train station in macedonia on the serbian border. nothing's changed, day in day out they keep coming. the weary, relieved, the hopeful. >> we have around eight trains per day, depending, sometimes more sometimes less in 24 hours. >> do you see any sign at all of this flow of people slowing down coming to an end? >> thinking october is slowing down but we're nothing like that. >> this young man is an english teacher from raqqa in syria. do you feel your spirits are high? >> yes yes, i think my morals are high to travel to a different country. different places and different people and like my friends. they are having a honeymoon. >> they're on their honeymoon? >> yes, newly married? >> bride and groom. >> very active sightseeing honeymoon adventure you're happy then? >> yes yes. >> congratulations. i want to ask you about the russian activities now in the last few days in your country, do you think that it's going to help to end the war? >> no. i don't think so. it will be worse. >> it will just get worse? >> yes get worse more and mor

ed thomas, bbc news, macedonia. jane: growing numbers of migrants are choosing to avoid the long dangerous journey over land and by sea to reach europe. instead, they're returning to gangs, selling forged passports and trying their luck using traditional transport routes. the united nations says the trade in counterfeit passports and identity cards are now bigger than the trade in drugs and weapons. as our special correspondent reports. reporter: still they keep coming in the thousands. syrians, afghans, iraqis. >> welcome. >> welcome. >> welcome. reporter: and still generous. the greek activists have been here for months but for others these fleeing people are a business opportunity. everybody here has the same objective and that is to get out of greece as fast as they possibly can. but the road ahead is fraught with difficulty. that's where organized crime comes in. a vast industry preying on these people's vulnerability. the journey north can be over 2,000 miles, taking weeks with thousands of others across sever

. >> this is the last train station in macedonia on the serbia border. nothing's changed, day in, day out, they keep coming. the weary, relieved, hopeful. >> we have around eight trains per day. depending, sometimes we have more, sometimes less in 24 hours. >> reporter: and do you see any sign at all of this flow of people slowing down? coming to an end? >> people are saying that october is going to be slower but we are not seeing anything like that. >> reporter: this young man is an english teacher from raqqa in syria. do you feel your spirits are high, feel strong? >> yes yes i think my morals are high to travel to another country. different places and different people. and like my friends, they are having a honeymoon. >> they're on their honeymoon, newly married? >> yes, bride and groom. honeymoon with different sides, train, bus. >> a very exciting honeymoon adventure then? you're happy? >> yes yes. >> congratulations. i want to ask you about the russian activities now in the last few days in your country. do you think that it's going to help to end

this is the last train station in macedonia on the serbia border. nothing's changed. they keep coming, the weary, the relieved, the hopeful. >> we have eight trains a day, sometimes more, sometimes less. >>reporter: do you see any signs at all of this flow of people slowing down and coming to an end. >> people were saying october will be slower but we're not seeing anything like that. >>reporter: this young man is an english teacher from raqqa in syria. are your spirits high? >> yes, it's still high to travel to another country. different places and different people. like my friends, they are having a honeymoon over there. >>reporter: they're on their honeymoon? newly married? >> yes. the bride and groom. honeymoon with different sides. train, bus. [laughter] >>reporter: so a very active sight seeing honeymoon adventure then. but you're happy 1234. >> yes. yes. >>reporter: congratulations. i want to ask you about the russian activities in the last few days in your country. do you think it's going to help to end the war? is. >> no. no. no. i don't think so. it will be

. >> refugees are travel through greece, through macedonia and/or italy. german chancellor angela merkel and french president franÇois hollande delivered a rare joint address pleading for unity to deal with the huge influx. we have reports from the parliament in stratford. they faced a continent beset by challenges. the ukraine don't flick, youth unemployment and the lingering effects of the death and euro zone crisis. but it's the crisis and arrival of half a million refugees has created resists between countries who are willing and able to help and those who want to keep them out. warships have gun patrolling the waters. it's hoped that this task force will help people smuggling. 3,000 people have died tried to make the crossing this year. >> there is a temptation to retreat into an international shell when there is a crisis. >> it was a message shared. >> we must not fall prey for the desire to act nationally in these moments. we must to the contrary act together. it is now that we need to show the encourage that europe has shown in the past. >> they we

if you run it forwards 24 hours, they moved away and they went across the adriatic towards macedonia and albania. >> here they were vicious, and the recorded amount of rain is over 125mm on the coast of albania, 152 when you went to macedonia. it's albania, bulgaria and greece where the rain is falling. to run it beyond that, it will be drier to the west, and the sun will come out. the speed of the moisture moves in, and moves northwards, and to be honest. in the middle of europe it brings snow a bit further west. possibly into poland, for monday night. >> rob. >> still to come on the al jazeera newshour. cracking the oath. some of the brightest minds get together to find out who is behind one of the most complicated puzzles on the internet. >> in sport australia shows why defense can be as important as attack in the rugby world cup. per cent >>> hello again. let's have a look at the top stories here at al jazeera. turkey's military says it carried out air strikes against kurdish separatist fighters in the south-east of the country. the strikes coming a day after the group told fight

settlement of all differences in the region, among them, the main issue of the [ inaudible ] republic of macedonia, we have promised a pragmatic settlement framework, aiming at reaching an agreement and set of confidence-building measures, which provide us with an opportunity to further enhance bilateral cooperation and trust. mr. president, people around the globe are striving for a better future for them and their children. people in my country are struggling every day with pride and dignity to overcome crisis, and regain hope. even in their most difficult moments, they are assisting those more in need, those fleeing conflict zones. even in their most difficult moments, they are asserting their democratic right to choose their own fate. this is a daily example of people insisting even under the most difficult conditions on basic humanity and democratic rights. this example should guide us in taking the necessary steps towards a safer just and prosperous world for ourselves and the future generations to live in. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> on behalf of the -- >> that was the greek prime

this is the l train station in macedonia on the serbia border. nothing has changed.he weary, the relieved, the hopeful. >> we have around eight trains per day depending, sometimes we have more. sometimes we have less in 24 hours. >> do you see any sign at all of this flow of people slowing down, coming to an ends? >> people are seeing october is going to be slower but we are not seeing anything like that. >> this young man is an english teacher. >> do you feel your spirits are high? do you feel strong? >> difference to places and different people and like my friend, they are having honeymoon. >> newly married. >> yes, bride and groom. honeyey moon. >> a very active sight-seeing honeymoon add ven tour then. and you are happy? >> yes. they are very happy. >> congratulations. the russian activity did now. do you think it's going to help to end the war? >> no. no. no. i don't think so. it will be worse. >> it will get worse? >> yes. more and more. >> arriving in serbia. the media may have largely moved on from this story for the time being. the focus has shifted. the spo

half of them will be increased and others will be in places like serbia and macedonia.avet 700,000 people arrived in the area this year, fleeing syria, iraq, and afghanistan. countries have been closing their borders. it is an untenable situation for the european commission president. >> the only way to restore order is to slow down the flow of people. of neighboring countries has to stop. 60,000 migrants have arrived in slovenia in the last 10 days alone. sharp turnnd took a to the right sunday as a conservative eurosceptic party took first place in the election there. exit polls say the law and justice party got close to 38% of the vote, enough for it to govern alone. olin looks set to have its first non-left-leaning government since the fall of communism in 1989. here is more. >> more catholics and less theing to take in migrants, lawn justice party was widely predicted to win almost 40% of the vote, which would be enough to govern alone. the victory to his late brother. him, have to remember especially at this moment. over 10 years ago he told me, mr. chairman, the

"how they are treated in hungry, macedonia, and serbia..." when wartburg college junior kristina aleksander walks through this small park near the cedar river in waverly she can't help but notice it's about the same size as a park in her home country of serbia. but this summer, belgrade park, in her hometown, was a sea of refugees fleeing terror in syria. aleksander volunteered with a refugee group located nearby when she went home this summer and saw the misery and hope first hand. " i think talking to people was the most important part. they had been countries and i think talking to them, getting them to tell their story and share their experience helps " aleksander says when she was home an estimated three thousand syrian refugees a day were crossing the serbian border. those she talked to were hoping to reach friends and family in other european countries. they weren't holding out hope making it to the u.s. "open up the internet, right there..." but some may eventually come to iowa and they'll need assistance becoming new iowans. in this

macedonia on the serbia border.othing has changed day and day out, they keep coming, the weary, the relieved, the hopeful. sdmchl we have around eight trains per day. sometimes more, sometimes less in 24 hours. >> do you see any sign at all of this flow of people slowing down? >>, coming to an end? >> people are sighing that october is going to be slower but we are not seeing anything like that. >> this young man is an english teach frer raqqa do you have your spirits are high? >> yes. i think my morals is still high to travel to different places and good friends, people. and like my friends, they are having honeymoon. >> they are on failure honey snoon newly married? >> yes, bride and groom. honeymoon with different sights. train, bus. >> a very active sight-seeing honeymoon adventure there? and irhappy? you are happy? >> yes. >> congratulations. i want to ask you about the russian activities now in the past few days in your country. do you think that it's going to help to the end the war? >> no. i don't think so.

. >> some countries like serbia here, macedonia greece have improved their reception facilities so much that they are now able to push people very quickly up the line. others like hungary are in open revolt, rejecting an eu resettlement plan that is inadequate to cope with these newspapers anyway. it may not be foolproof but it's a system. seeking turkey's help is a desperate measure as this crisis tests tow to the very limit the principles the european union was formed. >>> the transpacific partnership, or tpp for short, cuts barriers for common trade standards for the 12 countries involved. it affects 40% of the world's economy and could reshape industries everything from the cost of cheese to the cost of cancer treatment. how long a monopoly should be for the next round of biotech drugs. many negotiations were held in secret and see it as a threat to workers in big corporations. this is what the white house press secretary josh earnest had to say. >> the agreement like the president set identity to achieve, is one to expands overseas markets for the goods that are starchld mad stampe

more than 2,000 have crossed the border from macedonia through serbia heading north they hope through europe. many carrying small children along this dirt road towards the serbian border villages. around 300,000 are estimated to have gone through serbia in the past few weeks alone. it's a main route for those people aiming to reach western europe >>> the war in yemen now, the saudi coalition has regained control of the strait between the arabian peninsula. >>reporter: as the war grinds on, the terrain gets more complicated and the toll more severe. here, popular resistance forces and army troops are claiming what they call a strategic victory. reconnaissance. >> houthhouthi. >> i no longer have a house or furniture. no home or anything. >> near the red sea, residents are furious after a reported air strike on a yemenny -- yemeni wedding ceremony, many blame the saudi coalition. >> you hit a wedding party, women and children. you killed women and children. are these your strategic targets? recon sanaissanc reconnaissance. >> a saudi official said his country is abiding by international

because so many people have come in through macedonia? >> well, i mean, we are firstly trying to deal with, you know, the influx coming on to the european territory for which we're legally responsibility. we're working very closely with all the neighboring countries. we understand as the representative has said, nobody thinks you can built a wall and stop this. it is a question of how you can manage it and how you can avoid trying to fix it in one place, you simply spill the problem over into a neighboring country. that's why we really need an integrated effort around the region with good cooperation between us and also financial burden sharing to help everyone contribute to helping this be done in the most humane and correct way and hopefully in due course to slow down the flow and persuade people maybe they don't have to rush to get inside the european borders. there is a better future which may be for them. >> thank you very much. thank you for being here this afternoon and the work you're doing. to address this crisis. i want to first

neighboring states, delegations from jordan or lebanon, and then of course countries such as serbia and macedonia. the disadvantage, and here's the tricky part, most of these different delegations have different views where the actual problem lies, and many of them believe that with the refugees that has to their countries, the problem itself also disappeared some point. >> the word hotspot has come up again at today's talks, but how have they been defined? >> hotspots is a real key word here throughout the day. it is something where a lot of ministers, foreign ministers as well as interior ministers, put a lot of hope into, because the hotspots are registration centers that are meant to be set up on the margins of europe, so for instance in greece and italy. they hope it refugees will be registered and fingerprinted there, and from there they would be redistributed throughout the the idea behind it put in a nutshell is that your hopes to seal off the external borders, a fortress of europe, but leave at the same time some legal loopholes that would be these hotspot to allow people in. the problem

. >> some countries like serbia, macedonia and greece, improved reception, that they can push people quickly up the line. others like hungary are in open revolt. rejecting a settlement plan that is inadequate to cope with the numbers anyway. >> it may not be pleasant. but it's a system. and it's working. but the capacity of the germany where many of these people want to go is not infinite. seeking turkey's help is a desperate measure as the crisis tests to the limit the unity upon which the european union was founded. >> kenya's teachers and student returned to class after a 5-week teacher strike was suspended. a labour court ordered them to run to work. they say they'll resume if talks collapse. the teachers stopped work when the government refused to follow an order to raise salaries by 50%. >> angola's government is understand pressure to explain why it gaoled 15 men. a rights group say that the detainees are prisoners of conscien conscience, but the government claims they were planning a coup. barnaby phillips has more. >> 15 young men, more than 100 days in prison. no charges ag

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

thousands more migrants have trekked through greece and macedonia to serbia, where they're pressing tor own journeys into western europe. overnight, some 3,500 spent the night in the freezing cold at the serbian-croatian border after croatian officials closed the gates. >> sreenivasan: scuffles broke out as the frustration of waiting proved too much for some. as before, others took matters into their own hands, crossing fields and orchards at dawn, evading police where they could. meanwhile, in vienna, the head of croatia's police met with his counterparts from hungary, slovenia and austria. >> ( translated ): the daily influx from macedonia and serbia into croatia is about 10,000 migrants. they are transferred every day towards the slovenian border, and slovenia moves them towards austria. we must stem the migrant crisis as soon as possible, so that we reduce the number of migrants arriving to europe. >> sreenivasan: to that end, the president of the european commission called a sunday summit of the balkan states and others. but, the human surge showed no signs of abating. in greece,

we had about 8,700 people cross into macedonia. >>reporter: europe's border force will be given additional powers to return economic migrants back to their country of origin and at the same time refugees rapidly relocated from their initial entry point to other eu countries. >>reporter: it is some comfort for the hundreds of thousands who have made it this far. europe may provide a refuge for those in desperate need despite it having taken a long time to do so. >>> the mayor of rome has resigned in the wake of a scandal over his expenses. prosecutors are investigating the mayor's finances following allegations that he claimed family dinners under official business. he has promised to pay his entire city credit card bill of more than $22,000 which includes uncontested legitimate expenses >>> opposition politicians in kosovo have used whistles and tear gas to disrupt a session of parliament as a protest to the government's recent deal with serbia supported by the eu. the prime minister had eggs thrown at him during a protest on tuesd

. >> reporter: some countries like serbia here, macedonia, greece vs. improved their reception centers so much they're able to push people very quickly up the line. others in hungary are in open revolt, rejecting an eu resettlement plan that is wholly inadequate to cope with these numbers anyway. it may not be pleasant but it's a system and it's working. but the capacity of germany where many people want to go is not infinite. this crisis tests to the very limit. jonah hull, al jazeera, serbia. >>> 2003 big place it is, green zone home to government buildings and foreign embassies. well, al jazeera's imtiaz tyab has more on what didn't prove to be a trouble free open day. >> reporter: it may have been unthinkable to see traffic moving down this road but since sunday, parts of baghdad's heavily fortified green zone ahave been open to the public. announced by prime minister haider al-abadi. over security, corruption and poor public services. for 12 years, the green zone or international zone as it's officially known has been closed to most iraqi citizens.

macedonia was found guilty for failing to conduct in a festive --effective investigation. to keep holding their feet to the fire and say coming up to get to the bottom of this. some of the is guilty and has to be held accountable. italy, for example, did try a number of people, both local agents and -- they called for the indictment of a number of cia personnel, but afterwards, they were pardoned by the president, so those cases were discontinued. is, whatnk the key these incidents show is a complete lack of democratic oversight of secured he services. the security services, and later in surveillance, or doing whatever they wanted. nobody rang the alarm bell when they should have. amy: what should the u.s. do right now? >> the u.s. should cooperate with the countries such as poland and others that have been required by the european court of human rights, they should provide them information. they should also provide assurances his people will not be subject to the death penalty. the death penalty is outlawed in europe. and it should come clean and shed light on all of thes

. >>> nearly all of those who arrive in greece head north to macedonia and serbia. for most, the eventual goal after hundreds of miles of walking is to reach germany. the parliament passed legislation giving the army more power to help police guarding the border. many there are desperate to continue their journey to austria. paul brennan reports. >> reporter: their progress has been hampered by bad weather and official restrictions. pressures of numbers reached critical mass. from the refugee camp from the slovenian side, more than 2,000 men, women and children gave up waiting and streamed down the hill. >> we told them we can't to go. we don't want anything. just we want to go, to complete our journey. >> austrian soldiers and police strung a barrier across the road. translators used megaphones to appeal for calm. the atmosphere was anything but calm. as the pressure grows, so does the impatience. this group walking down the street. they are not registered. they are trying to push their way through. clearly it is not going to see, but you can see the authorities ha

of those arriving in greece, head to macedonia and serbia. the goal, for most, after hundreds of miles of walking is to reach germany. >> slovenia's parliament passed legislation giving the the army power to help police guarding the border. many are desperate to continue their journey to austria. >> reporter: their progress has been hampered by bad weather and official restrictions. pressures of numbers reached critical mass. more than 2,000 men, women and children gave up waiting and extremed down the hill. >> we told them we can't to go. we don't want anything. just we want to go, to complete our journey. >> austrian soldiers and police strung a barrier across the road. translators used megaphones to appeal for calm. as the pressure grows, so does the inpatients. this group walking down the street. they are not registered. pushing their way through, you can see the authorities have difficulty maintaining order. the breaking point, an arrival on tuesday, with the campest hosting 2,500 people. until then charities, and others combined to prov

on the macedonia/serbia border. >> raising the poverty line from $1.25 to $1.90.f people exist on less than that per day, they are said to be officially living in poverty. what will the readjustment mean for the millions living on the brink. from al jazeera's counting the cost program looks at the numbers. >> the poverty line, level, threshold. it goes by many names but it is important to remember it is more than just a turn of phrase when we say people living below the poverty lane, it has been officially defined. different countries have different thresholds but it is the world bank which comes up with the did he haefinitive one in 1990, it was a dollar. if you lived on a dollar a day or less you were blow the poverty line. in 2008 there was a reef vision but based upon 2005 data. it raised it to $1.25 a day. in 2015, we are looking at $1.90. in people terms that will reclassify for the 148 million people as living in extreme poverty joining the 800 million already living below that level today. the numbers do sounds concerning. but the view from the united nati

jonah hull, al jazeera on the macedonia -- /serbia border. >> 70 fishermen are missing after a typhoonit emergency workers said 24 boats from two provinces had disappeared. more than half have still unaccounted for. the coast guard and the army are conducting search and rescue operations. >>> mexico's first ever independent governor has been sworn in. jaime rodriguez colderon. he have has vowed to eradicate corruption. meeting the man who is challenging the political eti light. >> reporter: his nickname is el bronco which roughly translates into untameable. his heroes are the lone ranger and zorro. the nextal masked rider who because injust est. riding an almost identical black stallion, he went from town to town. prosper outs border state literally passing the hat to get himself elected as meth co's first ever independent governor. >> people wan to know how he managed to defeat the system. i tell him, we were characters of star wars did he haefeating empire with a legion of citizens who organized. it made them more powerful than the political parties. >> a social conservative who curs

refugee agency says more than 5,000 refugees are arriving into serbia from macedonia everyday and theresigns the flow of people will ease. the u.n. says 13,000 have entered serbia in the last 48 hours along and predicting another surge in the coming days and thousands of people have passed sush -- serbia on their way this summer. results not in but they will not accept the winner of the president opposition and all seven leaders want the ballot anulled because of what they say is fraud and the leader called the poll a charade and says the ballot boxes were stuffed and people intimated. bolivia president says capitalism is because of climate change and it's a grass roots summit for activists and indigenous leaders so those must effected can have their voices heard and we report. >> reporter: the three-day conference ended with bolivia's president calling for the world to protect what he calls mother earth. a 10 point plan with different and some fear their voices won't be heard. >> mother earth she has certain things that go on and when you start going against that then there is a lot of

who disagree and some countries are much improved in their dealing with this crisis in serbia and macedonia greece are pushing people through at a deep rate but there are disagreements over the long-term handling of this crisis which is surely testing and almost a breaking point the very foundation of unity upon which this european union is based. >> jona is there and stay with us here on al jazeera, still to come grief and horror in burundi and the latest people of the violence tied up and shot at close range and bad -- baghdad green zone is now opened up in more than a decade. ♪ i just had a horrible nightmare. my company's entire network went down, and i was home in bed, unaware. but that would never happen. comcast business monitors my company's network 24 hours a day and calls and e-mails me if something, like this scary storm, takes it offline. so i can rest easy. what. you don't have a desk bed? don't be left in the dark. get proactive alerts 24/7. comcast business. built for business. ♪ welcome back, let's recap the headlines on al jazeera, there have been multiple clashes between p

europe and the problem of trying to coordinate this effort with the countries outside europe like macedonia, serbia and albania, who are also attending here. add on to that the fact that there are so many divisions within the balkans as we all know after the war. this is a very, very difficult task. a lot of people arriving here weren't happy with those draft proposals. i don't think this is a set and done thing. the most important thing, i think that might come out of this is not the way they are going to try and tighten the border controls, send in more border guards, but it's simple, one thing. that is as angela merkel said, it's to make sure that those people who are in no man's land at the moment, those poor refugees escaping the war in syria actually have a blanket, they have sanitation, shelter, food. it's the pictures of those people and their suffering in the cold months leading up to the winter that are the most shocking, because they undermine the very principles of the european union where the humanitarian action should and must be taken. these are the principles that hold the e

. >> reporter: some countries like serbia here, macedonia, greece have improved reception facilities so much they can push people very quickly up the line. others like hungary are in open revolt, rejecting an eu compulsory resettlement plan that's wholly inadequate to cope with these numbers anyway. it may not be pleasant, but it's a system and it's whooshing. the capacity of germany, where many people want to go, is not infinite. seeking turkey's help is a desperate measure as this crisis tests to the limit the very unity upon which the european union was founded. jonah hall, al jazeera, serbia. >>> flash floods on the french riviera killed at least 19 people. the frefrn government declared a natural disaster in the southeastern region. up to 5,000 homes were still without electricity on monday with as many as 70,000 suffering blackouts on sunday. the french president francois hollande pledged relief payments to help cover damage in three months. >>> mexican re rescue teams have arrived to help look for victims in guatemala. torrential rain triggered the bad weather on thursday. hun

s refugees agency says that more than 5,000 refugees were arriving in serbia from macedonia every dayat there is no sign that flow of people will ease. the u.n. says that 13,000 have entered serbia in the last 48 hours alone. and it's predicting another surge in the coming days. more than 170,000 people have passed through serbia on their way towards europe this summer. and refugees are continuing to arrive in italy, more than 700 people mainly from syria and eritrea were rescued off the coast of libya on monday the aid group doctors without borders pick he had them up in two separate operations, they have been taken to the italian island of sicily. germany's chancellor angela merkel says her country can't handle the refugees crisis alone. she is heading to brussels for a european union sum out thursday. where she will appeal for help from other states. merkel is under pressure her coalition partner to his limit the number of asylum seekers entering germany. jonah hull reports now from bavaria. >> reporter: when chancellor angela america of the delivered what appeared to be an open in

we had about 8,700 people crossing in the former yugoslav republic of macedonia.the flow of people remains continuous as we speak. >> reporter: here is what has been agreed. europe's border force will be given additional powers to return economic migrants back to their country of origin. and at the same time, refugees will be rapidly re relocated to other e.u. countries, it's some comfort for the hundreds of thousands that made it this far. europe may provide a ref all for those this desperate need. despite it having taken a long time do so. al jazeera, luc luxembourg. >>> still ahead on the program, thousands living in risk zones, could guatemala have vented the loss of lives in the mud slight last week. plus. >> sentinels of shore, rescuing canada's lights houses in the age of modern technology. >> they don't fear anything. >> they're consuming economically important species >> we're offering something on our menu that no-one else is offering. >>> welcome back. i am shoe lie ghosh, the top stories on al jazeera, iran's revolutionary guard says one of its top gen

what happens to macedonia, serbia, and albania? this is where the river is flowing through. these areas, as well. now, those are countries outside the european union. what are they going to get? now the serbian prime minister also said in his opening remarks as he came in today here that ok, we'll take our quota, but it's going to be much harder for the refugees and the migrants to get into the european union. who's going to help us with these tens of thousands of people who will end up in our countries? now the saying will be said of all the other countries outside the e.u., what measures are going to be taken and can they get the agreement of those beyond the e.u. borders, because they'll be the ones next suffering a real crisis. >> david, thank you. >> that meeting going on for at least a few more hours, while we have cameras at one border crossing, this is the area around slovenia and croatia, this is the slovenian side. you can see the refugees, the migrants there on the left-hand side of the picture. many of them having spent a number of nights pretty much out in the o

president is talking about 60,000 arrivals in the last 10 days in macedonia.0 a day, pushing you hire. international agencies saying in below the number is just 10,000 per day. what everyone is saying is that it is accelerating. more refugees are leaving turkey trying to get into greece. for the slovenian president and mr. tsipras, and the president of hungry, you cannot have a real solution for this unless you have some sort of border security along the coast with turkey and greece, and there is a pheromone of criticism and disappointment that the president of turkey wasn't invited to the summit. they did invite some non-eu countries -- macedonia and serbia were in attendance. andno long-term solutions just clarity on how far away we are from any solution to this and how deep the divisions run. s, never a truer word was said of this entire story. hans nichols in berlin, thank you very much. a big interview on the european story coming up later in the day. he italian foreign minister, speaks to bloomberg tv at 9:15 gmt. stay with bloomberg. let's bring in the

we have established some refugee centers and registration centers on the border with macedonia, with bulgaria and also on hungary and croatia. as far as the decisions of concern, they are present and they are medical experts who can aid these refugees. although i have to stress that the destination country of most of them is not serbia. they are just in transit. the average stay in serbia is three to four days. that limits actually the possibility there are some diseases. although it's happened where people seek and even some of them died and also women giving birth to children. all of these were taken care of by the medical team. and the other question which you have mentioned regarding the treatment of the various nationals and religions. in serbia, all of them are treated equally. if they are sunnis or shia or christians, it is no difference. we are treating them with dignity and we are welcoming them and trying to help them. because serbia was also -- serbian people were also in the past subjected to situations similar to this and we really understand their pride and why they lea

from greece, most now travel through macedonia, then serbia, croatia, slovenia, then on through austriaia's border with germany we found hundreds sleeping in tents waiting to be allowed to cross. german authorities had just slowed down the entrance process. only a handful at a time were being allowed in. not far away at salzburg central train station, hundred more waited in an underground garage. the maximum capacity here in the shelter is 800. but, we had nights where we had thousand here. the mayor of salzburg. he has no idea each day how many people he will have to find shelter for. do you get advance notice when germany decides to slow the number of people coming through? >> i don't get advance notice. but i notice right away. >> reporter: can you imagine what would happen if germany closed it borders? >> i don't want to imagine that. then we have a situation which will be a humanitarian catastrophe. >> reporter: do you worry about security? do you know who a lot of these people are? where they're really from? >> i'm not worried about security. and if a terrorist really wants to com

from greece, most now travel through macedonia, then serbia, croatia, slovenia, then on through austriatria's border with germany we found hundreds sleeping in tents waiting to be allowed to cross. german authorities had just slowed down the entrance process. only a handful at a time were being allowed in. not far away at salzburg central train station, hundred more waited in an underground garage. the maximum capacity here in the shelter is 800. but, we had nights where we had thousand here. the mayor of salzburg. he has no idea each day how many people he will have to find shelter for. do you get advance notice when germany decides to slow the number of people coming through? >> i don't get advance notice. but i notice right away. >> reporter: can you imagine what would happen if germany closed it borders? >> i don't want to imagine that. then we have a situation which will be a humanitarian catastrophe. >> reporter: do you worry about security? do you know who a lot of these people are? where they're really from? >> i'm not worried about security. and if a terrorist really wants to c

and onwards to macedonia or italy. and a refugee crisis has been among the issues dominating the parliament. the french president, hollande, gave a joint address, dealing with the unity. reporting now from the european parliament in strasbourg. >> if ever there was a rallying cry for europe, here it is. when chancellor merkel arrived, they face a continent beset by challenges. the lingering affect of the greek death but it's the humanitarian crisis, the arrival of nearly half a million refugees in europe has created rifts between the countries who are willing and aim to help and those who want to keep them out. in the mediterranean, the eu warships have begun patrolling the waters, and they hope that the joint task force will help. 3,000 people have died trying to make the crossing this year. romania and hungary and slovakia are objected but president merkel has asked them to rise to the challenge. >> with each crisis, we have to live not dominated by fear. and nevertheless, there's a temptation to retreat into the she

albania, macedonia and serbia will attend the summit. if the borders tighten, what happens on the other side they ask. >> the european union is suppose t to be a beacon of humanitarian values, and the idea of open borders, that is undermined as the director makes clear to me earlier before the summit begins. >> as we have seen over the last days, months, years, is a tarnishing of the european union and the human rights record. who will they be, when they see this unfolding tragedy again. fresh from the greek crisis. angela merkel is facing a bigger test for the european union. tens of thousands of lives could be at stake. . >> in germany there were competing protests. thousands calling for closing the germany borders, they were outnumbered by people declaring that the refugees are welcome. 3500 riot police deployed to keep the groups apart. spraying water canons. it was a similar scene in london on saturday. police fought with protesters trying to storm the disagrees international train station. there were smoke bombs before police force