this is hungary calling. of god and freedom, help hungary. >> the russians had been beaten back for a time, but now they doubled down with a vengeance, pouring tanks and troops and heavy armor back into budapest and brutally and all too effectively put down the resistance. help never came. >> this is a place where a lot of things happened. used to be the headquarters. i never shot this before, so this is about the first time i'm going to get this building shot. >> so this was the internal secret police, so if someone came at night with a van and he were taken away, you ended up being interrogated here? >> yes. >> secret police headquarters in 1956. the site of a firefight between snipers on the roof, and their fellow citizens below. >> then the people got into the building, went up there, hunted them down and killed them, actually, basically. and hanged them on the streets. >> hung them here. >> hung them on the street there. it's hard to find a tree which they hung those people up there. >> had you see peopl

and hungary is now building a fence.e reports from the border. >> reporter: for a blit call block which has been so critical of separation walls elsewhere, the europe yoon union is looking pretty good at closing it's a off. the start of a fence aimed at shutting down access to the e.u. at its border between hungary and serbia. it's a pretty safe bet that almost none of the syrians, iraqis or afghans have any intention of staying in hungary, but for the government that doesn't seem to be the point. the member states were asked to decide how many refugees they were prepared to resettle, hungary ended up at the bottom of the list. the government said it was prepared to take no people. at the nearest town volunteers offer advice and coffee to those who have got through like these young men who fled syria. they heard of the fence and thought it was an irrelevance. >> he want to find another way. if he goes this way, we'll go around to another way. >> so this fence will not work. >> it will not stop the people because they kil

at its border between hungary and serbia.etty safe bet that almost none of the migrants who want to cross this border have any intention of staying in hungary, but that doesn't seem to be the point for the government. hungary has ended up bottom of the resettlement list. it said it was prepared to take precisely no people. volunteers offer advice and coffee to those who have got through, like these young men who told us they fled syria. they heard of the fence, and thought it was an irrelevance. >> he want to find another way. if he cross this way, he will go another way. >> reporter: so it respondent work. >> it will not stop the people but they kill my children or my mother or my wife. i see my wife she killed or somebody kill her, i will not stay there in my country. my government he killed these people. i will not stay there. >> reporter: bus loads of others arrive, a large group of mostly afghan children devour the small amounts of food the volunteers can offer. their help is in this piece of paper written in hungarian t

today, hungary rules only hungary, and it's ruled not by an emperor, but by democratically elected representatives who legislate from what's now a palace of democracy. like vienna, budapest feels more grandiose than the capital of a relatively small country, but the city remains the cultural capital of eastern europe, with a keenly developed knack for good living. you can enjoy that hungarian joy of life at the széchenyi baths. soak with the locals. of the city's two dozen or so traditional mineral baths, this is the most accessible and fun. budapest is hot, literally. it sits on a thin crust over thermal springs, which power all these baths. both the ancient romans and ottoman turks enjoyed these same mineral springs. they still say, "poke a hole in the ground anywhere in hungary, and you'll find hot water." magyars of all shapes and sizes squeeze themselves into tiny swimsuits and strut their stuff. babushkas float blissfully in the warm water. the speedo-clad old boys club gathers pensively around soggy chessboards. and the circle of rapids brings out the kid in people of all ages. after 2,000

at its border between hungary and serbia.t's a pretty safe bet that almost none of the of those who cross over the border want to say if in hungary but the government does not think that's the point. hungary has ended the bottom of the list of settlement. it was prepared to take precisely no people. cool veers offer advice and coffee to those who did get through. these young men said that they had heard of the fence and they thought it was an irrelevance. >> he want to find another way. they will go another way. it will not stop the people because because they because they killed my child my wife. i would not stay in the government that killed her. i will go to any country. >> busloads of others arrive. afghan children devour the small amount of food volunteers can offer. their hope is in this piece of paper written in hungarian that is geared for asylum seekers. some are so young hungary's lack of interest in them is in contrast to the amount of money its spent on the fence. >> the hungarian government is not willing to have

and its border between hungary and serbia.ost none of the syrians or iraqis or afghans who might want to cross over this border have any particular intention of staying in hungary, but that doesn't seem to be the point. the member states were asked to decide how many refugees they are prepared to resettle. hungary ended up at the bottom of the list. they are prepared to take no people. >> reporter: volunteers offer advise and coffee to those who did get through. these young men fled syria, they heard of the fence and thought it was irrelevant. >> he will find another one. >> translator: to this fence will not work. >> it's not to stop people. it will not stop the people because they kill my children or my mother or my wife i see my wife she is killed or somebody killed her, i will not say they are in my country, and my government he killed these people, i will not stay there. >> reporter: bus load of others arrive. a large amount of mostly afghan children devour the food they are offered. their hope is in this piece of paper w

hungary has some great swimmers. gwen jorgensen has -- jorgensen has pulled out of the race in just the less 30 minutes and i personally think it would great decision. you don't want one of your writers to crash in the cobblestones and i think it was a good idea not to risk her. they are under four minutes, so these are fast swims coming out. the russians -- the australians, wow, they had a very solid swim. so they will try to get into the shoes. holland is in a great position right now. they are both very strong on the bike. backhouse might try to do this without shoes on. trevor: the key has her shoes on. >> a couple of last-minute changes, canada has dropped sweet and and the united states dropped jorgensen and added casper. trevor: it is basically two and two that would make eight with the likes of south africa and italy. there less than a mile from the end of the bike relay. that is holland at the front for great britain. they have the lead of about 10 seconds or so, and here comes backhouse, and there goes hewi

hungary says the fence is intended to keep are keep out the wave of migrants entering the country.ction of the four-meter hyphens began on monday think so far this year hungary has registered 70,000 migrants mainly from the middle east and africa. >>> the united nations says nearly 1.4 million people have been displaced in ukraine since the conflict began last year. the ceasefire agreement signed five months ago between ukrainian government and pro-russia separatists seems longer for gotten. charles stratford reports from donetsk where some people are living close to the frontline. >> reporter: 76-year-old valentina has gotten used to the gunfire and shelling close by. she built her house with her mother and she's lived here more than 50 years. >> translator: the house will cry for me if i leave. i would feel like i am betraying my home if i go. i will sit here until they bomb me. the house looks at me and sees that i am still alive. and so it lives on too. >> reporter: valentina talks to her friends who brings her bread every day. there has been no electricity here for months. she

hungary has become construction of a fence along the southern border to keep migrants out. when completed the fence will stretch 175 kilometers along the serbian frontier. hungary has registered 70,000 migrants so far this year compared with 43,000 in all of last year. romania's prime minister has been charged with several counts of corruption in eating forging documents and serving as tax evasion. it dates back to his time as a lawyer. he denies the allegations. more than 20 russian soldiers have been crushed to death and over a dozen injured after the ceiling of the military barracks collapsed. art of the four-story building caved in with 300 servicemen inside. shoddy building repairs may have caused the collapse. you are watching dw news. still to come, iran's nuclear talks. and a deadline set to expire. we will tell you what the main sticking points in the and a still are. and we will talk about angela merkel. we will tell you what this odd couple talked about after the break. i'm sarah kelly. stay with us. sarah: welcome back. our top story this hour. it greek prime mi

hungary has become construction of a fence along the southern border to keep migrants out. when completed the fence will stretch 175 kilometers along the serbian frontier. hungary has registered 70,000 migrants so far this year compared with 43,000 in all of last year. romania's prime minister has been charged with several counts of corruption in eating forging documents and serving as tax evasion. it dates back to his time as a lawyer. he denies the allegations. more than 20 russian soldiers have been crushed to death and over a dozen injured after the ceiling of the military barracks collapsed. art of the four-story building caved in with 300 servicemen inside. shoddy building repairs may have caused the collapse. you are watching dw news. still to come, iran's nuclear talks. and a deadline set to expire. we will tell you what the main sticking points in the and a still are. and we will talk about angela merkel. we will tell you what this odd couple talked about after the break. i'm sarah kelly. stay with us. sarah: welcome back. our top story this hour. it greek prime mi

and thenontinue through serbia and hungary before they hope reaching germany or further north. hoda abdel hamid al jazeera on the greek-macedonian border. >> still ahead the children of i.s.i.l. we hear of a young boy who spent five months in a grueling i.s.i.l. training camp before escaping. >>> pulling in the crowds 42 years after his death. ♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage all of taylor swift's music videos interviews, and more. xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. al jazeera america gives you the total news experience anytime, anywhere. more on every screen. digital, mobile, social. visit aljazeera.com. follow @ajam on twitter. and like aljazeera america on facebook for more stories, more access, more conversations. so you don't just stay on top of the news, go deeper and get more perspectives on every issue. al jazeera america. >> time now for a reminder of the top stories from al jazeera. after decades of hospital italy the united states and cuba have formally restored diplomatic ties. newly opened embas

it will be 4 meters high and stretch for 175km. 80,000 migrants and refugees reached hungary most from syria, roque and afghanistan. >> it's four months away. preparations have begone for myanmar's general election the first open vote since military rule ended. we have this report on what is next for the country. >> opposition party members are going from door to door in downtown yangon to verify a voter list. the election is four months away. >> there's little difference between the regime and the government. >> from the national league for democracy, which is predicted to win big in the november poll it says an error-free voter lost is one of its major concerns. recently two members were charged while carrying out a verification exercise. it views the charms as a warning not to continue the exercise. >> the last time the nld won on election was in 1990 let by opposition leader, but the military rulers prevented the party taking part. >> the coming election will be the first understand a semi-civilian government that took over in 2011. the president a former army general vowed to try

the athlete from hungary knows how to play the game right.vor: that is jody simpson in trouble. >> big disappointment there. she definitely doesn't look happy and i can feel the frustration. she is showing that she has got a technical problem with her wheel. can see thosend i two women fighting it out. just to put things in perspective, in gwen's 10 wins in the last eight months, her narrowest victory was right here in hamburg last year. sheila one by six seconds. if you take a look, and the jackson was just ask seconds behind her. so if she had been a vulnerable anyplace, it has been in hamburg. coming german upfront, through the crowd, it should not be a surprise, it is almost mandatory that when you are from home course, you go up front and get the crowd riled up. and they have been caught up. they have caught them just coming into the transition zone. gwen juergens and at the front. good for her for two reasons. she knows she is the best runner of the bunch. she knows he likes to say out of trouble. we have seen this in the transition of

hungary started putting up the fence along its border with serbia in response to a huge increase in migrants from the middle east. >> after hungry's attempt to stem the influx of migrants around 1000 people in budapest made her feelings clear. protesters against the fence held banners. a 15 foot mock fence symbolizing the one on the border was put up outside the parliament building. and then shredded. >> 80% are -- situations that are absolutely horrible. life-threatening situations. to treat them this way is absolutely inhumane. >> i think defense is a stupid idea. if the migrants want to come through, they will. we should be looking at why they are leaving and giving them help where they are coming from. >> many migrants are using passed through macedonia and serbia before entering hungary. the government said 70,000 migrants have entered the country this year. compared to 43000 and 2014. >> we have an important message for the public. the hunger in military -- the hungarian military will build the final fence. >> causing problems with police using tear gas last month to subdue fighting in

so far this year, hungary has registered 70,000 migrants, mainly from the middle east and africa. >>>ented haitians are still trying to cross in to the dominican republic to live and work, even though they face death or deportation. adam raney reports now from the haitian border. >> reporter: the one thing he knows that he can provide for his family in haiti is water. this well sits a few meters outside his home. a one-room shack he shares with five others. a place he never wanted to return to. earlier this year, he was deported he says, a steady job on a farm in the dominican republic and regular pay gone. >> translator: life is better in the dominican republic. there is work over there. here there is nothing. there is no work here. people go hungry. kids don't have anything and are always crying, just nothing is here. >> reporter: his plan now is to return to the dominican republic anyway he can. over the border, there is a constant demands for cheap haitian labor. an economic opportunity haiti has no chance of matching. and which continues to drive haitians to leave. >> it will con

. >> why is hungary so strong on photography? >> i think they are very strong in mathematics which was in the early days connected to photography. phil tells me about his education in math. it was totally different. >> very good school. >> that's what i said, the schools in hungary were very, very good. >> this is no kind of an answer to me. >>> my great fear is a fear of failing. and that's hawaiian because i was born that way because that's expectation. you're hawaiian, you're going to be less. you're hawaiian, you're going to fail more. it's old. it's in you. it's part of your identity. but when i navigate a voyage, i know when the storm comes, it's going to take you to the bone. and if the storm keeps coming, you've got to stand up. that's just what you've got to do. it's this zone where you learn to make fear your best friend. you hold it really close to you and you open up the door to believing that you can make it. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good i

. >> our correspondent has surprising and moving encounters with refugees on the border between hungary and serbia. a syrian man. >> he was angry at the media says i'm a human being, i have a story, no one wants to tell my story, so why should i talk to you. >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. >> the technology is there... why isn't being done more? how to make recycling work... >> when these different plastics are blended , then the recycling becomes difficult, to impossible. >> can we fix america's plastic problem? >> we can't unscramble an egg... >> techknow's team of experts show you how the miracles of science... >> i'm standing in a tropcal wind storm... >> ...can effect and surprise us... >> wow, these are amazing... >> techknow, where technology meets humanity! only on al jazeera america >>> you can't win with a third party in this country. >> america thinks it's gr

hungary is pushing for buddha pest -- pushing for budapest. hosted the 2006 and the 2010 european aquatic championship and the 2010 world triathlon series. it says the organizing committee knows that hungerry is the most success -- hungary is the most successful country to host the game. there is a deadline of mid-september. the list is expected to grow. final decision on who gets the games won't happen until 2017. back to you. leon: as you know if the games did come here fedex field would be potential olympic venue. the stadium is already taking center stage. there is the international champions cup in two hours and we will look at how the traffic leading leading in the stadium in 15 minutes. the hagerstown sons, the oldest minor league team in maryland could be moving. plan in the works to move them to virginia, likely fredericksburg. a deal could be completed to keep them in western maryland. the fans say there would be a void to fill if they pack up to move south. >> i think for them to lose that they would lose young people. >> a signific

. >> our correspondent has surprising and moving encounters with refugees on the border between hungary and serbia. a syrian man. >> he was angry at the media says i'm a human being, i have a story, no one wants to tell my story, so why should i talk to you. >> you have kids here who've killed someone? >> award winning journalist soledad o'brien takes us inside the violent world of kids behind bars. will a new experimental program be their last chance? >> i have to do my 100 percent best so i don't end up in a place like this again. >>> you can't win with a third party in this country. >> america thinks it's great to have two parties. we don't want to be like italy, where there's all these choices. >> it's whether democrat and republican is a constitutional notion - it isn't. >> you are under 22. you have experienced an election. >> two parties were idea logically defiant. there's no big issue out there. >> why vote for a person that is not going to win? we are joined by green party 2016 candidate dr jill stein. she was a contact date in 2012, and a governor of massachusetts in 2010 and

. >> western ukraine near its border with hungary the violence involved ukraine's nationalist group right sector. tried to negotiate a peaceful surrender. >>> burundi's presidential elections being thraid for a week until july 21st. african leaders have been pushing for a delay because much protests against pierre nkurunziza and his decision to run for a third term. catherine soy reports from bujumbura. >> burundi's 53rd independence day. blames the raid on bujumbura. >> we are afreight because of what we have seen. we want the government to protect us but we don't trust the police or the military. >> serious protest started in may. the government had increased surveillance on similar areas. this is how you'll find many compounds in this township. abandoned people have run away. they fear so much in path of bujumbura, blaming people looking for weapons. young men such as this say they're being targeted in the government raid. they say they formed groups to protect their neighborhood. they asked us to hide their identities for security reasons. >> they say we have the weapons but we don't.

the committee members also say among the ten most successful nations in the summer olympics, hungary is the only one not to have hosted the event. the deadline to submit bids is september. the winner will be decided in 2017. >>> imagine a team of acrobats, they're jumping, spinning doing back flips. now imagine all that's happening between two ropes moving at lightning speed. you've just conjured up the sport of double dutch. it turns out that japanese rope jumpers are among the best. here's one group defending a world title. >> reporter: new york is the venue for this year's world invitational championship, sponsored by the american double dutch league. 59 teams are taking part. this team is from the sports science university. they have competed in the tournament on 17 occasions and won 10 times, including last year. >> translator: if we participate, we aim to bring the title home. we feel the pressure, because we need a top quality performance >> reporter: one day before the tournament, the members go through their routine one last time. their dynamic act quickly draws a crowd. >>

and then, their journeys continue through serb georgia and hungary before they hope reaching germany or furthermore. hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera on the greek macedonian border. >> outgoing fifa president sepp blatter has fallen subject to a comedian's prank. british comedian lee nelson, whose real name is symon broadkin was able to shower him with fake bank notes. blatter said the election for fifa was set for february 26th. >> ladies and gentlemen, we have to clean here, otherwise i wouldn't be able to speak you ladies and gentlemen whether we speak about football. this has nothing to do with football. i'll be back in a few minutes thank you. >> now is there life elsewhere in space is a question which has plagued cosmologists for years. from stephen hawking the largest search for for alien life has begun. >> is there any way in which matter and energy has become alive or aware? >> that's the question that humans have been asking for thousands of years and now scientists including professor stephen hawk have launched a fund of $100 million that they hope can get some answers but no

and then the journey continues through serbia and hungary before they hope reaching germany or further. >> outgoing fifa president sepp blatter has fallen victory to a comedian's frank. he was age to shower blatter with fake bank notes saying saying they would like to hold the world cup cup. >> 42 years ago bruce lee died, but he continues to command strong following. a new exhibition on his life has opened in hong kong. >> his statue over looking the hong kong harbor has always been a draw as his legacy from a generation ago. as a fighting gym where his particular brand of kung fu is practiced, people emulate his lightening moves. >> ricky fong is a master who lived his skill from a master, who learned directly from bruce lee. it provides a living link not only with the unique fighting style that lee developed but also the accompanying philosophy philosophy. >> jeff chen has grown up with that philosophy. since sees his first bruce lee movie in san francisco as a teenager. like many of his generation he faced discrimination, but lee taught him that it's suddenly okay to be chinese ame

the charges related to the deportations of hundreds of thousands of jews from hungary in the spring and summer of 1944. his responsibility was to take in the dollars, the foreign currency from those people who were gassed and incinerated and often it with. and he had admitted around ten years ago, that he was at auschwitz at the time concerned. and in court he apologized to god that some of the survivors had called on him to apologize to them as well. now we'll wait to see whether the german judicial system will decide he is fit at the age of 94 to serve his sentence. >>> about 500 migrants have arrived in italy after being picked up from the met tarn. they were rescued from the a humanitarian organization that was entirely family run until last year when it launched a crowd-funded initiative. >>> uganda's president has urged political rivals in burundi to unite to prevent civil war. presidential two-term limits were controversially scrapped in his own country the same issue that caused unrest in burundi. catherine soi reports. >> reporter: this man has a hard task ahead of him. ending

hungary has registered 70,000 migrants from the middle east and africa. >> the u.n. says that 1.4 million people have been displaced in ukraine since the conflict began last year. a ceasefire agreement seems long forgotten. charles stratford reports from donetsk, where some residents are living close to the front line. >> 76-year-old valentina has got used to the gun fire and shelling. she built her house with her mother and lived here more than 50 years. >> translation: the house - i would feel like i'm betraying my home if i go. i will sit here until they bomb me it looks like it's alive. it lives on too. >> valentina talks to her friend who brings her bread every day. there's no electricity here for months, she has no cellar to hide in when the shelling starts. >> translation: is that firing coming in this direction or going out. when her neighbour's house was hit, shrapnel shot through the wall narrowly missing her sister who was laying on her bed. >> sometimes the shrapnel is flying and i think where do i hide. do i stand in the corner or stand in the streets. t

they are chanting "white hungary" a cruder version of the message from the government that hung gary -- that hungry as for ontarians. in the station, volunteers help the refugees. civic groups have mobilized to provide food, advice, and medical care. some asylum-seekers have been traveling for months. laura: the youngest winner of the nobel peace prize turned 18 this weekend and use her wish to help victims of the ongoing war in syria. malala yousafzai marked the occasion by opening a school for syrian girls in lebanon and urged others to step up the response to the crisis. we have this report. >> happy birthday to you. reporter: turning 18 is especially sweet for this teenager. even her birthday cake symbolizes a fight for girls education that almost cost her her life. she chose to mark the start of adulthood by opening the first school paid for by the funds in her name. >> the schools are very successful schools. thank you. reporter: the syrian refugee girls, she says the world has forgotten. >> from this stage, i have a message for the leaders of lebanon, syria and the whole world

elizabeth of hungary, has been a beacon in the community since 1892. this church has also served the deaf community, by offering special masses and gatherings. >> it is their loss more than anyone else's, i think. >> reporter: from st. elizabeth to our lady of peace, where parishioners held tightly to hope through the night, old and young gathered to keep vigil. >> it's really devastating for me and most of the community. >> reporter: ian made his first communion here. now he's praying for a miracle. >> it's so much just a church. >> reporter: the final breaking of bread, the final blessing, the final moments of mass sent pain through the pews. outside, there were emotional embraces. >> we're not saying goodbye. >> reporter: and plenty of tears. >> this has been a family. this has been our home. and we've been kicked out of our house. and there's no reason for it. we're financially secure. >> reporter: joan romanelly and other catholics are looking past the new york archdiocese for a response, a miracle, from a higher power. >> when i wake up sunday mo

once they crossed the border to hungary, many arrived in the european union, on the hungarian side of the border we came across a graddued journalist covering the story as we were there for the evening news. she told us how the people carried diseases, and spread rubbish and contrast in serbia, you get people helping them, a medic syrian, paying by everything they see, and you get an amazing local priest turning up day after day at the camp with what little he's able to scrape together from donations, doing it week week after week with devotion. >> let get a little taste of a report fileded from the border. >> they have been on the road for weeks, across countries, tired. violence. >> you had from them, all of us, these guys. problem. >> the police ask you for money. >> yes, they ask about money. up. >> yes, strong by beat. in my whole body i feel pain. >> desperate people, courageous people resting legs and aching bones before continuing a long journey, leaving countries behind them. not far ahead of them along a well worn path, the hungarian border in the european union. >> jonah, y

they pointed out hungary is one of the ten most successful countries in summer olympics yet to host the events they would join boston, paris rome and hamburg. the deadline to submit bids is september 2015. that's more sports coming over the next few days. >> lee, thanks so much. you can get more on sport. everything we're covering right there on our website at www.aljazeera.com. we have a full bulletin of news coming up with myself after the break. >> bosnians remember sewl next rebrenecia as genocide. also coming up, the police admit to-- >> the war in gaza there is little sign of recovery in the palestinian territory. and nepal's tent cities why months

greece or hungary might draw closer to moscow. the question will be how far and how fast will it go. lastly muddling through or a gradual unraveling would be good for the united states. slow growth in europe means slow growth here in the united states. a weaker europe will be less useful as they try to deal with a rising china or turbulent middle east. to sum it up, stability and prosperity in europe have been of great benefit to the united states. the eu has been a key ingredient in a world order very favorable for the united states. if the eu's best days are behind it, americans will have to prepare for a world that is less stable, less secure less prosperous to the one which we have become a custom onned. i hope that is not the case. that is the most likely outcome given where we are today. thank you very much. >> well we have heard from the optimist and the pessimist. now, do you have a fusion position for us, doctor? >> in my oral testimony i will address three impacts on the european union's future. greek crisis the upcoming

. >> meanwhile, hungary central bank ended a rate cycle this week. they cut rates five times this year. more than any other central bank in the world. this is prompting questions as to whether we'll see further rate cuts going forward. >> hungary remains the one question mark in the whole of emerging markets are they going to cut rates anymore? we think that's it. we think they're holding them now on to these 135. the 15 basis point rate cuts. the economy is doing well. you have growth rates now and is most important thing now that needs to happen is for the euro zone to get their act together and make sure that things don't blow up. >> how would you assess the health of the euro zone given that greece is fading into the limelight? still some concern as to whether they'll implemented the reforms they say they will but the focus is shifting back to to ecb policy and the weaker euro and how that's a win to the exporters here. >> you're absolutely right and ecb policy the main driver for the european central banks and i think that -- let's not forget gr

and then, their journeys continue through serbia and hungary before they hope reaching germany or further. hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera on the greek-macedonian border. >> while violence is driving most of the economics around the world, the norwegian refugee council set the incidents took place in asia following typhoons in china and the fill philippines people are 60% more likely to be displaced by disaster than in the 1970s. areas of rapid growth and poorly built housing are putting more people at risk specifically in mexico city, mumbai and port au prince. >> government committees. >> they're spending money, they're not saving it. >> costing millions and getting nothing. >> it's a bogus sham. >> america tonight investigates. money for nothing. >> they've gotten away with it for years. >> now our global view segment a look at how news outlets across the world are reacting to various events. in the wake of greece's financial crisis germany's der spiegel, options for buying or leasing and talks about the bureaucratic difficulties involved in adding an island to your portfolio. it says the

in hungary this time.ll have the details in around 20 minutes in sport. ♪ ♪ >>> great to have you with us. the news hour from al jazeera, the top stories, turkey's prime minister says his country will continue operations against isil after it carried out air strikes against rebels in syria. turkish police arrested nearly 300 suspected isil members and kurdish activists. >>> burundi's president pierre nkurunziza has been declared the winner of an election marred by violence, and boycotted by the opposition. it gives him a third straight term in office that his critics say is underconstitutional. >>> the u.s. president is expected to offer more support in the fight against al-shabab. al-shabab fighters have been pushed out of another town following a success earlier in the week. i'm sorry i don't know what that means. >>> let's go to our top story. this expert says that there are several reasons for the strikes in syria. >> at the beginning of this week isis attacked a kurdish town in the south of turkey whe

hungary says if it wins it could break the monopoly of the largest and wealthiest countries hosting the >>> being the member of a grounds crew of a baseball team could actually be more dangerous than playing the game. take a look. an out of control tarp caused all kinds of problems at a pittsburgh pirates game. the storms had the tarp flying all over the place last night. one grounds crew member was caught underneath as he was trying to corral the tarp back on to the field. several pirates players actually went on the field, you can see to help the grounds crew get things under control. you can see that crew member was able to free himself from under the tarp. and tarps can be heavy. it's a good thing people can get trapped under there. have trouble breathing. >> yeah. hats off to the grounds crew. >>> let's go to tom to check the forecast. >> aaron, are you up for the running of the news anchors? we're doing that in the newsroom later? some of them have spiked heels, you've got to be careful. >> this morning maybe you're running from rain, as we've had showers moving in from the west.

>> well, china, hungary, two different things.een wanting gold to build up and in turn they get dollars from that. and for years they've been putting them into treasury securities. but sooner or later it has to break. china is growing at 7%, the u.s. at 2. and those dollars are going to become a lot less. so it's basically shorting the looked at by buying gold. number two, gold is dirt cheap these days. look at the historic prices of gold. it's down below 1,200. whenever gold is below 1,200, it's a good-bye. so basically there's -- they're shorting the dollar and going long on gold. it makes a lot of sense to me. . charles: would you -- so maybe an individual investor watching this show now maybe he's got 5% in gold or silver, any precious metal. this might be the time to accumulate. no, it's not an overnight trade, but could actually be an insurance policy. >> it's a long play. it's a long play. eventually all the dollars that jenny and ben and the european central bank have been printing and ending up in china's hands and so fou

>> well, china, hungary, two different things.ld to build up and in turn they get dollars from that. and for years they've been putting them into treasury securities. but sooner or later it has to break. china is growing at 7%, the u.s. at 2. and those dollars are going to become a lot less. so it's basically shorting the looked at by buying gold. number two, gold is dirt cheap these days. look at the historic prices of gold. it's down below 1,200. whenever gold is below 1,200 it's a good-bye. so basically there's -- they're shorting the dollar and going long on gold. it makes a lot of sense to me. . charles: would you -- so maybe an individual investor watching this show now maybe he's got 5% in gold or silver any precious metal. this might be the time to accumulate. no, it's not an overnight trade, but could actually be an insurance policy. >> it's a long play. it's a long play. eventually all the dollars that jenny and ben and the european central bank have been printing and ending up in china's hands and so fourth, they're goi

. >> academy receives 6000 entries and the brand prize winner is the egret at a national park in hungary, which are facing >> we wish we had that this winter. >> hopefully this winter if the building el level clouds and inland, we will see a hue drop at 7-14 degrees cooler than the day before. shear why. the patch layer came back and it was tall enough to climb over the east bay hills into the seem and same in the north and south bay and it will do it today as we look at our camera. forecast is coastal clouds around with spotty sun hype and mild for all of us and slow cooling but a humid weekend and that will spark the chance of a thunderstorm the next 24 hours with below average highs likely nbc week. live doppler hd shows thunderstorm in the foothills and the thunderstorm is off monterey chest and those are moving to the northwest and we have a few of them trying to come up to gilroy and parallelling each side of 101 so keep an cry on the santa cruz mountains and south bay. you could be the most likely to see the random shower this morning. if you are going to the beaches this weekend

. >>> and i'm raul with the sport, lewis hamilton once again setting the pace in the heat of hungary,ion from the practice coming up. ♪ >>> hello there, a warm welcome to the news hour. in the two years since the customers place customers place has carved out positions across syria and iraq turkey has been reluctant to involve itself militarily until now. on friday they announced it had announced it has begun air strikes in syria. they also carried out raids across turkey an operation spanning 13 provinces. more than 19 -- 297 people are now in custody. it says it will treat isil and groups like the pkk without distinction. tension has been building along the border turkey shares with syria. isil has been blamed for a suicide bomb which kills more than 30 people in the turkish border town. >> translator: these are the steps against our national security. our state and government will take needed action against any attack no matter what it is. it is not only for last night. we will take the negs precautions for our nation's security and peace. last night was just the start of this, and

the capital of hungary has received backing from the hungarian olympic committee as well as the local budapest city council. and the government is expected to give his final approval soon. budapest joins boston, paris, rome and hamburg, germany, of cities who have put in bids for the summer games. . the deadline is september 15th. surely hear from a couple more places. back to you. >>> 5:11. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. >> meteorologist tom kierein keeping us up to date on rain moving this way. >> yeah, the humidity is back too. leading into the rain, hagerstown, 81 west virginia and western maryland. still moving off to the east. huge sprinkles over the next half hour right over the shenandoah valley. there's the capitol looking like a wedding cake this morning. all covered with construction material there. they're restoring the capitol dome. by 8:00 mostly cloudy, we'll be in the upper 70s. by noon time, low 80s with showers moving in. showers with thunder during the afternoon as we reach the upper 80s. some downpours may cause ponding of water. weather and traffic on the

and then the journeys continue through serbia and hungary before they hope reaching germany all furtherth. on the greek macedonian border. u.s. president has praised his nigerian counter part for working to intraift and security to his nation. the visit comes two months after taking office in a move that highlights the importance attached to u.s./nigerian relations. obama has praised him for his agenda in seek to go defeat boko haram. the nigerian leader spoke about the elections earlier this year in his country. patty culhane has this update from washington, d.c. >> the new nigerian president came to washington with a very long wish list. top of that list was help in the fight against boko haram. at the end of the day, it does not appear that the obama administration is ready to make any drastic changes on that. they have given $34 million to the multi-national task force fighting boko haram in the region. we doe know that some light arms are given to that group. we are told they don't go to nigerian soldiers. the obama administration the u.s. has grave concerns about some alleged huma

. >> hungary says the fence is needed to keep out illegal migrants. construction of the fence began monday. this year hungry registered 7,000 migrants from the middle east and africa. >> our bush keeper of auch wits has been sound guilty of being an accessory to the murder of 3,000 people. 94-year-olds oscar groning was found guilty he collected money stolen from prisoners. prosecutors said that amounted to helping the death camp's function. >> still ahead on al jazeera, we tell you about a hollywood-star prison break in mexico. through a tunnel equipped with a motorbike and oxygen tanks. >> i'm rain on the haitian-dominican border and why some haitians are claiming they cross into dominican republic even though they face deportation. >>> and andy with a story about scotland. this is a great place to work. not because they have yoga meetings and a juice bar. because they're getting comcast business internet. comcast business offers convenient installation appointments that work around your schedule. and it takes- done. - about an hour. get reliable in

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elizabeth of hungary on east 83rd street. >> heart-wrenching. i'm in denial. [ crying ] >> when i wake up sunday morning, i will no longer have this place to come to. i have been here for 35 years. [ crying ] >> reporter: the upper eastside catholic church is one of 31 the archdiocese says it's closing and merging with nearby parishes as of tomorrow. >> it's a wrenching occasion for the parishioners. but understandable in the context of economics. >> reporter: the archdiocese explains this is not at its core about finances. but it's simply too many churches to meet the needs of its people. spokesman joseph zwilling talked with us on sunday. >> we are sorry for whatever pain people are feeling. but in the long run, i think people will come to see that they have joined a stronger more vibrant parish by bringing together two small communities of faiths. >> reporter: at our lady of peace on east 62nd street, 12- year-old ian lit candles on the steps taking part in the church's all night vigil until its final mass this afternoon. >> i'm praying for a

somebody mentioned i think, the doctor talked about that in hungary. and you can include that and other countries because their economic situation might be interested in that handout. >> i think given the conflict we have now with russia over ukraine ukraine, russia has understandably used its various assets, including offers of money to try and diminish european unity and to some degree nato unity to prevent sanctions to try to weaken western resolve. and as i indicated in my initial statement, one of the problems here is that there isn't really a consensus in europe today on just how serious the russian threat really is. everyone acknowledges it's a problem, there's no support for russia's behavior in ukraine. but whether it's a new cold war or whether it's the return of the battle soviet union there's certainly no agreement there. and i think most europeans actually don't see it as nearly as serious a problem. perhaps the baltic states do, but hardly anybody else in europe. i think you'll see russia attempt to dangle various blandishments in front o

it features choirs from venezuela, hungary, new zealand, and the u.s. of a. today you have the gospel spiritual, and contemporary competitions. the truly great thing about this is the cultural exchange that goes on between the kids. next comes, we go from cross-cultural to going to cross-traffic. go down to san jose the folks from san jose bike party always do a great job planning out routes to highlights parts of the capital of silicon valley. this time they're taking special care to celebrate the navy celebrating their 120th anniversary this year. if you're worried about lasting through the entire ride don't. halfway through, there's going to be a mini dance party and a special mini concert. get your heart pumping, your pedals pumping again and finish your way. for a third option i'll send you out to present-day japan town into tokyo via san ramon. big hero six, that's the feature on the front line just off 680, set in the high-tech hybridized city. you get there early for food trucks, because they start to flip about 8:00 or as soon as it gets darks enough

it becomes partially kind of trying to calibrate the country's going one way that are easing like hungary and some of the emerging markets outside the uk and the u.s. that is an important dynamic. left to its own device without the central banking issue, i think the dollar may have a hard time. even though china is such a macro issue that nobody can get away from and we revert our attention to earnings i still think china is the music that the global economy to some extent marches to. if you look at a 20-year chart, it correlates very nicely. especially in the '07/'08 period. it's gone out of kilter. it's gone in an inverse relationship. chinese are manipulating their equity market. all roads lead to that. one thing remember it's getting close to 2.12 but settled at 2.30. on a 20-year chart, whether it's the lows or highs, there is a lot of action around the 200 level. people need to get their perspective on some of those areas. >> we are seeing the s&p energy sector is the only one green today amid this broader sell-off on the bounce in oil. would you be buying some of these beaten-up en