last week the un refugee agency issued a statement saying false messages were being circulated about resettlement and that only a very small number of refugees and asylum seekers met the criteria. but that didn't stop the protests here. after wednesday's police operation remaining demonstrators had it on. for now their new home is a local church where they've been given temporary shelter. our correspondents at n.p.r.'s has been speaking to some of the refugees about church here in the church where about 300 people are seeking shelter refugees you can see it is completely overcrowded so many people have the space it is not smelling very well of course of the stress levels very high the tensions are very high and people have experienced very terrible things on wednesday when they were the correct down on their protests and the police was attacking them i just talked to sylvie one mother who was a witness of what happened and she actually got injured herself. i'm sorry i feel that anger because they had trades. because whether the thing is today is the 5th in a 4 because in south africa

sharp increase in migrants arriving in greece has created a crisis a crisis situation the un refugee agency says more than 10000 people mostly syrians and afghans wound landed on the greek islands in september. a look. our brian todd has that's all we have time for for these hard news team have a great weekend. after. my own meal and i'm game on the brand new delusions on this post it's personal device it's about so place that affects us all a lot of climate change in the returns will only reinforce spoke out.

that last week the un refugee agency issued a statement saying false messages were being circulated aboutresettlement and that their lives very small number of refugees met the criteria. but that didn't stop protesters here. after police broke up the crowds and arrested $100.00 demonstrators those that remained had it on. for now their new home is in the nokia church where they have been given temporary shelter. here's a look now at some of those stories making news around the world the u.s. department of defense has released the 1st video of the operation that killed i asked chief ababa car al baghdadi it shows us special forces storming into his compound in northern syria and its subsequent destruction by family members and loyalists were reportedly killed in the special forces raid twitter has announced a ban on all political advertising beginning of ember 22nd company said the targeted advertising brought quote significant risks to politics the decision puts pressure on other social media platforms to follow suit amid increasing concern that they're being used to presents misleading i

last week the un refugee agency issued a statement saying false messages were being circulated about resettlement and that only a very small number of refugees and asylum seekers met the criteria but that didn't stop the protests here. i i after wednesday's police operation remaining demonstrators headed on. so now their new home is a local church where they've been given temporary shelter. of more on this now i'm joined by our correspondent in cape town again good to see you as again what is going to happen to these people now. well $100.00 of them were actually temporarily arrested yesterday they are released in the meantime and it is likely that they will keep on protesting but it is very unlikely that their demands will be met to be fair did they do not want to stay a year because they don't feel safe here they don't want to go back to their countries of origin they want to go to a country some protesters yesterday said just to do by europe the usa canada and this is just simply not going to happen south africa has about 270000 refugees and asylum seekers imagine what kind of mes

last week the un refugee agency issued a statement saying false messages were being circulated about resettlement and that only a very small number of refugees and asylum seekers met the criteria but that didn't stop the protests here. i i after wednesday's police operation remaining demonstrators headed on. for now their new home is a local church where they've been given temporary shelter. of these obvious cars for an ardent greece is standing right outside the very church in cape town and joins me now from the high are going what people saying to you there and what is going to happen to these people. so you know i'm still in front of the church here right now you can find a lot of people sleeping outside at the moment some are cooking more even inside in total we're say that about 300 refugees and migrants are seeking shelter here at the moment and they're not sure what is going to happen because it is quite unlikely that their demands will be met many of them are asking to be relocated to a 3rd country they would not want to go back to their home countries because they say it is

is our last week the un refugee agency issued a statement saying false messages were being circulated about resettlement and that only a very small number of refugees and asylum seekers met the criteria but that didn't stop the protests here. after wednesday's police operation remaining demonstrators headed on for now their new home is a local church where they have been given temporary shelter. in washington where news coming up. we take a look at jerusalem's new underground city of the dead thousands of tombs will help relieve pressure on the city's overcrowded cemeteries. but 1st more wildfires have broken out in southern california over a dozen blazes are now burning in the state some are being spread by gusts of up to 110 kilometers an hour hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and power companies have cut electricity supplies to prevent downed lines from starting more fires. a grim dawn in southern california simi valley a blaze has just broken out and it's been found by strong winds i'm not made for local beth rivera her bags are packed but for no

last week the un refugee agency issued a statement saying false messages were being circulated about resettlement and that only a very small number of refugees and asylum seekers met the criteria but that didn't stop the protests here. i i after wednesday's police operation remaining demonstrators headed on. so now their new home is a local church where they've been given temporary shelter. and these calls for an increase is now standing right outside the dairy church we saw in our reporting and dance oh welcome to tell us what is going to happen to these people there. summerdale you can see it right now behind me it's like a few hundreds some are outside at the moment more of them are inside the church they're seeking shelter here at the moment and they're not sure how things will continue to develop here the place where the protests took place is over the street on the other side here there's a lot of police at the moment so at the moment they're on the hold here and they don't know how things will continue i talked to a few of them they're still hoping that there will be a solutio

to greece now where the arrival of refugees has risen sharply the un refugee agency says more than 10000 people mostly afghans and syrians landed on the greek islands in september by the way off turkey a one woman was killed and 17 people were injured after a fire broke out at one overcrowded greek refugee center over the weekend the fire broke out in the more the camp on the island of less boss europe's biggest refugee camp is designed for 3000 people but currently houses or lost 13000 these are the reporters mark zandi and me in s.f. report from the moria camp. this tent outside greece's largest refugee camp it's home to 4 people. who fled syria has been living here for close to a month the morea campus 4 times over its capacity so thousands are forced to live in the surrounding all the growth. over a cup of tea i'm on tells us what life in the camp is like crowded dirty and dangerous every day every day that's normal. fuel for of fighting inside. but the we are here to go out we don't want. the problem with anyone. but problems in morea hard to avoid a fire broke out at the end of sep

immediately affected by this refugees insentient and to libya for example the united nations refugee agency trying to use resettlement places to get people out of libya quickly as it can. but i think that without places they can't get even out of libya you know and people rent and ending up in temporary camps which will come filling up we heard ankle america thank you want to you know what she called illegal immigration and united nations refugee agency said around the world there are 1400000 people in need to resettle but in the coming years so the european union really wants resettlement be an alternative to people making a regular journeys across the mediterranean for example the guns have the numbers and the guns have to meet the promises that they've made and some sort of heard talking through those sort of figures and tom we'll see them use that data department thank you. now we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world indigenous leaders in ecuador have agreed to end their demonstrations after president member rayno agreed to reinstate fuel subsidies th

wanted this to be an alternative to what she called illegal immigration and the united nations refugee agency says that around the world there are 1400000 people in need of resettlement in the coming years so if the european union really wants resettlement to be an alternative to people making a regular journeys across the mediterranean for example then the guns have to step up the numbers and they're going to have to meet the promises that they've made ok thanks for talking us through those figures tom will you don't lose that data department thank you for for take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world will start in ecuador where indigenous leaders have agreed to end protests after president a living moreno agree to reinstate a fuel price subsidies agreement came after nearly $2.00 weeks of violent street protests people were angry about austerity measures brought in to obtain a multi 1000000000 dollar love from the international monetary fund. the 29000 nobel prize for economics has been awarded to 3 researchers for their work to alleviate global poverty abija

fleeing for the 2nd time around half a 1000000 people near the border are at risk wants the un refugee agency but many are already far from home having come here to escape the fighting in other areas of syria turkey wants to push out the kurdish fighters and create a buffer zone that it controls on the syrian side of the border in a fiery speech turkish president at one slammed critics of the plan. really a european union. pull yourself together you know should i say it again if you try to label this operation an invasion. it's very simple we will open the gates and send 3600000 refugees your way richard if you dalton your move to june this is the regular unleaded i. this time in turkey and a possible retaliation turkish state and news agencies say the rockets that hit these towns people came from kurdish held areas on the syrian side of the border but it's not just civilian injuries and deaths that are the concern here kaddish forces from the prisons holding islamist fighters from the so-called islamic state these prisoners were captured during the war in syria. one of the prisons in which t

refugee agency charlie x.e. joins me from geneva welcome to the africa charlie let's start off by establishing who is responsible for these detention centers and and who what is the policy around who should be housed in them well 1st of all i think we have to make a distinction between this is tensions and says we have the official detention centers and the unofficial detention centers 1st of all the official detention centers these are run by the offish to libyan authorities and typically this is where people are brought off to being intercepted see by the libyan coast guard and he. has some access to the senses it's not on restricted we are limited into which parts of these since his we can go to and for how long but we are able to at least provide some assistance on the other hand the un officials and we know there are many of these as well these are run by smugglers and traffickers and they operate on an unofficial capacity outside the usual structures of the state and here is where we see the real most horr

refugee agency has reported that all of the 1000 migrants have died trying to cross the mediterranean sea to europe for its 6 for the 6th year in a row most died on the way to italy or malta. police in nigeria say they freed 19 pregnant women and girls from a so-called baby factory the victims are believed to have been abducted and raped so their captors could sell the babies to female suspects were taken into custody in the raid in the capital lagos. new york city has introduced fines of up to $250000.00 for describing someone as an illegal alien new guidelines forbade the use of the term to demean or heris the same old patterns discrimination based on proficiency in english 5 to 6 in the public accommodation employment and house. democrats in the u.s. house of representatives are increasing the pressure on president trump as they move closer to launching him paid in pitchman to proceedings they've now issued subpoenas against his personal lawyer rudy giuliani and secretary of state mike compare the president is alleged to have abused his office by urging ukraine's president to inves

refugee agency says that in september alone more than 10000 people mostly afghans and syrians landed on the greek islands by way of turkey one woman was killed and 17 people injured after a fire broke out at an overcrowded refugee center at the weekend the morea camp on the island of last boss is europe's biggest it was designed to hold 3000 refugees but currently houses almost $13000.00 w. reporters max and a safe report now from the camp. this tent outside greece's largest refugee camp is home to 4 people. iman who fled syria has been living here for close to a month the morea campus 4 times over its capacity so thousands are forced to live in the surrounding all this growth. over a cup of tea i'm on tells us what life in the camp is like crowded dirty and dangerous every day every day and that's normal if you know they are fighting inside. yeah. but there we. go out we don't want we don't want a problem with anyone. but problems in moria hard to avoid a fire broke out at the end of september in the camp and at least one person died residents rioted in anger as the firefighters put

town in north eastern south sudan and his steam operate on around 60 patients the united nations refugee agency nominated him for the prestigious nansen award which you won in recognition of his work and the incredibly difficult to constance's. south sudan has been in conflict since 25th teen the war has divided the country along ethnic lines 200000 people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state even this remote town and looked to be a bad hospital for all their medical needs the war is destroyed or most infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer almost always including my local hospitals . i think they're in the process of who the individuals all of them either to walk into that capacity the death supposed to. be germany's capital there's a barber like no other sort of what it is to have them on iraq not those from france which. but as he said he changes he's moving with it. and going on the road. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live down. the master barber of this is you know on al-jazeera. lebanon's capital it's approves emergency economic refor

in south sudan and his steam operate on around 60 patients the united nations refugee agency nominatedhim for the prestigious nansen award which you won in recognition of his work and incredibly difficult to constance's. south sudan has been in conflict since 2013 the war has divided the country along ethnic lines 200000 people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state even this remote town and looked to be a bad hospital for all their medical needs the war is destroyed or most infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer. almost always including mother beetles of stewart living in the process of who are you know visions of the mother to walk into the city that they're supposed. at night in a stalking somali moms patrolled the streets really skinny i'm not going to hire or lack of money i'm tired of gang violence they use the maternal approach to prevent crime beyond. a do a little bit by the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live mothers of rain could be this is europe on al-jazeera. the. fighting continues and northern syria as the u.s. vice presi

syria at least 70000 people noice fleeing the turkish incursion according to the united nations refugee agency. international criticism of turkey is growing the u.s. defense ministry also reporting that turkish forces shelled u.s. troops in the syrian border area angry rejected the claim that washington has threatened turkey with sanctions if it does not withdraw turkey's president disregarding all foreign criticism. yes we will not stop no matter what the others say they are threatening us on all sides i have told trump and the others to stop it well those are the criticism also from turkey's neighbors at a meeting of the our oblique the organizations general secretary condemned the military operation as an invasion. for more on this i'm joined from istanbul by darren johns daryn there's been much criticism of this offensive also from arab states the kurds are now saying they simply can't and won't prioritize guiding militant detainees in the face of this occasion and passion excuse me what does that mean for security in the region. well it can be a major problem given the fact that this syri

the united nations refugee agency and aid agencies operating inside syria say thousands of people are fleeing the fighting as turkey's military campaign continues there calling for international pressure on ankara and restraint from all sides involved the turkish government says it will continue its campaign until its objectives are achieved charles strafford al jazeera near the turkish syrian border well syrian rebel forces are sending reinforcements to fight with their turkish allies against the kurds then even turkish military bases near the border from well into the us all this and this report. i'm also doing some work on. the movement of the syrian national army affiliated with the armed opposition has started to. began to move from one of the turkish camps where such forces are gathered to ship that. they will enter syria towards the areas where the turkish army have made progress near tel. aviv at the same time hundreds of free syria army fighters are moving to the time. you have a look at the damage in the cording to the armed opposition the goal is to 1st bring order to the a

the second time, around half a million people near the border are at risisk, wawarns the un's refugee agency. manyny are already far from hom, having comome here to escape the fighting in other areas of syria. turkey wants to push out the kurdish fighters and create a buffer zone that it controls on the syrian side of the border. in a fiery speech, turkish president erdogan slammed critics of the plan. pres. erdogan: hey, european union, pull yourself together. i say it again, if you try to label this operation an invasion, i t's very simple, we will open the gates and send 3.6 million refugees your way. reporter: sirens, this time in turkey, andaa possible retaliation. turkish state-owned news agency's essay the rockets that hit these townspeople came from kurdish-held areas on the syrian side of the border. it is not just civilian injuries and deaths that are the concern here. kurdish forces runs the prisons holding islamist fighters from the so-called islamic state. these prisoners were captured during the war in syria. >> one of the prisons in which the i.s. prisoners are kept under the

the attack, hundrecs who made it out alive headed to a transit camp run by the united nations refugee agency. and here they remain three months on, still trapped in a war zone with their trauma. a 10-year-old keeps reliving what he witnessed. he was pulled from the wreckage by his father, rashied. >> i grabbed him up, put him here in my shoulder, and bring him out. but when i marching on the ground, i marched dead people. orla: when you are stepping on the ground, you were stepping on bodies? >> yes, body, dead people. and they were my friends . so please, we need help. we need to leave libya because every day, what we hear and what . every day, what we hear and what we see, bombing many places. orla: they have found refuge here, but it may be temporary. the u.n. says the transit camp is severely overcrowded, and the solution is for the survivors to live outside voluntarily with aid but without protittion. they say they have suffered enough and should be sent to safety abroad. these women from somalia begged us for help. >> i want you to tell them to help us, move us from libya. we survived

trying to cope with it's own displaced people and many more from venezuela the united nations refugee agencyu.n.h.c.r. is worried that the country cannot handle the strain samples being name but is practiced in various parts of colombia venezuelans just sleep on the streets which makes them vulnerable to attack i know. there are all kinds of people lots of women with children pregnant women older women and people who need special care and. that's why the u.n.h.c.r. and other agencies are trying to at least offer some initial help. put them in we want to give them a chance to build a life here in colombia because as long as they can't return to venezuela we cannot put his hand up in this for. this man is one of the successful ones he's opened a venezuelan restaurant in bogota back home he worked in tourism but then things became unbearable. but 1st i was planning to go back when the regime fell. but now i have my business here and my family. i have to think about it i'll probably wait a while. the restaurateur is a role model for some other friends as well as in colombia not just for his succ

the u n a c a s a's and that's the un's refugee agency is highly concerned and vital needs full these people who are fleeing and they say tens of thousands of them are on the move fan villages along the buddha pushing south into syria because of this fighting they're very concerned that those kind of humanitarian needs will not be met and there's a group of 15 humanitarian organizations that are basically echoing the same sort of things and they cooling full restraint from both sides there. highlighting the dangers of shells landing in civilian areas. with understands of speaking to people in the last 24 hours we'll see inside tel aviv. the s.t.a. telling them that they should remain in their homes but of course people desperate to leave the s.d.f. saying a calm voice. of civilians was hits by shells as they tried to leave i think something like 9 people in the s.t.'s coaching saying killed of course the refugee crisis is still largest refugee crisis in the world in syria has been for a number of years now. let's east or it can be described as i think fair to say a war is only going t

the united nations refugee agency and aid agencies operating inside syria say thousands of people are fleeing the fighting as turkey's military campaign continues there calling for international pressure on ankara and restraint from all sides involved the turkish government says it will continue its campaign until its objectives are achieved trial strafford al jazeera near the turkish syrian border but following thursday's u.n. security council meeting on syria diplomatic editor james bay sat down with the u.k.'s ambassador to the u.n. to discuss the turkish military operation. we've made it very clear that we didn't support the turkish military incursion we don't support the operation and we want to see it ended the turks say that they are acting under the u.n. charter article $51.00 which says that you can act in self-defense you're an expert on these things do you believe this is self-defense or do you believe this is a breach of international law when i'm not a legal expert it is true that the right to self-defense is in evidence and it's also in shrine in article 51 of the charte

the united nations refugee agency says or than 10,000 people, mostly afghans and syrians, landed on the greek islands in september alone by way of turkey. one woman was killed. 17 people were injured last weekend after a fire broke out at an overcrowded greek migrant center. that center on the island of les pose is designed for 3000 people, but it currently houses 13,000. two dw reporters are at that camp and pick up the story from there. >> this tent outside greece's largest refugee camp is home to four people. this man has been living here close to a month. the camp is four times over its capacity, so thousands are forced to live in the surrounding olive grove. over a cup of tea, , he tells us what life in the camp is like -- crowded, dirty, dangerous. >> every day fight. that is normal now. you feel like fighting his life. that's normal. the way we came to hear to go out, we don't want fight. we don't want problem with anyone. >> a fire broke out at the end of september in the camp, and at least one person died. residents rioted in anger as firefighters put out the flame, and they br

certainly is the civilian population on the other side that's the big concern and the united nations refugee agency and around 15 or 15 aid agencies operating inside syria have come together and said how concerned they are calling for restraint by all sides involved trying to put international pressure on ankara and in the meantime saying that it will continue this military operation targeting so it says s.d.f. positions trying to avoid civilian casualties until it's until its objectives are achieved charles that you very much for that for now that is child strength and with the latest live in chocolate a on the turkish syrian border. and as charles touched on syrian rebel forces are sending reinforcements to fight with their ticket allies against the kurds and even turkish military bases near the border from where al jazeera is mancow this sent this report. from. the movement of the syrian national army affiliated with the armed opposition has started. to move from one of the turkish camps where such forces are gathered to ship that. they will enter syria towards the areas where the turkish army h

refugee and refugee agency is trying to use resettlement to get people out as soon as possible of those terrible conditions in libya but they're saying without the places available to send people to it's not happening fast enough all right tom wills crunching the numbers from our they did see tom thank you very much. as the clock is ticking for british and european union leaders who are hoping to reach an agreement on breaks it with just over 2 weeks to go before the deadline prime minister boris johnson is under immense pressure to secure a deal or to face parliamentary orders to seek another extension the new session of parliament opened today the ceremonial opening it sees an official of parliament demanding members of the lower house the house of commons go to the upper house to hear a speech by you guessed it the queen mr speaker the queen i'm all the honorable have. to attend her majesty me to play and i have hated. well that speech by the queen usually takes place every year to lay out the government's planned legislative agenda the queen's 1st words this monday were all about br

the un's refugee agency has reported that more than a 1000 migrants have died in trying to cross the mediterranean to get to europe for the 6th year in a row most died on the way to italy or multi hundreds of migrants have held a peaceful protest on the greek island of lesbos to demand better living conditions the protest to place outside the overcrowded maurya refugee camp where riots broke out on sunday after a fire in part of the camp killed one asylum seeker. a texas jury has found a white former police officer guilty of murder for killing a black neighbor after entering his apartment amber geiger admitted to shooting off i'm jean he was unarmed but said she mistakenly believed he was an intruder in her apartment she was in the course the wrong apartment. in washington d.c. the administration stonewalled congressional demands that officials in the trunk white house testified in the a pietschmann inquiry against the president now of course aggression committees have issued subpoenas against trump's private lawyer rudy giuliani and the secretary of state money from paya they've als

refugee agency special adviser on statelessness and joins us now live from geneva thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera we saw a success story there in kyrgyzstan but statelessness is a problem that seems to be affecting millions of people around the world just how widespread is it and why is it so persistent today. well every country in the world has to decide which people are in the body of such a sense which people are members if you like of the country and so each country faces the risk that they might overlook someone that someone might be marginalised and we unfortunately continue to see this not least because stateless people themselves often live in the shadows they don't have a legal identity they are very fearful frequently to come forward and say that they exist they don't know who to approach so we continue to see the problem of status this both in the extreme as you mentioned the issues of state succession overnight the state moves and everybody on its territory might be at risk of statelessness as well as all the way to individual cases where a child's birth mi

refugee agency. p receolicies by president trump oblige asylum-seekers to remain in mexico. i a has cped the u.s.' annua intake of refuge18,000. put hugeer superior says it has ressure modt home. >> mexico has become a filter, a wallf containment. this is a migration policy of containment and persuasion, of telling them don't even try, you are not getting in. will: most immigrants seeking refugee or asylum status in the u.s. are languishi in dangerous cities along mexico's northern border. but even here in the capital the alation is becoming crit with so few organizations are offering basic support, many immigrants struggle to find a decent job, place to stay, or school for their kids. with volunteer organizations overstretched, the head of ucr recently visited migrant shelters in meco and urged the government to provide more resources its asylum agency..ad the ays they are struggling with an increased workload and chronic underfunding. >> our problem has to do with our sources, and that is why are focusing a lot andan struggling to get more resources ty we can enhance our o