly have died. i barely remember my sister's face. >> a rare reunion after decades of separation. >> the turkish prime minister has said the refugee crisis in europe can't be solved without a solution to the conflict in syria. holding talks with the german chancellor angela merkel in istanbul, an action plan offers aid and closer e.u. ties to turkey in exchange for stemming the flow of refugees to europe. he said the burden should be shared fairly. >> turkey and germany and europe as a whole will need to tackle the refugee crisis. we have considered these matters, and it is our agreement to work together to prevent the matters getting even worse in syria to prevent further influx of refugees from that locati

the e.u. has said it will deploy more than 400 border guards to the western balkans to help tackle the refugee crisis there. european leaders have been meeting in brussels in emergency session. this comes as three of these baltic states threatened to shut their borders if austria and germany stopped accepting new rivals. we go to brussels. so these 10 nations that have meeting there with the e.u. commission penalty have agreed to send 400 border troops. what else have they agreed to do with these thousands of people who are continuing to flow in? >> that is one of the points in a 16-point action plan that's been drawn up by that the president of the e.u. commission, jean claude. we have other details emerging, alleges the fact that they'll be going after the people smugglers, trying to reach an agreement that refugees will no longer be waived through the borders without the agreement of the country they are being sent into. this at the moment is a draft action plan. now that the leaders have s

and e.u. are increasing pushing issues already in the "ft" as after the 2007 agreement with the united states. con aggression agreement was very clear you will have all the agreements whether chorus or have you, we'll have environmental labor standards and that will also be the case. the third and last one will be regulatory. here is where you have a lot of complication. essentially, this is now the first time you might argue the u.s. is now in the drivers seat with respect to global trade negotiations. we did agreements with morocco, bahrain and other important economic actors. that was clearly security element that was not really happening. with respect to regulatory actions, difficult for third parties to join the agreement. regulatory standards in the 21st century will be set by the u.s., number one, and by the e.u., number two, which may or may not meet interests of 30 parties and global trade in some respects. i will stop there. thank you. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> good morni

now the e.u. says that more needs to be done, it's time to send in the armed forces. >>> talking about that point, neve, italy's coast guard says it rescued more than 2,000 at sea, hundreds intercepted daily on the other side of the mediterranean in italy. let's listen in now. >> desperation doesn't recognise borders. which is why hundreds of people are still being picked up off libya, the main departure point to europe. anti-immigration teams, and supporting aid staff here are overwhelmed. >> we received a call informing us of a boat at sea. carrying 142 people, including men, women and children. we brought them here. >> lucky to be alive. but feeling not so fortunate to have had their trip cut short. they have, after all, crossed the sahara desert. a journey sometimes harder than the one on the mediterranean. >> the children are happy to get new toys, but their mother is after a new start for them. libya is at the final desperation. >> why i left my country because of boko haram. boko haram - th

since the e.u. tomorrowed in the 1950's. in return for 1 billion euros in financial aid, and top of the financial aid that has already been given, the commission really hopes that turkey will reduce the so called push back asylum seekers rather than stay, continue to head through the country in the direction of the european union, the hope is this money will be used to improve the conditions living in camps and also help to repatch rate tens of thousands that arrive from places of course like syria. according to your pen commission figures in the last nine months alone, 350,000 people have passed through turkey, but only 50,000 people have stayed on there. so the real request here from europe, is that all of that changes to kind of make sure that some of the strain continues to be shared by turkey, of course, a nation borders the likes of syria as well. a turkey hosts nearly 2 million refugees. straight ahead, more fall out for volkswagen as the auto maker scandal continues to grow. >> i've been ask health insurance is about

the question, if the e.u. borders tighten, what happens to the refugees on the other side. >> we are welcome to tame the borders, and the others. even if we are not in the e.u. >> the european union is supposed to be a beacon of humanitarian values, and the idea of open borders, that is undermines as the director makes clear to me earlier before the summit begins. >> as we have seen over the last days, months, years, is a tarnishing oft you were een union and the human rights record. who will they be, when they see this unfolding tragedy again. fresh from the creep crisis. tens of thousands of lives could be at take. it's a test she can't afford to fail. >> you touched on this in your report, even if the countries there within the e.u. managed to reach an agreement. there are implications for those outside of the european union in dealing with this. >> it's correct. the german chancellor. they made the point when she came into the building behind me, the e.u. commission, it's vital still to keep talks going wi

. >>> e.u.rs are meeting in brussels at this hour trying to find a solution to europe's growing refugee crisis. the summit will focus on working with countries outside of europe's borders trying to stem the flow. turkey is a key part of that plan. the e.u. wants to make sure its refugees that it is hosting stay there. neave barker reports. >> reporter: on tuesday the i european commission published a list of requests and requirements it hopes that turkey will fulfill to help reduce the strain on the european union, as what has been described as one of the most challenging tests of unity since the e.u. was formed. in return of 2 billion euros, the european commission really hopes turkey will reduce the so-called push factor, the very reason why refugees continue to head through the country in the direction -- >> that is neave barker reporting. we want to go back to israel right now. this is israeli prime minister, benjamin netenyahu. he is fielding questions from reporters there on the security s

e.u. will deploy hundreds of borders guards to eastern europe. >> syrian's president recommends a solution to the war is possible but says terrorism must be defeated first. >> argentina votes for a new president as the era of christina fernandez dekirchner comes to an end. >> ahead of the second rugby world cup final, argentina aiming for their first ever final in their way to champions australia. >> the e.u. says it wants to deploy 14 power hundred border guards to the western balkans to help tackle the refugee crisis. e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels for an emergency summit. 690,000 people have arrived in europe so far this year, the majority have been coming via turkey, greece and through eastern europe, but three countries, bulgar are a, romania and serbia will shut their borders if countries further north stop accepting new rastles. slovenia has been struggling to cope with the thousands coming there. his president said he would act on his own if the e.u. can't sox the problem wit

al jazeera, beirut. >> in a moment we will be examining whether e.u. leaders have agreed to a deal with turkey to try to stem the number of refugees coming into europe. and keeping watch amido rising tensions the u.s. on exercise in the the asia pacific. jazeera.re watchle al president obama has plans to keep u.s. troop troops in afghanistan beyond 2016. delays plans to withdraw completely from the cub. relatively quiet day in israel. no new attacks in jerusalem, as they expand their presence across the city after weeks of unrest between israelis and palestinians. and the syrian army has launched it's anticipated offensive in the northern country side, the fighting focuses on two areas, and. >> through reports coming out of buts sell which is appear to suggest that the european union reach as deal with turkey to stop the number of refugees trying to get into europe. $3.4 billion in h support to turkey, and in return they have been asked to increase incentives to syrians to stay in turkey, 600,000 people have reached europe already this year, with many

. >>> germany's office fast tracks e.u. membership if it helps with the refugee crisis. >> home grown challenge - how local smartphones are giving apple and smart sung a run for their money in the chinese market. >> in sport, it's a southern hemisphere sweep in the quarterfinals of the rugby world cup. scotland losing by a single point against australia, ireland beaten by argentina >>> two people are dead and several others injured after one of the boldest attacks in the violence gripping israel and the occupied territories. a gunman, who was also armed with a knife, opened fire at a bus station in beersheba, he was killed, as was an israeli soldier. let's get the latest from andrew simmonds, who is there. what do we know about what took place, and the area itself? >> well, what's was this, the police say, and said there were two attackers. they have changed that story to one attacker, one went into the bus station, and immediately attacked a soldiers. the soldiers has since died. there were a number of other people also at

and the e.u. make up one-third of total goods and services trade totaling $2.7 billion a day. this amounts to nearly half of global economic output, and this is, essentially, the world's largest economic relationship. it is no wonder then when president obama announced in his 2013 state of the union address that he was launching the ttip negotiation that this was met with incredible fanfare. the benefits are large. that is without doubt. but stakes are also high, and the issues we need to resolve in order to get to a deal are incredibly diverse. and giving that two years have passed without a clear idea of where the end point of the negotiations may lie, we need to sort of ask that first tank of gas is completely empty, where do we go from here? so this panel will address whether we can -- [inaudible] rounds of ttip negotiations, how we're going to complete them, highlighting the key challenges along the way. we're first going to start with a specific high-stake issue in the area of substantial be

europe e.u. minister meet to discuss ps too fends of unwanted refugees. ♪ ♪ >>> nato warns russia it's ready to defend turkey if its airspace is violated. banned politicians from alex is mosque. >>> fifa's ethics committee looks to sus spent its president accept blatter over corruption allegations. ♪ ♪ >>> hundreds of thousands of is sigh lum seekers could be di deported within weeks. the leaders of phren france and germany have stressed unity. >> reporter: if ever there was a rallying cry from europe he should here it was. when chancellor merck and president hollande arrived at the european parliament they face aid continue net beset by challenges. the u.k. conflict. youth unemployment and the linking affects of the greet debt and eurozone crisis, it's the humanitarian crisis and the arrival of nearly half a million refugees irefugees in europe ths created rifts between countries willing and able to help and those who want to keep them out. in the mediterranean, e.u. warships have begun patrolli

they could potentially accelerate talks to have turkey joined the e.u.. mr.rdogan is driving a tough bargain. cameron showed up in brussels and bow to you pressure and said he would submit a list of clear demands of what he wants -- and bowed to pressure and said he would submit a list of clear demands of what he wants. hans: then you could potentially have a meeting in december about what they are going to renegotiate. if you do not do it then, you do it in march. either way, there will be a few more points in brussels, more meetings, and they have a long way to go to figure out some kind of agreement not only on the refugee crisis but how mr. cameron willie: sheet with his partners here. there is new pulling out that shows merkel's numbers in germany are falling a little bit. this has been an ongoing crisis for her. she has an internal problem in her own party. merkel does not seem that concerned, insisting that she is going to continue her approach on refugees. one final note, listening to merkel last night at 2:00 in the morning, she seems to be both hurt

they're not surprised that other syrians are fleeing to the e.u. via this northern route. >> it might be cold here in winter and dark for weeks on end, but that's not so important. what matters is that my children are safe here. here, the government is taking care of them. if necessary, they even organize a taxi to take them to school. reporter: kirkenes doesn't exactly offer an exciting life for the new arrivals. but norway is a wealthy country. and so far at least, there's no public debate and seemingly no discontent over the refugees arriving here. >> all i can hope is that they get plenty of help when they get here. >> as long as there's enough space for the refugees i don't see any reason to worry. reporter: at the moment the numbers are small -- by the end of august less than 300 syrian refugees had crossed from russia into norway. but given all the difficulties experienced by migrants on the e.u.'s southern borders, officials believe the numbers here will soon rise. desperate refugees are not going to be put off by an arctic winter. stein ha

the e.u. in a generation, the european union faces a host of other challenges. the lingering effect of the euro zone crisis, the desperate need for reforms, the possibility for the u.k., a key member of the european union could leave the e.u. when it holds its referendum in 2017, as e.u. leaders arrive in brussels, they know that it could possibly be a very long couple of days, as angela merkel has said, it's now time to get the job done. >> thank you for that. the european union's human rights court has found it is not a crime to deny that the mass killing of armenians in turkey 100 years ago was a genocide. the case involved a turkish poll tissue who was previously found guilty of racial discrimination for saying the armenian genocide is a great international law. there are disagreements about how the mass killings should be described. turkey said the deaths were part of a war and not premeditate. >> vietnam says its concerned with china's construction of two light houses on the disputed spr

this draft statement if passing, the e.u. will deploy more border guards, speed up repatriation of those whose asylum applications fail and intensified maritime efforts off the coast of greece. also looking to access to shelter, food and sanitation to those making the journey across europe. >> it's above all about one goal, that we are able to help these people who are wandering around living in unbearable conditions, that we improve the process and all work together on the task. >> to david in brussels. it sounds very laudable, good humanitarian aim, as he is outside by the german chancellor there, 16 points, but it's not a done deal, is it? >> it's by no means, david, a done deal. now, that was a very optimistic statement from angela merkel, the chancellor of germany laying out what lice ahead and needs especially that the european union must look at. there was another sound bite from the slovenian prime minister, and he said look, if we do not come to some sort of concrete action plan in the next days or weeks, then i beli

>> well, the e.u. is hoping that turkey will leave them the flow of refugees coming out through turkey, coming from syria into europe. particularly, it wants turkey to strengthen it's borders between the aegean coastal areas and the greek islands on the other side of the water. it's a very, very difficult thing for turkey to practically do that, because you have more than two and a half thousand kilometers of coastline to man for. also, the greeks have already said that they're not going to cooperate and do sort of joint patrols for the turks, because both sides are in dispute over who controls what territorial waters are there anyway, they've been in dispute for that for decades. stopping the syrians from leaving is going to be very difficult, although that's what the europeans want the turks to do, as well as give those require you know, the right to work in turkey. >> thank you. >> in eastern europe, slovenia is limiting refugees it takes in from croatia. thousands waiting in a no man's land between

the e.u.scourage the movement of refugees and migrants without warning neighboring countries and appoint contact officers to monitor numbers of people and share that information with other authorities. david chater reports. >> reporter: every day count. otherwise we will soon see families in the cold rivers of the balkans perish miserably. chilling words from the president of the european commission jean claude younger welcomed more for meetings about the crisis. a 17-point action plan was approved. first and foremost the delivery of humanitarian aid and the building of new shelters for the people seeking sanctuary inside the european union. the summit also agreed to speed up the processes and registration for genuine refugees. they'll no longer be waved on across bodders for the next country to deal with. slovenia's prime minister described the situation in his country as unbearable and had a stark warning to his counter parts. >> if we do not deliver some immediate and concrete actions on th

greece's prime minister says he feels ashamed of the e.u.'s response to the refugee crisis. >>> and overcrowding in u.s. prisons forces the government to consider early release for as many as 48,000 inmates. ♪ >>> the syrian government missile attack on a busy market has killed 55 people. around 100 others were wounded in the rebel-held area in duma east of damascus. more than a quarter of a million people have died since the brutal civil war began in 2011. diplomats of all of the important regional stakeholders are meeting in vienna. mohammed jamjoom joins us live outside of the hotel where all of those top diplomats have been talking for a very long time. are we getting any inkling of what is happening behind those closed doors? >> reporter: in short, no. the french foreign minister was scheduled to come out of the hotel and brief the press a little over an hour ago. and that still hasn't happened. what has happened is several protesters between 20 and 30 have assembled here in front of the hotel imperial, chanting anti-bashar al-assad slog

and so that is the e.u..at is a lot of different stakeholders that play and i don't intend to speak for others but they are all different voices. in the meantime we are looking to the e.u. epa will working through their association in the 29 work he -- working parties to issue guidance is helpful to businesses and businesses to sign up for safe harbor are reporting 500 of them, they could apply with safe harbor for the most part. they didn't the fcc one after them. and so they are now looking at this legal vacuum where they don't feel like they have done anything wrong. they need guidance. >> matta more do you think is next? >> the relationship between the united states and the european union is too important. we transferred 15 terabytes of information a second, a gigantic number. we have really trillions of investment numbers going back and forth in the safe harbor decision goes beyond the one program. if we can't share information, they can't monitor our investments that's a gigantic loss around the globe.

sami, who sells dried fish is angry about the e.u. decision. >> translation: nigerian foods don't can't tain harmed food pesticides. i invite people from around the world to test, and buy our food. it's organic, it's natural. if it contains harmful pesticides, it would affect us too. >> the e.u. found the organophosphate diclor us exceeded legal limits. >> it is unfortunate, it's blown out of proportion, because of some challenges within our supply chain back home. >> nigeria's agency for food and drug agency is trying to detect where the food with high pesticides are coming from. it's a huge challenge. every year the food safety agencies test about 2,000 random samples of food for high pesticide levels. the tests are a tiny fraction of what is consumed locally and exported and are dependent on food producers to bring in sampling. >> scientists blame corrupt food producers. >> many circumvent these processes and export. sometimes they pass through. they kind of subdivide the product, meaning the batch that was tested may not be the on

so that's the e.u.that's a lot of different stakeholders at place and i don't pretend to speak for any of them but they are important voices so in the meantime i've said it already, i can't say it enough, we're looking to the e.u./dpa working through their trade association to issue guidance that's helpful to businesses businesses who signed up for safe harbor, there are 4500, did so in good faith, they complied for the most part. if they didn't the ftc went after them. there was backstop enforcement and so they're looking at this legal vacuum where they don't feel they've done anything wrong. they need guidance. >> adam, what's next? >> so the relationship between the united states and the european union is just too important. we transfer 15 terabytes of information a second. it's a eye ban nick number. we have literally trillions of investment flows going back and forth and the safe harbor decision goes beyond the one program. if we can't share information, if we can't monitor our investments that's a

they are planning to ask the e.u.or more help as well. >> clean-up begins in areas hit by tropical storm koppu. 26 people were killed and a million forced to leave their homes. wayne hay has more. >> reporter: the storm is off the northern most of the island of luzon. but the affects are felt in many areas, in the form of heavy rain. it is lighter, less intense some areas still experiencing the rain fall. here, the rainfall was huge. in a 20 hour period, it received two months worth of rain. remarkably it coped very well. there was some flooding, but the water has receded. while the effects of the storm are diminishing the danger level is there, and the biggest danger at the moment is the threat of landslides. this is a mountainous part of the country, because so much rain fell. there's a danger that we could see the landslides occurring. the government is busy trying to get people in evacuation centers not to rush back to their homes. if they live in the danger areas, rather they stay in the evacuation centers for lo

we can see there, the e.u. foreign policy chief.et's see if she -- it seems she is going to address the press as well. >> very long, very substantial meeting. we tacked mayor issues on the table. you will see the common statements, but we found common ground to continue talks. come back to that. i would say that this meeting was definitely not an easy one, but for sure an historical one, as we had for the first time all of the actors around the table, and i would say a very constructive atmosphere, and i would like to express my thanks to all of those that took difficult decisions to come and sit together at this table, and i believe we have some common grounds on which we can build in the future. so there is hope for a political process to start under the u.n. auspices and with all of us coming together again. i thank you very much. >> e.u. foreign policy chief. she said that they did find common ground to continue talking at any rate. she said it wasn't an easy meeting, but certainly an historical one, as she mentioned all actors

. >>> the e.u.rds its top human rights prize to a blogger from saudi arabia. >>> i'm malcolm web in kenya where these corn watts are being concerned into electricity which is going into the national power grid. ♪ >> tough that the country gave up on me. >> look at the trauma... every day is torture. >> this is our home. >> nobody should have to live like this. >> we made a promise to these heroes... this is one promise americans need to keep. ♪ >>> hello again a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry and iranian foreign minister are in vienna for high-level meetings ahead of talks aimed at resolving the war in syria. >>> china is abandoning its controversial one-child policy after more than three decades. >>> and paul ryan is elected the new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives. >>> syria's war may be one of the causes of the current refugee crisis. but many refugees heading to europe are from afghanistan. from the austria slovenian border, rob

the e.u. will discourage the movement of refer jesus and migrants without warning neighboring countries in advance and they'll appoint contact officers to monitor people and share that information with other authorities. this report is from david. >> every day counts, otherwise we will soon see families in the cold rivers of the balkans perish miserably. chilling words from the president of the european commission, as jean claude yonker welcomes leaders to talk about the crisis. a 17-point action plan was approved, first and foremost the delivery of human aid and building of new shelters for the people seeking sanctuary inside the european union. it includes speeding up processing for refugees. they're no longer be waived on across borders for the next country to deal with. slovenia's prime minister describes situation in his country as unbearable and had a stark warning to his counterparts. >> if we do not deliver some immediate and concrete actions on the ground in the next few days and week

. >>> e.u. ministers are leeting to discuss europe's ongoing refugee crisis.are considering plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from europe within weeks. more than 600,000 have arrived on the continent this year. sonia is following the events for us in luxemburg. how would this plan work? >> reporter: lauren they are planning on doing this as a two-fold process. what they need to do first, they say they need to figure out first and fast track refugees who are fleeing war, conflict, and fast track them and relocate them on to third countries within the e.u. now with that, they say, there also has to be a deportation of those that they have identified as having come over to europe as economic migrants, and with that, they would work with their host nations of where these migrants have come from, and deport them back, using mainly -- more of a kind of encouraging tactic rather than threatening them into taking back their nationals. this, they say, has to be done, because they are realizing that after months and months of hundreds of thousands

many heading for germany and other wealthy e.u. states. crisis has opened up fault lines between countries willing and able to to accommodate refugees and those that want to keep them out think hungary responded by fortifying its borders. the government there says the influx of muslim refugees threatens the content's christian identity. some reject to go share the numbers. and in greece already head hard by economic hardship the authorities have found themselves overwhelmed. >> the syrian conflict, the lingering eurozone crisis, rampant youth unemployment still in southern european democracies not to mention the prospect that one of the major players, e.u. britain is contemplating leaving. but obviously, at the moment there is one specific crisis that is bearing down on the e.u., which is the current refugees crisis. which is posing the biggest challenges fochalle. >> reporter: they want to put aside political differences to champion reforms. including the possibility of a large are european budge tote spur on growth. and changes to help r

e.u. ministers meet to discuss plans to fends off unwanted refugees. ♪ ♪ >>> hello there, i am shiulie ghosh. natural owe warns russia it's ready to defends turkey if its airspace is violated again. the israeli prime minister banned politicians from visiting aal-aqsa mosque compound following more clashes in the west bank. >>> asia's toxic fires choke parts of southeast asia. ♪ ♪ >>> hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers could be departed from europe within weeks. under plans to be discussed by e.u. justice? luxembourg on thursday. leaders of france and germany have urged unity. neave barker reports from strasburg. >> reporter: if ever there was a rallying crime cry for europe, here it was. when chancellor america and president hollande arrived at the faced a continent beset by challenge. ukraine conflict, youth up moment and the linger the effects of greek death. but it's the humanitarian crisis and the arrival of nearly a hill million refugeeses has crete eia rift between those that wa