bill hayton reports.

bill hayton, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news. while he is in office. in more tension on the territory's border. one aged 12, the other 1a. to ancestral homes that are now in israel. who have been imprisoned there. act, as they investigated a masscre by security forces. shape the end of the first world war. cost the lives of thousands of british soldiers. in the campaign. from the so—called forgotten front. the gravestones have been maintained and repaired for a century now. ago almost to the day, but few visit this place. almost no one remembers why so many fought and died here. it is one of the forgotten fronts of the great war. to try to defend serbia. their feet — sitting targets. climb it today and you'll see why. the bulgarians off the mountain. from up here, the bulgarians saw them coming. to lose a lot of lives. as well as the 66th brigade on the left. to the hill below us here. here would have been horrendous. served here like that. forgotten british story. to drive an ambulance. in the serbian army. in battle as a soldie

bill hayton reports.t's three years since the little syrian boy alan kirdi drowned while trying to cross from turkey to greece. —— alan kurdi. his death triggered a wave of sympathy in europe for the refugees, but that has largely disappeared. instead, anti—immigrant governments have pledged to block the old migration routes. and while the number of people trying to cross has fallen, the number of them dying has risen. the un's refugee agency says it has reached 1,600 this year so far, and it is calling for action. we are calling for the european authorities in particular to come up with a co—ordinated strategy whereby boats can be systematically disembarked in different parts of europe, and where asylum—claiming conditions and reception centres are in place ready to receive those people who arrive. but that's easier said than done. only two months ago, european union leaders managed to stitch together a deal, but then disagreed on how to implement it. several governments weren't willing to host asylum ce

bill hayton reports.ce the little syrian boy alan kurdi drowned while trying to cross from turkey to greece. his death triggered a wave of sympathy in europe for the refugees, but that has largely disappeared. instead, anti—immigrant governments have pledged to block the old migration routes. and, while the number of people trying to cross has fallen, the number of them dying has risen. the un's refugee agency says it has reached 1,600 this year so far, and it is calling for action. we are calling for the european authorities in particular to come up with a co—ordinated strategy whereby boats can be systematically disembarked in different parts of europe, and where asylum—claiming conditions and reception centres are in place, ready to receive those people who arrive. but that is easier said than done. only two months ago, european union leaders managed to stitch together a deal, but then disagreed on how to implement it. several governments weren't willing to host asylum centres on their territory. the u

bill hayton reports. it was not exactly all smiles.to normalise relations between germany and turkey, but there is clearly some way still to go. the two governments fell out following an attempted coup in turkey in 2016 and the arrests of thousands of president recep tayyip erdogan's opponents. one of his loudest critics, the former head of the german greens party has been vilified in the media. but even germany's head of state has some strong words. translation: as the president of this country, i am of course worried and nervous about german citizens imprisoned in turkey for political reasons. i'm also worried about journalists, union workers, it and intellectuals, still in prison. we discuss individual cases this morning. i hope, mr president, that we are unable to return to everyday business without some action. earlier on friday, president recep tayyip erdogan had faced one of his other critics in a news conference. a photographerfrom other critics in a news conference. a photographer from an online newspaper called for press free