hoda abdel hamid has the full story. >> reporter: there were several protests across the country on thisday, as it usually happens on friday since the ousting of morsi. here in cairo there were two standoffs that lasted a few hours. the first happened as protesters were tried to head to the epicenter of the sit-in in the city for those who do support president morsi held for several weeks throughout the summer until security forces disbursed them. protesters were trying to reach that area, security forces fired tear gas to push them back, and then sealed off that intersection. the second standoff happened around the dormitory of a university. students there have been holding daily protests for the past week, and just two days ago, actually security forces stormed that same dormitory. there were clashes, and one student had died. the students there today tried to get out of the -- the gates of the dormitory. they were met again with tear gas and pushed back into the dormitory. they are calling for the return of legitimacy, and calling for the ousting of the [ inaudible ] who in their view

hoda abdel-hamid reports. >> this is an 11-year-old girl. she escaped the war in syria, to face new danger in lebanon. her school is safe. like her, many of these refugees have to work once classes are over. >> translation: a man in a car with a syrian plate number approached me and asked to buy plours. as -- flowers. as he i gave him the flowers he grabbed my arm. i ran away. she no longer works on the streets. her brother had no chis choice. her mother is a cleaner. every afternoon her brother sells flowers. more and more children are forced to work. as families's resources are depleted children are sent out to work. >> you can see the problem in almost every street corner in lebanon. the children are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. >> the children are traumatised from what they saw. they are scared to reveal their identities. >> >> translation: we were in a bus. it was a checkpoint. we saw them kill people in front of us. >> images are in their minds. many original children are not getting the help they need. they face risks in leba

>> 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

let's get more from hoda abdel hamid. 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 t

hoda abdel-hamid has more. >> there was an uproar across the board. people were angered seeing this 14 girls standing in that gaming in the court, and being treated as if they were high criminals. now, these girls do belong to a group called the 7am movement. that's a movement that does support the ain't coup alliance and former president mohamed morsi. before going to school or university they stood in the street for half an hour, sometimes carrying balloons with the sign of the anti-coup alliance on it. other times, like the day they were detained, they were forming a human chain. they were sentenced for thuggery, for destruction of public property among other charges. something that the lawyer says they will appeal. but certainly it raises a lot of questions for many people, specially that they were detained before the protest law, and they were charged in the middle of the uproar that exists in this country because of that protest law. cairo university and another have been in turmoil for a while. now, the anti-coup alliance has been holding a lot

. >> hoda abdel hamid thanks indeed. >>> next we'll tell you how several in honduras has called foulthe presidential election. >>> and turning the pages of history, we'll tell you how a rare symbol of a nation's debitty is up for auction in the united states. >>> the european teams continue their push for the last 16th place in the champions league. we have that and the rest of sport a little later in the program. ♪ >>> the government says it is pressing ahead with plans to shut down the world's largest refugee camp. pressure to close the camp has been increasing since the west gate attack in nairobi in september. some people in the government say that camp people -- or people from the camp, rather, were involved in planning the siege that killed more than 60 people. the camp was established 20 years ago. many of its nearly half a million residences arrived as a consequence of somalia's civil war. repa repa repate -- repatriations began in january, but many residents fear they will be forced to return to somalia. peter has been following the story for us. >> the government has been u

and as hoda abdel hamid reports those that are lucky enough to get an education still aren't of danger reporter: this girl is 11 years old. her school is safe, but like her, many of these refugees also have to work once classes are over. >> translator: a man in a car with a syrian plate number approached me. he looked scary and asked to buy flowers. as i was handing him the flowers he grabbed my arm. i inside the supermarket he waited and then we ran away. >> reporter: there mother is a cleaner but her salary isn't enough to survive. so every afternoon she sells flowers on the streets. >> children are sent out to work, some in very difficult circumstances and unsafe conditions. >> reporter: you can see the problem in almost every street corner in lebanon. these children live a difficult and dangerous life. they are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse and many are warn down emotionally. they are traumatized from what they saw in syria. >> translator: we were in a bus and there was a check point. we saw someone kill everyone right in front of us. i saw the way they all died. >> reporter