>> special month long evironmental focus fragile planet 40 migrants hit and killed by a train in macedonia, a day after european leaders triple the budget for search and rescue operations at sea. ♪ hello and welcome to al jazeera live from doha i'm mar between dennis and also coming up in the program, 100 years later armenians remember the masses killed by ottoman forces. yemen's foreign minister says there will be no peace until houthi rebels surrender as fighting continues across the country. magnificent images with the hubble space telescope celebrates its 25th birthday. ♪ 14 people have been hit and killed by a train in central macedonia, it happened close to the city of valesh the group migrants walking along a well-known balcan route heading to western europe and the prosecutor says from interviewing survivors most of the group was from somalia and afghanistan. the eu has agreed to triple funding for its mediterranean navel mission to tackle the growing migrant crisis and the boost was announced at an emergency summit in brussels and on tuesday italian police arrested two men suspect

. >> 14 people have been hit and killed by a train in macedonia. a group of migrants walking along a well-known route towards western europe were hit. macedonia state prosecutors say most of the survivors were from somolia and afghanistan. >>> more air strikes by the saudi-led coalition against houthi in yemen. they have gained parts over large parts of the port city of aden. yemen's foreign minister says the houthis must surrender before the peace process can begin. >> there will be no talks at the present time as long as the houthis and militias of saleh continue the crime against the yemeni people and until they put their weapons aside and surrender. more than 1,000 people have been killed since fighting began more than a month ago. >>> there is a semblance semblance of law and order here. but a bomb disposal unit has come to work. close by is a military base hit by an air strike earlier in the week. ammunition litters the streets. >> the area is now free of chemical substances. we have examined the whole area with detectors. we have collected t

alexander the great empires in the hellenistic period, you get empire is based in egypt and based in macedonia and other parts of the larger mediterranean, people start to think about politics, maybe politics could even in principle not just through conquest expand beyond particular city's walls so this becomes the idea, i am not citizen of the cosmos as opposed to being a citizen of athens, citizen of sparred at. that developed into a kind of ethical ideas that may be one can live according to a kind of sense of universal values and lots that are not bound to geographically and i think that is the origin of our idea of cosmopolitan ethics today. >> host: that was a daring idea back then to declare that you were a cosmopolitan. >> guest: absolutely. the first person who did it was diogenes the senate. he meant it in a kind of in-your-face kind of rejecting way. he was famous for it rejecting not just the city's boundaries but also all kinds of human conventions because he lived in a bowl he often defecated in public or had sex in public didn't abide by any of the conventions of clothing more m

alexander the great and a rise of empires in the lawlessness have -- hellenistic period, are based in macedonia and other parts of the larger mediterranean, people start to think about politics, even in principle, not just through conquest expand beyond a particular city's walls so this becomes the idea i am not cardinal citizen of the cosmos as opposed to being a citizen and that in his or spark a. that develops into a kind of medical idea that maybe one can live according to a kind of set of universal values and longest that aren't bound geographically and that really is the origin of our idea of cosmopolitan ethics and politics. >> host: that was idea to declare you were a cosmopolitan. >> guest: yes and the first person who does it, diogenes the cynic, he meant in a kind of in-your-face rejecting what he. he was famous for rejecting not just the city's boundaries but also all kinds of human conventions. he often dedicated in public, didn't abide by the conventions of more money that ordinary people would follow. according to him this is living according to nature and political boundaries we

the rise of alexander the great and the empires they start to get empires based in egypt based in macedonia and other parts of the larger mediterranean is people start to think about politics. maybe politics could in principle, not just in conquest expand beyond a particular city. so this becomes the idea since i am a citizen of the cosmos are the cosmos as opposed to being a citizen of athens as citizens of sparta. that developed into a kind of ethical ideal that maybe one can of according to a set in universal value and law that are bounded geographically. that is the origin of our idea of cosmopolitan ethics in politics today. >> host: that was a daring idea back then. >> guest: absolutely. the purse purse who does that he meant it in a kind of in-your-face reject them away. he actually was seen as rejecting not just the city's boundaries, but all kinds of human convention. he lived in a barrel. he often defecated in public and didn't abide by any of the conventions of closing our money that ordinary people would follow. according to them this was according to nature and political bounda

>> special month long evironmental focus fragile planet 40 migrants hit and killed by a train in macedoniay after european leaders triple the budget for search and rescue operations at sea. ♪ hello and welcome to al jazeera live from doha i'm mar between dennis and also coming up in the program, 100 years later armenians remember the masses killed by ottoman forces. yemen's foreign minister says there will be no peace until houthi rebels surrender as fighting continues across the

. >>> 14 people hit and killed by a train in macedonia.migrants walking along a well-known balkin route to europe and prosecutor says from interviewing survivors most of the group was from somalia and afghanistan. a number of migrants willing to risk everything in hopes of a better life in europe and many finding reality a far cry from their dreams and simon mc-greger wood went to immediate sudan migrants forced to live under a bridge in paris. >> reporter: 50 migrants living in tents by the river, some have been here months all made the hazardous journey across the sea and escaping war at home and hoping for a better life and none of them have papers and rely on charity for everything it's a kind of migrant limbo. mohamed and not his real name spent three years working in libya and paid $1100 for his place on a boat which made it to italy and now this. >> translator: it is not the life we imagined finding in europe, we don't know what to do. but we are obligeds to be here, this is the path we took but i ask myself why are we here the eu s

. >>> 14 people have been hit and killed by a train in central macedonia, this happened near the citylis, a group of migrants from somalia and afghanistan and walking along a well-known balkin route heading to europe. pushing in boko haram last known stronghold in spite of presence of land mind that killed three government mercenaries in the forest region with rumors that the army retreat from the army and boko haram fighters pushed out of areas are massing in the forest. last month nigeria voted in presidential elections and saw peaceful transfer of power and many displaced by boko haram attacks in the north say they are too afraid to go back to their communities and we met some of the families displaced and is one of three states still under a state of emergency because of the violence. >> reporter: women, young girls and even babies all displaced by boko haram violence in nigeria and have found temporary refuge in someone's backyard a city in the northeast near the border with cameroon. the man looking after them is mohamed, who runs a business here. but being neighborly has come w

. >>> 14 people have been hit and killed by a train in central mass donecedonia macedonia. joining us live from brussels is -- how would you characterize the eu's decision to triple spending on search and rescue missions? >> in our view this is a small step in the right direction in the sense that at least they have acknowledged that it is the moral and legal duty of the european union to invest sufficient resources in search and rescue operations in the mediterranean. let's not forget that until the end of last year it was only italy that was operating the so-called marinostram operation at a cost of 9 million a year. that was replaced when italy finished that operation by a much smaller scale operation, the so-called triton operation carried out by the eu's border agency. the financial resources were about 3 million a month. so they have now decided to step up the financial resources up to the previous level which is a good thing. it is also now absolutely acknowledged that search and rescue is within the mandate of the agency. >> what would you like to see? >> the proble

republic of macedonia from 1996 to 1999. and a frequent guest here on the washington journal. we appreciate it this morning. ross is in columbus, ohio, line for democrats. ross, good morning. >> caller: good morning. thanks for having me on. i'd like to just kind of reiterate on the gentleman a couple calls back. when he spoke about the fact that we always go into these areas, especially the middle east, and pit one side against the other side, and play this game of basically chess over there. when things go badly, we pull out, and we shirk our responsibilities. i mean, it's a shame that this happens so many times around different places in the world. especially the middle east. the gentleman made a statement, your guest said he gets tired of accepting the blame for what's happened in the past. but you have to accept the blame if you're the main cause of the problem. like i said, which we have been in quite a few spots around the world. >> ross, what are our responsibilities in iraq right now? how would you state our responsibilities? >> caller: well, i don't know if we even h

he actually thought he and eagle berger had been they're lawrence of macedonia.hey thought they knew more about yugoslavia than the folks in the state department and intelligence. they they looked at the evidence of melissa vision what was going to happen in these brewing nationalist separatists and that they did not respond well to that i spend a half chapter on afghanistan and the blowback that is in many ways kind of the root of terrorism and al qaeda. and so i talk about how they after the billions of dollars in the years from brezinski and carter to the reagan administration to support the mujahedin and to supply them with weapons and a. following to the different rebel groups that was the soviets leave a kind of afghanistan is in ruins all these refugees, refugees wrecked towns from the soviet actions as well as from the fighting. and so it is kind of this by water now. and so that is an example. i think they mishandled. they later -- i thought this was too political. he is criticized for his caution and to guarded, sees a downside. there was something to t

ambassador to korea and:, and macedonia -- korea, poland, and macedonia. frequent guest, we appreciate it. caller: good morning, thanks for having me on. i just want to reiterate -- a caller spoke to the fact that we are always going to these areas and pitting one side against the other side, playing this game of basically chess over there. when things go badly, we pull out. it is a shame that this happened so many times around different places and the world, especially the middle east. the gentleman was making the statement that he is tired of accepting the blame for what has happened in the past. you have to accept the blame if you are the main cause of the problem. like a set, which we have been and quite a few spots around the host: what are our responsibilities in iraq? caller: we made a big mess of the situation. you can see that a lot of this conflict and the bottle drawings -- that lines are drawn along ethnic lines. we exasperated the situation like the gentle and said when we took out saddam hussein. he was an evil dictator as many dictators are,

i'm a member of the macedonia baptist church. we've heard this theme of organizational or cultural change within the police department. and i think we all know that organizational culture is not established at the bottom. it is established at the top. so in an effort to change the culture of an organization, we have seen historically one method that has been effective, especially for african-americans in the civil rights movement was economic withdrawal. my question to you today is centered around the idea of what i'm going to call economic corrective action. this would be established via a mandate that would compromise four things. when a county executive, legislator or mayor and police chief take office, it is mandated that within three years they reduce the number of deaths via law enforcement by 50%. if they don't reach that goal within three years, they're terminated. in addition to that, they do not receive any pension. that's the first thing. the second thing would be the mayor and the police and, you know, legislators who

. >> good afternoon, my name is aaron king and i'm a member of macedonia baptist church. and i think we all know that organizational culture is not established at the bottom, it is established at the top. in an effort to change the culture of the organization, we have seen historically one method that has been effective for a african-americans, is economic withdrawal. my question today is centered around the idea of economic corrective action. this would be established via a a mandate of four things. when a county executive executive or legislative or mayor, within three years, they must reduce the number of deaths from law enforcement by 50%. if they do not reach that goal, they will be terminated. and they do not receive any pension. the second thing would be, the mayor and the police and legislatures at the top of the organization, once they have look at the previous year and they have not -- they see we have a hundred deaths. we have three years to cut that by 50%. if they do not reach that goal in the first year, their salaries get reduced by 20%. once we get to 51 o

i'm a member of the macedonia baptist church.rganizational or cultural change within the police department. and i think we all know that organizational culture is not established at the bottom. it is established at the top. in ÷ effort to change the culture of an organization we have seen historically one method that has been effective, especially for african-americans in the civil rights movement was economic withdrawal. my question to you today is centered around the idea of what i'm going to call economic corrective action. this would be established via a mandate that would compromise four things. when a county executive, legislator or mayor and police chief take office, it is mandated that within three years they reduce the number of deaths via law enforcement by 50%. if they don't reach that goal within three years, they're terminated. in addition to that, they do not receive any pension. that's the first thing. the second thing would be the mayor and the police and, you know, legislators who are at the top of an organizatio

macedonia from 1996 to 1999. and a frequent guest here on the washington journal. we appreciate it this morning. ross is in columbus, ohio line for democrats. ross, good morning. >> caller: good morning. thanks for having me on. i'd like to just kind of reiterate on the gentleman a couple calls back. when he spoke about the fact that we always go into these areas, especially the middle east, and pit one side against the other side, and play this game of basically chess over there. when things go badly, we pull out, and we shirk our responsibilities. i mean it's a shame that this happens so many times around different places in the world. especially the middle east. the gentleman made a statement, your guest says he gets tired of accepting the blame for what's happened in the past. you have to accept the blame if you're the main cause of the problem. like i said which we have been in quite a few spots around the world. >> ross what are our responsibilities in iraq right now? how would you state our responsibilities? >> caller: well, i don't know if we even have any

republic of macedonia from 1996 to 1999. and a frequent guest here on the washington journal. we appreciate it this morning. ross is in columbus, ohio, line for democrats. ross, good morning. >> caller: good morning. thanks for having me on. i'd like to just kind of reiterate on the gentleman a couple calls back. when he spoke about the fact that we always go into these areas, especially the middle east, and pit one side against the other side, and play this game of basically chess over there. when things go badly, we pull out, and we shirk our responsibilities. i mean, it's a shame that this happens so many times around different places in the world. especially the middle east. the gentleman made a statement, your guest said he gets tired of accepting the blame for what's happened in the past. but you have to accept the blame if you're the main cause of the problem. like i said, which we have been in quite a few spots around the world. >> ross, what are our responsibilities in iraq right now? how would you state our responsibilities? >> caller: well, i don't know if we even h