to kabul's bomb blast areas. italy's cost guard said that 3,000 people have been rescued in the mediterranean sea in the last 24 hours. at least 55 are known to have perished while trying to cross in an open boat. most of them were discovered by a swedish navy off the coast of libya. hundreds more are on board other boats. and the flow of people is continuing with thousands arri arriving in mass dean i can't every day. there are so many people there that the macedonia army has been building a bigger holding camp. they're considering sending troops to its border after fighting broke out. it's thought tensions peaked after some refugees refused to be fingerprinted. andrew simmons reports from hungary. >> unrest in of the european union border. the trouble did not escalate beyond this registration center, and it was short lived. but with record numbers crossing into hungary, there are fears of violence here. the police are trying to play down the crisis. >> what happened was there was a small conflict and several people tried to approach the fence. then a policeman tried to stop them, and they used tear gas but there weren't many injuries. >> a three peter high depends was put on the border. but right now thousands of people are getting through sections where there is only razor wire. the police here are failing to make arrests. >> hungary's government is taking a tougher line. more than 200 police are being sent to this border to reinforce it. next week the government will vote on plans to deploy the army here. >> in belgrade up to 3,000 people a day have been boarding buses bound for the hungarian border. they are record numbers. refugees say that they've been treated better i there than in greece. >> this woman ran from horrendous violence in aleppo. now she's avoiding going into hungary because she's scared. >> not in turkey, macedonia, why they do that, i don't understand. >> on thursday they discuss the biggest refugee crisis since the second world war on the ground the situation is worsening. andrew simmons al jazeera, on the hungary-certainan border. >> an estimated 2,000 refugees have arrived in the port. we have this update from the greek island of lesbos while the major arrival points of the migration route. >> i'm standing in one of two immigration camps about five kilometers from the turkish coast here. the numbers are staggering. 33,000 people have said to have landed on lesbos alone. there thanksgiving is 1,000 new arrivals every single day. there are 10,000 people on the island as we speak. waiting to be processed, to be given paperwork that will allow them to remain in greece and travel through it, and then waiting for bot for boats off the island. the sanitation is poor, the sun beats down on them every day. the ngos are doing what they can with no help from central government in athens or the e.u. authorities in brussels. people i've spoken to in this camp express surprise, disappointment, even bemusement at these conditions that they find. it's the first tribesmen in anbar taste that they've come for, the safety and security that they've expected in europe. one man said that he thought that they were all going to be put up in hotels here in greece. well, that perhaps is a story put about by people smugglers on the turkish shores trying to encourage this journey in the first place. >> south sudan's president tel machfinally signs the peace deal. both sides had been given three days to commit to a full and permanent cease-fire with fighting ending immediately. >> when the fighting started in december of 2013, people fled to the safety of u.n. bases in several towns. now 20 months later more than 200,000 people are still living under the protection of the u.n. what began as a fight between soldiers killed thousands in juba. but the violence did not stop in the capital. it spread from town to town, destroying neighborhoods. the conflict took an ethnic dimension when it would pit against the tribe of the president. >> times my heart tells me he's alive. but sometimes i'm depressed and think negative thoughts. but people have told me other people have suffered a worse fate than you. stop thinking about it and leave it up to done. >> the army split into two factions with the former vice president machar announcing he was in command of the rebels. for the past 20 months war in south sudan has dragged on wit on even those who said that they didn't support either sides were not spared the violence and were attacked in the streets. >> they cut me with a type of machete. i fell down. i didn't even know what was happening. after two or three hours i found myself in hospital. >> the united nations has been demanding both sides come to a peaceful resolution, and last week machar signed a peace agreement. the pressure has been on the president to do the same. the international community is optimistic that the signing of this deal means the end of the war. but the people in juba are not as confident, that's mainly because some of the top rebel commanders have split from reik machar. and unfortunately that means that the war could not be offe over. >> reik machar has been speaking exclusively with al jazeera's charles stratford. >> how realistic after so much blood has been spilt, 20 months of fighting, how realistic is it to expect true reconciliation between two peoples after so much violence? >> well, i think south sudan deserves peace. the people themselves deserve peace. and there were reasons for the war i believe this peace agreement has addressed these reasons. if you take a chapter by chapter, the assistance is addressed, we are executing the army, the security, the police, and also the this impunity which has gone on for long. i think it has been addressed. and we hope nobody again creates war in south sudan. >> both sides, both president and your own forces have been accused of committing gross human rights violations, atrocities. can you guarantee transparency, accountability in investigating these claims and bringing those responsible to justice? >> well, you know, we have been asking the a.u. to make public the a.u. report, the vision report this is because we're committed to combating impunity in the country. and actually, up until now this report has not yet been made public, and we're calling for the report to be made public where the a.u. this under lies our commitment that anyone who has committed astrostys would be brought in. >> saudi arabia has crossed yemen for the first time. >> these are the first saudi soldiers. saudi military commanders say that the incursion is just for a short period of time. in the meantime thea rebels didn't have the means to fight back. this is a commander storming a saudi military post too yemen. the soldiers sees the building after heavy clashes. they are seen here blowing up military vehicles before leaving the area. moments later the saudi warplane strikes. fighting has flared up across the country. houthi fighters are trying to recapture some of the area they lost in the south. here they ambushed four government troops and destroyed vehicles that were recently provided by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. yemen's warring factions have dismissed international efforts to agree on a cease-fire and start political talks. each party wants to win the war so that it has the upper hand during negotiations. >> still to come, accusations that the u.s. is creating a sunni force that is dividing iraq. and two young tv journalists were shot dead live on air in the u.s. state of virginia. >> a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. the bodies of 55 people attempting to cross the mediterranean have been discovered. the majority were found in the hull much a boat off the libyan coast. about 3,000 other people have been rescued in the past 24 hours alone. >> south sudan's president has reluctantly signed the peace deal to end the 20-month civil war. and saudi arabia put boots on the ground in yemen as troops attack houthi position. warring factions in syria have agreed to a cease-fire in three towns near the border with lebanon. the agreement is set to come into effect in a few hours and the sunni rebel stronghold of the predominantly shia towns. earlier this months they collapsed after just three days. and the ahead of the biggest shia militia soft in th militia involved in the fight in iraq. >> u.s. advisers in iraq have been training and equipping sunni tribesmen as part of their strategy to defeat isil. hundreds of them are already on the front lines. the obama administration believes their role will be crucial to recapture the mainly sunni region. the program is backed by the iraqi government. but there are powerful voices who are raising questions. a top commander of the popular mobilization forces which groups shia paramilitary forces which have largely replaced the iraqi army on the ground. >> if the americans are concerned about the soonies they should not violate iraq sovereignty. they should give the government the capability to train them. this is not charity work but a planned to divide iraq. >> ameri heads the organization the military wing of the supreme iraq council which has a strong presence in parliament. he does not hide his good relations with iran. it was found there had in the early 1980s. sunni politicians fear that commanders like ameri are growing in strength at the expense of the state. for them the training program is a step in the right direction to create the so-called national guard. >> there has been a good start. the u.s. trained 7,000 sunnies in anbar, but they still did not give them proper weapons. these men are under the control of the defense ministry, but we hope one day parliament will approve the national guard project, and each province will have its own force from its own people. >> the people in anbar province have a long history of animosity with the shia-led government in baghdad. there seems there are efforts to prevent the mobilization forces from taking part in the venezuelasive against isi--in the offensive against isil in ramadi. >> the battle in ramadi is in its sixth week. it will be easily won. >> today some describe ameri as one of the most powerful men in iraq. he has long dismissed the u.s. role in fighting isil in iraq but now he's opening criticizing their role. >> in the northern jordanian city, refugee outnumber locals. now lack of water is unsurprisingly lead to go tension. >> a jordanian redent said tha jordanian resident said that he had plenty of water three years ago. now syrian refugees have settled in his hometown, and now everyone has to share the resources that they have. his area gets water only for a few hours once or twice a week. his rooftop tanks are almost empty. >> we are living in a constant state o state of anxiety. now we have to wonder if water will come out of our taps. >> when taps run dry people purchase water from tanker trucks. 85% of refugees in jordan live in towns and cities as opposed to camps. the refugee crisis has also put pressure on facilities that provide water, which were built decades ago to serve fewer people. officials say that jordan has to receive funds for hosting the refugees. >> the size of the population has reached around 10 million. this is how acute our water shortage crisis is. there still is a huge need. jordan is not able to provide enough water to all its citizens let alone to hundreds of thousands of refugee. although this station has increased the amount of water it is bumping, more jordanians are facing more severe water shortages than it did before the refugees arrived. that is causing frustration and resentment, too. with water levels reaching emergency levels here. >> we demand the transfer of syrians to refugee camps. they should return to camps so that we can go back to the way it was. we never complained about water or piled up rubbish before. >> many people say it's only a matter of time before the main sources of water run out. this is why they say long term investments are needed to preserve the health and security of one of the most stable countries in the region. >> the foreign ministers of venezuela and colombia are meeting to discuss the border dispute. interest was an attack on venezuelan border troops in which three were injured. thousands of people have taken to the streets in argentina over allegations of local election. we have the details. >> thousands have gathered to denounce fraud. people hearsay that elections last sunday to pick the next governor were filled with irregularities. that's why many want the voting to take place again. >> we have seen the ballot boxes have been lost. there have been threats. people have been bought with sacks of food. >> retravel 30 kilometers away from the capital. where these women told us what they saw on election day. >> we see people vote for the ruling party. every two seconds cars arrive with sacks of food. they did it openly in front of everyone's eyes. >> this is not the first time that something like this has happened here. powerful politicians can he seelcan hecan he secan easily get people to vote for them. >> the vote were being counted inside this court. people started to gather here and setting tires on fire. then they forced themselves into the school and stole the ballot boxes, brought them out here and set those ballot boxes on fire. this is one case of the many irregularities that happened during the election the. >> argentinas still uses paper ballots during elections. that's why days after the voting took place the counting continues. the results show that the candidates ar cristina kirchner has the lead. they told us that they want people to trust in the electorate process. >> we need to give guarantees that people can trust the process. if we can do that, then we can get rid of the feeling of restlessness for the next election. >> the race, it seems, may an tight one, which is why people are angry, because they want to make sure what happened here before won't happen again. al jazeera. >> a television reporter and a camero cam cameraman has been shot dead while giving a report. >> reporter alison parker and photographer adam ward were in the midst of a live early morning interview outside of a shopping mall. then without a warning there were gunshots and the camera was seen falling to the ground. >> i cannot tell you how much they were loved, alison and adam by the team. they both were in love and we'll talk about that a little more, with other members of the team here and our hearts are broken, and our sympathies go to the entire staff here. but also the parents and family of adam ward and alison parker, who were just out doing their job today. >> the gunman's image glimpsed for a second on the broadcast. the soars posted his own images of the shootings. he was flanagan, a reporter at the same station before he was fired two years ago. he called the tv network to claim responsibility saying he acted on god's command in revenge for the recent shooting of nine black church goers in charleston, south carolina. >> when trooper neff approached the vehicle, they found flanagan was suffering from a self-inflicted wound. he was flown to the hospital where he died at approximately 1:30 p.m. today. >> on social media, flanagan blamed the photographer for costing him his job, and he claimed that the reporter that he shot had been hired to replace him. he was dismissed after many incidents of his anger coming to the floor. a familiar syndrome, according to a recent study, tying gun violence to mental instability. >> there is this impulsive angry behavior and access to firearms. either they have guns at home or they carry one around with them. >> the incident is the latest in a state of gun violence. on tuesday a 14-year-old boy in west virginia held his class and teacher hostage for a several hours before releasing them. several cities including washington, d.c. which have seen sharp reduction in homicides report the numbers are going up again this year. >> conflict has deprived a's capital of many luxuries, but what it does have are plenty of concrete blast walls, and they're proving to be the perfect black canvas. >> on the barriers that symbolize the deteriorating security in kabul, and an effort to create stability, this anti anti-corruption message warns that the people and god are watching. across the street they're painting hearts as a symbol of healing the nation. it's all the work of an artist and a group of volunteers with a few hundred dollars of their own money for paint and supplies they're working to change the kilometers of blast walls that make people feel under seen in their own city. >> when you put a picture on a wall, the wall disappears, and you have new space. >> he wants that new space to be about a new afghanistan that he and his fellow painters can help create. >> it's time for afghanistan and the world to contribute something else other than weapons and wars. therit's really time to give art and artists a chance. >> he wants everyone to participate. when a policeman takes an interest, he offers him a brush. he does the same for an old man just passing by. >> even people who have no education can understand the message when they see this. >> and that's the idea. he wants to introduce what he calls artistic literacy. this is the first of a new series called "heroes of my city" celebrating the people. these are street sweepers. other murals of school children and an old man on a bicycle, a hero for not adding to pollution and traffic. >> there have have always been heroes with guns and with swords. we want to celebrate the people that we see every day, who are working on the streets. >> while they may have started with an anti-corruption painting, they hope their work will be uplifting and help to bring afghans together. >> because of the security situation the city is in fear, so we're trying to do something which grabs the attention about people in a good way. >> those who take part say it's therapeutic. a way to contribute and share with fellow afghans. they're hoping that the project gets bigger. he's planning to invite graffiti artists to paint here or to share. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >> you can find much more on everything we've been covering on our website. the address is www.aljazeera.com. >> it's christmas eve and u.s. soldiers are preparing for their last month in afghanistan. about 40,000 are still here. by the end of the year there will be just 8,000. we traveled to afghanistan in the midst of this transition. but on the base, we found a story that isn't being told. the people doing the day-to-day

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