robin forester walker, al jazeera, slovenia. >> well, friday's session of parliament was suspended after the opposition let off tear gas canisters. they want the cins to gak out of deals with serbia and montenegro. , chronic mall nutrition. david mercer reports from the guam's world. >> these guatemala children, their mother josefa says it's impossible to break the life of poverty. i wish we had the mine to buy the medicine outside of the hod, with it but we don't. it's very hard. >> a few measures down the road, here too the guatemalan government is absent. with the second round of votes coming on monday. how they will bring the change to the people who need it the most? two nach hours away from gooment >> guatemala city. >> under 12% of gnp is collected in taxes which is very far.than brazil who is 30%. >> led to months of protest and brought down guatemala's president. the spobility the provide basic services for the children' chils tarveg for ds answer them presidents. >>> unsecretary-general says that although the body has contributed to a better wocialtd it haworld ithas faced some

robin forester walker is on the border. >> how to manage tens of thousands of refugees a week moving across europe. that is the challenge facing european leaders. with so many people coming in at this rate every day european leaders especially the balkan leaders have to agree how much longer they can keep this going and how to regulate all of these people. the volunteers like inge, now is the time for compassion. >> they keep coming. and we have to take care of them. >> reporter: what do you think they should be discussing, you know, like what do you think needs to be done? >> really, to me, i do not talk the politics. to me it's the human side, we really see these are human beings as we are. if we had the obligation to keep them in our cub we would do that as well. >> all refugees from syria are welcoming to come. they see that is the only problem and only bloods are blockades o will help. so in brussels the debate may swing between the need for compassion and the need for control. robin forester al jazeera. >> maureen o'hara has died. she was also known as her on screen work with j

robin forester walker is there. >> outside, najeeb was reluctant to speak on camera. he's been pepper-sprayed earlier. he's leading eight men women and children. this is his latest indignity. >> they don't treat you as human. you ask them something, they don't answer. no food no water, no blanket nothing. can you see the kids are sick now. >> reporter: unfortunately, we're being prevented from speaking to these people, and nobody in authority will talk to us about why they seem to have so little in the way of clothing food and water, and why they've been waiting so long. buses have started to arrive now, so we are expectation them finally to be moving off but they have been waiting for hours. adnan a volunteer, estimates two and a half thousand are waiting here. >> if they don't know the information it feels like guantanamo bay, like americans are doing. being locked up politics going on. >> reporter: to see how bad things have got, the eu sent its commissioner of migration to slovenia on thursday. >> the commission stands by slovenia and we are ready to assist the co

robin forester walker is in the capital. >> biometric voter registration, i detect a degree of excitement. lots of people queuing to come in, get their fingerprint recognition, they can pick up their ballot, do the usual registration here, mark their ballot and then is post in the ballot box. gone are the ballot boxes, we have a system that reads it and collects it at the same time. it's only been introduced just over a year ago, and lots of people haven't had sometime oar wanted to submit their biometric data. there could be as much as a million voters throughout that are unable ocast their ballots today, especially migrant neighbors in places like russia. those who do come out and vote have the big issues in their mind, how to solve this country's problems of age old corruption. >> polls are open in portugal, voters have the choice of giving soicialists thsocialists a chang ruling coalition to the vote. bailout from eu and imf. >>> jaime valdez rodriguez challenging the political elite. >> his nickname is el bronco, which roughly translates into untameable. jaime rodriguez's heroes are

robin forester walker, al jazeera. >>> at least 43 died when a truck collided with a bus in france. >> the coach has been entirely burnt out. it was carrying a bunt much elderly people a few kilometers away. they were going on a day trip. bend in the road local people sais is tricky to navigate. the bus and the cap of the truck fire leaving some passengers trapped. >> the driver of an empty timber truck lost his vehicle. the bus driver saw it was going to lap, did everything to avoid it? to lo ir allow a few people to get out. >> the emergency services arrived by road and air but more than 40 people are now known to have perished in the fire. the french president called the accident an immense tragedy. france's prime minister has traveled to the area. >> it is a terrible shock for the girang and for france. today the people are in mourns. >> an investigation on what caused it is now underway. emma hayward, al jazeera. >> scuffles have broken out in kosovo's parliament. second time let off tear gas canisters. presidential hopeful in argentina have held their final campaign rallies befo

. >>> robin forester walker reports. >> a whole new system of biometric voter registration. lots of people queuing to come in. they get their fingerprint recognition here, it has to match with photo i.d., they get a ticket, do their bloolts, they dballots.then they post in the t box. gone is the closed ballot box, this one reads and counts at the same time. this system is developed to eliminate rawd but proven highly controversial. lots of people wanted to submit their biometric data, there could be as many as 1 million reporters who are unable to cast their vote. this country's problem with money and the age old problem of corruption. >> herbal medicines, one bush doctor has come up with an urban solution of protecting south africa's rural heritage. tanya page reports. >> neville comes to be inspired. he's a bush doctor. the healing powers of these plants have been used for centuries. unlike his ancestors, the coirsacoysanhe has supposed to a permit. >> we have been picking the herbs without permits. >> demand is high. >> there is a lot of use that is coming on to this. the

let's go live to robin forest walker who is on the border with slow vane i can't. first of all, tell us little bit about what is happening where you are. >> yes, well, behind me hundreds more refugees who crossed over from the slovenia side from austria are now waiting to be moved on, and waiting--they've been doing some time now. earlier buss were coming here, but they seem to have stopped. people once again having to spend lots of time. many ours out in the cold. of course the numbers keep on coming because you can't see it from behind me, but a little further back in the direction of slovenia, we know that there are many thousands more people either who are on the croatian side. many distressing scenes that are too common. we met two women earlier from syria who refused to get on the buses because they had lost their children. they wouldn't get on until they had found them again, of course. when those buses do finally come, they are then put on buses and taken out to cities across austria. that's where the asylum process can begin. but most people have germany o

robin forester-walker has more. >> reporter: this is the point at which the refugees have sloughe sloveniaere are no tents. there is very little in the way of warm clothing or deesent food for them to have here they have taken to burning whatever they can find, rubber or plastic, in order to try to keep themselves warm. it's a very acrid smell that i am getting. and the night has fallen. so, it is going to be another cold night for those who have entered here about 1,000 at a time, and they must wait here for up to 10 hours. we have been hearing some reports of volunteers working inside before they can be moved on to processing camps. now, that is the humanitarian aspect that needs to be improved. many people are telling us with regard not just here but, also, the other camps in slovenia. eventually, if these countries can all agree on a coordination system, things will start moving so that we don't have backlogs and the people like the refugees in this camp don't have to wait so long in the cold before they can move forward. they can't move forward until the next camp is cleared of its gr

. >> robin forest walker live at the slovania-croatia border, bodies of 14 people thought to be refugeeswashed ashore in libya, libya red crescent team said they were found on beaches by the city hom east of the capital tripoli and 2 1/2 thousand people drown trying to reach europe in the mediterranean sea so far. two turkish firerman who rescued a 18-month-old child at see fisted them and the boy was floating face down in the choppy water, when they hauled him on to the boat thank you realized he was still alive and began to revive him and the mother described the fishermen as heros and have given their family a second chance at life. two men killed with i.s.i.l. fighters in the southeast city. police were raiding a dozen properties on the outskirts of the city early on monday when the gun battle broke out. we are live in istanbul and what is the latest from the scene ther there? >> reporter: security forces have been telling us that seven suspected i.s.i.l. fighters were killed in the shoot out during those dawn raids but two police officers were killed apparently when one of the prope

as robin forester-walker reports, volunteer aid workers say they are being prevented from offering much-needed> the promise now of 400 extra police from the european union to manage this unparalleled scale of migration may come as a reef to the slovenian authorities but relief for the refugees, i try to ask people how they spend the last night. not enough water, said this man. they had been waiting for hours. finally, some were allowed to leave for an austria-bound train. but members of this family had been left behind. >> one of my brother and my sisters's husband, they didn't let them come out. >> hopefully, they made it on to the next train. by the afternoon, the camp was ready for more arrivals. >> this is just the latest batch of hundreds of refugees to arrive at this holding facility. the police seem to be doing a very good job at crowd control, but the humanitarian effort from what we have seen isn't quite as adequate. aid agencies such as frontier said more resources are needed though they stress the slovenian authorities are working closely with them but these volunteers say they have

al jazeera robin forester walker reports. >> reporter: another leg for another thousand or so refugees, another ending ordeal. >> we are suffering from vision. >> ali from iraq wanted to make one thing clear. he isn't here by choice. >> i'm not running from my country, i love my country. but we are running. >> these are the latest refugees to arrive in slovenia and the numbers keep on coming. that is a burden slovenia says it cannot bear without eu money, manpower, and mutual agreement. slovenian police have released this video showing the croatian authorities leading refugees towards an illegal border crossing. slovenia's prime minister is frustrated. >> they send people to us in an uncontrolled way. they do not tell us where they will send those people. they just push them through border unexpectedly. sometimes they're not very good condition and this is very hard then for us. >> with the prime minister's visit efficiency returns to the camp on friday. transport laid on for them to continue their journey towards the austrian border. but there the system failed again. no more buses so

robin forester walker reports. >> reporter: the promise of 400 extra police from the european union, come as a relief for the sla screenian authorities, but relief for the refugees. i tried to ask people how they spent the night. not enough water said this man. finally some were allowed to leave for an austrian-bound train. but members of this family had been left behind. >> one of my brothers, and my sister's husband, the camp, they didn't let them come out. >> reporter: by the afternoon the camp was ready for more arrivals. this is just the latest batch of hundreds of refugees to arrive at this holding facility. the police people to be doing a very good job at crowd control, but the humanitarian effort from what we have seen isn't quite as adequate. aid agencies, such as this one, say more resources are needed, though they stress that the slow screenian authorities are cooperating closely with them. but these volunteers say they have been obstructed. >> to be disallowed to hand blankets to people when we have sufficient to get to the children and family -- i mean this is disgusting

robin forester-walker reports from the capital. >> reporter: the voting has made it much harder to commit electoral fraud, but with one major drawback. voters that failed to register in time, some 20% of the electorate, were unable to cast their vote. still, the country's president believes kyrgyzstan has set a new standard. i think, you know, it is great, because many countries, some of them not far from us, don't know what freedom and free and fair elections mean. free and fair may be, but he still has significant control over parliament. preliminary results suggest his party is ahead but will need coalition partners to form the next government. five years ago thousands of people protested on the same streets to overthrow a corrupt regime. the result of that was an experiment in parliamentary democracy. five years on, and these transparent elections suggest that experiment may be working. there's work to be done. kyrgyzstan is racked my corruption and the chronically weak economy, but it could still set a democratic example to the rest of the region. >>> at least 16 people have died in

from the capitol, robin forest every walker reports. >> when it comes to central asian democracy, thiss as good as it gets. with 14 political parties contesting, it's been a defendant vibrant election campaign in randy stan but there is such a plural society, campaign has been short on messages of tolerance or diversity. harassment of minorities like gays and lesbians is xlon place. in this video pat tree on theic movements intimidate those inside a home. those same groups back an anti--gay propaganda law that enjoys cross-party support. >> i meet a candidate who tells me there is no space for gay people in krgys society. >> homosexuality is a major problem. some organizations claim we have had homosexwalty throughout our history. this isn't true. in the era of genghis khan and under communism, we had no concept of homosexuality. >> this support group for sexual minorities has had its own offices attacked but is willing to speak out. >> look at the platforms of all political parties. none of them are talking about minorities. none of them are talking about non-discrimination principles

al jazeera's robin forest forester-walker reports from the capital. >> reporter: kyrgyzstan's voting made it harder to commit electoral fraud but with one major drawback. voters that failed to register in time, 20% of the electorate, was unable to cast a vote. still the country's president believes kyrgyzstan has set a new standard. >> translator: i think it is great because many couldn't country and some not far from us don't know what freedom and free and fair election mean. >> reporter: he still has significant control over parliament. preliminary results suggest his party is ahead but will need coalition partners to form the next government. five years ago thousands of people protested on these same streets to overthrow a corrupt regime. the result of that was an experiment in parliament democracy. five years on you and they suggest that experiment maying working. there's work to be done. it's racked by corruption and the chronically weak economy. it could set a democratic example to the rest of the region. >>> the world bank is to raise the so-called poverty line by 65 cents to