officials, unhcr officials throughout the day in serbia. they are trying to [ inaudible ] we are seeing charities. we are seeing aid workers, medics, but there is going to need to be more. [ inaudible ] border. they know that they are going to [ inaudible ] they have been calling endlessly almost on the e.u. to let them basically take over logistics when it comes to this crisis to help set up a receiving point, and that hasn't happened, and that's one of the reasons why this crisis is spiralling out of control, because there has not been a unified response from the e.u. as far as how to deal with the crisis. >> are you noticing that more new arrivals are coming in from -- they are crossing in to arrive at this point. or is this a static number that we're looking at now? >> well, it looks as though more are still coming in [ inaudible ] they have been increasing throughout the last few days. the last 24 hours we have been told that they have increased. but again, anecdotally what we saw today was more refugees trying to make their way, stopp

unhcr says 30,000 people are stranded in outlying islands including 20,000 in lespos alone.erlin says it can cope with several hundred thousand for a few years. but there should be a fair distribution. >> translator: neither greece nor italy can accommodate the refugees arriving on their borders. we have discussed the crisis and the change in the policy. sweden and germany agree we need mandatory quotas. we must also ensure they are distributed fairly across the e.u. >>> the unhcr says there is a dire need to streamline the process to relocate refugees. >> we have proposed that there be european union lead mega centers established in greece, established also in italy and also in hungary, whereby the people arriving there, could go to these centers, be received in decent humane conditions, they could apply for ally sum there, but this would only work if european countries come together and agree on a relocation plan. once established that they are refugees to participate in countries in the european union. >>> in turkey at least 14 police officers have been killed and two oth

. >> people are seeking clarification of exactly what these new laws will mean, including the unhcr, united nations refugee agency and some aspects of the european union. the official line from the hungarian government is they are really enforcing european union regulations coupled with these new laws. in summary, victor orban croi categorically he will not change the orders, he says there will be no more -- there will be anybody crossing the border illegally, anybody criminally damaging the fence, will have jail sentences of quote undevote several years. we were hearing three years at one point but that's the situation he says. bibigger than what he has done, parliament has voted in favor of changing asylum law which will make it quite clear that serbia is a safe, inverted com commas, third country. if they can't they can enter hpg buhungary but be turned back. according to victor orban this will drastically reduce the number of refugees entering the country. he will also turn back anybody the country considers to be an economic migrant. that is another area. he says categorically,

unhcr is there and doing our best but obviously greece needs to be supported.opose there will be european union led mega reception and registration centers established in greece. we would support that, established also in italy and also in hungry whereby the people arriving there could go to these centers, be received in decent humane conditions, they could apply for asylum there but this would only be, only work if european countries come together and agree on a relocation plan if it would be mandatory they would be relocated then once established that they are refugees to participating countries in the european union. >> i understand that and the problem is it's quite evident there is a split between east and west europe. eastern europe doesn't want anything to do with refugees, western europe to varying degrees to take a certain number how will unhcr going to drive the process as i said in the beginning this is your mandate, this is your crisis? >> yeah, it is our mandate, our crisis, but to be honest i just went to a press briefing this morning to tell the

your eyes to a world in motion. ♪ hello again, let's have a look at the top stories at al jazeera, unhcrystem for relocating refugees and they are waiting to be registered in greece and mandatory relocation plan need to be for european countries to share the burden. head of germany's biggest state says the number of refugees arriving in the country this year will be well above the current estimate of 800,000. she says arrival numbers will need to be revised upward. in turkey at least 12 officers are dead in a bomb attack on a police mini bus. the explosion happened in the eastern province here and government officials blaming the kurdistan workers party or the pkk for the attack. now abandon mines around south africa's largest city's commercial capitol johanesburg are making people sick and toxic waste has been left to pile up in residential areas for years now and we report from one community that is just meters away from such a dump site. >> reporter: roslyn says her lungs are failing her. she relies on a machine for oxygen for 16 hours a day to keep her alive. >> it's very difficult b

unhcr has already warned that this could be tragic. >>> european ministers have been meeting to address this crisis and say their handling will have a lasting impact on the continent. >> europe is at a cross roads. the crisis that unfortunately will last as long as our neighborhood is on fire. we're safe. can we save the history of our cultures and societies. it will demonstrate to our citizens how european and how united we want to be in the future. after several have very heated debates at the european level, we can finally make progress. we formally as the president said before adopted the decision to relocate 40. but for our proposal, 120,000, we did not have the agreement we wanted. >>> what happens next on this nonagreement if you like? >>reporter: yes, the ministers reaching an agreement by sharing out the 120,000 that didn't -- that he was just referring to there, ministers have been trying to put a positive spin on it talking about the political commitment to relocate them but the bottom line is that there was no agreement on monday. what happens next is that the position will

hcr are not clear how things will be policed if you will and unhcr officials are trying to see what's going on. that railway line you can see it's reported that a railway wagon will be pushed into place shotterred in razor wire, a rather hazardous thing to do but will be effective to block off this section of the 175 kilometer fence barbara. >> andrew i guess it's still early days we're not going to know for sure but what happens to the people caught on either side of that border even legally, where do they stand? >> well, those who are caught, we have seen them, they're utterly in despair, they have rushed to get to this razor wire fence having heard that at midnight it would be officially closed aside from the border posts. they are looking in a very despair fashion moving all along the fence about two kilometers, advised to go through the official line, official post for entry. as far as what is going to happened hap to them is concerned, if they are turned around, many of them will be turned around, some will be deemed economic migrants, some will not have the necessary papers for

has been giving unhcr and the other partners.the rest of the world to use the example of the u.s. generosity in terms of financial. now the resettlement of syrian refugees into the u.s. has been going a bit -- you know, slowly. there is real strict security procedures in the u.s. resettlement process. but they have promised that they will be looking at about 1,000 a month, and that the numbers will increase and more and more syrians will have a chance to restart their lives in the united states. and we're very grateful to that. >> all right, melissa fleming. many thanks for your time on this vital issue. i appreciate it. safe travels throughout europe. >>> kentucky county clerk kim davis is spending her fourth day behind bars today. yesterday supporters held a rally where she's being held for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. let's go to sara dahloff. where is the story today? >> reporter: well, alex, it's relatively quiet today outside the detention center. a handful of protesters and demonstrators so far.

i just spoke to a representative from unhcr, there are seven tents here at this unofficial border crossing, but there are no refugees. the representative said they hoped to be able to start helping the hungarian government process the refugees. but they are going to try to go to another location and help other refugees getting into the country by other measures. >> just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. thank you for that. >>> this is the first port of call for many refugees. they are often escaping political unrest. we visited a refugee camp in rome where 90% are from artrea. >> reporter: this is a changing population of people on the move. fleeing their homeland was the hard, much easier staying under the radar is italy. authority seem pretty relaxed about enforcing. there is a silent agreement with the local police. >> translator: sometimes they will come over and ask us if everything is fine. if there are any problems. but there are no problems here. >> reporter: this young mother who wants their identities concealed, spent four years in a camp in sudan doing what she had to

the unhcr is busy saying that the european union has got to start getting a grip on this, not just becauseter is coming but because of the huge backlog of people clogging up the borders and not able to get through. and they point out that there is no common european policy to sort this out. but in the immediate term at least for some of these people there is at least a little forward month. >> as he mentioned the refugees are being taken to the croatian capitol. >> reporter: the refugees on these buses have been brought by train to here. now what is interesting is that although the border into slovenia has been closed, most of the refugees that i have just spoken to believe they will be taken now into slovenia, they say they have not heard that border has been closed. they don't expect to be taken to any holding facilities or makeshift refugee camp. it will be an interesting situation in next few hours. many day if they are not bussed to the border, they plan to walk, but that on this record-hot day will be very difficult. that's a walk that will take at least six to seven hours. >>> polic

i was speaking with a representative from the unhcr they are now on the scene trying to help.y are saying hungary's government must give aid agencies more access to these sites so they can help. because the misery is not going to end. i was speaking to a seven year old girl from syria, who has been sleeping outside for two days in this cold. it's raining o an off, and still the response has not been adequate as far as all of the aid workers and the syrian and iraq and afghan refugees we have been spoking to. and this is just the tip of the iceberg. there are scenes like this replicated all throughout this makeshift camp and it's only going worse. david. >> yeah, we'll leave it for now. if i get a chance to talk to you later on, there are a couple of other points i would like to investigate. thank you. >>> we had a chance to talk to the head of the u.n. refugee agency. >> the present situation is absurd people coming from greece to macedonia, and then to serbia from hungary, from hungary to austria, and it's like a motorway in which you have a traffic jam that sometimes you mov

from what we were hearing from the spokeswoman from the unhcr as she was talking about a registration document to move in the islands to go back on the ma mainland is there ne kind of sense you are getting inlesbos any of that is actually in place? >> well, that process is very, very slow that's why people are so frustrated here refugees are on their knees so some have been sleeping on the streets. you have children who haven't had a shower in two weeks. you have parents who are extremely worried. they say we have run out of mic. they come up to us, asking us: what should we do? please go speak to the greek authorities. where is the u.n.? why is no one helping us? it's a dire situation. the numbers are huge. it's very plic indicated. authorities here to deal with that and on the other sued refugees were very unrulely. i have to tell you we have been watching for the past hour. a boat that is stranded in the middle of the channel. we could see them earlier with binoclars waving, trying to attract any kind of attention. now, we see them flashing their torches but they are stranded there

six families with six people walking along, and amongst all of these crowds, there is, in fact, a unhcre united nations, humanitarian refugees commission representative walking. he's towards the back. he's finding it quite hard going actually. but we interviewed him earlier on and you will be hearing from hills later on the 21g news hour. but he was saying that he felt this was historic. that while some people were thinking maybe never will they -- they will never actually complete the whole walk, that maybe they could do it. and certainly with assistance from volunteers, sort of assistance they are getting think barbara, i think i can hear you again now, i have had a bleep in my ear if you want to ask me a question. >> yes, andrew. you refer to as a march of hope. because all of these people exhausted as though they are -- be. >> reporter: i am sorry, i can't hear you, i am assuming you are still going with this. but i am going to let you talk and wait for an indication from somebody who can communicate with me as to what you are -- what you ask me if you ask me anything at all but i h

>> what we saw yesterday, there were some charity organizations from the serbian side, like though unhcras present, other aid organizations trying to distribute some water. i'm afraid many of these people will be forced through the hands of smugglers to find another way to germany and to protection. we have hear more and more buses taking people from inside serbia to the croatian border, that was exactly what the government in hungary wanted to reach. they were not interested in providing any sort of solution, even less [ inaudible ] by solution. what they wanted was to divert the flow from the hungarian border to somewhere else. i can't predict what is exactly going to happen. i just know that all of these people who were there are left without proper services and proper food. it is over 35 degrees celsius outside. but any day the autumn rains can start. i'm afraid we'll see horrible scenes with the kids and other vulnerable sleeping outside in the woods without proper support. i think this is a shame not only to hungary, but the entire european asylum system which apparently cannot rea

refugees agency unhcr spokes woman melissa fleming explains university how the refugees statistics are. >> we work very closely with the coast guards, with the authorities in the frontline countries, greece, italy, but also in all of the countries where refugees are arriving in europe, so we get those figures on a daily basis, we put them in to our state i cans. unfortunately we have for add to our statistics that there are many, many deaths crossing the mediterranean, almost 2,600 so far this year. and those deaths unfortunately show that it's extremely dangerous to cross. many of them unfortunately don't have a name. and people still maybe for that reason keep coming. we had one day last week where 14,000 people arrived in greece on the greek islands, these are islands that are used to reaching tourists, and not, you know, 10s of thousands of refugees. so obviously, but the only way to move from the -- a greek island to the main land is if you have a registration document. and that's how we know how many people are coming, what nationality, they say they are and then we have the same

this is an area where unhcr was supposed to be building a more permanent shelter.hat is obviously needed at this stage. as time goes on, the rains will continue and temperatures will continue to drop and this is not just what people are facing here. scenes similar if not much more worse than what you are witnessing are unfolding throughout the entire route that these people are taking as they cross through europe. they often times find themselves without shelter. they do sleep out in the open on the streets and on the pavements and in the forest. as you european leaders are trying to figure out their responsibilities when it comes to taking in the refugees mostly from the war zones of iraq, syria and afghanistan, and yes, among them, economic migrants as well. another pressing issue right now is how to build up the much-needed assistance at the critical transit points along their way. >> arwa damon in the rain. the weather now a factor. arwa, thank you. >>> related right now, concern of a russian military buildup in syria. so many refugees from syria. president oba

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. >>> the unhcr has also stressed the urgent need to address the situation.ugees in a camp on the serbian border has forced their ways across police lines. a record 7,000 syrian refugees arrived in macedonia on monday, hundreds more crossed the border on tuesday. the government has organized trains twice a day to the north where refugees can then cross into serbia. more ships arrived on the greek mainland on tuesday. 30,000 people are stranded on outlying islands, including 20,000 on the island of lesbos alone. we have correspondent across the continent covering the crisis. first we go to hoda abdel hamid who is at the greek island of lesbos. when the chief says that there needs to be a way to increase ways to refugees to allow legally. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: they really arrive by crossing the channel between here and turkey, and then they are really left to their own devices, now we have a few volunteers waiting for them. giving them water, fruit, and clothes for the children. but they arrive. they don't know exactly where they are. and many

moment a political crise, and economical crise and the numbers of staggering, nearly according to the unhcr, 240,000 people have entered this country through the island, between january and july alone, leaving alone the numbers of august, where actually there was an increased in the flow of refugees coming in, simply because the weather conditions are at the best at that time of the year. little an extremely complicate situation. you have lesbos, kos, some going to minor islands. we spoke earlier in the day to the mayor of a tiny island of 100 residents there, and he said well, we are 113 people living on this island and at the moment, there are more than 1,000 refugees and as i speak to you, there are more boats coming in. what is going to happen to these people on that island and those hoop want to move on. it's a huge logistical challenge for the greek authorities, especially if everybody wants to go to athens and from there to the border with macedonia. >> ok, thank you very much for that update from less bose. e.u. leaders have been trying to come up with a plan as the continent strugg

now this is an area where unhcr was supposed to be building a more permanent shelter. very needed at this stage. as time goes on, these rains will continue and the temperatures will continue to drop. this is not just what people are facing here. scenes similar, if not much more worse, than what you are witnessing are unfolding throughout the entire route that these people are taking as they cross through europe. they often times find themselves out shelter and sleeping on the streets and on the pavement and forests. as the european leaders are getting together to figure out how they will divvy up the responsibilities when it comes to taking in these refugees mostly from the war zones of iraq, syria and afghanistan and economic migrants as well. perhaps another very pressing issue right now is how to build up the much-needed assistance at the various critical transit points along their way. >>> arwa damon for us on the hungary/serbia border. new concerning about the russian build up in syria. the obama administration keeping a close watch on the movement of military per

the unhcr and aid agencies have moved everything to a stage which is a bit on the edge of the town here, so thousands of people have been able to register. i've met some people this morning who told me that they had arrived yesterday and had registered. they need tickets to get on the ferry, so they are, wherever you go around town, you see huge queues of people trying to buy tickets. they do stand for hours trying to buy that ticket, but the frustration is less. you don't have anymore people coming up to you, asking you what are we going to do, how long is this going to last. we haven't seen any marches today. since last night, several ferries have gone, have left here, each more or less with 2,000 to 2500 people onboard. so far, 8,000 people have already left. this ferry will leave shortly. what they do typically is they wait for 2,500 people to be here with their tickets and registration papers and they leave. basically by day's end of 10,000 people and all of those will held to the border in macedonia. that will be the next stumbling block where they're going to have to sit and wait

i was talking earlier to a person from unhcr here and he expected that throughout the day this flow willnue there and their estimate is about 6,000 people will cross here. now, it is very common and very organized even though it's a bit hot for the children and a bit difficult but you know the refugees here keep on listening to the news, there is also rumors going around and they are very worried about what will happen once they cross macedonia and serbia and hit hungary and a lot of them are extremely anxious that the borders might close and all these fences might be built and they will get stranded or they will get separated from their families, some of them told me members of the families have gone already ahead because in the message continuous movement they lose each other sometimes and keep on connecting on chat rooms or with mobile phones so there is a lot of anxiety and they are here and have four countries to go through until they reach germany if that is their final destination and some of them want to go even further north. >> thanks indeed on the border between greece and mac

he unhcr estimate thursday 59 million displaced people around the are world.eaders is simply this. let's mirror what the australians died. they faced the same problem with people heading towards australia, boats sinking, people drowning. what the australia januaries said if you want to come to our country and bee a eve refugee you will not qualify if you come in illegally by boat and land on our showers so if we can set up offshore processing centers in jordan or turkey or wherever it may be, and we can find out who is genuinely a refugee in fear of their lives, do the absolute best we can to do criminal record which e checks and police checks, then, mr. obama, mr. cameron, mrs. merkel, would be entitled to help some people from that region. what we cannot do is open our doors, unconditionally, tell ourselves what wonderful people we are for doing commit risk bringing yet more jihaddism' into our countries. >> thank you very much. the read on all of this up next from dick cheney. that and all the latest republican developments, including scott walker, saying h

yet they are not being allowed to cross in, that despite the pleas from many aid agencies including unhcrt them cross this and let aid agencies do more with the hungarian government to help with the refugee crisis. this is the train car that is blocking access to refugees that are trying to cross this unofficial border and over here the train tracks used to go to a holding facility and collection camp that was full until yesterday and refugees waying to be taken to a nearby refugee camp and that camp basically gone now and basically cleared of all refugees so this border right now seems very empty and seems very calm but the influx doesn't seem like it will stop any time soon and has been a state of emergency and crisis and the government said last week they would probably impose the state of crisis to help better deal with the refugee crisis but that is not for the entire country, that is for two counties including where we are right now on the border with serbia, julie. >> mohamed, hungary is flatly refusing to a mandatory quota in relocating refugees, the pressure on these people is on

and girls are being seized by armed groups or government and then they can be attacked or raped and unhcris is to humiliate them or force them to surrender and executed by rebels and died in government air attacks and some as young as six have been trained to fight. let's talk a little bit more about this report and the situation in syria that is causing all these people to flee is our senior political analyst, great to have you on the set with us. when you hear about this break down of the situation in syria it's very easy, isn't it, to see why we have this influx of refugees who just want to get as far away from syria as possible. >> that is right and the bad news is it's going to continue and the situation is not getting any better. some people think when things hit the bottom it will come up again, no. in civil war is things go from one bottom to another bottom and what we are having is a worsening situation where the tensions are rising, hatred is deepening and revenge, irrationality and so on and so forth are taking over the country and it's not a war about anything, ask a group wha

. >> the unhcr do not tell us not to take children from this camps in europe who were there without their said about not editing the thread a deportation over syrian children that do come here. as a number of those via turkey and greece grows, it's right that we don't lose sight to those who still make the journey across the mediterranean said libya. our navy has rescued thousands already and it's important this level of search and rescue is maintained. kimmy update the house on that? >> the update i given so far we rescued 6700 children first with the flagship of the royal navy replaced by hms enterprise continued this very good work and will continue in doing this work with allies and others as long as necessary. also using and we should all be honest with ourselves and recognize we have been the case of economic migrants on the african root we need to break the link between those people getting on a boat and getting settlement in europe. all the evidence for these migration crises in the past, particularly spain and canary island do need a way of returning people to africa who are not

>> at the moment we need the will of member states we have a great deal of leadership fro fromment unhcrr mr. go gutierrez speaking out clearly. but it's left about the point of a commissioner someone doing actions that people fare is the right thing, particularly perhaps the civilians, because at the moment it's from the citizens of europe that are crying that their political leaders are not doing enough. in hungary the united nations have criticized the parliaments forville vying refugees but at the train station in budapest citizens were bringing water, food, teddy bears saying the government's reaction is not ours. >> that's interesting, alison harvey, thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on the subject. at this. >>> still to come on the news hour. where did the money go? afghans complain that bill wraps of dollars of aid failed to fix the country's crumbling infrastructure. moroccoan as they had the polls in a vote. wide reviewed as a test of the government's popularity. >>> in sport, roger federer cruise to his the third round of the u.s. open. can the top seed novak djokov

afraid if anything should happen they would send me back to syria so i started to register with the unhcrprotect my children. i was one of the first who registered as a syrian refugee and they chose us. >> reporter: two and a half years later they arrived here in new jersey where they have been living with the help of the u.s. government and church world service, one of nine n.g.o.s that helps with refugee settlement. how do you prepare for the rival of the families? >> we pay for the apartments, pay for the first month's rent, move in furniture, do the setup, by grocery so we put it into the fridge so they have food to eat. we have go to pick up the family for the first time and we're the first faces they see upon arrival. >> reporter: what kind of government services do they receive and how long. >> medicaid so they have healthcare to go to the doctor for any reason up to eight months. they receive food stamps, a bit of cash assistance. >> reporter: what is required of them? >> they must attend courses for at least 35 hours a week and must show they're ting to find jobs themselves as we

the president of refugees international and former unhcr regional representative for the u.s. said america can easily handle oh may's proposed numbers. >> the numbers that you have mentioned were announced by the u.s., before the mediterranean crise. i think now the government is prepared to review these physician, whether they will reach in their first pro proposal the request of mr. omalley i don't know yet, but this country has the capacity to do that. resettlement is taking refugees from turkey, from lebanon, from jordan where the syrians moved initially from the obligation of the europeans to deal with the people already on their shore. that's the absolutely priority right now, to establish good reception facilities and decide how to share them between europe. the resettlement from the neighboring countries to syria will be key to show syrian refugees in these countries that there is an orderly way to move out of the country without taking all these risks and therefore, providing some hope to these people. >> while presidential candidate omalley is calling for sitting 5,0

we heard from aid groups, unhcr have been trying for days to facilitate the hungarian government and pleas are falling on deaf ears as far as what we're hearing. this is really frustrating the countries surrounding hungary, as well as the aid groups that are trying to assist hungary and trying to put more pressure on hungary to let these refugees pass through, treat them humanely and let them pass on to other countries in their quest to get to their desired destination. >> they are holding up signs, saying no food, no water until you open the border. what does that say about the refugees understanding of the world watching the situation there on the border? >> it's really shocking to see this unfold. i've heard this from aid workers, as well. especially the stance of hungary's government. there's been criticism on the prime minister here from the e.u., from other international organizations, from the international community to try to keep the border open, to try to work with the e.u., but it hasn't happened. yesterday, we heard news that the interior ministers of the e.u., that they

programs and agencies, including unhcr and wf p. by thee are haunted images of thousands of refugees on the shores and borders of far awayeeking hope from their homeland. , we have been faced with this challenge since the beginning of the syrian crisis. today syrian refugees alone constitute 20% of my country's population. we have been taking on a significant part of the burden of this humanitarian disaster off the international community shoulders since the very beginning. our support to our country has been a small fraction of the cost we have in jordan. it is high time the international community active -- act collectively in facing this unprecedented communitarian crisis. support countries like jordan and lebanon, which have been carrying the front of this burden for over the past four years. in these areas we must act and act collectively for the future of our world. conductivity is key. , equality,we share compassion, hope need to be connected to everything we do, and we must keep ourselves connected to each other for the good

we will continue to use the established unhcr process for resettling refugees, and when grant them awexpandion visa and will the criteria we use for existing syrian vulnerable persons relocation. hans: yesterday morning around this time, we got updated figures on how many refugees are traveling through that eastern balkan route. it was 5400. last week it was 3000 a day. accelerating. what everyone is waiting to see is to what extent is this announcement over the weekend by merkel and the chancellor of austria and the prime minister of hungry, what does that do when that said they are going to accept them? what will that do to the millions of refugees in camps in turkey and lebanon? will it encourage them to make the trip and try to seek safe harbor in germany? guys? francine: think you so much. on this refugee crisis. we also have in germany sc haeuble representing his draft budget. we heard a couple a days ago that angela merkel wants to stick to a balanced budget goal, despite the inflow of refugees. manus: ok, coming up on "the pulse," a wave of m&a in the insurance sector continues

one of the groups that's helping out is the unhcr. house situation right now for these refugees? >> when they get here the situation is very well organized. we've been witnessing an out pouring of report from civil society, individual people. so they feel very welcome here. we're also seeing nobody wants to stay in austria. everybody is moving onto germany. this is not a sustainable situation. it can't go on like this. >> other european countries have to do more? >> other european countries have to step up. it want be a german problem. it's a european problem. we're happy to see the out pouring of civil society in countries that are actually unwilling to accept refugees. but right now the refugees are saying we want to go to the country where we believe we'll get the best treatment and can restart our lives. >> reporter: why is there such a big issue in hungary? they have a big problem on their hands too. >> absolutely. hungary has become a huge transit country, as not to forget greece. we had 14,000 people arrive on a single day on the islands of greece. no one wants to stay in

pay for the support of 240,000 displaced people in countries neighboring syria and iraq through the unhcrill focus on refugees in jordan, lebanon and turkey. >> meantime, in the u.s., the ceo and two other top executives of u.s.-based united airlines are out. that's in the wake of internal investigation triggered by an ongoing federal probe. the company announced the resignation of chairman and crowe in a statement on tuesday. >> the government has been examining united's dealings with the former chief on the port authority of new york and new jersey including adding a flight convenient to a home he owns in south carolina. united said it is cooperating with the government investigations. >>> facing a shorp drop in the polls, drop in popularity is former u.s. secretary of state and u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton. she has admitted for the first time on television that using a private e-mail server to conduct government business was a mistake. >> i could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier. i really didn't perhaps appreciate the need to do that. wh

michelle spent more than 25 years at unhcr. our third witness that we'll hear from today is ms. nancy lindborg, president of the united states institute of peace, someone who we also have seen many times and thank her. nancy has served at usaid and as president of mercy corps. thank you for that service. thank you all for being here. i know you've been here many times. if you could each spend five minutes giving your positions, we'll obviously, without objection, your written testimony will become a part of the record. if you can go down the line and give your testimony, we appreciate it. we look forward to questions and certainly your comments. thank you. [ inaudible ]. >> microphone on, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think you probably heard, but i want to say thank you and i'm honored to be here. i want to congratulate you on not just holding a hearing on the humanitarian situation in the middle east, but recognizing the links between the humanitarian situation and the geopolitical situation. my organization has a unique perspective on the crisis because we're working in

the government has, in fact, refused unhcr's offers to help. people can't take it anymore.for the thousands that have been going through. they are filthy. women who we're talking to say they cringe, they just can't deal with it anymore. because of this, people have decided to stage a sit-in because they can't wait for the buses to come and pick them up anymore. they can't keep living like that anymore, and so they have decided they are going to sit and block the street until the hungarians either send them the buses they need or finally let them through. from here they still do have to go to those transit camps. they still have to register. everyone is anticipating that it is going to be a highly unpleasant process, but at the same time they just want to get moving. having come this far, they do not want to be held up any longer. they have absolutely had it, and they especially don't want to be held up in conditions like that. one of the little boys who came across the border, many of the kids are getting very sick, one of the little boys was actually in the medical tent, c

i think up to this point week, a tiny, have received from unhcr, cases process, candidates are eligibler resettlement. president obama has made very clear that the number we've been able to resettle up to this point is insufficient and that will need to expand that significantly in the next fiscal year. i would note, you know, over the life of the obama administration we have managed to resettle 140,000 iraqis refugees which has gotten less attention. it's been an up and down program. we've had come and i think it made significant improvements in the system such that we are at the same time both able to welcome people in desperate need but also make sure that we have a vetting and screening a set of security measures in place where we would have confidence in the people, to the country or not take advantage of the program to, you know, who are plotting or doing something antithetical to national u.s. security. so i think the system in place has been strengthened over time. the flow of iraqis i think shows that. a startup costs around the syria program, you know, have been significant an

unhcr was supposed to be building a shelter at this location. that still has not happened.ores here is not just the misery of the conditions these people are having to survive in -- remember, there are thousands on this route right now as we speak having to find shelter under the trees out in the open. this really underscores how critical it is at this stage not just for europe to try to figure out how it's going to be distributing the responsibility as to who gets how many refugees, but also at these key transit areas, there has to be an effort taking place right now to provide shelter and at least ease a little bit of the difficulty of these conditions. >> arwa, thank you for showing us just how stark the situation is there. we will check back with you. domestic terrorism, that's what the public safety in arizona is calling a series of shootings on the highway. >> reporter: you know, someone is taking aim at drivers here on interstate 10. this is a main artery. it's not as though people can avoid this particular roadway. there's a lot of concern on drivers. all along the

>> what unhcr is doing is helping the states. we don't do things independently of states., italy, macedonia, serbia, to extent we can, as well as hungary, to address the immediate protection needs, to help register people, to help give some care and assistance to individuals. and to help interpret. a lot of these people just need simply to be heard. to make their registration case, to make their case for asylum. and to be helped to move on. >> right. >> what's required is, this is where the european union comes in. clearly, there has to be a mechanism within europe that obliges every state. it's not one state. it's all states that need to be part of the process. >> they have taken only a couple hundred refugees as opposed to the hundreds of thousands going into germany. >> jurep has received now 100,000 refugees and in turkey, almost two million. >> let me ask you one of the riddles that haunts people about refugee crises. so often, refugees don't go back home. they stay in the countries to which they move. what would you say to germany or hungry who worry these people wil