hoda abdel hamid is in ramallah. what is the situation at the moment?porter: well, things have slowed down now just because it's dark has settled in, but i have to say that throughout the day, we have been witnessing quite intense clashes and no matter how much the israeli army tried to push back to protesters, well, they bureaucrat determined to stand their ground, and so they did. they actually throughout the afternoon spread even further. a certain point past the israeli army's position here in ramallah on the north edge of the town. and then there were also similar clashes, all over the occupied west wank in hebron, where one person died, but he did not die of a protest, he -- according to israeli army, he was trying to stab a israeli citizen, and then there were also clashes in nablous, bethlehem and jerricho. so a very tense situation all across the west bank and in gaza where six protesters died during clashes there. there is a fence that separates gaza from southern israel. the protesters had gone all the way to that fence in solidarity of what

hoda abdel-hamid saying a volatile situation indeed. thank you, hoda abdel-hamid. >> now, syria's government and rebel fighters are accusing each other of launching chemical attacks. bashar al-assad is pointing the finger at what it calls terrorists. the opposition is denying it's responsible and demands the international community investigates. >> it looks like the usual bombing campaign in syria. according to activists the barrel bombs dropped from helicopters contained toxic chemicals. according to witness accounts those chemicals went airborne after the bombs fell. as people were ferried in ambulances, the person recording this video is coughing and others are covering their mounteds. we cannot independently verify the videos, but syrian tv said there was an attack and blamed the fighters. >> trial judge in the -- >> translation: in the hamad suburbs a group was attacked using gas we are aware that the group are prepared to carry out more attacks. >> act visits said many -- activists said many died. children and adults appeared to h

hoda abdel-hamid joins us live in the occupied west bank. are we expecting the frustrations of the palestinian youth to rise up again today? >> it is rising up. it's basically the northern part of ramallah, further down there is an israeli settlement. what we have been witnessing is the palestinian youth have gone town the road where they clash with the israeli army, all of a sudden the israeli army pushed everyone back. i don't know if you see them. see the empty plot of land below the row of young men watching. this is where yesterday the bulk of the palestinian protesters were based and were throwing rocks out of. now it's empty and the israeli soldiers took position there. and they have gone all the way to the intersection of the road. the youth dispersed between the buildings there and on the side road, and it seems on what we have been witnessing for the past half hour, that the israelis are taking positions and are making sure there's a huge distance between them and the palestinian protesters. they have been firing volleys of tear ga

hoda abdel hamid is there. hoda. >> about 2,000 migrants have died we are actually here in augusta, sometime later there is a we still don't know the circumstances under which they died. but often they do die either because water's coming into the boats or because sometimes they are sitting below deck next to the engine and they suffocate. for those who do make it here, it is such a relief but before crossing the sea they do spend some days trying to come to terms of all what they have been through. bus at salama, a young girl tells us the journey is still not over and many of the difficulties are still there. ness it's ait's a moment she's been longing for. her journey started four kilometers away in eritrea. it's a world away from where we first met in misrata's detention center in libya. salam is the girl in orange tense and silent. >> translator: the prison was all of, we knew nothing i was thinking all the time, what will i do, where will i go and how. this was the end. day came, we were happy and hoping y

hoda abdel hamid is live ramallah. what is the latest there, hoda?porter: well, the confrontation has been going on for hours now. actually as you said, ever since the funeral of that young palestinian who actually died six days ago. just behind me, if the camera can zoom in, you can see there is a standoff going on. in the background, israeli forces dressed in dark suits and in the forefront are several palestinian youth. in that has been going on for a while. the bulk of the youth, however are on this side. and so we have been witnessing throughout the day this wave going back and forth, israeli forces approaching palestinian youth, palestinian youth retreating, then palestinian youth pushing forward, israeli forces also retreating. we have also seen them close in on the palestinian from 2 roads, the road down here, and then the road up there. israel forces have been using live ammunition, we have heard that throughout the day, and we have heard the pops of what seemed like rubber-coated steel bullets that are often used, and a lot of tear gas, but

abdel-hamid -- donetsk, hoda abdel-hamid. thank you very much. >> the deposit in south sudan -- government in south sudan, said it sent soldiers across the country to secure bases belonging to the united nations. 58 people were killed at the site, where the displaced people have taken shelter. violence began four months ago, when fighting broke outs between government soldiers and rebel troops loyal to the former vice president. >> these are some of the survivors on a u.s. base in bor. among them women and children. some have bullet wounds, others attacked by people with machetes. this boy was beaten with sticks, by a group numbering in the hun deds. >> this wall yn was told to -- woman was told it lay on the ground. she refused and ran away. >> translation: they caught up with me. i tried to jump over a wall. a man caught up with me, hitting me in the head with a machete. i lay still because i didn't want them to come back and finish me. >> another woman described being shot in the arm as she, too, tried to run away from her

hoda abdel hamid is on the greek side of the border and joins us now live.you are, of course, is where the bottleneck is. explain to us how you have seen what is now effectively a refugee camp there grow. >> reporter: well, actually i have been here for about two weeks, and when i first arrived here, there were a thousand people who were in the official transit camp and that was it. you wouldn't see one of these colored tents. and what is difficult to understand is how the situation lead to this. the latest estimate we got is there are between 11 to 12,000 people who are stranded here in this now makeshift camp. the transition camp can't take anyone else. and aid organizations are having a real nightmare to try to organize all of this. the crossing is more shut than open. just to give you an indication, over the last 24 hours, about 320 have arrived -- have left, sorry, managed to go through. you probably have that same amount of people who arrived near this camp over a span of two hours. >> hoda, of course we know that most of this comes from the violence i

let's go live to hoda abdel-hamid. what are you seeing there? >> i have to say, if, indeed, the anti-terror operation has started, so far it's a discrete one. we are in the city center. the building - the police building that has been taken over by the pro-rush protesters, 300m down the road to my right. we went there, had a little look. you don't see armed men on the streets. you have this usual barricade of rubber tyres blocking access to the building. that barricade is manned by some men wearing minor helmets or biker helmets, they are holding shoes. in front of them is a group of people presumably some of their supporters. that group of people is not more than between 500 to 1,000 people. i have to say, if the government has issued that warning to the resident of the city center to leave the city center, where no one has heeded that call, you see people on the street. families and some shops are open. we also have seen a lot of people go to church. what i have seen of government presence so far is a fortified checkpoint on the road, just at

what do you understand they meant hoda?porter: i think they meant there are already 12,000 people that are stranded here in greece who want to continue their journey, hundreds more arrive on a daily basis, and as you said, people are stranded behind me because the border with macedonia is closed and there's no real indication on when it will open again. macedonia has said it has closed its border, because the transit camps are at full capacity, and serbia is not allowing anyone in. and while the european union is trying to find a unified position on how to deal with this crisis, serbia has just announced that the president has also arrived, sending military forces to the border here between greece and macedonia, to fortify that border. i have to tell you that there is already austrians, hungarian, that with working to make sure people don't go through the border. people are all worried because many don't want to stay in greece. many want to continue their journey, and greece also cannot really afford to have all of these pe

hoda abdel hamid joins us now live from ramallah. what is the situation now at the moment?till tense? >> reporter: well, certainly the standoff is still ongoing even though because of the darkness, some of the palestinian protesters have pulled back, but -- i don't know if you can see on camera, the light -- the fire all around, as dark settled in, some of the palestinian protesters used petrol bombs. the israeli soldiers, you can't see them probably, but they are not very far from there. they have pulled forward, much closer to the protesters. earlier i have to tell you, this whole area was spread out with protesters and israeli soldiers. now similar scenes have been seen throughout the west bank, and as you said, one protester died of his wounds in hebron, and there were also clashes in jerricho, and bethlehem. >> what is behind these clashings? >> certainly a lot of frustration and anger, suspicion of what are the motives of israel around -- regarding the al aqsa compound mosque, but also when you speak to these youth, they tell us, you know, we have been hearing about t

they targeted the building with homemade bombs more on hoda form until neighboring tunisia. what's the significance of this? >> reporter: the most significant part of this is really to create the sense of insecurity even in tripoli. now, we know that benghazi, there is lawlessness and it has been there awhile. tripoli has been more or less stable. so probably the main point is that bearing in mind that the residents of the ambassador had been an empty building since 2012 and that the bombs were not really very big. the detonation did cause minor damage but nothing significant. there were no casualties. i think it's come at a time when everybody is asking the question: how spread is isil and the affiliates around libya. have they infiltrated and are they in the east and west? all of this plays well into the sort of insecurity and uncertainty that libyans are living in and certainly, also raising the questions of the international community level. >> why hoda? why attack the empty iranian ambassador's residence in tripoli? >> well, the republican -- iran has never been a frien

let's go to hoda abdel-hamid right now. let's go, instead to nick spicer, reporting from kiev. >> reporter: there's a high turn out here at this polling station in kiev as there is in polling stations across the capital. lines going outside, voters here see the election as a chance to stablilize the country after almost six months of unrest beginning with street protests, once the government decided not to join an association agreement in europe, leading to the fleeing of the president, the annexation of crimea, tension with russia, unrest in the east. these are all changes that the president will have to face. and polls suggest that the new president will be petero poroshenko, a billionaire chocolatier, serving as economy and foreign minister. he said he wants to stablilize the economy and provide jobs and get closer to europe. >> let's go to hoda abdel-hamid, who is live in the north-west of donetsk. what is the turn out so far in that area, given the threat of violence by pro-russian groups? >> reporter: well, we don't h

let's go straight to hoda live from ramallah in the west bank. hoda, this stabbing took place at the coluheck point between jerusalem and the west bank. >> reporter: yes, absolutely, it's the main crossing for anyone in the northwest side trying to reach jerusalem and the palestinian neighborhoods of occupied jerusalem. now, what we know is they is a 23-year-old palestinian. we don't know exactly from where he comes from. we have conflicting reports on that, but he was crossing from -- he was crossing back in to ramallah, and from what we understand, it was -- he actually tried to carry out two stabbings in the sense that he first tried to stab an israeli border guard. he was shot at the first time, then as he was laying on the ground, an israeli explosive expert came to search him to make sure if he didn't have anything else on him, and that's when the young man pulled a second knife and actually managed to slightly nvrnling the israeli expert of explosives. at that point, he was shot dead. this is the first time actually we have such an attack

hoda abdel hamid. hashem ahelbarra. >> reaching europe does not mean the search for a better life. hoda abdel hamid reports of migrants telling her about their escape and the life they were coming from. >> reporter: her journey started across the sea 4,000 kilometers away in eritrea. it took her nearly three years to reach her location. a few weeks ago we met there were no smiles at the time. >> translator: the prison was awful. we knew knowing where we were for how long. i was thinking all the time, what will i do, what will i do? how? i thought it was the end. the day you came to visit we were happy we were hoping you could get us out. but the next day they took us to tripoli, they put us in a building and we weren't allowed out until we paid. he paid the guys in the prison and we left. first we walked out into the sea, the water was to my chest we got on a big boat and then reached the big boat. on third day in italy perhaps coincidence or fate, we meet again, alongside a sefntion reception center for newly arrived migrants. the travel companions gave each other courage then and

hoda abdel hamid is there for us earlier. hoda what is the situation there now? >> reporter: things have settledown and certainly the tension that we saw earlier in the day has called down. it is nighttime. a lot of families are in their tents. some people are queuing at the various food points to get a hot meal if they can. the amount of people makes it they wait for quite a time for that. but you also see along the road, coming here towards this camp, more and more people marching. the situation is certainly calmer. have that still emotional anxiety among the refugees everybody asking all the time when is this border going to open? is the border going to open? and certainly they are worried that maybe they don't have the -- the required documents to continue through the balkan routes, a stark contrast to the tension that was here earlier in the day. impatient and exhausted. they first march towards the railway gate along the water. demanding once again to be let through. but soon things got out of scroll. some refugees managed to tear down part of the fence. ot

we'll try to get back to hoda later. in the meantime we'll take a break. we have this coming up. >> russian police carry out a raid in moscow saying they have arrested a number of armed faces. >> misty, brought at auction, a rare skeleton to be put on public display. >> david foster with you, time to recap the top stories. >> thailand's yingluck shinawatra called on citizens to end their sit-ins at various government buildings. she made the appeal hours after winning a no confidence vote in parliament. the former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi insists he will stay in politics despite being withdrawn from parliament. >> 14 young women have been sentenced to 11 years in prison for taking part in protests in egypt. others will be held in juvenile detention because they were under the age of 16. we can go back to hoda, after losing our connection earlier. >> we didn't get much of what you had to say. >> these girls belong to something called the 7am movement, a youth movement that does support the anti-coup alliance. typically what they did is stand

we have hoda abdel hamid live for us in the occupied west bank but first, mike hanna in west jerusalem. could you tell us about this incident in which a woman apparently detonated a bomb in a car? >> well, yes, this occurred in the occupied west bank near the settlement of el adamin. near west jerusalem about. she got out of the car and police say she debt nateed the explosive device in the car. a nearby policeman was also injured as was she. photographs of the car after the blast show very little damage but once again significant in that it's if first time in the n recent days that an explosive device has been used in a random attack, the random attacks taking the form of night attacks in recent days. this is first time that some kind of explosive device according the police has been used. >> so with tension rising then what is prime minister netanyahu doing? >> well, he's due to be holding a full cabinet meeting within the next few hours. this is the first full cabinet meeting that has been held in nearly three weeks because he was in the united states and then there was an extended

hoda, good to have you on the program. and let me start here.'m going to give you a choice between a couple of sentiments here. are you feeling more of he finally did it, or finally, he did it! and thing visiting a mosque and delivering this particular talk. >> i would say that he did it! exclamation point, and i think that's the sentiment of a lot of american muslims, and certainly the american muslims that were in the room today, lessoning to the president's speech. you know, i heard the sentiment from quite a number of folks, that well, it took seven years for the president to visit a mosque and have an address, but i think today, in 2016, in this heightened climate of islamaphobia, it was the most appropriate time for president obama to visit a mosque and have this address. >> what is meant by the statement -- because i've heard it a couple of times -- he's making the speech now because he has nothing to lose. it seems to me that the country and this president have a lot to gain from this speech today. >> absolutely, i think that this was an

from here wr we find hoda abdel hamid at the greek side of the border. she joins us live.a the bottleneck is almost like the latest installment of a refugee crisis that has been going on in europe for a very long time. they do have a six-point plan, do you think that could solve the problem at man made camps like where you are now? >> reporter: i think in the long run, it might regulate the flow of refugees coming into europe, and streaming them into vep shun centers before relocating them, but now we are facing on emergency here in this camp that grows by the day. the latest figure is between 11 and 12,000 people who are living in dire conditions here. it's very cold. it has been raining. there's mud puddles everywhere. children are getting sick. it is a very difficult situation. the border is more shut than open, just to give you an indication, the latest figure we got is that only 84 people were allowed in from 6:00 this morning to 6:00 this afternoon. now in any given hour, you have probably more than 100, 150 people who keep on pouring here. so that bottleneck is not

but let's take you now to hoda abdel hamid.s in the greek border town south of the macedonian border. and hoda we were seeing earlier shocking footage of police using batons to control the refugees. >> reporter: yes, indeed. that actually happened this morning. there was a large group of refugees probably between a thousand and 1,500, it was pouring rain, like ask happening now. they were very eager to get into macedonia, the macedonia border police were stopping them. so there has been a little bit of scuffle as they were pressing and the police were pressing them back. this is not the first time the macedonian border police used such tactics. it has been going on ever since the refugee crisis spilled on to this border. because the border is about 50 meters behind me, and if you see there is a whole continuous flow since about half an hour ago, a continuous flow of refugees arriving now by bus, because greece has changed their regulations over the past few weeks, so they are allowed to take buses, and i can see a bus, again, a

hoda thank you very much. hoda abdel hamid bringing us up to speed from raw maw la. >>> the u.n. security council has been meeting to discussion the situation. the deputy israeli ambassador accused the palestinian leadership of inciting the correct violence. >> we face an enemy who is willing to die in order to kill. these people who kill innocent 1i68ians in gold blood abide by no rule. israel is taking ever means to protect its citizens and is responding to these attacks. i have no doubt that if on a daily basis your citizens were being stabbed in the streets with butcher knives or shot on buses, your security forces would have reacted in the same way. >> let's go live to kristen sal loommy who is at the united nations headquarters. both sides are accusing each other of inciting the violence. tell us what you have been hearing. >> reporter: we heard from both sides in the u.n. security council as well as the u.n.'s take on the violence that is happening there. and as you say, both sides, of course, blaming the other for what is happening, for inciting the violence, and what we

. >> hoda abdel-hamid is in the occupied west bank.irst to mike hannah, our command in west jerusalem rsh, all mys must be on the israeli government to come up with something. >> indeed, yes, the israeli cabinet has been meeting in the of the day. the prime minister was in the u.s. addressing the united nations and subsequently there has been a jewish holiday. certainly much to discuss in the intervening period between meetings, one racked by violence within israel and the occupied territory. one unfortunate issues is the high fatality yip rate as pointed out, the palestinian red cess ented members saying close to three have been shot. this figure is high. >> binyamin netanyahu - will he be particularly unsettled of the accusations of excessive force used by his security forces. >> well, he hasn't been unsettled in the past when similar accusations were made. for the fiorentied we put together rules of engagement and police spokesman said in each case the situation was life threatening, and each time officers on the scene have to respo

. >> let's go to hoda abdel hamid on the border between greece and macedonia.his is the place where we have this terrible bottleneck, hoda, and listening to the language, it appears to me that more and more the message going out is you are unwelcome, but you can't get out. >> reporter: well, that's i think the biggest dilemma of people here. they say well we are here now, no one told us we were not allowed here, and now why can't becontinue our journey. as the people we heard earlier saying they are running out of cash, and living conditions here are terrible. the sheer volume of people that keep on arriving makes it very difficult for the aid organizations, so they lack absolutely everything. you see a lot of children walking around in quite cold weather barefoot. it's extremely difficult, and what you really notice is increasing despair and frustration and anger. people are tired. temperaturers flair all day long, and the message they keep getting is there are no clear guidelines as to who will be able to continue and who will have to wait here and see what h

and for the new arrivals, the only option is to wait their turn. >> hoda abdel-hamid is live. extraordinary pictures in your report. tell me more about what you are seeing now, right behind you? >> well, the port is behind me. it's complete chaos. they are accused of refugees going in both directions for hundreds of meters, and the wait is extremely long. all of these people are dying to be processed inside the port. to get a piece of paper allowing them to board a ferry. the greek authorities are overwhelmed. it's a long weight. sometimes they can go up to more than a week. some of the refugees are tired. what you see behind me is happening all over the town mere. wherever it is that the public space is available. wherever it is that you find people camped out. the greek removed thousands in this port. they are outside of the city. in an empty land. i was speaking to the head of the unrcr. trying to make a registration. as we speak, hundreds are offpouring into the island. >> we talk about people being registered and going on to a ferry. what's then? where does the ferry take

hoda, good to see you. obviously, you have been there a couple of. you have been following fallout of those strikes by egypt. what did you make of the president's words regarding those attacks in libya? >> reporter: i thought it was quite significant that he actually started his one-hour long speech by tackling that issue. he was obviously speak can to the egyptian people. i mean he used very strong words. he said that he had to take revenge, and i think by the word "revenge," he also meant regaining the order of the country, that he could not face going and paying condolences to the coptic community or to the families of the victims of the isil beheading in libya unless he had done that. and then he spoke quite clearly to the international community. he repeated more than once that the army egypt's army was noto an offensive army. it was there to defend the country, that the strikes were carried out after meticulous study. there were 13 strikes based on solid intelligence on the ground. he said that there are no civilian casualties even though that

zana hoda has more from beirut. >> reporter: the russian military intervention has entered a new phase. now the air power is being used to help the syrian army launch a counter offensive against the rebels on the ground. what we saw really over the past week was russian targets hitting positions. targeting really opposition positions on the front line that surrounds government-controlled territory in the west. the aim of those air strikes were to stop the rebel advance in that area. the rebels were advancing towards the government strong hold, to weaken their defenses, and now what we understand is a major military operation on the ground, the government trying to push further north. now the opposition is telling us that they are going to fight back. they have also said that the latest offensive displaced tens of thousands of people. we have seen video of families

from the turkish syrian border, zana hoda reports. >> reporter: intense artillery shelling across the turkey is targeting positions of the ypg. the government says it has evidence a suicide car bomber who targeted a bus of soldiers on wednesday was a ypg member, and that he received help from the pkk inside turkey. >> translator: we have critical data on who is responsible for this attack. turkey is facing an attack organized by the pkk and ypg once again. turkey's friends should stand with turkey to fight all terrorist organization. >> reporter: security is increasingly a concern in turkey. the bombing in ankara wasn't the first. and since july the southeast of the country has been a battleground between security forces and pkk affiliates. turkish officials want their western allies to sever their links with the syrian kurdish fighters. >> translator: the u.s. must clarify its stance on terrorism, washington's statements are conflicted on the ypg. it's a sign of weakness to act with a terror organization like the ypg, in the fight against daesh. >> reporter: but on the ground the u.s

hoda abdel hamid, and dominic kane. to hoda first.t are people there saying about the closure of the balkans route? >> reporter: certainly it's a huge disappointment, many said the opening of the boarder was their last hope. and now they have no hope anymore. they do have options. the option is to go through the relocation program, but because of all that they have been through over the past two to three weeks, and because of all of the restrictions that started adding up on a daily basis on this border, many are wondering if they will make it through the relocation program, how long it will take, and many of the people here are for example women traveling alone with their children, hoping to join their husband. they are wondering if family reunification will still be valid? because it wasn't valid at the border when it was open and that trickle of people were going through. living conditions have become more than difficult, probably devastating. it's really miserable for the 14,000 people who are stranded here. and one of them is all

hoda thank you. we'll leave it there.hamid there on the greece macedonia border. >>> jordan's foiled what it says would have been a major isil attack on military and civilian targets in the country. security forces killed seven men during overnight raids. they were holed up inside a palestinian refugee camp in the heart of the city. let's hear from jane arraf who explains more about the operation. >> reporter: jordanian authorities are describes this as a successful attempt to foil what would have been a major attack by isil-related groups on jordanian military and civilian installations. this centered around a overnight raid where security forces and policebacked by attack helicopters closed in on a residential compound in the palestinian refugee camp. seven fighters were killed some wearing explosive belts according to official media. a police officer was also killed and more than 30 were arrested. jordan has said that because of its proximity to syria and iraq, and it's general proximity to conflict in the region, it h

and standing by for us in lesbos, hoda abdel hamid.terday, hoda, just to recap when we spoke you were on a beach in a different part of the island, a boat had come ashore and the refugees new they had to walk to the part if they wanted to get to the mainland of greece. did you go with them? >> reporter: yes, these are some of the people. we did meet this morning, one of the young men that had crossed last night when we were doing that broadcast. all of the people arrived here because this is where the port is, and this is where they can board the ferry to go to athens. this is one of five or six ferries that have been departing from here over the last 24 hours because the authorities came together and decided that you have to de -- deacon guest the island if you want to make livable conditions. this long line behind me, those are people waiting to buy their tickets. the registering process has sped up. it has moved to a stadium on the outskirts of the city and there are many more screening teams there. so people are getting their paper

hoda abdel hamid has the latest. >> the latest figure released by the coast guard is more than 2300 migrants rescued in 50 operations on sunday alone. grand total of the weekend, 30 operations, more than 6,000 migrants rescued, that is a record. as we understand it, all the operation are over, and the ships are bringing back these migrants to sicily or to mainland italy that information will trickle over the next few hours. the ships involved were from germany switzerland ireland malta, spain and a commercial shep had to be called upon becauseship had to be called upon because it was the closest. in the next 24 to 36 hours these migrants will come on land and will have to be relocated.

. >>> hoda abdel hamid joins us live now from ramallah in the west bank.oda we have seen an escalation in the west bank, part of that area seeing violent protests. did it turn out to be the day of rage that was called for that people wanted? >> reporter: not quite. it was a day of rage that was called upon by the political factions here, giving it up to every area then to organize their own protests. and as we have seen in the past, each time the political factions sort of interfere openly, then you have a lesser turnout. nonetheless there was fierce clashes in bethlehem, things have been tense there for a few days. earlier -- at the end of last week, there was a 13-year-old boy who died in clashes there, and then two days ago a 27-year-old young man was also killed during the confrontation there, so it's a very charged atmosphere. uls where there were protests that turned violent. the israeli soldiers immediately sort of fired tear gas to keep the protester as far as possible, so that was also one of the factors while the clashes were not able to come abo

let's go to hoda abdel hamid now. you are on the greek side.talk about the greek concern that if other countries shut their borders, then greece which is in a terrible financial state anyway, is going to have to find for these refugees who have got nowhere else to go. >> reporter: that's absolutely right. what greece is worried about is the domino effect. when you speak to people they tell you, austria is going to close its boarder, there was a group of refugees who were sent back from slovenia, and the concern is that everybody will be sent back to the entry point, which is greece or the islands of greece, and then what will greece do with that? as you said, it has its own financial problems and crisis here, and the number of refugees coming is not as high as it was six months ago, but it is still very high. today at the border there was about 2,000 people who throughout the day were shipped in -- were bussed in, i would say, to cross into macedonia. greece has also another problem, is that -- at the moment only nationals from iraq, syria, and

zana hoda is in a turkish city and joins us live now. what is the latest you are hearing about this? >> reporter: well, this happened just a short while ago, so the information is still sketchy. but we do know an explosion has rocked the turkish capitol. initial reports suggesting that a car bomb was responsible, and the target were military personnel in a vehicle very close to a military la lawn -- lodging this any area. there are casualties, we understand a number of wounded. this is not the first time we have seen an explosion in ankara, a new months ago there was an explosion, but the target was not the military. a new months ago there was an international peace rally, organized by the kurds. who was responsible? there has been no claim of responsibility. we can only speculate. what i can tell you is the situation in turkey, and turkey is at war with a number of groups, one of them is the pkk. they have targeted the military in the past, and like i mentioned, the turkish military has been pounding their positions from the skies in th

hoda abdel hamid joins us live now from that greece macedonia border. it's dark now.n't really see behind you very well, hoda, but tell us a little bit about that bottleneck that you have been witnessing. >> reporter: well, certainly, it has been building up over the past few days, because simply the border has been more closed an open. the last time it was open was this morning. so several hours ago, and only a hundred people managed to get through. now that bottleneck starts here at the border, but it also stretches up where a couple of thousand of people in a reception center who don't want to be there. many have left and we are told they are making their way back here to the border, because they are afraid they will be stranded in greece. and greek authorities say, in total there are about 12,000 refugees and migrants in greece at the moment, and that number just increases on a daily basis, because they keep on arriving by sea. i also want to say the humanitarian crisis could continue on the other side, because now you have the two transit camps in macedonia that

hoda abdel hamid is live on the border. hi there, hoda, so what is the situation, currently?reporter: well, the border has reopened after not only the afghans, but also those nationalities considered economic migrants were evacuating from this crossing point. but the border has reopened for syrians and iraqis but there are restrictions and we have seen some syrians who have been asked to return back to greece simply because they did not have enough paperwork to support their claim or to prove that they are indeed syrians or iraqis. now these are -- these restrictions were imposed by this -- i would say subgroup that was created within europe that includes fy -- five countries. so from now on the process has changed for syrians and iraqis, and unless they have an id, birth certificate or passport it will be very difficult for them to go through. before all they needed was a piece of paper issued by the greek authorities that proved that they had actually entered europe from one of the islands. >> and what have people been telling you? i can only imagine this must be having a d

whereas traveling and braving those dangers brings them a bit of hope. >> al jazerra hoda on a rainyf top in rome. hoda, thanks a lot. >>> an estimated 1700 refugees have died in the mediterranean alone, that hasn't stopped, as you heard, new groups of desperate people from setting out on long and dangerous journeys. the world has been slow to respond. we'll talk about why. stay with us, it's "inside story." >> guardianship imposed by the state >> they lose more rights than someone who goes to prison... >> what's being done to protect liberties in texas? >> i'm just a citizen trying to get some justice for an old man... >> an america tonight investigation only on al jazeera america >> "compass" will challenge the way you look at the world. talking about big subjects. telling human stories. >> there's a tidal wave. >> we all have a problem. >> could you have seen that coming? >>> welcome book to "inside story." tonight on the program refugees around the world making desperate journeys and the world's response to the growing crisis. today it's being reported the european union member s

what more do we know hoda?> reporter: actually the self proclaimed mayor of slaviansk has confirmed that his people were holding these -- this delegation of the usce, it was a team that was here to do military a very -- verification. there was a deal by which when the team arrived around the first check point, it should have called in and coordinated for the entrance into the town. the mayor said that that did not happen. he also said in the same bus where the eight members of this team was, there were five ukrainians and among them one who worked for the ukrainian chief of staff. the self proclaimed mayor describes him as a spy from what also we understand this military verification team was under the commanding the german ministry of defense. it issued a statement confirming that among the team were three german nationals and the other six were from various nationalities. >> reporter: the skies above the town, the ukrainiian government says a helicopter exploded just as it was taking off, the pilot survived.

>> hoda abdel-hamid joining us. many of those girls just children. >>> more than 2 million syrian children are refugees and a grim picture about their future. they say when they flee to bordering kuntz trees, they can't go to school and are sometimes forced to work just to survive. more from zeina hoder with those children. >> allya is 11 years old. she faced the war in syria facing a new danger in lebanon. her school is safe. but like her, many of these refugees also have to work once classes are over. [applause.] >> a man in a car with a syrian plate number approached me. he looked scary, and he asked to buy some flowers. as i was handing him the flowers, he grabbed my arm. i ran inside the supermarket. he waited and then followed us. we ran away. >> because of that, allya no longer works on the streets but her 9-year-old brother, mohammed, has no choice. their mother is a cleaner, but her salary just isn't enough for them to survive. so, every afternoon, mohammed sells flowers on the streets of beirut. more and m

hoda abdel-hamid joins me from donetsk. it's complicated, this story, hoda. it is becoming very complicated, and the major is feeling emboldened and empowered by it. he declared the o.s.c.e. team was considered as prisoners of war, even though it wasn't clear whether he decided that europe was an enemy. he said they were not allowed in his territory, and accused them of being spies to give information to the enemies of his up to. now, there is a lot of pressure on him from all sides. we understand from the o.s.c.e. that they have been talking to all sides. they have put its weight on it. sergei lavrov clearly said that he will do whatever he can, but this happened because of the anti-terror operation that was launched against the town of slovyansk, and never kicked off. it is a very complicated situation at this stage. from what we understand, the mayor is under pressure to release at least o.s.c.e. delegation, at least the foreigners, three of them are germans, there's a daip, a pol -- dane, a pol, a czech. yes, that's the nationalities, i'm sorry, there. wi

let's get more from hoda abdel hamid.a what can you tell us about the ongoing protests and the arrests there? >> the protests have just started a short while ago and judging from what we're hearing from the ground, there is quite a significant turnout. from what we understand at this particular moment you have two groups at the square, the reason probably they are there, is security forces have sealed out that area for the past few days. these two groups are actually contending groups in the sense that one of the groups was support general sisi, and the other group is there saying -- it's denouncing the protest law, and also in the past few days it had denounced the article that will allow the government -- allow them -- sorry -- the continuation of civilians being tried in military court. the whole day was full of rumors and counter rumors. the groups had vowed they would go down to the street, and then just two hours ago, the authorities announced that they have actually given permission for the protesters to gather in

hoda abdel hamid made some of thevoyage with the be ship. >> for years it goes well beyond that. noar front of the rescue of migrants making journey across the mediterranean sea. >> translator: saving human lives is really gratifying, especially when there are children. it was emotional. >> when the sea is rough we have to keep them calm, bring them on board as soon as possible. they were all sing, thanking god for us. >> the newest in the fleet of the border police, its on board camera can zoom in about 10 miles away 18 kilometers. other eu nation are also proalg by sea and from the air. this is a ship of the british royal navy. we're about 24 nautical miles off the coast of libya and in front of the trich li tripp lidz area. tripoli area. any boat in this area needs to identify itself overt wise otherwise it gets searched. >> all part of the recently established triton mission. >> it consists of joint seas patrols. days 6,000 migrants reached our area in just a few hours. we had to call upon commercial ships in the area to help. if there are lives to be saved we will go whereve

it looks like chaos behind you, try and talk us through it, hoda. a. well, just looking as we were speaking. people here have been waiting for hours under the baking sun, and really no one is there to assist them. some of them will tell you they have been stuck on the island for days on ends. being on the streets. they have the paperwork in process. you can't check into a hotel or have a rest in this ordeal. now, they are getting very impatient. before we had the police here keeping them in check. as soon as the police moved out. people are jumping over the fence, trying to get food. that's where they process the paperwork allowing them to get on the ferry. this is not the end. there has been a similar scene half an hour ago, and there's a lot of tension. the riot police is moving in, and at the moment there's no contact between the police and the refugees. but in this situation, if it goes off, it's explosive. earlier today. there was a similar send off on a main road here. some refugees who are sleeping in an empty piece of land outside the capital o

hoda abdel hamid has more. >> they arrive on overloaded boats from turkey, the refugees are syrian. >> i didn't want to leave. these are my children, they stopped going to school in university, there's no life, only fear, we had no life. >> reporter: a few meters away, another boat on the horizon, another, and more. this rubber dinghy's engine was broken so they were adrift. we heard them scream and shout. for a moment, there's an outburst of joy. but there's also so much anxiety. in a faint voice she says, i'm scared. no one cares about us. >> translator: we have no value anymore, we become a commodity, people make money off our back. we are a trading commodity. >> reporter: the entire northwest of the coast is like this, pile after pile of life jackets. a tiny little life jacket. one can just imagine the baby on board and here is the ruke rubbr dinghy they come across with. the first thing they do is puncture it, they're afraid to be sent back. but there's absolutely no one here. >> i was.expecting the police to help us out at least for the first night. we don't have food or water.

was trying to negotiate of negotiate and didn't tell us where they were held. >> hoda, adjustment just a few o you were telling us about the standoff. does this indicate a new approach, a shift perhaps after the new president has taken over in ukraine? >> well, the new president hasn't taken over yet. the old president is still in place. an escalation in the will of the ukrainian forces to use more fire power. certainly those battles in and around the airport, they were using air and ground power. certainly i.t it did welcome hoe the separatists, around 40, 45, some of them you speak to them, they say i think those numbers are much higher. the casualties on the ukrainian side of that front line and they are not able to retrieve those bodies. but certainly a very dangerous escalation in the conflict so close to the cities. >> okay thank you hodda for all the clarification. >>> no running water and there's been an outbreak of scabes. we understand the french authorities are threatening to bulldoze it and reports of police actually clearing the camp. >> we are actually next to the camp wh

hoda abdel hamid joins us live from ramallah in the west bank. these tensions are gradually but most definitely spreading from east jerusalem now to gaza. >> yes, definitely yesterday the clashes in gaza was -- signaled a new escalation. despite the fact that there have been calls to try orestore calm on both sides of the conflict, calls made by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. these youth are not organized by any political faction per se, it is youth who are expressing their frustration and actually when you do ask them what are you going to do next there are calls for calm. people tell you no, we are fed up of all of this. we want to find a final settlement to all these issues and we will continue as long as they see violations between the two sides. >> and friday was the deadliest day wasn't it in terms of this recent spate of violence. and the clashes are sporadic so far in nature, they're not all organized or orchestrated. >> reporter: they are not organized or orchestrated. they are spor

hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera, in the mediterranean sea. >> still to come, greece's priements feels the heatgreece's primeminister feels the heat at home. and mexico's upcoming election. oming election. is >> good to have you with us. i'm elisabeth peranem. these are the top stories. earlier state media said it had stopped a major attack by yemeni rebels said to have been carried out with yemeni republican guard loyal to ali abdullah saleh. >>> two people killed and 100 injured in a blast in southeast turkey. and one of saddam hussein's most trusted and loyal ministers tariq aziz has died after a heart attack. he surrendered to u.s. troops in 2003 when saddam hussein toppled. >>> greece's prime minister has told his parliament that any agreement with international creditors must include the promise of debt relief. athens has postponed paying back hundreds of millions of dollars until the end of the month. john siropolous has more. >> sound thrashing from the opposition exearmt parties the socialists and conservatives they said take the deal, it won't get better. what he's been given is

hoda abdel hamid went and met some work cxtbreak have managed to turn things around. >> reporter: it is a model of self organization. a factory that was dooms if it wasn't for the ingenuity of its workers. and so it went from producing building materials like grout and acrylics to making environmentally friendly soaps and cleaning products. >> translator: we were working with a lot of chemicals before so we decided to change. we wanted to produce something that is chief and affordable for the people. >> sold in many european companies, with a label proudly stating, made by workers who refuse to fall into unemployment and depression. they had effectively lost their jobs even though not officially fired. what is happening here is very telling what went wrong in greece a fine line between personal business and official business. money from here was injected there and then within weeks from each other they both shut down. it was a shock for dimitri. he came to work one morning only to find the doors locked and management gone. >> translator: of course it was a surprise, we were still wor