our correspondent hoda abdel hamid joins us live now from the border. see behind you the real example of refugee crisis. what do you understand they meant hoda? >> reporter: 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.

hoda abdel hamid reports. >> impatient and exhausted they first marched over the railway gate near the border demanding once again to be let through. but soon things got out of control. some refugees managed to tear down part of the fence. er others hurled stones at macedonian forces on the other side of the fence. they responded with tear gas. but rumor had spread around the camp that the border had opened. hundreds of refugees ran towards the fence. she and her children were sitting around the tent when the rumor reached them. >> like everyone else we ran towards the gate. people shouting open the borders. i couldn't see further up bupt then they fired tear gas. i fell with my kid while running away. this is wrong. we demand our rights. there's no need for violence. we have to be patient and slowly, slowly, everyone will get in. >> reporter: but it was in vain. macedonian forces had moved everyone back and under control. people have been stranded some for as long as ten days. the camp is overjefd an overcon. emotion are running high. amine and her family arrived days ago. they walked

here is a report from hoda abdel hamid who is in greece. >> impatient and exhausted, they first marched over the railway gate, demanding once again to be let through. but soon things got out of control. some refugees managed to tear down part of the tense. others hurled stones at macedonian forces on the other side of the fence. they responded with tear gas. but rumor had spread around the camp that the border had opened. hundreds of refugees ran towards the fence. van and her children were sitting around until the situation reached them. >> i couldn't see further up but then they fired tear gas, i fell with my kid while running away. this was wrong, we demand our rights. there is no need for violence. we have to be patient and slowly, slowly, everyone will get in. >> reporter: but it was in vain. mast zonian force he pushed everyone back and brought ds macedonian forces pushed everyone back. camp is overcongested and the uncertainty among refugees is overwhelming. emotions are running high. amine and her family arrived a day ago. they walked for hours to reach here after greek authorit

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

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

hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera on the greek-macedonian border. >>> keeping a close eye on the vote, in bolivia, and plus, the strongest cyclone ever to hit fiji, rescue workers are struggling to reach remote parts of that country. v >> now it's time for our in context segment. early returns in bolivia, seem to show that evo morales, has lost the vote for him to run for a third term. but morales is hoping for rural votes to turn the tide for him. daniel schweimler reports. >> apparently the people have decided enough is enough. morales however remains a popular president. >> translator: evo morales has been a popular president, he has transformed politics. >> well lady in the opinion polls but a strong opposition campaign allegin alleging corrun the governing party. >> they have shown an an evo morales. >> came to power in 2006, promising radical change. he nationalized the oil and gas industries, even evo morales enemies would accept he had a huge impact on the country, that nothing would be the same again. c c. >>> c thacc, the yes campaign le country. that was no surprise. but it was

first this report from hoda abdel hamid who is in idomeni in greece. >> reporter: impatient and exhausted, they first marched towards the railway instigate, on the border, demanding to be let through. but soon, things got out of control. some refugees managed to tear down part of the fence. others, hurled stones at macedonian forces on the other side of the fence. they spot with teergz. tear gas. but rumor had spread around the camp that the border had opened. hundreds of refugees ran towards the fence. like everyone else we ran towards the borders. then they fired tear gas. i fell with my kid when running away. this is not right. we demand our rights, there's no need for violence. we have to be patient, and slowly, slowly, everyone will get in. >> reporter: macedonian forces pushed everyone back in and things god under control. the camp is overcongested and the uncertainty is overwhelming, emotions are running high. amine and her family walked for hours to reach here. greek authorities control the border to control the ever-growing bottleneck. >> there is no feeling. there's not humanity

hoda abdel hamid is there. looks like a very complicated situation and a complicated overall picture. so how does it get resolved? >> reporter: well, that i think is what everybody here is wondering. at the moment as you said the afghan refugees had first blocked the crossing point for all refugees into macedonia and then they decided to have a sit in along the rail tracks. they say if we can't get in then no one else will be getting in. i have to tell you that there are fictions between different groups of refugees at the moment because the syrians an are sayig we are being blocked here. they are running out of money, it is dark, you can't see what's going on around me, there are tents, a lot of tents i would say all in this area in the empty field simply because the transit center is filled with 1500 people are in there and probably that same amount of number is out here, and keep on coming, certainly since we have been standing here, for the past few days. how it gets solved is he is the difficult situation.

hoda abdel hamid brings us the latest. >> reporter: i was here yesterday and there was absolutely nobody here. there was just a few people inside the official transit camp. i'm going to move out, you see people setting up their tents. what happened is that the borders have been closing down for afghan nationals, not tonal border between greece and macedonia but the border between macedonia and serbia. macedonian officials say it is not our fault, but we are reacting to what serbia did. this caused panic, everybody left the reception center which is about 20 kilometers from here and walked all the way here. these pictures were reminiscent of them walking along the train tracks earlier in the summer. they are making sure no one goes through. >>> al jazeera has uncovered evidence of illegal organ trafficking. step vaessen has spoken to some of the villagers who have sold their kidneys. >> reporter: magalia is a poor village in west java, police say residents sold kidneys to middle men with $5,000 each. >> i was in huge debt, didn't have a house, couldn't pay my rent for four months already.

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

hoda abdel hamid sent us this update. >> reporter: only iraqi and syrian nationals are allowed to continueourney at the moment they are prevented because the afghans have been holding a sit in, saying if we can't go in, they can't go in. the buses behind me, they are waiting to be loaded with afghan nationals and taken back to athens. we understand there are about 5,000 refugees in athens. they are not allowed to come towards the border, because authorities want to solve the situation before allowing them in. this is causing a lot of anxiety, not only among the afghans who say we came all the way here, going through all of the risks, spending all of money, and what is going to happen to us now? but it is also causing a lot of uncertainty for the iraqis and the syrians. they are in a hurry, because they are worried that the border may soon also close for them and they want to continue their journey. so it is creating frictions between these two different groups of refugees. >>> a french court has delayed judgment on the legality of closing part of a refugees and migrant camp in calais. now

hoda abdel hamid joins us live now from that greece macedonia border. it's dark now. '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 a

hoda abdel-hamid has more from the greece-macedonian border. spirn siren >> reporter: it took moth of the day to end the stand off at the border. many didn't understand why they had been singled out. they are being bussed back. not knowing what will happen next. i saw it, and calling everything. i do my best. >> afghans make about 30% of all arrivals in greece. and the u.n. says they meet the international criteria for refugee status. >> for the afghans, the problem is not crossing into macedonia. they have to go through several borders. if they make it through this one. they face the same problem at the next border. >> this group was pushed back do greece. more than 100 deported back. hundreds of afghans are stranded at macedonia's northern border with serbia. it comes after new restrictions were unilaterally imposed. but when the border opened, syrians and irishies discovered that they will have to go through tougher controls in the hispanic among them. >> i'm from aleppo, i only have the i.d. card. the area was surrounded by i.s.i.l. there h

. >> speaking to us from the greek side of the boarder, hoda abdel-hamid >>> plenty more ahead. including ireland's parliamentary election set to deliver a hung parliament. children in the democratic republic of congo vulnerable to people trafficking. >> gi around ain -- gianni infantino talks about his first job as f.i.f.a. president >>> early indication assist that moderates and reformists have done well in the capital, a change from previous elections dominated by conservatives. the poll is seen as a test for president hassan rouhani, after securing a nuclear deal with world world. let's go live to tehran, where jonah hull joins us. looks like the conservatives have 30 seats in parliament, but too early to call a victory. >> we are in the latter stages, i think, of the counting process. we believe a final result will come in the next few hours. looking at the results as they have emerged, a clear picture is coming out. that the reformists, moderates aligned to hassan rouhani have made astonishing progress in the parliamentary election and the other election for the assembly o

we're joined by hoda abdel hamid.his is one place, isn't it where those border restrictions are being felt most keenly. we can see tents behind you of people who are simply stranded now. >> reporter: absolutely this is a scene that a few days ago did not exist here. the border closed, and only 100 people have been able to go into macedonia before that. so really, a trickle of the estimated 12,000 refugees and migrants who are currently in greece according to the authorities, and you have to remember that as we speak hundreds more make their way aguess the aegean sea and land on all of these islands. and greece has said that it will not allow its country to become, really, the bottleneck for all of these, quote, stranded souls here. now there is no indication on when the border will open. macedonia says it is taking that measure simply because that same measure is happening at its northern border with serbia, and it says that both the transit camps are at full capacity, and they cannot handle anyone going through their

hoda abdel hamid spoke to teenagers on the border about the risks they face during their journey. >>set off from their homelands with their teenage dreams of a better life. inspired by the images they had seen of refugees stream ago cross europe. but soon a harsh reality set in. >> translator: i went to macedonia five times. reached serbia once but each time i was sent back to greece. >> reporter: these days, only syrians, afghans and iraqis are allowed to continue their journey. europe remains close today other nationalities, while regarded as economic migrants not refugees. so those boys are not strand odd the greek side of the border unprotectioned and vulnerable to criminal games and smuggler rings, many wanted to remain anonymous telling us their stories but not their names. >> translator: there was four of us, we were trying to cross and found mafia gaz guys in front o, we wrap nigh friend is 15 and he was caught. they took him in to a house like this one, there were three and they raped him i saw it with my own eyes we threw stones at them but they pulled knives so we escaped