as well as greece's attitude and policies towards migration as well. this is also caused a rift between nato allies, but a well at the end of the day i, i heard one of the statements that you played in the package where it says greece is foreign. policy is not determined by teracon. frankly, i really disagree with that statement. i follow the greek medium, greek foreign policy close enough to understand that turkey is a major driver in many of the decisions that greets makes in the region. whether it's, its relationship with brands or the united states, allowing more u. s. forces there, whether it's the east med platform that reese is a part of any type of foreign policy that tries to exclude turkey out of regional platforms. these are all good policies against her. he, when we look at it from a turkish perspective, a target is just so many regional issues that deals with greece takes a small percentage of turkey's foreign policy concentration. so a very different way of looking at each other while greece looks at turkey as a very major part of its for

and greece signed a deal to expand the defense partnership paving the way for the u. s. troop presence at the additional basis. that includes strategic points just kilometers from the turkish border. and that agreement came just a few weeks after another defense deal was signed by greece and france. it was the 1st time that to nato member states vowed to defend each other from attacks within the alliance with french president manual micron warning that european countries can't rely on the u. s. for defense. beyond wes of $280.00 europeans must still being naive when we are under pressure from powers who at times harden their stones. we need to react. the us is a great historical life, but we must see that they have been focusing a lot on themselves and they have strategic interest reoriented towards china and the pacific. we will be naive, or rather, we will be making a terrible mistake. and if we did not want to draw a consequence from that, we have to see this with pragmatism and lucidity for our independence. and we must europeans take responsibility for our phone

we're trying to reach greece, but a lot of people who are in greece. i mean very often they had in the, in the island very difficult situations. you know, and may have been tried to continue their short and so their job to me, i mean, along the bible company is a continuous history of push backs of trying to cross the border and facing the police violence at every board. so this is what, what is happening. so the images that we see right now, i mean, it is exactly what the way the greek goals got out of behaving and this is nothing new. we also need to remember that the same scenes happen at the border between greece and turkey at every study in the region. that sweater, also documented c mat instances. so it's a continuous struggle for people to, to say they're facing constantly by earnings by police forces at the time to see cuz i don't have the money on that pushback and they keep insisting to join me that can last years. in some cases we spoke to people who had been on the route for 23. yes. and that's, that's happening to korea is an associate pro

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this is what the greece, ministry maritime affairs, an insular policy, toll gas, i'm just going to go right down here to the bottom. as for the 10 dishes allegations of supposed illegal actions, we must emphasize of the operation practices of the greek authorities have never included such actions. even though we showed you video earlier. and we to see what's happening with the romanian border police 1st sentence. romanian border police applies a 0 tolerance policy against abuse of any kind applied to migrants. so you did the reporting, it took so long and now you're getting, i was gonna say pushed back about pushback right now. yeah, i mean it's what we are used to. i and this was my, i think florida, a big report about pushback. it was the 1st where we were able to prove that while and she's used on which you units are involved. but it's her yet. it's shocking to me as a person, but also as a journalist that you can bring up, prove, and prove and prove. and there's always this supposedly, or we deny any of, you know, any of these allegations. so it's very clear what is happening here

so this is something that the greece wanted for a long time. actually i had the chance to propose this. busy and the european parliament, when mister micron visited us, it was on the 17th of april of 2018. and i asked that mr. marker on whether it was good to sign an agreement with recent that we actually give health and military has to release and gaze not the good news was and that i missed the micro and i have been the positive then we had all the discussions between the great government and the, and the promise, and now we have a great out the creation of this agreement between the recent process. i think it's a step forward as an important step for the security issues in the, in the bed in the area at this percent me the got the unit pieces. busy of raise and i think that becky now will think twice whether it will be new or not that it's cost to do that against you know that we can we why you lation or space break asked space by military blame. we have who, why are lation of while? right, so raised by 30 and now i think 30 is going to thin

so i have shown an audience i have sent you pictures from greece, the crow, set bosnia border at the picture just beside me here. this is poland to pick one behind me is poland. along this bob, why here is lithuania, is multiple countries. multiple countries in you do not want asylum seekers in their country. i want to take you into the forest of poland, where polish ngo are assisting a group of iraqi men who were hiding in the forest. i will give you just a little sample of their current lives. i leave that beauty of him. v l had a secluded volunteer. the final water lab alozia, the polish border police pushed us back to bell roofs. they didn't beat us, but then again, they didn't give us water and food. we asked for water, but we didn't get any. they pushed us back and said, don't come back here. go back to bell roofs and on the phone in iraq, you monthly and just i have no idea what will happen to them. i hope that we will succeed very quickly and providing protection application to the european court of human rights, which will protect these migrants if it succeeds. sonya go seld

in europe, record heat waves calls widespread fires across turkey and greece. and here in area, the still picking up the pieces. in early august with temperatures at unseen eyes, wildfire ripped across southern europe. the land was parched and the fires quickly spread, nor the levia in greece was a hottest hit. inferno lost for 2 weeks, thousands were evacuated. today you can see what's left in the devastation in this area was total. people are well used to annual wildfires here, but not on this scale. not with this much last thousands of hector's of forest and livelihoods just incinerated. and because of the fires, the new threat as the rain comes so do floods and months, life defies him, destroy the land, natural ability to withhold water to act as a flood defense system. now in periods of intense rain, the water just cascades offerings, hillsides so that using the dead trees, the shore of the soil and the land in these hard exhausting work, but vital to preserve what's left and encouraged. regeneration of the forest. innate, that the devil to the guy again a

one thing that became — what happened in greece.porting on the l that became clear reporting on the fires in greece is already the climate crisis is hitting very hard all over the world and local places and the response, the action is local. when you talk to people in greece they do not go 08 as the climate crisis, they say the government led a stone, the fire department wasn't competent, so there is a local response that comes before an understanding of a global situation sweaters the old slogan think globally and act locally. i am think globally and act locally. i am to listed and _ think globally and act locally. i am to listed and the _ think globally and act locally. i am to listed and the point _ think globally and act locally. i am to listed and the point because this is a problem forjoe biden, he will come to glasgow and sign up to what is agreed largely and i think he is on the side of those who want to deal next week by then he will go back to people who remain sceptical about climate change even as they watched parts of t

the land was parched and the fires quickly spread. northern heavier in greece was a hardest hit. inferno lasted for 2 weeks, thousands were evacuated. today you can see what's left. the devastation in this area was total. people are well used to annual wildfires here, but not on this scale. not with this much last thousands of hector's of forest and livelihoods just incinerated. and because of the fires a new threat as the rain comes so do floods and mudslides defies of destroy the land, natural ability to withhold water to act as a flood defense system. so now in periods of intense rain, the water just cascades of these hillsides so that using the dead trees to shore the soil and the land intact, it is hard exhausting work, but vital to preserve what's left and encourage regeneration of the forest. a big part of evy as far as the economy has been obliterated. cost as i own use, livelihood comes from his bees who make honey from the resin of pine trees or used to. i feel sad that this once green forest has been burnt, and i find it difficult to figure out what we will do and how be keepi

keir simmons, athens greece. >>> up next for us tonight, some reflections on colin powell, the american dream and the barriers he broke >>> finally, colin powell took great pride in his family's story, and he hoped in his achievements, others would build their own success. >> reporter: colin powell soared to historic heights. that journey from his childhood in the south bronx always with him. >> i'm a son of immigrants my parents came here on banana boats from jamaica. and all they said to me was do your very, very best and always make sure that you love this country of ours. >> reporter: and he did, breaking so many barriers along the way. the young man who went to still segregated georgia for basic training at fort benning, rising to become the first black national security adviser, chairman of the joint chiefs and secretary of state. >> they will say that colin powell, the first african-american to ever hold the position of secretary of state and i'm glad they will say that and i want it repeated i want to repeat it because i hope it will be give inspiration to young african-american

everyone in greece is, you know, approaching bus pass age. at that point. if we start not liking teenage high school movies because the people in them look too old, you are going to have to wipe out most of those movies. i haven't seen the stage show, i know people that have seen it prefer it, i thought the plot was contrived and it cried out for you to weep. but i actually rather liked and it did move me, and i did cry because i... you know, it worked. you don't admit that very often. oh, i love crying in the cinemas. it's of my favourite things to do. do you? absolutely. when i take you to see french dispatch, don't cry. no, i won't cry because it's a wes anderson film, it's not there to make you cry, it's there to make you go, "hm." i won't have you making those noises sitting next to me. now, best out, venom: let there be carnage. would it surprise you to here this is not on my list? here's the thing, it wasn't on mine. i didn't like the first venom, this is the second event, which is so much more fun than it had any right to be. tom hard

and it's turning rather wintry up and scandinavian, but greece 1st, i think, and coffee is probably the focus is circulation of cloud has been slow moving stuff to go now. but it sat over the west of a coffee for about 36 hours. and in 6 hours alone, there were floods fresh and they was strong ones. water is a powerful forces damage now still to get out of the way. now the rain itself has gone eastward, the forecasts for saturday. you'll notice coffee's nagra normally breeze, but it's generally fine weather which is true and has been all the time further west at least until portugal. so we get to sunday is better still, but there are still warnings out for these 24 hours for the winds in croatia and for the rain in northern greece, it's a slow improve but easy improvement dollars. same and he's the coming next season. sniff in norway and northern suite. not a big surprise, but there's been a bit of a chilling the breeze as that weather has come in. however, ahead of the next bounce of rain, it's still fatty moll. london's at 16 am to up to 15, but the rain itself i think, will gathe

here on houses in by hundreds of afghan migrants of dislodge from a turkish black congregation in greece, running on empty a fuel shortage. and china forces the world's 2nd largest economy to ration diesel . and in small the land to brave edge ever closets the wealthy. with that said robin peninsula, the chances of showers increase with every day with a still very low to be honest. this though, bit different, where you see these from students coming in a line of class. it brings in showers. they mostly don't amount to much nest their in house by the mountains, which they are eastern turkey, northern syria, and northern iraq, where flash floods are still in the full cross the next day or so. but beyond that, it's generally quite is still not particularly cold. look at the wind wants to bring in the snow from the central plains of asia when it just about succeeds by the end or wednesday. it tries to bring that snow in at a catholic storm, but whether it succeeds, we are yet to see. i don't think it will think he's just the 1st push mean showers further west though, in northern iran as well

or hundreds of migrants of disembark from a turkish flagged cargo ship in greece. the vessel was carrying about 400 people and sent out a distress signal on friday after its engines failed. greece is one of the main routes into the e. u for migrants and refugees who are crossing from turkey. john travellers has more. the official version from the hellenic coast guard is that among the nationalities on board. and this is just an early estimate. our pakistan is africans, lebanese egyptians, iranians, syrians and bangladesh is. but that remains to be confirmed in the breakdown in numbers also remains to be confirmed. apparently these people were provided with food and water, of which they were short, while they were being towed to the island of course, where they are now being registered. so the remain questions about what actually transpired on this voyage. the greek authorities to confirm that they did attempt to return the boat to turn to turkish harvard or what i was told by a la coast guard official and i quote, there were initiatives on the greek side to return

the al jazeera by hundreds of africa, my vincent discipline, a turkish flag because they ship in greece and indian cricket captain takes aim at intellectual neural net, lisa, in sports. ah, with that's it. re bon bons. the chances of shares increase with every day with a still very low to be honest. this though bit different where you see these from students coming in a line of class. it brings in showers. they mostly don't amount to much nest. their enhanced by the mountains which they are eastern turkey, northern syria, and northern iraq, where flash floods are still in the full cross the next day or so. but beyond that, it's generally quite a still not particularly cold. look at the wind that wants to bring in the snow from the central plains of asia. when it just about succeeds by the end of wednesday. it tries to bring that snow in at a catholic storm, but whether it succeeds, we are yet to see. i don't think it will that he's just the 1st push means shout further west though into northern iran as well. the flashlight potential exist there as we change the wind direction there up t

i think one, i think we've had several issues that you just cover issues between greece and turkey. and we had the most recent i'm i would say misplaced alliance between the u. k. u. s. ross, earlier as the wife and which basically went against a lion. her basically put a put a dagger in the trust there were. so we've got we've got issues within the, a nato ally to say that it's, it's not an important alliance. it it but i think i think europe needs to look out for themselves and they should realize that other allies don't necessarily look out after the interest of european. and so i think her, mr. um, president mccall has been pushing for this for a long time until merkel with support of it as well. and i think this is just a step in that direction. you know, with the orchestra the box, the lin recently probably motivated this movement even though it's been a negotiation perhaps for quite a while. but i'm sure it added additional strengthen into solidifying the the grease and the recent french um park or shift here which, which i think it's important. i think your needs to stick up

michael: greece had lifted travel restrictions and they had all the documents greece required.d when they tried to connect to their flight in switzerland. they were stopped at that time gate. and worse police came and arrested them. >> i was shocked. i mean, at first i thought this was some kind of joke. >> cindy miller and their friend brett were headed for a three-week tour for greece >> we hadn't taken a trip because of covid so we're go splurge. >> it all went smoothly until that connection in zurich. >> the guy at passport control said you can't come in what you do mean? my flight is living in two hours right thereafter was when the whole thing happened. he took our passports he called the police. the police full on police with guns, everything. took us into the basement which was a policece said their gate technically was inside switzerland and americans were banned from switzerland because of covid-19. they would have to be deported all the way back to california. >> i'm crying. they showed us deportation papers. they put us in this area that had like bunked beds, mixed

flats in greece.ave it there, i'm afraid, thank you - flats in greece. we've got to leave it there, i'm afraid, thank you so l it there, i'm afraid, thank you so much. the uk has acknowledged that it's yet to deliver on its pledge to give £500 million to youth services in england. ministers announced the youth investment fund in 2019 and it was due to be released over five years. but so far, no money has been allocated and youth leaders are hoping for clarity in this week s spending review. jonelle awomoyi reports. youth services aim to provide an opportunity for personal development, education and socialisation. services often include providing safe and effective care and early intervention support. in croydon in south london, play place welcomes around 65 young people every week on its community bus. paige gave me a tour of this youth club on wheels. so, can you guys give me a tour of your youth service bus? come on. this is our little kitchen area. and upstairs we have, like, a chillout area if you

but greece 1st, i think in co food is probably the focus is circulation of cloud has been slow moving start to go now. but it sat over the west of a coal through 4 by 36 hours. and in 6 hours alone, there were floods fresh floods and they was strong ones. water is a powerful forces damage now still to get out of the way. now the rain itself has gone east, was this the forecast for saturday? notice cough who's now going to normally bracelets, generally fine weather, which is true and has been all the time for the west, at least until portugal browser. we get to sunday. it's better still, but there are still warnings. i have at least 24 hours for the winds in croatia and for the right in northern greece, it's a slow improve, but it is improvement. all the same. and he's the coming next season. sniff in norway and northern sweden. not a big surprise, but there's been a bit of a chill in the breeze as that weather has come in. however, ahead of the next bounce of rain, it's still fatty moll. london's at 16 am to up to 15, but the rain itself i think, will gather through denmark and the so

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i wanted to meet her and show her a different side of greece.me are so out of place in europe. reporter: despite his evident loyalty, the german chancellery did not endorse tting up t life-siz merkel figure in th staurant. even though none of his guests mind. >> everyone's allowed their own opinion, after all. >> i don't see any reason to laugh or mock it. it's totally fine. reporter: but it's a tough time for the restaunt owner n that meel's rei is ending alexis: i'm sad to see her go. but she's earned it. she deserves somtime to herself with her husband. reporter: angela merkel will always be the one and only chancellor. conor: so if you ever find urself missing angela merkel, you know exactly where to find her -- she's at a restaurant in bremerhaven. that was our special broadcast on the upcoming parliamentary elections here in germany, and please feel free to check us out online as well. thank you very much for watching, and on behalf of the whole team here at “fokus on europe,” goodbye, and until next time. ♪ [captioning performed by the na

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in 2020 greece, which has borne the brunt of the migrant crisis, has taken a particularly uncompromising stones on refugee prime minister, curiosity, photography, and his right wing. new democracy party came to power in 2019 and jose media and human rights organizations have since accused the greek coast guard of attacking migraine, pushing their boat and bring it back up to speed. that practice is called pushback and under international look, it's illegal. that when we read that fact with the greek minister of migration, he judged the question and tried to turn our attention on to neighboring turtle instead known as we begin. it is the 30 course guard that needs to prevent people leaving turkey soil reaching the greek territorial waters. and let's also be clear with something else. turkey, he's a safe country and people fling that he are not seeing a war zone. and therefore, he's not be an excuse to allow people to go into, i'm see where he's being use driven by people with no experience, etc. and this people sometimes with the support of the target cause god and up crossing illegally a

in the past few weeks, there has been hope, with the successful evacuation of 26 female judges to greecefled afghanistan during the first taliban takeover in the 1990s, went to meet them. for their security, all the names of thejudges have been changed. translation: it was the worst moment i of my life, when i looked at my kids . whilst leaving my country, i wondered whether i would ever get them out of afghanistan alive. under cover of darkness, nabila stepped onto a bus. she was once one of the most influential women of our country but now she was fleeing for her life. translation: it was so hard travelling at night by bus - through the desert, especially with small children. after weeks of living in fear, finally, along with 25 other prominent women, nabila and her young family safely arrived in greece. living in small apartments across the city, the greek authorities provide all these women with food and shelter. shukria is one of the most senior among the group. for her, she says, it's like history repeating. translation: this is the second time we have experienced - a taliban takeo

editor—at—large for the us magazine, the nation, is just completing work on a documentary about greece's heat and fire. henry chu has reported from all over the world for the la times, where he's how part of the editorial team. here in the studio, the british author and columnist yasmin ala—bhai brown. a very warm welcome to all of you. only if pressure on the health service from covid is "unsustainable" will borisjohnson�*s government impose restrictions. we learnt on friday that scientists advising him and other ministers think a spike like the one we saw in january is "increasingly unlikely". however if the rate of infection grows, "earlier intervention would reduce the need for more stringent, disruptive, and longer lasting measures", they say. still, sustainable means different things in different places. in cornwall, the uk's most southwesterly county, the hospital — there is only one — declared a "critical incident". ambulance waits of up to 12 hours. 100 patients seeking treatment in an emergency department with space for fewer than half that number. 44 people hospitalised with c

here. storms are ploughing into the western portion of turkey through greece hopping over the g and c's of south of mirror. pretty good batch of what weather there. and we do have read weather alerts in play across greece for these severe storms through central africa . look at this, i will call the central african republic as we head toward western areas of the democratic republic of congo. some pretty good storms flaring up here. further towards the south in cape town, temperatures have dropped off in that cooler air will eventually make it toward johannesburg in the days to come, a big drop for your temper. that's it for me. ah, the inequality, corruption, repression and rage. politically, it just decided to cut to the piece of cake. i'm sure it won't be a new documentary explorer, but desperate the state of democracy and lebanon ah, through the eyes of those who are losing hope, every day of dreams are becoming blue. democracy maybe democracy for sale on al jazeera in the country with an abundance of results. great. are and walk indonesia whose firms for me. we moved full to grow an

so it's rained down to greece, up to the balkans and still through to the but not the northwest. still possibly in sicily, quite a strong wind. the bora damaging winds coming out of croatia, all part of the system here. the rest of europe looking quite quiet. the northwest is just hanging on to what was briefly some pretty autumnal, stormy weather. it's just been backed off a little bit that we go further into this for friday and saturday. the circulation continues over italy, greece spreads towards the boss for sleeping things, rather dryer in italy, switzerland, and from the system expanding more so on saturday. what autumnal, whether there is, is rain for ireland, scotland, and for norway. but between here and what's happening for this, i have much of northern europe is quite warm. ah. when afghan filmmaker has san facility catches the taliban detention? a bounty on his head, most is him to flee with his family, desperately seeking sanctuary. they journey across continents chronicling their multi year saga on their phones. midnight traveller, an odyssey of hope, resilience and

mr burns is a longtime diplomat who previously served as us ambassador to nato and greece.ts abuses in tibet, its smothering of hong kong's autonomy and freedoms and its bullying of taiwan are unjust and must stop. beijing's recent actions against taiwan are especially objectionable. human rights campaigners are calling for a boycott of next years' beijing winter olympics over alleged human right violations in china. protests were held in greece where the traditional torch lighting ceremony was held ahead of february's covid—restricted games. but campaigners say that even a toned—down winter olympics should not be free from protests and boycotts over issues such as uighur rights and tibet and hong kong. william nee is a human rights campaigner who's recently left hong kong. he's also a member of the chinese human rights defenders group and hejoins me now from draper, in utah, in the united states. great to have you on the programme with us today. ijust want to start by asking you, do you think a boycott is necessary, and if so, why do you think that, given that this is a sp

well, the rest of thursday is going to be an unwinding depression. search rain down to greece, up to the balkans and still through it, but not the northwest. still possibly in sicily, quite a strong wind. the bora damaging winds coming out of croatia, all part of the system here. the rest of europe looking quite quiet. the northwest is just hanging on to what was briefly some pretty autumnal, stormy weather. it's just been backed off a little bit that we go further into this for friday and saturday. the circulation continues over italy, greece spreads towards the boss for sleeping things, rather dryer in italy, switzerland, and from the system expanding more so on saturday was or tumbler whether there is, is rain for allan scotland and for norway. but between here and what's happening for this, i have much of northern europe is quite warm. ah, every war lisa, devastating, in fact, killing me environment, earth rise, explode some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientist. safeguarding one of our most valuable results is these are important samples. we have to m

and we do have red weather alerts in play across greece for these severe storms through central africa . look at this, i will call the central african republic as we head toward western areas of the democratic republic of congo. some pretty good storms flaring up here. further towards the south in cape town, temperatures have dropped off in that cooler air will eventually make it toward johannesburg in the days to come, a big drop for your temperatures. that's it for me. the most people will never know what's be your the story. the deafening silence of 100000 forms. how it feels to touch danger every day. most people will never know what it's like to work with. every breath is fresh with fear is not an option. but we're not most people ah ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour. a cautious com has returned to bay rudolph to hours of violence that left at least 6 people dead. and many more injures on, identified snipers on top of building shot to kill on gunman for the army in the streets is the worst street violence. the in years troops moved in out a gun f