Its a two years since Chemical Attacks in syria killed hundreds. We speak to survivors, still waiting for justice. And in sport, the outgoing head of world alt lettics says his sport still has credibility despi despite doping allegations. We start in macedonia, where police have fired stun grenades to drive back a crowd of refugees trying to get into the country. The border was briefly reopened and a number of refugees managed to get through. Eyewitnesss say at least ten were injured. Macedonia is one of the major transit points for refugees trying to get from greece to other e. U. Countries. 44,000 have arrived over the last two months. The vast majority are syrians escaping the civil war. There is a small town 3 kill meters away from the border that was the focal point of fridays violence, its on the main route north as emma hayward reports. Reporter they spent a cold night in no mans land waiting to cross the border between greece and macedonia, but their passage was blocked by riot police. Rocks were thrown, then this. [ gunfire ] [ screaming ] reporter 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 took us today against [ inaudible ] we was in front of the place, officer officer officer shoot the people. Reporter 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 other parts of europe. While the border is closed, though, 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 with extreme vulnerabilities, including medical needs. Most of them, if not all of them, stay in the open air. We do appeal to the authorities to take all necessary measures to address the humanitarian needs of the persons gathered on the borderline. Reporter but bolstering its borders macedonia 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. All right. We can talk now to a person with Doctors Without Borders in greece where some of the wounded from this incident are being treated. Thank you for talking to us. Tell us some of the injuries these people are presenting with. Yes, we are just 50 meters from the borders, and here we have more than 5,000 people waiting to cross through the border to macedonia. So the situation is very, very hard. Yesterday we have very hard rain here. All of the people are without any protection, without any shelter and okay, we are here since march the last march and we are giving what we can in medical and in nonfood items, as well as food to help the people. What sort of injuries are people coming to you with as a result of trying to cross into macedonia, and then facing Macedonian Police . What sort of injuries do they have . Yeah, we we transfer more than five people injured today, because of the plastic bullets and the grenades of gas and the tear gas as well. And who so they were transferred to the hospital to the near hospital in greece. And who are these people . Who are these people who were so desperate in trying to cross into macedonia and push further north into europe. Who are they . Most of them are syrians, 70 , but we have a lot of afghan people, bangladesh people, and some other countries from africa, somali people, et cetera. And what kind of condition are these people in . You talk about them sleeping rough and without basic amenities. What kind of condition are they in . Nothing. Nothing at all. Really, the garbage and the plastic sheets are everywhere. Is only [ inaudible ] with come local volunteers who installed tent toilets, but it is not enough for 5,000 people, and we have some showers, but okay, so there is lack of water, and we need to be present as much as possible volunteers here. Thank you very much indeed for talking to us here at al jazeera. Thank you. Now to south korea where the Defense Ministry is urging north korea to stop what it calls its provocations. Tension has increased between north and south following an exchange of fire on thursday. Both countries say they put their militaries on high alert. Kim kijong has held an emergency meeting with its Central Military commission. And he has told the armys front line troops to be fully prepared to launch operationings. Meanwhile the south korean president says she expects her military to be prepared to immediately respondent to any further provocations from the north. Harry fawcett has the latest. Reporter south koreas president visiting the military command post on friday flanked by her National Defense advisor, and other senior military commanders. The message being conveyed her personal command of the situation. Translator the military should be alert for further provocations. If the situation occurred 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 kijong ordered front line areas into a socalled quasi war state. Translator the general staff of the Korean Peoples Army sent an ulty maim tum to the south korean Defense Ministry saying the Korean Peoples Army would launch Strong Military action unless south korea stopping broadcasting towards north within 48 hours. Reporter these loud speaker arrays are the source of that socalled war fair. They restarted broadcasts nearly two weeks ago for the first time in 11 years in res pongs to what happened earlier this month on the Southern Side of the demilitary rised zone. South korea says northern forces planted land mimes that maimed two of its soldiers. This is the closest civilian area to where south korea says the fifth north korean projectile was fired on thursday. Hundreds of people were told to leave their homes near the border, 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 that went out mostly to carry out their daily business, but we will at vise them to come back this evening. Translator living in this area, i have seen many drills and heard explosions, but this time, the sound was louder, and there was an announcement asking us to evacuate. Compared to the past, im more concerned. Reporter seeking refuge in this shelter is starting to feel like a bit of an uncomfortable habit here. A shell fell right here last year. North korea has been firing at propagandacarrying balloons launched by activists. This time the occupants have the added pressure of a time line ticking down. Israels army says it has killed four members of the armed Group Islamic jihad in an air strike in syria. Syrian state tv reported that a car was targeted near a village that, but said five civilians were killed. It was the second straight day of israeli attacks inside of syria. It resulted after rockets from syria landed in israel. Israel says they were fired by islamic jihad. The syrian army says one of its soldiers was killed in one of the strikes. In syria 15 people have been killed in Government Air raids in eastern aleppo. It is a regular target, because it is under isil control. But opposition act cysts say the government is deliberately targeting civilian neighborhoods. It was two years ago that up to 1500 people died when rockets filled with sarin gas struck a town. The government denies being behind the attack. Survivors are worried they will never get justice. Zana hoda has the story. Reporter the dead and the dying. There was no blood on their bodies. No visible injuries. The attack was different. Rockets carrying chemicals landed in the damascus suburb. It took seconds before i lost my ability to breathe. I wasnt able to breathe or even scream to alert my friends, so i had to like bang my chest really hard just to try to take a single breath. I felt like somebody was standing on my chest with a knife. Reporter he 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 scene 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 did. At the time he was a photographer working in syria. 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 show me he show me the dark. The dark blue of the color that had been changed. The ayes, and i the thing coming out from their mouth. Reporter even though he has covered the war for many years, he says he cant forget what he saw that day. Im a war photographer, for me to see a dead body with the blood, its normal. When you see them, at the first thing you think that they are sleeping. Then you realize after like one or two seconds, your reality becomes facing what is really going on. Reporter reality faced him before. He was an activist where he used to film the suffering of people who continued to live under siege. He has tried to raise awareness, at the u. N. And the u. S. Congress, but he says it has all been in vain. I feel like i did nothing. After all of this talking, all of the people that i met, not just me, like thousands of syrians here, we felt like there is no hope. Reporter the u. N. Did conclude that sarin gas was used but didnt have the mandate to blame anyone. There is now a new resolution to investigate Chemical Attacks in syria, but attacks before 2014 wont be included, yet again denying justice to these people. Iraqs top shia cleric has warned the country faces possible partition. He says government reform measures need to be introduced immediately. This latest call is one of several made by the cleric this month. Its believed he has played a mayor role in the recent anticorruption drive by the Prime Minister. Apart from fighting corruption, the Iraqi Government is also under pressure to speed up reforms to help seay the economy from free fall. People are tired of power cuts, food shortages, and the violence. As our correspondent reports, the Health System is collapsing. Reporter at baghdads hospital, this doctor doles out medical care and dispenses hard truths. Living in a city with violence daily violence, a city with living in a city with low infrastructures, and trying your best to give the best to those patients is not easy. While this governmentrun facility is cleaner and better stocked than many other hospitals and clings in iraqs capitol, its certainly not immune to the crisis spreading through a Health Care System here many consider decaying and diseased. The shortage of supplies, and welltrained staff is nothing new in iraq, but things are getting worse. Even storing medicines at the right temperature is difficult. The medications stored inside here must stay constantly refrigerated, thats why these cooling units have to keep working, and at a time when there are 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, i would 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 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 of the kids who were going to be immunized, arent going to be immunized, the pregnant next women that needed help, they are not going to receive assistance. Reporter 3 million are displaced inside iraq. Its painful. It hurts, and the people who need us the most right now, were walking away from them. When you are in a clinic that credit was providing antibiotics, and today is closed because we dont have the funding, you have nothing but shame, you are ashamed. Reporter another blow to a country whos people need more help, but are receiving less and less. Muhammad jamjoom, al jazeera, baghdad. We have a lot more to come on this al jazeera news hour. Including surrounded by sewage why these people in south africa are forced to live in dangerous conditions. Im nicole johnsston in islamabad, coming up well be taking a ride on the citys metro bus system, find out whether it is help the capitol solve financial problems. And tiger woods is back on target just a week after missing the cut at the u. S. Pga championship. Greeces Main Opposition Party is trying to form a new government. It follows the resignation of the Prime Minister on thursday after he called for new elections. They say they will exhaust every possibility in order to prevent what they see as an unnecessary poll. 25 members from the ruling party announced they are forming a new party. John psaropoulos has more. Reporter the notion of a second election in a year, appeals to the supporters of the Prime Minister. Translator maybe tsipras will be able to do better. He tried very hard. Reporter most greeks, however, want more stability. Translator its a bad idea. We are voting every six months. That suggests something deeply wrong with the political system, and its specially affects those of us who are 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. Reporter seven months of negotiations resulted in a third bailout loan, accompanied by strict austerity measures. The long period of uncertainty allowed the economy to slide back into recession. Antiques dealer has felt the brunt of the eightyear recession. He used to count the rich and famous among his 800 clients. He has now given up his business and locked his valuables in cellars. Translator tsipras is trying to escape. His party now sees the difficulties before it. They promised much, and delivered nothing. Did they bring one euro of the embezzled millions back in they said they would abolish the property tax and tear up the austerity deal. They did none of it. It was all grandstanding. Reporter tsiprass resignation has sparked an open season on syriza. 25 of his back benches have broken away. The conservatives now want to break off those who lie nearer to the political center. Proausterity parties, not including syriza only control 106 seats, far short of the 151 they need to govern. The conservatives plan to invite moderate syriza mps to join them in a coalition, which could probably include a syriza Prime Minister other than mr. Tsipras. But the venture seems ambitious. Syriza rose in just a few years. Those who want it to returns to it leftist roots, and those who lost votes to it, both now want it to unravel even faster. But greek politics are personality oriented. While the appeal of Alexis Tsipras lasts, they are unlikely to succeed. The turkish president is likely to call for snap elections for november 1st. He says hell meet the partry speaker on monday before formally announcing the date. Talks with two other parties to form a unity government failed. The medical charity Doctors Without Borders says 65 civilians have been killed by saudilead air strikes in yemens Third Largest city. It said 17 members of one family were among the victims in taizz. The city has become the focus of fighting in recent weeks between Houthi Rebels and government forces. Some areas of south africa are facing a sewage crisis with rivers of waste flowing through communities. And thats causing an alarming problem for People Living nearby. Tania page sent this report. Reporter the Sewage Treatment plant is filled to the brim. Its operating at double capacity, because it hasnt been upgraded to handle the number of People Living here. Excess is pumped on to the road, forming a wide shallow river. Dead animals and some living float by. Cows have been wallowing in it. Nearby people are trying to make a living recycling rubbish. Its work made worse by the added health hazard. Because we are going to sick about that water. Reporter the river of waste flows through farmland to the dam from where water is drawn and treated before being supplied to 10 million consumers. Almost half of the municipalities around the dam are releasing material containing levels of unsafe e. Coli. In a Government Order of south africas 824 Sewage Treatment plants, roughly half failed the inspections, and 30 were ranked critical. Although the picture looks dire, overall the government says twhaert and sanitation situation is improving. Even though we are seeing that progressive upward movement, but we cannot be satisfied that we are where we need to be. What kind of assistance do they need. And what do we need to do . Reporter a planned upgrade of this plant cant come soon enough. These cows are eating grass that is grow thering the dirty water. The overflow from the Sewage Treatment plant. But activists say what is worse is that there are plans to replace the calves and farmland with 2. 5 thousand new homes. A will put more families in harms way. This womans backyard is regularly flooded by sewage. The politicians say that they will come and fix this pipe, but they dont do anything. Reporter while the government insists it is doing something, progress is too slow for families who have to walk p