Orders his military to state of war readiness as tensions with south korea escalate. There have been scenes of chaos on the border between greece and macedonia as thousands try to make their way further north across europe. Many of them are fleeing the war in iraq and syria. They have traveled through turkey into greece, some of them making shorter journeys by sea to avoid european borders. Other countries move to harden the frontiers. In macedonia a state of emergency is now in force and thousands of refugees spend their last night in nomansla nomansland. About a quarter of a million are known to have crossed the mediterranean this year many moving through wartorn libya. Many more have died in the attempt. Some then continue their journey deeper into europe. Well, this is the scene at cali in northern france. Around 3,000 people are camped there trying to cross the channel into the u. K. Emma hayward has more now on the situation in macedonia. Reporter they spent a cold night in nomansland waiting to cross the border between greece and macedonia, but their passage was blocked by riot police. Rocks were thrown, and then this. Smoke filling the air with police using stun grenades to try to keep people out. In the ensuing chaos, there was panic. Most refugees here have escaped conflict and few would have expected this. They shoot us today. I cant tell you. I see it. Reporter later more frustration and fear as numbers build up at the border. It was open for a short time and then quickly closed again. Leaving the crowd desperate to be allowed through. But the heat and the crush was too much for some. Tens of thousands of people have crossed through macedonias borders heading north during the last month. Too many say the authorities who have declared a state of emergency in two border regions. The local train station is a transit point for many. Most want to try to reach serbia, hungary, and then other parts of europe. While the border is still being so closely guarded, many will have to stay and wait wherever they can on the greek side. There are hundreds of vulnerable persons, children, babies, other persons with extreme vulnerabilities including medical needs. Most of them, if not all of them, stay rough in the open air. We do appeal to the greek authorities to take all necessary measures to address the humanitarian needs of the persons gathered on the board r line. Reporter macedonia says it will allow refugees to enter in numbers it can cope and care for. By bolstering the borders, the country may create a backlog of desperate men, women and children unsure where they can go next knowing they cant go home. Emma hayward, al jazeera. Al jazeeras ivan karpalo is with hundreds of migrants gathered on the greek side of the border of macedonia. He sent this update. Reporter more than 3,000 refugees here at the border between greece and macedonia will spend another night outside. We can definitely say that these people are not not born under the lucky star, because as if they dont have enough of their own problems, another one showed up a few minutes ago. The light rain started, and the forecast for tonight is heavy rain. So another night in front of the these people. People are coming here at this border. Tomorrow expected foe boat from the island with more than two and a half thousand refugees that eventually come here to the border. Macedonia police announced they will not allow any crossing tonight and they will reopen the border tomorrow at 5 00 a. M. The priority for crossing the border will be on women and children, and after that everybody else. Theyre going to allow people to cross the border every two hours. As i said, the situation here in this camp is very, very difficult. People dont have enough food. People dont have enough water. Greek authorities didnt provide any kind of help, and theyre going to spend another night out in the open and many of them are here more than two weeks. Many trying to get to macedonia are from syria and iraq. Even as they push north, hundreds more arrive in greece prepared to make a similar journey. These are pictures from leros where 200 mostly syrians arrived on friday. A ferry carrying around 2,000 refugees mostly from syria has docked in the greek island. Serious conflict is still no closer to resolution, and the International Community is being accused of not doing enough to bring it to an end. Two years ago there was outrage when 1500 people were killed in a sarin gas attack in the town of ghouta. Survivors are still waiting for justice. We have the story and a warning that viewers may find some of the images in the report upsetting. Reporter the dead and the dying. There was no blood on their bodies. No visibility injuries. The attack was different than what syrians had seen before. Rockets carrying chemicals landed in the damascus intush of ghouta on august 21, 2013. It took like seconds before i lost my ability to breathe. I wasnt able to breathe or even to scream to alert my friends, so i have to like pound my chest really hard just to get try to take a single breath. I felt like somebody was tearing up my chest with a knife. Reporter this 29yearold survived. Hundreds of others didnt. Two years later he has a new life in the United States, but he remembers that day clearly. It was a seen from judgment day. Dozens of people, men, women, children, running and falling on the ground suffocating. The terror, the confusion. It was something unbearable. I just didnt know what to do. Reporter Mohammed Abdullah did. He was working in syria as a photographer, and he wanted to document the evidence of a crime he believed the world should see. I asked the doctor about what i need to know, so he showed me. He showed me the dark. The dark blue of the color that was changed. The eyes and the things that are coming out from their mouth. Reporter even though he covered the war for many years, he cant forget what he saw in that day. Im a war photographer. To me to see a dead body with the blood is normal. When you see them, you think like they are the first thing you think that they are sleeping. Then you realize after like one or two seconds your reality becomes facing whats really go on after the shot. Reporter reality faced him years before. He was an activist in ghouta who filmed the suffering of people under siege. Since the attack he tried to raise awareness, even at the u. N. And u. S. Congress, but its all been in vain, he says. Honestly, i feel like i did nothing. After all the talking and all the people that i met, not just me but thousands of syrians here, we felt like there is no hope. Reporter the u. N. Did include at that sarin gas was used in the ghouta attack but didnt have the mandate to blame anyone. Theres a new resolution to investigate attacks in syria, but before 2014 they wont be included. Yet again denying justice to the people of ghouta. Breaking news now. The white house confirming that the second in command in the group socalled Islamic State of iraq levant isil has been killed in a u. S. Military air strike that took place on august 18th. So confirmation here that the second in command was killed in a u. S. Military strike. Well get more details and bring it to us, of course. The United States and its partners have been conducting air strikes against isil in both syria and iraq. So well bring you more on that a bit later on. Meanwhile, the United Nations has condemned the shutting down of some of iraqs lifesaving medical services. Last month around 80 of Health Programs provided by the u. N. And its partners were forced to close. The reason . Not able to raise the half a billion dollars required to Fund Services which it described as devastates and inis mritable. Thousands of children wont be immunized now. We went toe one hospital in baghdad to see how the doctors are coping. Reporter at this hospital this doctor doles out medical care and dispenses hard truths. This is a tough challenge. Living in a city with violence, daily violence, a city with living in a city with low infrastructure and trying to do our best to give the best to those patients is not easy. Reporter while this governmentrun facility is cleaner and better stocked than many other hospitals and clinics in iraqs capital, its certainly not immune to the crisis spreading through a Health Care System here many consider declaying and diseased. The shortage of supplies and welltrained staff is nothing new in iraq. Things are getting worse. Even storing medicines at the right temperature is difficult. The medication stored inside here must stay constantly refrigerated. Thats why they have to keep working. During this record heat wave with so many power cuts, this hospital and others are relying on backup generators. Back inside patients find that even on a relatively slow day wait times are long. Translator if i had a Critical Condition and needed immediate surgery, id have to wait a month to get my turn, and thats not practical at all. Reporter going to a private hospital would be far too expensive for this couple. The ministry of health isnt the only institution in the country struggling to deliver medical aid. The United Nations recently announced a funding gap forcing 80 of front line Health Services in iraq to shut down. 1 Million People are affected. It means that all the kids that are going to be immunized arent going to be. All the pregnant women who needed help during birth and before birth and after it, theyre not going to receive that assistance. 3 Million People are displaced inside iraq. Its painful. It hurts. The people that need us the most right now, were walking away from them. When youre in a clinic yesterday providing antibiotics and today is closed because we dont have the funding, you have nothing but shame. Youre ashamed. Reporter another blow to a country whose people need more help but are receives less and less. Al jazeera, baghdad. Still to come for you on al jazeera, journalists silenced. Why a row has erupted over reporting on a volcano in ecuador. Hopes and fears. I would love to see my business grow into a transnational company. The only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and thats what were doing at xfinity. We are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. And this includes our commitment to being on time. Every time. 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Is urging both countries to being at thatle a deteriorating situation. 15 people ville killed in earian government airraids over eastern aleppo. This video post odd twitter shows the man detained by police on the platform and they were taken by a passenger on board of the plane. They say the man opened fire on the train around 1600 gmf on friday. Three people were injured. Its not clear what his motive was. Frances Antiterror Police are investigating the incident. Other stories. Doctors without borders are reporting 65 people including 17 from the same have been killed in a suddenly air strike tarlthing houthi position but hit civilian areas by accident. The city has been shelled by prohouthi forces for several days. This footage is from an attack on thursday in which 23 people were killed. Progovernment forces backed by the sawudsaudiled coalitionle. The white house confirming that isils second in command mataz gl was killed in a strike a couple of days ago. Lets go to patty cole culhane. What are you hearing about this . We got a brief statement from the white house, and there are two operatives both haj mutazz and abu abdullah who were a media operator. They were traveling in a vehicle struck on the 18th on tuesday near mosul. They say this will hurt isil quite badly. Heres the problem. There he said he was dead. On december 18, 2014, just a quick Google Search will say the chairman was doing an interview with the wall street journal and he said this was a big victory and he was taken off the battlefield. Were reaching out to white house officials again. This just came out. Were trying to figure out where this miscommunication went. They never came out and said they didnt get him. We have to say how they square that. What is the general view there in washington, d. C. On capitol hill about the effectiveness of u. S. Led air strikes in both iraq and syria . Well, theres been a lot of criticism mostly coming from republicans, the Opposition Party to president barack obama. They say its not working and hes not doing enough. Weve seen twiths this is a pillar to the Obama Administration and theyre triening what they say are moderates willing to fight isil but not fight assad. They had a horrible time trying to find the people and vetting those people after a year into it, they only trade 54 and sent them into the battlefield within days, five were killed and one was killed and five were captured and the others disappeared and they count find them. From the white house they realized problemed with the train and equip program. They say the air strikes have an effect. When you look at the map, they point to it and look at the successes and look at the failures. Its it takes a long time to defeat isil and the reps say the strategy is not working but they cant budge president barack obama who will maintain this course. At least thats what hes saying or now. Well get more on this story later. Thank you. The fighters from the Islamic State of iraq and levant have destroyed a 1. 5 millionyearold monetary in syria. They demolished it with a large tractor. It was in a village 85 kilometers from the city of homs. It included a syrian catholic church. Now greeces main Opposition Party is trying to form a new government and follows a resignation of Prime Minister tsipras on thursday after he called for new elections. More than 20 members have announced theyre forming a new party. John reports from the capital athens. Reporter the notion of a second election in a year appeals to supporters of Prime Minister alex sis tsipras. Translator maybe tsipras will do better. We expected a different deal, but he tried very hard. Reporter most greeks, however, want more stability. Translator its a bad idea. Were voting every six months. That suggests something deeply wrong with the political system, and especially affects those of us unemployed. We believed in tsipras. He did not stick to his promises, and if a politician cant do that, its better if he doesnt stand. Seven months of negotiations resulted in a third bailout loan, accompanied by strict austerity measures. The long period of uncertainty allow the economy to slide back into recession, despite an outlook for growth this year. Antiques dealer russo felt the brunt of the recession. He used to count the rich and famous, and he has given up his business and locked his valuables in cellars. Translator tsipras is trying to escape. His party sees the difficulties before it. They promised much and delivered nothing. Did they bring one euro of the embezzled millions back . They should they will abolish the property tax and tear up the awe tear rit deal. They did none of it. It was grandstanding and they did as they were today. Reporter tsipras resignation sparked an open season. 25 have broken away and formed pop layer unity an antiawe tear rit party. The conservatives want to break off those that lie nearer to the political center. The party only controls 106 seats, far short of the 151 they need to govern in the 300seat legislature. The conservatives plan to invite moderates to join them in a coalition, which would possibly include a Prime Minister other than mr. Tsipras, but the venture seems ambitious. It rose from Single Digits to rule greece in just a few years. Those who wanted it returned to the leftish roots and those who lost voters to it both now want it to unravel even faster, but greek politics are personality oriented. While the appeal of Alexis Tsipras lasts, theyre unlikely to succeed. Now, tensions are building between north and south korea after an exchange of fire across the border on thursday. North koreas leader kim jongun ordered his front line troops to be on a war footing as the south refused to top propaganda broadcasts. It has until saturday afternoon to stop or face military action. Harry fossett reports. Reporter south koreas president visited the command post on friday flanked by her supervisors and senior military commands. The message conveyed, her personal chanted of situation as north and south korea engage in sporadic military faceoffs. Reporter the military should be alert for further provocations if the situation occurs, i want you to take action first and then report later. Reporter it followed a late night meeting of the north korean ruling party in which kim jongun orted front line areas into a socalled quasiwar state and be ready for attacks against the south. Translator the general staff of the army sent an ultimatum saying that the korean peoples arm wants Strong Military action unless korea stops broadcasting towards the north. These loud speakers at the border are a source of the warfare. They restarted broadcasting and propoganda two weeks ago for the first time in 11 years. It was in response to earlier in month on the Southern Side of the demilitarized zone. They say northern forces planted land mines that maimed two soldiers. The village lies a few kilometers south of the border. Its the closest civilian area to where south korea says the first north korean projectile was fired on thursday. Only here is the advisory still in place. Translator north koreas provocation is likely to continue, so we are advising residents to stay in shelters. There are some who went out mostly to carry out their daily business, but we will advise them to come back to the shelter this evening. Reporter inside its mainly the elderly and young that stayed behind. Translator living in area, ive seen many drills and heard explosions. This time the sound was louder and there was an announcement asking us to evacuate. Compared to the past, im more concerned. Seeking refuge in this shelter feels like an uncomfortable habit here. A shell fell here, and north korea fired propagandacarrying ballooned launched by south korean activities. They have the added provocation of a deadline counting down. Harry fossett, al jazeera, south korea. A new medical study from canada is casting doubt on the effectiveness of aggressive early interventions to stop breast cancer. The paper says treatments like mastectomy, removing the entire breast, have no effect on whether the patient is alive a decade later. The study concluded taking out just the affected tissue is just as effective. Film star Angelina Jolie is just one of many women who had her breasts removed as a precaution against breast cancer. Now, ecuadors government has banned journalists from reporting on a volcano that has erupted for the first time in more than 70 years. As we report from the capital, journalists say the ban is one of many restrictions on press freedom in ecuador at the moment. Reporter after 31 years in i the news program, he says he now watches every word he says on air, afraid his Radio Station will be fined by the government says his son. Translator if the government disagrees with our content, we have to publish a rectification exactly as they send it to us, and that includes saying we are liars. Reporter the sister station could lose the operating license given by the government if they anger president rafael correa. Theyre shameless, sick clowns, psychopaths, manipulative and honest. Reporter correa doesnt trust the private media and constantly lashes out against it. A private tv station has eliminated investigative reports on corruption to avoid the president s criticism and to prevent punishment. Translator theres sensorship violating the law. Youre punished even if you dont violate the law, and telling the truth doesnt exonerate you from penalties. Since its create the law has gone after and fined 143 news organizations. Only one of them is public, and the rest are private. Any information aired or published is subject to scrutiny by a panel named by the government. Joanna tassi directs a governmentsponsored Radio Station. She says the private media responds to private interest. The end game now is to make journalism independent, rigorous and responsible. Translator there isnt any persecution. Object kwusly, the private media dislikes that control over content. The law doesnt prohibit publishing nervous, but if you want to publish, you have to do it well. Reporter critics say the Communications Law hasnt he helped to improve journalism. Instead Community Radios and maul newspapers are disappearing or used as propaganda tools by the government. The fines imposed on investigative magazines and newspapers forced them to close. Journalists say the new regulations mean their outlets can be discredited or immediately punished even if they can prove theyre telling the truth. This is where you need to go for more on all of the stories were covering, aljazeera. Com. They work in the darkest depths of the earth, your honor seen and unheard by the world above. The air is toxic and the walls could collapse at any moment