>> we are dying and sorry. frustration and despair among refugees trapped on the greek side of the border with macedonia. ♪ hello from me david foster, you are watching al jazeera live from london. also in this program, north korea launches six missiles into the sea hours after the u.n. approves tough new sanctions. a new piece of debris which could be from me missing flight mh-370 is sent to australia for

testing. and the battle to keep bangladesh's indigenous languages alive. ♪ well as european leaders continue to struggle to deal with a worsening crisis on their borders, desperation appears to be growing among particularly refugees stranded at the border with macedonia. hundreds have blocked an nation railway line, laying down on the tracks, one case stopping a freight train. they are protesting against macedon macedonia's border restrictions. just 500 refugees were allowed into macedonia in the 24 hours into thursday morning. >> cold all night. all night baby crying. >> we can't sleep.

>> all night crying. all night. >> yes, all of the babies cry all the time. really, we are tired, very tired. >> we run from this to find another kind of this. [ inaudible ] we are dying, but sorry. the prime minister of netherlands which currently holds the e.u. presidency, says that turkey must ensure the number of refugees and migrants leaving its shores for europe develops down to zero. he is trying to secure an agreement on reducing the number of people trying to reach europe. he delivered this extremely blunt message. >> i want to appeal to all potential illegal economic migrants wherever you are from. do not come to europe. do not believe the smugglers.

do not risk your lives and your money. it is all for nothing. greece or any other european country will no longer be a transicountry. >> he has been touring capitols arrange central and southeastern europe this week trying to ease the tensions that appear to be growing over the refugee crisis. the greek prime minister called for sanctions to be imposed on e.u. states which refuse to take their share of refugees. >> translator: when it comes to the refugee crisis, greece has taken a disproportionate burden compared to its capabilities. however, our response would immediate, and it is also our duty to our own values and culture, when you have refugees who are in need of help, our culture dictates that we protect these people. it turns out other e.u. members

cultures are not the same. move north and head towards the greece macedonia border where thousands of refugees are trapped and our correspondent, hoda abdel hamid, is there too. >> reporter: the living conditions in this makeshift camp are becoming more and more difficult because of the sheer volume of people that continue to arrive here hoping to make it through. now there's an incredible amount of young children and i have seen some walking barefoot. you have uncertainty, and now you have despair, anger and frustration. and tempers flair a lot around the camp. you see people not able to contain their emotions anymore. you see people asking can we go back to syria? maybe it was less humiliating to be back there, even though it was also less safe than to be here. now at the crossing itself it is complete chaos. greek authorities have tried to

put some sort of order, but people there have also been waiting for days, and they are eager to get as quick as possible across. only 500 have passed over the period of 24 hours, but some have been pushed back, and this has all to do with the new guidelines about the paperwork. the -- the officers at the border know exactly what are the new regulations. the refugees don't. one of the main issues the registration paper given by the greek authorities when they first land on one of the islands. those are photocopied papers where the greek authorities add the name and then stamp. but at this stage, macedonians are not accepting that piece of paper and want it to be restamped again. so you have a very long queue of people going through that process. in the north of france a camp known as the jungle, hunger striking refugees have sewn their mouths shut.

you might find the following pictures extremely disturbing, look away if you do. at least nine iranians stitched their mouths on wednesday. the demolition of the camp is into the fourth day. the french authorities want to rehouse them in reception centers. the refugees say those centers will serve to keep them from getting into the u.k. and the british prime minister has been having talks in france with the french president. ahead of the discussions the u.k. promised an extra $21 million to boost border security at calais. >> we will invest an additional 17 million pounds in priority security infrastructure in calais to assist the work of the french police. the money will go towards moving people to facilities elsewhere in france. and fund joint work to return migrants not in need of

protection to their home countries. we need to break the business model of the criminal smugglers and dissuades people from embarking on a perilous journey in search of a new life in europe. ♪ for those who remain in syria, they are getting slowly, at least some of their electricity back. there has been a massive nationwide backout. authorities say full power will be back by midnight local time. but the cause is not known. france and britain have called on the syrian government and its allies to stop attacking the opposition. [ explosion ] >> pictures here which purport to show russian air strikes on a syrian town, just days after cessation of hostilities were supposed to come into effect, all sides were accusing one another of violating the partial

truce on saturday. amnesty international has accused the russian and syrian government of deliberately targeting hospitals. they say they carried out the strikes to allow president assads troops to advance on aleppo. well, the fighting continues in some parts of the country, and the u.n. does say that progress is still being made. >> in the first three months of last year, zero trucks reached any of the besieged areas in syria. in the last three weeks, 236 trucks have served 115 thousand people. many of these have -- have received several convoys. north korea has been accused

of firing what have been described as six short-range projectiles into the sea, just hours after tough new sanctions were ordered against north korea. they say they were launched towards the east sea, also known as the sea of japan. the u.n. security council was unanimous in its decision to impose new sanctions on north korea over recent nuclear test followed by a rocket launch. harry fawcett is our man in japan. >> reporter: in that news conference, the ministry of defense in south korea saying a number of projectiles had been fired into the sea. the local media in south korea are reporting a little bit more fully. they sometimes get briefings from unnamed military officials. they are talking about a range of apparently 100, to 150 kilometers. six or eight to nine

projectiles, unclear whether they were short range missiles or from perhaps a multi-rocket launch system. it's understood analysis is underway on that point. the ministry of defense is saying that it's military remains in a heightened state of readiness, watching out for any further actions by its counterparts in north korea. we are coming into a period of annually heightened tensions between north and south because there are military exercises due to get underway on the korean pen peninsula. this year they are expected to be bigger than usual. they might include rehearsals for a presumptive strike against south korea. north korea says it reserves the right to attack south korean seats of government. so we expect a round of heightened tensions.

this is the first north korean reaction to the u.n. resolution passage. it may be there is more to follow. a high rank k vatican official who is under fire for his handling of historical sexual abuse of children in australia, has been meeting with the victims. he admitted he should have done more about claims of a pedophile priest in the 1970s. >> reporter: after giving evidence for the past four days, one of the most powerful cardinal of the catholic church emerged from a meeting. >> i just met about a dozen of the survivors, support people, and officials, and i have heard each of their stories, and of their suffering. it was hard.

an honest and occasionally emotional meeting. >> reporter: now in charge of the vatican economy, he was a senior priest in his native australian town in the 1970s, when at least four pedophile priests abused children. survivors say he knew about the abusers but failed to act. >> we didn't talk about the past. we spoke about the future, about what he can do in his position, and what the catholic church can do to -- to help the survivors going forward. >> humility, begging forgiveness from us, doing everything they can to restore the lives of all of the victims out there, more than words. words is what we get. >> reporter: out there his evidence, he drew criticism and sometimes scorn for his apparent

lack of empathy. >> it wasn't of much to me. >> reporter: child abuse campaigners in australia have called for cardinal pell to either retire or resign, but some of the survivors say they would rather work with him to make sure the catholic church will do more in the future to protect children from pedophile priests. stay with us, you are watching al jazeera. we have this coming up. the united nations warning of deteriorating conditions in yemen as aid efforts are hampered. and bullying, massageny, dishonesty, mitt romney pulls no punches as the warns against the prospects of president trump. ♪

♪ let's run through the top stories, refugees trapped in greece have been blocking a railway line into macedonia, protesting that country's refusal to allow them in. the united nations says aid is slowly trickling into syria, despite pictures which appear to show russian air strikes days after cessation of hostilities came into effect. and north korea has allegedly fired six short-range projectiles into the sea in a show of defiance, hours after the u.n. adopted tough new sanctions against north korea.

well, the united nations security council has had a special briefing on the war in yemen. the u.n. head of humanitarian affairs told the council that has security gets worse aid efforts are severely hampered. >> i underscore the urgent need for this council, and the international community more broadly to impress upon the parties to this conflict, their obligations to take greater measures to protect civilians, to facilitate unconditional and sustained access to all parts of yemen, and i also ask the council to press the parties to resume peace talks and agree to a cessation of hostilities. >> you saw the ambassador from yemen, mentioned some of what he had to say, but he has also acuted shiite rebels of intentionally starving

civilians. >> translator: they are acting like war criminals. they are using starvation as a tool of war against my people in every province under their control. punches have been thrown whether they have left a mark remains to be seen. donald trump received a further attack from the main stream republican party. mitt romney the man who lost to barack obama in the last presidential elections has condemned trump's campaign effo efforts. >> i'm far from the first to conclude that donald trump lacks the temperament to be president. he mocked a disabled reporter, he mocked a brilliant rival who happened to be a woman due to her app pear roons, who bragged about his marital affairs, and laces his public speeches with vol geraghty. he says he admires vladimir

putin, at the same time he has called george w. bush a liar. that's a twisted example of evil trumping good. [ cheers and applause ] >> patty culhane with us now from washington, d.c. you are either throwing red meat to an animal that, you know, would like nothing better than to feast on the attacks that he gets or you are actually trying to land some real punches. which is it here? >> reporter: i think they are definitely trying to land punches, but they are doing that in hopes that trump actually takes that red meat and runs with it. mitt romney liked the endorsement of donald trump in 2012, but if that indicated they were friends, they most certainly are not now. in that was an absolutely scathing speech. he didn't only go after trump the campaign, he went after trump the man, he said he was a

bad businessman, a phony, he talked about his policies. he said the country would be in a recession, and that the u.s. would no longer have good standing in the world if he was the parties nominee. he did seem to be baiting trump. he was basically saying if you think he has got the temperament of a president, look at how he responds to my attacks. he wants to see donald trump go after him. and he also said he is never going to release his tax returns. the establishment think he is not going to do that, because think it will show he doesn't give very much money to charity, or he is not very rich. so he basically said i dare you to release your tax returns. when he got his endorsement four years ago, he credited trump for

creating jobs and being a great businessman. but he sad the opposite to say today. >> you say doesn't he know what he's talking about? no, he isn't, and no he doesn't. [ cheers and applause ] >> look, his -- his bankruptcies have crushed small businesses, and the men and woman who worked for them. he inherited his business. he didn't create it. >> mitt romney's yesterday's man trump might well say, and we have had john mccain laying into trump again. yester-years man in many cases there with the arizona senator. so while you have these big heavyweights saying that trump would be a disaster, what can the republican party actually do about this man? >> reporter: you know, it's not just these heavy hitters, the establishment, the well-known,

it's this huge concerted effort we're seeing in washington, more than 70 republican leaders in national security, they used to hold positions in former white houses, they handed over a letter basically saying he would make americans much less safe. really another scathing letter, and we're seeing big republican money come in, and they will be blanketing the airways with these anti-trump ads. we haven't really seen this before. this is a much different, much bigger thing. we don't know if it's going to work. the people who vote for trump say they like he says what he thinks, and they believe that he is an outsider from washington. they don't like the establishment. it remains to be seen how the establishment backing trump is going to be able to reach those voters, but they are giving it a try. there are some who believe they

are too late. and believe it or not, there are some republicans who are saying they might launch a third-party bid to try to defeat donald trump and hillary clinton. >> wow. patty thank you very much indeed. fascinating times. now a piece of aircraft found on a beach is to be analyzed to determine whether it is or isn't from the missing malaysian airlines flight mh-370. officials say it is highly likely it is from a boeing 777, like the jet which vanished two years ago. >> reporter: this piece of debris which washed up the coast on mozambique could hold clues to one of the biggest aviation mysteries in history. >> we would like to get ahold of the debris as soon as possible. that's why we are working with australia in a faster manner.

>> reporter: the aircraft was a boeing 777, like this one. the jet went off of radar, march 8th two years ago, while flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. since then australia has lead a huge and costly operation to scour the indian ocean where the plane wreckage is believed to be. >> the total search area of 120,000 square kill meters. we hope to locate the aircraft and give some comfort to the family and friends of those on board, and help us understand what happened to flight mh-370. >> it has been 727 days since the aircraft went down. the multinational effort to find it is the most expensive in history. teams have collected about 20 million gigabytes of data from the search zone which they hope will lead them to the wreckage, but the number of items they

have recovered so far, just one. last july a wing fagment was found to date, it's the only confirmed evidence from the plane. families have started legal action over the plane's disappearance. they are pleading for the governments to keep the search going, and find answers that will help them with closure. the student union president arrested on charges of sedition in india has been released on bail. he was released amid high security and amid celebrations. he is believed to have returned to the campus where he was arrested last month. he has been accused of taking part in an anti indeia -- india protest. venezuela opposition

coalition has announced a strategy which it says will oust the president's term. as well as hold a referendum and campaign for his resignation. he took over as president after the death of hugo chavez in march 2013, and won a presidential election a month later, but he has presided over an economic collapse, not helped by the falling oil prices. venezuela's inflation currently the highest anywhere in the world. an outspoken activist for the rights of the indigenous population of honduras has been found murdered in her home. she lead high-profile environmental campaigns on behalf of the community. she lead a successful battle against the construction of a dam.

she won a prestigious award for our work last year. apparently gunmen broke into her house in the early hours of the morning, and she was shot and killed as she slept. by the end of this century, half of the world's languages have will been banned. in the first of a five-part series of languages at risk, our correspondent reports on the fears of losing not just a language, but an entire heritage. >> reporter: this is one of the most visited sites in bangladesh. the memorial honors students killed by pakistani forces during a protest against declaring the national language of pakistan. that was more than 60 years ago.

visitors remember those who fought for the language. >> translator: it is because of their sacrifice that we can speak it today. if it wasn't for them our mother language may have been lost forever. >> reporter: the movement was an eight-year struggle l to ensure that students would be able to learn in their mother tongue, but while these students are benefitting from the success of that campaign, the same is not true for the country's ethnic and minorities. this language is almost exclusively in banga or english. often they fall behind in school, unable to keep up with their banga-speaking peers. this preschool is one of very few that try to prepare students of the minority for this experience. it teaches them in the language

they speech at home, but introduced them to some banga vocabulary along the way. >> translator: when they go to a regular school, they won't be lost. they'll say your teacher has already taught uses the words. >> reporter: this woman brings her child to the preschool regularly. she speaks little bangla herself and doesn't want her child to struggle the way she has. >> translator: you need both languages. bangla and your mother tongue. >> reporter: there seems to be little space at presence for the language spoken by 3 million people. this woman might have good reason to say she worries whether she will be able to come communicate with her future grandchildren. >> that is just the start of our

plan for languages at risk. in the second part of the series, we're off to a community in the philippines seen here. the language there is considered the most endangered there is in that country. all of the stories at aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. ♪ isn't he a huge business success in doesn't he no what he is talking about? no, he isn't. and no, he doesn't. [ cheers ] >> mitt romney lays into republican front runner, donald trump. maryland's highest court hears arguments against the officers charged in the death of freddie gray. and reports of north korea firing short-range rockets just hours after new international ti