first laurence lee reports from southern very way shah. >> it's all relative, and no doubt this miserable line of people hoping that someone will take them further looks absolutely desperate. but in relatives terms it's certainly better than being tear gassed by the hungarians. and as the day goes on buses come regularly to ship them north. to the untrained eye the idea that a three-year-old could think this is anything but a nightmare seems impossible. but her iraqi family has told her it is a great big game even if the game has lasted for weeks, is exhausting and seems to have no end. >> these european countries that say they don't want you, what do you say to them? >> i don't want them, also. >> which countries do you want? >> i don't care. i just want peace, and i hope to find this place. >> the boards might close at first light as they continue in from serbia. but only one border road remai remained open, a pointless exercise when no one was there any way. >> we have tried two times before and the third time we reached safely. >> as he was talking the bus came, and many ran with hope

laurence lee, al jazeera, slovenia. >>> pope francis met the former cuban leader fidel castro during his first-ever visit to cuba. earlier thousands gathered in the revolutionary square to take part in mass. the pope's tour following a foreign relations between cuba and the u.s. helped along by pope francis. our latin-american editor has more from havana. >> reporter: according to official sources thousands braied the blazing sun to hear and see pope francis who spoke to them in their own language, spanish. he's from argentina. before he actually arrived at the stage you see behind me, he drove past in his popemobile, and at that point three young men in their mid-20s rushed the popemobile and tried to speak to them. they were carrying leaflets that they tossed out before they were grabbed by security agent. they were slightly beaten and take away. these are dissidents that want to speak to the focus has been there of reconciliation. he talks about reconciliation between the united states and cuba and between cubans mungsz thementsz. all of those in this current who have left for pol

laurence lee, al jazeera, sigit in southern hungary. >>> switzerland has temporarily banned the sale of cars with volkswagen-made dice sell engines. they admitted to cheating on emission tests in the united states. they can detect when they're tested and changin' performance to improve results. a number of houthi rebels have been killed in yemen after a rocket attack on the central city of marib. the commander there and a sergeant in saudi arabia's border guard were killed in heavy gunfire near the yen machine any border on friday. they have continued air strikes in sanaa. the residents here are searching through rubble that was following one particular attack. saudi arabia has been fighting houthi forces in yemen for six months. dozens of soldiers have been killed and thousands have been killed in ground fighting and air strikes. >>> an alleged member of the armed group is to be prosecuted at the international criminal court for destroying monuments in timbucktu. he's the first suspect to be charged with destroying monument in the unesco world heritage city. they attacked several re

laurence lee, al jazeera, westminster in london. >>> egypt's president sisi has accepted the resignation of his entire cabinet. it comes just days after the prime minister said that there would no cabinet shake-up despite corruption charges faking the former agricultural minister. he was arrested after allegations that he and others received over $1 million in bribes. >>> at least 89 people have been killed in an explosion at a restaurant in india. the venue was crowded with people having breakfast whether a cooking gas cylinder exploded setting off a second explosion of illegally stored mine detonators at a building nearby. the restaurant and adjacent building both flattened. >>> at least 16 people are still missing after severe flooding in japan. the water is now receding, but many people have nowhere to go after their homes were destroyed. we have a report from josso. >> reporter: the typhoon season in japan isn't over. work is already begun to plug the gap in the floed wall in case the waters rise again against the weight of the swollen river where it collapsed after two days of heav

we'll leave it there. >>> well, laurence lee there reporting on events. we're going to be seeing hopefully coming up in brussels with decisions made. in the meantime, hundreds of refugees have gathered on the serbian border with crow way that waiting to be allowed to enter. they're using the crossing after hungary sealed it's border, 35,000 refugees crossed into croatia in the past week. >>> top executives of volkswagen are holding a crisis meeting in the german headquarters. they admitted fitting 11 million cars with devices designed to cheat emission results. volkswagen representatives are represented in south korea, and the u.s. launched a criminal probe and france is also investigating the. the scandal has cost billions in share price losses in europe and $18 billion worth of potential fines in the united states. rob reynolds has more from berlin. >> reporter: with his company accused of serious and deliberate deception, volkswagen's chief executive apologized and said such manipulation would never happen again. >> translator: ladies and gentlemen, ma

laurence lee has our first report. >> reporter: as far as europe's reputation for handling a crisis goesto mention its aim as a liberal idea. summer refugees crisis has threatened the foundations of the union. it's witnessed people running for their lives and having to endure drowning at sea. the police in macedonia are accused of beating refugees for daring to pass through. hungary on the pretext of protecting christanvals in europe constructed the sort of fence the european union had saw to tear down and the authorities tried to refuse the right of refugees to move on, but once then got up and walked off from butte pest train station things began to change, hungary caved in the people that walked and walked fromme serbia over the board never to croatia were eventually put onto buses, those dumped odd had been gar vinnie border were close to all industry a others stuck on the border with slovenia but once there they were offered better support. but so many people think volunteers stepping in where governments could not could barely believe the response from europe had been so disorganiz

laurence lee reports. >> 251. >> reporter: this was the moment british politics became interesting again, a man derided as an out of date left wing dinosaur comprehensively winning the fight to lead the labor party. his opponents surely have to ask themselves if he's such an old fool, how did he win 60% of the vote? corbin himself offered an answer to the question. >> the media and may many of us simply didn't understand the views of many young people within our society. they had been written off as a non-political generation who was simply not interested. hence the low turnout of young people in the last general election. they weren't. they're a very political generation that were turned off by the way in which politics was being conducted and not attracted or interested in it. >> in he can land kor bin is as far to the left azou as any lean europe. he's a staunch opony nen of t-tip and he demands that big corporations in london stop avoiding tax and want redistribution of the wealth to the poor. the growing band of supporters, this victory was like an oasis of hope in the desert of bla

laurence lee, al jazeera, on the hungary-austria border. >>> soldiers in the southern philippines are on the hunt for gunmen who kidnapped foreign tourists from a holiday resort think of a filipino woman was also abducted along with two canadiens and a norwegian. our correspondent is close to where the ins at the present time happened. just brings us up-to-date what's the latest with the police investigate? >> reporter: the police have been very careful about giving out information. until now they refuse today identify which group is in fact behind the killings. there are several suspects, so there is the known bandit group in one of the outline islands that is known to conduct kidnap and ransom operation. but that area is limited from what -- where they usually operate on. there has been a new group reportedly behind it they have never surfaced before but talked about the criminal activities have been ripe around central area. and there is another group that they are lacking at that's also a loose command of the national liberation front that has been denied by one of the leaders of

laurence lee reports from munich. >> reporter: they are still arriving at munich train station in bigd small. this the end of a long and hostile journey for all of them and health workers on hand to check their temperatures. other it seems are also checking whether they are who they say they are. a few days ago we filmed a group in the slovenian town moving as fast as they could to the border with austria. among their number was this man in the red. he said that he would do an interview with us, where are you from? >> i actual from syria. >> reporter: which city? >> damascus. >> reporter: you just came here from where, from the board we are croatia or where did you come from? >> i come here, to -- >> reporter: -- >> to go austria and germany. >> reporter: in the train station in a separate conversation in french he admitted to me that, in fact, he was a hotel worker from tunisia, he was pretending because he knew that he had no chance of asylum and the germans don't think he's the only one. this err of suspicion has prompting the government to higher some 45 linguistic experts in 80 d

laurence lee, al jazeera, london. >>> now, the golden lion award at the venice film festival has been angela look at the winners and the themes that dominate third degree year's festival. >> reporter: a surprise win for a first-time venezuela director with a film depicting a slow bloom blossom being relation slim between a middle age loaner and a young street kid until now he was unknown. but he will cat butt director lorenzo in to a dick league and give him a huge voice. >> you are having some problems, but we are very positive we are an amazing nation, and we are going to start talking to each other more and we'll go through i am sure about it. because it's in spanish it will give it much needed international exposure. >> it's too en i go natural i can, a controlled film. i can see why they went for it. it's very strong in what it wants to say. however it's also quite mysterious and a difficult firm if i thinfilmfor people to embrs why i am glad it got this award. the best director went to pablo one were many films based on a true story about a famous kidnapping family and their 198

laurence lee, al jazeera, in munich. >>> a leading family planning agency in u.s. that provides women abortions and cheap access to health care are fighting to keep the funding. republican politicians threatened to cut taxpayer money. we have the details. >> the president of planned parenthood cecile richards faced off with lawmakers for hours as she justified why she believes the organization that also provides abortion should continue to receive more than $450 million annually in federal funds. this organization really became the target of conservative lawmakers as of late because of videos that surfaced recently that report to show executives from planned parenthood offering baby parts or fetal tissue for research for sale and eshl slily profiting from that. this has outraged many lawmakers who are on he posed to planned parenthood which providing abortions which in violation of many religious beliefs. as a result richards faced touch questioning as she made the argument that planned parenthood does a lot more than just provide abortions. they came to capitol hi

laurence lee reports from the capital. >> reporter: yet another dismal morning for the refugees stuck on the croatian side of the border with slovenia. almost all men left here. many separated from their families who had already been moved on without them. it feels like the usual chaos. >> some people said old people are going to slovenia. we don't believe him. >> reporter: over the border, things are very, very different. off the buses, orderly cues of the slovenian registration center. there are beds here and plenty of food and medical facilities to care for this little child suffering from dehydration. the government said on sunday it was being given more funding from the european commission for places like this on the assumption they will continue to have to clean up the mess. >> translator: we are trying to go through these procedures in the most organized way in the best interest of the migrants, and i hope that we will be able to fulfill this task to the last migrant that comes to slovenia. >> reporter: they were successful processed and end up in places like in a hotel on the

laurence lee, london. >>> joins us from london is political commentator david hearst. good to have you with us. some say this is political suicide for labor. what's your response? >> well, i don't think it's political suicide for labor. it's interesting. it's reinvigorated the debate, which has been completely dominated by the stalwarts of the labor party. he was a complete outsider. he started his campaign basically just trying to put his views on the air. he had no hope of victory. in fact, one of his own campaign team put a bet on him, 20 pounds, to win and they got 100 to 1. the fact he's really reinvigorated the whole debate is a factor of two things. as he said, he found new voters for him, and those voters are young. and the other thing is that the labor party has basically had a debate, a real debate as a result of this campaign that they should have had when blair went. so there wasn't just corbin, and it wasn't just the people he brought to it. it was the labor party itself having a fundamental re-examination of where it wanted to go. >> traditionally rightly

laurence lee reports from the hungarian border. >> many are by now settling in western europe.or others, in this case it decides their future. yes weren't allowed to film the man. it's a programme going back to him. he's a syrian turk. leaving his wife and kids behind, smuggled through bulgaria. >> hazim told the judge the smuggler said it was okay to go flow a hole in the fence, but he was arrested under the new laws and finished up in this court, inside a police compound. 200 cases like his, and almost 1000 more waiting to be heard. it comes against the backdrop. denouncing the deeply immoral and illegal as well. hungary by contrast argues that they can lend a source of moral and legal legitimacy. >> is any of it legal the lawyer representing an afghan criminalizing the court thinks the rules not by expert, the ruling party are deeply politicized and the convention on the status of refugees. >> they didn't put the law before parliament. the opposition had no chance to challenge the decree, it was a decision to expel refugees. hassam said the judge will be expelled from hungar

laurence lee reporting now from munich. >> reporter: they're still ravshing at the train station in big groups and small. this is the end of a long and hostile journey for all of them. health workers are on hand to check their temperatures and others are checking whether they are who they say they are. a few days ago we filmed the group in a slovenia town moving as fast as they could to the border with austria. among the number was this man in the red. he said he would do an interview with us. where are you from? >> i'm from syria. >> which city? >> damascus. >> from damascus. you just came here from where? the board from croatia? >> i came here and go to austria and germany. >> in a train station in a separate conversation in french, he admitted to me in fact he was a hotel worker from tunisia. he was pretending because he knew he had no chance of asylum, and the germans don't think he's the only one. this air of suspicion prompted the german government to hire 45 linguistic experts in 80 different languages. anybody who arrives here has to give a speech sample analyze to verify if the

. >> laurence lee has been speaking with refugees we have this report. >> since hungary closed it's border and put a razor wire up, croatia has had no choice but to try to disperse them in different directions. some are forced into hungary. they have been moving them towards the border with austria by the thousands. past that, the croatiaens are starting to move thousands towards slovenia as well. a couple thousand more here today. so the effects of this, particularly the hungarians closing it's borders has create a big wave of 25,000 refugees to be separated into parcels of a few thousand dotted around of a variety border crossings. what does it mean on the immediate situation here? well, it's not very organized, frankly. the only good thing you can say that this happened today in the presence of all these volunteers and members of the public who have come in large numbers offering food, water and clothing and a wash for the refugees. but night is falling now. the weather is going to break here tonight. it will be very heavy rain is forecast. they will not get shelter to these people. it

laurence lee, al jazeera, southern hungary. >>> a member of the armed group is to be prosecuted for destroying historic buildings in timbucktu. he's the first suspect to be charged with destroying monuments in the unesco world heritage city. through being attacked at a number of religious sites in mali in 2012, which they said were worshipped as idols. >>> a number of houthi rebels were killed in yemen after a rocket attack. the district commander and s sergeant was killed on friday, and the saudi-led coalitions continued the air strikes against houthis in the capital sanaa. people living there are searching through rubble after an attack. saudi arabia has been fighting houthi forces in yemen for six months. dozens of soldiers have been killed where more than 4.5 million people have died in ground fighting and air strikes. nigeria's military is making gains against boko haram in the north of the kubt country. banke is the latest town to be retain on friday. we have this update from borno state. >> reporter: the military says it is gaining ground every day on boko haram. it has captured one of

laurence lee has the report. >> reporter: it has witnessed people running for their lives and havingdure drown in this sea. the police in macedonia a are accused of beating refugees for daring to cross clue. hungary on the pretext of protecting christanval-s in europe. constructed a sort of fence the european union had sought to tear down and the authorities tried to refuse the right of refugees to his move on. once they simply got up and walked off from budapest train station, things began to change. hungary eventually caved in. the people that walked and walked from serbia, over the board never to croatia were eventually put on buses those dumped odd the hungarian gorder ended up near austria others were near slovenia but once there they were offered better support and again you industry a beckoned so many volunteers stepping in where government did not could barely believe the response from europe had been so disorganized. >> frankly speaking we are talking about hugh he human beings here, and the way they were treated is something that thethey will take with them. if you welcome

laurence lee has the report. >> reporter: it might not seem like it, but in little places like this inn hungary, the european vision in unity looks like a nightmare come true. you can see the village from this piece of hungarian military land the government has been investigating whether to set up a semi permanent camp here for a thousand refugees but it's basically a bog and even providing water would cost a fortunate. for the mayor the idea that hundreds of men from the middle east might be dumped here is a more immediate concern. >> translator: the vast majority are young, strong men. on their journey they have some natural needs they haven't been able to satisfy. and there is a strong possibility that through their cultural background that they'll satisfy their needs in hungary or europe, but not in a european way. >> reporter: there are hundreds of little places like this across happen gary and other eastern european countries which have no money and no prospects. expect a daughter soon, and she thinks the refugees could end up being offered more financial help than her baby. >> t

laurence lee, al jazeera in croatia. >> well, as lawrence mentioned, the refugees are being taken to the croatian capital. we are there as they try to figure out their next steps. >> we are free now. >> in croatia the taxis were waiting, but obstacles still remain. for the refugees taken to zagreb by train, confusion was compounded. >> every question has a thousand different answers. there are no right answers on what we are to do. >> on an extremely hot day optimism was apparent, but the waiting seemed endless. >> we're sure there will be a solution, but we don't know how long it will take, there are a lot of people without food or money, and a lot of babies without milk to drink. >> even as they boarded buses they weren't sure where they were headed. >> we heard that they were opening borders for refugees. >> the refugees i just spoke to said that they're expecting to be taken to slovenia. they said they had no information that the border to slow see slovenia has been closed. this man tells me he won't stop until he reaches his mother in germany. >> we have to be patient. after thi

laurence lee, al jazeera, in southern hungary. >>> i'm joined now by barbara, who is with amnesty international's hungary department and is a researcher there. first off, the question was asked in the piece we've been watching, is what hungary doing legal? >> the geneva convention asks countries not to criminalize asylum seekers and so-called irregular entry, and it's for reason. the refugees might be in a situation and often are when they cannot enter the country which might be in violation of the immigration policies. so such are for asylum seekers essentially who are in situations with criminal charges just by crossing the border. >> so hungary isn't even establishing whether they're genuine refugees, asylum seekers or economic migrants. they're not making that decision are they? >> they don't make the distinction. the only thing the court looks at is whether or not a credit offense is committed and in all the cases it finds that a criminal offense has been committed because whoever crosses the border through a border fence on the border with serbia crosses a fence. it's very straightforward f

laurence lee, al jazeera, southern croatia. >> as he mentioned in the report, the refugees are taken to the crow yatian capital. they're waiting for the next stage of the journey. >> reporter: the refugees now on buses have been brought by train to here at the capital. what's interesting is that although the border into slovenia has been closed, most of the refugees i just spoke with on buses believe that they will be taken now into slovenia. they say they've not heard that that border has been closed. they expect to be taken. they don't expect to be taken to holding facilities or makeshift refugee camps. it's going to be interesting the next several hours. many say if they're not bussed to the border they expect to walk or plan to walk, but that on this record hot day will be very difficult. to walk it will take at least six to seven hours. >>> japan has passed controversial new security bills into law. it means that japanese troops could now fight abroad for the first time in 70 years despite fierce criticism that it will reshape the pacifist nation. tensions are running high and o

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