Beirut, thousands protest over what they say is a dysfunctional government. We go to colombia where one Students Initiative is turning her carcrazed hometown into a bike friendly environment. Security forces in macedonia have stand preventing thousands of refugees from crossing the border from greece, now letting groups go through. Theyre supplying buses and trains to take them on to serbia, which is the next stop in their journey to e. U. Member country. It was a very different scene saturday when hundreds of refugees and applying grants made a run for the border. Security forces were overwhelmed. Many people are trying to get to hungary, a major entry point into the e. U. Hangary itself is building a fence along its border with as her i cant, so the russia is on to get through before that fence is finished. Al jazeeras Andrew Simmons is in macedonia where many refugees have now boarded trains, taking them on to serbia. Two trains have left and now these people are left behind, trying to get their papers. All it is is a stamp, allowing them 72 hours in macedonia for them to be moved on up to the serbian border. Lets take a look around here. There are mainly men here. Women and children were given priority to get on the trains, but the system was quite disorganized. It was hit and miss with some moments of special tension with the police here and the people. The people were quite calm compared to the confrontation that had happened on the border. They now november theres a way out. They now know there is a route to the serbian border, then on to hungary, from there to france, germany, and there is a belief that their journey may have an ending. Whether thats a happy one is extremely unclear, much uncertainty here. A lot of suffering. People of all groups, backgrounds, many from syria, this has been a long crisis, but it isnt getting any easier at all. The numbers are growing dramatically and the macedonian simply dont noah to do apart from move people on. People have started gathering on the platform here. No one has told the exact time of when there will be a train. We think there may be another one on sunday, but the crowds most certainly will get bigger. Take a look also at the conditions. Theres very little in the way of humanitarian help here. Down there, there are some stalls, there are some people getting food. Youve got to have money, because if you dont have money, youre stuck completely, and really the situation here is desperate, but the numbers right now are getting fewer. All right, lets go to the other side of the border to greece on the town where our correspondent will report. Have the crowds been able to get through and on their way further north . Yes, i think its clear to these people arriving here now that they will get through. They heard that somehow, probably from the news or all of these people tend to have phones, as well and they will be communicating with each other. The contacts here couldnt be greater than yesterday when several hundred people broke free of the police lines and sprinted across the fields into macedonia with stun grenades exploding around them, women and children utterly terrified. Now it is far more organized here. The maddonians are allowing people through in controlled groups presumably as and when they feel they can collected on the other side by trains and taken forward. They dont want an overflow inside macedonia, they want that to be here. For the people arriving here, a much more organized scene. You see it behind me, a section of it, anyway. Aid has arrived today, albeit late, offering food, water, medical assistance and clothing to people. They have a chance to rest and then they move on. Ok. Jonah, thank you very much indeed. Thats on the greek side of the border as people again start to mass, hoping to get through to macedonia. Well, the italians, meanwhile, theyve been rescuing people trying to get to europe via a different route. Theyre trying to get to europe through the mediterranean sea, most of them coming from north africa. The Italian Coast Guard carried out 22 separate reaction operations, picking up over 4,000 people. More than 2,000 have died trying to make this perilous crossing. In germany, right wing protestors have been fighting with police. This is the scene, this is the second night demonstrators angry over the arrival of so many Asylum Seekers as they see it. Germany said the number quadrupled to yea hundred thousand. We can speak to leonard, the inspectors for International Organization of migration live to us from geneva. Nice to talk to you again, leonard, the International Organization of migration is dedicated, formed to help with the policy of migration, to make migration a humanitarian and a dignified process. What is the iom doing now . Working in very difficult crisis, syria, iraq, so you had sudan, yemen, helping with the arrival of migrants coming into southern italy and helping extensively in greece, working with the arrives and assuring their safety. On the border with macedonia, were supporting smaller ngos to bring aid to very vulnerable people. Its a very rapidly moving conflict issue. As your report that very, very well described, on both sides of the border, it is much calmer than yesterday, but the story is moving on into germany. Indeed. I was going to ask you a little more about what kind of conversations are taking place to enable these people, these desperate people to move from greece through to macedonia, now on their way to serbia . What kind of agreement has been struck between these governments involved . Well, im not privy to any particular talks, but one can see clearly there is an attempt by many countries to move the problem along as quickly as possible. Turkey is a nato member state, is a safe country, and refugees are entitle to seek asylum there but choose not to, where they move to greece and encouraged to move further north. Macedonia recognizing theres a tidal wave on the way and moving them along, as well. This is just adding to the problems and pressures on germany, which youve seen in your clutch is leading to its own pushback. The next bottleneck, if you like, then, is likely to be at the point that these people currently on trains and buses reach the border with serbia. Obviously with serbia and then theyre going to try to get through to the European Union to hungary which is building its fence. The onslaught of people desperate to flee war is very strong and its hard to ignore Vulnerable Women and children in particular. The winter will arrive sooner than later and they want to move to a safer place, the mediterranean, italy or in this case, through the western balkans. Generally, a little bit more generally, weve been witnesses these horrific scenes. Weve seen thousands of people die particularly in the mediterranean, were seeing bad treatment meted out almost on a daily base. This has gone gone on since at least the start of the summer. What moves are there among european governments to come up with a comprehensive, coherent strategy . Well, i fear there are really not enough. We saw when 900 people died in a boat accident, the sinking of a boat off libya in april of this year, 21 of april, that suddenly, the heads of state met in a panic and decided that they would reintroduce the life saving efforts that have been taking place across the mediterranean and they talked about sharing the responsibility for resettling people and accepting them. But nothing has happened in crease terms. I think whats going to happen now is we are seeing so many people rushing across the border, we will see the european ministers immediate and hopefully come to a conclusion this time. Thank you so much, spokesman for the International Organization of migration talking live from geneva. Many refugees who are risking everything to try to get to your are escaping from war situations like in syria. 34 people there have been killed in government airstrikes. The rebel held town of douma east of damascus came under heavy bombardment on saturday. Activists say buildings were shelled, at least 200 people are thought to be trapped under rubble. Rescuers were still working on sunday to try to find survivors. Douma is regularly targeted by government forces. More than 100 people were killed by airstrikes a week ago. Well, southwest of douma is the town that is under government siege. Its north of damascus and people there are running out of food. The relief agencies are blocked from entering the town. Erika wood has the latest. With Food Supplies blocked, these children are doing what they can to find something to eat. Calf very longing through the rubbish on the streets. This family came to escape a siege, another city nearby. Now theyre living under another one. We were sitting in our home and there were airstrikes happening over our heads. I have four children and they get scared. The fighting was right in front of my house. Thats when we decided to flee. Thousands came here, hoping to find security and food. They have found neither. Al tal has been under various sees sings the start of the war. The people supported the government early on in the uprising but that is when the towns buildings were still whole. They never managed what would followed be fours years of more hardship. They dont have access to electricity and water and now that the town is under siege, aid agencies like the red crescent have been unable to take in crucial supplies. All entrances are closed off. No medical supplies can enter president the situation is now getting worse because of the growing shortage of basic materials. The clinics are having to shut down because they dont have the medicine to treat people. As the routes in and out continue to be blocked, the residents of al tal go hungry. In lebanon, thousands of antigovernment protestors have been fighting with riot police in downtown beirut. This is the worst unrest in a month of demonstrations since rubbish starts piling on the streets after the capitals mainland fill was closed a month ago. We have more. These were by far the biggest protests since the crisis began. Now, its about much more than just rubbish collection. Many people have been pushed to their limits by unreliable power supplies, expensive water and what they say is a dysfunctional government. We are against the tech tarian. Kara of the lab knees government. Our youth are forced to immigrate. We are here to protest the lack of jobs, poverty and hunger. We have no electricity and no water. It wasnt long before the protests became a standoff. Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. Des of demonstrators and police were wounded. The crisis began a month ago for the closure of lebanons biggest landfill site. Rubbish piled up across the city. The summer heat made the fumes and smells even worse. Its the stench of political corruption and paralysis which is now driving this growing protest movement. Theres no solution to the Waste Management crisis, but the government is facing much bigger problems. Al jazeera. Weve got a lot more to come on this al jazeera news hour, including warming ties between the u. K. And iran as both countries reopen their embassies. Plus iraqs Prime Minister responds to protest with the promise to tackle corruption, but he says hes facing powerful enemies. In sport, find out if the title can be retained at the world championships. Senior officials from north and south korea resumed to second round of talks to try to ease cross border tensions. The two countries have been locked in a war of words since trading artillery fire on thursday. While this is taking place, south koreas military said it has detected troop and submarine movement in north korea. We have a report close to south koreas border with the north. From a history of heightened tensions between the koreas, its not uncommon for the messages from both sides to be pretty mixed. Sunday, we saw whats happening with the submarine fleet, 50 of north koreas 70 submarines have been deployed from their bases on both coasts of north korea, so far undetected by north korean ships. Its worth pausing and thinking how we got to this point. August 4, there were land mine blasts in the south korean side of the demilitarized zone, injuring severely two south korean soldiers. North korea started propaganda broadcasts across the border. The north denied it had responsibility and demanded that south korea discontinue the broadcasts with a deadline, otherwise there would be a north korea military strike against them. South korea said that it will not end the broadcasts until and unless north korea apologizes for the land mine attacks. The first time in four years, britain and iran reopened embassies in each other caps also. The British Foreign secretary traveled to tehran for an official secretary. Iran expelle expelled britain fs ago. Relations have improved. Paul brennan reports from the Iranian Embassy in london. Its remarkably low key to what is going to be a very Significant Development in diplomatic ties between britain and iran. Its sunday morning here. Were in the weekend outside of no office hours. There has been a steady stream of iranian officials going in and out of the building behind me. The actual ceremony will be behind closed doors at the iranian diplomatic residence, about 100 yards from here. You can see they are being hours, with the iranians and british about the amount of fanfare that they give this. Nonetheless, it is extremely significant. Phillip hammond, the British Foreign secretary is the first to visit in 12 years. Reopening them is significant. What is significant is the reason behind it. This is far more than politics or diplomacy. Delegations to tehran from britain comprises the treasury and there are senior representatives of big british energy, mining and Engineering Companies there, as well. The reality is, there is billions of dollars of business that is likely to open up as relations thaw you between britain and iran and the british do not want to miss out on those dollars. Phillip hammond says while the relationship with iran is improving, there is still a long way to go. We have to start slowly and carefully build a relationship and see however we can go. Theres a big deficit of trust at the moment, and there are major issues on which we have fundamental differences of view, but the symbolic importance of deciding to reopen embassies in each others countries is that weve chosen to talk to each other about those differences, discuss them together, to look for areas where our interests do align, where we do agree about things. One person has been killed after the midair collision of two small planes during an air show in switzerland. It happened near the northwestern city of basil. Two german pilots were maneuvering a formation when they crashed, killing one of them. Time for the weather, here is rob. Is that a heatwave in london im hearing about . Yeah, a very brief one, what we call a spanish plume. It hit 31 yesterday. This his the satellite picture keeping the cloud out, 31 in london, same as paris. Similar temperatures in germany, which, of course, its an unusual thing for this part of august and it was enjoyed by many. This is a picture over looking the house of parliament, the crowds are watching entertainment. These things are short lived and usually end in thunderstorms. Its a spanish plume, the heat comes up from spain and the first thing in spain, it starts here. This is in pamplona. Storms by night and doing the same over the british isles. It will turn thundery over the next few hours and be a general mass of rain. Thats all change. Lets skip out of europe over to india, where rather more rain, but similar temperatures produced as you know in the northeast, quite widespread flood. Its about the only part of india with significant flooding at the moment. Curiously, the monsoon rains arent really strong president moment. You might get 54 millimeters in any one shower in bangladesh. Forecast wise, repeat the same. Lets go backing to an earlier story. Those scenes of protest in beirut, the lebanese capital, the worst protests that have been seen in a month of growing discontent in the lebanese capital. We can speak to one protest organizer now, alexander handling who joins us from there. You are linking these piles of fetid rubbish building up on the streets of beirut with corruption in government, why . Sorry, i cant really hear you that much. I just asked the producer to elevate the sound. Ok. Tell us would you give me just a second. Why are you linking the piles of rubbish in the streets of beirut with corruption among politicians . Well, usually we know that there is corruption, but we were never able to spot this corruption. Having piles of garbage on the streets just acted or embodies this sort of corruption, because we asked for removing this garbage in sustainable environmentally friendly manners, but they did not. They waited seven days to remove the garbage and then after seven days, told us they had a solution. They took the garbage and put it in rivers and oceans and forests, and they put it under the bridges, and it was very, very bad. Nonetheless, we lebanese people are educated. We know Environmental Health standards and this was unacceptable. Once we protested, they shot us, she shot at us, and they explained in very, very illegal managers and im here to talk about what happened yesterday, they tried to shut us up in very illegal manners, and we are not animals. We are asking for Environmental Healthy solutions. The Prime Minister has been speaking in response to the scenes of yesterday, and saying that your country, lebanon needs a president. You havent had a president , have you, for over a year. Exactly and not he thinks that will help. No, because the legislative power is illegal here, because they prolonged their stays for two extra years. We did not have an election. We are not a democracy right now. He is he has no power to any statements. He is not our representative. Ok, what do you think your protests. They are in power, but we did not elect. What do you think your protests have achieved, and will you continue to protest . For once, our protest has achieved some source of sense of belonging here in the lebanese community, because for the first time, people are going down not due to their leader, their sect leader telling them to go down. People are going down from all backgrounds, they are standing with one another, because we do not have any Developmental Systems and policies for 13, 14 years, we have been paralyzed. We are leavin