simon mc-greger wood, al jazeera, paris. >>> still to come on the al jazeera news hour, kenya welcomesampions after their heroics after the world championships in beijing. ♪ time for the sports news here. >> thank you so much, the u.s. open is underway at flushing meadows in new york and first round victories for serena williams and yanukovich and nadal and surprise exits on monday as richard par reports. >> reporter: serena williams resumed the quest for the first to complete a calendar grand slam since 1988 at the u.s. open, her first round match only lasted half an hour while number 86 retired with an ankle injury with williams leading 6-0, 2-0, it's her 22 victory in a row at flushing meadows. >> it's great to be here in the stadium and just to be american and then to be on this journey in my life, i never, you know, it's kind of awesome this is the last grand slam of the year. >> reporter: 7th seed and yanukovich is out, the former (ch open champion lost in three se sets. yanukovich says he made a statement with his first round win and world one took 73 minutes to beat them 6-1, 6

simon mc-greger wood has more. >> reporter: many market traders' trucks about to be ban from the centerand according to the mayor they are too old and polluting and drivers fined $40 each time they are caught and they are not hap happy. >> translator: it's going to affect us of course three quarters of the market traders here don't have new trucks and we will end up paying. >> reporter: paris has a problem, they like to drive especially cheap to run diesel engines and pour millions of tiny partibles in the air. back in march the city briefly had the worst air quality in the world. critics of the plan say this is more about the city of paris trying to avoid a huge fine being imposed by the european union and also trying to get its house in order before it hosts the world's climate change conference later this year. the city will encourage drivers to buy newer vehicles with cheap loans and restrictions will cover more and more vehicles in the years leading up to 2020. >> translator: air pollution costs france $110 billion per year, that is a travesty for our health and also an economic tr

simon mc-greger wood, al jazeera, london. >>> the seasons they are a changing, autumn is on the way,thern hemisphere right now something of a change weather wise happening in east europe and we have mr. fox. >> it has been hard southeast parts of here with wet weather coming through and it will feel much cooler as well and good news. there is certainly a change in the seasons and has been pretty wet as we both know in the u e united kingdom and it's going further south and 50 millimeters of rain in austria and wet weather making its way across in eastern parts of europe, good news for ukraine. we had very, very hot weather here, the hottest august's on record here and that started quite a few wildfires in and around kiev. we have got a cool one over the next couple days and indeed wetter weather too. here is the weather system that will introduce the cooler and and to the north of that we have temperatures and it will go further southward through the next few days and see the yellows are diving to the southeast corner of europe and by the time we come to sunday, they are up in the 30

simon mc-greger wood, al jazeera, london. >>> much more ahead on the news hour fostering a love of literaturealk to a man who is bringing books to a south african community through his under ground library plus. >> andrew thomas and in australia, along the coastline that is developing a reputation as the shark attack capitol of the world, some here are calling for a call but would that be ethical. >>> and in sport conditions at the u.s. open too hot to handle for some of the players, details coming up, with joe. ♪ ♪ hello again and the headlines hundreds of refugees are in a tense standoff with police at a rail way station in hungry and refuse to get off a train and move to a refugee camp and still have to get to austria but the train was stopped by police. european foreign ministers will meet in luxenburg with talks on the refugee crisis and they announced new plans to accept thousands more syrians. the syrian toddler has come to symbolize the suffering of refugees has been buried along with his brother and mother and laid to rest in their home city of kobane. germany is expecting a record 8