but for my children, it's impossible. >> stewart: malcolm brabant joins me now via skype from copenhagen, denmark. malcolm, in times of danger, the dwengzal wisdom is to get the children out, get them to a safer place, but from your reporting, the opposite seems true in this situation. why is that? >> reporter: well, i think that parents are genuinely terrified of the dangering in the mediterranean. as he was saying, it's absolutely a complete lottery. it's russian roulette. you don't know what sort of vessel you're get spog. there have been horrendous stories of traffickers beating people down into the holds of boats, and it just takes a small shift in the balance of a boat with people rushing to one side or the other for it to tip over because they're all so heavily overcrowded so there are many parents taking the decision that it's not worth risking their children's lives, and they're leaving them behind, and they're coming to country where's they hope there will be a good family reunionification policy, as sweden has. but mr. al hab ash, has been waiting for 10 months. >> stewart: th

malcolm brabant is there as more refugees land in greece. and william brangham follows up with two families now in germany. one finding refuge, the other more uncertainty. >> reporter: it is here, in this social-hall-turned-refugee camp where they'll likely stay for months as they wait for their asylum applications to be approved. >> sreenivasan: also ahead: creating a new arts capital in the middle of the city of angels. jeffrey brown looks inside the new $140 million museum that is the centerpiece. >> brown: it features 30 galleries filled with big names in modern and contemporary art. andy warhol. keith haring. kara walker. jeff koons. and many others-- including jasper johns. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are with us to analyze the week's news. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. ♪ >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing p

and our own pbs newshour special correspondent malcolm brabant, who has been reporting extensively on the refugee crisis for us in a number of european countries. ing and we welcome you both. pal come, you are in copenhagen. what is the reaction there and in denmark to this picture, to what people are seeing unfold? >> i think people are distressed very much by this. throughout europe. i think you with have to be extremely hard hearted not to be moved by this. but one of the more interesting comments has come from a march called martin hendrickson who is the spokesman for integration for the dan anybody people's party, the party that cracks the whip here. he says it is very distressing but the blame for this lies with the traffic ever-- traffickers and also with is is and with president-- with isis and president assad in syria. the problem is, it is these people, if these people who are causing the deaths of people like aylan. not europe, there are others saying europe is to blame for this. for example, turkey's president is saying that europe really is turning the mediterranean into

special correspondent malcolm brabant reports on the north- south divide in scandinavia.ns in southern sweden. >> reporter: journey's end. syrians khaled al habash, in the blue shirt, and nouri shkais are relishing their new sanctuary. but habash is missing his children. he didn't dare entrust them to the mediterranean. he hopes sweden will reunite them safely. the reception center in a country that regards itself as the world's conscience. habash can't comprehend how some europeans are hostile towards refugees. >> we are not coming here for tourism. we are coming from war. and i think who do like that are hostile to refugees. they must go to syria and see what happens in syria. my children now, under the bombs. they don't have water for one >> reporter: nouri shkais fled latakia, the hometown of syria's president bashar al assad to avoid being conscripted into the army. the destination was an easy choice. >> in sweden, you can get a residence permit for a long time. and you can get citizenship after four years. not like danish. >> reporter: it wasn't just war that compel

from izmir, turkey, special correspondent malcolm brabant reports. >> reporter: interior ministers fromoss europe arrived in brussels with a quota plan on the table to spread 160,000 asylum-seekers across the continent. but for our proposal, on the 120,000, we did not hear the agreement we wanted. a majority of the member states are ready to move forward, but not all. the commission is determined to take action. we will need another council meeting in the coming days. this has always been how the unit works. when we do not succeed the first time, yes, we try again. the world is watching us. it is time for each and every one to take their responsibilities. >> reporter: but others, especially those in the poorer states of eastern europe, balked at any talk of quotas. >> we think that quotas is not the solution. and we have to help the countries which are most affected by these huge flows of migrants. >> reporter: but while the e.u. ministers debated, europe's system of "no borders" had already begun to crumble. on sunday, germany imposed stricter border controls and sent in more police to

malcolm brabant is there as more refugees land in greece.nd william brangham follows up with two families now in germany. one finding refuge, the other more uncertainty. >> reporter: it is here, in this social-hall-turned-refugee camp where they'll likely stay for months as they wait for their asylum applications to be approved. >> sreenivasan: also ahead: creating a new arts capital in the middle of the city of angels. jeffrey brown looks inside the new $140 million museum that is the centerpiece. >> brown: it features 30 galleries filled with big names in modern and contemporary art. andy warhol. keith haring. kara walker.

newshour special correspondent malcolm brabant joins me now from athens to discuss the results and ramifications. ! everything sold new again. >> reporter: alex, he has just been speaking saying now he has a mandate fov four years that the greek people are backing him to do fight in his particular corner. he portrayed this as a substantial victory but it's not one, to be poll honest. this election has been defined by the apathy of the greek people. there's complete despair with politicians and politics. because this is a country which is passionate about politics. people are compelled supposedly to go to vote but the most important thing here is that 45% of the people did not vote today. they're so completely disillusioned and when alex was first elected in january he was on a wave of hope that was going to change things. but he has disappointed so many people. he may have gone in today with the help of his previous right wing colleagues to form a majority government. some people that voted for him said you put us in a real mess, now you can finish the job. >> there was also concern that he got

the arrivals of refugees and migrants continued in athens, which is where special correspondent malcolm brabantnight. >> reporter: dawn on a typical day on the migrant trail: the arrival at athens' main port of a ferry from lesbos, the island where most asylum seekers enter greece. just one ship disgorges some 2,000 people. sometimes there are three ferries a day-- a fraction of the problem being discussed by european leaders who met in brussels this evening. many have not eaten during the 15-hour voyage, so they storm a feeding station set up by a group of muslims from northern england. this crisis is undermining the two-decade experiment of a united europe, as prime ministers and presidents fight over how to respond to the influx. meanwhile, ordinary citizens are doing what they can-- in this case, trying to provide more than 1,000 meals a day. >> obviously, life as they know it doesn't exist any more. if i knew what europe could do, i wouldn't be here. all i know is these people are homeless. they're foodless. whatever we can do to help them. >> reporter: similar chaotic scenes play out in a

pbs newshour's malcolm brabant, who was on shore as survivors returned to the turkish city of bodrum, reports tonight on why so many are still willing to take the risk. >> reporter: the boat capsized and sank less than two miles after setting off from bodrum. more than 240 people were packed into the 65-foot long vessel, which was normally used for tourist trips. it was headed for the nearby greek island of cos, one of the main entry points to europe. turkish coast guards managed to rescue 220 people, but 22 drowned, four of them children, one a 16-day-old baby. the survivors were brought back to the coast guard station in bodrum, where medical teams were on has hand to deal with the tra of their experience. a group of small children were among the first to be placed on special buses by police. the whole drama was played out in front of european tourists who had been to turkey for a day shopping and were boarding boats back to their resorts in kos the legal way. >> i have very mixed feelings over it obviously. sympathy for some of them, and obviously concern over the others. >> report

but as special correspondent malcolm brabant reports from athens, many in the cash- strapped country more resigned than enthusiastic. >> reporter: the scale of alexis tsipras victory came as a surprise. before the election, opinion polls had suggested a much tighter race between the conservative new democracy opposition and tsipras' left wing syriza party. in the end he had a clear lead over new democracy, and although he didn't win an outright majority, he won enough parliamentary seats to form a coalition government with his previous partner, the right wing independent greeks. >> ( translated ): we gave a tough and difficult battle and i feel vindicated today because the greek people gave us a clear mandate to continue fighting inside and outside the country and boost our people's pride. >> reporter: a break away faction of his syriza party, that opposed the latest bail out deal was wiped out in the election and so his authority has been reasserted. reaction to the result was muted. normally after a greek election the streets are full of people celebrating. but the country is weary