robin walker reports from the border. >> stymie found here from kabul. other we fouled on the road in eye rap. >> reporter: friendships have been forge odd this journey like he and his new family from afghanistan. he is just 16 years olds, aged by a conflict which returned to his hometown this month. >> it was awful. awful situation all the time. [speaking at the same time] >> i don't have eye school. i don't want anything. i lost my family in -- on the way off iran and afghanistan. >> reporter: getting asylum may not be straightforward for him, because he e.u. considers many africans to be economic migrants and wants to make it easier to send them home. there is a cargoing on in afghanistan and yet there is an intention to facilitate their return, that doesn't seem to make sense. >> there is at the moment a recognition rate of the 40% among the afghans, so, of course, this would be an individual questioning to see in which situations they live, whether they can go back or not go back. we'll see about what is happening in the war, the situation, will it

robin walker, al jazeera, on the slow venture ye-croatia border. >>> there has been more violence inhe occupied palestinian territories. in the most recent incidents a 19-year-old pan from the west bank village was shot dead by israeli forces. israel says he seriously injured a young soldier. earlier on monday, a second palestinian was shot and killed by an israeli soldier at a checkpoint after an argument. 60 palestinians and eight israelis have been killed in this month's unrest. >>> tensions in the area top the agenda of a meeting between the palestinian president and the european union's foreign poll at this chief in brussels. mahmoud abbas discussed the recent violence over the a al-aa compound in east jerusalem. they call for concrete step to his end the cycle of violence. >>> there is strong evidence of genocide in myanmar against its muslim row mean ga minority. according to a report by yale university law school obtained exclusively by al jazeera. it blames the government from crimes against around a million rorohingya who live in the westf the country. >> reporter: this bab

. >> that is robin walker reporting. more than 70,000 refugees began entering slovenia after hungary closed it's border with croatia. >>> fighting for votes and each other. the frontrunner is slipping from his top spot. >> i had one poll. i'm winning every single state. i'm winning nationally by a lot. cbs came out with these monster polls, and for days they're covering one poll in iowa. they just keep hitting me with it. if i would have won it like i have been doing, and there are other polls where we are leading, and big, but they keep hitting me with the one poll. >> the poll was done by the "des moines register." ben carson had comments saying that abortion should be outlawed in all circumstances and compared the practice of abortion to slavery and likened those who backed the procedure to slave owners. i spoke with james warren, he said given his new status, it is likely to get more scrutiny. >> we have carson who after this point it simply has not been taken very seriously. it's seen as a nice guy, thoughtful, marg

let's go live to robin forest walker who is on the border with slow vane i can't. first of all, tell us little bit about what is happening where you are. >> yes, well, behind me hundreds more refugees who crossed over from the slovenia side from austria are now waiting to be moved on, and waiting--they've been doing some time now. earlier buss were coming here, but they seem to have stopped. people once again having to spend lots of time. many ours out in the cold. of course the numbers keep on coming because you can't see it from behind me, but a little further back in the direction of slovenia, we know that there are many thousands more people either who are on the croatian side. many distressing scenes that are too common. we met two women earlier from syria who refused to get on the buses because they had lost their children. they wouldn't get on until they had found them again, of course. when those buses do finally come, they are then put on buses and taken out to cities across austria. that's where the asylum process can begin. but most people have germany o

as robin forrester-walker reports, aid workers say they are being prevented from offering much-needed help. >> reporter: the promise now of 400 extra police from the european union to manage this unllped scale ounparalleled sca, for refugees i asked how they spent the last night. not enough water said this one man. they had been waiting for hours. finally some were allowed to leave for an austria bound train but members of this family had been left behind. >> one of my brother and my sister's husband, they can't, they didn't let them come out. >> hopefully they made it onto the next train but by the afternoon the camp was ready for more arrivals. this is just the latest batch of hundreds of refugees to arrive at this holding facility. the police seem to be doing very good job at crowd control. but the humanitarian efforts from what we've seen aren't quite as adequate. aid agencies such as medicins sans frontiers says, the authorities are cooperating closely with them. but these agencies say they are obstructed from getting food and support from where it's needed. >> to be disallowed t

robin walker with al jazeera, on the austria-slow -- slovania worker. >>> john michael fooley proclaimeddent elect after the body dismissed opposition demands for a recount and samuel zanzabar vote annulled and claims they won and observer groups say the poll was credible. now saudi blogger has been awarded the eu prize for human rights in freedom of thought, and is currently serving a ten year jail sentence for writings on freedom of speech and received a number of prizes since his incarceration but the prize is the most high profile. as charlie angelo reports. >> reporter: the prize this year will go to the saudi arabia blogg blogger. >> translator: i call on the king of saudi arabia to immediately grant mercy on him and free him so he can accept the prize. >> a standing ovation at the eu parliament for the 31-year-old who is online writing about free speech were met with a jail sentence and public flogging convicted in 2012 for insulting islam after he criticized senior religious figures and following death threat his wife and three children fled saudi arabia and living in canada they

let's hear from robin walker, he is close by to the scene you're seeing now, earlier on in daylight hours. >> how to manage tens of thousands of refugees a week moving across europe, that is the challenge facing european leaders. with so many people coming in at this rate, every day, european leaders, especially the balkan leaders, have to agree how much longer they can keep this going and how to regulate all of these people. >> the volunteers say now is the time for compassion. >> they keep coming and we have to take care of them. >> what do you think they should be discussing? what do you think needs to be done? >> really to me, i do not talk the politics. for me, it's the human side, that we really see these are human beings, as we are. >> all from syria are grateful to be here. >> we have to say thanks to europe, because they open and they make it easy for us to come. >> some in europe see that as the problem, and that only barbed wire or bureaucracy will solve it. human rights groups are calling on regional leaders to make the welfare of those in need their highest priority, so in br

robin-foristier-walker, on the slovenia-croatian border. >> argentina's election is headed for a run-offr wins the next vote will become the first president elected through a run-off in argentinian history. al jazeera reports now from buenos aires. >> reporter: it seemed impossible that the leader of the let's change coalition forced a powerful ruling party to a second round. the first run-off in argentina's history. >> i invite you to conquer our future. it depends upon each one of you. take the years it takes an we won't stop until we achieve it. every day from december 10th, i promise you, we are going to be a little better. >> his followers celebrated until late at night. many couldn't believe what was going on. we are going to go to a historic election, and we will win. we are going to within the presidency, and we are going to be an excellent government. but at the front for victory headquarters, the scene was completely different. christina kirschner's hand-picked successor appealed from the undecided voters promising new reforms. >> with all of my experience, i see ask the undeci

that's robin walker in slovenia. >> the syrian president bashar al assad says he's ready to take part in elections, and believes the political solution toned the country's four year war is possible. assad made the comments to a delation of russian politicians in damascus but says a political deal will depend on preliminary nateing what he calls terrorist organizations. a member of the syrian opposition and professor of political science says there's no question of bashar al assad remaining in power as part of the peace process. most of the people fighting bashar al assad are patriots. the problem is to begin with, he is now a war criminalar at least alleged war criminal because of the destruction he has brought to the country. i don't think a foreign power would have made as much destruction as he has done in syria. he is not a serious person. listen to his pronouncements. he is very clever. this is a time for transition, change. the one who had all the opportunities to have dialogue for 11 years. >> an israeli man's been stabbed in the west bank. they say he's in a moderate condition

robin walker, al jazeera, on the austria-slovania border. >>> pakistanis recovering from monday's earthquakemore than 200 people and badly damaged buildings including 800 schools. kamal reports. >> reporter: remember the moment when their school shook violently. she and her friends are still nervous about the possibility of more aftershocks. >> translator: our school was badly damaged and all the students are afraid to go to their classes. even the teachers have not come back. >> translator: every one here is frightened and in shock. only a few people came back to college. they are sitting on the lawn waiting for direction but no arrangements have been made. >> reporter: and because of the extensive damage to the building it is no longer safe to be inside. classes are now held outdoors in the open. >> translator: no one is ready to risk their lives and the whole infra fracture can collapse at any time and worried about our studies and the government must do something. >> reporter: difficult for many of the students to continue with their studies but the principal says she is not giving up ye

and exhausted new arrivals a day help for them and for the authorities cannot come soon enough, robin walkereera, on the slovania-croatia border. >>> in columbia 12 security officers killed from rebels by the national liberation army also known as eln, the marxist gorilla operating since the 60s and others missing from the ambush in the province and talks continuing between the government and columbia's largest rebel group the farc. indonesia president announced support for a contentious trade deal after a meeting that president barack obama at the white house, it is seen as a political victory for a bomber who faced opposition to a deal back home, the u.s. and 11 other countries agreed on the trans pacific partnership and the largest of its kind covering free trade-in the pacific region. the u.s. state of alabama is accused of deliberately suppressing black voters and announced plans to close dozens of government officers with id in the rural parts of the state and would a valid identification they will not be able to cast their ballots in up coming elections and andy gallagher reports. >>

from the capitol, robin forest every walker reports. >> when it comes to central asian democracy, thiss as good as it gets. with 14 political parties contesting, it's been a defendant vibrant election campaign in randy stan but there is such a plural society, campaign has been short on messages of tolerance or diversity. harassment of minorities like gays and lesbians is xlon place. in this video pat tree on theic movements intimidate those inside a home. those same groups back an anti--gay propaganda law that enjoys cross-party support. >> i meet a candidate who tells me there is no space for gay people in krgys society. >> homosexuality is a major problem. some organizations claim we have had homosexwalty throughout our history. this isn't true. in the era of genghis khan and under communism, we had no concept of homosexuality. >> this support group for sexual minorities has had its own offices attacked but is willing to speak out. >> look at the platforms of all political parties. none of them are talking about minorities. none of them are talking about non-discrimination principles

let's talk with robin walker who is on the border with thousands of refugees continue to cross. robin, we'll talk more about these sorts of measures and what they may and may not do at the moment. >> yes, we're at the holding center. and every few hours we're seeing hundreds of refugees arrive they just cross over from slovenia into croatia. this is the first place they go after being held in a field for up to ten hours at a time. and then they're moved on by foot to places like this. i'm going to step aside, and you can see more about what is going on behind me. you can make out the riot police who are holding back several hundred men. women and children have been allowed to go through first as they've been able to use toilets for the first time. then over to the right you can see the relief aid that has been handed out to them. they're getting bread, water, and apples. that's probably the first decent meal, if you can call it that, that they've had for some time. and then it will be held in this place again a night out under the stars, it looks like. it looks like some people a

robin forrester-walker, al jazeera, on the slovenia-croatia border. >> teresa vo reports from buenos aires. >> imobt, the leader of the left change coalition forced a powerful ruling party to a second round. the first runoff in argentina's history. >> it depends on each one of you. is we won't stop until we achieve it. from now until december 10th i promise you we're going to be a little better. >> his followers celebrate until late at night. many couldn't believe what was going on. >> translator: we are going to go to a historic election and we will win. we are going to win the president i.s. and we are going to be an excellent government. >> reporter: but at the front for victory headquarters, the scene was different. are cristina kirchner's hand pick successor. >> with all my experience i asked the undecided and independent to vote for this agenda for great future for argentine development. >> until a few minutes ago this square was filled with people expressing their support for scioli. they expected scioli to get a lot more votes. some have stayed saying they are getting ready f

. >> now let's talk to robin walker at the slovenia-croatia border. robin, i can see behind you members of the u.n.'s refugee agency. they've obviously come to help croatia and slovenia deem with the situation. describe the situation where you are at the moment. >> yes, what you're seeing behind me are unhr representatives who have been trying to get inside what we can describe as little more than an enclosure. if the camera turns this way, you can see in the distance a couple of hundred meters away, where all of the refugees are being held. not all of them, they keep coming in in batches, hundreds, perhaps 1,000 at a time. two or three times a day, and they are made to wait for up to five hours before being moved on. we, the media have been kept back all day today from talking to them and seeing what's going on inside. we've heard complaints from volunteer organizations that they have been unable to continue their work. they were some of the first to get here to provide food and a year assistance. to my right, we have six vehicles coming from germany,

robin forester walker, al jazeera, slovenia. >> well, friday's session of parliament was suspended after the opposition let off tear gas canisters. they want the cins to gak out of deals with serbia and montenegro. , chronic mall nutrition. david mercer reports from the guam's world. >> these guatemala children, their mother josefa says it's impossible to break the life of poverty. i wish we had the mine to buy the medicine outside of the hod, with it but we don't. it's very hard. >> a few measures down the road, here too the guatemalan government is absent. with the second round of votes coming on monday. how they will bring the change to the people who need it the most? two nach hours away from gooment >> guatemala city. >> under 12% of gnp is collected in taxes which is very far.than brazil who is 30%. >> led to months of protest and brought down guatemala's president. the spobility the provide basic services for the children' chils tarveg for ds answer them presidents. >>> unsecretary-general says that although the body has contributed to a better wocialtd it haworld ithas faced some

robin foriester walker, on the austria-slovenian border. >> the only hope for a better life for somes to leave the country. now, german's interior minister is saying the number of afghan asylum seekers in his country is unacceptable and plans to start deporting them. jennifer glass spoke to one family that's worried about being deported. >> for a month, hamyda shagri didn't know whether her 16-year-old son was dead or alive. in june, he left his home in kunduz until northern afghanistan hoping to get to germany. it was a dangerous trip. >> translator: he almost drowned. he told me the boat was sinking. the water was up to his neck. after difficulties, he reached land. they stayed in grease for a couple of days and went to serbia. a smuggler locked them in a room with only a small hole in the ceiling. he said they only if he had them once a dayfed them once a day. he reached berlin where his aunt lives. the name says they miss him. but they were forced today send him after a man who say say might have been the talibor isi worked with them. >> we sentence our son because we had no choi

robin forester walker is on the border. >> how to manage tens of thousands of refugees a week moving across europe. that is the challenge facing european leaders. with so many people coming in at this rate every day european leaders especially the balkan leaders have to agree how much longer they can keep this going and how to regulate all of these people. the volunteers like inge, now is the time for compassion. >> they keep coming. and we have to take care of them. >> reporter: what do you think they should be discussing, you know, like what do you think needs to be done? >> really, to me, i do not talk the politics. to me it's the human side, we really see these are human beings as we are. if we had the obligation to keep them in our cub we would do that as well. >> all refugees from syria are welcoming to come. they see that is the only problem and only bloods are blockades o will help. so in brussels the debate may swing between the need for compassion and the need for control. robin forester al jazeera. >> maureen o'hara has died. she was also known as her on screen work with j

robin walker reports. >> reporter: when it comes to central asian democracy, this is as good as it gets. with 14 political parties contest, it's been a vibrant campaign in kyrgyzstan. for such a plural society, the campaign has been short on messages of tolerance and diversity. harassment of minorities, like gays and lesbians. is commonplace. in this movie, patriotic movements force their way into a private home, intimidating those inside. the same groups backing a law enjoying cross party support. >> i meet a candidate that tells me there is no space for gay people. it is a major problem. some claim that they had homosexuality throughout the history. this is not true. under communize and the era of genghis khan, we had no homosexuality. >> this support group for sexual minorities had its own offices attacked. but is willing to speak out. >> look at the platforms, none are talking about minorities, none are talking about nondiscrimination principles. >> ethnic minorities have been vulnerable or voiceless. the governing social democrats say they support diversity. >> there should be no d

robin forester walker is there. >> outside, najeeb was reluctant to speak on camera. he's been pepper-sprayed earlier. he's leading eight men women and children. this is his latest indignity. >> they don't treat you as human. you ask them something, they don't answer. no food no water, no blanket nothing. can you see the kids are sick now. >> reporter: unfortunately, we're being prevented from speaking to these people, and nobody in authority will talk to us about why they seem to have so little in the way of clothing food and water, and why they've been waiting so long. buses have started to arrive now, so we are expectation them finally to be moving off but they have been waiting for hours. adnan a volunteer, estimates two and a half thousand are waiting here. >> if they don't know the information it feels like guantanamo bay, like americans are doing. being locked up politics going on. >> reporter: to see how bad things have got, the eu sent its commissioner of migration to slovenia on thursday. >> the commission stands by slovenia and we are ready to assist the co

robin forester walker is in the capital. >> biometric voter registration, i detect a degree of excitement. lots of people queuing to come in, get their fingerprint recognition, they can pick up their ballot, do the usual registration here, mark their ballot and then is post in the ballot box. gone are the ballot boxes, we have a system that reads it and collects it at the same time. it's only been introduced just over a year ago, and lots of people haven't had sometime oar wanted to submit their biometric data. there could be as much as a million voters throughout that are unable ocast their ballots today, especially migrant neighbors in places like russia. those who do come out and vote have the big issues in their mind, how to solve this country's problems of age old corruption. >> polls are open in portugal, voters have the choice of giving soicialists thsocialists a chang ruling coalition to the vote. bailout from eu and imf. >>> jaime valdez rodriguez challenging the political elite. >> his nickname is el bronco, which roughly translates into untameable. jaime rodriguez's heroes are

robin forester walker, al jazeera. >>> at least 43 died when a truck collided with a bus in france. >> the coach has been entirely burnt out. it was carrying a bunt much elderly people a few kilometers away. they were going on a day trip. bend in the road local people sais is tricky to navigate. the bus and the cap of the truck fire leaving some passengers trapped. >> the driver of an empty timber truck lost his vehicle. the bus driver saw it was going to lap, did everything to avoid it? to lo ir allow a few people to get out. >> the emergency services arrived by road and air but more than 40 people are now known to have perished in the fire. the french president called the accident an immense tragedy. france's prime minister has traveled to the area. >> it is a terrible shock for the girang and for france. today the people are in mourns. >> an investigation on what caused it is now underway. emma hayward, al jazeera. >> scuffles have broken out in kosovo's parliament. second time let off tear gas canisters. presidential hopeful in argentina have held their final campaign rallies befo

but at the moment they say they are not being able to help as much as they feel they can. >> robin forest walkerat the slovania-croatia border, bodies of 14 people thought to be refugees have washed ashore in libya, libya red crescent team said they were found on beaches by the city hom east of the capital tripoli and 2 1/2 thousand people drown trying to reach europe in the mediterranean sea so far. two turkish firerman who rescued a 18-month-old child at see fisted them and the boy was floating face down in the choppy water, when they hauled him on to the boat thank you realized he was still alive and began to revive him and the mother described the fishermen as heros and have given their family a second chance at life. two men killed with i.s.i.l. fighters in the southeast city. police were raiding a dozen properties on the outskirts of the city early on monday when the gun battle broke out. we are live in istanbul and what is the latest from the scene ther there? >> reporter: security forces have been telling us that seven suspected i.s.i.l. fighters were killed in the shoot out during those

robin walker, al jazeera, on the austr austria-slovania border. >>> afghanistan many families still haveights on germany, number of afghans seeking asylum in the country declared unacceptable by the german interior minister and as jennifer glasse reports that is not enough to deter those who plan to leave. for a month she didn't know whether her 16-year-old son was dead or alive. in june he left his home in kunduz in northern afghanistan hoping to get to germany, it was a dangerous trip. >> translator: on the sea he almost drowned and told me the boat was sinking and water up to his neck and after difficulties he reached land. they stayed in greece for a couple of days and then went to serbia, ten days the smuggler locked them in a dark room with only a small hole in the ceiling and said they only fed them once a day. >> reporter: 2 1/2 months ago she reached berlin where his aunt lives. the family says they miss him. but they were forced to send him after a man who they say might have been the taliban or i.s.i.l. asked for him to work with him. >> we sent our son because we had no choic

exhausted new arrivals of day, help for them and for the authorities cannot come soon enough, robin walkerra, on the slovania-croatia border. >>> columbia 112 personnel security killed by the national liberation army known as el snch snchlt -- eln and operating since the 60s and people missing from the ambush in the province and comes as talks continue between the government and columbia's largest rebel group farc and we are there and sent this report. >> reporter: the day after the most peaceful elections in decades in the country columbia people were reminded once again their internal civil conflict is far from over, the government says at least 12 members of the country's security forces were ambushed by the eln, the second biggest rebel group in the country. this happened inside an indigenous reservation in the central province while the soldiers and police and men were escorting a group of election officials and transporting official ballots out of that region. besides those who were killed another three soldiers were injured and at least three civilians are missing at this point. now

. >>> so now we will bring in robin walker on the slovania-croatia border and continue to cross in andl us how this agreement is going to effect the balkin countries including slovania where you are speaking to us from. >> yeah, as you mentioned this commitment now to have additional police come down here from the other parts of the eu to assist the slovanians is really important because let's put this into perspective from a figure perspective, 15,000 is the number understood to have come through slovania in the past 24 hours over sunday, that is huge, that is a record number that this country has had to accept so those 400 police officers will be a welcomed addition for as far as the slovania authorities are concerned and also that commitment to provide reception centers that can house an additional 50,000 refugees, in other words, places that will provide good protection for them from the weather especially given the winter is pressing in here. and also the need now it seems to be acknowledged they have to start talking to each other more these countries and heard repeatedly accusat

robin forrester-walker has more. >> 15,000 is the number, understood to have come through slovenia in the past 24 hours over sunday. that is huge. that is a record number that this country has had to accept. so those 400 police officers will be a welcome addition for as far as the slovenian authorities are concerned. and also that commitment to provide reception centers that can house an additional 50,000 refugees, in other words, places that will provide good protection for them from the weather especially given that the winter is pressing in here. the camp behind me is one of three on the slovenian-croatian border. it's not much of a camp really. it's sort of a housing point where the numbers come on through and then eventually when space is freed up further down the line, they then get moved on. but what you get is these bottlenecks. and one of the places where they cross into slovenia they are being kept in a meadow, nothing more than an enclosure. volunteers were telling us they were being consistently restricted and from being provided with warm food. 1 to 3:00 a.m. they were ab

. >>> robin forester walker reports. >> a whole new system of biometric voter registration. lots of people queuing to come in. they get their fingerprint recognition here, it has to match with photo i.d., they get a ticket, do their bloolts, they dballots.then they post in the t box. gone is the closed ballot box, this one reads and counts at the same time. this system is developed to eliminate rawd but proven highly controversial. lots of people wanted to submit their biometric data, there could be as many as 1 million reporters who are unable to cast their vote. this country's problem with money and the age old problem of corruption. >> herbal medicines, one bush doctor has come up with an urban solution of protecting south africa's rural heritage. tanya page reports. >> neville comes to be inspired. he's a bush doctor. the healing powers of these plants have been used for centuries. unlike his ancestors, the coirsacoysanhe has supposed to a permit. >> we have been picking the herbs without permits. >> demand is high. >> there is a lot of use that is coming on to this. the

robin forrester-walker has the story. >> there is little in the way of warm clothing or decent food they have here. they have burned whatever they can find, rubber or plastic in order to keep themselves warm. it is a very acrid smell. the night has fallen and it's going to be another cold night for those who have entered here. about a thousand at a time and they must wait here for up to ten hours we've been hearing from some reports of volunteers who have been working inside before they can be moved on to processing camps. now, that is the humanitarian aspect that needs to be improved. many people are telling us, with regards not to just here but also the other camps in slovenia. and eventually, if these countries can all agree on a coordination system, things will start moving. so that we don't have backlogs and the people like the refugees in this camp don't have to wait so long in the cold before they can move forward. they can't move forward until the next camp is cleared of its group of refugees. and the next camp, let's say closer to the austrian border they are also unable to take

imperfect system but it could still set a democratic example to the rest of the region the robin forestier-walker jazeera. >> voting in portugal's election. prime minister center right coalition will win by a slight margin. the ruling coalition promised if it does win to continue imposing austerity measures. a typhoon with winds over 175 kilometers per moush made landfall they have issued their highest red alert emergency response to tie off and on guy. thousands have moved to hire ground. fishing fleets have been ordered not to go into the sea. the world's oceans are in trouble from plastics pollution to overfishing. there seems to be no end to the pressures on the seize that cover 70% of our planet. how to deal with that is the major focus in chile. there are still marine wonders to be pounds sometimes in the most likely places. our environment he had et or, nick clark reports. between iran and qatar. the oil field, a high security zone closed to the public. right here, every summer, something extraordinary happens. >> the what i will sharks arrive in huge numbers. gentle giants, filter feeding

for now police have been sent in to help keep order and al jazeera's robin and walker reports from thelovania-croatia border. >> promise of 400 extra police from the eu to manage this unparalleled scale of migration may come as a relief for the slovania authorities but relief for the refugees i try to ask people how they spend the last night, not enough water said this man. they had been waiting for hours. finally somewhere now to leave for an austria-bound train and members of this family had been left behind. >> one of my brothers and my sister's husbands can't. they didn't let them come out. >> reporter: hopefully they made it on to the next train. by the afternoon the camp was ready for more arrivals. this is just the latest batch of hundreds of refugees to arrive at this holding facility. the police seem to be doing very good job at crowd control but the humanitarian effort from what we have seen isn't quite as adequate. aid agencies such as this say more resources are needed though they stress in the slovania authorities are operating closely with them but they say they have been

robin forester-walker has more. >> reporter: this is the point at which the refugees have sloughe sloveniaere are no tents. there is very little in the way of warm clothing or deesent food for them to have here they have taken to burning whatever they can find, rubber or plastic, in order to try to keep themselves warm. it's a very acrid smell that i am getting. and the night has fallen. so, it is going to be another cold night for those who have entered here about 1,000 at a time, and they must wait here for up to 10 hours. we have been hearing some reports of volunteers working inside before they can be moved on to processing camps. now, that is the humanitarian aspect that needs to be improved. many people are telling us with regard not just here but, also, the other camps in slovenia. eventually, if these countries can all agree on a coordination system, things will start moving so that we don't have backlogs and the people like the refugees in this camp don't have to wait so long in the cold before they can move forward. they can't move forward until the next camp is cleared of its gr

al jazeera robin forester walker reports. >> reporter: another leg for another thousand or so refugees, another ending ordeal. >> we are suffering from vision. >> ali from iraq wanted to make one thing clear. he isn't here by choice. >> i'm not running from my country, i love my country. but we are running. >> these are the latest refugees to arrive in slovenia and the numbers keep on coming. that is a burden slovenia says it cannot bear without eu money, manpower, and mutual agreement. slovenian police have released this video showing the croatian authorities leading refugees towards an illegal border crossing. slovenia's prime minister is frustrated. >> they send people to us in an uncontrolled way. they do not tell us where they will send those people. they just push them through border unexpectedly. sometimes they're not very good condition and this is very hard then for us. >> with the prime minister's visit efficiency returns to the camp on friday. transport laid on for them to continue their journey towards the austrian border. but there the system failed again. no more buses so

al jazeera's robin forrester walker asked why refugees are not applying for asylum there. >> i don'tnow. but one woman say slovenia poor country. maybe they don't know about our country. what they want, we offer to them here >>> the number of refugees that arrived in europe is already three times more than in 2014, more than half the refugees are from syria >>> 105-year-old woman is among thousands of migrants and refugees to turn up. she is from kunduz afghanistan, fleeing war and poverty with her family and turned up at a refugee camp no croatia. she said the family travelled for 20 days to reach europe. her son and grandson carried her on their backs. >> i became homeless, a migrant. i have been on the road for a long time. >> i slept in rough conditions, i have no home. may good give me a good life, a good share in life. i've been a muslim. otherwise what can i do. >> at her age she still dreams of a better life in a new land >>> russia challenges critics around the world. what the kremlin is saying that russian air strikes are killing civilians in syria >>> looking for vladimir

robin forester walker reports. >> reporter: the promise of 400 extra police from the european union, come as a relief for the sla screenian authorities, but relief for the refugees. i tried to ask people how they spent the night. not enough water said this man. finally some were allowed to leave for an austrian-bound train. but members of this family had been left behind. >> one of my brothers, and my sister's husband, the camp, they didn't let them come out. >> reporter: by the afternoon the camp was ready for more arrivals. this is just the latest batch of hundreds of refugees to arrive at this holding facility. the police people to be doing a very good job at crowd control, but the humanitarian effort from what we have seen isn't quite as adequate. aid agencies, such as this one, say more resources are needed, though they stress that the slow screenian authorities are cooperating closely with them. but these volunteers say they have been obstructed. >> to be disallowed to hand blankets to people when we have sufficient to get to the children and family -- i mean this is disgusting

al jazeera's robin forest forester-walker reports from the capital. >> reporter: kyrgyzstan's voting made it harder to commit electoral fraud but with one major drawback. voters that failed to register in time, 20% of the electorate, was unable to cast a vote. still the country's president believes kyrgyzstan has set a new standard. >> translator: i think it is great because many couldn't country and some not far from us don't know what freedom and free and fair election mean. >> reporter: he still has significant control over parliament. preliminary results suggest his party is ahead but will need coalition partners to form the next government. five years ago thousands of people protested on these same streets to overthrow a corrupt regime. the result of that was an experiment in parliament democracy. five years on you and they suggest that experiment maying working. there's work to be done. it's racked by corruption and the chronically weak economy. it could set a democratic example to the rest of the region. >>> the world bank is to raise the so-called poverty line by 65 cents to

robin foristier walker. >>> a campaign has started in kenya to try to tackle alcoholism.very year, dozens of people die from consuming illegal home brews. catherine soi reports now from moranga. >> this is not an ordinary group therapy session. the men and women here are getting free treatment and counseling to help with their drinking problem. a number of people suffered bad withdrawal symptoms when alcohol was shut down. the fwult females field has been turned into a temporary hab habitation camp. daniel mongi was a policeman for 14 years. he lost his job last year. his wife and children left two years ago. >> it became so hard for me to stop drinking alcohol because i had to drink for me to survive. for me to do anything, i had to start with a drink in the morning. volt you know tears are running the camp set up by the federal government. there are about 1,000 here others are registering. most are not employed. the concern now is: what happens when they leave this place? >> so we are working to make sure they are strong enough to be able to prevent relapse. i know that

robin forester-walker reports from the capital. >> reporter: the voting has made it much harder to commit electoral fraud, but with one major drawback. voters that failed to register in time, some 20% of the electorate, were unable to cast their vote. still, the country's president believes kyrgyzstan has set a new standard. i think, you know, it is great, because many countries, some of them not far from us, don't know what freedom and free and fair elections mean. free and fair may be, but he still has significant control over parliament. preliminary results suggest his party is ahead but will need coalition partners to form the next government. five years ago thousands of people protested on the same streets to overthrow a corrupt regime. the result of that was an experiment in parliamentary democracy. five years on, and these transparent elections suggest that experiment may be working. there's work to be done. kyrgyzstan is racked my corruption and the chronically weak economy, but it could still set a democratic example to the rest of the region. >>> at least 16 people have died in

. >> robin forism estier walker, thank you for that. >> stay with us here on al jazeera.till to come rpth a hard-won peace deal in south sudan thrown into doubt by a government wanting to redraw state lines. >>> these are some of the most intense rapids anywhere in the world. for a few weeks each year, people flock here to risk it all for the ride of their life. i am gabriel elzondo on the goalii river. >> premises to host the olympics in 2020 continue to be dogged by problems. rajoul has all of those problems in sports. ♪ s >>> let's recap the head lienlz here on al jazeera the taliban is back in control of the main square in the northern city of kunduz. that's according to residents who have spoken to al jazeera. doctors without borders has withdrawn from the city. 12 of its staff and seven patients were killed by an airstrike at hospital on saturday. drink has been a defendant new wave of russian airstrikes in syria. the defense minister said planes hit tennis ill targets in the latest bombing runs. but according to the observatory for human rights, campaign hit some w