unaccompanied minors from the morea camp germany and france say they'll take in most of them john psaropoulos our correspondent who's there john how close are these people to not spending another night outdoors with no shelter and little food. well unfortunately the further away than they would have been had the initiative been left to the greek government which has construction machinery parks just a few 100 yards yards down the road to my left waiting to come through a police roadblock that is directly behind me and moved to a municipal refugee camp which is a little further up the road there so the landscape some areas surrounding it and to extend it with me tents and place as many people as possible in those temporary shelters but unfortunately the refugees do not think that is a good solution until a few moments ago a couple of 1000 of them were demonstrating loudly on the street behind me to minding to go to the mainland to go to europe to continue with their lives to stop being in limbo a large banner that they held said we need peace and freedom loria kills all lives what we can show

of the german and other governments will be able to do located in our members it's more with john psaropoulos at that camp he says there is nothing left for the people there to salvage. we are still seeing some people hanging around this area trying to find the belongings that were destroyed by several fires over a 3 day period the most recent of them yesterday we were filming as they were being lit and we witnessed several fires starting up these houses that have been set up around the main camp outside the perimeter of the official camp are also now mostly destroyed so this entire area is basically uninhabitable the government says that it has managed to provide them with water and with food and we have seen people have struggled back here carting bottles of fresh water away but the next step is to get them to shelter one ship a passenger ferry has been chartered and has a right we are told by coast go to thor's he's here on the island it is more loss in the main harbor of me to leave it on the other side of the island because of lack of space. and people are meant to be taken there as soon

live now to our correspondent john psaropoulos who joins us from the camp there john it looks pretty bad behind you what kind of situation the refugees in today. we are still seeing some people hanging around this area trying to find the belongings that were destroyed by several fires over a 3 day period the most recent of them yesterday we were filming as they were being lit and we witnessed several fires starting up these houses that have been set up around the main camp outside the perimeter of the official camp are also now mostly destroyed so this entire area is basically uninhabitable the government says that it has managed to provide them with water and with food and we have seen people who have struggled back hair cutting bottles of fresh water away but the next step is to get them to show one ship a passenger ferry has been chartered and has arrived we are told by cars go to thor's he's here on the island it is more would not in the main harbor of me to leave it on the other side of the island because of lack of space. and people are meant to be taken there as soon as possib

john psaropoulos is at the camp he says there's nothing left for the people there to salvage. we are still seeing some people hanging around this area trying to find the belongings that were destroyed by several fires over a 3 day period the most recent of them yesterday we were filming as they were being lit and we witnessed several fires starting up these houses that have been set up around the main camp outside the perimeter of the official camp are also now mostly destroyed so this entire area is basically uninhabitable the government says that it has managed to provide them with water and with food and we have seen people have struggled back here carting bottles of fresh water away but the next step is to get them to shelter one ship a passenger ferry has been chartered and has arrived we are told by coast guard authorities here on the island it is more loss in the main harbor of me to leave it on the other side of the island because of lack of space. and people are meant to be taken there as soon as possible especially families but they haven't arrived yet the 2nd thing

uncertain future is even more bleak nor those among the al-jazeera that's got the latest from john psaropoulos who is live for us in things john we were hearing the prime minister is calling an urgent cabinet meeting a 4 month state of emergency has been declared on the island what more do we know about what is happening around the camp itself. development. team to address the humanitarian emergency because all of the roughly 13000 people on the islands of the 3 of 4000 looking to the homeless tonight and trying to find various solutions to purchase a roof of the people's heads one is to get people to the nearby can't of kind of detail which is a municipal but much smaller camp and some hundreds apparently there is also a question of whether some can be accommodated in hotels temporarily and as i understand it there is a muslim is a sion to bring large scale military tents in order to give people at least temporary shelter but there is no question as people being moved off the island for also it's a very big one is that the original 35 people who tested positive for curve at 98 are now at larg

allies is very real stephanie thanks didn't 0 stephanie deccan istanbul let's bring in of zeros john psaropoulos standen athens john how is the greek side likely to react to this. i don't think narron land between greece and turkey is. the greeks are especially concerned that the greeks have $100.00. tanks in their arsenal most of those a parked right there in that 130 kilometer long stretch so there is overwhelming. opposition to turkish border there and i think that actually only serves the greek churches. fears that the greeks feel very confident about what they're less confident about is the last swath of the g. and c. and now eastern mediterranean sea which have become theatres of operations gradually over the past few years where the greeks have been caught wrong footed because after 8 years of recession and austerity measures imposed by their eurozone partners greece has the greeks have cut their defense budget by about ha it's roughly 3 percent of g.d.p. at the moment. the greeks have traditionally spent very highly on defense they are now unable to keep up with turkey which has cuomo st

island who are indeed homeless i think it's going to take a long time to accommodate all of them john psaropoulos at the madia camp had less boss bring us up to date with the situation there john we'll be checking in with you is that they could progresses but for now thanks very much indeed waterborne diseases are the latest threat to the people of sudan hundreds of thousands have been displaced as the knob river reached unprecedented levels the flood waters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick people morgan reports from the capital khartoum. barely able to stand 13 year old mohamed salah seeks treatment at this health center in the south of the capital how to medics say he's suffering from a parasitic infection usually caused by lack of access to clean drinking water his mother tries to comfort him through his pain which she herself is barely able to hide her own discomfort. often is other we've been living on the streets for more than one week a home is completely flooded and we didn't receive tents this father's also sick he's mentally unstable and i can give

earlier this month 2500 more refugees will be moved next week after being tested for corona virus john psaropoulos was at athens a lovely old chords as the boat boat came in. buses are now moving on board the nieces here in order to pick up migrants and take them to hotels the length and breadth of greece that is where they will be housed and fed for the next 2 months after that they will be eased into a separate program which will subsidize their rental in order to move into apartments and start looking for work and slowly go through the motions of becoming independent in greece not an easy task in an economy with 15 percent statistical unemployment but this is part of a new government initiative to move people of the 5 eastern region islands which have reception centers because after the fire that destroyed europe's biggest refugee camp in morea on the island of lesbos there is now a renewed urgency to relieve those islands of people where there are still tens of thousands and to start bringing them on to the mainland the government has prioritized unaccompanied minors those were moved weeks ago

positive to the virus and islanders say chance to be rid of the unwanted visitors once and for all john psaropoulos reports as you can see more you can find me which has stood here for the past 8 years is gone it has finally been burnt to the ground it's been the object of derision by media by the people who live here by many of the n.g.o.s who have served it and the aid organizations that have come through here it's finally gone its inmates some 13000 people are now scattered in the olive groves in the hills around us we can see some of them straggling back here today to pick up whatever belongings they can find that haven't been burnt by the fire that happened on tuesday night and again on wednesday night but looking around me here frankly i see very little i see door hinges i see bolts i see a few pots and pans just metal pieces the nails of houses lying on the floor having fallen down from the roofs in the wooden walls that they held together nothing seems to resemble what it was nothing really looks like a hut or a chair or a table or a tree it's almost as though we're on another planet everyt

that fire at the camp on the island of lloyds was led to the government finally relocating them john psaropoulos reports from the port of love for you now. the people on board this ferry have been waiting for this moment for a long time they're among thousands of refugees on greece's east asian islands who received asylum months ago and haven't been allowed onto the mainland because there wasn't enough accommodation for them after a fire destroyed europe's biggest refugee camp on lesbos earlier this month the government decided to move them it started with the most vulnerable unaccompanied minors and is now moving those who've received asylum this kuwaiti bedouin has been in greece for nearly 2 years 8 months ago he and his 2 sons received asylum now that he's on mainland europe he doesn't plan to stay in greece very able to go to school well yes very i think if you stay in greece. you know. germany. germany come here these 2 families have traveled across asia they too intend to leave for germany and it would all have. been you tell me what's your job what work to do to. get it. in syria refugee

initiative the greys says there will be no talks unless turkey withdraws its ships from speeded areas john psaropoulos is more from athens where he says there's a lot of skepticism about the proposed talks. what nato is concerned with is not territorial nato is concerned with its allies not having a war within the alliance and what it is trying to do is to. have these de confliction mechanisms put in place which would prevent accidents from happening on the understanding that neither greece nor turkey intend a war to happen but what has happened today in that process is simply that the 2 representatives of greece and turkey in nato were briefed on the secretary general young stoltenberg ideas towards such a deep complection process it's taking place that meeting lasted 6 minutes according to greek diplomatic sources clearly more discussion is going to be needed before heads of government on both sides say that they are willing to proceed on the basis of those ideas so what the greek side has said is simply this that we know to the nato secretary general is good intentions to work towards the conflicti

on tuesday was destroyed the morea camp europe's largest leaving 12000 people without shelter john psaropoulos reports. the arrest of an elderly man sparks violence after news pulse the arresting officers with rocks. and they respond with tear gas women and children sitting nearby panic and seek shelter in the island's municipal refugee camp stuff terrified to decide themselves has displaced by the burning of the main camp at moria may try to set fire to this one as well and the crush this afghan boy is separated from his parents and after inhaling tear gas an infant is rushed to hospital unconscious days have passed since greece's largest refugee camp morea down on the island of lesbos bottled up on a stretch of highway these refugees have slept rough and are hungry angry and impatient because of daily protests the army has not distributed food and water spraying even more and that we've got no place to stay for 4 or 5 days now the place to stay no food no water around the toilet would decide to go to mit lead to this show so they bring us to the mainland but the police the military the block

and john psaropoulos has been out in this morning to find out what plans are being made for the refugees. it's hard to see how the government is going to settle so many thousands of them that have been left shelterless and homeless and feed them and provide for their sanitation clothing when there's been such a huge disruption to the humanitarian machinery on the island they're also meant years here some of them a volunteer organizations but they can't possibly handle these sorts of numbers this is going to take a military operation we are told that 3 ships are on their way to house the thousands most vulnerable people with small children but that will probably still leave some thousands on cared for and there there is a huge problem because the municipality doesn't have the real estate or the infrastructure to provide for them i think the army is going to have to come in and set up lots of tents and how long will that solution last because winter is coming in a couple of months we've seen these situations arise on the islands before where temporary shelter was provided but then that she

island of the last bus on tuesday and wednesday following protests at a coronavirus restrictions john psaropoulos reports. the 3rd in as many days in moria camp planes helicopters and fire trucks battled what seems to be a recurring nightmare of destruction but these fires are not accidental flare ups from smoldering ruins they are springing up because someone is lighting them this new fire in morea camp which the fire service seems unable to control despite several attempts is now threatening to engulf the last remaining quarter of the camp that is inhabitable and a few residents from maine here refusing to leave their premises the gas canisters you can hear going off helping this far to spread very quickly indeed we witnessed the beginning of this fire it didn't start in one place it started in 3 places all within an hour of each other it appears that these fires are being set deliberately by people who want to see the last remains of this camp disappear this afghan family refuses to leave caught between 2 thought fronts they insist on using the oven they have painstakingly built to bake bread

john psaropoulos in athens we'll talk again hopefully when that ship gets a bit closer to land i mean off french police have dismantled a migrant camp in the northern port of cali where thousands of people have sought to cross the channel to reach britain the camp was home to about 700 migrants repeatedly pressed the french government to do more to stop people from leaving france in the 1st place the better russian opposition leader svetlana to going to sky has met the french president during a visit to lithuania she says emmanuel mccrone promised to help negotiate the release of political prisoners they were detained during weeks of protests in build a race against president alexander lukashenko. he told the time is that. there are crucial because a lot of. people are suffering because of the 3 dream too many people in jail and he will do everything just to release all the political rage and then. more on this story with a butler in paris. it was a very significant meeting both for the french president and for the leader of the opposition we heard there svetlana take one of sky is sa

be taken to the mainland and some stranded refugees have been speaking to our correspondent john psaropoulos. i'm standing in the middle of a tent city set up on a highway on last boss island a few kilometers behind me and you can't is being landscaped tense of being set up for all of these people who are camped here to go and live there as a temporary measure now that the original camp morea has been burnt but they are telling us that they are not interested in going to yet another camp situation they all say they want freedom they want to move to the mainland they want to move to greece to the rest of europe they are tired of living in temporary housing in makeshift huts underneath top hole and many of these people haven't eaten in at least 24 hours the army does attempt a food distribution but yesterday this wasn't possible because of protests that were going on up and down the street demanding freedom unfortunately none of these people can move off of this highway because there is a police road block down the road and up the road so they are bottled into this section effectively in a new

the 12000 people and now sleeping on the streets and say they don't have enough food or water john psaropoulos reports from lesbos. a refugee protest attempts to put a police blockade behind that blockade thousands of asylum seekers from the incinerated morea camp sleeping on the highway they hope to be allowed to leave lesbos and reach mainland greece but the government wants them to remain here to reduce the risk of spreading covert to camps on the mainland and to be able to deport them to turkey if they don't receive asylum the situation here is very tense police have placed 2 roadblocks on this highway one behind us and one further down the road attempting to contain the homeless from morea camp in a certain area in that area there exists another refugee camp which is run by the municipality and they are trying to set up tents in that area however many refugees and asylum seekers seem to be determined to break out either to go back to moria or to make their way into mytilene the town the island's capital and the police are not going to allow that to happen not everyone wants to leave he sa

forced to self isolate after testing positive for corona virus may have committed in protest john psaropoulos reports. this was one of europe's largest refugee camps morea on the greek island of lesbos fires have torn through tents and dilapidated structures they were thought to have been deliberately lit by people fed up with that desperate existence compounded by corona fires they are out there. today for parts for. the few there are. hundreds of thousands of people became homeless once again precious family belongings hastily bundled together to form makeshift bedding there were no fatalities but these are lives thrust even deeper now into limbo is very very very unfair to very very different chord. is very broad. corporate put forward you know has come 3rd where if you don't want to go is living here because this problem but if i may be dead now it is you know the camp had housed more than 12000 people in cramped unsanitary conditions designed for a quarter of that number of conditions in which coronavirus could easily flourish we are extremely worried not only 4 to 40 percent children ev

ok thank you very much for that update john psaropoulos live for us on this bus island not far from the morea refugee camp. don way waterborne diseases of the native stretched to people there hundreds of thousands have been displaced says an unprecedented levels the floodwaters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick he morgan reports from the capital costume. barely able to stand 13 year old mohammed treatment at this health center in the south of the capital hard to medics see he's suffering from a parasitic infection usually caused by lack of access to clean drinking water his mother tries to comfort him through his pain but she herself is barely able to hide when discomfort. half another we've been living on the streets for more than a week the home is completely flooded and we didn't receive tents this father is also sick he's mentally unstable and i can give him his medication if he had a 10 i'd be able to take care of him there the clinic treating mohammad was set up nearly 2 weeks ago to help patients affected by recent flooding in many villages an

member states are making plans to accept some of the refugees john psaropoulos has been inside the camp just a few hours ago. it's almost as though we're on another planet everything has been reduced to its elements this site however is where the government insists on rebuilding a new secure closed facility the residents of moria village just a kilometer away from here are absolutely against that as is much of the island very simply do not want to camp here anymore the government says that is the wrong choice that the islanders resistance to such a camp is actually causing part of the problem it has prevented the government from building a better facility the refugees however frankly agreed with the islanders they want to leave too this may now be harder than ever for them because we're hearing that much of the paper archive of the asylum service that used to stand directly behind me here has been burnt and that may mean that a lot of people were stuck here for months longer than they would be because the records determining whether they would be granted asylum and allowed to move to ma

destroyed europe's biggest refugee camp there demanding the right to go to the mainland live now to john psaropoulos who joins us from les both john is the perception there that this was a heavy handed response so with the police just doing the only thing they could too . i think people just at the end of their tether many of them haven't eaten in 24 hours because with the protests that happened yesterday the army wasn't able to do the food distribution it's charged with doing and i think that they are simply hungry angry and fed up of waiting for their asylum decisions to be made where i am now is the artillery range that is being real landscaped for the new camp to be built we've just been moved by police in the last few moments so i can't show it to you but behind me behind this hill behind me is a flat area of land leading down to the sure that is being graded now and where u.n.h.c.r. tents have been set up i estimate about $150.00 of them or so each one capable of taking probably $10.00 to $20.00 people in a pinch. those tents are now empty a few refugees are walking towards them but there's cl

demanding to go to the mainland and some stranded refugees have been speaking to our correspondent john psaropoulos. i'm standing in the middle of a tent city set up on a highway on last boss island a few kilometers behind me and you can't is being landscaped tense of being set up for all of these people who are camped here to go and live there as a temporary measure now the original camp morea has been burned but they are telling us that they are not interested in going to yet another camp situation they all say they want freedom they want to move to the mainland they want to move to greece to the rest of europe they are tired of living in temporary housing in makeshift huts underneath top hole in many of these people haven't eaten in at least 24 hours the army does attempt a food distribution but yesterday this wasn't possible because of protests that were going on up and down the streets demanding freedom unfortunately none of these people can move off of this highway because there is a police roadblock down the road and up the road so they are bottled into this section effectively in a new type

europe on tuesday night ships are being sent in by the greek government to provide accommodation john psaropoulos reports. this was one of europe's largest refugee camps morea on the greek island of lesbos fires have torn through tents and dilapidated structures they were thought to have been deliberately lit by people fed up with that desperate existence compounded by coronavirus they are out there. today far far. far. getting. thousands of people became homeless once again precious family belongings hastily bundled together to form makeshift bedding there were no fatalities but these are lives thrust even deeper now into limbo is very very very unfair to fit in for the different chord. is a call for is very broad. corporate put forward you know has come 3rd where if you don't want to go is living here because this problem but if i may be dead now is you know the camp had housed more than 12000 people in cramped unsanitary conditions designed for a quarter of that number of conditions in which corona virus could easily flourish we are extremely worried not only 4 to 40 percent children even mudd