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in the darkness the group had made it into macedonia. now they set off north again towards the serbian buddha. and then she'd been. enough at that at the one she then. could. comment on a bottle. did you want. as the refugee crisis escalated that some politicians in the balkans and the rest of europe was slow to appreciate its sheer scale. tens of thousands of people when left without cash or assistance left to sleep and

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be good recruits. thank you very much. wanted. you to work. hard. so it's. but after taking a look around the station did or a surprise to find a group of refugees sleeping rough behind the platforms soon it becomes clear why they are there. just because they could happen. in.

duffy the sort of that even shocked. the family. instead. something that if you see out there always will be. because. it lobbed at our look at our camp. had the. noise that was allowed.

for the next two days and nights they are stuck at the station hoping in vain that the macedonian police will allow them to board a train. wreck in. the short and perfect victim she. miss muffet to have it with you that not going to be doing. if you. actually go. there one. it's. going to be because. this

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all the party economically. we can sit down it's not exceedingly day the. standard. offer to study. in a in a cafe in alone in being. thank you. the hospital to get hold of modern russia has gone too far with all of. the media. who should be doing a. cover yet. they cycle in the rain and at night. until after two days on the road they find refuge at a mosque in the north of the country. because we had the german

or the one we had. the. command at the michael little and that's not visual. only of the. any. then to their surprise a local man of his the more right to a city on the other side of the serbian border. behind them all of no. escape. square or the hoped for and could see hosts you begin counting to meet you all over toss them a layman. and i'm going she mused. so. you know if they want to walk you know wanted.

as they get close to the buddha the enjoined by hundreds of other refugees. it is. going to be i didn't i mean. this really. but soon enough another problem is exactly what they face in the grounds of a local mosque they try and do a deal with albanian smugglers for the next leg of the trip the prices are extortionate and competition between traffickers is fierce as the mood turns nasty the smugglers start to fight among themselves.

i'm. sorry. but out. of. our. compassion our. trash out and out. in serbia they can at least use public transport but as night fools they realize that's not the end of their troubles to actually. my. son my. daughter was.

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finding it impossible to find shelter in belgrade mullard and didn't take a train to sabean's northern city of supported some twenty five kilometers from the hungary in buda i do nothing god is not. working but since about it they face the same problem no one will let them room. finally a taxi driver agrees to take them to a hostel in the suburbs for a price come say or a. knob any sort of it's not a good settlement for. each such as he at last and a hotel room my lad could go online and search for another people smuggler. her which.

her. true critics claim. the things going on yes it's. just. i was often conduct of a. sort of you there and there's a lot of money. or that she'd know you're about to show us me if you did it give me some of that the i'm off and the feud to where it was up tonight is the future was on my feet and. what he would have to do. with it was not. after weeks of exhausting nonstop travelling by sea and land durai my lads have covered over

a thousand kilometers but with hundreds more to go and several boulders still to cross will they ever make it to germany in the next episode i made tussles with smugglers police and even a t.v. crew they come face to face with the whole show realities of life as a refugee. at the end of the book the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that has claimed so many lives such info sanctuary to people in power on al-jazeera. january on al-jazeera.

an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth . as brazil gets ready to swear in its controversial president we'll have live coverage from brasilia an award winning series showcasing hard hitting stories from the world's most populous regions. as the united states prepares for a new congress we'll examine what this will mean for the country and the world. with maybe a trams constantly changing the listening post continues to analyze how the news is covered. january on al-jazeera. to mourn the most un's initial response had been inadequate but now it was time for bible talk a little so that muslims now moved from merely reacting to taking action putting the western crusaders on the defensive with hindsight this is seen as

a breakthrough as a revival of the jihad in the muslim near east the crusades an arab perspective episode to revive at this time on the jazeera. al-jazeera. where every your. last. man. saudi arabia's foreign minister is demoted as the king the real center of the international fallout journalists mocked as his murder. richelle carey this is out of their life and also coming up more violence in. the

democratic republic of congo has just days to go to a much to late alexion plus. hundreds of asylum seekers were dumped on christmas day in a parking lot in texas. and brazil's military claims success and its year long operation to fight crime in rio de janeiro but residents say nothing has changed. saudi arabia has a new foreign minister with former diplomatic stripped of his post in a major cabinet reshuffle order by king psalm one the shake up comes as the international backlash continues over the murder of journalist democracy by agents of the kingdom charleville us reports. a delonte beer a former advisor to the late king abdullah a former ambassador to the united states and now former foreign minister it was only the second saadi to be appointed foreign minister outside the royal family.

has been demoted to minister of state for foreign affairs it comes after nearly three months of questions and denials about the killing of journalist. in the saudi consulate in istanbul saudi arabia has faced international backlash including from the u.s. congress who said crown prince mohammed bin son man was responsible for murder during a regional summit earlier this month denied the crown prince's involvement and see this with regards to issuing an arrest warrant we don't extradite our citizens i believe turkey's constitution prohibits the extradition of turkish citizens to be a was appointed foreign minister by king solomon in twenty fifteen a month after saudi arabia went to war in yemen is strikes were launched with the aim of quickly crippling who the fighters backed by iran and stage the war has dragged on for almost four years killing at least sixty thousand yemenis he's also overseen turmoil within the g.c.c.

. including a saudi laid in land and sea blockade of cousin for the past eighteen months sort of stalled controversy around the kingdom something his successor last if no one here it's by having brought him last soft who was an old school he's a veteran he served as a minister of finance for twenty years from one nine hundred ninety six until two thousand and sixteen so now he's having come as a foreign minister in order to give the message that we are back to the foreign policy a loss of is the former finance minister he was one of many wealthy and powerful saudis arrested and imprisoned and riyadh's ritz carlton hotel last year the crown prince championed to the arrests as a necessary crackdown on corruption. the yemen war and the g.c.c. blockades three of the main ongoing diplomatic crises facing the kingdom and its new foreign minister him. al-jazeera. place in the democratic republic of

congo have fired tear gas and opposition fighters just days before presidential and parliamentary elections there is anger after the much delayed was postponed by a week the country is going to the polls on sunday a main opposition candidate has appeal for call. we have. friday. and. hours before. we. finish. we have this. culture. as i say please please we know the. outgoing president of the day r c has rejected

opposition claims that the electoral body is favoring the ruling party. to joseph kabila head of sunday's election talking of protests and the like i don't want to go into what happened. in the pass. and the electoral process is always a sensitive issue and i was just stating that even if football game between two you have tensions that rides so during an electoral process you have tensions the most important thing is to have the necessary police force that's well equipped in order to give that a try and given point in time we did not have that capacity but we've been building that capacity and they led to. the campaign itself. took place with minor incidents i could have wanted to have taken place without any

incidents but this is politics around two hundred people seeking asylum in the u.s. and some of christmas and a parking lot in texas after being sent there by immigration and customs enforcement officials and the city of el paso the group included women and children with hundreds of other sent to locations including bus shelters as gabriel is on our ports from el paso they were left to fend for themselves in the cold. by the will cast and yet it came to the u.s. from guatemala like so many others seeking a better life for his son philippe there now just trying to get warm at a shelter after a couple nights at a border patrol detention center at the end of the only little. they put his in a cell it was very cold like an ice box it made his cough we went to another cell it was the same while we were there they didn't give us much food there wasn't much attention and they said it was our fault we brought kids with us but it was out of

necessity to find a better life in the united states. when finally released it got worse earlier this week immigration and customs enforcement officials unexpectedly released hundreds of migrants from detention facilities but instead of taking them to shelters they were dropped off in downtown el paso without any notice and nowhere for them to go most like and well were from central american countries they were families young and old who would cross the border at bennett detention cells for anywhere from three to eight days it was left to volunteers from local nonprofits to rush to the scene to try to help the desperate migrants and asylum seekers many of them were hungry they were thirsty some of them were sick they were sick children were dropped off and they were confused and so what they did it was done on purpose it was done willfully that because it's worry that immigration and custom officials are dumping migrants and asylum seekers out on the streets in order to relieve

overcrowding in detention facilities particularly after two guatemalan children eight year old boy and a seven year old girl died this month while in border patrol custody radhika escobar recently elected to the u.s. house of representatives says it's a crisis started by what she calls a cruel immigration policy by president donald trump one she hopes to change to children that we know of have died in american custody that should never happen again we need to know why it happened how it happened we need to know the conditions that other individuals are having to live through we need to know the foundation of this policy who called for it and we need to change it back at the community center where mad well is at falling tears are trying their best to help knowing more migrants will need it hoping no boar are left on the streets to fend

for themselves give rosendo al-jazeera el paso texas. brazil's military claims its crackdown on crime in rio de janeiro has been a success a controversial operation due to end on monday target at some of the state's most violent areas most of them in the capital but some residents say it failed to address the root causes of the problem. and reports. for nearly one here soldiers carrying machine guns have been raiding some of brazil's most dangerous favelas the military was called in when gang violence became unbearable the government says the plan to curve in security worked. this ceremony marked its completion the state operation in rio de janeiro officially ends on december thirty first the general in charge says the mission was accomplished more meetings you still want your news we are here to mark the end of the federal intervention in public security in rio de janeiro this new and

extraordinary measure took ten months of work and reached all its objectives by reducing the crime rate. since the military's arrival car thefts and street assaults have declined in targeted cities statistics show an eighteen percent drop in home a science compared with two thousand and seventeen but behind this progress critics say there's a hidden reality some brazilians say killings by security forces increased by underlying problems behind crime like unemployment and inequality work nor. because there is thought that much political defeat you will suppress of politics will never change on the contrary people will continue to be afraid and will be repressed this intervention is more political than effective so i think nothing's changed. thanks when it was launched in february it marked the first federal operation in a state since brazil return to democracy in the one nine hundred eighty s. top government officials welcomed it but it was criticized by some human rights

groups. now some fear speaking out publicly on the crackdown. so far i'm hoping if i share my opinion about it it will bring me serious problems so maybe it's better not to talk about this are brazil's new far right president will be sworn in on new year's day brazilians will be hoping for a new chapter that will bring security to a nation torm by crime. al-jazeera the exclusion zone around an erupting volcano in indonesia has been widened and the alert level raised experts fear another eruption could cause a second tsunami at least four hundred thirty people died when a five meter highway flooded closed communities near the sun destroyed on saturday rob mcbride reports from symbol of village in indonesia handling district. with this heightened alert being now in full force aircraft are being told to steer around the volcano but as yet there's been no word of any flight disruptions

meanwhile there's been a renewed warning for people to stay away from the shoreline by at least five hundred meters it has to be said that people with homes maybe two three hundred meters away for a large part they are staying ported their houses are intact but here on the shoreline itself many people have lost their houses in any case they will be down here sorting through possessions but then come night time will be going back to stay with friends staying in resettlement centers or in most. vulcanologists meanwhile i've been using this flight break in the weather and the fact that we now have a rise and they can observe to actually see what the volcano is doing that are reporting continuing plumes of gas and ash flying up.