the u.n.h.c.r. says that around the world a child is born stateless at least every ten minutes. now u.n.h.c.r. researchers talk to children in seven countries about the experience of growing up without the rights that go with nationality. most stateless people belong to minority groups discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion, or gender, is the major cause of statelessness. u.n.h.c.r. is also warning that a growing number of syrian children are at risk of statelessness, because the nationality goes through the father, and many refugee children have no father, and no birth certificate. dana reports from beirut on the problem facing syrian refugee children in lebanon. these children are among a new generation of stateless people, two-year-old mohammad, one-year-old ahelp, her cousin malick, they were all born in lebanon. syrians who escape from the war, but are now faced with another crisis. she says she sees in future for her children, they don't have proper identification papers because she first has to renew her own residency and she does haven't the money to do

we speak to the u.n.h.c.r. in kuala lumpur and ask for the reaction to the news of impending arrivals. >> the details of 3,000 syrians are to be worked out. we are in positive discussions with the government. a pre requisite is any refugees under a programme would have to be allowed to come lawfully, and be entitled to live here legally, including a variety of opportunities to work and have housing, health care and schooling >>> what time line are we looking at? >> we don't have a time line. the government is keen to implement this. we know they have a 3-year programme in mind that would allow is number of refugees to come over that sort of period of time. >> what sort of conversations are you having with the government. are they receptive to your ideas. globally, they are sensitive questions, touching on national security, sovereignty and malaysia is no different. malaysia hosted refugees for more than 50 or 60 years, hosting tens of thousands. it has not signed up in terms of legal frameworks, but provided an