police policemen have been killed in a car bottom in south-eastern turkey in nusaybin, which is closeo the border >>> european council president donald tusk has warned economic migrants not to come to europe. his comments come as thousands of people gather as greece-macedonia border. refugees blocked a railway line in a protest to let them in >> translation: we are not prisoners, she says. we are humans. we escaped from i.s.i.s. and we came to you. pleas that have become more desperate aas each day goes by. if there was any hope that the bottleneck at the border would be soeld in a few days, it is now all but gone, replaced by this pair, anger and frustration and an overwhelming state of confusion. access to macedonia is restricted but no clear guidelines have been given as to what the stranded here need to do. information is spread by word of mouth and often it is wrong. >> translation: every day there are new rules. i'm afraid they will tell me that i can't get in because my jacket is background and they want it to be black. >> reporter: any semblance of a unified european system ha

two policemen have been killed in a car bomb and rocket attack in south-eastern turkey.t happened close to the border with syria. 35 people are reported to have been wounded. japan has suspended construction work to relocate a u.s. air base on the island of okinawa. they have about 6,000 troops there. they want to move it to a less densely occupied part. people there don't want it closed down. >> reporter: on the face of it this would appear to be a concession by the japanese president abe and between the governor here of the child south of mainland japan. it centers around a u.s. marine air base which is in the middle of the island in the middle of a residential area. the japanese government calls it the most dangerous such air base in the world as a result of that. it is designed to be relocated to northern eastern main island in a bay known as honoko bay, close to a current u.s. military base, but there have been long running protests by residents saying that it is an environmentally dangerous thing to do to reclaim the land in that bay. also they say they simply bear

from >> a car bomb in south eastern turkey targets security forces killing at least seven people. ♪ goodo have your company. watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up in this program, iraq's leader calls off a sit in by his supporters. after the country's prime minister names new ministers for his cabin. a bridge billion built collapses killing at least 21 and trapping many more. south africa's president zuma found guilty of violating the constitution by using public money to renovate his home. ♪ starting in south eastern turkey, there a car bomb has gone off and killed seven turkish police officers at least 20 people were also injuries in the blast in the manely kurdish city. calling to initial reports the target was a minibus carries police special forces. joining me on the turkey syria border, and omar please bring us up to date with the latest? yes, david, well, we have a slight change in the number of wounded after the 27losion, it is now 27 injury there are civilians as well as the police force thenings motion happened at the busy rush hour, people were heading home the

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lawrence lee reports from south-eastern turkey. >> reporter: this was a trading post on the silk cruise in the 16th century. this is a mixture of kurds, turks and arabs. the deal between e.u. and turkey would allow them all visa free travel to europe. people have no idea about the negotiations. >> translation: why not go to the world. if you have no visa, anybody you ask, if they have opportunity and some money, they can go for a holiday. they don't have to pay 400 and they will have no difficulties to apply to embassy and wait for a visa. >> reporter: the deal has been criticized over allegations that the e.u. is so intent on keeping refugees out, it has gone into demands, but just for visa free travel but also fresh talks on the european union. it comes at a time that turkey is growing authoritarianism. so fortress europe could become fortress turkey. many rights groups say sending refugees back here could break international law. the whole reason why so many refugees make the dangerous journey into europe is because staying in turkey means it is difficult for them to get their childr

tourists have been targeted and urging everyone to avoid visiting south-eastern turkey, especially areas near the syrian border. >> reporter: the departure of u.s. dependents from turkey comes as turkish officials are travelling to america. there is no connection it is said. the command says the move is temporary, that so-called accompanied tour $in turkey may resume once the threat has subsided >>> thank you. coming up next, how heroin and prescription pain killer addiction has taken hold in u.s. suburbs: plus a father and a video game he created about his dying son. now the subject of a documentary. we will hear from the father and one of the film makers after this. r this. >> al jazeera america brings you independent reporting without spin. >> not everybody is asking the questions you're asking me today. >> we give you more perspectives >> the separatists took control a few days ago. >> and a global view. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> getting the story first-hand. >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> what's your message then? >> we need help now.

he has con determined a car bomb attack in south eastern turkey that killed seven police officers ateast 27 others were left injury misdemeanor the blast in the mainly kurdish city. these attacks will never keep us from fighting terrorisms, we are corners organizations, terrorism is showing it's face through such acts we are determined to make sure that terror 7 no longer an obstacle to the progress in our country. terrorists are being protected in one way or another, and unfortunately, keep attacking our country. we can't top rate this any more. the explosion took place during rush hour and people were returning home, the explosion happened near a bus terminal and the apparent target was a minibus carrying turkish police officers. now, the president is speaking from washington, d.c., did not directly say who is behind the attack, but he indirectly referred to the kurdistan workers party, the p.k.k., he said that terrorism will not deter or end turkey's effort to confront terrorism. now, a dominately kurdish area, and over the last few months the security forces have been carries out

ongoing assessment of conditions there in turkey and in recognition of the threat environment in south-eastern turkey from a regional perspective. >> reporter: while the order applies only to families of u.s. government employees and military dependants, the state department also issued a general travel warning for any americans in turkey. it is cited increased threat from terrorist groups throughout turkey, noting that foreign and u.s. tourists have been explicitly targeted and urging everyone to avoid visiting south eastern it you are key, especially areas near the syrian border. the departure comes as turkish officials are travelling to washington for a summit on nuclear proliferation. they insist there is no connection. the u.s. command says the move is temporary, that so-called accompany tours may room in turkey as soon as the threat subsides >>> turkey's president is in the u.s. today. he will be taking part in that national security summit laut later this week. the white house turning down calls for a formal talks with obama. erdogan will be holding talks with the vie president tomorrow. the a

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south eastern europe. what used to be called turkey, the former ottoman empire with some overlapping with the former austrian habsburg empire. in 1989, i was a deep in the midst of writing this book and i finished it at the very beginning -- no, i finished it in mid-1990 in the yugoslav crisis was still in the future, so to speak. and i had a long piece in the atlantic monthly before the berlin wall even fell in 1989 saying that the balkans will shape the end of the century just like vietnam and afghanistan did in earlier decades. then the berlin wall fell in the media was writing heavily about the new concept of central europe, which had emerged as a new -- and old new trendy concert. central europe -- i wrote this in the wall street journal -- central europe is the latest concept that the media is feeding to death but there is another concept that will arise because of great instability called the balkans which the media will soon discover and in that article i described the coming ethnic breakup of yugoslavia but i also was not fatalistic or deterministic because i wrote that if yugoslavia followed reform

south-eastern coast of cyprus. all flights being diverted to another airport on cyprus. there was reports that the hijacker originally wanted to fly to istanbul in turkey but he was told that there wasn't enough fuel on the aircraft to make that longer flight. our correspondent joins us live now. there is a swirl, a fog of misinformation almost surrounding this evolving story. just tell us what we know to be the fact >>> we heard the egyptian minister say not really divulge much information, saying that 55 passengers were on board. he also said that seven people are still in that plane, four of them crew members, the pilot, co pilot and air stewardess as well as an air marshall. he said there were three other passengers, refusing to disclose their nationality. he refused to disclose the identity of the hijacker. there were reports that he was an egyptian national. the egyptian minister refusing to confirm it is him. there are reports circulating that the man could be another. a lot of misinformation. the biggest question that the egyptian authorities did not answer is how did this happen. the cypriat president saying this is not relate to terrorism. th

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the polls and the race >>> two policemen have been killed in a car bomb and rocket attack in south-eastern turkey. it happened in nusaybin close to the border with syria. many have been wounded in the explosion. some pictures from paris where we can see the palace. we're expecting angela merkel to be turning up for a meeting with francois hollande. they will be turning up about refugees. paul, tell us more about what's to be expected from this meeting. >> reporter: there has been a frantic and very busy period of diplomatic activity here in france in the past couple of